Chapter 255 Mutton Soup and Tears
【Series Task 1 Completed】
[Series Mission 1: Use food to improve your relationship with Wang Jiandang and raise his special favorability to 6]
[Current special favorability: 6]
[Congratulations on receiving System Coins x500, Experience x1000, and one-time use of the universal camera (multiple optional photo taking methods, can be used to shoot specific people at a specified distance, private photos are not included)! ]
The mission was actually completed?
!!!
I got two special favorability points again!
Zhao Xiaojing was so excited she almost jumped up, but then she became confused. "System, what is the universal camera used for? Can you tell me more?"
[The host is figuring it out.] The system started playing dumb again.
"Oh." Zhao Xiaojing rolled her eyes silently. She was thinking that the special favorability had been achieved and she should find time to go to Wang Jiandang's house to inquire about her third uncle, when Wang Jiandang came over with a stainless steel bucket.
Zhao Xiaojing was stunned for a moment, then delighted, and quickly stood up to greet him. "Uncle Wang, you've made a special trip. We don't need this bucket urgently. You can return it after you've been with your relatives."
There was too much mutton soup at noon, and it was difficult to put it in the takeaway box, so she took the stainless steel bucket she used to sell sugar water and gave it to Wang Jiandang to fill. Because this bucket was not used usually, she had forgotten about it, and it turned out to be helpful now.
It’s better to ask today than to ask later.
"It's okay. The three women are chatting in the room. I came down to help digest the food. Xiao Zhao, your cooking skills are getting better and better!" Wang Jiandang handed the bucket to Zhao Xiaojing, his face full of excitement. "We ate all three dishes you made at noon! There was only a bunch of hot pot vegetables left, and we even drank the soup dry.
Oh, you don't know, you have helped your Aunt Chen a lot! "
"Sit down, Uncle Wang." Zhao Xiaojing was about to talk to Wang Jiandang in detail when she handed the bucket to Su Yuchen and asked him to sit down. She also made a cup of tea. "It's just a meal, a small thing."
"Okay, thank you." Wang Jiandang took the tea and sat down, waving at Zhao Xiaojing. "This is no small matter, it's a matter of life and death.
Hey, speaking of sin, didn’t we go out of town for a few days a while ago and ask you to prepare meals for our grandson?
"Yes, in the middle of the month, I remember." Zhao Xiaojing nodded.
"That time, your Aunt Chen's nephew died in an accident, and the ones coming today are his family members." Wang Jiandang sighed.
The ones coming today are Chen Huiping’s eldest sister and her eldest sister’s daughter-in-law, who is also Chen Huiping’s niece-in-law.
Half a month ago, Chen Huiping's nephew, who was in his prime, died in a work-related accident. When Chen Huiping and his wife received the notice, they were shocked and hurriedly took their son and daughter-in-law over. They entrusted their grandson, who was still in school, to Zhao Xiaojing for two meals a day, and came directly to the restaurant to eat, and then the two of them paid the bill.
When we got there, we found that the eldest sister had almost cried all her tears dry, but the niece-in-law didn't shed a single tear.
My nephew and his wife are childhood sweethearts. They have been secretly dating since junior high school and have been married for three or four years. They got pregnant this year and the baby is already three or four months old.
At that time, a group of people secretly said that she was cold-blooded and ungrateful, and that she didn't even shed tears. However, the eldest sister felt something was wrong and asked Chen Huiping to keep an eye on her secretly.
The funeral was very busy those days. My niece-in-law went through all the ceremonies and formalities. When her nephew's ashes were finally buried, she breathed a sigh of relief and fainted.
Fortunately, Chen Huiping listened to her elder sister and stayed by her side. She supported her at the first moment. When the relatives around heard the shouting, they also came to help and carried the person to the hospital.
It was only when she was admitted to the hospital that we learned that she was so sad that her psychological defense mechanism was triggered. As a result, she couldn't cry and didn't eat much. Her body couldn't bear the extreme fluctuations in emotions.
The doctor recommended that the focus be on emotional counseling and guiding the patient to vent his emotions actively. Otherwise, not only would the child not be saved, but the niece-in-law would also become depressed and suffer from various physical problems.
After the funeral, Chen Huiping and her family returned to Jiangcheng, and she would call her eldest sister from time to time to ask about her situation.
Unexpectedly, more than ten days passed, and the eldest sister tried every way to comfort and relieve her feelings, but her daughter-in-law was still the same and had already received several nutritional injections in the hospital.
Seeing that her elder sister was becoming more and more haggard, Chen Huiping, who was worried about the two of them, suggested that her elder sister bring her niece-in-law to the provincial capital to relax and change the environment, which might be good, and she could also help take care of her.
The eldest sister agreed and set off with her daughter-in-law the next day.
Chen Huiping and her husband discussed for a while and decided to treat them to a good meal first, and then take them to Jiangcheng’s famous scenic spots in the afternoon.
After arriving, Chen Huiping felt even more distressed when she saw her niece-in-law. In just over ten days, the pregnant woman had lost weight again. According to her eldest sister, her niece-in-law had been eating like a cat in the past half month, always putting down her chopsticks after taking a few bites.
When Wang Jiandang and Chen Huiping saw this situation, they decided to change the itinerary and take their niece-in-law to the hospital in the afternoon to get a nutritional injection to maintain her health before going on a walk.
Unexpectedly, after eating a piece of mutton cooked by Zhao Xiaojing at noon, my niece-in-law suddenly froze in a daze, and seemed not to hear anyone talking to her.
The three of them shouted for a long time before the niece-in-law came to her senses. As soon as she came to her senses, her nose and tears started to fall. While crying, she drank another mouthful of mutton soup. Now her whole mood collapsed, and she went from crying like rain to wailing to sobbing at the top of her lungs.
Everyone in the room hurriedly passed papers to each other or patted each other on the back. They all felt very sad, but at the same time they breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s better to cry, just cry.
After the niece-in-law went from screaming at the top of her lungs to sobbing constantly and finally calmed down, the three of them did not dare to ask any more questions. Chen Huiping simply turned on the hot pot again and heated up the other dishes before the four of them started eating again.
What was surprising was that although my niece-in-law cried again in the middle of the meal, this time it seemed as if she had been opened up, the sadness flowed out, and the spirit poured in. My niece-in-law ate a good meal with tears constantly flowing.
After dinner, my niece-in-law explained the reason herself with red eyes.
It turns out that my nephew and his wife’s first trip after graduating from university was to Ning Province.
On the grassland of Ning Province, the two of them ate mutton and drank mutton soup together. Knowing that his niece-in-law didn't like mutton, he still had to try the local specialties when he was in that place. The nephew even specifically asked the chef to add something to remove the mutton smell.
As a result, my niece-in-law tried a bite and was immediately amazed by the mutton. The two of them ate up a whole pot of mutton, including the soup and the meat.
That same night, her nephew said he would take her to see the stars. Suddenly, in the desert, he opened the trunk of his rental car and proposed to her. The two young people officially became husband and wife...
After many years, the memory has become gradually blurred, but the surprise brought by this mouthful of mutton soup now is exactly the same as that mouthful back then. The happiness and joy of those years have become short-lived, but the loneliness and solitude now will accompany me forever.
The excited niece-in-law could no longer control herself.
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