"Here I come, here I come." Mother Lu heard someone shouting and hurriedly opened the door, and saw the neighbor downstairs who was soaking wet.
"Auntie, my house was flooded by the rain. I just went to the logistics department and they found us a house on the second floor. Can you ask your uncle to help me?" Guo Yan felt her face burning after saying this.
If her husband hadn't gone out on a mission at this time, she wouldn't have been able to ask Captain Gu's father-in-law to help. She had no choice.
"Okay, okay, go back and pack your things. I'll go down with your uncle to help you." When Mother Lu heard this, she agreed without hesitation.
"Auntie, you should stay at home and take care of your brother and sister-in-law. Don't go." When Guo Yan heard that Auntie wanted to go, she hurriedly stopped her.
"Okay, go back now. You've been dawdling here for so long that you can't even pack up your things." After waving her hand to send the man away, Lu's mother told the old man to go downstairs to help with the move. She then gave her daughter a few more instructions and went downstairs herself.
Lu Qingyan thought that her parents had gone out to help, and would have to water the floor when they came back, so she turned and went to the kitchen, took out a piece of ginger, and clumsily cut it into large slices with a knife.
She imitated her mother's way of cooking, picked up the kettle, frowned, poked it with the stove hook, and when she saw the fire come out, a smile appeared on her face.
Then put the pot on, threw the ginger in, added two scoops of water, then stirred it again. Seeing there was brown sugar in it, I scooped two spoonfuls of it with a small spoon and put it in. Then I covered the pot and let it simmer slowly.
Then she sat on a stool in the living room, staring at the pot. This was the first time she had ever done something by herself since she was a child, and she didn't know if she could do it well.
After Mr. and Mrs. Lu went downstairs, they saw several families downstairs were moving. The rain was too heavy, so they could only squint their eyes to find the person who had just come to her house, and slowly waded into the house.
"Uncle, Madam, I'm really sorry to bother you today. I asked you to help me in the rain as soon as you came." Guo Yan looked at the people coming in, put down the things in her hands, and said embarrassedly.
"It's okay, it's okay, hurry up and get busy. Let the two children go upstairs first, don't stay here." Mother Lu shook her head and looked at the two six or seven-year-old children sitting on the bed covered with a blanket, and said
"Okay, then uncle and aunt, you wait here for a while. I'll come back after I send the children upstairs." Guo Yan put one of the children on her back and held the other in her arms, then went upstairs little by little, wading through the water.
"See? This is what our daughter will do in the future. When the baby is born and we go home, Mingze will be on a mission, so she will have to do this." Mother Lu looked at Guo Yan holding two children in a sling and said to Father Lu.
"That can't be helped. Everyone has to practice from the beginning. With time, you will become proficient." Father Lu thought that his daughter was spoiled by the couple.
Otherwise, any normal country girl would start cooking and washing clothes at the age of four or five.
Look at this girl in his family. She is already married, but she can’t cook or wash clothes. She doesn’t know how to do anything.
It's all because of their indulgence. When they are gone, the suffering will come later.
"Oh, forget it. Let's just pick out the things we can carry and move them upstairs." Mother Lu felt uncomfortable when she thought of her daughter who had been pampered and raised by her, doing nothing at home, and doing this and that after getting married.
But I can't not do it. Now that the couple are here, they can help me. If they are not here, I will be laughed at by others if I don't do it.
"Uncle, Madam, just help me lift the bed up, I'll do the rest myself." Guo Yan came down in the rain and saw two people in the room moving some small things, so she hurriedly stopped them and said,
"Okay, let's stop being polite. It's nothing for neighbors to help each other." After saying this, Mother Lu carried the stool in her hand and walked out.
So the three of them began to busy themselves up and down. There weren't many things in the room to begin with. After fiddling around for a while, the only thing left was the bed. After lifting it up with great effort, the three of them were exhausted.
"Uncle, Madam, thank you so much for coming today. If you weren't here, I don't know what I would do." Guo Yan looked at the two people sitting on the stools, panting, and said embarrassedly.
"It's okay, it's okay. Now that you're done with this, we'll go back first. You can take your time to clean up the rest." Mother Lu stood up, waved her hand, and was about to leave.
"Auntie, please don't leave. You've helped me with so much work. Just eat here. I'll cook now." Guo Yan said as she put the coal stove at the door and started to cook.
"My daughter, stop busying yourself. We are not going to eat here. Let's wait until later. Come over when you have time." After saying this, Mother Lu dragged the old man out.
Seeing that the two were really determined to leave, Guo Yan couldn't stop them anymore, so she could only send them to the door, and then told them to come over and visit if they had nothing to do, and then she went back to the house to start packing up the messy things.
"Mom and Dad, you're back. Go change your clothes. I've made some ginger and sugar water for you. Drink it after you change your clothes." Lu Qingyan looked at the two elders and stood up carefully, holding her stomach.
"Don't move, don't move. We are both cold. Just stand there quietly." Mother Lu looked at her daughter's actions and waved her hands in fear, fearing that the cold air from her body would pass to her daughter, and it would be bad if she caught a cold and got sick.
"Okay, I won't go over. You two should change your clothes and shoes quickly, and then drink some ginger and sugar water. You will feel better after sweating, but don't catch a cold." Seeing her mother like this, Lu Qingyan had to stop and stood there, constantly urging the two elders.
So when Mr. and Mrs. Lu changed their clothes and came out, they suddenly discovered that their daughter had gone to the kitchen to make ginger sugar water for them. This was really the sun rising from the west.
"My daughter, did you get burned when you went to the kitchen? Don't come here next time. You can't enter here." Mother Lu went to the kitchen to open the lid of the pot, looked at the brown sugar ginger water inside, and came out to look at her daughter, fearing that she would get burned.
"Mom, I'm fine. Besides, I'm already this old, how can I get burned so easily?" Lu Qingyan looked at her mother's actions and felt very warm in her heart.
Only her own mother would care about her so much. If it were her mother-in-law, you never know what she would say.
Although she had not had much contact with her mother-in-law, she was disgusted by the way she threw a tantrum the last time she went to her parents' home.
Not to mention, he almost caused her to have a miscarriage and pushed her mother to the ground. These two things combined would make her remember them for the rest of her life.
She told her husband a few days ago that if her mother-in-law changes, she will take her in to take care of her in her old age. But that was just talk. If she really took her in, no matter what she said, she would never accept it.
One most important thing is that after her belly is healed, she will have to find a way to make money. Only when she has the ability can she have complete say in this family.