The history of the struggle of the God of the Stove

Chapter 150 Tears
The pockmarked woman was counting the copper coins in the purse left by Rogue.

If it wasn't for her mother-in-law's serious illness, now is the time when money is urgently needed, and she, a woman, would not dare to pretend to be brave enough to stop those rascals.

It's just that even she herself didn't expect that those rogues could not help beating so much today, and easily succumbed to her own firestick.

She didn't expect that those rogues would pay off all the previous debts, but she just thought that it would be good to get some back.

At this time, the door was dark, and when I looked up, I saw a guest coming.

The woman hurriedly stood up to greet her.

Qi Yuan stepped into the shop and looked up.

This small shop is not big, and the decoration is relatively simple, but there are only a few tables.

Amidst the woman's greeting, Qi Yuan led He Ling'er to sit down at a table by the window.

Although the straw mats on the ground looked a little old and were even patched, they were cleaned very cleanly.

The woman looked at the two guests, one big and one small, in front of her. Although she felt a little weird in her heart, there were a lot of strange people in this world, and there were rumors circulating in the city every year.

Besides, Qi Yuan has nothing special except that his white eyebrows and white hair look more eye-catching, which doesn't match his young-looking face.

"Shopkeeper, what do you eat here?"

Qi Yuan asked.

Although the woman was not good-looking and illiterate, when she faced the guests, she did not see the stalwart attitude of holding a fire stick in the street before.

"The small shop mainly cooks with homemade tofu. There are braised tofu, fish stewed tofu, spicy tofu, fried egg tofu, tofu soup and wild vegetable dumplings. What do you want?"

Qi Yuan grinned.

This is really a veritable tofu shop, there is nothing but tofu.

"Forget it, you can have one of everything."

The woman froze for a moment, then asked cautiously: "There are so many, can you finish it?"

"Hehe, it's okay, let's do it."

Qi Yuan smiled lightly. When this woman was in urgent need of money, she was actually worried that the guests would order too much and couldn't finish it.

However, people in this period did not have the habit of wasting food, and they even wanted to break a grain of grain in half to eat.

The business of the small shop is not very good. Even if there were still a few people eating here, when they saw those rogues just now, they would leave in a hurry after eating, not daring to stay longer.

So they are the only customers in the store at present.

The woman was nimble, and first made them two relatively fast dishes of pan-fried egg tofu and spicy tofu, and then served tofu soup and wild vegetable dumplings. Stewed tofu was also served.

In terms of Qi Yuan's current cooking skills, in fact, there is no need to taste any dish, as long as any dish is served, look at its color, smell its taste, and you can almost understand how well the dish is cooked.

This woman should have also been taught cooking skills, but the seasoning is not complete and the heat is not in place, so the taste is really mediocre.

The only dish that is not bad for ordinary people is the stewed fish with tofu.

That's it, the main thing is the light of the fish, which makes this dish a bit delicious.

Meiyi is close to the Weishui River, and the fish and shrimps in the water are plump. The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and relying on the water to eat the water, there are many people in the city who make a living by fishing.

In fact, the fish in this store were also caught by the woman's father-in-law in the Wei River in his spare time. They are kept in the water tank on weekdays. If there are customers who want to eat them, they can be slaughtered at any time. I am afraid that I am reluctant to buy fish for cooking.

Although the taste of these dishes is not very good, but these tofu are well made, white and delicate, and the taste is very authentic.

Qi Yuan took a sip of each dish before putting down his chopsticks.

When I looked up, I happened to see the little boy not far away, biting his fingers while staring at the plate of stewed fish and tofu on their table. It was obvious that the boy hadn't eaten meat for a long time.

"Store, pay the bill."

Qi Yuan reached out and took out a bunch of copper coins and put them on the table.

"Sir, you haven't finished eating yet, and these few dishes don't cost so much money."

The woman hurried out after her.

Qi Yuan waved his hand: "It's okay, just keep it for you."

He doesn't have a lot of ordinary money on him, these are leftovers from before, and they are useless anyway, so let's give some more.

He Ling'er tugged at his sleeve and followed.

She was still young, and Qi Yuan raised her mouth again, so she had no interest in these ordinary foods. Anyway, with her cultivation base, she wouldn't be hungry even if she didn't eat for a few years.

Holding the bunch of copper coins, the woman sent Qi Yuan and the others out with gratitude, watched them enter the guest house, and then went back happily.

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As the night darkened, Qi Yuan sat cross-legged on the wooden couch, meditating and adjusting his breath.

Although Meiyi is not big, it is always a place with a lot of people and people, and the spiritual energy is not abundant, and the spiritual energy is mixed, so it is not a good place for practice.

However, he himself has improved too fast because of taking the elixir of good fortune. In recent years, he has been polishing his foundation to prevent the foundation from being unstable in the future, which is not good for his practice.

So he didn't care much about whether the aura here was strong or not.

At this moment, he heard a slight weeping sound not far away.

Now his five senses are far better than ordinary people, and it is normal to be able to hear the conversations of people nearby.

Originally, he didn't pay attention to it, but even though the voice was low, he could still tell that it was the woman in the daytime.

Qi Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and burst into tears.

The reason why the woman cried was because she was under too much pressure.

Her husband was drafted into the army last year, and within a few months, news came back that he had died in action.

This news is no less than a bolt from the blue, both to her and to the family.

The mother-in-law couldn't bear the pain of losing her son, and she became ill from overwork, and she fainted immediately.

Even if he woke up after being diagnosed and treated by the doctor, he still couldn't get rid of the illness. He could only lie on the bed and rely on others to take care of him every day. After spending all his family savings, he still didn't get better.

The father-in-law is old, barely managing the family's several acres of Susukida, but he is also getting weaker and weaker.

The child is still young, so she can't help much, and she is the only one supporting her at home and abroad.

It was also fortunate that her husband had heard that a sage was teaching skills in Xiqi, so he went to learn skills on purpose, which left her with a few skills so that she could rely on these cooking skills to support her family.

Otherwise, the family would have collapsed long ago.

Recently, her mother-in-law's condition has deteriorated. Taking advantage of the money she made in the shop today, she closed the shop at night and invited the doctor to treat her mother-in-law again.

In the end, the doctor told her that the condition is getting worse now, and if she wants to relieve it, she needs a lot of precious medicinal materials.

But with the current situation in their family, how can they have so much money to buy medicine?
In fact, even her father-in-law has not been in good health for the past few years, but he just doesn't want to add to the burden on the family, so he has never seen a doctor or taken a medicine.

Even at such an old age, after finishing the farm work in the fields, he has to go fishing in the Wei River to subsidize his family.

Although there are many fish and shrimps in the Weishui, but in the deep water, there are also monsters in the water, and some people will be buried in the bottom of the water every year.

Her father-in-law is old and his legs and feet are not very agile. If he encounters a monster, it will be difficult to run away.

Although she tried to persuade her a few times, her father-in-law knew about the current situation at home, so he persisted.

Now my mother-in-law's condition has worsened.

The heavy pressure of life forcibly knocked down the strength she had managed to maintain after the loss of her husband.

It's just that even when the woman was crying, she didn't dare to make too much noise, for fear of disturbing the parents-in-law next door and worrying the old man.

However, the child sleeping next to her was startled by her.

The little boy sat up sleepily rubbing his eyes, and asked strangely: "Mother, what's wrong with you?"

The woman quickly wiped away her tears, and comforted her hoarsely: "Mother is fine, I just had a nightmare, Bao'er, go to sleep, there are still things to do tomorrow."

"Oh."

The seven or eight-year-old child is so easy to coax, and he didn't find anything unusual. After being coaxed by his mother, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

In the darkness, the woman gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

No matter how hard life is, you still have to go on, even for your children.

(End of this chapter)