The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 98

There is a big earthen pot on the stove in the kitchen, which is the kind of big earthen pot that Fang Yumin usually uses to boil soup.There is fragrant chicken porridge in the crock, and a thick firewood is stuffed in the stove, which is simmering slowly.Occasionally uncover the tile and stir it with a large wooden spoon, and the rice porridge has been boiled white and dense, exuding a strong fragrance, which makes the index finger move.

Fang Yumin was reading in the study, while Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang were sitting at the table and working hard.The two children were sitting upright, their waists were straight, and they were writing articles with brushes.Sometimes frowning and meditating, sometimes writing like a god.Fang Yumin put down the travel book, but in fact she wasn't thinking about it, all her mind was focused on the outside of the door.Lin Qiulai went to Nantou County early this morning. Ren Yabao asked someone to bring them a letter yesterday, saying that he had picked out a few good children and asked them to go and have a look. If they are satisfied, they will go through the formalities. Today they can Bring them all back.

"Mother, I've finished writing it, take a look." Xiao Ming blew on the ink on the paper, and carefully handed it to Fang Yumin who was in a daze.

"Eh? Oh, let me see." Fang Yumin hurriedly recovered and smiled at Xiao Ming.

Xiaoyang raised his head and smiled at Fang Yumin, and said, "Xiaoming is the one who can do it faster, mother, wait for me a little longer, and it will be finished soon." After speaking, she buried her head in her struggle.

Fang Yumin patted Xiaoyang's head and smiled.Xiao Yang has always worked hard. He hoped that he could learn better and understand better so that he could set an example for his younger brother Xiao Ming, and he did.

Now the children don't need Fang Yumin to remind them to read and do housework, and they don't need her to urge them. They will study and work automatically and consciously.No modern child is so difficult to discipline.Of course, modern children are well-informed, and most of them are only children. They are spoiled by adults, and they can do whatever they want. They are completely like runaway wild horses.

When Fang Yumin finished reading and commenting on both articles, Lin Qiulai hadn't come back yet.It was getting dark slowly, Fang Yumin and Xiaoyang lit all the oil lamps in the house.The swaying oil lamps rendered everything in the house in a hazy yellow, giving it a hazy feeling, warm and cosy.

"Mother, will Daddy be back tonight?" Xiao Ming looked outside in the darkness and asked Fang Yumin who was writing the menu with a pen.

Fang Yumin put down the pen, looked outside, smiled and said to Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang: "Your father will definitely come back. There is porridge in the pot, do you want some?"

"I'll eat when daddy comes back." Xiaoyang said while tidying up the desk.

Xiao Ming also quickly expressed his position: "I also want to wait for Daddy."

Seeing that Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang were a little bored waiting, Fang Yumin probably wouldn't go if they were asked to sleep.So he suggested, "How about we play poker while we wait?"

Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly said, "Okay!"

Xiao Ming quickly cleaned up the table and took out a stack of papers, while Xiao Yang opened the drawer to take out the playing cards, then shuffled and dealt the cards skillfully.The mother and son were waiting for the door while playing Doudizhu in the study room, laughing and shouting happily from time to time, which seemed very lively in the silent night.

The three of them were having a good time, and their minds were all on the poker.At this time, Lin Qiulai's voice came: "Xiao Min, we are back."

Fang Yumin and Xiaoming and Xiaoyang were taken aback for a moment, and immediately threw the playing cards away, and the three rushed out the door.I saw the carriage parked in the yard, and a long bench was placed behind the carriage, and Lin Qiulai was helping the children get off the carriage one by one.When he saw Fang Yumin bringing his two sons over, he couldn't help but smile.

"Why did you come back so late?" Fang Yumin looked at Lin Qiulai and those children with the faint light.

Lin Qiulai clapped his hands, and said softly, "Something happened on the way, so we were delayed."

"It's okay, just come back." Fang Yumin was about to blurt out and ask 'what's the matter' when Lin Qiulai said this just now, but it's not appropriate to ask this now.

After the children got off the carriage, they shrank their necks and lowered their heads to look at their toes.Fang Yumin looked at them one by one with the help of a bean-sized oil lamp. Although the clothes were very thin, they were not torn or torn, and looked quite clean.Are cloth shoes on your feet?
In the late autumn night, the wind was blowing fiercely and it was also very cold. Not only the children were shaking, but Fang Yumin was also shaking.Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang stood behind Fang Yumin and looked at these children. They didn't feel cold surrounded by fluffy rabbit fur.Xiao Ming was curious, while Xiao Yang felt the same way. He used to bring it home like this.

Fang Yumin looked at Lin Qiulai, and said to the children: "Stop standing here, go inside and get warm. Come with me."

Those children hurriedly responded respectfully: "Yes, ma'am."

Fang Yumin rolled her eyes, she must have been taught by Brother Ren.She waved and led the children to the dining room.Now there is nothing better than drinking a bowl of fragrant and hot chicken porridge.

The bright oil lamps had already been lit in the dining room, and the dishes and chopsticks were all set up, waiting for Lin Qiu to come back for dinner.Before Fang Yumin could command, Xiao Yang had already filled a casserole of chicken porridge in the kitchen and brought it over. Xiao Ming followed him, holding a big wooden spoon in his hand.

Fang Yumin looked at the children in front of her again with the bright oil lamp, only then did she realize that there were not only six children, but seven.One of them looks very thin and small. I wonder if it is seven years old?The clothes on them looked quite new, and their hair was combed neatly. The boys got one pork bun, while the girls got two buns.

"Xiao Ming, take them to the bathroom to wash their hands, and then come over to eat after washing their hands. Let's talk about other things when they are full and warm."

Xiao Ming put down the bowl in his hand and said in response, "Come with me."

"Yes, son." The children kept their heads down all the time, and now they followed Xiao Ming to wash their hands one by one.

Xiaoyang was serving porridge, Fang Yumin thought about it and went to the kitchen.Adding a piece of firewood to the stove, after the fire started to burn, he pushed away the earthen pot and replaced it with a flat iron pan. Fang Yumin quickly fried a large plate of shallots, fried eggs, acetic Chinese cabbage, and then put pickled cucumbers and kimchi on the wood. They were brought to the dining room together on a plate.

The children had washed their hands and were sitting on chairs.They lowered their heads and swallowed the delicious chicken porridge, but they didn't dare to eat until the owner came.

Fang Yumin originally wanted to wait for Lin Qiu to come over to eat together, but the children seemed to be very hungry and still shaking, so she said, "No need to wait, hurry up and eat, be careful not to burn it."

The children timidly raised their heads and swallowed again, but you looked at me and I looked at you, but you didn't dare to move.Fang Yumin sighed inwardly: "Xiao Ming, let's start, everyone will follow after you eat."

"Yes." Xiao Ming hurriedly picked up the spoon and drank a big mouthful of porridge, then smiled at the children.

Everyone was actually hungry, Madam said so, and the young master took the lead in drinking porridge again, so they picked up spoons and started eating.All of a sudden there was the sound of porridge being gurgled on the dining table, the sound was really unsightly, but Fang Yumin didn't care about it at this time, so I'll teach it later.

"Don't worry, there's still a lot of porridge, eat it slowly." Fang Yumin was not hungry, she watched them drink porridge and observed them carefully.

Although Fang Yumin told Ren Yabao that he wants a child around 12 years old, is it because he is too thin?It seems that they are too young.But these children are pretty and handsome, and they should be smart people with slick eyes. It seems that Ya Bao spent a lot of effort in picking someone for his family.

After a while, the pot of chicken porridge on the dinner table was finished.Xiaoyang stood up and was about to fill another pot, Fang Yumin looked at him and stopped him with his eyes.Then he said to the two tallest boys: "Now follow the eldest son to the kitchen to serve porridge. Although I don't know if you are the oldest, it seems that you are the tallest."

The two boys who were called stood up quickly: "Yes, ma'am."

"Come with me." Xiaoyang pointed to the casserole, and the two boys hurriedly picked up the casserole and spoons and followed Xiaoyang to the kitchen.

At this moment, Lin Qiulai walked into the living room covered in moisture. It seemed that he had gone to take a shower just now.As soon as Xiao Ming saw Lin Qiu coming in, he quickly reached out to touch the porridge bowl for his father. The bowl was no longer hot, so he said to Lin Qiu, "Daddy, the porridge is cold, let me replace it for you."

One of the older girls hurriedly stood up and said, "Young master, please ask the servant to change it for the master."

Xiao Ming looked at Fang Yumin and was relieved when she saw her nodding.The girl hurriedly picked up the bowl and walked towards the kitchen.

Fang Yumin rubbed her forehead and sighed, she was not used to calling herself 'servant', 'villain' and the like.In the future, I will tell them not to call themselves like this anymore, they are all children.

Lin Qiulai sat next to Fang Yumin, and saw her put her hand on her forehead and covered it with her big hand, with a concerned expression on her face: "Xiao Min, are you feeling unwell? Have you caught a cold?"

"No." Fang Yumin put down her hands, and seeing Lin Qiulai still looked worried, she said, "I'm really fine. Are you hungry? The temperature seems to have dropped by more than half as soon as it gets dark. It's really cold."

"Well, yes." Lin Qiulai held Fang Yumin's hand and said with a smile: "If you eat spicy hot pot in this weather, it would be the best."

Xiao Ming's eyes brightened when he heard this, he remembered the happy days when he ate spicy hot pot almost every day at this time last year, looked at Fang Yumin expectantly and asked: "Mom, I want to eat it too, shall we eat spicy hot pot tomorrow?" ?”

Fang Yumin looked at the children who were at a loss for the word 'spicy hot pot', then looked at Lin Qiulai and Xiao Ming, and smiled: "Okay, let's eat mandarin duck hot pot tomorrow. I wonder if these children can eat spicy food? "

"Ma'am," the little boy looked at Fang Yumin timidly and mustered up his courage to say, "I can eat spicy food."

Fang Yumin looked at the sallow and emaciated little boy approvingly: "Okay, you can eat the red soup base tomorrow, and it's fine if it's not so spicy that you cry."

Encouraged by Fang Yumin's eyes, the little boy replied with a small mouth: "No, thank you madam."

The other children looked like they wanted to speak but didn't dare to speak, Fang Yumin smiled.It will take a long time to come, and after a few days to get familiar with the environment, the children's nature will come out.

"From today onwards, you don't need to call yourself 'villain' or 'servant', just use the word 'I'. It's already late, so don't eat too much, lest you have an upset stomach and won't be able to sleep."

"Yes, thank you madam."

Although I said not to eat too much, the big crock of chicken porridge was wiped out.Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang just drank the chicken porridge in a symbolic way, and everything else went into the stomachs of the seven children and Lin Qiulai, as well as the big plate of scrambled eggs.

The hot porridge entered the stomach, and people became much warmer, so Fang Yumin asked everyone to go to the living room.Today's things are done today, and tomorrow will follow the rules.

When the children sat down, Fang Yumin said: "It's not good to go to bed immediately after eating. Let's talk about the rules of our Lin family here. I will observe how your work will be arranged for a few days before assigning."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Let's talk about your names first. You all had your own names, but since you have come to our Lin family, for the sake of convenience, I will give you another name. Now report your age first, and then go from young to old and from left to right according to your age. Let's start from the right. You, it's you, and you will start reporting."

The youngest boy among the children stood up: "Eight years old."

Fang Yumin frowned: "Are you really eight years old?"

The little boy nodded affirmatively: "Eight years old."

"Okay, next."

A boy and a girl stood up at the same time and reported: "Nine years old."

"Ladies first, oh girls first, boys follow."

"Yes."

A boy stood up: "11 years old."

Another girl and a boy reported at the same time: "12 years old."

"Follow, line up."

The last boy who was not tall and looked like a ten-year-old whispered, "13 years old."

Fang Yumin looked at the children of different heights from left to right and said: "Your names are: Sun, Moon, Star, Chen, Wind, Rain, and Dew. You must remember your names. In our Lin family, the first What you abide by is that your hands and feet must be clean, and you can't do things like stealing chickens and dogs. If you are caught by us, you will be driven away immediately. Can you do this?"

"can!"

"Secondly, since you have come to our Lin family, those who remember that you must put the interests of the Lin family as the first consideration in everything you do. Can you do this?"

"can!"

"It's very late now, let's talk about something tomorrow." Fang Yumin had already seen the sleepy faces of the two children, "Xiaoyang, take them to the bathroom to wash, and then take them to the room to sleep. That , Xiaori."

The living room was suddenly quiet, and everyone looked at the youngest boy.It took a long time for the little boy to say belatedly, "Small, my day is here, ma'am."

"En." Fang Yumin patted the top of his head and said, "I originally prepared six beds, but now there is one more bed, so how about Xiaori and Xiaoxing to sleep together tonight?"

"it is good."

"Okay. Xiaoyang, you take them there."

"Okay." Xiao Yang stood up, "Come with me."

Fang Yumin arranged everything and returned to the bedroom after the children had gone to bed.Lin Qiulai had already made all the quilts on the bed. He was sitting by the bed with a few pieces of paper in his hand and read them. There was a stewing pot and a bowl on the table, and there was a faint smell of wine.

Seeing Fang Yumin coming in, Lin Qiulai hurriedly put down the things in his hands, and filled a bowl of reddish-brown soup with the aroma of wine from the stew pot.

This is made by soaking black beans and red dates in glutinous rice wine and putting them for almost a year before taking them out.Fang Yumin was physically weak, so he used this glutinous rice wine and chicken or eggs to stew for two hours in autumn and winter, and drank it to nourish blood and kidney.Fang Yumin drank it almost every night for several months.Now she is not as afraid of the cold as last year, and her hands and feet will not be cold.If the belly is warmed up, the chances of pregnancy increase greatly.

Fang Yumin rinsed her mouth after drinking the soup, lay in Lin Qiulai's arms and asked softly, "If I never get pregnant..."

"Why do you ask this question again?" Lin Qiulai gently rubbed Fang Yumin's soft belly and said, "If you can't conceive, you won't be able to conceive. It's not like we don't have children. Don't worry about it all the time. Take it easy and you may conceive soon." gone."

(End of this chapter)