Chapter 114 Chapter 114 Classmates get together to bond...

Class reunions are a way to bond with each other, but they are also a way to build personal connections.

After graduating, we have been working for many years in various workplaces. It is natural to ask classmates for help when needed.

After the meal, everyone shared the cost of today's meal. With so many people, a meal is not cheap.

Zhang Yaqin held Meng Yufei's wrist, "Feifei, remember to tell your mother when you go back, and ask her to come to the department store to find me."

"Well, this is a big deal. I won't forget it." Meng Yufei said with a smile.

The female classmate next to her said, "Zhang Yaqin, when it comes to kissing, it's always the man who takes the initiative and the woman who is reserved. How come it's the other way around with you? The man is chasing after the woman and wants to meet her."

Zhang Yaqin said, "It's a new society now, men and women are equal, and brother Feifei is such an outstanding young man, I will definitely fight for my cousin actively."

Meng Yufei smiled and said, "Yaqin is just impatient. Her sister is a teacher, so why does she need someone to introduce her to someone else?"

Zhang Yaqin was delighted when she heard this, knowing that Meng Yufei was giving her face, and said hurriedly, "Yes, that's my personality. I want an immediate result for everything."

The female classmate next to her smiled and said, "Okay, I'm also looking forward to whether they can succeed this time. I'm also waiting in line. Meng Yufei, don't forget that I have someone else to meet too."

A few people walked to the door of the hotel chatting and laughing. Meng Yufei saw a group of two children, one adult and two children, talking not far away. The two children were holding candied haws and talking. The tall figure was facing her. When she raised her eyes, their eyes met. The two smiled at each other.

Zhang Yaqin saw Meng Yufei suddenly stop and look ahead with a smile, so she followed her line of sight and said with a smile, "Oh, Captain Xia is here to pick us up."

The female classmate next to him also looked over and said in surprise: "Wow, it's true that birds of a feather flock together. The good-looking one finds a good-looking person too."

Meng Yufei said goodbye to her classmates with a smile and walked towards Xia Junshan, her steps unconsciously becoming much lighter.

"I've finished eating." Xia Junshan said with a smile.

"Well, have you finished eating too?"

"I'm done."

Xia Qinqin saw her mother coming and hurried over, looking up and saying, "Mom, we had cream cake, fried pork chops and borscht. After we finished eating, Dad took them to the side to eat noodles."

"Look, this is the candied haws my dad bought for me. It's sour and sweet, and delicious."

Meng Yufei squatted down and asked her with a smile: "Are you full?"

Xia Qinqin patted her belly and said with a smile, "I'm full."

Meng Yufei smiled and touched her face, then turned to ask Lu Yannan, "Yannan, are you full?"

Lu Yannan nodded: "Yeah, I'm full."

Xia Junshan smiled and said, "Yannan is just like me, he doesn't like Western food. We were just at the noodle shop next door and each ordered a bowl of noodles."

Xia Qinqin said: "I like to eat them all. I just ate noodles with Brother Yannan."

Xia Junshan nodded: "Yes, you ate a bowl of noodles together."

Meng Yufei gently pinched her little nose: "You little foodie." Then she touched her little belly and asked: "Does your stomach hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Xia Qinqin replied with a smile.

Meng Yufei said: "Let's walk back. It's only two stops away."

Xia Junshan nodded: "It's just right for digestion."

Two adults and two children were walking slowly on the streets of Haishi.

When she got home, Meng's mother was making glutinous rice balls. She added warm water to the glutinous rice flour, kneaded it into a dough, and then pinched it into small pieces, spread them out and filled them with fillings.

Meng's mother prepared two kinds of fillings, one salty and one sweet. The salty one was made of fresh meat, and the sweet one was made of red bean paste. Both flavors were Xia Qinqin's favorites.

"Grandma, we're back!" Xia Qinqin's cheerful voice came as soon as she entered the door.

"You're back. Did you have fun?" Mother Meng asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I'm happy. Dad took us to eat a lot of delicious food." Xia Qinqin replied, nodding her head.

Meng Yufei washed the two children's hands and changed them into slippers. Xia Qinqin rushed into the living room like a little cannonball, climbed onto the dining chair flexibly, looked at the things on the dining table, and said with a smile: "Grandma, you are making glutinous rice balls."

"Yes, shall we have glutinous rice balls tonight?"

"Good! Glutinous rice balls are soft and I like them the most."

Meng Mu held the glutinous rice wrapper in one hand and scooped a spoonful of fresh meat filling into the dough with the other hand. After wrapping it up, she kneaded it into a round dumpling in a few seconds.

"Wow, grandma is so awesome. I want to make glutinous rice balls, too." Xia Qinqin said as she stretched out her little hands and watched eagerly.

Mother Meng smiled and took out a small dose and put it in Xia Qinqin's hand, saying softly, "Come, let's slowly tear open the skin first."

Xia Qinqin followed what Meng's mother had taught her and tore the glutinous rice flour dough into a palm-sized cake. Meng's mother scooped a spoonful of red bean paste and put it in.

"Come, pinch the dough around it together, and then rub it slowly in the palm of your hand." Meng's mother said as she also wrapped a glutinous rice ball with red bean filling and demonstrated to the little person in front of her how to rub it.

Xia Qinqin imitated her grandmother's technique, turning her palms non-stop and said with a smile, "Haha, this is so fun~"

After a while, a round dumpling is ready.

Xia Qinqin held up the glutinous rice balls in her palms and shouted happily, "I succeeded! Mom, Dad, Brother Yannan, look, I made a glutinous rice ball."

Xia Junshan walked over and praised: "Qinqin is amazing, she succeeded in one go."

He pulled out a chair, sat down and helped make glutinous rice balls. "Mom, where is Dad?"

Mother Meng said, "He went downstairs to play chess with Lao Zhang. He will be back soon."

Lu Yannan climbed onto the chair next to Xia Qinqin and said, “Grandma Meng, I can also help make glutinous rice balls.”

Mother Meng smiled and nodded: "Okay, Qinqin, teach Yannan how to wrap it."

Xia Qinqin nodded happily, took a glutinous rice dumpling and handed it to Lu Yannan, and took one for herself, "Brother Yannan, let me teach you how to wrap it. First, you have to tear apart the dough..."

Two children were making glutinous rice balls head to head, one was teaching seriously, and the other was learning seriously.

Meng Yufei sat opposite and started wrapping some too. As she was wrapping, she said, "Mom, I had a high school classmate named Zhang Yaqin. Do you remember her?"

Mother Meng thought for a moment and nodded: "Is it Xiao Zhang from the department store who greets me warmly every time I go there?"

"Yes, it's her. Today she told me that she wanted to introduce her cousin to Xiaoyan."

Mother Meng was a little surprised, "Really? She also knows Xiaoyan?"

Meng Yufei smiled and said, "During the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, we went to the department store to buy things. Didn't we bring Xiaoyan with us to pick up the things? At that time, she praised you for your good education and for nurturing two college students. Don't you remember?"

"It seems that this is the case." Meng's mother asked again: "Have you ever seen her cousin?"

Meng Yufei shook her head: "No. Her cousin just graduated from the Teachers College this year and was assigned to teach at my old high school."

Meng Mu nodded: "Hello, teacher, we have winter and summer vacations, unlike Xiaoyan, who doesn't even have a holiday during the Chinese New Year."

Meng Yufei said, "I'm leaving in two days, so I'll tell her to let you contact her and then ask Xiaoyan to see what he thinks."

Mother Meng said, "Okay, since they are so kind to introduce me to this place, I have to go and have a look."

Several people worked together to make the glutinous rice balls, and Xia Junshan got up to clean the table and took the bowls of filling and noodles to the kitchen to wash.

After washing, he wiped the table again with a rag and cleaned up the flour scattered on the floor.

Mother Meng was pleased and said, "Junshan is really hardworking."

Xia Junshan smiled and said, "I'm used to doing this kind of work in the army."

Meng Mu smiled and nodded: "The army is still a good training ground for people."

Meng Yufei took the two children to wash their hands. The water from the faucet was still quite cold, so Meng Yufei filled the basin with hot water for them to wash.

"Mom, I want to eat the glutinous rice balls I made myself tonight." Xia Qinqin said seriously.

Meng Yufei nodded: "Okay, I'll mark your dumplings later, and you can eat the ones you made when the time comes."

Xia Qinqin turned her head and asked, "Brother Yannan, do you want to make a mark?"

Lu Yannan washed his hands carefully and said, "Whatever."

"Then let me mark it for you." Xia Qinqin decided.

Meng Yufei took out a dry towel and wiped their hands one by one, then went to the room to get some cold cream to apply on them.

Lu Yannan said: "Aunt Meng, I don't need to apply this."

"No, the weather is too dry. If you don't apply it, your hands will be cut in a short while." Meng Yufei said as she scooped out a large piece of face cream and put it on his hand.

Xia Qinqin smelled the fragrant scent on her hands and said with a smile: "Brother Yannan, you will look good only after applying the vanishing cream. If you don't, you will become a skinny old man."

Lu Yannan pursed her lips and slowly rubbed the cream in her hands.

The Meng family had glutinous rice balls in the evening. Xia Qinqin and Lu Yannan made the ones with patterns poked on them with toothpicks before cooking. When they were taken out, they were placed in their bowls.

"You made this yourself. Come and have a taste." Meng Yufei handed the bowl to the two children with a smile, "Be careful not to burn it."

Xia Qinqin looked down at the steaming, plump, white glutinous rice balls, scooped one up with a spoon, and blew into it with her pouting lips.

"Hoo, hoo, Brother Yanan, you have to be careful. The inside of this glutinous rice dumpling is very hot, even hotter than the steamed buns." Xia Qinqin blew on the glutinous rice dumpling while reminding Lu Yanan next to her.

Lu Yannan nodded: "I understand."

As soon as the two children finished speaking, Meng Zhongyan cried out in pain: "Ouch, it's hot! It's so hot!"

Mother Meng said with a smile: "You are such a grown-up, but you are not as sensible as a child. You have eaten glutinous rice balls for so many years, but you still don't know how to eat them?"

Meng Zhongyan took a sip of water and said, "Mom, I've been trained to eat every second, and I can't wait to pour the food directly into my stomach. How can I eat slowly?"

At this point, he shook his head and said, "I might as well have gone to be a teacher with Xiao Fei. At least there are winter and summer vacations. I saw him a few days ago and he seemed very relaxed."

Meng Yufei raised her eyebrows and said, "You can find someone to be your teacher."

I thought Meng Zhongyan would refute it immediately, but he paused and whispered, "Well, the teacher is very good."

When he was told to do so, he lowered his head and continued eating his glutinous rice balls.

Meng Yufei looked at him, then at her mother, and the two looked at each other.

There is a situation!

"Xiaoyan, do you have someone you like?" Meng Yufei asked curiously.

"Ahem..." Meng Zhongyan sighed and said hurriedly, "Sister, what are you talking about?"

Meng Yufei smiled and said, "No, nothing. Eat first and we'll talk after you finish eating."