Lin Yongnian hadn't eaten such delicious noodles in a long time, and he even drank up the soup.
Lin Yongnian finished his soup, wiped his mouth with his hand, looked at Du Taohua and said, "I haven't eaten your cooking in so many years. Your cooking skills are better than before."
"Brother Yongnian, as long as you like it, it's fine." Du Taohua smiled, but her smile was a little lonely and sad.
She put the shoes back in the basket, stood up and walked to the table. Looking at the empty bowl with even the soup drunk, she asked, "Brother Yongnian, are you full? If not, I'll go make you some more."
Lin Yongnian waved his hand, "No need, I'm full."
"Taohua, I haven't seen you for so many years. How have you been?" Lin Yongnian asked Taohua.
Du Taohua held the empty bowl and shook her head. "This person is unlucky. When she was young, she was too old. She couldn't find a good family nearby, so she had to marry far away."
She waited for Lin Yongnian to age because of one reason and because everyone in the village knew that she had been with Lin Yongnian before.
Everyone knew that when Lin Yongnian came to the city, he would dump any city girl he liked, which had a negative impact on her reputation, so she was not considered a good family in the neighborhood.
"She married a man who was five or six years her junior. He was much younger, but his family was poor. Three years into their marriage, they finally had a daughter, but never a son. Her husband and his parents-in-law despised her. When her daughter was fifteen, her husband was bitten by a poisonous snake while collecting firewood in the mountains. He died."
"My parents-in-law said that I would kill him and often beat and scolded me. When my daughter reached marriageable age, they arranged a marriage for her and gave her the house to my brother-in-law, kicking me out." Du Taohua shed sad tears when she spoke of this.
Fortunately, the family my daughter married into is pretty good, and her son-in-law is also nice to her.
However, no matter how good a family is, it is impossible for them to take their mother-in-law home to support her.
"They're going too far! How could they kick you out?" Lin Yongnian angrily slammed the table.
Du Taohua wiped her tears and said, "Ah, it's all my fault for not being able to bear a son. Luckily, my brother and sister-in-law were kind enough to let me go back to my parents' home. They built a new brick house by the river and gave me this old house to live in."
"I'm alone. I raise chickens and rabbits and work in the fields to earn some work points. Life is not too bad."
"Ah..." Lin Yongnian sighed deeply, lowered his head and said guiltily: "I'm so sorry, if I had wanted to..., you wouldn't be like this."
Du Taohua smiled and shook her head, "Brother Yongnian, I don't blame you. People tend to go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. You work as a worker in the city. A country girl is not worthy of you."
"It's my fate. I don't blame anyone." After saying that, Du Taohua carried the bowl into the kitchen.
The more she said this, the more Lin Yongnian felt that he owed her.
"Taohua is a good woman. I feel so sorry for her."
Lin Yongnian left the things for his second uncle at Du Taohua's house and went to the mountain to burn paper money alone.
He said a lot of things to his mother at her grave, saying that Li Shuping divorced him and abandoned her husband and children, that Lin Jianshe was unfilial and unmotivated, and that although Lin Guodong seemed filial, he was not that filial.
He just wanted his family to live a good life, but his life was getting more and more troublesome. He was now very tired and felt very depressed.
He also asked his mother to bless their family with good health and safety, and good work.
After Lin Yongnian finished burning paper for all the ancestors and came down the mountain, around five o'clock, he and his second uncle also returned home. Seeing him back, they warmly welcomed him into their home.
Lin Yongnian gave two bottles of wine and two kilograms of sugar to his second uncle's family, and left the biscuits for Du Taohua.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, Lin Guodong, who had just gotten off work, returned home with his son Junjun.
Zhang Jiao came home a little later and said, "Let's not cook dinner tonight. Let's go out to eat."
Lin Guodong: "When dad is not at home, go out and eat something good."
Zhang Jiao rolled her eyes at him. "Why, can't you just spend your own money to have a nice meal? Just tell me whether you want to go or not."
"Go, why not?"
If you don't go after eating good food, you'd be a fool.
"Then let's go to Mom's dumpling shop to eat?" Zhang Jiao suggested.
Lin Guodong: "Aren't you afraid that your mother will kick you out?"
"That's not possible." Zhang Jiao said, "Last time I took Junjun there, mom didn't chase us away."
Of course there was no welcome.
Lin Guodong: "...then go."
So, Zhang Jiao and Lin Guodong took Junjun out.
If you meet someone you know on the road, ask them where they are going.
Zhang Jiao smiled and said, "I'm going to eat dumplings at my mom's shop!"
When acquaintances heard this, they all smiled and nodded in response. But once they left, they started saying, "The mother-son relationship has been severed, yet they're still eating dumplings at their mother's shop."
"When I was little, my mother told me that the sea was my hometown..."
When Zhang Jiao and Lin Guodong arrived, the dumpling shop was already full, and there were people queuing at the door waiting for a seat, with nice songs playing on the tape recorder.
Zhang Jiao was about to go in with the child in her arms, but someone pulled her back.
"Don't you see the line? If you want to take away, you can go straight in. If you want to eat in, you have to queue."
Zhang Jiao: "This is our own store, you don't have to queue."
Hearing this, the people in the queue looked at them a few more times.
"Your own shop? But as a regular customer of this dumpling shop, how come I have never seen you before?" A middle-aged man looked at Zhang Jiao and Lin Guodong suspiciously.
Zhang Jiao raised her chin and said, "The owner of this shop is my mother-in-law, Li Shuping, and her husband is her biological son. If this shop isn't ours, then whose is it? We just have jobs and have to go to work, so we don't come here often."
Lin Guodong scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed when hearing what Zhang Jiao said.
After saying that, Zhang Jiao held her son in one hand and pulled Lin Guodong's hand to go in.
As soon as I stepped one foot in, I was stopped by a hand.
"Please line up if you want to enter the store and eat dumplings." Qin Ye looked at Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao coldly.
Zhang Jiao looked at Qin Ye and said, "You know us, we are family members of the boss who hired you to work at the dumpling shop. You don't have to queue."
Qin Ye said: "You all severed your relationship with Aunt Li because of a criminal who smashed, looted, and robbed things. What kind of family are you?"
"You..." Lin Guodong stared at Qin Ye.
"Tsk, I thought we were really family, but it turns out we've severed ties long ago."
"He even disowned his own mother for being a criminal who vandalized, looted, and robbed people! What kind of son is he?"
"You're so shameless, and you're still here talking about your own store. How shameless!"
"You're so shameless."
A young man living in Lihua Lane said, "You don't know, when they severed ties, Boss Li hadn't even opened this shop yet. Back then, her stall was smashed, and everyone thought her business wasn't doing well. Her two sons even assisted the people who smashed the stall and severed their mother-son relationship with Boss Li. Now, seeing that Boss Li's business is doing well, they've gotten back together."
"To be honest, this son and daughter-in-law are really snobbish."
"Isn't it?"
Lin Guodong felt extremely embarrassed, so he took Junjun from Zhang Jiao's arms and turned away.
"Guodong..."
Zhang Jiao glared at Qin Ye fiercely and started chasing after him.
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