Chapter 046 Chapter 46 Morning Meeting

Lin Yue took over the job of making breakfast from Zhang Yuandong. Zhang Yuandong had already picked the Chinese spinach, and she took some flour and eggs from the kitchen, made a pot of dumpling soup with the Chinese spinach, and fried a few egg pancakes and potato pancakes.

She learned how to make dumpling soup with Chinese spinach after she came here. There are also wild vegetable dumpling soup, tomato dumpling soup, clam dumpling soup, potato dumpling soup... There are many different ingredients, and everything can be made into dumpling soup.

In her previous life, Lin Yue had only eaten seafood dumpling soup, which was a specialty of coastal cities and tasted very delicious. She didn't expect that chrysanthemum dumpling soup was also delicious. Even someone like her who didn't like chrysanthemum thought it tasted good. Of course, the premise is that you have to be willing to add oil.

While Lin Yue was cooking, Zhang Yuandong went into the house to wake up the two little ones. After she finished cooking, she went into the house to see that little Wanli had already put on her clothes and was struggling with her socks with her messy hair.

The socks in the countryside are all sewn by themselves, and they are very similar to the shoe covers of later generations. Now that the weather is warm, people generally don’t want to let their children wear socks, because they think it’s a waste of cloth and it’s also stuffy. Lin Yue is afraid that the two children will get their feet pricked when playing in the fields, so she usually lets them wear socks. However, when the weather is warm, they all wear straw sandals. Cloth shoes are time-consuming and wasteful of cloth to make, and the children grow up quickly, so she is reluctant to let them wear them.

Little Lingling, wearing only a pair of shorts, was playing with Zhang Yuandong on the kang. She couldn't beat her father, so she kept shouting for her brother to save her.

Little Wanli might have some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although he also wanted to join in the fun, he was reluctant to put down the socks in his hands. He looked as if he was determined to fight with the socks to the end. Now he heard his sister urging him, and he became even more anxious and couldn't put on his socks.

Lin Yue saw this scene when she came in. The smile on Zhang Yuandong's face was genuine and he looked very happy, which was completely different from his usual serious attitude outside and polite awkwardness in front of her.

When little Lingling saw Lin Yue coming in, she called out "Mom" with a smile and was about to climb down along the edge of the kang.

Lin Yue placed a small wooden stool at a specific location to make it easier for the two children to get on and off the kang. Seeing that the naughty child was about to climb down without clothes, she quickly carried her back to the kang and patted her chubby little butt: "Little naughty child, who stripped yourself naked? Hurry up and put on your clothes!" After all, she was less than three years old, and Lingling was not as skilled as her brother in dressing, but she was very good at taking off clothes.

After being spanked, little Lingling smiled and was not afraid. She arched her back on the kang like a caterpillar and said coquettishly, "Mom, please put it on Lingling once in a while!"

Lin Yue also laughed: "I don't want to, you say 'occasionally' too much, it was once in a while yesterday, and once in a while the day before yesterday. You can wear it yourself today. Don't blame me for not telling you, your mother and I fried potato pancakes this morning, whoever finishes washing up first can eat first!"

Little Lingling didn't understand a lot of Lin Yue's long speech, but she did understand two things: one was that her mother would not help her put on clothes today, and the other was that she would have potato cakes this morning. Her eyes suddenly became round, and she picked up the clothes and put them on herself.

Unfortunately, the child had just learned to dress herself, and the more anxious she was, the worse it was for her. Seeing that her brother had already put on his socks crookedly, but she hadn't found the cuffs of her shirt, the little girl immediately became anxious and cried out in grievance, "Mom!"

Lin Yue stood by the kang and watched the show with a smile on his face, with no intention of helping at all.

When little Lingling saw that her mother had no hope, she turned around and called to her brother, "Wanli, wait for Lingling!"

Zhang Yuandong was ignored since Lin Yue entered the room. He saw the anxious look on the lady's face and reached out to help her, but Lin Yue stopped him and motioned him to watch the show with her.

If this happened in someone else's house, their parents would have been anxious long ago, as the morning was such a busy time, but Lin Yue was not anxious at all. She had already packed herself up and prepared the meal, so she could go to work as soon as she finished her meal, without wasting any time.

On the other side, little Wanli glanced at his stupid sister, slowly crawled over, and helped her pull out her sleeves.

Zhang Yuandong looked at Lin Yue with some confusion. She didn't let him help the children, but she didn't care when Xiao Wanli helped her sister put on clothes. He didn't understand why Lin Yue just blocked him.

Lin Yue did not respond to Zhang Yuandong's gaze. He kept watching the two little ones struggling for clothes for five or six minutes. He waited until they had put on their shoes before taking them to wash their faces and brush their teeth.

If she knew Zhang Yuandong's doubts, she would definitely say: "Children can solve their own problems, so adults should not interfere."

It was only after raising these two children that she discovered a very strange phenomenon: there are many things that adults may not be able to teach children even after many attempts, but they can learn them immediately after learning from other children. People with children in the village say that this is "children learn from older children."

After Lin Yue washed the two children, she applied some skin care products she made herself on each of them and sent them to find their father.

Zhang Yuandong folded the quilt neatly in the room and tidied the kang. Lin Yue came into the room with breakfast and smiled when he saw how tidy the room was.

Sure enough, the two little guys climbed onto the kang and immediately threw themselves at the quilt that had just been folded, jumping and dancing on it. In a few steps, they collapsed the quilt, then grunted and dragged a small wooden box out from the head of the kang, and with a "bang" all the toys inside poured out.

Zhang Yuandong was a little at a loss. He had just tidied the kang, but it was messy again in less than five minutes. However, he really didn't want to scold the two children, so he could only watch them mess around with a headache.

Lin Yue reminded the two: "You can't play with toys before eating. Put away your toys by yourselves. You can eat after you have put them away!"

Ling Ling was unhappy and raised the zodiac toy in her hand to show Lin Yue: "But, these little animals also need to eat!"

Lin Yue was unmoved: "They can't eat without washing their hands."

When Lingling heard this, she was about to crawl under the kang: "Lingling, go wash their hands!"

Lin Yue hurriedly stopped her. This kid was always looking for loopholes. She really didn't dare to say a single wrong thing.

Zhang Yuandong imitated Lin Yue's way and coaxed, "The little animals are going to sleep. Let's play with them after they wake up!" The sound was unconsciously mixed up, which made Lin Yue laugh.

Ling Ling didn't give him any face at all: "Dad, they are just toys, they don't need to sleep!"

Well, it was she who said they needed to eat, and it was also she who said toys didn’t need to sleep. She is on the side of emotion and reason, right?

Zhang Yuandong was a little overwhelmed by this lady and didn't know what to say. Zhang Wanli then called out, "Mom, Wanli has packed up. Can we have some potato cakes first?"

Lingling got anxious when she heard this, and threw the toy in her hand into the box, not caring whether it went in or not, and shouted loudly: "Lingling eats it too!"

Zhang Yuandong helped her put the toys into the box without complaint, and then took the two little guys to wash their hands again.

Lin Yue was actually quite happy. Zhang Yuandong was not like most men of this era who thought it was shameful to accompany children. Not only was he willing to take the initiative to share the housework, he was also willing to learn to get along with two children. Such men were rare in later generations.

At this time, every household was short of food, and they only made dumpling soup when guests came, not to mention the fried potato pancakes and egg pancakes. Zhang Yuandong felt that this breakfast was comparable to the Chinese New Year breakfast except that there was no meat. Moreover, the meat he had just eaten yesterday was so delicious this morning that he was a little afraid to pick up his chopsticks.

The two little ones had already started eating with a small spoon each. Seeing that Zhang Yuandong had not started eating, Lin Yue urged him, "Don't you have to go to work soon? Why don't you eat?"

Zhang Yuandong swallowed his saliva and asked, "Why are you so full this morning? Is there something good?"

Normally, Lin Yue didn't dare to cook so blatantly. Zhang Yuandong sent back 50 yuan a month, and Zhang Shoutian, who worked in the county, only earned 36 yuan a month. The money he sent was enough for her and her two children to live a very rich life. Moreover, Lin Yue had never broken off contact with the fat aunt, and often secretly sold things in the space, which made a lot of money. However, she lived alone with two children, so she didn't dare to show off too much before.

She actually has a strong appetite, but now she is a little embarrassed to say it out loud: "You send so much money home every month, which is enough for us to eat well. But before you were not at home, we didn't dare to eat like this, for fear that the two children would go out and tell others and cause trouble. Now that you are back, everyone knows that you are paid a high salary, so I don't have to worry about others talking about it when I make something delicious."

Zhang Yuandong felt very happy. He had no goals in his life before. Apart from his life in the army, he was like a floating duckweed. No matter how much money he made, it was meaningless. When Sun Hongmei asked him for money before, he gave it to her without much effort because he did not think money was that important.

In the few days since he came back, he suddenly felt at home, felt that his struggle had meaning, and had a new yearning for his future life. When he heard Lin Yue say this, he was not angry, but instead felt a surge of pride, and felt that his life suddenly had meaning.

It seemed as if he felt very happy as long as the three of them, mother and son, were living well.

He looked up at Lin Yue, his eyes sparkling. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it, so he had to lower his head and eat his rice with big mouthfuls.

Lin Yue also saw Zhang Yuandong's appetite. He didn't eat much when he stayed at Aunt Su's house a few days ago. It seemed that he hadn't let go yet. In fact, Lin Yue brought food with him. The food for the four of them was given in advance. There was no shortage, only excess. But after all, it was at someone else's house, so Zhang Yuandong didn't feel comfortable eating too much.

This morning's meal was so rich that Zhang Yuandong ate more than usual, more than four times as much as Lin Yue. During this meal, Lin Yue almost only cared about watching Zhang Yuandong eat.

His appetite reminded her of when she was in college and heard a male classmate talk about how he could eat eight or nine steamed buns in one meal.

At the time she thought it was bragging, but now it seemed to be true, because Zhang Yuandong ate more than them, and the food she cooked was barely enough to eat. Men and women might really be two different species.