Chapter 46: Bickering
"Put it in this box." Qin Shufen climbed onto the kang, opened the wooden box at the head of the bed, and asked Yun Qiao to put the clothes in.
Yun Qiao didn't help much after that.
Qin Shufen tidied up other things in the room, and Yun Qiao sat on the edge of the kang and played with the two children.
Yang Xiaohong was timid and quiet, but when Yun Qiao chatted with her, he found her to be quite intelligent. She spoke logically and could even throw in an idiom or two. If he asked her to do subtraction within ten, she could figure it out quickly.
Qin Zhenzhen is the complete opposite of her.
My grandmother loves to laugh and has an impatient personality. She doesn't have a bad temper, but she is flexible in order to get the candy she wants. She sticks close to Yun Qiao and listens to him as if he doesn't need any money, telling him a lot of things.
She just doesn't like studying. Yun Qiao asked her the same questions, but she just looked around and kept silent.
Qin Zhenzhen couldn't get any sugar out of Yun Qiao's hands, so she picked up the roasted sweet potato on the bedside and started to eat it.
Yun Qiao saw Yang Xiaohong just watching her chewing and couldn't help asking, "Xiaohong, why aren't you eating?"
Yang Xiaohong shook her head: "Auntie, I don't like sweet potatoes."
Qin Shufen, who was standing by, said, "Xiaohong can't eat sweet potatoes. When she was little, her grandmother fed her sweet potatoes, and somehow it hurt her. She starts retching whenever she eats them."
"Oh, I see." Yun Qiao stopped asking.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. It’s not even five o’clock yet, but it’s already getting dark outside.
While it was still daylight, Qin Shufen hurriedly started to light a fire and cook.
Yun Qiao wanted to help but she refused, and only asked Yun Qiao to help her look after the children and not let them hang around her while she was cooking, so as not to disturb her and prevent her from cooking.
After hearing what she said, Yun Qiao took the two children to play hopscotch in the yard.
Jumping around is a good way to exercise your body and prevent your hands and feet from getting cold.
After playing for a while, we started to hear noisy sounds outside the yard. It should be the people who went out to work and started to come back.
Sure enough, Yang Yongxian came back after a while.
Qin Shufen also came out to call people to eat: "Lao Yang, you are back just in time, wash your hands and you can eat."
While washing his hands, Yang Yongxian asked, "What are you cooking tonight?"
"What else could it be? Fried radish balls I brought from home, mixed with some wild vegetables, and made into a salty porridge."
Yang Yongxian's face turned green when he heard this: "Why are you confused again? Since you came, I've only cooked four meals, and you've made four confused meals. Sweet and salty, you can't do anything else besides being confused?"
"What's wrong with being confused? Back home, we drink it three times a day." Qin Shufen gave him a glare: "You have ready-made meals when you come back, so why are you complaining?"
"My hometown is my hometown, and here is here. It's cold here, and I have to work. Just drinking mud won't warm me up." Yang Yongxian said, "If you can't cook anything else, why don't you just stop cooking at home and go to the canteen with your money."
"It's not expensive to buy it at the cafeteria, but it's not as cost-effective as making it at home."
Seeing that Yang Yongxian wanted to say more, Qin Shufen quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, I understand. I will make something else for you tomorrow morning."
Yang Yongxian sat down at the low table and called Yunqiao, "Ye Yunqiao, come and sit here too. I just told you to laugh at me."
Yun Qiao smiled and said uncomfortably, "It's common for couples to not quarrel. If you disagree, just discuss it."
Yang Yongxian thought about it and said with a calm face, "Your sister-in-law is not good at cooking, so you can just make do with it for two meals. When all the educated youth arrive tomorrow night, there will be food for you in the cafeteria."
Qin Shufen came over with a mixed noodle pancake and was about to give it to him, but when she heard him say that he was not good at cooking, she couldn't help but stuff it directly into his mouth: "Come on, stop talking, and eat quickly. Even food can't stop your mouth!"
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