"Uncle Tada, what are you saying? We bought a horse-drawn carriage because there were not enough ox-carts." Cheng Wanwan said, "The family's braised food business and cloth business both require cars. The trouble you have caused Uncle Da every day has also delayed a lot of your family's farm work. From now on, Uncle Da's ox cart will be used to deliver braised food, and the cart will be used for Ergou's cloth business."
The cloth business relies on the price difference of goods from two places to make money. You have to go to at least two places a day. The ox-cart is really too slow. If you switch to a horse-drawn carriage, you can go to more places and find out the market conditions more clearly.
Zhao Da rubbed his hands and said incoherently: "Sister-in-law... it's all thanks to you, otherwise our family would really not be able to survive..."
Cheng Wanwan didn't know what to say.
Zhao Da's wife has been ill for two or three years. She has been bedridden and recuperating, relying on medicine to survive.
He helps deliver goods every morning and works in the fields in the afternoon and evening. The long-term high-intensity work makes him many years older than his peers.
But there was no aura of depression about him, instead he was full of upward hope.
Everyone in Dahe Village, except for a very few, is full of hope, and everyone is working hard for tomorrow.
When she first came to Dahe Village, she was devastated, but slowly she fell in love with it, the mountains in Dahe Village, the river in Dahe Village, the blue sky, the white clouds, and every living thing in the village. Upward person.
The yard of Cheng Wanwan's house has been lively for a long time.
It wasn't until Zhao Dashan took the horse to the backyard to feed grass that the spectators gradually dispersed.
After everyone had left, Cheng Wanwan dared to get into the pot and cook fried chicken. This stuff was so fragrant that the smell could make people salivate.
Pour oil into the pot and throw the whole breaded fried chicken in. The oil sizzles and the children watching salivate.
Cheng Wanwan said helplessly: "Go away, be careful of oil splashing on your face..."
She carefully observed the heat, but she was really not good at it, so she had to call Wu Huiniang, who was pregnant, to come in and ask her eldest daughter-in-law to help keep an eye on the heat to prevent it from frying.
"Mom, it's okay."
Wu Huiniang sighed, and the fried chicken was finally out of the pan.
Chunhua originally felt sorry for the oil, but seeing that everyone in the family was used to it, she had no choice but to put away her shock... She poured the oil in the pot into a large bowl and put it in the cupboard until the next time she cooks. When it was time to use it, the oil stuck to the bottom of the pot couldn't be contained, but it didn't matter. She poured the vegetables in and fried a plate of green vegetables with this layer of oil.
Cheng Wanwan placed the fried chicken on the chopping board, sprinkled it with the fried chicken ingredients bought from the mall, then cut it open with a knife, cut it into small pieces and put them into a bowl.
There are too many people in the family, including four sons, one nephew, Shen Zheng, Afu, Cao Yingying, plus Chunhua, there are ten people in total. After one bite of each person, a small fried chicken is gone.
Even the vegetables fried with the little oil left over from the fried chicken were snatched up by the children.
The children at home licked their lips, still not satisfied.
Cheng Wanwan saw Shen Zheng's eyes glancing toward the chicken coop, and perhaps felt murderous intent. There was a moment of restlessness in the chicken coop.
She said: "Why don't you try frying three chickens tomorrow?"
There were many children in the family, and she, an elder, was too embarrassed to compete with the children for food, so she ate a fingernail-sized bite of fried chicken without even tasting it.
Shen Zheng nodded immediately: "Okay, okay, I think it's better to fry five of them. One person can eat half of them!"
Cheng Zhao said seriously: "I think it's okay."
Zhao Ergou swallowed: "I agree."
Zhao Sidan hesitated for a long time and reluctantly nodded: "I, I agree..."
Ah Fu rubbed his hands: "I'm going to catch the chicken."
"I don't agree." Zhao Dashan said despite the pressure, "If you wait another month, these chickens will be able to lay eggs. It's not worth killing them now."
Moreover, there are no farmers who eat chicken every day. It is delicious, but it takes too much chicken.
According to this way of eating, the chicken coop and duck shed will be empty in less than ten days.
"Your elder brother is right!"
Cheng Wanwan immediately supported Zhao Dashan.
Dashan is the eldest son in the family and the backbone of the family. Naturally, she must support her eldest son unconditionally, so that the eldest son can establish prestige in front of her younger brothers. After she dies, the family will not be broken up...ah, bah, She was only thirty-three years old, so she was still far away from death.
The meal ended with everyone still unfinished.
The children went to work separately, and Cheng Wanwan called Cao Yingying over: "Did you go to Hekou Town today to find out anything?"
Cao Yingying nodded: "I found irrefutable evidence that the stepmother and the family manager conspired. I have already sent it to my father, but I don't know when my father will receive the letter."
"Yingying, aunt wants to say sorry to you." Cheng Wanwan looked at her and said slowly, "When I told you those countermeasures, I didn't think about the consequences of doing this. If you make a mistake today, If you are captured by Madam Cao, you will most likely face..."
"Auntie, you don't need to say sorry, I should say thank you." Cao Yingying's eyes were bright, "I went to Hekou Town today and I realized how far the rumors about me have spread...According to my father's character, he will never Maybe I tolerate having a daughter who disgraces the reputation of the Cao family... If I don't take action, the final outcome will be that my father will send him to another place and marry someone at random..."
Cheng Wanwan stroked her hair: "I hope your father can receive the letter as soon as possible, and I also hope your father can handle this matter impartially."
Cao Yingying's beautiful eyes narrowed. It turned out that this was how it felt to be stroked by someone's hair, as if she was being pampered by an elder...
"My father wrongly accused me of something before, and he didn't apologize to me after he found out the whole story. I thought that elders never need to apologize." Cao Yingying said very embarrassedly, "Aunt Zhao, if you can, I really want you to be my stepmother..."
"no!!"
Shen Zheng's voice suddenly sounded.
He rushed over with a lunge, "My aunt is not willing to be my stepmother, how could she marry your father!"
Cao Yingying's eyes widened: "You also want your aunt to be your stepmother?"
"Hmph! My father is so talented and charming that even my aunt doesn't like him. How could he like your father!" Shen Zheng said angrily, "You are a young lady from the Cao family, right? Then your father is Cao Defu, who is round and round. Forget it, there are at least ten concubines in the back yard, and your father also has four or five daughters and three or four sons, Aunt Zhao must be crazy to marry your father!"
Cao Yingying's cheeks were red with anger: "I just said that I want Aunt Zhao to be my stepmother, and I didn't let Aunt Zhao marry my father. Can you please stop talking nonsense!"
Shen Zheng stared at her: "You can't even think about this matter. You are not allowed to have such thoughts..."
Cao Yingying: "You, you, you..."
"Stop it!" Cheng Wanwan's head hurts, "You two, stop arguing, and! You two, hurry up and expel this terrible thought from your mind! I don't want to be anyone's stepmother! Okay, okay, hurry up Take a shower and go to sleep!”
She got up and ran away quickly.
Shen Zheng and Cao Yingying were left staring at each other with big eyes.
