Lin Lan took a bath comfortably and came out of the room with her dirty clothes. Wu Shufen cooked a bowl of egg noodles for her.
Golden poached eggs, emerald green chopped green onions, a big spoonful of sesame seeds, and drizzled with sea pepper, sesame oil and Sichuan pepper oil.
Lin Lan finished a large bowl of noodles in no time, not even the soup was left. He took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, sighing: "It feels so good to eat it warm."
Wu Shufen looked at her distressedly and wiped her hair with a towel: "Didn't you get anything to eat on the way?"
Lin Yuezhen nodded repeatedly, feeling that she must not have eaten enough in the past few days.
Qiaohui picked up the noodle bowl and saw that the soup was all gone: "That's right, my cousin has never eaten so fast as today."
Lin Lan smiled and shook his head: "These days, I spend less time on the ground and more time in the car. The food in the car is really unpalatable."
She and Liu Da got on the train from Yangcheng Railway Station and felt that the food in the dining car was not as good as instant noodles.
Wu Shufen thought about it and said, "How can I find anything at home that suits me when I'm away from home? Has Xiang Yang returned to his house?"
Lin Lan leaned on the back of the chair, and Wu Shufen wiped her gently, making her drowsy: "Xiang Yang hasn't arrived yet..."
Wu Shufen saw her falling asleep leaning against the back of the chair. Looking at the blue color in her eyes, she patted Lin Lan awake distressedly: "Xiao Lan, go to bed and sleep."
"I'm tired, lazy, hungry, panicky, hot and sleepy!" Lin Lan muttered and walked to the room with squinted eyes. She felt very sleepy when she got home, so she lay down on the bed, hit her head on the pillow and fell asleep.
Wu Shufen took a look into the room and saw that she was sleeping deeply. She quietly went out and closed the door. She smiled and said, "Asleep."
Qiaohui lowered her voice: "Cousin is exhausted."
Wu Shufen took scissors and a bench, and sat in front of the big wooden basin. Together with Lin Yuezhen Qiaohui, they sat around in front of the big wooden basin and started cutting beans.
Yesterday, a customer ordered more than thirty bags of orchid beans and seventy or eighty pea cakes.
Brother Yong carried a bucket of fish into the kitchen: "Auntie, the fish caught by Uncle Li will be brought to you to eat."
Wu Shufen saw that there were crucian carp and two mullet fish in the bucket. The mullet fish was very fierce. She didn't know what hook her parents used to catch. She also thought about the mullet fish as a complement to others, so she cooked soup for Lin Lan at night.
"Thank you father-in-law for me." Wu Shufen took the bucket, walked two steps and then turned back and said, "Xiaolan is back, and Xiangyang will arrive in two days."
Brother Yong felt that it was time for the two of them to come back and said with a smile: "Let's see what good things they have when they come back?"
He asked Li Xiangyang to bring back two sets of decent clothes for him and Lin Yuezhen to wear on the day of their wedding.
Qiao Hui smiled and said, "My cousin fell asleep before she finished speaking."
Lin Yuezhen brought a chair for him to sit on and gestured: "Are you done with the business at the market?"
Brother Yong shook his head: "Don't sit down anymore, Zhigang went to the slaughterhouse, and I have to be busy going back to the clothing factory."
Wu Shufen said to Lin Yuezhen: "Yuezhen, go see Ayong off."
"Auntie, there's no need to send him off, I'll go back in a hurry." After that, Brother Yong strode out and pushed the bicycle away.
Wu Shufen and the others loaded the goods for Brother Wang Zhixue, sent the two of them off, and started loading the goods to set up the stall. Lin Lan also woke up and got up.
Qiaohui walked out with a basket in one hand. When she saw her coming out, she smiled and said, "Cousin, you can rest at home for the day, and I'll set up a stall."
"Okay, I promised Xiaodouzi that I would wait for him to come back at home." Lin Lan tied her braided hair with a rubber band, washed her hands, and went to help move the goods to the cart.
After loading the goods, Qiaohui carried the cloth bag and went to the eucalyptus forest with Lin Yuezhen.
Wu Shufen happily said to Lin Lan: "My father-in-law asked Ayong to send crucian carp and two black sticks. In the evening we will eat crucian carp with wolfberry and black stick fish soup."
"Okay," Lin Lan said, thinking that Yang Liying, who had undergone surgery, was still in confinement, "Mom, I will send a mullet fish to the third sister."
"It's good for people who have undergone surgery to eat mullet fish. I'll catch it for you." Wu Shufen went to the backyard in a hurry, caught a mullet fish, put it in a net bag and gave it to Lin Lan, "Are you going to ride there?"
Lin Lan nodded and took the net bag, and rode towards Yang Liying's house. When she reached the brigade, she saw Zhao Dehai carrying tofu and tofu: "Third brother-in-law, are you going to set up a stall?"
Zhao Dehai, who was busy walking, looked up and saw Lin Lan: "When did you come back?"
Lin Lan felt that Zhao Dehai seemed to have aged after not seeing each other for a few days: "I came back at noon, and I gave a mullet fish to make soup for the third sister."
"Thank you! Liying is at home, you go over first, I have to set up a stall." Zhao Dehai said and left in a hurry.
Lin Lan glanced at Zhao Dehai who was walking in a hurry carrying a load, got on the car and left.
When she arrived at Yang Liying's house, she saw that the courtyard door was ajar. Lin Lan knocked on the door and pushed her bicycle in.
Yang Liying, wearing a hat made of pillow towels, came out of the room. When she saw Lin Lan coming in, she smiled happily: "You're back! Who did I think it was!"
"Hmm!" Lin Lan took the net bag off the faucet of the car: "I'll bring the mullet fish sent by Dad Xiangyang to make soup for you."
She found that Yang Liying's face was pale and she felt that her complexion was even worse than when she had just had surgery.
Yang Liying looked at her angrily and smiled: "I brought you food, and you brought it to me."
Lin Lan glanced at her and carried the fish to the kitchen: "How are you? Are you recovering well?"
Yang Liying smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe it's because I'm older. I feel that after an operation, my health is much worse than before. I feel exhausted after pushing half a pot of beans."
She never wanted to taste the feeling of being slaughtered again, so she simply had a vasectomy after the miscarriage.
Lin Lan thought she might have lost energy and blood, so she thought for a moment and looked at her: "Go see a Chinese medicine doctor, or buy some angelica and astragalus to stew chicken."
"All the chicken Dehai you sent was killed and stewed for me to eat, and two of the hens at home were also killed." Yang Liying laughed at herself, "This time I have two little girls to eat during the confinement period.
It’s okay, but I still feel tired.”
Lin Lan felt that she still couldn't let go, so she persuaded softly: "Third sister, it's not that you don't want him, it's that the policy doesn't allow it. This has happened. It's important to relax your mind and take good care of your body."
Yang Liying's eye circles turned red immediately. She pulled Lin Lan to sit on a chair, tears streaming down her face, "The child I finally had, gave away his life like this."
Yang Liying beat her chest, "I always hear someone calling me mom in the middle of the night, saying he is cold, saying he is in pain. My heart hurts like a knife."
Lin Lan looked at her and remembered that she had always dreamed of having a child. She understood the pain in Yang Liying's heart and patted her on the shoulder: "Third sister, you are thinking about things day by day and dreaming about things at night."
"You can't go on like this. You have to think about the fact that you still have Xiaoyun and Xiaoli. They are still young and they need you, the mother, to protect them from the wind and rain."