Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

In the small kitchen, the two of them sat face to face on small stools and talked.

"Let's not go over there tonight. I'm going to kill a chicken. Didn't you say you wanted to try rubbing honey on the chicken? Let's try it tonight."

As he spoke, he went outside and caught a fat chicken. He slit its throat, drained its blood, and plucked its feathers. In one go, the chicken was ready.

Zhong Ruyi sat on a small stool and watched the man busying himself with various tasks, sometimes building a fire and sometimes putting chickens on the fire.

The depressed mood soon recovered a little, but he couldn't help but think of what Chen's mother had just said.

"...Giving birth is as quick as a hen laying eggs! If you don't have time to take care of the baby, I'll still be there for you. Just tell Dongzhi, he listens to you the most. It's not like before when I had my way. Now you're a family, I don't ask for anything else. I just want to hold my grandson before I close my eyes. I'd love it whether it's a boy or a girl!"

Her words made Zhong Ruyi very angry. If nothing else, the sentence that giving birth to a child was as easy as a hen laying eggs almost made her burst into cursing.

Later she also said that Chen Dongzhi no longer listens to her as before. Doesn't this mean that she is blowing pillow talk? Is she trying to alienate the relationship between mother and son?

I swear to God, she has never had such an idea!

It was obvious that Chen's mother was not like this before they got married, why did she change in less than a year?

At dinner time, Chen Dongzhi tore a chicken leg and put it in his wife's bowl. "Eat quickly. I just ate a chicken wing. It was really delicious. It was a little sweet with the honey."

The chicken was tender and smooth, with a light sweet aroma. After eating a chicken leg, Zhong Ruyi felt half full, so she simply ate half a bowl of rice and stopped eating.

Chen Dongzhi finished the remaining chicken by himself and also ate up the whole pot of rice.

After the couple had eaten and drunk their fill, they washed up and went to bed. Today’s affairs were dealt with today and they would not need to worry about them tomorrow.

As for Chen's mother, she waited for more than half an hour but her son and daughter-in-law didn't come back, and she felt a little sad.

Xiaoman didn't know what happened today. She just sat there obediently waiting for her brother and sister-in-law to come.

But after waiting for a long time, the food on the table was almost cold and the two people still didn't come.

Xiaoxue sighed secretly in her heart, stood up and said, "Mom, don't wait for me. I will go and heat up the food. My brother has been studying all day and will be starving if we wait any longer."

Even though she felt that what her mother said today was too much, as a daughter she still had to stand on her side. However, her sister-in-law was also quite innocent. She was always smiling in the past, but today she was rarely smiling.

Put yourself in her shoes. If she were secretly accused by her mother-in-law of alienating the mother-son relationship and was urged to have a baby, she would do the same.

My mother doesn’t know what happened to her. She suddenly became a different person in the past two months. Sometimes she gets angry and looks gloomy for no reason, and she doesn’t respond when you talk to her.

After the food was heated up, Chen's mother had already started to eat, but she asked him to wait a little longer, "What if your brother and sister-in-law were delayed by something?"

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After waiting for about another quarter of an hour, Xiaoman's hungry stomach rumbled in her ears. Xiaoxue finally couldn't bear it any longer, "Mom! If you don't want to eat, then wait. Xiaoman and I will eat first. After eating, Xiaoman still has to do homework and doesn't have time to wait any longer. Don't you think you will not let us eat if my brother and sister-in-law don't come?"

Mother Chen was stunned for a moment, and when she met her son's confused eyes, she realized how ridiculous her behavior was. It was really irrational to let the two children wait with empty stomachs.

She quickly picked up the chopsticks and picked up some food for her son and daughter. "Then, then don't wait. Eat quickly."

The next day.

Butler Fang stood at the door of the workshop in high spirits, directing the people he brought with him to move the cans onto the carriage. "Be gentle! Big Bear, don't put it too high, or it might fall!"

After finally loading several carriages, he smiled and said to Zhong Ruyi who was checking the account book, "Boss Zhong, this month's canned food has been packed, and we will need the same amount next month. Please prepare it early."

Zhong Ruyi hadn't finished counting the account book in her hand. There were still a thousand cans of food left to pay to the Yu family this month, and the account book didn't match for the time being.

Thinking of the scandal about the Fang family that Jiang Qin had heard about some time ago, Zhong Ruyi couldn't control her mouth and wanted to find out more:

"Uncle Fang, I heard that something went wrong in your family? Madam Fang was divorced and returned to her parents' home?"

"Heard? Where did you hear it?" Butler Fang asked instead of answering.

Zhong Ruyi touched her nose awkwardly, "Isn't that what everyone is saying? I only knew about it from what others said."

Housekeeper Fang glanced at her. Originally, such secrets in the mansion should not be brought out and made a big fuss. However, the target was Madam Fang, who was promoted from concubine to wife. He didn't think it should be kept secret. Such a scandal should be brought out and made public! This woman and her family should be embarrassed!

"You probably only heard one side of the story. If you want to hear me explain it in detail, then first pour me a cup of tea and bring me some fruit, and then I'll talk to you in detail."

"It's easy!"

When Zhong Ruyi heard this, she quickly asked Chen Dongzhi, who was chopping wood in the workshop yard, to bring Butler Fang home to sit for a while, while she went to the mountain to pick some apples.

Now it is the end of March and the early-ripening apples are ready to be eaten. In about ten days, Boss Wang from Jixiang Town should be here.

The apples, which were covered with water droplets, were washed and placed on a plate and brought up. The couple sat opposite Butler Fang and watched him leisurely drink his tea and take a bite of the apple.

After waiting for a long time, butler Fang finally finished eating the whole apple. Zhong Ruyi urged him anxiously, "Uncle Fang, don't eat it yet. I'll pick some more for you to take back later. Tell me about Madam Fang first."

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry." Butler Fang finished eating the apple, took out a handkerchief from his bosom to wipe his mouth and hands, and commented, "This fruit is really good. I'll go back and ask my master if he wants to do this business."

Zhong Ruyi's anxious mood was immediately diverted by this sentence, "Maybe not. In ten days or so, a boss named Wang from Jixiang Town will come to see the fruit. I have agreed with him that if he doesn't like it, I can sell it to someone else."

"Let's talk about it then. Don't you want to know what happened to the divorced lady in our house?" Butler Fang showed a scornful smile on his face, full of disdain for Mrs. Fang.

"This lady is not our master's original wife. She was promoted from concubine to wife five years after the original wife passed away. It is not an exaggeration to describe her as greedy and selfish!"

Mr. Fang’s first wife was a virtuous and intelligent woman. She gave birth to two sons and a daughter. She was smart and good at managing the household, but unfortunately she was in poor health and passed away ten years ago.

After she left, Mr. Fang had no intention of remarrying for the time being, mainly because the eldest son and daughter of the Fang family, who were already grown up at the time, did not want to do so. They were afraid that their father would marry a vicious stepmother to cause trouble for them. At that time, the second son of the Fang family, Fang Erlang, was just ten years old. If such a young child met a stepmother with ulterior motives, he would be finished sooner or later.

Mr. Fang gave up the idea, but he had several concubines in the backyard who also had the same idea.

No one knows what means the divorced Mrs. Fang used, but she was made the legal wife just five years after the original wife passed away.