You are unlucky and I am tough

Cheng Dafu's family had white porridge for dinner and also had a plate of fried vegetables. When the family was eating, Zhao Daya took out the meat and placed it on the table like a treasure.

Cheng Pingshun's eyes lit up immediately, "Wow, it's meat."

"Where does the meat come from?" Cheng Dafu asked curiously.

Zhao Daya said proudly, "The family next door cooked meat all afternoon, and they were quite generous and gave a bowl to Cheng Xiaoguo. These are what Xiaoguo and I asked for."

Cheng Pingshun couldn't wait to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth. "Delicious, delicious, this meat is so delicious."

Cheng Dafu had been lying in bed smelling the meat for the entire afternoon, so he immediately picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Cheng Dafu's two daughters on the opposite side were also watching. They wanted to reach out for their chopsticks, but Zhao Daya glared at them and they retracted their chopsticks.

Zhao Daya picked up two small pieces from the bowl and gave one to each of her two daughters. She said unhappily, "You're staring at the delicious food at home. This little bit of meat isn't enough for your father and your brother."

The two daughters immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look at the meat again.

Cheng Pingshun stuffed three pieces into his mouth in a row, mumbling with his mouth full of oil, "It's so delicious, Mom, Cheng Xiaosi's eldest sister can cook this meat. Can they eat such delicious meat often?"

Cheng Dafu was also eating with his mouth full of oil. "It's really delicious. The pig intestines are also delicious. It would be even better if we could get some wine to drink."

"I don't know how they did it." Zhao Daya muttered, "The neighbors spent the whole afternoon cooking so much. They're not going to sell it for money, are they?"

Cheng Dafu chewed on the pig intestines and said, "This pig intestine is so delicious. We can make a lot of money by selling it as a snack."

“If only we knew how to make it, we could make it and sell it.”

After Zhao Daya finished speaking, the couple looked at each other and had a bold idea in their minds at the same time.

At the same time, Cheng Daming's family, who had just returned from work, also had dinner. With the meat given by Cheng Shuang, Chen salted the more than half a pound of meat she bought from the town and saved it for tomorrow's meal.

At the dinner table, Cheng Xiaoguo told his father again how the meat came from and how half of it was snatched away by Zhao Daya.

Chen was still angry and cursed, "I've never seen an elder like this, snatching things from a child."

"Ugh......"

Cheng Daming sighed and waved his hand, "It's just half a bowl of meat, forget it."

"You always give up, but your two brothers and their families are always trying to take advantage of you. It's bad enough that they bully us, but now they even bully our children."

"Then what do you want me to do? We're family, so why would I go knock on your door?"

Chen was so angry that she wanted to slam the table and argue with him, but when she saw her son and daughter across the table looking at her, she held back and turned away, sulking.

Cheng Daming shook his head helplessly, picked up the half bowl of meat, picked up a piece for himself, put five or six pieces into Chen's bowl, and put the rest between the two children.

"Xiaoguo and her sister will share it."

Chen turned around and saw that there was only a small piece of fat in the man's bowl. She calmed down and took two pieces from her own bowl and gave them to him.

Her daughter Cheng Xiaomai was born with a weakness and has been a sickly person since childhood. Cheng Daming has not complained for all these years and has been working hard to make money. If it weren't for Cheng Daming's kindness to her and the child, she really couldn't tolerate those two families for a day.

Wei family.

The clear sound of reading came from the main room and reached the ears of Cheng Shuang in the next room. She unconsciously curled up the corners of her lips, thinking that the current situation was not bad, and the whole family worked together towards a better direction.

There were many things on the table and on the floor in the room, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, eggplants, bitter melons, tomatoes and other seeds.

In addition to vegetables, there are also fruits, seedless grape seeds, watermelon seeds, strawberry seeds, etc.

Cheng Shuang was sorting the seeds, wrapping them in paper and writing the names on them. She bought these from the mall.

She thought that she would find time to go to the provincial capital or the prefectural capital to get these seeds. Daliang State had been open to foreign trade for many years, and she would then say that she bought the seeds from foreign merchants.

They were just some vegetable seeds and a few fruits, so there was no need to worry about arousing suspicion from the court and going to other countries to verify them.

But potatoes and sweet potatoes, which have an astonishing yield, are different. Food is an important strategic material for a country. If these good things come from other countries, they will arouse the suspicion of the court and cause trouble for themselves.

So Cheng Shuang planned to go into the mountains again with Wei Qinglang the next day, find a place with plenty of sunlight outside the old forest, and plant sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Go dig it out in the mountains in two months or so, and then say it’s a new species discovered in the mountains.

The soil in the deep forest is fertile and humid enough, so potatoes and sweet potatoes can definitely survive.

She would then buy some fruit tree seedlings and plant them together. She didn't know if the seedlings would survive, but if a few survived, she could transplant them out and eat all kinds of fruit.

After everything was sorted, Cheng Shuang yawned tiredly and put away the seeds. As for the potatoes and sweet potatoes, she asked Wei Qinglang to put them in his space as he had plenty of room.

After finishing her work, Cheng Shuang prepared to go to the kitchen to get some hot water to wipe herself and go to bed.

When I opened the door and went out, it was pitch black outside and there was almost no moonlight.

The Qingming Festival here just passed not long ago. In the original body's memory, it rained for several days before and after the Qingming Festival, and it was sunny after that.

After so many sunny days, the nights of the past two days have seemed a bit gloomy. The dark sky seems like a huge curtain, making people wonder if this is a prelude to rain.

Cheng Shuang began to worry about what to do if it really rained. Should she find someone to repair the roof?

While she was thinking about these things, she pushed open the kitchen door. Before she could go in, a figure suddenly rushed out and bumped into her hard.

Cheng Shuang was so thin that he had barely any flesh on his body. He was almost sent flying by the collision with the figure, and fell to the ground instantly.

She didn't even have time to cry out in pain before she saw the figure bump into her, then quickly run to the wall and flip out nimbly. Only then did she realize that the person who bumped into her was not a family member.

"Catch the thief! There's a thief in the house."

Cheng Shuang shouted loudly, and the door of the main room creaked open, and Wei Qinglang and Wei Nanxing rushed out together.

Seeing Cheng Shuang fall to the ground, Wei Qinglang hurried over to help her.

"How are you, thief?"

Cheng Shuang didn't care about the scratch on her palm. She pointed at the wall where the shadow had climbed over and said, "He ran to the back of the house from here."

Wei Nanxing immediately climbed over the wall and chased after him, but soon returned dejected, shaking his head and saying, "He's gone. I know the road well, so he must be from the village."

"Third sister-in-law, your hand is bleeding." Wei Xinyi ran over anxiously, grabbed Cheng Shuang's hand and examined it carefully, blowing air on the wound in pain.

"It's okay, I'll wash it with water and wrap it in a piece of cloth."

Cheng Shuang shook the blood off her hands nonchalantly and said, "Go light the candle in the kitchen and see if anything is missing."

Wei Qinglang walked into the kitchen, lit a candle, and checked the kitchen carefully. There was no food missing from the cupboard, and no oil, salt, or sauces were missing.

Cheng Shuang opened the two buckets of meat still soaked in brine on the table and checked, and found that there was no shortage of meat either.

"He must have come to steal the meat." Wei Nanxing said angrily, "My sister-in-law happened to run into him and he didn't have time to steal it."

Cheng Shuang frowned slightly and looked at Wei Qinglang, but Wei Qinglang's eyes fell on her injured hand, "Don't worry about it, just bandage your hand first."

The kitchen would be locked at night, but Wei Nanxing was still worried and went over to move the meat, saying, "Move the meat and food to my room. I'll watch over them at night."

Cheng Dafu ran away from the Wei family and ran all the way. He made a big circle in a panic before he dared to run back home from another road.

As soon as she entered the room, Zhao Daya rushed over impatiently. "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Cheng Dafu panted and took out a bag from his arms. It was the spice bag that Cheng Shuang used to make braised meat.

"What is this?" Zhao Daya asked curiously while holding it.

"I sneaked into their kitchen and saw two buckets of meat on the table. This thing was soaked in water with the meat." Cheng Dafu said with a look of regret, "I originally wanted to take two pieces of meat back, but someone suddenly came, so I only had time to take this."

Zhao Daya leaned in and sniffed it, her eyes lighting up. "That's the smell, it must be made of this. Let's open it and take a look."

Then the two of them opened the bag and turned the spices over and over to study what they were.