Freshly made boiled fish, steamed pork with rice flour, cold shredded chicken, three fresh vegetables, fish head with chopped pepper, minced meat and eggplant, stir-fried pork with peppers, smashed cucumber, plus a large portion of braised pork and a big pot of rice, and that's it.
They had just been called to eat, and before Su Qinghu could even start, everyone took a plate and went to the large square table in the living room.
Su Qinghu and her mother-in-law, Ms. Meng, each took some bowls and chopsticks over, and then went back to take out the beer and soda that had been in the refrigerator for about ten minutes.
Beer is really in short supply, especially this kind in bottles, which is much better and cleaner than the beer in barrels.
Not to mention anything else, even the beer bottles are recycled by the manufacturer, and one beer bottle can be sold for between ten cents and fifty cents.
Erdan counted the beer bottles and his eyes lit up. This kind of beer bottle costs fifty cents each, so ten of them would be five dollars!
"Don't look at it. Children can't drink alcohol." Su Qinghu raised an eyebrow and pointed to another small table. "Your food is over there."
There are some at the adults' table and some at the children's table, except for fish, of course.
Erdan tried to argue, "Can we have soda? One bottle for the three of us, okay?"
A sip of ice-cold soda is so refreshing in the hot summer~~~
Just thinking about it made Erdan's throat dry up and he needed some ice soda to calm it down.
Putting himself in their shoes, Su Qinghu felt that he himself could not resist the temptation of soda when he was a child, so he naturally would not let his children down. So he took a bottle, opened it directly, and then poured it equally into the bowls of the three of them.
So, in the hot summer, the fan was on in the living room, and adults and children sat at two tables, eating and drinking happily.
When leaving, Su Qinghu gave them all the food that the retired teacher had sent.
It was already ten o'clock in the evening. Su Qinghu didn't let them leave. She found a pair of men's shirt and shorts for her father-in-law that she had seen while shopping, and a set of silk pajamas for her mother-in-law. She asked her father-in-law to wash up first while she and her mother-in-law cleaned the room.
She would clean the room with the children when she had nothing to do at night. It didn't require any special tidying up. Just put down the bedding and mat, and then put a sheet on top.
After putting away the bedding, Erdan had already finished cleaning the living room, leaving only the trash to be put in the trash can. Little Qian Duoshu was dragging the trash can, which was almost as tall as himself, towards Erdan, panting and panting, his face flushed with exhaustion.
Erdan dropped the broom and quickly took it. He was about to say a few harsh words when he saw Su Qinghu coming out from the corner of his eye. He immediately held his words back and went over to collect the garbage with the bucket.
Su Qinghu smiled, praised Erdan and Qian Duoshu, and then went to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Dadan's face was numb from washing dishes. Normally, he only washed three people's dishes, and at most, three or two more plates, which wasn't a big deal. But today, there were nearly forty plates and bowls. If each plate didn't have two or three dishes on it, who knows how many more plates and bowls he would have had to wash today...
His eyes began to wander as he was washing the dishes, and he looked a little mechanical. As soon as Su Qinghu came in, he smiled and said, "I have cut up some melon in the refrigerator. Bring it to the living room and eat it."
"Is it too cold?" Ms. Meng said worriedly. "I just ate all that greasy food, and if I eat something cold, I'm afraid I'll get diarrhea."
Su Qinghu thought about it and said, "Then Mom, please pack some for them."
They were fine drinking iced soda just now, so eating some melon shouldn't be a problem. Since mother-in-law is worried, let them eat less.
Ms. Meng responded with a smile, went over to portion the food, and handed it to Dadan, "Go and eat with your two brothers."
Dadan looked at the dishes that had not been washed for the first time and felt a little hesitant.
Su Qinghu: "Go ahead. You've worked hard taking care of your two younger brothers today. Consider this a day off for you."
A quick glance at the dozens of plates showed that ten were still unwashed. Compared to the past, this child's workload exceeded the standard.
Su Qinghu pursed her lips and smiled, reaching out to wash, but she saw her mother-in-law took a bowl and started washing it first, "I'll wash it, you look after the children and find some clothes, and then let them take a bath."
When she came here today, she had actually prepared clothes for herself and Duoduo. However, her wife insisted that her clothes were too thick to be used as pajamas, so she found her a light silk one.
"Are Duoduo's clothes in Dadan and Erdan's rooms?" Su Qinghu withdrew her hand and asked her mother-in-law, Ms. Meng.
Ms. Meng nodded, "Yes."
She wanted to laugh when she talked about this. She originally wanted to put the small bag she brought with her in the living room first, but before she could do anything, as soon as she opened the door, Dadan and Erdan took the bag, put it in their room, and told her not to enter other people's rooms casually, especially their mother's room.
She thought this was a good idea, so she let them do as they pleased.
"Mom, I see from your expression that something's wrong." Su Qinghu walked out of the stove with a smile. "Did Dadan and Erdan tell you that I'll lose my temper if anyone enters my room?"
"I didn't say I lost my temper." Ms. Meng chuckled twice, looked at Su Qinghu, and after thinking about it, she said, "I said you would get back at me, like a little brat, and I don't care if you are an adult or not."
Su Qinghu: "..."
Su Qinghu was silent for a moment, gave a dry laugh to her mother-in-law, Ms. Meng, and shivered as she left the kitchen.
These two naughty kids!
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After everyone took a shower and used the fan for a while and felt a little cooler, Su Qinghu carried one fan to the room where her parents-in-law were going to sleep, and placed the other fan in the child's room. As for herself, she didn't use it for the time being.
The three children were so sleepy that they went to bed and fell asleep immediately. They didn't care whether they slept together or not.
Only after the mosquito net was set and the direction of the fan was adjusted did Su Qinghu go to bed.
As for her parents-in-law asking her to give her the fan, Su Qinghu firmly refused and placed a basin of cold water with a little ice on the bedside table in the room.
The physical fitness of adults and children was not very good, so Su Qinghu only gave himself some water to cool down before getting ice water and putting on the fan.
The next morning, when Su Qinghu got up, her mother-in-law was already cooking, and even her father-in-law had just returned from a walk.
After washing up, I saw my father-in-law looking around the yard, thinking about something.
Su Qinghu called him, and Chen Bai turned around and said to Su Qinghu, "Xiao Su, you can plant something in your yard."
There is nothing else in the yard except the green plants from before.
"Let's plant it next spring." Su Qinghu thought for a moment, "This season isn't very suitable for planting anything, is it?"
In addition to growing vegetables.
Chen Bai: "Shall I grow some vegetables for you?"
"Ah?" Su Qinghu was stunned for a moment, "What kind of vegetables are you growing?"
"I was just out for a walk and saw someone selling loofah seedlings, bitter melon seedlings, as well as pepper and eggplant seedlings." Chen Bai became interested in growing vegetables. "Those seedlings are good and easy to grow. After planting, you just need to water them every now and then."
Thinking of the scientific research teams growing vegetables at the Earth's poles, Su Qinghu felt a strange sense of humor and nodded, "That... that's fine."
Even grown men cannot escape the Chinese people's talent for planting.
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