In the following days, Qiu Yuling was busy with the research and development of a new anti-wrinkle cream and didn't have much free time, so she unconsciously asked Li Xingyao to take advantage of the opportunity to take care of her grandmother.
Moreover, this guy calls her grandma all the time, and people who don't know the truth think he is his relative.
Li Qingmei knew that her mother was back. When she came in her donkey cart, she met Zhou Xiaonan's mother and said something about your son. She was wondering if the second son was back.
She was also stunned for a moment when she saw the back of the figure entering. He was a dozen feet tall and wearing a military coat. It was really hard to tell him apart from behind.
Tentatively called out "Dahe"?
Li Xingyao thought it was someone passing by the door, but he straightened his back and turned around. When he turned around, he found that everyone had entered the yard.
"Auntie, who are you looking for?"
Li Qingmei looked around and said, "I didn't enter the wrong yard!"
The old lady came out from the back seat, "The boss is here, this is Xiao Li, our Linglingwa's friend, he came to help these days.
Xiao Li, this is Yuling's mother."
Li Xingyao's appearance is very popular among middle-aged and elderly people, but Li Qingmei seemed to have heard something from the word "friend".
When she went into the house to put her things away, she pulled my mother's arm and whispered to her mother, "Is it that friend?"
The old lady pushed her eldest daughter's hand away and said, "Put your things down first. Why are you here? Didn't you say you were going to show Dashu the baby?"
Li Qingmei didn't get angry. She took out the things from the bag and put them away one by one. "It's cold in the team and there's no work. The Wang family's in-laws have gone there. Aihong's mother wants to stay until the New Year, so I came back first..."
Li Xingyao then kneaded the coal slag and coal ash into coal balls and placed them neatly under the window of the upper third room. "Grandma, let me wash my hands. You and my aunt rest first. I'll go buy some meat so we can make dumplings for lunch.
Okay, I’ll send it to Yuling…”
The old lady sighed in the room and sent Li Qingmei out with the money and tickets.
Li Xingyao refused to accept it, "Aunt, please don't force it on me. I have it here. Yuling will settle the bill with me later. You and grandma don't have to worry about it."
This was just to put off her future mother-in-law, but Li Qingmei really believed it. She didn't hesitate to take it back and said, "Okay, then I'll ask Yuling to calculate it for you. It will save you from pushing and shoving with your aunt. It will make you uncomfortable."
Li Xingyao smiled brightly and felt that the family members were all good-natured and straightforward.
He washed the coal dust off his hands and picked up a small basin.
Li Qingmei saw that her mother didn't say anything, as if she was used to it.
"Mom, what's going on?"
The old lady was amused by her daughter who was noisy again at her age. "It's just what you thought. Why are you asking?"
"Ah? Yuling gave in? When did this happen? How come I didn't know?"
"You, as a mother, don't even know. I've only been here a few days, how can I know when I'll be leaving? Okay, stop asking around. Talk less and observe more. Keep everything good and bad in mind, and we'll talk about it when he comes back."
Don't talk about people behind their backs, this kind of thing is the most evil. She settled her eldest daughter and instructed her to go and knead the dough first.
Li Qingmei carried the bags of noodles from the cart into the kitchen. "Hey, this girl, did she just buy noodles? I told her to wait. It's either her father or me, so we won't let her go without food. Why did she buy more?"
The old lady followed in and said, "This is what Xiao Li bought. The coal behind the firewood pile and the soybean oil in the earthenware jar were all bought by others."
"Yuling didn't say anything?" Li Qingmei found it unbelievable. Her daughter knew it well, and that was that she would rather die of poverty than take advantage of others.
"Yuling didn't say anything, so I didn't say anything more."
"Then this, nine out of ten times, will succeed, right?"
Li Qingmei felt that she couldn't wait until the evening, and she wished she could find out right now where the other party came from.
But her mother refused to mention it and didn't say a single word, which made her very anxious.
Li Xingyao went out for a while, and he arrived at the perfect time. When he came back, he not only cut a large piece of pork, but also brought a bowl of tofu, a small crucian carp, a handful of bean sprouts, and a small bag.
The first few items were visible, but the contents of the small cloth pocket were unclear. Li Qingmei curiously asked him, "What's in this pocket?"
Li Xingyao explained with a smile, "The grocery store has some dried mushrooms and black fungus today, so I weighed out some of each. Auntie, you take a break, I'll do it."
Li Qingmei looked at her mother uncomfortably, not knowing whether she should give up the stove.
It was not until I nodded almost imperceptibly that she moved aside, looking back every few steps.
Back in the east wing, the old lady sat by the window, threading a needle. She leaned over and whispered, "Mom, just let me do it? Is it appropriate?"
The old lady took a sip of the liquid and put it into the needle's nose against the light. "What's the problem with whether it's suitable or not? Everyone is born to do this. As long as you have the heart, it will be suitable."
Having said that, she still felt uneasy and anxious after hearing it.
"Mom, this young man is obviously from a good family. Let's let others do the work and scare him away later..."
The old lady scratched her scalp with the tip of the needle without even raising her eyelids. "Anyone who can be scared away is not our son-in-law. My Lingling girl doesn't deserve to be treated like this."
"oh."
"Okay, if you can't sit still, just go in and peel some garlic or scallions or something. If you want to know something, just ask."
Li Qingmei thought about it, then picked up her heels and went to the kitchen.
"Auntie, why don't you talk to grandma? I can do all this by myself. You can finally take a day off, so don't get involved."
This was a soothing remark. Even in front of her son, she had never been treated this way. "It's okay. I'm used to being busy. I'm not used to you asking me to sit there all of a sudden."
Li Xingyao expressed his understanding and handed her a head of garlic. "You're just like my mom. You can't stay idle when you're at home."
"I am the same as your mother?" Then this family background is almost the same as my own.
"Well, my mother is just like you. She has endless worries and endless work to do. I always want her to do more and us to do less."
Huh? That's what she meant. She thought it was about family background. "What do Xiao Li's parents do?"
"They're just ordinary people, all working, nothing special. I heard from Yuling that you and my uncle also worked in the factory for a while.
You two elders have worked in large factories, they can’t compare.”
Li Qingmei then talked about the years they spent in the big factory, talking excitedly, and Comrade Li listened very seriously.
Occasionally, she would respond with "ah ah oh oh", and the future mother-in-law spoke even more excitedly.
But she still didn't forget her business. She suddenly stopped the car and asked again, "What do you do, Xiao Li?"
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