Chapter 84
"My surname seems to be Xu."
After Shang Nanchen finished speaking, he turned to look at Jing Xian. The couple looked at each other and felt the same emotion in each other's eyes.
"Last time I went to your house, I felt that your stepmother was not a good person. I didn't expect that she was so vicious. When we went to your father's place last time, she pretended not to know me. After all this time, she has already found out everything you do, even who your wife is and where she came from. Maybe..."
Shang Nanchen also thought of what Jing Xian hadn't finished saying.
"Are you saying that she is related to Liu Cailan?" Shang Nanchen said this in a very low voice.
Jing Xian nodded: "I suspect so."
Shang Nanchen frowned, wondering in his heart whether her stepmother had any connection with the other party.
"Besides, I also wonder why my mother-in-law died so coincidentally. Or maybe she got sick and died after my father-in-law got promoted. This illness is too coincidental." Jing Xian is not talking about conspiracy, but once you have doubts about some things, you will think of many things that you can't understand.
When I think about it carefully, I feel creepy.
Shang Nanchen looked very unhappy: "We need to investigate this matter carefully."
"Don't check it yourself. I suggest you ask the higher-ups for help. Find out whose family members have been infiltrated."
Jing Xian recalled a novel about house fighting that she had read in her previous life. She had picked it up by accident and didn't know who had put it in the bookshelf next to medical works.
The novel tells the story of a daughter of a wealthy family. After her biological mother died, her mother's concubine sister married into the family and became her stepmother. The stepmother treated her very well, and on the surface, treated her better than her mother.
Even because of her I didn't want to have children.
Later, her brother died, and her stepmother took care of him every day. She did her best.
Her brother was still useless.
The heir of the Marquisate cannot be a cripple. The old lady urged the stepmother to give birth to a child, but the stepmother was still unwilling. It was only after the old lady ordered someone to change her contraceptive soup that she gave birth to the heir of the Marquisate.
And because she went to the princess's mansion to attend a banquet, she was almost...
It was the maid her mother left for her who saved her. She hid in the dark, listening to the maid being humiliated and what her stepmother said outside the door. She felt that what her stepmother said was not right.
When the stepmother saw that the person on the bed was her maid and not her, her face was stunned for a moment.
She was careful and found that her stepmother might not be who she thought.
She wanted to check but she didn't have the ability.
The entire mansion has long been controlled by the stepmother.
She doesn't even have a future.
In order to get revenge, she pretended that she hadn't noticed anything and continued to act the same as before, but in fact she was extremely anxious.
After her brother was deposed, she contrived to enter the palace.
Step by step, she became the most favored concubine.
Once she jumped out of the Marquis' Mansion and stood at a higher place, there were too many people trying to please her.
Even if she just had doubts, someone would find out the truth for her.
She then realized that her mother did not die because of her father's neglect and depression, but because her stepmother gave her a chronic poison that caused her body to gradually collapse.
Her brother's fall from the horse was not an accident, it was man-made.
Her brother's leg could obviously be cured, but it was her stepmother's careful care that caused her brother to limp forever.
After seeing this, Jing Xian realized that there were such horrible things in the world.
She looked at Shang Nanchen with a serious expression and had to express her guess again.
"Shang Nanchen, you should investigate the cause of mother-in-law's death. I heard from Sister Lijuan that not long after mother-in-law died, Deputy Mayor Shang married the woman surnamed Xu. If that woman has a problem, she can't wait to become Deputy Mayor Shang's lover. Do you think she will choose to poison mother-in-law, let her body slowly deteriorate, and eventually die. Make room for her?"
"It's not clear yet, let's check it out first." Shang Nanchen turned around and left again.
Jing Xian was not afraid. What if this matter was not her wild imagination or random guess?
If this really happened, Jing Xian didn't dare to think about how Shang Nanchen would react.
"It shouldn't be that serious. Maybe I just think too much."
After Jing Xian finished speaking, she felt uneasy in her heart.
She went around to the backyard, looked at her corn that was almost ripe, and then went to the front yard.
When the gourds have grown to a certain size, we pick them and eat them.
Only three gourds were left on one vine.
Otherwise, the other gourds would be so angry that they would die and melt directly.
There are a large gourd and a small gourd on the gourd vine, of all sizes. Jing Xian plans to use them to scoop rice and noodles, and the rest to make a water scoop or a swill scoop.
Jingxian also left seeds.
Waiting to continue planting next year.
Cucumbers are now late cucumbers, but with Jingxian around, late cucumbers are not too late.
Jing Xian looked at the chive flowers that she had left in the chive field, and while the children and Shang Nanchen were not at home, she brought them into being in one breath.
The rich aroma of chives makes people want to eat chive dumplings.
Jing Xian didn't use up all of her supernatural powers, she left a little bit.
Otherwise, I would really lose my supernatural powers and sit paralyzed on the ground, unable to even enter the house.
She cut the chives and started picking the chive flowers, planning to make chive flowers.
Since Shang Nanchen didn't come back, she took her time to pick. Later, when the children came back, they followed her to pick.
She cleaned the chives, washed them, and put them there, waiting for her to borrow the stone mill from the farm the next morning.
In the middle of the night, Jing Xian was sleeping in a daze. Suddenly, she heard the door open and she opened her eyes immediately.
After a while, Shang Nanchen came in from outside with cool air.
He took off his hat and put his clothes on the end of the kang, then went outside to take a bath.
The water in the pot was still hot. Shang Nanchen was worried about waking up Jing Xian and the children, so he went outside to wash.
When people came in, they found that Jingxian had woken up at some point.
"Did I wake you up? Go back to sleep." Shang Nanchen lay down on the kang.
Jing Xian asked him, "Did you say it?"
"I have. Liu Cailan has not been able to find out anything. Jing Hongyu and Sun Wenxin have only found out Xu Qingping. If you hadn't reminded me, I would never have thought of asking Xu Xiuying. The higher-ups are taking this very seriously. Only a very few people know about this, and they have already sent people to investigate. I estimate that there will be results soon."
Shang Nanchen's voice was very low. If Jing Xian hadn't had good hearing and was not close to him, she probably wouldn't have been able to hear what he was saying.
"That's good."
"I'm just afraid Xu Xiuying won't admit it."
This is what Shang Nanchen is least worried about. What he is worried about is the old man.
It wasn't because she was worried that the old man couldn't bear the blow, but because she was worried that the old man would be implicated, and their family would be a big trouble for him. It wouldn't matter if he was alone, but what about Jing Xian?
He just said he wanted to give her a peaceful life, but he was slapped in the face so soon.
When Jing Xian heard what he said, she thought he was really worried about this, so she said, "She was in the dark before, but now she is in the light. For more than 20 years, she has not been discovered and can still do things in secret. She must be very proud of herself. I guess she has let her guard down a long time ago. Besides, she has done so many things in the past 20 years, how could she not reveal any clues?"
“You are right.”
How come his wife is so nice?
Shang Nanchen hadn't thought about it originally, but now he's interested again.
Jingxian happened to have only a little bit of supernatural power, so not only did she not refuse, she was also very cooperative.
Have a good night.
Jing Xian went to the stone mill to press chives early in the morning, and several children followed her.
I made several cans of chives.
After sealing it and putting it in the basket, Jing Xian walked back with it in her hand. People passing by asked, "Are you pressing chives?"
"Yeah, I spent the whole morning on it."
Jing Xian was very strong, no less than the men, and even had an endless supply of strength. When she passed by the Wu family, Jing Xian saw old lady Wu sitting at the door picking beans.
She took out a bottle of chives and handed it to the old lady:
"Auntie, these are the chives I just squeezed this morning. I'll give you some to try."
"Oh, how early did you go? You've got so much pressure?" When Mrs. Wu saw the capable Jing Xian, she felt disgusted with her own daughter-in-law because she was incompetent at anything and never had enough to eat.
Not only that, she also picked the door carefully.
So Mrs. Wu really didn't think highly of her at all.
Jing Xian smiled and said, "I finished it last night. I went over there and pressed it right away when I got up this morning."
"You are really capable!" The more Mrs. Wu looked at Jing Xian, the more she liked her.
Jing Xian said a few words and went home.
As soon as she entered, Zhao Xiuzhi dawdled for more than ten minutes before coming out of the house, sitting next to the old lady and starting to pick beans. She worked slowly and seemed to be busy all the time, but in fact she was not working at all and was not efficient at all.
It's like taking a break.
Old Mrs. Wu got angry when she looked at her, but she couldn't say anything. She just frowned, which looked quite scary.
Zhao Xiuzhi felt very aggrieved.
Her mother-in-law is so difficult to please that she can't even do any work outside.
"Mom, what is this? Chive flowers? Where did you get chive flowers? Wu Zhanfu really likes to eat this. He will definitely be very happy to see this when he comes back from the fields." Zhao Xiuzhi also likes to eat chive flowers, but she doesn't know how to cook them.
In the past, when she was at her parents’ home, her mother would prepare the food and she would eat it herself.
After she got married, she never ate leek flowers again.
Now looking at the chives in the bottle, Zhao Xiuzhi was drooling. She wished she could eat right away and eat her fill.
"This was given by Jingxian. She went to press chives early this morning and just came back."
These words made Zhao Xiuzhi embarrassed again.
She really wanted to say to her mother-in-law: "Isn't it just chives? I'll get up early tomorrow and bring you two bottles."
But she didn't dare to say it.
She won't.
Jing Xian didn't know that the chive flowers she left behind caused Zhao Xiuzhi to be severely disliked by her mother-in-law again.
She also sent some to Ma Shufen's family.
Ma Shufen pulled her aside and said, "Jingxian, how did you make this jacket? Teach me. Our Yan'er thought your jacket was pretty and wanted one, too."
"This is quite simple." Jing Xian told Ma Shufen directly.
Ma Shufen suddenly understood: "I understand. Thank you so much. Our Yan'er is really something. She is small but has a lot of troubles."
"How great, it's a girl. The four naughty little kids in our family are not so good. They are so grown up, but they still don't know what is beautiful or ugly." Jing Xian can still remember the scene of sewing leaves for the four children that night.
When the four children walked out, many of them wanted the same pair of pants.
A smart person will get it after just a few glances.
If you are stupid, just ask Jingxian.
Jing Xian didn't hide anything and told everyone who asked.
Wang Hongmei didn't even ask, and even rolled her eyes.
At noon, Shang Nanchen didn't come back, so Jingxian had lunch with the children. Jingxian was worried that Shang Nanchen would come back and there would be no food at home, so she put the rice in the pot to heat it up for him.
As a result, Shang Nanchen did not come back in the afternoon.
At night, it was dark.
Jing Xian was just about to let the children eat first when Shang Nanchen came back.
Seeing Jing Xian's worried look, he said apologetically, "The leader from above came today, so I was delayed for a while, and I couldn't ask anyone to come back to tell you."
"Are you done with your work?" Jing Xian knew that she couldn't ask about the army's affairs.
Shang Nanchen washed his hands and nodded: "We're done. But we'll be away for half a month next month."
"Um?"
"If I'm lucky this time, I can get the bonus."
I was happy to hear that the award was given to Jin Jingxian.
"Let's eat quickly, the children are starving." Jing Xian felt sorry for Shang Nanchen and had been trying different ways to cook for him these past few days.
After Shang Nanchen finished his meal, he stayed with the children for a while.
When the children were asleep, he returned to the west room. Without saying anything, he took out a
Hand the envelope to Jingxian.
"What is this?"
Jing Xian took it and looked at it, and found that it was filled with a lot of big balls.
She took it out and counted it, then looked up and asked Shang Nanchen: "This is not right, isn't this money a bit too much? Your monthly salary is 120 yuan, and your salary for three months is 360 yuan. But there are more than 400 yuan in it."
"Bonus."
After Shang Nanchen finished speaking, he saw Jing Xian quickly put the money in and placed it directly under the pillow, with a smile on her lips that continued to rise.
They have quite a bit of savings.
It turns out that besides your man, a sense of security comes more from money.
Shang Nanchen would be gone for another half a month, so the noise was particularly late that night.
Jing Xian almost couldn't get up to go to work.
She felt that she was able to get up because of her superpowers. She was also lucky to have superpowers, which were constantly changing her body every day, making her physical condition improve little by little.
The corn at home needs to be peeled in early October.
Before Shang Nanchen left, he asked Jing Xian to wait for him to come back.
As a result, as soon as he left, the hospital was closed for holiday and the school was closed for the busy farming season, so everyone became busy.
Jingxian's family had quite a lot of corn. Other families had only one corn on each stalk, but Jingxian had two stalks on each stalk. The area behind their house was not small, a full five mu.
The output of these five mu of land is more promising than that of other people’s three mu of land.
There were piles of corn in the yard, and the corn stalks were placed in the backyard, against the back wall of the house. This would keep the house warm and prevent frost from forming on the back wall when it snowed in winter.
In the back, Jingxian was thinking about planting some radishes and garlic.
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer.
They planted a lot of radishes in the front yard, and now they are big enough to be pulled out. There is also a lot of Chinese cabbage planted on the other side. No one sees the radishes planted in the backyard, and Jingxian planted them and forced them to germinate.
She deliberately sped up the process, and the radishes in the backyard grew better than those in the front.
Jingxian grew spinach and put it into the soup. The children didn’t like to eat it at first, but that soup was not just any ordinary soup, but a soup made by Jingxian.
How could children not like spinach cooked in soup?
Jingxian also used a large pot to make pickled radishes. A few days later, she sent some to her neighbors, cutting the pork belly into strips and stir-frying it with radishes.
Fusheng's belly was bulging from eating so much: "Mom, let's have some radishes. They are really delicious."
It's getting cold.
Start eating two meals.
The children only have a half-hour break at noon.
Jingxian's hospital was fine, as they had a longer break time of one and a half hours. She got off work early and rode home to cook.
An hour and a half was plenty for Jingxian.
She uses one pot to cook rice and another pot to stir-fry vegetables.
When the soup is cooked, pour it into a super large teacup, cover it with a lid, and wrap it with cloth to keep it warm.
Then I packed two lunch boxes of stir-fried pork with pickled radish and half a salted duck egg for each child. Then I cut the pig liver, shredded the pig heart and liver into two portions, and also packed them in one lunch box.
Finally, serve the children food.
One lunch box per person.
There is only so much you can do about whether you are full or not.
The last two steamed herrings were placed in the last lunch box. She hadn’t even eaten herself, so she gave it to the children first.
As soon as she arrived at the school gate by bike, she saw four little kids lined up in a row, standing at the gate in a very imposing manner.
Jing Xian: “…”
Today is the first day that school has implemented the two-meal schedule.
It was also the first time for her to deliver meals to the children in winter.
Other children eat in the cafeteria, and their children have a shadow over the cafeteria. Jing Xian is worried that the children eat too much and will not grow up well, so she said she would send them lunch at noon.
So we have the current scene.
"Divide the things among the four of you. I have divided some of them, so two people get one. Don't fight!" Jing Xian handed the things over and chased the children away.
Go back and eat.
Four kids were eating in a classroom. When they put out the contents of their lunch boxes, Li Yu was the first to run over.
He shamelessly asked Damao for a few bites of food and then sat beside him with his lunch box, watching and eating at the same time, looking so sad.
Gousheng'er looked at the food of the four of them and swallowed.
After finishing his meal, he brought the lunch box to his mother and said, "Mom, look at Tiedan's family. My aunt brought meat to Tiedan's rice!"
Zhao Xiuzhi slapped her son on the shoulder and said in a swearing voice, "Didn't I let you eat meat? You had meat at noon today, but your sister didn't. If you don't want to eat it, let your sister eat it, and you can just eat vegetables tomorrow."
Gousheng'er frowned: "Why don't you let my sister eat meat? I'm going to go back and tell my grandma!"
After saying that, Gousheng ran away.
Zhao Xiuzhi was so angry that she almost fell backwards.
Who is she doing this for?
Zhao Xiuzhi was not afraid of others, but she was afraid of her mother-in-law. She went to find her daughter before the class started, called her out, gave her some money, and said, "Don't be reluctant to eat, buy some meat for yourself at noon."
Zhao Xiuzhi said this and turned away.
She was afraid that if she didn't leave, she would be heartbroken and snatch the money from her daughter's hands.
As October approaches, the weather becomes colder and colder.
Thinking back to the Mid-Autumn Festival last month, when Shang Nanchen didn't come back and Song Ning and Xu Ning went home, she and her four children lived like normal, even eating a little more than usual, and she bought some mooncakes for the children.
Maybe because Shang Nanchen was not at home, she was also very perfunctory.
She knew how to make mooncakes, and was thinking about making some to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival when Shang Nanchen came back.
Action speaks louder than words.
The weather is cold now, so it is easy to make mooncakes without them going bad.
It's okay to leave it for ten days or half a month.
When the red beans were harvested, Jingxian cooked a pot of them and made red bean paste. She also cooked another pot of green bean paste. She also fried peanuts and made five-nut mooncakes. There was no green or red silk at home, so she didn't use any.
Thinking about what the old man said, I decided to try the salted duck egg mooncake. She tried making a few, and found that it was not difficult to make, and she was even a little comfortable. Jing Xian made the remaining 20 or so salted duck egg yolks into moon cakes.
Several children stood by eagerly, waiting to eat the freshly-baked mooncakes.
After making a lot of red bean paste and mung bean paste.
There was still a lot of dough left. Jingxian remembered the winter melon paste she had tried to make a few days ago. She hesitated and took out the winter melon paste to taste it. She made twenty mooncakes with the winter melon paste.
It doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not, what matters is the taste.
When I give it to others to try, I guess it's not enough.
Pot after pot of mooncakes comes out of the oven.
Jingxian took out a red bean paste mooncake, cut it into four pieces, and let the four children share it. After the green bean paste mooncake was out of the pot, she cut one for them to taste. After tasting all five kinds of mooncakes, Jingxian found that the four kids liked all kinds of mooncakes.
They prefer mooncakes with salted duck eggs.
Jing Xian's eyes lit up when she tasted it.
She took out one of each, wrote the fillings of each mooncake on it, wrapped it in oil paper, and gave them two of each. As for the mooncakes with red bean paste, green bean paste, and peanuts, she took five more of each.
These kinds of fillings are the most popular.
She then sent the three kinds of mooncakes to her neighbors for them to try.
Jing Xian couldn’t bear to part with the others.
She didn’t make much and the cost was high, so she wanted to save some for her children to eat to satisfy their hunger.
There is not much to eat now, so it’s good to have something to eat.
Jingxian's mooncakes received rave reviews.
Song Ning rushed over, hugged Jing Xian and said, "That duck egg yolk mooncake is really good! Can you make a few more?"
"If you can buy some salted duck eggs, I can make you a pot." Jing Xian did not refuse.
Song Ning agreed without saying a word.
She and Xu Ning hurried back with the mooncakes, and when they came back they brought fifty salted ducks.
Egg.
I don't know where she got it from.
Song Ning was not stupid, so he bought everything needed to make mooncakes.
"If there's anything missing, just tell me and I'll buy it. After it's done, you can keep twenty for the children." Song Ning had thought it through. There were thirty left. She would take ten home, give ten to her sister-in-law, and keep ten for herself to eat with Liao Yu.
"Twenty is too many." How could Jing Xian want so many? "Ten is enough, just let the children have a taste."
"That's fine."
Song Ning said it, but he actually bought two pounds of meat and said, "Let's eat braised pork!"
Jing Xian smiled.
This is why she likes to interact with Song Ning.
Even if you are friends, there is no reason to take advantage of others for no reason. It may happen once or twice, but in the long run, this kind of relationship will not last long.
Jing Xian took some time out the next afternoon to make mooncakes for Song Ning.
Let Damao send it to Song Ning.
She was doing housework when she heard footsteps outside. Before she could react, when she realized something and turned around, she saw Shang Nanchen standing at the door, exhausted.
The meat that was originally raised is gone.
The whole person looked like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, his posture as straight as pine or cypress, standing at the door and looking at her greedily.
"I'm back."
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