Although Tieniu is hard-working, loyal and honest, he is much older than Lin Mai and has no abilities. Grandma Fang is not satisfied with Tieniu at all.
Originally she wanted to refuse him outright, but as she spoke, she thought again, what if Lin Mai liked him.
Lin Mai has been deeply hurt by her ex-husband's family, and maybe she wants to find an honest man.
So he smiled and said: "How can I make the decision in this matter? I'll call Maizi in, and you can ask her what she means."
After saying that, he stood up and wanted to call Lin Mai, but Tieniu Ma grabbed him: "Auntie, don't go~"
Grandma Fang looked at her in confusion: "Why?"
Tieniu Ma's face was sarcastic: "I've already asked Maizi, she, she doesn't agree~"
Grandma Fang was surprised at first, then a little angry: "She didn't agree, so you came to me?"
Tieniu's mother said bravely: "I think you and uncle have given her so much help. If you help with the matchmaking, Maizi will definitely agree to marry Tieniu~"
The anger on Grandma Fang's face could not be suppressed: "Do you think we old couple are the kind of villains who use favors to force people into marriage?"
Tieniu Ma said awkwardly: "Auntie, why do you say that? If you become my son and Maizi, then you are doing good deeds. How come you are a villain?
There is a saying that goes well, it is better to demolish ten temples than ruin one marriage..."
Tieniu Ma continued to speak, but Grandma Fang was already furious.
He walked to the door, opened it wide, pointed outside and said, "Take your gift and get out!"
Everyone in the hall was shocked.
Tieniu Ma came out of the room with her face turning green and red, and she smiled reluctantly: "Mom, everything goes well." After that, she wanted to leave.
Grandma Fang ordered Fang Zhuoran with a dark face: "Take the gifts on the table away for her!"
Fang Zhuoran picked up the gift on the table and forced it into Tieniu Ma's hand, and politely pushed her out of the house.
Several neighbors present asked curiously: "Mrs. Fang, what happened?"
Although Mrs. Fang's sons are powerful, she and her husband never bully others, but are very willing to help others.
But they drove people away on the first day of the Lunar New Year. There must be a reason for this.
Old Mrs. Fang didn't want to hide it. The more she concealed it, the more people would make random speculations, so she told the neighbors the cause and effect.
Then he said: "You guys can judge whether Mother Tieniu did this kindly or not. She actually wanted our old couple to force Maizi to marry her son!
This is not the most irritating thing. The most irritating thing is that she made strong arguments, saying that my husband and I are not doing good deeds if we don't promote this marriage.
He even said that he would rather demolish ten temples than ruin one marriage.
I just want to ask you, according to what Tienniu Mom said, if someone’s son falls in love with someone’s daughter, and if you don’t help match them up, then you are not doing good deeds, and you are breaking up the marriage. Is this what it means?”
The neighbors said one after another: "Isn't this nonsense?"
Then he comforted Grandma Fang not to behave like an unreasonable fool, and then left.
Grandpa Fang also came back with Little Douding with a proud look on his face.
Grandma Fang calmed down her anger and rushed the whole family to the door. She asked them to pat the snow off their bodies and stamped their feet before letting them enter the house.
Seeing Grandpa Fang beaming, he rolled his eyes at him: "You found money, are you so happy?"
Grandpa Fang sneered: "I'm not short of money, so what's the point of being happy about finding money!
I just saw that none of the brothers and sisters dressed as well as me during the Chinese New Year, so I felt proud!"
Grandma Fang rolled her eyes at him again: "The older you get, the more you look like a child!"
Grandpa Fang was still silly and happy, feeling proud and proud in his heart.
Those brothers and brothers had always laughed at him behind his back, but their age was taken advantage of by a teenage divorcee, helping her do this and that.
Did Lin Mai take advantage of them?
Not only did he not take advantage of them, but he treated them as filially as he treated his own grandparents.
Doudou went out with Grandpa Fang and gained a lot. The pockets of his clothes and pants were filled with peanuts, melon seeds, dried sweet potatoes and other snacks.
As soon as I got home, I took out the snacks and invited Grandma Fang, Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran to eat them.
The whole house was filled with laughter and laughter, which made the neighbors who came to pay New Year greetings also happy.
In a blink of an eye, it was around nine o'clock in the morning, and the neighbors had finished paying their New Year greetings to each other and went back to their homes to entertain guests.
Doudou still remembered Fang Zhuoran's promise, walked up to him and asked cautiously: "Uncle, can you take me to the supply and marketing cooperative to change change now?"
"Okay, let's go." Fang Zhuoran picked her up and walked out of the door.
Seeing that Doudou's body was stiff, Lin Mai probably still resisted Fang Zhuoran a little.
In less than half an hour, Doudou and Fang Zhuoran returned home with a full load.
Not only did Doudou no longer resist Fang Zhuoran, she also held his hand tightly, and only let go when she saw Lin Mai.
He happily said to her: "Mom, uncle bought me plum candy and gave me a lot of change."
After that, he stuffed the plum candy he was holding into Lin Mai's arms, took out coins from his pocket, and took out a lot of one-cent, two-cent and five-cent coins.
After all the coins were taken out, Doudou took the bamboo piggy bank over with her short legs and put coins in it. She laughed heartily every time she put one in.
After inserting the coins, Xiao Douding walked to Fang Zhuoran holding the bamboo piggy bank and leaned into his arms very naturally.
The first day of the Lunar New Year is also the day when my son and daughter-in-law go home to pay New Year greetings to the elderly.
Grandma Fang has gone out several times to look around. Although there are many people carrying gifts and children visiting relatives in the wind and snow, her son and daughter-in-law are nowhere to be seen.
She sat back in front of the brazier in disappointment and said to her husband: "I have never seen such a heavy snowstorm in all my life. Is it that the snowstorm is too heavy and Weiguo and the others can't come?"
Grandpa Fang snorted: "We are not in the Northeast here, no matter how heavy the snow is, it will not force traffic to stop, Weiguo and the others may be on the road.
Don't think too much and prepare to go quickly. When your son and wife come, don't let them have a hot meal."
Grandma Fang quickly got up and took out the sea cucumbers, kelp, sausages, cured pork ribs, etc. that Fang Zhuoran brought yesterday from the room.
Lin Mai took it and asked Grandma Fang to sit and warm herself by the fire while she prepared it.
Grandma Fang hesitated and said: "There are a lot of dried seafood here, can you make them?"
Lin Mai smiled: "Yes."
In her previous life, she had never had any contact with dried seafood!
Fang Zhuoran was a little skeptical. There were many dried seafood products that mainlanders had never seen before. How could she make them?
Uneasy, I walked to the kitchen door and took a look.
I saw that she was very skillful in soaking each type of dried seafood in warm water, and adding an appropriate amount of white wine to the dried small yellow croakers. It looked like she was knowledgeable.
He walked over and asked in surprise: "Have you ever handled these seafood?"
Lin Mai instinctively turned around and almost kissed the shoulder of Fang Zhuoran who was looking from behind to watch her cleaning the Yao Zhu.
Fortunately it was the shoulders, it would have been embarrassing if it were the face.
She explained: "I saw the handyman at a big hotel in the city handle it."