"Li's Dumplings, this should be the place." Li Zhenzhen said while looking up at the sign, holding two gift boxes in her hands.
Behind her was the driver, Xiao Huang, who was holding a basket of live hairy crabs.
It's only ten o'clock and there are no customers in the store yet. Li Shuping and the others are busy in the kitchen.
Li Zhenzhen walked into the store carrying something and started looking around for something.
Qin Ye looked at her first and said, "It's not open yet. Come back at 11:30 if you want to eat dumplings."
Li Zhenzhen looked in the direction of the voice and immediately saw Li Shuping making dumplings in the kitchen.
She had curly hair wrapped in a scarf, wore an apricot-colored short-sleeved shirt with floral patterns, and a black apron.
"Aunt Li." Li Zhenzhen called out crisply.
"It's Zhenzhen." Li Shuping finished wrapping the dumplings, put them on the tray, washed her hands in front of the sink, wiped her hands and walked out.
Li Shuping: "Why are you here? Put your things on the table quickly, they are too heavy to carry."
Li Zhenzhen handed over the gift box and said, "This is all for you. Also, this basket of hairy crabs."
Li Shuping was stunned for a moment, "So many things are for me? Oh, this is too much and too expensive, I can't accept it."
"These are just some food, not worth much money. You helped me this time. This is what my grandparents specially asked me to prepare."
"If you don't accept it, my grandparents will definitely scold me when we get home." Li Zhenzhen said with a pout.
Li Shuping couldn't bear to refuse the gift when she saw how aggrieved and pitiful she looked.
"Okay, I'll accept it. Thank you grandpa and grandma for me." Li Shuping took the two gift boxes, which were quite heavy.
"Where should we put this basket of crabs? The crabs should be kept in shallow water. If they die, we cannot eat them." asked the driver Xiao Huang.
Li Shuping: "Xiao Ye, come and put this basket of crabs in the big wooden basin in the backyard."
“Here I come.”
Qin Ye washed his hands, moved the crabs to the backyard, and placed them in a large wooden basin.
After that, Li Shuping asked her to take the two gift boxes and put them in the living room at the back.
Li Shuping took a bottle of soda from the refrigerator for Li Zhenzhen and the driver.
The driver said thank you, took the soda and went back to the car.
"Eat dumplings here with your aunt before you leave, and then bring a few boxes of dumplings back for your grandparents." Li Shuping said to Li Zhenzhen with a smile.
Li Zhenzhen smiled and said, "Of course I have to eat it. I came here just for your dumplings, Aunt Li."
"Then sit down and drink your soda while Auntie goes to make dumplings."
Li Zhenzhen put the soda in her hand on the table and asked expectantly, "Aunt Li, can I make dumplings with you?"
"Then can you make dumplings?" Li Shuping looked at her and asked.
Li Zhenzhen shook her head, "I only know how to eat."
Li Shuping particularly likes this simple and frank character.
"It doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it. Auntie will teach you."
So Li Zhenzhen also went into the kitchen, washed her hands, and made dumplings with Li Shuping and the others.
Although she had never made dumplings before, her hands were quite dexterous, and after learning a few times, she could make them quite well.
"Look." Li Zhenzhen took out the most beautiful dumplings she had made and spread them out in her palm to show to Li Shuping as if she was presenting a treasure.
Li Shuping nodded and praised: "It's well wrapped, and looks better than Xiaoye's."
Qin Ye: "..."
He looked at Li Zhenzhen making dumplings, then looked at himself making a plate of dumplings, with the corners of his mouth slightly turned down.
It seems that I need to improve my dumpling-making skills.
"Ms. Li, are you still studying?" Qin Rong asked curiously.
Li Zhenzhen: "Aunt Qin, you can just call me Zhenzhen. I'm still studying, but I'm going to do my internship at the hospital soon. I can graduate after one year of internship."
Qin Rong was shocked. "You are still studying medicine?"
Li Zhenzhen smiled and nodded.
Qin Rong: "So after you finish your internship, will you become a doctor directly?"
"Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, I should stay in the Jing City Internship Hospital and become a surgeon."
Her mother was an excellent military doctor. She was determined to become an excellent doctor and inherit her mother's legacy since she was a child.
Surgeons are always holding a surgical tool to perform surgery, and it was hard for Li Shuping to imagine that she, a gentle and pretty girl, would be holding a surgical tool to perform surgery.
That must be cool!
"Which hospital are you going to intern in?" Li Shuping asked.
Li Zhenzhen: "City People's Hospital."
Qin Rong: "The Municipal People's Hospital is the best hospital! It turns out that you still have to go to college. Look at your daughter Zhenzhen, she works as a doctor in a big hospital after graduation."
As she spoke, she glanced at Qin Ye.
I saw that his brows were furrowed and his eyes were determined as if he wanted to join the party. I don't know if he heard what she said.
If her son Chunbao hadn't been in poor health, he might have studied hard and been admitted to a university like his father, and had a bright future.
It's not that Chunbao never went to school, he also liked to study, but he was sick every now and then when he was studying, he always took leave, and he fell behind a lot in his studies.
She just attended a literacy class, but she had no literary skills and could not teach Chunbao.
Because of his frail health, he was bullied by his classmates at school.
I insisted on graduating from primary school and didn't continue my studies.
Li Zhenzhen ate the first pot of dumplings. The dumplings were indeed better than any she had eaten before. No wonder her grandparents could not forget them.
When she packed the dumplings to take home, she specially asked Aunt Li to pack them for her, as she made the dumplings herself.
Of course, Li Shuping didn't charge for the dumplings. When Li Zhenzhen insisted on giving them money, she pretended to be angry and asked Li Zhenzhen to take back everything that was sent to her.
The Li family sent a lot of hairy crabs, about ten or so. That night, Li Shuping steamed four of them to eat.
The taste was indeed delicious. Li Shuping asked Qin Rong and Qin Ye to take a few back to eat, but they both refused.
Qin Rong's daughter Chunbao couldn't eat such cold food, and Qin Ye didn't want to give such good food to his drunkard father.
After taking a bath in the evening, Li Shuping and Lin Xiaoyu opened the gift boxes, which contained canned foreign meat, chocolates, and biscuits.
These foreign goods can only be purchased at the Friendship Store with foreign exchange coupons, and the prices are not cheap.
Li Shuping didn't like these candies and biscuits, so she asked Xiaoyu to take them back to her room and put them in her room so that she could eat them when she was hungry while reading or doing homework.
When Lin Xiaoyu woke up the next morning, she found three dead hairy crabs in the wooden basin.
"Mom, three crabs in the basin are dead." Lin Xiaoyu said as she walked in front while brushing her teeth.
Li Shuping was preparing to make breakfast. "We have to eat these hairy crabs quickly. I'll just cook some crab porridge for breakfast. When I'm not busy in the afternoon, I'll send a few more to your Aunt Wang and Aunt Zhao."
The Li family sent too many hairy crabs, about fifty or so.
Besides, eating too much of this stuff is not good either. If they only eat it themselves, they won’t be able to finish it before all the crabs die.
Li Shuping processed five live crabs and made a pot of casserole crab porridge.
The crab porridge was delicious and the four of them drank it all up.
Since she was not busy in the afternoon, Li Shuping loaded two bags with live crabs and rode her tricycle to Yard No. 18.
She went outside the yard, but did not go in. She asked the children playing outside the yard to call out Aunt Zhao and Aunt Wang.
I was waiting for them to come out when I heard her shout, "Mom?"
When she turned her head, she saw Zhang Jiao, who was pale, with knitted brows, slightly hunched back, and covering her stomach with her hands.
(Today's update is complete, thank you for the gifts, ✿✿ヽ(°▽°)ノ✿.)
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