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Chapter 117: Chapter 118 Finally Arrived_1
"I am your mother, how can you speak to me like that? When you first came, what did you say? It was as if I’d taken advantage of you, you three of your family have been eating my food and living in my house, and I haven’t even started charging you!"
Zhou Clan was just as nitpicky, if not worse than Li Clan.
She would get angry over the smallest things.
Her only goal was to make it known to Li Mei that she hadn’t gotten a single wen of advantage from her!
It was actually Li Mei who had dragged her family here to freeload, claiming they could earn big money, but now not to mention big money, they hadn’t seen a penny!
Li Clan was getting impatient as she listened; how much could her family of three possibly eat?
She immediately retorted with sarcasm, "My life is so hard, oh, it’s me taking money off you to support your useless sons!"
"How can you speak like that? No matter how useless my brothers are, any children they have will still bear the Li surname. Who could be like you, wishing you could change your own surname?"
Zhou Clan snorted lightly; she was even more biased towards her sons now.
No matter what, her sons were still her own flesh and blood, not like Li Mei, who was elbowing her way out of the family!
Li Clan became even angrier, ready to explode.
Tan Zhongzhong quickly gave her a sign with his eyes, his voice also involuntarily rose a bit.
"Xiao Mei, Fourth Boss must have been selling at the market for half a day now, and you’re still caught up in bickering? You’re also born of your mother, wouldn’t she love you? Those words just now were said in anger, how could you take them seriously?" 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
Now his wife was pregnant, and in just over a month she would be giving birth; they were counting on her mother for a lot of things.
If they fell out, how could he manage on his own?
It was certain he couldn’t rely on his own mother when his wife was in her confinement period.
Li Clan clenched her teeth but managed to suppress her temper.
Tan Zhongzhong then said to his mother-in-law, "Mother, Xiao Mei is pregnant and her temper isn’t good, don’t take it to heart."
"It’s the son-in-law who is sensible," Zhou Clan finally felt satisfied.
Li Clan silently rolled her eyes, but still didn’t say a word.
With Tan Zhongzhong mediating, they could finally head to the town smoothly.
The moment they appeared, Sun Erhu excitedly said, "Sister-in-law, they’re finally here!"
Qiao Duo’er looked into the basin at the remaining items and said helplessly, "But we’re almost sold out, let’s come back tomorrow to crush them."
Who knows what their marinade will be like tomorrow.
Maintaining the marinade was a delicate task; each time, new seasoning had to be added to the meat, with precise measurements, or the taste would be affected.
Strong-flavored items had to be cooked in separate marinade, and once used, that marinade was discarded.
It was necessary to clean out the residue daily and boil it before storing it in a container.
She asked Butcher Chen to set aside a pig’s large intestine for Tan Zhongzhong’s family as a way to meddle with the taste of their marinade.
Sun Erhu was sharp-eyed and quickly reported back, "Sister-in-law, look, they didn’t make marinated large intestine."
They stuck to the same old items today: marinated lean meat, front hocks, and pig’s trotters.
Qiao Duo’er also glanced over and indeed, there were no pig’s large intestines; hadn’t Tan Zhongzhong gone out early to buy the intestines?
This... they had been given the opportunity, so why didn’t they make good use of it?
"Sister-in-law, do you think they know that pig’s large intestine can’t be cooked in the marinade?"
Sun Erhu frowned and asked, as that would ruin his sister-in-law’s plan, wouldn’t it?
Qiao Duo’er shook her head, "It’s not that it can’t be cooked, but they just had to take some marinade and cook it separately. I guess they have no one to wash it."
