[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-212":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543597,2006,"Chapter 212 - 212 211 Two Taoists","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-212",212,"\u003Cp>212: Chapter 211: Two Taoists 212: Chapter 211: Two Taoists I don’t know what’s up, but Gu Youyou felt a lot more irritable these past couple of days—it seemed like nothing was right, and she constantly felt like there was a suffocating anger inside her, ready to explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when she looked at these two shameless men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting at home, waiting to be fed without working?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was she the typical capitalist that exploited the working people, a person who harbored grudges?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, she wasn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the day, Yuancheng mistook one herb for another, and Gu Youyou scolded him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it now, she might have been too harsh—after all, Yuancheng was just a ten-year-old child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was wrong to employ child labor in the first place, so how could she scold him as if he were an adult who’d done something wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, while it was still not too late in the evening, she took out the lotus roots she had brought home a few days ago, intending to make sweet osmanthus sugar lotus roots for Yuancheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing the lotus roots clean, she saw Jin Zijin had just sharpened a knife, so she waved him over, saying, “Done with nothing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come help me, watch the fire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You didn’t have enough to eat tonight?” Jin Zijin asked with surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou stuffed the sticky rice into the lotus roots and said, “This is for Yuancheng.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably having never seen lotus roots eaten this way, Jin Zijin took a couple of extra glances at her hands, and after wiping his own, obediently sat by the stove to tend the fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did you think of making food for Yuancheng?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Doctor Zhou passed away, is Yuancheng not getting enough to eat?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou gave him a disdainful look and said curtly, “You thick-headed man wouldn’t understand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All you care about is whether the belly is full, how typical.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Rujing was cleaning windows outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou shouted at him, “Yue Rujing, it’s almost dark, what’s the point in cleaning windows now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You won’t get them clean, you might as well hurry to the riverbank and pick some fresh osmanthus flowers for me in Osmanthus Village.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you making osmanthus hair oil?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I tell you to pick them, just hurry up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why all these questions?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweet osmanthus sugar lotus roots were something Gu Youyou learned from the auntie who cooked traditional Chinese food at her house—the auntie, a rural widow raising her son alone, was skilled and could make many traditional dishes, sweet osmanthus sugar lotus roots just being one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People from ancient times knew how to make sweet osmanthus sugar lotus roots, but it was unclear from what era this started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing how Yue Rujing and Jin Zijin acted, it seemed people here probably didn’t know how to make it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She packed the sticky rice into the lotus roots and secured them with bamboo sticks before placing them in the pot, steaming them with the prepared osmanthus sugar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make them soft and delicious, she needed to steam them slowly on a low flame, which would take a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night darkened, ushering in a chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou sent Jin Zijin out and tended to the fire herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cozy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Rujing headed off to the study to read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no intention of going to bed so early; he was waiting to taste the strange sugar lotus roots Gu Youyou made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking a bath, Jin Zijin passed by the study and popped his head in before heading toward the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Rujing put down his book and, lowering his voice, hushed, “Brother, come here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The yard wasn’t all that big—how could Gu Youyou not know about any activity that took place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She scoffed as she tended the fire, thinking about the two Taoists who tried to trick her into believing they were some sort of cousins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had initially planned to move directly to the back courtyard of Jisheng Hall, and that was why she stayed in the same yard as them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou, with her sharp ears, inadvertently caught every whisper they meant to keep secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curious about the mischief the two were cooking up in the study, Gu Youyou listened intently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, I feel like Gu Youyou is off again today!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin responded irritably, “When do you ever see her acting normal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweet osmanthus sugar lotus roots, have you ever heard of them?”\u003C\u002Fp>",744,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","25a43404b5d35c724e886b3709c7edb1634a1db11e78ef941b9d1b250f53e20d","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-213","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-211",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]