Chen Xuanxuan felt that she had spent a lot of effort to fool the group of relatives in front of her.

Seeing their backs leaving one by one, Chen Xuanxuan subconsciously raised her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Too tired. It was really too tiring to deal with these people.

Chen Xuanxuan never thought that dealing with these people was more tiring than her previous work in the society... that is, dealing with the group of people in the office...

Who said that rural people are not cunning? Who said that rural people are simple, kind and pure?

Chen Xuanxuan feels that only those who are truly rooted in the countryside, born in the countryside, raised in the countryside, and have to deal with rural people every day can deeply understand that anyone who says that rural people are simple, kind, and honest is often the most simple, kind, and honest person...

Chen Xuanxuan is a little confused. Why do some people think that way?

Have they never heard of what it means to be poor and vicious? What does it mean that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people?

Or do those who say that rural people are the most simple, kind, and honest every day just want to flatter themselves?

Chen Xuanxuan has lived here for almost five years. In these five years, she feels that not only is her food, clothing, and drinking conditions extremely poor, but she also feels that the interpersonal relationships here are particularly complicated. In this

village, almost all people are relatives.

If Chen Xuanxuan thought about it carefully, she would find that people with the same surname Gu could be brothers and sisters from the same family if they counted a few generations back... They

were so closely related by blood, but they would still stab each other in the back because of their interests...

"Boss, what are you going to do?"

Chen Xuanxuan had finally cooked the meal tonight, and she immediately saw her man. He didn't even have time to eat, and ran out in a hurry with his things.

When Gu Yanzhang saw his wife greet him, he suddenly stopped and told her seriously, "Wife, I just heard someone say that a distant relative of their family seems to have passed away. I have to go with them to see him..."

Chen Xuanxuan couldn't help but curl her lips secretly when she heard this.

It's not a good thing to have too many relatives.

Because once there are too many relatives, it's really too expensive to have favors with them.

When you get married, you have to give gifts. If an old person dies in someone's family, they also have to pay.

When someone has a son, they have to celebrate with a big banquet. They have to go to their house with the whole family, bring a lot of money, and pay for

weddings and funerals.

But the old people in this village hold banquets almost every year as long as they are old.

For example, when they are 58 years old, they will hold a 60th birthday.

When they are 67 or 68 years old, they will hold a 70th birthday.

All the old people over 70 years old will celebrate their birthdays every year.

They like to hold such happy funerals even though they are not dead yet. That is to say, the living old people like to sit in the coffin, carried by their sons and grandchildren, and wander around the village.

In this way, Chen Xuanxuan has to follow everyone else and give money to that family.

Chen Xuanxuan feels that everyone in this village actually wants to make money.

Their village is big and has a large population.

With a large population, there are many things to do.

The atmosphere of blind comparison is still strong in the village and outside the village.

They compare for no other reason than their own face.

Whoever holds more banquets and whoever has more favors every time they hold a banquet feels that they have a lot of face.

Those who hold fewer banquets, have fewer troubles at home, and charge less money will become the object of contempt by everyone.

Because these people subconsciously think that they are the kind of honest people with a sincere heart.

Chen Xuanxuan and Gu Yanzhang have now become the honest people in the eyes of those people.

Because even if Gu Yanzhang and Chen Xuanxuan have a little money, they have never been keen on holding banquets for people in their own families.

Chen Xuanxuan knows that if she just wants to get back the favor and then hold a banquet at home, it will be too troublesome.

She is a person who is particularly afraid of trouble, and she really doesn't want to do such a thing.

She had seen with her own eyes how those families who held banquets held banquets.

Those families were not well-off and could not possibly invite those famous chefs from the county.

Therefore, almost all families who held banquets asked their women to cook for everyone.

Those women who cooked were hardworking and thrifty. Even if there were bugs or feces in the rotten vegetable leaves, they would just wash them.

And they never threw the rotten vegetable leaves away. They

would just throw them into a big pot and stew them until they became a paste, which was the yellow-green stuff. Then they would serve all the food out.

This paste made of rotten vegetable leaves and other strange wild vegetables actually has no oil or salt.

Therefore, it tastes very bitter.

As for the pickled mustard greens for banquets, ... under normal circumstances, there is absolutely no such thing.

Some families have only one son for several generations, and finally they have a big fat boy. In order to celebrate, they are willing to spend a lot of money and buy one or two eggs for each table.

Of course, this egg is not a simple boiled egg. Instead, the egg is directly beaten in a bowl, and then some water is added, and then poured into the pot. After a pot of stew, it becomes a pot of egg drop soup.

So, this has become another pickled mustard greens dish served on the table.

Of course, those people, in order to make more money and get more favors, would not mind if the food they cooked was not to people’s taste. The most crucial thing is that every time those people hold a banquet, they will borrow tables, chairs, stools, and bowls and chopsticks from every household.

Chen Xuanxuan simply takes her own benches, tables, chairs, and bowls and chopsticks as an example... Every time those people hold a banquet, they will run to their house and ask her father-in-law to borrow them with a smile.

For the sake of face, her father-in-law agreed very readily.

After the benches, tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, spoons, forks, spatulas, and large pots are borrowed, these things often suffer losses.

Either this thing is lost, or that thing is lost.