If you can’t find a husband, then don’t!
Li Yuzhu, with her modern thinking, almost blurted out these words.
But she feared the Princess Consort Luling would see her as odd, because it concerned the reputation of the Prince Mansion, so Li Yuzhu didn’t say it out loud.
"Can’t I learn?" Li Yuzhu put the fabric on her cot, "It’s just making a garment, how hard can it be? Eldest and second sisters can do it, so can I."
She never lost her momentum to anyone, that’s how she always did things.
Xue Family awaited to see her make a fool of herself, "Oh? Then sister-in-law, we’ll be watching, five days from now, let’s see your skills."
"Just watch." Li Yuzhu gritted her teeth.
She had even learned how to hold a scalpel, why couldn’t she handle a sewing needle?
"Alright, it’s getting late, time to cook dinner. Zhen Niang, go cook," the Princess Consort Luling called out to Xue Family.
Xue Family unwillingly responded, "Got it."
She rolled up her sleeves and went to the stove.
Li Yuzhu followed her over.
Xue Family immediately put on a smile, "Sister-in-law, are you here to help me cook?"
Li Yuzhu stood in front of the utility shelf, rummaging for flour, "Sister-in-law, didn’t we agree? You cook the meal. I’m here to make food for Guoguo."
Baby food needs to be prepared separately.
With Xue Family’s attitude toward work, she probably wouldn’t bother to cook another pot, and Guoguo would suffer.
Realizing she wasn’t here to help, Xue Family’s smile vanished; she pouted as she went to get vegetables for cooking.
Seeing today’s basket of vegetables, Xue Family felt a little better.
The basket contained three carrots, five white radishes, a large cabbage, and a handful of beans.
These were brought back by Li Yuzhu from the market today.
She took out the three carrots, washed them, trimmed off the leafy ends, and started chopping them on the board.
However, the radishes wouldn’t behave and kept rolling around.
Xue Family began to get frustrated.
She started cutting faster.
As a result, she hadn’t even sliced two pieces before she cut a piece of meat off her left index finger.
She screamed repeatedly in pain.
Li Yuzhu was standing next to her and looked up at Xue Family when she heard the noise.
"It’s just a cut, wrap it with a cloth," she shook her head and cut a strip from the newly bought beige coarse cloth, handing it to Xue Family.
"Easy for you to say, why don’t you try cutting a chunk of flesh?" Xue Family took the cloth strip, glaring at Li Yuzhu irritably.
"What can you do? You can’t even cut vegetables without cutting yourself!" the Princess Consort Luling looked at her with disdain.
Xue Family muttered under her breath, "I didn’t want to."
"Great, who’s going to cook dinner now?" the Great Princess looked around, "We just divided the tasks, and already this happens."
"How can I cook with this hand? I can’t," Xue Family complained, looking at her bleeding hand.
"I’ll do it, but sister-in-law, you won’t get credit for today’s work," Li Yuzhu said as she rewashed the vegetables and chopping board.
Xue Family thought for a moment, "I’ll go forage for wild vegetables."
The Princess Consort Luling replied irritably, "Just make sure there’s no more trouble."
Xue Family didn’t say anything and nodded.
Today’s dinner was more sumptuous than usual because the variety of dishes changed and there were more.
Besides porridge, there were also buns and steamed bread.
Also, instead of using primitive bamboo twig chopsticks, they had regular bamboo chopsticks like ordinary families.
There were also more spoons, each person had one.
While eating, the Princess Consort Luling talked about distributing work according to effort.
Prince Luling was very supportive, and the Princely Heir had no objections.
The next morning came in the blink of an eye.
Without needing Li Yuzhu to urge them, when the sky was just getting light, everyone except the two children got up.
They moved with enthusiasm.