sbdcsierra Chapter 1374: Ma Ling's sweater knitting craze
Chapter 1374: Ma Ling's sweater knitting craze
Chapter 1374: Ma Ling's sweater knitting craze
Zhao Jun thought his father was trying to persuade him to transfer his job again.
But what Zhao Jun didn't expect was that after lying down, Zhao Youcai only chatted with Zhou Jianjun for a few words about Zhao Chun and Zhou Tao, and then turned over and fell asleep.
Zhao Jun was quite puzzled by his actions. He stared with his eyes wide open and could not sleep for half the night.
It was not until about one o'clock in the middle of the night that Zhao Jun fell asleep.
The next morning, just after five o'clock, Zhao Youcai and Zhou Jianjun got up. Zhao Jun got up yawning, and when he came out of the inner room to wash his face, he saw Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun rolling out dough and wrapping stuffing in front of the panel.
Yesterday, Wang Meilan mixed a lot of dough and stuffing. After making dumplings, she distributed them to everyone and asked each family to choose which one to eat this morning. Whether to eat dumplings, buns, or pie, it all depends on their own taste.
At this time, Zhao Youcai came back from the toilet, and Wang Meilan, who had a mysophobia, said to him, "Go wash your hands, and then pick up some soybeans and go to the tofu shop to exchange for tofu pudding."
Zhao Youcai agreed, and then he heard Wang Meilan continue to mutter: "The pot is occupied today, so there will be no porridge."
"Hey, Mom." Zhao Jun, who was wiping his face with a towel, called out to Wang Meilan and said, "Shall we buy a rice cooker?"
Wang Meilan was immediately interested when she heard this and asked, "Son, does that thing work?"
"The braised rice may not be as good as the big pot we have at home." Zhao Jun said, "But since this pot is occupied, we can just use that to make some porridge."
"That's fine..." Wang Meilan had just opened her mouth when she heard Zhao Youcai, who was carrying soybeans in front of the bowl rack, say, "You two are such spendthrifts. You spend money on that stuff when you can't even afford porridge."
Wang Meilan glared at Zhao Youcai, and Zhao Jun said, "Dad, you don't know. In the summer, if we put rice in the rice cooker and don't light a fire in the house, it won't be so hot. After that, we can make some pickled vegetables to eat, won't it be cool?"
There was nothing wrong with what Zhao Jun said, although there was a partition between the big stove and the kang in the east room. When it was hot, the partition was plugged in, and then the stove pit was lit, and the kang in the room would not get hot.
But in the summer, it's still hot even if there's no fire in the house, and it's even hotter if you use a fire to cook.
But Zhao Youcai stood up after picking up the soybeans, raised his hand and waved outside the house, saying: "Isn't there a big pot outside? Let's cook outside in the summer!"
After Zhao Youcai said this, Zhao Jun fell silent. Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "Go and get your tofu pudding!"
Zhao Youcai carried the basin and the flashlight and walked away.
After Zhao Youcai left, Zhao Chun, who was rolling out the pie, smiled and said to Wang Meilan, "Mom, my dad is more talkative now than before."
In Zhao Chun's memory, her father was a taciturn man. Just like what happened just now, in the past, Zhao Youcai would only say two words: "I won't buy it."
As for family matters, as long as Zhao Youcai expressed his opinion, Wang Meilan would definitely listen to him.
Zhao Chun didn't know when her father's position in the family changed. Things that used to be settled with just two words now required a lot of words. Even so, it was still unclear whether anyone would listen to him.
"Your dad's day." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Maybe he disturbed it."
"Hey, Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun walked to Wang Meilan and whispered a few words into her ear.
Zhao Chun leaned over to listen, and she knew that her brother was not carrying her on his back, but Zhou Jianjun.
And it wouldn’t be a big deal. Most likely, her father was just trying to make trouble and was afraid of being laughed at by Zhou Jianjun.
"No way?" After hearing this, Wang Meilan stared at Zhao Jun with wide eyes, and Zhao Chun also stared with small eyes.
"Mom, have you forgotten?" Zhao Jun asked back, "The two times we went to the city, he sneaked up the mountain. One time, he left my two sisters at home and didn't even cook for us at noon."
That's right, Zhao Jun once again complained about Zhao Youcai in front of Wang Meilan. But he was not retaliating, but was afraid that Zhao Youcai would be in danger.
Since Zhao Youcai did not mention the job transfer last night, Zhao Jun suspected that there was something wrong because it was not in line with his father's character.
Zhao Jun pondered for half the night before he realized that his father might go after the harmful brown bear.
Zhao Jun had not told anyone about the brown bear chasing him yesterday. It was not because he was afraid of being laughed at, but because he was afraid that Wang Meilan at home would miss him when he went up the mountain.
Zhao Jun didn't say anything about the evil nature of the brown bear, but he knew that chasing the bear was a very dangerous thing.
Especially today, Wang Meilan is going to take men, women, young and old into the city, leaving only Wang Qiang and his wife at home.
Wang Qiang stayed behind to deal with people who came to sell hides or buy hunting rifles. It was impossible for him to go up the mountain with Zhao Youcai.
Based on Zhao Jun's understanding of Zhao Youcai, Zhao Youcai would definitely go after the brown bear alone.
This is very dangerous!
"This old bastard!" Wang Meilan was furious when she mentioned the past, but she was afraid that her son-in-law would hear her, so she lowered her voice and said, "You only get to show off once a day!"
At this point, Wang Meilan said in a desperate tone, "Don't bother with him. Let him do whatever he wants."
Wang Meilan had no choice but to let the man in the family disobey her. She said she wanted to kick Zhao Youcai out of the house out of anger. If she really did that, her whole family would be laughed at by the whole forest farm.
"Mom, we can't just ignore him." Zhao Jun really didn't mean to be mean. He was a little scared when he thought of the scene of being chased by a brown bear yesterday. If it weren't for Wei Lai and Jiang Ming's three dogs giving him a chance, Zhao Jun would have suffered a great loss yesterday.
Zhao Jun continued to say to Wang Meilan: "The blind bear kicked two people. It said, try not to hit it."
Last year, after Jiang Zemin launched a bomb to hunt a bear but was killed in a counterattack, Zhu Dajiang wanted to ask Zhao Jun for help. Zhao Jun had the same concerns at that time.
He is not talking nonsense; this is something passed down from older generations of hunters.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Wang Meilan rarely spoke to Zhao Jun in a bad tone, saying, "He won't listen, what can I do?"
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, waved to Wang Meilan, then put his mouth close to Wang Meilan's ear and said something.
When Wang Meilan heard this, her eyes lit up instantly, while Zhao Chun smiled and hit Zhao Jun on the shoulder.
……
Zhao Youcai came out of his home, holding the basin in one hand and holding a flashlight in the other, and walked towards the tofu shop.
Halfway through the journey, Zhao Youcai saw a flashlight from the opposite side, and then heard a familiar voice: "Brother, what are you doing?"
"Dayong." Zhao Youcai said, "I'll go get some tofu pudding."
"Don't go." Li Dayong, who was walking towards them, said, "I just changed back and brought them all out for you."
At this time, Zhao Youcai used the flashlight to see Li Dayong holding a large basin in both hands.
Zhao Youcai hurried over, took down the flashlight that Li Dayong had tucked under his armpit, turned it off, and then said with a smile: "We two brothers want to go together."
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai showed Li Dayong the basin of soybeans he had in it and said, "I was thinking of bringing it to you."
"Haha..." The two old brothers laughed and then walked home together.
While walking, Zhao Youcai couldn't help but complain to Li Dayong: "I'm making pancakes today, but the pot can't produce porridge. My mother and I are planning to buy an electric rice cooker."
"Hmm?" Li Dayong's eyes lit up instantly when he heard that, but he didn't express any opinion.
They were home in a few steps. Hearing the barking of dogs coming from their own direction, Zhao Youcai said to Li Dayong, "Brother, go to the company today and ask Zhang Guoqing for leave for me."
"Okay, big brother, I got it." The two brothers didn't discuss it beforehand, and Li Dayong didn't need to ask, and directly responded to Zhao Youcai's words, saying: "You go by yourself, and pay attention."
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of anything with this handle." As Zhao Youcai spoke, the two of them walked into the Zhao family's yard.
Since there were soybeans in the bowl that Zhao Youcai was holding, Li Dayong couldn't pour the tofu pudding to him for the time being.
So, the two of them entered Zhao's house one after the other.
"Ouch." Zhao Youcai suddenly entered the room. Zhao Jun, who was standing next to Wang Meilan, moved inside with a guilty conscience, but heard Zhao Youcai shout at him, "Give me a hand, pass it to your uncle!"
"Hey, hey!" Zhao Jun hurried over and took the basin from Li Dayong.
"Uncle, how much is this?" Zhao Jun asked with a smile, and Li Dayong replied with a smile: "It's between our two families."
"Dayong, come in!" Wang Meilan called Li Dayong and said, "Eat breakfast here."
"That's incredible, sister-in-law." Li Dayong said, "My Xiaomei also makes pancakes."
"I know." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "It's all the same. I was thinking about you and your elder brother, what were you chatting about?"
"That's incredible, sister-in-law." Li Dayong took the half basin of tofu pudding that Zhao Jun sent back and said, "I'm going back. I have to discuss something with Xiaomei."
"Ah..." Hearing Li Dayong's words, Wang Meilan smiled and nodded, saying, "Okay, okay, then you can go back."
After watching Li Dayong leave, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun continued to cook.
Normally, Zhao Youcai should have gone back to the house. But he stood outside the house and said to Wang Meilan, "Lann, you have to wear more clothes when you go out today. It's so cold outside."
After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan said "hmm" and poured oil into the pan to start making pancakes.
Zhao Chun curled her lips and turned to look at her mother.
The fire from the big pot is evenly burned, and when both sides of the pie are golden and red, it is cooked.
Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, and Zhou Jianjun sat at the table. Zhao Chun sent the cakes into the house and said, "Dad, you guys eat first. My mom is still baking some."
Zhao Jun and his two companions started eating. After a short while, Zhao Chun came in with a stack of pies.
At this time, Zhao Youcai shouted outside the house: "Lan, it's almost time, you should hurry up and have dinner with your daughter."
"Oh, I see." Wang Meilan responded. Her tone was calm, no different from usual.
"Hey?" Zhou Jianjun nudged Zhao Jun with his elbow and said, "Look at how good the relationship between our father and mother is. This year, our family district is selecting model couples, and we should nominate them."
"Forget it." Zhao Jun thought to himself, if he praised the couple highly, it would not be conducive to the interests of the country in the future.
"What do you mean by forget it?" Zhao Youcai glared at Zhao Jun, seeming very dissatisfied with his son's attitude.
Zhao Jun just ate his cake in silence, while Zhou Jianjun, a truly filial son-in-law, kept coaxing Zhao Youcai to talk.
By around seven o'clock, the family and the livestock had eaten and drunk their fill, and the house was tidy, when suddenly they heard a few dogs barking outside.
"Son, look and see if your uncle and others are here?" Wang Meilan, who was combing her hair, called out to Zhao Chun.
"Mom, Lingdang is here." Zhao Chun said, urging Zhao Hong and Zhao Na to go out and meet little Lingdang.
"Oh, it's time for us to go to work." Zhao Youcai stood up, put on his cotton monkey coat, and walked out of the room. Zhou Jianjun hurriedly followed.
He went out of the house and called Li Dayong from the west courtyard, and the three of them walked out of the village together. After meeting up with Lin Xiangshun on the road, Zhao Youcai suddenly covered his stomach, stopped, waved at the three people, and said, "You go first, I have to go to the toilet."
"Dad, go ahead. We'll wait for you." Zhou Jianjun pointed to the south, where there was a toilet.
"No need to wait." Zhao Youcai said, "It's so cold outside, hurry up and get in the car and wait for me."
After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Li Dayong also left. Lin Xiangshun, who was standing by, had experienced this before, so he didn't say anything. Only Zhou Jianjun followed Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun, looking back every few steps.
The three of them walked for about ten minutes until a whistle sounded outside the village, and Zhao Youcai walked out of the toilet.
At this time, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun had already dressed up and were waiting for the group of people to arrive.
Suddenly, they heard two dogs barking outside the house. Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun both craned their necks to look out the window.
"Huh?" When Zhao Jun looked out the window, he saw someone who surprised him.
Zhao Jun hurried down to the ground. At this time, the door of the outer room opened and Zhao Ling came in holding Ma Ling's arm.
"Hey, Ling'er!" Zhao Chun enthusiastically took Ma Ling's hand, touched the girl's woolen gloves, and asked, "Are you cold?"
"It's not cold, sister." Ma Ling responded. Seeing Wang Meilan coming out of the house, she hurriedly greeted Wang Meilan.
When Wang Meilan saw her daughter-in-law coming, she was not in a hurry to leave. She pulled Ma Ling into the east room.
Seeing a stranger coming, the little lynx wanted to go forward to smell the scent, but Wang Meilan slapped him back and slapped him away.
Wang Meilan, Zhao Chun, Zhao Ling, and Xu Chunyan, the four of them, sat on the kang in the east room with Ma Ling.
Wang Meilan knew that Ma Ling must have come for something, but since the girl didn't tell her, she didn't ask and chatted enthusiastically with Ma Ling about family matters.
But she didn't ask, and Ma Ling didn't say anything.
It was not until the old lady, Xie Sun and Xie Chen arrived that Zhao Ling explained Ma Ling's intention. She pointed to the triangle bag beside Ma Ling and said, "My daughter is here to bring clothes to our army."
Zhao Ling's words made Ma Ling blush.
Before, she let Zhao Jun coax her and took the initiative to promise to knit a sweater for Zhao Jun. In the past month, the girl knitted during the day and at night, and finally knitted the sweater.
Today she originally wanted to go to Zhao Jun's house and if she happened to meet Zhao Jun, Ma Ling would give the sweater to Zhao Jun.
But there were dogs at the door of the Zhao family. The Zhao family's dogs were not very familiar with her. When she got closer, the dogs barked non-stop.
There was no choice but for Ma Ling to just hang around in the distance.
She wasn't at the door, so where could Zhao Jun go to watch her?
In this way, Zhao Jun did not find her, but Zhao Ling and Wang Qiang found her first.
Zhao Ling went up to her and asked what she was doing here in such a cold weather. Ma Ling got nervous and said something stupid, so Zhao Ling took her to Zhao's house.
At this point, Ma Ling could only open her triangle pocket and take out the large smoky-colored sweater inside.
The big sweater is knitted with more than two kilograms of wool, and the wool alone costs forty or fifty yuan. It is exclusively sponsored by Ma Dafu.
When they saw the sweater, everyone praised Ma Ling and asked Zhao Jun to try it on.
When Zhao Jun put it on, the sweater fit him perfectly.
"Don't take it off, son. Just wear it like this." Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun, "Ling'er knitted it for you so well!"
"Sister!" Zhao Ling said to Wang Meilan, "When you go to the city today, please bring me some wool so I can learn from you."
"I'll learn too." Xu Chunyan responded.
"Then let's buy them all." Wang Meilan said with a smile, "Let Ling'er teach us after that."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, the mother and son of the Li family and Li Tongyun arrived. Wang Meilan saw that everyone was there, so she said to Ma Ling, "Ling'er, we are going into the city today, you can go for a walk with us."
"I'm not going, auntie." Ma Ling felt a little embarrassed, but she heard Zhao Chun say, "Let's go, Ling'er, if you know any good yarn, help us choose it."
"Let's go together, Sister Ling'er." Li Tongyun came over and pulled Ma Ling and said, "I'll take you for a walk."
They are of the same age and are both girls, so they can really play together.
With so many people cheering together, Ma Ling followed the crowd in a daze.
When they got outside the courtyard, Wang Meilan directed, "Chen'er, you drive. Auntie, you and my sister Sun, you two sit in the front."
The front passenger seat was given to the oldest old lady and Jie Sun, and Wang Meilan and others got into the trunk of the car.
At this time, there were a number of short and thick tree stumps in the trunk. These were put there by Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and others in advance. It was more comfortable to sit in the trunk.
The tree stump is thick and short, and it does not move even when the car is bumping around. It is better than a stool.
Xie Chen drove away from the Zhao family. When he was about to leave the village, Wang Meilan suddenly patted the car twice.
Xie Chen hurriedly braked, and heard Wang Meilan say to Ma Ling: "Ling'er, if you come with us, don't you tell your mother?"
"Oh, that's not good!" Ma Ling, who was dizzy, finally realized that if she left like this, she wouldn't be able to find anyone at home for a whole day. That would be terrible.
At this time, Wang Meilan shouted to the front: "Xiaochen, go to your uncle Ma's house!"
Xie Chen agreed and drove to Ma's house. When they were almost there, Wang Meilan stopped the car again.
"I just remembered!" Wang Meilan said, "I put the money bag in the kang cabinet. Well... I have to go back and find it for Qiangzi. Otherwise, if someone comes to sell goods, Qiangzi won't be able to find the money and won't be able to pay them."
"Then you should go back quickly, Mom." After Zhao Jun finished speaking, Wang Meilan said to him, "We'll go to your uncle Ma's house later. You and Ling'er go up there and call your aunt and Xiaoyang. Let's go for a walk in the city."
"Okay, Mom." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Then we'll wait for you at the door of Uncle Ma's house."
Wang Meilan responded, got out of the trunk, and trotted home.
At the same time, Zhao Youcai also came out of Wang Fujia's store and walked quickly towards home.
(End of this chapter)