Lin Mai changed clothes, went to the backyard to wash up, and prepared to make breakfast.
I saw Grandpa Fang’s basket full of fried dough sticks, joy dumplings, and glutinous rice chicken.
In the other hand, he was holding a large enamel jar filled with tofu curd, and he happily walked in from the outside.
Grandma Fang quickly stepped forward to catch the bamboo basket in his hand, and said angrily: "I asked you to buy breakfast, but you just bought so much. How can we eat it? If it breaks at noon, isn't it a waste of food?"
Grandpa Fang called out to Qu: "I didn't buy any of these. I went to buy breakfast and they gave it to me forcibly."
Grandma Fang stopped scolding him and turned to Lin Mai with a smile: "Your grandpa and I took advantage of you and Doudou to eat so richly early in the morning."
The breakfast is really too much, and it definitely can't be eaten by four people.
Before eating, Grandma Fang divided a large portion of it and took it out early, asking Lin Mai to deliver it to the Fuqiang family later.
Lin Mai ate breakfast in a hurry and was about to go out to deliver breakfast to Fu Qiang's family.
Doudou held a Huanxi Tuo in one hand and a glutinous rice chicken in the other.
He twisted his chubby body, slid down from the chair, and said with a milky voice: "Mom, I want to go too."
Lin Mai saw that all she got was glutinous food.
It is difficult for children to digest glutinous food if they eat too much, so you have to let Doudou put it down before you can go out with her.
The little cute baby was torn between looking at the Huanxi Tuo in her hand and then at the glutinous rice chicken. She loved eating both.
Lin Mai urged her: "I will only give you a maximum of three minutes to make a decision. After three minutes, if you have not made a decision, mom will leave on her own."
Doudou reluctantly gave up her love and gave the glutinous rice chicken to Grandpa Fang, and then the mother and daughter went out.
Neighbors greeted them warmly along the way.
Doudou sighed: "Mom is so popular!"
Lin Mai smiled and said: "Because I have helped people here, this is called giving roses to others, leaving a lingering fragrance in my hands."
Then he patiently explained to the little cute baby what it means to give roses to others, leaving a lingering fragrance in your hands.
Doudou is still too young to understand what he hears.
Lin Mai didn't care either.
As for a child, as long as she is influenced subtly, she should be able to grow into a caring and good child.
The Fuqiang brothers and sisters had gone to the fields to do farm work before dawn for several mornings and came back. Just as they were making breakfast, they saw Lin Mai and her daughter arriving with baskets filled with glutinous rice chicken, fried dough sticks and other breakfast items.
Except for Fu Qiang, who could restrain himself, everyone else, including Fu Qiang's mother, stared at the breakfast with salivation and swallowed hard.
Fuqiang asked in surprise: "Sister Maizi, why are you here?" As he spoke, he let her mother and daughter into the house.
Lin Mai put the basket with breakfast on the dining table and said without any concealment: "Grandpa Fang went to buy breakfast this morning, and many people gave him breakfast.
We couldn't finish it, so we sent some of it over for you to eat."
Taking into account the self-esteem of the Fuqiang family, Lin Mai added: "These breakfasts are not leftovers from us, they are separated out before we start eating."
Fu Qiang smiled and said, "It doesn't matter even if you eat the leftovers."
Like a young adult, Doudou greeted Fuqiang's younger siblings for breakfast: "Eat quickly, mom said, these foods should be eaten while they are hot to be delicious."
Although Fu Qiang's younger brothers and sisters were extremely greedy, no one dared to take it, they all stared at Fu Qiang.
Fu Qiang said kindly: "Don't even look at me, just take it and eat it."
Several younger brothers and sisters rushed forward to get breakfast, but no one grabbed it, and there was order in the chaos.
The eldest sister took a fried dough stick and handed it to her mother who was standing next to her with a smile on her face and swallowed her saliva: "Mom, you can eat it too."
Fu Qiang’s mother waved her hands in panic and slurred: “If mom doesn’t eat, you eat.”
Seeing this, Fu Qiang walked over, forced the fried dough stick into his mother's hand, and said with a sullen face: "Eat it if you want!"
His mother was a little afraid of her eldest son, so she obediently took the fried dough stick and ate it happily, grinning happily.
The same goes for several younger brothers and sisters.
The eldest sister took two Huanxi Tuo and two fried dough sticks and went to her dad's room.
Then, her father's voice came out: "Where did these come from?"
"Sister Maizi gave it to me."
Lin Mai saw that there was still one fried dough stick and two glutinous rice chickens in the basket, and knew that it was Fu Qiang's younger brother and sister who had left them for Fu Qiang.
He said to him: "Hurry up and take those two glutinous rice chickens and fried dough sticks so that I can take the basket away."
Fu Qiang said: "Wait a moment."
After that, he went into his room and came out soon, holding a few big unity cards in his hand.
He stretched out those big sheets towards Lin Mai.
Lin Mai understood in his heart, but deliberately pretended to be confused: "Why did you give me the money?"
"This is the money you put on my dad's cabinet yesterday. If you don't come, I will send it to you."
Lin Mai asked: "Why should you send it to me?"
Fuqiang said matter-of-factly: "You have helped our family too much, I can't ask for your money."
Lin Mai sighed lightly: "When people are in difficulty, they must learn to accept help from others, and then give back to society when they are capable."
After that, he didn't accept the money from Fu Qiang's hand, put the glutinous rice chicken and fried dough sticks in the basket on the dining table, and left with Doudou.
Fu Qiang chased her to the door and stared at her walking back thoughtfully.
When leaving Fu Qiang's house and passing by the supply and marketing cooperative, Lin Mai thought that during dinner yesterday, Grandpa Fang mentioned that he wanted to eat braised pork and steamed pork with rice flour, so he would cook it for him today.
So I went to a supply and marketing cooperative and bought three kilograms of high-quality pork belly.
Anyway, I’m going to make braised pork and steamed pork with rice flour for Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang. By the way, I’ll also make a portion for Grandma Tian and Zhou Caiyun.
This season is the season for eating lotus roots. Lin Mai went to the market to buy lotus roots and planned to use the lotus roots as a base to make steamed pork.
The steamed pork made in this way has the fragrance of lotus root, which is particularly delicious.
Making steamed pork and braised pork is very time-consuming.
In the morning, Lin Mai cooked these two dishes at home and accompanied Grandma Fang to make homemade meals.
Grandpa Fang made a small slingshot and took Doudou out to "hunt".
They played until about eleven o'clock, when the great-grandfather and grandson came back empty-handed and happy.
Grandma Fang asked jokingly: "Where are you hunting?"
Doudou leaned on Grandpa Fang and laughed, saying in a sweet voice: "The sparrows fly too high, and the hares run too fast, and I can't hit them."
Everyone burst out laughing.
Lin Mai pulled her to him: "Look at what you are doing, your little skirt is soaked with sweat. Mommy will give you a bath."
Grandma Fang waved her hand: "I'll do it, you hurry up and deliver groceries to Grandma Tian.
If it is delivered late, everyone will eat the food, so the food will be in vain."
Lin Mai followed his kindness and went to Grandma Tian's house with the steamed pork and braised pork she made for her.
Zhou Caiyun had just returned from picking vegetables from the vegetable field, and the two met at the entrance of the village.
Zhou Caiyun was extremely happy and asked: "Why are you here?"
Lin Mai patted the basket on his arm and said, "I've got delicious food for you and Grandma Tian, grandma and grandson."
Zhou Caiyun shook his head: "That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking why you suddenly came to Simei Town? You can't come here specifically to see me, right?"
Lin Mai told her the whole story and asked her how she was doing learning to make chili sauce and shrimp paste from Grandma Tian.
Zhou Caiyun said a little arrogantly: "We have already started training."
Lin Mai said: "In that case, then come back to Jiangcheng with us in a few days."
Zhou Caiyun shook his head and refused: "I plan to go back in half a month."
Lin Mai asked puzzledly: "Why?"
"I want to help Grandma Tian finish the autumn harvest before going back.
Grandma Tian, grandma and grandson, old and young, it is too difficult for them to harvest the autumn harvest on their own!"
Lin Mai nodded in agreement and asked her if she had enough money to go back and bring her some.
Although she gave all the money she had to Fuqiang, there was still money in the suitcase.
Every time she goes out, she brings as much money as possible.
The so-called road for poor families to become rich.
It's okay to be poor if you stay at home, but if you don't have money when you go out, it will be difficult to move forward.
Zhou Caiyun still shook his head: "No need, half of the two hundred yuan you gave me was not spent when I left."
Lin Mai asked again about Grandma Tian's grandfather and grandson.
Zhou Caiyun said everything was fine.
Lin Mai followed Zhou Caiyun to Grandma Tian's house, which made Grandma Tian very happy and insisted on keeping her for lunch.
Lin Mai took out the two dishes from the basket and put them on the dining table. He smiled and declined, saying, "Next time, my grandparents are still waiting for me to go back for dinner."
Grandma Tian sent her out of the door very disappointed, and her little grandson hid behind her and watched her leave.