Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

Doctor An didn't get up until mid-morning.

Nie Cheng'an told his sister and others in advance that Doctor An had a habit of sleeping in. He said he had been like this since he was a child.

Wang Jingye smiled and said, "Most doctors go to bed early and get up early. This is the first time I've seen a doctor who stays up late at night and sleeps in the morning. Is he catching ghosts in the middle of the night?"

Nie Cheng'an said, "Doctor An doesn't stay up late, he just sleeps a lot, and even then he has to take a nap in the afternoon. If he has to get up early for something, he'll sleep for two hours in the afternoon."

Wang Jingye was envious. He slept little and had nothing to do when he woke up early in the morning, so he drew house plans and thought about how to build a house. Otherwise, it would be too boring.

Doctor An got up, had dinner, and went to the study. He saw Nie Chengping teaching a woman in her twenties with a girlish bun to paint. He knew that this was the younger sister of the Nie family.

Nie Chengping put down his pen, took his younger sister's hand and said, "Little sister, there are guests at home. They are friends of my elder and second brothers. You should call them Brother An."

Nie Lingxuan looked at Doctor An and said with a smile, "Hello, Brother An, would you like some mung bean cake?"

She suddenly smelled a scent of medicine and immediately became alert.

Doctor An knew that Nie Xiaomei smelled the medicine on him. As a doctor has to deal with medicinal herbs all day long, there is always a smell of medicine on his body wherever he goes.

He coughed deliberately twice and said, "It snowed so heavily yesterday that I caught a cold on the way here. I've been taking medicine these past two days."

Nie Lingxuan immediately showed a concerned expression, "Brother An, drink ginger tea. Drinking ginger tea will prevent you from catching a cold."

Doctor An said, "Thank you, little sister. I just forgot to drink the ginger tea."

Nie Lingxuan immediately said, "Drink it now. I'll remind you later."

She walked to the door, opened it, and asked the servant to bring in a bowl of ginger tea.

Doctor An frowned deliberately and took a sip, saying it was bitter. Nie Lingxuan said, "Ginger tea isn't bitter, only medicine is bitter."

Doctor An drank ginger tea in small sips and led her to talk.

Nie Chengping listened from the side and observed Doctor An carefully.

Dr. An didn't eat lunch. He said he usually eats two meals a day, so he wasn't hungry at all at this time.

Mrs. Wang finally calmed down and had dinner with everyone.

My eldest brother’s wife, Ms. Xiao, her father is Xiao Daru. She has two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter, Nie Shulan, looks very much like her mother and is a beauty at a young age.

My younger brother's wife, Shang, had been engaged to me since childhood. She was of ordinary appearance and had one daughter and two sons. The eldest daughter, Nie Ruizhi, was eleven years old and looked like her father. Mrs. Wang often said that her niece looked like her aunt, and when she went out, she thought she was her daughter.

The meal was divided into two tables, one for the elders and one for the younger generations. Everyone was familiar with each other and there was no restraint.

Nie Lingxuan was very excited and insisted on sitting with her nieces. Mrs. Wang asked her eldest daughter to take care of her aunt.

Xiao and Shang looked a little tired, and Mrs. Wang immediately invited her two sisters-in-law to eat. She served two spicy dishes, as well as the smoked pork and pig blood meatballs sent by the Mo family.

Nie Cheng'an didn't like spicy food. He took a bite of the spicy dish, frowned, and stopped eating.

Wang Jingye said, "When the Mo Family Restaurant opens, I'll take you there every day. Uncle Mo is the best at making dried vegetables. He can make pork bone porridge with dried vegetables. It's simple and delicious."

Nie Cheng'an said, "My brother-in-law and I will go to the Mo family tomorrow and thank them in person."

Wang Jingye said, "Okay, after we go to the Mo family, I'll take you to see the restaurant. It's almost ready, and we'll buy some more. We have someone guarding it now, and we open the windows every day to let the smell out."

The next day, Nie Cheng'an prepared gifts and went to the Mo family. He thought he would see a skinny old man with a calculating look on his face.

He never believed his brother-in-law's description of a person, because as long as his brother-in-law did what he liked, he would think that person was a good person.

When he saw Mo Yuanji, he was stunned at first.

Uncle Mo is a little fat, with a smiling face, like a rich country man.

When Wang Jingye saw Mo Yuanji, he exclaimed, "Uncle Mo, why have you lost so much weight? Are you anxious about the restaurant opening?"

Mo Yuanji said, "Why would I be so anxious about this? I was busy tending to the vegetables at the farm a while ago and haven't been to the fields for a long time. My arms, legs, and waist don't feel like my own. I can't move them anymore."

Wang Jingye then introduced his brother-in-law, "This is Xiangxiang's second uncle, Chengping's younger brother Cheng'an. He just arrived the other day and is here to visit Uncle Mo."

Nie Cheng'an bowed respectfully, and Mo Yuanji held him up with his hands. "No need to be so polite. Please take a seat."

Nie Cheng'an sat down and looked around. It was a simple study with a calligraphy hanging on the wall, which read: Be generous to yourself and be strict with others.

A very ordinary family, with a very ordinary head of the family.

Mo Yuanji said to Nie Cheng'an with concern, "You've come all this way, and it's winter, so you must be tired. Tomorrow I'll have my son Dazhi go to the farm and catch some chickens and a pig to send over. We'll raise them at home, so there's no need to buy them outside. Dazhi's mother said she would steam some mugwort rice cakes for Xuanxuan."

Nie Cheng'an thanked him and remembered what his brother-in-law said, you will know once you meet him. He had never met someone who said he was sending chickens, pigs and rice cakes when he first met him.

My brother-in-law said that others call Uncle Mo "Mo Gancai" and wonder if he will send dried vegetables.

Mo Yuanji said to Wang Jingye again, "You've finished the dried vegetables from last time, right? Let Dazhi send some more over."

Wang Jingye said, "Then I won't be polite. Now I'm cooking with those dried vegetables. Xiangxiang loves braised pork with dried cowpeas, just like her mother."

Mo Yuanji smiled and said, "You can only grow meat if you can eat. Don't forget to eat a boiled egg every day. Chicken is a great contributor and its whole body is full of treasures."

"That's right, there are chickens running around in my backyard right now. Xiangxiang chases them every day and runs really fast."

Nie Chengan...

After talking about the chicken, Mo Yuanji talked about the peppers in the farm and said to Wang Jingye excitedly, "I was just about to tell you that we built a greenhouse in the farm to grow the peppers you brought. They are already bearing fruit. They are small, but each one is as big as this."

He stretched out his pinky finger and pinched the gap between his fingers with his thumb. "It's only this big, and it's not red yet. When are you going to check it out?"

Wang Jingye also said excitedly: "I have to go and see it. My manor is also built. I am thinking of moving my whole family in the manor in a few days. Then I will go to the manor to see it in person."

Mo Yuanji was still very excited. "I tried stir-frying smoked pork with three chili peppers. It was so spicy. But it's cold out, and it warmed my stomach. I'm growing some seeds in the greenhouse now, and I'll start planting them in the fields next year. I'll take the seeds I harvested in the greenhouse back to Guanzhong with Wang Dongjia. It's cold there in the winter, so it's perfect for spicy food."

Nie Cheng'an listened to his brother-in-law and Uncle Mo talking enthusiastically about spicy dishes.

Wang Jingye explained to his brother-in-law, "The peppers are some dried peppers I brought from Yunnan and Guizhou. Uncle Mo tried to grow them, and he didn't expect them to grow well."

Nie Cheng'an had originally been complaining in his heart that his brother-in-law only cared about eating, but after hearing what his brother-in-law said, he stopped complaining.

Wang Jingye said, "Uncle Mo said this chili pepper can be used to make frostbite cream. Which student in the north doesn't get frostbite in the winter? If this can be made, it will solve a big problem."

Mo Yuanji smiled.

He saw Nie Cheng'an looking at him intently as he came in, so he kept talking.