Chapter 767: Chapter 767: Live-in Son-in-law 29
The day Yuan Chun got injured, it happened at the hospital. Coincidentally, Kang Chengbing caught a cold from the rain on the same day he got divorced and had a fever, so he went to the hospital to see a doctor and saw Yuan Chun.
Yuan Chun didn’t want to receive treatment at the hospital, so she thick-skinnedly asked Kang Chengbing to send her back to the Sheng Family home.
Just like that, Kang Chengbing used the excuse of visiting a patient to drop by the Sheng Family every few days to see Yuan Chun.
Every time he came, he didn’t come empty-handed.
Sometimes he bought things, and other times he brought meat dishes from the State-owned Restaurant, always arriving just in time for lunch.
Kang Chengbing is a chef. In this era, the State-owned Restaurant cooked meals in large pots. Dishes like braised pork, braised fish, and fried meatballs were all made in one big pot. Every morning, he would finish preparing those main dishes and could then clock out of work, while the remaining dishes, mantou, dumplings, and such were the works of the second chef and apprentices.
Kang Chengbing comes from a family of imperial chefs. All five brothers became chefs, and their ancestral culinary skills far surpassed Mrs. Sheng’s makeshift cooking skills.
Each time Kang Chengbing visited, he would teach Mrs. Sheng a few tricks, significantly improving her cooking, and her meals became much tastier than before.
When two chefs get together, there’s always much to talk about, and Mrs. Sheng often looks at Kang Chengbing with the eager eyes of a mother-in-law inspecting a son-in-law, liking him more each time she sees him.
Good family background, good looks, good job, good character, tall stature, willing to spend money on Yuan Chun, and also being in a second marriage without kids, he’s the perfect match for Yuan Chun in terms of age. You could say Kang Chengbing meets all of Mrs. Sheng’s criteria for a son-in-law.
Mrs. Sheng smiled and said, "Chengbing, Yuan Chun, you two chat. The tofu in the pot is done stewing; I’ll go turn off the stove."
As Mrs. Sheng left, she took her precious little granddaughter to the east room, letting the old man watch over her, giving the young couple some space to talk privately.
Kang Chengbing gazed warmly at Yuan Chun, his voice so gentle it could almost drip water. "Yuan Chun, how are you today? Does your chest still hurt?"
"It still hurts a bit, but not as bad as a few days ago." Yuan Chun slightly raised her upper body and shifted up a bit, and Kang Chengbing hurriedly got up to adjust her pillow, making her more comfortable.
Yuan Chun said, "The pastries you bought last time, I haven’t finished them yet. Don’t buy more next time, they get stale and don’t taste good after a while."
"Then next time I’ll get you sesame balls."
"That sounds good, I haven’t had them in ages."
"I’ll buy them right after lunch."
"Haha, no need to rush, it’s just a snack I can eat anytime."
"How can I not rush? As long as it’s something you want to eat, I want to bring it to you immediately to please you."
Kang Chengbing doesn’t hide his admiration for Yuan Chun at all.
Yuan Chun even teased him, "You’re so good, considerate, gentle, and attentive. How could Jiang Min just let you go?"
"Hmph, don’t mention that crazy woman." Kang Chengbing was filled with anger just talking about her.
The Kang and Jiang families were family friends. Kang Chengbing and Jiang Min grew up together as childhood sweethearts. When the elders wanted to arrange a marriage between them, neither had any objections, so they got married rather cluelessly.
For the first three years of their marriage, Jiang Min was always the gentle and considerate wife.
However, during those three years, Jiang Min never conceived. She secretly went to the hospital for a check-up, where the doctor told her she was healthy and hinted for her to have her husband checked since there was no problem with her, it had to be him.
From then on, Jiang Min couldn’t stand the sight of Kang Chengbing, and her true nature, which she had been hiding, gradually revealed itself. She was domineering and willful, sharp-tongued and relentless, while Kang Chengbing wouldn’t put up with it. The couple ended up fighting every other day.
This year, Jiang Min secretly started an affair with a pretty boy from her workplace and divorced Kang Chengbing.
After the divorce, Jiang Min went around spreading rumors that Kang Chengbing was infertile, infuriating the Kang family, who went to the Jiang family to demand an explanation.
But the Jiang family, who raised someone like Jiang Min, weren’t good people either.