712: Ah Fen, You Stew a Sheep Soup (3 More)

"Looking for Xiaolan."

Sister-in-law Chen hung up the phone, and Chen Wangda was still surprised, "I'm looking for that girl Xiaolan, are you nervous when you say anything?"

Sister-in-law Chen couldn't explain it herself: "I couldn't help being nervous when I heard the other side speak."

It's a middle-aged male voice, and he's actually very polite. Sister-in-law Chen couldn't help but feel nervous. She couldn't control herself at all. When she talked to the other party, her attitude was more serious than that of her father-in-law, Chen Wangda.

"Then you go tell Xiaolan and ask her to call back, maybe there is something urgent."

Finally something interrupted Chen Wangda's talk, and Mrs. Chen naturally slipped faster than a rabbit. Walking on the snow to the door of Xia Xiaolan's house, she happened to meet Grandma Yu.

This old lady was the landlord of Xia Xiaolan's mother and daughter in Shangdu. Sister-in-law Chen just felt that the old lady was dignified.

Grandma Yu still remembered Sister-in-law Chen, and stopped her: "Come to tell A Fen about marriage again?"

Sister-in-law Chen blushed, "No, the call from Pengcheng said I was looking for Xiaolan, and I'll call her."

"Wait, who's calling from Pengcheng?"

"I just said my surname is Tang."

Grandma Yu grabbed Sister Chen, "This person is looking for me, let's go, I'll call him back."

Looking for this old lady?

Sister-in-law Chen was suspicious, but the other party on the phone was also vague. She asked Xia Xiaolan if she had returned to her hometown for the Chinese New Year. Could it be that she wanted to ask if the old lady of the landlady came with her?

Sister-in-law Chen couldn't speak to Grandma, so her attention was diverted after a few words, slipping in the snow, Grandma Yu held Sister-in-law Chen's hand tightly and followed Sister-in-law Chen back to the village committee. In a few words, Mrs. Chen's family has been cleaned up for Grandma Yu. She knows that she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the village chief. Her son used to be classmates with Xiaolan, and now he is also in college in Beijing. He didn't go home for the winter vacation this year.

Oh, it's Chen Qing that Liu Fen said.

Sister-in-law Chen wanted to inquire about Xia Xiaolan's object in turn, but Grandma Yu understood immediately, this is the son of the Chen family who has a crush on Xiaolan? It's not good to look down on it, it's not that Grandma Yu looks down on the younger generation in the countryside, but Grandma Yu looks down on Sister-in-law Chen.

After half an hour, the phone call came again. Grandma Yu picked it up, and after saying a word, she stared at Sister-in-law Chen.

People nowadays don’t have the right to privacy. Sometimes when a relative calls, the whole village can’t wait to hear it. Sister-in-law Chen has no self-consciousness either. Grandma Yu has always been outspoken:

"Sorry, I have something personal to talk about."

Grandma Yu looked at her with a pair of eyes. Sister-in-law Chen realized later that she understood what Grandma Yu meant. She hadn't been told this before, her face was very hot, and she walked out in a hurry.

Grandma Yu was murmuring, and after talking on the phone for several minutes, Sister-in-law Chen pouted secretly, thinking that she was an important person, even a phone call would be mysterious. But as grandma hung up the phone, Sister Chen squeezed out a smile.

Grandma Yu looked down on such people, watching people serve dishes. If she wasn't from the city, what would Sister Chen do to her?

"Thank you, I don't want to disturb you during the Chinese New Year. Come to my house for dinner early tomorrow."

Sister-in-law Chen wanted to help her go back, but Grandma Yu postponed it again and again. She found a wooden stick and walked back slowly. Although she is old, her back is still straight, and she walks with a special temperament.

Sister-in-law Chen put away the smile on her face, "Bah, what's so great, it's not like you're coming to the countryside for the New Year."

Not everyone in the city has the right and the money, and not only Xia Xiaolan is a college student, but so is her son. In a few years, her family, Chen Qing, will have a promising future after graduating from university, and she can still be a city person!

...

"Grandma Yu, where have you been?"

Grandma Yu's pair of cotton leather shoes were wet. The shoes were bought by Xia Xiaolan in Pengcheng. The outside was leather and the inside was thick hair. If you have stepped on the snow in winter, just wipe the outside with a handkerchief, and your feet will not freeze.

"I walked around the village."

Grandma Yu didn't mention the phone at all, and Xia Xiaolan didn't even think of going there. The New Year's Eve dinner should be prepared one day in advance. Xia Xiaolan's house is spacious and the style of a new house. It is agreed that this year's New Year's dinner will be held at her house.

Liu Yong originally planned to build a house, but was disgusted by the Tian family, and his obsession with returning home became less of a concern, not to mention building a house in the countryside.

To prepare meals for several tables, cook the chicken a day in advance, fry the fish and balls, and various vegetables, which should be peeled and cut into cubes.

Grandma Yu looked at the prepared things, "Don't braise the mutton together, save half of it for a soup, Afen, your craftsmanship is good, you can stew."

Liu Yong bought two mutton legs in the county town, and said he wanted to use braised ones, but Grandma Yu suddenly said that he wanted to drink mutton soup.

Liu Fen had a good temper, and she took off her apron. She went back to work again, raised the stove, chopped half a leg of lamb and made soup.

It doesn’t matter if the old lady wants to eat mutton. People with diabetes usually eat less sugary and starchy foods. The mutton has no effect on blood sugar. Liu Fen didn’t put potatoes in it, so she stewed mutton in clear soup.

Xia Xiaolan thought it was a little strange. Grandma Yu basically gave her something to eat, and this was the first time she gave her opinion. Is she really not treating them as outsiders?

Liu Fen made up her mind not to go out. After the New Year's Eve, she hurried back to the provincial capital to visit her parents' graves. This made the Tian family toss and turn and couldn't sleep. The Tian family was embarrassed by Xia Xiaolan's few words, and the rural people were still more taboo to talk about auspiciousness during the New Year. Xia Xiaolan opened her mouth and said that the Tian family was dead.

Liu Yong invited the reunion dinner, but not the Tian family.

The village also said that Liu Yong wanted to hire someone to work as a mason, and he was paid 10 yuan a day. There was no Tian family about this.

"I'll come to the door tomorrow to ask. They all belong to the same village. Why don't you invite me?"

Tian Laosan drank a few taels of cat urine, and then started to drink like crazy.

"Yeah, this family member doesn't look down on the third child of our family, so send the third child to the head office for work? How about two or three hundred yuan a month, which is also a big income. The third child needs this salary and supports What is Xiaoyan sister and brother!"

Tian Laosan thinks this is too reasonable.

Before Liu Yong, like him, he was idle and not doing serious things.

Why does Liu Yong say that getting rich means getting rich, but he wants to be poor in the village?

If you don't agree to join the Liu family, Liu Yong will have to bleed and spend some money every month to raise him, otherwise he will pester the Liu family and won't let go!

Tian Laosan called his daughter Tian Xiaoyan with a burp of wine, and Tian Xiaoyan's shoulders were shaking.

Tian Laosan showed a rare smile and exhaled a strong smell of alcohol:

"Xiaoyan, dad won't hit you, dad won't hit you and your brother anymore, I'll buy you new clothes, let you eat meat, and send you to school... As long as your dad has money, you can do whatever you want. All right, you will kneel at the door of Liu's house tomorrow and ask your uncle Yong to promise Dad to go to work, and you can get up whenever he promises you."

Tian Xiaoyan was educated by Xia Xiaolan. In front of so many people, Xia Xiaolan did not agree to ask her and her younger brother. Can Uncle Yong agree to her request?

"Dad, what if Uncle Yong doesn't agree?"

"Then you will kneel at his door!"