She and Lu Chen would be living in the Air Force, so they wouldn't see each other more than a few times a year. As long as they didn't live together, there shouldn't be too many conflicts.
Lu Chen may leave Beijing in the next two years. I wonder if Zhong Lingshan will leave with him?
If she gets pregnant, her mother-in-law probably won't be able to go either, so she can't tell whether she will find a way to send the child back to her mother-in-law.
Su Yan was completely confused. If she had known this would happen, she should have married into a family with only a son and a daughter.
In this way, her mother-in-law will help her take care of the child wholeheartedly. She married Lu Ting, the eldest son of the Lu family. Now she has to think about it over and over again to make her mother-in-law willingly help them take care of the child.
If only it were the 1980s, anyone with money could hire a nanny. But alas, too many sisters-in-law mean more trouble. Every family has its own problems!
Early in the morning on the fifth day of the New Year, Lu Chen took Zhong Lingshan to the Hua family in Lihua Village to visit relatives and get to know them, and Lu Yu also went with them.
Considering that they had to return to the army on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and that it would probably be two or three years before they could return, Lu Ting and Su Yan decided to have a simple meal at their home on the evening of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
Early in the morning on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yiming had not yet woken up. Su Yan took out a bunch of vegetables from the space, and prepared everything including chicken, duck, fish and meat.
After get off work at noon, Lu Ting prepared the ingredients for dinner at home, and Su Yan accompanied her father at home for lunch.
Su Qingshan looked at the meatball soup on the table, feeling sad and tears welling up in his eyes.
Seeing that her father was in a bad mood, Su Yan asked softly, "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
"When I think of this meatball soup, I think of your grandma. Yanyan, if you have time, go back to the countryside and visit your grandparents. The day before yesterday, your grandma fell while picking up eggs, and now she's lying in bed unable to move."
"Dad, why don't you take grandma to the hospital?"
"Your grandmother is old and has osteoporosis, and her eyesight isn't very good. I don't know how long she can live after this fall. We wanted to take her to the hospital, but she said she didn't want to die outside. I can't take time off from work to take care of her, and your mother has to stay at home to take care of the children. Sigh..."
Su Yan's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Grandma wouldn't live past the first month of the lunar year? She was only seventy-six. She had thought Grandpa and Grandma were in good health and would live into their eighties. If Grandma passed away, would Grandpa also not live past eighty?
The only happy event for the Su family is that the eldest sister-in-law finally gave birth to a son. Her mother now has to take care of two granddaughters and one grandson, and cook for the eldest and second brothers. How can she have time to go to the countryside to take care of her mother-in-law?
"Dad, don't worry. Maybe when the weather gets better, grandma's illness will be cured and she'll be able to get out of bed."
"I hope she can live for another two years. Your grandmother never enjoyed any happiness in her life. She couldn't bear to eat the food we gave her during the New Year and other festivals. She locked it in the cupboard and waited for guests to come before taking it out to eat.
During the Chinese New Year, she took out a box of sesame cakes that we gave her for the Dragon Boat Festival from the cupboard. The cakes were covered with white hair. Yanyan, go back to see your grandma and persuade her to eat more.
"Dad, what does grandma like to eat?"
"She has bad teeth and can't eat anything too hard."
"I'll make her some egg cakes then. Dad, is Grandpa in good health?"
"Your grandfather is in good health. In the summer he goes up the mountain to dig some herbs and grows some vegetables in front of and behind the house."
"That's good."
Su Yan hopes that her grandparents will be healthy and live more years. Her father is the most promising son in the Su family. He has not lived with her grandparents since he started working. Unless there is something going on at home, they can only go back during the Chinese New Year and other holidays.
This year during the Chinese New Year, she did not visit Lu Ting's grandparents, nor did she go back to see her grandparents.
Before the New Year, her father would give half of the food she prepared for the family to her grandparents, but since there were so many people in their family, they wouldn't be able to eat it all for long.
Su Yan decided to prepare more food for her grandparents when she returned this time, so as not to wait until they were gone, as it would be meaningless to offer sacrifices to them.
Su Yan asked her director for leave to go home an hour early because she was going to have dinner with her brothers-in-law in the evening. When she got home, Lu Ting hadn't come home yet, and even her fat boy Lu Yiming hadn't come home either.
Fortunately, Lu Ting had killed the chickens, ducks and fish at noon. Now all he had to do was light the fire, cook, and prepare some side dishes.
Since Zhong Lingshan came to visit for the first time, Su Yan naturally wanted to treat her warmly. She prepared a table full of dishes, including sour, spicy, light and non-spicy ones.
There are spicy chicken, ginger tea duck, pickled fish, winter bamboo shoots fried with bacon, sauced spareribs, celery and lily fried squid, cold spinach salad, stir-fried shredded lettuce...
Su Yan was almost done cooking when Lu Ting came back, "Yan Yan, how did you finish the meal so quickly?"
"Aren't you going to treat us to a meal? I asked the director for leave and came back an hour and a half early."
"Do you want my help?"
"No need, the food is already on the table, go call them over!"
"Okay, I'll go over now."
After a while, Zhong Lingshan and the others came. Chen Yuhe was holding Lanlan and Yiming, but Lu Jin was not seen.
Su Yan asked Chen Yuhe, "Yuhe, where is Xiaojin?"
"Probably on the way."
The weather is cold and many children are feeling unwell. Su Yan guessed that Lu Jin was delayed by something and might come back late!
"Everyone, come sit down! Yiming, you and your sister can sit at the coffee table to eat. Mom has specially prepared some dishes for you."
"Thank you, Mom."
Lu Yu looked at the sumptuous meal on the table and couldn't help drooling. "Sister-in-law, I haven't eaten your cooking for a long time. I always miss the food you cooked when I was in the army."
"If you like it, eat more. Everyone, please sit down. The food is getting cold."
Lu Ting walked up to Su Yan and whispered, "Yan Yan, is the deer blood wine ready to drink?"
"Yes, it can be drunk after soaking for seven days. But this is a tonic wine. Can you handle it?"
"We won't drink too much, one cup each will be enough."
Su Yan raised her eyebrows and smiled, "A one-cup or a two-liang wine glass?"
"Of course it's a two-liang wine glass."
Su Yan returned to her room, used a bulk wine bottle to fill a bottle of deer blood wine from the space, and also used a blow pot to pour out a blow pot of rice wine.
After coming out of the room, Su Yan gently placed the deer blood wine on the table and picked up the blow pot to heat the rice wine.
Men drank deer blood wine, and women naturally had to drink rice wine. The jar of rice wine she made in her space last year tasted quite good. Even the yeast for making rice wine was made from hot water pepper she dug in the mountains and mixed with rice flour.
Lu Fengnian looked at the bottle of red deer blood wine and asked, "Is this wine? There's sediment in it, so it doesn't look like wine."
"Dad, this is deer blood wine."
"Deer blood wine? Where did it come from?"
Hua Min nudged Lu Fengnian and said, "Your son is offering you a drink, so just drink it. Why are you asking so many questions?"
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