Bride Swap Backfire: My Cousin's Rebirth Made Us a Power Couple Chapter 181 - 83: Pressing the Advantage

"Mother, where has your mind gone!"

Chen Wanqing’s face was so red it felt like it was about to give off steam!

She shot to her feet, wanting to escape.

Her mother would truly say anything. And she was still a young lady!

Chen Wanqing shot her mother a glare. "You’re a mother, you should have so filter. What about Zhao Jing and ? Nothing’s happened between us."

Xu Suying’s expression changed as fast as flipping through a book.

Just a mont ago, she was all smiles, wearing a knowing, teasing grin, but now her brows were furrowed as she scrutinized Chen Wanqing.

"You two have already shared a bed, and you still haven’t done the deed? I’m telling you, Qing’er, is it that Jing doesn’t know how, or do you really have an aversion to that sort of thing? Let tell you..."

"It’s neither! Mother, don’t overthink it, really! We just... we just..."

Chen Wanqing’s thoughts were a jumbled ss, like a sack of hemp rope that a cat had clawed into a hopeless tangle, with no beginning or end in sight.

Chen Wanqing was terribly frustrated. "Mother, please stop ddling. Your daughter is grown now; I know what I should and shouldn’t do. Mother, please stop worrying about . Weren’t you about to go out and buy breakfast? You should go. Just give the comb, I’ll do my hair myself."

Xu Suying pursed her lips, finding this no fun at all. ’Fine. If my daughter doesn’t want to worry, then I won’t.’

’Besides, when it cos to consummating the marriage, if she isn’t in a hurry, soone else certainly is.’

’As long as soone is concerned about it, that’s enough. I’ll just wash my hands of the whole thing.’

Xu Suying quickly returned with breakfast.

It was a few bowls of mutton soup and several hot sesa seed cakes.

The cakes were seasoned with salt and pepper on the inside and coated with white sesa seeds on the outside. Soaked in the mutton soup, they were just as delicious.

This was an alternative version of mutton soup with torn flatbread. However, compared to the bread specifically made for soaking, these cakes were much softer. If you didn’t fish them out quickly, they would turn into a soggy lump and lose their appeal.

Xu Suying spoke frankly, "These sesa seed cakes aren’t as good as the ones your grandpa makes."

The old man’s craft of making sesa seed cakes in a hanging oven was a family inheritance. The cakes he made were golden and crispy on the outside, yet tender on the inside. Whether soaked in soup or eaten on their own, they were exceptionally delicious.

That was why, when it ca to making sesa seed cakes, Chen Dachang was the best.

The old man’s skill, combined with Chen Lin’s audacious attitude, ant that the sesa seed cake shop run by the father and son duo had cornered almost the entire market in the county.

When people in the county thought of sesa seed cakes, their shop was the first that ca to mind. The competition was squeezed out so badly they had almost no room to survive.

But with Chen Lin’s leg injury, the old man was left to run the sesa seed cake shop all by himself.

He had to both make the cakes and handle the money. The old man wasn’t good at arithtic and often made mistakes. Plus, he was getting on in years and had slowed down considerably. Many custors grew impatient and went to other shops instead, causing a significant loss of business.

As they talked about the old man, they finished their al.

After the al, the family went out to the market together.

Chen Wanqing and Zhao Jing needed to buy New Year’s supplies like spring couplets, paper window decorations, firecrackers, candy, and roasted peanuts and sunflower seeds. They didn’t need to buy any more at or vegetables. They had bought so much for their wedding that a lot was left over. It had all been sitting unused, so it had probably been prepped into semi-finished ingredients over the past couple of days.

Xu Suying, on the other hand, needed to buy everything.

From at and vegetables to peanuts, sunflower seeds, and candy.

They had been so busy moving the past few days that they hadn’t prepared anything for the New Year. Today was already the twenty-ninth of the lunar month; they had to get everything, or there would be nothing left to buy tomorrow.

After buying the spring couplets, candy, and peanuts, the group split up.

De’an and Yao’an followed behind Xu Suying, pulling a small cart piled high with her purchases.

anwhile, Chen Wanqing and Zhao Jing walked together, planning to buy so dried persimmons.

Dried persimmons were considered a "cold" food in traditional dicine, and eating too many was bad for digestion. But Mrs. Zhao happened to love them.

In the past, Zhao Jing had been strict about her diet because she was on dication. But since it was the New Year, he wanted to let his mother indulge a little. So, he decided to buy so for her to snack on.

So families in the village also made dried persimmons, but they were usually for their own consumption or for gifting to friends and relatives. To show up at their door and ask for so would an owing a favor, so it was more practical just to buy them.

After buying the persimmons, they went to get a shaving razor.

Because Zhao Jing had said, "I’ve been using the one Dad left behind, but for so reason, the handle broke."

Chen Wanqing hadn’t noticed, but a shaving razor was a necessity in any household with a man, so they might as well buy a new one.

The two of them arrived at a shop specializing in ironware, where they saw an elderly, stooped-backed barber giving soone a shave.

The barbers here in Qingshui County also specialized in giving shaves.