"No need for Mom to send it. I'll have someone pick it up from home. Could you please see what durable items you want to prepare for Niannian? It'll be in two days."
"Alright, alright, you should go back and take care of Niannian soon too."
Yang Yufen hung up the phone and didn't go to sleep. Two days wasn't much time, and apart from dried goods and various sauces, there really wasn't much else that could be stored for long.
Yang Yufen recalled what her daughter-in-law liked to eat, and since she had kept the seafood she had bought earlier well, she sent it to her daughter-in-law along with the seafood.
"Why can't you sleep after answering a phone call? What's wrong?"
"I miss the food from home, and I'm thinking about what I can do to make it."
"No wonder you can't sleep. What have you been thinking about?"
"Pack up the soybean paste I made, then make some meat sauce. Niannian also loves mushrooms, so make some mushroom sauce too. Oh dear, I shouldn't have been lazy last year. I didn't make any cured chicken or fish, which Niannian also likes. No, I can't be lazy this year."
"Don't rush, don't rush. If you can send it, you can send it after you finish making it next time. Let's see what you can do first."
Yang Yufen packed up all the pickled vegetables she had made, including the jars, and prepared a huge amount of them, mostly in glass and ceramic jars. She wrapped them with a lot of straw to prevent them from getting damaged.
The only thing prepared for Shen Xianjun was a jar of chili sauce; everything else was non-spicy. Two days later, sure enough, someone came to the family compound. Yang Yufen handed the package to the person, which included a lot of imported candies bought from a department store.
Qin Nian drank the stomach-strengthening tea prescribed by the doctor, but her appetite was still not very good, even though she tried her best to eat.
Not to mention Shen Xianjun, everyone started to worry about Qin Nian's health. If it hadn't been confirmed that Qin Nian was not pregnant, Shen Xianjun would almost have been the culprit.
Shen Xianjun was also looking forward to it, hoping that the things his mother sent would arrive soon and that they would be useful.
"I want to eat cold noodles."
It was rare for Qin Nian to take the initiative to ask what she wanted to eat. Upon hearing this, Shen Xianjun immediately went to prepare it. There was a vegetable garden in the base, so he picked out some bright red tomatoes and cucumbers, and also pulled up a scallion.
I was just about to go back when I was called back.
"Comrade Shen Xianjun, you need to pick up your package in person."
Upon hearing this, Shen Xianjun thanked him happily and, without thinking of anything else, picked up his vegetable basket and ran to retrieve the package.
The heavy package couldn't be carried by hand, so we had to borrow tools to pull it back.
As he pulled out the bottles and jars, Shen Xianjun felt a pang of jealousy. His mother's favoritism towards his wife was so blatant that it was almost undisguised. It wasn't until he discovered a jar of chili sauce that Shen Xianjun realized he still had a tiny bit of presence in his mother's eyes.
Shen Xianjun quickly made cold noodles. When Qin Nian returned, she smelled a very familiar aroma and then discovered many bottles and jars that had been dismantled and placed in the corner of the wall.
"I'm back. The noodles are ready, just in time to eat."
When Shen Xianjun came out, he saw Qin Nian's figure, but she had her back to him. He put the noodles in his hand on the table while talking, and then turned his head and felt that something was wrong.
"What's wrong?"
“You called Mom. She made all of this. She must have made all of this overnight, starting from the day I came back from the infirmary. She prepared so much, but making the sauce takes the most time.”
Even though she couldn't see it in person, Qin Nian could imagine her mother-in-law cooking sauce for her in front of the stove. In such hot weather, she was cooking so many different kinds of sauce.
Shen Xianjun didn't say anything, looking at the bottles and jars he had placed on the ground. He had mixed the tomatoes he picked with sugar and used his mother's homemade persimmon sauce to make cold noodles, which was faster than cooking them himself, because he was afraid he wouldn't have enough time.
"I made cold noodles with persimmon sauce that my mom made. Why don't you eat some first? Otherwise, it'll get soggy and won't taste as good."
Shen Xianjun spoke.
Qin Nian nodded, sat down at the table to eat noodles, and when she saw Shen Xianjun adding chili sauce, she pushed her bowl forward a little.
Shen Xianjun looked up when he saw the bowl of noodles pushed into his line of sight.
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