Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 443: The Blessings Are Yet to Come

Song Yu’s family of three was eating delicious, steaming noodles, watching Qin Yao standing at the door supervising the five father and sons from next door making the bed, and listening to the laughter coming from the next room, they had a strange illusion that the world was extraordinarily mysterious.

They had seen servants making beds for their masters.

But they had never seen masters making beds for servants.

What on earth has happened to this world?

The family of three, with noodles hanging from their mouths, couldn’t help but wonder if they had entered a cave of goblins at night, and everything before them was an illusion meant to confuse them.

Actually, the warm little courtyard they saw was a demon lair filled with bones and cobwebs. The fragrant noodles they held were transformed from toads and maggots, and if they ate them, they would rot by the next morning.

But... these plain vegetable and wheat noodles were truly fragrant!

Mrs. Li suddenly felt nervous, Ah Wang’s culinary skills were really hard to surpass.

But according to the lady’s implication, if she wasn’t satisfied with what they made, the cooking duties would not be given to her.

Nobody would support idle people, and if they only depended on her husband’s monthly wage, it would be hard for their family of three to make ends meet.

While pondering over what dishes to prepare the next day, Mrs. Li finished her noodles, even drinking the last drop of soup.

"This soup is quite special..." Mrs. Li smacked her lips over the lingered taste, very fresh and sweet, with a hint of soybean aroma, "Could it be a snake-broth soup base?"

Ah Wang, leaning against the door post, turned back with curiosity at her words and glanced at Mrs. Li, "You guessed it?"

Mrs. Li nodded in surprise, not expecting she had guessed right.

Moreover, this soup was rich, not something an ordinary small snake could boil.

Ah Wang cleared her confusion, saying, "I caught two grass pythons by the riverbank at noon, a male and a female."

Spring has arrived, with all things reviving, and it’s the season of animals uniting, often leading to unexpected rewards while walking.

Plenty of mushrooms have also sprouted in the hills, and whenever he goes to chop firewood, he can pick a basket of them on his way back.

Various delicious mushroom soups are continuously supplied at home, nourishing the body, and even making the children’s faces plump.

Da Lang seemed to have entered the ’a teenager in half is a parent’s doom’ phase, with his appetite soaring and his height shooting up by a segment.

Mrs. Li secretly noted down all this information, deciding the amount of food to prepare the next day.

It was getting late, the beds were made, Liu Ji herded the kids into the room to sleep, and he also withdrew.

Qin Yao stored away the servitude contract of Song Yu and his wife, lit a moxa stick to ward off mosquitoes, and went to sleep.

It wasn’t summer yet, but the countryside had plenty of mosquitoes that were already emerging, and without moxibustion, they could probably be woken up by the annoying buzzes in the middle of the night.

Ah Wang prepared hot water and moxa for Song Yu’s family, cleaned up the kitchen, checked the doors and windows, and went back to the attic to sleep.

A small side room was left for the family of three, the room was very small, with only a bed less than 1.2 meters wide.

However, there was also a mat spread on the floor, as a makeshift bed, where the child could sleep.

The bedding on the bed was fragrant, and Mrs. Li curiously murmured a sentence: "I wonder what kind of fragrance was used, it smells so nice."

Lying in the soft bedding on the floor, Little Lai Fu immediately responded proudly: "I know, it’s the master’s fragrant soap!"

Mrs. Li instinctively wanted to say that’s impossible, how precious is scented soap?

Madam Song and the young lady barely use it to wash their faces and hands.

But before she could speak, she suddenly remembered the fragrant soap she saw on the windowsill while washing up just now.

Little Lai Fu took a deep breath of the floral scent in the bedding, "Indeed, it’s exactly the fragrance of the scented soap, Second Lang said their family uses scented soap for bathing, shampooing, and washing clothes, everything becomes fragrant afterwards."

Song Yu’s expression darkened, "Don’t address him carelessly, you should call him Second Young Master, remember?"

Little Lai Fu grumbled dissatisfied, "But Second Young Master clearly said to call him Second Lang..."

Song Yu wanted to further admonish his son, but upon turning his head, the little guy fell asleep while speaking.

"Sigh~" Mrs. Li sighed, this arrival at Liu Family Village was completely different from how she imagined, leaving her feeling uneasy.

This new family, saying it’s not wealthy, yet it uses such precious things as fragrant soap to wash bedding.

But saying it’s wealthy, there isn’t a single piece of jade or gold around the house.

Fortunately, this family seemed like kind-hearted people, the lady even promised to send Little Lai Fu to school, and thinking so, perhaps good fortune was indeed ahead.

Mrs. Li didn’t sleep well all night, worrying about that breakfast, she closed her eyes for a bit, then soon startled awake again.

Falling asleep once more, she was frightened awake by a faint reading voice, sitting bolt upright in bed, thinking it was over, waking up after the master.

At this time, Mrs. Li didn’t yet realize her own master’s determination to be the first to rise in the household, misunderstanding this ’worldly wisdom’, she rushed to dress and went to the kitchen, thinking she was late.

Opening the door, she froze for a moment, the night was dark and silent.

A rooster crowed in the backyard, it was just early 3 a.m. (close to 3:30 a.m.).

Looking back again at the study illuminated in the backyard, Mrs. Li felt deep respect—so rigorous was the master’s study!

But since she was up, she began to prepare anyway.

It would be a little over an hour before the young master and miss wake up to go to school, giving her plenty of time to prepare.

Mrs. Li lit a lamp and quietly busied herself in the kitchen.

Last night, she had briefly familiarized herself with the kitchen under Ah Wang’s guidance and knew there were eggs, flour, millet, and various preserved fruits at home, deciding to make her best pastries.

Thinking about the young master and miss’s lunch, she also prepared leek pies.

The sounds from the kitchen were barely audible, Qin Yao sensed someone had gotten up, but soon fell asleep again.

She had purposely required the children and herself to get up early, just barely dressed when she heard the excited cries of the Dragon and Phoenix Twins coming from the courtyard. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

The aroma of breakfast already drifted to her nose through the window crack, a sweet and clean smell of pastry, with a bit of roasted fragrance, making her mouth water.

Qin Yao opened the door, even though only Song Yu’s family of three had joined, it felt as if the whole courtyard was bustling with people.

Little Lai Fu was running back and forth between the kitchen and the hall, helping his mother with whatever he could manage.

Song Yu wasn’t idle either, having already swept the courtyard inside and out, and prepared the necessary paper and pen for work, just waiting for Qin Yao to go to the stationery factory together.

After feeding the livestock, Ah Wang was helping the Dragon and Phoenix Twins untangle their hair, which had become a tangled mess they were reluctant to unravel even while sleeping last night.

In that moment, Ah Wang suddenly remembered Yin Le’s nimble hands weaving through hair, and when it came to this hair-binding matter, her hands were no less adept than his hands used for killing.

Liu Ji had finished his morning lessons, holding two arm-strength training tools that Qin Yao had made for Da Lang with a small stone mill, walking and raising them, emitting effortful "hey-ha" sounds from his mouth.

When Qin Yao stepped out, Liu Ji was raising the training tools high, and their eyes met.

Liu Ji blinked his Taohua eyes: Would she think I look like a gorilla?

His handsome face flushed, he hurriedly turned around, heaving the two heavy training stone mills, and fled to the backyard!

Qin Yao: ???

What on earth just ran past me?