"Mom, don't leave at noon. I don't know how to entertain people coming to my house. Stay and help me check things out."
“I…”
Mother Lu didn't know how to start, so Jiang Wanwan pulled her into the kitchen. "I just made some steamed meat buns, and I was thinking of cooking a few more dishes for them to go with the wine. Mom, can you think of something suitable? We have cucumbers, beans, and potatoes at home. How about some hot and sour potato shreds and then some cucumber salad?"
Mother Lu's eyes couldn't help but become moist. She wiped away her tears and said with a smile, "Okay, whatever you say is fine."
Her son was blessed with the fortune he had accumulated over several lifetimes to marry Jiang Wanwan.
No matter what outsiders said, she could see that Jiang Zhiqing was sincerely thinking about his son and his family.
Mother Lu sat down again to help Jiang Wanwan pick vegetables.
Seeing that she was still barefoot, Jiang Wanwan ran back to the house and found a pair of her cloth shoes. When Lu's mother said she refused to wear them, Jiang Wanwan pretended to be angry. Finally, Lu's mother had no choice but to put on the best pair of shoes she had worn in the past few years. Jiang Wanwan then smiled with satisfaction.
The yard was full of joy and no one paid attention to Qiao Wenwan who was standing outside the yard and refused to leave.
She watched Lu Xiao and the branch secretary and team leader having a great time talking, and Jiang Wanwan and Lu Xiao's mother talking and laughing, her eyes red with jealousy.
It shouldn't be like this. Without Du Jiaming, Jiang Wanwan should have struggled in the mud, and when Du Jiaming saw the dirty Jiang Wanwan, he should have abandoned her like a piece of trash.
Besides jealousy, there is more panic.
If Du Jiaming keeps thinking about Jiang Wanwan, will he blame all the mistakes on her in the end?
He returned to the educated youth site in a daze, and only then did he remember that Du Jiaming had been taken away by the police.
He needed her the most at this time. Without even having time to eat lunch, Qiao Wenwan asked for leave from Cao Jiangtao and went to town.
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Li Ergou bought two bottles of white wine and brought back a piece of white tofu. Jiang Wanwan fried spicy and sour potato shreds, spicy tofu, scrambled eggs with chopped green onions, and smashed a cucumber, a total of four dishes.
As soon as these four dishes were served, the branch secretary and the team leader praised them highly.
The two of them have high status and would be called to take charge and give advice on any big or small matter in the village. They had eaten a lot of meals from various families, and to be honest, they could come up with four dishes like this at once, and they were all delicious and attractive. To be honest, there was no one else like them in the whole village, not to mention the huge plate of meat buns that were so fragrant that they would make you dizzy.
This meal was very satisfying and both the host and the guests enjoyed themselves greatly.
The branch secretary was drunk. When he left, he patted Lu Xiao on the shoulder and told him that he could talk if he had anything to say.
The Lu family has no status in the village. Usually, when Lu Xiao has something to do, he goes to the team leader. Although they are not from the same clan, they have the same surname and are easier to talk to.
Hearing what the branch secretary said, both Lu Xiao and Lu's mother were very grateful to Jiang Wanwan.
If it weren't for the daughter-in-law's ability to handle things, their family would have no relationship with the branch secretary.
After sending the outsiders away, Lu's mother also wanted to go back. Jiang Wanwan packed two more meat buns for Lu's mother, but Lu's mother said she didn't want anything.
She was reluctant to eat it when she was having dinner just now. She hadn't seen pure white flour meat buns in many years and didn't dare to eat them at all.
Her daughter-in-law insisted that she eat it and forced her to eat two. Now her burps still smell like meat buns.
This meat was definitely not bought by my son. Even the white flour was not available to him. It must have been subsidized by my daughter-in-law's family.
Lu's mother felt that being able to eat two meat buns was already thanks to her son, so how could she continue to eat and take more? It was okay for her son to be a gigolo, but how could the whole family follow her and live off her daughter-in-law? This was a matter of principle.
If Jiang Wanwan knew what Lu's mother was thinking, she would definitely speak up for Lu Xiao. The meat was wild boar meat that he had hunted, and the white flour was bought with the money from selling the wild boar meat.
After everyone left, Jiang Wanwan glanced at the man next to her. He had also drunk some wine today, and there was a faint smell of alcohol on his face, and it was a little flushed.
As if sensing her gaze, the man also looked over and met her eyes.
"Lu Xiao, are you very happy today?" Jiang Wanwan asked him with a long tail tone.
In the past, a man would have blushed when hearing such words.
Jiang Wanwan didn't know why a grown man could be so shy, but that didn't stop her from teasing him. Seeing him look confused and flustered, she felt a real sense of accomplishment.
But this time, the man was not shy at all. He smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I'm happy."
He stretched out his big hand, carefully took her small hand and held it in his palm, then looked at her and smiled.
This time he was really smiling, with the corners of his lips almost reaching his ears, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.
Jiang Wanwan: “…”
This guy must have been drunk, and the alcohol made him bolder, right? He even dared to hold her hand.
"Then we'll invite mom and your friends over for dinner often. Just make sure you're happy."
Lu Xiao nodded, then shook his head, still smiling. "Mom saw the new clothes you bought and praised you for your shopping skills. She asked me to treat you well. And the meat buns, Mom said they were delicious, and I think they were delicious too. They were the best meat buns I've ever had in my life. The spicy tofu and shredded potatoes were also delicious... and... Wanwan, can I hug you?"
Without waiting for Jiang Wanwan to speak, he stretched out his long arms and pulled the person into his arms.
This time he controlled his strength just right, and gently held her in his arms, one hand around her waist, and the other hand gently stroking her long hair. Finally, he buried his whole face in the back of her neck, deeply inhaling her scent.
Jiang Wanwan let him hold her until she felt something wet on her neck. Then she realized something and put her arms around his broad back, patting him. "Lu Xiao, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Xiao didn't answer, but tightened his arms around her waist...
A side note: Speaking of the branch secretary, I think of my father.
My father graduated from a vocational high school in 1975. Vocational high schools and technical secondary schools at that time were completely different from today's concepts. They were more valuable than today's third-tier and second-tier universities. Due to policy reasons, he could not continue to take the college entrance examination, so he returned to the village. At that time, there were few people in the village who went to high school. After returning to the village, the brigade would arrange a similar job for him. At that time, my father was assigned to the brigade's canteen to look after the canteen.
My father studied education in a vocational high school. Less than two months after returning to the village, his junior high school teacher heard that he had graduated and returned to the village, and took the initiative to find our village party secretary to ask my father to teach in a middle school. The village party secretary directly suppressed the news. Some time later, when my father went to the supply and marketing cooperative to help the canteen pick up goods, he learned the news from someone else. At that time, the school had not received a reply from my father for a long time and had already contacted other people.
The person he found later taught in school for his entire life. Because my father missed that opportunity, even though he was later assigned to work elsewhere, he did not receive such good treatment.
Because all kinds of work at that time were done by recommending candidates, the branch secretary of that era really controlled the fate of every villager.
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