Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 200 Pretentious!

Chapter 200: Chapter 200 Pretentious!

Ye Zhenzhen bought these vegetables for An Xi, and most of them were inexpensive and easy to cook.

Now with 22 yuan and 5 jiao left, Ye Zhenzhen walked over to the meat stall and inquired about the current price of meat, finding out it was 12 yuan per half kilogram, except for bones and special cuts of meat.

Ye Zhenzhen pointed at a piece of meat with both fat and lean parts and then gestured with her hand, "Boss, cut this piece for me."

Then she explained to An Xi, "The lean part of this piece can be used for soup, while the fatty layer beneath can be stir-fried with onions and carrots, just perfect."

And the portion was quite generous.

An Xi kept nodding her head, "Mhm, whatever you say is right."

Gu Xiaoran also added, "Aunt Zhenzhen is so amazing!"

"Of course! She’s my mom!" Song Yuchen said with evident pride following up on Gu Xiaoran’s comment.

[Aww, my Brother Xiao Chen always defends his mom like this.]

[Hahaha, An Xi and her mother are so funny.]

[Gu Xiaoran: Although An Xi and I don’t get along very well, we share the same view when it comes to liking Ye Zhenzhen.]

The boss swiftly cut the meat as Ye Zhenzhen instructed and said with a cheerful chuckle, "Miss, it’s 14 yuan a bit less, I’ll cut you a little lean piece."

"No problem," Ye Zhenzhen pulled out money to pay the boss.

An Xi watched, stunned, and then showered Ye Zhenzhen with flattery, "Wow~ Zhenzhen, how do you know how to do everything? You’re so amazing!"

She had thought buying meat would be quite expensive, but it turned out that this piece of meat cost only 14 yuan.

With this calculation, they still had 8 yuan and 5 jiao left, and according to the standard by which they’d bought vegetables earlier, her 30 yuan were totally enough!

[To think Ye Zhenzhen is not only good at cooking, but she’s also quite the pro at grocery shopping.]

[As a treasure mom, I think the way Ye Zhenzhen shops for groceries doesn’t seem like that of a novice. She looks like someone who shops regularly.]

[Dragging the limited-edition suitcase, she shopped so deftly at the market for vegetables and meat, I really don’t know what to say about her...]

Han Jiangxue also had the stall owner cut her a piece of streaky pork.

"Streaky pork is 25 yuan," the owner smiled at Han Jiangxue.

Han Jiangxue exclaimed, "That’s expensive, isn’t it?"

In fact, the piece of meat she asked the boss to cut was clearly much larger than the one An Xi bought.

An Xi’s piece was just over half a kilogram, while hers weighed more than 2 kilograms.

The meat vendor, an elderly grandpa, said with a beaming smile, "Young lady, pork prices have fallen now. Streaky pork is just 12 yuan per half kilogram, not expensive. Before, when it was expensive, you couldn’t even buy pork for 25 yuan per half kilogram."

"Oh, then it’s not expensive," Han Jiangxue responded with a curved lip.

She mentioned it was expensive because she only had a budget of 20 yuan on her.

And she said so, hoping to remind An Xi and Ye Zhenzhen that her 20 yuan were not enough, as they had just agreed to help each other out...

However, Ye Zhenzhen wasn’t paying any attention to Han Jiangxue at all; she was watching an old man selling eggs not far from the meat stall with his grandson.

The old man was wearing a thick, dark blue cotton padded jacket, which had visibly turned white at the cuffs from washing and showed some small holes.

The boy beside him was draped in a dark blue cotton padded jacket that didn’t quite fit. The color was clearly new, and it was obviously the old man’s new jacket that he had given to his grandson to wear.

Just now, several people had gathered around the grandpa and grandson duo to buy eggs, and the two baskets of eggs they had placed in front of them had quickly sold out.

The grandfather said to the boy, "Xiao Jie, are you cold? Sit down and rest for a bit. Once these eggs are sold out, Grandpa will take you to buy clothes and get some good food to eat."

"Okay, Grandpa. You should sit down and rest too. Do you want some water?"

Ye Zhenzhen glanced at the boy named Xiao Jie.

He and Gu Xiaoran were quite similar, both with dark and lean complexions, but Xiao Jie looked even more frail, and his gaze was more stubborn.

Xiao Jie’s Grandpa spoke as he already took out a thermos from a bamboo basket nearby and handed it over to his own grandpa, "Grandpa, have some water!"

"My good grandson, when grandpa gets home, I’ll make you some soup to drink..."

Ye Zhenzhen watched, so fascinated that she didn’t hear Han Jiangxue calling her from the side.

[What the hell is Ye Jianjian daydreaming about? Is she pretending not to hear Xiao Xue calling her on purpose?]

[Upstairs, can you stop being an idiot and scram? It’s obvious that Han Jiangxue is asking Zhenzhen for money, why the hell should Zhenzhen give it to her?]

[Is Zhenzhen actually going to buy her own groceries or not? Please don’t give up!]

An Xi, "Zhenzhen, Zhenzhen, what are you spacing out for?"

Ye Zhenzhen shifted her attention, "No, I was just thinking about buying you a few eggs later."

Han Jiangxue smiled at Ye Zhenzhen, "Zhenzhen, I’m short 5 yuan to buy meat. Could you lend me five yuan?"

Ye Zhenzhen showed her own money to Han Jiangxue, "I just bought some buns, and now I only have 23 yuan left. If I lend it to you, what will I use to buy ingredients later?"

An Xi was delighted, "Zhenzhen, you haven’t given up on today’s task!"

Ye Zhenzhen smiled and retorted, "When did I ever say I was going to give up on today’s task?"

Han Jiangxue was taken aback, just over twenty yuan left, and still talking about making chicken soup?

The butcher urged, "Miss, are you buying this meat or not?"

He had already made two sales while Han Jiangxue was still hesitating and hadn’t paid yet.

"Miss, since you don’t often buy groceries, you might not know, but pork is really cheap now. Don’t hesitate any longer, buy it and go home to braise or stir-fry; it smells great."

[Hahaha, this butcher is so funny, he’s even started to pitch the sale.]

[Is pork really that cheap now? I remember it was over 30 yuan per jin, wasn’t it?]

[Holy crap, the price you mentioned is outdated, the price of pork has already fallen, it’s around 12 yuan now.]

[Pork prices at the vegetable market near my house are also around 13 yuan, ribs about 23, it has indeed gone down.]

[Alright, me being single and not knowing how to cook, I get to learn about vegetable and pork prices by watching a kid’s show...]

Ye Zhenzhen regretfully said, "Sorry, Xiao Xue, we don’t have enough money."

She thought about Han Jiangxue borrowing her stove last night and the mention of funding earlier. That little bit of scheming was obvious to anyone watching.

Talking about lending her surplus money, yet turning around and asking to borrow money from her.

So, Ye Zhenzhen felt it was best to treat others as they treated her. Wasn’t it all just about putting on a pretense? Who didn’t know how to play that game?

Having said that, she no longer paid Han Jiangxue any mind and spoke to An Xi, "I think the eggs over there look good. Let’s go buy a few."

An Xi smiled at Han Jiangxue, "Xiao Xue, I’m going over there to buy some eggs. Join us after you’ve paid."

At that moment, although An Xi didn’t want to make Han Jiangxue look bad and thought about lending her some money—

since Ye Zhenzhen had just bought buns and given one to Ranran, and was now being so meticulous about budgeting for her groceries, even if An Xi had thoughts, she couldn’t say much.

[Great, Zhenzhen hasn’t given up!]

[Ye Jianjian is probably claiming she hasn’t given up as an excuse not to lend money, right? What kind of chicken can you buy with just twenty-something yuan?]

[Do we have to buy a whole chicken? Wouldn’t chicken legs do? And why should she have to lend money to her?]

[Exactly, exactly, aren’t chicken legs fine?]