"Excuse me." Tian Jianshe held the handkerchief tightly and glanced at Lin Lan with a disappointed face, "You are not my type!" After saying that, he pulled his mother and turned around and left.
Lin Lan looked at Tian Jianshe's twisting waist, and her heart was filled with 10,000 grass and mud horses.
When Yang Lirong saw Tian's cousin mother and son leaving, she turned around and chased after them.
After delaying for a long time, the time to sleep passed. Lin Lan closed the door and went to the old lady's place to pick up Douzi. Only then did he find out that she had taken Douzi to the Public Security Bureau to play.
She went home and took out the red beans soaked in the basin and poured the big white beans into the pot. She pushed aside the dust covering the coals in the stove and added two shovels of coals on top. After a while, the charcoal fire slowly started to burn.
After Lin Lan waited for the fire in the stove to light up, she took the basin to the eaves of the steps. Before she sat down, Yang Liying came: "Second sister came to me to complain, saying that you were unreasonable and scolded Cousin Tian away.
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"..." Lin Lan told her what happened.
Yang Liying curled her lips after hearing this: "I told her this and she still bites her. She deserves to be slapped in the face!"
Lin Lan smiled and said: "Third sister, Sister Zhou said it will rain tomorrow and I am going to go back to my parents' house. I will give you the key. Please help me look after the house for one night and help feed the pigs and chickens.
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"No problem, I'll take care of it." Yang Liying said with a smile, "I also want to trouble you with something. When you get home, help me ask my uncles in law if they can receive the beans?"
It's not okay to bring Dandan to eat. If someone finds out, they will definitely gossip about Dingbang.
The old lady said angrily: "Then you don't have to send it."
"It's so thick!" Lin Lan put the meat into the vegetable basket, smiled and took out the money and gave it to him, "Excuse me, Master Li."
Li Xiangyang took off the bamboo basket from the clothes hanger and pulled out three fat pieces of meat two fingers thick. He handed it to Lin Lan with a smile: "The ones I killed just this morning are still steaming."
"Okay!" Lin Lan agreed readily.
The aunt and sister-in-law were ready to go out, and the old lady came back with Douzi and Dandan in hand.
These days, the family only has a small amount of rations. The old lady doesn't want anything, and it's hard for her to send more beans.
When he looked up, he saw Li Xiangyang holding an umbrella in one hand and holding the car faucet in the other, stopping the car and putting his foot on the ground.
What's more, the old lady helped carry the beans, which saved Lin Lan a lot of effort, even if he was raising the old lady.
The old lady smiled and nodded: "I haven't been back for several years, so it's time to go back and have a look."
Lin Lan watched the two children happily running to read the doll book, and said to the old lady: "Uncle, we are setting up a stall. There is also a piece of salted pork belly in the bowl. You think it is stir-fried?"
Fry the meat with salt or cook it again?”
Lin Lan and Yang Liying thought they had persuaded the old lady, so they left with their things on their backs.
The mother and son had finished eating, packed up, and were preparing to go to the eucalyptus forest to get meat under their umbrellas. When they closed the courtyard door and turned around, they heard the sound of bicycle bells.
When the aunt and sister-in-law returned home, they saw that the courtyard door had been locked.
When I walked to the back door, I saw an old man and two children sitting around a small dining table, already having dinner.
Yang Liying asked: "Uncle, won't Dandan go to school?"
Lin Lan said angrily: "Really, how much can one Dandan child eat?"
She set up a stall for a few days and knew that Lin Lan could earn more than ten yuan a day.
Dandan took the kidney bean roll and looked at the old lady: "Grandma, I like to live at home. I have Brother Douzi and Brother Xiaokai to play with at home. The police compound is not fun."
Lin Lan smiled and said: "Okay, isn't it okay if I don't hand over the money?"
Lin Lan waited for Xiaodouzi to finish his meal, then came out from the old lady's house and led him back. As soon as he got home, it started to drizzle.
Xiaodouzi looked at her happily: "Third aunt, I'm going to grandma's house. I haven't been to grandma's house yet!"
Yang Liying also advised her: "Uncle, just listen to Lin Lan. You can have company when you eat together."
When the old lady saw that both of them really wanted to stay with her, she smiled and waved her hands: "Stop being so nagging, let's quickly set up a stall."
Yang Liying helped cut the orchid beans, and Zhao Dehai also came over to help grind the beans.
"Alas!" the old lady sighed: "Aunt Dingbang went home to take her grandson, and my legs can't climb the stairs, so I might as well bring Dandan home."
After the two people left, the old lady scooped out a bowl of rice and steamed it in the pot for Lin Lan, then went home with Xiaodouzi and Dandan.
After Xiaodouzi was born, it was Yang Lao who went back to announce the good news. The two elders asked Brother Lin and his wife to bring the confinement gift and leave it at the door before leaving.
Food is extremely cheap now. Rice only costs 16 cents per catty from Li Wu and others, and a hundred catties of rice only costs more than ten yuan.
"Yes!" Lin Lan said, "I will come back the day after tomorrow. I asked my third sister to take care of my house."
After closing the stall, Lin Lan went to Li Wu to buy a few packets of brown sugar, and then went to Li Xiangyang to ask him to deliver a few kilograms of meat to the eucalyptus forest tomorrow morning.
Lin Lan carried the meat into the yard, packed the things and Yang Liying came over.
Lin Lan took out the kidney bean rolls and gave them to the two children, and grabbed some fruit candies for them.
Lin Lan got up early the next morning and made kidney bean rolls and orchid beans. After making breakfast, he woke up Xiaodouzi and put him into new clothes and shoes made by Wu Shufen.
"Go and finish the meal!" Lin Lan smiled and patted his head, then entered the room and looked at the old lady, "Uncle, if you don't eat at my house, I will eat the beans at your place from now on, and I have to pay you for the food."
Wu Shufen hugged the original owner and cried until she died. It was the first time she shed tears of regret in front of her parents.
The original owner escaped from home and lived with Yang Laoyao. When his parents found him, he was pointed at by the people on the team, which made the entire Lin family unable to hold their heads up in the team.
She knew that Lin Lan could earn more than 20 yuan a day now, but that was all hard-earned money. She got up every day when the rooster crowed, and it was dark and she was still washing clothes and feeding pigs.
Lin Lan knew that the violent old lady had gone home, so she opened the courtyard door and let Yang Liying into the house. She turned around and went to the old lady's house.
Her father was so angry that he gave her a beating and told her that she was willing to debase herself.
Xiaodouzi saw Lin Lan happily coming to the door: "Mom, grandma has steamed egg custard for us to eat."
Sometimes the beans are eaten at her place for lunch, so if she eats them at Lin Lan's house, it won't cost her much.
"I also like Brother Dandan to come back and live." Xiaodouzi quickly confessed.
She swore that she would never beg from the Shilian Brigade in the future. Sure enough, ever since she got married, even if Yang Laoyao beat her, she would never go home to complain.
The old lady shook her head repeatedly: "I won't eat it with you if I bring it with me."
It wasn't until Yang Laoyao died that the two elders came to visit with their two sons after receiving the news.
"I sent pig trotters to Grandma Yang, and I brought them to you by the way." Li Xiangyang took them with a smile, stretched out his hand to knead the little beans that looked at him curiously, then got on the car and walked towards the stone bridge.
"Okay, okay!" the old lady said repeatedly, "I will live at home from now on."
Yang Liying smiled and touched his cheek, "Xiaodouzi looks so good today!" She said to Lin Lan, "The road is very wet. I will carry Xiaodouzi on my back and take you to the station!"
Lin Lan smiled and nodded: "If you don't tell me, I want you to send us off."
"Come and hug me!"
Yang Liying smiled and bent down to pick up Xiaodouzi, and the three of them went out together.
After exiting the alley, turn right and walk for more than a quarter of an hour to the bus station.