Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days
Chapter 163 Making Dumplings
Zhang Xiuhua was scooping tofu in the house. After the children finished their discussion, they continued to do their homework. Snowflakes were falling outside.
Aunt Wang Er came in from outside, and Zhang Xiuhua hurriedly welcomed her in to warm herself by the fire.
"Oh, your house is still warmer. You heat the kang in broad daylight." Aunt Wang only heats the kang at night, and only when it is the coldest.
He was warming himself by the fire in the kitchen at the moment, and she thought the smoke was too thick, so she came over to visit.
Zhang Xiuhua smiled and asked, "Can your two children come back to celebrate the New Year this year?"
"Xinghua said yes. Tiegang is probably in trouble because he didn't have a holiday last year." Aunt Wang said happily, "My Xinghua is dating someone outside. She said she would bring him back for me to see."
Zhang Xiuhua sighed, time flies by so fast. In the blink of an eye, it was time for Xinghua to date.
"Where is her boyfriend from?" Zhang Xiuhua asked curiously.
"I'm from Jiang Province. I met him when I rented a house." Aunt Wang didn't know much. She only wrote back once in a while. Besides, Xinghua was busy with work and didn't have time to write letters all the time.
As we chatted, we talked about Ergou.
Aunt Wang curled her lips in disdain, "I feel unhappy when I see Ergou's stepmother. She still shamelessly says how good she is to Ergou. She thinks we are all fools! I don't even want to talk about the things she did!"
Zhang Xiuhua is also a stepmother, so she can't say anything.
Aunt Wang turned the topic back to business. "Do you think you can really make that much money from business?"
Zhang Xiuhua felt that she had taken the matter too lightly. "The county is now cracking down on speculation! You see, when we go to sell chickens, we have to be careful to avoid being targeted. If you go to the county alone to sell things, you have to be even more careful. If someone steals your goods, you won't even have a place to cry."
"I thought it had been relaxed." Aunt Wang was eager to make money when she heard Ergou say it was easy to make money. She thought that she had some skills and could go to the county town to try her hand. But after hearing what Xiuhua said, she couldn't help but back off.
"It's definitely profitable, but the risks are also high. The patrols won't approve of it, but if they catch you, they'll confiscate your stuff." Zhang Xiuhua felt that she had to think it through. If she didn't even think about the risks, then what was the point of doing business?
Aunt Wang sighed and gave up the idea of setting up a stall. "I am born poor. I can't make a fortune. It's good this way. I won't delay my two children in the future."
She sighed, "Ergou doesn't bear grudges. I thought he wouldn't care about his father in the future. I was wrong."
Zhang Xiuhua felt that Aunt Wang was not wrong. The future was so long and no one could predict what would happen.
Just like the boss she knew in her previous life, when the price of medicinal materials dropped drastically, his new wife ran away with the family property. He returned to his hometown and asked relatives and friends to return the money he had borrowed, but the relatives and friends refused to pay him back.
And because he did not ask the other party to write an IOU, the money ended up being lost.
Ergou's return to the village caused a sensation for a few days, after which Ergou came to find Zhang Xiuhua.
"My dad said that it's spring now, so he asked me to take him to set up a stall and do business."
Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled, "Are you really going to take your dad with you?"
"Yes!" Ergou said with a smile.
At this moment, Ergou's stepmother called him outside to eat, "We have stewed goose at home. We are waiting for you."
Her face was full of flowers when she smiled, and Zhang Xiuhua just felt creepy.
Ergou's stepmother glanced at Zhang Xiuhua and said in a cold tone, "Don't even think about saying bad things about us in front of Ergou. We are a family, even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected!"
Zhang Xiuhua was upset. "Who are you talking about? Who said bad things about you? Do I need to tell you what you did? Everyone in the village doesn't know about it."
Her voice suddenly rose, and Ergou's stepmother was startled and quickly took two steps back.
Ergou walked to the gate of the courtyard and saw that she didn't follow him, so he shouted at the top of his voice, "Aunt Liu, hurry up!"
Ergou's stepmother responded, but didn't dare to say a word and ran away quickly.
Zhang Xiuhua snorted. With just this little courage, he dared to act so unruly in front of her! He thought she was a soft persimmon!
Li Jianguo came back in a flash, and Zhang Xiuhua told him about Ergou.
Li Jianguo frowned as he listened, "This kid is too confused."
Zhang Xiuhua did blame him for being confused at first, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that this is human nature. "If a child grows up without the love of his father or mother, he will be particularly eager for it. So sometimes you have to spend more time with the children at home. If they can't get it from their family, they may be deceived by outsiders in the future."
Li Jianguo always heard some strange ideas from her, "Who told you that?"
"Why should I listen to anyone?" Zhang Xiuhua used Zhang Sanxi as an example. "He has never been valued by his parents since he was a child. After he got married, he lived in his father-in-law's house and seldom came back. Boys are better. But what about girls? After they get married, they never come back to their parents' home. We don't even know that they are bullied by their husband's family."
"If she dares to leave her parents' home, I will break their legs." Li Jianguo raised his thick eyebrows, obviously unable to accept that his child refused to go back to her parents' home.
Zhang Xiuhua rolled her eyes. "I just asked you to love the children more. Can you beat them back? You have to use love!"
Li Jianguo was a rough man, so how could he know this? But she made a very clear argument, so he reluctantly agreed? He asked her, "How to love?! Isn't it enough to give them money and buy gifts?"
Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "Why don't we make dumplings together? Youcai cooks every day, it's too hard."
As long as Youcai is at home, all the meals at home are cooked by Youcai. No matter how cold the weather is, it can't stop his desire to cook. If this child can devote his energy from cooking to studying, Zhang Xiuhua won't be so worried that he won't be able to get into college.
Li Jianguo thought it was not a difficult task and agreed immediately, "Okay!"
"When you come back from the county, buy some food for each child. This way they will know that you care about them." Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment and said, "You can't just buy for one person. It's not good to favor one over the other."
Li Jianguo just thought it was troublesome, but he was also really worried that his child would not be homesick in the future, so he finally agreed, "Okay!"
After washing his hands, he scooped up some dough and started kneading it. Youcai also came over eagerly to help. Zhang Xiuhua called the other children over, including Jidong, and said, "Don't read books all day long. Give your eyes a rest. Everyone has to make dumplings."
Youcai volunteered to make the stuffing. No one competed with him for this job.
Baolin and Yaoyao were responsible for wrapping them, while Jidong was responsible for rolling out the dough. Jilin and Yaozhu were young and didn’t know how to make dumplings, so they could only learn from them.
Li Jianguo kneaded the dough, and Youcai prepared the fillings. Everyone worked together to wrap the dumplings, which was much faster. In a short while, they had wrapped a whole bun! But that was not enough! They wanted to wrap more.
Zhang Xiuhua took the dumplings out to freeze. She had put them outside with water a few days ago and left them out overnight, creating a natural refrigerator that could store all the food for the winter.
After the dumplings are frozen, just take them out and cook them in the next pot when you want to eat them.
“Oh, Zhuzhu, the dumplings you make are so ugly! You should do this, this, and this again…” Youcai was shocked by the ugliness of Zhuzhu’s dumplings and came over to teach her how to make them himself.
Zhuzhu looked easy at first glance, but once I tried it, oh my, it was so ugly!
After three times, Youcai gave up, "You must not be my biological sister. You don't look like me at all! Yaoyao and I are very skillful, but you? You are just clumsy!"
Li Jianguo laughed when he heard him bragging about himself. "You think you are clever and deft? At most you are deft with your hands. But you are not smart at all!"
Youcai was not convinced, "Dad! Aunt Zhang taught me how to cook, and I learned it right away. Isn't that considered dexterity?!"
Li Jianguo didn't say anything for a long time. Youcai laughed out loud when he saw his father was choked by him!
When the family was happily making dumplings, someone else came from outside. It was none other than Li Jiandang who had returned from working in Pengcheng.
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