Chapter 243: Free Meals (Page 1/2)
Liao Sijie was about to get married, and Lin Man had already made up her mind not to ask her to help take care of the children anymore. She really didn't want to see Lin Jing frequently at home.
The other person is about to get married, and she can't seem to find any suitable reason to make him "work hard" for her?
What's more, if you still need someone to come and act as a nanny to take care of the children after marriage, it may have a negative impact on the relationship between the couple!
If Liao Sijie was like Ling Fei and failed to conceive a baby for a year, wouldn't the blame be placed on them?
Therefore, Lin Man would rather endure more fatigue and hardship herself than hire Liao Sijie to take care of the children.
In fact, she could quit her job and stay at home to take care of the child herself, but wouldn't that be a waste of her grandfather's kindness?
With space, she has countless wealth. Although she can easily win without any effort, she is still more eager to try things that she has never experienced before.
Life is so long, you have to experience areas that you have never been to before. Only in this way can your life be called complete and without regrets!
So now, she won't easily quit her job at the school and stay at home to take care of the children. No matter what, she has to work there for at least three years before making any decision.
Maybe by then, she might even quit her hard-earned job in order to have a daughter.
She couldn't tell what would happen in the future. Now she just wanted to work hard, take good care of her two children, and do her job and fulfill her responsibilities.
After lunch, Lin Manla took Huo Qingci back to the room and took out fourteen kilograms of cotton from her own space.
"Take these fourteen pounds of cotton and ask the cotton craftsman to make a six-pound or eight-pound quilt, and give it to Liao Sijie as a dowry."
Huo Qingci nodded. "If my aunt can't come back, she might send money to my mother and ask her to help Sijie prepare a dowry."
"Yes, I understand. We sent back two thin quilts from the island for our wedding, and the thicker ones are left in the courtyard. Do you think we should make two more quilts?"
"No, it's cold in winter and we definitely need to sleep in the space."
Lin Man asked again: "Grandpa is old, how about making him a thick quilt weighing ten kilograms?"
"Grandpa is really afraid of the cold. He is used to covering himself with two quilts when it snows."
Lin Man thought for a moment and then said, "Give Grandpa a 10-jin quilt to cover him. I'll also get a red blanket from the space to pad his bed. It'll be enough no matter how heavy the snow is."
"It will definitely snow heavily this winter. Manman, why don't we make another thick cotton-padded jacket for Grandpa?"
"good."
Finally, Lin Man took another 30 kilograms of cotton and placed it in Huo Qingci's space, asking her to prepare more so that she wouldn't have to ask her for more when needed.
Huo Qingci put the cotton into his own space. Lin Man opened the door and walked out. She had classes this afternoon and it was getting late, so she had to rush back to school early.
Half a month later, Lin Man finally finished knitting Huo Yining's sweater. She washed the sweater with softener, dehydrated it, and hung it in the air.
Taking Huo Qingci into the warehouse to choose wool yarn, "The wool yarn is all on the shelf, you can choose the color you like.
Huo Qingci chose navy blue cashmere yarn, while Lin Man used gray-blue wool to try it on him.
"Qingci, I think the navy blue wool is too dark and looks a bit dull. How about beige? It will make you look younger." Lin Man offered her opinion.
Huo Qingci looked at the beige cashmere yarn and said, "Manman, beige is beautiful, but it doesn't get dirty easily."
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"It's okay, as long as it looks good. We'll wash the sweater when it gets dirty. Although I can only knit one sweater, I have many machine-knitted sweaters in my space. The styles and colors are all very good. Do you want to go with me to another warehouse to take a look?"
"Okay then. Thank you for your hard work."
After choosing the wool, Lin Man took Huo Qingci to the clothing area and selected two wool vests and two base sweaters for Huo Qingci.
I also picked out some thermal underwear and base sweaters for my two sons, and threw them all into the washing machine to wash together.
The weather is getting colder, it's time to change them into some fleece-lined thermal underwear.
"Manman, I'm taking a day off tomorrow. I want to bring back some blood cabbage to make Chinese cabbage, and pickle some Chinese mustard greens and mustard greens."
"Potherb mustard greens and mustard greens make great sauerkraut. How about we go out early tomorrow morning and bring back some more vegetables?"
Anyway, she is free tomorrow, Sunday, and wants to make kimchi, dried vegetables and sauerkraut, so she might as well make more and dry some radishes at the same time.
In this era, many people make pickles and dried vegetables. When they don’t go out on snowy days, they will use these pickles to fry eggs or make sauerkraut soup.
The next day, Huo Qingci used his bicycle to repeatedly pull back several sacks of vegetables, including white radish, Chinese cabbage, Chinese mustard greens, mustard greens, and kohlrabi...
The couple was busy all day, either pickling mustard greens to make sauerkraut, or making kimchi with cabbage, cutting radish strips to dry, and kneading Chinese mustard greens to dry in the salt.
A few days later, the sauerkraut, salted vegetables, and dried radishes were all ready, and the kimchi was finally ready to eat. Lin Man planned to make sauerkraut soup in the evening.
Huo Qingyan seemed to have heard something, so he brought his wife Ling Fei over to have a free meal.
Huo Qingyan and Ling Fei came, and naturally their parents-in-law and brother-in-law Huo Qinghuan also came. Not only did they come, they also brought a large piece of beef and a basket of eggs.
Lin Man looked at the bright red beef with distinct textures and could not help but ask Xiao Ya curiously:
"Mom, where did this beef come from? I remember the supply and marketing cooperative seemed to have no beef for sale these past two days."
Xiao Ya smiled and gently handed the piece of beef to Lin Man, and replied, "Qing Yan got ten pounds of beef from somewhere, and I cut off a few pounds for you to try."
After Lin Man took the beef, she weighed it with her hand and estimated that the meat weighed at least three pounds.
She thought that it might not be enough to make braised beef, but it would be a good choice to use it for stir-fry or cut the beef into thin slices to preserve the original flavor for hot pot.
As the weather gets colder, it's perfect for hot pot. Although we don't have chickens or ducks at home, we do have a turtle in the water tank, which is perfect for hot pot.
Lin Man smiled and suggested, "Mom, the weather is cold, let's have hot pot tonight!"
"Okay, okay. I'll go clean the copper pot and prepare to light the charcoal." Xiao Ya immediately agreed when she heard about having hot pot.
When Ling Fei heard about hot pot, her eyes widened and she asked expectantly, "Sister-in-law, do you want to stew the beef for hot pot or shabu-shabu it?"
Lin Man responded, "It tastes even better if you cut it into thin slices and shabu-shabu it."
Lin Man guessed that Ling Fei must have wanted to eat beef because she was pregnant, so Huo Qingyan found a way to get ten pounds of beef. When her mother-in-law saw him buying so much beef, she cut a few pounds and sent them to grandpa to try.
When they saw their parents-in-law coming to bring them beef, they didn't want to cook at home, so they just came over to eat.
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