Chapter 307: Stewed Pear with Rock Sugar (Recognition)

After a while, the food was served on the table. Xia Juanjuan even prepared a second pot of soup for Xia Shuangshan, Fu Weixin, and Li Zhan to have a sip.

The dishes were nothing new, just stir-fried spring bamboo shoots with bacon, stewed pheasant with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with green peppers, stir-fried water spinach with garlic, and a plate of fried peanuts for them to eat with their wine.

Fu Weixin and Xia Shuangshan and Lizhan drank and chatted about family matters, such as the harvest in recent years, whether life was good, and whether there was enough food.

Xia Shuangshan also knew that Fu Weixin wanted to ask him about his daughter, but he was too embarrassed to ask, so he took the initiative to say more.

After dinner, Xia Juanjuan and Lin Yuru went to the kitchen to clean up. Xia Juanjuan asked, "Mom, where did I put the pears I bought in the county town two days ago?"

The pears were naturally taken out from the space by Xia Juanjuan. However, although it is early spring now, there are still pears preserved from last year's autumn and winter. They are for sale in the county, so they are not in short supply.

Lin Yuru replied, "It's in the basket in that room."

After hearing this, Xia Juanjuan went over and took a few pears, peeled them, removed the cores, and cut them into pieces. She put two bowls of water in the pot, put the pears and rock sugar in, and simmered them slowly until the rock sugar was completely melted and the pears were soft, glutinous, sweet, and ready.

Boiled water with rock sugar and snow pear is used to treat coughs, so Xia Juanjuan served each person a bowl and brought it over.

Children naturally like to drink it. After all, which child doesn’t like sweet things?

For Li Zhan, Xia Shuangshan and Fu Weixin, this sweetness is quite difficult to bear.

Lizhan wanted to cheat and secretly gave the drink to Beibei, but he was discovered.

"One bowl per person, no leftovers! In the dry spring, throats are prone to discomfort. This can nourish yin, moisten the lungs, and relieve coughs. Drinking more will be beneficial."

When Fu Weixin heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then his nose felt sore. He lowered his head, scooped up a big piece of pear with a spoon and ate it.

He has been coughing ever since he fell ill this time. Although he tried his best to hide and endure it after arriving here, his girlfriend still found out and was so considerate to make him some rock sugar and snow pear soup!

Li Zhan also understood that Xia Juanjuan had other intentions, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, okay! I promise to drink every drop!"

After dinner, the three men went up the mountain carrying bamboo baskets and tools.

It was too awkward to just sit at home and stare at each other, so we decided to go hunting in the mountains.

When he came back in the evening, he had shot three rabbits, two pheasants, and a wild boar. It was quite a good harvest.

The wild boars were not kept but shared among the villagers. The rabbits and pheasants were taken home and raised to be killed when they were needed.

In addition, we also picked a lot of mushrooms, wild vegetables and the like.

At night, Xia Juanjuan mixed wild vegetables with dry flour, steamed them in a pan, and added garlic juice to make steamed dishes. In addition, she also fried eggs with houttuynia cordata, which can also cure coughs.

Li Zhan came over to help, sneaked over, looked at her, and smiled, "What's wrong? Are you still feeling uneasy?"

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was talking about recognizing her relatives, so she said, "No."

It’s just… asking her to call me dad is a little hard to say.

Li Zhan laughed and said, "Anyway, I have already changed my mind. If you ask me to change it back, I won't agree."

Having said this, he walked away with a smile.

Xia Juanjuan sighed, and thought about it, why should she be so awkward?

After dinner, Xia Juanjuan took a deep breath and shouted, "Dad, wait a moment, I'll take your pulse and make you two doses of Chinese medicine. Maybe your cough will get better faster."

Fu Weixin's heart shuddered, and he almost fell off the chair. He stared at Xia Juanjuan and asked in a trembling voice, "Juanjuan...what did you call me...?"

Xia Juanjuan cleared her throat before continuing, "Dad, call you dad, what else can I call you?"

Fu Weixin felt as if something was stuck in his throat. After a long while, he nodded and said, "Okay! Okay! Hey!"

Wenhui, did you see that? Our daughter finally called me dad! Our daughter finally recognized us!

Fu Weixin placed his hand somewhat stiffly on a small pillow-like pulse pillow and asked Xia Juanjuan to help take his pulse.

After a while, Xia Juanjuan took her hand back and said with a smile, "It's not a big deal. I guess it's just that the resentment is still condensed in my heart, so I haven't gotten rid of it completely yet."

Fu Weixin smiled and said, "I feel better now. Maybe I'll be completely better tomorrow! Don't worry, my lady."

Xia Juanjuan glanced at him and said, "Illness comes like a mountain falling, and goes away like a thread being pulled out. How can it be so easy to recover? I'll boil some medicine tomorrow. You can drink it a few times and see how it goes."

No matter what the lady said, Fu Weixin would naturally agree: "Okay. Juanjuan, I'll do whatever you say!"

I couldn't help asking, "Juanjuan, where did you learn Chinese medicine? No wonder you brought ginseng home last time."

Xia Juanjuan also knew that Fu Weixin was an upright person, otherwise he would not have cut off his relationship with Fu Qingye because of the matter of Xu Dayou, and would rather give up the father-daughter relationship of many years, so she told the truth:

"There is a doctor in the Niu Shed of our village who was born in a medical family and knows both Chinese and Western medicine. I originally collected Chinese herbs in the mountains but didn't know how to prepare them. After hearing his story, I went to ask him for advice and later became his disciple. He taught me Chinese medicine. In the past two years, I have helped the village to diagnose people's pulses and accumulated experience. However, I am still a layman and have only learned the basics."

Fu Weixin felt relieved when he heard this.

It is indeed their Fu family’s offspring.

In this period, who wouldn't want to avoid people like Yang Qiushi? His daughter would rather go against her will and make friends with these people who are now in dire straits.

Fu Weixin nodded and said, "Alas, they were born at the wrong time. They should have had a bright future and dedicated their intelligence and talents to the country. What a pity..."

As he spoke, Fu Weixin could not help but bring up the past again: "By the way, Juanjuan, the last time you and Lizhan came home, didn't your third brother tell you to apply for a job dispensing medicines in their hospital? Think about it again. As for the household registration, you are my, Fu Weixin's, daughter. I will go back and make a report, and it should be approved soon. With a household registration, you can go for an interview and it will be legitimate... It's a pity that the courtyard house... Oh! Let's not talk about this. Dad will help you solve the house issue. Later, you can take the children and your parents to move to Beijing..."

Xia Juanjuan looked at Li Zhan and said with a smile, "Dad, Li Zhan and I haven't discussed this matter yet."

After hearing this, Fu Weixin had no choice but to give up and said, "Then you guys should discuss it quickly. I can go back earlier to make arrangements."

In the evening, Li Zhan hugged Xia Juanjuan and said with a smile: "Are you unwilling to go to Beijing?"

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then asked, "How did you know?"

"I can probably guess it from your expression."

Xia Juanjuan sighed and said, "I'm used to living in the countryside. If I'm suddenly given a job, I'll be bored to death! How can it compare to the days of picking mushrooms, digging bamboo shoots and hunting in the mountains? Besides, the kids at home are still so young. If I go to work, not only will my parents be exhausted to death, but they may not be able to get used to life in the city."

Li Zhan hugged her tightly and said with a smile: "If you don't want to, we can still live in the village. Anyway, it's up to you."

Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but ask, "You don't want a city hukou? Even if I don't want one, the children will have a city hukou, so their future will be brighter."

Although there is no such thing as guaranteed distribution in later generations, at least Xiaowen and his friends can still catch up.

Although, for her, Xia Juanjuan's child, there was no such thing as a stable job or any other kind of package allocation.

Li Zhan smiled and said, "As long as the family is happy, none of this matters. Am I not also a rural hukou? I am still very promising, right?"

After hearing this, Xia Juanjuan felt warm in her heart.

Many people want to change their household registration to a city one, but Lizhan is quite open-minded.

Li Zhan turned over and pressed on her, smiling: "Wife, while the children are asleep, let's be gentle...

The next day, Xia Juanjuan really boiled some Chinese medicine to clear the lungs and relieve cough for Fu Weixin to drink.

It was extremely bitter, but Fu Weixin still endured the bitterness and drank it all.

After resting for a few days, the cough was indeed much better.

After all, Fu Weixin had not retired yet, and it was almost time for him to "reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors", so he decided to return to Beijing.

Xia Juanjuan has already rejected Fu Weixin's proposal, saying that she wants to wait a little longer. Now the children are too young and she doesn't feel at ease going to work. In a few years, when the children are older and go to school, they will move to the city to work or something.

After hearing this, Fu Weixin had no choice but to give up.

However, Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan, along with their six children, accompanied Fu Weixin back to Beijing, and this time they stayed directly at the Fu family.

Matters such as transferring your household registration and finding a job can be postponed, but there is one thing that must be done as soon as possible.

That is to go to Shao Wenhui's grave to pay homage.

Xia Juanjuan also knew that this was a major event that Fu Weixin had been concerned about for more than 20 years, so she obediently took the kids to pay homage to her own mother.

When Xia Juanjuan saw Shao Wenhui's photo, she was also shocked. She looked like Shao Wenhui, as if they were carved from the same mold.

No wonder the first time she went to Beijing to visit Li Zhan, Mr. Fu - her grandfather, called her over and asked her some nonsense questions.

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid they had some doubts at that time?

Fu Nanzheng smiled and said, "That's right. We went to Qingshui Village to ask around, and everyone in the village insisted that you were his biological child. We didn't have any evidence at all, so we had to give up. Fortunately, Li Erni and the others showed up later..."

After the family went to Shao Wenhui's tomb to pay their respects, Xia Juanjuan also asked several children to kneel down and kowtow to "grandma". Only then did the family leave the cemetery and go to the photo studio in a big way to take pictures.

However, the eldest and second brothers of the Fu family are not here, so the family portrait will have to wait until later when they get together during the Chinese New Year.

The matter of recognizing the relatives came to an end, and one day Lizhan suddenly brought home a small puppy.