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Lin Qiao said: "Mother-in-law, you and Rui'er should move here. Your shed is leaky. Although it is a bit old, it is a brick and tile house. There is a small house next to it. You can sleep there first, and I will save it later." Yinzi turned the house over again."

Mother Meng's face was moved: "My son, it is enough to have your heart! Mine is pretty good, and I won't move after I get used to it. It's troublesome to move around. Your young couple's life is better than anything else. Um, the stove is going to start at home. Let's go first and come back tomorrow." After speaking, he beckoned and followed Chen Rui out.

After returning home, Chen Rui asked sullenly: "Mother, brother Qiao asked us to move in, why didn't you agree? I want to see brother every day."

"Just be polite, don't take it seriously."

"But I think Brother Qiao is very serious. He is different from the past. I can feel it."

"Your brother finally survived, let's not disturb their little days anymore. You are still young and don't understand. How difficult it is to serve an adult and take care of children. It must be impossible to build a house, we can't Make trouble!"

"Oh." Chen Rui whispered, "Then can I still go and see the baby?"

"Yes." Mother Meng paused, "But don't go to a restaurant."

Chen Rui's mouth almost pouted.My mother is biased, the brown sugar water I drank at my brother's place today is still reminiscing now.Gululu, his stomach growled.

Mother Meng smiled.

Chen Rui blushed with embarrassment, and after a while said fiercely: "Mom, I'm hungry, I want to eat two wild vegetable dumplings."

"Eating so much, are you afraid that no one will want you to be fat in the future?"

"My brother gave birth to a baby, I have to celebrate." Chen Rui said nonsense with a serious face.

When Meng's mother thought of her eldest son's good life, she smiled slightly: "Yes, it's up to you to eat as many as you want."

"Then I'll eat three."

"Still excited?"

……

Lin Qiao had just fed the children to sleep, and then coaxed Chen He. The older one and the younger one were breathing evenly on the bed. Upon closer inspection, even their little expressions were the same. Lin Qiao covered them with a quilt and went out. This family is really outrageous. It's okay if the house is dilapidated, and there is no firewood.It can be seen how stupid he was before. The two people in the family can't be cold, they have to heat up the house.

With a basket on his back and an ax in his hand, he went up the mountain and saw many people from Linjia Village along the way.

"Third brother, I heard that you have given birth to a brother, congratulations." Wang Shi, who was passing by doing laundry, said.To be more specific, she was still his cousin.

"En." Lin Qiao couldn't hide the joy on his face: "Thank you."

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang is rather strange, isn't she annoyed if she doesn't see it?Didn't he talk nonsense in the past about wanting to have a son, thinking about his blunt temper, he might lose his temper.Now it seems that it is not the case.Said: "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to get some firewood."

"Oh, it's really different to be a father. If you don't have one, I'll get some at home. Your big brother built a stack of firewood a while ago, and I can't finish it." Although Wang loves to gossip , but very enthusiastically.

She is obviously a foreign daughter-in-law, but everyone in the village gives her thumbs up. This woman is capable and generous in housekeeping.

"No, thank you sister-in-law."

"Thank you." The more Wang looked at it, the more she felt that Lin Qiao was different, but she couldn't tell where it was different.Anyway, it looks more and more pleasing to the eye.

As soon as Lin Qiao left, a woman who was washing clothes by the river beside her laughed and said, "You can chat with anyone?"

"Then what's the matter, he's still my uncle, can't talk?"

"The serious sister-in-law saw him turn his face here and went downstream. You, a cousin, are quite enthusiastic."

"What do you think his parents think? The youngest Lin has never done anything. Why is he so disgusted by others?"

"Who knows, the characters don't match."

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Lin Qiao didn't hear their gossip at all, even if he did, he didn't care.One cannot live for the opinions of others.It is serious to live your own little life well.After he went out, he packed three bundles of firewood, and when he got home, he split them and piled them up again.

He went out to observe. Although there was a drought everywhere this year, the Lin family village was not too poor. Occasionally, he passed by and saw a few women with silver hairpins on their heads.

Still have to find a way to get some money.

After Lin Qiao finished packing, he got an idea when he got back to the house, why not cook something to eat.Sell ​​it at your doorstep.You can make money by staying at home.

To make some rice cakes, I went to the space to get some glutinous rice and soybeans, soaked the glutinous rice first, then lit the fire on the stove, soaked the soybeans and started to dry fry.After a while, the overbearing aroma of soybeans came out.The beans were bouncing around in the pot very lively, and the sound of popping could be heard from time to time.After frying, put them in bags and go to the stone mill in the village to grind them.Just give twenty Wen at a time.

Dried and fried soybeans are very fragrant. It can be used as a small snack. Grab a handful and eat it all afternoon. It is crispy, fragrant and crispy, but it will be greasy after eating. It would be better if it is sprinkled with a fine layer of salt or sugar up.

Lin Qiao was grinding soybean flour here, pushing one after another until it was finely ground.Those who were enjoying the shade under the big tree next to them were drooling when they smelled the fragrance in the air, and they came over and said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to make some cakes and sell them in my yard later."

"You can still cook?" The people next to you were surprised?

"Yes."

"What is cake making?"

"Just a sweet snack?"

"Is it expensive?"

"It's not expensive. I sell it in the village. I'm an acquaintance. I'm sure it will be cheaper for you." Lin Qiao said with a smile.

The man said: "Well, you have to save some for me, I'll try what it means to make cakes."

"okay."

After Lin Qiao finished grinding.Sweep the soy flour into the basin that I brought when I arrived, and take it home with me.Along the way, the fragrance of pure grain attracted many people to stretch their necks to watch.

There are more than 100 households in the village, which are not big, and the news spread before evening, saying that Linqiao was going to start cooking.Today I ground a large pot of fried soybeans.It's delicious.

Many people planned to go to see the excitement, but the door of Lin's house was closed and they pretended to be deaf.

When Lin Qiao returned home, his son had already woken up and was kicking his calves to play by himself, so he picked him up.The baby's neck was soft and just rested on his wrist. He was very excited to be hugged by his father, and he waved his little hands very imposingly.

Chen He leaned against the bed and looked at him.

Lin Qiao looked back, his eyes met, he caught Chen He who was peeping at him, and hurriedly staggered his eyes when he was flustered.

"Are you hungry? Shall I make you something to eat?"

"Not busy, you've been tired all day." Chen He found that Lin Qiao was tired and thin, but the contours of his facial features became clearer!The Lin family is not bad looking, he is tall, and he used to always look downcast with a wretched face.Now it looks a bit heroic when it stands upright.Holding the child at this moment, Chen He couldn't get tired of seeing him like this. He had both manliness and indescribable tenderness.

"Tomorrow I'll be selling rice cakes at the door of my house, why don't you ask Xiao Rui to come over and help?"

"Well, he happens to be free and has nothing to do."

Lin Qiao hugged his son for a while.

Putting the child in Chen He's arms, he went into the kitchen to cook, and today he made egg noodle soup.There is no shortage of food in the family, but there is really no meat, and there are still a few eggs left to feed Chen He.

After heating the frying pan here, sprinkle a large handful of shallot leaves to burst out the fragrance, and then add a poached egg.Boil the water and start rolling the noodles here.

He did a little more this time, and planned to bring it to his mother-in-law and Chen Rui.

When Chen He smelled the fragrance, he couldn't stop swallowing, and he was a little embarrassed. Didn't he feel so greedy before?Since eating his noodles.Seeing him cooking gave me hope, how could there be such delicious noodles.I can't get tired of eating every day.

Chen He brought two bowls of noodles to his mother-in-law. When he came back, the bowl of noodles had cooled and he was addicted to feeding them.After blowing it carefully, he put it into Chen He's mouth. Chen He was very embarrassed: "I just gave birth to a child, and I didn't break my hand. I will do it myself."

"No." Lin Qiao refused: "You are bored, what should you do if you can't hold the bowl and it gets hot?"

As he spoke with certainty, a trace of inexplicable shyness rose in Chen He's heart.

After feeding the adults, the son quit and pouted for food, and Lin Qiao fed the child again.After I finished eating, my noodles were lumpy.After eating two bites in a hurry, I packed up.After a while, Chen Rui came back with a greasy mouth, carrying two clean bowls and said, "Brother Qiao, thank you for bringing us the noodles, it's so delicious!" His eyes were shining, full of admiration.

The noodles are firm and springy, and the soup is also bright. It has been several years since I have seen oily water.The old and the young are very satisfied.

"It's nothing, you and your mother-in-law will come here to eat in the future! It will save you from getting angry."

"No." Xiao Rui went to see the child with a smile.

Chen Hedao: "You come over to help tomorrow, he is going to make pastries and needs someone to help."

Xiao Rui readily agreed: "Success, I'll get up early tomorrow."

Chen He pursed his lips and smiled.

Xiao Rui looked enviously at his brother taking advantage of Lin Qiao to go to work in the kitchen, he whispered. "Brother, my mother and I are very happy. Brother Qiao is so kind. I misunderstood him before, but he is actually a very good person!"

Chen He raised his eyes and glanced at his busy figure, and sweetness appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Yeah."

Seeing that his face was flushed, Xiao Rui opened his eyes wide in surprise, but felt embarrassed for Chen He: "Come early tomorrow."

"Hey." He readily agreed.

At dawn the next day, the entire Lin Family Village was enveloped by a strange sweet smell.