Chapter 148 Acceptance
For Yan Bei, the nights were destined to be sleepless during the past few days of continuous accidents. He almost watched with his eyes open as the stars above his head disappeared and the sky gradually turned pale.
I just hope that the arrangements I made after talking with my father when I left home last time are all as they wish. After all, this is related to whether the Yan family can turn things around smoothly and how long it will take to stand up again.
Suning was careful and even though he was in a hurry, the things he bought were very comprehensive and took all aspects into consideration.
Holding the porcelain basin, plastic cup and toiletries, Yan Bei's heart did not feel the slightest bit cold because of the chilly breeze in the early morning.
After a simple cleaning, he arrived at the cowshed as the first work bell rang.
The captain had already made simple arrangements last night, but they were all about doing the dirtiest and most tiring work.
Behind the small cowshed there is a small room with a plastic shed as a roof. The old man living inside is thin, with sparse white hair at the temples and a dark yellow face full of wrinkles.
Seeing the person standing outside, Liu Wenbo looked at him calmly, then lowered his head and began to clean up. His face was calm and he had no intention of speaking at all.
This shady valley is behind where villagers often go up the mountain to chop firewood and feed pigs. The cowshed is relatively centrally located. Not far to the left is the pigpen, and to the right is a slope and path covered with weeds.
There are four or five big spotted pigs in the pigsty, and only one big yellow cow in the cowshed.
Usually Liu Wenbo is responsible for cleaning the cowshed and letting the cows graze, while Lin Taoliang Wanru and his wife are responsible for cleaning the pigsty and feeding the pigs.
Now that Yan Bei is here, and in a couple of days Yan Changrong and his wife will join them, the work for the three of them will finally be less heavy and they can have some time to take a break.
Without discussing it with them, Yan Bei nodded slightly to the people who came out one after another, and then he took out two wooden barrels, a shovel, and a hand-pushed three-wheeled cart from the tools piled together.
He walked to the large pit that was dug and usually used to pile manure and started to fill the bucket. When the bucket was full, he pushed the manure to the fields for irrigation.
The shirt, which looked very good and new, had become wrinkled and the trouser legs were covered with mud and feces.
In just a short while, he turned from a pampered young master into a smelly and dirty homeless person.
"Is this young man a new educated youth?"
It's no wonder Liang Wanru thinks so. Apart from the educated youth who enthusiastically responded to the call and went to the countryside to work as sent-down youths a few years ago, who among those who came later was really willing to do so unless they had no other choice or for other reasons?
Among the newly arrived educated youth, there were always one or two troublemakers, and if they caused trouble, they would be thrown over by the team leader for punishment and training.
Looking at Yan Bei's temperament, appearance and age, at first glance they would never associate them with their own identities.
"As if you don't bother with it this time, don't forget last time."
Liang Wanru, who was bending over to clean the pigsty, couldn't help but tighten her grip on the bamboo broom. She raised her lips in self-mockery as if she had thought of something, and then lowered her head to continue cleaning. "I know."
For a moment, the four of them were busy with their own work and no one spoke.
…
On the other side, Suning, who had woken up according to his biological clock, washed up and went to the kitchen.
My husband boiled a pot of hot water, filled two thermoses, and then started preparing breakfast.
For convenience, she did not make porridge or noodles. Instead, she took out the remaining oil residue from the last time she boiled oil from the space and picked a fresh cabbage, chopped it into fine filling and made dumplings.
Fortunately, when I bought furniture yesterday, I also bought a lot of handmade bamboo products, such as steamers and dustpans that can be used in the kitchen.
The sky was already bright and the white mist was rising. Waves of meat aroma gradually filled the entire kitchen.
"Ningning! Is Ningning awake?"
"Here I come~"
He wiped the water stains on his hands with a clean rag, trotted out of the kitchen, quickly pulled out the bolt and opened the door.
When the two brothers Su Jianqun and Su Jianmin, who were carrying baskets on their backs outside the door, saw her, they both grinned at the same time, revealing a similar, simple and honest smile.
"Brother, brother, why are you here so early? Come in first!"
"I was worried that you wouldn't have enough firewood to cook when you first came back. I thought about it too late yesterday, so I asked you to bring it over early in the morning."
"These are the vegetables that grandma and mom picked from our own private plot. I'll bring them back to you after you finish eating them!"
In my grandmother's words, even if I moved all the firewood from my own yard and plucked all the firewood away, it would probably not be enough to pay for a fraction of the gift Ningning brought yesterday.
Scratching the back of his head embarrassedly, Su Jianmin knew that if he wasn't going to get married in winter, his grandparents would definitely not want these things given their personalities.
I had to accept it because of him, and I felt so embarrassed that I could only think of various ways to make up for it.
He couldn't help but swear secretly that whenever he got something good in the future, he would never forget his sister!
"Big brother and little brother, wait a moment!"
Seeing the two people talking to themselves and putting down their things and about to leave, Su Ning had no time to thank them and had to stop them first.
He quickly returned to the kitchen, took a small dustpan from the cupboard, and spread a layer of fine linen on it.
Use chopsticks to pick up the steamed dumplings one by one and put them in a dustpan.
The steamer is big enough to steam about thirty dumplings on one layer. I calculated the number of people in the old man's family and thought that this should be just enough for each of them to have a taste.
Finally, he covered it with a thicker, clean cloth, picked it up and hurried out of the kitchen.
"Ningning, what are you doing?"
Su Jianqun took a quick sniff and couldn't help but widen his eyes: If he was not mistaken, the thing stuffed into his arms had a meaty scent!
Meat! Big, delicious meat!
But…
He swallowed hard and tried to stuff the thing back into his head.
Unexpectedly, as if he had expected this, Suning had already retreated several steps and was so far away from him that he could not reach him at all.
"I just made this this morning. Take it back and show it to Grandpa and Grandma to try and see how good my cooking is. This is a gift to show filial piety and you can't refuse."
Without waiting for the two brothers to speak again, Suning half-pushed and half-dragged them out the door, "I have to go out for something later, so I won't keep you two brothers here any longer!"
"Hey wait..."
"Heh, this girl~"
Looking at the locked door, Su Jianqun and the other person looked at each other, both feeling a little amused.
"Brother, what should I do with this bun?"
"Ningning has already said that this is a filial tribute. Let's go back to our grandparents and see what they say."
"Okay. Slurp~"
"Don't let your saliva drip into it, look at what you have done!"
Su Jianmin cursed with a smile but unconsciously quickened his pace, for he was really afraid that the smell of the meat would make him drool.
The two people's voices gradually faded away, and Su Ning, with a smile on his face, turned back to the kitchen to prepare the next pot of dumplings.
…
After working on the farm for an hour or two, the people in the fields gradually stopped what they were doing and went home to eat or wait for their family members to bring them breakfast.
Carrying a small backpack and wearing dark cotton clothes, Suning walked around most of the village and finally turned onto the path leading to the front mountain.
The path up the mountain is narrow, and there are many children preparing to go down the mountain, carrying baskets full of pig grass that are taller than themselves.
Some of them were shy and waited there to let her pass first, while others were bold and playful and asked her questions like where she was from and where she was going.
When they turned to the back valley, the little guys following her quickly dispersed and disappeared.
The three old men had already finished cleaning the shack. Liu Wenbo was grazing cattle not far away, while Lin Tao was busy cleaning and chopping the pig grass that the children had brought him, which had been calculated by centimeters, for Liang Wanru to cook and feed the pigs.
After looking for a few times but still not seeing the familiar figure, Suning had no choice but to stand at the intersection and wait.
She saw the wariness in those people's eyes. Although she wanted to build good relationships for the Yan family in advance, it was not a good idea to rush forward and cause unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Suning? Why are you here?"
Yan Bei, who was pushing the cart back again, saw her pause and didn't know whether to go forward or turn around.
As if he didn't smell the increasingly strong smell of sweat and feces on his body, Suning took a few big steps to him, lowered his shoulders slightly and said in a relaxed tone, "Of course I'm bringing you breakfast!"
"You go back first. It's not good if someone sees you in broad daylight. Besides..."
He stinks now, and he really doesn't want to stink her like this.
He turned his head away in embarrassment. Although he had an extremely strong heart, he couldn't help but reveal his fragile and soft side in front of her.
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