From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!-Chapter 848 - 844: Uncle’s Little Lover 1 (Third Update)
Old Mrs. Mu has such a grand gesture, without even thinking, it’s clear this is prepared for Mu Xiangxiang.
Huang Bita agreed to everything, and casually asked about the size of the dumplings, roughly how big they should be.
Old Mrs. Mu replied impatiently and turned to leave.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Liu had already started making dumplings; the risen dough, in her hands, after a few rolls with the rolling pin, turned into very thin wrappers, and with various fillings, they became the dumplings for tonight.
Huang Bita approached Mrs. Liu and said, "Fourth Aunt, Mother wants us to prepare a separate serving of fifty dumplings for Little Aunt. And also to boil ten eggs."
After hearing Huang Bita’s words, Mrs. Liu gasped.
The old hen of the Old Mu Family had long been killed, and the hens that weren’t laying eggs, and the newly caught chickens, weren’t laying yet either.
To boil eggs would require spending money to buy them.
Not to mention other things, Mu Family daughters-in-law don’t even get to handle money at all.
Also, fifty dumplings, that would need quite a lot of meat filling!
In previous years, everyone got four dumplings, with many mouths to feed in the Old Mu Family, the first house got four, second house five, now it’s six, the fourth house four, and then there’s the Fifth, adding up to about fifty dumplings.
That’s roughly about a pound of meat filling.
This morning, her mother had the Fifth buy just a pound of meat, and it might not even be a full pound.
Even though some vegetables were added, it’s still somewhat challenging to make over a hundred dumplings.
"Sigh!" Mrs. Liu sighed, taking out more than half of the prepared filling.
For the remaining filling, she added a lot of cabbage, basically, for everybody except Mu Xiangxiang, their dumplings were mostly cabbage.
Huang Bita noticed Mrs. Liu’s difficulty and knew this wasn’t an easy task.
Feeling a pang of distress, she didn’t know where to get those ten eggs.
Even though Da Lang had given her household money, he specifically instructed: "Don’t tell anyone, especially Grandma."
"Fourth Aunt, I’ll go to ask Grandma for money to buy the eggs."
Mustering her courage, Huang Bita went to Old Mrs. Mu with this issue, just as Mr. Mu was present.
Huang Bita didn’t evade Mr. Mu and said openly in his presence, "Grandma, about the ten eggs for Little Aunt, I don’t have money on hand, what do you think?"
No sooner had Huang Bita finished speaking than she was soundly scolded by Old Mrs. Mu.
"What did you just say? Eggs? I don’t know anything about that! What, being a daughter-in-law in my Old Mu Family, and you’re being mistreated, and now you want eggs?"
Old Mrs. Mu spoke these words, feeling a bit guilty inside.
Mr. Mu had long ordered not to allow Mu Xiangxiang to eat too much, and each time food was prepared, Old Mrs. Mu did it behind Mr. Mu’s back.
This time, being confronted openly, Old Mrs. Mu felt guilty as expected.
But no matter how she refuted, Mr. Mu had already heard what Huang Bita said.
The dry tobacco in Mr. Mu’s hand knocked heavily on the kang edge.
"Old woman, you still dare to let Xiangxiang eat so much, have you forgotten how her voice got hoarse in the first place?
Have you forgotten what Zhang Huai Shu said, that her food intake must be reduced to a normal level? You’re dooming her, don’t you know?" Mr. Mu reprimanded.
Old Mrs. Mu got angry as well.
"How am I dooming her? Who made Xiangxiang like this? Clearly, it’s that Mrs. Lin, if not for her, would Xiangxiang’s voice have become hoarse?
At the beginning, it was you who let the second daughter-in-law take care of Xiangxiang; I haven’t even blamed you yet. Do you know how it is when Xiangxiang is so hungry she gnaws on wood?
I can’t bear to see her suffer. Anyway, I don’t care, my daughter, if she wants to eat something, I’ll let her, after all, she’s already like this." Old Mrs. Mu stubbornly said.
"Your daughter?" Mr. Mu sneered, then said, "Your daughter, and you don’t care about her life?
A matter of life and death, how can you, a woman, decide such a thing? As for Xiangxiang, I’ve already informed Matchmaker Sun to find a suitable match for marriage.
We, the Old Mu Family, can’t support her forever!" Mr. Mu stated his opinion.
But in doing so, it was equivalent to taking Old Mrs. Mu’s life; she stood up and charged toward Mr. Mu.
While muttering, "Good for you, Mu Dabiao, you don’t even care about your daughter’s life; I won’t let this go with you."
Her pitch-black nails instantly scratched a bloody mark on Mr. Mu’s face.
On the side, Huang Bita was dumbfounded, feeling extremely anxious.
If the two of them got into a fight, who could intervene?
But today is the Little New Year, if something truly happened, it would surely end badly.
"Grandpa, Grandma, please stop fighting, I’ll go get Uncle."
Huang Bita’s words made Old Mrs. Mu shudder, and she cast a poisonous glance at Huang Bita’s face.
"You little tramp, if you dare go call the First, I’ll have Da Lang divorce you!"
"If you dare to divorce her, I’ll divorce you too!" Mr. Mu said.
"Oh, so for the sake of a little vixen, you’re willing to divorce me..."
"..."
The two argued relentlessly, with neither backing down.
Huang Bita backed out of the Old Mu Family and headed to the first house to find Mu Dade.
Who would’ve thought she’d get shut out?
It was Mrs. Jin who personally stopped her, raising her voice, "Da Lang’s wife, your uncle is talking with the concubine of the County Magistrate, don’t go in."
"But... Grandpa and Grandma are fighting, and if Uncle doesn’t come, I’m afraid something might happen." Huang Bita said.
"They aren’t children; do they need a granddaughter-in-law like you to call reinforcements?" Mrs. Jin mocked.
"Aunt, about this..."
"Don’t talk about it anymore; I won’t let you in. If you don’t have any business, don’t come around the first house anymore, either."
Mrs. Jin’s words left Huang Bita feeling alternately angry and embarrassed.
The feeling of being underestimated and wronged suddenly surged in her heart.
Huang Bita nodded helplessly and left the first house.
After Huang Bita left, Mu Dandan said, "Mother, why didn’t you let Cousin-in-law find Father? Don’t you not want Father to be alone with that Ruan Xiao Jiao? If she went in, Father would surely go to see Grandpa and Grandma."
"Hmph, I have my reasons. That Huang Bita, her features bear some resemblance to that Ruan Xiao Jiao. Even if Ruan Xiao Jiao could pull some strings, she wouldn’t dare have an affair with your father, given she’s the concubine of the County Magistrate.
But this woman is different; she’s right here in our Old Mu Family, constantly within sight.
If your father truly had intentions, it wouldn’t be difficult either."
Mrs. Jin, using her logic, explained the reasoning behind her actions.
However, this was all her own thinking. She assumed Mu Dade and Ruan Xiao Jiao would at least exercise restraint because of the County Magistrate’s influence.
Yet Mu Dade and Ruan Xiao Jiao were in Mu Dade’s study, comfortable as if they were in their own home.
Especially Ruan Xiao Jiao, in the study, she sat on Mu Dade’s lap, laughing and swaying with joy.
