Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 29: Ms. Hu's Heartache
When Hu Qiongfang heard her daughter talking about making pickled fish, she paused, but couldn't help but asked -
"Tiantian, where did you learn to cook?"
Whether it’s mixed fish stew or pickled fish, Hu Qiongfang definitely doesn’t know how to make it.
My mother-in-law used to be in charge of the stove at home, but I never saw her cook these two dishes.
The most important thing is that when they cook, they usually add rapeseed oil, a little salt and homemade soybean paste. They only add a little rice vinegar when making cold dishes. They almost never buy other seasonings.
So, where did my daughter learn this skill?
Jiang Tian paused for a moment, luckily she had already thought of an excuse.
"I learned it from books. Our school has a library. I don't know who donated several recipe books with color pictures."
"Not to mention the mixed fish stew and pickled fish, there are also instructions on how to make shark fin, sea cucumber and bear paw."
It turns out I learned it from reading books.
Hu Qiongfang breathed a sigh of relief.
Her daughter is not young anymore, and what she fears most is that her daughter will meet some messy boys outside.
Previously, she was worried whether Jiang Tian's cooking skills were learned from some kid who was studying cooking. It's not that she looked down on chefs. In fact, in this era, if you have good cooking skills, you can get by better than being a farmer.
Hu Qiongfang was afraid that her daughter would have an affair with other men outside and ruin her reputation.
She still had somewhat traditional ideas and felt that if a boy really wanted to marry her daughter, he should openly invite a matchmaker to come to her house and discuss the marriage with her, his mother.
Instead of flirting with her in private, and then getting the girl pregnant, he would use the baby in the belly to threaten his mother-in-law, saying that if she doesn't marry his daughter to his family, his daughter will be ruined.
It’s no wonder Hu Qiongfang thought so. She had seen with her own eyes a good girl being forced into a desperate situation.
At that time, she was not married yet, and she had a cousin who was deceived into having sex with someone.
Unexpectedly, when the two were dating, the man said sweet words and swore a lot. When he was sure that my cousin was pregnant with his child, the man immediately turned ruthless and told my cousin that she should either abort the child herself.
Or, let my cousin tell her family herself that she doesn't want any dowry and doesn't want any gossip, and the two families can hold the wedding in a lively manner.
Hu Qiongfang's cousin is very beautiful and looks a lot like a female movie star who was very popular in the 1980s.
My cousin's parents were not the type to sell their daughter. The couple was actually trying to use all their connections and treat people to dinner in an attempt to marry their precious daughter off to a man in the town or county.
Her family had even found a blind date for her, but then a bolt of lightning struck the couple!
I didn’t even know my daughter got pregnant!
The second aunt fainted from anger at that time, and Hu Qiongfang's second uncle was so angry that he wanted to kill someone.
But what else can we do?
In that era, if a girl lost her virginity to a man and got pregnant with his child, her reputation would be ruined. Such a girl would be even worse than a divorced woman in the marriage market.
Some divorced families who have been influenced by new ideas still think that such women are strong-willed and ambitious. Especially those whose sons are weak and incompetent, they particularly like daughters-in-law who can make their own decisions.
But if a girl gives away her body without thinking before marriage, then there is something wrong with her brain.
Any parent who cares about their son would rather let their son marry a divorced woman than have a daughter-in-law with a confused mind.
In the end, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and agree.
Who knew that the man would actually start to act arrogantly at this time. The man's biological mother brought a matchmaker to the house to ask for a wedding date, and her words and deeds showed that she disliked her cousin for being "unfaithful to her husband" and "cheap". She got pregnant by a man before they even got married. What if she cheated on her son after they got married?
Finally, she proposed: If she wanted her son to marry her cousin, it was okay, but her cousin had to bring a Phoenix brand bicycle and a Butterfly brand sewing machine as a dowry.
At this time, everyone in the surrounding area knew that Hu Qiongfang's cousin was dating someone and got her pregnant, so they all waited to watch the fun with their hands folded.
After hearing the man's family's request, the second uncle was so angry that he hit his daughter for the first time in his life.
After slapping his cousin, this old country man had no choice but to swallow his pride and borrow money from relatives to buy a bicycle and a sewing machine.
What else can I do? If my daughter is pregnant with someone else's child and the man's family refuses to keep the child, who else would want such a woman?
No one expected that the love-brained cousin would, at this moment, see the ugly faces of the man's family.
While her parents were out borrowing money from someone, she took out a packet of rat poison from the crack in the wall of her house.
Then, he heated up the stove, mixed rat poison into the batter, and baked a few fragrant scallion pancakes.
With the scallion pancake mixed with rat poison in her arms, my cousin walked slowly to the man's house, holding her already visibly pregnant belly.
Looking at the slap marks on her fair face, the man felt a little guilty, but thinking of what his mother said, if a matchmaker were to come to propose marriage to a beautiful woman like his cousin, it would be hard to say whether the cousin would agree. Even if she agreed, they would definitely have to pay a large sum of money.
It would be better to keep it like this. Anyway, they already have a child. If I don't marry him, who in the countryside would marry a pregnant girl?
My cousin cried and said that her father wanted to beat her to death, but her mother couldn't bear to do so, so she secretly released her.
The man quickly brought her into the house and asked his cousin if she had eaten.
My cousin smiled bitterly and shook her head, then she took out a stack of fragrant scallion pancakes from her arms and was about to eat them when she suddenly started to dry heave.
Now I can’t eat it.
The man's mother rolled her eyes and immediately went to the kitchen to heat up a bowl of porridge and brought it to her, saying that pregnant women cannot smell meat and it is better to eat something light.
Then he distributed the stack of scallion pancakes to his family.
When it was her daughter's turn, she tore off half for her son.
Fortunately, they only ate half of it. In the end, only the second daughter survived out of the family of five.
When the police found my cousin's house, she had already disappeared.
No one knew where she went.
Some people said she committed suicide by jumping into the river.
Some people also said that they seemed to see her taking a car to another place.
In short, more than ten years have passed, and this beautiful cousin seems to have evaporated from the face of the earth, with no trace of her either alive or dead.
My second uncle and his wife lost their daughter and fell seriously ill. They seemed to have aged dozens of years overnight.
Because of this incident, Hu Qiongfang has always kept a close eye on her daughter, fearing that she was young and ignorant and would be deceived by the sweet words of men outside.
"Big sister won't be fooled. I think she's more like cheating on men..." Jiang Cheng muttered in a low voice.
After being slapped twice by Hu Qiongfang, the voice .
