The Ciba for Chinese new year must be made. In previous years, when I was at my mother's home, I used to beat it with wooden fear and stone mortar. Now in the city, I use machines.
Lin Peilan went to the street and bought more than 30 jin of glutinous rice. After soaking it, he steamed it. He didn't soak it too long. The steaming time was a little long. If he could not finish all the Ciba, he took half of it to make wine.
Chen's mother can't do these things. She looks at Lin Peilan, grinds Wine Koji and washes jars. She also comes to help. For a moment, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along well.
When Chen Jianguo got home, he had a room full of glutinous rice. His mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were not at home. Glutinous rice was still steaming on the coal stove in the courtyard to make wine.
After receiving Lin Peilan's phone call, he said that his mother was ill. Chen Jianguo didn't care what he said at the beginning. Anyway, the holiday had been approved. He cleaned up and came back.
At home, the pot is still steaming rice, which means that people have not gone far away. Put things down and he goes out to look for them.
Sure enough, I didn't go far. I saw a lot of people gathered under the big banyan tree. I saw the steaming heat from a distance.
It turns out that today everyone is processing glutinous rice to make Ciba. Chen Jianguo has already seen his daughter-in-law and mother.
Seeing that his mother's figure was flexible, her work was quick, and she was not sick at all, he knew it in his heart.
It's all a family. He insists on it just to protect Lin Peilan and prevent her from being hurt by her family. Now he can let go of the past and live in harmony. This is what he likes most.
"Oh! Jianguo is back! You haven't been back for a long time
"Just got home, Granny Li stirred Ciba too!"
It's rare to see Chen Jianguo come back. They all look at their grown-up neighbors. Of course, they all come to say hello. Chen Jianguo responds one by one.
Lin Peilan was surprised to hear his voice. When he was surrounded by his aunts and aunts, he couldn't help laughing.
"Jianguo must have not had a meal when he came back at this time. I'll go back and have a look at the steamed glutinous rice at home."
Chen's mother was overjoyed. She and her daughter-in-law got along well. Sure enough, her son went home, and she was going to go back.
"Good. Mom, you and Jianguo, you go back first! I'll be back in a minute. "
Parents love their children. Of course, Lin Peilan won't stop her. There are so many Ciba left and right. We all look at it here and have a look. There are not many Ciba left and right. She can take it back.
"Forget it, let's go back together!"
After queuing up for such a long time, it was their turn to process Ciba. Chen's mother decided to stay.
"Mom, you go back with Perrin. I'll be here."
"How tired you are to come back now. Go back first. We'll be back soon."
"Not tired. Pelan, give me the bucket. "
Chen Jianguo finally came from everyone's encirclement and naturally took the bucket in Lin Peilan's hand.
Lin Peilan raised her eyes to see the man close at hand. She came back for more than a month. How could she feel that she hadn't seen him for a long time? How could she miss him? How could she feel her sight at the moment.
Chen Jianguo was aware of her sight, as if all the words were gathered in that eye.
Everything is in silence, you will know each other's thoughts in the heart.
"Good boy, go back!"
Chen Jianguo's gentle voice made Lin Peilan's face hot. She nodded in a hurry and then shook her head.
"You don't know how to do it. It's all stuck together when you get home. I'll watch it here! "
At last, none of the three people went back. The young couple cooperated with each other in processing Ciba, while Chen's mother came alive and chatted with her neighbors.
When Ciba is ready, it's busy to take it home. Before fried noodles, Lin Peilan has done it, putting orange peel with orange fragrance.
"Each bowl is so big that it looks good."
I can't see that Lin Peilan does it by herself. Naturally, Chen Jianguo and Chen's mother come to help, but it's the first time for them to do it. They are not as agile as Lin Peilan.
No matter how busy you are with your work, it seems that we are not so embarrassed together. It seems that those detailed disagreements in the past have never happened.
When the glutinous rice outside is steamed and Chen Jianguo is around, Lin Peilan doesn't need to do it by himself. He is asked to pour it into the basin to cool it before putting it in the jar.
In the past, Chen's mother would be very unhappy, but now she's in a different mood. Think about Lin Peilan's ability to carve her belly and show her half liver. Such a pure and filial child is rare in the world, and she doesn't look so uncomfortable.
Lin took the opportunity to fry peanuts and sesame seeds, cut dates and put them in glutinous rice. He fried them with lard, which was very fragrant.
After dinner and a bowl of egg soup, Chen Jianguo's tiredness disappeared.
"You go for a walk. I'll do the rest."
As soon as the couple got together, Chen's mother didn't want to be a bad mother-in-law, so she sent them to live on their own.
Chen Jianguo takes a look at Lin Peilan. His daughter-in-law is so good at this skill that she was subdued by her mother in a few days. It's really rare.
"Mom, it's quick to work together."
Want to two people back upstairs, this private get along must go too far, Lin Peilan or embarrassed.
Isn't it just a dishwasher?
After the house cleaning, these things are easy to do. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wash dishes in the kitchen, and Chen Jianguo himself is dragging a mop in the living room.
"Perrin, mom used to be a bull's-eye. Now it's changed, and you don't have to be afraid that I'm getting sick. "
When Chen's mother said this, she was still a little uncomfortable. However, when her son came back this time, she didn't mention that he was willing to reconcile. She didn't have the heart to embarrass her son any more and didn't want to live the life of separation between husband and wife.
In the heart also clear own not right, all is that what menopause harms, lets her many times all not be able to control own mood.
Now I am looking at the bustling, smoking home, looking at my son, thinking about what Lin Peilan said that day.
Lin Peilan so big an operation down, can recover so well, is not the son carefully care out of it?
Looking at her son's white sideburns, she was distressed before, but now she really understands that if she doesn't feel deeply, how can she be sad.
Looking back on the incredible things that she had done since her son got married for more than a year, Chen's mother was afraid.
Fortunately, she had a sensible husband, so she didn't let the family break up.
"Mom, I know it's not easy for you to cultivate such a good son. Now Jianguo and I are husband and wife. You have to believe me. Apart from working hand in hand, I will never drag him down. "
Lin Peilan would not have said this before. Now that Chen's mother has said something regretful in front of her, she has to say something, right?
Chen's mother choked her throat. What she cared about in her heart was that she knew clearly that her son married her in such a hurry without anger. She couldn't accept that she was always in a strong style. That's why so many things happened later.
Although Lin Peilan's background is not good, but willing to learn and progress, that is not easy, very rare thing.