"Sister-in-law, go eat first. I'll watch over here."
"...Then thank you for your help." Mrs. Lin turned her head to wipe away her tears, stood up, nodded and walked out of the kitchen.
Lin Mo stood there for a long time before he walked over and sat on the small stool to look at the fire in the medicine pot.
At night, Lin Mo lay on the bed, quietly listening to the whispered conversations outside the room and the silence behind.
Lin Mo thought a lot, but when he thought of another place, his previous thoughts were overshadowed. He thought for the whole night until he heard the distant crowing of chickens outside the house, and then he heard the crowing of chickens in his own yard.
Lin Mo blinked his eyes, entered the spiritual spring space and drank a sip of spiritual spring water, which relieved his fatigue from the night and temporarily soothed his long-tense nerves.
The tomato branches thrown in yesterday were still lying on the ground. Lin Mo walked over, squatted down, dug a few small holes and planted them, then scooped up spiritual spring water in his hands to water them.
Lin Mo squatted quietly by the side and watched. After a while, new buds sprouted from the branches at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then turned into tender green leaves.
Having achieved his goal, Lin Mo stopped observing and lay on the bed for a while after leaving the Lingquan space. When he heard some noise outside the house, he got up.
Lin Mo opened the door and walked out of the room, only to find that only his sister-in-law was awake, and she was boiling medicine in the kitchen.
"Brother Mo, get up." Mrs. Lin heard the noise and looked over. She found that it was Lin Mo who got up first, and said with some surprise.
"Well, how is big brother?" Lin Mo scooped a bowl of water and walked aside to prepare to brush his teeth.
"Your brother woke up once in the middle of the night yesterday, and he doesn't seem to be in such a serious condition anymore." Mrs. Lin said with some joy in her eyes.
Mrs. Lin also stayed in the house to help yesterday, so she naturally heard the doctor say how serious her husband's condition was. There was a bloody hole in his stomach and his head was hit.
Normally, an injury like this would be too severe to be saved. Similar accidents had happened to people in the village before, so Mrs. Lin stayed by Lin Cheng's bedside last night and didn't even dare to sleep. Fortunately, Lin Cheng only had a low fever and woke up once in the middle of the night.
After Lin Cheng woke up once, Mrs. Lin breathed a sigh of relief temporarily. Waking up meant that he was out of danger, and there would be no major problems as long as he took good care of his injuries.
Lin Mo nodded and said nothing more. He quickly brushed his teeth and washed his face before walking into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
"Want to make breakfast? How about I do it?"
Seeing Lin Mo's attitude, Mrs. Lin wiped her hands and stood up and said, "Because of the special condition of Lin Mo's body, he can't do much, and he hasn't cooked many times."
Although Lin Mo's health has improved in recent days, the family all knows that the improvement will not last long, so Mrs. Lin didn't want Lin Mo to make any breakfast.
"No, I still know how to cook."
Lin Mo shook his head and refused, then began to prepare the ingredients. He was the one who made dinner last night, so Lin Mo knew where everything was.
Considering that there are two three-year-old children and a sick person at home, Lin Mo prepared to cook a pot of white porridge. As for other things, there was a bag of flour in the rice jar and a piece of bacon hanging on the side.
"Achen, come and help me light the fire after you finish brushing your teeth." Lin Mo heard footsteps, glanced to the side and saw that it was Lin Chen.
"I got it, Fourth Brother. Can you make breakfast?" Lin Chen asked puzzledly.
"Well, why did you get up so early?" Lin Mo asked as he took out all the materials.
You have to know that under normal circumstances, people will get up one hour after the rooster crows. After all, roosters crow earlier in the countryside. It goes without saying that Mrs. Lin gets up to boil medicine. But Lin Chen, a ten-year-old child, usually doesn't get up at this time.
"I couldn't sleep, so I woke up when I heard my fourth brother and sister-in-law talking in the room." Lin Chen said a little embarrassedly.
Lin Mo nodded and stopped talking, lowering his head to continue processing the materials. After washing the rice, Lin Mo put it in the ceramic pot, filled the pot with water and then quietly dripped a drop of spiritual spring water, so fast that no one could notice Lin Mo's movements.
Seeing that his fourth brother had already put the water on, Lin Chen quickly brushed his teeth and washed his face, then walked into the kitchen and started to light the fire.
While the porridge was still cooking, Lin Mo quickly kneaded the dough, covered the bowl with it and let it rest before walking out of the kitchen to pick some vegetables from the vegetable garden.
When he came back with the vegetables, he found that Lin Xing was awake, so he gave the vegetables to him to wash, and went back to the kitchen to take the bacon, wash it and cut it into cubes.
"Achen, open the lid and stir the porridge to prevent it from sticking to the pot." Lin Mo reminded while making dumplings.
"Ah? I got it, Fourth Brother." Lin Chen was awakened by his fourth brother's quick and skillful movements and responded quickly.
"Fourth...Fourth brother, what are you doing?" Lin Chen asked while stirring the porridge in the pot.
Lin Chen watched as his fourth brother quickly made a bun. Although these buns were much smaller than the ones he had eaten before, he was still shocked by Lin Mo's hand speed.
"Cooking food."
Lin Chen: “…”
Of course Lin Chen knew that Fourth Brother was cooking, but he wanted to ask what he was cooking. However, when he saw Fourth Brother lowering his head and making breakfast with no expression on his face, Lin Chen shut up.
Lin Chen had noticed that his fourth brother seemed to have changed a lot recently. Although he was still quiet, he became less likely to smile and had an expressionless face all day long.
"Achen, watch the fire." Lin Mo reminded, ignoring the doubts and inquiry in Lin Chen's eyes.
"Ah? Oh, I see."
Lin Chen came to his senses, squatted down and put firewood into the stove, quickly putting the doubts in his mind behind him.
Lin Mo made xiaolongbao, which were small so there were a lot of them, but just enough for the whole family. The filling in the buns was only diced bacon. After wrapping them, they were placed in a clean bamboo steamer. When they were put into the pot, Lin Xing had already washed the vegetables.
"Axing, come and light the fire. Remember to use a high fire."
Lin Mo saw that the porridge was boiling and bubbling. He scooped up the rice and saw that it was already cooked. Because of a few drops of spiritual spring water, the fragrance of the porridge was completely released, and the fragrance made Lin Mo's stomach even more uncomfortable.
"Keep adding wood and change to a low fire."
Lin Mo and Lin Chen gave instructions and walked out of the kitchen to deal with the washed vegetables. It was a bit crowded with three people in the kitchen, so Lin Mo could only cut the vegetables outside.
As for the vegetables, it would not be too late to stir-fry them after the buns are cooked. Lin Mo washed and chopped two peppers picked yesterday, took out the washed cucumbers from the vegetable basket, pounded them and cut them into pieces, put them in a large bowl, sprinkled salt on it, put in the chopped peppers, stirred them evenly, and covered them with another large bowl.
Perhaps the aroma coming from the kitchen was too tempting, and the other people who were sleeping woke up. Mother Lin carried her granddaughter out of the room, and the aroma became stronger as the door was opened.
Mother Lin thought that her eldest daughter-in-law was making breakfast so she didn't go in. After helping her granddaughter brush her teeth and wash her face, she went into her youngest son's room and took her grandson out.
After everyone had washed up, the porridge was ready, and the dumplings would be ready in a short time over high heat. Lin Mo fried the vegetables and served the food out.
"Brother is awake, let him drink the porridge first and then take the medicine." Lin Mo scooped a large bowl of porridge and put it on the table to cool, then turned his head and said to Mrs. Lin.
Mrs. Lin nodded and brought the porridge into the house. Lin Mo left her a portion of porridge and buns, and sprinkled chopped green onions on the porridge and stirred it a few times.
"Brother Mo, did you make these?" Mother Lin also figured out who made the dinner, but she asked with some disbelief.
"These were all made by my fourth brother. He got up early in the morning." Lin Chen picked up a small bun first and muttered while eating.
"But why would Brother Mo do these things..." He had clearly never done this before, so Mother Lin hesitated to speak.
"Okay, eat your food. What's wrong with my brother being smart and being able to cook these?" Father Lin tapped Mother Lin's bowl with chopsticks, saying with some displeasure.
"It's delicious. Fourth brother is the best!" Lin Xing chewed the bun and gave a thumbs up in praise.
"Uncle... Uncle, buns... Xiaoya wants buns." Lin Xiaoya grabbed the edge of the bowl with her small hands and pushed it in front of Lin Mo who was sitting next to her.
"Okay, okay, it's my fault. Our Mo Ge'er is the smartest, okay?"
Thanks to his family's endless love for him, Lin Mo successfully escaped the disaster and felt relieved.
Perhaps because Lin Cheng had woken up and passed the critical period, the atmosphere at home was no longer as suffocating as it was last night, and Lin Mo also rarely showed a barely noticeable smile.
The news that Lin Cheng was injured while going into the mountains spread throughout Daling Village early in the morning, and everyone was talking about it. After all, many people saw Lin Cheng being carried back yesterday, covered in blood.
When Lin's mother went out to wash clothes, the other people who were washing clothes on the other side of the river asked her about Lin Cheng's current situation. Lin's mother just smiled at their concern, said a few words, and continued to wash clothes while chatting about other things.
The Lin family is considered an outsider in Daling Village. Lin Mo's grandfather came to Daling Village with his wife to settle down. They were merchants before and Daling Village did not have any strict restrictions on outsiders, so they immediately bought more than 30 acres of land after settling down.
Fortunately, Lin's mother, who was a child bride, was good at giving birth. Over the years, she gave birth to six children. The eldest son, Lin Cheng, got married and had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.
The second son, Lin Xiu, just passed the provincial examination two months ago and will go to Kyoto for the metropolitan examination next spring. This is one of the reasons why the Lin family is so popular in Daling Village.
The third daughter, Lin Lan, also married into a wealthy family in the town two years ago. Their family and Mr. Lin used to have a close relationship in the business world, and the two families became relatives when the old men of both families were still alive. Fortunately, they liked each other very much.
The fourth son, Lin Mo, was a weak boy since childhood and was sick all year round. Half of the family savings was spent on buying medicine for Lin Mo. The fifth son, Lin Xing, and the sixth son, Lin Chen, were twins.
Although Grandpa Lin only has one son, Mr. Lin, fortunately he has six grandchildren. The Lin family has sons, daughters, and brothers all at once, which can be considered a prosperous family.
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