"Honey, these mushrooms you brought back taste really good! They're much better than the dried mushrooms we sell around here!"
At the dinner table, Li Tiehua picked up a piece of mushroom and put it in his bowl, then sighed and said something.
"Of course! My mother-in-law and I picked these ourselves from the mountain, and my mother-in-law carefully dried them. Each one was cleaned thoroughly!"
"What kind of junk can we buy here? It's all old stuff that's been sitting around for who knows how long. It's definitely not as fresh and clean as what we clean ourselves!"
Lin Xue also loves chicken stew with mushrooms, so she often goes mushroom picking in the mountains with Grandma Gu whenever she has free time.
Anyway, nowadays, people in the countryside all have to work. Except for the very few times when they get a short half-day off, they have something to do almost all year round.
Lin Xue's location in Northeast China is relatively good; at least she can hibernate during the winter. In contrast, in the South, it's truly a year-round, no-holiday situation.
Lin Xue picked up a piece of scallion and tofu and put it into her bowl.
It's not convenient to eat mushrooms at home, so she didn't think about trying this rare delicacy, since she could eat them almost every day when she was in Gujia Village.
"By the way, brother, when are you going to bring your sister-in-law over so I can meet her? I even prepared a gift for her, and now that she's not coming, I don't know how to give it to her!"
Lin Xue shoveled a mouthful of sweet potato porridge into her mouth. The sweet potatoes at home were taken from Old Lin's place.
Perhaps due to the soil in which they were grown, these sweet potatoes are exceptionally sweet and have a sandy texture. They are soft and glutinous when you bite into them, with a slightly grainy feel.
"What gift did you prepare for Xiao Zheng? Why don't you let your mother see it first?"
Upon hearing that her daughter had prepared a gift for her future daughter-in-law, Li Tiehua couldn't resist her curiosity and moved closer to Lin Xue.
"It's a skin cream made by an old Chinese medicine doctor. It can make your skin white and smooth, and it can repair all kinds of spots, blemishes, pits, and acne!"
"What, Mom! You want one too?"
Lin Xue shoveled another piece of sweet potato porridge into her mouth, then looked up at Li Tiehua.
"My dear daughter, are you still my daughter? You have such good stuff, why didn't you think of getting some for your mother?"
Although Li Tiehua is getting old, she still maintains a love for beauty, just like most women.
She immediately became interested when she heard about something that could improve her skin.
"If you want it, I'll leave my set for you when I leave. But I can't give you the set I gave to my future sister-in-law!"
Doesn't Lin Xue know what kind of person her mother is?
If this falls into her mother's hands, her chances with her future sister-in-law are probably over!
"That works too!"
Although Li Tiehua wanted it now, he could only shut up reluctantly when he thought of his daughter's personality.
Her daughter said she would give it to her, and she would definitely give it to her. She said it was something her daughter was leaving for her before she left, and she would never take it out even an hour in advance.
Besides, her daughter had given the gifts to her future daughter-in-law, so she wasn't an outsider. Considering that the girl hadn't even been married into the family yet, Li Tiehua had no choice but to swallow her anger.
Sigh, why does she feel like her daughter treats everyone else better than her?
People always say that raising a daughter is like raising a warm and caring little cotton-padded jacket.
She felt like her little darling was letting in some drafts!
"Mother, you wouldn't be making up stories about me behind my back, would you?"
When Lin Xue saw Li Tiehua poking at her porridge with her chopsticks, she knew that Li Tiehua was definitely talking badly about her.
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"Honey, what are you saying? How could I possibly speak ill of you in my heart! I was just thinking that since my daughter is so good to me, I should buy you something to make you feel better tomorrow!"
Now her daughter is a capable person who can earn her own money and spend it as she pleases, so Li Tiehua no longer dares to scold her as she used to.
Although Li Tiehua is an extremely awful person, she is ultimately a snob. Now that Lin Xue is in power, she naturally has to patiently curry favor with her.
He would never do anything to upset Lin Xue!
What if her daughter stops caring about her and stops helping her family in the future? Wouldn't she be at a loss?
"So Mother wanted to give me some extra nutrition? In that case..."
Lin Xue thought about it for a moment, and it seemed like there wasn't anything she particularly wanted to eat.
However, Lin Xue didn't want to miss the opportunity to order Li Tiehua around.
"I want to eat custard buns tomorrow morning. Pears are out of season now, so I'd also like to eat stewed pears with rock sugar for a nourishing effect. It would be even better if some white fungus was added!"
Lin Xue blinked; it seemed like she hadn't had white fungus soup in ages.
"My dear daughter, you ordered such difficult dishes so easily. We can get pears, and we have some rock sugar at home, but where are you going to get this white fungus for me?"
Even as Lin Xue described it, Li Tiehua subconsciously swallowed, for she was also quite tempted.
But now there's really nowhere to get white fungus, not even on the black market.
"I have some white fungus. I'll get it for you after we finish eating!"
Stewing white fungus takes quite a while, and Lin Xue didn't want to watch the stove, but she was happy to eat it!
Now that Li Tiehua has finally agreed to take over, Lin Xue is naturally willing to invest heavily.
"Okay, it's been really dry these past few days, so making some snow pear and white fungus soup can nourish everyone and prevent them from getting so hot-tempered!"
You should know that white fungus is a very good thing; you can't usually get it even if you want to eat it.
Now that her daughter is willing to provide it, Li Tiehua is naturally not afraid of the trouble.
Anyway, how much can her daughter eat with just one mouth? The rest will end up in the mouths of the couple and their two sons.
If she wasn't willing to do it, Li Tiehua was sure her daughter would never bring out the white fungus.
Although she checked all the packages on the first day her daughter returned, she didn't find any white fungus.
But now her daughter somehow managed to get her some white fungus, managing to fool her. Sure enough, her daughter is still as cunning as ever.
"Mom, you should get up early tomorrow morning and make it!"
Lin Xue glanced at her mother, and seeing Li Tiehua nod, she stopped paying attention to her.
"Brother, why don't you pick up your wife tomorrow night, and we can have dinner together!"
Lin Xue knew that her two older brothers ate lunch at the factory and that their lunch break was very short, so it would be too rushed to pick up her future sister-in-law for lunch.
So I've decided to go to the black market tomorrow to buy some fresh chicken, duck, and fish to entertain my future sister-in-law tonight.
Now that she's back, she'll definitely want to check out her brother's girlfriend.
Anyway, she won't be staying here for long; she'll probably have to head back in a couple of days, so meeting her future sister-in-law should be on the agenda.
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