Chapter 391: Chapter 391 Exaggerating Chapter 391: Chapter 391 Exaggerating Mrs. Zhang couldn’t stand seeing Su Yunjin’s family living better and better, and didn’t want to see Su Yunjin and her husband either, spending most of her days hiding indoors and not coming out.
Mrs. Zhang kept to herself, so Su Yunjin felt even more at ease.
This way, she didn’t have to see Mrs. Zhang flitting about in front of her at any given time of the day or evening.
It was far too irritating.
Although Mrs. Zhang hid herself away and didn’t come out, her mind was wholly preoccupied with schemes against Su Yunjin. She thought of using Miss Yanyan to seduce Gu Ya on the day of her father-in-law Lord Gu Chengxiang’s birthday.
Miss Yanyan used to visit the Gu Family frequently because she had set her sights on Gu Ya and wanted to marry him. But after Gu Ya became lame, she never stepped foot in the Gu Family residence again.
The marriage proposal that had been brought up to the Gu Family, she also dropped.
But now, things were different. Not only could Gu Ya earn money now, but even his leg wasn’t lame anymore. If Miss Yanyan saw this for herself, Mrs. Zhang believed that even without her adding fuel to the fire, Miss Yanyan would be eager to seduce Gu Ya herself.
When the time came and Yanyan arrived, Mrs. Zhang didn’t believe that Su Yunjin and her husband Gu Ya wouldn’t start having misgivings about one another.
While Mrs. Zhang was plotting against Su Yunjin and her husband from the confines of her room, she also spared no effort in making plans for her son, Gu Changshun. These days, Gu Changshun was only returning home at night, his whereabouts during the day unknown.
Mrs. Zhang decided to speak to her mother-in-law, Mrs. An, and Lord Gu Chengxiang at some point, to ask them to agree to let Gu Changshun move back home. That way, her son wouldn’t need to run around outside, with no home to return to.
When Mrs. Zhang went to Lord Gu Chengxiang and Mrs. An’s rooms, she originally intended to speak up for her son Gu Changshun and the matter of him moving back in, but they showed no fondness for her.
Before she could even mention Gu Changshun, Lord Gu Chengxiang said he wanted to rest, and Mrs. Zhang, infuriated, kicked the doorstep. Lord Chengxiang and Mrs. An were really too biased.
They had favored the youngest son for years.
And now, they blatantly favored both members of the youngest son’s couple.
After delivering water to the workers, Gu Ya stayed to watch the workers as they repaired the house, while Su Yunjin returned to the Gu Family residence.
The wild fruits she bought at the market last time had not yet been turned into fruit wine, and now Su Yunjin planned to go back and turn all the wild fruits in the house into fruit wine.
The wild fruits were currently stored in the room.
Yunjin couldn’t carry a basketful of wild fruits in one go.
After splitting the task into two trips, Yunjin moved all the wild fruits to the kitchen.
The last time she made Pickled Fish Sauce, two jars were left unused. Yunjin roughly estimated that the basket of wild fruits she brought back could be made into two jars of fruit wine.
After fetching two buckets of clean water, she washed all the fruits thoroughly, then fetched more water to clean the two pottery jars.
To better ferment the fruits, Yunjin got a knife and made several cuts on the surface of each fruit. Once done, she placed them inside the pottery jars.
Fruit wine can be made with white sugar or rock sugar, but using rock sugar makes the flavor more fragrant and pure. While she added rock sugar into the jars, covering all the fruits, she also poured wine into the jars.
Making fruit wine was not troublesome, and before Gu Ya returned, Yunjin had finished making the fruit wine.
The fruit wine was ready.
Now, all that was needed was for the fruit wine to ferment.
It would be ready to eat in about half a month.
Yunjin looked at the two jars of fruit wine she had just made. This was her first attempt at making fruit wine, and she had no idea how it would taste.