Chapter 73: Dream Lover Yang Guihua Dislikes Yun Qinghuan!
Yun Qinghuan was just a delicate educated youth who had come to the countryside, nothing more than a bit pretty. Yet, her fate was so good that she actually married Bai Wensong!
Bai Wensong doted on her like she was heaven-sent!
Most importantly, Yun Qinghuan got pregnant not long after marrying him and gave birth to a boy!
Yang Guihua was furious!
Because of this, her mother-in-law had scolded her countless times for her unproductive womb, for not being able to produce a male heir for the Bai family.
Her mother-in-law even said that if she couldn’t give birth to a son in the future, Bai Guojin would divorce her. Yang Guihua was terrified, so she kept getting pregnant and giving birth non-stop, but she just couldn’t produce a boy.
Adding to that, Yun Qinghuan was beautiful, practically the dream lover of all the men in the village. Every time her husband was intimate with her, he would involuntarily call out Yun Qinghuan’s name.
The humiliation in Yang Guihua’s heart surged.
She hated Yun Qinghuan even more, wishing she could step on her whenever she had the chance! Finally, Yun Qinghuan’s husband died, and she felt smug. This woman had finally met her misfortune, letting her seduce men in the village all day long!
This was retribution!
Yang Guihua secretly said a lot behind Yun Qinghuan’s back, saying that she brought bad luck to her husband and that she was born with a face that would bring misfortune to any man who got close to her!
Seeing Yun Qinghuan fall seriously ill after Bai Wensong’s death, she was overjoyed.
They were both daughters from families who favored sons over daughters. Why did Yun Qinghuan live so much better than her in every way?
Now, even heaven couldn’t stand it anymore, right?
But Yang Guihua didn’t feel smug for long. Not only did Yun Qinghuan recover from her illness, but she also felt even more difficult to deal with than before. Especially since this Yun Qinghuan cooked delicious food in different ways every day. Every mealtime, the aroma would drift all the way to her yard from a distance, causing her to be beaten and scolded by her husband a lot.
She hadn’t expected that it was that little bitch Yun Qinghuan’s cooking again at noon today that got her beaten. She cursed silently in her heart.
After all, she had heard that Yun Qinghuan had bought a chicken only yesterday, and they had chicken soup last night. This midday, the smell wasn’t of chicken, so she hadn’t thought of Yun Qinghuan. But at this moment, smelling the familiar aroma of the dishes, Yang Guihua realized she had underestimated things!
Sure enough, Yun Qinghuan was just bad luck for her!
“I was wondering who made such fragrant food that could travel ten miles at noon, and I was still pondering it. I didn’t expect it was you, Qinghuan. It really looks appetizing,” Zhang Yufen said beside her, looking envious.
She didn’t have such good cooking skills.
Yun Qinghuan smiled. “If Sister-in-law likes it, I can teach you how to make it.”
“Really?” Zhang Yufen asked her with a smile, her face full of surprise.
Compared to chicken meat, chicken blood wasn’t considered very precious. There were also duck blood and goose blood. If not cooked properly, they would have a fishy smell and weren’t very tasty.
Although Zhang Yufen had to support her family and their financial situation wasn’t great, they could occasionally afford such a meal.
Her worry was that her own cooking wasn’t as delicious. Hearing Yun Qinghuan say this naturally made her happy.
Yun Qinghuan smiled and said, “Of course. If you have the ingredients and want to make it, just tell me, and I’ll teach you.”
“That’s wonderful, thank you, Qinghuan.” Zhang Yufen was particularly happy.
In this era, many recipes were ancestral secrets passed down within families and were unwilling to be shared. Therefore, Zhang Yufen was particularly grateful that Yun Qinghuan offered to teach her.
Seeing that Yun Qinghuan was willing to tell Zhang Yufen how to cook, the others also shamelessly came over to ask.
After all, although Yun Qinghuan used good ingredients, there were also some common ingredients. Besides, they weren’t completely unable to afford chicken and pork, especially since the busy farming season was approaching. At that time, the village would definitely slaughter pigs and distribute pork, so they could properly nourish themselves.
If they followed their usual methods, the pork they cooked would definitely not taste as good as the way Yun Qinghuan told them.
Yun Qinghuan wasn’t stingy and directly shared all the methods she knew. To make the dishes delicious, one had to be generous with seasonings and oil.
In her previous life, she liked to watch mukbangs and had also worked part-time in a restaurant, so she naturally knew this.
But the villagers in this era were reluctant to use so much oil. Hearing her say that, they could only sigh, really unwilling to eat like that.
However, they were still very grateful to Yun Qinghuan for telling them the methods, and their attitude towards her improved a lot.
Beside them, Yang Guihua saw Yun Qinghuan quickly becoming friendly with a group of people, unlike herself, whom these people avoided as if she were a plague.
Yang Guihua was furious!
She stared again at the chicken blood soup in Liu Yuzhi’s bowl. It was red and oily, and Liu Yuzhi was slurping it down, her face flushed from the spice, but she still couldn’t stop eating.
When it was too spicy, she would stop to eat a bite of elm leaves coated in refined flour.
Good heavens, it was simply too enjoyable!
The aroma made Yang Guihua’s already hungry stomach even hungrier.
She looked sourly at the red oil floating on the soup and said in a strange tone, “This is really not knowing how to manage a household. Making one meal almost uses up a year’s worth of oil, right?
“If I used so much oil, even fried rags would taste good, let alone chicken blood?”
“I don’t know what you all are fawning over her for. According to her way of doing things, her family will probably starve in the second half of the year.”
Her words were sarcastic and strange.
The crowd chattering around Yun Qinghuan quieted down and all looked at Yang Guihua.
For a moment, they were speechless.
Yes, if more oil was used, the taste of the dishes would definitely be better than now, but Yun Qinghuan’s cooking clearly required a certain level of skill.
Anyway, even if they were given so much oil, they definitely couldn’t make something like this.
Zhang Yufen couldn’t stand Yang Guihua’s jealousy and said sarcastically, “You’re really worrying about things that don’t concern you. Qinghuan’s family is very hardworking, and not a single person is idle. They definitely won’t starve. As for which family won’t have enough to eat in the second half of the year, isn’t that obvious to everyone?”
Yang Guihua’s husband was a lazybones, and her father-in-law never worked in the fields. The whole family relied on her and her mother-in-law to work and earn work points. Being able to eat their fill was a miracle.
Zhang Yufen’s words made Yang Guihua’s face look particularly ugly.
She pursed her lips angrily, wanting to scold Zhang Yufen.
A widow, what right did she have to talk about her?
But everyone around was staring at her menacingly, and Yun Qinghuan was looking at her with a half-smile, as if she would open her mouth to scold her at any moment. Yang Guihua waited, but in the end, she didn’t utter any harsh words.
Yun Qinghuan ignored this person’s envy. After Liu Yuzhi finished eating and patted her satisfied stomach, she then packed up the food container to go back.
She wasn’t stupid. She knew that thinking about food all day long meant the smell of cooking wouldn’t stay confined to the kitchen. It would drift all around, and every mealtime, many children would drool and run to squat and play at the entrance of her yard. Those adults probably envied and were jealous of her family eating so well behind her back.
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