Chapter 21: The Gluttonous Wife



After scolding the old lady Han, Lin Lan felt as comfortable as if she had a full body spa. She clapped her hands and hummed a little tune before leaving. Why did she not leave but wait for everyone to come back and watch the old lady complain?

Old Mrs. Han lay on the kang, unable to get up, and pointed at Lin Lan's back, shaking like she had Parkinson's disease.

Lin Lan smiled at the dumbfounded eldest and second sisters-in-law, "Second sister-in-law, eat the wowotou slowly, don't choke."

When she walked out of the house, she saw Erwang peeking out of the door, while Mai Sui was leading Xiaowang to look out at the gate of the courtyard. The children from the first and second wives looked at her with strange eyes.

Wow, someone dares to scold grandma!

Lin Lan felt warm at the sight of her own child. "It's okay. Go home and make some pancakes."

She felt a little guilty only after she led the children out of the hospital, wondering if Han Qingsong would fight with her if he knew.

Forget it, who cares!

As long as she doesn't use force, even if Han Qingsong, who is not good at speaking, is tied up a hundred times, he is no match for her.

Erwang saw Dawang behind the haystack and called out to him, "Brother, what are you doing hiding there?"

Da Wang cursed, "You are blind. I am not a thief, why should I hide? I am catching cicadas." He climbed onto the nearby paulownia tree, scaring away all the screaming cicadas.

Lin Lan: “…”

She looked up and saw Da Wang hiding on a tree branch. She said, "Da Wang, I'm going home to eat."

A muffled sound came from the tree, and I couldn't tell whether it was a response or a rejection.

Lin Lan didn't want to push the child too hard. "Where's Sanwang? Is he swimming again? Dawang, keep an eye on him. Don't let him go to the big ditch in the south by himself. It's too dangerous."

This naughty kid only cares about water. He has no idea what’s going on at home.

On the way, Mai Sui said with a smile: "Mom, my elder brother is embarrassed."

Erwang curled his lips, "He just feels guilty."

"Don't say that about your elder brother. He's a good kid. He was the one who brought the pot back to our house."

Xiao Wang smiled and said, "There is also cornmeal."

Lin Lan wondered, was Da Wang just watching her transformation with indifference? This kid!

When she got home, she found half a bottle of oil, two eggs, and a small basket of various vegetables on the stove.

Lin Lan looked outside and didn't see Han Qingsong, but she was sure it was him who did it.

"Pancakes, pancakes!" The children jumped for joy.

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Today I'm going to make fried leeks and eggs, and pancakes on the side of the pan."

It’s rare to have such juicy leeks in this season, and scrambled eggs are the best place to eat them.

Although her cooking skills were not outstanding in her previous life, she still knew how to make some snacks to please the children.

She chopped the chives, beat in two eggs, added some salt and mixed well, then heated the pan and added a small spoonful of oil.

There was too little oil to be seen at the bottom of the pot, so Lin Lan simply put down the spoon and poured it in with the bottle.

Dolls: “!!!”

Everyone couldn't close their mouths.

Xiao Wang climbed onto the stove and looked inside, "Look, oil can also reflect shadows!" He glared and bared his teeth at the pool of oil in the pot.

Mai Sui pulled him away and said, "Don't drool in there."

"Mom, this oil is enough for my aunt to cook for half a year." Erwang was stunned, it was so shocking.

Mrs. Han doesn’t add oil when cooking. She just cooks the dishes in salt water and then adds a few drops of oil.

Lin Lan felt a little embarrassed. She had the habit of spending lavishly in her previous life, and it was hard to change it all of a sudden. She estimated that she would be labeled as a glutton in addition to being a slut in the future. However, she still had to find excuses for herself, "Scrambled eggs are not tasty without enough oil. It is better to have two tasty meals than a hundred tasteless ones."

The children laughed and said they wanted the fragrant ones.

Erwang was worried that his family would run out of oil just after they started producing it, and would be left with nothing in a year, just as miserable as those families in the village who were greedy for money.

Emma was startled when he thought about it, and quickly said, "Mom, I will help you cook in the future."

Mai Sui thought he was trying to cook and eat secretly, so he quickly said, "How can the masters cook? I'm a girl, so of course I cook."

Lin Lan thinks Erwang is a good cook. Who says only girls have to cook?

Thinking about how Mai Sui was vain in her previous life, not studying and not making progress, and wanting to dress up all day long to enjoy the vanity of being the center of attention of boys and the envy of girls, Lin Lan felt a little headache. She thought about brainwashing her from a young age and correcting her all the time.

"Girl, no one says that girls have to cook and do housework. It is more important for girls to study hard and respect themselves than anything else."

Mai Sui didn't understand, "In our village, women cook."

Erwang also joked, "Grandma said that if you are lazy and want to eat, you won't be able to find a husband."

Lin Lan choked, "Your aunt is more lazy than anyone else, why doesn't she say it? I tell you, you can find the kind of person you want to find."

Mai Sui laughed and said, "Then I want to find a family with endless white flour, endless oil, and endless money."

Erwang: "Don't be ashamed, if you find someone, they will ask you."

"So what?" Lin Lan said, "You have to set your ambitions from a young age. Let me tell you, if you want to find someone, you have to be that kind of person first. For example, if you don't want to cook but want to eat delicious food, you have to be a good eater, so that you can find someone to cook delicious food for you. If you want to have endless white flour and oil, then you have to have the vision and ability to deal with such people. If you don't study, you will only deal with people in the village for your whole life, and the best you can do is to find a driver or a butcher. But if you study hard and get into high school in the future, you can work in the city, and then work hard to get into a normal school, university, or even a famous university. Hey! That's amazing, the people you come into contact with are upper-class people, and the circle of activities is also intellectuals. Rice, flour and oil are not trivial matters. So, everything depends on you!"

Lin Lan tapped Mai Sui's nose and said, "For example, if you are in high school, but you don't make any progress and just dress up all day, staring at the hooligans in the class, what's the point?"

Mai Sui suddenly realized, "Mom, you are talking about my aunt?"

Lin Lan: I'm obviously talking about you!

Xiao Wang: "Mom, I want to hear the most beautiful sound!"

Lin Lan kissed his forehead and said, "Then you should first train your ears to listen."

Xiao Wang immediately tilted his ear to listen, "Mom, it's confusing!"

Lin Lan: "Emma, ​​I'm just kidding you guys, hurry up!"

After a flurry of activity, the oil in the pan sizzled and the leek and egg were finally fried.

Lin Lan first took out the scrambled eggs and let the children eat some to satisfy their cravings. Then he added half a ladle of water to the oil pan, then poured the picked and washed beans and eggplants in and added some farmhouse sauce to stir-fry. Then flatten the live corn dough pancakes, dip them in salt water and put them on the side of the vegetables as pancakes.

Xiaowang and Erwang also rushed to make the cakes.

Xiaowang pressed down a few of his little paws and asked his mother to roast them.

The farm-style hot pot chicken we eat nowadays is cooked in this way. In the future, she will also find a way to get meat and cook a pot like this for the children.

There is meat in the pot and steamed buns on the side, it is so delicious.

As she thought about it, she and her child swallowed their saliva, put the pancakes on, covered the pot and started to simmer.

Soon the fragrance wafted out.

"Mom, what delicious food did you make that smells so good! I can smell it from far away." Sanwang ran back from outside wearing only a pair of shorts, carrying his clothes and straw sandals on a wooden stick. He rushed into the house impatiently and saw a clay pot of scrambled eggs with leeks on the table. His eyes immediately lit up and he reached out to grab it.

Erwang slapped his hand away and said, "You've been wandering around in the water all day. Catch some fish."

Sanwang patted his chest and said, "No problem, I'll go get it this afternoon."

Lin Lan quickly warned him, "Don't stay in the water all day. It's dangerous. There are locusts in the water. What if they bite you?"

Sanwang disagreed, "No way."

"You said no, but it's too late if you're bitten. Also, you are not allowed to go to Nan Da Gou, you can only play in Xihe."

Deep water is not the same as shallow water.

Sanwang was still trying to make excuses when Han Qingsong came in from outside.

He saw it and for the first time ever took the initiative to greet him: "Dad, come and have some fried leeks and eggs, it's delicious."

He hasn't even picked up the food to eat but he already says it's delicious. Erwang is so happy.

Han Qingsong came in after washing his hands. Seeing that the oil in the bottle was almost used up, he said, "Let's plant some peanuts in front of and behind the house."

Peanuts are high in oil and can provide some supplementary benefits, otherwise you can only wait for the end of the year to get a share in the team.

The countryside is different from the city. You can't buy it on a monthly basis like in the city.

Lin Lan looked at his expression, probably he didn't know that she had scolded his mother. As long as he didn't hear it in person, she could blame others for exaggerating it if someone else told her about it. She was just talking about the division of the family.

As a result, Han Qingsong acted as if nothing had happened, perhaps he didn't know.

Lin Lan simply stopped thinking about it and whispered to Han Qingsong, "What can you get by planting those trees yourself? Is there any other way to get some food, oil, etc.? Sharing that little bit is not enough to satisfy your hunger."

She felt a little guilty. It was a mistake to instigate Han Qingsong to use his connections to embezzle supplies.

Erwang is still worried, is it really okay to be so greedy?

Who knew that Han Qingsong was not angry, but nodded, "I'll think of a way."

It is obvious that the food we share is not enough for the whole family to eat.

Before the family split up, the old lady kept everyone from having anything to eat. But now that the family has split up and I’m in charge, of course I have to make sure the children eat better.

What's more, the Han family also supports the younger sister-in-law and younger brother-in-law without earning any work points. It is obvious that the whole family is tightening their belts and going hungry all day long. It is no wonder that the children's daily state is: "Mom, I'm so hungry, when are we going to eat?"

After the family was divided, the first thing Han Qingsong wanted to do was to make sure his wife and children had enough food to eat so that they wouldn't have to go hungry every day like before.

Seeing Han Qingsong agreed so readily, Lin Lan was a little surprised. She had originally thought that since he was such a principled person, he would definitely scold her for trying to use crooked means and would be punished for having a capitalist tail.

Since his attitude was good, Lin Lan decided to press on. "We have all split up, should we let the brigade assign us a household registration?"

She realized that the old lady meant to divide the family but not the households, and the book of grain, oil and non-staple food should be returned to the old lady, so she would not be able to make the decision.

Other books will only be given to you if you have a household registration book, so that your work points can be counted as yours and the autumn grain can be distributed to your family.

If Han Qingsong said we could talk about it later, she would do it herself!

Unexpectedly, Han Qingsong nodded again and said, "Let's talk after lunch."

Lin Lan: So obedient?

Could it be that the old lady had disappointed him? Thinking about the plot, he was originally disappointed by his wife, but now he was disappointed by his own mother.

This is a bit funny. Lin Lan is quite happy about this misfortune.

Lin Lan looked outside and saw that Da Wang had not come back yet. She asked about it and San Wang said that he had carried some cakes from his grandmother's house and was playing outside with Zhu Zi.

Sanwang never leaves any room for betrayal.

Lin Lan said to Han Qingsong, "It's not a good thing for Da Wang to be out all day. Should we discuss with the old branch secretary and the principal to send all the children to school?"

After going to school, Dawang can't go out and hang out with others, and Sanwang can't soak in the water all day.

When the topic of going to school came up, Sanwang was very resistant and he immediately started to play coy and speak incoherently.

Han Qingsong saw that the child was not very interested in going to school. He thought about how she had said before that she had a mental illness and could not concentrate at home, so she went to school. Now she made a sudden change and asked the child to go to school. He was afraid that the child would not be able to accept it for a while.

He said, "Let's wait and see. Let's eat first."

Although Han Qingsong is a man of few words, not good at joking, and usually quite serious, he does not hinder the children's happiness. They eat their own meals separately, and Lin Lan puts a lot of thought into the cooking, so they enjoy the food especially.

"Mom's steamed buns are more delicious and more enjoyable than the ones we had during the Chinese New Year!" Sanwang showed his big white teeth with joy.

Mai Sui teased him, "Is it more delicious than eating dumplings?"

Sanwang spread his five fingers and said exaggeratedly: "Of course, I can eat five dumplings! I just went to eat, how can it be better than eating the dumplings made by my mother, and the fried eggs with chives."

Erwang pointed at his face and said, "You eat all the sauce of the whole family by yourself. No wonder grandma won't let you eat it."

Sanwang always gets sauce all over his face when he eats. The old lady scolds him but he refuses to change and simply refuses to let him eat.

Xiaowang raised the cake in his hand and dipped it into the sauce on Sanwang's face.

Lin Lan quickly pulled him aside, "It's dirty, eat what's in the bowl."

"Mom, why do you think I'm dirty? I wash every day until I'm free of lice. There's no one cleaner than me in the whole village."

At this time, two little ducks were wagging their butts and quacking at the door of the main room, looking around.

Lin Lan said: "They also soak in the water every day."

Sanwang pouted and used his fingers to wipe the sauce off his face and ate it himself.

Mai Sui and Lin Lan thought he was dirty and urged him to wash his face. The whole room was filled with happy laughter.

Han Qingsong was stunned for a moment.

At this time, the eldest and second brothers Han pushed the door open and walked in. The eldest brother Han smiled and said, "We are eating."

The second brother Han snorted and laughed in a sinister way, "I say, third brother, you are so arrogant after getting a share of the family property. What delicious food are you eating? Why don't you bring a bowl to mother first?"

As soon as she saw them, Lin Lan suddenly became nervous. Could it be that the old lady asked them to fight?


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