Chapter 148 Chapter 148 The braised rice milk is delicate and smooth...
The next morning, Su Tianli was awakened by the smell of food.
She smelled the aroma of barbecued pork!
I got up and looked.
Old Mrs. Su and Second Aunt are making braised sausage?!
Su Tianli asked in surprise: "When did you grind the rice milk?"
A Juan brought a plate of freshly made rice rolls to the table and invited Su Tianli to eat. She then explained, "I have been practicing making rice rolls at home during the past few days of the New Year. However, my mom and grandma are much better at making rice rolls than I am!"
"The rice was soaked last night, so it won't be difficult to grind it in the morning... Second sister, please try it and give me some good advice!"
Su Tianli looked down at the plate of sausage on the table.
Bula sausage and rice noodle rolls are the same variety.
But rice noodle rolls are made by pouring rice paste into a square, flat-bottomed tin shallow drawer, then putting the drawer into a matching square steamer and steaming it.
The cooking utensils for making braised sausage are a flat round bamboo sieve and a clean white cloth.
Place the sieve on the steamer, then spread the white cloth on the sieve, pour a spoonful of prepared rice paste on the white cloth, and shake the sieve as quickly as possible before the rice paste is steamed so that the rice paste is spread evenly on the white cloth.
After waiting for a few seconds, a thin layer of rice paste will be steamed.
At this time, you have to quickly put the sieve aside, use a kitchen knife to gently scrape off the cooked rice paste, and put it on a plate...
Finally, pour the special sauce on the plate.
The braised sausage is done!
At this moment, Su Tianli looked at the rice rolls that were as white as snow and as thin as a cicada's wing, and couldn't help but feel hungry.
She took the chopsticks and started eating.
I just feel that the rice noodle rolls are delicate and smooth, and melt in your mouth. It is so delicious!
Cheng Yu, Su Dejun and others also arrived at Shaou Street early.
Second Auntie called them to come over and eat rice rolls.
Su Dejun pulled Su Tianli aside and took out a notebook to show her, "Lizhi, which wedding dress do you like? Choose one."
Su Tianli took the book.
Su Tianli had read this book before.
She even knew that her father had already designed wedding dresses for her and Su Qianzi.
But what surprised Su Tianli was that
In addition to the two sets designed by my father,
He probably drew two more sets overnight!
But what surprised Su Tianli the most was that even though she hadn't paid attention to him for only a month or so, his painting strokes had become completely different.
When Su Dejun painted in the past, his brushstrokes were clumsy, like the peasant paintings drawn by elementary school students.
Now he began to pay attention to proportion when drawing clothes.
The brushstrokes are also much smoother and more elegant.
I believe I practice a lot.
"The painting is quite good!" Su Tianli praised her father.
Su Dejun immediately puffed out his chest proudly.
But it didn't last too long.
He complained to Su Tianli, "You and Cheng Yu's wedding was too hasty! So I... had to pick out these simpler ones."
Su Tianli carefully examined the clothing pictures while comforting Su Dejun, "It's okay. Didn't Grandma Xu say that we will go to Beijing to hold the wedding banquet next year?"
Su Dejun was delighted when he heard this. "Then I'll make two sets for you! I'll draw a few more for you later!"
Su Tianli finally made her choice.
She pointed to a picture and said, "This is it!"
——The wedding dress chosen by Su Tianli is a top-skirt style.
The style of the lower skirt is relatively simple, it is an ankle-length pleated skirt;
The top is a modified version of a long-sleeved stand-up collar blazer.
Su Tianli thought about it and discussed with Su Dejun, "Just take off the buttons!"
Su Dejun was stunned. "No buttons... Are you going to keep your clothes open? That's ridiculous!"
Soon, Su Dejun came back to his senses, "Lizhi, you mean - use snaps?"
Su Tianli nodded.
Su Dejun still couldn't understand, "But... that's a wedding dress! It wouldn't look good with a bare front, right?"
Su Tianli smiled and said, "Use red string beads to make a small waistcoat, and sew small tassels on the edge... You see, this top doesn't look good when it's bare, but it will look good with the waistcoat on!"
Su Dejun's eyes lit up, "Oh, that's right! Now that you mention it, I think it's beautiful just by thinking about it!"
Su Tianli smiled and said, "Dad, if you can make my wedding dress well... let's open a wedding dress shop in the future!"
Su Dejun was stunned. "Open a wedding dress shop?"
"Why not a tailor's shop?" he asked curiously.
After a pause, Su Dejun belatedly said, "Litchi!!! You, you haven't even seen the clothes I made, do you think I can open a store?"
Su Tianli still had confidence in him - after all, she had watched him go from knowing nothing to imitating hair ornaments, and then to independent innovation...
Faster speed, better quality!
Even young girls don't have such clever ideas as him. "It's always better to try more." Su Tianli encouraged him, "On the 16th day, I will wear the wedding dress you made by hand and serve as your living signboard!"
Su Dejun was so excited that tears streamed down his cheeks. "I'm really going to be rich this time!"
On the other side, Cheng Yu took out 500 yuan and gave it to Su Qianzi, "Keep this money, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy your sister some ready-made clothes, jewelry, etc. If it's not enough, come to me for more."
After finishing these, Su Tianli and Cheng Yu set off for the guesthouse.
Starting today, everyone will start to hang out for a while, so Su Tianli left her bicycle to her friends, and she and Cheng Yu took the bus.
Today is the ninth day of the first lunar month, a working day.
But it was already past the rush hour and there were not many people on the bus.
Su Tianli and Cheng Yu were sitting in the back row of the car. Seeing that there was no one around, they lowered their voices and told the story about the conflict between Mao Li and Zhang Wei.
Cheng Yu frowned and said, "I talked about him all night last night..."
It turned out that yesterday, Cheng Yu and Zhang Wei followed Su Dejun back to the chemical plant's family compound.
Cheng Yu also noticed that Zhang Wei looked uneasy.
So he told Su Dejun that he and Zhang Wei wanted to take a walk on the playground.
Su Dejun gave the house key to Cheng Yu and told him not to go home too late.
Cheng Yu accompanied Zhang Wei to the playground.
Zhang Wei told Cheng Yu with red eyes that Mao Li had a conflict with him again.
The reason was that his family wanted to introduce him to a girl.
In order not to spoil the fun, he agreed.
"...Mao Li has been giving me the cold shoulder over this matter!" Zhang Wei said sadly, "...She doesn't even want to listen to my explanation!"
Cheng Yu was stunned at that time.
"Zhang Wei! You...you said that during the Chinese New Year, you followed your family's arrangements and went on a blind date with another woman?" For a moment, Cheng Yu even doubted whether he had heard it wrong.
Unexpectedly——
Zhang Wei nodded calmly, "Yes!"
"I'm doing this for her own good!"
Cheng Yu looked at Zhang Wei in shock, his face full of disbelief, "You went on a blind date with another girl, is it for Mao Li's good?"
Zhang Wei explained to Cheng Yu, "It's mainly because my family members have a lot of opinions about Mao Li... I hope they can accept Mao Li."
Cheng interrupted Zhang Wei and asked, "Why do your family members have such a big problem with Mao Li?"
Zhang Wei: …
"Why?" Cheng Yu asked persistently.
Zhang Wei opened his mouth and finally said dejectedly, "My dad doesn't like Mao Li because she doesn't have a good job."
"My mother thinks that Mao Li's family is not well off financially and says that if I marry Mao Li, she will definitely not have a dowry!"
"My eldest brother dislikes Mao Li for having an older brother and a younger brother. He said that after Mao Li and I get married, my money will definitely be used to support her older brother and younger brother!"
"My eldest sister-in-law can't stand the fact that I always pamper Mao Li. She said that if Mao Li married into our family, she might not even be able to do housework and end up being a burden to my sister-in-law..."
Cheng Yu asked again, "So you obeyed your family's arrangement and went on a blind date with another woman?"
Zhang Wei opened his mouth wide.
After a while, he became anxious, "No... Cheng Yu! Don't mess with me! I, I just want to explain to you, don't I?"
Cheng Yu was silent for a moment, "Then explain it to me!"
But Zhang Wei didn't say anything for a long time.
After a long while, he said frustratedly: "My family gets angry when they talk about my marriage with Mao Li."
"I don't want Mao Li's relationship with them to be too strained. After all, Mao Li and I are still young. After she marries me, she will have to live with my family for the rest of her life!"
"So I...I really hope they can be happier and stop targeting Mao Li, that's why I agreed to go on a blind date."
"After all, they said they had already arranged it. If I don't go, it will not look good on the girls either."
"Before I left, I told my mom and my eldest sister-in-law about it—I was only going this once."
Zhang Wei took a deep breath and said, "When I went there, I thought that those lesbians were all acquaintances of my mother, sister, aunt, and cousin... Even if I had no interest in them at all, I couldn't embarrass them, right?"
"So I treated them to some sweet soup, and my mom and sister-in-law gave them some movie tickets, all of which were movies that Mao Li and I had watched before. I thought it was nothing, so I invited those female comrades to watch it as well."
"But I told them very seriously that I already had a partner I wanted to spend my life with. I even mentioned Mao Li's name..."
Zhang Wei looked at Cheng Yu and said anxiously, "Cheng Yu, I swear to God! My feelings for Mao Li have never wavered!"
"But Mao Li..."
"She came to my house to look for me on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, but I was not at home at that time. I was outside..."
"When I got home, the neighbors said Mao Li came to my house to look for me, but my mother and sister-in-law might have said something unpleasant to her, so she ran away crying."
"I went to her house right away to find her, but I didn't expect that she...she started to be cold and violent towards me!"
"I was so anxious at the time, I asked her, 'My mother and sister-in-law are talking rudely, please ignore them.'"
"Do you know what she said?" Zhang Wei asked Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu asked, "What did she say?"
Zhang Wei was so angry that he laughed. "She said, 'Although your mother and sister-in-law's words are harsh, they are also true, and they are also doing this for your own good'... Cheng Yu, listen to this! She is so sarcastic!"
Cheng Yu asked, "Isn't she right?"
Zhang Wei: …
Zhang Wei showed an annoyed expression, "Cheng Yu! You are my good friend, don't ruin my show!"
"I support the right, not my relatives." Cheng Yu said.
Zhang Wei was so angry that he slapped the trunk of a big tree on the roadside.
Zhang Wei continued: "I asked her again what my mother and sister-in-law said."
"She said expressionlessly that they scolded her for not being worthy of me and asked her to stop bothering me in the future... She also said that they had introduced someone to me..."
"I quickly explained it to her and told her everything I just told you."
"In the end, she said, she said..."
At this point, Zhang Wei's eyes turned red with anger.
Cheng Yu asked, "What did she say?"
Zhang Wei took a deep breath, "She said... OK."
Cheng Yu: ???
"Is it not enough if she said yes?" Cheng Yu didn't understand.
Zhang Wei stared at Cheng Yu with wide eyes and opened his mouth.
After a long while, he said angrily: "Cheng Yu! You...if you have never been in love, I won't say anything."
"But obviously——"
"You and Lizhi have already registered your marriage! Don't you know that this is her cold and violent treatment of me?"
"She was already cold and violent towards me when she had a miscarriage and was hospitalized. Now... she's doing this again!" Zhang Wei was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick.
"Then how do you think she should react?" Cheng Yu asked back.
"She should understand you, accept your apology, believe your explanation, praise you for doing the right thing, and continue to treat your family as her own relatives...even if you and your family are bullying her?"
"But what did she do wrong? Why did she willingly let your family bully her?"
"You even asked her to bear it joyfully!"
"Zhang Wei, you are being very mean and unfair to Mao Li. Do you know that?" Cheng Yu said bluntly.
Zhang Wei opened his mouth in daze.
"What are you talking about, Cheng Yu! You are my friend! You should stand on the side of us gay men!" Zhang Wei was a little angry.
Cheng Yu replied: "I am indeed your friend, but I am also Mao Li's friend! Besides, I am indeed a gay, but why can't I speak for lesbians on marriage and love issues?"
"As a friend, I think you're doing the wrong thing!"
"On the side of morality, that's also your betrayal to Mao Li!"
"All you can see is your grievances - and your grievance is going to dinner and watch a movie with another woman!"
"Zhang Wei, doesn't Mao Li feel wronged?"
"Have you ever really put yourself in her shoes? She's been in a relationship with you for more than ten years, and she even got pregnant with you, but you caused her to have a miscarriage in order to protect Qian Xiaoshuang... Only a few months have passed, and you've already gone on blind dates with other women! And there are more than ten of them!"
"If you still can't empathize with Mao Li after I said this, then I ask you--"
"What if Mao Li went on a blind date with another man? Wouldn't that matter to you?"
Seeing that Zhang Wei seemed to want to say something,
Cheng Yu interrupted him first, "...Don't tell me this is impossible, and don't be so sure that you believe Mao Li will never do this."
"If you insist on arguing with me, I will introduce a date to Mao Li tomorrow! Don't forget, I have worked in the machinery factory for more than ten years, and I know a lot of handsome, well-off, and well-paid state-owned employees!"
"I can introduce Mao Li to at least ten people who are better off than you!" Zhang Wei was shocked and angry, "You——"
Cheng Yu said, "Zhang Wei, I'm not here to quarrel with you."
"You and Mao Li are both my friends. You have helped me selflessly when I was in the most difficult time. I am only grateful to you and hope that you will get better and better."
"But now, I still want to ask you a question—"
"What if Mao Li felt embarrassed to reject my offer, so she followed my arrangement and went on blind dates with handsome, wealthy, and promising men?"
Zhang Wei opened his eyes wide in confusion.
Cheng Yu continued to put forward his own hypothesis, "…Mao Li spent a few days on a blind date with the gay man I introduced, and then spent a few more days on a blind date with the gay man introduced by Lizhi, and finally on a blind date with the gay man introduced by Yao Meiyu…"
"No one told you about this before. It was only after your family saw it with their own eyes that they told you."
"You came to question Mao Li, but we scolded you and sent you away. We said you were incompetent, that you were too old to be worthy of Mao Li... We even drove you away!"
"Mao Li came to you right away after she found out and explained to you very sincerely that we treated her very well and she couldn't refuse us introducing her to someone, so we were just going through the motions."
"She assures you that although she went out to the movies, parks, and restaurants with more than a dozen men, she was really open and honest. She also openly told every blind date guy that she already had a boyfriend..."
"She also told you that the reason she wanted to go on blind dates with these guys was because she didn't want your relationship with us friends to become too strained. After all, we're going to be friends for life..."
"Zhang Wei, will you forgive her? Will you agree with what she said? Will you treat Mao Li as you did before without any grudges? Will you please us for Mao Li's sake?" Cheng Yu asked a series of soul-searching questions.
Zhang Wei fell silent.
Yes, with Cheng Yu's reminder, Zhang Wei realized that he had always overemphasized his "sacrifice" and "compromise", thus ignoring Mao Li's feelings.
After Cheng Yu proposed the method of "putting yourself in someone else's shoes",
Zhang Wei felt what Cheng Yu said and then felt extremely uncomfortable.
"Cheng Yu, when you say that, my...my heart hurts so much." Zhang Wei murmured.
Cheng Yu sighed, "It's only because I still consider you a true friend that I'm willing to analyze this with you in such detail... Otherwise, just listen to your family's lies!"
"You think they can't separate you and Mao Li, right?"
Zhang Wei asked Cheng Yu dejectedly, "Cheng Yu, what should I do? They are my family! They gave birth to me and raised me... I... what should I do?"
Cheng Yu said calmly: "You ask me?"
"Zhang Wei, you won't get the answer you want from me."
"Because I don't even want my biological parents... As for my grandparents, I didn't want to recognize them either. It was Lizhi who persuaded me to do so... I recognized the Xu family for Lizhi's sake."
"In fact, our generation, including our parents' generation... did not have good family relationships."
"I have been using my own life experience to remind myself - if Lizhi and I have a child in the future, I can't be like Xu Jiaxi and He Jingdong!"
Seeing Zhang Wei's distraught look, Cheng Yu sighed again, "Zhang Wei, do you know where you went wrong?"
Zhang Wei shook his head blankly.
Cheng Yu, "You are wrong... you always want to have the best of both worlds."
"You long for the attention of your family, so you desperately want to let your family know how outstanding you are."
"But have you ever thought about it - when your family knows that you are very outstanding, you are no longer a relative in their eyes, but a cash cow! And Mao Li is the biggest obstacle preventing them from getting your wealth!"
"So, they will never accept Mao Li!" Cheng Yu said word by word.
Zhang Wei's face turned pale instantly, "I, I don't believe it..."
Cheng Yu smiled, "You don't believe that your parents who gave birth to you and raised you never loved you, right?"
"Let me ask you, your family members have always treated you badly. Is it because you told them that you are rich and have started a business with Lizhi when you went home for the New Year? They even asked you in detail how much money you have... that their attitude towards you has changed?"
Zhang Wei nodded.
Cheng Yu said again: "Then I will teach you two moves, and you will know after you try them."
"you say."
Cheng Yu said: "The first step is to tell your family that you actually don't have a penny. You said that just to save face. Then tell them to lend you money. You want to collect the money to invest in Lizhi's company."
"Just wait and see what they'll do."
Zhang Wei frowned.
Cheng Yu continued, "If I'm not mistaken, they changed their attitude the moment you said you had no money. They might even chase you away..."
"So the second trick is, you tell them that if they are unwilling to lend you money, then you can go to Mao Li to borrow money."
"You said Mao Li had a lot of money, at least two thousand yuan, because she just sold her work quota..."
"Zhang Wei, believe it or not, as soon as you say this, your family will immediately urge you to marry Mao Li! And they will definitely ask Mao Li to use the two thousand yuan as a dowry... They will even tell you that your family has encountered some difficulties and they just need the two thousand yuan..."
Finally, Cheng Yu said to Zhang Wei in a serious tone: "Zhang Wei, you must remember that this method can only let you see the true colors of your family members, but it can't help you win back Mao Li."
"To be honest, from Mao Li's friend's perspective, I don't even want Mao Li to forgive you - because you are so hateful!"
"Standing on your friend's side..."
"I hope you can grow up as soon as possible and become a responsible person."
"But Zhang Wei, what kind of person do you want to be? What is your dream? This is very important because it is the standard for judging whether you are doing useless work."
"Zhang Wei, please don't tell me that you live just to please others! Or you want to be recognized by others... so you are willing to sacrifice yourself! You love Mao Li, so you regard Mao Li as your resource, you think she is your woman, so what if she suffers a little grievance? You are even willing to sacrifice her and fulfill your good reputation... is that right?" Cheng Yu asked again.
Zhang Wei was horrified. "Don't talk nonsense! I——"
However--
Zhang Wei suddenly couldn't continue.
His face was pale and cold sweat was oozing from his forehead.
——Oh my God!
He was secretly shocked.
Only after Cheng Yu reminded him did he realize that he seemed to... indeed regard Mao Li as his subordinate.
So when he wanted to get the approval of his family, he thought Mao Li could endure some grievances.
After all, in today's world, which daughter-in-law is not bullied by her mother-in-law? Which sister-in-law is not bullied by her sister-in-law?
Just bear with it...
Seeing Zhang Wei's expression, Cheng Yu knew that his persuasion had taken effect.
No matter whether Zhang Wei will change or not,
But at least Zhang Wei already knows where the problem lies.
He could only help so far.
Just like that, Cheng Yu told Su Tianli everything about his conversation with Zhang Wei.
Su Tianli glanced at him and said with a smile: "You are quite good at talking!"
Cheng Yu took a deep breath, "Actually, I'm quite afraid that you will classify my Zhang Wei as one of the same kind of people."
Su Tianli teased him deliberately, "Isn't it?"
Cheng Yu was anxious, "Of course not!"
"Zhang Wei and I are completely different!" Cheng Yu's handsome face flushed, "...The only aunt who was kind to me has passed away. I don't have any messy relatives!"
"Even if there were, they couldn't control me at all!"
"Su Lizhi! I, I am only loyal to you!" Cheng Yu said with a grunt.
Su Tianli looked at him with wide eyes, "I mean... I thought you two were both men!"
Cheng Yu: …
Su Tianli burst out laughing.
In fact, Cheng Yu cares a lot about people saying that he looks feminine based on his face.
But he knew that Lizhi would not think so.
So, Litchi was teasing him.
Cheng Yu's handsome face was still flushed.
However, this time he was not anxious, but embarrassed.
"…Whether I am a man or not, you will know on the wedding night!" He bit her ear and whispered in a fierce tone.
Su Tianli smiled with her eyes curved and her pretty face flushed.
"After I show the marriage certificate to the old lady, I'll go clean up the house!" Cheng Yu said gritting his teeth.
At this time, the bus conductor shouted loudly, "Hey! The two comrades sitting in the back, the guesthouse has arrived, get ready to get off!"
Su Tianli and Cheng Yu smiled at each other, then got out of the car hand in hand.
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