A layman in the courtyard

Chapter 71 Buying Food
Cao Zhihua rushed all the way to Chen Xueru's yard, pushed open the door and entered, parked the car, locked the door, took out the lunch box with vegetables from the space and walked into the living room.

When I came to the living room, I saw Chen Xueru sitting on the sofa and reading the account books. Her son Chen Liang was walking around at Chen Xueru's feet, and he was covered in ashes.

Cao Zhihua walked over and put the lunch box on the table, picked up his son, and coaxed:
"Liangliang, have you missed Uncle Zhihua?"

Chen Liang cried "Wow~".

Chen Xueru raised her head, rolled her eyes, stood up, picked up Chen Liang, and put it on the ground for him to play with.

"Let him play by himself. You can't coax him well every time, and you still like to tease him."

Cao Zhihua stopped crying when he saw Xiao Chen Liang's feet hit the ground, and said in a dumbfounded voice:

"My mother-in-law doesn't take this with her every day. I haven't been with this little guy for a long time. I miss him."

"He deserves it. You don't even dare to recognize him. When you get used to calling him uncle, how can you make him change his name?"

Cao Zhihua chuckled:
"Isn't this for the safety of our family? Children are not sensible and will cause trouble if they call daddy outside."

Chen Xueru knew what was going on, but she just couldn't reconcile herself to it and said unkindly:

"Who takes seriously what a child says?"

"But this matter can't withstand investigation, and there's no need to attract people's attention for investigation, right?"

Chen Xueru stamped her feet unwillingly,

"Okay, you stay with your son while I cook. Is this the dish you brought?"

"Yes, I have eaten. You can just cook for yourself and your son."

"Okay, I'll get busy first."

After Chen Xueru left, Cao Zhihua took out a White Rabbit toffee from the space, peeled off the paper, took his son over, and stuffed it into his mouth without waiting for his son to suffer.

Sure enough, children over three years old love to eat sweets, and they won't make trouble when they lick the sweetness in their mouths.

Cao Zhihua held his son and took a closer look. Well, he looks really good, combining the advantages of himself and Chen Xueru.

A typical oval face with smooth and soft facial lines.A pair of beautiful auspicious eyes, smiling like a crescent moon, with the ends of the eyes turned up, making the eyes look watery.

Cao Zhihua felt that he looked like himself. After all, he was his own son. The more he looked at it, the more he liked him.

After a while, Chen Xueru had the food ready and was ready to eat.

Cao Zhihua looked at it and saw one scrambled egg with tomatoes, one stir-fried cabbage, one cucumber, and one lean meat soup. The lean meat soup was for his son Chen Liang to make meat soup rice.

"These vegetables look quite fresh."

"Yes, today the street organized everyone to go to Sijiqing Commune to help out on a voluntary basis. The freshly picked vegetables are so fresh, so I bought some."

"Is Sijiqing Commune very busy now?"

"Yes, Sijiqing Commune has a good harvest of greenhouse vegetables now, and we must take advantage of this period to quickly deliver them to the people's vegetable baskets."

Cao Zhihua said in surprise:
“There is a glass greenhouse in Sijiqing Commune where you can grow greenhouse vegetables?”

Chen Xueru looked at Cao Zhihua as if she were an alien:
"How strange, how do you not recognize the fireworks of the world? Sijiqing Commune started building greenhouses in 54. How many years has passed and you don't know this?"

Cao Zhihua, oh, I have been misled by novels. Didn’t many courtyard novels in the past life invent greenhouse vegetables and then make a fortune?Why is it there?This doesn't make sense.

"Hey, I really don't know. You know me. Apart from going to work every day, I just accompany you to learn about this thing."

Chen Xueru picked up her son's rice bowl, filled a bowl of rice, made the broth, picked up the soup spoon and handed it to Cao Zhihua:
"Here, come hold my son and feed him. I'm starving. I need to eat something first."

"Okay, leave your son to me."

Father Cao Zhihua got up, held his son in his arms, took a spoonful of rice, put it to his mouth and blew on it, and then fed it to his son.

His son just ate a piece of candy and he was obviously not hungry. He put it in his mouth and spit it out but refused to eat it. This made Cao Zhihua very anxious.

When Chen Xueru saw that Cao Zhihua could not handle his son, she was not in a hurry and ate her own food first:

"Where did you buy the duck and meat? It tastes really good, but the duck is too spicy." Cao Zhihua changed the topic and replied while feeding his son:
"It tastes better if it's spicy. It's most soulful when eaten with rice. It's absolutely delicious."

Chen Xueru said suspiciously:
"Really?"

"Really, if you try, I can still lie to you."

Chen Xueru poured some duck and broth into the rice, stirred it, and took a small bite.

After chewing it for a long time and then swallowing it, my eyes lit up and I thought it tasted good.

Without saying a word, he started to eat big meals and eat meat.

After Chen Xueru finished two bowls of rice, she couldn't eat any more.I saw that it took Cao Zhihua a long time to feed his son a little bit of food, and he didn't take any rest. He took his son and started feeding him.

After feeding him a spoonful, he saw that his son still spit out the rice. I patted him irritably and yelled at him:

"Eat it or not. Eat it quickly. If you don't eat it, I'll kill you."

"Whether you want to eat or not, eat quickly before I spit on you and slap you."

"Sit tight and eat quickly."

Cao Zhihua was shocked when he saw his son crying loudly because of his mother's fright. He quickly finished a bowl of rice in several mouthfuls.

"No, Sister Xueru, is this how you usually feed your son?"

Chen Xueru was obviously impatient with her son:
"I want you to take care of me, but you can't do it well, and you don't want to eat. How long can I feed you without beating or scolding me?"

Cao Zhihua stopped talking. He couldn't afford to offend an angry woman.

Chen Xueru finished feeding the rice in the bowl, watched her son eat it, then put his son on the ground and said to him:
"Now that you've finished eating, do you want some more?"

The son was frightened and shook his head immediately:

"Don't eat."

"Then go and play by yourself."

When the son heard this, he was so happy that he ran out without looking back.

Chen Xueru saw her son playing in the yard and handed the bowl of broth to Cao Zhihua:
"Your son can't finish it, so you eat the rest and don't waste it."

Cao Zhihua looked at Chen Xueru with a wry smile. Fortunately, this impatient woman has a mother-in-law. Otherwise, she would not be much better off raising her children with this temper.

However, Cao Zhihua is lazy, and it is even more unreliable to ask Cao Zhihua to take care of the child, so the future success of this child can only depend on God's will.

Cao Zhihua drank the broth in several mouthfuls, put down the bowl and said to Chen Xueru:

"I have heard from many people recently that there will be a large-scale drought across the country this year. Grain production will be reduced on a large scale this year, and famine will occur. You need to find someone to buy more grain in the past few days, so as not to starve due to lack of grain."

Chen Xueru has been reclusive since she lost her pregnancy. She goes to taverns less and is naturally less well-informed.

"Really? I didn't receive any news."

"When you receive the news, basically everyone across the country knows it, do you think you can still buy food?"

"Yes, then tomorrow I will ask the former boss Zhou of the grain store if he can still send some grain."

"Well, don't be afraid of spending money. The yard is so big and there are so many empty rooms. You can buy as much as you can. Anyway, you can't lose money by saving food. If you don't have enough money, tell me. I have saved some money in the past few years."

"Understood, sir."

Cao Zhihua thought for a while:

"It's best to go find Xu Huizhen. She should be able to buy as much food as she can."

Chen Xueru replied impatiently:

"Okay, my master, I understand. Do you mind being so long-winded?"

(End of this chapter)