Chapter 19

Lazy

When they got home at night, the water outside was freezing, so the three children had no choice but to roll around on the warm kang.

Although the Kazakh businessman was responsible for delivering the goods to the base, he only delivered them to the main gate of the base. Chen Lina had to carry the goods home by herself.

She went back and forth seven or eight times, carrying potatoes, apples, and cotton cloth. Even though she was in good health when she was young, she was still gasping for breath from exhaustion.

After a day's walking, the fire wall was extinguished, but it had to be lit again.

The fire wall was lit, and Chen Lina wanted to hide away for a while, so she sat next to the fire wall and prepared to roll all the cotton threads she had bought into balls.

"Comrade Xiao Nie, can you wash an apple for each of us?" Chen Lina was too lazy to move but wanted to eat an apple, so she called Nie Weimin.

Nie Weimin was having a great time and thought it was natural for Chen Lina to do the work, so he shook his head and said, "No, you wash it."

The two younger ones also shook their heads like playing drums, “Mommy, wash, Mommy, wash.”

Chen Lina rolled her eyes at the three boys, washed a large apple, and started to eat it herself, but she was still staring at them, "You three are all lazy."

Nie Weimin was unhappy. "But you said you were here to be our mother. Does that mean a mother won't even wash apples for her children?"

"Children are not without legs and arms, and they are not incapable of doing work. Why do mothers have to wash them? I think you are just lazy." Chen Lina retorted.

Nie Weimin hated it most when others said bad things about him. His face turned red and he said, "I'm not lazy."

"You are just lazy." Chen Lina did not give in at all.

Nie Weimin was very angry. He ran to the kitchen to scoop some water and washed an apple for each of the three brothers. Then they sat side by side on the kang and started to eat.

He wanted to show through his actions that he was not lazy, he just didn't want to wash Chen Lina.

However, children are hungry easily. In order to roll cotton thread and make quilts, Chen Lina cooked late today. Now, as the sun was setting, she was still silent.

Nie Weimin was a foodie and couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Comrade Xiao Chen, you haven't cooked yet."

"Today's meal will be simple. We'll just have to hurry your dad in and fool him." Chen Lina said.

"What kind of rice is this? Why is it tasteless?" Nie Bozhao said as he walked in, patting the snow off his shoulders and stamping his feet. "Oh, just now, the snow started falling again. It's really heavy."

He also looked into the kitchen curiously and saw the ice pot and cold stove. Obviously, there was nothing.

This was not Chen Lina's style a few days ago.

Could it be that the saying on the base that a new daughter-in-law works hard for three days, but is lazier than a pig for the next three days, has also come true for Chen Lina?

Coincidentally, Nie Bozhao also estimated that Chen Lina could not stay and did not dare to get the marriage certificate. Although he was at a loss knowing that she was gone, he had already prepared money. When she asked to meet her pen pal, he would tell her the unfortunate news and then send her back to the train to Qisi Township.

However, before he could finish his words “If you want to leave, I will send you off immediately”, Chen Lina stood up.

The three children were so hungry that they were sticking to each other, especially Nie Weimin, who rushed into the kitchen and asked, "Comrade Xiao Chen, tell me, what did you do today?"

Chen Lina opened the lid of the pot, took out the noodles that had been well-rested, and said, "Lazy."

"I caught you and you're still cursing at me. I said you were Aunt Yao and you said I was a lazy bum." Nie Weimin yelled and finally caught Chen Lina's handle.

Chen Lina was neither anxious nor angry. She opened another pot. It was a basin of starch water that she had asked for from Wang Jie, the mother of Chen Tiantian next door, when she had just returned. She had just added chopped green onions, Sichuan peppercorns and red peppers to the water and it had been heating on the stove.

At this time, there is a pot of boiling water, a basin of cold water, and a cage. Pick up a ball of noodles and press it on the cage. The noodles will slide into the pot like a small fish.

"This is called lazy pimples, and it's specially for lazy people. You, Comrade Xiao Nie, are too lazy to wash apples for me, so you only deserve to eat lazy pimples."

This lazy dumpling is also known as leaky fish. Because the dumpling is small and smooth, it is the favorite food of children. In addition, it was the middle of winter, and the fire was burning every day. The three children were already getting hot, and the broth was particularly good at cooling down. With a plate of mutton fried with cumin and green onions, the three children ate one bowl after another, and soon the whole pot was empty.

After finishing the meal, Chen Lina looked at them with a smile, "Who will help mom carry the dishes to the kitchen?"

Licking his lips, Nie Weimin was reluctant to accept the offer, but because his father was glaring at him, he could not say anything lazy, so he behaved himself and took all the family's dishes into the kitchen.

After a while, the three children were driven to the ground. Chen Lina spread out the cotton, the large cotton cloth cut into whole pieces, and the cover cloth, and prepared to make a quilt.

"Look, this is a report about computers in Silicon Valley." Nie Bozhao threw a magazine over.

Chen Lina was busy mending a quilt. Tonight, the quilt had to be mended. There was only one quilt for a family of five. Nie Bozhao always slept under his own clothes. Chen Lina and her three children had to share one quilt, so she always had to give the quilt to the children.

So I felt like a pancake, my butt was almost burnt, but the top was frozen and shivering.

Oh, she's had enough.

"Hmm, a calculator?" Chen Lina glanced at it and chuckled, "A real calculator is not this big. A desktop one is a bit bigger. The notebook is the size of a book. You can just fold it up and go."

Nie Bozhao sat on the edge of the kang, watching the three boys still having fun and not paying attention to him, and asked quietly, "Some of the things you said are incoherent. You really have a brain disease, right?"

Chen Lina rolled her eyes at him and said, "Yes, I must be mentally ill to marry you to help you take care of the baby. Otherwise, what would I want from a beautiful girl like me?"

Outside the window it was snowing heavily again, and the north wind was blowing outside with a sound like the howling of a wolf.

But the house was as warm as spring. The vegetable seeds in the big bathtub under the fire wall had sprouted and broken through the soil because of the abundant water.

"What do you want?" Nie Bozhao was even more confused than Chen Lina.

Chen Lina raised her head. A small 40-watt light bulb was shining on Nie Bozhao's face. He had thick eyebrows, a big nose, a strong nose, and two slightly deep eyes that were exceptionally clear and bright.

Of course, he was not as haggard as he was when he grew up. Wearing a blue work shirt, he still had a gentlemanly air.

Chen Lina doesn't like those popular pretty boys in later generations, but even her favorite Chen Daoming is not as good-looking as him.

"It's because you're handsome, and I want you to pamper me like a princess in the future." Chen Lina said happily.

Nie Bozhao's mouth twitched as he looked at the girl with a face as chubby as a duck egg and thought to himself, oh my, this girl must have been brain-damaged, but she just doesn't know it.

He added, "Xiao Chen said that he would give his staff food money and that he wanted to eat at our house in the future. It would just be an extra bowl and a pair of chopsticks."

"Is this about food expenses for the team, Nie Bozhao? Why don't you invite all the bachelors in the base to come and open a big canteen at home?" Chen Lina stretched out her hands. "Taking care of three children is enough to keep me busy. You don't even wash the dishes yourself. You threw away your chopsticks and ran away in the morning. You still want me to do you a favor? No way."

"If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. I'll just push it off. Are you really angry? Why are you so angry?"

"It's not a question of whether to refuse or not. Since we are friends, we should be moderate in our interpersonal relationships. It's our duty to have him eat a meal. If you really give him money or food coupons, he will come to eat every day. You can cook good food for him, but just make it a meal. He won't say that I work hard to cook for him.

Maybe she would think, oh, I am greedy for some of his food expenses. Besides, Xiao Chen is a young man, and I just married you, aren't you afraid that people in this base will gossip about you?"

"I haven't really thought about this." But on second thought, Nie Bozhao realized that Xiao Chen came from a big city like Shanghai, and he would not like the girls from the base, and he also thought the educated youth from Mulan Farm were too unsophisticated.

But young guys always have a natural interest in young women. When they heard that Chen Lina was a college student and knew about cars, apart from anything else, they would of course have a certain affection for her as if they were bosom friends.

Oops, he almost slapped himself on the forehead. He was really confused.

"You won't be like this in the future. You will be very tactful. Now you are like a fool." Well, Chen Lina mentioned the future again.

Her words made Nie Bozhao feel that his new daughter-in-law was either mentally ill or really believed what she said, or she really came from the future.

At night, there was finally a new big quilt. The three children were very happy and all rushed to sleep in it.

However, Nie Bozhao made some arrangements, so that he and Nie Weimin would use the old small quilts, and Chen Lina would take care of the two younger children and use the big quilt.

Nie Weimin was unhappy. "I also want to sleep in a big quilt. This small one is too thin and cold."

"Okay, your dad and I will sleep in the same quilt, you can get in quickly." Chen Lina said with a smile.

Nie Weimin rolled over and crawled into the big bed. He completely forgot that he should stick by his father.

Nie Bozhao almost vomited blood. Even though he couldn't sleep at night that day, Chen Lina was too bold. She didn't even know what his current situation was, but she wanted to share a quilt with him?

Because they didn’t sleep during the day, the three children fell asleep very early. Some were grinding their teeth, some were gurgling, and some were farting.

Like the two spies, Nie Bozhao kept his voice low and leaned against the wall as much as possible, trying not to touch the soft, warm, fragrant body under the quilt.

"Tell me the truth, where are you from?"

In order to whisper, he had to move his head closer. The few strands of hair on the woman's temples, with the scent of cold cream, were simply enough to make him feel dizzy.

"We are already an old married couple, and I have nothing to hide from you. I have lived an extra life, and I met you about fifteen years later. At that time, you started your own business in the Internet, an emerging industry.

I also got a divorce after much difficulty. You pursued me for a long time, but I was finally conquered by a meal. You knew how to cook at that time. So, we had a couple of hot pots together. But at that time, you really spoiled me." Chen Lina's lips came over, she had just brushed her teeth, and she was so sweet.

Nie Bozhao stepped back toward the wall, thought seriously, and asked again, "What about my three children? Since you came from the future, you must know what their future will be like. Tell me, what will they be like in the future?"

Chen Lina thought about it and said it in the most tactful way, "The two older ones will become famous gang leaders in Hongyan Province in the future. They will be publicly tried and shot during the crackdown. The younger one has polio, which is particularly serious, so he can't walk.

But he is a network expert, commonly known as a hacker. He will play a big role in your future business. But he also helped you, a senior engineer, to become a hacker and almost put you in jail. "

Nie Bozhao took a deep breath, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, okay, I think you really have a mental illness. Just pretend you never said that and go to sleep."

Chen Lina was so angry that she wanted to kick this ignorant man. After pausing for a long time, she heard him sigh deeply.

Put yourself in their shoes. These three good kids, each one of them is innocent, lively and adorable. Who could believe that they would be publicly tried and shot in the future?

Well, Chen Lina thought, let’s just assume that I’m mentally ill.