marriage is natural

Chapter 286

He Wei was speechless when her father said that the tea storage pot was still useless.

"Dad, you should have used it long ago. The container made of purple sand is definitely better than ordinary jars."

"Medium! Dad will take it out when he goes to the store in a while, and use it all the time."

The mother of the mother interrupted the conversation between the father and the father angrily: "You two can do it. I haven't said whether to keep the tea at home or give it away. You two are fine, one is thinking about the tea, the other is thinking about the pot, It was also assigned..."

He Wei was overjoyed: "Mom, there are so many cans. I'll count them. Here, there are six cans. It's not enough for you to give away half of them. You have to leave a few cans for Dad. Brother He went all the way Sending it to our family must be hoping that we can eat and drink at home, instead of sending it to others..."

When He Mu thought about it, she was right.

"Take them all as gifts. Ah Qing should be upset when he finds out. After all, he bought them with all his heart. Then I will give you a can of Uncle Yang, a can of your grandparents, and a can of your grandma. Everything else is fine." Keep it for your dad."

That's about the same.The father and daughter grinned happily.

The family of three gathered together, watching and sorting. It took two hours to finally divide the large box of special products sent by He Qingdong into several piles: those for Master He Xidong, those for He Mu’s natal family, and those for bringing back. The ones from my hometown in Hejiabu, I keep them for future use...

In fact, He Mu had already prepared the gift for her natal family.But this year the family situation is good, and I got such a big box of famous specialties from tropical countries, so it is not bad to add a few more items to the original six gifts.

So, He Mu thought about adding two bottles of foreign wine, a can of tea, and a set of assorted gift boxes consisting of jujube cake, coconut milk cake, coffee candy and other snacks to the six gifts of the two elders on both sides.

In short, the New Year gifts given out by the He family this year are richer than any previous year.

As for those tropical fruits that may not be available in China, and even if they are available, they are expensive to die, because the quantity is not very large, He Mu decided not to send them to her natal family.Some of them are kept at home to eat after the next year, and the rest are taken to Hejiabu.After all, it’s New Year’s Eve there, whether it’s New Year’s Eve or the first lunar month. If everyone gets together and eats together, it must taste good.

Taking advantage of these two good days, Mother He urged Father He to deliver the New Year gift from her natal family first.

Thinking that this year's rituals are so rich, there is no reason for the mother's family not to keep the son-in-law for dinner, so before eleven o'clock, the mother-in-law put on her apron and went to the kitchen to cook.

"Your brother has to make up lessons at noon. If you don't come back to eat, it's just us mothers. Why don't you stop cooking and make gnocchi soup?"

"Okay, I have no objection." He Wei moved all the new year's goods that were not given away into the small storage room, then went to the balcony to water the flowers and plants, followed up in the kitchen to help her mother.

Hemu asked her to wash a handful of cabbage, then scooped up the river prawns raised in the bucket with a strainer, and cooked a pot of delicious and nutritious river prawn noodles.

The gnocchi was boiling, and He Wei had just put the heat-proof mat on the dining table, when there was a jingling sound of keys outside the door, and Father He came back.

"Dad, are you back?" He Wei hurriedly stepped forward to fetch the cotton slippers for her father to wear indoors.

He Mu came out with the gnocchi, and asked wonderingly: "Why did you come back so early? Did you not let you eat or did you eat early?"

Father He's face was not very good-looking, and he said sullenly: "I haven't eaten yet, I will come back after putting down the ceremony."

"What's the matter? Father and the others aren't at home?"

"No." Father He shook his head, opened his mouth hesitantly, and said after a while, "Sister and the others are all here. I thought I had a lot of work at home, so I came back before I had dinner."

In fact, He's father couldn't sit still because of the eccentric words of He's mother's elder sister, younger sister, and brother-in-law.

Mother He chased Father He and asked a few words, and then she understood, and her eyes turned red with anger: "Those people's minds are so small that they bring up that matter whenever they meet, and when they meet, they talk about it from the end of the year to the beginning of the year. , and from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, we really think our family is easy to bully..."

Immediately regretting it, he said bitterly: "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have given it away. It would be free if I gave it away. The foreign wine might as well be given to your second uncle. After all, he helped us get a big jar of snake wine. Your grandfather Grandma's ears are so soft, your aunt can say whatever she wants, and she doesn't remember our family's kindness to them at all, I think it should be the same as in previous years, the old-fashioned six gifts, love or not..."

He Wei was amused by her mother's childlike angry words, and she followed her mother's back and said, "Mom, we gave it to us, at least we have a good heart. As for grandpa and grandma, should they keep it for themselves or share it with aunts and others? It's none of our business."

"Weiwei is right. Just give it away. Why do you think so much?" After being persuaded by his daughter, Father He's heart suddenly brightened, and he urged Mother He to fill up the gnocchi quickly, and he starved to death.

"Dad, eat first if you are hungry, and then I will make eight-treasure rice."

The gnocchi soup shared by three people for two must not be enough, so He Wei found a box of earthy eight treasures from the box of southern country specialties sent by He Qingdong.

Seeing the eight treasures in her daughter's hand, the mother of the mother felt deeply: "Even an outsider, who came to our house for a few meals, thought about our family's good, and sent gifts from all the way, your aunt They are really inferior to outsiders."

He Wei suppressed a smile, and said to her mother, that guy doesn't think he is an outsider.

Young Master He, who was on a mission in the southern country, sneezed loudly and sniffed, did he catch a cold or did Xiao Nizi miss him thousands of miles away?

After this incident, He Mu's New Year's gift to her natal family no longer increased with the increase in her own living standard. She didn't even have to think about it, and just went straight to the ordinary standard six gifts.

……

He Xidong is the same as the previous two years, saying that he has finished the exam, but he still has to make up lessons, and there is no holiday until the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

Therefore, the day to return to Hejiabu is tentatively scheduled to be on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Hemu kept muttering about the inconvenience of not having a car at home, and she always called Lao Wu when buying New Year's goods, and she was troubled several times by pulling this and that, but I can't let them give it to me when I go back to my hometown for the New Year.

If Lao Wu was alone, he might as well invite him back to Hejiabu together, but this year he will accompany his girlfriend back to her natal home for the New Year, and the plane will fly on the afternoon of the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Hemu gave him a self-marinated herring weighing [-] to [-] catties, self-stuffed sausage weighing [-] catties, eight salty crabs with red paste, and a set of assorted gift boxes from He Qingdong.

After sending people back, Hemu began to mutter: "It seems that the family really can't do without a car, it's fine if the weather is good, but in a rainy and snowy day, what's the matter with the big and small bags, if I knew it, I wouldn't buy so many things ..."

He's father was budgeting for the lumber to be delivered in the spring of the coming year. Hearing He's mother's muttering, he said on a whim, "Then go buy one. Anyway, I've already got my driver's license."

Hemu: "..."

It is true that she is looking forward to buying a car for her family, but she doesn't really count on Hefu, who has just obtained his driver's license and hasn't practiced in the field, to be good at cutting.

From Qingshi to Hejiabu, the distance cannot be said to be far, but there is a section of expressway.The national highway in the countryside is a combination of people and vehicles. Can he handle it?
But He's father got this idea, and the budget couldn't go on, so he urged He's mother to get the bank card, saying that he should go to the car dealership to check the car now.

Mother He was dumbfounded, and she chased Father He uncertainly and asked, "Old He, are you serious? Are you sure you can drive the car after buying it? Don't drive until the car stops halfway, it costs five figures even if it's cheap. Well, it’s not a bicycle that costs two or three hundred yuan, and you can change it for another one at any time..."

But men, there is always such an unspeakable feeling for cars.

It was okay before I learned how to drive, but once I learned how to drive, I wish I could start driving in minutes.

Mother He's suspicion aroused Father He's ambition even more. He patted his chest and assured him repeatedly: "Don't worry, when I was learning to drive, the coach said that my actual combat ability is very strong. You see, I have even practiced on Lao Wu's truck once." Let alone that kind of squat car. Let’s go! Anyway, there’s nothing else to do at the moment, just take it for a stroll, and if we see something, let’s buy one. , if you don’t like it, you don’t buy it, it’s not like you have to buy it when you go to the car dealership..."

Mother He said that it is too expensive, so don't buy it, I haven't opened it very much, it would be so painful if I touched it, but my heart was also seduced by Father He, and she finally gritted her teeth and said, "Then I Call Weiwei up, Weiwei's vision is more accurate than both of us."

He Wei went to Yuxiu Pavilion this morning.

He promised Tao Defu to visit him a long time ago, but when he came back from vacation, he accompanied the mother to prepare and deliver New Year's goods, and was busy until the [-]th and [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

As soon as I was free, I took the shell stickers I made to see Tao Defu as a New Year's greeting. At the same time, I also brought a dried herring pickled by her mother herself and a jar of salty crab.

When I arrived at Yuxiu Pavilion, I chatted with Zhou An who was on duty in the outer hall for a while, and was called by Tao Defu to drink tea in the office.

The last time Tao Defu went to the main store in Kyoto for a meeting, he snatched two small cans of good tea from the shopkeeper of the main store. One of the cans was agreed to be reserved for He Wei, and the other was of course tasted by himself.

Even when Zhao Shirong and his wife came over, they were reluctant to serve such a good tea. Now that He Wei came, they brewed a pot of tea.

"Didn't Uncle Zhao and the others go on a round-the-world trip? Why are you back?" Sitting on the sofa, He Wei asked Tao Defu, who was showing the beauty of the tea ceremony.

Tao Defu said while making tea: "How can his wife travel around the world when she is pregnant. Besides, she is an advanced mother. Of course, she should take it easy. As soon as she came back, I heard him say that she went to a nursing home to raise her baby."

"Huh? Aunt Li is pregnant?"

Li Mingyue divorced her previous husband precisely because she couldn't have children. She didn't expect to get pregnant with Zhao Shirong within a year of her marriage. Isn't it surprising?

Tao Defu didn't know what came to mind, he laughed twice, and said: "Old Zhao is so frightened, he showed it off to me as soon as he came back, and said that his wife's ex-husband had an ugly face when he heard the news. You also know that his wife Rich in assets, the divorce was initiated by the other party first, and there was a third party who was pregnant before the divorce, so Li Mingyue didn't let him get any money, but after the two divorced, That Fang's newly married wife had a miscarriage, and she hasn't conceived so far, but the old Zhao and his wife have only been married for a year. Can people suspect that the problem lies with the man? Maybe the third party, who was pregnant at the beginning It's not the kind of ex-husband..."

He Wei: "..."

Uncle Tao, you say these things to an unmarried girl, and you still smile so wretchedly, is it really good?

However, Li Mingyue was pregnant and He Wei was also happy for them. It was inconvenient to go to the nursing home, so she called Zhao Shirong to congratulate her.

When Zhao Shirong heard that it was He Wei, he smiled happily: "Xiaohe, the painting "Jujue Sheng Guizi" you gave me when I got married is really effective. It took less than a year for Mingyue to become pregnant... ..."

He Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Uncle Zhao, it's not my fault."

"Hey, it must be your credit. 'Zaosheng Guizi' is equivalent to giving birth to a precious child early. Of course, the biggest contributor must be me, wife, don't you think so?"

Zhao Shirong was accompanying Li Mingyue in the seaside nursing home to give birth. He was afraid that the radiation of the mobile phone would be too large, and he was far away when answering the phone, so the following sentence was almost the same as shouting, loudly, not only He Wei heard it, but even Todd Fu heard clearly.

Tao Defu laughed unkindly, and leaned over and shouted, "Shameless, shameless".

Zhao Shirong scolded him across the phone.

He Wei was speechless.The combined age of these two people is almost a hundred years old, why are you still so naive, and helplessly said to the phone: "Uncle Zhao, I have to go home, I will see you and Aunt Li when spring comes, you Let Aunt Li have a good pregnancy and give me a white and fat younger brother or younger sister."

"Okay, okay!" He Wei's last few words touched Zhao Shirong's heart, and she couldn't see her eyes with a smile. There is no need to rush here, I will definitely invite you to drink the full moon wine when the baby is full moon, and you must come to enjoy it when the time comes."

He Wei smiled and agreed.

After hanging up the phone, she got up and said goodbye to Tao Defu.

Seeing that He Wei was determined not to leave after lunch, Tao Defu packed the pot of good tea that he had bought, and stuffed it into He Wei's arms along with a copy of the new year's goods for each employee in the store: "This is something that every employee has. Yes, you have to accept it, or the big boss will blame me for not being good at things."

After thanking He Wei with a smile, she graciously accepted it.

"By the way, I heard from Old Wang that you agreed to participate in the PK match in July next year?"

The entry list has not been officially announced yet, and Tao Defu heard about it when he went to the head office for a meeting.

He Wei nodded: "Well, I'm fine during the summer vacation anyway, and I can gain some practical experience by participating in the competition, which is pretty good."

Tao Defu grinned happily after hearing this: "That's kind! You are representing our branch in the competition. I am relieved to have you. But..."

He remembered a piece of news he heard a while ago, and said with a frown: "I thought that Jinxiu Village was being clever, but not long ago I heard that it changed hands, and the new owner is Japanese. The embroiderer, who knows a kind of embroidery technique that we have never seen before, claims to be more exquisite than ancient embroidery, and it is clear that she is here for next year's PK competition."

He Wei was surprised when she heard this: "We haven't even seen each other here?"

What kind of embroidery is that?
"Is it even rarer than ancient embroidery?"

"Who knows. Maybe it's rumors, tactics in your mind. Don't be too pressured after listening to it. Just go to the competition according to your own strength. The big boss said, we don't care about winning or losing, the focus is on learning from each other. If you really don't see it It is good to be able to learn one and a half stitches from previous embroidery methods.”

He Wei nodded, indicating that she had counted.

(End of this chapter)