The boat lurched back to Sihe Village. It was almost 7:00. Liang Shengdi, using the light from the charger, moored the boat by the river and tied it up with an iron chain. The iron hook on the embankment had been installed by Lin Guoqing two days earlier, specifically for tying up the boat.
This section of the river is closest to their home. After getting off the boat, they can reach home by walking half a mile.
Lin Guoqing and his three children prepared dinner tonight and waited for them to come back to eat together. They had white rice, steamed fish, boiled eggs, boiled edamame, and eggplant stewed with rice.
The dishes were very rich, and Liang Shengdi felt like she was about to become a nun after eating them.
"National Day...why don't you go to night school? Do they teach you how to cook?"
Lin Guoqing: "...Where can you find someone who teaches cooking at night school? I'll just go and learn from Master Jia..."
"If you go to Master Jia, you don't need a teacher. You might as well go to school and just learn how to cook." At least there's some oil, which is better than now. "Chunhua and I are both very busy now, and you're the only one who gets off work on time, so you have to learn it well."
Lin Guoqing: ...Is the food he cooks really that bad?! Isn’t it light and refreshing?
Chen Chunhua laughed so hard that she could hardly eat. "Next time I'll teach you how to stir-fry. Mom, you just make do with it today. I'll do it tomorrow."
Everyone who ate this meal, including the cook and the diners, felt quite aggrieved.
Lin Shuying wasn't idle during her holiday either. It was almost harvest time, and she was busy weeding in the fields with Liang Shengdi. She bumped into Sanni, who was also coming out of her own field carrying a basket, and greeted her cheerfully.
"Third cousin, are you going back to eat?"
Sanni: "Kong Ni Qi Wa... Ah Li Ah Dou... Sai Yun Na La... Yi Mo To... Ah, Shu Ying, ah yes, I'm going back to eat."
Sanni was followed by her grandmother and her mother. Old Madam Ma rolled her eyes. "She's been mumbling about all day long. If you didn't know better, you'd think she was possessed by some evil spirit."
Lin Yulan smiled awkwardly at Lin Shuying, then whispered to her mother-in-law, "Mom, isn't Sanni studying?"
"Why should I learn to chant Buddha's name constantly in the fields?"
"You have never been to school, so how can you tell what she is learning?" Liang Shengdi saw the old man with a stern face from a distance, and she quickly climbed out of the field and started firing as soon as she got up.
"You are an illiterate person with no ambition, yet you are trying to stop my granddaughter from making progress. Do the villagers know that the village party secretary's mother is such a person?"
If it were someone else, Old Lady Ma might have been furious, but when the words "Village Party Secretary's mother" were mentioned, she would instantly be silent. She really wanted to save face. When it came to self-improvement, that was no small matter.
However, she really couldn't swallow this anger towards her only relative who was difficult to get along with.
"I am illiterate, aren't you?"
Liang Shengdi raised her chin proudly, "Yes, I do, but I respect intellectuals!"
"What kind of intellectual is my third daughter?"
"She can read, that's enough! Now she can speak foreign languages! Do you know what foreign languages are? What foreigners say! Do you know how to speak foreign languages? You're an old fool who knows nothing but whining and complaining!"
"Who are you calling immortal? I'm only one year older than you! If I'm immortal, you're also immortal!"
"Hey~ so what? I just won't die, I'm proud! I want to live to be a hundred years old and still be alive. Even if the whole world calls me an old man, I'll be happy! Lululu~"
Liang Shengdi started to act like a scoundrel, and Old Lady Ma was so angry that she almost smoked out of her head. The most important thing was that no one around her spoke up for her. Looking closely, they were either Liang Shengdi's daughter or Liang Shengdi's granddaughter. Did she become an outsider?
"I won't argue with a crazy woman like you! I'm going back to eat, get out of the way!" Old Mrs. Ma pushed Lin Yulan, who was standing beside her, away and walked forward angrily.
Lin Yulan stumbled, and only Sanni reached out to help her stand. She hugged her arms, still debating whether to stay where she was and comfort her own mother or run after her mother-in-law to appease her.
Liang Shengdi rolled her eyes and looked at her sideways, "Do you know why she only dares to bump into you?"
Lin Yulan: “…Ah?”
"Because you're so useless, she'd rather bypass me and hit you to vent her anger."
Lin Yulan: ...
Liang Shengdi didn't look at Lin Yulan after she finished speaking, and turned to Sanni, "Your aunt said you were imitating the Japanese language?"
Sanni was stunned for a moment before she realized that her grandmother was speaking Japanese. She nodded and said, "Yeah, I just learned it for a month."
"Why learn the Japanese language when there are so many other things to learn?" Old Lady Liang curled her lips and muttered a few words under her breath, but she still said to Sanni, "Since you're learning it, learn it well. If the Japanese invade again, you can become an interpreter and then trick them into falling into a trap!"
Sanni grinned, "Grandma, we're not at war anymore. The country supports learning foreign languages. If you learn a foreign language, you'll have the opportunity to earn foreign currency in the future. Let's go make money from the Japanese!"
Liang Shengdi thought about it and thought, this is fine! "Right! Go make money from the devils! Then you have to study harder and ignore your grandma. When you make money from the devils, don't spend it on her!"
Sanni's eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled, nodding her head repeatedly. "Yeah! When I make money, I'll buy delicious food for grandma!"
Liang Shengdi took her eldest granddaughter back home contentedly, leaving Sanni and Lin Yulan to slowly head home.
Lin Yulan looked at her mother's back as she walked away, then touched her arm that had just been knocked away by her mother-in-law, and hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"Sanni?"
"Um?"
"...Do you have anyone you like?"
"...No!" Sanni looked at her mother, unable to put it into words. "Are you in such a hurry to get me married?"
"That's not what I meant," Lin Yulan quickly shook her head. "I just wanted to say that since you're learning foreign languages now, it would be best if you could find someone you like in the future. Otherwise, if your grandparents find someone for you, they'll definitely..."
I'm definitely not worthy of you.
Sanni was silent for a while. It was really rare for Lin Yulan to say such words. After all, she was an "ancient person" whose mind was full of the three obediences and four virtues. In the past, she would only tell them not to make their grandparents angry, not to disobey their parents, and that girls should be gentle and filial... and so on.
Although her sisters at home didn't really listen to her, she still said a few words from time to time, annoying everyone even more. But recently, Lin Yulan has really changed a lot.
Every time Sanni and Old Lady Ma quarreled, even if she couldn't help, she would not hinder them, and occasionally she would even muster up the courage to refute a few of the old man and woman's fallacies.
Sanni sighed, and then said,
"I know, but I have no plans to get married in the past few years. Even if my grandparents find me one, I won't. Including my younger sisters, everyone has to study and make money, so you should stop worrying about us getting married for now."
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