Madam Lu smiled slightly, "A total of 210 eggs!"
"Two hundred and ten!" Old Mrs. Jiang's voice rose several octaves, and she took two steps back in astonishment. "One egg costs one coin, so two hundred and ten eggs cost two hundred and ten coins! My goodness, our family has earned two hundred and ten coins in less than half a day!"
"Two hundred and ten coins? Am I dreaming?" Zhu was so happy she was dizzy. She reached out and pinched Uncle Jiang hard.
"Ouch! It hurts! Why are you pinching me!" Uncle Jiang screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
"Hehehe, it's good that you're in pain, it means I'm not dreaming," Zhu said happily.
Uncle Jiang rolled his eyes. "What a jerk! Don't you know how to pinch yourself?"
Zhu glared at him, and Uncle Jiang shut his mouth tightly in fright.
Old Jiang was also very excited, his mouth was crooked from smiling. His hands were trembling as he put the pipe he was holding to his mouth, took a few big puffs before realizing he hadn't lit it yet.
He wasn't annoyed at all, and kept saying, "Great, great, our family's good luck is really coming."
By the end, Old Man Jiang's voice had choked up a little.
Everyone in the Jiang family had flushed faces and moist eyes, as they recalled the difficult and bitter days of the past.
Madam Hu wiped her moist eyes with her sleeve and said with a smile, "Hehehe, if you ask me, Wan'er is our family's lucky star. Today, not only did we catch two pheasants on the mountain, but now, because of a few words from her, our old hen, which hadn't laid eggs for three years, laid 210 eggs all at once. Isn't that a lucky star?"
"Hehehe, sister-in-law is right, Wan'er is our family's lucky star!" Zhu nodded in agreement.
"Yes, my sister is our family's lucky star! She just got back and we're already eating meat right away," Jiang Hehe said, licking his lips.
"That's right, that's right, Wan'er is our family's lucky star, no wonder she's Grandma's eldest granddaughter." Grandma Jiang gently held Jiang Wanwan's right hand with one hand and patted her gently with the other, looking at her with loving eyes.
Jiang Wanwan smiled slightly, "Grandma, can I talk to you about something?"
Grandma Jiang released Jiang Wanwan's hand, still smiling and looking at her with kind eyes, "Go ahead and ask, whatever you want, Grandma will grant your wish."
Jiang Wanwan rubbed her hands together and said with a smile, "Grandma, I want to eat poached eggs tonight."
Thinking of the golden, crispy fried eggs, Jiang Wanwan subconsciously swallowed.
She wasn't a person who cared much about food before, but ever since experiencing last night's black gruel, she's become very obsessed with eating.
To exaggerate a bit, she could kill a cow!
Grandma Jiang's smile vanished instantly. She glared at Jiang Wanwan and said, "Wanwan, are you some kind of reincarnated starving ghost? You just drank chicken soup, and now you want to eat fried eggs."
Are you eating a fried egg? You're clearly eating the egg you fed me!
Jiang Wanwan: ......
She just said she was her beloved granddaughter!
Her love, oh, it's gone too fast, like a tornado. Before you even experience it, it's vanished without a trace.
Grandma Jiang wouldn't give her a poached egg, but Jiang Wanwan wasn't angry; she understood perfectly.
After all, Old Lady Jiang was terrified of poverty, and she wanted to keep anything that could be exchanged for money in town.
Grandma Jiang stopped looking at Jiang Wanwan and turned to instruct her three daughters-in-law. "Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, third daughter-in-law, what are you all standing there for? Hurry up and go back to the main room to get the baskets and collect the eggs."
"Yes, Mother," Hu, Zhu, and Lu replied in unison.
Jiang Hehu and Liu Xun, along with a few other boys, wanted to help pick up the eggs, but Grandma Jiang chased them away. "Go away, go away! You don't know your own strength and might break the eggs. Go play somewhere else and don't cause trouble."
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