The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 7 Mother said she wanted to exchange copper coins for food
Ye Sishan held the muddy radish in his arms, felt around in his sleeves, and finally pulled out two copper coins: "Thank you, grandma."

Old Mrs. Ye was stunned for a moment: "Where did the copper coins come from?"

Ye Sishan said in a clear voice: "Mother said she wanted to exchange copper coins for food."

Old Mrs. Ye always felt that she had heard it wrong. The little whore, the eldest son's wife, was shameless. During the locust plague last year, she cried and made a scene at the door of the old house, and dragged away ten kilograms of corn from the cellar without giving a penny.

She was afraid that this little whore would come to the old house to cause trouble again, so she secretly sent a few pounds of corn over last night.

"Grandma, I'm leaving first."

Ye Sishan was about to walk out, but was stopped.

Old Mrs. Ye was not a person who liked to take advantage. One penny could buy at least three pounds of radishes, but she only gave two, which was not enough. Moreover, she always felt that the eldest son's wife was planning something bad.

She returned a copper coin, but Ye Sishan refused to take it back: "Mother will beat me to death if she knows I didn't give her the money."

Old Madam Ye knew that the eldest daughter-in-law often beat the children, so she turned around, went to the chicken coop, took out an egg and stuffed it into the chicken coop: "Alright, hurry up and leave, it's an eyesore!"

When Ye Sishan saw the eggs, his eyes widened.

In the past, all the eggs at home went into his mother’s stomach. He would pick up the eggshells on the ground and lick them when his mother wasn’t paying attention. The eggshells had a sweet smell, and he would keep licking them…

Now that my mother has gotten better, I wonder if he will take a bite of this egg...

Ye Sishan went back with a lot of things.

Jiang Wan saw a pile of things in his hand and quickly took them: "Did your grandma give them to you?"

"Grandma said that I can't let my mother suffer any loss." Ye Sishan smiled and took out a round egg from his pocket, "Mom, an egg!"

Eggs were a good thing in that era. Villagers were reluctant to eat them, so they saved them and exchanged them for oil and salt when they went to market.

Jiang Wan searched through his original body's memory and suddenly became unhappy.

Last month, when there were chickens at home, an egg went into the original body's stomach every day. There were pregnant women and children at home, and she didn't understand how the original body could eat the eggs with a clear conscience...

"Mom..." Ye Sishan said boldly, "Can I have a small bite of the egg? Just a small bite..."

He was not greedy, he just wanted to taste what eggs tasted like.

"Of course." Jiang Wan nodded, "Go out and play. I'll call you when it's done."

Gu Xiaohui was busy cutting up the rabbit. She didn't know why, but she felt that the rabbit had grown bigger. It was very small in the mountains, but now it felt like it weighed at least five or six pounds after skinning. She cut the rabbit meat and put it on the stove. She asked carefully, "Mom, how do you cook this rabbit meat?"

Jiang Wan’s cooking skills are limited to fried rice with egg. Not being able to make it doesn’t mean she can’t eat it, and she has quite a wealth of theoretical knowledge.

But there was no seasoning in this house, not even oil or salt.

The rabbit was very fat and could be used to squeeze out oil. She could only buy a bag of salt in the mall and then quietly poured a little bit into the jar where the salt was previously placed. Then, she quickly bought some cinnamon, star anise and bay leaves in the mall and placed them on the stove.

Jiang Wan stood by and gave instructions: "First, squeeze the oil, then put these leaves in and fry them until fragrant... I just picked them up on the mountain, they smell very fragrant, and they should be delicious when cooked. Don't ask so many questions, just do as I say."

Gu Xiaohui didn't dare to ask more questions.

Soon, the aroma of meat wafted from the kitchen...

Ye Dahe was chopping wood in the yard.

When he smelled the aroma of rabbit meat, his saliva started to flow.

While no one was paying attention, he quickly wiped it off. When he turned around, he saw Lao Si sticking out his tongue, licking the fragrance in the air like a starving puppy.

"It smells so good..." Ye Sishan kept swallowing his saliva, but he couldn't swallow it all.

He just drank two bowls of porridge in the morning, so he shouldn't be hungry. Why was his stomach rumbling non-stop?

He walked uncontrollably towards the kitchen and saw bubbles bubbling in the pot. There was rabbit meat and cabbage in the pot. It was a big pot full, and soup kept oozing out from the gap in the pot.

Jiang Wan also had a headache. The pot was not big to begin with and it had a hole in it. She would have to buy a new pot from the mall when she had a chance.

She covered the pot, cracked an egg on the stove, beat it into a bowl and stirred it, preparing to make a chicken mushroom egg soup.

There are two radishes as well, which can be fried directly and should taste pretty good.

Seeing her like this, Gu Xiaohui was already numb. Since yesterday, her mother-in-law has been acting strange. She has to finish all the food in the house in one meal, as if she doesn't intend to continue living...

Forget it, just eat what's available at home. I'll feel at ease after eating it, otherwise my mother-in-law will send it to the Jiang family again...

Gu Xiaohui helped skillfully.

Jiang Wan turned her head and saw Ye Sishan standing at the kitchen door, his saliva dripping onto his clothes.

She lifted the lid of the pot with a smile, and immediately the aroma filled her nose. She picked up a piece of rabbit meat and said with a smile, "Sishan, open your mouth."

Ye Sishan opened his mouth blankly.

Jiang Wan blew on it and stuffed the rabbit meat into his mouth.

"Well!"

Ye Sishan opened his eyes wide. Oh my God, it was so delicious. He had never eaten anything so delicious before. He wanted to swallow his tongue.

Jiang Wan asked him, "Is rabbit meat delicious?"

Ye Sishan was stunned again. Is this rabbit meat? Should he spit it out?

Just as he was thinking, Jiang Wan stuffed another piece of rabbit meat into his mouth: "Go and call your second brother, third brother, and fifth sister to come back for dinner."

Ye Sishan swallowed it whole, it was so delicious...

He could only say sorry to the rabbit silently in his heart...

He ran out quickly to find his second and third brothers to come back for dinner.

Gu Xiaohui skillfully scooped up a large pot of rabbit meat, and then, under the guidance of her mother-in-law, made a chicken mushroom and egg soup, stir-fried a radish, and finally poured corn into the pot and simmered it.

There were three dishes and seven bowls of corn rice on the small wooden table.

Ye Dahe didn't even want to chop wood anymore. His mouth kept drooling and his eyes kept looking at the dining table.

Gu Xiaohui walked out to wipe his sweat and whispered, "Dahe, is it really okay to eat like this..."

I ate so much white rice in one meal last night, and today I ate up all the corn and stewed all the rabbit meat. I am full today, but what about tomorrow? What should I eat? Am I really going to starve?
Ye Dahe chopped the firewood vigorously: "There must be a reason for mother's arrangement. Just listen to her."

Gu Xiaohui didn't think any more about it. She bent down, picked up the chopped firewood and put it neatly into the kitchen.

Jiang Wan sat on a stool in the main room, fanning himself with a large leaf. The weather was really too hot. After tossing around in the kitchen for a while, he was sweating all over. He had to take a shower tonight no matter what.

Just after sitting for a while, Ye Sishan came running back: "Mom, Brother Shitou said he saw the second and third brothers go to Jiangjia Village."

Jiangjia Village is the village where my mother's family lived. It is not far from Hehua Village and it takes about an hour to go back and forth.

(End of this chapter)