Mu Chen

13. Dumplings

This night, Mu Wenwen wanted to put the child to sleep on the big bed in the inner room. Yang Li would not be able to return until three or four days after a business trip, but Mu Chen insisted on putting Yu Yong in his own small bed.

Yang Li Aijie, her quilt doesn't want people to touch her, and Mu Chen is also reluctant to bear children. The bed is only one meter wide, but one is 10 years old and the other is 4 years old. They are both thin, and they can indeed sleep well.

Mu Wen told him not to touch the two big bags on the child's head, so Mu Chen put the child on the bed, and rolled up a mattress and stuffed it against the wall in case he leaned against the wall at night to catch the cold.

After turning off the lights, Mu Wen entered the room, and gradually fell asleep listening to Mu Chen's voice telling stories in the outer room.

Early the next morning, Mu Wen got up to make breakfast. The two children in the outer room were still sleeping. Yu Yong curled up into a small ball and hugged Mu Chen's arm. Mu Chen was still lying flat as usual, but he was tight. Sticking to the side of the bed, it seems that it is more difficult to meet a child sleeping in the middle of the night.

Mu Wen lightly washed rice and cooked porridge, and boiled water on another stove.

The leftover dough from yesterday has been kneaded with old yeast, and it has risen overnight. Knead and roll it out. After applying a layer of oil, sprinkle with chopped green onion and a little white sesame, roll up the dough and cut it into sections, and twist each section. Then roll it into small round cakes. At this time, two pots of water have been boiled and the three thermos bottles have been filled.

Looking at the time, it was already seven o'clock, earlier than usual.Mu Wen woke up Mu Chen while pouring fried pancakes in the pan.Mu Chen got up and took care of himself first, then took in Yu Yong's clothes that were hanging on the balcony. These were washed by Mu Wen last night, and the little sandals were also cleaned.

Yu Yong woke up a little when Mu Chen pulled out his arm, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that this was not his home, and he was a little dazed when he was alone on the bed.When he sat up, he smelled the scent of scallion pancakes and white porridge in the air, and then he remembered what happened yesterday, and when Mu Chen walked over with a smile, the uneasiness in his heart finally subsided.

Muchen first took off the old autumn clothes that he used as a nightgown last night, because he took off the pins before going to bed, the neckline of the autumn clothes now is very big, and half of the child's thin shoulders are completely exposed.

Mu Chen quickly dressed the child, "Baby is awake, you are so good, get up and wash your face and brush your teeth, this morning is scallion pancake with sesame seeds on it..."

The children's primary school and kindergarten in the factory area arrive at school at 8 o'clock, so the time is very leisurely.After the children were all cleaned up, Mu Wen also cleaned up the kitchen.

He didn't need to bring meals when he was not on duty today, but after hesitating for a moment, Mu Wen packed a bottle of white porridge in a large can, wrapped it in a towel several times and put it in a cloth bag, ready to take it to the hospital for Lin Lan.

Lin Lan had a mild concussion, and Yu Jianguo was violent because she had a cold and didn't cook in time yesterday. White porridge is the most suitable breakfast.

Although he can't understand Lin Lan's attitude towards Yu Yong, nor is he used to being too close to others, but after seeing Mu Chen explain to Yu Yong, "This is breakfast for your mother, don't worry about it", the child's face is grateful With a small expression, he was relieved.

Yu Yong was sent to the kindergarten before going to the hospital. There were not many patients in the hospital in the factory area.After simply handing over the shift, I went to Lin Lan's ward, opened the towel and handed the canned bottle, "Xiaoyong asked me to bring you some of the porridge we had in the morning, drink it quickly before it's cold."

Lin Lan's swollen eyes were full of tears again, holding the bottle in both hands, "Thank you Doctor Mu, Xiaoyong, I troubled you yesterday, Xiaoyong, I..."

Seeing Lin Lan crying, Mu Wen didn't know how to persuade him for a moment. The atmosphere was awkward, and Miss Zhao from the trade union rushed in, "Xiao Lin, I just went to your house to get you something to wash your clothes. Your family Yu Jianguo I woke up too, and I gave him a hard time..."

Sister Zhao will mediate with Yu Jianguo and Lin Lan once every month or two.The process is the same, and the result is also similar, but the events are repeated, and the mediation is repeated.

Mu Wen saw that he had nothing to do, so he went out to check the ward first. After he finished the ward and returned to the office, Eldest Sister Zhao came over, "Mr. Mu, I really troubled you yesterday. This Yu Jianguo is getting more and more outrageous, and his actions are getting worse. It's getting heavier and heavier, and if it goes on like this, something will happen..."

Mu Wen didn't care about Elder Sister Zhao's worries, and before she opened the topic, she quickly said, "I picked up the child and found that Yu Yong had many injuries, so it's hard to say what will happen to the adults, but the child will definitely be in trouble. "

Sister Zhao, "Oh, the child is the most pitiful when a couple fights. I heard from Xiao Lin that Yu Yong asked you to bring her breakfast. You are such a good child."

Mu Wen, "..." Can I say that I pointed at the child to avoid suspicion?

Sister Zhao, "I was just about to discuss it with you. Didn't you say that Xiao Lin had a concussion and would be discharged from the hospital in a few days? Our trade union wants to take this opportunity to educate Yu Jianguo and let him see if he doesn't have a wife and children at home. What's it like, see if you can take Yu Yong for a few more days, Xiaolin's trade union will take care of it, and Sister Zhou and I will give her meals."

Mu Wen, "Yes."

Although he knew that this level of isolation might not be of much use to Yu Jianguo, but thinking that Lin Lan was hospitalized, Yu Yong would not be well taken care of by Yu Jianguo when he returned home, and the child still had a head injury, so he nodded in agreement. "Then you should say hello to Yu Jianguo first, and you have to bring some children's clothes."

Sister Zhao thought of Yu Jianguo's dog temper, and nodded, "Okay, I'll go to him and tell him that the child is injured, and our trade union asks you to take care of it for him, so that he can reflect at home with peace of mind."

Mu Wen and Yu Jianguo didn't have much in common, but after thinking about it, he knew that he was not a good person to get along with. He didn't want to help others, and it was reasonable for the trade union to entrust the injured child to the doctor in the factory. , so he agreed to come down.

Sister Zhao said that she went to greet Yu Jianguo after get off work at noon, and picked up the child's clothes by the way, and then hurriedly left after sending it to the hospital in the afternoon.

After Mu Wen finished writing the medical record and received a patient transferred from the outpatient clinic, it was time to get off work. He pushed out the bicycle he hadn't ridden back last night and went to the vegetable market first.

Yu Yong was obviously malnourished, and Mu Chen was also growing up. Mu Wenwen wanted to buy a hen to make soup for the children, but he came late today and the live chickens were gone, so he turned around and bought two catties of pork belly. I want to buy another beef stick bone and ask the store to saw it into several sections and install it.

Beef bones are better than pork bones, and they are not available every day, so luck is good today.I bought another Chinese cabbage to make dumplings at night, and then I went home.

When he got home, Muchen had already stewed the rice in the rice cooker, and elementary school ends at 11:40.

Mu Wen found a large pot and stewed the cleaned beef bones, boiled on high heat to remove foam, then turned to low heat, fried a hot and sour shredded potato, fried two poached eggs and had lunch with Mu Chen.

After eating, Mu Chen went to take a nap. After Mu Wen washed the dishes, he mixed the noodles. The noodles should be served early in the evening.

Because the child couldn't chop stuffing during his nap, Mu Wen first cut the meat into pieces and sprinkled it with scallion and ginger, then poured a small amount of cooking wine and soy sauce to marinate it, then scalded the cabbage, fished it out, shredded it in cold water, and then used Gather the gauze tightly to remove water, and finally squeeze the cabbage into several large vegetable dumplings and put them in another large bowl.Turn off the fire of the aluminum pot before going to work.

There are not many things to do in the afternoon. Kindergarten ends at 5 o'clock. Unless it is a child with dual employment, as long as there is someone at home, they will pick up the child on time.Because of the intervention of the trade union, Mu Wen also rushed to the kindergarten to pick up Yu Yong at 5 o'clock, and then took him back to the hospital to visit Lin Lan.

The bruises on Lin Lan's face became more obvious after one night.

Originally, Mu Wen was afraid that the child would be frightened and didn't want to bring him back, but after Lin Lan's mood stabilized, she asked him repeatedly to see the child.And Yu Yong, who was consulted by him, also said: If his mother wanted to see him, he also wanted to see his mother, so Mu Wen had to go back to the hospital.

Lin Lan sobbed when she saw Yu Yong, and scolded Yu Jianguo while crying about the hard life of herself and her son, and finally burst into tears.

And Yu Yong no longer yearned for his mother on the road, he stood at the door ignoring Lin Lan's outstretched hands and refused to walk towards her, apparently frightened by her scars and hysteria.

Mu Wen was very dissatisfied, this is just a child less than 4 years old, what he needs most is the comfort of his mother.But this mother didn't understand this at all, and instead regarded the child as anyone she could cry and complain about. Did she still expect the child to pat her on the shoulder to comfort her?

Seeing that it had been several minutes, Lin Lan didn't stop. Instead, the people in the next ward all looked here. Mu Wen sighed, picked Yu Yong up and walked to Lin Lan's bed, "Xiao Lin, you Don't do this, it will scare the child."

Mu Wen's comfort was dry, and there was only this one sentence, and she didn't answer her words at all. Lin Lan finally stopped crying, "I'm sorry, Doctor Mu, thank you for helping me take care of Xiaoyong, Xiaoyong, come mom Take a look, does your wound still hurt? Mom didn’t do it on purpose yesterday, either she wanted to beat you, or she just didn’t want to live..."

Mu Wen frowned when he heard that, but he still let go of Yu Yong. Yu Yong also stepped forward and walked to Lin Lan's side, and then put his little hand on the palm she extended, "It doesn't hurt anymore, Uncle Mu said that it will be gone in a few days." alright."

After waiting for Lin Lan, Mu Wen asked Yu Yong to live in someone else's house and be good, and then took the child away after his mother was discharged from the hospital and picked him up.

After leaving the hospital, he carefully placed the child, who was obviously not in a good mood, on the crossbeam of the bicycle, "Xiao Yong, sit down obediently and don't move around. Let's go home and make dumplings with my brother, shall we?"

Yu Yong's eyes lit up, "Can I make it too?"

Mu Wen, "Of course, uncle and elder brother are too busy. Would Xiaoyong be willing to help?"

Yu Yong nodded greatly, "Yeah!"

When he got home, Mu Chen had finished his homework and was packing his schoolbag. He saw the two people who came back clearing the table, "Baby is back, Dad, are you going to make dumplings tonight? I'll chop the stuffing for you."

Mu Wen said, "No need, take Xiaoyong to wash it first, there is soy sauce in the meat, I'm afraid that the juice will splash on the wall when you chop it." Then he went into the kitchen and turned on the fire to continue stewing the soup.

Muchen, "Okay."

Seeing Mu Chen set up a big aluminum basin in the bathroom to give the child a bath, rinsing the basin, adding hot water, origami boats, everything looks good, so he stopped paying attention.

The vegetable dumpling produced a lot of water in the afternoon, so Mu Wen took the gauze that was placed on the big bowl and squeezed the water again, then chopped the meat and mixed it with cabbage.

Then pour oil in the pan and put pepper.When the Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a bit burnt, take it out and put it on a piece of white paper, then crush it with a rolling pin, then pick out the large ones and put the remaining Zanthoxylum bungeanum powder on the stuffing, heat the oil pan again, pour the hot oil on the Pepper on top.

Finally, mix the seasoning vigorously in one direction, and add salt—adding salt after mixing the oil will not make the cabbage water out again, and the stuffing is now adjusted.

In the Mu family, eating dumplings has never been a problem. As a northerner who loves to eat noodles, coupled with a pair of dexterous doctor's hands, the Mu family always eats dumplings several times a month.

But the Yu family is different. Yu Jianguo likes to eat, and he also likes to eat small ones, one bite at a time, but Lin Lan is not very good at cooking, not very good at making big ones, and even more impatient with small ones.Except for New Year's Eve, the Yu family seldom eats dumplings, which is also a major shortcoming of Lin Lan in Yu Jianguo's eyes.

Yu Yong felt that dumplings are a very precious food, and he was promised that he could participate in the production, which made him feel much better after seeing his mother.

Mu Wen moved the panel to the coffee table and put it in place, then cut the prepared noodles into long strips, rolled them into rounds on the chopping board, and then squeezed them into uniform-sized noodles with his hands.

At this time, Mu Chen had already taken Yu Yong to take a bath, and put the nightgown he made yesterday on the child with pins.In fact, Sister Zhao had already packed Yu Yong's clothes into a bag and sent them to the hospital this afternoon, but both Mu Chen and Yu Yong liked this "nightgown" better.

The two children laughed and pressed the dough into a round shape. Mu Wen specially found a small rolling pin for the child and asked Mu Chen to teach him how to roll the skin. It became a round skin.

Mu Wen can roll two sheets at a time, this unique skill made Yu Yong look at him with deep admiration.

In fact, if Mu Chen was slower, he would be able to roll the skin and make a bag, but today his interest is all in educating children.

In this way, after Mu Wen wrapped all the dumplings, the two children also completed fifteen works: there are three "straw hats", four square ones, two "rats", and six wrapped in two layers of leather. The thicker version - because the bag was broken and patched.

Mu Chen specifically pointed out that these six should be cooked first, and Yu Yong also said that he packed the fifteen and he would eat them all...

There is no accident, the two children are full, Mu Wen ate most of the children's works, it is really easy to recognize, and Yu Yong did not hesitate to give up after eating the ones made by himself and the ones made by Uncle Mu. out of the original plan.

Looking at the two children staggering on the sofa, Mu Wen remembered that there were only a few clothes in the luggage in the afternoon, and there were no children's toiletries. Looking at the still bright sky outside, "Chenchen, Xiaoyong, let's go for a walk Come on, by the way, buy a small cup and toothbrush for Xiaoyong."

After taking the children to the canteen and strolling home, Mu Wen cleaned up the coffee table and the kitchen, Mu Chen took the children to wash their faces and brush their teeth, and finally washed their little feet and put on the newly bought slippers, and then went to take a shower by themselves.

Seeing that Mu Wen wasn't done yet, Mu Chen used the child's bath water in the big aluminum basin to wash out all the clothes he and the child changed today.

When he was about to do the shopping, Mu Wen came over to take over, cleaned the children's clothes and put them on. After taking a bath, he washed the changed clothes. It was already past ten o'clock, and the two children were asleep.

Early the next morning, Mu Wen made yesterday's leftover noodles into small noodles, with beef bone soup as the base, served with finely chopped green onions and a little chili oil, and the two children ate two bowls each.

In this way, Yu Yong stayed at Mu Chen's house for three days, and this was the happiest three days since he could remember.Not only because of eating well and sleeping well, but also because the family is full of love and warmth, and we never have to worry about the suddenly angry father and mother complaining and cursing with tears.