Chapter 198

Fried Kway Kueh

Seeing that Chen Lina had finished mending his trousers and was now mending his shirt, Nie Gong couldn't help but feel guilty and loving at the same time. He thought, it would be hard to find a woman like Xiao Chen in the world who could manage a household and live a good life.

Then I heard Chen Lina say, "Take off your underwear and I'll patch it up for you. Are you going to have female students in your lab soon? Wear your underwear like Secretary Ah. It doesn't matter if it's torn like a rag. The most important thing is to have patches all over it. This way, the female students can focus on their studies."

The workers are now at their best age, mature enough, with just the right amount of wrinkles on their faces, and they have status and social position.

People who don't know him well call him a laborer, but those who know him well know that he is the director of the mining area.

In this case, some young girls whose views on love and marriage are still immature are most likely to be attracted to people like him.

Chen Lina wasn't worried about what would happen to Nie Gong, as he had never even glanced at other women in his entire life. But she couldn't help but be confused by some young girls whose views on love and marriage were still immature.

It would be a great thing if there were a few female engineering students coming to the mining area.

But if she leaves again for the same reason as Hu Su, it would be so regrettable. Miss Chen cannot suppress her hormones and can only dress herself up to look a little uglier.

The underwear was a joke, of course, but the shirt was really patched.

As for Yang Gong, it was enough for him to have something to wear. It wasn't like he was going to Beijing for a meeting, so he would wear whatever Chen Lina gave him. He didn't care about his appearance at all. After all, only people with improper thoughts would care about a person's appearance, right?

"Hurry up and tell me, what happened in your last life?" Chen Lina urged.

The worker helped Chen Lina carry all the children's clothes that had been mended outside and put them aside for washing tomorrow. When he came in, he washed an apple for her and one for himself. They sat side by side on the kang and ate them.

"If it is true as you said, Wei Jiang is a severely paralyzed disabled person, and he has to be sent to a prison nursing home, and he can no longer use his favorite computer. That kind of blow to him is infinitely great, right?"

"Yes, he was already a big boy when I met him in my last life. He was not as close to me as he is now. In fact, he was very polite at that time. He did not call me mom, but mother. However, I heard from the nurse who took care of him that he would call her mom in private." Chen Lina recalled, "He only had a good relationship with Deng Chun. No matter what happened, he would point to Deng Chun to do it."

As for Deng Chun, he is a lackey who does whatever he is told to do. He just changed his boss.

At that time, Chen Lina often advised Old Nie that Nie Weijiang was a disabled person and what if he was played by Deng Chun.

Lao Nie just smiled and said nothing.

Chen Lina has been out of fashion for this reason.

"Before Xingshucha passed away, he left behind a woman and a paralyzed child. He should give you 80% of his inheritance. Am I right?" Nie Gong analyzed.

"Yes, just 80. The stocks, funds, and companies are all mine."

"He did this to reassure you and to make you treat Nie Weijiang better." Nie Gong then sighed.

"He gave Weijiang cash, which was probably much more than you think, you know, that is to say, the property a man reports to his wife is different from what he actually owns. The cash he gave to Nie Weijiang was, at least at the time, enough to support Nie Weijiang for a lifetime," he added.

"What about Deng Chun? You haven't mentioned Deng Chun yet."

"It's like this. A man wants to leave but can't take his son with him. He can't take care of him either. He has no reason to ask his step-wife to take care of the child. So, he will give the child a gun and let him choose the path he should take. Do you understand, Deng Chun, that gun?" Nie Gong said, "You have calculated everything in your apricot tree fork, and you think you have balanced both sides very well. But for the selfish and narrow-minded Wei Jiang, he will choose to let you, a fool, die with him. Do you understand?"

"So, you're saying that Lao Nie deliberately let Deng Chun get close to Wei Jiang, and his purpose was to let Wei Jiang help him commit suicide when he wanted to die?"

She understood that Nie Weijiang would commit suicide after his father's death.

What Old Nie didn't expect was that Nie Weijiang took her along as well.

Well, the family should be together, and her death was not unjust.

Nie Gong suddenly came over and hugged his wife tightly. After a long while, he said, "Chen Lina, thank you for coming back. Really, I am very grateful to you."

If she hadn't come back, everything would have happened for real.

Deng Chun is a gun after all, and Nie Weijiang will eventually use that gun to end his own life.

In his previous life, Lao Nie arranged everything to get rid of all his enemies. Before he died, he gave his youngest son what he wanted most. There was nothing he had not arranged properly.

Only Chen Lina's death was an accident, because Nie Weijiang, that black-hearted little boy, was even more evil-minded than his father.

The next morning, everyone got busy.

"Erdan, stop playing, or I'll smash your guitar. Now, go help your eldest brother do the laundry." Chen Lina was busy in the kitchen, and she also had to find time to yell at the children.

Erdan was reluctant to put away his guitar, and even argued, "This guitar cost you 350 yuan, which is one and a half months' salary. That's why you are reluctant to put it away."

"Do you think I'm willing to give it up?" Chen Lina washed her face and hands and came out. She snatched the guitar from Erdan's hand and raised it to the sky. Erdan knelt down and said, "Mom, I was wrong. I'm going to wash clothes now."

Nie Weimin was washing clothes and sweating profusely. When he saw Erdan coming, he pointed at the clothes in a large basin beside him and said, "I don't want you to wash the clothes. Go and wash those stinky shoes."

The brothers' shoes were all dirty, so they were soaked in a large basin. In fact, Erdan's shoes were the dirtiest and smelliest, but he sang a song and didn't mind the dirt. He picked up the shoes one by one and brushed them away.

Sandan wanted to help his mother light the fire, but Chen Lina said, "No, hurry up and send the letter to Edward. Mom will ask someone else to light the fire."

Who else could be in the family? It could be that bad boy Deng Chun.

He would lie here to look at the Harbin Institute of Technology family, then lie there to look at Chen Zili's family, and even wanted to go across to have a little exchange of feelings with Qian Goudan.

But Qian Goudan was dealt with by Nie Weimin, and no one dared to provoke him. He is now a puppy abandoned by everyone.

"Deng Chun, come in and light a fire for me." Chen Lina shouted.

Deng Chun likes everything except housework. His stepmother never asks him to do anything. He raises his head and says, "Aunt Chen, my hands hurt."

"Forget it, Nie Weixing, we don't have any kueh to eat today, what shall we do?"

Wei Xing was washing clothes with Wei Min. When she heard that there was no kueh to eat, she was so angry that she said, "Mom, I want to eat kueh."

Erdan also said, "Mom, I'll help you light the fire, you must make fried kueh for me, okay? You haven't made fried kueh for us for at least half a year."

Chen Lina spread her hands and said, "I'm busy. I still have to fry oil cakes, fried dough twists, and salted eggs for you. Aren't these what you eat when you go out? Kueh kueh is too delicate to make. No one is there to light the fire, so I won't fry it anymore."

"Deng Chun." Erdan stamped his feet.

Nie Weimin also said, "Hurry up and light a fire, or I'll kick you in the face."

Deng Chun went into the kitchen anxiously and asked, "Auntie Chen, is the kueh kueh really delicious?"

"Why don't you just squat down and add fuel to the fire while you watch?" Chen Lina said.

Deng Chun then pretended to add firewood to the stove. Well, there were brined eggs in the pot now, brined with various sauces.

Although it was not as good as the gourmet food sold in the alleys of Shanghai, it was still a great temptation for Deng Chun who had been hungry for several days.

He then raised his head and looked.

Deng Chun's stepmother worked in a hospital as a doctor. As the hospital had a cafeteria, he and his sister ate cafeteria meals all day long, so it was rare to see anyone cooking for them.

"Why, you don't even light a fire properly, but you still want to eat rice cakes?" Chen Lina said, and kicked him on the butt intentionally. Deng Chun must have felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't say anything and hurried to watch the fire.

So, Chen Lina first heated the pork fat on the fire, and then poured half the pot of it into the noodles.

Deng Chun threw it away in disgust, "Wow, too much oil, I don't want to eat it."

When the oil cooled down, she started to crack eggs into the oil, one raw egg at a time. Basically, half a basin of noodles was soaked in it. She then added Sichuan peppercorns, eight peppercorns, thirteen spices, and other spices.

Blend the flavors and it will smell delicious.

Deng Chun still said, "My mother said that eating too much lard will make you sick. You don't know anything. I don't want to eat yours."

Chen Lina knew that his stepmother was a doctor, so she asked, "Your mother only feeds you vegetable oil, right?"

"Yeah. We eat from a big stove, and there must be vegetable oil on the stove."

"Silly boy, do you know what a human being is?" Chen Lina asked.

Deng Chun curled his lips. Even now, he was still a little dissatisfied with Chen Lina. After all, she raised him just like raising a dog. There was no difference between him and a dog. She just had to feed him well. She didn't even have any emotional talk with him.

You know, as the son of a big leader, even though his stepmother is indifferent and despises him, there are always some aunts who are willing to quietly please him.

Therefore, Deng Chun was not happy.

"People are just people, what else can they be?" said the young man.

"Humans are also animals. Don't listen to those bullshit experts who say that vegetable oil is better than animal oil. Humans are animals, and so are pigs and sheep. If you look at the molecules, the molecules of lard and sheep fat are more easily absorbed by the human body than vegetable oil. Therefore, animal oil is much healthier than vegetable oil. What's more, how many oil cakes do you think you can grab to eat after you make them?"

She kneaded a large piece of dough, covered it with plastic wrap to wake it up, and then took out the halved eggs from the pot.

Deng Chun was so fascinated by the film that he even lay on the stove to watch it.

Chen Lina kneaded the dough into a ball, cut it into cakes, and then cut it into strips. Deng Chun thought that was enough, but she cut the strips into small cubes.

The small square dough pieces are neatly arranged on the chopping board.

Deng Chun curiously stretched out his little finger, moved to the side of a rice cake, and compared it with his finger.

Chen Lina was cutting something when suddenly the kitchen knife came over and said, "Ah, I've cut it, I've cut it, it's a meat cake, it must be delicious."

Deng Chun was startled at first and almost cried. When he realized that Chen Lina was teasing him, his face suddenly turned red.

But he was on high alert, so he snorted, turned his little face away, and went back to lighting the fire.

"Look, where is your third brother at home? In a family like ours, we have many children and we raise them freely. No one cares why you are sad, and no one cares whether you have lost face or embarrassed yourself. It's up to you to think about it and grow up. I don't have time to love your Deng Chun, just your sister.

I haven't felt any pain, but one thing is for sure: whether you grow well or not is your own business, so eat well, sleep well, and when the project at the car factory is finalized, I'll go back to your home, okay?"

While saying this, Chen Lina deliberately kicked Deng Chun.

Deng Chun's eyes were red, but he didn't hide.

Because kueh kueh is troublesome to make, Chen Lina will only make it when she is particularly free on a certain day. She doesn’t make it on other days.

In Deng Chun's opinion, the ingredients are very plain, but as they are fried, the rice cakes pop with a crackling sound and a fragrant aroma of five-spice oil wafts out.

He had never smelled such a fragrance before, the tempting aroma with the scent of wood and stove.

When all the rice cakes in the pot were splattered, Chen Lina brushed them all with a sorghum brush into a large basket made of sorghum stalks and placed it on top of the noodle jar.

The fragrance wafted quietly, and Chen Lina went back to do other things.

Deng Chun wanted to eat, but he didn't know how to say it. While the fire was burning, he looked back at the basket from time to time.

Suddenly, Chen Lina turned around and called out, "Erdan, Weimin, come in and eat some kueh kueh."

Deng Chun hadn't had a chance to eat yet, when the brothers rushed in almost instantly.

There weren't many kueh kuehs in the basket, and Deng Chun was still standing. Chen Lina kicked him again, "You can do anything, but you can't even grab the rice?"

Deng Chun cried out and rushed over.

Erdan grabbed half of it by himself, Weimin grabbed two handfuls, and ran out to look for his sister.

Deng Chun only managed to grab one and put it in his mouth. What was it called? It was very crispy and not particularly sweet, but the taste was absolutely delicious.

He only took a bite, raised his head, pouted his round face, bit his lip and looked at Chen Lina.

It's really useless if you can't even get food.

This little guy looks a lot like his dad, with a pair of peach blossom eyes and a lopsided smile. In the past month at the base, he has lost a lot of weight and his face is not as round as before.

Chen Lina took some food from the stove and quietly gave it to him, "Let's go out and eat."

Deng Chun came out of the kitchen and ran into his sister. She also gave him a handful of food and said, "Eat well and don't run away again."

Deng Chun felt so jealous and said to his sister, "Ni Weixing, when I make money, I will buy you a floral dress like Snow White." That was his sister's favorite dress.

In the evening of the next day, the worker and his wife got in the car and drove to the mining area.

In the border areas, if you don't have a car, you really can't go anywhere.

However, Erdan insisted on carrying his guitar on the bus, and he became a source of noise pollution.

None of the children wanted him, so at the unanimous request of Nie Weimin, Sandan and Deng Chun, Erdan was kicked into Yu Gongan and his team's car.

As soon as Leng Qi got on the car, he saw Deng Chun. His sister was sitting very close to him, reading a comic book with him.

"The Little Match Girl", a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Deng Chun is very good at telling stories, and the two-year-old sister was in tears when she heard it, and she wiped her tears while hugging the stuffed rabbit.

"Is this Deng Dongya's son?" Leng Qi asked Nie Gong, who was sitting at the back and studying the operating instructions of a large electronic computer with Nie Weimin.

The worker exclaimed, "Yeah, the young man is quite handsome."

"Nie Bozhao, you didn't notice the problem, did you? Don't you feel any sense of crisis? This is a big guy, how can you let Weixing play with him?" Leng Qi said as he separated Deng Chun and Nie Weixing.

The satellite is still feeling sad for the little match girl. "Dad Leng, the little match girl is so pitiful."

Leng Qi snatched Deng Chun's book and threw it behind him. "Don't be pitiful now. Tell dad, how are you doing recently?"

The satellite was angry. "Oh no, Dad Leng, let me go. I want to read comics."

Leng Qi was extremely obedient to Nie Weixing and did not dare to disobey him in the slightest. He quickly picked up the book and returned it to the owner.

Sitting in the back, he whispered, "Bo Zhao, you have to be careful. Deng Dongya's family has inherited peach blossom eyes. His father originally kidnapped the most beautiful actress in the country. He will definitely kidnap our satellite."

Wei Min looked up at Leng Qi with a bewildered look on his face, not knowing why Leng Qi was so mad. Nie Gong quickly explained, "Your Uncle Leng has been a little manic recently, ignore him."

"No, we have been brothers since childhood and will be relatives in the future. Don't think I don't know what you are going to do. Yu Donghai told me that it was a mission, so I brought a gun. From now on, Nie Bozhao, I will risk my life for you. I will protect the mining area for you. Satellite is my daughter-in-law. Everything I do now is for the future happiness of our two children. Do you understand?"

The worker said, "Lina, stop the car and let Leng Qi get in the car behind."

Leng Qi was so angry that he pointed at Nie Gong's nose and said, "Just wait for your regret in the future. This guy has bad intentions and is definitely here to kidnap my girl."

Leng Qi was really anxious when his son just came out of confinement. He read Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and the Twenty-Four Histories every night, and he never skipped a single bottle of milk powder, wishing he could grow up immediately.

He felt an unprecedented sense of crisis and he absolutely could not let Deng Dongya's son snatch away his favored daughter-in-law.