The 2nd story (3)
When Yao Tianhao woke up, he felt something was wrong.
He often drank outside. At first, Tan Chunjuan didn’t say anything, and would just help him clean up silently. In recent years, she would complain that he was spending money, but she would also strip him, take off his shoes, and wipe his feet. However, when he woke up today, He found himself lying on the bed without even taking off his shoes.
“Tan Chunjuan!” Yao Tianhao shouted in dissatisfaction, but he didn’t get the slightest response. After he got up, he realized that neither Tan Chunjuan nor the two children were at home.
Yao Tianhao went to the kitchen again, only to see a cold pot and a cold stove.
Why doesn’t Tan Chunjuan even cook some porridge? Yao Tianhao couldn’t help complaining, but soon an embarrassed expression appeared on his face. He remembered that Tan Chunjuan had said yesterday that the family had run out of food at all.
He went to Dong Yuanxiang’s place yesterday. He originally wanted to borrow some food, but he was too embarrassed to say it, and in the end he didn’t get anything back.
Yao Tianhao was a little worried, but he was relieved to think that Tan Chunjuan would never be hungry when she was working in the Du family, and then went to the yamen.
Tan Chunjuan went to Du’s house with her two children, Da Mao and Er Mao.
The fact that the family ran out of food had actually happened before. At that time, she would always go out early in the morning and try to borrow some food to come back and make a porridge, so that the two children and Yao Tianhao would eat some food before going to the Du house, but today she did not do this.
If Yao Tianhao can eat a meal in the yamen, he will definitely not starve to death. She should really ignore him as the fairy said. As for the two children… Although old lady Du is stingy and difficult, she will give some food when she goes there. .
Sure enough, when she saw Tan Chunjuan bringing her two children over, Mrs. Du gave each of them a piece of two-finger-thick hair cake. This cake had no sugar added, but the two children still enjoyed it. Mrs. Du was okay with her two children, but she was not very happy with Tan Chunjuan: “You are here to help me take care of the children, what do you mean by bringing your own children?”
About this meaning, Mrs. Du said it back and forth seven or eight times, and it could be regarded as beating Tan Chunjuan. Tan Chunjuan was not surprised by this. Before Er Mao was sick, she brought Er Mao here, and Mrs. Du looked like this. She was embarrassed. Taking advantage of the Du family and was afraid that Mrs. Du would not continue to hire her, so she would no longer dare to bring the child.
“Old lady, this time it’s the two children who have to follow me. I’ll let them go back later.” Seeing the children playing in the yard, Tan Chunjuan said in a low voice.
Mrs. Du stopped talking, just stared at Tan Chunjuan and asked her to clean the house, and then asked her to cook again.
The Du family eats two meals a day, one in the mid-morning, and the second after the cloth shop is closed in the evening. Tan Chunjuan will also have a meal for the half-morning meal. In the evening, Tan Chunjuan will leave work after finishing the meal. Now, the Du family doesn’t leave meals.
The Du family has a large population and cooking is not easy. Mrs. Du took out the flour she had measured and asked Tan Chunjuan to make steamed buns. Then she measured two bowls of sorghum with a bowl, and took out two sweet potatoes for Tan Chunjuan to make porridge. The steamed buns were made of the same size and steamed in a steamer. The boiled sorghum was all blooming, and the kitchen was filled with the smell of grain. The big hair and the second hair stopped playing, and they all crowded around Tan Chunjuan and drooled.
Tan Chunjuan also took care of the three children who could not walk sitting in the laundry tub next to her while cooking. Tan Chunjuan breathed a sigh of relief and started cooking. The Du family was not well-off, and the food was average. For example, there were only two dishes this time, one was stewed tofu with pickled vegetables, and the other was stewed vermicelli with pork and cabbage. Of course, there were only a few slices of pork. While cooking, the old lady kept watching, and when it was done, she asked Tan Chunjuan and her to divide the meal into two parts and bring it to the main room—there are many Du family members, and they eat on both sides.
This is for you.” After setting up the food, Mrs. Du brought a steamed bun and three bowls of porridge to Tan Chunjuan. Two bowls of porridge were added with a spoonful of pickled vegetables and tofu on top of each other, which was considered an extra for two children, but she also didn’t forget to explain two more words: “You are here to work, don’t bring the children next time.”
Tan Chunjuan nodded repeatedly and ate in the kitchen with the two children.
Sweet potato porridge was very thin and rough to eat, but the two children were very satisfied, which made Tan Chunjuan feel a little distressed, and hurriedly divided the steamed buns in half and gave it to them.
Er Mao was a thin and weak girl, but she quickly ate the whole half of the steamed bun, but Da Mao only ate half of the half steamed bun with porridge, and put the rest to Tan Chunjuan: “Mother, you eat this”
Seeing this, Er Mao also handed the porridge she had not eat to Tan Chunjuan: “Mother, here.”
Tan Chunjuan’s eyes turned slightly red, she took the small piece of steamed bun, and left Er Mao with the rest. She poured half of his porridge and gave it to Da Mao: “Eat it all.”
Da Mao Er Mao had a smile on his face after eating, while Tan Chunjuan went to pick up water, and then washed the dishes and clothes for the Du family. Of course, she had to take care of those small children, don’t let them run around, and make them a rice porridge to feed them in the middle.
Today is cloudy and the weather is getting cooler. Du’s cloth shop closed early, and Tan Chunjuan left Du’s house early. Then she took her two children to Yao Tianhao’s uncle’s house. Yao Tianhao’s uncle came from a good family. When Yao Tianhao’s parents were still alive, Tan Chunjuan took Da Mao as a guest. Every time they put a chicken leg in her bowl, but the two families hardly moved around in the past few years. This also has something to do with Yao Tianhao. Yao’s father and Yao’s mother passed away. After Yao Tianhao became the master, he became more and more aggressive. Yao Tianhao’s uncle said a few words, but Yao Tianhao was not willing to listen, and the relationship between the two families faded. … When relatives watch Yao Tianhao give money to unrelated people, how can they feel comfortable? His younger brother, because he saw that Yao Tianhao often gave money to others, and felt that his wife and brother had nothing to lose, so he went to Yao’s house to complain every time he came to town?
Although Yao Tianhao’s uncle had a bad relationship with Yao Tianhao, but Tan Chunjuan brought her two children to the house, they still asked Tan Chunjuan to stay for dinner, and Tan Chunjuan also asked to borrow food. Of course, the aunt couldn’t help but say a few sarcastic words: “Your man is not a former man. Didn’t some days ago give a string of copper coins to Widow Zhang in the east of town? You can still be out of food.”
Tan Chunjuan bit her lip and said nothing. The husband of Widow Zhang used to be a yamen and worked with Yao Tianhao, but two years ago, his stomach got worse and worse and he died, leaving behind an old mother, a wife and three children. , Yao Tianhao took pity on them, so he often sent things over. In the past two years, Yao Tianhao was basically raising the family.
Yao Tianhao took a lot of money in the yamen, and some people would send him some souvenirs when he was invited to do something.
“No matter how important face is, you can’t let the child go hungry.” Mu Ling said in the air, she suggested that Tan Chunjuan did everything today. Yao Tianhao loves face very much. He used to be very opposed to Tan Chunjuan going to Du’s house to work. If he knew that Tan Chunjuan took the children to Du’s house and his uncle’s house to eat, he would definitely lose his temper, but what would he do?
Yao Tianhao was so bad in the past, in fact, it has something to do with being spoiled by Tan Chunjuan and even the deceased Yao’s father and Yao’s mother.
“Yeah, you can’t treat the child badly.” Tan Chunjuan nodded, feeling that what Mu Ling said was right. In the past, others only told her that women should listen to men, but they never said that.
It was already a little dark when we got home. Tan Chunjuan hid the pockets of food in her skirts and walked slowly home with her two children.
Most of the shops on the road were closed, only the butcher’s was open, and the high butcher was separating the pigs he had collected from the countryside in the afternoon.
Seeing them, the butcher knocked on the chopping board with a knife: “Do you want to buy the remaining bones today? If don’t I would throw them away.”
Yes.” Tan Chunjuan glanced gratefully at Butcher Gao, who was the complete opposite of Yao Tianhao, who was praised by everyone. Butcher Gao, who has a bad temper, is one of the people who can’t be messed with in the town. Tan Chunjuan remembers that there was an incident a few days ago. There was a villager who came to the meat stall to buy meat and paid the price for half a price. Butcher Gao chopped it off. After the rib was chopped off from the bones, he stopped playing with Butcher Gao, but Butcher Gao slapped the man on the spot and chased him out with a knife, frightening the sloppy bastard, so Yao Tianhao went to intercede with Butcher Gao before giving up, but still just say that I’ll never sell meat to that scumbag again.
But Tan Chunjuan doesn’t hate Butcher Gao. In the summer before, Butcher Gao gave her meaty bones that had some flavor because of the heat. Unfortunately, Yao Tianhao disliked her for a long time after she went home and made soup. He said shameless …
When I got home, Yao Tianhao still hasn’t came back, Tan Chunjuan simmered the bones with water. She put in very little water. She drank the last soup for herself and her two children, and did not keep a single sip for Yao Tianhao.
Tan Chunjuan was taught from a young age to marry a chicken, be a chicken, to marry a dog, be a dog. She always felt a little uncomfortable when she did this, but Mu Ling mentioned it next to her, and she did it anyway.
The next day, Tan Chunjuan got up very early to continue making soup with bones, and then put two handfuls of grain into porridge for the two children, but she still didn’t leave a single bite to Yao Tianhao, and she hadn’t washed Yao Tianhao’s clothes. It was even hidden according to Mu Ling’s instructions.
In the next few days, Tan Chunjuan completely regarded Yao Tianhao as non-existent. Yao Tianhao returned home with almost no hot water.
Mu Ling saw all this and was very satisfied. If Tan Chunjuan ignored Yao Tianhao at all, her life would be no different from her and Li, and she didn’t have to move out of the Yao family’s house.
Of course, making Tan Chunjuan happy is definitely not that simple. Judging from the current situation, it is the best way to let Yao Tianhao improve. It’s better to demolish a temple than destroy a marriage. Tan Chunjuan and Yao Tianhao have nothing to do with life and death. If Yao Tianhao can change the problem of throwing money around, Tan Chunjuan and two children will have something to rely on. In the future, the children will grow up and talk about marriage. Also convenient.
