When Lin Guoqing took Lin Shumei home, he smelled the overbearing aroma of pickled cabbage as soon as he opened the door, and instantly knew that Chen Chunhua was back.
Everyone in the family was gathered. Lin Shuying was playing with the chickens with her two younger brothers, while Liang Shengdi was hurriedly collecting clothes into the house.
"You're back?" When Liang Shengdi saw Lin Guoqing and his daughter, her eyes suddenly lit up and she rushed inside holding the clothes.
"Chunhua! Chunhua! Guoqing is back! It's time to eat!"
Lin Guoqing shook his head in amusement. Their family actually had five children, and Liang Shengdi was the youngest in terms of mental age.
Didn't you see that the first thing little Shumei did when she got home was to go look for her brother, glass bottle in hand? She wanted to feed the bugs she'd caught that day to the chickens to give them some protein.
Chen Chunhua brought out a large aluminum basin and placed it on the table. The fragrance drifted from the basin to every corner of the room. "Wash your hands, wash your hands. You are not allowed to come to the table without washing your hands!"
It smelled so good that it made people's stomachs growl. The children stopped playing with the chickens and lined up to wash their hands and bring their bowls to the table.
The black fish today was too big, and Chen Chunhua had to cook it all at once. An ordinary soup bowl could not hold it at all, so she took the aluminum basin she had used to make fish balls before, boiled it in water for a while, and used it as a bowl.
The pickled fish already had meat, vegetables, and soup, so Chen Chunhua used the two egg yolks left over from cooking the fish and added five eggs to make another bowl of egg custard. The fish was quite oily, so the egg custard was light with just a little soy sauce.
As a result, basically no one even looked at the bowl of egg custard, and all used their chopsticks to pickle fish bowl.
The aroma of Sichuan peppercorns made Liang Shengdi sneeze involuntarily. When the fish entered her mouth, she felt a slight peppery and numbing sensation, but it disappeared in an instant, followed by a firm and smooth taste. As she chewed the fish, her eyes narrowed involuntarily.
"tasty!"
Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing were picking fish bones for the two youngest ones. Although Lin Shuying and Lin Shugan did not have this treatment, they ate much faster than the two younger ones. They put piece of fish into their mouths one after another and responded to their grandmother's words incoherently.
"Wow... so good..."
Chen Chunhua grinned. As a cook, the happiest thing was that the food she made was popular with everyone. "If it tastes good, eat more. Today's fish is big, so you can have as much as you want!"
This is not true. No matter how big the fish is, in the end it will be eaten up completely, including the bones and skin.
At the end, Liang Shengdi held the fish head and chewed it, saying,
"Don't pour out this soup. You can make rice soup with it tomorrow."
"Yes, let's be extravagant tomorrow morning and skip the sweet potatoes and have pickled cabbage and rice instead!"
Lin Guoqing took an iron spoon and scraped up all the unsold egg custard. The four children finished their meal with the fish, their stomachs almost bursting. Each of them ate a spoonful of egg custard but couldn't finish it, so they left the table to play.
Liang Shengdi was not interested in eggs today, so the rest was given to Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua, who finished them up one spoonful at a time.
"Chunhua...zuo...what else do you have...zuo...special dishes...si...tell me..." Liang Shengdi tore the fish head into pieces and sucked it clean bit by bit.
"As long as it's free and I can find it in the mountains or rivers, I'll get it for me!"
Liang Shengdi has really become addicted to eating recently. Well, that's not the right way to say it. She has always been addicted, but she just couldn't eat before. Now that Shen Chunhua has satisfied her stomach, she is very obsessed with Shen Chunhua.
Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing were overjoyed when they heard this. "Mom, just bring back whatever you see. I'll make delicious food for you if it's edible. If there's any left, we can sell it."
Liang Shengdi nodded obediently, "Okay, I know, I won't let go even if I see a malan flower."
Today, everyone finished dinner early, and the couple didn't have to go out in the middle of the night, so she boiled several buckets of hot water, took a good bath, and also rubbed the two girls in the room. Before, the weather was cold and time was tight, so she only had time to wipe herself every day.
Chen Chunhua was soaking in the water comfortably, missing the shower head and the high-intensity bathroom heater. You still need money to take a shower every day in winter.
After the mother and her two daughters finished bathing, Lin Guoqing took the two boys in to bathe together. It was not so delicate for a man to take a bath with children, so Lin Guoqing just threw them into the wooden tub, and they were considered washed as long as they were wet.
"Lin Guoqing! You should scrub them properly. They must be covered in mud from running around all day! And you, too, are not allowed to go to bed until you're clean!"
Lin Guoqing pouted. It’s normal for a peasant and a peasant’s son to have mud on their bodies. Why do they look down on others?
But he only dared to think about it in his heart, and he still had to rub the bath. Lin Shugan and Lin Shuchao were ordered to rub their father's back. The two little monkeys grinned and used all their strength to make Lin Guoqing, who was lying on the edge of the tub, hum twice.
"Well, not bad. Come on, try harder."
…
It was a very ordinary day, but the children had been worrying about the chicks since the morning, and in the evening, after eating and digesting their food, they took baths and played around, and ended up going to bed earlier than usual.
Lin Shumei was still clamoring to sleep with her sister today. Chen Chunhua wanted to carry her back to bed, but was stopped by Lin Guoqing.
"Just let her sleep there. They're both so small, the quilt is enough for them."
Chen Chunhua finally gave up and waited until the children were asleep before she wiped her hands, turned off the lights and went to bed. The next second, a warm breath blew on her neck, and Lin Guoqing said in a very gentle tone in her ear,
"Wife~"
Chen Chunhua: ...
"Wife, we're both vegetable vendors. We haven't slept together in a long time... Don't you want to..."
"...I don't really want to..." Chen Chunhua confessed honestly.
After all, her mental age has long been menopausal, and it is really embarrassing for her to think about such things.
But Lin Guoqing is not like that. He's only 29, in the prime of his life, if you really count his age. This month-long "separate bed" is already the limit. If he keeps holding it in, something might happen.
"Chunhua~Why are you like this~"
Even in the dark, Chen Chunhua could feel Lin Guoqing's resentment. The corners of Chen Chunhua's mouth were stretched into a straight line. She hadn't paid much attention to Lin Guoqing's overly young face in the past month.
Oh, forget it, it’s not like I haven’t slept before. It’s just a matter of turning off the lights and closing my eyes.
"Chunhua~" Lin Guoqing's hand had already slipped into her pajamas, "Why don't we have another child..."
Chen Chunhua pulled him away and said, "If you don't want to have a baby, you can still do it. If you want to have a baby, you'd better hold it in!"
"No, no, no, no, I won't have any more children. I'll just work..."
"Ouch, be gentle..."
"Keep your voice down! The children are asleep!"
"You also know that the children are asleep! Then why are you still starving to death and reincarnating..."
"How can I describe it like this..."
…
"Don't do that..."
"I know, I know. I'll listen to you and not have another child..."
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