The young couple joined hands and went to the water room specially set up for mother oysters to produce pearls. There was a row of faucets along the wall, and the groundwater pumped up from the bottom of the island did not freeze the hands at all. Even the plastic gloves customized by Xu Suizhu were not there.
Yes, it's not easy to work with that on.
Wu Meili took a few single workers who were not going home for the New Year this year and earned double wages on the island to sit in front of the faucet, prying the mother oysters and digging for pearls like an assembly line.
The three members of the Qu family dug a few pearls with Mrs. Lu. When they saw the pearls cut out by their own hands, they laughed again and again:
"This is the first time I have seen a freshly unearthed pearl. I never imagined that it could be so beautiful without processing, and that it could be used as jewelry just by washing it."
"No, I was extremely excited in my first year." Mrs. Lu recalled the scene of her first bead opening with emotion. At the end, she did not forget to show off the close relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, "As a filial piety, I cut myself open."
I gave those few as a gift, I’ll show them to you later.”
Hearing this, Qu's mother said enviously: "They say that the most difficult relationship in the world is the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. I believed this before, but now, I think the person who said this must have never seen the relationship between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
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"Haha!" Mrs. Lu smiled happily, "My two daughters-in-law are both very good. The eldest daughter-in-law is pregnant and is due in March. It is a critical time now, so I didn't come. We usually get together as a family."
Qu's mother became even more envious when she heard it.
She only has a daughter, Honglian, and her son-in-law is a scumbag. Even if she didn’t know his despicable deeds before, she didn’t see him caring much about his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Some of them were just full of calculations. So she never experienced the relationship between family members with a foreign surname.
Caring and considerate from the heart.
"That's great." Qu's mother was sincerely happy for Mrs. Lu.
"Oh, your Honglian is also very filial. She is still so young, and now the incurable disease has been eradicated. If you find another one in the future, I will definitely choose a filial and sincere son-in-law for you this time. Happiness is just delayed, no
Will he come?"
Listening to Mrs. Lu's words, Qu's mother smiled and nodded. The corner of her eye glanced at Xu Tiejun, who was concentrating on prying the mother shell. His movements were as agile as a skilled worker's. She couldn't help but think of his previous experience: living alone on a desert island.
After so many years, not only has he not been knocked down by bad luck, but he has become more powerful and charming after years of precipitation.
She couldn't help but compare her to her scumbag ex-son-in-law. If it was his ex-son-in-law who was blown to a deserted island by a typhoon, he would probably be dead in a few days. This thought made Qu's mother even more satisfied with Xu Tiejun.
When she came back to her senses, she saw Xu Tiejun putting the dug-out pearls on a plate. Her Honglian was imitating Wu Meili in washing pearls. Several times when she was picking up pearls, she accidentally touched Xu Tiejun's hand. The two parties involved
She didn't seem to take it seriously, but Qu's mother looked at it with a smile in her eyes.
He looked away and asked Mrs. Lu in a low voice: "My Honglian family really needs a set of pearl jewelry. I think these colors are quite beautiful. I don't know the price?"
Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "The price is negotiable, but it's just out of stock."
"Ah?" Qu's mother said in surprise, "Then these..."
"It's all booked. This year's products were all booked last year. Even next year's products are booked."
"It's so quiet!" Qu's mother smacked her tongue.
"Yes, there are really not a few pearls coming out this year, and all those guys are watching them eagerly. If it weren't for the pearls coming out later this year, and it's not a good time to travel far away on the New Year's Eve, otherwise they would have rushed here to keep an eye on the pearls.
"
After a pause, Mrs. Lu explained, "Of course, if the ratio of double beads is large, there will be a few left in the end. But it is unlikely that seawater pearls will have double beads, and double beads are smaller than single beads, so it is more convenient to make a necklace.
Okay, everyone likes single beads in pendants.”
Qu's mother nodded after hearing this: "Okay, then I'll line up and see when it's my turn to order a complete outfit for Honglian."
Mrs. Lu seemed to have heard something. She glanced in the direction of Qu Honglian and asked with a smile: "What? The dowry has been prepared? So you have found the right person? I'm here to say hello first."
Qu's mother thought about it and felt that Mrs. Lu was a good candidate for discussion, so she pulled her over and asked in a low voice: "I won't play tricks on you. What do you think of your in-laws?"
"puff……"
Mrs. Lu never expected that Qu’s mother’s favorite son-in-law would be her daughter-in-law’s father, her own father-in-law!
I almost choked and couldn't stop.
Qu's mother hurriedly recited it to her: "Why are you so excited? I just asked, but it hasn't happened yet!"
"Cough cough cough."
How can we adjust this as a title between each other?
"Mom? Aunt Qu? What's wrong with you?"
At this time, Xu Suizhu and his wife came in hand in hand.
"Nothing, nothing." The two female compatriots immediately cleared their throats and grabbed a mother shell and pretended to pry it.
Lu Chixiao glanced at his mother: "Mom, I held the screwdriver backwards."
"..."
Brat! Can’t you just pretend you didn’t see it?
"Ahem, I'm choking because of the wind in my throat. I'm going to drink a glass of water." Mrs. Lu threw away the screwdriver and stood up.
"Let's drink ginger tea. Dad Doudou has cooked a pot and I'll serve it."
Xu Suizhu brought ginger tea on a tea tray and distributed it to everyone one by one.
Qu's mother and Mrs. Lu exchanged glances, and the topic of choosing a son-in-law came to an end for the time being.
After packing up all the unearthed pearls in the afternoon, the group returned to the fishing village, where the two female compatriots sat together again.
Mrs. Lu really couldn't figure it out. It's not that her father-in-law was bad, he was really nice, but he was actually the daughter-in-law's father. There was a big age difference, right?
Qu's mother waved her hand disapprovingly: "It's only a ten-year age difference. And I noticed that his physical fitness is very good. It's such a cold day, and there is only a single coat under the coat. The coat is not thick. With such little clothes,
The tip of his nose was actually sweating when he was working, which shows that his body is really strong, and a young person may not be as good as him."
Mrs. Lu agrees with this.
"Not only is he in good health, but he is also very strong. He can easily carry a large tree trunk thicker than the mouth of a bowl in the ocean."
As he talked, he talked about the years Xu Tiejun spent on an isolated island, building more than ten tree houses with just his hands. If he didn't have some skills, he would never be able to do it.
The more I listen to the song, the more satisfied I become.
"The key is to be a good person. This child Honglian had a rough life before. Her health was not good and her relationship was not smooth. Now she is in good health and her marriage is clean. From now on, her father and I don't ask for anything else.
There is someone who really cares about her and will stay with her until old age. After all, we don’t have much time to spend with her..."
"Why are you saying these depressing words!" Mrs. Lu interrupted angrily, "Lao Lu and I are not much younger than you, aren't we also happy? We live on our own, you see.
How depressed was our family before? The eldest son was lying in the hospital, the second son was in the wind and rain, and always came back with injuries. The old man's health was also not good. Isn't everything fine now? Don't worry! Honglian is a child.
The blessing has arrived and everything will be fine in the future."