The story of a cook

Chapter 240

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, I got up early in the morning, arrived at the West Railway Station Bus Station with Lin Yan and Qiuping, took the bus home and returned to Beipiao, and after arriving at Beipiao Bus Station, Qiuping took the bus directly back to their town and went home. I took the bus back to Heshanggou with Lin Yan and arrived home at five o'clock in the evening.

When we got home, my mother had already wrapped the dumplings, and she was waiting for us to come back and cook them in the pot.

My mother was very happy when Lin Yan and I came back. It could be seen that my mother had been waiting for us to get home, and the water in the pot was boiling.

The mother looked at Lin Yan like she looked at her own daughter, full of doting.

Cooking dumplings with my mother, my mother asked me: "Just eat the dumplings, not the whole dish?"

I said: "Just eat dumplings, dumplings are vegetables."

Lin Yan also said: "You don't need whole dishes to eat dumplings, and you are not an outsider."

The dumplings were cooked and brought to the table. I took chili sauce and mashed garlic. My mother had heated a piece of tofu in the dumpling pot before, sprinkled some green onion and poured soy sauce, and the dish became—tofu with shallots.

The dumplings made by my mother were delicious. Lin Yan and I ate a lot, and we were a little full.

Over the years, I have never been able to make the dumplings made by my mother, no matter how I adjust the dumpling filling, I can't get it out.Look at the mother and the dumpling filling is simply chopped green onion and minced ginger, add some soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, add the miso sauce from home with water and mix well, and then start wrapping. The cooked dumplings are more delicious when eaten. I am very fragrant.

That might be the taste of my mother, I can only eat and reminisce——
After eating the dumplings, the table was removed, and my mother and Lin Yan sat on the kang and chatted.The mother asked Lin Yan to sit inside, and put the quilt on Lin Yan's feet, and touched Lin Yan's sweater with her hands, saying: "This child, it is not too cold to wear so little, so wear more when it is cold outside." .”

Lin Yan said: "It's not cold, I still wear down jackets outside."

My mother said: "Then wear more. When you are young, you don't pay attention to sitting down and get sick, but you will find it when you are old."

Lin Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm in good shape."

My mother asked me to take out the melon seeds fried in the back room and put them on the kang. My mother and Lin Yan chatted and licked the melon seeds while I drank tea and smoked.

Seeing the warm chatter between mother and Lin Yan, I feel very warm and happy.

Although it is cold outside, it is warm in this room, warm and homely.

Mother asked Lin Yan: "Then what will Xiao Qiuping do with you?"

Lin Yan said: "Yes, you are with me."

Mother asked: "Then what do you do in the hotel?"

Lin Yan said: "It's just cleaning up the house. After the guests left, we changed the sheets and quilts, and then cleaned up the house, just like cleaning the house at home."

Mother asked: "Then you have a lot of people living in the store?"

Lin Yan said: "There are quite a few, and they are full at every turn."

Mother asked: "Then there are still people staying in the hotel after Chinese New Year? Aren't they all going home for the Chinese New Year?"

Lin Yan said: "There are also some who do business here, and some who come here on business trips. They don't go home for the New Year and live here. Not many."

My mother said: "It's still in your city. You don't go home during the New Year. You spend it in the store. Who doesn't go home during the New Year?"

Lin Yan just laughed.

Mother asked: "Your mother is fine at home?"

Lin Yan said, "It's pretty good."

Mother asked: "Does your mother still raise pigs at home?"

Lin Yan said, "Well, they also raise pigs, more than 30."

"Your mother is younger than me, capable, and able to live." The mother said: "But what's the matter, there are two boys, both of whom have to marry wives and ask for money. Your mother is an old lady who raises some pigs, and she has to give money to the two. The boy saves money and calls his daughter-in-law——your mother is more tired than me."

Lin Yan said: "My mother is very tired. Sometimes she falls asleep while lying on the kang and snores. live."

The mother said: "Your mother is tired, it depends on your two younger brothers, and then you have to treat your mother better." The mother sighed: "Hey, sons are good sons, it depends on what kind of wife they are." , Saying a good daughter-in-law is better than anything else."

I said, "Both her younger brothers are fine, and I guess the daughter-in-law can't be wrong."

Mother said: "If you can talk about a good daughter-in-law like me."

Lin Yan smiled and said, "I'm not well either. It's been a year since I came back to see you."

My mother said, "Aren't you busy? Both of you are busy. You have to listen to other people's orders when you work outside, unlike when you are at home."

Lin Yan asked me to give her her bag, and handed the bag to Lin Yan from the cabinet, and Lin Yan took out the money from it to her mother.Said: "Both of us didn't buy you anything, we bought you clothes and you just put them away and didn't wear them. I'll give you money this time, and you can buy whatever you want."

Mother said: "Give me money for what, I have money, there is no shortage of money to spend."

Lin Yan said: "Do you have that? Isn't it yours? We gave it to you."

My mother said: "No, you two are tight enough. I don't spend much money as an old lady at home. Your fifth sister gives me money every month, and what she gives me is enough for my pocket money." Mother Then he said: "Besides, my old lady is also rich. Didn't the land be leased out? The money for enclosing the land every year is enough for me to spend. Now the mine and power plant behind us take up the land in our village and dump the ashes. They also give money every year, Nanwa When returning farmland to forests, trees are planted, and the tree land is also paid every year, which is not much, [-] per person, isn’t it all money.”

Lin Yan said: "The money is yours, so you can keep it for yourself. When it is given by us, we can earn money when we are young, so you don't have to worry about us."

My mother said: "You don't need to give me money. It's not easy for you to be outside. If you don't tell me, I will know that renting a house for a month will not pay others rent? It's okay if you two always go to work, but if one of you doesn't work, you can't eat at home. Drink, you have to spend money on everything, even the tap water, if you don’t give them money, they won’t let you use it.” The mother continued: “You two don’t care about me, I’m an old lady It's easy to say at home, but if it's really not possible, don't I have five girls here, they can control me, and I won't fall to the ground, you two can live well outside."

Lin Yan said: "My elder sister and the others treat you better than the two of us. When we are not at home, my elder sister and the others will take care of you."

Mother said: "Your eldest sister and the others can do it. Come back to see me if you are not short. The main thing is your fifth sister. Your fifth sister comes back every week."

Lin Yan said: "My Fifth Sister is really nice."

The mother smiled, gave the money to Lin Yan, and said: "I don't lack money at home. I should give it to your mother. Your mother is just an old lady and has two sons. The burden is heavy. You both earn more money now. Help , and let the old lady be brisk and brisk."

Lin Yan said: "I will also give money to my mother, this is for you, and I will give it to her when I go to my mother's house after the Chinese New Year."

Mother said: "Yes, go back to see your mother after the Chinese New Year. During the New Year, there will be a general practice and a lot of fun. When you go back, you will have a lot of fun with your mother for two days. If you don't go back, your mother will miss you too."

Lin Yan said: "Well, go back, the two of us are leaving here on the fourth day of junior high school, and go back to my mother's house."

"Okay, I'm just an old lady, just stay with me for a new year, don't worry about me, I didn't see that I have been doing well in the past two years, and I am still energetic." The mother said: "When your eldest sister and the others come back on the second day of the new year, they will be lively at home." One day, you two stayed at home on the third day of junior high school, and went there on the fourth day of junior high school. Everyone has double-layered parents. You can't just take care of your own mother, but also other people's mothers. You two go back on the fourth day of junior high school."

I said: "Well, I will go on the fourth day."

After chatting for a while, my mother finally put away the money and said that it is fine to keep it and keep it for my eldest grandson.Lin Yan and I just laughed.

Although it has only been two months since I went home last time, I still like to go home, I like the feeling of being at home, I like to accompany my mother, listen to my mother's chatting, and talk about my parents' short stories.

People, when will I have a home, and when I grow up, I will have a mother.

(End of this chapter)