Wen Moxue's eating manners were much more refined.
Lu Yuan felt that the way this person ate didn't seem like the child of a working-class family, but rather like someone raised by a capitalist.
However, this shouldn't be said casually.
Lu Yuan finished a bowl of egg noodles, drinking the soup clean, almost licking the bowl clean like a village kid.
"Are you not full?"
Seeing that he still seemed unsatisfied, Wen Moxue couldn't help but ask.
Lu Yuan patted his stomach; he was indeed not full, but he wasn't hungry anymore.
"Cook more next time."
He was very blunt.
Wen Moxue nodded, "I understand."
This man has a huge appetite. I used the biggest bowl I could find for him, and he still wasn't full.
Do we have to use a basin next time?
Seeing that there was still more than half left in her bowl, she asked, "Do you want me to share some with you? I haven't touched the bottom part."
Lu Yuan glanced at her, wanting to see if she was being serious when she said those words.
I thought to myself, "What if something moves down there?"
"No need, you can eat it yourself."
Wen Moxue assumed he was disgusted, so she didn't say anything more.
After the two finished eating their noodles and tidied up, they took the oil bottle and seasonings back to their room and locked it. They then familiarized themselves with the house together. Not long after, Zhang Yuping and Lu Xiaofang returned home first.
The two of them came back to cook first. Originally, it would have been enough for one of them to come back, but the food was locked in the room, and Zhang Yuping was not at ease letting Lu Xiaofang come back to cook alone.
She wouldn't trust even her own daughter.
As soon as they entered the courtyard, their eyes darted around, but they didn't see anyone. Then they noticed that the room door was tightly closed, and they both pursed their lips in disapproval.
Lu Xiaofang muttered under her breath, "Shameless, staying indoors in broad daylight and refusing to come out."
Zhang Yuping slapped her, "You brat, what are you saying, you're a grown woman. Hurry up and go cook."
The two people spoke softly and made little noise. The two people inside, perhaps not hearing them, did not come out.
As soon as Lu Xiaofang entered the kitchen to cook, she smelled the aroma of eggs and oil.
She hurriedly called out, "Mother, Mother, come in here quickly."
Zhang Yuping, who was eavesdropping by pressing her ear against the door of the east room, was startled by the shout.
She stormed into the kitchen in a huff.
"What are you doing, trying to call back the soul?"
Lu Xiaofang pulled the person aside.
"Mom, smell this, what's that smell in the kitchen?"
Zhang Yuping twitched her nose, then widened her eyes.
"It tastes like egg oil."
Lu Xiaofang nodded vigorously, "Mmm-hmm."
Zhang Yuping slapped her thigh, "Oh no!"
Then he hurriedly ran to his room, with Lu Xiaofang following closely behind.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the lock on the door was intact.
"It's probably something that Wen, the educated youth, brought himself."
Lu Xiaofang's expression was not good. "Mother, they're eating all the food themselves."
Zhang Yuping waved her hand impatiently, "Alright, hurry up and get the food ready."
"They've already eaten, so can we cook for two fewer people?"
Zhang Yuping opened the door and brought out a bowl of cornmeal.
He shouted towards the east room, "Ah Yuan, you've already eaten, so you're not going to cook your own food?"
Without waiting for a reply, she went straight to the kitchen.
Lu Yuan and Wen Moxue were huddled in their room making a pact when they heard the shout. Lu Yuan opened the door and shouted back.
"Young lady, you've locked all the grain in your room. What are we going to eat if we have no grain?"
Zhang Yuping came out of the kitchen with a smile and looked at Lu Yuan.
"The firewood in the house has all burned, and there's still the smell of egg oil in the kitchen. Your wife, who was sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, must have cooked you something delicious."
Lu Yuan cursed inwardly, "This must be a spirit dog, its nose is so sensitive."
“Young lady, we didn’t have breakfast this morning, and my wife happened to have two eggs left, so she made two poached eggs.”
“But one egg per person isn’t even enough to fill a tooth gap, how can it not keep you full? We definitely need to eat lunch. Make more, I’m starving.”
Zhang Yuping's lips twitched. No family in the village would eat breakfast like this; even the brigade leader's family wouldn't dare to be so extravagant.
"Oh, by the way, madam, today is my wife's first day in the family, so we should do something nice for her."
Zhang Yuping chuckled awkwardly, "A-Yuan, that's all we have at home."
"Don't you raise chickens?"
At that time, some production teams were not allowed to raise chickens, but not every brigade was prohibited from doing so. They were just limited in the number of chickens they could raise.
Each household in their brigade was allowed to raise a maximum of three chickens. Their family raised three.
All three were old hens, which Zhang Yuping kept to lay eggs; how could she bear to kill them?
She didn't argue with Lu Yuan, she just smiled and neither agreed nor disagreed.
Lu Yuan didn't expect her to agree and went back to his room.
Wen Moxue craned her neck to look outside.
Should I go over and say hello?
"what ever."
"Then I won't go. Your stepmother doesn't seem like a good person at all."
Lu Yuan gave her a thumbs up, "You have good taste."
Wen Moxue smiled, picked up the agreement the two had just agreed on from the desk, and handed it over.
"Look, if there are no problems, just sign and put your fingerprint on it."
Lu Yuan took it and began to read it carefully.
This thing actually has no legal effect; it's just a private agreement between the two people.
But this girl insisted on putting on this show, and he was so bored that he just went along with it.
The agreement was basically the same as what the two had agreed upon before. The only addition was a clause that neither party could act inappropriately towards the other.
Lu Yuan had no objection; he was a righteous gentleman who could not be wicked, how could he act like a rogue?
He picked up Wen Moxue's fountain pen from the table and quickly signed his name.
Wen Moxue was surprised, "Don't you only have an elementary school education? How come your handwriting is so beautiful?"
Lu Yuan was taken aback, coughed lightly, and explained.
"Well, yes, I only have an elementary school education. I can't even recognize all the characters. The only thing I can write well is my own name."
"Your name is written so well, it even has a nice stroke."
"I practiced for a long time before."
"You like reading, right?"
Lu Yuan replied dismissively, "It's alright."
"If you really like it, you can learn it on your own later. I can teach you anything you don't understand."
I was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, I agreed.
"Okay, thank you then."
The first half-day they spent together was very pleasant, a great start.
Especially Wen Moxue, who finally felt relieved.
My judgment was correct; this person is much better than the rumors suggest.
He is indeed lazy and loves to eat, but he's not a bad person.
For her, good character is enough.
Lunch was ready, and everyone else in the family came back, as if they had followed the smell of food.
When they were called for dinner, Lu Yuan took Wen Moxue out of the house.
Everyone was sitting around a large round table, and Zhang Yuping was distributing the food.
The two found empty seats and sat down, and Lu Yuan introduced them.
"Father, Mother, this is my wife, Wen Zhiqing."
Wen Moxue greeted them generously, "Father, Mother."
Then Lu Yuan and I stared at the two of them expectantly.
Don't make the meaning too obvious; they've changed their tune, so they should be paid a "change of address fee."
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