Chapter 49 Thoughts
The taxi quickly dropped the two families off at the door of their rental house.
"Brother Zhao, sister-in-law, please put your things back to the rental house first. We'll go to the restaurant for a meal later." Wang Xiuren said to Zhao Dalong, who was also carrying luggage, while carrying the huge luggage bag brought by Lin Ping.
"Then we two husband and wife won't be polite!" Zhao Dalong answered readily.
Lin Ping watched Lin Qiu pay the taxi driver the fare and frowned in pain.
"Sister, this fare is too expensive, isn't it?"
As soon as the driver left, Lin Ping blurted out what he had been holding back.
"It's okay once in a while!" Lin Qiu comforted her, "If we take the bus, we probably won't even be able to get on! Although it costs a little money, it doesn't hurt us."
Lin Ping's brows were still furrowed, and he was still upset about the expensive fare.
"Okay, okay, your eyebrows are getting tangled!" Lin Qiu gently tapped his sister's eyebrows with his fingers, "Don't think too much, go upstairs first, wash up and then we'll go out for dinner."
Lin Ping followed his sister upstairs, opened the door and saw the spacious two-bedroom apartment. He was a little surprised: "Sister, the house you live in is so big? Don't the people who work outside the house usually squeeze several people into one room?"
"I'll tell you more about this later! Go to the bathroom and wash up quickly, don't keep Brother Zhao waiting for too long!"
Lin Qiu pushed his sister into the bathroom, and then he and Wang Xiuren tidied up the small bedroom and made the bed.
When Lin Ping washed up and changed his clothes, Zhao Dalong was already happily chatting with Wang Xiuren in the living room, while Zhang Guixiang was hugging Wang Shan and kissing her.
"Let's go. We're probably hungry. Why don't we go to the Chaoshan clay pot porridge next to the market?" Wang Xiuren suggested.
"I'll follow your arrangements!" Zhao Dalong had no objection.
"Then let's go!"
The group went straight to the Chaoshan clay pot porridge as soon as they went out.
"First, a large portion of the signature crab roe congee, a plate of cold-mixed pig ears, a plate of braised beef, and a plate of peanuts!"
After entering the store, Wang Xiuren ordered a few items from the menu on the wall, then turned to look at Zhao Dalong, "See if there's anything else you want to eat."
"Enough, enough! Don't order too much." Zhang Guixiang waved her hands quickly.
Zhao Dalong shook his head, "Don't add more, if it's not enough, order more!"
Lin Ping also said: "Brother-in-law, add more after you finish eating!"
"Okay, let's order this much first. Madam boss, please serve the porridge quickly. We are all hungry!" Wang Xiuren smiled at the boss lady at the front desk.
"Okay, please find a seat and sit down. I'll go to the kitchen to help you!" The proprietress responded enthusiastically.
Soon, a pot of steaming, fragrant and warm crab roe porridge and three side dishes were served to the table.
Wang Xiuren stood up and scooped a bowl of porridge for everyone with a spoon. "It tastes better when you eat it while it's hot."
This casserole porridge is very authentic. The crab roe is very fresh, the crab shell is full of orange-red crab roe, and the crab meat is firm and elastic. It is different when cooked in a casserole. It is served with celery, fried garlic, mushrooms, and shredded ginger to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor. It has a mellow and sweet taste.
“This porridge is so delicious!”
Zhao Dalong drank two bowls in a row before he sighed in satisfaction, "We in Hunan Province can't make porridge this delicious."
"Of course not! Making soup and porridge is the signature dish of people in Guangdong Province." Zhang Guixiang picked up a piece of braised beef and put it into her mouth to taste it carefully.
"Add some buns or dumplings? I still can't feel full just by drinking porridge." Lin Qiu was also very satisfied with this pot of porridge, but he would definitely feel hungry at night if he only drank porridge.
"Dumplings! I heard from others that the shrimp dumplings here are also delicious." Wang Xiuren picked the crab meat from the bowl and put it into Wang Shan's bowl.
"Okay then!" Lin Qiu turned around and shouted to the front desk, "Madam Boss, three more shrimp dumplings please!"
"Okay! Coming right up!"
In less than two minutes, the proprietress brought three plates of shrimp dumplings with white skin and red inside and placed them on the table.
Pick up a shrimp dumpling and put it in your mouth. After taking a bite, the chewy shrimp meat mixed with the aroma of meat and bamboo shoots will whet your appetite.
The three plates of shrimp dumplings were quickly eaten up, and Wang Shan held the last one in her hand and bit it slowly.
"Are you full? If not, I'll order more." Wang Xiuren touched his bulging belly.
"I can't eat anymore, look at Brother Zhao and Sister-in-law!" Lin Ping burped loudly as soon as he finished speaking, and his face turned red in an instant.
"It seems that Lin Ping was not lying!" Zhang Guixiang joked, "I can't eat anymore either. It's all up to my throat."
"I'm almost there too. I want to eat more but my stomach is full." Zhao Dalong said as he patted his stomach.
"Everyone is full, let's go back! It's getting late!"
Wang Xiuren arranged for everyone to go back, and Lin Qiu hurried to the front desk to settle the bill.
"Xiao Wang, I've made you spend money again today!"
At the intersection near the rental house, Zhao Dalong patted Wang Xiuren on the shoulder and said, "Your sister-in-law and I still have a lot of things to sort out, so we'll go home today. When we're free someday, we can have a meal together. I'll treat you then!"
"Okay! I'll just wait for you to call me, Brother Zhao!"
"Call me too!"
Wang Shan, nestling in Wang Xiuren's arms, suddenly spoke.
"You little clever girl, uncle can call anyone but you!" Zhao Dalong rubbed Wang Shan's hair with his broad hands.
"Shanshan, say goodbye to Uncle Zhao!"
"Uncle Zhao, goodbye!" Wang Shan waved her little palm outward.
"Goodbye, Xiao Shanshan!"
After Zhao Dalong and his wife disappeared from sight, Lin Qiu came over and looked at Wang Shan seriously.
"Shanshan, mommy is telling you, next time you are not allowed to interrupt when adults are talking. It is impolite, do you understand?"
Wang Shan rarely saw her mother with such a serious face, and she was a little at a loss for a moment.
Wang Xiuren quickly tried to smooth things over: "Shanshan is still young, just teach her slowly! Don't scare her."
"You have to teach them when they are young! Otherwise, they will develop the habit when they grow up and it will be hard to change it!" Lin Qiu relaxed her expression and lowered her voice: "Shanshan, mommy tells you, children should not interrupt when adults are talking politely. Our Shanshan is a very polite child at first glance, she will definitely remember this principle, right!"
Wang Shan looked at her mother who was no longer serious, and then she regained her composure, "Shan Shan, be polite and don't interrupt!"
"This is mommy's good baby! We must be polite. Only polite children are liked by others!" Lin Qiu rewarded her daughter with a kiss.
Lin Ping stood at the stairs and watched Lin Qiu educating Wang Shan. Suddenly, he felt that he didn't recognize his sister anymore.
"What are you standing there for? Go upstairs!"
Lin Qiu poked Lin Ping, "You don't know which floor I live on, do you?"
"How could I forget so quickly!"
"Then hurry up and go!"
After going upstairs, Lin Qiu helped Wang Shan take a bath and put her to sleep, then asked Lin Ping to go and rest quickly, after all, he had been riding in the car all day.
"Wait until I take out the things my mother brought here before you go to sleep!" Lin Ping dragged the suitcase bag out of the small bedroom and took out the things he brought from home one by one.
"This is the bacon that Mom smoked!"
Lin Qiu took over five pieces of bacon that were of moderate fat and leanness and bright red in color.
“This is salted fish!”
Lin Ping took out a plastic bag of golden and firm cured fish.
"These are dried beans, radish peels, dried bamboo shoots, and chili peppers..."
Lin Ping placed them one by one on the coffee table.
Lin Qiu's eyes became red when he looked at the coffee table filled to the brim. It seemed that his parents were worried that he would have nothing to eat, so they might have brought all the food they had at home.
"Sister, don't cry!" Lin Ping was afraid that Lin Qiu's tears would flow out any moment, so he quickly said what his mother had told him.
"Mom told you to eat without worry. There's more in the house. She smoked a lot of bacon and fish last year. Those dried vegetables are from her own vegetable garden. It's very convenient to eat them."
"I'm afraid that others will gossip about her!" Lin Qiu didn't want his mother to be gossiped about by Zhou Mei and Liu Xiang.
"Who dares to say that?" Lin Ping raised his eyebrows. "Didn't you buy what the kids are wearing? Besides, their parents didn't spend their money!"
"Alright, alright, my little sister is so full of energy now!" Lin Qiu couldn't help laughing at Lin Ping's aggressive look. "I'm not worried that you'll be bullied when you enter the factory now."
Wang Xiuren counted the things on the coffee table and put them in the kitchen, then went to wash up and left the living room to the two sisters.
"By the way, why did you want to come to Pengcheng? Isn't it another year before you start your apprenticeship?" Lin Qiu pulled Lin Ping to sit on the sofa.
Lin Ping was a little embarrassed and didn't say anything.
"We are the only two sisters here now, what can't we talk about?"
Lin Ping tugged at the corner of his clothes and stammered for a long time: "Following the master, I just helped with sewing and buttoning. She didn't teach me anything else."
“To learn a skill, you have to keep your eyes open and watch how the master does it, and you also have to think hard.” Lin Qiu had also gone through this and could somewhat understand Lin Ping’s mentality.
"Also, there are always matchmakers coming to our house." Lin Ping mustered up his courage and looked at Lin Qiu, "Sister, I don't want to get married so early."
After hearing what she said, Lin Qiu remembered that at this time in his previous life, Lin Ping was already married and was pregnant with her eldest nephew.
Lin Qiu was a little panicked. What was going on? Was Lin Ping's marriage ruined by the butterfly? What about the eldest nephew?
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Ping gently pushed Lin Qiu, who looked a little strange, and said, "What are you thinking about? Why is your face so pale?"
"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something!" Lin Qiu calmed down, "Pingping, after the Chinese New Year last year, someone told you about something, and you had a good chat with that person, why is there no follow-up?"
"That guy is nice, but he mentioned marriage after just a few meetings. I didn't want to get married so soon, so it didn't work out." Lin Ping had nothing to hide from his sister.
"And I also want to try my luck!" Lin Ping's eyes were firm as he said this. "My mom and dad asked me to learn a craft, so I can't let it go to waste. I want to make money on my own and don't want to be locked up at home getting married and having kids."
"Sister, you can come out and make money with your children. I don't believe that I can't support myself without any burden!"
This was the first time that Lin Qiu realized that Lin Ping was so opinionated. In her previous life, she had to worry about almost nothing. She listened to Lin Ting at home, listened to her brother-in-law after she got married, and then listened to her nephew when she got older. She was almost always pushed around by others all her life.
Lin Qiu didn’t know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that Lin Ping didn’t get married and have children like he did in his previous life, but no matter what, it was definitely a good thing that Lin Ping had his own opinion.
"You can definitely make a living with your skills!" Lin Qiu was very confident in Lin Ping. "Take a rest tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, you and Sister Guixiang will go to Xixiang to see if there is any recruitment information. It won't be difficult for you to get a job in the factory."
"I'll listen to you!" Lin Ping knew that his sister would definitely support him.
"Okay, it's getting late, go to bed early, we can talk tomorrow if we have anything to say." Lin Qiu yawned, stood up and pushed Lin Ping into the small bedroom, "You sleep in this room, call me directly if you have anything!"
"I know!"
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