Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Who can you blame for your own behavior?
"Uh... cough cough."
Oops, I've been discovered.
Zhao Ruyue suddenly had an idea: "In my heart, you are different from other men. Why should I fool you?"
Ning Shaoming suddenly realized: "Yes!" He was indeed different from other men and would not care about such things at all.
Moreover, he never got angry when his wife didn't buy things for him. There was really no need for his wife to fool him.
Ning Shaoming thought about it carefully and realized that nothing she had bought for him before was bad.
Not to mention that when it comes to loving his wife, it seems that no man on the street can compare to him?
Ning Shaoming, who was coaxed into submission by his wife with just a few words, was proudly immersed in the feeling that he was a unique existence in his wife's heart and the only good husband in Daqiao Street and Xiaoqiao Street, and he went back to work quickly.
At noon, the old clock on the wall rang several times.
The people who bought things and stayed here to chat finally reacted: "Oh, it's twelve o'clock, the kids at home must be hungry, I have to go back and cook, I don't want to chat with you anymore."
Many people left, and the main room finally didn't seem so crowded.
Although people were still arriving one after another, the number of people was much less than in the morning, so Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming could finally take turns to rest for a while.
Ning Shaoming got up and went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat. If there was nothing, he would have to cook it now. Zhao Ruyue stayed in the main room to continue greeting people who came to buy things.
Ye Jing came back from outside with her daughter. Seeing that it was Ning Shaoming who went to cook, she glanced at her sister-in-law who was sitting by the brazier in the corner, warming herself by the fire and eating melon seeds.
I was surprised to see that my eldest sister-in-law didn't even raise her eyes, and didn't secretly gossip about my third brother's sister-in-law to the people around her.
Yesterday, my eldest sister-in-law whispered to me about my third brother's wife, saying that she shouldn't let my third brother do those women's work. Today, when my third brother went to cook, why didn't she say anything?
Ye Jing simply asked in a roundabout way: "Hey, is the third child cooking for lunch today? I heard from mom that the third child learned cooking skills from someone in the hotel. We are in for a treat today!"
Zhao Ruyue was about to greet the people who came to buy things, but she turned around and smiled at her without saying anything.
Wang Haiyan found it strange: "Why are you so surprised that the third child cooks? The second child doesn't cook at home? Even though our son likes to go out and hang out with his friends all day, if he happens to be at home one day, he will cook very diligently!"
Ye Jing and Ning Shaode seldom came back after they got married, and even less so after they had children.
She didn't like her daughter running around with these wild kids from the country.
Even if she comes back on weekends and during winter and summer vacations, she prefers to stay at her own parents' home unless she has to go back to her husband's home during the Chinese New Year or other holidays, and let her daughter play with the daughters of her brothers and sisters who also hold public office.
She really didn't know that her uncle who loved to fool around also cooked at home, and she thought her husband was the only good person in the family.
Ye Jing smiled awkwardly: "My husband will cook when he is free at home."
Wang Haiyan: "I told you, there is no man in the Ning family who is unwilling to cook at home. You married in late, so you haven't seen your great grandfather. I have seen him, and I haven't seen the elders before him either. I can't say anything nonsense, but since the generation of great grandfather, all the men in the Ning family have cooked at home!"
This is what she is most proud of when she returns to her parents' home and compares herself with her sisters.
"Really? Then we women are really blessed." Ye Jing didn't get what she wanted to hear, so she just said something perfunctorily and said she wanted to wash her daughter's hands, then took her daughter to the patio.
Most of the people who heard their conversation in the main room were old neighbors. Wang Haiyan had praised the fact that the man of the Ning family could cook at home hundreds of times.
They simply ignored those words and instead paid more attention to the fact that the third son of the Ning family had learned a skill in a hotel in Pengcheng: "What skill did the third son of the Ning family learn?"
"What else could it be?" Wang Haiyan felt that the person who asked this question was a fool. "The person who sells food in the hotel must have learned cooking skills!"
The person who asked the question curled his lips: "Do I need to learn how to cook? I can do it just by looking at it!"
While eating, Wang Haiyan and other family members carefully asked Ning Shaoming what he was learning.
She also asked her family members to encourage Ning Shaoming to show off his skills. She had never been to the county town many times, but when she saw Ning Shaoming carving flowers with radish, she was deeply shocked.
She felt that she had seen the world, so she looked at the man who was asking the question with a look of contempt: "Forget it! With your mediocre cooking skills, will anyone buy the food you make if you sell it to others?"
The man scratched his head and said, "That's right. Everyone can do what I can do. If I sell it, no one will buy it."
Wang Haiyan defeated the others with a proud look on her face, "The craft that the third child learned can carve a radish into a flower, just like on TV! This is the first time I have seen a flower carved from a radish in real life. I used to think that the ones on TV were fake, but I didn't expect that a radish could really be carved into a flower!"
She stood up and said excitedly, "Wait a minute! I put that radish flower away last night and didn't let the kids at home play with it. I'm going to take it out and show you now!"
The weather was cold, so she put the radish flower in a bowl and added some water. Now when she took it out, the radish flower still looked juicy.
The rest of the people in the main room gathered around the radish flower and marveled at it. They took turns touching it and smelling it: "It smells like radish. It's really made of radish!"
“Isn’t this expensive in the hotel?”
Wang Haiyan: "I don't know, I didn't ask." When she saw him yesterday, she was just amazed.
Some people think that being able to carve a radish into a flower is amazing, while others think that a radish carved into a flower is still a radish: "Even if the radish changes its appearance, doesn't it still taste like a radish when you eat it? Who would spend a lot of money to buy it? That would make them a fool!"
Another neighbor who also came back from working in another place to celebrate the New Year said: "Rich people! You don't know if you have never been out. Outside, rich people can spend hundreds of dollars on a meal, and some even thousands! I spend a month's salary on a meal!"
Several people gasped: "What's so expensive to eat? Dragon meat?"
"We go to the meat stalls and buy a pound of meat for only a few dollars. Other restaurants also buy a pound of meat for a few dollars. If we make it into a dish and add some fancy patterns, such as carving patterns and arranging it on a plate, we can sell it for dozens or even hundreds of dollars a plate!"
Someone asked Zhao Ruyue curiously: "Your family's Third Brother Ning knows this skill, so he can make a lot of money a month, right?"
Zhao Ruyue replied with a smile: "The hotel is not owned by our family. The boss is the one who earns money. My wife only earns money as a worker. It's good enough to make more than a thousand yuan a month."
"Working part-time is different from working part-time. Your third son Ning has some skills, so he should be able to be a master. He can definitely earn more than an ordinary worker. When you go back to work after the Chinese New Year, can you bring…"
"mom!"
Before the man could finish his words, Ning Shiqiu came in carrying two bags and shouted, interrupting him.
Zhao Ruyue opened the bag in her son's hand and found that it was a bag of rice noodles weighing about two kilograms, and the other bag was actually meat: "This rice noodles and meat were given by your aunt, right?"
Ning Shiqiu shook his head and nodded: "My sister and I bought the rice noodles with the pocket money you gave us this morning, and the meat was given by my aunt. She said she would bring the meat back later when she is free to make sausages for grandpa and grandma to eat during the New Year."
Zhao Ruyue wiped the sweat off her son's forehead in the cold weather and asked, "Why don't you have lunch on the street before coming back?"
Ning Shiqiu counted on his fingers and told his mother: "A bowl of rice noodles on the street costs two taels, and adding some chopped green onions and minced meat costs fifty cents. I go to the rice noodle wholesale store and only buy rice noodles. I can buy two pounds for one dollar. We have chopped green onions at home, and there is some meat left over from last night. I can cook it myself when I get home. Two pounds is enough for the whole family. It's a great deal!"
Before Zhao Ruyue could say anything, the neighbor started to praise her: "Your son is incredible. He knows how to manage his life at such a young age. He will definitely be filial in the future!"
Zhao Ruyue: "The two children are sensible and feel sorry for how hard their father and I work to earn money."
Ning Shiqiu's ears turned red from being praised. In the two days since his parents came back, he was praised more times than in the whole year when they were away.
Adults who used to say weird things now no longer appear to be praising him, but the things they say sound weird.
He was a little embarrassed, so he stuffed the things into his mother's hands and ran away.
Zhao Ruyue chased after him and asked, "Why didn't your sister come back with you? Did she stay at your aunt's place to play?"
Ning Shiqiu stopped and turned around to answer, "No, my aunt has been busy with business these days and has no time to take care of us. My sister and grandfather went to the sea street near the pier to play chess with someone. Grandpa said he would bring my sister back at 12:30."
"It's almost half past twelve. Go pick up your sister on your bike. Sea Street is far from here. She's young and she won't be able to walk halfway."
Wang Haiyan interrupted, "Xiaoqiu doesn't need to go. Third sister-in-law, you can watch over it. Dad will definitely bring Xiaoxia back on time. Xiaoqiu, go to the kitchen and tell your dad not to cook anymore. Save the greens for the rice noodles. I'll go to the vegetable garden to pick some green onions. We ran out of green onions at home yesterday."
Zhao Ruyue looked at her son, and when she saw Ning Shiqiu nodded, she did not insist on letting her son ride a bike to pick up his sister.
At the same time, Ning Da and his old friend won the last game. Amid his granddaughter's admiring eyes and words of praise, he bought a fried bun for his granddaughter.
Ning Shixia tied up the bag of fried buns and put them into the small bag her mother bought for her: "Grandpa, I'll take them back to eat with my brothers and sisters."
My brother bought rice noodles and my aunt gave some meat, so we had to make delicious boiled rice noodles at home for lunch.
A fried bun is too big for her. After eating a whole one, she can’t eat rice noodles when she gets home. She wants to eat both fried buns and boiled rice noodles!
Ning Da praised his granddaughter with satisfaction: "Xiao Xia is really sensible."
He also wanted to buy a few more and give one to each of his grandchildren, but the pocket money his wife gave him every month was too little, and now he only had a little over one dollar left in his pocket, so he was unable to afford it.
Because his tobacco was almost gone, if he bought fried buns, he would have no money to buy cigarettes.
He was reluctant to smoke the good cigarettes that his third brother bought for him, as he wanted to save them to show off to his relatives during the New Year. After much thought, he decided to save the money to buy cigarettes.
After buying cigarettes, Ning Da told his granddaughter: "Just give the fried oil buns to your brother when you get home. Don't let your other brothers and sisters and your aunt know. Remember?"
Ning Shixia blinked, not understanding but obeying: "Okay, I'll quietly give it to my brother."
"You're so good," Ningda took her granddaughter's hand, "Let's go home and have lunch."
Ning Shixia happily held one of his grandfather's fingers and followed him towards home.
Halfway through the walk, she felt tired and could hardly walk.
So he let go of his grandfather's hand, stopped walking, squatted down and shouted, "Grandpa, my stomach hurts, I need to poop!"
Ning Da panicked when he heard this and asked quickly, "Can you hold it in? You can't poop on the road. Hurry up and go home."
Ning Shixia: "My stomach hurts, I can't walk!"
Ningda had no choice but to pick up his granddaughter, carry her on his back, and run home quickly.
Wang Haiyan, who had just returned from picking shallots in the vegetable garden, saw her father-in-law running home from a distance. She laughed and pulled Zhao Ruyue out to see: "Look at the grandfather and grandson. Am I right?"
"Hurry, hurry, Third Brother's wife, take Xiao Xia to the toilet."
Before Zhao Ruyue came over to pick up the child, Ning Shixia had already slid to the ground and smiled at her grandfather: "Grandpa, my stomach doesn't hurt anymore."
Ning Da was really angry and amused, he patted her on the butt and said: "You little girl, you lied to me again!" It was hard to tell whether such a young child really wanted to go to the toilet, so he dared not take it lightly.
If the child really got sick on the way, I would have to carry her home quickly every time.
Wang Haiyan: "Dad, you're still blaming her. She always gets fooled, but you always like to take her out. Who can you blame for spoiling her? Xiaoxia, grandpa took you out to play, but he didn't buy you anything delicious?"
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