Chapter 35 Whose gift warms people's hearts
A long time ago, Lou Xiaoou began to have lunch with Mu Qian. No matter how busy he is, he has to eat, so usually after work, the two meet in the secluded flower garden by the square. If you have to wait, you have to have a place to sit.
When Lou Xiaoou arrived, Mu Qian had already stood by the flowers and waited for her. The low green leaves were hidden, which set off Mu Qian's suit and leather shoes.
"The beauty is in the painting. I don't know whose eyes are embellished?" Lou Xiaoou shook it leisurely, picked up a finger and gently lifted someone's chin. Ah, he is too short, and the angle is not deterrent enough.
Mu Qian twitched the corners of his mouth and closed his eyes weakly.
"I want to cry, how can I be so pitiful?" Lou Xiaoou was not afraid of death.
Mu Qian immediately stared at his "copper bell eyes". Lou Xiaoou jumped exaggeratedly. Oh, he was so happy in a blink of an eye.
"Beauty is beauty. Sure enough, every smile shows amorous feelings!"
Mu Qian didn't know how to move. After thinking about it, he had to sigh with his fate, "I brought you delicious food..."
"What baby?" Lou Xiaoou rushed up and asked, pounding someone's shoulder and pinching his arm.
Look, when it comes to food, my eyes shine. Mu Qian upturned the corners of his mouth happily. Fortunately, what he bought was a treasure in her eyes.
"I will know soon." Mu Qian raised his eyebrows and smiled secretly, selling a little. What Mu Qian said was very fast. After driving all the way to a Chinese restaurant and the two had ordered the set meal, Mu Qian received countless complaints from Lou Xiaoou during this long distance.
"Don't worry, I won't run away." Mu Qian, who was sitting on the dining chair, took the box all the way with a smile, opened it, and exposed what was inside.
"Sweet potatoes? Baked sweet potatoes?" Lou Xiaoou was surprised. When she just saw the box, she thought it was a high-end westerner. Unexpectedly, it was the most common and popular, the hot and fragrant baked sweet potatoes that she liked to see in the cold winter? The potato skin was baked to crack, bursting out one or two greedy red meat. With Mu Qian's long finger opening the paper bag, a strong potato fragrance came to his nose in an instant.
Lou Xiaoou took a deep breath and praised: "Delicious!" He doesn't hide his pretending to be a greedy cat.
Mu Qian laughed in a low voice. He knew that she liked it and deliberately made such funny actions to make him happy, but it really made him happy. It feels good to be happy because of her joy.
"Where did you buy it?" Lou Xiaoou asked, staring at Mu Qian peeling sweet potatoes for her through the bag.
"Market entrance."
"Why did you go there?" Lou Xiaoou was surprised. It seems that he won't go there, right?
"Once I passed by and smelled the fragrance, and today I went in to look for it."
Sure enough, she can eat small goods that can't be bought in stores and supermarkets on cold days.
"Mu Qian, you are so kind to me!" Lou Xiaoou was moved and exaggeratedly emitted countless star eyes.
"...eat it."
Lou Xiaoou complained while eating, "How can I eat after eating sweet potatoes?" It's a shame to waste food."
"Eat more and hoard fat for the winter."
"...No, I'll give you half."
"Good."
"Alas, you can say if you want to eat it. If you don't say it, how do you know you want to eat it?"
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Seeing that Mu Qian was speechless, Lou Xiaoou ate more and more happily. He nodded with satisfaction and continued, "Eat more, it's textured."
Mu Qian felt that he was frivolous by someone many times today, so helpless.
Lou Xiaoou suddenly thought of a problem. It seems that she has never seen Mu Qian eat sweet potatoes since she was in college. No matter how much she doesn't like snack, he will occasionally accompany her to nibble. So she couldn't help asking.
"I ate too much when I was a child." Mu Qian smiled faintly, took out a piece of paper to wipe her mouth, and then still watched her eat.
Lou Xiao Ou Dun lived there. She remembered that Mu Qian's family had a lot of land and sweet potatoes, which was the most indispensable for him. He said that when he was a child, his family came home late from work. When he was hungry, he would cook some sweet potatoes first, as well as sweet potatoes and yellow potatoes.
It seems a little sad...
Mu Qian turned to the topic with a smile, "What kind of gift should I bring to your house during the Spring Festival?"
Lou Xiao Oushun continued his words, "Everything is fine. If my father is still there, he will be most satisfied with the wine, but he doesn't need it now. My mother, thickened blankets, coats, beautiful scarves, and shawls are also good.
Mu Qian frowned, "It's not appropriate for me to send it." He hasn't specially given gifts to female elders.
Lou Xiaoou laughed and said, "Of course it's not suitable. I bought these for my mother!"
Mu Qian laughed and shook his head.
When the dinner came, Lou Xiaoou finally nibbled at two lipstick potatoes and divided more than half of the ribs and onions to Mu Qian. Then he started.
"What should I send to your home?" She planned to eat while saying that she must work hard to have a good relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and with the man's family.
"They will be very happy if you go." Mu Qian didn't raise his head and said, as if this was the simplest thing.
"Really?" Lou Xiaoou doesn't believe it.
"Of course." Mu Qian nodded and told Lou Xiaoou about the situation.
Mu Qian said that he was far from as sunny as he was when he was in college. After graduating from primary school, he was admitted to a key high school in the county, and then began to live in boarding school until college.
"I go home once a week to get my living expenses and go back to school on Sunday." Therefore, he has always lived with boys. Some people study, some accompany, and some people play. Among these people, there is only a lack of family, so that he doesn't know how to express his kindness to his family later, let alone how to fall in love.
"That winter, you said that fried pig lungs could cure cough. My mother always coughed, so I made it for her when I went back during the winter vacation. The cough was good. Of course, I'm very satisfied with you."
Lou Xiaoou heard Mu Qian talk about this later. Lou Xiaoou learned from his father to stir-fry pig lungs to treat cough. My family believes that medicine is poisonous, so if it is just a minor disease, such as fever, cough and cold, you will never take medicine if you can take it. Every time Lou Xiaoou or someone at home coughs, Dad buys pig lungs, chop them up, stir-fry them, and stir-fry them dry without a trace of moisture. In addition to the regular addition of ginger wine and other seasonings, Lou Xiaoou guessed that her father must have put a little white sugar to remove the fishy smell, because she always felt that there was a sweet taste when chewing the dry pork lung grains, which was very fragrant and delicious. Dad's cooking skills were always first-class. In addition to dry stir-frying, my father also made soup with stir-fried pork lung grains, which were boiled milky and milky white. It smelled extremely strong and could be eaten and drinkable. Lou Xiaoou, who was coughing, ate for two or three days in a row, and he generally recovered.
Mu Qian followed Lou Xiaoou's advice and cooked a large pot of pig lung tablets for his mother after returning home during the winter vacation. Lou Xiaoou was disgusted when he heard it later. Mu Qian's craftsmanship at that time, can he eat what he made? But Mu's mother was happy and moved. She burst into tears and sighed that her son was sensible and filial, and the truth was that Lou Xiaoou couldn't believe it. Mu's mother's cough was really better?! Since then, in addition to praising her son's filial piety, Mu's mother must also add the "cough prescription" from her son's girlfriend and future daughter-in-law. She is really satisfied.
Mu Qian also learned to wash dishes from Lou Xiaoou, learned to cook, and called home from time to listen to her. At this time, Mu's mother was moved and carefully remembered her "daughter-in-law" who had never met. Hearing that she loved sweet potatoes, she turned out the sweet potato field that had not been planted for her, just to plant a piece for her. Mu Qian was also brought to the school. Lou Xiaoou's expression was very shocked at that time.
Therefore, a good woman is a good school. Mu Qian graduated successfully and stayed in the school to teach.
After listening to Mu Qian's words, Lou Xiaoou was happy, and his little daughter-in-law pinched it like a little daughter-in-law, "Then you can't bring anything. You have to take some real gift."
Mu Qian's eyes darkened when he heard the words. Lou Xiaoou, as long as she wants to be nice to someone, she will definitely make people iron.
Mu Qian still remembers that in the year when he established a relationship with her, Lou Xiaoou gave gifts with the goal of "conquering his future parents-in-law" and was still a student. Naturally, he could not give a big gift. So in the first year, she sent a large bag of wool socks to Mu Qian's family, not many, two pairs per person, including Mu's father, Mu's mother, and Mu Qian's still-life grandfather. For Lou Xiaoou, who doesn't have much pocket money and is not very good at doing part-time jobs, this gift is not heavy, but heavy and attentive. The feedback of gift-giving is, of course, a unanimous praise from the elders, "very warm and considerate." Lou Xiaoou heard Mu Qian's retelling at that time, and his little braids had been up all winter. Since then, every New Year's Day, Lou Xiaoou will bring a gift to Mu Qian's family, scarves, gloves, hats, etc., all of which are sent to warm and affordable benefits, and his family must think that the girl is very good at making a good family life. In fact, Mu Qian's family does think so.
Such a gift was sent from the first year of their relationship for five years until Lou Xiaoou left Mu Qian and married Qiao Haisong.
Lou Xiaoou never thought that she had been away for four years, and Mu Qian had hidden it from her family for four years. The way to hide it is that he continued to send warm cards for her family for four years, which Lou Xiaoou still doesn't know.