Luo Li poked her head in from the doorway: "Aunt Fang."
Fang Rou responded, and Xiao Yunying said, "Come quickly, your Aunt Fang brought peanut candy and melon seed candy."
Luo Li came in with two puppies. Xiao Yunying handed him two oil paper packages: "Don't eat them all at once."
Luo Li said, "I know, it will rot our teeth. We'll rinse our mouths after we eat. Mother, I'll go share it with my eldest brother, second brother, and little sister."
"Go."
Fang Rou said, "The two puppies that Luo Li picked up have grown quite a bit."
"Don't cats and dogs grow up fast?"
The main reason is that they eat well; they're fed goat milk every day.
The main problem is that, for some reason, she stopped eating the dog food after a few days, and she wouldn't eat it no matter how many different kinds she tried.
As the puppy grew bigger, milk alone wasn't enough to satisfy its hunger. So, she tried combining various ingredients several times and finally determined that the puppy loved meat.
Then I started making dog food myself every morning, steaming it with vegetables that dogs can eat, such as carrots and broccoli, and minced meat, and feeding it to the dog with goat milk.
They eat meat and drink goat milk every day, which is better than most people's diet, so how could they not grow fast?
Xiao Yunying tied the two cloth bags and put them in the cupboard. She then took two new cloth bags and rolled them up, saying, "I'm not going to bother with these anymore. Here are two new ones for you. The kitchen is cold. Come sit in my room."
Fang Rou rolled up the cloth bag and took it: "I'm not sitting here anymore. It's almost time to eat. I came to ask you to bring the children to my house for dinner."
"Is there something good happening? Are you going to treat me to dinner?"
The Yang family slaughtered their pigs a couple of days ago; I haven't heard of any happy events happening in the Yang family lately.
It's also possible that she doesn't go out much and therefore didn't know because she hadn't heard about it.
Fang Rou said, "Young Master Chen ordered some furniture from my house. Some of it was delivered today, and Young Master Chen paid the wages. When Father came back, he bought a few geese, and Mother stewed one this afternoon."
In addition to the renovation of Huiweilou, Chen Yuancheng and the Yang family signed a new contract with Xiao Yunying's consent and ordered a lot of furniture designed by her.
To ensure exclusive customization and prevent the furniture designs from being leaked, Chen Yuancheng did not involve other carpenters, but instead sourced top-quality wood for the Yang family to craft independently.
Although the Yang family didn't have to provide the timber, Chen Yuancheng offered a high price and ordered a lot, which came to a total of over thirty taels of silver, a real fortune for an ordinary family.
"He ordered so much furniture, how come your house was finished so quickly?"
She designed some of the furniture after visiting Chen Yuancheng and the two siblings' rooms and discussing the details with them, so she knew that the Chen family had ordered a lot of furniture.
"It can't be that fast. A lot of timber hasn't arrived yet. Young Master Chen said there's no rush. We can start working after the New Year and he'll pay us for the finished work first."
"Oh, I see."
Fang Rou continued, "When my parents received their wages, the first thing they thought of was to invite you over for a meal to thank you. If it weren't for you, how could our family have gotten in touch with Young Master Chen, or how could we have made such novel furniture?"
"That's because Uncle Yang is very skilled. Otherwise, no matter how good the blueprints are, if the finished product is not good, no one will want it."
Fang Rou said casually, "Stop praising me like this. How about it? Don't cook tonight, bring the kids to my house for dinner."
"There's goose meat to eat..."
Xiao Yunying imagined a scene of goose stewed in an iron pot in her mind; she hadn't eaten goose meat in a long time.
Fang Rou nudged her lightly with her elbow: "What are you still thinking about? Go on, the goose meat my mother-in-law stewed using the method you taught me is so delicious."
She wanted to eat the goose meat, but the problem was she didn't want to see Yang Tianyun.
Xiao Yunying made up an excuse: "Forget it, I won't go. Let my kids eat for me. You know I'm injured and the ointment I'm wearing can't be spicy."
Letting the children go might make Yang Tianyun realize the reality: regardless of whether that scoundrel is there or not, she is already married in name only, and there is no possibility between them.
"It's alright. My mother and I remember the things you taught us to pay attention to when cooking. We knew you were injured, so we didn't put in any chili peppers."
Xiao Yunying: ...You're not following the rules. Didn't we agree to stew the goose the way I taught you? Why didn't you put in chili peppers?
Fang Rou's smile faded slightly: "We came right away when you invited my family to dinner, without any formalities. Why are you so reluctant to come to my house for dinner? What's wrong? You don't think much of us?"
"That's not what I meant, don't overthink it."
Even though Xiao Yunying knew that Fang Rou wasn't that petty, and that she was deliberately making this expression because she was unhappy with her over such a small matter, just like when Fang Rou was trying to scare her family, she didn't want Fang Rou to misunderstand, so she could only make up an excuse:
"I'm just embarrassed. Whether it was the housewarming party or the day of the pig slaughter, you and Aunt Yang came early to help out. When I went to your house, you wouldn't let me do anything. I just sat there eating and drinking for free."
"Hey, it's nothing, don't be embarrassed. Your family has hired a lot of people and is too busy to handle everything, so it's only right that you come and help. Isn't that how everyone in the village does it? My family only hired you and a few children. My mother and I can manage, you don't need to lift a finger."
Xiao Yunying couldn't refuse any longer: "Then I won't stand on ceremony. I'll take the children over in a bit."
"You absolutely have to come. I'm heading back now."
After seeing Fang Rou off, Xiao Yunying returned to the living room and sat by the stove, looking troubled.
What should she do? Having been single for 25 years, she really doesn't know how to handle relationship problems.
After thinking for a while without any clue, he took out a few packets of chrysanthemum tea, a few packets of milk candy and dried fruit, went to call a few children, and washed his hands before going to the Yang family.
On the way, Luo Yang quietly walked to Xiao Yunying's side: "Mother, is something on your mind?"
There's something I don't know what to do about it.
"If Mother trusts me, you can talk to me and I'll think of a solution for you."
Xiao Yunying raised her hand and touched Luo Yang's head, who was much shorter than her. Both his height and his youthful face reminded her that he was only a seven-year-old child.
"You can give me advice on other things, but you really have no ideas for this."
Even if a child is precocious, an eight-year-old child after the New Year wouldn't understand matters of romantic relationships.
"If Mother doesn't tell me, how will she know I can't think of a solution?"
Xiao Yunying bent down and looked Luo Yang straight in the eye: "Then let me ask you, do you understand matters of love between men and women?"
Luo Yang stopped in his tracks: "Men and women... what is Mother saying?"
Xiao Yunying straightened up: "See? I told you you had no way to deal with it."
Luo Yang's expression told her that he knew what romantic feelings between men and women meant, but he didn't know how to handle it.
Some things cannot be solved simply by being smart, such as the most common and common issues related to interpersonal relationships.
Because emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence are two concepts that cannot be equated, and their nature of response is completely different.
Moreover, Luo Yang was only a child under eight years old at the time.
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