Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Mrs. Shen suddenly slapped Shen Baozhu's hand away. Nonsense, she is not a fool, how could she know.

"Aunt, it hurts~" Shen Baozhu looked at the red back of her hand, tears welling up in her eyes.

"What's hurting? Get out of here!"

Mrs. Shen was so annoyed that she didn't know how to hold back. She just stood up, straightened her clothes, pushed open the door of the woodshed and walked out.

Unexpectedly, Xu Manyue was nowhere to be seen.

She felt relieved for a moment, but she also felt that her peeking was discovered, and her face was burning.

……

Xu Manyue put all the things that Shen Jingming sent back today in the cabinet in the house.

This cabinet was the dowry she had asked for from the Xu family. Although it was not big, it had a small lock and was just right for placing at the head of the bed. She would usually stuff some valuables into it.

As for the two pieces of cloth, she took them out and planned to make two sets of clothes for the children after some time.

Suddenly, she remembered something.

Before, when Shen Jianping got the job, the system also rewarded her with half a pig. She forgot about it for a moment and had not yet exchanged the pork reward from the system.

A piece of pork weighs about 100 pounds, and she can't finish it by herself.

Xu Manyue thought about it and decided to turn the fat part of the pork into lard, keep the lean part for eating, and make the other part into pickled meat for easy preservation.

It’s not cheap to buy oil in the system mall, so if you have the time, you might as well refine it yourself.

So she closed the door tightly and turned into her own small kitchen.

Xu Manyue first exchanged the meat from the system, and then took a kitchen knife and began to cut the half pork into countless pieces according to the fat, lean and meat parts.

Then, the fat meat was cut into small pieces and placed in a large iron pot to boil lard...

I don’t know how long it took, but the lard gradually became clear and transparent, the oil residue was golden and crispy, and the faint aroma of oil and the smell of oil residue filled the small kitchen.

In this era of food shortage and lack of oil, water and meat.

Sometimes eating a small piece of oil residue can make people happy and savor it for a long time. Even when they grow up, they can never forget the taste of the oil residue they ate when they were young.

Xu Manyue picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of oil residue, put it in her mouth and started eating.

It is fragrant, crispy and delicious. Put a little in your bowl and eat it with rice. It is absolutely delicious.

She separated the oil residue from the refined lard, and canned the oil residue separately. The hot oil that had just been refined had to be cooled for a while before being canned.

This time the harvest was quite good. She produced several small jars of lard, enough for her to eat until next year.

After this busy trip, it was time to go to bed at night.

But I am tired from all the work.

Xu Manyue was a little hungry again. She didn't know if it was because of the baby, but her appetite was much better than before, and she was more picky about what she ate.

There must be meat and vegetables every day. Sometimes, when my appetite comes, I will suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, browse the system mall, buy myself some snacks, or just cook.

The same goes for tonight.

Xu Manyue suddenly wanted to eat pickled cucumbers, which were sour and spicy and very appetizing; she also wanted stir-fried meat with green peppers, and big meat buns.

But it was late at night and she didn't want to do it, so she just spent sixty-seven transformation points and bought a ready-made one in the system mall.

When the food was placed in front of her, Xu Manyue took a few bites and couldn't eat it anymore, so she had to put it back in the kitchen and wait until she wanted to eat it.

The time for food to be placed in a small kitchen is static. It will remain the same as when you put it in, and the food will not go bad.

……

That day, Xu Manyue had just returned to the team after get off work when she was stopped by Wang Xiancao.

Compared to the previous few days, her belly seemed to be slightly bulging, and it looked like she was about four months pregnant.

"Man Yue, sister-in-law wants to talk to you about something." Wang Xiancao smiled.

Xu Manyue looked up at her and said, "Sister-in-law, if you have anything to say, just talk here."

Hearing this, the smile on Wang Xiancao's face became more obvious. She touched her belly and said, "It's the full moon, let's not beat around the bush. You should know whose child I'm carrying."

"I came to you this time for this matter."

"I don't want anything else but your second brother. He needs a son right now, and it just so happens that I'm pregnant with his baby. Judging from the baby in my belly, it's most likely a boy."

"Lin Luoxia doesn't want to give birth to him, but I do."

"If you are willing to help me marry into the Shen family, you will be my biological sister in the future. You know me, as long as she is my relative who is recognized by me, I will treat her well."

"I will never let her suffer any injustice."

After hearing this, Xu Manyue finally understood what this person was planning.

Putting aside the fact that Wang Xiancao was pregnant with a married man's child, she did have her own way of doing things. Although her style was not good, not many people in the team disliked her.

Some women even liked her personality because as long as they were relatives recognized by Wang Xiancao, she would help them without hesitation no matter what happened to them.

There have been famines in recent years, and almost none of Wang Xiancao's relatives have starved to death.

Perhaps some of the food that Shen Lao Er had hidden before came from Wang Xiancao.

"How about it, Man Yue, have you thought it through?" Wang Xiancao smiled lightly.

Xu Manyue was silent for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Sister-in-law, you should also know that my mother-in-law has always been the one who makes the decisions at home."

Even if she could intervene, she didn't want to get involved in such matters.

Wang Xiancao was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect her to refuse so quickly.

"I heard from Jianyun that the old lady has a good relationship with you at home. She basically listens to everything you say."

"Why don't you give it a try? Maybe it will work."

She couldn't delay the birth of the baby in her belly any longer. If she did, her belly would really get bigger.

But Shen Jianyun was slow to give her a clear attitude, and Lin Luoxia kept pretending to be blind, so it was useless for her to provoke him.

Xu Manyue shook her head again, "Sister-in-law, if it's all right, I'll leave first. It's not that I don't want to help, it's that I really don't have the ability to do so."

After saying that, she turned and left without waiting for Wang Xiancao to finish the rest of her words.

Soon, Xu Manyue returned home.

Recently, since Lin Luoxia became the women's director of the brigade, she would sometimes be called over when the brigade held meetings.

There are mostly women and old people in the brigade now, so there are many problems.

Especially those daughters-in-law who throw their parents-in-law out for a little food, or those daughters-in-law who are driven out by their parents-in-law for food because they cannot give birth to a son.

There are many problems, and as the director of the Women's Department, Lin Luoxia has to deal with them together with the team leader.