Lin Fuqiang is indeed not someone who cannot distinguish between good and bad.
Lin Erniu developed a high fever as soon as he returned home. He was sent to the county, where they said it was mainly due to fear, and they prescribed some Chinese medicine for calming the nerves.
He ordered Ma Fengjuan not to go out to work and to take care of the children first. Then he rode his bicycle to the town supply and marketing cooperative and bought two pounds of pork. Before dinner time, he gave one pound of meat and one pound of eggs to Wang Jingui's family and Shen Chunhua's family respectively.
The meat chosen was the fattiest and most expensive pork belly, and Chen Chunhua was also given an extra pair of pig offal.
Lin Fuqiang sat on the lame stool at the door of her house, wiped his face, and kept talking to Lin Guoqing.
"I heard it all from Jingui. If your Chunhua hadn't rushed over so quickly, she might not have dared to run to the river to save people. It was all caused by that thief in my family!"
Lin Fuqiang said this and slapped himself hard on the leg.
Chen Chunhua was cooking in the kitchen. When she heard Lin Fuqiang's anger towards Ma Fengjuan, she couldn't help but curl her lips.
Who gave Ma Fengjuan such courage? Wasn't it you, Lin Fuqiang?
You are only angry and scared now because something happened to your own son. If it was someone else's child, she estimated that Lin Fuqiang would just scold him a few times and put on a show in front of the villagers.
So men, no matter what, will always try to shift the blame onto women. If Lin Guoqing dared to do such a thing, she would definitely swing the pot and hit him.
"Is Erniu okay? I remember he could swim. How come he suddenly started to sink?"
Chen Chunhua put the egg liquid in the pot to stew. After wiping her hands on her apron, she thought about coming out to say a few words.
"Hey! Don't mention it!" Lin Fuqiang said with some fear, "He said he saw a fish and wanted to catch it. But he relied on his swimming ability and fearlessness, so he walked a few more steps to the river. Unexpectedly, he slipped and fell in!
He used to swim in the river in the summer, and I would praise him a few times before he really thought he was a good swimmer! But he never knew that in winter, the cotton in his clothes would not swim at all once it got wet!
When he was excited, Lin Fuqiang waved his hands and gave the two of them sincere instructions.
"National Day Chunhua, I'm telling you, don't let your children go to the river to play, especially those who can swim. Don't let them go there casually! These little brats don't know how to judge the severity of the situation. They think they're the best in the world just by holding their breath! It will be too late to regret it then!"
"That's right! You can't just wander off to the river!" As a parent, Lin Guoqing could empathize and echoed, "But my family is a bunch of landlubbers. We simply can't swim, so we're even stricter. Chunhua won't even let them stay near a full bucket of water."
Lin Fuqiang nodded. "It's better for you guys to be like this! Unlike our family... Oh, I won't say anymore. I have to go back to see the kids first. I don't know if they're feeling better."
Lin Fuqiang stood up to say goodbye, and Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing politely saw him out.
"Captain, you brought so many things with you. We should have invited you to dinner, but your son, Erniu, really needs his parents to look after him. So, we won't be too polite with you today."
Lin Fuqiang waved his hands and said indifferently,
"Why should we be so polite? Great-grandfather Guoqing and my great-grandfather are cousins, so we are considered relatives. We should visit each other more often. If you need anything in the future, just tell me. I will definitely help you if I can!"
"Okay, don't see me off, I'm leaving first."
He got on his 28-inch bicycle and rode back without looking back.
After the people disappeared, Liang Shengdi reluctantly came out of the inner room. She looked at the pork and pig offal placed next to the stove, and her eyes lit up.
"Are we having braised large intestine today?"
Chen Chunhua closed the door, turned around and put away the two bags of meat.
"It's too late today, let's do it tomorrow."
"How is it too late? It's okay if we don't have time to wash the pig intestines, but we can just wash and cut the pork and stir-fry it without adding oil!" Liang Shengdi knew that she would not have meat to eat today, and the corners of her mouth began to turn down again.
"I think you're just lazy! Too lazy to do it!"
Lin Guoqing couldn't stand it any longer. "Mom, don't you know how to write the word 'lazy'? When you call someone lazy, doesn't your face get hot?"
"I'm not educated, so how would I know how to write the word 'lazy'?" Liang Shengdi snorted as she sat down at the table. "It's been ages since we've had meat at home. Finally, someone sent us some meat, but your wife refused to cook it. What else could she be but lazy?"
Lin Guoqing was speechless and asked the heavens, "Didn't you eat meat during the Chinese New Year? That bowl of braised pork was only 10 yuan. There are 7 people in our family, and you only ate 3. The last piece was snatched from your hand by the third child while he was crying, otherwise you would have eaten it too."
Chen Chunhua listened to Lin Guoqing's voice criticizing his mother, but was too lazy to interrupt. Seeing that the stewed eggs were almost done, she opened the lid and started calling for help.
"Big brother, second brother, third brother, fourth brother! It's time to eat! Come to the kitchen and get your own bowls!"
Several children were in the room. Lin Shuying was teaching them to read. When they heard that dinner was ready, the door was opened immediately.
The noise was loudest as Lin Shuchao ran over. "Mom! Are there any eggs left today?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Chunhua replied perfunctorily, and stuffed a bowl of sweet potato rice into his hand. "Bring it out and prepare it. Let's eat."
Today's stewed eggs were made in the largest soup bowl. Chen Chunhua still beat 7 eggs firmly into the bowl and added some warm water. The eggs were smooth and tender after stewing.
There was still a little lard left from the New Year's holiday, so Chen Chunhua put it all in. The piece of meat Lin Fuqiang sent today was fatty enough, so I guess I could make half a can of lard tomorrow.
The surface of the stewed egg was covered with a layer of shiny oil, and the fragrance filled the whole room.
Chen Chunhua even poured a spoonful of soy sauce on it, and before she even put the bowl down firmly, Liang Shengdi's hand was already waiting in mid-air.
"Mom...use a spoon..." Lin Guoqing quickly stopped his mother from using chopsticks, picked up the spoon on the table and stuffed it into her hand.
"You used chopsticks to scoop up the egg, but not only did you fail to pick it up, you also made it into a mess, and we still have to eat it!"
Liang Shengdi didn't care about her son's disgust at all. She took the spoon and scooped a big spoonful. She didn't care about the envious eyes of the children and just enjoyed it herself first.
I just said my daughter-in-law was lazy, but now I am eating the stewed eggs made by my daughter-in-law and forgetting the unpleasantness just now. "It smells good! It smells really good! The lard in this spoon is really good!"
Lin Guoqing rolled his eyes, then quickly used a spoon to scoop a large spoonful of food into the bowl of each of the four children and told them to eat quickly.
You are too polite. Your grandma won’t think you are filial. She will just think you are picky and don’t want to eat it. She will help you solve the problem without hesitation!
He also put a spoonful into Chen Chunhua's bowl, and only ate bean sprouts himself. Chen Chunhua looked at Lin Guoqing, sighed inwardly, and also reached out to scoop a spoonful into his bowl.
Then, she walked over to Lin Shumei who was sitting in the middle and said to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear,
"Don't keep thinking about leaving the good things for us. You still have a lot to do tonight. Hurry up and eat more!"
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