The vegetables grown by Grandpa Fang in the backyard are now ready to be harvested.
Lin Mai used the leeks, fennel and fennel grown by Grandpa Fang to make dumplings several times for everyone to eat.
The cabbage, spinach, and chrysanthemum grown by Grandpa Fang are common vegetables on the dinner table.
But even if he ate so hard, he still couldn't finish the vegetables in the backyard.
When Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang went to pick up Doudou from kindergarten, they would bring one or two handfuls of green vegetables to Father Tao and Mother Tao.
Now Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang have a very good relationship with Dad Tao and Mom Tao.
Tao's father and Tao's mother also brought Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang to join the circle of retired employees in their factory. They played Tai Chi, chess and chat together every morning.
In the afternoon, Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang planted vegetables and took care of the flowers and plants in the villa. Their life was leisurely and fulfilling.
Aunt Huang does the lunch and hygiene at home, and Lin Mai only has to cook one dinner every day, so she has much more time than when she didn't move into the villa.
She also has time to go to the factory to work for two hours every morning.
Tomorrow will be mid-October, so I have to go to the countryside to see how the greenhouse vegetables are doing.
This is the first time for the villagers to grow greenhouse vegetables, and she still wants to follow up.
When everyone learns to grow greenhouse vegetables this year, she can let go next year.
After breakfast in the morning, Lin Mai rode his bicycle to work and held a small meeting to guide the work of the garment factory in the next two days.
She plans to go back to the countryside tomorrow. It will take at least two days to go back and forth, so she needs to plan her work in advance.
After the meeting, everyone went back to their respective posts.
Lin Mai and Tao Zhiyun walked out of the small conference room together.
She glanced at Tao Zhiyun and asked, "Why do you look so worried?"
Tao Zhiyun glanced around secretly and gave her a hand: "Let's go to your office and talk."
The two came to Lin Mai's office, and Tao Zhiyun told Lin Mai that Liu Yongjiang called her just yesterday.
Lin Mai saw her looking like she was facing a formidable enemy and asked, "Does he want to pursue you?"
Tao Zhiyun blushed and shook his head: "He didn't say it clearly. He just said that he will pass through Jiangcheng on a business trip in two days. He will bring their specialties to my parents and ask me to pick them up at the train station."
Lin Mai said: "Why is a doctor on a business trip? I'll make up an excuse to get close to you.
So how did you answer?"
"Of course I refuse."
Lin Mai patted Tao Zhiyun's arm: "Then this matter ends here, don't worry so much."
Tao Zhiyun hesitated. On the day she got engaged, she and Liu Yongjiang were dining at the same table. Liu Yongjiang asked her for her contact information, but she didn't give it to her.
Later, he wanted to ask her to be his tour guide and accompany him for two days in Jiangcheng, but she refused, so she told Lin Mai everything.
Tao Zhiyun said with a sad face: "I'm really afraid that he will get involved with me~
I finally got rid of Section Chief Lu, and now he comes here again, how can I live my life like this!"
Lin Mai pondered for a moment and said: "Next time if Liu Yongjiang contacts you again, just tell him that you and I are good friends.
Even if he wants to pester you, for Zhuoran's sake, he must give up this idea."
Tao Zhiyun nodded and said yes.
Lin Mai asked: "You just said that you finally got rid of Section Chief Lu. What's going on?"
Tao Zhiyun told Lin Mai about the last time the aunt from the same community came to play matchmaker for Section Chief Lu.
She told Lin Mai in detail how she drove the matchmaker away with some embarrassment.
Lin Mai gave her a thumbs up: "As a person, you have to be strong.
Don’t always consider other people’s faces and ideas.
If others forcefully match you regardless of your wishes, you should tell her to get out of here and don’t say any nonsense to her!"
She paused and then asked: "The beast named Ma never showed up again, did he?"
Tao Zhiyun shook his head: "No, I look around every day when I go to get off work and get off work, but I don't see him anywhere.
I guess his family of three lost their source of income and could no longer stay in the city, so they returned to the countryside."
Lin Mai nodded: "That's good."
Mid-October is the season when chrysanthemums and sweet-scented osmanthus bloom.
Ever since his grandparents planted chrysanthemums and sweet-scented osmanthus, which were only one meter tall, Lin Mai had been thinking about these two flowers.
There are many delicious ways to eat white and yellow chrysanthemums.
The same goes for osmanthus. Osmanthus cake is super sweet and delicious, and osmanthus paste also tastes good.
For dinner, Lin Mai is going to make chrysanthemum hot pot and sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang followed her nervously, fearing that she would harm the chrysanthemums they had worked so hard to grow.
Fortunately, Lin Mai only picked five yellow and white chrysanthemums, and she left the other chrysanthemums untouched, so the couple felt relieved.
Lin Mai saw that the osmanthus tree was too small and there were not many osmanthus flowers in bloom, so he gave up making osmanthus cake and planned to make it again next year.
Chrysanthemum hotpot is a Henan cuisine.
Because this dish is so delicate, even the Empress Dowager Cixi loves to eat it, and it was particularly popular in the late Qing Dynasty.
In his previous life, Lin Mai once thought this dish was from southern cuisine, but later he learned that it was from Henan cuisine.
Therefore, we must not be biased in our thinking. Northern cuisine can also be exquisite and delicious.
Beef is needed to make chrysanthemum hot pot, but unfortunately there is no beef on the market.
If you want to get beef, you have to go to the Soviet Union or the Outer Mongolia. Even if you go to your own country, Mongolia, you can't get it.
Unfortunately, whether it is going to Outer Mongolia or the Soviet Union, the journey is long and not easy.
Others adapted to local conditions, but Lin Mai adapted to the materials and made a delicious pot of chrysanthemum hotpot using chicken and pork tenderloin.
When the chrysanthemum hot pot was brought to the table, everyone looked at the chrysanthemum petals floating in the soup base and thought it was a dark dish.
After taking a careful taste, I realized that the chrysanthemum hotpot is so delicious. Not only is the chrysanthemum not bitter at all, but it also has a refreshing fragrance.
Everyone had a great time eating.
The meal of chrysanthemum hot pot was completely eaten, even the soup base was soaked in rice.
Fang Zhuoyue was still unsatisfied and asked Lin Mai to make chrysanthemum hotpot tomorrow.
Lin Mai shook his head: "Not tomorrow. I have to go back to the countryside tomorrow to see how the villagers are growing vegetables in their greenhouses."
Fang Zhuoran paused while cleaning up the dishes and asked, "Can you make it back on Sunday?"
Tomorrow is Friday, and there are only two days left before Sunday.
Lin Mai said: "It's hard to say. If the villagers grow vegetables in the greenhouse well, I can come back. If they don't grow well, I have to provide guidance, which will take time."
She asked: "Do you have anything on Sunday?"
Fang Zhuoran continued to clear away the dishes: "I have something to do. My father asked us to go visit my mother's grave. We are both engaged, but I haven't taken you to see my mother yet."
Lin Mai thought for a while and said: "It's more important to visit Auntie's grave. I'll go back to the countryside another day."
Sunday will soon arrive.
Early in the morning, Fang Weiguo drove up in his bus.
This time, it was only Fang Weiguo, Fang Zhuoran and Lin Mai who visited Fang Zhuoran's mother's grave.
But Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang also wanted to have some fun, so everyone ended up going.
This was the second time Fang Weiguo came to the house since Grandpa Fang and his wife moved to the villa. It was very different from the first time he came to the house.
When he came to the door for the first time, he was aggressive and looked like he was going to accuse me.
This time, he was a little lethargic, unshaven, and looked a little unkempt.
Although Fang Zhuoran agreed to go with him to visit his mother's grave, it was because he also wanted to go, not because of him.
Therefore, when he saw Fang Weiguo, Fang Zhuoran's attitude was as cold as ever and he didn't even say hello.
Lin Mai knew that Fang Weiguo was coming this morning and originally planned to make breakfast himself in the morning, but was stopped by Fang Zhuoran.
He said that Fang Weiguo didn't deserve to eat the delicacies she cooked by herself, so he asked Fang Zhuohuo to go to Linmai's Baohaoshi and buy some and come back early.
Lin Mai naturally listened to him.
He is the one who spends this life with her.
If it weren't for Fang Zhuoran, she and Fang Weiguo wouldn't have the slightest intersection.
Everyone sat at the dining table and had breakfast.
Fang Weiguo saw that Lin Mai didn't like eating egg yolk very much, so he put the yolk to Fang Zhuoran's mouth, and Fang Zhuoran ate the yolk in one gulp.
He remembered that Fang Zhuoran also disliked egg yolks and had not eaten them since he was a child, but Lin Mai fed them to him without any hesitation.
This is what love looks like, and he's been there before.
In those war years, it was very difficult to supply troops. Many times, soldiers were fighting the invaders half-starved and half-fed, and it was not easy to have a full meal.
But Ah Qian always tried to save a mouthful for him, saying that only when he was full would he have the strength to fight.
But why was he so jealous that he lost his mind...
Scenes from the past made it difficult for him to swallow.
Halfway through breakfast, Grandma Fang suddenly asked Fang Weiguo: "What's going on between you and Wang Wenfang now? Are you divorced or not?"