"Shui'er is so nice, they will like you."
Ye Qingshui turned over after hearing this and reminded him: "Your grandparents didn't say much tonight, they don't seem to like me..."
Xie Tingyu was speechless.
The scene of sending his grandmother out emerged in his mind.
Grandma held him with her warm hands, and she stopped smiling. "Tingyu, your grandma won't scare your wife away. There's no need to protect her like this. Grandma didn't interrogate her, did she? If it was another old lady, it wouldn't be so easy..."
The old man's back teeth were sore, and he said jealously: "Old people are disliked, I know."
Xie Tingyu couldn't help laughing. He said softly, "No, thank you, grandma."
"She's timid. I've suffered so much that I can't even begin to describe it. I just hope that you can at least give her some comfort. If you scare her away, who will hold your great-grandson?"
When Yan Chun heard the word great-grandson, all the words in his heart disappeared in an instant, and all his expectations became reality.
She patted her grandson's shoulder vigorously and said seriously: "It doesn't matter whether my daughter-in-law has ever been to school or where she came from."
"People change. Your grandma will help you teach your wife well. You have to work harder and try to have a baby this year. Your grandma's hair has turned white with anticipation."
The Xie family is really too sparsely populated.
Xie Tingyu's ears turned slightly red and he couldn't continue the conversation.
In the dark.
Xie Tingyu stopped his reverie, looked away, and smiled faintly, "If we act faster, I'm afraid we can have a child. Grandma likes you so much that she can't wait. Do you want to..."
The end of his voice rose slightly, trembling, and carrying a burning passion.
Ye Qingshui didn't say anything, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Xie Tingyu looked at her back as she turned over, his brows furrowed.
Late at night, the cold and sparse moonlight falls from the window.
The first time Ye Qingshui woke up was at three in the middle of the night, which was the time she got up to make breakfast and sell it on the black market. After waking up, she turned on the desk lamp and glanced at the wall clock to realize that it was three o'clock. This was the first time she had such a clear sense of time in the past six months.
After staying in the mountains for a long time, the feeling of returning to city life is still quite strong.
At least I don’t have to look for matches to light the kerosene lamp when I get up at night.
I don't know how Xie Tingyu got used to the life in the mountain valley from luxury to frugality. He lived in the small shabby house of the Ye family and adapted very well. He could do all the hard, tiring and dirty work. He was more like a farmer than Ye Qingshui, a real farmer.
Ye Qingshui fell asleep, and when he woke up again, it was already past eight in the morning.
There was no one beside her, and it felt cold to the touch, which showed that Xie Tingyu had gotten up very early. At five o'clock, the army's wake-up bell rang, and the sound of drills came from the playground intermittently, loud, neat and powerful, making it difficult for Ye Qingshui to fall asleep.
When Ye Qingshui finished washing up and went downstairs, Xu Maofang and her daughter were already having breakfast.
Xu Maofang said: "Shuiya, you got up a little late today."
She finished her kind words and glanced at Xie Jun. Xu Maofang continued, "You just came back yesterday. You were a little tired after the long journey, but you also rested for the whole afternoon. Dongmei and I were looking forward to chatting with you yesterday. We wanted to know about Tingyu's trip to the countryside."
Xu Maofang sighed.
"You can't be so lazy, young girl."
As soon as she finished speaking, she labeled Ye Qingshui as a "lazy daughter-in-law", and she was also considerate and meticulous, and there was nothing wrong with her.
Xu Maofang smiled and said, "Shuiya, come and have breakfast. I made it myself. We must try Shuiya's cooking tomorrow."
The dinner that Ye Qingshui cooked last night was very delicious, and both the host and the guests were happy. She was capable of cooking, but she was too lazy to get up, so she asked Xu Maofang, her nominal mother-in-law, to cook breakfast for her. Xu Maofang stopped at the right time, smiled and talked, and was very effective in dealing with the problem.
The expression of the father-in-law Xie Jun was a little unclear. His stern face and pursed lips vaguely showed some shadows of Xie Tingyu. His serious expression made people look a little scared.
But he said nothing, ate a simple breakfast and went out.
As soon as a new daughter-in-law returns home, the most important thing is to leave a good impression on her husband's family by being diligent and respectful to the elders.
If Ye Qingshui wanted to be a good daughter-in-law of the Xie family, she would be panicking and blaming herself, wishing she could dig a hole and bury herself in it. Her father-in-law had gone to work, but she had just gotten up.
But Ye Qingshui is not like that.
She walked down the stairs slowly, yawning uncontrollably, and said naturally, "The bugle call in the army was too loud. I didn't sleep well last night, so I got up late."
She looked at the breakfast made by Xu Maofang, fried dough sticks, milk, and eggs, and smiled.
The fried dough sticks were probably bought from the street, the eggs could barely be considered cooked by Xu Maofang himself, and the milk was ordered from a wholesale source.
However, it is not easy to ask a housewife like Xu Maofang who has never done housework to make breakfast.
Ye Qingshui said: "Eating just these won't fill me up. Brother Yu has a big appetite, and I also have a big appetite."
It was too late to make buns now. Ye Qingshui kneaded the dough. The soft dough was beaten repeatedly and then slowly stretched ninety-nine and eighty-one times. The soft dough became tough. She used the leftover broth from last night to make the soup, cut some bacon, sausage and potatoes, dripped some fragrant oil, and boiled it over high heat.
Xu Maofang was thrown into disarray by the unconventional behavior of his country daughter-in-law.
She looked at Ye Qingshui carefully and actually underestimated her. This Ye Shui didn't have the timidity and inferiority complex of a country girl at all.
I'm quite bold at heart.
But in fact she didn't have time to think about it, and soon a burst of fragrance with hot steam wafted from the kitchen.
The smell of bacon, which had made people anxious all night, came to torment the neighbors around them. They couldn't help but stick their heads out, look around, and finally angrily closed the doors and windows tightly.
Xu Maofang didn't eat more meat last night because of his face.
After all, she had previously expressed in front of her stepson her disdain for these rustic New Year's goods that were brought from far away.
Xie Dongmei also had some backbone and restrained herself from touching any of the cured meat. This time, the hot cured meat noodles were placed in front of her, emitting a fragrant aroma. Such fresh and hot food blatantly tempted her stomach, and it was unavoidable.
What's more, the new sister-in-law also gave each of us a small half bowl. If we don't eat it, we can't refuse such kindness?
The fried dough sticks, milk and dry eggs that Xu Maofang bought had completely lost their appeal at this moment.
Xie Tingyu had just swallowed two eggs. The yolks ran down his throat and he choked. He felt extremely thirsty, and regardless of the hot soup on top, he blew on it and took a sip.
The wonderful taste lingers in your mouth, the hot soup is rich and delicious, the sweet taste of the sausage mixed with the salty and fresh pine flavor of the bacon blends into the soup.
The noodles are soft, flexible and crispy, and the soup is clear and delicious. Drinking a bowl of noodle soup in winter will warm your whole body.
Xie Tingyu drank the soup with a smile, neither fast nor slow, and with graceful movements.
"It's a pity that my father went out in a hurry, so he couldn't eat such delicious noodles. Shuiya, we'll send some over later."
Xu Maofang gritted her teeth. When did the relationship between her stepson and husband become so good?
And even specially sent noodles to him?
Xie Dongmei didn't say anything, but slurped her noodles. She ate quickly and hastily, sweating all over her forehead, and she couldn't hear what her brother said.
Ye Qingshui finished a bowl of hot noodle soup, and she couldn't help but think of what Xie Tingyu had said just now: he wanted to give noodles to her father-in-law, and she seemed to have no time to refuse.
She felt a little embarrassed. How could she feel comfortable showing off such a small amount of food? What delicious food had Chief Xie not eaten?
If they are not full, I am afraid there are delicious meals in the cafeteria to fill their stomachs.
However, Xie Tingyu quickly finished his noodle soup and readily filled a large bowl of noodle soup in his lunch box. He asked, "Does your foot still hurt?"
Ye Qingshui shook her head subconsciously. Xie Tingyu applied medicine and gave her massage yesterday. After a night of rest, her feet didn't hurt much anymore.
The medicine is quite effective.
So Xie Tingyu smiled and told her: "Go put on a thicker cotton coat."
Ye Qingshui had no choice but to go upstairs and change into a cotton-padded coat. She only brought two cotton-padded coats with her. One was for the New Year, with a red flowery pattern that looked festive, and the other was a dark blue coat that she had fallen down while wearing yesterday.
She thought it was just delivering breakfast and shouldn't be a big deal, so she took her blue jacket and put it on.
Ye Qingshui neatly braided her hair into two braids and washed her face.
When he went out, Xie Tingyu frowned again.
There was a subtle look of depression on the young man's face, but he didn't say anything. He touched her smooth braid beside her shoulder, bent down and sighed in her ear.
"Shui'er really doesn't like to dress herself up."
Ye Qingshui said absentmindedly: "Don't make any moves, just send it up later, I'll wait for you downstairs."
Xie Tingyu held her hand and put it into his coat pocket.
Ye Qingshui trembled and retracted his hand, but was unable to break free.
In the warm pocket, the man's fingertips gave me a gentle warmth, warm and crisp.
Along the way, Xie Tingyu met many acquaintances, and even Ye Qingshui was taken along to say hello.
As the focus of the courtyard, Xie Tingyu was indeed a little troubled, and asked him whenever he met someone:
"Is this your new wife?" There was a questioning look in his eyes.
"I heard that you're not from our area, how come you got married in another place?"
"This time you have to let your grandma teach your new daughter-in-law well,"
"So this is your wife. She seems not as good as Sister Zuo."
…
Finally, they arrived at the bottom of her father-in-law's office building. Ye Qingshui said in a dull tone with a hint of impatience, "You go up."
Xie Tingyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He put his hands on the little girl's shoulders and pushed her up.
"I brought you here specially. Come on up. You will not be able to survive without me."
He leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I don't remember what left and right mean."
"Shui'er, don't drink vinegar randomly, okay?"
Ye Qingshui couldn't get used to this kind of intimate contact, especially Xie Tingyu's sudden and almost shameless intimacy.
In the past, she was the only one chasing after him, and he had never been the one to coax her. Ye Qingshui didn't like this kind of differential treatment.
Soon Xie Tingyu took Ye Qingshui to the second floor and knocked on Xie Jun's office door.
After the door was opened, Xie Jun sat upright with a serious face looking straight at them.
Xie Tingyu raised the lunch box in his wife's hand and said to his father, "You didn't eat much this morning, Shui Ya brought you some noodle soup."
At this time, his personal assistant was walking upstairs with a large bowl of hot porridge in his hand.
Xie Tingyu calmly brought out the noodles, the steaming noodles exuding an enticing aroma.
The middle-aged man who was reporting to Xie Jun about his work suddenly laughed, "I was wondering if the food smells so good these past two days. It turns out that your wife is here."
Xie Tingyu didn't say much and looked at Xie Jun.
Xie Jun's serious expression softened a little, and he said to his daughter-in-law, "Thank you for your help."
Xie Tingyu was satisfied and took his wife out of the office.
Xie Jun looked at the hot noodles indifferently and looked away, "You eat."
Shen Zhouzheng waved his hands quickly, "Your son finally brought you a meal, how dare I eat it? What if he comes back to settle the score with me after eating it?"
"You really want me to eat? I'm going to eat." Shen Zhouzheng picked up the chopsticks and pretended to eat, but before the tip of the chopsticks even touched the noodles, the bowl was moved in front of Xie Jun.
Xie Jun finished his noodles and sighed barely audible.
"This good-for-nothing kid won't follow the path that was set for him, and he doesn't want the wife that was chosen for him. He's going to rebel."
Shen Zhouzheng is Shen Weimin's father. He said quietly, "It's normal for him not to listen to you."
"Look how nervous that boy is about his wife. You got this bowl of noodles thanks to your daughter-in-law. Do you understand?"
Xie Tingyu led his wife calmly down from the office building, weaving through the crowded crowd. Dozens of eyes fell on them. Within ten minutes, almost all the elders had seen Xie Tingyu, the new daughter-in-law.
Ye Qingshui looked at the worn and shabby coat he was wearing and felt a little hot.
She couldn't help but say, "I can't speak anymore, but you have to pull me up."
"This is none of my business."
Xie Tingyu laughed dully. He rubbed Ye Qingshui's head and said, "It's okay. They can understand. I didn't marry a bourgeois lady. My wife is a poor and lower-middle peasant with a positive attitude. This is good."
"How about I take you to buy some New Year's goods? This is what grandma asked me to do last night."
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