I became the Counterpart of the Winner in a Period Novel-Chapter 266 - 263: She Came Looking for You

"Hmm! The dishes my sister makes are truly delicious."

Jiang Mingyue watched her two brothers reach for the plate of roasted pork belly, her eyes twitching wildly.

"Ahem... The sauce on the side is for dipping the pork belly, it has a lemony taste to cut the grease."

"Oh, oh!" With that, everyone else uniformly reached their chopsticks towards the pork belly.

Mrs. Jiang took a bite with the sauce and nodded in satisfaction, "The taste is really good."

Xiao Ran couldn’t spare a word; every dish his sister made was too delicious. He ate slowly, and if he talked, Jianjun and the others would have finished everything up. In front of good food, one must be smart.

"How much is pork belly per pound?"

A typical housewife’s train of thought, Jiang Mingyue quite understood Mrs. Jiang: "Two dimes and four per pound, with meat tickets."

Knowing that meat prices had risen, Mrs. Jiang could guess that the fish and other things her daughter bought might have also gone up in price. Food is a cycle, and the whole family stood united.

It seemed to justify the source of the things.

Mrs. Jiang asked about work again, and Jiang Mingyue answered one by one, like a student answering a teacher, mainly because Mrs. Jiang was somewhat serious. Jiang Mingyue guessed that Mrs. Jiang was also a person with dreams and admired intellectuals.

"Next time you leave, let me know in advance. I’ll make some cakes for you to take and share with your colleagues. You need to actively integrate into the new group."

"Thank you, Mom." She would not refuse the kindness from her elders.

After the meal, Xia Xiaosi and the third sister took the initiative to clean up the aftermath and refused to let anyone else intervene.

"Go away, don’t add to the mess."

Xiao Ran tugged at Jiang Mingyue’s sleeve tightly, "Sister, I have a lot of questions, come and have a look."

Jiang Mingyue saw the little guy take out a notebook from the box under the eaves. When opened, although the handwriting resembled crawling worms, the questions were listed in an orderly manner. Jiang Mingyue was quite impressed that such a young child had this mindset. She had only mentioned it once, and the little guy could note down the questions each time. Not all adults have such perseverance. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"Hmm, not bad, keep up this habit."

Jiang Mingyue answered each question one by one. Starting from the first page, in three days, Xiao Ran had written down one-third of the small script notebook.

However, Jiang Mingyue thought of another issue. Although Xiao Ran would use the notebook to jot down questions, others might not have this consciousness. If questions are not asked in time, the best-case scenario is self-realization in the next part of self-study. But not everyone has this self-learning talent. Most people will just forget when they don’t ask questions in time, which is not conducive to future studies.

"Xiao Ran, knowing a lot is not just about your sister. Uncle Shu Wenquan and Madam Xiaxia are also very good. You can ask them when I’m not around." Primary and middle school knowledge are easily within their reach.

But kids have their own stubbornness. "But you explain the best, we all like to ask you."

This ’we’, Jiang Mingyue felt, was definitely Xiao Ran being clever.

This... how could she persuade him?

It seemed she would have to check her school’s progress. By the time the school was built and the teachers were in place, once they attended and learned from the teachers, who also corrected and explained assignments, this problem would naturally be resolved.

"Yueyue, Jiang Beishan came looking for you the day before yesterday." Jiang Zhenmei came over to continue her sisterly bond after washing dishes.

Jiang Beishan? Quite surprising.

"What did she want from me?"

Jiang Zhenmei shook her head, "I don’t know. I’ve seen her in a bad state lately, always having red eyes when working in the field, like she’s been crying."

Jiang Mingyue couldn’t help but think of the incident where she prevented the old lady from setting the kitchen on fire. She thought she should use her spiritual power to see what was going on.

In the afternoon, it was still a day off.

"Strange, no work today?" She looked up at the sky, not a cloud in sight.

Xia Xiaosi covered his mouth and laughed, "Your big brother gave the whole village a day off, asking everyone to prepare mooncakes and such for the Mid-Autumn Festival in advance, so they won’t be expensive or unavailable later on."

Jiang Mingyue paused for a moment, having not thought of that. After all, in later days, as long as you had money, you didn’t worry about anything.

"Our family doesn’t need to prepare, I’ll bring them back when the time comes."

Mrs. Jiang came downstairs with a sieve in hand, "Don’t waste your money, a big family like ours, buying them would cost a fortune. I’ve talked to them; I’ll make the mooncakes. Whatever filling you want, we’ll have it. With mooncakes, wine, and meat to eat, we even got so many walnuts this morning. This festival will surely be the most sumptuous."

Jiang Mingyue thought it made sense and didn’t argue.

In the afternoon, under Mrs. Jiang’s leadership, the whole family peeled walnuts. It wasn’t difficult; they had a ready-made bread kiln. A quick bake could crack them open to extract the nuts, just needing to wrap their hands to avoid getting stained with juice that wouldn’t wash off.

"Mom, don’t we have gloves? Didn’t I leave them in the storeroom?"

Shen Fanghua felt a bit guilty. She just wanted to save some money but ended up causing trouble; apron-wrapping was also inconvenient.

"Really? I didn’t think of it. Jianjun, go get them."

Jiang Jianjun pursed his lips; he reasonably suspected his mom was discriminating against him as a bachelor. Whenever there was something, she didn’t call his big brother and only sought him out for the hard work.

Is it great to have a wife?

If Mrs. Jiang knew her second son’s thoughts, she’d definitely reply, "I’m bullying you because I can. If you have the skills, bring a wife home too!"

Tired from sitting, Jiang Mingyue took Xiao Ran out to move a bit.

Coal happily trailed after them.

"Sister, did you see the chickens in our backyard?"

Jiang Mingyue: "...Do I need you to tell me that?"

Xiao Ran waved, "They’re not the previous wild ones; they’re domestic. We’ll raise another three, one of which is a task chicken for the collective purchase by the supply and marketing cooperative."

Task chicken? I must have looked the wrong way.

"You didn’t look closely; they’re too small and raised in another coop. I cut grass to feed them every day."

Grass?

"There are also pigs, two of them. One is a task pig. Sister, by the end of the year, we can also slaughter a pig to eat."

Jiang Mingyue remembered the little pigsties she saw in the backyard in the morning, feeling they were not much larger than rabbits: Such wishful thinking!

"Sister, can you make braised pork then?"

"Sure!" Jiang Mingyue replied absent-mindedly.

She timely released her spiritual power, which was like a smart snake, penetrating deep based on her consciousness.

The Jiang Family’s old house

There was no sign of Zheng Honglian, but the old house’s appearance had changed. Even the old lady looked happy. Something was off; there must have been changes at the old house.

It’s just that, perhaps, the third sister and the others didn’t know; otherwise, they would have told her.

None of Jiang Zhenghui and Wu Cuilan had anything but smiles on their faces.

It’s normal for people to smile, but not so much for the second son’s couple.

Especially since Jiang Beihua and Jiang Beiyang had been gone, the couple looked at everyone with hatred. Villagers avoided them when possible, not out of fear, but to avoid unpleasantness; bumping into them later on the road would be awkward.

Why is it so?

Jiang Mingyue watched for a while but couldn’t figure it out. She withdrew her spiritual power and decided to find Jiang Beishan that evening to clarify.