Liu Shuning shook her head. She just wanted to catch some fish to eat in the evening, not to suffer.
Going out fishing in such a cold weather, she felt like she was about to turn into ice.
"Come on!"
Liu Shuning was unwilling to stay and continue fishing, so Sanjun and Chunxiao had to follow her home.
In the family compound, Mother Lu and Aunt Yang had already boiled water and started to kill chickens.
In order to save firewood, all the preliminary preparations for the New Year's Eve dinner were done by the Lu family.
"Dajun, go to the main room and watch over the twins. Don't let them run out. Jun, come over here and help pluck the chicken feathers."
"Grandma, why can my brother play with the twins, but I have to pluck chicken feathers? I want to play with the twins, too."
Dajun didn't want to stay and pluck the chicken feathers. It was cold outside and plucking the chicken feathers was dirty. He wanted to trade jobs with Dajun. Playing with the twins was more fun than plucking the chicken feathers.
"Just do whatever I ask you to do, don't talk so much nonsense. If you piss me off, I'll give you a meal of bamboo shoots and fried pork during the New Year."
"Grandma, you are biased. You leave all the dirty and tiring work at home to me."
"Biased, I am biased, so what? If you keep talking nonsense, you won't be able to eat the chicken today."
She also said that she was biased. She wanted to arrange some easy work for him. Did he do it?
Before, he was asked to help look after the twins, but he actually pushed the twins outside to climb trees, causing the twins to be bitten by insects and have several lumps.
He is not as good as Sanjun in babysitting. Sanjun has learned how to change diapers and coax children. If Sanjun goes home, babysitting is usually his job.
Hearing that there would be no chicken to eat at night, the army finally dared not say a word.
"Auntie Yang, how many dishes are you planning to cook tonight?" Mother Lu chatted with Auntie Yang while plucking chicken feathers.
"There is only one chicken and two pounds of pork belly at home. I plan to make braised pork, big plate chicken, stir-fried potato shreds, spicy and sour chicken offal, stir-fried bean curd, and stir-fried radish. Six dishes are enough for dinner."
Aunt Yang originally planned to stew them in one pot, but after looking at the menu ordered by Liu Shuning, she felt that stir-frying them separately was indeed better than stewing them in one pot.
"I'm worried that there won't be enough food, so I put some potatoes in the braised pork."
"That's fine. My three young men are such big eaters that no matter how much meat and vegetables we have, they won't be able to eat them."
"Isn't your daughter-in-law coming back today?" Today is New Year's Eve, and Lu's mother hasn't even seen Sanjun's mother come back.
"Not that early. She has to go to her parents' home to prepare New Year's Eve dinner before coming back." Aunt Yang no longer cares whether her daughter-in-law comes back for the New Year or not. No matter how much she says, she won't listen.
She is already old and doesn't know how much time she has left to live, so she might as well be more positive.
Young people have their own ideas. She doesn't want to interfere with them.
"Your daughter-in-law is much better than my husband's previous daughter-in-law. Her father is sick, and she can't just leave him alone."
"She is just asking for trouble. Her brother is idle all day long, why not let him stay at home and take care of her dad? She can find a job, so that at least she can buy food for her dad. It won't be like the current situation, where my son has to support two families with just one salary."
Aunt Yang is not against her daughter-in-law being filial to her parents, she just thinks her daughter-in-law should not ignore her children at home for the sake of her parents.
Her in-law had been ill for so many years, and had really dragged down the family. If she hadn't worked hard to grow some corn and sweet potatoes in someone else's vegetable garden, the three children in the family would not have been able to have enough food.
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