Jiang Yue had sweet dreams all night.
In my dream, she returned to the modern world, where, with a million-dollar savings, she relaxed and went to the barbecue capital to eat barbecue to her heart's content, enjoying skewers and beer without a care in the world, and even managed to touch a guy's abs...
When he reached out, he found nothing. He opened his eyes and saw only a hole in the roof. He reached out and grabbed his daughter, but she was nowhere to be found.
Startled, she immediately snapped back to reality!
He quickly shouted:
"Grass?"
"Hey, Mother, let me prepare some water for you to wash your face. Why don't you go back to sleep?"
Wu Cao'er opened her eyes and found herself being held in her mother's arms like a precious treasure. After feeling secretly delighted for a while, she stepped out of her mother's embrace and began to busy herself, intending to boil water.
To her utter surprise, her eldest brother, second brother, and third brother had all gotten up earlier than her. They had not only boiled the water, but also cooked the multigrain porridge for this morning!
"No, no, Mother will do it herself."
Jiang Yue breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and immediately went to put on her shoes. When she was changing her clothes, she hesitated for a moment, wondering if she had been wearing the same clothes for two days.
The cuffs and hem are filthy, I should change into a different set!
So she rummaged through her belongings again and found a patched but dignified-looking garment, which she then put on.
Sigh, there's nothing I can do. The original owner's aesthetic sense is really bizarre. She's clearly a widow, yet the clothes in her wardrobe are all bright and colorful, not only tacky but also gaudy. Isn't that obviously a sign of not being faithful?
Once she's successful in her career, she'll definitely get rid of all the original owner's clothes!
As for the bun, isn't it just a low bun?
Following the original owner's memories and adding her own understanding, she took the wooden hairpin out of the cabinet...
Simply tie your hair up, secure it with a wooden hairpin, then tie it up again and fasten it tightly.
It's a pity there's no mirror, otherwise she would really like to see what she looks like now.
In the kitchen, Wu Daniu and Wu Ergou were busy making breakfast. They used leftover mixed grain rice from last night, added several large bowls of water, simmered it, added some wild vegetables, and then ladled in three spoonfuls of lard. The aroma wafting from the cracks in the pot lid was incredibly tempting.
After Jiang Yue finished washing up, she came in and reminded him:
"Da Niu, add another spoonful of salt."
"Mom, salt is expensive, let's use it sparingly."
Wu Daniu shook his head, saying that lard was enough and adding salt would be too extravagant.
"Listen to your mother, you are all growing and need to eat well. Just a spoonful of salt is enough for us."
Jiang Yue patiently explained that oil, salt, carbohydrates, etc., are essential nutrients that the human body must consume, and none of them can be lacking!
"Yes, I'll listen to Mother."
Seeing that his mother was determined, Wu Daniu did not insist any further. All the seasonings and solidified lard in the house were stored in the cupboard, and the key to the cupboard was hanging on a nail on the side of the cupboard.
After taking the key, he carefully held the salt jar in his palm, then scooped a spoonful of salt into the pot. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but the porridge in the pot seemed to smell even better.
"Alright, alright, stir it. After we finish our porridge, we need to get back to work."
Jiang Yue nodded with satisfaction. She wasn't afraid of being poor, but she was afraid of being lazy.
With good hands and feet, as long as you have ambition, you can make a living doing anything!
Fortunately, her sons could still be saved. She trusted her eldest and second eldest sons with the kitchen chores, and as for chopping and splitting firewood, she thought her youngest son did a pretty good job.
"Bang!"
Wu Qingyun chopped again and again, turning the wooden stake into firewood in an instant. The more he chopped, the more aggrieved he felt, but his pride wouldn't allow him to shed tears!
My palms were scraped raw by the cleaver, and they're burning with pain now...
"Third Brother, breakfast is ready!"
"Okay, I understand."
Wu Qingyun responded, his expression revealing neither joy nor anger.
Wu Cao'er called out, but seeing that her third brother had no expression, she didn't dare to stay any longer and ran away.
She didn't know what was going on, but ever since her mother stopped favoring her third brother and started favoring her instead, she could sense that her third brother was unhappy. Sometimes, the way he looked at her made her a little scared.
If Jiang Yue had seen it, she would have known it was a look of jealousy...
The family of five sat together drinking mixed grain and vegetable porridge. Except for Jiang Yue, everyone else cherished this hard-won delicacy.
Meanwhile, the Wu family was also having breakfast, which consisted of cornbread and wild vegetable soup with lard.
However, when the two women, Da Zhou and Lao Zhou, brought out two plates of meat dishes, everyone else's attention was immediately drawn to them!
"Mother, where did this meat dish come from?"
Wu Dalang's eyes lit up. The sliced meat he ate yesterday was gone before he could even taste it.
There's meat on the menu today!
What a pleasant surprise!
Not only him, but all the other adults and children had the same thought!
"This was given to you by your third aunt. You're bound to be indebted to someone who gives you a gift, so remember to greet your third aunt sweetly whenever you see her in the future."
Adults never gossip about their grudges with children.
Therefore, the grandchildren of the old house, regardless of age, only know that their third aunt was shrewish and that the third branch of the family had a very difficult time without their third uncle...
"Okay, milk~"
Wu Dashi nodded. Apart from his married sister, he was the eldest grandson.
From childhood to adulthood, their third aunt never gave them a kind look, and would often bring her younger siblings from her third branch to freeload.
His parents often told him to be more understanding and accommodating to his younger siblings from the third branch of the family, and he always did so.
Now that he heard from his grandmother that his third aunt had improved, he was happy for his younger siblings!
The younger generation naturally followed suit, doing whatever the adults said was good food.
Harmony in the family brings prosperity in all things. Old Master Wu is not greedy for food; he only desires family affection and the harmony of his children and grandchildren.
The meat dishes were distributed, and although each person received only a small amount, at least their stomachs were fed some meat.
Even Xiao Zhou, who had always disliked the Jiang family, was speechless this time...
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Old Zhou instructed her two daughters-in-law and grandchildren to pick all the honeysuckle they found while working and bring it home. She gave it to her third son's family, saying that it could be sold for money, and regardless of whether it was true or not, they should give it a try.
Although the eldest and youngest Zhou families thought it sounded unreliable, they didn't refuse and nodded in agreement.
Little Zhou thought to herself, "Honeysuckle blooms in abundance this season, and it can be seen everywhere in and around the village."
Normally, they would take it off and put it on their hair buns, just for the sake of looking pretty and smelling nice.
Sell it for money?
Unheard of, unseen before!
Fine, having eaten the meat they gave her, she'd pick a basketful of honeysuckle even if it meant walking a mountain path...
With oil and meat dishes, the men of the Wu family had much more energy to work in the fields!
When Old Mrs. Zhou wasn't busy, she checked the kitchen and found that the lard jars in the cupboard were mostly intact, especially the lard itself, which was incredibly white and clean.
"Mother, the lard that my third sister-in-law renders is really white and lasts a long time."
After collecting the dishes, Da Zhou squatted in the kitchen to wash them and chatted for a few minutes.
Upon hearing this, Old Zhou pondered, "Could it be that adding water when rendering lard can really increase the amount of lard?"
She'll try buying some pork fat when the New Year comes...
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