Good Pregnancy Ninety-Nine

Chapter 18 The Hardworking Young Wife
Chapter 18 The Hardworking Young Wife
Tired and out of breath, Chunmei stood there and rested for a while before walking slowly towards the hut.

It was past eight o'clock in the morning, and before Chunmei reached the hut, she heard the noise of roosters, hens, big chickens and little chickens vying for each other.Several workers in the chicken house are feeding the chickens in the cages in front of the chicken coops, and then release the chickens to look for food when they are full.

A cloud of cooking smoke curled up from the direction of the kitchen of the hut and converged towards the direction of the clouds in the sky.

It's so early, I don't know if that guy is here?

Approaching the hut, worker Lu Xiaosan was the first to spot her.He put down the chicken food and ran over happily, shouting, "Sister Chunmei, you're here so early!"

Chunmei nodded and smiled, and asked, "Where's your brother from the army, is he here?"

"Here he is, he's picking mushrooms in the grove over there." Lu Xiaosan said and pointed her in the direction of the grove.

Chunmei said "Oh", thinking that this man really likes picking mushrooms. "Thanks." She threw the sweet potato on the ground and was going to find him in the grove.

"By the way, that...has your aunt been here?" Chunmei asked again in a low voice, and somehow she began to feel flustered and sweat when Lu Congjun's mother was mentioned.

"My aunt, not yet. But I heard from my brother Congjun that she should come today." Xiaosan was honest and only focused on telling what she knew, and didn't notice anything strange about Chunmei.

Knowing that the old lady hadn't come yet, Chunmei breathed a sigh of relief.

Saying goodbye to Xiaosan, she walked towards the woods alone.Before he had gone far, he saw Lu Congjun walking up the small slope with a basket full of mushrooms in a vegetable basket.

Today, he is wearing camouflage trousers and a black tight-fitting shirt on his upper body. His strong and slender figure is set off by the clothes.

Lu Congjun found her as soon as he went up the slope. He came with a basket and smiled, and waved to her in the sun with his thin lips and teeth: "You are here, I picked a lot of mushrooms, we will have a lunch at noon." Eat mushrooms."

Chunmei's heart was beating wildly, and the feeling of blushing and heartbeat was getting stronger and stronger as she watched him get closer and closer to her!She admitted that he was very handsome, the kind of handsome that the longer we get along, the more he likes him.

"Can mushrooms grow on this small hill?" How did she find out that there were so many mushrooms on the mountain over Lijiazhuang.

Lu Congjun approached her, and naturally stretched out a hand to hold her hand and said with a smile: "That's natural, the chicken manure all over the ground on my mountain is all fertilizer, what else? The land can’t grow that much.”

"Oh, no wonder." Chunmei was convinced.

Lu Congjun laughed out loud, making Chunmei's heart shudder: "What are you laughing at?" She asked.

Lu Congjun was about to speak, but the smile on his face froze in the next second: "Mom, you are here."

Hearing the sound of mother, Chunmei's heart skipped a beat and she hurriedly looked forward: she saw Lu Congjun's mother, Guo Lanying, standing in front of the hut and looking at them with a dark face.

It's over, the old lady came so early, she hasn't fully prepared yet.

"What's the matter, your mother hasn't calmed down at all." Chunmei murmured softly as she tugged at the corner of Lu Congjun's clothes.

"It's okay, just take it easy." Lu Congjun squeezed her palm to comfort her.

"It's very affectionate. It seems that you have a good time when my old lady is away." Guo Lanying said in a strange way, suppressing her anger.

Chunmei knew she was wrong and dared not speak up.

Lu Congjun let go of Chunmei's hand, put his arms around his old lady's shoulders and said with a smile on his face, "Mom, see what you said. I didn't even have to eat during the two days you were away, I ate every meal." The leftovers of the workers, life without a mother is really sad!"

Guo Lanying's face slowly eased after being coaxed by her son, and she felt a little distressed when she thought of her son saying that she had eaten leftovers for the past two days, so she said: "Mom, let's make you a good meal at noon, you have lost weight these two days." like."

"Mom, let Chunmei cook at noon. She is a good cook and has long wanted to cook for you." Seizing the opportunity, Lu Congjun immediately pushed Chunmei out wittily.

After Chunmei was reminded by him, he hurriedly stood up and echoed, "That's right, Auntie, you can try my handicraft at noon."

Guo Lanying glanced at Chunmei, and felt that she looked kind.But when she thought that her son's relationship with the Lu family might cut off the incense, she raised her chin and said, "No need, you should go back to your own home to cook your meal, I can't afford it. "

Chunmei didn't know how to answer her words for a while, so she stood behind Lu Congjun in embarrassment and said nothing.

Lu Congjun saw that the atmosphere was a bit tense, so he put his arms around his mother's shoulder again and said coquettishly: "My good mother, it's just a meal, you can let her cook it... then you can find fault with her if you can't do it well. "He whispered the last part of the sentence in Guo Lanying's ear.

Fortunately, Chunmei didn't hear the second half of the sentence. If she heard it, she would probably have to settle accounts later.

Hearing what her son said, Guo Lanying finally reluctantly agreed without saying anything.

"Mom, let's make chicken stewed mushrooms at noon. Look, I picked these mushrooms early in the morning. How good it is..." Lu Congjun walked into the hall with the basket of mushrooms in one hand and Guo Lanying in the other. He did not forget to give Chunmei a "fixed" wink.

At this time, Lu Xiaosan ran up to Chunmei and said to her, "Sister Chunmei, I put your bag of sweet potatoes on the table in the living room for you. I'm afraid chickens will peck it on the ground."

"Oh, good." Chunmei smiled, and just wanted to praise Xiaosan for being really sensible, but Guo Lanying said, "What sweet potato?"

Lu Congjun was also taken aback, and when he saw that there was indeed a small snakeskin bag on the wooden table in the hall, he walked over and opened it—it was indeed a sweet potato.

He glanced at Chunmei, and Chunmei squeezed her face with a smile on her face as a response to him.

"Mom, look how caring Chunmei is. I know you love sweet potatoes and brought you so many sweet potatoes! This is the original green food!" Lu Congjun also took great pains to find an opportunity to settle the relationship between the two women. .

Unexpectedly, Guo Lanying didn't appreciate it, and even smiled contemptuously: "Hehe, your mother has eaten this stuff for most of my life, and now I feel disgusted when I see it."

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Lu Congjun, who was more eloquent, was also choked by his mother's words at this time.

On the other hand, Chunmei was quite clever. Seeing that the old lady didn't like it, she hurriedly added: "This is chestnut potato, which is pink and fragrant, but the yield is small."

When Guo Lanying heard that it was Chestnut Potato, she couldn't help swallowing secretly, but she still held it on the shelf and said reluctantly: "If you eat something that makes you gas, since you have brought it, you can keep it."

Lu Congjun chuckled, and Chunmei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After tasting the fruit for the first time, Chunmei's performance became even harder.After she saw Guo Lanying sitting down in the living room, she went to the kitchen to boil water and make tea without being asked.

After making tea, I went to help clean the chicken coop and then went to help pick up eggs.This morning she was busy running up and down, just like a hardworking little daughter-in-law.

Lu Congjun saw that she was so busy that she was sweating, so he ran to her side more than once and quietly told her to take it easy and say that she could just put on a show, and she didn't need to do anything.

Chunmei smiled, a warm current in her heart made her more and more sure that her hard work was worth it!
Guo Lanying naturally noticed Chunmei's performance. Although she thought this girl was good, she still had a hard time accepting her as a daughter-in-law.

The whole morning's busy time passed quickly, and it was time to make lunch in a blink of an eye.

Chunmei went to the kitchen and took some vegetables and the basket of mushrooms she picked in the morning to wash in a spring in the mountain stream. After washing, she also bucketed half a barrel of mountain spring water and brought it to the kitchen of the hut for later use.

She has already figured out how to cook the dishes for lunch: fried shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fried vegetables, winter melon bone soup, chicken stewed with mushrooms.

When it comes to stewed chicken with mushrooms, Chunmei is full of confidence. This dish was taught to her by her deceased grandma.In the past, as long as she cooked this dish at home, the rice in the pot would be eaten up until there was not a single grain of rice left.

When everything is ready, wait for the pan to heat up and start frying.

Lu Congjun came into the kitchen with a pot of chopped chicken, put the chicken pieces aside and asked her, "Do you want me to help? Although my cooking skills are average, I can still help."

Chunmei shook her head and said, "Forget it, you should go out and chat with your mother, lest she suspect that you cooked this meal."

Lu Congjun laughed, caught off guard and kissed her on the cheek, and left happily.

(End of this chapter)