Seventy Couple’s Daily Routine - Chapter 82

Lin Wei’s parents came here this time, in addition to being greedy for the beautiful scenery and abalone wings she said, they also wanted to see how their daughters were doing, and with their thoughts, the housing could very well reflect this.

Therefore, after entering the yard, Mother Lin kept looking at it. She saw that the yard was not big, but it was fairly clean. There was a plot of land at the entrance, half of which were planted with green onions, **** and leeks, and the green ones were growing satisfactorily. The other half had some flowers and plants. There were also a few saplings mixed in, and Mother Lin asked, “What kind of tree is that?”

“Durian tree.”

“What is a durian tree?”

Mingming raised his hand and said, “I know! Durian trees are trees that grow durians, and durians are particularly stinky!”

Seeing her brother slander the fruit she likes, Rarity retorted, “Durian doesn’t stink, durian is fragrant and delicious!”

Mother Lin had never eaten or seen durian. After hearing what the brothers said, she became even more puzzled. Turning to look at her daughter, Lin Wei explained, “It’s just a kind of fruit, such a big one, cut the pulp into the one you like. It feels fragrant and delicious, and those who don’t like it feel stinky and dare not touch it.”

Mother Lin heard it strangely: “There is still such a fruit in the world?”

“Yes, but it’s not available on the market this season.” Lin Wei said.

Rarity said, “Only in summer.”

Mother Lin was stunned, and pointed to the small saplings and asked, “Can these durian trees bear fruit?”

“I’m not sure, I just threw the rest of the pips after I ate them. I threw a dozen or so pips at the time, and only five sprouted. After one died in the past few months, there are only four left. There is a sapling. It takes several years for the durian tree to bear fruit, and I don’t know how it will bear fruit. It depends on luck.”

“Then can I bring this durian sapling back to our hometown and plant it?”

“Do you want to bring it back to your hometown?”

“Try it.” From Mother Lin’s answer, it can be seen that the two are indeed mother and daughter.

Lin Wei said truthfully: “It is estimated that this is a tropical fruit. If you want to grow up, you also have requirements for precipitation. If you bring it back to our hometown, it will either freeze to death or drought.”

After listening to her daughter’s words, Mother Lin completely gave up her thoughts. She had never eaten durian anyway, so she didn’t know what this fragrant and stinky fruit was like.

After reading the courtyard, several people entered the house.

Lin Wei took her mother to introduce her to the house, from the dining room and living room to the bathroom and toilet. I heard that there is a door to enter the toilet in the house. Lin’s mother said, “The house must not smell?”

“It’s the kind of tile toilet used in the city. As long as it is flushed and the windows are often opened to ventilate the house, there will be no smell.”

Because the window is open in the toilet, it is not dark or damp. It is clean and has no smell.

After seeing it with her own eyes, Mother Lin believed her daughter’s words.

After visiting the downstairs, the two went upstairs. The balcony door above was open. When they passed by, Mother Lin glanced out and said, “Is that the car that Xiao Zong drove back?”

“Yes, this is the back.”

There are not as many rooms upstairs as there are downstairs. There are only two rooms. The master bedroom has more furniture, with wardrobes, beds, dressers, bookshelves and bedside tables. However, because of the large area, the room looks quite spacious and not crowded. The second bedroom is much smaller, but with less furniture, it doesn’t look crowded.

In general, this house is much better than the family room of the cotton mill where Lin Wei lived before the army, and Mother Lin was very satisfied.

When Lin Wei took Lin’s mother to visit the house, Lin’s father had already sat down on the sofa. After several days on the train and ship, he was now physically and mentally exhausted and too lazy to move.

Zong Shao was also downstairs, made a pot of tea, poured out a cup and handed it to his father-in-law.

The tea was a little hot. Father Lin took a sip. The tea was neither strong nor bitter. After swallowing it, it was slightly sweet, and he said, “This tea is good.”

Zong Shao said: “If you like local tea, buy some and bring it back to you.”

Father Lin nodded, took another sip of tea, and agreed with Zong Shao’s proposal.

Drinking tea, Lin Wei’s mother and daughter came downstairs with their two children, and Lin’s father greeted, “Is the house finished?”

“After reading it, it’s good.” Mother Lin raised her head, looked towards the gate, and added, “The scenery is good, when I was sitting on the boat, I didn’t think there was anything special about this sea, but looking at it like this It looks pretty good again.”

Lin Wei echoed: “Yes, in the evening when the sun is not so bright, sitting in the yard, drinking tea, eating, eating, sleeping, watching the scenery, is very comfortable.”

Mother Lin smiled when she heard the words: “You have a very comfortable life today.”

After the greeting, Mother Lin began to unpack her luggage.

They brought a total of three pieces of luggage, the lightest package contained the couple’s clothes, and Mother Lin put it aside without moving.

The first one was the smaller one of the two heavy pieces of luggage. It was filled with vegetables, including dry goods such as mushroom milled chestnuts, and dried beans and dried mustard greens. Next, there were several plastic jars, which were filled with sour radish acid. Cowpea and sour chili, and two small pots of soybean paste and fermented bean curd.

Lin Wei often sent dry goods and vegetables to Lin Wei, but Lin Wei had never eaten the pickled bean paste made by her mother since she joined the army.

After tasting the familiar taste, Lin Wei couldn’t help but narrow her eyes: “It’s delicious.”

“Is it delicious?” Mingming swallowed while watching.

Lin Wei asked, “Want to try it?”

Mingming nodded without hesitation: “Mmmm!”

Lin Wei dipped some soy sauce on Mingming and brought it to his mouth. He stuck out his tongue and frowned, “Why is it so weird.”

“It’s fine if you don’t like it.”

Mingming said as soon as he heard it: “I haven’t tasted it yet, let me try it again, let me try it again!”

“Okay, I’ll give you a taste.” Lin Wei brought the chopsticks to her son’s mouth again.

Mingming held his chopsticks and tasted it carefully, then opened his mouth and said, “It’s a little spicy.”

“Is it delicious?”

Mingming nodded: “It seems… a little delicious?” He was not sure.

Lin Wei smiled and gave her younger son a taste, but Rarity accepted it well and said it was delicious. Hearing what my younger brother said, I wanted to try it again, but my mother refused ruthlessly: “No, I’ll eat it at noon.”

Obviously disappointed at first, but when I heard that I can eat it at noon, I was not so disappointed, nodded and said, “Yeah.”

After unpacking the package, Mother Lin continued to unpack the remaining snakeskin bag. This bag was no longer vegetables, it was filled with fine grains such as rice noodles. Lin Wei looked at it and said, “You guys can just come. What are you doing with so much food?”

Mother Lin said, “It’s all grown at home, and I didn’t spend any money to buy it.”

“I mean you all come all the way, with so much luggage, how tiring.”

“We don’t have to hold it all the time. We only need to mention it when we change trains at the station. What’s so tiring?” Mother Lin complained to her wife again, “If it wasn’t for your dad saying that I couldn’t hold it, I could have two more snakes. Grain in leather bags.”

Mother Lin lived in the city for several years in order to help her daughter take care of her grandson. She knows the living conditions of the people in the city very well. Families without children live well, but those with children are hard to say. There is simply not enough food rationed.

In this regard, the rural areas are stronger. At least in the Linjiazui Brigade, as long as people are not particularly lazy, after paying the public food at the end of the year, the remaining food is enough for the whole family.

Although the brothers are young, their supply standards are also low. Before joining the army, Lin Wei often bought food from her parents’ home to subsidize it.

Before coming here, Mother Lin had calculated in her heart that the couple would come and live for half a month, not to mention too much, they would have to eat twenty catties of grain. Although the daughter was filial, she had to think about her, so she prepared to bring some food, but the old man was useless, the food in the bag was reduced a little, and there were only 20 kilograms of rice noodles left.

When Father Lin heard his daughter-in-law talking about him again, he lowered his voice and complained to his son-in-law, “Your mother-in-law has nothing good to say about me.”

Zong Shao didn’t dare to answer this, so he filled his father-in-law with tea: “Dad, drink tea.”

Over there, Lin Wei took stock of the good things, and put all the dishes brought by her parents in the kitchen, while the rice and noodles were put into the living room drawer. Although the family area is very safe and no one steals anything, food is such an important thing. , Lin Wei has always been used to putting it where she lives.

After putting away the things, Lin Wei asked Mother Lin to go up to have a rest. Although she was not seasick, she must have been tired after sitting on the train for several days.

Mother Lin is indeed a little tired. After the age of 50, she feels that her energy is not as good as a year. Otherwise, she can pick up all the luggage by herself, so why should she expect Lin father.

Results are not yet expected.

After Mother Lin went upstairs to rest, Father Lin also went to the grandson’s room to lie down for a while, while Lin Wei and Zong Shao took the children to buy vegetables.

Lin Wei’s old shígG Dujia thought that it was rare for her parents to come here, so of course she had to try it, and she went to the seafood supply station at the first stop. As they approached, the seafood in the supply station was selling faster than usual. By the time they arrived, the sea fish had already been sold out, and all they could buy were shrimp, crab, and shellfish, and a few abalone left.

The supply station often sells abalone, but it is not big and the price is not expensive. Lin Wei thought about the abalone and fin belly, so she wrapped the rest of the abalone round. I also bought a few crabs, weighed a pound of prawns, enough to fry a large plate, and also bought some scallops.

After buying the seafood, a few people went to the vegetable market again. This meat stall is cleaner than the supply station next door. There was really nothing left, and there was nothing for sale in the water. Lin Wei had to buy a few kinds of vegetarian dishes and go back.

At noon it was Chef Lin Wei, and Zong Shao helped.

At that time, Mother Lin had already woken up, and she was very energetic, so she said she wanted to help, but Lin Wei didn’t ask her to help her because she was a distinguished guest today, and Zong Shao also helped.

Seeing that the couple sang together, Mother Lin happily agreed. After leaving the kitchen, she praised Zong Shao in front of her husband.

Father Lin can talk about everything else, but he is quite macho in terms of housework, and he never enters the kitchen. However, he is very self-aware, and never puts out such nonsense as “a gentleman is far away from cooking” and “women should do housework” to challenge the authority of women in the family.

Therefore, when Mother Lin praised Zong Shao, he just kept silent, and occasionally responded, saying that he heard it, and he was not wandering in the sky.

Mother Lin knew her husband’s urination well. Hearing him ummmmmm made her angry and funny, so she didn’t say any more.

In fact, Zong Shao not only helped out, but also cooked a dish. It was rare for his father-in-law and mother-in-law to come here. Of course, he had to show a hand to improve his impression score.

Of course, because of his poor cooking skills, he only dared to show “one” hand, for fear of being rejected.

In fact, after more than half a year, Zong Shao’s cooking skills are better than when Lin Wei first came to join the army. At least three kinds of colors and flavors, the first two are all available. The taste is not delicious, but it is not particularly bad.

In addition, the mother-in-law looked at her son-in-law, and the more she looked, the more she liked it. Lin’s mother could not wait to praise her son-in-law’s fried dishes.

So much so that he couldn’t help but whisper to his younger brother: “Is there something wrong with grandma’s mouth?”

“What?” Rarity didn’t understand what her brother meant for a moment.

Mingming said with an unbearable expression: “Dad’s fried food, grandma actually said that it was very delicious. Isn’t this a problem with the mouth?”

Rarity thought hard, “That’s probably something wrong with the tongue.” The tongue is what tastes.

Lin Wei happened to be sitting next to Rui Rui, and when she heard the two children whispering, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she tapped the heads of the two of them with chopsticks and said, “Eating your meal, the murmuring is not over. !”

Although Lin’s mother praised her son-in-law’s cooking skills so much, the most popular seafood on the dinner table is the seafood made by Lin Wei.

It’s just that when she ate abalone, Mother Lin was a little afraid to take a bite. In the eyes of inland people who had never seen the sea when they were young, abalone was very precious, and she always felt that every bite was money.

When Lin Wei saw this, she told Mother Lin how much a pound of abalone cost, and how much it cost per pound,

It’s not cheap, but it’s not that expensive either. Anyway, Mother Lin dared to get drunk after hearing it. After eating it, she felt that it was fresh, but it was not as delicious as she thought, so she told her daughter not to buy it tomorrow, it would not be worth it!

…

After lunch, Lin Wei asked her parents if she wanted to go out for a walk.

Lin’s father had no objection, while Lin’s mother asked where to go. Lin Wei offered several options. One was to go to the beach, the other was to climb the mountain, and the third was to go shopping in the county.

Mother Lin felt that she could stroll around the sea in front of her at any time, even if she climbed the mountain. There was a mountain behind her house. She had already climbed enough, so she said that she would go to the county to play, so the group went out in the car again.

In fact, there was nothing to do in the county. Mother Lin didn’t want to spend money to watch movies, so they went for a walk by the river, strolled around the supply and marketing cooperative, and had dinner at a state-run restaurant.

Mother Lin didn’t want to eat dinner at a state-run restaurant. She felt that it was too expensive, so she might as well go back and make it. But Lin Wei and Zong Shao’s persuasion was rare once, and they always wanted to try local specialties. Coupled with her husband’s persuasion, Mother Lin agreed half-heartedly.

The chefs of the state-run hotel are very skilled. Several dishes they ordered tasted very good. Lin Wei’s parents were very satisfied with the food, and they returned with a smile on their faces.

After wandering around for an afternoon, Lin Wei’s parents were tired when they got home, and the whole family went to bed.

According to the allocation in the morning, Lin Wei’s mother and daughter have two children sleeping in the master bedroom, while Zong Shao and his father-in-law sleep in the second bedroom.

The two children can be said to be brought up by Mother Lin. Although they have not seen each other for more than half a year, they are still close to their grandmother, so they are very excited when they sleep, especially Mingming, who is jumping on the bed, thanks to the strong bed, otherwise it will fall apart sooner or later.

When the two children had enough trouble and fell asleep, Lin Wei and her mother had time to talk.

Lin Wei first asked about the situation at home, and Mother Lin said lightly, “It’s not like that at home, there are no major conflicts, but there are constant small conflicts.”

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Although Mother Lin thinks that she will try her best to have a bowl of water for the three children, and even if she has to calculate, she is more inclined to the two sons, but the daughters-in-law do not think so.

In particular, the eldest daughter-in-law felt that her husband was at least partial to her parents-in-law when she had three children in the family. The younger sister-in-law and the uncle were all regular workers in state-owned factories, while her husband could only farm at home because of her in-laws’ partiality. After the death of her mother-in-law Lin Wei, she paid the My mother helped take care of the child, but her child was left alone, and it was still her in-laws who were partial to her.

Thinking of the bad things at home, Mother Lin sighed and said, “Let their husband and wife make trouble. Anyway, as long as it doesn’t get in front of me, I don’t think I’ve seen it.” She asked her daughter how the past six months have been.

Although through what I saw and heard today, Mother Lin felt that her daughter was living a good life, but in the eyes of outsiders, their family was still a five-good family. It can be seen from this that only those who live in it know whether they are living well or not. Outsiders can see with the naked eye. It doesn’t count.

“I…” Lin Wei thought of that dream, and hesitated when she spoke, but in the end she just smiled and said, “It’s good, Zong Shao is very good to me, the two children are also very good, and I have a stable job myself. Well, everything is fine anyway.”

Mother Lin is her own mother, how could she not see her momentary pause, she wanted to ask, but looking at the girl with a smile on her face, she swallowed the words and said, “You are doing well, mother will not worried.”

Why did the girl hesitate, she could ask slowly later, anyway, she was going to live on the island for half a month, so she had time.

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