Transmigrated Into the Vicious Stepmother in a Historical Novel - Chapter 75

“Yes, it’s even more delicious than what my mom makes. My parents’ cooking skills are average. I didn’t expect Aunt Sheng Fei’s to be so delicious. After eating it, I still want another bowl.”

“Eat, eat, eat. That’s all we have here. The food is plentiful. Let me get you another serving.”

Sheng Fei patted Zhang Huzi’s little shoulder and then went to get him another bowl of rice.

Zhang Huzi readily accepted it. After everyone finished their meal, Zhang Huzi very conscientiously collected the bowls and chopsticks to wash them.

Zhang Huzi is also very meticulous with his housework at home.

He is also willing to help his parents with some chores, doing what he is capable of. So sometimes cooking, laundry, and cleaning the house are all done by Zhang Huzi.

Because his parents work hard every day, Zhang Huzi wants to help so that his parents don’t have to work as hard.

Zhang Huzi is so obedient and sensible, which makes Sheng Fei like him even more.

It’s just that such a child is often not blessed by heaven. But luckily, he encountered Sheng Fei, which is also considered Zhang Huzi’s fortune.

After washing the dishes, Zhang Huzi also swept the front yard again, washing dishes and cleaning up.

Lu Da saw how hard Zhang Huzi was working, so he and Lu Er together helped him finish these tasks.

The few children lined up to wash their faces, brush their teeth, and prepare to go to bed.

At night, there was basically no entertainment time, just talking and then sleeping.

The village is incredibly boring, and it is precisely because of the boredom that these people gossip everywhere.

Now it’s not so bad, with Sheng Fei bustling about in the Lu family, managing the family business, so that Lu Ting and the five children don’t have to go hungry.

In the past, every household lived a hard life, especially the Lu family which was very poor.

The main house was unwilling to help, and Lu Ting alone could not take care of everything. It was particularly troublesome.

Every time he came home from work, the five children were crying and fussing from hunger.

In fact, on his way home by bicycle, most of the people in the village were weeping.

Because life was so hard. It was hot in the summer and freezing in the winter. When people got sick, they didn’t dare see a doctor, and they had no money for medical treatment either.

Everyone lived this way, and after a while, they just kept complaining.

Sometimes the next day the family had no rice left, and they had to borrow money from others.

Lu Ting remembers that when they were young, the family was relatively poor.

The first day after finishing a meal, in the afternoon they had to borrow food from the neighbors, and if they couldn’t borrow any, they could only go hungry.

Sometimes a family only ate one meal a day, and they would break a single bun in half to eat. It was not like now where there are all kinds of snacks to eat.

Everyone, young and old, male and female, had to work. At first it was making big pot meals, but later they started to implement the household contract responsibility system. With more labor came more rewards, so their lives gradually improved.

After the five children finished washing up, Zhang Huzi also laid out a bed on the floor in their room.

Because the room had a large kang (a heated brick bed), the five children all spread out their bedding and slept on it.

Zhang Huzi’s bedding had also been tidied up by Sheng Fei, ready for him to sleep on.

But just as Zhang Huzi was about to go to sleep, he was called into the room by Sheng Fei.

Of course, Sheng Fei didn’t have any ancestral prescription. She just took a candy bean similar to marshmallows and gave them to Zhang Huzi to eat.

“Aunt Sheng, why does this medicine taste sweet?”

“This is the secret recipe passed down from our family. Because we added some sugar, it can better treat illness, so it’s sweet. Now lie down and I’ll start massaging your head’s acupuncture points.”