jdhmnovel Chapter 258 Grasshopper: Tastes like shrimp (1)
Chapter 258 Grasshopper: Tastes like shrimp (1)
a bolt from the blue!
I became the raw material for a famous Chinese dish - grasshopper!
Also known as locust in Chinese——
The locust that said "When locusts pass through, no grass will grow"! A locust with a pair of very conspicuous long legs!
(ˉ﹃ˉ) I heard deep-fried food is very delicious!
Hiss, how does it feel to be drooling over yourself? !
After I bit my elder sister's foot secretly and was kicked two miles away, I suddenly understood -
It's the smell of mud mixed with the fragrance of grass and trees.
If you have the chance, wash it thoroughly and try again.
It is my misfortune to be born a locust.
But, thanks to my dear mother, she laid the eggs in the vegetable garden enclosed in the farmyard.
At least, the ecology here is not like that in the wild, where crises are omnipresent at any time and in any place.
There are a lot of sweet potatoes and water spinach planted in the vegetable garden, which are not very troublesome to grow. They are very good and I like to eat them!
——Yes, I am a vegetarian all my life.
Pure in heart and few in desires, green inside and out.
Except for the older sister who crawled out of the ground before me, all the other grasshoppers in the garden are smaller than me.
The eldest sister inherited her mother's ferocity, she is very tough and will take a bite of anything, so she is known as Grasshopper Golden Flower in the world.
I am the second child, the grasshopper second child.
When the ants in the nest under the tree occasionally pass by and call my name, I always feel that there is something wrong with their eyes, as if they are cursing me in secret.
Don't think I don't know that those grasshopper eggs that failed to complete the initial metamorphosis were stolen by them and fed to the queen ant.
Slurp, the feeling of being a termite queen, I still can’t forget it even after dying once…
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[Alas, this old lady is too stingy with herself...]
The person who was speaking was the nanny that the Zhu family had hired last month, 62-year-old Sister Fang. She was clean and efficient, but she had some complaints about the old lady Zhu's stingy habits.
[Humph, do you think I'm extravagant? I'll pull a few more water spinach from you today. I'll stir-fry the stems with meat at noon, cook the leaves into soup, and stir-fry with minced garlic at night. Let's see if you feel bad! ]
Sister Fang was snorting. The vegetables in the field were all natural and without pesticides. There were many insect holes. She flicked a fat grasshopper away with her middle finger.
Well, it’s Grasshopper Gold Flower! My unlucky elder sister.
Whoosh—it fell into the heart of a cabbage!
Oh, isn't this a mouse that has entered the rice jar? It doesn't have to be picky anymore...
Why is Sister Fang angry?
She picked more than ten sweet potatoes early yesterday morning, and took great pains to wash, steam and mash them, then fried sweet potato balls for the two elders.
The old man of the Zhu family liked it so much that he stuffed his mouth full of it, fearing that someone else would snatch it from him.
The old lady of the Zhu family kept complaining while eating, complaining that she was wasting oil and salt. She also said that how could two old people in their eighties, whose teeth had almost fallen out, eat so much...
The gate of the courtyard is open all day long, and neighbors can come to visit at any time. Yesterday, the whole day, Mrs. Zhu told everyone about it, and she even annoyed Sister Fang.
Old Mrs. Zhu fell while taking a walk at the beginning of last month. She was found and sent to the hospital with a fractured lumbar vertebrae. She stayed in the hospital for more than 50 days. She disliked the noisy hospital and forced her son and daughter to take her home to recuperate.
The children all have their own families, and except for the son, no one else lives close to them.
On the day of discharge from the hospital, the three sisters and one younger sister all stared at the fourth son's wife, waiting for her to express her opinion.
[No, my son will be a sophomore in high school soon. He is very busy with his studies and I have to take care of him. I'd better hire a babysitter!]
The fourth daughter-in-law was afraid of this picky mother-in-law and made up a non-existent reason.
The two elders of the Zhu family are both retired employees of the unit. Their combined monthly pension is more than 7,000 yuan. They have a house and a vegetable garden. When they are healthy and have no disasters, they live a very comfortable life.
All the expenses for the old lady's hospitalization were paid with the remaining balance of her pension, so of course she had to pay for the nanny as well.
The children's eyes wandered around and they said that they were short of money - they had to buy a house, a car, purchase goods for the business, enroll the children in cram school, etc., etc., and they listed them one by one in a serious manner.
There will be no filial son for a long-term sick bed. The old couple has been retired for more than 20 years and has suffered from major and minor illnesses. At first, their children were very caring. Later, they had to maintain their own home and the expenses of their children increased day by day, so things changed.
As long as they don't have to pay out of their own pockets, they'll say anything nice to you.
They are all ordinary people who have gone through the youth period, and everyone knows whether there is any truth in their words.
So, after trying four nannies through the housekeeping company, Mrs. Zhu chose Sister Fang.
She has a good temper, is straightforward and simple-minded, speaks little, is patient, and works efficiently. She does not mind the dirt or the tiredness, nor does she mind the low pay.
(Well, Mrs. Zhu was the third-in-command in the company back then, in charge of people, and had a sharp eye.)
She has one day off a month, cooks three meals a day, cleans the house, and tends to the vegetable garden. The most important thing is to take care of the daily life of the two elders of the Zhu family, from getting up to taking care of them until they wash and go to bed.
Meals are provided (eat with the host family’s elders), no other benefits, monthly salary of 2800.
The first few nannies who came to the yard took one look and backed out. When they heard about the work content and wages, they turned around and left.
(Mrs. Zhu has to give nearly half of her monthly income to others, and she is reluctant to do so! It is impossible for her to give more!)
Only Sister Fang was quick-witted. As soon as she entered the door, she cleaned up all the takeout boxes piled on the table.
When Ms. Fang was young, she was a housewife with no job and no pension. Her son had just started working for a few years, and she was unwilling to ask for money. As she was still able to work, she earned money for her own retirement.
At her age, there is nothing else she can do in a small county town...
Not to mention 62, even if you’re 35, it’s hard to find a job outside.
Sister Fang took on this job and refused to stay at home. She commuted back and forth every day and slept at her own home.
The Zhu family's small courtyard was renovated twenty years ago. Although it covers a large area, it actually only has three bedrooms.
Mr. Zhu has Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in the innermost room. He always comes out in the middle of the night and cries at night like a baby.
Old Mrs. Zhu's back injury has not healed yet, so she also lives in a separate room. In the middle of the room is an electric rocking bed of the same model as the one in the hospital, as well as all the necessary back protection equipment.
Every day when she gets up, Sister Fang has to use tools to help her sit up slowly, and then move her whole body to the wheelchair.
The remaining room was a large bunk bed, which was already filled with miscellaneous items and could not be cleaned out in a short time.
Earlier, I requested to live at home, which meant sleeping on the folding sofa in Mrs. Zhu's room.
Of course Sister Fang refused. She was looking for a job to earn some living expenses, not to sell her life!
The children of the Zhu family had all gotten married and moved out long ago. They would not come back unless there was something important. They were considered very filial if they brought some rice, flour, grain and oil to visit their parents during the holidays.
During this period, because Sister Fang was determined not to live at home, they took turns to work, and someone would go home to sleep at night.