porridge for two

On the night of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Su Zeyu and Xie Xiuping were lying on the sofa, discussing how to spend the year tomorrow, when his mother called.

"Come back tomorrow for the New Year, bring him here too. If you want to eat, make an order and I'll buy it. Come early and make New Year's Eve dinner!"

Su's mother made arrangements as soon as she got on the phone.

"Didn't you always eat outside?"

Su Zeyu was a little surprised by his mother's instructions.

"Xiaoqin said that you can do everything, so you can do it yourself, why waste that money. That meal can almost pay your part-time salary for this holiday. Besides, don't you want to be a daughter-in-law? Do it Fan is still wronged!"

Su's mother's tone was a bit weird.

"Mom, you are right, it makes sense. Let's discuss and order a menu for you!"

Su Zeyu didn't care what his mother's tone was, knowing that she was very soft-hearted.Since everyone said she was the daughter-in-law, it was an admission, and the meeting would not embarrass Xie Xiuping.

"Do you want to bring anything?"

Xie Xiuping watched Su Zeyu finish talking on the phone, and also heard the conversation between him and Su's mother, so he asked Su Zeyu.

"I don't need to bring anything, just bring someone!" Su Zeyu was so happy, the feeling of bringing his daughter-in-law to meet his parents is so cool!

"Not so good!"

Xie Xiuping hesitated.It is said that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are the most difficult to get along with, not to mention that he is still a man, it would be good if he doesn't get kicked out, and if he goes empty-handed, will he be said to be ignorant of etiquette and be made things difficult and not allowed to enter the house.

"Just treat those two pairs of shoes!" Su Zeyu said indifferently, his current thoughts are completely accepted by his parents, and in the excitement of being able to celebrate the New Year together, he has no intention of thinking about other things.

"Let's go to the old place tomorrow morning to get some wine for your father, and I'll weave a chain for your mother. Will this be too shabby?" Xie Xiuping thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a good idea.

"No! They won't dislike it! The chain you gave me before is very good. I remember I brought it in my third year of high school. She saw it and asked. Let's make a menu first, and let my mother go tomorrow morning Buy groceries, lest she wait in a hurry, it's very black to get angry!" Su Zeyu got up and found a pen and paper, put it in front of Xie Xiuping, and urged.

……

At noon on New Year's Eve, Su Zeyu and Xie Xiuping came to Su's father and mother with two jars of wine and a bag of fruit.

Su Zeyu unscrewed the door and shouted inside: "We're back!"

As Su Zeyu said, he was going to exchange a pair of shoes for Xie Xiuping, but he couldn't find the shoes he usually wears.

Just when he was about to ask his mother, her mother spoke.

"There are two pairs of red ones in the shoe cabinet, the one with the heel, just wear that!"

The two came in after changing their shoes, and when they walked to the sofa, Su Zeyu yelled to his parents who were sitting on the sofa: "Dad! Mom!"

"Uncle! Auntie!" Xie Xiuping also shouted, obviously a little cautious.

Su's father and Su's mother looked at the handsome boy who was about the same height as him beside his son, with a polite look, his hands slightly curled up, a little nervous, and an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Su Zeyu put the wine jar on the coffee table, took out a pearl white hand-woven bracelet to his mother, and said, "Dad, this is health wine for you, but don't be greedy, tell me when you're done drinking, and I'll get it again! Xiuping has a good drinker, he can drink with you! Mom, this is the bracelet that Xiuping made last night. Didn’t you say that mine looks good, he made it.”

"Mom, why did you think of buying two pairs of red shoes?"

Su Zeyu didn't forget to ask about the shoes after talking about the gifts, mainly because he usually doesn't wear such popular things, and his mother never buys them.

Mama Su took the bracelet and put it on her hand. She was unassuming and not stingy. It was more casual and useless. She liked it very much from the bottom of her heart, so she put it on directly.In order to ease Xie Xiuping's nervousness, he sent them back to the room directly.

"Chinese New Year, festive! Your room has been changed, you go and have a look! Let's cook after a break!"

After staying in the room for more than 20 minutes, Su Zeyu and Xie Xiuping came out.

When Su's father saw it, he called Xie Xiuping: "Xiao Xie, can you play chess? You and I go to the balcony to play chess, Xiaoyu and his mother go to wash the vegetables, and I will call you when they are done!"

"Oh!" Xie Xiuping was a little shy, no yes, no yes no!

"Go, talk to dad, he's not fierce!" Seeing Xie Xiuping's thoughts, Su Zeyu pushed him, and then shouted to his dad: "Xiuping can play chess and go, but he didn't know you could beat him No?"

Xie Xiuping went to the balcony and sat and played chess with Su's father. During the game, he also asked about the situation at home and talked about the activities in Dashan.

Here, Su Zeyu and his mother were chopping chicken and marinating fish in the kitchen, washing vegetables and serving them.

While washing and chopping vegetables, my mother also asked Su Zeyu about some basic information about Xie Xiuping's family.

For a long time in the past, Xie Xiuping and Su's father had played three games of Go before Su's mother came to the balcony and said that the game was finished.

Su's mother called Xie Xiuping into the kitchen and ignored it, and drank tea with Su's father on the balcony.After one cup of tea was finished, a second cup was added.

"Children's mother, go and see how they are doing, do you need any help?"

"I just went to see it! The two cooperated perfectly, and I, the extra person, couldn't get in. They will call when they need help. Xiaoyu will not wrong himself or his people. "

Cooking all afternoon.In fact, Xie Xiuping has never cooked many dishes, but Su Zeyu has cooked some, and he probably knows the steps if he has not cooked it. Coupled with the omnipotent network, he can cook any dishes.

The two worked together, and Su Zeyu said what oil to use, how to fry, what to put first, and Xie Xiuping followed suit, and the taste of the final product would still be the same.

On the dinner table, there are braised fish, green pepper chicken, roasted shrimp, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet corn stewed trotters, steamed egg rolls, long-lived vegetables, stir-fried Piaoerbai, three-color dumplings, and cold scallops.There are also several wine glasses, a wine jar, and two large bottles of drinks.

Looking at a large table of dishes, everyone has their own thoughts in their hearts. It is better to cook and eat by yourself to have the taste of the New Year.

The family hasn't cooked New Year's Eve dinner at home for many years. In previous years, they ordered it outside.

In the city, you can eat it when it is ready, and there is no need to provide food like in the countryside.

The whole family sat around the dining table, Xie Xiuping and Su Zeyu waited for their parents to taste it with apprehension, just like an army waiting for the leader to review, they dare not act rashly without orders.

Su's father and Su's mother looked at the dishes on the table, which were delicious, delicious, and sighed, still sighing, why did the two well-behaved children embark on this road!

"Just say Brother Xiuping's dishes are delicious! You don't believe me! Dad! Mom! Hurry up, if you don't want to eat, I will start first!"

Su Zeqin doesn't care that there are so many of you. As long as you don't quarrel with food, eating is the big deal.

Su Zeqin's voice interrupted the thoughts of several people. Father Su picked up the chopsticks first, picked up a piece of fish, and yelled "start" after eating it!

So a few pairs of chopsticks in the family were fighting with the food.

After eating half a bowl of rice, I remembered that I hadn't drunk the wine yet. Dad Su shouted: "Xiaoyu, pour four glasses of that health-preserving wine you made! Drink some wine to make it feel like Chinese New Year, your sister just needs a drink!"

Everyone enjoyed a New Year's Eve dinner.

Integrating into a strange but very important family was a bit cautious for Xie Xiuping at first.After a short period of harmony, he gradually relaxed.

It was still early after dinner, Su Zeyu and Xie Xiuping cleaned up and cleaned up, and Su Zeqin accompanied Su's father and Su's mother to stroll downstairs to digest food.

It was dark before the day, and the few people who went out to digest food came back.When I came back, I happened to watch the news together, watch the Spring Festival Gala together, and talk about things about "Dashan".

Su's mother always looked at two good-looking and capable boys, how could they spend their whole lives together?Although I have reminded myself countless times to accept it, I still can't figure it out!It may take time.

"Let's live here tonight! I just changed it a few days ago, you've seen it all! Find time to clean it up and see if there is anything else you want to add?"

Seeing that it was almost nine o'clock, Su's mother was afraid that the two ancestors would go back to the happy community again, so she asked to keep them.

"Okay! I don't go to work tomorrow, I will clean up tomorrow! I have everything, so I don't need to add anything!" Su Zeyu replied with a smile.

The whole family kept vigil, and did not go to rest until twelve o'clock struck.

"Newly changed bed, furniture and bedding, hey, the curtains have been changed, and everything in this room has been changed! Why are the sheets and quilts so red? Mom is decorating our new house in a low-key way?"

Walking into the room, Su Zeyu babbled again as he looked at the brand-new room.

"You said the same thing when you just came back!" Xie Xiuping didn't want to see him like this.

"First kiss in the new year! First hug in the new year, first in the new year..." Su Zeyu greeted Xie Xiuping with open arms.

Xie Xiuping patted his hand away and said, "Don't make trouble!"

"New Year's Eve! What a great atmosphere today!"

"..."

"Just think of it as a new house, just a wedding night in the bridal chamber." Su Zeyu continued to coax.

"Let me see if my mother put white thick cloth on the bed sheet?" Su Zeyu lifted the quilt, as if looking for something.

"What?" Xie Xiuping didn't understand why he suddenly had a fit.

"Luohong! Luohong is not a heartless thing! Isn't that how it is played on TV?"

"God poke! I'll find a white dress, you bite your finger and drip on it!"

"Hey, a moment in Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold!"

"It's worth you big head ghost!"

In the middle of the night, Xie Xiuping tossed and turned in bed, but still couldn't fall asleep.

"Where's your pancake! What's the matter?"

"It doesn't feel real! It's like it's still in the air and not on the ground yet."

Xie Xiuping turned sideways to look at Su Zeyu and continued: "It is said that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are public enemies, and they are very difficult to meet. But uncles and aunts neither have the assessment of three obediences and four virtues, nor have they asked the bottom line. It's a bit unbelievable to accept me as a male daughter-in-law!"

Maybe you are still lucky!Xie Xiuping thought.

"So you should call your parents instead of uncles and aunts! I always call you after you when I go to your house."

"I'm too lazy to care about you!"

"It's all like this, and you still don't want to call me mom? Do you still have to wait for a change of mouth fee? Yes, this year, my mother didn't even give the New Year's money!"

"Are you still young? Return the New Year's money!"

"No matter how old you are, you are still your mother's child!"

……

The next day, Su Zeyu and Su Zeyu woke up. When the family was having breakfast, Su's mother sealed two big red envelopes, one for Xie Xiuping and one for Su Zeyu.

"I forgot to hand out New Year's money last night. I made up for it! You can live here during the holidays, and it's not far from where you go to work! Your dad and I don't go out until the 15th or so. It's more lively when there are more people, just like New Year's Eve."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Xie Xiuping said after taking the red envelope.

"Call me mom!" Su Zeyu whispered while twisting Xie Xiuping's leg.

Xie Xiuping took Su Zeyu's hand away, tried to open his mouth several times but failed.

Since my mother left, I haven't called the name "Mom" out of my mouth for many years. I usually call it in my heart when I go to the grave to worship.

Su's mother knew about Xie Xiuping's situation from Su Zeyu, knew that he was thinking of her mother again, and also saw the small movements of the two of them, so she kept silent.

"mom!"

After brewing for a long time, Xie Xiuping finally called out "Mom".

"dad!"

Xie Xiuping also called out to Su's father.

"Okay! Son! Let this be your home from now on, and we will be your parents! If Xiaoyu dares to bully you, we won't spare him!" Dad Su said.

Xie Xiuping's eye circles were slightly red.

Su Zeyu was dumbfounded, this style of painting is wrong!

Only Su Zeqin ate breakfast by herself. After everyone finished talking, she reached out and asked her mother, "Mom, where is my red envelope?"

"Didn't you give it to you last night! Adding to the chaos!" Su's mother slapped away the hand she extended.

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the family was having dinner, and Su's mother asked what she wanted to eat tomorrow, and she went to buy it.

"We will go back to Qingnan tomorrow for the fifteenth day. We agreed with Eryan and Erma earlier."

Seeing that Xie Xiuping hesitated, Su Zeyu rushed to speak.

"Then you go! I haven't celebrated the New Year at home this year, so I guess they don't feel at ease! Just don't let the family worry!"