bookrandom Chapter 106 Life is getting better and better.
Chapter 106 Life is getting better and better.
Shen Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered that it was already this late and his wife and daughter were still hungry.
"It's all your father's fault for letting you go hungry for so long. Come on, let's go eat some wontons!"
Since I had already agreed to go out for wontons with my eldest daughter, I couldn't let those things happen and burden my wife and daughter.
Liu was somewhat taken aback. Her husband was still willing to take them out for wontons after the fight between her father-in-law and his wife.
How painful it must be for him right now!
"Her father, you really don't need to..."
"Fengniang, stop talking now, or they might be sold out if we go any later."
He seemed to be fine, but Liu knew her husband's personality well; he was the kind of person who kept things to himself.
Xiaoyu is young and had just been crying with snot and tears all over her face, but when she heard that they were going to eat wontons, she immediately rubbed her nose and smiled.
"Oh... Dad's taking us... to eat wontons!"
Liu wiped away her youngest daughter's tears with her sleeve, tidied up the sweet potato stall, and greeted Wang Sao.
"Sister-in-law, thank you so much for speaking up for us. We'd like to grab something to eat, and we'll have to trouble you to keep an eye on my little stall."
As she spoke, she took out a hot roasted sweet potato from inside and handed it to Sister Wang.
Sister Wang looked surprised, but immediately accepted it with a smile.
"Hey, we're next to each other every day, it's just a matter of you helping me and me helping you, why are you being so polite?"
With Aunt Wang helping to watch over their packed-up stall, the family of four felt reassured and went to the wonton stall.
The man selling wontons was an old man with a kind face.
"Grandpa, give us three bowls of wontons, and one more bowl."
Father and Mother are adults, each with a bowl. She and Xiaoyu couldn't finish it all, so one bowl was just right for the two of them.
It was well past noon, and no customers had come in long ago. The old man still had a lot of packaged food left to sell. When he saw that more customers had arrived, he immediately beamed with joy.
"Alright, you're late. I still have a lot left to cook, so I'll give you plenty today. Remember to come back and support Grandpa's business next time you finish eating."
She said sweetly, "Okay, thank you, Grandpa."
Shen Qingchuan sat there, looking preoccupied, and Liu Shi didn't say anything to disturb him.
Xiaoyu didn't understand why her grandfather and stepmother had come to argue with her parents. After the incident, her fear dissipated, and she sat there stammering and chattering.
An uncle was slowly walking by on the road carrying a stick of candied hawthorns, occasionally shouting out his sales pitch.
When Xiaoyu saw the candied hawthorn, her eyes widened and her mouth watered.
"Mom, I want to eat candied hawthorns, can you...can you buy me some?"
Liu gently advised, "Eating too many sweet things will rot your teeth. We're waiting to eat wontons. If you're full from candied hawthorns, you won't be able to eat wontons."
Hearing his wife and daughter's conversation, Shen Qingchuan said with a smirk, "Eating a skewer occasionally won't damage your teeth. It's rare for the kids to want some, so let's buy them a skewer. What's the point of making money if we don't spend it? It'll leave something for others to remember us by."
Yes, if you earn money but don't spend it, won't your father-in-law and stepmother's family be worried sick?
Liu realized what was happening and immediately said, "Buy some, buy some for your sister too, one for each of you... no, two for each of you, you can eat whatever you can't finish!"
Shen Qingchuan was amused by his wife's silly and adorable appearance when she suddenly changed her mind and asked to buy four skewers.
"Buy six skewers, two for each of you three!"
Liu blushed and said shyly, "Dad, you're a grown man, why are you suddenly acting so unserious? I'm over twenty, not a child anymore, why are you eating candied hawthorns?"
"I've never had this before, but now that I'm making money, I'll make it up to you!"
Thanks to his wife for not disliking him and for following him through thick and thin, she gave birth to two daughters for him. The eldest is clever and intelligent, and is a lucky star for their family. The younger one is well-behaved and obedient. The only ones who truly care about him are his wife and the three of them.
Shen Qingchuan got up and called out to the candied hawthorn vendor, and actually bought six skewers.
Liu's cheeks flushed red, and she felt incredibly warm inside.
Since the family separated, life has become more and more promising.
Xiaoyu bit into the candied hawthorn, feeling incredibly satisfied. "The candied hawthorn is sour...and sweet, it's so delicious!"
Shen Xiaotang picked up two strings of candied hawthorns and handed one to each of her parents with a smile.
"Dad, I'm afraid my teeth will hurt if I eat too much. Why don't you eat a skewer for me? You're right, you and Mom have never eaten this since you were little. Now that we have money, you two should make up for it."
Shen Qingchuan: "..."
The eldest daughter is the smartest in the family; she learns things quickly without even studying them.
Liu hurriedly said, "You're such a sensible girl. Your father and I will each have one skewer. You can save yours to eat slowly."
Just then, the old man finished cooking wontons and brought them over—three big bowls full!
The steaming hot wontons were emitting white smoke, sprinkled with chopped scallions, and dotted with a few drops of oil. They smelled wonderful!
Shen Xiaotang picked up another empty bowl, carefully divided it into two portions, and pushed them in front of her younger sister.
"Xiaoyu, put it down first, eat it after you finish eating the wontons."
The family sat around a table, enjoying their meal immensely, temporarily forgetting their previous unpleasantness.
The next day.
After delivering the braised pig's trotters to Dushui County with his eldest daughter, Shen Qingchuan unloaded the raw pig's trotters into the Su family kitchen, then led the mule cart back to Guihua Village with his two daughters.
The mule cart was carrying five or six roasted sweet potatoes.
He hesitated the whole way, but when they were almost at the village entrance, he finally couldn't help but speak up.
"Tang'er, if I had known, I would have bought a few more raw pig trotters to braise yesterday. If we had something better, would it have been inappropriate to just give the village head a few roasted sweet potatoes?"
Shen Xiaotang said helplessly, "Dad, sending roasted sweet potatoes is the most appropriate thing to do. If we send braised pig's trotters directly this time, even the village head will probably think that we made money and looked down on Grandpa and Stepmother's family. He might think that we deliberately didn't want to help them and that's why we changed our surname and established the Lin family. Wouldn't that just make people misunderstand us for no reason?"
Shen Qingchuan suddenly realized what was happening and immediately understood.
Yes, sending braised pig's trotters directly is to let everyone know that he is indeed supplying Yunlai Restaurant and that he is making real money.
If he makes money and immediately changes his surname to the Lin family, how will people view him?
“Dad, I don’t look down on your grandfather and stepmother’s family. It’s just that they’ve always been biased, giving them all the benefits while leaving us with all the hard work. I just don’t want to continue being blindly filial to my father.”
I don't want to be exploited by that family anymore!
Shen Xiaotang nodded, thinking to herself that her father wasn't stupid; on the contrary, he should be quite smart. It's just that her father was suppressed since childhood and never competed or fought for anything. He never had any selfish thoughts and refused to use his brain to think the worst about her grandfather and stepmother.
But it’s different now!
Father was careful and discerning, able to see through Grandpa and Stepmother's character and understand their ulterior motives.
That family's exploitation of her parents has finally come to an end!
"Yes, they were the ones who acted ruthlessly first. We've already shown them leniency. If it were anyone else, who would give the Lin family's brick house and sixteen acres of fertile land to him and his stepmother's sons?"
"Therefore, we have done nothing wrong by changing our surname back to Lin and staying away from that family!"
Xiaoyu sat next to her older sister, unable to understand what her sister and father were discussing, and was drowsy the whole way.
Shen Qingchuan led the mule cart into Guihua Village and went directly to the village head's house.