Chapter 18 Shen Mingzhu’s cooking will not be eaten by the dogs
Time flies so fast, and in the blink of an eye, Pei Ziheng has been in kindergarten for a week.
Except for the first and second days, after Shen Mingzhu sent Pei Ziheng to school, she didn't meet Shen Baolan again.
According to Shen Baolan's mother-in-law, Shen Baolan went to work in a cotton spinning factory, and it fell to Shen Baolan's mother-in-law to take Zhou Hao to school.
Shen Mingzhu usually walks with a few young mothers she knows well, and they chat and discuss things like food and clothing while walking. However, Ma Sufen is too old to talk to young women like Shen Mingzhu, and prefers to pick up and drop off with the same girls. The grandson and his elders left together.
I don’t know if it’s because of this, but the relationship between Pei Ziheng and Zhou Hao, who were good friends when they were children in the book, has become quite estranged.
Anyway, Shen Mingzhu has never seen Pei Ziheng and Zhou Hao play together during the week since she went to kindergarten.
Shen Mingzhu is happy to see this result.
In the book, Zhou Hao is the male protagonist, his grandparents love him, his father loves him, and he has a good stepmother. He has a smooth journey, is admitted to a prestigious university, marries Bai Fumei, has a successful family and career, and is a sure winner in life.
However, Pei Ziheng was abused by his stepmother and had neither enough food nor clothing to keep him warm. In stark contrast to Zhou Hao, he eventually turned dark and twisted and became a villain. He did all kinds of bad things and died a bad death.
Therefore, she secretly did not want her stepson to get close to Zhou Hao, and was worried that Zhou Hao's male protagonist aura would affect her plan to defeat Pei Ziheng.
Although the result was as Shen Mingzhu wished, she would still inquire about the relationship between her stepson and Zhou Hao from time to time.
"Ziheng, who do you have the best relationship with in your class? You must answer. Don't forget our agreement."
Pei Ziheng rolled his eyes at her, cherishing the word like gold, "No."
"Didn't you often play with Zhou Hao before? Isn't he your good friend?"
"no."
"Why?"
Pei Ziheng's dark pupils were full of impatience, as if he disliked Shen Mingzhu for talking too much.
Shen Mingzhu pretended not to notice and looked at her stepson with gossip, "Tell me, did you two quarrel? Or did he bully you?"
Pei Ziheng glanced at her, "Because of you."
"Hey, you're quite good at deflecting blame. The conflict between you and Zhou Hao is your business. I didn't ask you not to play with Zhou Hao."
"If you strangle Zhou Hao and her stepmother as soon as they meet, can I still be friends with her?"
"...Then it's you who pinch us. If you want to be friends with him, you can still do it. I won't be angry about it."
"I don't want to."
"Why?"
"No reason, I don't like it."
"Then who do you like to be friends with?"
"I don't like anyone. Stop asking. You're so annoying."
"Okay, I won't ask anymore. You are not allowed to yell. No matter how big or small, I am still your elder no matter what you say... Why are you going? You don't want to eat?"
"I'm full from your nagging, so I won't eat anymore."
"..."
Is she nagging?
Maybe, who told her to be an anchor in her previous life? If the anchor is not good at eloquence, the audience will not like to watch it.
Shen Mingzhu was sad for a second, and then happily gnawed on the spareribs, her favorite garlic spareribs.
Pei Ziheng was sitting on the sofa, with a cold expression on his face, but his eyes kept secretly glancing at Shen Mingzhu.
Seeing Shen Mingzhu chewing on the ribs and savoring the aroma, he swallowed in dismay.
The lunch at the kindergarten was neither delicious nor greasy, which made him unable to eat enough every day. He had to go home at night to have a delicious and filling meal.
Seeing Shen Mingzhu chewing one piece and then the next, completely ignoring him, Pei Ziheng was extremely depressed.
Seeing Shen Mingzhu picking up another piece of ribs, he couldn't sit still anymore. He got up and ran to the dinner table. When he saw that there was no ribs on the plate, only ginger and green onion and other side dishes were left, he suddenly felt aggrieved.
"Why did you eat all the ribs!?"
Shen Mingzhu pointed her finger, "Didn't you say you won't eat?"
Pei Ziheng was so angry that tears welled up in his eyes, but he froze the next second.
Shen Mingzhu used chopsticks to open up the rice in his bowl, and there were several pieces of golden and fragrant pork ribs hidden underneath.
"Seeing that you're in a hurry, I left some for you. Eat it. It won't taste good when it's cold."
Seeing her stepson looking blankly at the rice bowl, Shen Mingzhu rubbed his head in a funny way, and then saw her stepson staring at her like a cat with angry fur.
"Your hands are all oily!"
"No, I instigated it all."
"Saliva is even more disgusting!"
"Disgusting? Then don't eat it."
Shen Mingzhu pretended to put away the rice bowl, but Pei Ziheng quickly grabbed the bowl and carried it to the sofa to sit and eat.
Shen Mingzhu shouted jokingly, "You don't even have chopsticks, do you want to eat with your hands?"
Pei Ziheng turned around and looked at her for a while, seeing that she had no intention of taking her job, then returned to the dining table, found a place farthest away from Shen Mingzhu, served the table and started eating.
The garlic-flavored pork ribs are charred on the outside and tender on the inside. They are so delicious that your tongue wants to swallow them. With a mouthful of fragrant rice, the bad woman looks a little satisfied.
Compared to Shen Mingzhu's side, the Zhou family's dinner table was much more lively.
Zhou Hao was being held and fed by Shen Baolan. While eating, Ma Sufen scolded Shen Mingzhu with her son, daughter-in-law and husband, "Her man is not at home. She wears red and green every day, and she doesn't know who she is dressing up for."
She is a restless master who does not earn a penny for the family and spends money like water. Sooner or later, the little wealth of the old Pei family will be wiped out by her."
"Mom, please stop saying a few words about other people's family matters."
On the one hand, Zhou Shuhuan disliked the nagging mother, but on the other hand, he felt that Shen Mingzhu, a woman with a child, could not see her man's face all year round, and could not spend some money to take care of herself. Then her life would not be the same as that of an ascetic?
Shen Baolan glanced at her husband, feeling uncomfortable.
Although she is now the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, she is still afraid of Shen Mingzhu because of what happened in the dream. She is worried that Shen Mingzhu will steal Zhou Shuhuan away, and she is not happy for Zhou Shuhuan to speak for Shen Mingzhu.
"It's not my fault that Mom is nosy. Mingzhu is really shameless. She used to be a lazy cook in the village, and her family was spoiled by her. You have never eaten the food she cooked, and you didn't even feed the dogs."
These words killed two birds with one stone. While they protected the face of mother-in-law Ma Sufen, they also took the opportunity to belittle Shen Mingzhu.
No, Ma Sufen looked at Shen Baolan with great satisfaction.
Just imagine what mother-in-law doesn't like to look at her daughter-in-law?
"Baolan, you are virtuous and capable. You are a good hand at home and abroad. Shuhuan is marrying the right person when he marries you."
"Mom, if you say so, isn't that what happens when a daughter-in-law is born? I did what I should do."
"Not every daughter-in-law is like you. If you marry someone like Shen Mingzhu, I'm afraid I'll be angry to death."
The more Ma Sufen disliked Shen Mingzhu, the happier Shen Baolan felt.
After eating and washing the dishes, Shen Baolan took out the second-grade mathematics textbook she finally found and taught her stepson Zhou Hao the multiplication table.
"How much does one get?"
"One to one gets two."
"What's the score of two-two?"
Zhou Hao clasped his fingers and thought for a while, then said happily, "Two two makes five!"