Fried cabbage, fried tofu, spinach soup, Lin Yongnian held chopsticks in his hand and frowned as he looked at the dishes in front of him.
I couldn't help but complain, "Why didn't you fry some meat?"
Zhang Jiao frowned and complained in a low voice, "Junjun doesn't like tofu, and I don't like spinach."
"When my mother was young, she would basically cook a meat dish for dinner." Lin Guodong was not very satisfied with the dinner.
My mother always says that after a hard day at work, I must have a good meal in the evening.
Although Lin Jianshe thought the food was too plain, his wife was the one who cooked today's meal, so he didn't say anything bad.
Liu Qin clenched the chopsticks in her hand. She bought the dishes and cooked the rice. She worked hard for a long time, but no one thanked her for her hard work or praised the dishes for looking delicious. Instead, they all complained.
"No one said they wanted to buy meat this morning. You didn't tell me what you didn't want to eat. I'm not the worm in your stomach. How can I know what the whole family likes and dislikes?"
Zhang Jiao: "I just said that Junjun and I don't eat tofu and spinach. I don't mean anything else. It's true that I didn't tell you in advance. Don't be angry, sister-in-law."
Liu Qin became even angrier. Her sister-in-law's words made it seem as if she was being stingy.
Lin Yongnian said to his second son’s wife, “There must be a meat dish on the table every night. Even if we don’t cook meat, we must cook an egg. Our family works very hard, and we want to eat something good when we get home from work. We also have children at home, so we need to supplement our nutrition.”
Liu Qin nodded, thinking that she had to eat a meat dish every day, which would cost a lot more money.
When the old man said this, wasn't he implying that she was stingy and didn't buy the vegetables?
Lin Yongnian looked at his eldest daughter-in-law and said, "Tell your second daughter-in-law what dishes you want to eat and what you don't want to eat every day. Others will buy them first and then you can say you don't like this or that."
Zhang Jiao nodded with her lips drooping. It was obvious that the old man was speaking in favor of the second son's wife.
Lin Yongnian felt that he had handled the matter very well, thus avoiding future conflicts between the two daughters-in-law.
"Sister-in-law, the total cost of food today is 24 cents. Just give me 12 cents." Liu Qin asked for the money for the food directly at the table.
"Okay, I'll give it to you after dinner." Zhang Jiao rolled her eyes secretly. This Liu Qin was really stingy. She would ask for even a dime or two for food money, as if she was afraid that someone would shortchange her.
The food for dinner was so bad that Lin Yongnian ate a bowl of rice, put down his chopsticks and went out.
In Room 5 of Yard 23, shepherd's purse and pork dumplings had just been put into the pot.
I was going to make pot pork, but I had just dug up some shepherd's purse and it wilted overnight.
Lin Xiaoyu wanted to eat shepherd's purse dumplings, so Li Shuping prepared the pork for the pot, mixed it with the stuffing and made shepherd's purse dumplings.
As the water boiled, the aroma of shepherd's purse and pork dumplings made the children in Yard No. 23 cry with greed, and they all clamored for meat dumplings.
If you want to save face, you will naturally scold the child a few times and not allow him to go out of the house, so as to avoid being embarrassed by guarding other people's kitchen door.
If you don't care about your face, when you hear your child crying for meat dumplings, you say, "If you want to eat, go ask for it yourself. See if they will give it to you."
After hearing what the adults said, the child ran to the kitchen door of Room 5 and stood guard.
"Grandma Li, I want to eat dumplings." Cui Juanzi's youngest son was clinging to the door frame with his big head and snot running down his nose.
He's almost ten years old, but he still guards other people's doors with a runny nose. He doesn't feel ashamed at all.
"I want to eat, I want to eat." The other two little ones followed suit.
If it was Li Shuping in the previous life, she would definitely give one or two to each of the children and send them away.
But she is not that old now, and these children have no relatives or friends with her. Their mothers and grandmothers may even gossip about her behind her back. It's not like she has too much meat at home to eat, so why should she feed them?
Li Shuping stirred the dumplings in the pot with a spoon and said with a fake smile, "If you want to eat dumplings, go home and ask your mother to make them for you. The dumplings in my house are enough for my family."
Big Head: "My mom wouldn't give it to me, so she asked me to come to your house to ask for it."
"My mother is." The other two children nodded.
Li Shuping laughed out of anger, this was really shameless. Since they were shameless, then don't blame her.
"That must be because your mother doesn't like you, so she's reluctant to give you food. If she liked you, she would cook whatever you want and wouldn't let you go to other people's houses to beg for food."
"Like me, I like your sister Xiaoyu very much. Your sister Xiaoyu said she wanted to eat dumplings today, so I made shepherd's purse and pork dumplings for her."
While waiting for the dumplings to come out of the pot, Lin Xiaoyu's face turned red. Her mother said she liked her very much!
Datou denied, "No, my mother likes me the most. She says I am her oldest son and sweetheart."
The big one is Cui Juanzi, who is about thirty-five or sixty years old.
"If I like you, why would you want to eat dumplings but I don't give them to you?" Li Shuping asked back.
"My mother loves me the most anyway." Datou stamped his feet.
"I don't believe it." Li Shuping shook her head. "She didn't even give you dumplings to eat, and she asked you to beg for food. How could she like you?"
"I'll go back now and ask my mother to give me some dumplings." In order to prove that his mother liked him, Datou, he broke his promise and ran back home.
The other two children were left squatting at the kitchen door.
"Go back quickly, I don't have extra dumplings for you to eat."
The two children saw that they couldn't keep the cat, so they pouted and left, going back to make trouble with the adults at home.
"Mom, it's okay to give them one bite."
In the past, when our family cooked something delicious, the kids from the yard would come to eat, and my mother would give them some.
"It's okay?" Old Lady Li smiled and shook her head. "Today we had dumplings alone. Let's make them tomorrow. They're so delicious that all the kids in the compound will come to keep their mouths shut. Do you believe it?"
Lin Xiaoyu frowned, "Isn't it that exaggerated? In the past, when my family cooked something delicious, the children would come to guard their mouths. You didn't want to let them eat it all."
Old Mrs. Li looked at the plump white dumplings floating in the pot. "In the past, when we lived in Yard No. 18, it was your father's factory that made everyone live there. Except for one person who was thick-skinned and stingy, everyone was kind and close to each other. If you gave food to a child, he would remember it. Whenever he had something good at home, he would send some to our family. This is called reciprocity."
"But look at these people in this courtyard, will they exchange courtesy with you? They will only think about how to bully us and take advantage of our family. You don't know yet, last night, that kind-looking Aunt Yuan borrowed our soy sauce and directly poured out half of it for me."
Lin Xiaoyu widened her eyes. "Grandma Yuan looks kind and gentle. How could this happen?"
Li Shuping: "She is like this, think about the others."
Lin Xiaoyu didn't dare to think about it, feeling that there were no good people in this courtyard.
"If you live here, you should be more careful. Don't be stupid and let others bully you. If you can avoid contact with them, do so." She didn't plan to live in this courtyard permanently, so she didn't think about getting along well with these neighbors.
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