Chapter 84 A bit embarrassing
In order to celebrate the housewarming and to thank the villagers who helped him build the house, Zhu Yongwu called Jiang Youcheng and Jiang Youfu to help prepare a big pot meal and invited the villagers to eat.
Pork belly slices, cabbage, potatoes, fried tofu with golden skin, vermicelli, plus the most luxuriant and tender garlic sprouts that grow in spring, and finally a little lard, boil it in a big pot of fragrant soup.
The longer the big pot dish is cooked, the stronger the flavor will be, especially if the big pot dish is cooked from the morning. By noon, when you eat it, the meat flavor has already permeated into every vegetable, and no matter what dish you eat, it will taste extremely fragrant.
For such a big pot of food, you have to eat two bowls in a row to feel satisfied.
However, everyone who came to eat knew that it was not easy for Zhu Yongwu to settle down in Jiangjia Village with his children. He had spent most of his money on repairing the house and donating to the ancestral hall. He was afraid that he was not well off at the moment, so he only scooped it all up once.
When scooping, Zhu Yongwu was not allowed to scoop too full. When it was almost full, he would move the bowl aside and say, "It's enough. I can't eat that much. It would be a waste if I scooped too much..."
Some were even too embarrassed to eat the steamed buns made from double-grain flour from Zhu Yongwu's family, so they only brought bread from home and dipped it into the big pot of food.
The soup is rich in flavor, and it tastes even better when you dip some pancakes in it.
Farmers don't care about eating. They don't necessarily need tables or stools. They can stand or squat in groups of three or four, talking while eating from the big pot.
Zhu Yongwu looked at this lively scene, and the smile on his face became even more intense.
Bang!
Zhang threw the ladle in her hand into the water tank with all her might, and said angrily, "This big pot of food is so delicious that the smell has drifted from the edge of the village to here. How much meat and lard does it take?"
"The village head said that Zhu Yongwu and his son came from outside and were unfamiliar with the place. We should help them if we can. What a lie! They built three big tiled houses. The cook who built the house was so greasy. It's obvious that they are rich. Do they need our help?"
"Jiang Youcheng is also a traitor. He has money and is doing business with those unknown people outside, but he doesn't know what to do with his own second brother? He just knows how to throw the money away!"
The more Zhang spoke, the angrier she became.
How could he not be angry? When Zhu Yongwu's family was building a house, it was Jiang Youcheng who helped to arrange and call for help. He called all the people in the village who could do masonry work, but he didn't call anyone from his family.
Isn't this telling others that she looks down on the second branch? Okay, these people building a house is a job that they work for in exchange for a meal, which is too hard and not worth it. If they don't ask the second branch, then they won't ask them. Repairing the porcelain kiln is a serious job that pays wages. Since the money has to be paid, it doesn't matter who it is given to. Why not ask the second branch to earn some wages? Not only did she not ask them, but when she asked Jiang Chunhe to go find Jiang Youcheng to help build the porcelain kiln, she said that there were enough people and sent Jiang Chunhe back?
It was so infuriating! Zhang was furious. If she hadn't remembered that the wooden barrel in her hand had just been repaired, she would have wanted to smash it to pieces!
"Mom, what are we cooking for lunch?" Jiang Chunhe came back with a hoe on his back and started yelling after entering the yard, "I've been busy all day and I'm almost starving."
Jiang Chunhe was also angry.
He suffered a great deal when the roof collapsed.
His body and face were covered with wounds, his arm was broken, and most importantly, his face was disfigured, with a big cut at the corner of his mouth.
As a result, he was sent to work in the fields before he could even recover from his injury for a few months.
And you have to keep an eye on him and don't allow him to be lazy.
So angry!
He is not the only male in the family, there is also Jiang Chunbao.
Even if he was going to a private school, he was already quite big, able to carry things with his hands and shoulders, and he was the one who spent so much money. If he didn't work, would he rely on him, the eldest brother, to do everything? Jiang Chunhe got anxious when he thought of this, and threw the hoe on his shoulder aside with a clang.
Seeing this, Wu was afraid that her father-in-law who had entered the courtyard from behind would be angry, so she hurried to pick it up, and secretly said to Jiang Chunhe, "Mother didn't let me cook."
"You're not allowed to cook?" Jiang Chunhe was stunned. "Why?"
Zhang came over after hearing the voice and pushed the bowl into Jiang Chunhe's hand, "Let's go to Zhu Yongwu's house to eat. The big pot of food is very delicious. We can smell the fragrance even in our yard."
It is indeed fragrant.
Walking back from the field, before reaching the village, Jiang Chunhe smelled the strong aroma of meat. The glutton in his stomach was immediately aroused and his saliva could not stop flowing.
The more I smelled the aroma, the hungrier I felt, so when I got home, I couldn't wait to ask what was cooked.
The meals at his home were never very rich, but they were definitely enough to fill him up. Even if it was sweet potato noodles, the smell of the fragrant meat would go well with the meal, right? But now, there was no cooking at home, so his mother asked him to go to Zhu Yongwu's house to eat the big pot.
"Mom, we didn't build a house for them. If we go to eat with a bowl in our hands, will it be..."
It's not very suitable.
Wu said in a low voice.
"What's inappropriate about that?" Zhang glared at Wu. "It was his good fortune that Zhu Yongwu could settle down in Jiangjia Village. He benefited from the whole Jiangjia Village. Today he set up a big pot to treat everyone in Jiangjia Village. It was his blessing!"
"We can go to his house to eat the big pot meal, which is a honor for them. What's wrong with not going to help build the house? We just went there, so what? Can he still chase us all out?"
They definitely won't chase him out.
After all, we are from the same village. Even if we are annoyed, we won't do anything embarrassing on the surface.
But the point is, I didn't help, but went to eat the big pot food in someone else's greenhouse. This is not justifiable...
Mrs. Wu felt a little embarrassed.
But she also knew her mother-in-law's temper very well, and as a daughter-in-law, she could never refute anything Zhang said.
Besides, there was no cooking at home. If she didn't go to eat, she would have to go hungry for lunch. It didn't matter if she was hungry, but she still had the children...
Mrs. Wu stopped talking, shrank her head, and stepped aside.
Jiang Chunhe looked at the large bowl in his hand that was bigger than his face, and looked at Zhang hesitantly, "Mom, I don't want to go..."
Zhang didn't expect Jiang Chunhe to say such a thing. Her eyes widened. "Why? You don't even want to eat the big pot of food? We haven't eaten much meat at home recently. How come you're so picky?"
"It's not that I don't want to eat, it's that..."
Jiang Chunhe looked embarrassed, "Mom, don't you think our family has been a little unlucky recently?"
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