Chapter One Hundred and Four

The old lady is not an exemplary moral pacesetter, nor is she a vicious woman with evil intentions, she treats the three daughters of her husband's deceased ex-wife without abuse, without pleasing her, without treating them as her own, nor as if she were eager to get rid of them, just as ordinary children and nephews. Not to mention in the village, compared to most similar families, it is not bad. After all, in the past, the family guarded a broken yard, and the family wealth left by the ancestors was almost sold, and the family was tight, and I didn't see her like other families, sending girls out of school early to work in the city to subsidize the family and provide for her brothers to study.

The three stepdaughters are not reading materials, and after graduating from high school, they went out to work one after another. Girls who work outside other families will more or less send money to their families, and some are filial and sensible, and even only keep some pocket money, and their wages are handed over to their families. When the parents talked about it in the village, the pride and spirit on their faces were not concealed. As a parent, it's not that you are worried about your child's hard-earned money, you take the initiative to hand over the money to your parents for safekeeping, and your parents only feel that their hearts are smooth, and they feel that the child is not supported in vain, and they know that they are with their parents.

And what about the three daughters of the Jiang family? The "shrewdness" of one race and one is needless to say to the stepmother, like an enemy, it is good not to find trouble, and the father is also like a thief. It is not a bad thing for the girl to be able to think about herself so much at a young age, at least she will not be easily deceived in the future, Old Man Jiang was uncomfortable for a while, and he didn't care about comforting himself. As a stepmother, the old lady is already separated from her three stepdaughters, and she doesn't care about their father, and of course she doesn't take it to heart.

But what makes the old lady unbearable is that when she knew that her family owed a lot of foreign debts for her younger brother to go to college, when the third child got married, she asked for a dowry of 50,000 yuan as soon as she opened her mouth, and the eldest and second not only did not persuade her, but also discussed it as if she was making trouble together, saying that she only married 10,000 yuan before she got married, and the girl had to be fair, and the other 40,000 yuan had to be made up!

The money they have saved for so many years of working has not been spent on the old father, and the sons all know that they work and study to earn money to buy clothes for their parents, they have never even bought a pair of socks, and they are trying to deduct money from the old father's pocket, can this not make people feel cold?

“…… Your grandfather was so angry that he almost had a stroke, and the three unfilial girls hid far away, for fear of making them pay for medical expenses! You say, is this still human? It's better to have a dog than to feed those three white-eyed wolves! The old lady looked hateful, "In the past few years, I have seen that your cousin has developed well, and our broken village is also lucky, but they think of their father and brother, and they have not asked your grandfather to sell the house, saying that he sold the money to his brother to buy a suite in the city, and took our old couple to the city to enjoy happiness." Bah, I'm really stupid, introducing someone to us at a price of less than two million, and we can't buy a house in a better location, and they really can open that mouth! …… Your cousin left suddenly, they didn't say anything about helping us, they were the first to think about our family, and they united with outsiders to force us to ......"

After all, what the old lady said was the old man's daughter, and Su Nianzhen couldn't answer anything, so she just listened silently. Fortunately, the banquet will start soon, and the old lady also knows that now is not the time to complain, so she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and Su Nianzhen put the sleepy two little fat men in the crib in their old couple's bedroom to put them to sleep, carefully covered them with quilts, and then went out lightly.

Su Nianzhen sat with the old lady, this table is all women who have a good relationship with the old lady, only the fat aunt is more familiar, the two are still next to each other, the old lady on the left and the fat aunt on the right, Su Nianzhen sits in the middle, but she doesn't feel too uncomfortable.

It is difficult for outsiders to empathize with the grief of other people's families, so when the banquet starts, the atmosphere is not as dull as just now, and everyone can finally have a good meal after a busy morning, and they seem to be in a good mood. Especially children, knowing that there is delicious food, they are so happy, just now their parents and elders are not allowed to laugh loudly, but now that no one cares, they suddenly laughed unscrupulously.

The host's family doesn't care about ignorant children, after all, it's not that people don't have parents, why don't people laugh?

When the fragrant dishes were served one by one, everyone suddenly couldn't care about laughing and laughing, and they all buried their heads in eating. To put it mildly, with a hundred yuan of gift money, I worked all morning, isn't it just for this meal? If you don't eat enough books, you're sorry for the gift money you paid!

"Your eldest grandson is in charge today? This dish is really well done! ”

"Isn't it? The fourth strongest than Kong, it is not wrong to invite him to make a banquet at home in the future! ”

"Don't," the old lady waved her hand again and again, how could she be willing to do such a tiring job, and they were not short of money. "My eldest grandson was taught by a famous teacher, how can he see the sky and run to burn the big stove, and his master won't beat him when he hears it!"

"Hey, that's it, look at the ...... that hurts you"

But if there is no problem with the sense of taste, you can probably feel the level of the cook, just now I was skeptical about the praise of Su Nianzhen's small shop, thinking if they were looking for someone to brush up on the praise, after eating the food, the suspicion suddenly went to most of it. There is that spicy person, so I thought about buying a bottle of her hot sauce another day to try, although it is a little expensive, it will not even cost twenty yuan.

Su Nianzhen ate this for the first time in her life, and although she also went to the banquet when Lin Muzi did well in the high school entrance examination, she also went to the banquet, but that time the table was placed in the restaurant, unlike this time, it was the same as the red and white things in the village when she was a child.

tasted the taste of childhood envy, but it was not as sweet as imagined. While socializing with strange grandmothers and aunts, Su Nianzhen was wandering around the world and thinking, probably the timing was wrong. I have passed the age of easy satisfaction and longing to be recognized, and this scene came too late.

"Grandma, I'll go to the kitchen." Su Nianzhen suddenly missed Wen Run very much, and staying in the strange crowd made her a little at a loss.

"Go, let him eat something, don't go hungry......"

In the kitchen, Wen Run is making the last soup, although there are two cooks to help wash and chop vegetables and process ingredients, but he has always been in charge. On such a cold day, he only wore a blue sweater, but the corners of his forehead kept sweating, which showed how tired he was.

"Hungry or not? Eat something and pad the mat, I'll watch the pot for you. Su Nianzhen is a very introverted person, rarely out of shape in front of outsiders, even if he wanted to take out a handkerchief to help him wipe the sweat from his forehead, but he was afraid of outsiders, and finally retracted his hand.

"It's okay, let's eat together, I deliberately left your favorite salt-baked chicken, the soup is stuffy, you don't have to look at it." Two servants were sent to the table to eat, and the two of them were the only ones left in the kitchen.

Wen Run lowered her head and asked her to help wipe her sweat, then she cleaned up the dining table with her hands, washed her hands, lifted the lid of the cauldron that had been warm on low heat, took out the lion head that was still hot, the meat back to the pot, a whole salt-baked chicken and four large steamed buns, went to the refrigerator to bring out a plate of sauce that had been adjusted earlier, handed Su Nianzhen a pair of chopsticks, and then sat opposite her.

"It's so rich, fortunately I'm here, haha~" The people in the village are fierce when they eat the table, especially the tables of women and children, almost as soon as the dishes come up, they are like a master's tricks, chopsticks fly sideways, and a dish is soon gone. Su Nianzhen served the salt-baked chicken before she got up, but before she turned around, the whole chicken was "divided", she inadvertently glanced at it, and the whole plate was empty in an instant. But in front of each person's own dishes and plates, they were piled up like a hill. It is said that the leftover meals at the end of the banquet should be given away, and now some people are particular about it, and they don't want to eat the leftovers stained with other people's saliva, so they try to grab a little more and put it on the plate in front of them, and pack it directly when they leave later, clean and convenient, how good.

"I knew you were coming, so I prepared your favorite food." Wen Run used a small knife to open the whole salt-baked chicken slices three or two times, pinched a piece of the most tender meat and dipped it in the sauce, and stuffed it into Su Nianzhen's mouth very naturally

"Hmm, it's delicious!" Su Nianzhen gobbled up her hot face, didn't even use chopsticks, started directly, and ate it with her head down. It's also strange to say, it's all a person's cooking, and she doesn't have much taste at the table, but when she comes here, she feels extraordinarily fragrant, which is really a strange thing!

"Slow down, I'll make it for you when I like to eat~"

Compared to the noisy and lively courtyard outside, the kitchen is much quieter. But the two of them, who were outside the lively crowd, enjoyed the quietness very much. They chatted softly and ate unhurriedly, just because they had each other's company around them, and they felt extremely relieved when they were outside.

Outside the door, Kong Dan, who came to pour tea under the pretext of pouring tea, paused with an ugly face, and finally did not push open the hidden door, and quietly turned around and left.

The meal lasted until about two o'clock in the afternoon, and when most of the guests were gone, several members of the family were exhausted and paralyzed. Fortunately, the aunt who had a good relationship stayed behind to help clean up the tables and chairs and clean the dishes, Wen Run and Su Nianzhen were about to help, but they were taken back to the house by the old lady to rest.

Thinking that Wen Run had been busy all morning and had made so many dishes, he was really tired, Su Nianzhen didn't shirk much, and pulled him into the house.

"Let's take a shower and relax in the space, I'm here to watch." According to common sense, no one should bother them at this time.

"Okay." Wen Run has a little cleanliness habit, and he is not used to the smell of sweat and oil smoke all over his body, so he entered the space without much hesitation. (To be continued.) )