The story of a cook

Chapter 103 Lin Yan's Mother
People have to rely on strength to speak at all times, without strength it is useless.

I don't have anything to rely on, and I have to rely on myself for everything when I go out to work. I want to forge my own path outside.

I want to find a wife by myself, start a family by myself, then buy a house and bring my mother to the city, and have a big fat boy with my wife, my wife and I go to work, my mother coaxes my grandson at home, and the family of four lives and works in peace and contentment. want life.

I want to fight hard for this kind of life.

The year is coming, and it will be the 27th of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye. On this day, Lin Yan and I set off to her house.Departed from the hotel at ten o'clock in the morning, took the bus twice and arrived at Changke West Station, bought a ticket to Fuzhong, checked the time, and it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and went to the snack bar to have a bowl with Lin Yan On the other hand, when it was almost time for the departure time, I left the snack bar, got on the bus bound for Fuzhong at the station, arrived in Fuzhong City after more than an hour, and then got on the bus bound for Lin Yan’s house, and took another 10 Minutes to Lin Yan's house.

Lin Yan's house has three tile-roofed houses, 20 meters from the gate to the main house, and a row of pig houses on the right, where more than ten pigs are raised.On the left is a small garden. In summer, some green vegetables should be planted. There are still bare pepper seedlings growing in the garden.

Entering the house with Lin Yan, Lin Yan's mother was sitting on the kang, sewing a quilt, Lin Yan's younger brother was lying on the table reading and studying in the kang, and her elder brother was lying on the top of the kang, reading a novel in his hand.

Seeing us coming in, Brother Lin Yan sat up and said to me, "Here we come."

I nodded and said, "Yes."

Then I put the gift in my hand on the cabinet. It was something Huang Ping prepared for me, called "four boxes of gifts", which consisted of two cigarettes, two boxes of tea, two bottles of wine, and two boxes of candy.When visiting the woman's house for the first time, etiquette cannot be missed.

Lin Yan pointed to her mother and said, "This is my mother."

I bowed and said, "Hello, Auntie!"

Lin Yan's mother just nodded and said, "Here we are."

Looking at the expression on his face, he looked very unhappy, and he looked indifferent to me. After saying the words "coming", he continued to sew the quilt without looking at me again.At that time, I was a little unhappy, and I thought that even if I was an ordinary friend of Lin Yan, I wouldn't be so ignorant, let alone not an ordinary friend.Hey, who told us that we are here to beg someone to marry our daughter to us, so please take some anger.

Lin Yan introduced his little brother again, he was okay, he smiled at me, and continued to study.

His younger brother was only fifteen at that time, still a child.

After the introduction, Lin Yan's mother continued to sew the quilt, her elder brother continued to read novels, and his younger brother continued to study. No one paid attention to me, as if I was an empty person.It was awkward, a little uncomfortable standing in the middle of the room.

Lin Yan said to me: "You sit on the kang."

After speaking, he pushed the quilt on the kang inward to make room, and then said to her mother: "Mom, why don't you sew on the quilt even if you push it in."

Her mother moved inside and said, "If you don't sew, you can cover it at night, isn't there a lot of people here?"

Lin Yan said: "Why don't you sew in the morning, it's almost five o'clock, and it's getting dark."

Her mother said: "I work every day during the day. I have nothing to do. I just finished feeding the pigs. I don't go to the kang until it is dark. Take advantage of this time to sew up the quilt."

Lin Yan asked: "Then you haven't cooked yet?"

Her mother said: "There is no time to cook. They are already hungry and asked me to cook. I don't want to finish sewing the quilt and then do it."

Lin Yan said: "Then you sew, I will cook." Then she said to her elder brother: "Zhihao, go get some firewood."

Her elder brother put down the novel in his hand, got off the ground, put on his shoes and went out to fetch firewood.

Lin Yan went to the outer room, I saw that no one was paying attention to me, and followed into the outer room.

To be honest, I was quite upset at the time, but seeing Lin Yan made me feel better, at least she was busy cooking for me.

In the outbuilding, there are two stoves, a brick cupboard near the north wall, water tanks and sauerkraut pots next to the cupboard, and two pig food buckets on the ground.

Open the cupboard and look, there are bowls and plates, and a plate of pickles.There is a rice bag on the side of the cupboard with rice in it.

Lin Yan said, "Let's eat dried noodles, hurry up."

I said, "Okay, you can eat whatever you want."

Lin Yan started to boil the water, and asked me while boiling the water: "What kind of stew should I eat?"

I said, "Make some sauerkraut stew."

Fish out a sauerkraut from the sauerkraut jar, cut it with a knife, find a spring onion and chop some chopped green onion. At this time, the water in the pot is boiling, and Lin Yan starts to pour noodles into the pot.

I said: "Drink less, just eat enough."

Lin Yan said, "Four hits."

I said, "I can't eat it, two handfuls are enough."

Lin Yan said, "My elder brother can eat it."

I said, "It's enough to eat."

Lin Yan didn't listen to me, and ordered three handfuls, three handfuls of dried noodles were worth three catties, and five people couldn't eat them at all. Seeing that they were already in the pot, she didn't say anything else, and waited for the dried noodles to be taken out. A pot of noodles smiled and said, "Listen to you, it seems that I really can't eat it."

I didn't make a sound, brushed the pot and started to brine.

Lin Yan handed me the soybean oil barrel, and I saw that there was only half a catty of soybean oil in the ten-jin oil barrel, so I poured out a little less and started making sauerkraut stew.

Lin Yan saw that I didn't cut the meat, so she stood in the outer room and called her mother loudly: Mom, you didn't buy meat?

Her mother said in the house: "I haven't bought it yet, I will buy it tomorrow."

After finishing the sauerkraut stew, Lin Yan brought the noodles to the table in the house, and brought the bowls and chopsticks. At this time, her mother also finished sewing the quilt, and said: "There is nothing delicious, let's eat some dried noodles."

I said, "Noodles are pretty good."

To this day, I still remember the first meal at Lin Yan’s house, noodles and sauerkraut stew, which I made myself.

After eating the noodles, Lin Yan went to clean up the dishes. Her mother asked me, "Is there only one mother in your family?"

I said, "Well, there is only one mother in the family."

Her mother said: "The last time Lin Yan went to your house, she came back and told me that I don't agree with her going to your house. She decided to go without permission. She said you have five older sisters."

I said, "Yes, I have five older sisters."

Her mother said: "I know what you mean by coming this time. I don't agree with you two."

At this time Lin Yan entered the room and stood there silently.

Lin Yan's mother said: "Your home is too far away. I don't want her to find her in-law's house so far away. If I miss her after you get married, it will take a lot of effort to go to see her, and it will also take a lot of effort for her to come back to see me."

I said: "We are both working in the provincial capital now, and we will also work in the provincial capital in the future. The provincial capital is not far from our Fuzhong. It will be convenient for you to visit her or she will visit you at home."

Her mother asked: "You work in the provincial capital, what will your mother do then?"

I said, "I plan to buy a house and take my mother over."

Her mother said: "How much does it cost to buy a house? How many years do you have to work? Your family is very difficult, and my family is not doing well now. Lin Yan has just graduated. If I don't want her, I will find someone—a place far away."

I know that her mother wanted to say that she didn't want to find someone from a poor family, maybe she didn't want to say it so bluntly, so she changed her mind and said that she didn't want to find someone far away for Lin Yan.

Lin Yan said, "It's not far away."

Her mother said: "It's not far away, and I have to take the train and the car. When I get married, I can't even hear you shouting at me when I get beaten. You will suffer."

I looked at Lin Yan and said, "Don't worry, I can't beat her, and I won't scold her either."

Her mother said: "Tan Zi, I know what you said, how about this, I will tell you about the two of you directly, no, I don't agree, I plan to find her a partner at home." Then she directly said to me: "Go Two days later, someone came to the matchmaker. That child is from our former village. She looks pretty good, and the family conditions are pretty good, so I asked her to look for it at home. We won’t delay you, you are only 24, so it’s easy to find. Find a."

I also understand what Lin Yan's mother said. First, her mother doesn't want her to find a husband's family far away from home. Second, she thinks my family is poor and wants to find Lin Yan a family with good conditions. It will be easier when she gets married. some.I can understand all of this. Every mother hopes that her girl will find a good husband's family, and hope that her girl will live a good life and suffer less.

Seeing Lin Yan's mother's attitude is quite firm, it's hard for me to say anything, in fact, it's useless to say anything.

Glancing at Lin Yan, Lin Yan lowered her head and said nothing, not knowing what she was thinking.

I said to Lin Yan's mother: "Auntie, it's okay, but Lin Yan and I are on good terms. I'm here to listen to your opinion. It's best if you agree. It doesn't matter if you don't agree, I respect your opinion. , you are also good to Lin Yan, I have nothing, I also hope that she can find someone better than me, whose family is richer than mine."

I looked at Lin Yan and said, "It's just that I want her to be with me more, so that we can live a good life."

Her mother said: "I don't agree with you two, so be it, tomorrow morning there is a car back to the provincial capital, you go back to work, and if there is a suitable one, you will have sex. Lin Yan can't have sex with you, you two We will be friends from now on."

Lin Yan's mother flatly rejected me, so I didn't say anything more, feeling very uncomfortable. They have issued an order to evict guests, so we can't say anything more.

Lin Yan stood against the cabinet, lowered her head and said nothing.

To be honest, there was no car at the time. If I had a car, I would immediately go back to the provincial capital by car. It was too embarrassing to stay there, and I felt uncomfortable all over.

In this way, I stayed at Lin Yan's house for one night.

I got up the next day and ate the leftover noodles from last night. It was still a while before Xiaoke came. I came out of the house, and Lin Yan followed. We walked out of the gate. She asked, "Are you unhappy?" ?”

I said: "It's okay."

"My mother disagreed," she said.

I asked, "What about you?"

She shook her head sadly and said, "I don't know what to do, it seems that my mother really disagrees."

I didn't speak, looking at the rice field in front of me, a piece of rice stubble, and some places were still covered with snow.

Lin Yan said: "I'm so sorry, I asked you to eat noodles the first time I came to my house."

I said: "It's nothing, what to eat is not to eat."

Speaking of noodles, I thought of the soybean oil barrel with only half a catty of soybean oil, and what her mother said was going to sell meat today, because today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and one day will be the New Year's Eve. It seems that her family hasn't bought much yet. New Year's goods.

I asked, "Where do you go shopping here?"

Lin Yan said: "There is a small shop on Qianjie Street, which has everything. What do you want to buy? Buy cigarettes."

I said, "Well, go and have a look."

He and Lin Yan came to the small shop and bought ten catties of soybean oil, ten catties of pork, fruit, two carps, ten catties of saury, and a lot of vegetables.Lin Yan knew what I meant, and told me not to buy it, but I said buy some, it's Chinese New Year.

After buying these things, I went back to Lin Yan's house. Lin Yan's mother saw me buying these things and said, "You don't need to buy them. I will buy them in a while."

I said, "It's Chinese New Year, and I haven't bought anything. Besides, Lin Yan and I are still friends."

When the word "friend" came out, I felt a little pain in my heart, so unspeakably uncomfortable, I asked myself in my heart, could I really be friends with Lin Yan in the future?Her mother's attitude is very obvious and straightforward, she does not agree with me and Lin Yan.But Lin Yan kept silent and expressed her position, which made me unpredictable and a little at a loss.I don't know if she will listen to her mother not dating me, then this relationship will be over.Or, after I'm gone, she'll talk to her mother and get her mother to agree with us——
In short, my heart is not clear, and I feel a little uncomfortable. It seems that this marriage has become dirty again.

At ten o'clock, Lin Yan sent me to Xiao Ke, and I came back.

(End of this chapter)