Mu Chen

31 Disappointment

Mu Wen was acting as an advisor to Mu Chen, and saw her after knocking out a card, he stood up and took the bag she brought in, "I'm back."

Jiang Cheng also got up to help pick up the things, "Happy New Year, sister-in-law."

Yang Li nodded, "Hello."

Mu Chen didn't get up, he just looked up at her and greeted her lightly, "Mom."

Yang Li was a little embarrassed, but nothing happened. She walked to the edge of the kang and sat down, and said to Grandpa Mu with a smile, "Dad, Happy New Year! I didn't buy the ticket from last year, so I just came back."

Grandpa Mu also smiled and nodded, "It's good to be back, have you eaten? We just finished eating, let Xiaowen cook dumplings for you."

Yang Li, "Well, I'm going to find Ah Wen, dad, uncle, you guys play."

After Jiang Cheng put down his things, he went back to the back room and played mahjong with Muchen.Yang Li didn't see Mu Wen, so she went to the kitchen, and sure enough, Mu Wen was putting away the pile of things she bought.

Put bananas and oranges on a large plate, and put melon seeds, peanuts and bagged snacks on another plate, and watched her come in, "Haven't you eaten yet? Shall I make you some dumplings or braised snacks?"

Yang Li, "What are the fillings for dumplings?"

Mu Wen, "Pork and cabbage."

Yang Li, "Then I'll eat dumplings."

Mu Wen handed over two large plates, "You go in first, put the fruit on the kang, and give the snacks to the children."

When Yang Li came back, she saw Mu Wen making dumplings, and asked a little strangely, "Don't you guys also eat dumplings in the morning? If you have any leftovers, just reheat them, why are you making them now?"

Mu Wen, "We eat mutton."

Yang Li, "..."

Mu Wen, "Are you hungry? Soon."

Yang Li watched as Mu Wen took the stove cover off and sat on the pot, added water, and then quickly made noodles on the table beside him.His fingers are slender and flexible, he can roll out two sheets of dough at a time, and he can make a fat dumpling with a squeeze of both hands.

The two were speechless for a while.

When the dumplings were in the pot, Mu Wen cleaned up the chopping board and basin, and he had already prepared the dipping water when the dumplings were about to come out of the pot.

People in Shicheng love spicy food, so they usually use red oil, chili vinegar sauce or mashed garlic for dipping, but Yang Li doesn't like spicy food. He uses hot water to melt a little bean paste, and then adds sesame oil to make it. They think it's tasteless, but Yang Li likes it.

Yang Li thought the room was messy, so she didn't go to eat in the room, but took a square stool, sat at the table which was used as a console, and ate slowly.

Mu Wen didn't go out either, put the stove back on the water and picked up the leeks.For a while, the room fell silent, only to hear Mu Chen's loud laughter in the back room, "Haha, I'm fooling around, Uncle Cheng, you fired again!"

Yang Li, "Why do you want Chenchen to learn mahjong? Why do children learn this!"

Mu Wen, "Oh, Chenchen said that many of his classmates can play, and he wants to learn too. It's okay, the child knows it well."

Yang Li...... Thinking about it, she didn't go into it any further. In terms of educating her son, she was a little short of breath.

Yang Li, "I didn't even buy a ticket for our unit's annual meeting that was held on the 29th. I came back by plane yesterday. When I got home, I was so tired that I didn't come."

Mu Wen, "Yes."

Yang Li, "Grandma Zhang saw that the lights were on at our house last night, so she thought you were back, so she gave you a bowl of dumplings. I didn't even eat the mutton."

Mu Wen, "Well, then did you push it away, it will stick to the skin."

Yang Li, "...I forgot, I said Ah Wen, we haven't seen each other for a few months, so why don't you ask me how I'm doing and just stare at the bowl of dumplings?"

Mu Wen smiled, "Well, how are you doing?"

Yang Li felt that her grievance was about to explode, but she suppressed it and ate a few more dumplings.

Consciously suppressing the fire, Yang Licai said, "Ah Wen, let's not quarrel when it's Chinese New Year's Eve. I heard Grandma Zhang say you opened a factory yesterday. What's the matter? I said that I called your unit twice, and people called you No, are you resigning?"

Mu Wen raised his head, "Have you called the unit? When did it happen? Who answered?"

Yang Li, "I called a few years ago. I wanted to tell you that I couldn't make it back a year ago, but the first person who answered the phone said that there was no doctor surnamed Mu in the unit and hung up."

Yang Li was a little angry, "I called again and it was a woman who answered the phone. The voice sounded young. I asked her to find you, and she asked me who I was. After I told her, she said you weren't here. I asked her what are you doing?" Ben, she actually said she didn't know! Just hung up the phone, and the line was busy when she called again. It's really annoying, who did you offend?"

Mu Wen chuckled, with indescribable disappointment in his voice. "It should be Xiao Zhang assigned this year. I took care of her for a while before, and she is the only young girl in our department."

Seeing what Yang Li wanted to say, Mu Wen smiled, "Ali, I have been out of the hospital for almost three months, and you still ask me what class I am in. You are my wife, isn't that funny?"

Yang Li was at a loss for words for a while, "I was a little angry for not calling you at first, didn't you also call me?"

Mu Wen, "I called you twice after the phone was installed at home, but you didn't reply. I thought you were repeating the same old tune."

Yang Li, "What's the same old tune? Mu Wen, you big man, don't be so eccentric, okay? When did you install the phone at home? Why didn't I see your message? I have too many messages on the page. I didn't find it."

Mu Wen, "Oh."

There was another silence, and it was Yang Li who spoke first, "Then you also resigned now?"

Mu Wen, "No, the old dean didn't approve it. He insisted on suspending the office without pay. I haven't been asked to pay the money yet. He insisted on letting me leave a way out."

Yang Li, "Well, Dean Li is a good person. Then what do you think, what kind of factory are you opening now?"

Mu Wen briefly talked about the process of opening the factory, but did not mention the impact of Yang Li's deeds on him.

In his heart, the biggest reason he opened the factory was to change his way of life and make the old father and son better. That little gossip should not affect him, and he would not take it to heart.

Yang Li, on the other hand, praised Mu Wen Xiahai's behavior and execution ability, and didn't say anything about his courage to borrow more than one million yuan.However, she asked about the product in detail, and made some suggestions based on her experience.

After switching to work mode, the two talked very harmoniously.

After Yang Li cleared away the dishes and chopsticks, Mu Wen finished choosing the leeks, and he took another bunch of garlic sprouts and green onions. Just as he was about to say something, Mu Chen walked in with a ringing mobile phone, "Mom, Is it your phone? It rang in your bag."

When Yang Li answered the phone, the other party had already disconnected, but it rang again soon. After she connected, she explained the plan for the delivery that had been arranged for the next year.

When she hung up the phone and saw that the two men at home were looking at her, Mu Chen was not as indifferent as he had just met, and asked curiously, "Is this the big brother?"

Yang Li felt a little proud, "Well, more than 2 yuan, it was issued by the unit, which is my year-end reward. If I didn't wait until the meeting to receive it, I would have come back a year ago. Our boss insisted on arranging the annual meeting. At 29, I didn't buy a ticket for last year's [-]th."

Muchen, "How does this work? I'll call Ding Bowen."

Yang Li disagreed, "Don't play around with this! If you have anything to do, use your home phone to call. This call costs only one yuan per minute, and it doesn't count as roaming charges. Besides, you have wasted electricity, and the unit can't find you if you have something to do." What should I do?"

In fact, Mu Chen was just talking. In his opinion, it was also a way of showing favor to this mother, similar to the kind where I use your things to give you face.

But looking at Yang Li's precious appearance, and hearing that it was to get her, she would not be very happy if she didn't come back for the New Year.However, he generally didn't want to conflict with Yang Li, so he nodded and said to Mu Wen, "Dad, I'm going to play first."

Mu Wen knew Mu Chen's little intentions, but looking at his wife who didn't realize it, he could only sigh. "Then you are doing well there?"

The couple coincidentally did not go back to the big house.Yang Li sat down around the stove, poured a glass of water in her hand, and told her about her situation there.

In addition to the customers who were taken away from the original xx factory, she ran down a few more, and the shipments and payment were not bad, which opened up the situation. Of course, there was no big benefit because of the short time.

Her current salary is 2 yuan, bonuses are included, and the travel allowance is higher than that of the original factory. After September, plus this phone number of more than [-] yuan, there is also a small income of [-] yuan, which is very good. income.

She is currently living in a dormitory, and she has no other expenses except buying clothes, and basically saves all her money.In addition to the savings in the past few years, I now have 10,000+ cash in hand, and I can buy a similar house.However, the new district where she is located has commercial housing, but there are no good schools, and she has not found out about the old district...

Maybe it's because she did more homework than last time, or maybe it's because Mu Wen's stall of more than 100 million yuan has been rolled out. Yang Li didn't say any more about letting the two of them go and settle down this time.

But at this point, Mu Wen asked, "Then have you considered coming back and setting up a store in City Y to sell our own skin care products?"

Look at Yang Li, and said, "You know as much about it as the products you are promoting now, and you can also make suggestions for improvement of these products. In this regard, you are the earliest user and have the most say." Said After all, the essence of sales is the same, when you go back to the province, our family is also like a family."

Yang Li didn't immediately refuse this time, she was silent for a while, and said, "Let me think about it."

Mu Wen didn't say anything else, sorted out the dishes he had chosen, cleaned the floor, and went into the house with Yang Li.

At this time, another seven or eight people came into the room, all of whom paid New Year's greetings to Grandpa Mu. Now there was a whole room sitting on the floor on the kang, there were a few smokers, and the air in the room was very bad.

Mu Wen greeted everyone with a smile, seeing that Mu Chen had already made tea, he asked Yang Li to get the fruit plate and melon seeds, and he was busy giving red envelopes to the two children he brought.

Although Yang Li didn't like these people, she smiled and greeted them without showing any impatience.

After talking about the conversation, Mu Wen saw that it was almost three o'clock, so he was ready to make dinner.In winter, people here are used to two meals, and now it's the New Year's Eve, and if they want to drink two cups, naturally they have to start earlier.

Originally, Jiang Cheng was busy with him these few days, but when Mu Wen greeted everyone and left a meal, Jiang Cheng also stood up and prepared to go to the kitchen.As a result, Yang Li spoke first, "Xiao Jiang, you and Dad invite everyone to sit down, and Ah Wen and I will cook."

Jiang Cheng stopped in embarrassment, picked up the water bottle and refilled everyone's glasses.

In fact, Yang Li can't help much in the kitchen: she doesn't know how to cook, the water is cold when washing vegetables, the basin is too small to wash clean, and it is inconvenient to pour water outside when the kitchen is not running...

Mu Wen knew that she just didn't like the smell of smoke and disliked the chaos in the house, and couldn't talk to these people, so she took the opportunity to hide.

Mu Wen didn't expose it, and it was the same in previous years, he had long been used to it.In addition, he had already chosen the dishes just now, and even peeled the onion and garlic, so it was actually quite quick to make.

Just like this, the cold dishes are served first, and when the dishes are almost ready, they go into the house and ask Jiang Cheng to set the table.There is still a table on the kang and a table on the ground.

When the cold dishes were served, Qi Jiangcheng had already poured the wine, and the three children were Gao Cheng and Jianlibao. After toasting a glass of wine, Mu Wen went into the kitchen to stir up some hot dishes.

When Jiang Cheng estimated the speed of the dishes and went to the kitchen to serve them, he saw that Yang Li was just sitting on the side drinking tea and chatting with Mu Wen.Beside the stove were two large plates of fried pork with green peppers, and Mu Wen was adding water to the iron pot to wash it.

In fact, Muwen has been cooking for the past few days, but now he should be washing the pot.

Seeing that Yang Li didn't intend to do anything, Jiang Cheng rolled up his sleeves, "Ah Wen, get some garlic and dip it in water, a child knocked over the bowl on the table, and I washed the pot."

Mu Wen didn't stop preparing to wash the pot, and pushed Jiang Cheng away with his shoulder, "No, you serve these two dishes first."

Yang Li didn't get up, and everyone in the family knew that she didn't do housework.

Originally, he was going to help Mu Wen serve food, but Mu Wen said, "You can't smell the smoke, just sit here. I'll serve it just to see how they are eating." Now Jiang Cheng is here , she doesn't have to do anything.

Jiang Cheng didn't say anything else, he just helped serve the dishes a few times, and when the last soup and snacks were ready, Mu Wen and Jiang Cheng brought a big basin into the house and served with everyone table.

Grandpa Mu didn't see Yang Li and asked. Mu Wen said that Yang Li was a little tired and went to rest in the next room, so no one mentioned it.