The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 285 Feelings of Relatives

In our lives, there will not be too many beautiful and surprising bridges such as novels, movies, and TV dramas.

Life is real and real.At a certain moment, we will fall into the longing and moving of the beauty, but what we really have to face is the real life and the inseparable daily necessities.

The lark-like voice came from a young girl in the east courtyard. She was sitting in a wheelchair at the moment, with a face as pure as water, immersed in the aftertaste of the singing.

Sitting next to the girl was a middle-aged woman, demure and dignified, she looked like a well-educated person.It seemed that she was moved by the singing, or that the singing brought back some memories in her, and there were tears in her eyes.

This courtyard is not as big as a courtyard house. Although it is small and small, it is clean and elegant, and it looks peaceful and warm in the night.

"Sister Ami, do you still want to hear it?" Erdun asked through the wall in a raised voice.

"Think about it, you sing again." The lark's voice floated over clearly.

The melodious sound of the matouqin sounded again, and a Mongolian man Erdun sang a song on the Hulun Buir Prairie.People were once again immersed in the beautiful singing, as if they had arrived at the grassland and saw herds of cattle and sheep, the emerald green lake and the blue sky——
late at night.

Old Tan took a sip of the tea that Yaru made, and asked Yaru who was tidying up the closet: "Yaru, what's the matter with the little girl in the east courtyard?"

"You mean Ami? Hehe, did you hear Erdun sing again?" Yaru asked with a smile.

"Um--"

"She likes to listen to Erdun singing—to tell you, she lived here when we moved in, and they are old households—"

Ami's house in the East Courtyard had been rented out a year ago, and the family lived in a building in the south of the city.Unfortunately, bad luck came, Amei had a car accident on the way to school, broke her left leg and lost her right foot, and she has been in a wheelchair ever since.

For the convenience of their daughter's travel, parents moved back here from the building.

Although Lao Tan and the others knew that there were people living in the east courtyard when they came, they had never met each other, so they didn't know.

After Erdun came, he played the matouqin and sang while drinking. That day, Amei was the same as today, sitting in the yard with her mother to enjoy the cool, attracted by the sound of the qin and singing, and heard the sound of a lark.

From then on, they became acquainted with each other. Every time Erdun played the piano and sang, Ami listened to and praised him from the other side of the wall.

This is the beauty of the world.

"Have you met Ami?" Old Tan asked.

"I've seen it before." Yaru said, "She's very quiet, and she looks like her mother. Her mother is a teacher. She didn't go to work after the car accident, and she has been taking care of her at home. By the way, her mother's hometown is Inner Mongolia." Yaru Say.

"Oh—what does his dad do?"

"For business, there is a store on Silk Street."

"Is she still in school?"

"No—but it's smart, and I like it."

Yaru smiled after speaking, with a look of a good wife and mother.

Looking at Yaru, Lao Tan pulled his thoughts back to his eyes and asked with concern: "Is your son a sophomore in high school?"

"Well, the third year of school has started." Speaking of her son Yaru, a happy expression appeared on her face. To be honest, her son is her pride. "Is your son going to junior high school?"

"Yes." Old Tan said.

"Your son is smart, and he must be good at studying."

"Hehe, being smart means being smart, you just don't study and play ball all day long."

Speaking of his son, Lao Tan is also proud, but he feels guilty in his heart - he spends too little time with his son.

"You can play ball, and you are in good health." Yaru said, closing the closet door, sitting next to Lao Tan, and asked, "How is your health recently?"

"It's fine, it's okay." Old Tan said.

"Thinking about taking antihypertensive medicine, by the way, how is Zhang Li?" Yaru asked.

"He recovered very well, nothing happened, and he looked like a normal person."

"That's fine—"

Although Yaru knows that the relationship between Lao Tan and Zhang Li is unusual, sometimes she feels sour, but kind people have one thing in common, that is soft heart.

Speaking of which, it has been five years since Yaru got divorced, and it has been four years since she came to Aqiao.Whether in the provincial capital, Hohhot, or now Suzhou, she has gained a good reputation for her kindness and enthusiasm.

She is like a family sister, who takes care of everyone so much. Wherever there is her, there will always be affectionate affection.Everyone affectionately called her "Sister Yaru", even the older ones.

In the past four years, she has brought out many apprentices.In all honesty, almost all the dumpling chefs in various shops in Hohhot are brought out by her, and she can compete with Wang Hong in this respect.

With her good reputation and good character, she has received a lot of praise.Several single elderly masters sent courtship signals to her, but she kindly and politely rejected them with a faint smile.

It's not that those masters are not good enough, but that she has no plans to find another man to start a family.This is not to say that she will be lonely for the rest of her life. She plans to earn money for a few years first, save some savings, and give herself a hard support.

It's not that the society is too realistic, the situation is there, if a divorced woman doesn't have any money in her hands, even if she remarries, she won't insist on it, and she has to look up and look short when she speaks.

Having said that, although the son is divorced, the son is his own, and now he doesn't have to take care of it himself. If there are grandparents, can a mother not take money when she starts a family and starts a business?
I have to save some money for my son. It may not be much, but I have to save.

Of course, the reason for not planning to find a man is the son's factor.The son already has a stepmother, and she doesn't want to find another stepfather, which is a bit sorry.She wanted to wait for her son to get married and start a business, and then find an honest and kind person to live out his life peacefully.

We might ask, is she interested in Lao Tan?Can the two continue their relationship and continue their youthful love?
the answer is negative.Although she said that the man she was in love with should not be touched by others, but most of it was emotional, and it came out in response to the occasion.She can't, and won't, destroy Lao Tan's family. On the contrary, she hopes that he will live well.

Already an adult, even if the branches of love erupted by youth do not bear fruit, they will not reveal their juice again.

In the process of growing up, we have experienced ignorant youth, vigorous youth, mature and stable middle age, and old age looking back on the past.Each age group has the characteristics of an age group, and at which age group people will naturally use the thinking of that age group to think about problems, deal with people and deal with things.

This is an invisible standard of law, which is not transcendent for everyone, only coming late or leaving late.

There are two old Tan in Yaru's heart, one is young, her first love; the other is now, a mature man.When you can't see it, or you suffer from insomnia and difficulty falling asleep, the young old Tan will appear in front of your eyes, and your thoughts will fly to twenty years ago, happily reminiscing about the sweetness of love.

When I was with the mature old Tan, I felt as if I had already walked the road of love that only I knew. After several trekking and wind and rain, I finally settled down like living a life.

Looking at him warms my heart, my eyes are like a wife looking at her husband, like a sister looking at her brother, and like a sister looking at her brother.In short, without the ardor of love, there is more care and warmth from relatives.

Yes, loved ones, that's how it feels.

Yaru saw that it was already twelve o'clock, stood up and prepared to leave, and before leaving, she said: "Put the changed clothes on the bedside, and just put the ones you take off in the washing machine. I will wash them tomorrow."

"Yes, I see." Old Tan agreed.

"I'm sleepy, I'm coming back."

Yaru pushed the door and went out, then turned around and said, "Go to bed early and stop looking at your phone."

(End of this chapter)