Chapter 40 Boss, you have to cook dinner tonight.
Shen Erzhu came over with a dark face, and the aunts and the grandmothers made way for him.
"What are you all doing here? Why don't you go home and cook? Are you full just by watching the fun?"
These old ladies become listless as soon as they start working and just slack off. But when they hear there is something exciting to watch, they all become full of energy and don't even need to eat.
Everyone rushes here after work, and they don't even go into their homes when they pass by. They don't feel hungry when they are watching the fun. But now, when the team leader says,
Everyone's stomach was rumbling and they had forgotten that dinner was not yet ready.
"Oh, I have to go home and cook, or my husband will be angry."
"I have to go back too. My precious grandson can't go hungry."
Afraid of being scolded by the team leader if they stayed any longer, they left one by one as quickly as possible.
Shen Shuyu finished eating the melon seeds in her hand and clapped her hands, "Gu Jiandong, let's go home and eat."
"Sister, wait for me." Shen Qiu came out from the corner of the educated youth point.
Shen Erniu jumped down from the wall of the Youth League compound and said, "Shu Yu, wait for me."
"So you're all here?"
"How can we be missing from such a lively event?"
The four of them walked home chatting and laughing. Shen Erniu and Shen Shuyu talked about what Shen Xue said in the morning.
Shen Qiu was very angry, "How could Second Sister say that? She's going too far."
She doesn't want to care about her second sister anymore.
"Don't bother with her, that's all she can do." She's just a clown, not worth getting angry at all.
Shen Erniu has to go to work during the day and go home to do housework after work. She has no time to play with Shen Shuyu recently.
When they were almost home, the two agreed to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables together.
As soon as they entered the house, Shen Shuyu and the other two heard their uncle complaining to their aunt.
"Where have you all been? Why did you just come back? Hurry up and make dinner. We are all hungry."
Usually, after Uncle Shen and his colleagues get home from work, they wash their hands, sit for a while, and are almost ready for dinner.
Uncle Shen was a little angry after waiting for a long time and seeing no one come back to cook dinner.
Old man Shen glanced at his eldest son, stood up silently, took a small stool and sat on the other side, away from his eldest son.
Where else could they go? Of course, they went to watch the fun.
Zhang Cuicui ignored her husband, and Old Lady Shen hit her eldest son with a rolling pin.
"A few grown men have hands and feet, but they don't know how to cook for themselves when they are hungry? They have to wait for us to cook? Women are supposed to cook?"
Uncle Shen didn't expect that he would be beaten by his mother for saying something. He felt wronged but he didn't dare to say, "No, no, mother, I didn't mean that. I just care about you, I care!"
Old man Shen sat at the gate of the yard, smoking intermittently with his pipe in hand, and silently felt sorry for his eldest son for two seconds. Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise he would have been implicated.
"Boss, you will cook dinner tonight."
After Old Lady Shen finished speaking, Uncle Shen walked towards the kitchen with a gloomy look on his face. Zhang Cuicui handed him the spatula and said, "Cook seriously and don't try to fool around."
Zhang Cuicui was in a good mood after being freed from the kitchen tonight.
The Shen family has no concept that men should not touch the kitchen. Old Mrs. Shen has four sons and two daughters. If she had to do everything, she would be exhausted.
She started teaching her four sons how to cook since they were old enough to understand. Even though the food they cooked was not delicious, at least they knew how to cook and eat.
When the brothers grew up and got married, they gradually moved away from the kitchen.
The three brothers were so used to having meals when they got home that they forgot they could cook.
Old Mrs. Shen went into the kitchen and told him what to cook for dinner tonight, and then left him alone.
Uncle Shen Er and Uncle Shen San were whispering beside the chicken coop, "Third brother, do you think mother will let us take turns cooking tomorrow night?"
"Probably not. I don't want to cook."
"I don't want to either. Big brother is really something. He can just be hungry for a while. Why is he so talkative? Look at what mom will do to him."
Uncle Shen had completely forgotten that he was the one who cried out for hunger the most before Old Lady Shen and the others came back.
Uncle Shen couldn't stand his brothers being too comfortable, so he said, "Mom, the second and third children have nothing to do, so let them come in and help me. They can also practice their cooking skills. They haven't been in the kitchen for several years."
"Second brother, third brother, stop grumbling in the chicken coop and go in and help your eldest brother cook."
Uncle Shen Er and Uncle Shen San cursed in their hearts, saying that their eldest brother was not a good person.
"I know, mom. Just wait and eat."
Shen Shuyu was a little bit unconvinced about the cooking skills of the three uncles, "Grandma, do the uncles really know how to cook? Are you sure they won't set the kitchen on fire?"
"Don't worry, dear. Your uncles may seem unreliable, but they can still cook."
Zhang Cuicui and Li Caixia began to flatter him.
"That's because you taught me well, mom. If you hadn't taught your sons well, they wouldn't know how to cook."
"Think about Shenjiaba Brigade. There is no old lady like my mother who treats her daughter-in-law so well."
What they said was the truth. Although the mother-in-law favored her eldest niece, she was still nice to the three daughters-in-law. She would prepare gifts for them to take back to her parents' home during the New Year and other festivals.
If anyone says bad things about them outside, the old woman will protect them and will not bully her daughter-in-law at home.
Just by letting my three sons into the kitchen tonight, I know how good my mother-in-law is.
There are few old ladies in Shenjiaba Brigade who are willing to let their sons go into the kitchen, as they all think the kitchen is the job of old women.
But their mother-in-law doesn't think so.
Old Lady Shen was very happy to be praised by her two daughters-in-law, but she had a stern face, "It's OK, it's OK, you only know how to say good things about me, but I never see you guys get angry with me less."
"Oh, mother, we are filial to you, how can we bear to make you angry?"
As soon as Gu Jiandong came back, he went to play with Shen Jiabao, Jiawei, and Jiaguo. After playing for a while, this man took out some fruit from his pocket with a well-behaved look on his face.
"This fruit is so sweet, I can't bear to eat it, so I save it for you. Please try it."
The three brothers were very touched. This child really treated them as family.
One of them grabbed a few fruits and threw them into his mouth. The next second, a mask of pain appeared on his face.
Sour, this fruit is really too sour.
Shen Jiabao spat it out, "Where did you pick this fruit? Why is it so sour?"
Hearing the eldest brother's voice, Shen Shuyu turned his head and saw three identical bitter faces.
Gu Jiandong seemed to be frightened by Shen Jiabao. He lowered his head with an aggrieved look on his face. "I picked them in the mountains. I ate one and it was very sweet. So I thought of saving it for you. Is the fruit not tasty?"
It tastes so bad, so sour!
However, seeing Gu Jiandong's innocent look, the three of them wondered if their sense of taste was wrong.
Is the fruit sweet? Not sure, I'll have to try two more.
The three brothers are indeed a bit silly, they didn't doubt Gu Jiandong.
Seeing her three brothers being fooled around by Gu Jiandong with black sesame filling, Shen Shuyu couldn't bear it anymore.
"Brother, this fruit is not ripe enough and is very sour. Don't eat it. The fruit that Gu Jiandong ate in the mountains was ripe, so it was very sweet. He thought all fruits were sweet!"