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Chapter 879 Learning to Use Chopsticks (Eighth)
"Son, you should eat more, and this girl, Na, you should also eat more, seeing how thin you are, you won't be able to give birth to a fat son in the future." Aunt Li took food for Li Jinde and Sarina.

"Mother, the western side doesn't necessarily think so." Li Jinde said depressedly.

"What Western, Eastern, and Nanyang, where women don't want to have fat sons!" Aunt Li glared at Li Jinde.

"..." Li Jinde didn't know how to refute his mother.

Selina couldn't understand the conversation between Li Jinde's mother and son, but she couldn't resist Aunt Li's cooking skills. The delicious dishes on the table made her index finger twitch.

But she has the same trouble as Princess Sofia, she can't use chopsticks!
What's more troublesome is that she doesn't carry her own tableware with her like Princess Sofia!
Selina struggled to pick up the food with her chopsticks. It was the first time she used chopsticks, but she couldn't pick up the food in the bowl.

"How come Westerners are so stupid, they can't even use chopsticks. They also wear layers of clothes, which is really cumbersome." Aunt Li said disgustedly.

"They don't use chopsticks." Li Jinde explained.

"Could you use your hands instead of chopsticks?" Aunt Li was a little surprised
"They use knives and forks. Mom, I'll tell you about my experience of going to the West later. I also met their king. Their king invited me to a noble banquet." Li Jinde said.

"When you see the king, you won't be afraid that your cowhide will be blown." Aunt Li didn't believe that her son, a businessman, would meet the king, let alone attend any king's banquet.

"Before you hold the chopsticks, you have to align the tips of the two chopsticks..." Li Jinde demonstrated to Selina patiently.

Selina couldn't understand Li Jinde's words, so she had to learn how to use chopsticks like a toddler.She is indeed a bit clumsy with chopsticks, and it is still difficult to pick up food.

"Let auntie teach you..." Aunt Li helplessly taught Selina like a child.

"Thank you." Selina was flattered and learned how to use chopsticks seriously.

Under the careful teaching of Li's mother and son, Selina put the food into her mouth with great difficulty, and tears filled her eyes.This is not only because of the delicious oriental food, but also the hardship of learning how to use chopsticks.

"Why is this silly girl crying?" Aunt Li couldn't help looking at Li Jinde when she saw that Sarina was crying.

"I don't know..." Li Jinde shook his head.

It was only after nightfall that Xiamen City showed its difference from this era.On the wharf and the main road of the city, there is a neat row of utility poles and street lamps, which illuminate the porters on the wharf and the pedestrians on the main road.On the distant coast, there is a lighthouse, and a strong searchlight emits a diffuse parallel beam of light to indicate the direction for ships in the dark.

Selina stood in the yard and looked at the beams of the lighthouse in the distance. Its intensity and distance were definitely not comparable to the old European lighthouses.

"It's a magical country. Is this the power of 'electricity'? And it must have used a more advanced lens?" The night wind blew in, and Selina's skirt swayed slightly, looking at the beams of light from the lighthouse in the distance. daze.

"Son, why is that woman standing in the courtyard in a daze?" Aunt Li asked Li Jinde in the inner hall.

"I don't understand her words, how do I know why she is in a daze." Li Jinde complained.

"Why did you bring her home if you didn't understand what she said? Tell me, do you want raw rice to be cooked? My mother told you, don't even think about it. You can't use chopsticks and you can't speak. If she enters After leaving the house, I don't think I need any grandson anymore, taking care of her is enough for me!" Aunt Li said angrily.

"How could I have such an idea..." Li Jinde really had other thoughts when Aunt Li said this.If his mother really forced him to marry Tian Erniu home, he would simply go out and cook rice with other women. It would be best if the child was born, and then his mother would have grandchildren, so what else could he say?
"I can't see it. You asked her to go to sleep. I worked all night, and my back hurts. I went back to my room to burn three sticks of incense for your father, and told him that you came back from overseas safely." Aunt Li also said Having a headache about his son's marriage, his son brought home a Western woman with a completely different language, saying that he had met a Western king, and the whole thing was like an opera, which made Mrs. Li feel overwhelmed for a while.

"Mom, go back to your room and rest first." Li Jinde sent Aunt Li back to her room.

"Don't be in the same room with her tonight." Aunt Li was still a little worried.

"Don't worry, absolutely not, does your son look like that?" Li Jinde assured again and again.

"I hope you are that kind of person, if so, now I have a grandson in my arms!" Aunt Li said bitterly.

This is a question of whether to be a beast or not to be inferior to a beast... Li Jinde thought to himself that being a man is really tiring.

After sending Aunt Li back to her room, Li Jinde came to the courtyard and looked in the direction of Selina's eyes, and saw that she was looking at the lighthouse in Xiamen Bay that had only been in use for more than a year.

"Are you looking at that lighthouse? I've seen your lighthouse. It's not as bright as ours, because we use electric lights and clockwork, and a new type of mirror called a lens, like this One thing." Li Jinde took off the jade pendant around his waist, and explained to Selina what the lens is, "I went to see it last year, and the lens is a special kind of glass, which is more transparent than this jade."

However, Selina couldn't understand what Li Jinde wanted to express at all. When she saw him gesturing to her with a delicate-looking stone, she didn't know the jade culture here, nor the value of jade pendants, so she thought Li Jinde wanted to He wanted to give himself an interesting stone, so he pointed to the jade pendant, then pointed to himself, and asked, "Are you going to give it to me?"

"Do you want it?" From Li Jinde's point of view, Selina's questioning action meant asking for the jade pendant, so he couldn't help hesitating.

The gift of the jade pendant has a profound meaning in China...

"Huh?" Selina turned her head, wondering why Li Jinde didn't nod or shake her head.

Does this guy dislike me for being stingy and even unwilling to give her a jade pendant?Li Jinde misunderstood again, gritted his teeth, and handed the jade pendant over: "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you."

"What is this?" Selina took the jade pendant, treating it as a delicately carved stone.

"Yu." Li Jinde somehow understood the meaning of her question this time.

"Fish?" Selina imitated the pronunciation of jade.

"Jade." Li Jinde corrected.

"rain?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)