Chapter 293 Make a Fried Dumpling Together on New Year's Eve
Chapter 293 Let’s make fried dumplings together on New Year’s Eve
The door was opened from the outside, and the sound of walking was accompanied by the sound of breathing.
Bai Lu held Xiao Jinbao with her right hand and anxiously asked into the room: "Xiao Wu?"
Su Zhiyuan followed his mother and sister.
"Mom," Su Xiaosi ran to his mother, "Xiao Wu was found by his father. He is in the kitchen now. Mom, don't worry."
Bai Lu walked to the kitchen and saw Xiao Wu and his father together.
"Xiao Wu, did you bite someone at Jinghai Hotel?" She couldn't help but ask.
"Bite?" Xiao Wu's brothers were surprised.
Su Zhiyuan said: "This is what an aunt downstairs told us when we went home just now."
Su Jianmin hurriedly explained to Xiao Wu why he bit someone, saying, "You can't blame Xiao Wu for this, it's because that girl from the Bai family is too bad."
Bai Lu was stunned, "Bai family?"
"I suspect that the person Xiao Wu bit was his second cousin. If I remember correctly, her name seems to be Bai Xing."
"Ah? It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Su Zhiyuan was surprised, "Xiao Wu bit his uncle's daughter?"
Su Wennian remembered that he had only met his cousin Bai Mei at his uncle's house, but never his cousins Bai Ying and Bai Xing.
According to their aunt, they were sent to Jinghai City Girls' School, a closed management school, and they didn't go home more than a few times a year.
"Fifth brother..."
Jinbao stepped forward and took her fifth brother's hand, "Did that bad sister hurt you?"
Looking into his sister's concerned eyes, Su Xiaowu smiled and shook his head, "No, my head is very hard. She hit me and it didn't hurt at all."
Knowing that the person bitten might be her brother's daughter, Bai Lu was stunned for a while.
After hearing Jin Bao's words, she came back to her senses and looked at Xiao Wu with distress in her eyes.
For four years, she failed to take care of him as a mother. Just a few days after he came home, she failed to take good care of him, causing him to go to a restaurant to beg for leftover chicken drumsticks.
"Xiao Wu, if you want to eat chicken legs, mom will find a way to buy them for you. From now on, don't run out alone and never come home, okay? We are all very worried about you." Bai Lu bent down and said.
Compared with the tone when talking to Jin Bao, Su Xiaowu's voice was much colder when he looked at his mother.
He said: "Dad just bought chicken legs for me to eat, you don't need to buy any more."
Bai Lu felt sad again when she heard him call Jianmin "Dad" and address herself as "You".
At night, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and made Su Jianmin, who was sleeping next to her, unable to sleep. "What's wrong with you? Are you suffering from insomnia?"
"Why does Xiao Wu dislike me so much?" Bai Lu said sadly, "He calls you dad, but he doesn't call me mom."
Su Jianmin laughed, "I thought you were thinking about something, but it turned out to be this."
"Is it because you bought him chicken legs?" Bai Lu thought seriously, "How about I buy him chicken legs tomorrow?"
"Do you know how much a chicken drumstick costs in that restaurant? How can our family have so much money?"
Thinking of the money and food stamps he spent on chicken legs tonight, Su Jianmin felt distressed and said: "It's finally been possible to buy vegetables without having to eat wild vegetables. I don't want to be so poor that I have to dig wild vegetables in the mountains."
"If I could let Xiao Wu call me mom, I would eat wild vegetables every day."
"My silly wife, stop thinking nonsense, Xiao Wu will call you mom sooner or later." Su Jianmin hugged Bai Lu into his arms.
Jinbao was sleeping in a small bed nearby, listening to the conversation between his parents and wondering how he could get his fifth brother to call him mom.
Just ask him to call?
Isn’t it good? I feel like it’s better not to rush into this kind of thing, otherwise it may be counterproductive.
After thinking about it for a while, she decided that she should just let nature take its course, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
The next few days were uneventful.
Su Jianmin was originally worried that Bai Xing would run home to complain and her mother, Xu Fengjiao, would definitely come and make trouble. But he didn't expect that he was overly worried. It's been almost a week and not a single person from the Bai family has been seen.
On the other hand, Wu Yinghong came to make trouble several times, saying that Su Xiaowu had beaten her, but when everyone asked her where she was beaten, she blushed and refused to tell.
"Xiao Wu's slingshot is still locked by me," Bai Lu said, "he can't hit you."
Lin Yulan helped, "Yes, we saw Lulu lock up the slingshot that day."
After she finished speaking, she questioned Wu Yinghong, "Besides, when I asked you where you were beaten, you didn't tell me. I saw that your face and hands were all fine, and it didn't look like you were beaten."
The neighbors thought she was right, "Daughter-in-law of the Lin family, are you deliberately looking for trouble because Xiao Wu didn't apologize to you last time?"
"As an adult, you worry about your children all the time. Isn't this not good?"
Wu Yinghong was embarrassed to say that she had been spanked, and she could not prove that she had been spanked, so she could only remain silent and eat Coptis chinensis.
Time flies by and New Year's Eve is here.
Except for Su Xiaowu, the other children gathered around Bai Lu and helped her make fried dumplings.
Watching her mother knead the glutinous rice flour soaked in sugar water into a round ball, Su Xiaosi asked curiously: "Mom, what exactly are fried balls? You have never done it before."
"When your mother and I were young, the aunt who lived in my house as a domestic helper was a Hakka. She would make fried dumplings for us every time during the New Year."
Bai Lu recalled: "The fried dumplings are crispy on the outside and sweet, waxy and fragrant on the inside. I like eating them very much, so I asked my aunt, why are they called fried dumplings?
She told me that fried dumplings represent reunion. In the past, our family was missing Xiao Wu, so I didn’t make them. This year, Xiao Wu went home, and our family was finally reunited, so I made fried dumplings for everyone to eat.”
"Xiao Wu, did you hear that?" Su Xiaosi shouted to his fifth brother, "Mom makes fried dumplings because of you. Come over and help make them together..."
Su Xiaojun said he didn't hear it.
At this time, he was helping his father hold the chair, looking up at his father pasting two red Spring Festival couplets on the wall.
"Xiao Wu, go and help your mother. I don't need to help here." Su Jianmin said to his youngest son.
Su Xiaowu shook his head, "I have to hold on to the chair, otherwise the chair will shake and you will fall off, dad."
When his father finished pasting the Spring Festival couplets and pasted the words "blessing" everywhere in the house, he followed them like a little tail.
"It's strange, why does Xiao Wu like dad so much?" Su Zhiyuan said doubtfully.
His fourth brother explained, "Xiao Wu said he doesn't like girls and prefers to play with boys."
Seeing a hint of sadness in his mother's eyes, Xiao Jinbao handed her a kneaded glutinous rice dumpling, "Mom, look, little piggy."
Bai Lu couldn't help but laugh when she saw Jin Bao kneading the fried round balls into the shape of a pig.
Jinbao's brothers came forward and laughed, "Jinbao, this pig you pinched is so funny, isn't it? The nose is so long, hahaha..."
Jinbao thought to himself that he was pinching Peppa Pig, so his nose was so long, like a hair dryer.
Su Xiaowu heard their laughter and was curious about what Jin Bao had pinched. He ran to the round table and was amused by the piglet Jin Bao pinched at a glance.
"I also want to play with this," Su Xiaowu asked his mother, "Is it okay?"
Bai Lu's eyes shone with joy and she nodded quickly, "Of course you can, Xiao Wu, you can make it look like anything you want."