When Doudou returned home after having enough fun, he saw Lin Mai moving coke, so he was sensible and helped to move it, although not much was moved each time.
All the coke was moved under the eaves, and the mother and daughter were covered in stinky sweat.
Lin Mai filled the two large pots with cold water and asked Doudou to sit in front of the stove to heat the hot water. Later, she and her daughter would take a nice bath.
She went to pickle vegetables.
Chinese cabbage is pickled into spicy cabbage, and radish and cabbage are all pickled into sauerkraut.
The vegetables have been pickled, and Doudou has boiled the bath water.
Mother and daughter wash each other from head to toe.
Lin Mai started washing clothes and asked Doudou to choose the leeks and make dumplings for dinner.
When Doudou heard that there were dumplings to eat, Doudou was very motivated to work. He took a small bench and sat in the yard to select leeks.
Even when the children asked her to go out to play, she refused to go out. She said with a proud look on her face that her family was going to eat dumplings at night and she had to pick out the leeks.
Several children left enviously.
With more than a pound of leeks and half a pound of hind leg meat, the mother and daughter made nearly a hundred dumplings and had a delicious meal of dumplings for dinner.
Lin Mai also made Doudou a cup of malted milk.
This was the first time the little guy drank malted milk, and he was so happy that he jumped up and down.
Lin has cooked the dumplings in cold water and plans to make fried dumplings to eat tomorrow morning.
From tomorrow onwards, I will have to get up early to set up a stall and sell dumplings, so I have to go to bed early.
Lin Mai lit up the stove and boiled the pork bones. Bone soup was needed to make dumplings. Dumplings without bone soup lacked soul.
Before going to bed, Lin Mai put the key assigned to Doudou on a belt and asked her to hang it around her neck during the day so that she could go home whenever she wanted.
Doudou played with the keys for a while, fell on the bed and fell asleep.
Lin Mai covered her with a quilt, went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife and put it in the drawer of the bedside table.
Before, Tieniu's family of three lived with her mother and daughter.
Although Tieniu is honest, he is a powerful man after all. With him around, Lin Mai doesn't have to worry about bad guys sneaking into her house at night.
But now, only her mother and daughter live in such a big house, which is not very safe.
Lin Mai then put the kitchen knife on the bedside table for self-defense. Although it was not guaranteed to be useful, it was at least a psychological comfort.
After working hard all day, Lin Mai went to bed and quickly fell asleep.
It's late at night, the whole city has stopped hustle and bustle, and the village in the city is even quieter.
In the midst of this complete silence, a man's miserable howl suddenly sounded.
Lin Mai suddenly opened her eyes, and the miserable howl clearly came from the main room of her home.
She shouted, "There is a thief! There is a thief in the house!"
I quickly took out the kitchen knife from the bedside table and rushed to the closed door, but I didn't dare to rush out.
I was afraid that the gangsters outside were brutal and if I rushed out rashly, I would be killed by the gangsters.
However, if the gangster dared to rush into the room, she would dare to chop him down! And it was the easiest time to succeed at this time.
Doudou also woke up with fright and shouted in panic that there was a thief.
Soon, neighbors heard the noise and rushed over. They banged on the door of Lin Mai's house and asked what happened to her mother and daughter.
Lin Mai responded loudly: "We are fine!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a noise in the main room, which seemed to be the sound of gangsters escaping.
Immediately afterwards, someone outside the courtyard shouted: "Someone jumped over the wall and ran away!"
"It must be a thief!" Some villagers wanted to chase him.
An old man hurriedly said: "Don't chase me. I'm just trying to make a fool of myself. I'm afraid the thief will jump over the wall and kill someone with a knife!"
Fearing that there were still thieves in Lin Mai's house, the old man shouted to Lin Mai's house: "Listen to the thieves inside, don't even think about hurting anyone. If you hurt someone, you won't be able to leave tonight!"
Now hurry up and jump over the wall to the left, we won’t catch you!”
He shouted several times in succession, but there was no movement in the house or yard.
The villagers guessed that there was no thief inside, so the old man asked Lin Mai to open the door.
Lin Mai quickly ran out of the room and closed the door again.
If there is a thief hiding in the house, then she must protect Doudou.
She turned on the lights in the main room.
There was no one in the main room, except for the stove that had fallen on the floor and the pork bone soup that had flowed all over the floor.
The air is filled with the strong aroma of pork bone soup.
Lin Mai ran to open the courtyard door and let in all the villagers outside.
Only then did she know that the old man who had just given the on-the-spot command was the head of Sanyang Village.
The village chief laughed when he saw Lin Mai holding a kitchen knife in his hand: "We are safe now, why are you still carrying a kitchen knife?"
Lin Mai said embarrassedly: "I am not holding this kitchen knife now. I put it in the bedside table before going to bed just in case something unexpected happened. There was a thief in the house just now, so I took it in my hand."
A group of people walked into Lin Mai's house to investigate the scene, and they all agreed that a thief had broken into the house and knocked over the coal stove in the dark.
He was burned by the pork bone soup on the stove, so he let out a scream.
The village chief said thankfully: "Fortunately the thief was burned, otherwise the consequences would have been unpredictable."
After everyone gave Lin Mai some instructions, they all went back.
Lin Mai closed the courtyard door and returned to the house. He saw Doudou opening the door and coming to the living room. He hurriedly asked her to go back to the room and lie down under the quilt.
Although the Lantern Festival has passed, winter is still at the tail end. Especially at night, the temperature is only a few degrees, which is very cold.
Doudou only wore sleeping clothes, and Lin Mai was afraid that she would get cold.
If the little one gets cold, she won't be able to set up a stall and will have to stay at home to take care of her.
Doudou obediently ran back to the room and got under the quilt.
Lin Mai cleaned up the main room and went back to his room to sleep again.
As I was drifting off to sleep, I heard the little cute baby next to me moaning in discomfort.
Lin Mai struggled to wake up and tested the body temperature on Doudou's forehead with his hand, and found that he had a low fever.
There was no cold medicine at home, so Lin Mai had to get up and go to the kitchen to boil a bowl of brown sugar and ginger water for her and let her drink it warmly.
After drinking brown sugar and ginger water, the little guy broke out in a sweat, his fever subsided, and he slept peacefully.
Despite experiencing a midnight fright and getting up to take care of the sick Doudou, Lin Mai got up before five o'clock the next morning.
Knead the noodles, chop the stuffing, season the food, prepare the green onions... everything is ready and ready to serve.
Before going out, I was worried about leaving Doudou alone at home.
She was afraid that if she walked on the front foot, a thief would sneak into the house on the back foot. Wouldn't Doudou be in danger?
After thinking again and again, I called Doudou up, dressed her, washed her, wrapped her up tightly, and took her out the door.
Before the mother and daughter left the village, they met several villagers from the same village who were setting up stalls at the pier. Lin Mai, whom they knew and did not know, all took the initiative to say hello.
Among these people is Dabao’s mother.
Lin Mai took the initiative to greet her, but she looked indifferent, as if she had borrowed money from Lin Mai, but Lin Mai paid her back with coins.
When Lin Mai saw this, he stopped talking to her.
Several villagers asked Lin Mai gossiping about the details of the thief who broke into her house last night.
Everyone was chatting animatedly when Dabao's mother suddenly said with a downcast face: "Speaking of Doudou, wasn't it my Dabao who hit your Doudou several times yesterday?
Isn't it normal for children to have some quarrels with each other? It's worth making such a fuss about. You have to tell my man that Dabao was beaten by his father!"
Lin Mai naturally didn't look good when he saw that she ignored right and wrong and blamed her.