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

"My dear, do you smell anything?" Old Mrs. Qin sniffed sharply and couldn't help licking her dry lips. "What's that smell? Why is it so fragrant? Could it be meat?"

"Where can we get meat?" Old Man Qin sighed and sat leisurely on the recliner. "You must be hallucinating because you haven't eaten meat for a long time. Who can afford meat these days?"

"That's right. In ten days or half a month, we won't be able to afford food, so how can we eat meat?" Old Mrs. Qin nodded in agreement and then lay back down.

The bland soup at noon is not enough to fill you up. You have to go out after noon, move less and consume less energy, so that you can last until the evening.

Old Mrs. Qin was just daydreaming about eating meat when she heard someone outside the yard shouting, "Grandpa, Grandma!"

Old Lady Qin quickly stood up and, recognizing Qin Wen's voice, hurriedly opened the gate. "Brother Wen, why are you here? Did your mother beat you up again because I brought you food this morning?"

"Oh, my poor, dear grandson!" Old Mrs. Qin said as she was about to go forward and hug him.

When I got closer, I saw that Qin Wen was holding a big bowl in his hand. When I looked closely, I found that it was a bowl of red meat.

You can tell that this is meat because of the meaty aroma it emits. No one in the entire Daqin Village stews meat like this. It wastes both wood and seasonings, and it's such a waste.

"Grandma, this is a bird...my stepmother asked me to bring it to you." Qin Wen's face flushed red, and he held it in for a long time but still didn't say the word out loud.

After saying that, he stuffed the bowl into the old lady's hand, turned around and ran away. Old Mrs. Qin was stunned, and before she could come to her senses, the boy disappeared in a flash.

It took him a while to realize that the third son's prodigal wife actually sent him meat? The sun really rose from the west.

No, they can't afford to eat, where does the meat come from? Old Mrs. Qin returned to the yard in confusion.

Old Master Qin cleared his throat and said, "I heard that the third son's wife went to the mountains yesterday. I guess she got some good stuff and exchanged it for some meat at the market."

Qin's eldest daughter-in-law was a little surprised: "We haven't been in touch for so many years, and we've never sent anything. Today, he actually brought a bowl of meat directly to me. It's really strange."

Old Mrs. Qin agreed. It was so dangerous for this prodigal daughter-in-law to live in the deep mountains. If something went wrong, what would happen to all the children in the family, big and small?

The aroma of meat gradually filled the entire yard, and the other members of the Qin family also came over. They looked at the full bowl of meat, which seemed very solid, but there were too many people to eat.

She watched her grandchildren swallowing their saliva continuously. Three grandsons and two granddaughters, each swallowed a mouthful and then died.

Helplessly, he waved his hands and fed everyone a bite, leaving the adults with nothing to taste.

"What's that smell, son?" Qin Shouren, the eldest son of the Qin family, stared at his son eagerly.

"It's delicious." The eldest son of the family, Garlic, licked his lips with a lingering aftertaste. "I wish I had another bowl."

The pork belly was tender, soft, delicious and left a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth. The children ate it with gusto and even wanted to have a few more bowls, but the bowls were already empty.

Qin Shouze couldn't help but kick his son: "You haven't even tasted my father yet, and you're already greedy."

"Grandma, let me take the dishes into the kitchen to wash them." Qin Erya, the youngest daughter of the second child of the Qin family, ran to Grandma Qin and said affectionately.

"Take it." Old Lady Qin looked at the little girl, who was half a person's height, and thought that this girl finally understood something. She quickly shouted at her back, "Save some water."

"I know!" Erya ran into the kitchen, smacking her lips as she licked the remaining sauce in the bowl clean. She thought with a lingering feeling, "If only I could eat meat every day, that would be so happy!"

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After Qin Wen came back, the family started to eat. The children all liked the braised pork very much and rushed to stuff it into their mouths.

Even the little girl Qin Nan ate with her heart's content.

Yun Zhenzhen made a lot today and thought there would be some leftovers, but she didn't expect that she even drank up all the soup.

After the meal, the family of four burped contentedly.

Yun Zhenzhen cleaned up the dishes and prepared to go up the mountain to see if there was anything good.

Although I still have some money, it is far from enough to build a house.

The afternoon sun was still scorching, and I could feel the residual heat emanating from the dry land while walking on the road.

When I reached the foot of the mountain, I felt a hint of coolness under the shade of the trees.

Along the way, many women brought their children up the mountain to look for dinner for tonight.

The food outside the mountain had already been picked clean by everyone. If one wanted to find food, they could only go deeper into the mountains.

Just when Yun Zhenzhen found nothing, she suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from a distance.

Following the sound, I saw two aunts arguing.

One was Aunt Zhao, from whom he had borrowed the seasoning, and the other was Aunt Zhu's daughter-in-law, who had slandered him that day. The two of them were cursing each other.

Aunt Zhao pointed at Zhu's wife and said, "I was the one who discovered these mushrooms first. Why do you want to share them?"

The Zhu family's wife was not to be outdone. She immediately squatted down and started picking the fruits while cursing, "What do you mean you found them? What grows here belongs to everyone. You can't just stop others from picking them just because you see them!"

Aunt Zhao became anxious when she saw Zhu's daughter-in-law frantically harvesting mushrooms on the ground, and quickly joined the mushroom picking army.

Yun Zhenzhen looked at the ordinary mushrooms on the ground without any interest. She was about to retreat when she suddenly saw a red fruit tree in the distance.

When I got closer, I felt that this red fruit looked familiar. I picked it and found out it was hawthorn.

When she looked up, she saw a large hawthorn tree hidden in the dense woods. If it weren't for the red fruits, it would not be easy to find.

I was worried that the kids at home had eaten too much these past few days and had trouble digesting their food.

Yun Zhenzhen walked over and kicked the tree trunk twice, and a large piece of hawthorn fell down.

The commotion here attracted the attention of Aunt Zhao and Zhu's wife, who had just finished picking mushrooms.

Zhu's wife was sharp-eyed and afraid that she would miss out on something good, so she quickly ran towards Yun Zhenzhen.

Seeing this, Aunt Zhao hurried over.

There was not just one hawthorn tree here, but a whole cluster of them. The three women each shook the tree frantically, and there was a rare silence in the woods. The only sound in the woods was the rustling of fruits falling to the ground.

Although there are several trees, everyone knows that there will be many people looking for food in the afternoon. If you are a little slow, others will come and share the already scarce hawthorns.

Although hawthorn tastes sour, who wants too much free stuff?

Yun Zhenzhen quickly bent down and picked up a whole backpack. The other two people's backpacks were also full, and the speed of the three of them finally slowed down a bit.

At this moment, more people passed by and joined the team shaking hawthorns, and soon there were only a few left.

Looking at the hawthorns in the basket, Yun Zhenzhen nodded with satisfaction. There were more than thirty pounds of them, which was enough to last for a long time.

After looking at the sky, I prepared to go down the mountain and go home.