Chapter 376 Chicken Head Rice
Mrs. Wen was shocked by the girl's contemptuous tone.
"Presumptuous!" She pointed at Yingbao with trembling fingers, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Madam Wen has been treated like this all her life.
What's more, the person who ridiculed her was still a teenage girl.
"As expected, she is an unworthy country girl with no tutoring at all." Lin Fu quickly comforted his mother-in-law and angrily scolded Ying Bao: "Why don't you kneel down and admit your mistake!"
Ying Baoli ignored them and took her mother away.
She didn't want to give face to people who also had tutors, like Mrs. Wen, who dared to bully grandma on her own territory.
So what if she is Sister Wen’s grandmother?
Her father, mother, and brother are her enemies. Whoever dares to touch them will bring shame to them.
In her past life and this life, Ying Bao considered herself not a person who abided by etiquette. She only knew that if a person respects me, I will give her a foot in return.
Education and other things are also mutual.
People have stepped on you into the mud. Even if you make your etiquette watertight, it is just a toad in the mud, pleasing others and disgusting yourself.
Chun Niang was also furious.
She didn't expect that such kind people as Mrs. Wen and Mr. Wen Silang would have such an elder.
Not only is she arrogant, but she wants to buy her own daughter. Why doesn't she go to heaven?
He comes from a wealthy family, and with such virtue, bah!
"Bao'er, I want to go to your cave." Chun Niang said angrily.
Ying Bao was puzzled, but still took A Niang into the cave.
Chun Niang first went to count her daughter's silver. There were four large boxes of silver ingots, each box containing one thousand taels.
Then I counted the private rooms of myself and my husband, and there were more than two thousand taels.
With her family's wealth, Mrs. Wen ridiculously wanted to buy her daughter for one hundred taels.
Chun Niang counted it twice, her anger subsided and her mood became smoother.
After leaving the cave, she bought two fans of pork on the second day, stuffed sausages, tied hooves, grilled ribs, and cooked some elbow livers.
The so-called elbow liver is made by wrapping the cleaned pig intestines around the pig liver, cooking it with aniseed, and then hanging it up to dry in the sun.
During the Chinese New Year, cook it with pork head meat, sausage, style pork ribs, etc., and it becomes a delicious dish.
Yingbao also wanted to help Aniang, but Chunniang wouldn't let her.
"You can just watch from the sidelines. When you get married, we can hire more servants and girls to do the work, just like Mrs. Wang's family does."
My daughter will definitely become a noble lady like Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wen in the future. When the time comes, she will make slaves and call maids without having to do anything herself.
So Chun Niang didn't want her daughter to do these menial tasks.
Cleaning the large intestines, small intestines, belly and lungs is a big thing. My daughter is too young to learn it.
Yingbao had no choice but to give up and stood watching for a while, then she saw Granny Tang walking into the yard.
Mrs. Tang wore a blue cotton skirt with silk trim and embroidered longevity flowers.
Ying Bao saluted her: "Grandma Tang."
Mrs. Tang smiled and patted her and said, "You are here just in time. Try the chicken head rice and pine nuts fried by my mother-in-law."
Then he handed the small bamboo basket in his arms to Ying Bao.
Chicken head rice is also called glutinous rice, and it tastes particularly fragrant when fried.
The shell is extremely hard, comparable to pine nuts.
Yingbao thanked him and took the bamboo basket.
Granny Tang often brings things over to reciprocate her kindness, and Yingbao will also give her some pills.
So Grandma Tang seemed to be getting younger and younger, and she went to Beishan to pick pine cones with the daughters-in-law in the village, and went down to the river to fish for chicken heads, rice and water chestnuts.
Seeing Granny Tang talking to her mother-in-law, Yingbao went back to the house and poured out chicken head rice and pine nuts, and put some apples and mandarin oranges in a bamboo basket.
She has these fruits in her orchard, but most of them are sold. What her family eats are all produced in the cave.
Then he poured another cup of tea and handed it to Granny Tang who was sitting in the kitchen.
Granny Tang glanced at Ying Bao and said to Chun Niang with a smile: "In a blink of an eye, Ying Bao has become a big girl. There is no chance that a matchmaker will come to your door soon."
Chun Niang rubbed her small intestine with plant ashes and said with a smile: "Bao'er is still young, not yet twelve. It will be her turn when Er Ni gets married."
Granny Tang took a sip of tea and asked quietly: "Why hasn't your second wife gotten engaged yet?"
Chun Niang: "It's probably because Erni doesn't want to get married early and wants to stay with her parents' family for a few more years."
Now that the Jiang family has no worries about food and clothing, they are much more tolerant of their children's marriages.
Of course, because I have enough confidence, I don’t worry about my children finding a good family at all.
"Well, we can't just leave the child alone." Granny Tang said, "Is Erni already sixteen? If we don't get engaged, good people will be picked up by others."
Chun Niang sighed: "We can't decide on this matter. Her grandma has said it several times, but Er Ni just doesn't agree."
The second sister-in-law, Yanru, is the stepmother, so it is not easy for her to make the decision for Erni, otherwise they would not be able to say that she is urging her stepdaughter to go out.
Jiang Erlang is a slow-tempered person who takes his time. When his daughter doesn't want to get engaged, he just lets her go.
Granny Tang shook her head and said, "However, there are a few people in the village who are about the same age as Er Ni, and they didn't mention her husband's family."
Chun Niang raised her head and asked, "Who else is there?"
"There are two girls in Chen Changping's family. The eldest is sixteen during the Chinese New Year, and the younger is two years younger than her eldest sister." Granny Tang said: "Chen Feng didn't like the young man from the country, and wanted to find a son for the two sisters. It’s from the city.”
Chun Niang: "No wonder, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. It is reasonable for her to want to find a good family for her granddaughter."
"You only know one thing but not the other." Granny Tang said mysteriously: "I heard someone say that the old man wants to give his eldest granddaughter to a county official as a concubine."
Chun Niang opened her eyes wide: "What? Become a concubine? Doesn't this ruin the big girl?"
Chen Changping is already a scholar, and his daughter will never marry badly no matter what. If she doesn't become a good wife, she will be a concubine, and the children she gives birth to will be inferior to others.
"It's not that bad." Granny Tang said, "My family has already told them once, but judging from the signs, they didn't listen."
Chun Niang shook her head: "I think that girl from the Chen family is soft-tempered. She will be treated as a concubine, and she will have to be teased by others all her life."
Granny Tang took a sip of tea and said, "If she was a strong person, she wouldn't be able to agree to this, but that child is like a noodle. Look at her, her grandparents will definitely take advantage of her."
The two talked for a while, then Granny Tang said goodbye and went home with a bamboo basket of fruits given by Yingbao.
Chun Niang quickly called her daughter and told her what Granny Tang said, and finally said: "Why don't you go ask Chen Zhao what's going on? Being a concubine is no joke."
It’s not like Chen Changping’s family couldn’t get rid of the problem. The two daughters also opened a food shop in the market and the business was very good. No matter how you look at it, you shouldn’t send your daughters to the fire pit.
Once you become a concubine, you will not be able to return to your natal family in the future. Your life and death will be controlled by your mistress.
When encountering a jealous and cruel mistress, it is possible to kill two people.
Even if you are favored, it won't change anything. It's just a few caring words from a man.
Yingbao knew that this must be Chen Changping's trick.
In his eyes, girls are like goods, which can be sold at any time as long as it is profitable.