Xiao Huangying took the sauce with her, she was rather upset with the fact that Master Xiao only gave her a jar of sauce.
After all, Madam Kong was so rich and ran a rather successful inn, so he could have at least given her some strawberries.
The ones that were sold for five taels. If he had given her that, then the young man would certainly be charmed by her.
“What a sin, but what can I do? It is my fault that I was born into a family as poor as this one, if I was born into a rich family like my sister-in-law, I wouldn’t have to beg my brother like this,” muttered Xiao Huangying as she reached her home.
“Ying ying, what are you carrying?” The eldest sister, Xiao Chenghao walked over to where her sister was standing. She asked, “Is this something that Brother gave for the family, excellent, I was just thinking about what to do about dinner.”
Though Master Xiao gave them more than five catties of pork belly, the Xiao family had a lot of members and all of them were greedy for every bite of meat.
The pork belly was cooked by the mers of the house, in the hope that it could be eaten in the morning and at night as well, after all, keeping the raw pork belly would lead to it getting rotten.
The weather was not suitable to leave meat outside.
But who would have thought that the entire family would finish the entire pork belly in an afternoon? However, they were not really concerned as with Master Xiao married to Madam Kong, getting meat was not something difficult.
This was the reason why Xiao Chenghao thought that her sister went to their brother and brought the jar with her.
“Don’t even think about touching it alright?” Xiao Huangying snorted. She slapped the grabby hand of her sister away and said to her, “I brought this with me because I am going to use it to woo Master Jing. You said that you were going to leave three pig feet for me in the morning if I let your daughters have one extra piece of pork belly. Did you leave it?”
When Xiao Chenghao heard the accusatory words of her sister she raised her hand and touched her nose. Indeed, she did say that she was going to leave three pig feet but she was only paying lip service.
Who would have thought that her sister would take it to heart and was now even holding it against her?
“Oh come on, do you want us to eat some boiled vegetables and rice for dinner? At least share half with your family,” said Xiao Chenghao and in return, she saw Xiao Huangying sneering at her.
“Do you think I am similar to Big Brother? That if you act cute, I will hand everything over to you? Don’t even try to touch this! If you touch it I swear I will break your hands!” Xiao Huangying waved her hand thuggishly at her elder sister who looked back at her affronted.
“What’s wrong? What’s going on?” Daddy Xiao stepped out of his room. He looked at his two precious daughters and questioned, “What’s going on with you two? Why are you fighting all of a sudden?”
Xiao Chenghao turned to look at her daddy and whined angrily, “Look at this, Daddy. She brought home a good thing from Brother Xiao’s house but she refuses to give it to me. I also told her that we have no meat in the kitchen and yet she doesn’t care about that at all.”
“In her eyes, there is only that young master Jing! I mean, how could she not care for us and take such a good thing to Master Jing? No matter what, even if she wants to woo that man, she should still care for her family right?”
“It’s alright for me and my husbands to eat less but what about the children? At least they should be given meat to grow up right?”
Daddy Xiao opened his mouth but before he could say anything, Xiao Huangying snapped harshly, “You always say this every damn time! You use your children as an excuse but in the end the one who stuffs her mouth with meat is you! Do you think that I don’t know? I know it very well.”
“And how much meat do your kids want to eat? Isn’t five catties enough from the afternoon?”
Xiao Chenghao’s face turned embarrassed and she turned to look at Daddy Xiao. Now she hoped that her daddy would help her. She really did not want to eat vegetables after eating delicious pork belly.
Daddy Xiao looked at the two sisters and sighed. He really hated getting stuck between the two of them. But at the same time, he thought that it was a waste to give such a big jar to an outsider.
No matter what, that man was still not close to his daughter. Who knows whether they will get married or not? Wouldn’t it be a waste to hand him such a big jar of sauce?
He thought about it carefully and said, “Ying Ying, your brother gave you such a big jar, most probably he wants you to share it with your family. Not to mention that Master Jing is still not your beloved, instead of wasting your efforts, why not play smart?”
“Can’t you just scoop a small jar from the big one and gift it to him? You said it yourself, right? That young master is really stubborn and arrogant, he will not even look twice at such a thing. So instead of wasting it, why not eat it?”
Xiao Chenghao turned to look at Xiao Huangying hopefully.
Xiao Huangying also thought that her daddy made sense so she agreed but she still warned Xiao Chenghao, “Don’t even think about eating it all!”
“Not at all!” Xiao Chenghao agreed as she nodded, her four wobbly chins nodding along as she greedily looked at the jar. Hehe, once it was inside the kitchen, who would stop her?
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