Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 42

Pan Meijia’s Resentment
Lu Jueyu turned her head and looked at Wang Muxiao with wide eyes, and asked in a low voice, “So generous?”

Hearing her words, Wang Muxiao waved her hands and said, “You don’t know, she is not only generous, but also very straightforward. She asked how much it was, and I just casually said 5 yuan. The next moment, she really gave the money without saying a word.”

“Five yuan for a bowl of dumplings? The ingredients are not that expensive, aren’t they overpriced?” Lu Jueyu was surprised by Wang Muxiao’s ‘appetite’. One dares to take, another dares to give.

Wang Muxiao clicked her tongue and said, “Where is it over priced? Herbal medicines such as ginseng are very precious. Not to mention meat, eggs and fresh vegetables. At this time, where do you go to find fresh vegetables? If not your fiancé cares about you and is filial to our parents, how can we eat those things?”

Lu Jueyu was stunned by her words. She did miss that point. During winter, most people can only eat pickled vegetables. Not to mention fresh vegetables, even eggs and fish are hard to find. It seems that she must be more careful next time.

After Father Lu was seated, the Lu family began to eat. Since it is her sister-in-law who cooks, the food is not as delicious as usual. For dinner, there are coarse-grain porridge, meat sauce, and coarse-grain pancakes. Fortunately, she makes really good meat sauce. When they eat pancakes, they spread a thin layer of meat sauce on top.

Just as Wang Muxiao expected, Xiao Yiqing and Pan Meijia walked out of the room. They thought they could have another delicious meal, and they were already salivating, but when they saw the food, their hearts sank. Why is the food different from yesterday? Could it be that those foods were really given to them by their future son-in-law, rather than bought by themselves?

Lu Jueyu glanced at them but said nothing, and continued to eat. After a while, Xiao Yiqing asked, “Sister-in-law, can I have a bowl of porridge and a pancake?”

“Of course. Because we only use ordinary ingredients tonight, you just need to give us fifty cents for a bowl of porridge and a pancake.” Wang Muxiao said with a broad smile.

Although it was only fifty cents, it was still expensive compared to the amount of food they got in exchange. Because they use whole grains, the ingredients for a bowl of porridge and a pancake should only cost about ten to twenty cents. But even if she knew the price was too high, she could only agree to her price. After all, it was already the end of the year, and food was in short supply. She was lucky enough to get some food.

Although she is stingy, Wang Muxiao is still reasonable. So, when she took a pancake for Xiao Yiqing, she scooped half a spoonful of meat sauce and spread it thinly on the pancake. With meat sauce, the aroma and taste of food are greatly increased. Moreover, the water they use for cooking comes from Lu Jueyu’s space. Therefore, although it is only coarse-grain porridge, the taste is comparable to that of white rice porridge.

She handed the food to Xiao Yiqing, took the money, and continued to eat. Looking at the porridge with more water than rice and pancakes smaller than a palm, Pan Meijia hesitated. When she went out for a walk this morning, she met some educated youths who had lived in this village for more than two years.

They said that even if they earn work points every year and get a share of food and meat, it is only enough to make them half full. They also need to ration food carefully in case there is nothing left before distribution day.

Hearing this, Pan Meijia regretted coming to this place. She looked at Xiao Yiqing who was eating without even giving her a glance. She looked at her resentfully. After all, if Xiao Yiqing hadn’t begged her to accompany her, she would never have come to this place. Since she dragged her down, shouldn’t she buy some food for her?

No one noticed Pan Meijia’s resentment, but Lu Jueyu looked at the two with interest. According to the plot, this Pan Meijia is a through-and-through cannon fodder. She is straightforward, simple-minded, and deeply loyal. Despite her short-tempered and outspoken personality, she has a righteous and kind heart.

At the beginning of the novel, whenever the heroine makes trouble, she always cleans the mess for her. Although she found something was wrong, she still chose to believe in the heroine again and again. When the heroine went to the black market to sell food and was almost caught by the authorities, it was she who saved her.

But because of this, she was arrested instead and was sent to prison, while the heroine lived a happy life. Taking advantage of her illness in prison, she wrote a letter to ask the heroine to meet for the last time, but the heroine flatly declined. In the end, she died with her eyes open, full of remorse and resentment.

Thinking of this, Lu Jueyu felt pity for Pan Meijia. She was not yet 25 years old when she died. Seeing her clutching her thin purse tightly, Lu Jueyu sighed. She scooped up a bowl of porridge, took a pancake, smeared it with meat sauce, and handed it to her.

Pan Meijia was stunned when she saw the food, and said, “I don’t want food. I’m not hungry.”

“Even if you’re not hungry, you should eat a little. Otherwise, you will get sick and we need to find a doctor for you. It’s too troublesome.” Lu Jueyu said as she stuffed the food into Pan Meijia’s hand.

After finishing speaking, she turned and continued to eat. Seeing this, the members of the Lu family didn’t say anything. They were actually able to give her some food.