The happy little days of the Ye family

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than two months since Fang Jiawang married into the Hu family as their son-in-law.

People in the Hu family are easy to get along with and are willing to spend money on food and drink. The Fang family is living a very happy life these days.

Just after dawn, the big rooster at home began to crow.

Hu Shengnan was used to getting up and practicing boxing at this time every day. As soon as he sat up, Fang Jiawang beside him also woke up.

After the two of them had washed up, Hu Shengnan and Hu Bin were practicing boxing on horseback in the yard, while Fang Jiawang went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

With Hu Shengnan supervising him, Fang Jiawang no longer sleeps in every day like before.

He doesn't have to work anyway, he can still take a nap after breakfast, and he has to take a nap every afternoon.

People in the Hu family have big appetites, so Fang Jiawang cooked a large pot of sweet potato porridge and a lot of corn pancakes.

The pancakes are not pure corn pancakes. He mixed some white flour into them, and they still taste good.

In addition, we also steamed two hard-boiled eggs, just half for each person.

This breakfast can be said to be better than the official lunch of the Fang family.

Although it was just a home-cooked breakfast, Fang Jiawang's cooking was good and the taste was quite good. Everyone was very happy with it.

The three members of the Hu family were as flattering as ever.

Fang Jiawang grew bigger and bigger under the praise of the Hu family. He did not need anyone to supervise him and he happily cooked on his own every day.

In fact, in the beginning, Fang Jiawang was occasionally too lazy to cook.

But when he didn't cook, it was Yan's turn.

However, the food cooked by Mr. Yan was very unpalatable. Even Hu Shengnan and Hu Bin, who were accustomed to eating it, could not stomach it, let alone Fang Jiawang, who was good at cooking.

He also taught Yan how to cook step by step, but he couldn't learn it no matter how much he taught her, and the dogs wouldn't eat anything he cooked.

But it can't be wasted. No matter how unpalatable it was, Fang Jiawang and the Hu family still ate it with tears in their eyes.

After Mrs. Yan cooked a few times, Fang Jiawang stopped letting her hold the spatula for fear of being poisoned.

Fang Jiawang looked at Hu Shengnan with a distressed expression. It was not easy for his wife to grow up so big.

After breakfast, Hu Bin and Hu Shengnan, who were responsible for supporting the family, went to the martial arts gym.

Yan is responsible for clearing the dishes and washing dishes.

Fang Jiawang, who had nothing to do, mixed some chicken food and fed some old hens in the backyard.

The Hu family now has five chickens, one is a big rooster that crows every day, and the other four are hens that lay eggs.

Four hens can lay about three eggs a day. The Fang family is not short of this small amount of money, and they keep the eggs for their own consumption.

The eggs just picked up the day before were just saved for the next morning. If you save the extra, you can make scrambled eggs for lunch.

After washing his hands, Fang Jiawang took a small basket and went to the nearby market to buy vegetables.

In the past, Yan and his eldest aunt went shopping together, but Fang Jiawang found that Yan not only couldn't cook, but also wasn't good at grocery shopping.

The vegetables I bought were not only expensive, but also of poor quality, so I simply went shopping myself.

Moreover, once the money is in his hands, he can also secretly save some private money.

In the past, when I was in Fangjia Village, I grew my own grain and vegetables, and even meat could be set up in traps on the mountain to catch pheasants or hares.

In your spare time, you can also go fishing in the river and catch some snails, loaches and other tooth-fishing rituals.

Basically, there is no money spent on food and drink, and the money in hand is quite durable. The Fang family cannot spend more than one tael of silver a year.

It's different now that you live in a town. You have to spend money to buy a green onion or a vegetable.

You don't know that firewood and rice are expensive when you are not a family. Since Fang Jiawang took over the Hu family's three meals a day, he realized that this money is really hard to spend.

The 500 Wen given by Hu Shengnan in the first month was spent in just over 20 days.

Later in the second month, Hu Shengnan and Hu Bin each gave him 300 Wen, a total of 600 Wen, as food for a month.

In addition to the money to buy groceries, Hu Shengnan also gave Wang Jiawang 60 Wen as pocket money every month.

Fang Jiawang was very satisfied with this. After breakfast every day, he would go to the market early to buy food, and occasionally secretly save some private money.

Gradually, Fang Jiawang also learned to budget carefully, and ate a mixture of coarse grains and fine grains in every meal.

Food expenses of 600 Wen per month, on average, are 20 Wen per day.

Nowadays, temporary workers in the village only earn more than 20 yuan a day, so the food expenses are actually quite a lot.

The weather has become cold recently, and Fang Jiawang is too lazy to run around to buy vegetables every day, so he plans to buy more long-lasting vegetables and go home.

There was still food at home, so Fang Jiawang bought two large pieces of tofu and a two-pound grass carp.

He has already thought about how to make it. The fish body can be made into braised fish cubes or pickled fish, and the fish head can be made into tofu and fish head stew.

Seeing that the aunt on the side was selling good vegetables, I ordered another Chinese cabbage, 2 radishes and a cabbage.

Walking to the meat stall, Fang Jiawang ordered another half a pound of pork belly and a big bone.

The big bones are used to stew radish in the evening, and the pork belly is marinated and eaten slowly.

The whole meal cost 28 Wen, but these dishes can be eaten for two or three days.

Fang Jiawang was carrying a full basket and was just about to go back when he happened to see a chicken seller.

These little guys are quite big, and they are all very lively.

Fang Jiawang thought that he still had extra space in his yard, so he planned to buy a few more chickens and raise them.

Whether you keep them for laying eggs or eating meat, they are all good.

Moreover, it has been two months since he got married. Zhang Jiawang is very confident in himself and feels that he will soon have a child at home.

Raise more chickens and keep them for your wife to eat during her confinement period.

Originally he planned to buy 4 chickens, but when he thought about saving them for Hu Shengnan to eat during his confinement period, he bought 8 chicks at once.

The aunt who sold the chickens saw that he bought a lot and gave him a cage to hold the chickens.

The chickens cost 5 cents each, and 8 of them cost 40 cents.

When giving the money, Fang Jiawang felt distressed, "Oh, this money is really not durable. Ever since I came to town, I have to spend money everywhere."

I bought the little chicken, but I have to prepare food.

Thinking that there was not much rice bran and corn kernels to feed the chickens at home, Fang Jiawang spent another 12 cents to buy half a sack of rice bran and two kilograms of corn kernels.

After returning home carrying half a sack of rice bran, Fang Jiawang was so tired that he lay in the room for a while before getting up to pack his things.

Fish must be fresh to be delicious. For lunch, he planned to make fish head tofu stew and braised fish cubes, and stir-fry Chinese cabbage.

The big bones and meat are marinated with salt and saved for eating the day after tomorrow.

Yan's female embroidery is pretty good. She usually makes small embroidery items such as handkerchiefs and purses and takes them to the embroidery shop in the town to exchange for money.

Seeing that it was almost time to cook, I put down my needlework and came to the kitchen to help.

Although she is not good at cooking, she can still cook and light a fire.

Both of them worked very quickly and had the meal ready in a short time.

The father and daughter who came back from the martial arts school could smell the aroma of food before entering the house, and their steps became faster.

"It smells so good. I can smell fish. Dad, please walk faster. I'm already hungry." Hu Shengnan started to run even more as he said that.