Time Travel: Remarrying a Little Wolf Dog

Su Yan followed her mother to the kitchen, put down the basket, and tried to find a topic to break the tense atmosphere. "Mom, where's Erlang? I didn't see him when I came back just now."

Su's mother quickly took out the vegetables and meat and began to pick them. Her tone was somewhat softer. "I'm going to the dock. Come here and earn some money."

Su Yan immediately noticed the change in her mother's attitude and rushed forward to strike while the iron was hot, "Mom, let's cook quickly and send food to Erlang at noon."

Mother Su couldn't get angry anymore when she saw her humble appearance. "You are just a son-in-law with a good temper."

Su Yan agreed, "Yes, yes, he has a good temper."

After thinking for a while, he reminded again, "Don't worry about your brother. There is plenty to eat at the dock. He will buy it when he earns money."

"In the future, when your brother comes to the county to deliver things, he will find work to do. Just let him eat out by himself. As a daughter-in-law, you have to be more careful. It's just once or twice. If it goes on for a long time and people find out, they will say that you are taking things from your husband's family and giving them to your mother's family. If your mother-in-law finds out, it will be a disaster."

She tried hard to pass on her experience to her daughter so that she would not take the wrong path at a young age.

Su Yan curled her lips and said, "If my own brother comes to my house for a meal and I have to worry about this and that, then how can I live my life? Let others live for me."

Su's mother said earnestly, "How many mothers-in-law are willing to see their daughter-in-law's family members come to ask for money frequently? Listen to me, don't alienate your in-laws because of our family's affairs."

Su Yan heard her talk getting more and more outrageous, so she quickly interrupted her.

Knowing that Su's mother also cared about her, but knew nothing about her current life, she carefully wanted to use the experience of her predecessors to teach her to avoid detours.

What she should do at this time is not to argue with her or push her away by saying things like "you don't understand, don't bother me".

It’s about making her understand her life and what she can do now.

In order to prevent her from worrying about her daughter's poor life, she had to be careful and think about everything.

While washing vegetables and cooking, Su Yan told her mother in detail about her life in the past two months after marriage and her understanding of her in-laws' family.

Let the mother fully understand her married life so that she can make an objective judgment about her husband's family.

After listening to this, Su's mother was silent for a while, and then sighed, "It's rare for a family like yours to have such good manners. You've finally gotten your reward after all the hardship you've endured!"

Thinking of how she had just blamed her daughter in front of her son-in-law, she felt a little regretful. She explained, "Don't blame me for saying that in front of my son-in-law just now. I was just afraid that my son-in-law would have some opinions."

Then he laughed, this time he was really relieved: "You are still a bit lucky, I won't say it again in the future, just keep it in mind."

Su Yan also smiled, for the original owner to have a mother who truly cared about her in such an era, and also for the fact that this mother was now her own mother.

Across thousands of years, maternal love has not changed at all. It is still like water and mountains, providing a support for children.

"By the way, Mom, have you been to grandma's house?"

Su's mother flipped the food in the pot and replied, "I went there the next day after I went home last time. When I told your grandma and uncle, they were so happy that they didn't know what to say. They kept praising you for being filial."

Su Yan put the cut vegetables on a plate and prepared them. "Hey, this is nothing! It's just a matter of raising your hand. Next time when grandma's family has enough food, send it to me."

Su's mother responded and expressed her agreement.

Su Yan asked again, "What did grandma's family bring this time?"

Su's mother got excited when she mentioned this. "I went to your grandma's house at the right time. They had almost collected furs, walnuts, and mushrooms and were preparing to sell them in the next few days. When I went over to talk to them, they immediately agreed. They even went to the mountains to catch two wild rabbits and two pheasants that day. Your aunt also went to the mountains to dig a full basket of mushrooms."

"Oh, these are all good things that our family made. Your uncle also said that the wild rabbits and pheasants he hunted would be given to each of our two families in half." At this point, she glanced outside and whispered, "I told your grandma that your uncle gave our family a wild rabbit and asked us to help deliver the things to the county, and your grandma was very happy!"

After that, he returned to his normal tone, "The pheasant is for you and your uncle to eat. As for the portion your uncle gave you, you can send it to your uncle's grandfather's house later. It is also a filial act."

Su Yan agreed to her mother's arrangement and said, "I didn't know it just now. If I had known you had taken the pheasant, I would have killed it and eaten it at noon today. You and your brother could have had a taste too."

Mother Su waved her hands, "You think they are good things, but I don't care about them. When I was at my mother's house, I ate countless pheasants and rabbits. These things are not lacking in the mountains."

"Besides, the wild rabbit at home was killed and cooked yesterday, so we can taste it."

Su Yan also knew that what her mother said was true. When she was living in the Su family, her uncle would always leave a pheasant or a rabbit behind when he passed by their village on his way to the county to sell things.

She also benefited from it a lot, and she knew that people in the countryside didn't really like to eat these things, as they thought they were too dry.

What they like is pork, especially fatty pork. It sizzles as soon as it is put into the pan, and it tastes so delicious with your mouth full of oil!

Knowing their preferences, she specially bought fatty meat when she bought meat today.

"Okay, let's eat pork today."

Su Yan asked about some more family situations. The last time she came, she spent most of her time at the old house and didn't have time to talk in detail.

This time I found the opportunity to understand.

Su's mother talked about some of the family's situations, saying that the family had a good harvest this year and everyone was living a good life.

Grandma Su had a fight with Mrs. Wang from the east end of the village some time ago.

"They've been enemies for life, and they always have a fight. No one else in our family got involved, and neither did her family. When your grandma came home, she scolded your uncle and your father for not helping her. It was only your grandpa who understood the situation and gave your grandma a good scolding that made her stop."

He also said that he had a piglet at home, which had grown a lot and could be killed for meat during the Chinese New Year. He was also planning to get a litter of chicks in the next couple of days.

"Your grandma said that with you in the county, it will be easier for our family to sell anything. So I thought of raising a few more chickens. When they lay eggs, we can save them and sell them as income. We can also have some meat during the Chinese New Year."

Su Yan instructed, "It's okay if you save the eggs and bring them to me to help sell them, but you have to be more careful when raising chickens. Clean the chicken coop more often. Isn't there lime on the mountain? Ask my dad to bring some back from time to time and sprinkle it in the chicken coop. If you find sick chickens, isolate them immediately, and don't eat the dead ones..."

Mother Su nodded and said, "We know. We have been raising chickens for so many years and we know the answer. But what is the use of lime? I have never seen anyone use it before."

Su Yan: "I went to the pharmacy to buy bay leaves some time ago, and I happened to hear the doctor say this. He said that if you sprinkle them around the room, they can kill some invisible bugs."

Most people today know that lime can kill viruses and bacteria.

Although people in ancient times did not know what bacteria were, they discovered early on that sprinkling lime around the ward could play a partial isolation role.

The King of Medicine Sun Simiao once said in "Qianjin Yueling": "On the day of Jingzhe, take lime and sprinkle it outside the door to kill insects and ants."

It can be seen that the role of lime has been developed long ago in the history of medicine.

From this perspective, although Su Yan did not hear the doctor say these things in the pharmacy, her words were not groundless.

"There are a lot of insects and ants in our countryside. Sprinkling it here can also prevent the chickens from being bitten to death."