The story of a cook

Chapter 96
The mother looked at Lin Yan, and Lin Yan sat down in front of her mother.

The mother took Lin Yan's hand and said, "This girl has a pretty good physique."

Lin Yan lowered her head and smiled.

Mother asked: "Your mother is fine?"

Lin Yan said: "My mother is fine."

Mother asked: "What is your mother doing at home?"

Lin Yan said: "My mother farms the land at home and also raises pigs."

Mother said: "It's good to raise pigs, how many pigs do you raise?"

Lin Yan said: "My mother raises few pigs, and my family has no money, so I raise more than 20 pigs."

Mother said: "It's a lot to raise more than 20 pigs. Your mother is very tired."

Lin Yan nodded and said, "Well, my mother is tired."

The mother asked: "Then your mother is in good shape? How old is this year?"

Lin Yan said: "My mother is 45."

The mother said: "Your mother is young, at a good age, and it is the time when she can do it."

The eldest sister said: "45, your mother is so young, just one year older than me, your mother is a horse."

Lin Yan said, "Yes, my mother is a horse."

The eldest sister said: "Look at how capable your mother is. She grows at home and raises more than 20 pigs."

Lin Yan said: "My mother is quite capable, but she is also tired."

The eldest sister said: "Can you not be tired? Farming is enough, and you have to raise pigs. Raising pigs is not easy."

The second sister said: "How do you raise more than 20 pigs? I feel very tired raising one pig a year, and there is not enough food. How much food does your mother need to feed more than 20 pigs?"

Lin Yan said: "My family doesn't have enough food. I have to buy corn and feed. No one can afford to feed the food. Sometimes my mother goes to the processing factory to pick up rice husks to feed. Pigs don’t cost money, and pigs eat, but they don’t get fat.”

Fifth Sister said: "It's not easy for your mother. I heard from Guohua that you have two younger brothers?"

Lin Yan said, "Well, two younger brothers."

Fifth Sister asked, "Is your little brother still studying?"

Lin Yan said: "Read the first day of junior high school."

Fifth Sister said, "Tell your younger brother to study hard and get into a university."

Lin Yan said: "Well, my younger brother is doing well in studies and can be admitted to university."

The second sister said: "If you can pass the exam, you should study hard. If you have no money, everyone will support him. Guohua studied well at that time. He knew that his family was poor and had no money. At that time, his fifth sister was studying in college. He was in high school. If he had no money, he could not study hard." Since then, he went out to work. At that time, if the family was rich, Guohua would also be a college student.”

I said, "It's okay now. I'm not a college student, but Lin Yan is. She's a technical secondary school student. Just have a student."

Fifth Sister asked, "Lin Yan, did you graduate from technical secondary school?"

Lin Yan said, "Well, I'm a technical secondary school major in computer science."

The second sister just laughed and said: "Oh, I don't know where you are in technical secondary school, then she looked at me and said to Lin Yan: You are so stupid, a technical secondary school student is looking for a part-time job, and the family is quite poor, if I say anything Find a good one."

Lin Yan didn't say anything, just looked at me and smiled.

At this time, the fifth brother-in-law came on a motorcycle. As soon as he entered the house, the fifth sister asked, "Why are you here? Are you not going to work today?"

The fifth brother-in-law said: "I can't come to work, but you still have classes? If you can come, I can't come."

The fifth sister said: "I came to see my brother and his wife, what are you coming to see?"

The fifth brother-in-law said: "What do you think I came to see? I came to see my brother-in-law and daughter-in-law. No way."

Fifth Sister said: "It's okay, the main thing is that you still go to work."

The fifth brother-in-law said: "What's the matter with going to work? Is it more important to go to work or to see my brother-in-law and daughter-in-law? Besides, can't I ask for leave when I go to work? I can ask for leave even if you ask for leave."

Fifth Sister smiled and asked, "Didn't you say you couldn't ask for leave? Why did you ask for leave?"

The fifth brother-in-law said: "Please, the big leader is here today. Isn't the big leader with our father and brother, as soon as I say go home to see my brother-in-law and daughter-in-law, that's fine."

I introduced the fifth brother-in-law to Lin Yan, and Lin Yan said, "Hi, fifth brother-in-law!"

The fifth brother-in-law said to me: "Guohua, look, you haven't asked me all these years, and he came from a big city, and he is much more polite than you."

I said, "Yes, more polite than me."

Lin Yan whispered to me: "Fifth brother-in-law is quite young, looks younger than you."

I said, "Yes, younger than me. We are two classmates. When I was in high school, I was a sophomore and he was a freshman. Can you be younger than me?"

The fifth brother-in-law heard it and said, "Don't worry about studying, am I your brother-in-law now?"

I said, "Yes, it must be."

Seeing the fifth brother-in-law coming, the mother said, "I'll cook after you talk. It's noon and it's time to cook."

Fifth Sister said: "I don't need you, you just sit on the kang and chat with your daughter-in-law. My eldest sister and I have finished preparing, so you don't need to cook."

The fifth brother-in-law said to his mother: "These people still use your old lady to cook. Don't worry. I was in the village when I came. My eldest brother-in-law said he would come over after the meeting. Wait for him for a while, and he will be here soon."

Fifth Sister said, "Then why don't you come with the eldest brother-in-law."

The fifth brother-in-law said: "I'm not in a hurry, I am anxious to see my brother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

Fifth Sister said, "Is that so anxious? See how promising you are."

The eldest sister asked the fifth brother-in-law, "Did your eldest brother-in-law say it?"

The fifth brother-in-law said: "I said, it's coming soon, and it should be coming soon. He said he will come over after a while."

Lin Yan asked: "What does the elder brother-in-law do? He still has meetings."

The fifth brother-in-law said: "What does the eldest brother-in-law do? That official is a big one, and he manages several villages."

The eldest sister said: "What a senior official, the village director, who runs errands for others."

Lin Yan asked me: "Is the village director the village chief?"

I said: "Yes."

Lin Yan said: "The village chief! The village chief is rich. Our village chief's house even has a car."

I said: "That's yours, your rich, we can't do it, the poor, the village chief's family can't do it, just like ordinary people, no one wants to be like us."

Indeed, our family was poor at that time, and the village head was not rich. It would be better not to be the village head.It's different now, the countryside is also corrupt.

The eldest sister, the second sister, the fourth sister, and the fifth sister live in different towns than my family. They live in Beita Town, my family lives in Heichengzi Town, and the third sister’s family lives in Taijiying Town. These three towns are next to each other.At that time, the eldest brother-in-law was the village director, and the eldest sister, second sister, fourth sister, and fifth sister belonged to the same village.

I was chatting with my fifth brother-in-law, and Lin Yan was dragged by the eldest sister to chat.

It can be seen that the mother and eldest sister are very happy, and they are also very satisfied with Lin Yan.I brought the object back and solved their major concerns. From their point of view, the stone that weighed on their hearts finally fell to the ground.Especially the mother, although she didn't say much, she looked at Lin Yan with joy in her eyes, and the expression on her face was also satisfied and gratified.

At that moment, I was surrounded by the love of my family and the happiness from my heart, and it felt so good.

Everyone has infinite love for their home, because home is the warmest place. When you are tired and tired outside, the place you want to go back to is home.The family has their own parents and their own sisters and sisters.

In this world, the greatest and most selfless love is father’s love and mother’s love. No matter you are soaring to the top of the world, or you are poor and living on the street, as long as your parents are still there, he (she) is pulling a flatbed car, It will pull you back home, and the mother will tell you: Don’t be afraid, child. If you have a mother, if you have a bite to eat, you won’t be hungry.The father will tell you: Don't be afraid, child, there is a father, as long as the father is alive, he will let you live.

I have such a family, with my old mother and my five older sisters.

On the second day after leading Lin Yan home, five older sisters and five brother-in-laws all came back. The family was full of people, and it was very lively.

That day, my mother got up early, made breakfast, and then cleaned up the house. Lin Yan also helped to clean it up. My mother watched Lin Yan work with a happy smile on her face.

The eldest sister asked me that day: "Guohua, have you been to Lin Yan's house?"

I said, "Not yet."

The eldest sister said: "You should go to Lin Yan's house and meet Lin Yan's mother, we are far away from Fuzhongyuan, otherwise we should all go and see, she is such a big girl that I asked you to bring her back, as a mother I haven't seen what the girl's partner looks like, so no one can rest assured."

I said, "I plan to go during the Chinese New Year and tell her mother about our affairs."

The elder sister said: "That's what it should be, and it's a cutscene that must go through. We can't be unreasonable."

Mother said: "It's good to go during the Chinese New Year. Go and see Lin Yan's mother. You have a mother. Take her back to see your mother. Lin Yan also has a mother. You have to go and see her." Mother laughed : "These two families are very good. They both have the same mother and no old man."

The eldest sister said: "It's not a big deal, Guohua doesn't have a father-in-law, and Lin Yan doesn't have a husband."

The second sister heard me say that I would go to Lin Yan's house during the Chinese New Year, so she said, "If you go to Lin Yan's house during the Chinese New Year, then you won't be able to come back."

I said, "Look, if you go before the year, you may not be able to come back. You can go after the year, and you can go after the New Year at home."

The second sister said: "You have to celebrate the New Year at home. You were not at home last year and left my mother at home alone for the New Year. How did you live that year?"

I said, "I spent this year at home."

The eldest sister said: "During the Chinese New Year, the restaurant is busy. You still have to go to Lin Yan's house. It's okay if you don't come back if you don't have time. Mom can't celebrate the New Year when she goes to our house. When the time comes, I will take my mother to my house and spend thirty at my house." Well, if mom doesn't want to stay, I'll send her back after the first day of the [-]th day."

My mother said: "I don't go to anyone's house. I just stay at home. It's good to be alone. It's simple, quiet, and no one makes trouble."

The fifth sister told me: "Guohua, you don't know. In the past two years, when you have been working outside, your mother is at home by herself. My mother is used to being alone, but she likes to be quiet. People go to bed at the o'clock and wake up at the o'clock. It's just annoying and noisy, didn't we dare to bring the children back without seeing us, because I was afraid that my mother would be annoying."

My mother said: "Who says I'm bored? It's just that I'm old and I don't like to move anywhere. No matter how nice other people's homes are, it's not as good as my own nest. I don't like to move anywhere."

At this time, the third sister said: "Give it back to someone else's house. That's someone else's house. Isn't that your girl's house? You old lady is also a strange thing. You don't like to go to your girl's house. Look at my old woman. It's cute to go to the girl's house." Now, I spend half a year at the girl's house, and my son's house doesn't like to come back, so her son went to pick it up last two days after the August Festival, and if she doesn't pick it up, she won't come back."

The mother said: "Your old woman is blessed. She stayed at the girl's house. I can't do it. Who cares about this house after I leave. This house is inconspicuous. A broken house is worth ten thousand dollars."

The second sister laughed and said: "I don't know what your family has, so I am reluctant to leave. You say you five girls, who can't stay at someone's house for two days, who doesn't care about your food, just stay here , we are still thinking about it, and we have to come back to see you."

Fifth Sister said: "Do you know that my mother is at home guarding the property for her old son?"

The second sister said: "What is there in this house? I'm afraid someone will steal it. Guohua and Lin Yan may not come back by then."

My mother said: "If you don't come back, you have to stay at home. My house looks unremarkable. If I leave, who will feed those chickens and ducks? I want to raise another pig during the Chinese New Year."

The second sister just laughed and said: "This old lady is very capable. Seeing her old son come back with a partner, she wants to raise a pig. Why raise a pig? Are you waiting for your son to marry a wife, kill her and eat meat?"

Mother said: "If you don't marry a wife, you won't eat meat anymore. You can kill pigs and give them to me every year."

Fifth Sister said: "Look, my mother is happy, and she is going to raise pigs. Then she told Lin Yan: The old lady wants to kill pigs when you come back from the New Year, so that you can eat ready-made pork."

My mother said: "What's the matter, don't look at my age, I still don't accept my old age, I can't go up to the mountains to farm, and it's okay to feed the pigs. When the Chinese New Year comes back, Guohua and the others will also kill the pigs and eat them all. Colle's."

Lin Yan said: "You don't need to raise pigs, you can just stay at home, and we will buy some when we come back, as long as your health is stronger than anything."

The fifth sister said: "Seeing that there is no mother, you don't need to raise pigs. Your family of five girls will get you more pig thighs than us. When the pig goes into the water, our five sisters will get the same one, or all of them." Now, I can eat the whole pig. If you are still using you to raise pigs, you can raise some chickens at home and wait for us to eat when we come back." Then he said to me: "Don't tell me, the chickens raised by my mother are fat, and the chickens I go around my mother every day, and no one else can take it away."

My mother said: "I feed them every day. They all know me and follow me. I have nothing to do every day, that is, feed the chickens, feed the ducks, and goose."

The eldest sister said: "It's not fun for my mother to be at home, so I use chickens and ducks as companions."

The second sister said: "It's nothing special, and it's not like other old ladies who can coax their grandsons to relieve boredom. This one doesn't even have a grandson, so let's raise chickens and ducks." Then she said to me and Lin Yan: "You two get married quickly. , give birth to a child for the old lady, then the old lady will be interesting."

Lin Yan blushed, looked at me and whispered, "Second Sister is really interesting."

The eldest sister said to the second sister: "Looking at what you said, Lin Yan's face turned red. How could it be so fast? You have to talk to Lin Yan's mother. Lin Yan's mother hasn't looked at the country yet. Hua, just marry the girl, how can there be such a good thing in the world."

The second sister said: "Aren't I in a hurry? By then, I will have my own nephew. I don't believe you don't want to hug your nephew."

The eldest sister said, "I want to too, but it has to be done slowly and step by step. We can't do more reasonable things."

The third sister said: "Only the second sister is in a hurry. My mother is still here. No matter how anxious, my mother is still in a hurry. She wants to raise pigs without looking at it."

The whole family laughed.

Lin Yan whispered to me: "You are lucky, all five sisters are so good."

I said: "Yes."

The fifth sister heard it and said, "You and Guohua are friends, and we are also your sisters. If you have anything to do in the future, just tell us and we will help everything we can."

The second sister said: "Yes, we will be a family from now on, and we all treat you as our own sister."

The third sister said: "Just now I was anxious to let people get married quickly, then after getting married, they will be brothers and daughters-in-law, and you still call them sisters."

The second sister said: "What's the matter, brother and daughter-in-law are the same as my own sister, and they are not much different from my own sister when they get along well."

Lin Yan said: "Yes, I am a younger sister. I am the eldest in my family, and I don't have any older sisters. Now it's all right, five younger sisters at once."

The eldest sister said: "It's okay to have a sister."

Lin Yan said: "Well, yes." Then she looked at me: "Old Tan, you are so happy."

Yes, I am really happy because I have five sisters who love me.

The eldest sister took the lead, and everyone gave Lin Yan a red envelope. Lin Yan was a little confused and didn't dare to accept it. She asked me why I had to give the money. I said it was because the sisters recognized you. It was the first time you came to my house to buy clothes for you. money.

The eldest sister said: "This is our custom here. It is the first time for a woman to come to the man's house. We aunts and sisters all give money to brothers and daughters-in-law who have never been married. Don't think it's too little. Go back and buy some clothes you like."

After the eldest sister and the others finished giving, the mother also took out the red envelope to Lin Yan.

Lin Yan hurriedly said: "Oh, I can't accept yours, I should give you money."

Mother said: "Silly girl, isn't this the first time you've come to my house? I'll give you some pocket money, and I can't tell you to go home empty-handed. Your mother should laugh at me then."

Lin Yan still didn't want it, and said: "It's okay, my house doesn't pay attention to it, so I don't want it."

The eldest sister said: "Take it, we have this custom, if you don't take it, the old lady thinks you don't want to be his daughter-in-law."

Lin Yan accepted her mother's red envelope.

Seeing Lin Yan accepting it, her mother smiled happily.

The second sister teased her mother and said: "Mom, I think your red envelope is quite big. How much money is it for your unmarried daughter-in-law? Don't miss out, it's not enough to buy a pair of socks."

The mother said: "It's more or less that intention, and it's not for you. Why do you ask?"

The second sister laughed and said, "This old lady still keeps it a secret. If you run out of bags, your daughter-in-law won't serve you. It's up to you."

Lin Yan said: "I will serve even if I don't give red envelopes. Lao Tan and I are both old and old."

After Lin Yan finished speaking, her mother's eye circles were a little red.

(End of this chapter)