Chapter 20

Shen Wu wasn’t as fast as she was trained to be, and she didn’t even have a chance to dodge.

Looking at the strawberry mark on her neck, Xu Yin was full of smiles, not at all as cold as she was in front of others: “Tsk tsk tsk, you’re doing this in broad daylight! You have a good appetite!”

Shen Wu buttoned her shirt, her face flushed red from being teased by her friend: “As if you don’t eat well.”

While the two of them were talking about things that children shouldn’t hear, a child actually came over.

Lu Pan’er held the garlic in her hand: “Third Auntie, the garlic you asked for!”

The little girl had peeled a handful, looking for praise.

Shen Wu rubbed her head: “Little Treasure is so good! Go peel some more.”

Pan’er instantly smiled happily and went out to peel more, but she couldn’t help but turn back at the door.

She looked at Shen Wu and whispered: “Third Auntie, can you please stop bullying Fourth Auntie?”

Shen Wu looked at Pan’er: “What do you think?”

Lu Pan’er lowered her head and walked away dejectedly. While peeling garlic, she asked the child from Old Lady Lu’s family: “Do you think Third Auntie is a good person or a bad person? Third Auntie cooks very delicious food.”

“She lets me eat meat, she’s a good person.” The child from Old Lady Lu’s family said very practically.

Shen Wu planned to make a big plate of chicken for dinner. She asked Lu Xuan to cut the chicken into pieces, and she prepared the side dishes. The various seasonings in the Lu family were not as plentiful as they were decades later, but it was still possible to make a home-style big plate of chicken.

She saw Lu Xuan in the kitchen.

The Lu family still held the belief that men shouldn’t enter the kitchen. However, since they were cooking now, and it was meat, the third son was willing to go in and help, so the men in the Lu family could only pretend not to see it.

Li Ping felt a pang of jealousy in her heart, and she couldn’t help but complain to her husband: “Look at Old Three, he’s helping his wife cook and washing clothes.”

“The return gift, his wife’s family didn’t give him anything, so he went into the mountains to hunt, to save face for his wife. What about you?”

Lu Da took a towel and wiped the sweat from his body. He listened to his wife’s nagging: “I’m not going, the snakes in the back mountain almost bit me to death.”

“If you want to go, go.”

Li Ping was already jealous, and now Lu Da not only wouldn’t do anything, but he also spoke like that: “I really married the wrong person!”

She couldn’t help but walk to the kitchen door.

Looking at the two figures inside, Old Three was usually a scoundrel. She had been married into this family for many years, and in the past, Old Three’s temper was even worse. He wouldn’t hesitate to fight with anyone.

Now he was actually willing to cook for a woman, it was really strange.

Lu Xuan cut the chicken into pieces. Since it wasn’t just Shen Wu in the kitchen, he went out.

After he went out, Li Ping said: “In our family, men don’t enter the kitchen. You, you don’t even feel sorry for your man.”

Li Ping was so full of vinegar, she could almost use it to cook.

“What, are you going to feel sorry for my man now?” Shen Wu turned around: “Do you need me to call Lu Xuan and Big Brother over, you can say it in front of them?”

Shen Wu’s face was tense.

Li Ping’s face changed: “What are you talking about?”

Shen Wu said coldly: “This meal was cooked by me, the chicken was hunted by my man. If you want to eat, shut up.”

Li Ping’s face changed, and she left in a huff.

After a while, a strong aroma came from the kitchen, the smell of chili peppers, pungent but fragrant, making people cough repeatedly, but they also wanted to smell it a few more times. The Lu family was all sitting in the courtyard waiting for the food to be cooked.

The aroma was floating outside.

Someone got off work and couldn’t help but ask: “Old Lu’s family, what delicious food are you eating?”

“Nothing, just home-cooked food, hurry home! Don’t stand at our door!”

Old Lady Lu was not only afraid of people coming to her house to eat for free, but she also felt that people were taking advantage of her if they just smelled the aroma. She also felt sorry for her oil and her flour.

“You’re such a cheapskate!”

Old Lady Lu: “You’re not cheap, you’re coming to smell the food at other people’s doors!”

The two of them wanted to jump over the wall and scold each other.

Shen Wu was completely unaware of all this. She was preparing to put some white noodles in the big plate of chicken, the noodles would absorb the sauce of the big plate of chicken, just thinking about it made her mouth water.

The fish was grass carp, weighing about three or four pounds. Shen Wu planned to make it into spicy fish. There was no tofu at home, but there were small vegetables in the village during this season, so Shen Wu used string beans, garlic sprouts, and other things to replace it. In the end, she also stole Old Lady Lu’s precious eggs and fried a few…

When Shen Wu shouted for everyone to eat, several people went into the kitchen.

Farmers hadn’t eaten much delicious food, and there were no tutorials now, so naturally they wouldn’t know how to cook. Not to mention the taste, even the color of the food was something the Lu family had never cooked before.

Lu Pan’er cheered: “This is even better than what we ate during the New Year!”

Wang Hua patted her head.

The Lu family had many people, and if they only ate meat, it wouldn’t be enough. Shen Wu added a lot of potatoes, and the sauce coated them, making them soft and tender. There were also noodles.

If there weren’t enough seats, they would take a bowl and a two-sided steamed bun and go out to eat under the shade of a tree.

It looked like they were at war, like they had experienced a famine.

Shen Wu was also given a bowl, filled with meat, all good meat, it must have been from Lu Xuan.

Xu Yin held two bowls and handed one to Lu Ye: “I’m so smart, I got ours ready in the kitchen.”

Actually, it was Shen Wu who asked her to do it. This one was also for Shen Wu.

She saw that Shen Wu already had what Lu Xuan gave her, so she gave it to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye was very happy, not knowing the truth. He felt like he would marry her again in his next life.

Then he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Everyone was satisfied with this meal.

Lu Pan’er’s stomach was as round as a watermelon. She patted her stomach and smiled at Shen Wu: “The watermelon is ripe.”

Shen Wu cooperated by making a knife gesture and swiping it across her stomach: “Let’s eat watermelon.”

Lu Pan’er didn’t think about whether Third Auntie was a good person or not. She had eaten Third Auntie’s chicken and Fourth Auntie’s fish today, so they were both good people.

It’s just that the two good people didn’t get along.

Lu Pan’er had a new worry, how to make the two good people who didn’t get along become friends?

No one knew her worries. Shen Wu had done a lot of physical work in the afternoon and then cooked. She washed up early and prepared to go to sleep. She soaked her feet in hot water, and Lu Xuan brought another bucket of hot water.

“Wipe your body?”

Their eyes met. It was just a simple sentence, but Shen Wu’s mind filled with many inappropriate images. Her body was still aching, but then she thought, she was so tired this afternoon, she probably wouldn’t have much energy anyway.

While she was wiping her body, Lu Xuan went out.

He came back in a while, carrying water and went to the backyard to rinse off before coming back.

Shen Wu assumed that nothing would happen tonight, and she closed her eyes early. But she thought too highly of the man who had just tasted the forbidden fruit. She lay in bed for a while.

The man turned around and hugged her.

They were close to each other, and the reactions of their bodies were incredibly clear in the quiet night. Shen Wu instinctively wanted to refuse.

The man turned her over, covered her, and whispered in her ear: “I’ll take care of you.”