Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 33 What a loss

As soon as Wen Qingwan finished speaking, she saw her dejected stepbrothers smiling, with the light in their eyes as bright as stars.

Xiao Lichun even smiled with his canine teeth showing, with a child's unique mischievousness, "I thought I would have no food tonight!"

Seeing them laughing, Wen Qingwan couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Why is there no food to eat?
You usually don't touch books, so it's amazing that you can recognize a few words.

What the Master meant by that sentence is: No matter how short the road is, if you don’t walk it, you can’t reach it; no matter how small the task is, if you don’t do it, you can’t complete it.

Xiao Lidong silently repeated this sentence and bowed respectfully, "Thank you for your teachings, sister-in-law. I will definitely keep it in mind."

Then he ran to wash his hands. Looking at the little figure, Wen Qingwan was very satisfied. This child was a promising talent.

When Xiao Jin saw the little girl smiling, he also felt very happy. He thought that his wife was the best in the world.

After being on the battlefield for a long time, I am most annoyed by those people who cry and act pitiful all the time. They can't survive themselves, and they also drag others down.

All the women in his father's backyard were like that, they would cry whenever something happened.

Unlike her own wife, she not only did not blame them but also taught them when the teacher she had hired with great difficulty was driven away by these trash.

She really has a kind heart!
Xiao Jin's eyes were full of expectation, and his low, hoarse voice was slightly bewitching: "Madam, let's wash our hands and eat too."

"Yeah." Wen Qingwan looked at the maid carrying a basin of water, and she reached out to wash her hands.

But Xiao Jin immediately grabbed her hand. She raised her eyes and asked him: What do you mean?
"My wife promised us to wash our hands together. It's not good to go back on her word in front of my brothers and sisters!"

"..."

Such a person is really rare. Wen Qingwan was speechless and just let him help her wash her hands.

The third brother who just came in was shocked. It turned out that their eldest brother could also cheat!

There were three meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a large bowl of bone and corn soup on the table.

This was arranged by Wen Qingwan before she left in the morning. Most of the children in the Marquis' Mansion were very thin, and several of them were just skin and bones.

So they have to be given nutritional supplements, since they are not eating her dowry anyway.

The children still divided the food among themselves, and no one left immediately after dinner.

"Sister-in-law, I'm basically familiar with the pig-raising manual. Tomorrow I'll go to the farm to raise pigs. First I'll buy ten pigs weighing 100 kilograms, and then I'll buy thirty more..."

Xiao Libo spoke awkwardly at first, but became more and more fluent as he spoke later.

It sounds reasonable. Wen Qingwan has never even read that damn pig farming manual.

"Well, second brother is really a talented person. We will rely on you for the pork in our house from now on. Sister-in-law trusts you very much."

Wen Qingwan smiled as if in the spring breeze. From now on, the Xiao family’s food supply would have to be earned by themselves.

The more they earn, the better they eat. Human potential is unlimited!
She believed that Xiao Libo was that kind of person.

If not, please ask him to try harder!

You must become that kind of person.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. Hehe, in a month, we can slaughter a pig every day in our house." Xiao Libo said with a grin.

He was too embarrassed to say that as long as his sister-in-law helped him marry the girl she loved, he would work hard and make two bucks a day.

"Sister-in-law, if you want to eat beef in the future, that's fine. If you want to drink milk, that's not a problem either." Xiao Ligong said with gritted teeth.

The eighth brother, Xiao Ligong, secretly switched with the seventh brother. He raised cattle and the seventh brother raised rabbits. They each had a breeding manual. Then the young men talked about their breeding plans. Wen Qingwan could imagine the meat in the sky waving to her.

When the boys saw their beautiful sister-in-law smiling all the time, they felt that their hard work for a day was worth it.

Even Old Madam Xiao, who pretended to be a vegetarian and chanted Buddhist scriptures, listened with great interest, and from then on she could eat meat at every meal.

Xiao Wang hugged her son, her face full of regret. She was eager to shirk the power of being the head of the family at that time because she didn't want to go back to her parents' home to beg for money, which would have made her be hated by her sisters-in-law and despised by her brothers.

Why didn't she think of letting the young masters farm and raise pigs? She just foolishly used her dowry to subsidize them. What a loss!
The third brother, Xiao Litao, and several of his older stepbrothers spent the entire day copying breeding manuals.

So the teacher didn't see them and didn't know that there were such good talents in the Marquis' Mansion.

Otherwise, the teacher wouldn't have run away.

But all this had nothing to do with Wen Qingwan. She only made sure that the people in the Marquis' Mansion had enough to eat every day, did not go out to cause trouble, and did not fight crickets all day long.

The Marquis' Mansion is twice as big as the Wen Mansion, and the people here are quite lovely, unlike the people in the Wen Mansion who always glare at her.

It was her fault that Wen Mingzhu cried, and it was also her fault that Wen Mingzhu didn't want to eat.

Even when she walked in the garden, looked at the forsythia in the corner, and raised her hand to touch it lightly, she would be scolded by her mother.

"You are such a good-for-nothing that you only deserve to like cheap flowers. Unlike our Zhu'er, who has loved peonies since she was a child, the peony is truly the most beautiful flower in the world."

Now that she has severed her relationship with the Wen family, there should be no one to restrict her from liking any flowers in the future!
No, after she became the queen in her previous life, no one dared to restrict her preferences, but she still did not dare to act rashly.

She was afraid that people all over the world would laugh at her, so she could only pretend that she also liked peonies!
She would definitely never cater to others again in this life. Thinking of this, Wen Qingwan smiled even more happily, "Is there anyone in the mansion who can grow flowers?"

"In reply to Madam, I know how to grow flowers." The speaker was a concubine of Mr. Xiao, who was about thirty years old.

Judging from the way she was dressed, this concubine must have eaten up her dowry long ago!
"Well, then go and withdraw the money from the account, find some people, and plant winter jasmine in the garden of the mansion starting tomorrow."

Before the concubine could speak, she heard Xiao Wangshi ask in a sharp voice: "Are we going to plant the entire garden of the Marquis' Mansion? How much silver will that cost?"

"Is mother not full?" Xiao Jin asked with a grim face.

"No...no...I'm full, very full." Xiao Wang said tremblingly. She has always been afraid of Xiao Jin.

"Now that you are full, you can continue to be the housekeeper from now on."

Hearing Xiao Jin's words, Xiao Wang's eyes lit up. If things continued like this, she could really become the housekeeper.

"Wang, you must not do those unrealistic things." Old Madam Xiao was the first to warn.

"Sister-in-law, do you still want to take everyone to drink white porridge?" Second Aunt Xiao also objected.

Her husband was incompetent, so almost all of her dowry was given to her children. Her son's marriage and her two daughters' marriage all depended on her.

She didn't have the money to cook for herself, and she was fed up with the occasional plain porridge at home. She never wanted to live that kind of life again.

The third son was also afraid that his stepmother would continue to run the household, so he smiled and changed the subject: "Sister-in-law has really good taste, she likes winter jasmine."

"Oh, liking winter jasmine means you have good taste? How can winter jasmine be as noble and cool as peonies?"

"The forsythia has strong vitality. When it blooms, it is like a colorful painting. The golden flowers shine brightly among the green leaves, which makes people happy."

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