PFC Chapter 1034: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (23)
Chapter 1034: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (23)
As the saying goes, a man with money is a real man, but a man without money is hard to be a real man!
Xiao Jianlu returned home angrily from the shop selling jasmine tofu.
He smelled a familiar floral scent before even entering the door. He was a little puzzled because he didn't have any flowers at home!
When he pushed the door open, he saw his stepmother Yue Niang eating happily with a bowl in her hand.
After all, Yue Niang had eaten alone many times before, so she was not at all panicked. She just looked up at Xiao Jianlu and asked with a smile: "Jianlu is back! Are you thirsty? Do you want some jasmine water later?"
When this was mentioned, Xiao Jianlu remembered that he had smelled this same scent in the store before.
"Mom, where did you get the jasmine?" Xiao Jianlu was far away and could only see the bowl in Yue Niang's hand, but he couldn't really know what was in the bowl.
Yue Niang put the bowl down and covered it with a lid. She explained, "Some time ago, when I went to the well to wash clothes, someone gave it to me."
Many people in Yanzhou City grow jasmine flowers. Now is the time when the flowers are in full bloom, so some people make jasmine bracelets out of the flowers.
Although jasmine has a long-lasting fragrance, it tends to turn yellow over time.
Jasmine flowers have become a relatively high-consumption flower - after all, no one wants to wear a withered jasmine bracelet.
Xiao Jianlu walked over and opened the "lid" on the bowl. Seeing yellow flowers floating in the "bowl", he said with some disdain: "Mom, although these yellow jasmine flowers still have fragrance, they have been used as bracelets for others. Don't use them to boil water in the future."
"Alas! They are all worn by little girls, what's the big deal!" Yue Niang waved her hand nonchalantly, "I'm too old to argue about these things. What are you doing here? See the deer! Why are you back at this time?"
Because the teacher had something to do today, he only attended half a day of classes. Xiao Jianlu was supposed to be home at noon, but he was delayed in order to buy jasmine tofu for Yuan Zhaoyue.
So when we got home it was neither too late nor too late.
Xiao Jianlu told his mother the general situation and wanted to ask if she had two hundred coins, but suddenly remembered that all the money in the family was with his father and his stepmother only had some household expenses every month, so he did not ask and went straight back to his room.
As soon as the people entered the house, Yue Niang breathed a sigh of relief. There was no jasmine water in her bowl.
Remove the lid from the bowl and the jasmine tofu inside will be revealed.
When she first married into the Xiao family, Yue Niang also thought about being nice to the Xiao father and son. After all, Xiao Gencai did not despise her for being unable to have children and was willing to marry her.
And Yue Niang also had a good idea at the time. Xiao Jianlu was still young, and if he was raised well, he would still be close to her.
But as time went by, Yue Niang discovered that this father and son were not only a pair of ungrateful people, but also wary of her everywhere - they didn't despise her for not being able to have children, but it was simply because Xiao Gencai couldn't afford to support her, and he married her just to have someone to serve him.
For a while, Yue Niang discovered that Xiao Gencai secretly reminded Xiao Jianlu that she was his stepmother and he should be more or less wary of her.
Sure! If this father and son do it on the first day, then she will do it on the fifteenth.
Speaking of which, Yue Niang has always been a ruthless person. She was originally a concubine of a wealthy family. She stole a large amount of property from her master's family, sneaked into this group of people, and fled all the way to Yanzhou Prefecture.
A bowl of jasmine tofu cost only two hundred coins. She could afford to eat it every day, not to mention just once.
Just to prevent her secret from being exposed, she specially customized a yin-yang bowl.
The bowl has a lid inside a lid. Every time someone tries to eat secretly, as long as the lid is covered, the other person can only see what Yue Niang wants him to see.
After taking a look at Xiao Jianlufa's room, Yue Niang sighed and said in her heart: What bad luck! She could have been in the yard, eating jasmine tofu and enjoying the fresh air, but now she can only eat in the kitchen.
With a light sigh, Yue Niang carried the bowl into the kitchen.
Not long after, wisps of smoke began to rise from the kitchen. It was Yue Niang steaming today's portion of multi-grain steamed bread.
As for the side dishes, they are also very simple, just vegetables stir-fried with lard.
He didn't have a full lunch, and he had walked home quickly all the way, which consumed a lot of energy. After reading in the room for a while, Xiao Jianlu smelled the fragrance of the food - to be precise, the fragrance of lard, and his stomach couldn't help but growl.
But Xiao Gencai had not yet returned home from work, so the mother and son, one in the room and the other in the kitchen, refused to mention the matter of having dinner.
Of course, Xiao Jianlu was the only one who was starving.
After all, before eating the jasmine tofu, Yue Niang had already eaten the few remaining lard scraps with her homemade seasoning.
To be honest, meat is really good for keeping you full, and she is not hungry now anyway.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of a door opening was heard.
Xiao Jianlu thought it was his father who came back, so he left the room, but when he arrived in the yard, he saw it was the landlord's child.
The little girl was about six or seven years old. She was wearing red clothes and had her hair tied in a bun. She had some snacks in her hands.
After seeing him, the little girl was stunned for a moment and asked, "Brother, do you want some snacks?"