Zhulan rubbed her lower back. She hadn't helped in person for a long time and felt a little tired. "What's the matter?"
Li took out a tael of silver and said, "Mother, just now when I was about to leave and close the gate, Zhang Sanni from the next yard ran out and stopped me to ask who came to our house today, and she even gave me a tael of silver!"
Zhulan saw Li accept the silver and asked, "Did you say that?"
Li laughed and said, "I'll know it sooner or later anyway, so why not exchange it for some silver and tell the truth. I'll just say it's Master Yao and nothing else."
Zhulan thought to herself that Li was really smart. "The money you get is yours. You've been tired all morning, go back and rest!"
Li held the silver in her hand and said with a hint of respect, "Mother, I am giving this silver to you as a filial gift."
Zhulan, “… … ..”
When you show your filial piety, don't just hold the silver in your hands. She didn't see any sign of filial piety in Li's hand.
Li saw that her mother-in-law didn't reply. This was different from what she thought. Shouldn't her mother-in-law ask her to take it back? Wouldn't it be that one or two taels of silver were gone, and she was being mean? Her mother-in-law had just said she didn't want it. She felt pain even when breathing, and said weakly, "Mom."
Zhulan couldn't help but tap Li's forehead, "Put away your little thoughts. If you do it again, I will really take the money. Hurry up and leave. It's annoying to see you."
Li quickly packed the silver, and when the pain in breathing was gone, she ran away. She didn't dare to do it again, as she almost lost all the silver.
Next door, Wang Ruxin was twisted into a knot. She suppressed her panic and asked Zhang Sanni to go out. When there was no one in the room, she stood on the ground and turned around in circles. She didn't understand what went wrong. The male protagonist appeared too early. If she remembered correctly, she should have met Zhou Xuehan when she was ten years old. What was going on
Wang Ru smashed the vase as if to vent her anger. She blamed Shi Qing. It was all Shi Qing's fault, otherwise she would not be trapped in the yard. Now it was no different from being in prison. Zhang Sanni, who was taken in by the disgusting Zhou family, also became the person who was guarding her. She thought she had escaped from Shi Qing, but ended up finding himself at Shi Qing's doorstep.
She couldn't breathe smoothly when she thought of Shi Qing's insatiable exploitation of her brain. She had seen Shi Qing's ruthless side and now she didn't even dare to run. Who knew if there was anyone in the village bribed by Shi Qing? She was now completely kept in captivity by Shi Qing. She didn't even dare to think about what her fate would be after her brain was drained!
Originally, the male protagonist was her life-saver, but that life-saver was still connected to the Zhou family. She was jealous and crazy. If she traveled through time, she should be the heroine, but why didn't she travel through time to the Zhou family? Why couldn't she be sweetly loved!
Whenever Wang Ru thought of the county magistrate's carriage picking up Zhou Xuehan to take her to the county, she felt jealous and uncomfortable. When she was in Pingzhou, she could hardly meet the daughters of officials, let alone the daughters of merchants. Zhou Xuehan started out as a daughter of an official, and she was unwilling to be Shi Qing's pet all her life!
Outside the door, Wang Xin asked the second sister anxiously, "What's wrong with my little sister?"
Wang Rong's eyes were filled with sarcasm. The elder sister pillowed herself. She really thought she didn't know. She didn't behave herself even after being humiliated. "How should I know? If you want to know, go in and ask yourself."
Wang Xin pursed her lips. She was not afraid of her youngest sister, but of her second sister. She always felt that her second sister saw through everything. She dared not say a word, nor did she dare to provoke her second sister. She lowered her head and said, "My youngest sister is very sad. I'd better not go in."
Wang Rong sneered and turned away. If she wasn't still young, she would have run away long ago. Wait a little longer.
Zhulan didn't know what the Wang family was like, and even if she knew she wouldn't care. She was looking through the gifts Yao Zheyu had sent her.
All eight gift boxes were opened, which dazzled Zhulan's eyes. Zhulan hissed, "The male protagonist is really down-to-earth in giving gifts. Look at the weight of the gold bracelet, which is almost like that of a nouveau riche. Look at the gold hairpins, which dazzle my eyes. Even the writing brush, inkstone and inkstone are vulgar and full of gold and silver. They are not as elegant and low-key as the ones you bought in Jiangnan."
Zhou Shuren twitched his lips. He didn't expect Yao Zheyu to be so down-to-earth. The gift he gave was too direct and too tacky. It was quite different from what he expected. "Maybe the male lead thinks that we are from peasant families and have never seen good things, so it's better to use tacky gold and silver as a more direct gift."
Zhu Lan laughed out loud, "After seeing the gifts, I remembered what Yao Zheyu wore. The jade pendants were all inlaid with gold edges, and the hairpins for tying his hair were also gold. I think this should be Yao Zheyu's aesthetic taste. Didn't you say that he was raised by the old marquis? The old marquis was a military commander who loved gold and silver. Who knows, he might have influenced Yao Zheyu's taste since he was a child!"
However, if the protagonist really has good taste, we can only say that he follows the aesthetic of an old military general. If he is pretending, he is very scheming!
Zhou Shuren took the gold bracelet from Zhulan's hand. Hmm, it was really heavy. "If we melt these again, we can make three sets of hollow jewelry."
Zhu Lan gathered them together and said, "I'll melt them all when we get to Pingzhou. It's embarrassing to carry these two big gold bracelets weighing half a pound outside!"
Zhou Shuren looked at the inkstone in front of him. It was too vulgar. Although he didn't like tea, he did have a taste for it. "I'll keep this one in my collection!"
Zhulan giggled. Zhou Shuren would never use it. His tone was full of disdain. However, the gold jewelry alone weighed one pound, which was equivalent to one hundred taels of silver. "The Marquis's Mansion is rich. If Yao Zheyu brings such a heavy gift every time he comes, the male protagonist is always welcome to use our house to get close to the neighbors."
Zhou Shuren pinched Zhulan's nose and said, "You are so naive. This is the first time you give me such an expensive gift. It won't be so good next time."
Zhulan thought it was such a pity, as she only earned a hundred taels a day, and this money was brought by Wang Ru. She never expected this.
Zhulan was awakened by the smell of incense in the afternoon. She sat up and sniffed in the direction of the kitchen. "What is Li doing in the kitchen?"
Zhou Shuren didn't sleep, and was tortured by the aroma. "I don't know, it smells weird."
Zhulan put on her shoes and went downstairs. She opened the door and sniffed the smell of bone soup. When she arrived in the kitchen, Li was mixing the stuffing. Zhulan asked, "Are you making wontons tonight?"
Li shook her head, "Mom, I'm mixing the filling for the mooncakes. I was thinking of making bone soup. It must taste good. Mom, do you want to try it?"
Zhulan has eaten many mooncakes, including those with salted egg yolk, five kernels, and jujube paste, but she, who knows nothing about cooking, really has no idea how the fillings are prepared. It smells strange, so it must be delicious. After taking a bite, her eyes lit up. It was sweet but not greasy, and there was no taste of bone soup, which played a neutralizing role. "It tastes good."
Li was happy. Her mother-in-law was not very good at cooking, but she was good at eating. Her mother-in-law said it was good, and her stuffing was successful. "This is sweet and has meat stuffing. Mom, do you want wontons or bone soup noodles tonight?"
Zhulan was a little conflicted, she wanted to eat both, "Use bone broth as the base, bone broth wonton noodles."
Li, “… … ..”
Mother-in-law is mother-in-law, they can be mixed up and eaten together.
There are many men in the Zhou family, so they have to make a lot of wontons. Zhulan thinks it is too much effort to make wontons, so they don't make many wontons, most of them are noodles, and the whole family enjoys them very much.
Time flies, a week passed in the blink of an eye, and the sky cleared up a long time ago. After clearing up, the weather was indeed as Zhou Shuren said, the temperature dropped a lot, and Zhulan's comfortable days came.
At the same time, Yao Zheyu also proved with actual experience that he indeed often came to Zhou's house, twice a week. Everyone in Zhoujia Village knew that he was a distinguished guest from Zhulan's family.
The only thing that surprised Zhulan was that Wang Ru didn't go out to meet her by chance. Sometimes, she really couldn't help but nag, and as soon as Zhulan finished talking, Wang Ru would take action.