Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 5
Although Mother Jiang was not as good-looking as Father Jiang, she still had a straight nose and regular facial features.
Jiang Ning’s generation was even better than their predecessors. The three siblings of the Jiang family picked up the best qualities of their parents. They were as good-looking as the other, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and snow-white skin.
She still remembered that when her second brother was a teenager, his biggest worry was that his skin was too white and he couldn’t get a tan. He thought his fair skin looked like a girl.
They had known since childhood that they were good-looking.
But Jiang Ning, who grew up with a critical and repressive education, never felt good about herself.
When did she know that she was good-looking? After she went to college, people around her were looking at her with amazement and saying that she was beautiful. Gradually, she realized belatedly, oh, it turns out that she had beautiful skin.
But growing up in a family environment where she was suppressed and criticized, she didn’t know how to appreciate herself.
At that time, there was a saying circulating on the Internet that all good-looking ones were the same, but interesting souls were only one in a million.
She felt from the bottom of her heart that she was the same.
There was a kind of oppression that was engraved in her soul. She couldn’t redeem it by understanding the truth..
Mother Jiang never stopped cursing until Jiang Ning walked out of the room and came to the kitchen. She saw Jiang Ning’s hair and glared at her, then she stopped cursing.
She thought that Jiang Ning’s abnormality was because she told her not to continue studying and asked her to drop out of school and go work.
But she still had a cold face.
She lit the earthen stove and put firewood in it to burn. She carried the basin into the house to take a bath and said, “Cook the meat and send it to your father and the others later.”
Father Jiang was still in the field. He wanted to take advantage of the evening when it was not hot to quickly bundle up the rice that had been drying for a day and carry it to the rice field. Grandpa Jiang would spread the picked rice in the rice field and use rolling stones to spread it. The rice was rolled down and threshed in circles.
If they didn’t finish, by next morning, the rice stalks in the rice fields would become heavy with dew.
There was only one pound of meat, which was given to the family’s laborers, but she did not have it. Even though she went to the fields to cut rice and plant rice seedlings, she was asked to be sensible and know how to cherish the adults in the family, who worked hard.
She had been raised to be sensible like that since she was a child.
But even though she understood the truth, she still couldn’t help but watch them work so hard. She really just watched and did nothing.
There were two pots on the stove. She washed the rice and poured it into the big pot, while the small pot had water to boil.
While the water was boiling, she washed the meat and chopped it into half minced meat with the skin. When the water in the pot boiled, she poured some of it into a thermos. Then she added ginger, garlic, and half minced meat. She went to the backyard again, picked some green vegetables and put them in. After a while, a pot of broth was made.
She didn’t do herself any harm, filled out a bowl, and placed it in the corner of the cupboard where the bowl was placed.
She would have left everything to her parents as they were working too hard, as she would have felt sorry for them.
But no one ever thought of feeling sorry for her.
The rice was not yet cooked, so she poured the broth into a porcelain basin, found a knife, and went to the pond at the door to scrape the crayfish.
While she was washing, she looked at the crayfish crawling out from the cracks in the rocks beside the pond, grabbed them again, and scraped them together.
In the time it took to wash them, she caught seven or eight more.
At that time, there were so many crayfish that she could just pick them up in a bucket. They were everywhere in ponds and ditches, and no one ate them. Some naughty little boys would also catch them and let two crayfish fight like a cockfight. They would play with them and throw them into the ditch or roadside when they died.
When Mother Jiang came out after taking a bath, Jiang Ning hadn’t even finished scraping the crayfish. When she saw that no one was at home, she shouted again, “Where did she go? I asked her to deliver a meal. The meal is still here, but the person is gone.”
When she walked to the door and saw Jiang Ning scraping the crayfish by the pond, she shouted, “You don’t do work, but you waste time like this. It will waste gas. By the time you deliver food to your dad, it will be dark.”
Jiang Ning turned a deaf ear to her words. After scraping the crayfish, she went to the well to rinse them. She also pulled out the intestines and cut off the internal organs on the heads, leaving the roe.
During that time, her parents had to do a lot of work and were really tired.
Both Mother Jiang and Grandpa Jiang’s cooking was very unpalatable. Because they didn’t want to give up oil, most of them were plain boiled. To save trouble, her grandfather also loved to cook a hodgepodge. No matter what kind of dishes, whether meat or vegetable, whether they were put in first or then in the other, it was all stewed in one pot.
Thinking of her grandpa, she hadn’t seen him for many, many years.
Jiang Ning moved quickly, washed the crayfish, picked some peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, and some garlic in the yard.
The area was rich in ginger. For farmers, things like onions, ginger, garlic, bay leaves, cinnamon and the like were the most indispensable. She was originally worried that there would be no soy sauce at home, but she didn’t expect that they even had herbs.
She cut the cucumbers, fried the eggplants, and finally made the spicy crayfish.
After taking a bath, Mother Jiang was watching TV in the room. When she smelled the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen, she couldn’t help but come to the kitchen to take a look. She said with disdain, “Cooking such a thing will use up all the oil. I’ve been ruined by you.”
The oil was extracted from rapeseed grown at home and pressed at the grain and oil station. There was no shortage of oil, but Mother Jiang and the others came from difficult times and were used to saving. Even twenty years later, she was still reluctant to use oil. Habits, and also said that it was a way to maintain health.
The scent was really alluring. After smelling it, Mother Jiang softened her words and said, “You know how to cook food but didn’t let me know. Why would you make me mad and whip you before you move?” She added, “After putting so much oil in it, it will be delicious even if you fry the soles of your shoes.”
She had already taken a shower and changed into clean clothes, so she didn’t want to do anything else. She just waited to finish eating and watch TV for a while before going to bed.
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