Chapter 168 The Reborn Heroine's Excellent Grandma 7
The meal was ready quickly: a pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms, a pot of spicy rabbit stewed with potatoes, a dish of cold shepherd's purse, and a dish of boiled cabbage.
Today's lunch was quite sumptuous for the Hu family.
The family sat down around the table, all looking at the meat on the table with shining eyes. Su Li cleared his throat: "Let's eat!"
The family learned the origins of the pheasants and rabbits from Hu Qiaoqiao. Everyone was in disbelief and delighted!
Who cares whether these chickens and rabbits are stupid or not, as long as they get benefits, it would be great if there were more stupid chickens and rabbits!
"Mom, you've worked hard today. Drink some soup. It's good for your health!"
Jiang poured a bowl of chicken soup and placed it in front of Su Li. One could tell at a glance that it was carefully prepared. The chicken soup was covered with oil, the bright yellow oil. It looked very nice and smelled good, but she really didn't like drinking such greasy things!
"Mom, eat this. The meat in this area is the most delicious!"
Seeing that his wife had taken the lead, Hu Jinran quickly picked up a piece of good-looking rabbit meat and put it into Su Li's bowl. He was the person who cared most about his mother.
At this time, Hu Jinhao put a chicken leg into Su Li's bowl and said with a smile: "Mom, eat this chicken leg!"
"mother……"
After a while, Su Li's bowl was full of food.
Su Li looked at Chen who was still trying to pick up some food for herself and said quickly: "I know you are all filial children, you can eat it yourself, I can't eat so much!"
The original owner was good at managing the household. Her sons were all filial and obedient to her. Her daughters-in-law were also carefully selected by the original owner. They were all good. Although they all had their own little thoughts, none of them were troublemakers.
The family is united and harmonious.
Su Li stood up and distributed the meat in the bowl in front of him to his grandchildren one by one. When it was Hu Jiaojiao's turn, Su Li kindly skimmed off the oil on the chicken soup and gave it to her.
"Girl Jiao has worked hard to keep the fire going today. Eat more to replenish your body."
Hu Jiaojiao looked at the greasy chicken soup in the bowl with disgust in her eyes. She was not one of those people who had never seen the world, so she didn't want this greasy chicken soup.
She forced a fake smile and said, "Thank you, grandma. My dad is the one who works the hardest in this family, working in the fields every day. You should give it to him!"
As she spoke, she poured the soup into Hu Lao Da's bowl. In her previous life, when she was married to Liang Zhi, she could drink soup every day. She had already had enough! Such oily things were only rare for poor people!
Hu Jinhao felt very relieved to see his daughter being so filial. His daughter has grown up and knows how to be filial to him!
Except for Mrs. Zhao who felt that Hu Jiaojiao's words were not right, the other adults were very relieved!
Su Li didn't care about her sarcasm. After giving away half of the chicken soup in the bowl, he drank the oil-free chicken soup happily.
The air was not good in ancient times and there was no pollution. This chicken soup is really delicious!
During this meal, except for Hu Jiaojiao, everyone else ate to their heart's content, especially the children, whose mouths were full of oil. Even Hu An, who usually prided himself on being the eldest grandson, ate without caring about his image.
After all, this family is too poor!
Logically speaking, the second son could bring home one or two taels of silver a month, and the third son could also earn some copper coins by walking around the streets in his spare time. The family also had more than ten acres of land. The original owner could also make money by doing some embroidery work with several daughters-in-law. The family should be able to live a good life.
But there are three scholars in the family, especially the fourth child who is studying in the county town. The tuition fee for a year, and the pens, ink, paper and inkstone are a considerable expense!
After lunch, the family went about their own business, and Su Li returned to his room for a nap.
Several days passed slowly like this.
These days, Hu Jiaojiao has been ordered around by Su Li.
That day, Hu Jiaojiao and Hu Yaoyao cleaned up the dishes and fed the pigs before returning to the main room.
As soon as she entered, she saw her mother embroidering a purse again. She walked over and snatched the purse.
"Mom, why are you embroidering this again? Didn't I tell you not to do this again?"
Chen said gently: "Mother knows you love me. Mother has nothing to do anyway, so I will embroider a few more. When you get married, I can prepare more dowry for you!"
Chen was filled with pride as she watched her daughter grow into a graceful and beautiful girl.
"How much money can you make by embroidering purses? Besides, my dad will give them all to my grandma... How can it be my turn?"
She didn't want to let her uncle, the vampire, get away with it. In her previous life, her uncle passed the imperial examination this year, and people from the town and the county came to give him gifts. She thought she could live a good life with him.
Little did she know that her uncle acted so noble and refused everything. Even though so many wealthy families in the town and county wanted to marry their daughters to him and promised him huge dowries, his family still refused.
Isn't this selfish and not considering the family?
In his previous life, he passed the imperial examination, but her fiancé failed. If he treated himself as his niece, why didn't he help Lin Zimo and let him pass the exam this year?
If Lin Zimo also passed the exam this year, would she be seduced by Liang Zhi and have to break off the engagement?
When Hu Jiaojiao thought of this, she was filled with hatred. She felt difficulty breathing when she thought about the pain of being drowned in her previous life. Since Hu Jinyan passed the imperial examination, it would not help her at all. She decided not to take the exam in this life!
Seeing her daughter's red eyes, Mrs. Chen thought she was angry, so she patted her gently and said disapprovingly: "You little girl, if your grandma wants it, she can take it first! We are all family, and your grandma has been very good to us!"
At the beginning, her mother-in-law did not mind that she was one year older than her husband. She had always been very good to her after she got married. Even though she had not given birth to a son for so many years, her mother-in-law never blamed her.
The mother-in-law has always been more fond of her daughter. As the first child of her grandchildren, all the clothes she wears are new. Her two younger cousins picked her up to wear as children.
She also couldn't understand why her daughter always disliked her mother-in-law?
"What's good about it, mother? You're just too soft-hearted. We have such a big family, and it all depends on my father working in the fields to support us. Do you think you can be bribed by my grandmother's little favors?"
If he was good to me, when I got married in my previous life, her uncle would have been a juren. Why was her grandmother only willing to give her a dowry of one hundred taels of silver?
"You little girl, what do you mean by small favors? If your father hears it, he will scold you. Don't say that again!"
"What can't I hear?"
Just then, Hu Jinhao came back from outside.
Chen laughed and said, "Nothing, didn't you go to the fields?"
Hu Jiaojiao couldn't stand her mother's behavior, so she impulsively said, "Dad, can we separate from Grandma and the others? We can live on our own!"
Hu Jinhao's usually smiling face suddenly darkened: "Who told you what?" Then he looked at Chen.
Chen was so anxious that she kept waving her hands and explained: "No, my father, you know, I don't have such thoughts!"
Of course Hu Jinhao knew that it was not his wife who said that. His wife has always respected his mother. Even if the family split up, his mother would live with him. She definitely didn't have such an idea.
Hu Jiaojiao spoke up and took the risk. She was fed up with being busy like a top every day these days.
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