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Chapter 48: Madam Zhu's Calculation
At this moment, Madam Tian is boiling hot water and cooking medicinal soup for the three people on the stove.
Wen Jiaxiang helped her, and saw the slap print on her face. He said with heartache in his voice: "Mother hit you again? She is really getting to be too much!"
Every time Madam Zhu feels bad, she will vent her anger on this daughter-in-law!
Because Madam Tian has not given birth to any children in recent years, she wants to find ways to torture her every day.
Madam Tian shook her head: "It's okay. Mother told you to go home quickly. Otherwise, don't go back for the rest of your life."
Wen Jiaxiang said angrily: "No!"
Wen Jiarui came over at this moment: "Third Brother, let's send you home! Dad is probably also angry, you go and have a look. Just leave it to me here."
Wen Jiaxiang thought of Old Man Wen, and was indeed worried, so he stood up: "Then I will go back and have a look. If you have anything to do, you can ask me for help. Don't be polite with Third Brother."
Wen Nuan handed Wen Jiaxiang a bottle of ointment: "Third Uncle, this ointment promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis. After you go back, apply a little to Third Aunt’s face and it will be fine soon."
Seeing that the medicine bottle was so exquisite, Madam Tian shook her head quickly: "No, my face will be fine tomorrow. Sister Nuan will keep watching the door."
Keep watching the door is an expression here, which means keep a spare.
Wen Jiaxiang hurt for his wife a little bit, but he also knew this bottle of ointment must cost a lot of money, and cannot be taken back. He took it and said, "I will apply it on her now, so I won't need to take it back. If my mother sees this, she will confiscate it. If the redness is not cleared tomorrow, I will bring her back to apply more medicine."
Thinking of Madam Zhu's temperament, and how such a good thing is definitely not cheap, Wen Nuan nodded: "Okay. If you need it, Uncle will come over with my Aunt."
Wen Jiaxiang carefully applied some ointment on Madam Tian's red and swollen face, and the two hurried back.
Old House...
Madam Zhu explained to Old Man Wen why she fought with Madam Wang in the river.
After that, she wiped away her tears: "Fourth disregarded brotherhood and deliberately sold the recipe to our restaurant’s nemesis, causing Eldest’s business to be snatched away by Ruyi Restaurant! Brother Liang is still relying on the money earned from the restaurant to take the county level examinations, than the provincial! What do you say now?"
Master Wen looked at the crying Madam Zhu with a headache, but regarding this recipe for fried snails, Wen Jiarui had talked about it with him while harvesting: "Okay! This fried snails recipe has already been told to others by Fourth, that's nothing strange! Ruyi Restaurant offered him fifty taels of silver to buy the recipe for his fried snails, and it was already sold when Eldest showed up and said he wanted to buy it.”
“Furthermore, Eldest only pays one or two taels of silver, and the price difference is too much. Even if he is a brother, they're already separated. Fourth is justified in selling it to others! Fourth still needs money to build a house before winter! Those fifty taels are very important to their family! "
After hearing this, Madam Zhu stopped crying. She angrily said, "What about compassion between brothers? Shouldn't the brothers help each other? If Eldest does well, can Fourth be worse off? All these years, wasn't it Eldest, Second, and Third helping that plague star get treatment?! Otherwise, she would have died long ago!”
“Now it’s impossible to let him give the recipe to Eldest?! Fourth doesn't care about brotherhood at all, and is simply a white-eyed wolf! He is jealous of Eldest's life, and wants the Eldest Branch to become a shabby household like his home! They don't want to see us doing well!"
Madam Zhu talked a lot of babbling nonsense.
"What nonsense are you talking about?!"
"Isn't it so? I don't care, old man, the business of Eldest's restaurant can't be robbed! Otherwise, Brother Liang has no money to take the imperial examinations! You don't know, the business of Ruyi Restaurant has always been better than our Fugui restaurant. Old man, you go ask Fourth for the recipe, so that we can fairly compete with Ruyi Restaurant.”
Old Man Wen frowned when he heard this. It takes a lot of money to obtain rank and scholarly honor in the imperial examinations. Brother Liang is the hope of earning glory for the ancestors of Wen Family.
"The restaurant's business is really so weak? Since this recipe is sold, it can't be disclosed to others, otherwise, will the owner of Ruyi Restaurant let this matter go?"
Madam Zhu knew that if she used Brother Liang to get the job done, Old Man Wen would compromise: “Of course, it can't be disclosed to other people’s homes, but is Fugyi Restaurant considered someone else’s home? Eldest and Fourth are brothers, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected!”
Madam Zhu knows how to convince him.
Old Man Wen did not speak, but this sentence of the bones are broken but the tendons are still connected really touched his heart. He really hoped that the four brothers could unite as one.
"Let me think how to solve this."
If Old Man Wen said that, it means that he was moved.
Madam Zhu wisely said: "Well, business affairs can't be delayed! Delaying by a day still means earning a lot less money! If Fourth can hand over the recipe, then even if Madam Wang wants to drown me, I will not care about her."
Old Man Wen glanced at her and said, "You still want to remember this account? It was you who went to the river to beat people up, so you can just forget about it! Don't mention this matter again! Both of you are at fault!"
"I was bitten by a wolf!" Madam Zhu said angrily.
Hmph, how can this account be forgotten?
Madam Wang wants to build a house with money from selling this fried snail dish?
No way!
Wait for them to reveal the recipe, then pay it back with a vengeance!
At this time, Wen Jiaxiang and Madam Tian walked in, and Old Man Wen asked: "Third, is your aunt okay? Are Sister Nuan and Brother Luo okay?"
Sister Nuan, can’t fall ill again, and wipe out all the money they’ve earned to build a house.
"They're fine."
Madam Zhu snorted coldly at the two of them: "This unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, you don’t know who is your biological mother!"
Wen Jiaxiang did not speak.
Although he was not rebellious, and he was born to her, he was not raised by her. He is the one who drank the milk of Madam Wang!
This benevolence is no less than giving birth.
Old Man Wen: "Okay, is there any mother who says that about their children?"
Madam Zhu saw Wen Jiaxian looking as if she said nothing that was worth refuting, and was angered. She glared at Madam Tian, "Why are you standing here, a hen who doesn't lay eggs? Go and cook medicinal soup for me and boil hot water. Also, go cook some rice! You have been married for so many years, and can't even lay an egg. You still want to do nothing around here? Do you expect people to cook for you? Just eating and drinking for nothing all day!"
Madam Tian blushed, and said: "No, I will go now."
She quickly turned around and got busy.
"Mother, she doesn't eat and drink for nothing, she does all the work at home! She eats less and does more work. Don't always say things like that to her!" Wen Jiaxiang didn't stay to hear how Madam Zhu responded, he turned around and went out to help.
Hearing the daughter-in-law being back up by her son, Madam Zhu's anger was blown up: " This is rebelling! The third one dares to stop me!"
Old Man Wen waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, let's not say anymore. Third Branch has been busy in the field all day day, and they're tired enough. I am also tired. Let me have some peace and quiet and think about how to fight Fourth. Talk less!"
He is most afraid of the times when Madam Zhu speaks a lot of babbling nonsense, it hurts his brain to hear it!
Madam Zhu shut her mouth as soon as she heard this, but after she calmed down, she felt that her ass was killing her, and there were a few bloody holes in her clothes!
That damned wolf!
The big gray wolf that Madam Zhu hated, after throwing Madam Zhu in the water, did not return to Wen Nuan's home, but went straight up the mountain.
Da Hui came to Feng Nianchen’s yard and there was no one in the house. It jumped directly onto a table, grabbed a bottle of pills on the shelf, jumped down again, turned around, and ran out.
Halfway out the door, it thought of something, and the wolf howled into the sky again.
Soon Xiao Hei flew down from the sky and landed on its back.
Da Hui and Xiao Hei ran to Nalan Jinnian’s study, and there was no one there. Nalan Jinnian had gone to the barracks.
Da Hui lay on the desk with two front feet, a wolf paw patted a drawing on the desk, and glanced at Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei immediately understood, and a sharp eagle beak directly picked up the drawing, then the wolf and the eagle went down the mountain.
Xiucai: Scholar who has successfully passed the imperial examinations at a county level.
Juren: Scholar who has successfully passed the imperial examinations at the provincial level.
Jinshi: Scholar who has successfully passed the final imperial examinations at the capital/in the palace.
white-eyed wolves: ungrateful people who do not thank or return other people's favors/kindness
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