Under the pretext of helping with work, staying in the kitchen with Li Xingruo, Lin Lu suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

It's not that I can't cope with chatting with Uncle Li outside, but I'm a little frightened, for fear that I will say the wrong thing or do not do well enough, and when I think of two or three days to get along like this, Lin Lu's scalp is a little numb.

"Okay, it's none of your business, you can go out and have tea with my dad."

Li Xingruo took the big basin in his hand, put the chickens, ducks and geese in it on the cutting board, skillfully trimmed the corners with a knife, and put the whole one in the pot to boil later.

"Don't, Sister Xingruo, I'll shave ginger for you...... Where's the ginger? ”

"My mom is digging outside."

“…… Then I'll peel the garlic for you! ”

"I don't usually see you peeling garlic so much at home?"

"Who said! I love peeling garlic the most! ”

Seeing him like this by her side, Li Xingruo was angry and funny, after all, it was her own home, she was 10,000 times calmer than Lin Lu, and the mood of the two of them at the moment was a little as if they had been transferred to his house on weekdays.

Lin Lu stood next to the sink and tried to peel garlic, Li Xingruo suddenly leaned over, stood on tiptoe and took a bite on his face.

If this was usual, he dared to hug her backhand and go back, but he didn't dare at this time, but he was shocked by her sudden teasing, and he glanced out of the kitchen in a panic, helped the pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, his face was slightly red, and he lowered his voice and said, "What is Sister Xingruo doing?!" When they are seen by Uncle Li and them later, I will be finished! ”

"Hey......

Seeing that he looked like a yellow flower girl, Li Xingruo was even more energetic, and really wanted to hug him well and make him dizzy.

"Aren't you usually like this at your house? Why don't you dare to come to my house? ”

"How can this be the same! Later, Uncle Li will use a knife to cut me! ”

"It's okay, no one sees it anyway...... Don't hide, stand here! ”

“……”

Lin Lu couldn't help her, her Adam's apple rolled twice, her heart was pounding, she didn't dare to make too many movements, let alone make a sound, so she had to swallow her anger and be smacked in the corner.

The slightest movement outside the living room, or a sudden whistle from the road in the distance, can make him instantly raise his heart to his throat like a frightened bird, not to mention, this tense and exciting feeling is really strange.

It felt like a long time, but in fact, it was only a while, Li Xingruo finally let him go, as if he was full, wiped the corners of his mouth contentedly, and pretended to wash the vegetables again.

Her courage seems to be very big, but it's not much, it's just to show her sister's majesty, lest he dare to bully her, she will dare too!

It feels so good to take Lin Lu home, with her parents supporting her, she loves him as much as she wants, and he doesn't dare to say a word.

"What did you just talk to my dad about?"

"It's nothing, just check the account normally, how do I know you, what do you usually do, etc......."

"You didn't backstab me, did you say what I taught you?"

"Said ......"

Lin Lu recalled Uncle Li's expression and reaction just now, and still confirmed with Li Xingruo a little nervously: "Sister Xingruo, what does your father's impression of me think?" ”

"How do I know, it's the first time I've brought a boy to the door, how do you feel?"

"Probably...... Not bad? ”

"Well, that's probably fine, I don't know what my dad's impression of you is, but I know my dad is just as nervous as you."

"It's really fake, I can't tell it."

"Because you're more nervous than my dad, of course you can't see it, my mom and I can see that no matter who comes to visit, my dad sits on the sofa with his legs on the sofa, and he sits up straight as if he is meeting the leader like now."

Hearing her say this, Lin Lu's heart was a little more balanced, if he was nervous in the family, it would be too unfair.

"What did Sister Xingruo talk to her aunt about just now?"

"What else can we talk about, talk about you."

“……”

Don't say it so easily, okay! Be considerate of the younger brother who has become the center of the topic, hey!

"What is Auntie's impression of me?"

"Hmm."

Li Xingruo's delicate brows furrowed, and Lin Lu's face immediately tensed.

Then her expression instantly softened, and Lin Lu was stunned, only then did she realize that she was teasing him.

The young man was annoyed and angry, why didn't he usually find that Sister Xingruo was so naughty? Don't let him seize the opportunity, or she will have to beg for mercy!

"Sister Xingruo, say it quickly!"

"Oh, what's there to say, anyway, it's like that, when we first met, I didn't even eat, and you still want my parents to praise you, but I can see that they both have a good impression of you at the moment, my mother said that you look really good, but you don't look like twenty years old."

“…… Is it seen that I am nineteen years old! ”

"It's not, my mom looks sideways and vertically, and thinks you're about the same age as me."

"Do you think I'm old?"

"It has nothing to do with your appearance, I mean, she thinks you're quite mature, you talk and do things or something, you feel quite reliable, I tell you, my mother can look at it!"

"Huh? Is it the one that comes from the heart? ”

"That's right, she learned from a big cousin of mine before, and she is very accurate in seeing people, so she must come to your door this time to take a look."

"And what do I look like?"

"Say that you are clear-looking, you will be rich and noble for a lifetime, your eyebrows are beautiful, your personality is stable, your temperament is good, your nose is straight and high, you are responsible, you are very reliable, your face is square and round, and your gentle personality will hurt people."

Hearing Li Xingruo say this, Lin Lu's waist straightened a little.

"Auntie is really accurate in looking at people."

“…… Praise you casually, and the tail is about to rise to the sky? ”

Lin Lu breathed a sigh of relief, if his aunt really praised him like this, then he didn't have to worry too much about his aunt's side, after all, people who can look at faces are more willing to believe what they can see from their faces, and they can't be said to be superstitious, and there is a certain scientific basis for psychological analysis.

The two were chatting, and when they heard footsteps coming from outside the kitchen, they quickly silenced themselves and stood reservedly, washing vegetables in one sink per person.

"Auntie." Lin Lu hurriedly said hello to Chen Yingping, who walked in.

"Xiaolin, are you hungry?" Chen Yingping also asked with a friendly smile, she was holding another basin, which was filled with peeled ginger and other ingredients.

"Not hungry, not hungry, we came back from breakfast!"

"Young people nowadays are really tall." Chen Yingping stood beside him and compared, she was a little shorter than her daughter, and she had to look up at him when she looked at Lin Lu.

"I usually do sports, play basketball or something, and I also go to badminton with Xingruo on weekends." Lin Lu smiled.

"That's good, Xiaoruo is a big lazy worm, she usually tells her to exercise more and drink more water and doesn't listen, and she will play badminton, we used to play badminton outside the door, hey, she still hates me and can't play!"

"Is Auntie usually busy opening a store?"

"There's nothing busy, they're all regular customers, the town is so big, her father and I don't have any pursuits, the days are simple, I've been looking forward to Xiaoruo finding a partner, Xiaolin, you can come to meet and eat with your aunt today, and your aunt is also very happy."

Compared with Uncle Li, Aunt Chen will talk a lot, after all, they are all businessmen, and they are also small businesses, and they rely on their eloquent mouths on weekdays, and their words are good, but Lin Lu knows that he can't relax, and Sister Xingruo also reminded him that her mother pays the most attention to details.

"I'm also very excited to have the opportunity to taste Auntie's craftsmanship, I've been thinking before, if Xing Xing's cooking is so delicious, Auntie can't eat three bowls when she cooks."

"Hey, Xiaolin, what you said is right, don't be polite later, whether it suits your appetite or not, you must eat enough, I still remember when her father saw Xiaoruo's grandparents and grandmothers, such a sturdy young man, he didn't dare to eat, and he turned around and said that he was hungry!"

As the saying goes, the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at it, the more interesting it is, the sensible mother-in-law is generally good to her son-in-law, in exchange for the son-in-law's good to her daughter, this is probably Lin Lu's innate advantage, as long as he doesn't step on the pit, Chen Yingping is quite enthusiastic about him.

Of course, the main thing is that it has not yet reached the stage of talking about marriage, it is the first time to meet each other, and the important thing is to know more about it.

"Xiaolin, just come to the kitchen, you go to the living room to drink tea and watch TV."

"It's okay Auntie, I don't know how to cook, when my mother usually cooks, I also help in the kitchen, seeing that Auntie and Xingruo are busy working, if I rest, I'll be embarrassed to eat later."

"That aunt gave you a task, later this braised duck and braised goose will be stewed with firewood in a large pot, the pot in the kitchen is not big enough, if you go with Xiaolin to the doorway to set up the firewood hot pot and make a fire, wait for me to mix the ingredients here and start marinating."

"Make a fire! I'll go! Let's go, Lin Lu, you go with me to get the pot! ”

Hearing that the fire was going to be burned, Li Xingruo came to his heart, as if his primitive instinct had been awakened, and beckoned Lin Lu to go to the utility room to bring the stove and cauldron.

"What are you doing?"

Uncle Li, who was leisurely smoking and drinking tea in the living room, asked, Lin Lu was not in the living room, he also felt a lot more relaxed, his feet were also pulled out of his shoes, and he stepped on the sofa, he wore slippers on weekdays, and when he saw Lin Lu coming out, he quietly put his feet down and put them back in his shoes.

"Make a firewood hot pot, my mother said to marinate it outside later!"

"I'll do it."

"Oh, you don't need to come, I'll just get it done with Lin Lu!"

"Xiaolin, this pot and stove are heavy and big, be careful not to stain your clothes."

"It's okay, Uncle Li! I also have a lot of strength! ”

Lin Lu first brought the stove out of the utility room, he grew up in a big city and never saw this thing, said it was a stove, in fact, it was an asphalt barrel cut in half, the semi-cylindrical furnace was welded on both sides of the handle to facilitate carrying, and then the bottom was the bottom of the original barrel, after the fire was burned, the grass and wood ash would not be everywhere, and the lower position opened a square mouth, here is the mouth of the stove plugging firewood, and there are also a few small openings in the back, which is the chimney of the stove.

"Sister Xingruo, did you buy this stove?"

"This is my dad's own doing! It's been seven or eight years! Learn from the people on the construction site and turn waste into treasure! ”

"Amazing...... Where to put it? ”

"Here, here."

Lin Lu came out of the living room with the stove, outside was the doorway of her house, and some outside was the road, two black and white cars parked on the right, under the command of Li Xingruo, Lin Lu brought the stove to the cement floor on the left side of the door.

It was already eleven o'clock in the morning, the sun was very hot, and there happened to be a shadow here, and after staying in the house for a long time, when he came out, Lin Luton felt a sense of refreshment.

It's no wonder that when the son-in-law and his wife go back to their parents' house, the almost uniform posture is to go out and wander around, look at the scenery, play with chickens, ducks and geese, after all, staying in the house is really grinding! If you don't understand the dialect, it's all the end!

Isn't there a joke that if you see such a group of strange strangers in the village during the Chinese New Year, they can't understand the dialect, and they will only giggle when they meet, although don't worry that they are not bad people, they are just sons-in-law from other places.

Not to mention that he works more for performance, even if he doesn't work for performance, Lin Lu is willing to work more, after all, as long as he has work in his hands, he doesn't have to sit and drink tea in the living room with Uncle Li, even if Sister Xingruo's family has a field, and when he comes back, he wants to help plant rice and harvest rice, Lin Lu is also willing.

"You go inside and bring out the pot and lid, wash it on this faucet next to it, and I'll light the fire!"

"Why do you feel that when you mention the fire, Sister Xingruo is inexplicably excited?"

"Oh, go for you!"

Lin Lu put the stove and went inside to serve the pot, this pot is also the largest he has seen in his life, his arm span is so long, it is still a little difficult to hold this iron pot as big as a small half person, there are dish soap brushes and other things on the outdoor faucet, and there are several plastic bags stacked next to it, which is the feathers that the mother and daughter have killed before the chickens, ducks and geese, and the duck feathers and goose feathers have been collected.

When Lin Lu was washing the cauldron and pot lid, the girl in the skirt next to her was lighting a fire in the stove, using some dry firewood and broken wood that the hardware store didn't want, she looked like a simple girl with great interest, and the temperament brought by her gentle skirt formed a strong contrast, which made Lin Lu feel that she was more real and cute.

Li Xingruo squatted on the ground, put some paper and small pieces of wood under the firewood, took his father's lighter and started to burn, the paper and wood chips were burning, but the firewood was not on fire at all.

"Sister Xingruo, is it okay?"

“…… It's windy! ”

"There's no wind."

“…… Don't be verbose, you can do it! ”

Lin Lu is on it.

Like her, she is grizzled and dirty, and the firewood has not been lit yet.

"If only there were rice poles and bamboo chips, this firewood is so difficult to catch fire! I lit a fire at my grandfather's place, and it was easy to burn. ”

If DoraC looks a little embarrassed, is it because he has lived in the city for a long time, and the fire will not burn? Of course not! There must be no combustible materials!

"What then?"

"I can only use the final cheats!"

Li Xingruobrin ran back to the house, and then took a kerosene lamp for worship, she turned on the kerosene lamp, and poured the kerosene in it on the firewood, and the air suddenly smelled of kerosene.

"Wait a minute, the food won't be poisonous, right?" Lin Lu worried.

"Stupid, when it's burned out, it'll be gone, what do you think the gas used at home is, I'll light the fire!"

"Be careful!"

Li Xingruo lit a paper towel first, then threw the paper towel into the stove, and with a hula, as if he had turned on the gas stove, the raging fire ignited from the stove, and the smoke rose so high all of a sudden, and Lin Lu, who was one or two meters away, also felt the oncoming heat wave.

Not to mention, the moment the fire suddenly burned, the mood was a little warm like fireworks, and then looked at Li Xingruo beside him, the excited look was like a little witch who was keen on arson.

"The pot hasn't been put down yet!" Lin Lu reacted.

"Don't be in a hurry, wait until the firewood is burned first." Li Xingruo said calmly: "Go and bring more firewood." ”

When Lin Lu came over with a handful of firewood, the kerosene in the stove was also burned, and the fire was much smaller, but fortunately, the firewood in the stove was finally lit, and the firewood was much milder than the fire just now.

"Human civilization began with such fire!" If DoraC gives him popular science.

"Sister Xingruo knows so much." Lin Lu touted.

Lin Lu was also a bit addicted to fire, in the big city, there was no place to light such a big fire for him, and he could attract a fire truck in a minute, he picked up some small sticks, branches and leaves and threw them into the stove with great interest, and watched them burn into ashes in the original fire, and the inspiration for the element of fire in his mind kept appearing.

Probably this is talent, he can always supplement and improve his artistic system from various details of life.

On the other side, Chen Yingping came out with the duck and goose pickled in the basin.

Lin Lu was very sensible, and hurriedly went over to take the basin, and then carefully set it on the stove with a heavy cauldron.

"Xiao Lin, be careful, don't burn your clothes."

"It's okay Auntie, I'll watch it."

As the flames stirred the bottom of the large iron pot, the residual water droplets in the pot began to sizzle and evaporate rapidly.

Chen Yingping took a spatula of the same size, shoveled it in the pot a few times, and felt that the temperature was about the same, so she began to pour oil into the pot, and then stir-fried spices such as sliced ginger until fragrant.

"It's like a picnic." Lin Lu said as he sniffed the scent in the air.

"Watch and learn hard, my mother's craftsmanship of braised duck and braised goose is a must!" Li Xingruo said proudly.

"Xiao Lin's hands are drawing, how can you learn this, but you, watch and learn hard!" Chen Yingping said with a smile.

"I know how to do it, but I don't usually have such a big pot, and the more the cauldron is marinated, the more fragrant it is."

"That's right, Xiao Lin will try it later, the taste of duck and goose marinated in this wood-fired cauldron must be different from what you usually eat."

"Auntie, I already smell the fragrance!"

Chen Yingping added a lot of water to the pot, then put the duck and goose in it, and then continued to add green onions, ginger, rock sugar, cinnamon, star anise, salt and sauce to taste.

Lin Lu admired it very much, and I don't know if Aunt Chen has a measuring cup and scales in her heart, such a big pot, the amount of seasoning can be placed accurately at hand?

When the soup is boiling, cover the pot and let the ingredients simmer.

"Okay, I'll go to the kitchen to cook other dishes, if you look at the fire here, when it's almost time, remember to turn it over."

"I know, I know!"

Chen Yingping went into the house, Lin Lu and Li Xingruo sat on a small bench, watching the fire outside, as time went by, the aroma in the air became more and more intense, and gently drifted to the side of the road with the breeze, every time a pedestrian passed in front of them, they would sniff and take a look at this cauldron curiously.

"Why don't you go in and have tea with my dad?"

"No, I'm going to accompany Sister Xingruo to light the fire."

Lin Lu looked inside the room, then suddenly leaned in and took a bite on her greasy face.

"That's it?"

"How else......"

"Coward, look at my sister!"

“……！ Sister Xingruo calms down! I'm going to shout! ”

"Shout it."

How dare Lin Lu make a noise, isn't this a thief shouting to catch a thief, before he could speak, Li Xingruo tilted his head and leaned over and blocked his mouth.

Her breath was all around, in her nose and mouth.

A warm fire burned in my heart.

(End of chapter)