After school in the afternoon, no one from the Jiang family interfered with Su Xiaomo's whereabouts.
"Xiao Mo, Xiao Su and I are going home. Goodbye."
Su Xiaomo waved her hand and took a taxi to where Su Linyan worked.
"elder brother."
Su Linyan raised his head and looked at the familiar little girl. "Xiao Mo, why did you come to see me? Is someone from the Jiang family bullying you, or are you not used to living in the Jiang family? You are not wronged, right?"
Su Xiaomo smiled at Su Linyan's arm at night and snuggled against his side. She said: "Ever since I was little, my brother has picked me up from school and taken me home. When I go to a friend's house, it's you who picks me up. Today I want to come
Pick you up once."
Su Linyan looked at his sister who suddenly became behaving better, and asked, "Are you going to go back to Jiang Momo?"
Su Xiaomo pursed her lips and rested her forehead on Su Linyan's arm. "Brother, are you angry?"
"No, I will never be angry with you."
After Su Linyan got off work, he drove his sister to the vegetable market.
"When we were young, our mother trained us to socialize with others. She gave us a hundred yuan each, brought a menu to the vegetable market to buy food, and learned to bargain with others. I still remember standing in front of their fish tank and looking at it for half an hour.
We didn’t even buy the last dish, so we each carried a big carp home.”
Su Xiaomo walked to the vegetable market and recalled her childhood.
Su Linyan picked up a bunch of green onions and a handful of leeks and handed them to the stall owner to bear the weight.
"3 pieces of shallots, 2 pieces of leeks, a total of 5 pieces."
Su Linyan transferred money to the boss, and he had a girl on his arm. They seemed to be a newlywed couple, visiting the vegetable market to experience life.
He took the vegetables he bought and went to the butcher shop in front, "I want pork belly for 40 yuan and mix it into dumpling fillings."
Su Xiaomo asked: "Brother, shall we eat dumplings tonight?"
"Yes, let's have dumplings together."
After the dumpling fillings were ready, he took his sister to the egg seller, bought some eggs and took them home.
Su Xiaomo followed him the whole time, just like she did when she was a child.
When Su Linyan went to the supermarket to buy colored pens, her little hand was held and followed, and she had to buy her a lollipop when she left.
Su Linyan went to buy soy sauce, and she went with him. On the way home, she had to buy a marshmallow to eat.
Later, her parents were busy at work and the maids at home were away on weekends, so she followed Ling Jinyan to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and go home.
Su Linyan said that when he was with Xiaomo, he liked to accompany her to the supermarket to buy snacks for her, and he also liked to go to messy wet markets to buy vegetables with her.
Every time this happens, he will feel that his family is living an ordinary and happy life.
"Brother, grandparents, do they know?"
Su Linyan hummed, "Don't see the two elders recently, they are stimulated."
Su Xiaomo lowered her head, "Do my grandparents hate me?"
"That's not true. They only think you are Su Xiaomo and don't accept that you are not their granddaughter. Grandma said that you are so good-looking and you are her granddaughter at first glance, so you are not from the Jiang family. Grandpa also said that you are his granddaughter.
When you grow up, you will be his granddaughter."
Saying this, Su Xiaomo felt less self-blame in her heart.
When they arrived at home, Mrs. Su and Minister Su had not returned home yet.
The brother and sister started to go to the kitchen. Su Xiaomo chopped green onions and put them into the dumpling fillings.
"Brother, my eyes are sore and I'm crying."
Su Linyan was making noodles, with both hands full of noodles, "You go out, I'll chop the onions."
As soon as Su Xiaomo put down the kitchen knife, she turned around and went to the water pipe to rinse her eyes with water.
Su Linyan cuts vegetables much faster than Su Xiaomo. He looks like an old chef. Within a short time of putting the knife on the chopping board, he has finished cutting all the green onions.
Then start mixing it with the meat.
Su Xiaomo is beating eggs again. Tonight her family will eat dumplings with two kinds of fillings, a combination of meat and vegetables.
When Mrs. Su returned home, she saw her son and daughter in the kitchen.
She put down her bag and hurried to the kitchen, "Xiaomo, are you back?"
"Mom, I'm back."
Su Xiaomo put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hands, walked over and hugged her mother. "Mom, I'm sorry, it took me so long to come back."
Mrs. Su hugged her daughter tightly.
After a moment of tenderness between mother and daughter, Mrs. Su asked her son and daughter to go out and she started cooking.
Su Linyan and Su Xiaomo would not leave. They would accompany their mother in the kitchen. Even if they were chatting and making dumplings for their mother, they would still be happy.
Minister Su also came back. When he saw the three mothers in the kitchen, he also took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and joined the kitchen. "What should I do?"
"Dad, since our skills are not good, we should be professional leather-rollers," Su Xiaomo said.
The dumplings she and Minister Su made were completely different. Mrs. Su and Su Linyan's hands didn't know how long they were, and they could also pinch lace.
Every time, Su Xiaomo wanted to trade hands with her brother.
"Brother, please teach me how to pinch." Su Xiaomo went to ask for advice again.
Su Linyan taught her step by step, and Su Xiaomo also studied seriously.
But when she finally saw the finished product, Su Lin said: "You and our dad can roll the dough."
Su Xiaomo frowned and looked at the dumpling wrapper with a big hole in it, feeling very depressed.
They are both hands, so why is the difference so big?
"Brother, teach me again."
Comrade Su Xiaomo has a tenacious and never-giving-up spirit.
So, Su Linyan gave her another dumpling wrapper, "Look at it and pinch it in the middle."
Su Xiaomo followed suit.
However, she pinched it very ugly.
The final product came out. The dumplings in Su Linyan’s hands were called dumplings. Su Xiaomo’s dumplings were affectionately praised as “big lumps” by her parents.
Mrs. Su was even worried that her daughter's dumplings would not be cooked properly.
"Brother, I think I will definitely succeed the third time."
Classmate Su Xiaomo still doesn’t give up.
Finally, Su Linyan gave up.
He stood behind his sister, holding her hands with both hands, and taught her how to make dumplings step by step. "See, pinch the middle gently, and start pinching the edges from both sides, without pinching the fillings."
Su Xiaomo nodded and listened very carefully.
Finally, a decent dumpling was born.
"I don't want to learn anymore, it's too difficult."
Su Xiaomo felt that unskilled work was most suitable for her. People should not be greedy for what they can't do. Those who understand the current affairs are heroes. If she wants to be a hero, she should roll out dumpling wrappers.
Minister Su is the most self-aware, and he doesn’t say anything about what he wants to learn.
The father and daughter are rolling out dough, and the mother and son are making dumplings.
Talking and laughing in the kitchen until late.
Neither of the couple mentioned their daughter's stay in the Jiang family, as if she was still Su Xiaomo, their daughter, just like before.
In the Jiang family, Mr. Jiang saw that it was past eight o'clock. He wanted to call his daughter to ask if she had eaten or slept.
Gu Nuannuan stopped him and said, "Dad, please give me some time to get along with you. If you call me now, it will look like you are in a hurry."
Wei Aihua also supported Gu Xiaonuan's words, "Momo has been at our house these past few days, and the Su family's parents have not called her once, so that she can gradually get familiar with life with us. We should also be like the Su family's parents
, let Momo go and not disturb other people’s lives.”
Mr. Jiang pouted aggrievedly and muttered, "I don't miss her anymore."
Gu Nuannuan: "I have to endure it no matter how much I think about you."
As a result, before nine o'clock, Su Xiaomo's own phone number came through. She was calling Mr. Jiang directly.
"Hey, Momo, did you miss dad too when you called him?"
Su Xiaomo knew that her biological father was old and he would miss her at night, so she called him to let him go to bed early.
"Dad, I just finished eating with my parents. We chatted for a while and then went to bed. You should go to bed early too."
"Okay, I'll go to bed too. Don't sleep too late. Staying up too late is bad for your health."
Su Xiaomo hummed, and the two hung up the phone.
Gu Nuannuan looked at her father who spoke righteously. She held her face in her hands and looked at Mr. Jiang and asked: "At twelve o'clock last night, whose Happy Fun game went from level 245 to level 253?"
Mr. Jiang: "..." If you have the ability, name them by name!