Chapter 131. The knitting craze started by Ma Ling
Zhao Jun thought his father was trying to transfer him to another job.
But what Zhao Jun didn't expect was that after lying down, Zhao Youcai only chatted with Zhou Jianjun for a few words about Zhao Chun's thoughtfulness, and then turned over and fell asleep.
Zhao Jun was quite puzzled by what he was doing. He stared wide-eyed and stayed awake for half the night.
It wasn't until about one o'clock in the evening that Zhao Jun fell asleep.
It was only after five o'clock the next morning. Zhao Youcai and Zhou Jianjun got up. Zhao Jun yawned and got up. When he came out of the back room to wash his face, he saw Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun rolling out stuffing in front of the board.
Yesterday, I made a lot of noodles and stuffings. After making the dumplings, Wang Meilan divided them among everyone and let each family eat by themselves this morning. Whether to eat dumplings, steamed buns or pies all depends on their own taste.
At this time, Zhao Youcai came back from going to the latrine, and Wang Meilan, who had a mysophobia, said to him: "Go and wash your hands, break some soybeans, and go to the tofu shop to exchange for tofu curds."
Zhao Youcai agreed, and Wang Meilan continued to mutter: "The pot is occupied today, so we can't make porridge."
"Hey, Mom." Zhao Jun, who was wiping his face with a towel, called Wang Meilan and said, "Shall we buy a rice cooker?"
When Wang Meilan heard this, she immediately became interested and asked: "Son, does that thing work?"
"The stewed rice shouldn't be as good as our big pot." Zhao Jun said, "But if this pot is occupied, let's make porridge out of that pot."
"That's okay..." As soon as Wang Meilan started speaking, Zhao Youcai, who was rolling soybeans in front of the dish rack, said, "You two are really prodigal. You only spend money on that thing when you make porridge."
Wang Meilan glared at Zhao Youcai, and Zhao Jun said: "Dad, you don't know. In the summer, if you put the rice cooker to simmer rice, the house will not be so hot without a fire. After that, let's eat it with pickles. It won't cool down."
Well?"
There is nothing wrong with what Zhao Jun said. Although there is a partition between the large stove and the kang in the east room. When the weather is hot, if the partition is inserted and the stove pit is burned, the kang in the house will not be hot.
But in the summer, it's still hot if you don't light a fire in the house, and it will be even hotter if you light a fire for cooking.
But Zhao Youcai stood up after rolling the soybeans, raised his hand and waved to the outside of the house, saying: "Isn't there a big pot outside? Let's go outside to cook it in the summer!"
As soon as Zhao Youcai said these words, Zhao Jun fell silent. Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "Quickly change your tofu brain!"
Zhao Youcai left with a basin and a flashlight.
After Zhao Youcai left, Zhao Chun, who was rolling the pies, smiled at Wang Meilan and said, "Mom, my dad can talk better than before."
In Zhao Chun's memory, her father was a taciturn man. Just like what happened before, Zhao Youcai could only say "don't buy it".
As for family matters, as long as Zhao Youcai expresses his opinion, Wang Meilan will definitely listen to him.
Zhao Chun didn't know when her father's status in the family had changed. Things that could be settled with two words before now had to be explained in a long way. So, did anyone listen to him?
"It's your father's day." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Maybe it disturbed him."
"Hey, Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun walked up to Wang Meilan and whispered a few words in her ear.
Zhao Chun leaned in to listen, and she knew that her brother was not carrying her, but Zhou Jianjun.
And it won't be a big deal, it's probably because her father wants to act like a monster and is afraid of making Zhou Jianjun laugh.
"Can't you?" After hearing this, Wang Meilan stared at Zhao Jun with wide eyes, and Zhao Chun also stared with small eyes.
"Mom, have you forgotten?" Zhao Jun asked back: "The two times we went to the city, he sneaked up the mountain. Once, he abandoned the house for our two sisters and didn't even cook for noon."
Yes, Zhao Jun sued Zhao Youcai again in front of Wang Meilan. But he was not seeking revenge, but was afraid that Zhao Youcai would be in danger.
Zhao Youcai didn't mention his job promotion last night, so Zhao Jun suspected that something was going on because it was not in line with his father's character.
Zhao Jun thought about it for a long time before he thought that his father might chase the brown bear that was causing harm.
Zhao Jun didn't tell anyone about Zhao Jun being chased by the brown bear yesterday. It wasn't that he was afraid of being laughed at, but he was afraid that when he went up the mountain in the future, Wang Meilan would miss him at home.
Zhao Jun did not say anything about the evil nature of the brown bear, but he knew that chasing the bear was very dangerous.
Especially today, Wang Meilan is taking men, women and children into the city, leaving only Wang Qiang and his wife at home.
Wang Qiang stayed here to deal with people who came to sell skins or buy shotguns. It was impossible for him to go up the mountain with Zhao Youcai.
Based on Zhao Jun's understanding of Zhao Youcai, Zhao Youcai would definitely chase the brown bear alone.
This is very dangerous!
"This old kid!" Wang Meilan became angry when she mentioned the past, but she was afraid that her son-in-law would listen, so she lowered her voice and said, "It only takes a day!"
Speaking of this, Wang Meilan said a little bit: "Don't worry about him, he can do whatever he wants."
Wang Meilan couldn't do anything if the old men in the family were so disobedient. She said that Zhao Youcai would be kicked out of the house. If she really did that, their whole family would be treated as a joke by the entire forest farm.
"Mom, I can't leave him alone." Zhao Jun was really not causing trouble. He was a little scared when he thought of the scene of being chased by a brown bear yesterday. If it weren't for Wei Lai and Jiang Ming's three dogs, Zhao Jun would have had a lot of trouble yesterday.
There is a high probability that you will suffer a loss.
Zhao Jun continued to say to Wang Meilan: "The blind bear kicked the two of them. He said, try not to take it seriously."
Last year, after leader Lao Jiang went on a bear hunt and was killed, Zhu Dajiang wanted to ask Zhao Jun to take action. At that time, Zhao Jun had the same concerns.
This is not nonsense, it is something passed down from the elders.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Wang Meilan rarely spoke to Zhao Jun in a bad tone, saying: "He doesn't listen, what can I do?"
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, waved to Wang Meilan, then put his mouth to Wang Meilan's ear and said something.
When Wang Meilan heard this, her eyes lit up instantly, while Zhao Chun smiled and punched Zhao Jun on the shoulder.
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Zhao Youcai came out of home, holding a basin in one hand and a flashlight in the other as he walked towards the tofu shop.
Halfway there, Zhao Youcai saw a flashlight on the opposite side, and then heard a familiar voice: "Brother, what are you going to do?"
"Dayong." Zhao Youcai said, "I'll change it to tofu nao."
"Don't go." Li Dayong walked towards him and said, "I just changed back and I brought you all out."
At this time, Zhao Youcai used the flashlight to see Li Dayong holding a large basin in both hands.
Zhao Youcai hurried over, took out the flashlight that was held by Li Dayong under his arm and turned it off, then smiled and said: "We brothers want to go together."
With that said, Zhao Youcai showed Li Dayong a look at his basin of soybeans and said, "I'm still thinking of bringing it to you."
"Haha..." The two brothers laughed and walked home together.
While walking, Zhao Youcai couldn't help but complain to Li Dayong: "I'm making pancakes today, but the pot can't make porridge. My mother-in-law is trying to figure out what kind of rice cooker to buy."
"Huh?" Li Dayong's eyes lit up when he heard this, but he didn't express any opinion.
They arrived home within a few steps. Hearing the barking of dogs coming from the direction of their home, Zhao Youcai said to Li Dayong: "Brother, come to the work today and ask Zhang Guoqing to ask me for leave."
"Okay, brother, I understand." The two brothers didn't discuss it in advance, and Li Dayong didn't need to ask. He directly responded to Zhao Youcai's words and said, "Go by yourself. Please pay attention."
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of anything with my handle." As Zhao Youcai spoke, the two of them walked into the Zhao family yard.
Since there were soybeans in Zhao Youcaiduan's basin, Li Dayong could not pour the tofu to him for the time being.
So, the two of them entered Zhao's house one after another.
"Ouch." Zhao Youcai suddenly entered the house. Zhao Jun, who was beside Wang Meilan, hurriedly moved inside with some guilt, but he heard Zhao Youcai say to him: "Give me a hand and let your uncle take it over!"
"Hey, hey!" Zhao Jun hurried over and reached out to take the basin Li Dayong was holding.
"Uncle, how much does this cost?" Zhao Jun asked with a smile, and Li Dayong replied with a smile: "It belongs to our two families."
"Dayong, come in!" Wang Meilan called to Li Dayong and said, "Let's eat here in the morning."
"That's incredible, sister-in-law." Li Dayong said, "My Xiaomei also makes pancakes."
"I know." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "It's the same. I was thinking about you and your elder brother, what are you talking about."
"That's terrible, sister-in-law." Li Dayong took the half-pot of tofu curd sent back by Zhao Jun and said, "I'm going back. I have to discuss something with Xiaomei."
"Ah..." After hearing what Li Dayong said, Wang Meilan nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, okay, then you can go back."
After watching Li Dayong leave, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chuniang continued cooking.
Logically speaking, Zhao Youcai should have returned to the house at this time. But he stood in the outhouse and said to Wang Meilan: "Lan Na, you should wear more clothes when you go out today. It's freezing outside."
After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan said "hmm" and poured oil into the pot to start pancakes.
Zhao Chun curled her lips and turned to look at her mother.
Fire the firewood in a large pot evenly, and when both sides of the pie are golden brown and red, the pie will be cooked.
Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, and Zhou Jianjun came to the table. Zhao Chun delivered the cakes to the room and said, "Dad, you guys eat first, my mom is still baking them."
Zhao Jun and the other two moved their chopsticks, and after a while, Zhao Chun came in with another stack of pies.
At this time, Zhao Youcai shouted outside the house: "Lan Na, it's almost done. You can have dinner with your daughter quickly."
"Ah, I understand." Wang Meilan responded, her tone calm, no different from usual.
"Huh?" Zhou Jianjun nudged Zhao Jun with his elbow and said, "Look at how good our dad and mom are. If our family section wants to judge model couples this year, we should apply for them."
"It's okay to pull it down." Zhao Jun thought deeply and commented that the couple would praise this thing very highly, and it would not be conducive to the righteousness of annihilating the relationship in the future.
"What do you mean by pulling him down?" Zhao Youcai glared at Zhao Jun, seemingly dissatisfied with his son's attitude.
Zhao Jun was busy eating cakes, but Zhou Jianjun was really a filial son-in-law and kept coaxing Zhao Youcai to talk.
By about seven o'clock, when the family and the animals were full and well-fed, and the house and the outside were neatly tidied up, I suddenly heard several dogs barking outside.
"Son, let's see if it's your uncle and the others who are here?" Wang Meilan, who was combing her hair, called out to Zhao Chun.
"Mom, it's Bell Dang here." Zhao Chun said, hurriedly urging Zhao Hong and Zhao Na to go out and join Little Ling Dang.
"Oh, it's time for us to go to work." Zhao Youcai stood up as soon as he spoke, put on the cotton monkey and walked to the outhouse. Zhou Jianjun hurriedly followed.
After leaving the house, he called Li Dayong to the west courtyard, and the three of them walked out of the village together. After meeting Lin Xiangshun on the way, Zhao Youcai suddenly covered his stomach, stopped and waved to the three of them, saying: "You go first, I have to go to the hut.
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"Dad, go ahead, we'll wait for you." Zhou Jianjun pointed to the south, and there was a hut over there.
"No need to wait." Zhao Youcai said, "It's so cold outside. Hurry up and get in the car and wait for me."
After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Li Dayong also walked away. Lin Xiangshun on the side had experienced such a thing, so he didn't say anything. Only Zhou Jianjun, he turned around three times and followed Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun left.
The three of them walked for about ten minutes, until a whistle sounded outside the village, and Zhao Youcai walked out of the hut.
At this time, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun were already neatly dressed and were now waiting for the group to arrive.
Suddenly, they heard two dogs barking outside the house. Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun both raised their necks and looked out the window.
"Huh?" When Zhao Jun looked out the window, he saw someone who surprised him.
Zhao Jun hurriedly went down to the ground. At this time, the door of the outer room opened and Zhao Ling came in holding Ma Ling's arm.
"Oh, Ling'er!" Zhao Chun enthusiastically took Ma Ling's hand, touched the girl's fur gloves, and asked, "Is it cold?"
"It's not cold, sister." Ma Ling responded. Seeing Wang Meilan coming out of the room, she hurriedly greeted Wang Meilan.
When Wang Meilan saw her daughter-in-law coming, she left in no hurry and took Ma Ling into the east room.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing a stranger coming, the little lynx wanted to step forward to smell it, but Wang Meilan slapped him away.
Wang Meilan, Zhao Chun, Zhao Ling, and Xu Chunyan accompanied Ma Ling and sat on the kang in the east room.
Wang Meilan knew that Ma Ling must have something to do when she came here, but if the girl didn't tell her, she wouldn't ask and chatted enthusiastically with Ma Ling about home affairs.
But she didn't ask, and Ma Ling didn't tell either.
It wasn't until the old lady, Jie Sun, and Jie Chen arrived that Zhao Ling expressed her intention for Ma Ling. She pointed to the triangular pocket beside Ma Ling and said, "My daughter is here to bring clothes to our army."
Zhao Ling's words made Ma Ling blush.
She had been coaxed by Zhao Jun before and took the initiative to promise to knit a sweater for him. In the past month, the girl knitted during the day and at night, and finally knitted the sweater.
Today she wanted to visit Zhao Jun's house. If she happened to meet Zhao Jun, Ma Ling would give this sweater to Zhao Jun.
But there are dogs at the door of Zhao's house, and the Zhao family's dog gang is not very familiar with her now. When she gets close, the dogs bark non-stop.
There was no other way, Ma Ling could only wander in the distance.
She was not at the door. Where could Zhao Jun watch her go?
In this way, Zhao Jun did not discover her, but Zhao Ling and Wang Qiang discovered her first.
Zhao Ling stepped forward and asked what she was doing here in such a cold weather. Ma Ling got nervous and said she was talking nonsense, so Zhao Ling took her to Zhao's house.
At this point, Ma Ling could only open her triangle pocket and take out the large smoke-colored sweater inside.
A large sweater knitted with more than two kilograms of wool costs only forty or fifty yuan for the wool alone, and it is exclusively sponsored by Ma Dafu.
Seeing the sweater, everyone praised Ma Ling, and then asked Zhao Jun to try on the sweater.
Zhao Jun put it on and the sweater was just right.
"Son, don't take it off, just wear it like this." Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun: "What a nice knitting Ling'er made for you!"
"Sister!" Zhao Ling said to Wang Meilan: "You go to the city today and help me carry a few kilograms of wool. I will also learn from you after you finish."
"I'll learn too." Xu Chunyan responded from the side.
"Then let's buy them all." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Let Ling'er teach us when we're done."
After Wang Meilan finished speaking, the Li family's mother and son and Li Tongyun came. As soon as Wang Meilan saw that everyone had arrived, she said to Ma Ling: "Ling'er, we are entering the city today, you can go for a walk with us."
"I'm not going, Auntie." Ma Ling was a little embarrassed, but she heard Zhao Chun say: "Let's go, Linger, which yarn do you know is good? Then help us choose."
"Let's go together, Sister Ling'er." Li Tongyun came over, pulled Ma Ling and said, "I'll take you for a walk."
They are of the same age and are girls, so they can really play together.
With so many people coaxing her, Ma Ling followed the crowd in a daze.
When they arrived outside the hospital, Wang Meilan commanded: "My lord, you drive. When we're done, Auntie, you and I, Sister Sun, sit in front."
The co-pilot gave way to the eldest old lady Xie Sun, while Wang Meilan and others got on the back of the car with a huff.
At this time, there were short and thick tree pillars in the trunk. Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and the others had put them up in advance. It was more comfortable to sit on them in the trunk.
The tree stump is thick and short and does not move when bumping in the car. It is better than a stool or something like that.
Jie Chen drove away from Zhao's house. When he was about to leave the village, Wang Meilan suddenly patted the car trunk twice.
Jie Chen braked quickly and heard Wang Meilan say to Ma Ling: "Ling'er, if you come with us, don't you tell your mother?"
"Oh, that's not good!" Ma Ling, who was feeling dizzy, finally realized that if she left like this, she wouldn't be able to find anyone at home for a whole day, so what's the point?
At this time, Wang Meilan rushed to the front and shouted: "Little minister, come to your Uncle Ma's house!"
Jie Chen agreed and drove towards Ma's house. When he was approaching Ma's house, Wang Meilan stopped the car again.
"I just remembered!" Wang Meilan said: "I stuffed my money pocket into the kang cabinet, so what... I have to go back and find it for Qiangzi. Otherwise, Qiangzi won't be able to find the money, and there's nothing he can do.
Check out people’s accounts.”
"Then go back quickly, Mom." After Zhao Jun finished speaking, Wang Meilan said to him: "I'll be at Uncle Ma's house in a while. You and Ling'er go up and call your aunt and Xiaoyang. Let's go for a walk in the city.
go."
"Okay, Mom." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Then we will wait for you in front of Uncle Ma's house."
Wang Meilan responded, got out of the trunk, and trotted home.
At the same time, Zhao Youcai also came out of Wang Fu's canteen and walked quickly home.