Chapter 30 Throwing a Tantrum
When the group stopped again, it was already evening. The sun had set and the sky had darkened. They finally found a wide open space at the foot of a mountain. The village chief immediately decided to rest here for one night and continue their journey tomorrow.
The villagers around were preparing their bedding for the night. Although it was hot in the summer, many families still took out their quilts and spread them on the ground.
Wu Yuetang observed for a while, then climbed into the carriage, took out the canvas he had bought from the space, and then called his eldest and second brothers over.
"There are three canvases in total. I've drawn lines on them, and you can use the sticks to go through them along the lines I drew."
Wu Yuetang gestured and explained, including demonstrating how to install it. Her two brothers were very good at manual work and they learned it after just one teaching. Within two cups of tea, all three tents were set up.
Compared with the sheds that other villagers simply built with branches, the difference is like heaven and earth.
"Little sister, you are so smart. This method of building a shed is the first time I've seen it. It's quite sturdy."
Wu Yongqiao grinned happily, and Wu Qingeng nodded in agreement.
The village chief summoned the heads of the households and arranged the night shifts. Each household was required to send at least one able-bodied man, who were divided into two groups to guard the first and second half of the night respectively.
Wu Shoutian was assigned to be on duty in the first half of the night tonight, so Wu Yuetang had one of the three tents for herself, Li and her two sisters-in-law had one, and her three brothers had one.
Wu Zhiyun found some dry firewood and started a fire. Wu Yuetang also took out a ceramic basin and a small stone slab from the space, filled them with some spiritual spring water, brought them out, sat next to Wu Zhiyun and started kneading the dough.
After the stone slab is heated, pour some oil on it and place the pancake on the stone slab to bake.
Gradually, the unique burnt aroma of flour wafted throughout the entire place, especially to a few families who were chewing on dry steamed buns. After smelling the aroma, they could not sit still and ran over directly.
"Tang girl, what are you making? Why does it smell so good?"
"Yeah, I've made pancakes at home too, but why aren't they as fragrant as this?"
"Oh, they use fine flour, not the coarse flour we use."
"Don't worry, aunties. I'll give you some to try later."
Wu Yuetang was busy with her hands and agreed with her words. When the aunts heard this, they were very happy and sat beside her waiting.
After baking about twenty pancakes, he turned and went into the carriage, and took out a large bowl of the fried sauce and braised pork intestines he had made last time from the space.
"Aunts, try this pancake, dip it in this sauce, and pair it with this braised dish."
Wu Yuetang wrapped one and handed it over. The aunt took a bite and her mouth was filled with the delicious taste. She looked very enjoyable.
"It's delicious, so delicious. I'll take it back for my family to try."
After saying that, he ran home with the pancake in his hands.
At this time, many families had not yet lit a fire to cook. Smelling the fragrance coming from not far away, they all looked towards the Wu family unconsciously.
Chen Chunhe looked at the scene, then looked at the hard coarse flour pancakes in her own home, and suddenly felt inexplicably angry.
After all, Chen Chunhe and the wife of the second son of the Wu family are still from her mother's family. Chen Chunhe is Chen Zhaodi's second aunt. They rarely interact with each other, and the number of times they can visit each other throughout the year can be counted on one hand.
Chen Chunhe's husband Wang Tiezhu is a blacksmith. He usually works in the town. This time the whole town moved south and he lost his job. He was very depressed.
He glanced at his wife's eager look and sneered unhappily.
"Aren't you from his second son's wife's family? I don't think they treat you as family. Now that they have something delicious, they don't even think of sending it to you. Don't you think being their second aunt is a bit unworthy?"
As he said this, he took a bite of the hard bread and took a sip of wine.
Chen Chunhe got anxious when she heard this. "Who said no? She definitely doesn't know we're here. If she knew, would she not give it to us?"
As she spoke, she twisted her hips and walked towards the Wu family tent. Wang Tiezhu looked at her like this, as if he had guessed that she would not have a good time if she went there, and sneered at her back.
"Oh, that's really stupid."
"Oh, isn't this my niece's in-laws' house? What are they doing?"
Chen Chunhe twisted to the campfire and asked loudly on purpose. Wu Yuetang gave her an unpleasant look and found that she was one of the people who had bullied her at the village gate together with Aunt Sun before, so she ignored her.
Seeing no one paying attention to her, Chen Chunhe shouted loudly: "Where is my niece? Where is Zhaodi?"
"Here I am, here I am, hey? Second Aunt? Why are you here?"
Chen Zhaodi was busy laying out the bed in the tent. When she heard the noise, she quickly crawled out and saw Chen Qinghe standing by the campfire with her hands on her hips, shouting loudly.
"I don't know what your family did. I smelled something nice so I came over to check it out, but your little sister ignored me."
"Well, Second Aunt, you know what kind of personality our Tang'er has. She has never liked socializing since she was a child and never talks to people she doesn't know well. She probably just thinks you're unfamiliar to her."
Chen Zhaodi made up an excuse to prevaricate, but Chen Chunhe didn't seem to buy it and continued talking with her hands on her hips.
"Okay, whatever you say is what I say. But what is she doing? Why does it smell so good? Why is she giving cakes to those three women?"
"I don't know what my little sister is doing. She's the one who cooks at home now, so we eat whatever she cooks."
"Then you can give us some to try."
After hearing this, Chen Zhaodi knew the purpose of her coming here. She looked in Wu Yuetang's direction with some embarrassment. Before she could speak, Wu Yuetang had already walked in front of Chen Chunhe.
"No! There is no free lunch in the world. If you want to eat, you have to pay for it."
"What? You want me to spend money to buy it? You didn't charge for the gift you just gave away? I am still your second sister-in-law's family after all. Is this how you treat your elders?"
Wu Yuetang never expected that Chen Chunhe would suddenly become unreasonable.
"Oh, you are my elder? Did you give me New Year's money? Did you come to our house during the Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival?"
Wu Yuetang sneered and rolled her eyes.
"Don't try to use morality to kidnap me. Sorry, I have no morals."
As he said that, he pulled his second sister-in-law to his side and walked towards the campfire. Chen Qinghe saw that she didn't get any food and was scolded, and she immediately felt dissatisfied.
"You damned girl, you really don't want to be punished for your toast, right? Since you are like this, don't blame me for being merciless."
Chen Qinghe's voice was not loud, but Wu Yuetang could hear it just in time. She smiled and replied to her, "I'll wait."
Chen Qinghe was immediately furious. She ran to the middle of the landing area, suddenly lay down on the ground, grinned, and started howling.
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