break out of the ice

Chapter 82

Shi Chunhua was also polite, and changed cars with Father Shi.

"How long have you been waiting here? It's such a cold day." Shi Jingqi asked Father Shi.

"It's not long, and it's just arrived, and it only takes a bag of cigarettes." Shifu said.

He just took a look at it. The future daughter-in-law is dignified and generous, worthy of his son. They stand together like a pair of lovers. His mother must be so happy to see such a good daughter-in-law.

Shi Chunhua smiled and said: "Uncle, you are lying, look at the cigarette butts under your feet, it is not like waiting for a bag of cigarettes, but waiting for a pack of cigarettes."

"This girl, why did you go to the city to become like a ghost? It's a cigarette butt thrown by someone else." Although Father Shi was nagging Shi Chunhua, he also said: "Your father, your mother, your father, if you know you will I’m sure I’m so happy to be back.”

A few people went to Shijiawan on the road, Liu Qinqin sat in the back seat, pulled Shi Jingqi's clothes, and whispered: "Your father is very nice, he has been waiting for us here for so long."

Shi Jingqi stretched out one hand behind and shook Liu Qinqin's little hand: "My mother is also very nice, they all like you."

Liu Qinqin giggled: "None of them have seen me."

"They have already seen you in my letter, and they believe in my vision." Shi Jingqi's tone was a little proud.

On the last part of the road, they rode very fast. Shi Chunhua rushed to the front, Shi Fu followed closely, and Shi Jingqi and the two were at the end.

Shi Chunhua entered the village and greeted the villagers all the way, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing splashes all the way.

The pebble didn't go in the direction of his own house with splashes, but headed for Shi Jingqi's house.

When Mother Shi heard the movement, she ran out of the yard in a panic, only to see her son had got out of the car and was pushing the car to this side, with a girl walking beside him.

His body was just over his son's shoulders, he was wearing a pink cotton jacket, and there were pure white scarves around his neck, which made his skin look like snow.

The country people think it is unlucky to wear white, and the older girls and the younger daughter-in-law are all red and green during the Chinese New Year.

Mother Shi felt that her daughter-in-law looked good in anything she wore, like the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the portrait.

Before the few people could speak, Mother Shi hurriedly stepped forward and took Liu Qinqin's hand, asking, "Is this Qinqin? Is it cold? Go into the house quickly. I lit the stove early in the morning. Why didn't you come back by car?" , how cold it is to ride a bike."

Liu Qinqin was shy and called "Auntie" in a low voice with a smile.

Shi Chunhua joked with Shimu: "Mother, there is still me, and there is me."

"Chunhua, hurry home, your mother was still talking about you wiping your tears a few days ago." Mother Shi told Shi Chunhua.

Shi Chunhua curled her lips: "She doesn't miss me, she just wants to marry me off to get a gift."

"This girl, just talk nonsense." Mother Shi was about to continue persuading Shi Chunhua, when she saw Shi Chunhua dig out a piece of fabric she bought for her mother, a pack of tobacco leaves for her grandfather, and other things from the basket by herself. things, and went home with them.

At first he walked, but in the end he almost ran away.

Mother Shi didn't let go of Liu Qinqin's hand, and said with emotion: "This child has been away from home for several months, but he still misses home."

While pulling Liu Qinqin into the house.

There is a thick door curtain hanging in the house, and Shimu even washed the door curtain so that the house can be clean to welcome the future daughter-in-law.

Father Shi watched Liu's mother's movements, and hurriedly walked ahead and opened the door curtain.

As soon as she entered the room, there was a gust of hot air, and Liu Qinqin could tell it was a new coal stove.

She heard from Shi Jingqi that when she was a child, the house was so cold that she couldn't stand it, so she burned some firewood to keep warm. She never used briquettes, and it seemed that it was specially prepared for herself.

Liu Qinqin felt happy to be taken seriously, and the smile on her face got bigger.

She was happy, and the mother of stone was even more happy, let her sit by the stove, and took out two sweet potatoes from the soot pile under the stove.

Afraid that Liu Qinqin would find it dirty, she carefully wiped it off with a clean towel before handing it to Liu Qinqin's hand: "Hey, you eat to fill your stomach first, and I'll go get some food."

Liu Qinqin hurriedly stood up: "I'll help you."

Mother Shi didn't want to, so she pushed Liu Qinqin on the bench and said, "Just sit here and eat sweet potatoes."

Another pot of fried soybeans and peanuts was brought to Liu Qinqin's side.

Liu Qinqin didn't dare to sit down, she had to follow Mother Shi to work in the kitchen. Before she came, her mother told her that if she wanted to make her parents look up to her, she had to work harder.

It was Shi Jingqi who happened to enter the house and saw this scene, and said, "Qinqin, help me and Dad lift the curtains, it seems to be snowing outside, and Dad and I move the basket into the house, let's take a look at the things." .”

Liu Qinqin just gave up and went to help lift the curtain, and saw that snowflakes started to fall outside, and asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be collected, I will help to collect it."

Liu's mother had almost walked to the west kitchen, and came back when she heard it: "No, no, just let his grandfather carry the basket into the house and push a few bicycles under the shed. If you don't need it, don't lift it up." The curtains are down, it's cold outside."

Liu Qinqin looked at Shi Jingqi, Shi Jingqi smiled wryly, and said helplessly, "You'd better sit down, otherwise we won't be able to have lunch."

Liu Qinqin had no choice but to sit down again.

The father and son of the Shi family pushed their bicycles under the shed, Father Shi went to help Mother Shi light the fire, and Shi Jingqi entered the house.

Liu Qinqin dared to stand up only when he came in by himself, and whispered, "Your house is so clean, it's like a house in the city."

Shi Jingqi smiled and said: "My mother cleaned it specially to welcome you. Think about it, in the countryside, what you face every day is loess, even if it is clean, it can't be so clean."

"Yeah." Liu Qinqin nodded and said, "Then let's pay them to pave the floor in the house, like that kind of concrete floor."

Shi Jingqi scratched Liu Qinqin's nose: "I know you are filial, but even the bricks were just laid this spring. If you say that they removed it and re-laid the cement, the two of them will feel very distressed."

"Then take them back to the city." Liu Qinqin said seriously.

Shi Jingqi glanced outside, seeing that the door curtain was still, held Liu Qinqin's face, kissed his forehead, and said, "Okay."

Liu Qinqin hit him once, her face flushed with embarrassment.

In the kitchen at this time, Father Shi and Mother Shi squatted in the stove to light the fire, and the other was busy in front of the pot.

In Shijiawan, whether it is for business or for offerings, it is customary to use steamed bowls, such as steamed crispy chicken, steamed crispy fish, steamed braised meat, steamed lion head, steamed eight-treasure rice, steamed crispy mutton, steamed rice balls, steamed dried beans , steamed egg rolls, etc.

If there are enough eight steamed bowls for weddings and funerals, then this family will be famous in several nearby villages.

Now the Shi family uses eight steaming bowls to entertain Liu Qinqin.

(End of this chapter)