Chapter 142: Childhood Events

The children couldn't sit still. Little girl Mianmian ate two mouthfuls of fried rice yogurt and stopped eating. She wanted to play with her older sister and brother Changyi and Changan.

Lu Qingya, "Mianmian, drink all the milk powder." There was still a mouthful left.

"Mom, you drink it. I can't drink any more."

Milk powder is a rare commodity in everyone's home and cannot be wasted, so Lu Qingya drank it.

While cooking, Mother Gu called Second Sister Gu.

The mutton and chicken were stewed in the morning and are now done. I plan to make six dishes: braised pork with dried beans, braised beef with potatoes, stir-fried mushrooms with salted meat, and stir-fried vegetarian cabbage.

There aren't many vegetables in the north in winter, just cabbage, potatoes and radishes.

The staple food is dumplings. Whenever they have guests, they make dumplings with sauerkraut filling. They have to be made freshly, but the filling does not need to be chopped freshly, as it was already chopped this morning.

During this period, Mingyue and Tang Zexu came, but they didn't come to eat for free. It was because Tang Zexu, the son-in-law, heard from his mother-in-law about Su He's elder brother Su Yue.

Say that the person is very good-looking, handsome, and has great temperament.

That was so exaggerated that Tang Zexu wanted to see if the other party was really as amazing as he said.

The main thing is that not only his mother-in-law praises him, but his daughter-in-law also praises him.

"I was young at the time, only 13 years old, and I saw him at the birthday party of my two babies. I thought he was really handsome, wearing a military uniform."

"I just can't describe it. Once you see them in person, you will know that my aunt's three brothers are all very handsome."

This was said by his wife.

So when he heard that the other party was coming, Tang Zexu pulled his wife over to see.

After Tang Zexu finished reading, Mingyue asked, "How is it?"

Tang Zexu, "This uncle looks really serious and handsome. He seems to be better looking than me."

Mingyue: The man she is looking for is somewhat narcissistic.

Tang Zexu felt that this uncle looked very imposing, especially when he stood up, he looked scared.

When Su Yue doesn't smile, he looks a bit serious, at least that's what outsiders think.

Mingyue, "I heard that my aunt's third brother will also come back during the Chinese New Year. Do you want to come and see him?"

Tang Zexu, "The provincial champion who got admitted to Peking University?"

Mingyue: "Yes."

Tang Zexu, "Why are all my aunt's family so powerful?"

He had met his second brother before. He worked in a textile factory and was the son-in-law of the deputy factory director.

Mingyue, "Right, when I was little, my mother often complained about us from my aunt's family, saying how come their four children were so outstanding, but we four were like this."

Tang Zexu, "Normally people can't compare to that." Let's not talk about anything else, just the fact that the third child was admitted to Peking University, and he was the top student in the province, who could do that.

His sister's grades were pretty good, but now that the college entrance exam has been cancelled, getting into college doesn't depend on grades.

Go to the restaurant, at 11 o'clock, all the dishes are ready, wipe the table, and eat.

Lamb chops stewed with radishes and chicken stewed with soybeans were served first. The lamb chops were fragrant and the local chicken soup was covered with a layer of yellow oil, which looked delicious.

The adults drank wine and the children drank soda.

"Sister-in-law, try this mutton." Su He picked up some lamb chops for Lu Qingya.

"Mianmian, mutton is delicious." The two treasures were also taking care of their younger sister.

Lu Qingya likes to eat mutton, and little girl Mianmian likes it too.

"Thank you, sister." The little girl said in a crisp voice.

Just after finishing the mutton in the bowl, his younger brother Changan gave Mianmian another piece, "Thank you, brother."

So the brother and sister each fed their sister with one chopstick.

Lu Qingya was very pleased with the scene, "This is great for the two babies, they are so well behaved!"

Su He, "I was quite noisy when I was a kid."

"Because twins have to have double everything, including food, drink and clothing, one time their grandfather stepped on cow dung, and the elder sister saw it first, so the younger brother urged the grandfather to step on it again."

Lu Qingya was amused by this cute behavior, "Are twins so fun?"

It’s fun!

"It's almost like this. I heard from my mom that my third brother and I were like this when we were kids."

Su He has memories of this behavior. When she was a child, she went to school two years later than her third brother due to physical reasons. They were not in the same class, so she would make a fuss.

I wondered why she and her brother were not in the same class, but she was beaten by her mother and became obedient.

"That's great. You must have had a lot of fun when you were little."

"I'm the only child in my family and no one plays with me." Lu Qingya envied those who had brothers and sisters.

Su He laughed and said, "Big brother must be very upset. He used to beat us when he was a kid."

Lu Qingya was surprised, "Haven't you heard that he beat you?"

Su He, "Beat them, why not? You are so fierce, just take a ruler, make us line up, and beat us one by one."

Hearing this, Lu Qingya poked Su Yue beside her and asked, "Why are you beating your brothers and sisters?"

Su Yue, "You don't know how noisy they were when they were little, especially the third and fourth children."

When he was young, his parents had to work, so he was left at home to take care of his younger siblings when he was not in school. Fortunately, the second child was old enough and a little sensible, but the third and fourth children were still young, and they were very noisy.

Talking to them doesn't work, they have to be beaten up.

He will behave himself only after a beating.

"I was still cleaning the house, cooking, washing dishes, etc., and they came over to mess things up."

"Xiao He, do you still remember the time when you broke a bowl when you were six years old?" Su Yue asked his sister.

Su He, "I remember, you were washing the dishes and I wanted to help put them back in the cupboard, but I fell and the dishes broke."

"I even got a cut on my hand."

When her parents came back, they scolded her elder brother, and of course they also scolded her, but her elder brother was innocent. Thinking about it now, Su He feels that she was really stupid when she was a child. She did things even though she couldn't do them, which caused her elder brother to get scolded.

Su Yue, "The third child is even more naughty. He was playing with that stone and knocked over the oil tank. The oil was all over the floor and we couldn't get it back."

He remembered that time when his parents came back and spanked the third child's butt so hard that it was swollen.

Lu Qingya, "This is indeed a big debt!" A whole can of oil has spilled and cannot be used.

She thought her parents-in-law must have been furious, and her husband must have felt like the sky was falling.

"How's the second child? Is he very well behaved?"

Su Yue, "Better than the other two, but not much better. He loves cooking and wanted to cook for me when he was a kid."

“I almost burned down the kitchen once.”

Lu Qingya, "This is more serious than those two."

Su Yue, "That's right. Anyway, the three of them are always restless and I always have to clean up their messes."

As the eldest child in the family, no matter whether it is a boy or a girl, they cannot escape the fate of taking care of younger siblings.

So he only wanted one child, just one, he didn't want more than that, even though Mianmian was raised by his mother-in-law.

Listening to her elder brother talking about his childhood, Su He raised her cup and said, "Oh, elder brother, you have worked hard to take care of us when we were young. I toast to you."

Su Yue raised his cup. Su He said, "Cheers."

Gu Jianhua also came and said with a smile, "Brother, I respect you too. It's not easy to take care of my wife."

Su Yue: "Hey, you're all grown up now."

Yes, the four siblings are all grown up now and have become siblings who can support each other.