Chapter 13 The Wang Family’s Embarrassment
It turned out that Chu Wen brought food to Duan Jingtian.
That day, after Duan Jingtian knew that Li Sheng only ate casually every day, he offered to cover both Li Sheng’s lunch and dinner, so Chu Wen sent two portions.
They were all done by Su Wan.
Duan Jingtian and Li Sheng were opening the lunch boxes at this moment.
Inside the food box, there were braised pork with the right amount of fat and lean meat, stir-fried beans cooked to perfection, a few pieces of stewed beef, and a plate of cold mushrooms. Each dish was so tempting. The rice inside was black, and it looked like it was mixed with black rice for porridge.
However, this black rice would not affect one’s appetite at all. Duan Jingtian usually ate a lot of greasy food in the morning at home. He was not hungry at noon, so he just took a few bites of the food provided by the school.
But he didn’t eat as much this morning as usual, so when it came time for lunch, he was naturally hungry.
Duan Jingtian picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
Because he was so focused on eating, Duan Jingtian didn’t notice that his colleagues in the dormitory were either looking at the lunch box in Li Sheng’s hand or at the food box in his hand.
Duan Jingtian took a few big bites and when he raised his head to drink the vegetable soup, he saw that his colleagues around him were staring at his food box.
Duan Jingtian served the rice with soup and said, “This meal was made by my new chef. It’s really good. I’ll invite everyone to my house in a few days to taste it.”
Everyone swallowed their saliva and said that Duan Jingtian should not go back on his word. The food smelled so delicious that it was inedible compared to the food provided by the school.
Wang Luosheng knew that the newly hired chef Duan Jingtian mentioned was Su Wan. He had never thought that the food Su Wan cooked was anything special before, but today, for some reason, the taste of Duan Jingtian’s food box lingered in Wang Luosheng’s heart, making it impossible for Wang Luosheng to swallow the food provided by the school.
Wang Luosheng was in chaos at school that day, not realizing that the situation at home was just as bad as his.
Including yesterday and the day before yesterday, today was the third day that Su Wan hadn’t worked at home like before, and the Wang family was in complete chaos.
Wang Luoxue is lazy and doesn’t know how to work. Her mother has been pampered for two years and suddenly she doesn’t know how to do the housework.
The house was a mess. Except for Su Wan’s original room, clothes were thrown everywhere in the other rooms.
Things were placed in a very messy manner, and the ground was covered with water stains from washing faces and feet. The mud from outside mixed with the water stains, and when people walked around, the ground was covered with mud marks.
There are no clean dishes in the kitchen anymore. They are usually scattered everywhere, or soaked in large basins, giving off a sour smell.
The leftover vegetable leaves and leftover food in the kitchen attracted a lot of flies, which flew around and buzzed, which was very annoying.
The yard was also in a mess. The vegetable leaves Wang Luoxue used to feed the chickens and pigs were scattered all over the yard. The dirty clothes in the basin in the middle of the yard had started to go bad. The vegetables planted by Su Wan by the wall of the yard also wilted due to lack of water, completely unlike the thriving ones in the past.
There’s no one cleaning up the chicken manure in the chicken coop behind the house, so there’s a faint smell of chicken manure emanating from it.
Mrs Wang steeled herself and said she would clean up, but she really didn’t know where to start.
She said to wash the dishes first, but there was no water in the vat.
Mrs Wang took great pains to fetch two buckets of water, but they were all used up just by washing all the dishes in the kitchen.
Mrs Wang was exhausted and had no strength to work, but the yard at home was still a mess, and she felt a nameless anger rising in her heart.
Seeing Wang Luoxue lazily fiddling with her makeup in the house but not doing any work, Mrs Wang scolded Wang Luoxue for not working because she wanted to tire her to death and that she had raised an ungrateful person.
Wang Luoxue felt very aggrieved and said, “These are just trivial things that can be done casually. You can just do them casually. Why do you always ask me to do them?”
Normally, when Mrs Wang mentioned the work that Su Wan did, she meant that Su Wan did small things that she could easily do. Therefore, in Wang Luoxue’s eyes, these jobs were indeed things that could be easily done. Wang Luoxue felt that Mrs Wang was being rude and making a fuss.
Mrs Wang was so angry that she started to curse: “What kind of work can be done easily? There are so many things to do inside and outside the house. How can this be done easily?”
On weekdays, Su Wan did all the work for the Wang family. The mother of the Wang family was kind and the daughter was filial. When Su Wan was not around, there was no one to do these chores, so naturally they fell on Wang and Wang Luoxue. Two years of being pampered made the two of them, who were not very good at doing housework, almost unable to do it.
Wang Luoxue couldn’t stand Wang’s scolding and retorted: “Mom, if you let me do these heavy work, my face will be tanned, my hands will be rough, and my arms will be thick. How can I find a good husband when the time comes?”
“If I was worn out by doing rough labor and became like Su Wan. How can Brother Jingtian still like me?”
Mrs Wang thought about it and it made sense. Mothers in ordinary families would want their daughters to learn to do some housework. Mrs Wang herself was not good at it, so naturally she could not teach Wang Luoxue well either.
Later, Su Wan came to the house and there was someone to do all the work at home and outside, so Mrs Wang and Wang Luoxue naturally didn’t have to do anything.
Every day the Mrs Wang chatted with a few women about all sorts of things, and occasionally played cards. She lived a very comfortable life.
Wang Luoxue, on the other hand, dresses up beautifully every day and doesn’t have to do anything, and lives a very comfortable life.
Because Wang Luosheng had become famous, and his mother and Wang Luoxue always dressed respectably and lived a leisurely life, other people thought that the Wang family’s mill could make a lot of money and that they were a well-off family. So families with sons would always talk to the Wang family to inquire about Wang Luoxue, and among them were some wealthy and well-known families in Qingyun County.
As more people inquired, Wang and Wang Luoxue both believed that Wang Luoxue would at worst marry into a well-off family. In Wang Luoxue’s eyes, she looked down upon ordinary wealthy families. She still preferred Duan Jingtian from the Duan family, the richest family in Qingyun County.
It just so happens that Duan Jingtian and Wang Luosheng are colleagues, and Duan Jingtian intends to make friends with Wang Luosheng, so it is natural for Wang Luoxue to get the upper hand by virtue of his proximity.
Although Wang Luoxue’s lie that the meal was not cooked by her was exposed by Li Sheng when Duan Jingtian came to their house later, Wang Luoxue believed that as long as her brother and Duan Jingtian visited each other frequently, there would be many opportunities for her to change Duan Jingtian’s impression of her.
After all, she is one of the most beautiful girls in Qingyun County.
Wang Luoxue thinks she is pretty, but in fact her looks are just above average. The reason why Wang Luoxue thinks she is one of the most beautiful girls in Qingyun County is because the young ladies from wealthy families in Qingyun County are not in the same circle as Wang Luoxue. Wang Luoxue has never seen these young ladies, which means that these people do not exist.
There are also some girls from poor families. These girls work hard all day long and don’t have any nice clothes or jewelry. Naturally, they can’t compare with Wang Luoxue. As for the rest of the girls who come from the same family as Wang Luoxue, Wang Luoxue is the most free, has the best clothes and the best things, so she looks more beautiful than these girls.
This is also the reason why families who have sons in Qingyun County always inquire about Wang Luoxue.
Wang Luoxue cherishes her appearance very much. She doesn’t want to be exposed to the scorching sun any longer, nor does she want to do heavy work and make her delicate hands rough.
Normally when Su Wan was around, Mrs Wang would naturally let Wang Luoxue do whatever she wanted. But now that Su Wan was not around, if Wang Luoxue did not share the work, she would be exhausted to death.
Mrs Wang said to Wang Luoxue unhappily, “It’s okay to do this kind of work for a short while. You won’t become ugly.”
Wang Luoxue was about to cry: “How can you not become ugly if you work? Su Wan does this every day. Look at how dark and rough her skin is, and how ugly she is.”
Mrs Wang retorted: “Don’t talk nonsense. Doing such a small job won’t make her ugly. She is ugly to begin with.”
Mrs Wang was unwilling to admit that it was the work at her house that made Su Wan ugly.
