Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 147

"My father died of illness, and my mother was married off by my grandmother for thirty taels of silver. There were three of us left. My uncle and his family wanted to take over my house and land, so they put drugs in our food and sold us to the dental clinic in town."

"Did your grandmother sell you out?" Zhong's mother exclaimed.

"How can there be such a cruel grandmother! She can even sell her own grandchildren. She is so vicious!"

Mother Zhong looked at them with pity in her eyes. She didn't expect these children to be so pitiful.

Jiang Rong shook her head. "My dad was picked up by my grandma. When she was young, she had never given birth to a child. Later, she heard that if she picked up a child, she would be able to have children, so she picked up my dad. The second year after that, she gave birth to a boy. In the following years, she gave birth to two boys and a girl."

"After she had her own child, she looked down on my father and thought he was the one who ate free meals at home. She made my father do all the dirty and tiring work. If my grandfather hadn't stopped her, she would have gone even further. After my grandfather passed away, she became even more unscrupulous."

As she spoke, her eyes became red. "Later, my father married my mother, and she separated my father from her family and gave us a small shabby house. After my parents lived a good life, she wanted to reconcile. My father thought that she had saved his life by picking him up, so he always told us to be filial to her. My grandmother often asked my father to work on the fields of my two uncles, and my father would go to work for them after finishing his own work at home."

"If I didn't finish the work, she would be scolded. She used filial piety to pressure my parents. Later, my mother fell ill and never recovered. She passed away within two years."

Mother Zhong was a little confused. "Didn't you say your mother was sold by your grandmother for thirty taels?"

Jiang Rong wiped away her tears. "It was my stepmother who was sold. After my mother passed away, my father became both the father and the mother. My sister and I were often scolded as bastards without a mother. Later, he was introduced to my stepmother and married her, and gave birth to Xiaoyun."

So that's how it is. Jiang Yun, Jiang Rong and Jiang Qin are half-sisters with the same father but different mothers.

Zhong Ruyi looked at the shivering little girl calmly, then looked at Jiang Qin who was pursing his lips and not saying anything.

It seems that these three half-siblings have a very good relationship, otherwise the younger brother begged her to buy his older sisters, and the older sister begged her to buy her youngest sister, and the three of them cried together.

Jiang Rong couldn't hold back any longer and tears started to fall from her eyes. Jiang Yun also started to sob because of her tears.

"My stepmother was a very good woman. She kept the house tidy after she came into the family. My brother and I loved her very much. But she was sold by my grandmother. We don't know where she was sold to. I went to look for her, but my grandmother didn't want to say anything. She just said that she had gone to live a good life."

Zhong Ruyi asked her, "What about your father?"

"My father worked too much and was exhausted. My grandmother took all the money in the house. She only gave me ten cents to buy medicine for my father. I boiled the medicine many times but it was no longer effective. My father died of illness."

After he said this, everyone in the room fell silent. They really didn't expect that these three siblings were so pitiful.

Zhong Ruyi didn't know what to say. In her opinion, their father was foolishly filial, so foolishly filial that he even harmed his wife and children.

Mother Zhong couldn't help but wipe her tears with her hand, and said with a forced smile, "Then you can stay and help in the store first, but there is no room for you in the store for the time being..."

She looked at her daughter, wondering what she would do next.

Zhong Ruyi gave her mother a look, indicating that she would make arrangements for the next step.

"You guys just stay here for now. When the teahouse is ready, you can go over there. During this time, you'll have to sleep on the floor here."

There were only two rooms in the store, one for her second brother and one for her and her mother, so they could only sleep on the floor for the time being.

Jiang Rong looked grateful, "Thank you! We will work hard and sleep anywhere as long as you are willing to take us in, Miss Zhong."

"Call me Ruyi, and you two can call me sister."

She was really not used to being called a lady.

"You guys sit down for a while, I'll go cook."

Jiang Rong quickly stood up and followed her in, "Let me do it. Mom and I used to cook at home."

When she talked about her stepmother, her eyes dimmed, but she quickly covered it up and smiled again.

As soon as she left, Jiang Yun followed her, looking very uneasy.

Jiang Rong wanted her to wait outside, but the little girl's hands were tightly grasping her sister's clothes and refused to let go.

"Forget it, just let her follow." Zhong Ruyi saw that she was as cautious as a frightened bird and didn't know what to say.

Anyway, these two people won’t be able to bear it anymore and will want to leave.

She entered the kitchen, followed by the Jiang sisters.

He picked up the rabbit meat that had been cut into pieces by his mother and started to prepare cold rabbit. Chen Dongzhi had not finished eating the rabbits he brought last time, so he brought three more today.

Jiang Rong wanted to help her, but he didn't know what dish she was going to cook, so he could only stand there at a loss.

As the peppers and various seasonings were put into the pot, Jiang Rong started to sneeze, and even Jiang Yun who was following behind her started sneezing one after another.

She opened her mouth to ask what it was, but the pungent smoke rushed up her nose and she sneezed continuously.

Jiang Qin was sitting with Zhong's mother and the others with a tense expression. Zhong's mother was talking to him and he felt a little nervous.

"How can he be so nice to your grandma when your grandma treats your dad like this? Is he crazy?"

Jiang Qin pursed his lips and said, "My father said that if my grandmother hadn't picked him up, he would have frozen to death outside."

Mother Zhong looked very disappointed. "Your father wanted to repay your grandmother, so why didn't he just give her a little money every month? Doesn't she have her own children? Your father is just being foolishly filial, don't you understand? If he could be more ruthless, you wouldn't have to suffer so much, and maybe your mother wouldn't have died!"

Jiang Qin lowered his head after being told that, feeling somewhat bewildered. In fact, he was still a little dazed from the time he was sold until now.

He wanted to refute, but a voice in his heart said that she was right. If his father was just as she said, perhaps his mother would not have died, and he and his sisters would not have been sold.

Seeing that he looked depressed, Zhong's mother didn't know what to say. After all, this was his father, and he was no longer with us. There was no point in saying these things.

Hearing the sneeze coming from the kitchen, she smiled and went to the kitchen to watch her daughter cook.

Mother Zhong's voice came from the kitchen door. Jiang Rong raised her head and saw her walk in. She quickly stood up.

"No, no, you just sit down and light the fire. I just came in to take a look." After saying this, Mrs. Zhong also sneezed.

She looked into the pot and couldn't help but smack her lips, "Girl, why did you put so much chili in it? It's so hot that it's going to choke someone to death."

Zhong Ruyi holds the spatula in his hand, just like a soldier fighting on the battlefield with a suitable weapon.

"Brother Dongzhi likes spicy food, so I put more chili."

Mother Zhong was a little jealous. She pretended not to care and said, "Girl, if your brother Dongzhi and I fell into the river at the same time, who would you save?"

"......" Zhong Ruyi.

While waving the spatula, she took the time to glance at her mother. Seeing her nervous expression, she couldn't help but become serious too.

"Of course I saved you, you are my mother!"

Obviously, this sentence pleased Zhong's mother very much. She immediately took the spatula from her daughter's hand and said, "I'll do it. You've worked too hard today. You must eat an extra bowl of rice later. I feel bad for you!"