novelraw Chapter 383 - 2: Chu Aiguo Heroically Saves the Beauty_2
Chapter 383 - 2: Chu Aiguo Heroically Saves the Beauty_2
Chapter 383: Chapter 2: Chu Aiguo Heroically Saves the Beauty_2
The second nephew is seven this year, rummaging through cabinets with a piece of wire to open the cupboard door, and pulled out a jar of lard, a bag of millet, a bag of rice, and a small bag of flour.
These were meant for family meals.
The third niece, timidly at six years old, said she could take her aunt to the cellar where there was hidden food...
As for the remaining three, they’re really too small; a slight kick could make them fall on their rears. Chu River disdained interacting with these snotty kids.
However, with everything ready, nobody knew how to cook a meal, those five chickens...
...
In the end, the eldest sister-in-law proved herself clever by realizing the situation, tearfully handling the five chickens. During the process, she sneakily glanced at Chu River but didn’t dare prepare a special meal for her two sons.
Five chickens, along with potatoes and other ingredients, churned out five large bowls. However, the table in the main room had long shattered into pieces, so they had to temporarily assemble a large table.
Chu Aiguo sat proudly at the head, five large bowls placed in front, while the rest of the Old Chu Family squeezed into a corner, surrounded by remnants of a destroyed cupboard.
Not a single person dared move.
Chu River picked and chose, setting aside the smallest bowl for the six kids, leaving the rest as a huge pot of white rice.
Since the moment she started scooping rice, the old lady had been breathing heavily, and now seeing the bowl end up with the worthless girl, thinking of her carefully preserved fine rice and flour, she actually gasped and fainted.
It’s fortunate she fainted, not witnessing her family’s eldest girl wolfing down the four large bowls of meat dishes with a huge bowl of rice.
Only some leftover broth remained.
That meal was so polished, not even a group-raised pig would be as clean.
One person.
One meal!
"Oh heavens! This isn’t a starving ghost; what kind of family can afford such a person... this must be a sin..."
...
The whole family was wailing, and as night fell, Chu River sneaked to the river for a bath, returning only to find her sleeping place was a woodpile in the kitchen.
With a family of five large tile-roofed houses, everyone had a shelter from the wind and rain, except her, sleeping in a drafty kitchen cubby, with clumpy old cotton in the quilt less than that in a pillow.
She pinched the quilt with two fingers, then kicked open the old couple’s main room door, and tossed the quilt on the floor.
"Clear a clean spot for me, no matter how you negotiate, if you don’t tidy it up within half an hour, I’ll set the room on fire tonight."
A face contorted in a smile under the flickering light from the old lady’s cautiously lit fire:
"Don’t ask if I dare. I might as well be crazy."
After enduring so long, today she even went to farm! That’s being bold enough, right?
Even today’s meal of meat wasn’t all that impressive. Inside the house, besides a piece of preserved meat on the roof, there wasn’t a single hint of fresh food.
Tomorrow, eat preserved meat; what about the day after tomorrow?
Thinking of this hopeless life, Chu Aiguo truly wanted to set fire to the large tile-roofed house at any moment.
...
The old lady’s family endured humiliation and fright during the day, her wailing stuck in her throat now, forcibly supressed.
Late at night, she summoned her sons; everyone had their thoughts, shoving and pushing as they bickered, finally before Chu River’s patience ran out, they laid a soft bed for her in the main room.
Old Chu’s newly woven bamboo mat, the eldest daughter-in-law’s dowry quilt, the second daughter-in-law’s treasured sheet, the third daughter-in-law’s freshly filled rice husk pillow, the fourth daughter-in-law’s dowry cotton quilt.
Chu River lay down comfortably — everyone in this family has their own storeroom, and while the food in the cellar isn’t abundant, it’s definitely enough to eat; each of the four brothers has a jar of malted milk powder...
How did these things come about?
From a family that indulges in laziness?
The men work only earning eight work points, should they try to save face. Isn’t it all relying on the sister to work, tirelessly year after year!
The brothers with capability, don’t dare do speculative trading, but they’ve found a way to sell blood. Planning to stock a little fortune, fooling the mother to persuade their sister to sell blood, over four rounds...
Otherwise, why has this girl been working so many years, barely grown, and how has it fallen to Chu Aiguo to cross over?
Recalling up to here, Chu River decided tomorrow to eat the preserved meat, then give those brothers a beating one by one according to the date, whoever can bring back some meat will skip the beating.