The hot water on the stove produced tiny bubbles. Chen Cui beat three eggs in a bowl and stirred them in one direction with chopsticks. She quickly poured the eggs into the water as the hot water swirled. Then she adjusted the firewood in the stove, turned down the fire, waited until the eggs solidified, and then turned to high heat and cooked for two minutes.
When the eggs are fully formed, Shen Cui puts sugar in a bowl and pours the eggs and soup into the bowl.
These sugar-coated eggs are a very common breakfast, and Chen Cui often made them in later generations.
But the strange thing is that usually when they are made, the sugar eggs are always white and plump, very tempting, and they are soft-boiled eggs that tremble when touched with chopsticks.
This time it turned out just barely presentable - almost shapeless.
Is it because I changed to a clay stove that is not convenient for me?
Looking up, she saw that Mu Erpang's mood value had dropped by another 5 points, and his status had changed from (hungry) to (very hungry). Without having time to think about it, Shen Cui quickly walked out of the kitchen holding a large bowl.
Mu Erpang, who had been very listless while reading just now, immediately sat up with energy when he smelled the fragrance of the food.
He took the bowl and the spoon. He could have eaten them one bite at a time, but he ate them in small bites, cherishing them very much.
No one doesn't like a child who enjoys eating. Just now, Chen Cui was worried that her poor performance would affect his appetite, but now he was enjoying the food with his eyes narrowed, looking very satisfied. Obviously, her worry was unnecessary.
Seeing the child's mood index rising, Shen Cui felt helpless and amused.
It’s okay. Although his mood value has dropped like the SAN value in a horror game, he is still an easy child to raise!
Noticing her gaze, Mu Erpang raised his head and looked back at Shen Cui.
When they looked at each other, his face became solemn. He looked at Shen Cui with his narrow eyes, then at the bowl in his hand, and then at Shen Cui again. Finally, he made up his mind and said with gritted teeth: "The last egg, give it to mother!"
Then he pushed the bowl away and closed his eyes, looking as if he had made a great sacrifice and was ready to die.
It’s just an egg. Not necessary. Really not necessary!
Shen Cui shook her head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Mom doesn't want to eat your eggs, you can eat them yourself."
Afraid that her silly son would overthink things, Shen Cui simply turned her eyes away from him and continued to look at the panel data comparison of the two sons of the Mu family.
In addition to the above parameters, the system also lists several other important information data for each person, including five major attributes: IQ, EQ, imagination, memory, and charm.
In order to facilitate people's viewing, these data are made into graphic modules.
Mu Yunchuan is indeed worthy of being the male protagonist in the imperial examination novel, he is totally a pentagonal warrior! Every attribute is close to its peak!
As for the graphic module of Mu Erpang, who was feasting beside Shen Cui... Shen Cui thought there was a bug in the system. She looked at it intently for a long time before she realized that there was a dot in the middle of the graphic!
A dot not much bigger than a sesame seed!
The five major attributes are all close to the bottom values, and if you look at the specific numbers, they are all pitiful single digits.
No wonder this child could hear the phrase “人之初” as “人之猪”!
The system finally gave a comment on the current qualifications of the two people.
Mu Yunchuan's comment was very concise - [Gifted, gifted by nature], Mu Erpang's comment was much longer than his, but it was not a good word, but a euphemism -
[The creator of this world doesn't seem to like this child very much and is unfair to him. He is lazy, stupid, greedy... It seems that he is just trying to contrast with a great and glorious existence. But he is not without merits. He has a sincere heart. With time and careful carving, a rough jade can also emit brilliance, and a rotten wood can be carved into a good talent. 】
When Shen Cui looked at Mu Erpang again, she couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.
Even the system admitted that his current condition was the unfairness of the world to him and set him as the control group of the male protagonist in the original book. What else could she say? I can only have more compassion for him.
At this time, Mu Erpang finished eating the last candied egg, drank the sugar water used to soak the egg, and burped contentedly.
His fever had just subsided, so Chen Cui naturally didn't ask him to get out of bed or anything, and let him lie back in bed.
Just when Shen Cui wanted to continue studying the system, the gate outside the courtyard suddenly slammed.
As she answered, she quickly walked out and opened the gate.
Two women were standing outside the door.
Standing half a step in front was a skinny woman wearing a thick cotton jacket and a cloth scarf on her head. She was in her early fifties and had few wrinkles on her face, but the two lines on her cheeks were so deep that they looked as if they were carved by a knife or an axe. Her eyes were bright and clear without a trace of turbidity, and she looked very unapproachable.
Standing behind the skinny woman was a middle-aged woman of about thirty-five or thirty-six, with big eyes and a round face. Her appearance was not the best, but she looked very kind.
These two people were not outsiders, they were the original body’s biological mother Zheng and sister-in-law Li.
The sudden visit from her mother's family was not good news for Shen Cui!
It can be said that in the original book, the person that Chen Cui least wants to offend is Mu Yunchuan, and her in-laws are definitely second!
Of course, the two situations are different.
The former, Mu Yunchuan, was a black-hearted man with high means, which made Shen Cui afraid.
As for the latter, Shen Cui and her original body have very different temperaments. A stupid son like Mu Erpang might not be able to notice it, but how could her in-laws not see the clues?
Moreover, the original mother was also a famous person. In the original book, Chen Cuihua got close to Mu Yunchuan after he became rich, and her mother made great efforts for him.
It's just that Zheng was already very old at that time and died not long after she started to live, so the number one annoying person in the original book's plot is still her daughter Shen Cuihua.
Being able to raise a top-notch daughter like Chen Cuihua, Zheng is quite a character. She was very strong-willed and capable since she was young.
A few years after marrying into the Shen family, Zheng got the right to manage the household.
She does have the ability to lead a family—
Back then, the old man of the Shen family was just a farmer who worked hard in the fields, and the money he earned throughout the year was just enough for his family to eat and drink.
When Zheng became the head of the family, she emptied out her family's savings to send her two sons to the city to learn skills.
After a while, Shen Da became the shopkeeper, and Shen Er became the second chef in the restaurant.
The Shen family's life suddenly became prosperous, and they moved from the village to the city a few years ago.
Under Zheng's leadership, the Shen family transformed themselves from peasants into city dwellers.
And this sister-in-law, Li, was the daughter-in-law personally selected by Zheng. She was as soft-tempered as dough, but to be honest, she was someone that Shen Cui didn't want to see.
Because the original body drugged Mu Cheng at her wedding banquet.
The original body didn't think anything of it, but Shen Cui, whose memories were now fused, twisted her fingers awkwardly when she saw her.
As soon as Zheng came in, she took one look at Chen Cui and asked in surprise, "The sun is rising from the west today? You lazy girl, you're already up at this hour?"
The original body did sleep until noon every day. Chen Cui smiled awkwardly and did not answer her words. Instead, she asked, "Mother, why are you free to come here today?"
As for Zheng's sister-in-law Li, Shen Cui deliberately did not ask about her - after all, when her original body was still a girl at home, she was extremely spoiled and did not take her sisters-in-law seriously, especially the soft-hearted Li, who was not in her eyes.
When she first interacted with the original body's mother, Shen Cui could only try her best to imitate the original body's words and deeds. I just want to have less contact with my mother's family in the future, and then make some changes, so that I won't arouse so much suspicion.
Zheng had thought her daughter had become a different person after getting up so early in the morning, but now seeing her defiant look, her doubts were dispelled, and she replied nonchalantly, "There are many things going on at home during the twelfth lunar month, and I haven't seen you for almost a month. You are such a lazy girl. Now that I don't have time to come and see you, don't you know the way back to your parents' home?"
Shen Cui smiled and didn't respond, inviting them to go into the house.
The wind is strong in the village. The original owner was lazy by nature and never did any housework after driving Mu Yunchuan away. Later, Chen Cui came through and was just recovering from an illness, so the house had not been cleaned for a long time, and the furniture in the house was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Zheng and Li had watched her grow up, so they were not surprised and did not sit in the main room, but went directly to the main room.
In the main house, Mu Erpang, who had eaten and drunk his fill, was already snoring in sleep.
In broad daylight, such a big child was still sleeping on the kang. It was really embarrassing.
But Zheng didn't think so. When she heard Mu Erpang's snores, her fierce-looking face suddenly broke into a smile. She sat down next to Mu Erpang and tucked him in kindly. She then stared at his fat face for a long time before she lowered her voice and said, "Our Erpang looks so lucky and wealthy. I can't get enough of looking at him. He's not like Dalang from the Mu family. He's skinny and has no flesh on his face. He doesn't look festive."
Chen Cui was speechless.
Among the characters in the original book, the only ones who think that Mu Erpang is stronger than Mu Yunchuan are probably Zheng and the original mother and daughter.
Mu Erpang is the flesh that fell off the original body, and this Zheng... although she had two sons and one daughter, her two daughters-in-law gave birth to daughters in a row. It was only since Mu Erpang was born that the Shen family had several boys in succession.
Zheng treated Mu Erpang as the lucky star of the family, so her love for her grandson seemed to be more than that for her several grandchildren.
After seeing Mu Erpang, Zheng brought her daughter-in-law back to the main room.
Chen Cui was afraid that Zheng would find out that she was doing something wrong again, so she went to the kitchen to boil water and make tea, determined to get away with it.
In the main room, Li couldn't stand the place that was so dirty that there was no place to step, so she found a rag thrown in the corner and started cleaning it.
When Shen Cui came out of the kitchen after making tea, she saw that Li had already wiped the tables and chairs.
She was already extremely ashamed, but she didn't mind having too many debts, and she didn't care about having too many lice, so she pretended not to care, put down two bowls of coarse tea and said, "Mother, have some tea, and little sister-in-law, stop working and sit down and have a rest."
Li was used to her sister-in-law's laziness. She had come to help clean up more than once or twice. But the first time she was given a bowl of hot tea, she was so flattered that she didn't dare to take it and only subconsciously looked at Zheng.
Zheng glanced at her sideways and said unhappily, "Cuihua told you to take a break, so why are you looking at me?"
Li had been a slave under her mother-in-law for many years, and it was common for her to be scolded in front of her sister-in-law, so she did not feel unhappy at all. She just smiled, sat next to Zheng and said nothing.
Zheng turned to look at Chen Cui again. Facing her biological daughter who looked exactly like her, Zheng unconsciously became more friendly and went straight to the point: "My child, didn't you ask me what I want to talk to you about? I want to congratulate you first! You have encountered a great thing!"
I hope she is not here to instigate me to cause trouble for Mu Yunchuan. Shen Cui calmed down a little, picked up the tea bowl and drank it slowly, while asking: "What's the good news?"
"Of course it's a good thing to remarry!"
"puff--"
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