The little cook in the book has fallen asleep

"Dad, Mom, and Aunt, we're back!" When everyone was chatting animatedly in the kitchen, the voices of Cheng Jin and others were heard from outside the door.

Hearing this familiar voice, Old Mrs. Cheng showed a big smile on her face. Cheng Cuihua was also very happy. These nephews and nephews' wives were all good, hardworking and polite!

The three siblings of the Jiang family also immediately greeted their brothers and sisters-in-law and exchanged a few words.

"When you come back, wash your hands, change your clothes, and get ready for lunch!" said Mrs. Cheng with a smile.

Cheng Cuihua was originally wondering whether the Cheng family would call them back for lunch, but she realized that it was already this late and the Cheng family must have already started eating, but no one had come to call them.

She couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, but at the same time she also understood that the Cheng family didn't treat her as a family member.

She no longer had any expectations for the Cheng family. In this family, only the third brother was good to her, and the others were just trying to take advantage of her!

She decided not to have any more illusions about the Cheng family, so she started to get busy with the work with her third sister-in-law. She planned to have lunch and take a rest before going to the Cheng family. It would be very annoying to go too early.

Old Mrs. Cheng deftly put the braised rabbit meat into two bowls, stir-fried seasonal vegetables and fried meat, and cooked a vegetable soup.

After a while, the aroma of food filled the whole house.

After the rice was cooked, all the dishes were ready. The family sat together and enjoyed a delicious lunch.

"Wow, today's meal is so sumptuous!" Cheng Xiaoba said happily.

Everyone laughed and chatted while enjoying the food. The atmosphere was very harmonious.

After the meal, Cheng Cuihua helped to clean up the dishes. After that, Old Mrs. Cheng asked her three sons to move out three lounge chairs and put them under the big tree. She took her sister-in-law and niece to chat under the tree to enjoy the cool air, while Cheng Yu slept soundly in Jiang Wuyou's arms.

The Cheng family was living a peaceful life, but at this time the Cheng family's wedding procession caused trouble at the Qian family, and the wedding day was a mess!

When the news that a daughter of the Qian family wanted to marry a second husband spread outside the clinic, Liu Hua refused to give the Qian family a single cent of the betrothal money on the grounds that the Qian family still owed her ten taels of silver.

The Qian family had originally hoped to use Qian Xiuer's dowry to save for their eldest son to marry.

As a result, when Cheng Lixiao was seriously injured, she went to the clinic at the instigation of Liu Hua. Although she canceled the engagement with Cheng Lixiao as she wished, she lost the engagement between Qian Xiuer and the widower, and had to get the gangster grandson of the old Cheng family as her son-in-law.

"Cheng Chen, our family has always asked for twenty taels of betrothal gift, but you didn't give a penny! If you don't have these twenty taels today, don't even think about taking my daughter away! Xiu'er won't marry!" Qian's mother locked the gate tightly and didn't let the Cheng family in at all.

After Qian Xiuer's affair was reported back to the village, many people avoided the Qian family. Now that this incident has happened, I'm afraid no one within a hundred miles will be willing to marry into the Qian family.

However, the Qian family was short-sighted and did not consider these consequences.

They only think about how to maximize their own interests and completely ignore the feelings of others.

Such a family environment has also created Qian Xiuer's selfish and vain character. Now she feels ashamed and doesn't want to get married without a bride price!

When Cheng Chen heard this, he was stunned. He didn't expect the Qian family to ask for a dowry at the last minute.

His grandmother didn't say that the Qian family would ask for a dowry. He couldn't help but secretly hate Qian Xiu'er and Liu Hualai in his heart. They made him lose face in front of so many people!

He quickly explained: "Mother-in-law, don't get excited. I don't have the final say on this matter. I have to go back and ask my grandma!"

However, when Qian's mother heard Liu Hua's name, she became angry: "It's your grandmother's fault! Give us the betrothal gift today, otherwise this marriage will be cancelled!"

Cheng Chen had no choice but to send someone back to the village to explain the situation to Liu Hua and the others and ask them to bring some money over.

At this moment, Qian Xiuer, who had been hiding in the house, finally couldn't help but ran out.

She said to her mother with tears in her eyes: "Mom, I don't want to marry Cheng Chen! His grandmother is so powerful, I will definitely suffer if I marry him.

Besides, I heard that Cheng Chen has a bad reputation in the village and often gets into fights. I’m afraid he will beat me…”

After hearing what her daughter said, Qian's mother became even more angry. She pointed at Cheng Chen and scolded him, "Look at you, you are so ignorant that you can't even afford a betrothal gift!"

However, Qian Xiuer’s reputation is so bad now that it would be good enough if she could get married!

"Your daughter was not disciplined before marriage. My nephew should be very lucky to marry your daughter. If you don't want to marry her, forget it!" Cheng Tieniu couldn't bear it anymore and said immediately. His voice was loud and these words soon reached the ears of everyone in the Qian family yard!

This was said by Liu Hua. She expected that the Qian family would definitely ask for a dowry at the last minute, so she asked her fourth brother Cheng Tieniu to tell her.

"Who... who said that! My Xiu'er is fine, otherwise why would Cheng Lixiao be unwilling to cancel the engagement? It was you who snatched this marriage from the third room. Give me the betrothal gift quickly to avoid delaying the auspicious time!" Mother Qian just wouldn't give in. She didn't want to spit out the fat meat in her mouth!

"Good, of course it's good. If it's not good, he can hook up with a widower with two kids in the county town and dare to accept the betrothal gift before canceling the engagement. How shameless!" Cheng Tiemu said. If his nephew was not unreliable, his family would not have given him this marriage.

The Cheng family and the Qian family exposed each other's shortcomings, which gave good opportunities to those who came to the Qian family for dinner. The two families cursed at each other and brought up many gossips.

Crowd A: "It turns out that Cheng Chen is not an easy person to deal with!"

Crowd Eater B: "Yeah, I heard that he used to work in a casino and he also likes to go to brothels!"

Crowd Eater C: "Oh, the Qian family is the same, how can they let a woman marry two husbands?"

Crowd-eater Ding: "That's right, it's really embarrassing!"

Spectator E: "The Qian family is so stingy that they don't even want to serve a plate of melon seeds."

In the end, the farce ended when Old Master Cheng found out that Liu Hua had withheld the betrothal money and paid it out of his own pocket.

But on the wedding day, the Cheng and Qian families exposed each other's shortcomings on the spot, and the matter was spread with details and became a laughing stock within a hundred miles.

After Cheng Chen brought Qian Xiu'er back to the old Cheng family, it was already past the auspicious time. Cheng Chen resented Qian Xiu'er for embarrassing him in front of so many people, while Qian Xiu'er thought that the Cheng family was poor and couldn't even afford the bride price, so in the end the two of them didn't even get married.

There were not many people coming to the banquet. There was one dish of cabbage soup, one dish of pork belly stewed with potatoes (the meat was probably minced meat), one dish of lotus root fried with oil residue, and a table of ten steamed buns made up the wedding banquet.

Cheng Cuihua and Old Man Cheng each took out one or two taels of silver as gifts, and then they went straight back to the Cheng family without eating anything.

Jiang Wuyou and the two Jiang brothers simply did not want to go to their grandmother's house, so Cheng Cuihua did not take them with her.

In the Cheng family's kitchen, Jiang Wuyou and Xiao Wuliuqi were washing vegetables. The vegetables were brought back from the vegetable garden by the three sisters-in-law of the Cheng family. There were three cucumbers, small coriander, small shallots... and some mung bean sprouts that Old Mrs. Cheng had grown herself.

Cheng Yu was sitting at the kitchen door, directing Old Lady Cheng to make chili oil. The seasoning was what Cheng Yu asked Xiao Ou to make every day before the space was upgraded.

Mix chili powder, pepper powder, and cumin powder (if you don’t like cumin, you can leave it out) and place in a large iron basin for later use.

Sesame oil (smuggled out of the space, Xiao Ou put it in a wooden barrel, and the plastic barrel was thrown into the space as garbage)

Pour sesame oil into a pot and heat it. Add the washed scallions, coriander, onions, cardamom and star anise and fry until golden brown. Remove from the pot and continue heating. Pour the hot oil into the various mixed noodles in three batches.

When the first layer of hot oil was poured, no one reacted much; when the second layer of hot oil was poured, the fragrance wafted out immediately; when the third layer of hot oil was poured, the whole yard was filled with fragrance.

"Bang bang bang" the door was knocked loudly. The two Jiang brothers wanted to open the door, but were immediately stopped by Cheng Lixiao.

"Get out, tell your grandparents that I, Cheng Lixiao, am disabled. If you come to my house to ask for money again, I will stab you to death and then commit suicide!" Cheng Lixiao said viciously. The family next door was too disgusting. They would come to ask for any good thing.

"Xiao brother, don't take it so seriously, it's just some food!" Cheng Pandi had heard the noise a long time ago, and when she heard Cheng Lixiao's words, she immediately stood up and laughed.

"I mean what I say. If you don't want anyone to be born into the Cheng family or die out of the Cheng family, then you'd better take care of your pigs!" Cheng Lixiao said viciously. Cheng Pandi raised her grandson like a pig, but her granddaughters were skinny.

The noise outside the door was still going on, and suddenly a loud shouting voice came out: "Cheng Pandi, Cheng Tiezi, are you asking your grandson to come to Brother Tielin's house to beg for food?"