Chapter 113 Chapter 113 Fried rice cakes.

Liu Suqin found it outrageous, but the family remained calm. When Li Xiaoqing mentioned the arrangement, she cheerfully told her, "Brother Quansheng told me that Lele is still young and it's inconvenient to take him back to our hometown for the New Year. So he's going back alone this year, and I'll stay to take care of the child. We'll go to my parents' home for the New Year next year. My parents-in-law won't have any complaints."

Li's mother also nodded vigorously in agreement, with a look of satisfaction on her face that her son-in-law was so considerate and filial.

Liu Suqin thought that Lin Quansheng had not planned to return to his hometown this year, but he was quite capable of using this to fool his wife and mother-in-law.

But she had truly made him happy, so naturally she wouldn't spoil the fun. With a pang of conscience, she asked, "So, with the three of you left at home, wouldn't this New Year be a bit lonely?"

Li Xiaoqing said carelessly, "I would like to be quiet, but I gave birth to a demon star, and I am busy enough trying to stop him from crying every day."

Li's mother disagreed, saying, "A child with a loud voice is a sign of good health and a strong backbone."

"Yes, yes, your precious grandson is in good health." Li Xiaoqing smiled good-naturedly. "Then when Sister Suqin and the others go away for summer vacation next year, Lele will be a year old already. We can accompany you back to visit Dad and Little Sister? Grandpa can also officially meet our Lele."

The family of the person involved changed the subject so quickly, which showed that they really didn't take it to heart, so Liu Suqin felt relieved.

To be honest, the decision to bring Lin Quansheng in was very friendly to their family. Not only could it ensure safety during driving, but he could also take turns driving with Lin Nanjiang to avoid fatigue driving.

Yes, Lin Quansheng has passed the driving test and is a very good driver. As long as he drives in a standardized manner and strictly obeys traffic rules, Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang don't mind if he wants to borrow their car for a ride occasionally.

After all, Lin Nanjiang usually used Lin Quansheng's motorcycle. He would just say hello anytime and anywhere and ride away.

The benefit of training Lin Quansheng to be a half-experienced driver came into play. He and Lin Nanjiang took turns driving in the front, while Liu Suqin and her daughter occupied the entire back seat. When they were tired, they could even lie down and take a nap. The journey was relatively safe and comfortable.

On the contrary, the two men, who were so excited and waiting to return home in glory, were exhausted after driving for more than ten hours. After returning home to give a few instructions, they hurried back to their rooms to catch up on some sleep. The food and wine prepared early, as well as the relatives and friends headed by Lin's father who were waiting to toast with them, were caught off guard and looked at each other in bewilderment. Liu Suqin had to explain for the two of them, "They took turns driving more than a dozen small cars and were very tired. They were anxious to go back to catch up on some sleep."

Father Lin and the others nodded in confusion, "Oh, it's really tiring to drive for such a long time."

"So you're just tired. A good sleep will make you feel better. It's okay, it's okay."

Mother Lin asked with concern, "Do you and Fangfang want to eat something before you rest?"

Liu Suqin smiled and said, "We followed the long-distance bus all the way. They stopped to rest and had lunch and dinner on the roadside. We ordered food with them. The food was pretty good and we all ate our fill."

She was only slightly more energetic than the two drivers, but she was actually still tired after sitting in the car for a whole day. After simply comforting her parents-in-law and brothers and sisters-in-law who had warmly welcomed her, she quickly went back to her room to wash up and rest.

The mother and daughter were not as sound asleep as Lin Nanjiang, but they slept soundly.

But the neighbors started to get busy at dawn. The sounds of people coming and going and things being moved were clearly heard by Liu Suqin even though no one was making loud noises.

The simple brick and tile houses and wooden doors in the countryside had almost no sound insulation, and there was only a wall between her home and the venue where the wedding was being prepared. Liu Suqin, who was sleeping, listened to the noise so close to her and slowly opened her eyes.

Besides the noise, there was also a long and steady breathing sound in her ears. Even with her eyes closed, she could tell how soundly this person was sleeping. She turned her head and looked inside, and was suddenly met with a pair of clear eyes that revealed a hint of curiosity and excitement. "Baby, you woke up so early, did you sleep well last night?"

Xiao Fangfang nodded vigorously, and did not forget to imitate her mother and lower her voice to ask, "Mom, I'm asleep. Can I go outside to help?"

In the car, Lin Nanjiang and Lin Quansheng discussed topics such as Lin Nanhe's partner and marriage. Liu Suqin also interjected from time to time. Xiao Fangfang listened carefully beside them. She knew that her uncle was going to marry a beautiful bride and her grandparents had already started preparing. Xiao Fangfang was so eager to go home that she was afraid of missing out on the fun.

After all, she often heard that her mother was attending weddings again, and she was very curious. She wanted to see with her own eyes what a wedding was like and why her mother liked it so much.

She asked the kindergarten teachers and children, and the teachers said that it was a happy event and everyone gathered together to give their sincere blessings. After the bride got married, she could have a baby.

The children kept telling her how lively and fun the wedding was, how there was so much food and candy that they couldn't finish it all, and how beautiful the bride was. Little Fangfang, who had never attended a proper wedding in her life, was so envious that tears were about to fall from her mouth.

But her parents said they were working outside and couldn't take her with them. Her grandmother and the others often told her how hard her mother worked outside and how she had to earn a lot of money so that they could take her to the amusement park and travel in the future. So she couldn't cause trouble for her parents' work.

In order to live up to her identity as a good baby, Xiao Fangfang could only suppress her curiosity. Finally, when her grandmother's family was going to hold a wedding and she could attend as a little guest, Xiao Fangfang's accumulated curiosity exploded. Listening to the noise outside, she could no longer lie still.

Liu Suqin was amused by the child's shameless words. She pinched her soft cheek and said affectionately, "You still want to help? With your three-headed body, it's a good thing you don't cause trouble for the adults."

Little Fangfang adorably raised her hand and swore, "I promise to help and be a good helper to mom and dad!"

Liu Suqin thought that your parents themselves don't have this confidence, so she advised, "You'd better not help. After breakfast, go play with your brothers and sisters."

The child said with a bit of useless sadness, "Okay, can you get up now?"

"Okay, but we have to be quiet so as not to wake up Dad."

The mother and daughter climbed over the sleeping Lin Nanjiang and got off the bed, rummaging through the luggage and putting on clothes in the room. These movements did not affect Lin Nanjiang's quality sleep at all. The child who was dressed first found it very novel and simply lay at the head of the bed and watched quietly for a long time.

When Liu Suqin finished packing and told her to go out, Xiao Fangfang ran up to her and started complaining, "Daddy sleeps like a little pig, no, a big pig."

Liu Suqin laughed and said, "If Dad hears this, he will be very sad."

Xiao Fangfang said no, "My dad also calls me a little pig, so he must be a big pig."

However, despite all the complaints, the child had no intention of waking up his father, because his mother said that his father was too tired from driving yesterday and needed to recover by sleeping, rather than just sleeping in.

Plus, her attention was also drawn to the movement outside. How could it be as fun to bother her father as attending a wedding?

The child held his mother's hand with anticipation, skipped to the main room next door, and at Lin's mother's request, he got hot water to brush his teeth and wash his face.

The breakfast for the mother and daughter was fried glutinous rice cakes made by Lin's mother in her busy schedule. As soon as the mother and daughter finished washing up, the hot breakfast was immediately served on the table.

Freshly made rice cakes are soft, chewy and elastic to begin with. After being fried in oil for a while, the inside immediately becomes soft and fluffy with an excellent taste. The outer shell is fried until golden and crispy. Sprinkle with sugar, and you will be unable to stop eating it.

This kind of sugar and oil mixture will make you feel greasy if you eat too much, but they only eat it once or twice a year and still like it very much. They eat it until their mouths are dry, and then they take a big mouthful of porridge cooked with firewood, and they feel that their internal organs are soothed.

The first breakfast after returning was simple but delicious, returning to the original flavor of the food. Liu Suqin was quite satisfied.

After eating, she used a towel to wet her mouth and helped her daughter, who had ate as much as a little cat, to return to a pleasing milk ball. She sent the little one to find her brothers and sisters who were running around in the house playing hide-and-seek. When she was about to clean up the dishes, she turned back and found the table empty. There was only the back of Mrs. Lin carrying something to the kitchen. Liu Suqin had no choice but to ask her mother-in-law if there was anything she had arranged for her.

But when she goes back to her husband's family, she always just asks for food and clothes. Mother Lin is willing and even takes the initiative to do the laundry and cooking for the third son's family. What's more, the couple unexpectedly drove back a car this year. Mother Lin and the old man were so excited that they couldn't sleep last night. The old couple discussed it until midnight and felt that this was a double happiness. The fourth son was going to marry a woman from the city, and the third son was even more amazing. He drove a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Lin family was really blessed.

In Lin's mother's heart, the joy of the family getting married was not as great as the excitement of seeing her third son driving the car himself yesterday. After all, this was the fourth daughter-in-law, and it was a bit commonplace. Buying a car was something they had never dared to dream of.

After becoming the first person in the village to buy a house and a shop in a major city, the third brother achieved an even greater accomplishment, becoming the first person in the village to drive a car. This once again caused a sensation in the village, and even his parents and brothers, from last night until this morning, whenever they stepped out of the house, they were immediately inundated with envious glances. Not long after, Mother Lin once again experienced the feeling of being the center of attention, making her feel both elated and proud.

At this moment, even if Lin's mother asked her to treat her daughter-in-law Liu Suqin as an ancestor and serve her tea and food personally, she would be willing to do so and was reluctant to arrange for her to do anything.

As soon as Liu Suqin approached, Lin's mother's face was filled with smiles. She shook her head and waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, you must have worked hard on your journey back. Rest well. Your sisters-in-law and I will take care of the rest."

The sisters-in-law used to have to force smiles when they saw their sister-in-law, who didn't even have to help with the New Year's Eve dinner and only had to entertain the guests with her mouth. But this time, they were more sincere than ever before and agreed with a smile, "Yes, we are almost done, you just sit back and relax."

Lin Erjie also came back to her parents' home early in the morning to help. Not only herself, but also her husband and children came with her.

She had always thought that Liu Suqin, her sister-in-law, was good in every way, and that her family's current prosperity was all due to the changes after Liu Suqin came into the family, and her husband was also one of the beneficiaries. If it weren't for the Nanjiang couple who supported her younger brother financially and physically in learning to drive, the child's father would have no idea how long it would take to convince his stubborn father-in-law!

This is the atmosphere in the village. If a man is doing well, his wife will become the object of the villagers' enthusiastic praise. And as a relative, Lin Erjie will love him as well as his wife.

What's more, the Nanjiang couple had nothing to say about her sister who married out. Among so many nephews and nieces in the family, they only took her son Lei Lei to Shenzhen.

Although they need to look at the academic performance when picking up a child, none of the children from her mother's family have good academic performance. Only her own son has been instilled with the idea of ​​studying hard to change his destiny by his grandfather since he was a child, so he can barely fight for it. But his surname is not Lin after all. In fact, if her third brother and his wife don't include Lei Lei, Second Sister Lin will not have any objection.

But they took the initiative to pick up Lei Lei and treated him with such care.

The children were so excited when they came back, and kept talking about how their aunt drove them to the amusement park and the Cultural Palace, and would stop at the university gate to let them see. She also took them to the mall and pointed at the high-rise buildings opposite and told them that if they got into university, they would be so respectable as white-collar workers in such office buildings in the future.

My brother and sister-in-law never said a single word about studying hard during the whole process, but the impact they brought was incomparable to any amount of parental admonition.

Just like Lei Lei, who had seen what big cities were like at his uncle and aunt's house and knew the importance of studying and taking college entrance exams. He no longer needed his grandfather to watch him study. The child had learned to study hard on his own, and with the help of study materials brought back from Shenzhen, his grades this semester had improved by leaps and bounds. His grandfather was so happy that he invited the principal to his home for a drink as soon as the winter vacation started. The child's head teacher was also present. She went in to serve the dishes and happened to hear the head teacher's evaluation of her son. She said that she had seen from the beginning that the child was smart, but his mind was not on studying before, which caused his grades to fluctuate and be unstable. However, this semester, he began to study hard on his own, and the effect was twice the result with half the effort. While his grades improved, he also made steady progress. It was obvious that he was a good seedling.

The head teacher also said that if I keep up this momentum, it would be best to send me to the county for junior high school, so that I will have a better chance of getting into key high schools and universities in the future.

After hearing this evaluation, Grandpa He, who had always had high hopes for his child, was ecstatic. Second Sister Lin also began to look forward to it for the first time in her life. She thought that according to her father-in-law's plan, Lei Lei would go to college and return to the county government to work. With the relationship with her aunt's family, he would not only rise to a high position, but also have a stable and decent life in the second half of his life. She could really wake up with a smile in her dreams.

Lin Erjie didn't push her son hard before because she was worried that he didn't have the talent for studying, and the old man pushed him too hard, so she felt there was little hope.

Now, seeing just a little sign, Sister Lin's inner expectations burned like a prairie fire.

Second Sister Lin was particularly fond of and grateful for her brother's wife, who had caused her son to change and might even affect his future life. She looked at her with even more affection than she would her own sister, fearing that she was still feeling at ease after just returning. She warmly welcomed her, "Suqin, if you're bored, you can just pull up a stool and sit down and chat with us. Oh, and my dad has nothing to do early this morning, so he's taking my eldest brother and the others to fetch water to wash the car. Why don't you go over and take a look? We don't want them to accidentally damage a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Having said that, Liu Suqin naturally agreed. "Okay, then I'll go out and take a look. The car is parked at the door, and I won't go far. Mom, if you have anything, just call me."

While the adults were chatting and greeting each other, Xiao Fangfang had already successfully become friends with her older brothers and sisters.

The children also welcomed her very much. I still remember that one winter vacation, she helped take care of the little sister and they earned a lot of pocket money. Their pockets were fuller than ever before. After school started, they used the remaining pocket money to buy snacks and toys, which made a group of friends envious.

When they were ready to make another fortune last year, their cousin, the little god of wealth, did not come back. They were so disappointed that the New Year's Eve dinner was not as tasty.

Fortunately, the little sister is back this year. After two years, she is now smart and agile. She is no longer a burden who needs to be taken care of, but a little friend who can really play with them. Moreover, she is so delicate and beautiful, like a doll that can move. The children are not only happy, but also feel relieved that "my sister has grown up". They don't need adults to tempt her with pocket money, and they all take the initiative to pull her in to play games.

Xiao Fangfang was even more rude. She immediately joined the hide-and-seek team, running and hiding in each room, and her crisp laughter filled every corner.

But when she saw her mother walking out, she didn't hesitate to drop what she was doing and ran to Liu Suqin, "Mom, mom, where are you going?"

"I heard that Grandpa and the uncles are helping us wash the car. Mom will go and take a look. You can just relax and play with your brothers and sisters."

At this time, children came over and asked, "Fangfang, why don't you continue?"

Xiao Fangfang firmly took her mother's hand and said, "I will accompany Mom to see the car wash, you two can play by yourselves."

When the children saw that there was such a good thing, they all said, "Sister, I will go with you!"

So when Liu Suqin took her daughter to the parking lot, a group of enthusiastic little kids followed behind them.

The car has been polished to a shine and spotless state, ready to be put on display. However, they still felt it was not enough, so they squatted beside the four tires with rags in their hands, carefully and meticulously scrubbing them bit by bit.

Liu Suqin: ...Yes, but it’s not necessary.

Before she could remind them that they had done a great job and could call it a day, she heard Lin's father's voice, "Suqin arrived just in time. The outside of the car is almost clean. Do you want to go get the car keys from the third brother, open the door, and we can clean the seats and windows?"

It was the first time in Liu Suqin's life that she heard Father Lin call her name so affectionately. She was a little flattered, but she didn't hesitate to decline their kindness. "Don't bother. We had the car washed at a professional car wash before we left. On the way back, we even closed the windows tightly to keep dust out. Now it's very clean."

Father Lin smiled innocently, "Is that so? The weather is nice today, do you want to open the car door to get some fresh air and some sunshine?"

Brother Lin and Brother Lin also chimed in, "Yes, we will be standing by, so there is no need to worry about anyone getting on the bus and causing trouble."

Liu Suqin realized that they just wanted to find an excuse to open the car door and take a look inside, and maybe even wanted to get in and sit down to experience it.

Since the car was driven back, it was inevitable that people would watch and study it. As long as it wasn't some malicious damage like a naughty kid scratching the car or puncturing the tires, Liu Suqin had no reason to be stingy. She immediately responded and went back to get the car keys.

Of course, she didn't look for Lin Nanjiang as Lin's father said, because she had the key in her bag.

This goes without saying.

Liu Suqin opened the car door and invited the elders, represented by Lin's father, to get in for a ride. Lin's father narrowed his eyes and refused, "We'll just look around from the outside. We shouldn't damage such an expensive car."

The elder and second brothers Lin, who had promised to keep an eye on the car, stood guard on both sides like door gods, and rudely drove away the children who wanted to climb into the car in the chaos.

With the father and his sons setting an example, other relatives and fellow villagers could only follow suit and circle around the car, and at most stick their heads inside to enjoy the view.

The most excited person among them was Lin Nanhe. He never dreamed that he would be able to pick up his bride in a car in this life. Tomorrow he would drive the car to the downstairs of his mother-in-law's house. Wouldn't his family and relatives and friends be stunned?

Imagining his stunning appearance, Lin Nanhe's mouth was almost stretched to the back of his ears. He confirmed again, "Third sister-in-law, are we really going to drive to pick up the bride tomorrow?"

"Of course. I drove all the way back just to help you pick up your bride."

He Shengli also asked, "Sister-in-law, if it's a wedding car, does it need to be decorated? I've seen some wedding cars in the city with big red flowers tied to them. It looks so festive, like they're a wedding."

Liu Suqin nodded. "We should indeed decorate it. Do you have any materials at home? Things like wedding characters, red silk, and balloons can all be used to decorate the wedding car."

"I'll go ask Mom." After saying this, Lin Nanhe ran away. After a while, he came over with a group of women led by Lin's mother, each holding materials in their hands.

Liu Suqin went out more often and had seen wedding cars decorated on site, so she became the temporary commander-in-chief, directing everyone on how to blow up and tie balloons.

When Lin Nanjiang got up, his beloved car had changed drastically. The hood of the car was covered with colorful balloons fluttering in the wind, and there were big wedding characters pasted in the middle and on the back. There was also a big red flower tied above the license plate. It was bright red and auspicious.

There is no way, the conditions are limited, Liu Suqin has done her best.

The villagers really appreciated this style and kept praising her for her good taste. The decoration was so beautiful. How stunning it would be when the bride was carried out of the car tomorrow.

Lin Nanhe got inspiration from everyone's discussion and approached Liu Suqin hesitantly and asked, "Um, Third Sister-in-law, could you please accompany us to pick up the bride tomorrow?"

Liu Suqin jokingly asked, "You want me to put on makeup for the bride?"

Lin Nanhe scratched his head embarrassedly. "I was worried that if the makeup artist wasn't professional enough, Third Sister-in-law would be there to save the day. Don't all girls want to look beautiful and have no regrets when they get married?"

This was not a big deal, so Liu Suqin readily agreed and rejected her brother-in-law's promise of a red envelope. As a sister-in-law, if she dared to accept the red envelope, the villagers would turn around and scold her.

She could guess what they would say, definitely the ones about the richer the person, the more stingy they were.