"Miss, are you sure this is your letter?" the postman asked again, as Rembrandt stared at the envelope for a long time.
"Yes …" It's mine, yes. " Ringpelin nodded quickly and reached for the register. "Sign here, don't you?"
Lying in the box with all the crooked writing, Ringpelin's writing was as elegant as her own, and as she returned it to the postman, Ringpelin felt an inexplicable sense of ceremony.
It was the first time she had received a letter from a man, and it was even a husband in name.
"Peran, look at the words. Leaving home for half a month felt like a long time. I had never been very far away before, and I didn't feel much about where I was going, but now I always felt that I was not used to it, that I was missing something. When you eat in the cafeteria, the taste is like chewing wax, always unconsciously think of your carefully prepared food. Indeed, it's just as I thought before. After eating the food you made, nothing else can enter your mouth. "Just like how I'm feeling right now, sitting under the lamp, thinking about you in my heart and mind …"
"Sis!" "See what I brought back!"
"No …." "It's nothing!"
Lin Pei Lan was startled by Lin Peiwen, and reflexively covered up the unfinished letter.
"Yellow eel!" I caught him by the edge of the field while he was eating his soup. " Lin Peiwen was ecstatic. He held up the eel that had been cut through his cheeks and gills and said happily, "I can eat fried garlic eel tonight. I want to add chili sauce!"
"Alright!" You put it in the bucket. I'll take care of it later. "
Lin Peiwen wanted to hide the letter without leaving a trace, but who would've thought that Lin Peiwen would see it?
"Sis, the postman just arrived. Could it be that brother-in-law wrote you a letter? "What did they say?"
"No …." "Nothing much!" Lin Pei Lan's face began to burn. She hurriedly put the letter away and sent Lin Peiwen off half-heartedly. "Just a few greetings, and your studies."
"What else? You didn't say anything nice to tease you? "
"Lin Peiwen!" Rinperan was scared to death by his younger brother, how could this stinking brat say such words? He wanted to cover it up, "These are all adults, who would write to coax! What nonsense are you spouting! "
"Sigh!" I've seen that brother-in-law still hasn't learnt the skill that Qiang-ge did to Feng Cheng Cheng! " Lin Peiwen sighed as he spoke. Seeing that Lin Pei Lan was about to lose her temper again, he quickly ran away. "I'll raise the eel and start a fire right away!"
Lin Peiwen ran back to the house to look for a bucket, leaving Lin Peran feeling as if he was being burned, especially with the letter in his pocket.
She had never imagined that Chen Jianguo would be so bold. It was a letter from home, and even more so a love letter, and the fiery words in it made her so frightened and confused that if Chen Jianguo were to appear in front of her right now, she didn't know if she would be scared to the point of running away.
Then there was Lin Peiwen. Just what had happened to that fellow? Why did he still learn how to coax women? He still despised Chen Jianguo for not having any feelings for him. He needed to be clear about this and not fall in love.
Lin Peiwen was really thinking too much. Lin Peiwen only said that casually. He was very good-looking, and there were quite a few girls who liked him in school, but none of them liked Lin Peiwen.
After returning to the kitchen to prepare the tea, Lin Peiwen did not have a good time. Lin Peiwen was not only his elder sister, but while his mother was not at home, she had taken on the role of a mother.
Now that she was afraid that Lin Peiwen really had an early love affair, she was busy stir-frying tea while earnestly listing out the disadvantages of her early love affair.
Lin Peiwen was extremely regretful. He had known earlier that he would not be so vulgar as to tease Chen Jianguo when he returned from his letter.
This was simply asking for trouble, Lin Peiwen said with a face full of tears, as if he was listening to Lin Peilan's advice.
Fortunately, cooking tea was a strenuous task, and when the time came, Rinperan's attention would be focused on the tea leaves, so he could not continue to talk about them.
While Lin was unburdening himself, he was also curious about what Chen had written that made him become like this.
But with eight of his guts, Lin did not dare to ask him what Chen Jianguo had written for fear that he would mention it again, and he began to emphasize the dangers of early love.
He only managed to cook all of yesterday's tea at around 4 PM. Today, he had to come at night since he still had some green tea left.
Having spent the whole day using her hands, Lin Pei-lan was a little tired. When everyone came to sell some fresh tea, Lin Youcai just came back. She had Lin Youcai order tea, Lin Peiwen wrote it down, and she paid for it.
Compared to the forty pounds of tea he had in the morning, the amount of tea he had in the afternoon was much less. Other than his auntie and Third Aunt who came back with the tea, only two or three families had brought tea.
It was impossible for them to be so few in the afternoon, and Ringpelin even waited for a while to see that the sky was getting darker. The families that his aunt had told him about in the morning did not come to sell raw tea, so he knew that they would not come.
"It's fine if no one comes. I'll go cook."
Perhaps other people would think that the town was too expensive, and they might not necessarily be able to force themselves to buy or sell it, even if they went there to sell it.
"You have to cook so many dishes by yourself, it's fine if you get less. Don't tire me out." His aunt exhorted him, and he also went back to cook.
Third Aunt was a playboy and spent the entire day on the mountain. She did not find anyone to talk to. She could not calm down and told her daughter to cook. She grabbed a handful of melon seeds and left.
When Granny Lin saw her like that, she couldn't help but say a few words. Unfortunately, the other party had already left, and only the people who stayed at home could hear.
"Third Aunt's temper is just like that. Anyway, she didn't disturb our family, so let's not talk too much, grandma."
"I don't think she can change! In the early days, when the three kids weren't born, there was an old fourth girl in front of them. At that time, she was extremely submissive with her tail tucked between her legs. "Where would I be like this? If I don't open the door, I can just stick my foot in …"
Lin Peifeng was nine years old now, and the cowardice of not having given birth to a son had long since dissipated. Third Aunt 's back was naturally stiff and straight.
"Elder, does this Yellow Eel want to cut its bones?" Or is it just going to be fired? " Ringpelin asked, changing the subject.
"That eel bone is also meat, what a pity to throw it away! Just cut it off and directly fire it. "
Granny Lin's attention was successfully diverted. Lin Peiwen had grabbed the eel which weighed at least a catty. Its body was as big as two of Lin Pei-lan's fingers. After she cut it into pieces, she cut it in half, and only then did the water boil.
He dug up a handful of spring onions from the yard, picked up some of the ginger that he had stewed last year, and cut some of the dried red chillies at Lin Peiwen's request.
After the onion, ginger, garlic, and the fragrance of them exploded, the Eel Slab that had just been washed was put into the pot and stewed for a while with some homemade wine.
This was a big dish. Usually, when his mother was at home, she would pour Lin Youcai a glass of wine. Now, Lin Pei-cai had forced Lin Youcai not to drink because he was afraid of being addicted to alcohol.
Grandma Lin also approved of what Lin Peran had said. Lin Youcai didn't have any ideas, so if he was told not to drink, he wouldn't drink. Besides, as he slowly walked out from the shadow of his wife running away from home these days, he didn't want to drink that much anymore.