Chapter 271： mixed vegetable soup

Ying Bao finally couldn't hold it back and quietly ran to the West Village to watch the excitement.

A large group of villagers have gathered in front of Chen Laoshuan's house in West Village.

Chu Man’s mother-in-law, Sun Shizheng, was arguing with Chen Laoshuan and his wife.

"You must give an explanation to the Chu family about this matter. The pure and innocent daughter of my family cannot be taken advantage of by others."

Faced with such a shameless family like the Chu family, Chen Feng was going crazy, and she hated her son even more.

But in front of so many people, it was impossible for his son to lose face, so he put his hands on his hips and scolded: "Where did you come from, whore, how dare you accuse my second husband! You don't even know what your daughter is, how can my second husband like her?" "

As soon as she said these words, Mrs. Sun was so angry that she rushed forward and started fighting with Mrs. Chen Feng.

Everyone rushed up to start a fight.

Chen Changhai's wife went even further, hugging Sun tightly and saying, "Don't hit anyone casually. People say that family scandals should not be made public. Why are you so ignorant that you put a basin of feces on your daughter's head?" Smash it up."

Ms. Sun struggled hard and shouted: "It is obviously the Chen family who has done something wrong, but I don't care! My daughter must be given an explanation, otherwise, we will go to the government to argue!"

Chen Laoshuan frowned when he heard this.

His son just became a scholar in June and has not yet received the admission notice, so he has not entered the county school.

Because before admission, the county academic officer must examine the moral character of the fifteen new students in the county one by one. If they find that their moral character is deficient, they will be directly deprived of their admission qualifications.

His son cannot be criticized at this time. Maybe the academic officials will come to inspect them soon.

“Okay! Come into the room and talk!” Chen Laoshuan shouted, and his wife winked.

Chen Feng understood, straightened his messy hair, hummed, turned around and entered the house.

Chen Laoshuan said to Mrs. Sun again: "Please also invite Mrs. Sun into the room to speak. If anything happens, let's discuss it slowly."

This is what Mr. Sun wanted, so he immediately nodded in agreement.

Subsequently, Chen Laoshuan asked his third son to go to Chujia Village to call the Chu Clan Chief and Chu Cunzheng, and the two families formally sat down to discuss the matter of their children in detail.

The final result is to let Chu Man marry into the Chen family and become Chen Changping's stepmother, otherwise everyone will have to face the court.

Chen Laoshuan had no choice but to agree, but on the pretext that his family had no money and could not afford much betrothal gift, he let the Chu family figure it out.

Clan Chief Chu and Chu Cunzheng looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and agreed to the Chen family's rude request.

But when Chen Changping was asked to marry, the clothes of the newlyweds must be all green.

It is a folk custom that when marrying a wife, you should wear green wedding clothes. But if it is a step-brother, the wedding dress given by the man to the woman is bright red.

It’s not just because red cloth is cheaper than green cloth, it’s also the local custom.

 Chen Feng refused flatly, claiming that the etiquette cannot be broken, and her own granddaughter and grandson are watching, so she cannot be disrespectful to her son's ex-wife.

So the two families argued again about the color of the wedding dress, and finally each took a step back and let the bride wear a red dress and a green skirt.

In this way, Chu Man married into the Chen family on the 24th of the winter lunar month and became Chen Changping's stepmother.

When I first entered the house, it was quite stable, and I was kind to Chen Wan, Chen Zhao and Chen Xubao.

On this day, Chu Man took his clothes and went to the pond to wash them, but before he could finish washing one piece, he ran home because the water was cold and quit.

She threw the clothes to Chen Wan and asked her to wash them.

Chen Wan has a soft temper and is used to being submissive. She picked up her clothes and went to the pond to wash them.

Her look made Chen Zhao's teeth itch, and he quickly chased after her to scold the eldest sister.

"Why are you washing her clothes?" Chen Zhao said bitterly: "These are her own clothes, and there are also small clothes, why should we wash them?"

Chen Wan whispered: "It's just a few dresses, and they will be washed quickly. Ah Zhao, don't worry about it so much. She is our stepmother after all. It's okay for us juniors to do something for her."

Chen Zhao became angry and turned around to leave.

I found Ying Bao and complained to her: "I will never care about her again. My kindness will not be repaid! She actually said that I care about her. Doesn't that mean that I am petty? Huh! Let her wash it off!"

Yingbao was not surprised at all.     Chen Wan had such a weak temper in her previous life.

The only time I dared to resist was to run and jump into the river.

She thought that by committing suicide she could win the attention and pity of others, or make the other person's conscience discover her.

As everyone knows, the other party doesn't care about her life or death at all.

 Chen Zhao chatted with Ying Bao for a while, and suddenly remembered that his younger brother Xu Bao was unattended, so he hurried home.

In a flash, it’s the twelfth lunar month.

The house over the county town shop has been completed, and Jiang Cheng also wants to marry Qiu Rong, the daughter of Rongfu Ji Pastry Shop, so the Jiang family will go to the county town to hold an engagement banquet for Jiang Cheng.

Chunniang left the chickens and ducks at home to Chu Chu and Zhang Meng to take care of them. She took her children and got into the carriage driven by her husband, and went to the county town with her sisters-in-law.

Also going to the county town with them were Jiang Dalang, Jiang Erlang and Danni Erni, while Old Man Jiang and his wife stayed behind to look after the house.

Arrived in the county town, Jiang Cheng settled his family in the large house he purchased.

This house is not far from Jiang Sanlang's home. It is a large house with two entrances and nine houses in total. There is also a well next to the kitchen in the front yard.

The house was originally an old residence, but was later renovated and repainted by Jiang Cheng, and all household items inside were also refurbished.

Jiang Cheng placed his parents in the main house, while his second uncle, second aunt, and younger brothers and sisters arranged to live in the backyard.

Jiang Sanlang's family has their own house and does not live here.

Yingbao saw her elder brother’s house, and then went to the store to see her own house.

Five large rooms stand neatly, with carved doors and windows painted with purple-red tung oil.

The house is fully furnished, and there are Kangs built in the three bedrooms.

There are many shelves in a warehouse, but they are empty with no goods.

Seeing that there was no one around, Ying Bao took out all the mushrooms in his cave, put them on the shelves, and recorded the purchase amount in his account book.

Out of the storage room, I saw that a well had been drilled not far from the kitchen. The wellhead was covered with a lid, and a bucket tied with a rope was placed on the lid.

The kitchen was very large, with three pots and stoves built in. There was a pile of chopped firewood piled at the mouth of the stove against the wall.

Yingbao nodded with satisfaction and returned to the shop.

Her shop has a total of three rooms, two of which are connected stores, with blue brick counters, shelves behind the counters, and items on the shelves.

The other room is the accounting room. There is not only a cash cabinet and a table in the accounting room, but also a small bed for resting.

The door to the accounting room is inside the counter, so outsiders cannot enter easily.

Jiang Yunniang’s snack stall is located on the right side of the specialty shop, and the stall’s oilcloth umbrella is only a few steps away from the shop’s door.

Yingbao stood at the door and took a look.

The food stall sells meat cakes and mixed vegetable soup. It is dinner time now, and the business is not bad.

Aunt Jiang Yunniang had been busy for a while. When she saw Yingbao looking at her, she smiled and asked, "Yingbao, do you want some meat pie?"

Ying Bao nodded and sat down at the small square table under the oilcloth umbrella.

Jiang Yunniang filled a bowl of vegetable soup and gave her a piece of freshly made meatloaf.

Yingbao was not polite, took it and took a bite.

Not to mention, the meatloaf tastes very good.

Take another sip of mixed vegetable soup, and you will see that the vegetable soup contains chopped green vegetables, diced gourd seeds, and a few shredded chicken.

The soup is thick, made with flour, and seasoned with lard, pepper, salt, etc. It tastes very delicious.