"You're welcome. It's what I should do."
Xiao Mingsheng helped Jiang Shan to the back seat of the bicycle and pushed the bike forward.
It's more discreet to push a bicycle than to carry a woman on the back seat.
Jiang Shan looked at his expensive clothes and asked sweetly, "Brother, you look familiar. You look a bit like someone my friend knows. What's your name?"
Xiao Mingsheng: "Xiao Mingsheng."
Shuisheng’s brother-in-law has an older brother in his family, also named Xiao something Sheng. Jiang Shan doesn’t remember if his name is Xiao Mingsheng. What was it called?
The wheels rolled over a curved rut on the ground. When they approached the hospital, Jiang Shan remembered that Shuisheng's brother-in-law's eldest brother was called Xiao Wensheng.
Xiao Wensheng, Xiao Shuisheng... Xiao Mingsheng.
Sounds like brothers.
Jiang Shan pretended to be surprised: "I know a man named Xiao Shuisheng, do you know him, brother?"
The car stopped for a moment, and Xiao Mingsheng smiled and said, "You're an acquaintance, then. Shuisheng is my cousin. You can't be the sister-in-law that Shuisheng is so worried about that he can't wait to marry her tomorrow."
He and Shuisheng don't see each other often, but they meet at their grandparents' house during the holidays. Every time, his grandmother would urge him to get married. Shuisheng was quite impatient at first, but last year he started saying that he had a girlfriend and would bring her home immediately if she was willing to meet him.
However, Second Aunt was very dissatisfied with his partner and asked him to break up several times. Shuisheng refused to agree and threatened that if they broke up, they would have to separate. Only then did Second Aunt stop asking the question.
Shuisheng was so fascinated by her that he wanted to separate from her. He was even curious about what kind of lesbian she was.
Jiang Shan gritted her teeth, it really is better.
"You guessed wrong. Xiao Shuisheng is my future brother-in-law, and my cousin is his girlfriend."
Xiao Mingsheng is a surgeon. There were no emergency patients in the morning, so he took Jiang Shan to the consultation room and disinfected and bandaged the wounds on her elbows, palms and feet.
The man's hands were slender and warm. When he was applying the medicine, he accidentally touched Jiang Shan's skin, causing her body to tremble.
No man had ever cared for her like this.
The cleaning lady came in to change the garbage bag and asked, "Doctor Xiao, what do you think about what I told you last time?"
Xiao Mingsheng used tweezers to hold a cotton ball soaked in disinfectant and wiped the scraped area on Jiang Shan's ankle: "I don't plan to look for it again."
The aunt sighed, "How can I not find one? Your eldest child is only five years old, and the youngest is three. It would be so tiring for you to raise them by yourself. The children can't be without a mother. You are a second marriage, and my niece is also a second marriage. She is about the same age as you. Let's meet each other."
Doctor Xiao is well-off, otherwise how would her niece raise three sons on her own? If she marries Doctor Xiao, she will definitely not starve to death.
Jiang Shan quickly pulled her foot back and raised her voice eight degrees: "Are you divorced?"
They were all women. Auntie could tell that the young woman sitting on the chair was fine and that she was also here to see Doctor Xiao.
"It's not a divorce. Doctor Xiao's previous wife died of complications during childbirth, and now they have two children at home."
Don’t be fooled by the aunt’s smiling face. She is deliberately trying to discourage Jiang Shan.
Xiao Mingsheng disinfected Jiang Shan's wounds: "It's done."
Jiang Shan's heart was beating so fast that she couldn't calm down. She had already planned how to seduce Xiao Mingsheng and marry into the Xiao family to become Jiang Zao's sister-in-law.
Tell her now that Xiao Mingsheng is dead, with his wife and two children!
She still didn't give up: "Do you have any unmarried brothers or cousins in your family?"
Xiao Mingsheng chuckled and shook his head.
"There are only three of us brothers. Is there any problem?"
There are only three of them. If she wants to be Jiang Zao's sister-in-law, she can only marry Xiao Mingsheng and become a stepmother to two children born to other women who have no blood relationship with her.
Jiang Shan was unwilling in her heart, but she was unwilling to marry casually, and she wanted to see Jiang Zao wearing gold and silver and living in harmony with Xiao Shuisheng.
She didn't want to continue living under Jiang Zao's shadow.
Xiao Mingsheng is also the grandson of the Xiao family. Looking at his nice clothes, he must be from a wealthy family. As a surgeon in the county hospital, his salary must be quite high. He has two children but can still dress so well. He must have some savings.
Jiang Shan was moved again.
Xiao Mingsheng has no children and has never married, so she may not be able to catch his eye.
"I didn't expect Brother Xiao to be so outstanding, raising two children alone. Why don't I have such a good life? I met a good man like you. I felt sorry for you just now, so I was a little excited."
Xiao Mingsheng: "Thank you for your concern."
Perhaps because he had been married before, or perhaps because he was a doctor, Jiang Shan was attracted to Xiao Mingsheng's temperament.
"Thank you, Brother Xiao, for helping me apply the medicine. I'll go back and change my clothes first."
Xiao Mingsheng put down the medical book and stood up to see him off.
In the next few days, Jiang Shan would visit Xiao Mingsheng every day and go to work with a rosy face every day.
Chang Sanxi asked Jiang Zao suspiciously, "Is there any happy event in Jiang Shan's family recently?"
Jiang Zao learned how to knead the dough and moved on to the next stage: wrapping the filling.
What I made was pan-fried buns.
The flour is mixed with sugar and salt, and the meat is formed into a dough after fermentation with yeast. The filling is minced pork belly mixed with minced carrots. After the filling is wrapped, pleats are pinched. She started learning yesterday, and she can already pinch out 18 pleats. Master Sun was very satisfied and asked her to try the real filling.
Jiang Zao put the filling in and placed the dough on the palm of his left hand: "I haven't heard of any happy events, what's wrong?"
"I see she's always smiling lately, working very hard, and often grinning at the air and the walls." Thinking of Jiang Shan's appearance, Chang Sanxi felt a tingling sensation on his back and rubbed his shoulders.
Jiang Zao pinched the wrinkles of the dough with his right hand, and placed his thumb on the outside of the wrinkles: "She can't hide anything. You'll know in a few days."
Jiang Zao couldn't think of what Jiang Shan could do for a while.
Without moving her thumb, she pulled up the dough with her index finger to make the second and third pleats. While pulling the pleats upwards, she gently lifted them up to make the pinching smoother. She effortlessly made more than twenty pleats, each of which looked as if carefully designed, with the pleats being of the same width and very beautiful.
Jiang Zao put the buns aside.
Chang Sanxi couldn't help but sigh: "You are really a culinary genius."
Jiang Zao didn't overly modestly say, "Not bad."
Today she still practiced until 7:30 before leaving get off work.
After she left, Wang Meili looked at the bun with more than a dozen folds in her hands, but each fold was twisted and crooked. She angrily flattened the bun and the filling squeezed out of her hands.
"I don't believe I can't learn from Jiang Zao!"
Wang Meili usually practices until 8:30, but today she practiced until 9:30.
Jiang Zao had already arrived home.
The Jiang family's yard was filled with tables, chairs and benches borrowed from their neighbors, and big red wedding characters were pasted on the windows and doors.
Liu Chunhua sat on the kitchen threshold picking beans, pinching off the ends, pulling out the hard fibers on the edges of the beans, and then throwing them into a large basin.
Hearing footsteps, he said without even looking up, "Third brother is back. You should get up early tomorrow. Your sister is getting married. Please help steam some buns and make some dumplings. Show off your skills to the neighbors."
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