"Morning, Mom."
Shen Qingli went downstairs and sat next to his mother, who was listening to the radio while picking vegetables.
"It's still early, even though the sun is already shining. Meng Xiao went to the factory with your dad. When they left, he specifically told me not to wake you up. I remember you weren't such a good sleeper before."
Gigi Lai turned off the radio and chatted with Shen Qingli.
Shen Qingli picked up the radio of this era on the table and studied it curiously:
"Who knows, it might be a new habit I've developed. There's not much to do in the family compound, so I just sleep until I wake up naturally. After I got pregnant, I felt sleepy every day and felt lazy all over.
By the way, why is Dad still going to the factory during Chinese New Year?
"There's a batch of goods coming into the warehouse that needs to be inspected and signed off. The workers have all gone home for the Lunar New Year.
Your pregnancy was exactly the opposite of mine. When I was pregnant with you, I was energetic all day long and not sleepy at all. Your dad woke up at three or four in the morning and I was still awake.
You gave me such a hard time back then. Your dad even said he would beat you up after you were born, but once he picked you up, he couldn't bear to let you go. He said his heart was melting, so soft-hearted that he couldn't bear to beat you."
When Gigi Lai thinks back to the past, she can't help but sigh that time flies by so fast. The baby who was crying for food has now grown into a big girl, and in the blink of an eye, her daughter is going to be a mother.
"I've been pregnant for four months and there's still no fetal movement. The baby is so lazy." Shen Qingli found that her belly had bulged slightly in the past two days.
"You have twins. Maybe they're too crowded in your belly? There's not enough room to move around?"
Mother Shen didn't understand much either. She had only given birth to Shen Qingli, and at that time there was no convenient way to search for information on the Internet, so she didn't know much.
Before Shen Qingli could speak, she remembered something and continued, "I prepared some softer fabrics from the factory as diapers for the baby. It seems I need to prepare some more."
"Okay. But don't prepare too much. My mother-in-law has prepared too."
Shen Qingli did not reject her mother's kindness, nor did she reject her mother-in-law's kindness. She couldn't tell them that she had a space, and in the space there were diapers that they had never seen before, right?
This is unrealistic.
And this is the love that grandma and grandma have for the baby~
"By the way, where are grandpa and grandma? Why can't I see them?"
"I'm basking in the sun in the yard." Gigi Lai stood up and cleaned up the garbage from picking vegetables.
"Mom, let me cook. I haven't cooked for a long time and I'm itching to try." Shen Qingli acted coquettishly.
"Okay, do it if you want. If you're tired, just tell me. You're pregnant."
Gigi Lai felt that it was not the late stage yet, so if her daughter wanted to cook, she could just cook.
She knew! When you're pregnant, if you can't do something you want to do or eat something you want to eat, it's incredibly frustrating.
When she was pregnant, it was the middle of winter and she wanted to eat watermelon in the middle of the night, but watermelon was out of season and unavailable. She was so anxious that she cried. Even now, 10 or 20 years later, she still remembers that she never got to eat a single bite of watermelon.
Shen Qingli looked at the meat and vegetable stock in the kitchen and made a rough menu in his mind.
"Stir-fried pork with pickled mustard greens, stir-fried choy sum with garlic, sweet and sour poached eggs, fried dumplings with egg, braised pork ribs with potatoes and steamed buns, and hot and sour egg soup.
Mom, don't steam the rice anymore, just knead the dough. Then make a few steamed buns and serve them as the staple food."
As Shen Qingli spoke, she quickly and swiftly began preparing the dishes. If the ingredients were not limited, she would like to make more delicious dishes for her family to taste.
These... are ok, pretty good.
"Okay, you're the chef and you have the final say."
The mother and daughter quickly got busy. Grandpa Shen and Grandma Shen smelled the food and walked in from outside. Grandma Shen washed her hands and was about to reach out to cook, but was helped by Shen Qingli to sit on the sofa:
"Just wait and taste my granddaughter's cooking! Don't go, my mom and I are here, so you don't need to go into the kitchen today."
"Then your grandfather and I will be waiting to taste your cooking skills."
Although Grandma Shen has many wrinkles on her face, she is still very beautiful when she smiles. Beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin.
Shen Qingli thought, maybe this is the beauty of bone structure?
After a while of chopping, stir-frying, and cooking, the dishes were just served when the father-in-law and son-in-law arrived home. They were washing their hands in the yard and looking into the house.
"Wow! Such a rich feast today? I'm already hungry just by smelling the food at the door."
Chen Ping guessed that it was not made by his wife. Gigi Lai's cooking skills allowed her to prepare four dishes at most in one meal, and she would be too busy to handle more than that.
It can’t be fixed, it definitely can’t be fixed!
"Your precious daughter made this, let's eat!"
"Then we're in for a treat today!"
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