Liu Yun's guess was pretty much right. In her past life, her mother always thought Liu Yun was a big spender and often told her to save money for the children. After all, the three children were the same age, and their expenses would be three times that of others. Liu Yun didn't like to listen to this, so she would often agree in person but would still act the same way when she got home.
The couple rarely spoke to each other and lived in the old house. Usually, they would drop the children off before going to work and pick them up after get off work. After the children turned two, they would be sent directly to daycare. The parents rarely went to the tenement, and they rarely gossiped with them. So the parents had only heard the gossip about the tenement but did not know what had happened. Therefore, they did not send the triplets to the daycare at the father's place, but instead sent them to the daycare at the machinery factory.
Although Liu Yun rarely went to the old house, she knew that Yu's mother had taken care of her child for two years and helped her during her postpartum period. Therefore, she never skimped on the elderly couple's food and clothing, providing them with a set of clothes and a pair of shoes for each season. Every few days, she would have Yu Qianhe send some food over.
Later, when Liu Yun gave birth to twins, her mother took care of her wholeheartedly and raised the children for two more years. However, because the triplets were about to start school, there were two more children, and her mother started nagging Liu Yun more. Liu Yun knew that her mother meant well, but she had her own space. All those things were fed and grown by her mother, and she couldn't finish eating them all. However, she didn't want to tell her mother, so she could only stay away from her.
But she wasn't ungrateful. Later, she learned that Yu's mother and Yu Qianwen and Yu Qianyou were estranged, and their children rarely went back. Liu Yun would pack up enough food and supplies for the triplets and twins and send them back whenever school was on holiday. Whenever the family cooked something, they would ask Yu Qianhe to send some to the elderly couple. So she rarely went back, because she really didn't want to listen to people nagging.
Liu Yun is so happy every day that she doesn't want to go home. Her child has someone to take care of him and cook for him, her job is easy, and after get off work she can grow vegetables and pick fruits in her online space. It's simply a life of paradise.
When Liu Yun came home from get off work that day, she saw the wild vegetables that her mother had washed in the kitchen and realized that spring had arrived. She could finally take out the wild vegetables from her space and eat them, and change her diet.
"Mom, did you go out to buy groceries today?" With three children, it's impossible for Yu's mother to go to the suburbs to pick wild vegetables; she must have bought them.
“Spring has arrived, and the wild vegetables in the mountains are almost all grown. It’s been raining a lot lately, but today the sky finally cleared up, so your Aunt Yu and the others went up the mountain to pick some, and they even gave me a handful.”
Spring rains come in bursts, and Liu Yun feels like it's raining the moment she opens her eyes. She doesn't know when the sun will shine again, and these past few days she's been on her period, making her feel even more listless.
The next day, Liu Yun took a basket of tender shepherd's purse and lichen from her space.
Yu's mother was also pleasantly surprised to see shepherd's purse. "Shepherd's purse can be used to make steamed buns. We'll make the dough tonight and have steamed buns tomorrow morning. There's also enough shepherd's purse for one meal. We'll have shepherd's purse stir-fried with eggs tonight."
After finishing the meal, Yu's father started kneading dough. Apart from Yu Qianwu, who was serving in the Northeast, Yu's father had spent the longest time in the North, so kneading bread and steamed buns was naturally a piece of cake for him.
I'll knead the dough tonight and let it rest; I'll just wrap it tomorrow morning.
The next morning, Liu Yun smelled the aroma of steamed buns in the air as soon as she woke up. After washing up the triplets, she started eating breakfast.
The aroma of freshly steamed buns is irresistible to anyone who has just woken up.
The steamed buns come in several fillings: one with glass noodles and a touch of pork lard, very well-seasoned, with the pork lard adding a wonderful aroma, and the chili oil soaking into the bun skin. Another filling is shepherd's purse and egg, with a rich, fresh shepherd's purse flavor in every bite.
Liu Yun ate two without stopping, and the triplets also stuffed their mouths full of fist-sized buns, with each of them eating two.
"The steamed buns are so delicious!" Liu Yun felt as if a new world had been opened up for her. She lived in the south, and her family didn't make many other kinds of noodles. They usually bought steamed buns from outside. Her mother and father's steamed buns made her want to enrich the family's meals. It seemed that shepherd's purse wasn't the only ingredient for steamed buns! She had to teach Yu Qianhe how to make steamed buns.
Liu Yun ate wild vegetables for several days before stopping, mainly because there weren't many varieties and quantities of wild vegetables available yet. Liu Yun didn't want to cause trouble, so she only tried them briefly before stopping.
February 16th was Liu Yun's birthday. Yu Qianhe couldn't come back and only made a phone call. Liu's mother came over. Liu Jing had to go to work, so she only asked her mother to bring a gift: a pale yellow dress, which was extremely beautiful and clearly made by Cheng Ke. Cheng Ke also gave her a gift: a double-sided embroidered silk scarf, which Liu Yun loved dearly, but she absolutely couldn't bear to wear it.
That day, both mother-in-law and mother-in-law cooked together, and with the vegetables bought by Liu Yun, dinner was very sumptuous.
Braised fish, braised rabbit, stewed chicken with chestnuts, winter melon and meatball soup, cold dandelion salad, and stir-fried shepherd's purse with eggs.
Yu Qian didn't return until early March. Like before, he brought Liu Yun a lot of things back. Knowing Liu Yun likes beautiful watches, he brought her a Vacheron Constantin ladies' watch and a Longines men's watch, both very exquisite and clearly not cheap. I wonder whose husband has so much pocket money!
On March 15th, a Sunday, Liu Yun was extremely busy. Liu Aidang was getting married in three days, and it was time to prepare the things. Fortunately, Liu Yun had already asked her mother about the exact quantities. Except for pork, Liu Yun had everything she needed in her space. Yu Qianhe said he would ask Xiao Zhihua to take the pork back tomorrow.
She probably went to buy meat; she left early this morning, which made it easier for Liu Yun to pick vegetables and catch chickens in her spatial dimension.
Once everything was ready, I rode my bike to the bus stop to take him to Liu's house. This time I was smarter; I rode a bicycle for something so important, otherwise I would have run out of steam halfway there again.
Liu Yun and Liu Jing took two days off to go back and help out. This wedding was much more lively than Liu Aiguo's wedding. After all, the bride's family was better off than Xu Hongxing's, and they valued their daughter highly. Most of Liu Aiguo's savings were spent on this, so it was normal for the wedding to be much more lively.
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