Chapter 24: The Return
When the watermelon was cut, Shen Xiu was immediately happy, "This melon is really red, and the seeds are black and bright, and the taste is definitely not bad." ”
She covered half with a wet towel and put it back into the well water, and cut out the other half.
"Sister-in-law, give." Shen Xiu picked a large piece and handed it to Lin Xiaoliang, took another piece for herself, and then put the rest of the watermelon up and waited for her grandpa and grandma to come back to eat.
Lin Xiaoliang actually needs to be very careful about watermelon, otherwise it will be a juicy fruit very much, even if she eats it, she has to cut it into two or three small pieces, but in the face of Shen Xiu's kindness, she naturally will not refuse.
In fact, the seedless watermelons that were originally planted in her space were all seedless, and this seeded one was still newly planted, no way, who let the seedless watermelon not appear at this time.
Finally finished eating a large piece of watermelon, Lin Xiaoliang washed his hands and wiped his mouth, and was about to pour water, when the voices of Shen Zhangming and Luo Yufang came from the door.
Listening to the rather annoyed tone, her heart tightened, and she hurriedly walked out, and heard Luo Yufang's angry and hateful words: "Why did I give birth to such a thing?" ”
"What's going on?" Lin Xiaoliang asked a little timidly.
"Isn't Xiuwa their father yet? With a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan in his hand, he still wants to be greedy for the ribs and walnuts I bought for you. Luo Yufang was so angry that she trembled when she spoke.
"Something is leaving?" Lin Xiaoliang glanced at the vegetable basket that Grandi was holding in her hand.
"How can you?" Luo Yufang glared at Shen Zhangming, "The old man almost gave it to them, but I snatched it back quickly." ”
"Where do I want to give, when Shen Xiaobao came up to grab it, didn't I react?" Shen Zhangming said a little sullenly.
For Shen Xiaobao, the titular great-grandson, they don't like it at all, let alone grandchildren.
Since the things are saved, there is no need to get angry, so as not to hurt yourself.
"How can there be walnuts at this time?" Lin Xiaoliang changed the subject.
"It's a wild walnut on the mountain, and the retail investors come out to sell it, three cents a catty, I heard that this thing is supplemented, so I will weigh you two catties." Luo Yufang replied.
She saved on other things, but she was not ambiguous about supplementing her granddaughter-in-law.
Lin Xiaoliang took it and looked at it, "This seems to be a hickory." ”
"What happened to pecans?" Luo Yufang was a little nervous, this thing is not cheap, she has never seen it before, don't be deceived, right?
"Pecans are not bad, but the shell is hard, and it is not easy to eat."
Luo Yufang breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, you can borrow a hammer and knock it open." ”
"Are the ribs good today?" Lin Xiaoliang nodded and asked again.
"Isn't it?" Luo Yufang happily unwrapped the paper bag and showed her, "Didn't you say that you like to eat those small chops, you see this is what you said, it was just shipped from the slaughterhouse, but it is fresh." ”
At this time, pork ribs are not as expensive as pork belly, so Lin Xiaoliang likes to eat pork ribs, and she has no opinion at all.
"And the big bones you mentioned, I didn't have them today, but I told them that I would keep them for us tomorrow, and they didn't count the money." The daughter-in-law said that the soup was not only delicious but also very replenishing, and because of her trust in her knowledge and cooking skills, Luo Yufang did not hesitate to inquire.
Seeing that Grandma's attention was completely diverted, Lin Xiao's heart was relieved, and she talked about other topics with her with a smile.
On the day Shen Chi came back, Shen Xiu accompanied Shen Zhangming to the station to pick up people, while Lin Xiaoliang and Luo Yufang stayed at home.
"Wanwan, what to do with this kelp?" In today's Shen family, the right to speak in the kitchen has been completely occupied by Lin Xiaoliang, and Luo Yufang and Shen Xiu are usually the first to fight.
"Let's have a cold salad." Lin Xiaoliang looked at the ingredients in the kitchen and said that she wanted to make a kelp tofu soup, but the tofu at this meeting was not easy to buy, the supply and marketing cooperatives did not have to sell it, and the private ones were also sold secretly. Although there are a lot of soybeans in her space, as long as you can have tofu under the operation of the processing workshop, it is difficult to explain.
"Then you come." They only cook here by stir-frying and boiling, and the cold salad is still eaten by Lin Xiaoliang when she marries in.
Luo Yufang couldn't help but wash the kelp: "This kelp is so fresh, it's the same as just fished out of the sea, Wanwan, your luck is so good, every time you go out, you can meet vendors selling these rare goods." She really thinks that this granddaughter-in-law is lucky, and she doesn't go out a few times, and rare goods like watermelon and kelp that can't be met once a year can also be encountered.
She said it sincerely, Lin Xiaoliang listened to it and quickly brought out the steamed pork in the pot.
"It smells so good!" Luo Yufang asked Wei'er and praised: "It's much better than what I did." Chi Wa has loved to eat this dish since he was a child, and he will definitely be happy for a while. ”
Lin Xiaoqian pursed his lips and smiled, and took out a handful of soybeans newly harvested this year from the cupboard, which was to be fried for the two gentlemen to make snacks, and the men who drank here were all good at this.
Cold salad with shredded kelp, steamed pork, fried soybeans, fried vegetables, salted white rice shrimp and boiled fish, Shen Chi was surrounded by the aroma as soon as he entered the hospital, he raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but show a slight smile.
"I'm back." Looking at the little wife with a slightly bulging belly around the apron coming out of the kitchen, Shen Chi said in a soft and low tone.
Lin Xiaoliang paused, "...... Welcome back. ”
Shen Chi didn't bring any luggage, so he carried a small bag, and when he entered the house, he put the bag down and sat down at the dinner table.
When I was in the army, I didn't feel that I had realized it when I sat here, and I had always been thinking about this family and his little wife.
Lin Xiaoliang took the basin and let him wash his face and wipe his hands, and was about to take it out to pour out the water, but Shen Chi stopped him and said, "You sit, I'll come." ”
Just now, he sighed for a while, how could he still sit by himself and let his daughter-in-law work.
Lin Xiaoliang gave her the basin and went into the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks.
"Chi Wa, you try this tamale, Wanwan's cooking is better than me and your aunt." At the dinner table, Luo Yufang sandwiched a large amount of steamed pork with chopsticks and noodles into Shen Chi's bowl.
Shen Chi was immediately happy after taking a bite, this taste is really amazing. If your daughter-in-law goes to the city to do business, she will definitely make a lot of money.
The tamales are made to be sweet, with spicy soju just right, but Shen Zhangming has always only drunk rice wine, and prefers spicy and delicious boiled fish to tamales.
"By the way, brother, didn't you say you were going to buy the goods? How did you come back empty-handed? After eating and drinking, Shen Xiu asked strangely.
"The defective products on the second aunt's side have been disposed of, and the return of qualified products is too slow, time-consuming and laborious, I have made some money this time, and I will not sell clothes for the time being." He actually inquired about other transactions when he went to Licheng this time, but those were either too costly, his grandfather and grandmother couldn't do it, or they didn't work in the county seat.
In fact, his daughter-in-law's craft can do some small business, but he is reluctant to let her suffer like that.
Shen Chi has always been a capable person, and Shen Zhangming and Luo Yufang are also used to letting go of him, and never ask him much about it, so even if they heard him say that he made some money, they didn't get to the bottom of it.
Shen Chi took the car for a day and a night, and he was actually a little tired, so he went back to the house to sleep after talking.
Pushing the door into the room, Shen Chi was stunned, only a few months, there have been a lot of changes in the house, the things are still those things, but there are more things that were not there before.
There is a pink and white thin-necked vase on the desk, which is inserted with two unknown white flowers, next to which are neatly placed textbooks and books, pens and ink, and a layer of white ** tablecloth is laid on the tabletop, and a whole piece of transparent glass is pressed on it.
In the corner of the room was a small wicker dustpan with balls of yarn and a half-finished baby coat on a low cabinet in the corner.
The big red wardrobe was polished, and there were several pairs of shoes against the wall next to it, both his and Lin Xiao's, each pair was washed cleanly and neatly arranged.
The room has not changed much, but Shen Chi has an indescribable feeling, it should be the most ordinary farmhouse, but it suddenly became ...... It's a little warmer, yes, that's the word.
He put on his slippers and was about to change his clothes, when Lin Xiaoliang walked in with a basin of water, "You soak your feet and then sleep." ”
Shen Chi was a little surprised, so that he was stunned for a moment before taking the basin.
"You sit with me." He pulled Lin Xiaoliang to his side and sat down, and his eyes couldn't help but glance at her stomach.
Where Lin Xiaoliang couldn't see, he curled his fingers in a hurry.
Lin Xiaoliang didn't really want to be alone with him, he always felt awkward, and he didn't know what to say.
Shen Chi saw it but didn't know it, and said in a gentle tone: "When I'm not at home, does the baby trouble you?" ”
Lin Xiaowan shook his head, "No, he's very well-behaved." ”
"I ...... Can you touch it? Shen Chi couldn't hold back after all.
He is actually not mentally prepared for being a father, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to, men always want to start a family and marry the girl they like, and naturally hope that the other party can give him a child.
The last time I came back, Lin Xiaoliang's condition was not good, and his stomach was not yet pregnant, so the feeling was not so profound, and when he really realized that his child was being conceived in the belly of the woman he liked, the satisfaction at that time almost overwhelmed him.
"What?" Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then reacted to what he meant, his face turned red, he wanted to refuse but felt a little unkind, he was the child's father in the end, and finally said, "You touch it." "My body has tensed unconsciously.
Although she also had a lot of friends of the opposite sex in her previous life, and she had a lot of time to play, she was born in this conservative era, not as open as young people, and always kept the moral bottom line in her heart.
Even though Shen Chi had some "compulsive" intimate actions towards her last time when she was at home, she still couldn't adapt to it.
Seeing her nervousness, Shen Chi didn't plan to accept it when he saw it, he reached out and gently pressed it against her bulging abdomen, and for a moment he felt that his heart couldn't stop being hot.