Chapter 550 Eldest Sister 7
Guang Sheng poured the dumplings directly into his bowl and ate them all in a few bites, along with the cucumber and bean curd strips.
He quickly grabbed the bowl and chopsticks and said, "I'm going to work. You stay home and rest."
Ning Yan glanced at the sun outside. It was probably six o'clock. The sun rose early, just like eight or nine o'clock in winter.
After Guang Sheng finished giving his instructions, he left. Ning Yan wiped the table with a rag, put away the chairs, and tidied up the kang (a heated brick bed).
I can't find the clothes I took off last night.
When I came out, I found that it had already been hung out to dry on the line outside.
It must have been washed by Guang Sheng.
The mother and daughter left late today, so they would definitely be back late as well. Ning Yan soaked the beans and cooked a pot of mung bean soup. She took some white sugar from home and put it into the soup, then poured it into a kettle. After the mung bean soup cooled in the well, she went to the fields to look for them under the blazing sun.
Sure enough, the mother and daughter were both busy in the same field.
"Why are you here? The work will be finished soon."
The work is divided by headcount. One person works eight rows of land in half a day. Once the work is completed, they get 4 work points. Weeding is a full work point, and 4 work points is the maximum work points.
Since Ning Yan didn't work in the fields, the mother and daughter had to each do the work of four more rows.
"Mom, Sheng-ge, rest for a while. I brought some mung bean soup."
Ning Yan took out the bowl she had brought and poured a bowl for each of the mother and daughter.
Wang Cuiyun was overjoyed; her daughter-in-law was a kind and caring person, and her son was truly blessed.
Guang Sheng took the bowl, tilted his head back, and drank it down. "Sweet? Did you put sugar in it?"
Not much sugar was added, and the sweet and cool drink was so refreshing that Guang Sheng finished one bowl and then poured out another.
"It's too hot, mung bean soup can cool you down and relieve the heat."
Wang Cuiyun also took a sip. The mung bean soup looked like it had been simmering for a long time, and it tasted just right. "We'll be done soon, it's too tiring for you to make this trip."
Ning Yan couldn't stand anyone being nice to her. She would soften her heart if anyone was nice to her. She felt a little embarrassed after her mother-in-law said that. Her mother-in-law and the man were working, so how much hardship could she possibly get from bringing him some mung bean soup?
"Let's work together so we can go home sooner."
Guang Sheng quickly stopped him, "No, don't worry about it, don't get your clothes dirty, there's not much left."
Wang Cuiyun finished the mung bean soup in the bowl and handed it to Ning Yan: "Go sit under the willow tree and rest for a while. It will be finished in about fifteen minutes."
The mother and daughter really didn't want her to do any work, but Ning Yan obediently went to wait under the willow tree. About fifteen minutes later, the mother and daughter finished their work.
Guang Sheng: "Mother, you should go back first."
Ning Yan wanted to ask him where he was going, but the man had already left without looking back.
When she got home, it was already 10:30. She wanted to go to the kitchen to help, but Wang Cuiyun kept pushing her out, saying, "You don't need to do anything today. A new bride needs to rest for three days. Besides, we'll have vegetable dumplings for lunch. It's very simple, so you don't need to help at all."
Ning Yan was pushed out of the kitchen, and having no other choice, she went back to her room.
Guang Sheng returned around 11 o'clock, carrying a bucket in his hand.
Ning Yan went outside to take a look. Inside, there was a carp weighing over a pound, as well as many small fish and some small shrimp mixed in.
Where did it come from?
Guang Sheng rarely smiled. "I put a cage in the river when I left this morning. I had my mother stew it for you at noon. I heard it's nutritious, so you should eat more of it."
After he finished speaking, he took scissors and a stool and started cleaning the fish scales and innards in the shade by the door. When Ning Yan offered to help, he simply brushed it away with his elbow, saying, "I don't need you. It's too fishy, so don't bother with your hands."
He said he wouldn't let Ning Yan take up his hands, but he took two small stools instead.
The meaning is clear: she doesn't need to do any work, she just needs to stay with him.
Ning Yan was secretly pleased. This man was quiet, unromantic, and even his looks were only passable, but he handed over all his money and doted on his wife. With these two qualities, she had already won him over.
She casually picked up a palm-leaf fan and sat down next to him to fan him.
Guang Sheng looked up at her, glanced into the kitchen, then lowered his head again and quickly began to clean the fish.
Ning Yan: So, what did those two glances mean?
After about fifteen minutes of cleaning, the fish was finally cleaned. After changing the water several times to wash away the blood, it was carried into the kitchen, and then the fire was started without a word.
As someone who has been through it all, Wang Cuiyun is an exceptionally good mother-in-law. She never gets close to her son and daughter-in-law unless absolutely necessary.
We can't stay away now, because my son doesn't know how to cook fish, so he'll have to do it.
She had already dug up ginger and scallions in the yard, washed and chopped them, and started stir-frying them.
Ning Yan glanced at it and saw that the oil bottle in the house was actually an IV drip bottle, and there was only about a bottle's worth of oil left.
It is obviously difficult to absorb oil.
Only a tiny bit of oil was used to stew the fish, just enough to prevent it from sticking to the pot.
A fragrant aroma soon filled the pot. While the mother and daughter were stewing fish, Ning Yan started tidying up the kitchen. The Cai Niangniang steamed buns were already in the pot, and you could smell the pleasant aroma of bok choy.
There was still sorghum porridge simmering in the pot. The porridge had already thickened, and we were just waiting for the fish to be cooked before we could eat.
The captain seemed to have arrived home right on time; he came back just as the table was set up.
"Why did you take so long? Hurry up and wash your hands and eat."
“Those educated youth are too difficult to deal with. I just hope they get out of here soon, otherwise I can’t sleep soundly at night.”
What kind of intellectuals are they? They're even more vulgar than ordinary people, and they can be just as loud when they start cursing.
Wang Cuiyun's mouth twisted into a crooked shape. "Then you can wait and see."
The higher-ups are sending more educated youth to the countryside this year; there's always more, never less.
The brigade leader complained to his wife that another batch of educated youth would be assigned in a few days, and the brigade would be lively for a while.
Ning Yan thought of Mu Xiaoxiao, the educated youth who had married Guang Sheng, who seemed to have been assigned to the family before the autumn harvest this year.
With her was her lover. The two were not originally lovers, but neither of them could endure the hardship of working in the fields, so they harbored evil intentions. One of them took a fancy to Wang Xiufang, the daughter of the Party Secretary, and the other took a fancy to Guang Sheng, the son of the Brigade Leader.
Wang Xiufang liked intellectuals, and she fell in love with Lian Mingcheng almost at first sight. Lian Mingcheng was always the one who won her over.
On the contrary, Mu Xiaoxiao couldn't win over Guang Sheng after a long time, so she came up with a foolish move: she deliberately hugged Guang Sheng so that others would see them, and Guang Sheng would have no choice but to marry her.
Actually, both families were quite well-off; otherwise, they wouldn't have returned to the city together after four years in the countryside.
However, in this era, money is not everything. No matter how rich you are, if you become an educated youth and go to the countryside, you still have to work in the fields. So these two inhuman people ruined the two capable people in the village.
After that, the two of them went back to the city as if nothing had happened, and then went off to live a sweet and happy life.
But it led to Wang Xiufang jumping into the river and Guang Sheng living a lonely life.
The family of four had a truly sumptuous lunch. Wang Cuiyun's cooking skills were exceptional; the dumplings in the morning and the stewed fish and vegetable buns at noon were absolutely delicious.
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