Lin Jianjun patted Lin Zili's head and said, "Something delayed me today. Have you eaten?"
"It's time to eat. I'm drinking porridge." Lin Zili said, then looked into the inner room and whispered, "Dad, I want to eat dumplings."
Lin Jianjun was furious. He threw his cotton coat on the stool and walked into the house. He frowned and said to Li Pandi, "It's still Chinese New Year, and every household eats dumplings. Make some dumplings for the children tomorrow."
Li Pandi was patching her socks. When she heard this, she looked up at him and said nothing.
"Look at other families, they all eat dumplings, but in our family, all we eat is porridge." Lin Jianjun spoke to Li Pandi patiently.
Li Pandi was angry, but Lin Jianjun's words yesterday were still ringing in her ears. She was also worried that Lin Jianjun would divorce her, so she muttered quietly, "I put rice in the porridge I cooked."
Rice is a fine grain, and she didn't let her son eat corn porridge every meal.
Lin Jianjun felt that he couldn't explain it to Li Pandi, so he patiently said, "I'll give you fifty yuan a month, which is enough for you to eat dumplings during the New Year."
Her words also aroused Li Pandi's anger. Fifty yuan seemed like a lot of money, but Lin Jianjun didn't give her that many tickets. She didn't buy much meat, and if she wanted to buy meat without tickets, she would have to spend more money, which she didn't want to do.
"Look at other people's houses, they have white flour and meat dumplings. I am the head of a group after all, how can I not have dumplings at home? I will make dumplings with meat filling tomorrow."
Lin Jianjun was recalling the dumplings he had just eaten at Gu Guizhi's house, and wanted to let his two sons try them.
Li Pandi looked at him suspiciously: "Where did you eat dumplings?"
Lin Jianjun answered subconsciously: "I went to Deputy Commander Gu's house to eat dumplings. Deputy Commander Gu's wife made pretty good dumplings."
Li Pandi's face suddenly turned red, she was angry, and she stood up quickly.
"You didn't come home for dinner at night, but went to someone else's house for dinner, and praised someone else's wife."
Li Pandi is definitely not familiar with other people, but when it comes to Qi Mengmeng, she is the one who saved her. She envies Qi Mengmeng's life in her heart, but she knows that her life cannot compare with Qi Mengmeng.
Now hearing Lin Jianjun praising Qi Mengmeng, she subconsciously felt that Lin Jianjun fell in love with Qi Mengmeng.
"Deputy Captain Gu has a very good relationship with his wife." There was an unspeakable meaning in Li Pandi's tone.
Lin Jianjun also nodded, with envy in his tone that he himself was not aware of.
Li Pandi squinted her eyes and stared at Lin Jianjun, as if she wanted to know what he was thinking. Lin Jianjun was still savoring the dumplings he had just eaten. When he saw Li Pandi's expression, he realized what she meant.
"You don't think..., I'm that kind of person?" Lin Jianjun was furious and raised his fist, which scared Li Pandi. She subconsciously shrank into a ball and said, "You can't hit me."
Lin Jianjun put down his fist angrily: "I just want you to make some dumplings for me, why are you talking to me about these useless things?"
Li Pandi was afraid that he would take action, so she didn't say anything for a while.
Lin Jianjun just waved his hand and walked out of the room. Lin Zisheng and Lin Zili were both outside, and they stood up immediately when they saw him.
"I'm going out for a walk." Lin Jianjun walked out, and the two children looked at each other, no one spoke.
In the next few days, the atmosphere in the Lin family was very bad. Li Pandi made dumplings for Lin Jianjun, but Lin Jianjun felt that they were not as delicious as those made by Qi Mengmeng.
Given Li Pandi's attitude that day, he couldn't say this, and he felt extremely aggrieved.
Li Pandi had originally planned to let Lin Jianjun accompany her to her sister's house, but now she was worried that Lin Jianjun would fall in love with Qi Mengmeng, so she only went back by herself and returned without eating.
Li Lai Di thought that she and Lin Jianjun were having a quarrel, so she asked him several times with concern.
Li Pandi looked at Li Laidi's belly, worried that something might happen to her, so she didn't say anything.
Li Laidie wanted to ask more, but Aunt Xu changed the subject.
When Aunt Xu sent Li Pandi out, she asked a few questions. Li Pandi only said that Lin Jianjun sent money to his ex-daughter-in-law's parents' home and said nothing else.
Aunt Xu sighed. In a second marriage family, all these messy things are inevitable.
"Pandi, everything will be fine once you have a child." Aunt Xu gave her final reminder.
Of course Li Pandi wanted a child of her own, but the last time Lin Jianjun examined her, he said that she had health problems and could not have children for the time being. Although she was anxious, there was no other way.
"Aunt, do you have any secret remedy?" Li Pandi looked around and asked hesitantly.
Aunt Xu has lived in the village for many years and has seen everything, but she didn't expect that Li Pandi would want to take folk remedies right after getting married. She had seen Lin Jianjun, and although he was a little older, he looked strong and didn't seem to have any problems.
"Auntie, don't you have any folk remedy?" Li Pandi said with some regret.
"Panti, listen to your aunt. You just got married, so don't rush to take medicine. Wait for a while. If you still don't have a child, go to the hospital."
Aunt Xu really meant this for Li Pandi's own good, but Li Pandi just nodded, and it was unclear whether she listened or not.
After the two finished talking, Li Pandi walked out and happened to see Qi Mengmeng.
Li Pandi thought of what Lin Jianjun said and felt uncomfortable. She just nodded to Qi Mengmeng and left.
Qi Mengmeng didn't expect that Li Pandi, who always wanted to stay with her, would have this attitude. However, they were not familiar with each other, so just nodding was enough.
She didn't even think about Lin Jianjun who came to eat a few days ago.
Qi Mengmeng went to the military service center to buy some green onions. She wanted to make some meatballs during the Chinese New Year.
There was still some meat left at home, so Qi Mengmeng took out some more meat from the space and fried two pots of meatballs in total. She left one pot outside and put the other pot into the space.
After Gu Guizhi came back, he resumed his daily training in the army, and Qi Mengmeng just prepared various foods at home.
While Gu Guizhi was not at home, she made herself a chiffon cake and had a wonderful afternoon tea with the coffee in the space.
Just to cover up the taste of coffee, she held the tea leaves in her mouth for a long time.
That's right, Gu Guizhi smelled it, and scared Qi Mengmeng so much that she no longer dared to drink coffee. However, she did bake some common small cakes and prepared to send them to the village to Grandpa Jiang and Zhang Meiling.
Gu Guizhi knew that Qi Mengmeng was going to meet the two old people and wanted to accompany her, but was rejected by Qi Mengmeng.
If she brought Gu Guizhi along, it would be hard to explain the things in her space.
"It won't be obvious if I go there. If someone finds out, I'll say that I went to exchange eggs. It's easy for people to find you if you go there." Qi Mengmeng persuaded Gu Guizhi to give up the idea of going with her.
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