Chapter 44 Take Little Tang Yuan to meet Grandpa and Grandma
The episode at the door was not worthy of Fu Zhengtu's mention.
If he didn't ask, Su Taotao would not bring it up, as if Xia Xiyin had never been here.
Chenchen had just eaten at the hotel and was a little sleepy, so Fu Zhengtu carried him to the room to sleep.
Fu Zhengtu found that the little guy had very long eyelashes, especially when he closed his eyes, like two rows of dense little fans covering the entire lower eyelid. His chubby little face was white and tender. When he fell asleep, his two little hands were raised beside his chubby little face, and his pink little mouth moved from time to time, beautiful and cute. Fu Zhengtu could still see a little bit of his mother's shadow in him.
She was like this when she fell asleep.
Fu Zhengtu scratched the child's face with his slender index finger, and his heart softened.
When he came out of the room, Su Taotao was lighting a fire in the kitchen.
Lighting a fire was probably her weak point. While she was putting firewood on the fire, she puffed up her cheeks and blew into the stove. The white little fat on both sides of her face swelled up, just like dust. The whole kitchen was already filled with thick smoke, but the fire was not lit yet.
"Let me do it." Fu Zhengtu took the blowpipe from her hand.
Su Taotao's throat was smoking, and she was about to cry and have a runny nose. She ran to the door to get some fresh air, and coughed for a long time before she recovered. She complained, "This stove only knows how to bully me. Xiaohang can light it up in one go, but I always fail after trying for a long time."
Fu Zhengtu lit the fire in a few seconds, opened the window as wide as possible, and found a palm-leaf fan to blow out the smoke. He didn't say until the smoke in the kitchen had almost dissipated, "Come in."
Su Taotao wrinkled her nose and walked into the kitchen reluctantly. The worst thing about this era was that there was no natural gas and no range hood. It was true that she liked to cook, but it wasn't summer yet. Cooking a meal in the kitchen was like taking a swim. She didn't know what to do when summer came.
"Come here." Fu Zhengtu said again.
"What for?" There was only so much space between the stove and the wall, and Fu Zhengtu, who was over 1.8 meters tall, was already crowded when he stood inside, which seemed particularly cramped.
Fu Zhengtu leaned against the wall to make way for him, and raised his chin towards the small bench in front of the stove: "Teach you how to make a fire."
Su Taotao walked over and sat on the only small bench.
Fu Zhengtu leaned down, almost holding Su Taotao in his arms.
Fu Zhengtu demonstrated in another stove: "Clean up the ashes in the stove first, place the firewood in a grid, put a handful of pine needles in the middle, light the fuse and put it under the pine needles, and it will burn automatically after a while."
Fu Zhengtu's breath was right beside Su Taotao's ear. Maybe because he smoked a few cigarettes at the door of the state-owned hotel, his originally pure breath had a hint of smoke, which was very pleasant and ambiguous.
Su Taotao's ears were soft and hot. After all, they had been having a shameless couple's life for two days, and their emotions were easily aroused.
She moved her chair to the side without saying a word.
"Do you understand?" A steady and clear voice rang out.
Fu Zhengtu tilted his head to look over, and Su Taotao also tilted her head to look in his direction. The distance between their lips was less than one centimeter, and they were about to kiss...
Su Taotao subconsciously tilted her head back. The center of gravity of the small stool was not very stable, and her butt was about to hit the ground. Fu Zhengtu's hand went under her armpit, circled her thin waist, and pulled her back, and their lips naturally touched.
Su Taotao was startled and wanted to dodge.
Instinctively, Fu Zhengtu tightened his hand around her thin waist, looking down at her and swallowing her breath.
Su Taotao could only close her eyes and tilt her head back to bear it.
In the cramped space, the saliva of each other alternated, and the sparks in the chamber occasionally crackled, as if applauding and cheering for this unexpected intimacy.
Fu Zhengtu was careful not to let the kiss last too long. When their lips parted, his breathing was still steady, but Su Taotao had already collapsed in his arms, rubbing her neck with one hand. She didn't care about blushing or pretending, and glared at him: "Your neck is sore."
Her voice was so tender.
Seeing this glare, Fu Zhengtu couldn't help but lower his head and kissed the corner of her lips, and silently took over her hand to help rub her neck. It was a rare
tenderness. Neither of them spoke. Although they were sweating profusely, they didn't leave this cramped space. When their necks felt better, Su Taotao began to instruct Fu Zhengtu to work.
"Go wash the intestines." Su Taotao loves to eat pig offal, but she is afraid of washing it, so Zhou Linglan usually washes it after buying it.
She thought Fu Zhengtu would refuse, but he took it aside and washed it without saying a word.
Su Taotao stuffed a garlic into the vermicelli and told him: "Don't wash off the vermicelli, just clean it, then cut it into the length of your finger, make a circle of cuts on the back, and don't cut the fat here, can you do it?"
Later, when they arrived at the base, there were only two adults. Although Fu Yuanhang was very capable, he still had to go to school and help take care of Chenchen. If all the housework was on her alone, she would be exhausted, so she had to let Fu Zhengtu know that the home belonged to the two of them. Even if he was making money to support the family, he couldn't just act like a big boss after work and do nothing.
Fortunately, Fu Zhengtu didn't look very down-to-earth, but he was a good hand at work.
After washing the intestines, he actually cut them more accurately than Xiao Ding from the state-owned restaurant, proving with facts whether he could do it.
Su Taotao was actually more nervous than he was when she saw his hands with distinct meridians holding the knife, and couldn't help but admonishing: "Your hands are for experiments, be careful when using the knife, don't hurt yourself."
Fu Zhengtu nodded: "I will."
Then it was easy. Su Taotao ordered him around, asking him to rinse the pot and blanch the vegetables, to use a spatula to stir-fry, and to cut onions and chop garlic. In short, she basically just waved a cattail leaf fan and moved her mouth for this meal, and Fu Zhengtu did all the work.
But even so, she was still sweating from exhaustion.
Su Taotao was fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan while asking Fu Zhengtu, "Is it hot at the base? Are there electric fans?"
Fu Zhengtu thought for a moment and said, "It's surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it often rains. It's not as hot as here. There are electric fans in the laboratory, but not at home."
Su Taotao asked again, "Can I buy one at home? It's too hot, I really can't stand it."
There was no way that the countryside didn't have electricity, but there was electricity at the base, and she didn't want to put herself in a difficult position.
Fu Zhengtu nodded, "There should be a fan ticket in the ticket I gave you, and you can exchange it if you don't have one, and you can buy one."
Su Taotao smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to life at the base. So what else should we bring with us besides clothes and bedding?"
Fu Zhengtu said, "Just bring clothes, and only bring bedding from Yuanhang. You can buy other daily necessities when you get there."
Su Taotao couldn't agree more and nodded continuously, "The quilts at home are hard and heavy, and I also find them very troublesome, but isn't it convenient for us to have a car?"
Fu Zhengtu: "The car has to be returned after driving to the city, and then we can take the train."
"Ah~~" Su Taotao bit her lip, "I thought we could drive directly to the base, but we have to simplify things."
Su Taotao counted on her fingers again, "There are milk powder tickets in the ticket you gave me. I was thinking about whether I should buy them and bring them with me. Fortunately, I didn't buy them. I actually wanted to bring some dried goods that my mother dried and the pickled vegetables that my mother pickled are also delicious. It seems that I can't bring them all. I
can't bring Chenchen's little wooden horse either, but I have to bring Chenchen's little quilt. He has to hold it when he sleeps at night, and he will cry if he can't find it. I can't bring all the storybooks. I don't have to bring the ones that Xiaohang can recite..."
As she was reading, Zhou Linglan and Fu Yuanhang arrived home.
Su Taotao asked Fu Yuanhang to wake Chenchen up for dinner.
Until dinner time, she was still eating while seriously discussing with the two children what could be brought to the base and what could not be brought.
Zhou Linglan occasionally interrupted and gave some suggestions.
Fu Zhengtu ate the delicious meal and listened quietly to his wife's mumbling and the gentle voices of his family. He was looking forward to the life back home this time.
When the meal was almost over, Fu Zhengtu suddenly said, "Mom, please prepare more dry goods. This time we will take Chenchen to see grandpa and grandma."
Su Taotao didn't react for a while to who the grandpa and grandma Fu Zhengtu was talking about.
Zhou Linglan asked her excitedly: "Does Taotao want to say hello to her family first?"
You know, the daughter-in-law has not been home for several years since she got married. Even if she doesn't say it, she knows that there must be a conflict with her family. A girl from the city married to the countryside to suffer, but anyone who cares about the daughter-in-law will find it interesting. Her son has not met his father-in-law and mother-in-law yet, and Chenchen has never met his grandparents. It is hard for Zhou Linglan not to be excited.
Su Taotao bit the end of the chopsticks and blinked. What way? What grandparents? Who did she say hello to?