When Jiang Chunzao recalled how he had been unable to get out of bed due to back pain, he immediately put down his comb, blew out the kerosene lamp on the bedside, hugged a small thin blanket, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
At this moment, the only light in the room was a kerosene lamp lit on the wall cabinet next to the door. It flickered and made Lu Lin look even taller and straighter. Jiang Chunzao, holding a small blanket, secretly peeked at the door and saw Lu Lin standing at the door, wiping his body with another towel.
Jiang Chunzao glanced over and accidentally met Lu Lin's sharp black eyes. Her pretty face blushed and she quickly closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
Lu Lin looked at the small ball on the bed, a smile flashed in his black eyes. He stood up, put the towel on the rack at the door, and walked to the bed with his long legs.
Jiang Chunzao's heart was beating fast on the bed. She clutched the thin blanket in her small hands, not knowing what she was thinking. Lu Lin blew out the kerosene lamp on the wall cabinet. Suddenly the room was dark. He lifted the thin blanket with one hand and climbed onto the bed.
Lu Lin stretched out his arms and instantly embraced her slender waist, holding her in his hot and strong arms. He gently kissed his little wife on the forehead, closed his eyes, hugged her and fell asleep.
In the darkness, Jiang Chunzao listened to Lu Lin's heavy breathing and fell asleep in a daze.
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The next morning, Jiang Chunzao slept in again as expected. When she woke up, Lu Lin had already chopped firewood and cleaned the yard. He then took the two kids, who had been clamoring to go fishing the night before, to the village entrance to go fishing.
Jiang Chunzao came out of the house lazily. Grandma Jiang was busy making shrimp sauce in the kitchen. In the country, especially in small mountain villages like Lujia Village that rely on water for their livelihood, the children in the village would go to the stream at the entrance of the village to catch shrimps and fish every summer. The children who grew up in the village were all good at catching fish. In the morning, they would carry an empty wooden basket to the village entrance and would always bring back half a bucket of fish and shrimps in the evening.
Ever since Jiang Chunzao became friends with Lu Changshan's wife, every few days, Lu Changshan's wife would ask her eldest son to send them fish and shrimps that they caught themselves. The day before yesterday, she sent them a big bucket full of fish.
Seeing that it was a waste for her daughter's family not to finish the fish and shrimps, Grandma Jiang thought about making shrimp sauce with the remaining shrimps. It can be eaten with cold noodles or just as cakes in the summer. This shrimp sauce is a rare delicacy on the country people's table.
Although it is easy for the villagers to catch fish and shrimp, only a few of them have the conditions to make shrimp sauce. Firstly, making shrimp sauce requires a lot of ingredients, such as oil, salt, sauce, green onion, ginger, garlic and sesame. The villagers usually eat meals that lack oil and salt, so who would be willing to spend money to buy those unnecessary things? Secondly, making shrimp sauce involves many steps and many rules and regulations. The villagers are busy working and eating all day, and no one has the time to pay attention to this matter.
It was an old mother like Grandma Jiang who loved her daughter so much. She knew that her daughter and son both liked to eat this shrimp sauce, and she had the conditions to make it at home, so she took some time out of her busy schedule to make shrimp sauce.
Grandma Jiang was busy in the kitchen. She saw that the sun was already high outside when her spoiled daughter came out of the house. She had seen her so many times in the past few days that she was too lazy to nag her. Anyway, her daughter knew that she had been spoiled since she was a child, and her spoiled personality made the old man accustomed to her being spoiled. No matter how many times she had nagged her, the daughter was still as spoiled as before.
Occasionally, when Grandma Jiang saw her daughter being lazy, she would nag her more. However, Lu Lin and his two children actually protected her. After a long time, Grandma Jiang was speechless.
What else does this old woman have to say? I won’t say anymore!
Although Grandma Jiang said she would stop nagging, but seeing that her daughter did not say anything when she got up, Jiang Chunzao knew that her mother was angry with her for being lazy, so she shamelessly approached her mother and laughed:
"Mom, make the shrimp sauce. I'll help you make it!"
After saying that, she diligently rolled up her sleeves and helped Grandma Jiang clean the fish and shrimps. Grandma Jiang felt amused, but her expression was still lukewarm.
Jiang Chunzao was so obedient that she would rub against her mother like a cute little kitten, which made her mother's heart soften.
By the time Lu Lin returned from the village with two big grass carps in his hands and his two cubs, Grandma Jiang had been coaxed into a smile by Jiang Chunzao.
When the father and his two sons entered the house, the three Luhua chickens that Jiang Chunzao was teasing in the yard were clucking. The two sons, each carrying a small wooden bucket, ran over on their short legs:
"Mom, my brother and Jasmine caught a lot of fish today."
Little Jasmine held up the small wooden barrel and showed it to Jiang Chunzao like a treasure. Jiang Chunzao took a look into the barrel and saw quite a few small fish and shrimps in it. He then took a look at Little Stone's small wooden barrel and saw that the fish and shrimps in it were obviously bigger than Jasmine's.
Jiang Chunzao touched the two kids' heads and praised them with a smile:
"Our kids are awesome!"
After hearing their mother’s praise, the two cubs lifted up their little faces, like proud little roosters, making people laugh.
Grandma Jiang heard the noise in the yard and poked her head out of the kitchen. She saw that her two grandchildren were as dirty as the kitten. She said "Oh my God" twice and kept muttering to herself, "How come her good grandchildren turned into kittens after being outside for a while?" Then she took the two kids back to the house to wash them.
Jiang Chunzao smiled as he watched Grandma Jiang lead the two children back to the house. He turned around and saw Lu Lin holding two large grass carps in his hands. He said in surprise:
"Where did this grass carp come from?"
Lu Lin threw two large grass carps that were still wagging their tails into a wooden barrel filled with water and said with a smile:
"I caught it from the river."
Really, the company commander is really capable!
Jiang Chunzao happily watched the big grass carps swimming happily in the wooden barrel, and happily discussed with Lu Lin how to eat the two grass carps. Should they braise them or steam them? It would be better to make them into pickled fish. There happened to be ready-made pickled cabbage at home, which was sent by Changshan's wife...
Lu Lin washed his hands, looked at his wife's happy expression, and smiled too.
The snow-white and thick fish soup is dotted with large pieces of fish meat and emerald green pickled cabbage. A sip of the sour and delicious fish soup is so fragrant that it can make your tongue fall off. Jiang Chunzao and his family sit at the dining table and eat the sweet soup with cornmeal dumplings.
Even Jiang Chunzao, who is usually delicate and not used to eating coarse food, ate with relish. Not to mention other people in the family, the two kids Shitou and Moli didn't need their mother's help, each holding a small bowl of fish soup and drinking with red faces.
Grandma Jiang was also very satisfied with the meal. The aroma of the fish soup from the Lu family's small courtyard wafted to the old Lu family's courtyard next door. The old Lu family sat in the courtyard, smelling the fish aroma from next door, looking at the black noodles and wild vegetable soup on the dining table that was so big that you could see your reflection in it, and they couldn't eat anything.
In front of Old Man Lu and Old Lady Lu there was a big bowl of snow-white fish soup. Old Lady Lu slurped the fish soup into her mouth and muttered as she ate that the third brother's family was too stingy, sending only such a small amount of fish soup, which was not even enough for her to drink.
Liu Hongyan, who was sitting next to her, looked at Old Lady Lu who was drinking fish soup in big gulps. The gluttony in her stomach came out. She swallowed her saliva, touched her bulging belly, and thought about how this morning when she told Old Lady Lu that she was pregnant, the old lady was generous for once and cooked two eggs for her. So she boldly spoke:
"Mom, your grandson is moving in my belly. He said he wants to drink some milk and fish soup."
Old lady Lu drinking fish soup:………
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