Jin Liangyu

"Dabao, what did you say just now? Mom didn't hear clearly."

"No~doo, no~doo." These words made the baby spit out the tired words.

But Bao Bao, that unscrupulous mother, almost laughed out loud.

The donkey cart continued to move forward, and both Old Man Zhou and Zhou Dalang could tell that crops had been planted here.

"Erlang, did you and your father-in-law cultivate the land here?" Zhou Dalang asked what his father wanted to ask.

"Well, all the land here that can be cultivated was cultivated by me and my father-in-law. How about it, it's not bad." Speaking of this, Zhou Erlang proudly held up his chest and raised his head, like a victorious general.

"very nice."

"My father-in-law has planned to plant rice on the land near the river this year."

When he heard that rice could be grown, Old Man Zhou's eyes lit up, "Erlang, if you and your father-in-law can't grow it, send a message to your brother and me, and we will come to help."

"My father and brother can also come and help." Wang Xiaoni looked at the fields beside the road and knew that Erlang and his father-in-law were too busy, so she dedicated her own father and brothers.

"Thank you dad, thank you sister-in-law. If we are too busy with the work in the fields, we will send you a message."

Old man Zhou looked at the fields along the way. As farmers, land is their foundation, and liking the land is one of their few pursuits.

The donkey cart finally stopped in front of the wooden house. Zhou Lang tied the donkey cart and went to burn the cage.

Jin Liangyu held Dabao in his arms and opened the door of the wooden house. He had not been home for two days, and a thin layer of dust had fallen on the floor.

Wang Xiaoni took off her shoes with Da Ya Er Ya and stepped on the floor with her feet. It was their first time walking into such a house up close, and everything felt different.

Wang Xiaoni pointed to the transparent window and looked outside. "This is?"

"This is a window inlaid with glass."

"This kind of window is great, it's so transparent, you can see everything outside." Wang Xiaoni kept marveling. Daya and Erya simply stopped talking and lay on the edge of the window sill looking at the scenery outside.

After entering the house, Dabao struggled to get his mother to put him on the floor. He also turned around and asked Saburo to come down to the ground and play with him on the floor, as if he had forgotten his previous dislike of Saburo.

Jin Liangyu looked at the thin layer of dust on the floor and didn't want them to play on the floor.

But thinking that she couldn't clean the floor in front of the Zhou family, she carried Dabao into the west room, and then put Sanlang on the kang in the west room.

When the two little people arrived on the kang, they seemed like fish entering the water. Dabao climbed to the window sill first, holding the window sill with both hands, and stood up easily holding on to the window sill.

Then he would pat the window sill and invite Saburo to come over and join him.

Sanlang is also obedient. If Dabao asks him to go there, he will go there. Then everyone saw the two little kids holding the window sill together and looking outside. From time to time, they would whisper something that no one could understand.

Old man Zhou sat in the living room and kept peeking at the interaction between Sanlang and Dabao. When he saw Dabao taking out food and sitting under the window sill to eat with Sanlang, he felt completely relieved.

"It's almost noon, let's go back." Zhou Dalang saw that it was getting late, so he went back.

At this time of the year, there was no harvest, and every family had no food left. He could not embarrass his younger brother.

"Dad, you should go back after lunch." Jin Liangyu asked his father-in-law first.

Old man Zhou also had the same idea as his eldest son, but he also had Sanlang in mind, so he agreed. "Erlang's wife, you can make whatever you want." "Yeah." Jin Liangyu agreed and went to the kitchen. Daya and Erya came over to help her light the fire, and Jin Liangyu didn't refuse. He kept mumbling: "It's better to be a little cotton-padded jacket. You know how to help adults with work."

Wang Xiaoni also wanted to come over to help, but Jin Liangyu declined. "It's all ready-made. Sister-in-law, just sit there and rest. It'll be fine in a while."

Jin Liangyu told the truth. She cooked a big pot of rice first, and since Daya was on the fire, she didn't have to worry about it.

There is also a bucket of braised pork at home, so I can cut a few pieces and put them on the plate to make several dishes.

Braised pork intestines, braised pork liver, shredded pork heart, and pork head meat, there are four dishes without counting.

She made another stir-fried vermicelli with sauerkraut without meat, which was the best way to relieve boredom. She also asked Zhou Erlang to cut the garlic sprouts growing in the wooden basin, make scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts, and finally made a pot of fungus and egg drop soup.

Six dishes and one soup were put on the table. Old man Zhou, Zhou Dalang and Wang Xiaoni all looked surprised.

Da Ya and Er Ya were already amazed in the kitchen. They didn't expect that the same food would almost turn into flowers in the hands of Er Aunt.

Jin Liangyu: It's because she's not good at her craftsmanship. If her father takes action, it will really turn into a waste, and it will be the kind that makes people reluctant to put down their chopsticks.

Jin Liangyu brought out two more bowls of egg custard, one for each of Dabao and Sanlang.

Jin Liangyu felt relieved when he saw Sanlang eating the egg custard himself with a spoon.

As is customary in the Zhou family, Old Man Zhou was the first to use his chopsticks. He picked up a piece of braised pork sausage and brought it to his mouth, chewing it carefully.

Zhou Dalang also imitated his father, and the movements of father and son were exactly the same.

Wang Xiaoni smiled and said nothing. She liked the taste of the plate of fried vermicelli with pickled cabbage.

The smell made her want to eat it, and after taking a bite, she was full of praise: "The cooking skills of the second younger brother and sister must have been learned from Uncle Jin. They are much more delicious than my cooking."

Jin Liangyu smiled shyly and put another piece of braised pork liver into Wang Xiaoni's bowl. "Sister-in-law, try this. You should eat appropriately for your current body."

"Thank you, second brother and sister."

Dabao was raised well by his second younger brother and sister, and Wang Xiaoni felt that everything the second younger brother and sister said was right.

Jin Liangyu took another chopstick of pork head meat to the eldest girl and the second girl, and put the shaky meat into the bowl. The two little girls both said: "Thank you, second aunt."

"You're welcome. You two can eat whatever you want."

"Ah."

While eating the vegetables, Old Man Zhou thought that his second daughter-in-law was indeed a girl from the town and was different from the people in the village.

Almost every family in the village eats stew. Wash and chop half a cabbage, add a basin of water, and sprinkle some salt to make a pot of stew, enough for a big family to eat.

For those who are particular about it, you can use chopsticks to dip some oil in the pot and stir it before serving. And families with poor conditions really don’t have any stars at all.

No one can afford such delicate cooking as the second daughter-in-law's. There are also these braised food, which the eldest daughter-in-law also made during the Chinese New Year. The taste is quite different from the ones made by the second daughter-in-law.

Thinking of this, Old Man Zhou glanced at his son and grandson again. He thought to himself: Maybe it will be a way out for my son to hang out with his eldest grandson in the future.