Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

Yun Zhenzhen went into the kitchen to clean up and put away the newly bought items. When she was about to make lunch today, she suddenly heard a sound of cursing outside the courtyard gate.

"You're such a spendthrift woman! Our Qin family is incredibly unlucky to marry you. The death penalty for the Shuze campaign is a full ten taels of silver. Isn't that enough for you and your mother to live comfortably? Why do you have to resort to stealing?"

"Are you unable to live? Or are you playing the victim in front of the villagers, acting like we, the old couple, have abused you? You are truly shameless."

Yun Zhenzhen stretched her head and looked outside the door.

I recognized that this was my original mother-in-law. I don't know where I heard it from, but without knowing the truth, I ran over and started cursing.

The relationship between the original body and the mother-in-law was extremely bad. Ever since the original body's husband died in the war, she had been throwing a tantrum and splitting up the family property, and declared that she would never have anything to do with her mother-in-law again.

How much hatred must one have to say such words?

But it’s better to separate the family, so that she doesn’t have to deal with her husband’s family.

Old lady Qin was in good spirits. She ran to the door in the middle of the day in the hot sun to scold her. Yun Zhenzhen saw that she couldn't escape, so she put down the things in her hands and walked out the door.

When Old Lady Qin saw her come out, she stopped scolding her, but the anger on her face had not subsided yet, and she called Qin Li to her side.

"Grandson, this is the food I prepared for you. Take it carefully." Old Lady Qin stuffed the bag into the little girl's arms and said, "Please watch it carefully. Don't let anyone snatch it away."

After saying that, he glared at Yun Zhenzhen fiercely, and it was obvious who he was talking about.

He didn't talk to anyone else, just turned and left, but his back looked a little embarrassed.

Yun Zhenzhen searched her mind for memories and finally remembered.

The original body used to fight with the old lady at the master's house often. Relying on his youth, good eloquence, good health, and great strength, he always scolded the old lady so much that she had no chance to fight back. He could neither beat her nor scold her.

From then on, the old lady never quarreled with the original body in person again.

"What grandma gave me is food." Qin Li walked over quickly with the bag and put the bag in front of Yun Zhenzhen.

"Let me see." Yun Zhenzhen picked up the food on the ground: "Even though it's rough rice, it's better than nothing."

It’s not that we lack this little food. After all, it was given by the old lady to her children, and we can’t waste her kindness.

Yun Zhenzhen walked into the kitchen. Today, everything at home was ready, so she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to show off her cooking skills to the children.

Take out the pork belly you just bought, wash it all at once, then cut the meat into cubes, blanch it in cold water, skim off the excess foam, and then take it out and wash it clean.

The pork belly is carefully selected by myself, the quality is very good, and the fat and lean parts are 50-50.

Afraid that the children would suddenly eat too much greasy food, which would be bad for their health, I put the meat into the pot and fried out the excess oil before taking it out.

The lard can be used for cooking later.

During the frying process, the aroma of the pork belly wafts out.

Qin Nan stood aside, not even as tall as the stove, but still stood on tiptoe to look out curiously.

"Mom, what delicious food are you making again?" After eating meals cooked by her stepmother for two consecutive days, she felt that anything cooked by her stepmother was delicious.

"This is braised pork." Yun Zhenzhen responded to Qin Nan while reminding Qin Wen to use a lower heat.

I skipped the step of frying sugar color because sugar is too expensive, 60 cents per pound, which is really unaffordable. I could only make a sauce-flavored one.

After the pork belly is fried, add hot water and simmer.

Why hot water? Because cold water will make the meat firmer, which is not conducive to subsequent stewing and the taste will not be so good.

The following steps are relatively simple. Yun Zhenzhen added some other seasonings and continued to stew. After boiling over high heat, turn to medium heat.

If you want to stew it a little softer, you can turn to high heat, and then when the soup is thick, you can serve it!

The braised pork just out of the pot is still steaming, with an attractive meaty aroma, and the meat is soft and tender.

Yun Zhenzhen put it in her mouth and tasted it.

It melts in your mouth, and the lean meat has a bit of chewiness. It doesn't taste greasy at all and is full of fragrance.

"Mom, is it delicious? Is it delicious?"

Qin Nan stood aside, wishing he could jump up and taste it himself, his saliva almost dripping into the pot.

Yun Zhenzhen couldn't help but laugh. She quickly picked up a piece and fed it to Qin Nan's mouth: "Ah, open your mouth."

Qin Nan opened his mouth happily.

Yun Zhenzhen blew on the pork belly and put it into her mouth after making sure it was not too hot.

“Mmm… smells so good… mmm…”

Qin Nan opened her eyes wide, a light suddenly flashing in them. Oh my God, this is too delicious. She has never eaten such delicious meat since she was a child. She really wants to swallow her tongue.

As she was thinking, Yun Zhenzhen stuffed another piece of pork belly into her mouth: "Go wash your hands quickly and get ready for dinner."

Yun Zhenzhen was determined to make sure that the brothers and sisters had a good meal, so she prepared a few side dishes and cooked a pot of wild vegetable soup with big bones. The staple food was white rice, with only a little brown rice mixed in, which did not affect the taste and was definitely enough to make them full.

In addition to a large pot of meat, four bowls of rice, stir-fried vegetables, and spicy and sour potato shreds, the dinner table was even more sumptuous than during the Chinese New Year.

Even the usually calm Qin Li and his brother couldn't stop swallowing.

Qin Nan had just tasted the delicious food, his stomach was rumbling, and he couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks.

Yun Zhenzhen took out an empty bowl and gave Qin Wen a bowl of braised pork: "Xiao Wen, take this to your grandparents."

The original body was not good to the child, and only Old Lady Qin occasionally helped him privately. Now that I have traveled through time, I will try my best to build good relations with my husband's family, so that it will be convenient for me to do things in the future.

Qin Wen swallowed his saliva and ran out quickly with the bowl in his hand.

When the sun was shining brightly, the Qin family had just finished lunch and the whole family was sitting under a locust tree to enjoy the cool air.

For lunch, we had steamed buns with wild vegetables, accompanied by a bowl of watery porridge. You could vaguely see some rice grains, and most of the porridge was beans. The whole family could eat half full.

Even so, the food is considered to be relatively good in the entire Qinjia Village.