The way to get rich was blocked just as I thought of it. Anyone would be depressed for a while.
The system was about to say a few words to comfort her, but Shen Cui angrily raised her hand to block the system. When she raised her eyes again, she saw Zhou who was hesitating whether to step over the threshold.
Shen Cui wiped her face and asked why Zhou came suddenly?
Although Zhou was foolishly filial, her temperament was somewhat passive. For example, she had been thinking about fulfilling her filial duty as a daughter-in-law during the New Year, but at first she just waited at home. He waited until New Year's Eve, and as he could not delay any longer, he took the initiative to bring the things to my door.
Now that the New Year is over, she actually came to the house on her own initiative, which naturally surprised Shen Cui.
Zhou had just been observing her at the gate for a long time. Seeing her smiling and sad at the same time, she was undecided whether to come in at this moment.
But since Chen Cui had discovered it, she could no longer hide and walked in.
She didn't come empty-handed this time, she brought a jar of pickles she had made herself.
When they got to the yard, Zhou put down the pickle jar first and said, "It is the duty of a daughter-in-law to respect her mother-in-law. There is no special reason. Besides, after my husband takes the county exam, he will take the prefectural exam and the imperial exam. He will also study in the academy in the prefecture city. He will be away from home for a long time. Although we don't live together, we are still a family."
Zhou's words seemed very ordinary, but Shen Cui felt something was wrong when she heard them.
Zhou was a country girl who couldn't even read a single word. The fat man in front asked her to watch him write, but she didn't even know how to write her own surname. How could she know the arrangements for the imperial examination?
Could it be that he just learned this and his memory is still fresh, so he said it out unconsciously?
Chen Cui nodded and said with a smile: "So that's the case, you are right. Speaking of family, I haven't seen Dalang for a while, I wonder how he is doing in the academy."
My mother-in-law is really different now. In the past, she would definitely not have the leisure to worry about her husband and would not even bother to mention him.
Zhou's expression softened a little. "My husband is doing well in the academy, but he looks a little thinner."
After hearing this, what else does Shen Cui not understand?
Mu Yunchuan had just come back, and he had said something to Zhou, so Zhou came to visit.
"We are a family, we should visit each other more often" might be enough to deceive Zhou, but Shen Cui didn't believe that was Mu Yunchuan's real intention.
What's more, it happened to be such a coincidence that the day before was the day when Mu Yunchuan met Mu Erpang in the city. He came back that day and made arrangements with Zhou.
Shen Cui thought for a while and roughly guessed his intention -
He must have discovered that Erpang had gotten better, and then he came back to confirm this with Zhou. After getting a positive answer, he still had some doubts in his heart, so he asked Zhou to come over and keep an eye on it.
Zhou was not the smartest, but she was not stupid either. She was considerate and considerate, and she was also infatuated with him. She was the perfect informant.
This is actually beneficial to Shen Cui as well.
Of course, she didn't want to, and wasn't willing to, stand against Mu Yunchuan.
Last time, she took the initiative to show her goodwill, but Mu Yunchuan thought that she was about to do something bad again, so he secretly tripped her up.
Now that Zhou is here, she can just act as a witness. Besides, to put it bluntly, Shen Cui's IQ is far lower than Mu Yunchuan's, and Zhou's is even worse than hers. Having her around won't make people feel uneasy.
At the same time, Zhou's words just now also revealed a message to Chen Cui, that is, Mu Yunchuan will be really busy for some time to come and will not be able to do anything.
In the original book, there is indeed a plot where Mu Yunchuan goes to the provincial capital to study.
In other words, during this period of time, she can accompany Mu Erpang to study with peace of mind, and does not have to worry about Mu Yunchuan's revenge for the time being.
As for why I said temporarily... Mu Yunchuan's personality is too complicated. As someone who has read the whole book, Chen Cui is a little confused about his temperament.
This is what he is thinking now, but who knows if he will think of something else in ten or twenty years?
Or maybe ten or twenty years later, when he is in a high position, there may be people who want to flatter him and help him settle old accounts.
Therefore, Chen Cui's ultimate goal is to train her second fat man into a talent.
But a brief peace truce was already extremely good news, and Shen Cui couldn't help but feel better.
So Chen Cui said to her, "You are right. Come to my place more often in the future. You have taken the job of washing and mending, right? Your old house doesn't have a well, and it is inconvenient to go out to fetch water. The yard is not as spacious as here. You can come here when you have work to do in the future."
Zhou was flattered and said, "Will this disturb Erpang's study?"
Shen Cui waved her hand nonchalantly, "It's just washing clothes outside. If this can disturb him, he will be too easily distracted."
Only then did Zhou nod in agreement.
So that morning, Zhou moved all the unwashed clothes at home here.
She worked very efficiently. She put the dirty clothes, which were piled as high as a mountain, into the basin one by one, then added soap and scrubbed them vigorously.
After washing for half the morning, she hung all the clothes out to dry.
Zhou was no longer as afraid of her stepmother-in-law as she was before. Seeing her staring at her, she smiled and said, "Mother-in-law is right. Not having to go out to fetch water again and again really saves a lot of trouble. What used to take a whole day to finish was finished in less than half a day today."
As Zhou spoke, she hung up the clothes again. She washed too many clothes at once, and Chen Cui's clothes were full. Zhou took some back to the shabby house to hang them up.
When she came back, it was already noon and Mu Erpang came out of his room and said he was hungry.
After the monthly exam, the system did not release new tasks immediately. However, this morning, Mu Erpang was not idle and was still reviewing the previous content and practicing calligraphy.
Although some unpleasant things happened the day before, Mu Erpang did not blame his elder brother, and naturally he would not vent his anger on Zhou when he saw her.
He first called out to someone with a smile, then said with a smile, "I heard someone washing clothes outside for a long time. It turned out that my sister-in-law came."
As he spoke, his stomach growled twice.
Chen Cui asked him as usual: "How about steamed buns and pickles? I'll give you an extra boiled egg!"
Before Mu Erpang nodded, Zhou couldn't help but said, "Don't think I'm too nosy, mother-in-law. Studying and practicing calligraphy are very time-consuming. You have to be more careful about what you eat. Although Erpang is plumper than other children, it's not good to just make do with him. If he doesn't eat enough when he was young like my husband, his body will be bad when he grows up..."
Having said this, Zhou suddenly stopped talking, and her fair face turned red.
Shen Cui waved her hands indifferently, "It was my fault before, but now I understand. What you said makes sense, but my craftsmanship..."
With her current cooking skills, not cooking for Mu Erpang would be the real way to do him good!
Zhou then asked tentatively: "Then let me do it?"
This is naturally better.
Shen Cui happily agreed, then accompanied her to the kitchen and gathered the few remaining ingredients in the house.
A few steamed buns that had been frozen hard overnight, a few eggs, and a handful of dried vermicelli.
As for the semi-finished products such as bacon and sausages that were previously available at home, they had all been eaten up during the New Year period and had not been replenished yet.
Chen Cui rummaged around for a while and found a jar of lard that her original owner was reluctant to use.
Zhou didn't think the ingredients were scarce. She first started to light the fire skillfully, then beat the eggs, washed and cut the vegetables, soaked the vermicelli, and then went back to the old house to pick a bunch of green onions that she had grown herself.
In the blink of an eye, all the ingredients were prepared, and then I started to prepare the dishes.
It only took about fifteen minutes to prepare a meal with scallion scrambled eggs, cabbage stewed with vermicelli, and Zhou's re-steamed white steamed buns that were extra soft.
Although the dishes were simple, Shen Cui and Mu Erpang started drooling while waiting for the dishes.
People are like this. If they always ate badly, it wouldn't be a big deal, but after going back to the Shen family several times over the years, their appetites had long been aroused.
After the Chinese New Year, Chen Cui felt embarrassed to go back for a free meal, especially since her sister-in-law Chen always secretly looked at her with a cold look, which made her even more reluctant to go.
She wanted to have Mu Erpang go to her grandparents' house every now and then for a meal, but the boy was getting more and more opinionated and said, "If mom doesn't go, then I won't go either, and the food at our house is pretty good too."
But no matter what happened in the past, as soon as Zhou's dishes were ready, the mother and son happily helped to serve the bowls and dishes and wipe the table.
The food was on the table, but Shen Cui and Mu Erpang were not in a hurry to eat. They waited until Zhou finally came out of the kitchen before they reached out to take the steamed buns at the same time.
The mother and son ate steamed buns and vegetables at the same time, enjoying the food especially deliciously.
Although they didn't eat voraciously, they still made Zhou confused. She hesitantly tasted the dish she had cooked - it was as delicious as usual, but not that delicious!
But it felt really good to be affirmed by others. Zhou couldn't help but smile. The empty heart in the morning finally settled down and her appetite improved as well.
The three of them ate five steamed buns, Shen Cui and Mu Erpang each had two, and Zhou had one. After the meal, Zhou went to wash the dishes and clear the table. Shen Cui had already established herself as a reformed person at this time, so there was no need to pretend to be like her original self, so she stood up to help.
Zhou dodged and said, "This steamed bun costs only one penny in the city, and I also ate eggs and vegetables. It's nothing to do a little work, mother-in-law, don't get involved, I'll finish it in no time."
Noon is Mu Erpang's rest time, and Chen Cui lets him take a nap in the main house.
Before going to bed, Shen Cui tucked him in as usual. Mu Erpang was almost asleep, but he couldn't help but mutter, "Sister-in-law's cooking is so delicious, not worse than grandma's. It would be great if sister-in-law cooked for us every day. I'm not saying that mom's cooking is bad, it's just... I just don't want mom to be tired."
He had said this on New Year's Eve, but the problem that troubled Chen Cui at that time has not been solved yet -
No money! If Zhou cooks, can't he invite people to dinner?
If you only ask people to work but don't give them food, then what's the difference between you and the original person?
There is almost nothing left of the food that our family had stored before the New Year. We have to count every penny from now on. How can we afford to support a third person?
After muttering those words, Mu Erpang fell asleep.
Chen Cui came out of the bedroom. At this time, Zhou had already cleaned up the kitchen and brought other clothes and a needle and thread basket from the broken house.
Then she found a well-lit spot in the house and began her mending.
The clothes had holes of varying sizes, but in Zhou's hands, the holes were mended without leaving any trace in just a few breaths.
All the work that she cannot do now will no longer be a problem in Zhou's skillful hands.
Chen Cui looked at her without blinking, and Zhou felt a little embarrassed, so she looked away.
[Thinking back to my previous life, I was as skillful as her. 】
Thinking of this, Shen Cui fell back on the recliner and closed her eyes. It looked like she was taking a nap, but in fact she had unblocked the system. Then she habitually opened various regulations related to the system and browsed through them one by one.
The system now felt uneasy when it saw her browsing the regulations, and heard her complain: "I think your design is too unfair. Erpang's attribute growth can get help from the system, and he can also grow through his own efforts in daily life. What about me? I am not good at cooking or sewing, so why can I only use system tools to upgrade? 】
Seeing that she was in a bad mood, the system patiently explained: [Because the training target is a real person in this world, and the host appeared here because of the system. In a sense, the host is a complete derivative of the system. So if you want to grow, you will be a little stricter. 】
[Give me a body that can do nothing, and ruin the way to make money that I just thought of. I have no skills and no money. In my previous life, I was a clerical worker in a management position. I can't find a job here in this life. It's really too difficult...] Shen Cui sighed repeatedly and even said: [Now that I think about it, I was so tired in my previous life. Sudden death may not be a bad destination. When a person dies, it is like a light going out. Probably, one will not feel any pain after death. It's better than making any derivative products of the system now. 】
The system was deployed to various planes to collect data. There were tens of thousands of hosts before and after. There were indeed several hosts who suddenly lost the will to live one day and directly exploded with the system.
It was indeed him who immediately fixed the system vulnerability found by Shen Cui today, and Zhou's arrival inevitably made Shen Cui sigh.
The system immediately said at a very fast speed: [Host, don't be discouraged. Why do you have such negative thoughts? The current situation is not that bad, it's just that you are not allowed to resell the system output. If you want money, I can adjust the system tasks for you...】
As he spoke, he urgently retrieved Shen Cui's brain wave data, fearing that she was really so negative that she wanted to die.
When he retrieved the data and looked at it, he found something wrong.
How can these abnormally active brain waves be the data of a discouraged person?
Data will never lie, so the only one who lies is——
[Eh? 962464, you see, the system regulations say that the system can conceal some information that the host does not need to know from the host, but it cannot lie to the host or convey false information. 】Chen Cui laughed,【What did you just say? Can you adjust the system tasks for me? If I don't do as I'm told, I don't know if that would count as deceiving the host. 】
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