Chapter 3

Xu Yin also noticed, her face instantly changed: “I’ve been cursed for eight lifetimes by marrying into the same family as you!”

Shen Wu waved her spatula: “I’m the one who’s truly unlucky, if I had known you were marrying into this family, I wouldn’t have.”

Xu Yin: “Humph!”

Shen Wu: “Tsk.”

Shen Wu, who had already noticed the man at the door, pretended to be clueless: “How did you get here?”

“Mother said no men are allowed in the kitchen, you shouldn’t be here,” Shen Wu’s voice was sweet and gentle, but in her heart, she was thinking about not interrupting her chat with Xu Yin.

The man remained silent, walked into the kitchen, and put down the prepared rabbit: “Caught it this morning, eat it.”

Shen Wu had learned to cook to attract men, but she only cooked with pre-prepared ingredients, not whole animals like this.

Just now she had asked the man to leave, but now she was looking at his back as he left.

Shen Wu’s voice became even softer: “Xuan Ge, I, I don’t know how to cut it, I’m scared.”

Xu Yin was holding firewood in her hand, she was startled by her voice, and the firewood fell from her hand.

Lu Xuan’s back stiffened, his Adam’s apple bobbed.

His brows furrowed: “Speak normally.”

“Hahaha…”

Xu Yin burst into merciless laughter, laughing so hard she almost fell over.

Shen Wu also felt like she was throwing a wink at a blind man, she shut her mouth and didn’t speak.

In the room, besides Xu Yin’s laughter.

There was only the sound of the man cutting meat.

Shen Wu flipped the food in the pot with one hand, her eyes involuntarily drifted to the man with his back to her, he was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt, no, it was more like a sleeveless shirt from a later era, his biceps bulged in a perfect curve, neither too exaggerated nor too thin, just the kind of physique she liked.

She and Xu Yin had discussed that if they had more money later, they would keep some young men, just this type.

But most of the time they were deliberately showing off, showing off too much, it would seem a bit greasy, this man had none of that aura, he was a little handsome but unaware, this was just right.

Even when he lowered his head and silently chopped meat, he looked a bit taciturn, but very capable.

Shen Wu’s gaze openly fell on the man, unexpectedly, she hadn’t even found him, but she had married this type of man right out of the blue, it was also a blessing for her to have been transported to this poor place.

Just as she was smiling and thinking about some useless things in her head, the man turned his head and looked at her: “The pot is burnt.”

Shen Wu frantically flipped the food when she realized that the man was just kidding her.

The food wasn’t burnt, it was just cooked.

Shen Wu served it up.

She then put the rabbit meat that the man had cut into the pot, she didn’t know how long this body hadn’t eaten meat, the aroma of chili mixed with rabbit meat, her stomach couldn’t help but rumble.

The small courtyard was filled with the aroma.

“I heard that the third son’s wife’s life is not good, but she cooks quite well.”

“Yeah, it smells delicious, this aroma is making my stomach even hungrier.”

“Go wash your hands.”

…

The Lu family had an earthen stove, so cooking was faster, and the food tasted better when cooked over a high fire, they didn’t need to put in too many seasonings, mainly because there weren’t many seasonings available now.

The meat was braised.

The potato shreds were sour and spicy.

The corn grits porridge was cooked.

The eggs were also cooked.

No one came to the kitchen while Shen Wu and Xu Yin were cooking, but as soon as they heard that it was time to eat, several people came over.

In the book, the third son married Shen Wu, and the fourth son married Xu Yin.

The Lu family had a large population in this generation, seven brothers and one daughter.

The fifth son, who came after the fourth son, was in a free love relationship, he hadn’t married yet, but his partner was a young intellectual who had been sent to the countryside, there was no place at the intellectual’s point, so he lived at the Lu family, and they fell in love over time.

The sixth son hadn’t married or fallen in love yet, the youngest, the seventh son, was selected as a worker-peasant-soldier student after he entered high school, and he went to university in the provincial capital.

The eldest was the daughter, she was already married, and then counting from the sons in the family, the eldest and second sons were already married, Shen Wu also judged who was older and who was younger from their address to her.

The short-haired, round-faced, gentle woman who looked to be in her thirties and pregnant was the eldest son’s wife.

The second son’s wife was a long-faced woman, her long hair was combed back, her cheekbones were slightly high, and her skin was also tanned, she was thin and tall.

The fifth son’s partner was not hard to recognize, while everyone was wearing grey and blue clothes that had faded a little, she was wearing a white shirt, her black hair was braided into three braids and hung down her back, she had big eyes, and she was holding a book in her hand, when she saw Shen Wu looking at her, she instantly smiled kindly.

Shen Wu wasn’t looking at her for any other reason, but she was very familiar, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen this person, Xu Yin was also looking at Long Yu Jiao.

The female lead in the original book who lived a good life.

In the end, she got into university, returned to the city, and started a business and investment with the male lead, the fifth son, becoming a billionaire.

As for this strange third sister-in-law, and Xu Yin, the strange fourth sister-in-law, their endings were not good.

When they were down and out, they met the female lead, the female lead just glanced at them with disdain, as if she had seen some dirty thing, and quickly walked away.

This was the description in the original book.

Long Yu Jiao was inexplicably gentle and smiled faintly when she saw them looking at her: “Is there something on my face?”

Shen Wu shook her head slightly: “I was just admiring your beauty, I was stunned for a moment, don’t mind me.”

No one would be angry at this compliment, especially when it came from a beautiful woman like Shen Wu.

Xu Yin frowned, thinking of her own good life and the “self” ‘s unlucky ending, she impatiently “tsked” a sound.

But no one thought she was “tsking” at Long Yu Jiao, most thought she was arguing with Shen Wu about the cooking.

The food was served, Shen Wu found that the meat she had cooked was placed far away from her, even the steamed buns were less, there was only corn grits porridge.

The eggs were even given to several men, the second son was not at home, he worked at a machinery factory in the county, the remaining egg, the old lady gave to her old partner.

Shen Wu looked at the old lady.

Old Mrs. Lu said: “The men will be going out to work later, naturally they need to eat more, you two are not familiar with our Lao Ya village, you don’t need to work today, eat less.”

Shen Wu frowned.

The old lady thought she was unhappy: “As a woman, you can’t eat so much, this food is limited, you won’t die if you skip a meal.”

Shen Wu looked at Lu Xuan beside her, her own husband, he was obviously a laborer, he was qualified to eat eggs.

Without thinking, she took the plump egg next to her.

She cracked it on the table.

The old lady didn’t think Shen Wu was putting it in her mouth, she thought she was being considerate to her husband, peeling it for her son.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Wu had already swallowed the egg in three or two bites.

The old lady was instantly furious: “Third son’s wife, what are you doing?”

“Is this egg for you to eat? It’s for the men in the family, you won’t die if you don’t eat for one meal.”

The egg had already gone into her stomach, no matter what the old lady said, Shen Wu didn’t care, instead she smiled sweetly: “My mother said, women should eat these eggs, women are nutritious, children are nutritious, and the family can prosper.”

“Mother, maybe there’s your great-grandson in my belly, even if you don’t let me eat, you can’t stop your great-grandson from eating, can you?”

“If I can’t even raise a child, what am I marrying into this family for… My life is so bitter…”

“Mother, you’re doing this on purpose, you don’t want me to have children, you want our family to die out, how can you do this to our ancestors…”

Shen Wu’s cries made everyone else at the table stunned, Old Mrs. Lu just didn’t want her to eat eggs, how did it escalate to ancestors?

Old Mrs. Lu had never encountered such a daughter-in-law before, she hadn’t figured out how to retort yet.

The man next to Shen Wu coughed first.

“If you want to eat, eat, no one’s stopping you.”

Lu Xuan’s voice was not loud, but Shen Wu could hear it clearly, but she acted as if she didn’t know: “Oh, baby, mother’s life is so bitter…”

This was only a matter of one night, where did the baby come from, it was just that her voice was loud, and she cried miserably.

The old man sitting in the main seat, who was making a fuss, also spoke: “Eat if you want to eat, it’s just an egg.”

“Cook more next time.”

Xu Yin took her husband’s egg while Shen Wu was making a fuss.

She peeled it, her movements were not as fast as Shen Wu’s, but she was more elegant, she ate it bite by bite.

The old lady glared at her.

Xu Yin puffed out her chest: “Why can she eat but I can’t, I’ll have mine cooked tomorrow too.”

“Anyway, I can’t be inferior to Shen Wu! I want to eat two!”

This time, the eldest son’s wife, the second son’s wife, and even the unmarried female lead Long Yu Jiao all looked at the old lady.

“Mother, I have a child in my belly.”

“Mother, I don’t eat well, maybe this is why I can’t get pregnant…”

The good morning meal time, the Lu family’s house was in chaos.

Shen Wu, using poison to cure poison, took this opportunity to pick a rabbit leg with more meat and put it in her bowl.

The rabbit was far away from Shen Wu, even farther away from Xu Yin.

She poked her husband: “Shen Wu has a rabbit leg, I want one too, I can’t have less meat than her———”