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

At the end of October, Lijiatun was busy again, harvesting all the cabbages and radishes from the fields and distributing them to the members.

The cabbages planted in August all had cores, while those planted in mid-September mostly did not. The radishes were also very small, weighing only about 300 to 400 grams each.

After the harvest, each family divided the harvest. Zhang Xiuhua put the cabbage in the cellar. She put 70% of the tender cabbage in the space and pickled 30% into kimchi. As for the radish, she put half in the space and pickled the other half into dried radish.

Each family has a different way of making kimchi. Other families use boiling water and salt to make kimchi.

Zhang Xiuhua wanted to make something more delicious, so she pickled Korean kimchi and used the seasonings in the space.

Youcai saw so many seasonings, garlic, onion, apple, pear, fine chili powder, coarse chili powder, hot sauce, sugar, fish sauce, leek, glutinous rice flour, dried shrimps and salt. This is not kimchi at all. Even stewing meat is not so particular.

Some people think it is too luxurious.

Zhang Xiuhua said, "We can't help it. When we stew meat, the whole village can smell the aroma, which is too eye-catching. This kimchi is salty and cold, so it can't smell good. As long as you don't tell anyone, no one will know. I want you to eat something good."

Alas, pitiful people, now even a little pickle is considered a treasure. But who can blame the scarcity of supplies?

Youcai stopped trying to persuade her. He was a little hesitant, "Aunt Zhang, is the living allowance my father gave me enough?"

His father used to give his mother living expenses, but they could only eat sweet potatoes and cabbage, and never meat. Why can Aunt Zhang give them different kinds of food with the same living expenses?

Zhang Xiuhua had learned about Youcai's mother's character from Xu Chunying. To be honest, she was a confused woman. But since she was dead, it was not good for her to say bad things about her. So she smiled and said, "Your mother was a woman who knew how to live. I am not as virtuous as your mother. You are too young now. You need to take good care of your nutrition so that you can grow taller in the future."

Talented and thoughtful.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't want to make much pickles and kimchi. After all, eating too much of these things is not good. She could obviously eat fresh ones, so there was no need to eat pickled ones.

After she finished her work, she tended to her small vegetable garden at home. When the weather was good, she went to the mountain to collect firewood, and Yaoyao and Jilin followed her to help. Zhuzhu was still left to her mother-in-law's care.

When she came back that day, Zhang Xiuhua was tidying up the storage room, where things were piled in a mess. She couldn't stand seeing things messy, so she started to organize them now that she had some free time.

I heard the sound of children running outside. I looked at the sky outside and found that the children had already finished school.

She called out to the outside, asking Youcai and the other two to cook for themselves. Youcai responded loudly.

Not long after, Jidong came over quietly and told Zhang Xiuhua something, "Aunt, Teacher Li told me today that Brother Youcai didn't go to school."

Zhang Xiuhua immediately became furious, "What! He dares to skip school again!"

She had already been warned last time, but she still skipped school this time. I will not let her off no matter what.

She didn't even bother to pack her things, but walked out of the utility room with murderous intent and called out Youcai who was preparing to cook.

Jidong took the spatula from Youcai's hand and gave him a helpless look.

Youcai was still carefree at this time, even laughing, "Aunt Zhang, what's wrong?"

Zhang Xiuhua was afraid of wrongly accusing her child, so she suppressed her anger and said, "Youcai, I heard that you didn't go to school again today?"

The smile on Youcai's face suddenly disappeared. He turned around and glared at Jidong, then turned back to look at Zhang Xiuhua, "Yes. I didn't go! What's the matter?"

What's the matter? Zhang Xiuhua looked at him in disbelief. "You are a student and you don't go to school. What do you want to do? Where have you been?"

Youcai didn't care at all, "There are people fishing over there in the river, so I'll go too."

He smiled and took out some money from his pocket. "I also went to the river, caught two fish, and sold them for money. Aunt Zhang, this is for you!"

Zhang Xiuhua looked at the two dimes in her hand and her hands were shaking with anger. "You don't want to go to school just for two dimes?!"

Youcai doesn't think there's anything wrong with his choice of fishing. "Studying costs money. I fish to make money. I also make money for my family."

He originally wanted to wait until after dinner to announce the matter so that Aunt Zhang could praise him once, but he didn't expect that Jidong, the big leaker, would say it first.

Zhang Xiuhua just felt that this kid was not a question of high IQ, but extremely stupid. His brain was filled with mush.

"What money do you make? Do I want you to make money? You are a student now, you should study hard. If you don't study during your study period, you won't have the chance to study later. Do you think you are making money? Do you know how much it costs for me to hire two educated youths?"

Youcai scratched his head, "Then why don't you just not pay the tuition? I don't like studying anyway!"

Zhang Xiuhua saw that she couldn't persuade him, so she wanted to find a stick in a hurry, but when she really got the stick, she felt that it was not enough. Her reputation could not be ruined by him. But she couldn't just ignore it. She thought of a wonderful punishment!

"You are not allowed to eat meat today!" Zhang Xiuhua was determined to do whatever she said this time.

After she finished speaking, she went back to the house, took out two pounds of meat, and started making braised pork directly.

She didn't care whether other people in the village were greedy or not. She just wanted Youcai to be greedy! She wanted him to be greedy to the point of madness, drooling,... In short, she wanted him to be greedy to death! Let's see if he dares to skip school again!

This time, Zhang Xiuhua spent a lot of money to make a plate of braised pork, but when it was served on the table, she refused to let Youcai eat it.

"Eat as much as you want! No one is allowed to leave any!"

The other children looked at each other in bewilderment. The meat was so tempting that they started to eat it in big mouthfuls without caring about their talents.

Youcai was so angry that his eyes turned red, tears welled up in his eyes, "You! Why don't you give me food? My father gave me living expenses."

"You are wrong! The living expenses your father gave you are not enough to eat so much meat. I used my own living expenses to give you all this meat." Zhang Xiuhua's stepmother officially came online, "If you skip school again in the future, I will make delicious food every day and make you greedy to death!"

Youcai watched helplessly as such a large plate of meat went into the mouths of these people at a speed visible to the naked eye. He was so angry that he screamed, burst into tears, and then ran out, "You are my stepmother, I don't want you, I don't want you!"

Yaoyao chased after him and shouted, "Brother, where are you going?"

Zhang Xiuhua curled her lips, "Where else can he go? He must have gone to see your grandma!"

Her mother-in-law was in poor health, could not earn work points, and did not care about anything. Youcai went to her for support, but he went to the wrong person.

When she comes to him, she tells him the truth and he will have to stand on her side.

But after waiting for half an hour, no one showed up. Zhang Xiuhua was a little impatient, worried that something might happen to Youcai, so she rode her bicycle to Li Jiandang's house.

The family was having dinner, and when they saw Zhang Xiuhua coming, they immediately asked her to sit down and eat.

Zhang Xiuhua waved her hand and asked them if Youcai had come over.

Xu Chunying said no.

My mother-in-law asked, "What happened to Youcai? It's dinner time now, why is he running around?"

That child is a foodie and is always punctual when eating. How could he run away? She looked at Zhang Xiuhua with suspicion.

Zhang Xiuhua did not hide it and told Youcai about skipping school to catch fish. Of course, she also did not reveal that she deliberately made braised pork and did not give it to him as a punishment.

"Brother and sister-in-law, think about where else you can go if you have talent?"

She had never seen Youcai get along well with anyone in the village. The child just liked to run around all day long.

Xu Chunying slapped her thigh, "Where else can we go? Of course, we should go to his uncle's house. He always goes there when he is unhappy."

Zhang Xiuhua asked for directions to the village and hurried away on her bicycle.

She met many villagers on the way, who asked her where she was going.

Zhang Xiuhua responded with a few words.