Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 189

Chen's mother didn't know that Zhong Ruyi would open a shop in a few days. She just wanted her to wait for her son to come back. Zhong Ruyi heard something wrong and asked her, "Aunt, did Brother Dongzhi tell you about it and you forgot?"

"Ah? No, no, no?" Chen's mother was shocked and began to stutter, which made her seem even more suspicious.

"Aunt, it's like this. I opened a new store in town, a restaurant, and I need a lot of rabbits every day. If I don't wait for Brother Dongzhi when I come back this time, I will have to find another store. After all, my store will officially open in a few days." She said to Chen's mother with a serious face, not missing any expression on her face.

Sure enough, after hearing that she was going to open a store in a few days, Chen's mother looked even more panicked, and stammered, "Ah! I remember now, the winter solstice was said to come, but I forgot..."

Zhong Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What did Brother Dongzhi say?"

"Just like you said, but the price is ten cents each."

After saying that, Chen's mother breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she was not a person who could lie. She was so nervous!

"No!" Zhong Ruyi shook her head. "If it's ten cents a piece, I'll just go find someone else to buy it from."

After saying that she was leaving.

"Hey, no, Ruyi, don't go." Chen's mother was so anxious that sweat broke out on her head.

"Ruyi! I'll pay twenty-five cents per piece as you said! Don't leave, let's talk it over!"

Zhong Ruyi stopped and smiled, "That's right! Auntie, then I'll charge twenty-five coins for each rabbit. I'll need a month's supply first, and when Jiang Qin comes to pick up the rabbits in a few days, he can bring the money with him."

Mother Chen didn't notice that Zhong Ruyi had just lied to her, and she had no intention of leaving.

She just felt lucky that she didn't let Ruyi go and go to someone else's house to buy a rabbit, otherwise her son would come back and scold her for having good intentions but doing something bad.

"Aunt, in five days, please bring Xiaoxue, Xiaoman and the others to come and support me!" Zhong Ruyi said with a smile. However, when she came today, she didn't see Xiaoman. Only Xiaoxue was weaving a cage in the yard, and Jiang Qin was squatting beside her to help.

Mother Chen was very happy. "Okay! Auntie will definitely come to support you when the time comes! But Xiaoman was sent to a private school by his brother, so he can't go."

Zhong Ruyi was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was not wrong. Shitou and Xiaohe at home were also sent to a private school this month. Xiaoman was about the same age and was also old enough to go to a private school.

"Then auntie, I'll go back first. Come over to my house when you have time." Zhong Ruyi called Jiang Qin, got up and went back.

Mother Chen tried to persuade her to stay, "Wouldn't you like to sit for a while? You've finally come here, so I'll go catch two rabbits and bring them back for you!"

Having said that, without waiting for Zhong Ruyi to refuse, he dragged Jiang Qin to the rabbit house and caught two fat rabbits for her to take back.

Zhong Ruyi had no choice but to accept it.

When they returned, Sun Tao had already prepared lunch and was waiting for them to come back home to eat.

Except for Zhong's father who went to the fields, the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law and Cuicui were all at home.

It started raining again just as they got home. Zhong Ruyi was worried that her father was trapped in the fields and wouldn't be able to come back, so she put on a straw raincoat and took a set of protective gear in her hand and hurried out to look for him.

Zhong Ruyi met Zhong's father on the way. Just as she thought, he was indeed trapped in the field, and there were several other people from the village working in the fields behind him.

Without a raincoat, Mr. Zhong thought that since he was already soaked, he might as well run back and change clothes.

Then he met his daughter who came to see him. She was so moved that she said, "Dad, don't wear it anymore! Let's run back quickly to avoid getting another raincoat wet."

Zhong Ruyi couldn't persuade him and could only run behind him.

Several other people in the village who were also soaked were still hoping that their family members would come to look for them in the rain with straw raincoats like Zhong Hui's daughter did.

As a result, when I got home, no one asked me a single question. The psychological gap was too great, and I couldn't help but get angry, causing complaints from my family.

The two ran back home. Sun Tao had already prepared ginger soup with great foresight. When they came back, each of them drank a bowl of hot ginger soup and felt warm from their stomachs to their hearts.

Li Guihua originally thought it was nice to have someone else at home to help her with the housework, but as soon as this aunt arrived, she did all the work that she had been trying to please.

I just wanted to go to the kitchen to cook ginger soup, but when I went in, I found that Sun had already started cooking.

I just had some little thoughts in my mind, but when I turned around and saw Sun's cautious attitude, I felt that I was too narrow-minded and my heart softened again.

After drinking the ginger soup, Sun Tao took away the empty bowls of the two people and started to put lunch on the table.

The family just sat down to eat. Zhong Ruyi looked around and asked Jiang Qin, "Why don't I see your mother?"

Jiang Qin was also puzzled. His mother was here just now, but how come she disappeared when it was time to eat? "I'll go look for her."

He said this and went to the backyard. After searching for a while, he finally found it in the kitchen.

"Mom, what are you doing here?"

I saw Sun Tao sitting on a small stool in front of the stove, gnawing on a hard pancake in his hand.

Sun Tao stood up, broke the pancake in half, and handed one half to her son, "Mom won't come to the table to eat, why don't you eat here with me?"

Jiang Qin didn't expect this to be the reason. He felt a little sad. When he lived with grandma and the others before, except for his father, they were not allowed to sit at the table for meals.

He was already used to the Zhong family's lifestyle, so he didn't think there was anything wrong, but his mother didn't know.

Zhong Ruyi, who followed behind, was a little amused. When Sun Tao saw her, she quickly swallowed the pancake in her hand in two bites at a time. Her speed was so amazing that Zhong Ruyi didn't have time to stop her.

After eating, he clapped his hands and said, "Miss Zhong, are you full? If there is anything else you need to do at home, you can ask me to do it!"

She said as she was about to go out, "I'll go clean up the dishes first."

"Aunt, wait a minute!" Zhong Ruyi quickly stopped her. If she didn't stop, with her impetuous temper, she would probably find trouble again.

"Don't hide in the kitchen to eat in the future. Just eat with us. We don't have the bad habit of not letting people sit at the table to eat." Zhong Ruyi said in a gentle voice.

Sun Tao was a little uneasy, "Ms. Zhong, you paid for me. I have to work, and I can't sit at the table and eat with you. This is not right!"

"So what's wrong with eating at the table? If you can tell me, then I won't care whether you eat at the table or not in the future."

Zhong Ruyi asked her to give a reason.

Sun Tao hesitated and racked his brains for a long time but couldn't come up with a clear answer. Finally, he said, "When I was at home, my mother-in-law said that women and children cannot eat at the table. The table is for men to talk and discuss things. If women and children go up there, it will bring bad luck to the family..."

"Has your mother-in-law come to the table to eat?"

Sun Tao paused for a moment and said honestly, "I got on..."

Then he explained, "My mother-in-law said that she is too old to squat before eating at the table."

Zhong Ruyi asked again, "Have your sisters-in-law come to the table to eat?"

“…I got on.”

"Are their children at the table for dinner?"

“…I got on.”

When asked to the end, Sun Tao was at a loss.

Yes, the mother-in-law is a woman, the sisters-in-law are also women, aren't their children also children? Why can't I eat at the table? They can?

"It was your mother-in-law who said that women and children cannot eat at the table, and that it would bring bad luck to the family if they did. But I said that Jiang Qin was my child! Do you agree with this statement?"

Sun Tao shook her head, "Jiang Qin is fourteen years old, and you, Miss Zhong, are only seventeen. You can't give birth to a son as old as him."

Zhong Ruyi frowned, "You mean if I'm a few years older, will you believe that Jiang Qin is my son?"