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Chapter 346 The daughter-in-law will have it, and the son will have it too
When Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling talked about this matter, they thought of it on the spur of the moment. When they saw her, they remembered the matchmaker's matchmaking. Ask Bai Xiaoling for her opinion.

If Bai Xiaoling's mother had already talked to someone else, then forget it.

If you haven't discussed it with others, and Bai Xiaoling doesn't object, you can give it a try.

It's not that there is no one suitable for his father in this world except the White Widow. He believes that as long as he shows more financial strength, his father will have more choices.

If he showed his financial strength with a net worth of over [-] million, I'm afraid his father would have no problem finding a woman about his age.

It is not uncommon for a rich man in his sixties to find a 20-year-old girl as his wife, not to mention his father is only in his 40s.

It's just that he feels that his father and Bai Xiaoling's mother are middle-aged widows, and then they are working hard to raise a child by themselves. They have similar experiences, and they can empathize in many ways.

And they are all widowed, there is no such thing as who dislikes who is unlucky.

He also inquired about Bai Xiaoling's mother, she is a person who knows how to live, and her character is fine.

More importantly, the matchmaker tried to match the two last year, and the other party had no objections.

Then there is a great possibility.

If the answer is no, there is nothing to lose.

After Bai Xiaoling heard what he said, a smile appeared on her face, and she said, "I also think it's okay. Whatever can be done, it's good for them."

Then he sighed again: "It's really not easy for my mother to support me in studying all these years."

"I understand, my dad is like this too, I can see how difficult it has been for him these past few years." Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling looked at him and said enviously: "But you are already promising, you have found a good job, and you can repay your father, but I don't have that ability, so I have to let my mother take care of me."

"Take it easy, it will be fine in the future." Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling wanted to continue selling tofu, so she didn't say much, just chatted a few words and left on her bicycle.

At this time, Yan Xin also saw his father walking down the path carrying a bucket.

Bringing his father home, he looked into the bucket and found that it was half a bucket full of crayfish.

Can't help laughing: "Not bad, so many crayfish."

There used to be no crayfish here, but in the mid-90s, some wild crayfish came from somewhere, and they bred quickly.

Within a few years, crayfish were everywhere in the canals in the pond, flooding the pond.

At the beginning, everyone didn't know how to eat crayfish, so they made more and more of them.

It was only three or four years ago that people began to buy them. A catty of crayfish cost about one yuan, and when it was cheap, it was even only fifty cents.

At that time, Dad Yan bought some ground cages and put them in the water to catch crayfish, and sometimes he could collect [-] to [-] catties a day.

However, it can be fished during the period from April to June, and there are very few other times.

At the beginning, there were no competitors, so I could earn dozens of catties a day.

But after he made money, everyone followed suit and put ground cages, so that there was only one ground cage a few meters away in the canal, and the number of crayfish that had been flooded became less and less.

In those few years, crayfish has become a luxury in snacks. More and more people eat crayfish, and the price of crayfish is getting higher and higher.

Within a few years, the purchase price in the countryside has risen to four yuan a catty.

It's just that there are very few wild crayfish, and more and more people are fishing for them.

Don't say you can get thirty or forty catties a day, even if you can get three or four catties, thank God.

After Yan's father got up in the morning, he went to collect crayfish. He put dozens of them in the ground cage, and the furthest place was three or four miles away, so he didn't come back until this time.

The small half bucket of crayfish brought back was actually only two or three catties, which was considered a good harvest.

There is also a snakeskin bag in the bucket, the mouth is tied, and when it is opened, there are two eels and a few loaches. This is a gift for lobster hunting in ground cages.

Dad Yan lifted the snakeskin bag to the patio, where there was a water tank, and the water tank contained eels and loaches, which weighed several catties.

While pouring the eels and loach from the snakeskin bag into it, he asked Yan Xin: "Do you want to eat this lobster? If you like it, you can keep it. If you don't like it, someone who collects lobsters will come later, just eat it." Sell ​​them."

"Keep it for yourself," Yan Xin said, "I haven't eaten crayfish for a long time, and I really miss this taste."

In the past, when crayfish were inundated, no one in the village knew how to eat them, and no one liked them.

Later, when it was sold for money, some people in the village liked to eat this food.

The higher the price, the more delicious it feels.

I don't know what happened.

The current purchase price is four yuan per catty, which is already a very high price for the villagers.

But Yan Xin knew that the price would get higher and higher in the future.

In his memories of his previous life, the highest purchase price reached more than 40 yuan a catty—but that was in early spring, when few crayfish could be caught.

By that time, there were basically no wild crayfish, and they all relied on artificial breeding.

At that time, he couldn't bear to eat crayfish, so he couldn't bear to spend that money.

Father Yan is quite frugal, but he is still very generous to his son. Since his son wants to keep these crayfish to eat, he will not sell them for money, and keep them for himself.

Two or three catties of crayfish can be sold for more than ten yuan, and it's not a waste, but let his son eat it, and he won't feel reluctant.

Then he asked Yan Xin: "Where are the rice field eels and loach? They have accumulated several catties these days. If you eat them, you can keep them for yourself. If you don't eat them, I will pick them up and sell them in the town tomorrow morning."

The price of loach is not very high, but the price of rice field eel is more expensive. It usually costs more than ten yuan per catty. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, if you are lucky, you can sell it for more than [-] yuan per catty.

The rice field eels kept in this water tank already weighed four to five catties, and if they were fished out and sold, they could be sold for a hundred dollars.

Hundreds of dollars, to Yan's father, that's not a small number.

Yan Xin took a look.

This water tank is filled with wild eels and loaches, absolutely good things.

He wanted to stay and eat.

But after calculation, he will only stay here for two days, and he will leave after breakfast the day after tomorrow. He brought back a lot of food from the county supermarket, and the father and son can't eat that much.

He also knew that after he left, his father would never be willing to eat such expensive things, and would sell what he could sell.

These things are worthless after the Dragon Boat Festival.

At that time, his father will inevitably feel distressed.

After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Leave that big rice field eel, save two or three catties for lunch tomorrow, and sell the rest."

Dad Yan said: "There are also some fat ones in the loach, do you want to keep the fat ones and eat them?"

Yan Xin reached out and touched the water tank, and indeed saw a few fat loaches.

The loach here is only a few yuan a catty. Thinking that such a good thing is sold at a low price, it is indeed a bit uneconomical, so it is better to eat it yourself.

Then he smiled and said, "Okay, let's make a plate of spicy crayfish and another plate of braised tofu with loach for lunch today."

Both men washed their hands and went into the kitchen for breakfast.

Two meat dumplings per person, plus an egg.

This was the first time that Dad Yan ate meat dumplings - only glutinous rice was used to make dumplings here, and nothing else was put in. When eating, dip it in sugar.

Yan Xin doesn't like eating zongzi like this, so this time he bought meat zongzi.

After eating half of one, Yan's father began to praise: "This zongzi is very delicious, even better than the ones we ate before."

"Of course." Yan Xin said with a smile.

Being able to make his father feel delicious made him feel that this effort was not in vain.

Yan's father asked him again: "How much is this one?"

Yan Xin didn't want to say it was too expensive, because if it was too expensive, his father would be reluctant, and the taste of eating would be different.

Of course, you can't say it's too cheap, it's unbelievable to say that it's too cheap—there's a lot of meat in it, and it's very sincere, and the price can't be so low.

After thinking for a while, I said, "This was originally three yuan each, but the supermarket held a promotion. If you spend more than 99 yuan, you can get a coupon for [-]% off to buy this kind of rice dumpling, so it's actually only worth one yuan. indivual."

When Dad Yan heard that he had taken advantage of it, he felt that the zongzi tasted even better.

During breakfast, Yan Xin also mentioned that he bought five pieces of tofu from Bai Xiaoling.

Dad Yan said: "A few days ago I saw that girl selling tofu on a bicycle. She was very embarrassed when she was selling it. When people asked her a word, her face would turn red, but she seems to have gotten used to it in the past two days."

He sighed again: "It's not easy for a teenage girl to do such a thing."

"Yeah, it's not easy," Yan Xin said, "Just after finishing high school, he is willing to share the family's worries, so he can be regarded as a sensible child."

Father Yan nodded in agreement, glanced at his son, and thought that his son also went out to work after finishing high school, and he was quite sensible, so he felt a little proud for no reason.

Yan Xin said again: "I heard from her that her mother is still alone and has no companions."

Father Yan said: "I've heard people say that others despise her mother as a widow, saying that she is Kefu, which is unlucky, and there is another daughter to raise, so it is not easy to find."

As he said that, he thought of his hard work in the past few years, and sighed: "I am also a hard-working person."

Yan Xin also sighed, and after a while, he said: "It's no wonder someone wanted to match her up with you last year, and only the two of you can understand each other's difficulties, and you won't dislike each other."

Dad Yan suddenly felt uncomfortable: "Just talk about her, what are you doing with me?"

Yan Xin smiled and said, "It doesn't mean anything else, I just suddenly feel that the two of you are really suitable."

"Don't talk nonsense." Dad Yan said.

But as soon as Yan Xin reminded him, he also felt that the two of them were really suitable—if he had to find a partner.

After breakfast, Dad Yan went out to work, and Yan Xin stayed at home, chatting on the Internet and so on.

At ten o'clock, lunch was prepared.

Brush the two or three catties of crayfish one by one with a toothbrush, peel the garlic, cut the ginger, and prepare the pepper.

This is to make spicy crayfish.

In addition, he picked up one or two catties of fat loach from the water tank, took out the bitter gall and internal organs, cleaned them, and prepared to use the loach to stew tofu.

There is a way of stewing tofu with loach, which is to use very small loach to fill the tofu, but there are no such small loach in it, so the biggest loach is simply used to stew.

When the food was ready, it was already past 12 o'clock, and Dad Yan happened to be back, so he started to eat lunch.

Dad Yan didn't go out to do farm work, but took a small cart to the field to cut wormwood, preparing to take it to the town for the Dragon Boat Festival to sell.

The custom here is to hang wormwood and calamus on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, so as to ward off evil spirits.

Wormwood and calamus are not worth much at other times, but they can still be sold for some money on the Dragon Boat Festival.

After lunch, Dad Yan went to the ditch to pull calamus again in the afternoon.

After returning home, I matched the calamus and wormwood and bundled them into one piece, so that it would be easier to sell tomorrow.

In fact, the family does not need such hard-earned money, but he does not know that in his mind, the family still owes a debt of [-] to [-] yuan, which needs to be repaid as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no peace of mind.

Yan Xin wanted to persuade him not to work so hard, but he swallowed the words again.

Being able to turn his labor into wealth, for his father, is realizing his life value.

At the moment of receiving the money, it is absolutely bliss.

If you tell his dad that he no longer needs to pay any labor, his dad may feel a great sense of loss instead.

It's not particularly tiring labor, and it's good to make his father feel the joy of making money.

It is very difficult to change a person's habits.

His father has indeed listened to his persuasion in the past two years, and he has not worked as hard as before, and his body has indeed improved a bit, and he looks like a teenager younger.

This is enough, there is no need to do it all in one step, let his father stay at home honestly, do nothing, just wait for his support.

If that's the case, it may not be a good thing for his father.

It's not a good thing for the body, nor is it a good thing for the mind, and it will lose a lot of happiness.

Only when his father truly realizes that the family can live a prosperous life without him to earn money, will he let it go slowly.

What Yan Xin can do now is to cook while his father is working.

The dishes he cooked in the evening were brought over from the county. They were both meat and vegetables. It wasn't rich, but it was passable.

As for the taste, even he himself was quite satisfied.

In the past few months, he has been helping Ai Lili, and he has also learned a little cooking skills. In the countryside where the taste is not very important, he is already very good at cooking.

During the meal, Dad Yan lamented how happy life is now, and he can eat meat casually.

This was not the case a few years ago, it was not a festival, and it was really rare to get dirty once.

At the dinner table, the father and son reminisced bitterly and thought sweetly. They both felt that the days before were very bitter, but now they are very happy.

"I will be happier and happier in the future!" Yan Xin said to his father.

Father Yan took it very seriously: "When you pay off your debts this year and save some money to marry a wife and have a child, then you don't have to worry about anything."

"Don't worry," Yan Xin laughed, "the daughter-in-law will have it, and so will the child."

Speaking of the daughter-in-law, Dad Yan couldn't help asking: "Are you still talking with that girl from the Xiao family?"

Yan Xin pondered for a while, and said, "There is still contact, but we are not talking anymore."

He felt that this matter would be exposed sooner or later, so he might as well expose it now.

In this way, no matter whether he brings Feng Xi home or Ai Lili home, his father will be able to accept it.

At that time, he coaxed his father just to build the house smoothly. Now that the house has been built, if he continues to coax him, it will not end well in the future.

"Why didn't we talk about it?" Dad Yan was anxious when he heard that, "How did you offend her?"

Yan Xin was also not good at arranging Xiao Shiyu, so he just said: "I didn't offend her, we are still friends now, and we still keep in touch frequently."

"Then why didn't we talk about it?" Dad Yan said, "I remember that girl is very good."

"She is indeed very good, but this thing still has to be about fate," Yan Xin said while thinking about the reason, "It's just that we are not in the same place, the distance is too far, and some things have to be understood. The relationship between classmates and friends can only be regarded as the relationship between classmates and friends, and it has not reached the level before men and women, so after communicating with each other, I think it is better for everyone to let it go."

Father Yan thought to himself: "Why are you so particular about a daughter-in-law?"

He still can't understand the world of young people.

I was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed: "You guys..."

Yan Xin said with a smile: "Dad, don't worry, our conditions are not bad. I will definitely be able to find a wife to marry when I reach the age of marriage."

Things have become like this, and Dad Yan can't say anything except sigh.

Xiao Shiyu was mentioned during dinner, Yan Xin did not expect to receive Xiao Shiyu's QQ message at night.

Seeing that it was Xiao Shiyu who sent the message, Yan Xin was taken aback, thinking: "Is this telepathy?"

Xiao Shiyu has contact with him on QQ, but the contact is not very frequent. We will chat for a while about a week, and nothing ambiguous is involved. We just greet each other, learn about each other's life, and chat with each other. people.

This time I sent him a message to ask if he would go home for the Dragon Boat Festival to spend the holiday with his dad.

Yan Xin replied to her: "I got home yesterday."

Then asked: "Did you go home for the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Xiao Shiyu replied depressedly: "The school is not on holiday, so there is no way to go home for the holidays."

Yan Xin: "Poor child."

Xiao Shiyu: "I envy you so much. You can decide your own time. You can go home when you want to go home and go wherever you want."

Yan Xin: "I'm still envious of you being able to go to college."

Xiao Shiyu: "College is not fun at all."

After posting this one, I sent another one: "Summer vacation will be in a few days. I made an appointment with some classmates to visit Guangdong Province. Old classmates, do you have time to meet?"

Yan Xin hesitated for a moment, and replied: "There must be time, let me know the date of departure, and I will pick you up."

　Thanks to the canoe in the sea for the reward of [-] coins. I haven’t seen such a large reward for a long time. I’m excited

　　
　
(End of this chapter)