Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

As soon as Jilin and Jidong came back, their friends came to play with them and asked if Russia was fun.

The two told their friends what happened there.

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo were also chatting, and she told them that Hongwen had become the top scorer in the high school entrance examination.

Li Jianguo sighed, "My eldest brother's three children have loved studying since they were young."

"Okay! Don't envy him. We have several children who are not bad. I think it's also a good idea for them to open a restaurant and become bosses." Zhang Xiuhua is very open-minded. Some children are not good at studying, and it's useless to hire a tutor. So what can we do? We can only accept reality.

Li Jianguo was a little embarrassed. "I was just envious. I didn't say anything."

Zhang Xiuhua told her sister-in-law about her difficulties.

Li Jianguo learned that Hongwen wanted to buy a model, "That model is not cheap. My brother only makes more than 800 yuan a year. He may not be willing to spend it."

Zhang Xiuhua could understand, but "Hongwen has worked hard this year to get the model for them. It would be unreasonable if we don't buy it."

Li Jianguo nodded, "Didn't you say that your sister-in-law also invested one thousand yuan in the chicken farm? This one thousand yuan includes the money that your brother will get back at the end of the year. You can't live like this with one thousand yuan spent in two places."

Zhang Xiuhua thought about it and it made sense. "It all depends on what they choose. We can't help them."

Jidong went to school to get his college entrance examination results. His results were really good, as it was a national college entrance examination.

The total score for science was 640, and Jidong scored 622. The full score for English at that time was 70, and Jidong had only learned English in junior high school, so he lost the most points among all subjects. Other subjects only lost one or two points, and even Chinese only lost two points for composition.

Although he didn't get the top spot in the city, he did so well in the college entrance examination in his first year of high school. Zhang Xiuhua was happy for him.

"You can apply to any school you want with this score. Which school do you want to apply to?"

"Tsinghua University. It's better in science." Jidong has already made up his mind. He wanted to go to the capital to study. When he was a child, he had a special yearning for Tsinghua University and Peking University.

When the members of Lijiatun learned that Jidong was going to take the college entrance examination this year, they felt like they were dreaming.

"Didn't he take the junior high school entrance exam last year? Why is he taking the college entrance exam this year?" Did he remember it wrong? Aunt Wang was a little confused. She was only in her fifties, so she wasn't senile, was she? !

The other members were also shocked. "Yes! You remembered it correctly. Who would remember it wrong when it just happened last year? How could this happen?!"

Zhang Xiuhua told Jidong that he wanted to take the college entrance examination early. "The school agreed. We let him try, and we didn't expect that he passed."

Oh my god, he went to college two years early. This child must be born from the god of literature. How could these parents give birth to such a precious child?

Zhang Xiuhua touched Jidong's little head and said, "This child has been smart since he was young and loves to study."

Members rushed to ask him for advice on study methods.

Jidong taught a few points. Regardless of whether they were useful or not, the parents took notes seriously and planned to tell their children when they got home.

Zhang Xiuhua discussed with Li Jianguo and planned to hold a banquet for Jidong.

She thought that if she had talent but couldn't get into college, she really had no idea. Besides, if she got into a junior college, she would be embarrassed to hold a wedding banquet. And the following children, their grades were above average, better than the talented ones, but not much better.

She was worried that this would be the only chance she would have to host a wedding banquet in her lifetime.

At least let her have some glory!

Li Jianguo laughed, "Just do what you want! If the child is admitted to Tsinghua University, the villagers will not gossip!"

With his personal promise, Zhang Xiuhua began to prepare for the banquet. She invited Old Man Xu to come over and discuss hosting a banquet of a higher standard.

She didn't do it for money, she just wanted to have fun.

Old man Xu listed eight cold dishes: cold rice noodles, Harbin red sausage, cold beans, cold preserved eggs, cold cucumbers, cold celery with peanuts, cold kelp shreds and cold lotus root slices.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at the dishes and said, "Only one dish has meat? That's too shabby. Take down the cold beans and replace it with braised beef."

Old Man Xu looked at her in shock, "Beef is not easy to prepare!"

"Don't worry, I'll find a way." Zhang Xiuhua thought that cows could still plow the fields, so she added, "If beef is not available, we can switch to pork."

Old Man Xu nodded, "That's fine."

The eight main dishes he listed were: sweet and sour pork, braised chicken, braised pork elbow, four-happiness meatballs, scrambled eggs, goose stewed in an iron pot, sauerkraut stewed with bones, and braised fish.

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't bring herself to use the dishes from Jiang Province. After all, people are influenced by the local environment and they might just like to eat these dishes. But she thought about it and said, "We're not too far from the sea. We can't just eat pork. Why not take the big bones and pickled cabbage out and replace them with braised prawns? What do you think?"

"Sure!" Old Man Xu clicked his tongue. "You've made so many delicious dishes, I'm afraid you won't be able to get back your money."

"It's okay. It's a big happy event in our family. This kind of thing doesn't happen often." Zhang Xiuhua smiled from ear to ear, and she was also happy for Jidong.

She asked him to list the ingredients, and she would buy all the dishes two days before the wedding banquet.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and Jidong's admission letter arrived.

After receiving it, the university admission was a done deal, and she started preparing for the wedding banquet.

Li Jianguo was still working on the train and hadn't come back yet, so she went to buy the ingredients herself.

Vegetarian dishes were easy to come by, after all, it was summer and vegetables were growing well. As for meat, we had chickens and geese at home, and fish could be found by the river. There were often people fishing by the river, so we could ask them to help us fish, which was also easy. The only difficult ones were shrimp and pork.

We also have a pig at home, but it’s not even a month old yet, so it would be a shame to kill it now.

So Zhang Xiuhua decided to try her luck at the slaughterhouse. If there was no other way, she could just kill her own pigs.

She rode her bicycle with Youcai to pick out ingredients.

The two went to the slaughterhouse, found the butcher, and asked him if he had any extra pork.

You can't make much money by raising pigs in Northeast China because the weather is too cold. Apart from the task pigs assigned by the superiors, everyone can only raise one pig to supplement their family income.

There are very few families like Zhang Xiuhua who are willing to feed bean cakes to pigs. The pigs are kept very thin, and by the end of the year, they may not even weigh 100 kilograms.

But Zhang Xiuhua could always raise pigs to 150-60 kilograms each time, because pigs fed with bean cakes could easily grow meat.

When the butcher learned that she wanted to buy pork, he was about to speak when his face suddenly turned serious and he said, "Why are you coming to the slaughterhouse to buy pork? You should go to the supply and marketing cooperative!"

Zhang Xiuhua always felt that he spoke strangely, and soon she knew the reason, because the factory manager came over and asked, "Have you finished slaughtering the pigs today?"

"It's done!" the butcher replied.

Zhang Xiuhua pulled Youcai out of the slaughterhouse.

Youcai was still a little unhappy, "What's his attitude? Why is he so fierce?"

Zhang Xiuhua felt really worried when looking at him. It seemed like this kid couldn’t think straight!