Divorce with three kids? I'll build a house and eat meat, driving my in-laws crazy.

Chapter 97 Which woman doesn't do laundry and cook?
Chu Xiu ran over excitedly and saw a large white piece of something that looked like noodles wrapped inside on the cutting board.

He asked curiously, "Godmother, what is this? Can we eat it?"

Seeing that he didn't answer her question, she pretended to change the subject.

Li Ruru thought she had guessed correctly and immediately pinched his ear.

"I'm telling you, you're not allowed to go to that Spring Breeze Pavilion."

That's not a place for a child like him. He's too young and could easily be corrupted by the atmosphere there.

Li Ruru has no say in what Chu Xiu was like before.

But now that he calls her godmother, she naturally can't just sit idly by.

Chu Xiu cried out, "Godmother, you've misunderstood. I gave them the money so they could go up the mountain to repair the canal tomorrow."

"Oh, you should have said so earlier," Li Ruru said irritably.

Standing to the side, Xiao Wu watched as his young master had his ears twisted by his godmother, and he felt a sense of revenge.

You always twist my ear, now someone can finally control you!

Chu Xiu rubbed his reddened ears, but his heart felt as sweet as if he had eaten honey.

His godmother is treating him like her own child, and she treats him like a godson even better than her own son.

Since the godmother doesn't have a biological son, what's the difference between him and a biological son?

It was already dark when everyone finished making the konjac tofu for tomorrow.

Li Ruru lit candles in the yard; she had prepared a table full of dishes again today.

On a large plate was a plate of sliced ​​pork skin jelly. She said, "This is called pork skin jelly. Everyone, please have a taste."

Li Ruru used a pair of long chopsticks to stir the pork skin jelly wrapped in sauce, scallions, and cilantro, and put some in everyone's bowl.

Yinyin, the little foodie, was the first to start eating, carefully putting the pork skin jelly into her mouth.

After chewing a few times, her eyes immediately lit up. "Delicious, smooth, and bouncy!"

Everyone took a bite, and the praise echoed through Li Ruru's yard once again.

"Godmother, I declare that you are the goddess of cooking," Chu Xiu said.

“Godmother, even yellow soil can be turned into something delicious in your hands,” Xiao Wu chimed in.

"Godmother, mmm, delicious, very delicious." Xiao Yishan rarely praised people, but he would only use a few words when praising Li Ruru.

Chaochao and Peipei were once again impressed by their mother's cooking skills; it seemed there was nothing she couldn't make.

It seems that anything in my mother's hands can be turned into a delicious dish.

Li Ruru squinted her eyes with a happy expression. She pointed to another dish: "This is stir-fried eggs with garlic chives."

Wild garlic is a plant that falls between scallions and garlic sprouts. It has small, long leaves and a spicy flavor, similar to garlic but milder, with a light, pleasant aroma.

Stir-frying garlic and eggs together creates a delicious flavor by combining the tenderness of the eggs with the spiciness of the garlic leaves.

"I dug up the scallions," Yin Yin said, afraid that someone else would steal her credit.

Chu Xiu took a bite and was the first to shower Yin Yin with compliments, "Delicious! The scallions Yin Yin dug up are so fragrant."

Everyone was eating, enjoying a happy and wonderful time, while Qiqi quietly gnawed on a bone nearby.

On the other hand, the Chen family's life wasn't so easy.

The Chen family has no food tonight because Zhang Junniang accidentally burned down the kitchen.

After Wang Shuixia cooked for a few days, she simply quit, saying, "Let whoever wants to cook can cook, I'm not doing it anymore."

Every day it's just wild vegetable porridge; my mother-in-law is so stingy she won't spend money to buy meat.

She thought that Zhao had saved a lot of money, but was just reluctant to spend it on the family.

In fact, Zhao was truly wronged; she didn't have much money at all.

Zhang Junniang is the only one in the family who has money now.

Since Wang Shuixia doesn't cook, these chores fall to Feng Yuzhu.

But because Feng Yuzhu was pregnant, Zhao made Chen Huaidi do the work.

Chen Huaidi wasn't even as tall as the stove, so the rice she cooked was either burnt or undercooked, causing the whole family to suffer from diarrhea for days. The latrine was overflowing with latrine waste, and no one had cleaned it yet; the backyard was swarming with flies.

Today, Zhao finally couldn't help but push Chen Huaidi away, saying, "You're useless. I'll sell you sooner or later."

After saying that, she turned to Zhang Junniang and said, "Third son's wife, it's your turn to cook. You can take turns cooking each day."

These were all agreed upon beforehand. Zhang Junniang's face was grim, but she still agreed.

Chen Sanbao was standing to the side, but instead of speaking up for Zhang Junniang, he said indifferently, "It's just cooking. This has always been a woman's job. Which woman wouldn't obediently do these things?"

When Li Ruru was in the Chen family, she cooked and washed clothes for more than ten years.

She even stayed up late at night to do embroidery and make straw sandals to sell for money.

Chen Sanbao's initial excitement for Zhang Junniang had worn off, and now he was constantly comparing Zhang Junniang to Li Ruru, intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhao would also constantly remind him, "A man can't be controlled by a woman. You can't spoil a woman. If she's not convinced, you have to beat her into submission."

When Li Ruru first married into the Chen family, she was very immature and eventually she was beaten into submission by Chen Sanbao.

The process of taming Li Ruru made Zhao very happy, and the entire Chen family was also very happy.

Li Ruru was just a punching bag in the Chen family; she could slap and kick anyone who was unhappy with her.

Now that Li Ruru is gone, Zhao wants to go back to her old ways and tame Zhang Junniang into the next Li Ruru.

Zhao is cunning, but her cunning is written all over her face.

A woman like Zhang Junniang, who can flirt with various men and still make them willingly help her family with chores, is not as foolish as the original owner of Li Ruru's body.

When Zhao asked her to cook, she "accidentally" burned down the kitchen.

Thick smoke billowed up and flames shot into the sky. The Chen family rushed to put out the fire.

They discovered that the water tank was empty; since no one was actively fetching water, the tank had naturally become empty.

Left with no other choice, they had to borrow water from their neighbor, Pan Dayan.

Pan Dayan, along with her two sons and nephew, quickly put out the fire.

Actually, she didn't want to help, but she was afraid that the fire at the Chen family's house would spread to hers, so she had no choice but to lend a hand.

Logically speaking, Pan Dayan saved the Chen family's house and averted considerable losses, so the Chen family should be extremely grateful to her.

But the Chen family looked at her with resentment, not gratitude.

"If you had run faster, my kitchen wouldn't have burned down," Zhao muttered.

"You didn't keep enough water in your water tank, and it's almost empty now," Chen Bingxiao remarked.

Wang Shuixia said bluntly, "When my house first caught fire, you clearly saw it, but you didn't help. You only came over when the fire was out of control. What were you thinking?"

Chen Dagang also complained, "Your buckets aren't enough either, otherwise we would have put out the fire long ago."

Pan Dayan's face turned red with anger. She rolled up her sleeves and, along with her son and nephew, showed the Chen family whose fists were stronger.

The two families had a fight, and Pan Dayan was seething with anger. She went to the locust tree at the village entrance and gave a good talk about the Chen family's character.

This prompted a group of women to join her in cursing the ancestors of the Chen family for eighteen generations.

After it got completely dark, the Chen family members all went to bed hungry.

Wang Shuixia frowned when she saw that her eldest son's bedroom door was tightly closed.

Suddenly I remembered that he didn't seem to be there when the kitchen burned down this afternoon.

"Son? Son? Jinbang?" Wang Shuixia knocked on the door, but no one answered. She pushed the door open and went in.

The room was small, and Chen Jinbang was not in it.

Wang Shuixia panicked. Her family couldn't afford the tuition, so her son went home.

My son can't go to school anymore, and he's been depressed for two days. It's so late now and he's still not home.

Could he be so confused that he does something stupid?

"Big vat, Father, Mother, come quickly! The list of successful candidates has disappeared!" Wang Shuixia cried anxiously.

(End of this chapter)