Xue Zhuang turned his back on her and was no longer as attentive and ingratiating towards Xu Yan'er as he had been before their marriage.
What should have been their wedding night turned into a night of hunger and tears for the bride and her mother.
The next day, seeing that Xue Zhuang ignored them, the mother and daughter finally couldn't take it anymore and heated up the leftovers in the kitchen to eat.
Unexpectedly, the dark acorn tofu, although it had softened into a paste, looked quite disgusting.
It's not bitter at all; in fact, it's exceptionally delicious because it absorbs all the flavors after soaking overnight.
They were starving, and the mother and daughter, without any hesitation, finished all the remaining acorn paste in one go.
Xu Yan'er burped and said to Granny Cui, "Mother, this dish is really delicious! I could eat it every day from now on."
Seeing that her daughter didn't understand the seriousness of the matter, she was happy just because the acorn tofu was delicious.
Granny Cui had mixed feelings: They had only been married yesterday, and her son-in-law treated her like this, not saying a single kind word. He was blaming her for losing her job.
What will become of my daughter in the future?
Then he thought about how he had impulsively taken his daughter to do corvée labor, which resulted in his daughter getting married in a daze, and he was too ashamed to go back and face people.
Seeing that Xu Yan'er was confused and that her son-in-law was alone in Suijin Town, Granny Cui decided not to go home and to live with her daughter from now on.
Xu Yan'er naturally wanted her mother to stay, and after she gently flattered Xue Zhuang that evening, Xue Zhuang agreed to let his mother-in-law live with him.
However, from now on, he must make the decisions regarding family matters and he will not allow the mother and daughter to make decisions on their own. If they do it again, he will drive Granny Cui away.
They stayed, but Xue Zhuang was now out of pay, and the three of them certainly couldn't just sit around and live off their savings.
Xue Zhuang remembered that the brothers in the camp liked to eat roasted acorn tofu at the wedding banquet, so he asked Granny Cui to make some to sell as well, and he was responsible for calling the brothers from the garrison to come and eat.
Granny Cui was a skilled cook; she could make acorn flour paste and acorn flour steamed buns.
Acorn tofu was no challenge for Granny Cui either.
After the first batch of acorn tofu was made, the family of three excitedly began to eat.
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