When Fan Xiaodan saw Li Qingyun following her into the kitchen, she suddenly felt awkward.
"Here are some pickled cabbage and kimchi I made myself. Let me give you some." Li Qingyun put the food on the chopping board and rolled up her sleeves. "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Seeing this, Fan Xiaodan quickly waved her hand: "Sister, you should take a rest! I can handle this little bit of kitchen work by myself. Thank you for the gifts, I like them all very much."
"I can also cook a few Sichuan dishes. I have nothing to do at home anyway, so I came here early to help you. You can't handle it all by yourself." Li Qingyun got started right away.
Seeing that she was genuinely trying to help and wasn't just being polite, Fan Xiaodan felt less nervous and went along with her.
The two began to chat while working.
Chen Jianpeng killed the fish and brought it in. There was nothing else he could do in the kitchen, so he went to the living room to talk to Gu Tingzhou.
"Sister Yun, you are so beautiful, just like, just like an ink painting." Fan Xiaodan was not well educated and was at a loss for words to describe it. She glanced at Li Qingyun secretly, fearing that she would dislike her Trump accent.
Seeing Li Qingyun cutting vegetables as usual and without showing any disgust, she was secretly happy.
Li Qingyun said as she cut vegetables, "Xiaodan, you're pretty too. Girls from Sichuan are famous for their beauty."
"How can I compare with you? You are an educated person, and I am just a peasant who can't even read or write." Fan Xiaodan is a bright girl. She said these words with self-deprecation, but still had a bright smile on her face.
Without waiting for Li Qingyun to answer, she continued, "Sister Yun, your skin is so good, like a peeled egg."
Who doesn’t like flattery, especially such sincere flattery?
Li Qingyun said embarrassedly: "It's not as good as before. I'm a mother of three children now. I can only make do with it."
She has the same face in her past and present lives. Although she knows that she is quite good-looking, she can't help but feel happy when someone praises her so seriously.
"You have three children? Really? You can't tell at all!" Fan Xiaodan was really surprised. Although Li Qingyun looked older than her, she didn't expect that she already had three children.
"Yes, my eldest will be seven in the second half of this year, my second will be almost three, and my third is a few months old.
Two brothers and a sister." When she talked about her children, a gentle smile appeared on her face, which was indescribably beautiful.
Fan Xiaodan felt that this was the first time he was fascinated by a woman, and she was tired of hearing her compliments.
"Then you must have a lot of experience. If I get pregnant in the future, please share some of your experience with me." Fan Xiaodan was not as shy as ordinary girls. She looked longingly when she talked about the baby.
She has an exceptionally cheerful personality and is quite genuine and unpretentious. If she didn't have any other flaws, she would be quite to Li Qingyun's liking, and she is on the same wavelength as Bai Yu.
It’s just that Bai Yu’s character was developed in a good family environment, and I don’t know what Fan Xiaodan’s situation is like.
Why would an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl willingly marry Chen Jianpeng, an older, divorced man?
But they weren't close enough to talk about these topics without restraint, so she smiled and said, "Okay, when you get pregnant, you can ask me if you have any questions."
"good."
Chen Jianpeng spent a lot of money on this dinner, bringing Sichuan bacon, dried bamboo shoots, pickled mustard greens from his hometown, about a pound of pork belly, and two freshly killed fish.
There are also some seasonal vegetables, which can be used to make a nice meal.
Although Fan Xiaodan is from Sichuan Province, she can only cook some simple home-cooked meals because her original family is very ordinary and not enough for her to see the bigger world.
Stir-fried bacon with green peppers and dried bamboo shoots, braised pork with preserved mustard greens, stir-fried pork belly, shredded potatoes with green peppers, stir-fried cabbage, and cold vermicelli.
She was troubled by the last two fish and didn't know how to cook them.
Li Qingyun took it over and helped her make it. She happened to have brought her own sauerkraut, one for sauerkraut fish and one for braised fish.
Fan Xiaodan didn't expect that this beautiful sister was such a good cook. He made up his mind to get along well with Li Qingyun and learn more from her.
Before she followed Chen Jianpeng to join the army, her mother specifically told her to follow good people and learn to be good, follow bad people and learn to be bad, and to be careful when she got to a place. She had a straightforward personality, and if she met someone with ulterior motives, she would be sold out without even knowing it.
After spending just one hour with Li Qingyun, she felt that this beautiful sister was a very good person.
So she didn't hide anything and shared everything about herself and Chen Jianpeng with Li Qingyun.
It turned out that Fan Xiaodan was the best girl in their area. She worked hard and earned full work points every day. She was also pretty and had attended school for two or three years, so she was not completely illiterate.
When he reached a certain age, matchmakers who came to propose marriage almost broke down the door threshold.
Everyone was guessing who she would end up with.
I didn't expect that there would be such unexpected events.
While he was looking for her at home, his brother had an accident while repairing a dam and his leg was broken by a rock falling from the sky.
The dam was built by several nearby villages, and each village gave a symbolic ten yuan as a consolation.
Compared with the medical expenses for a broken leg, it is still a drop in the bucket.
The people could not fight against the officials, so they could only suffer this loss in silence, but their brother's leg still had to be treated.
My parents and sister-in-law pooled their money, and the family had only a little over 100 yuan. Together with the compensation money sent by various villages, the total was just over 200 yuan.
There is still more than one hundred or two hundred yuan left to pay for her brother's medical treatment.
A person's true character is revealed in times of adversity.
The house that is usually crowded with people is now deserted.
Even the families who usually tried to find her a husband never mentioned it again.
Even relatives and friends were afraid of being harassed by them and said they had no money.
Seeing my brother lying on the hospital bed, his condition was critical and we couldn't delay any longer.
She decided to get married and use the bride price to fill the hole.
Who would have known that those families who were willing to spend 200 yuan to marry her before, now heard about her family's situation, knowing that they would not be able to get a penny back after paying the betrothal gift, and that the woman would not even have a dowry, so they all rejected her.
She showed up in public and asked everyone.
The only family that agreed was trying to make things worse by only offering fifty dollars, which was not enough to save my brother.
Just when all hope was lost.
Chen Jianpeng's parents found her.
The old couple knew that they would never dare to dream of having a good girl like her, after all, their son was getting married for the second time.
But this is not a problem.
They first talked about their son's situation, and then said that they were willing to pay a betrothal gift of 200 yuan.
Fan Xiaodan was a little hesitant because Chen Jianpeng was ten years older than her and was divorced.
She had seen him when she was little, but there was a big age gap between them and they couldn't play together, so she didn't have much impression of him. She only knew that everyone said he was very successful now and was an officer in the army.
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