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Chapter 346 My daughter-in-law will have it, and my son will have it too.

Author: Hometown Three Thousand Miles

Chapter 346 My daughter-in-law will have it, and my son will have it too.

When Yan Xin and Bai Xiaoling talked about this matter, they also thought of it on the spur of the moment. When they saw her, they remembered the matchmaker's matchmaking and felt that this was also a good choice. They wanted to know if her mother was talking to anyone else now. By the way,

Ask Bai Xiaoling for her opinion.

If Bai Xiaoling's mother has already talked to others, then forget it.

If you don't talk to others, and Bai Xiaoling doesn't object, you can give it a try.

It's not that there is no one suitable for his father in this world except the White Widow. He believes that as long as he shows more financial strength, his father will have more choices.

If he showed off his financial strength with a net worth of over 100 million, I'm afraid his father would have no problem finding a woman about his age.

It is not uncommon for a rich man in his sixties to find a girl in his 10s or 20s as his wife, not to mention that his father is only in his forties.

It's just that he feels that his father and Bai Xiaoling's mother are both middle-aged widowers, and they have to work hard to raise a child by themselves. They have similar experiences, and they can empathize with them in many aspects.

Moreover, they are all widowed, so there is no such thing as being unfavorable to anyone.

He has also inquired about Bai Xiaoling's mother. She is a person who knows how to live a good life and has no problem with her character.

What's more important is that the matchmaker tried to bring the two together last year, and I guess the other party had no objection.

Then there is a great possibility.

If the answer is no, nothing is lost.

After Bai Xiaoling heard what he said, a smile appeared on her face and she said, "I think it's okay too. Whatever can be done will be good for them."

Then he sighed again: "It's not easy for my mother to support me in studying these years."

"I understand, my dad is like this too. I can see how difficult it has been for him these past few years," Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling looked at him and said with envy: "But you have already made a fortune and found a good job, which can repay your father, but I don't have that ability, and I have to let my mother support you."

"Take your time, it will be fine in the future." Yan Xin said.

Bai Xiaoling wanted to continue selling tofu, so she didn't say anything more. She just chatted for a while and left on her bicycle.

At this time, Yan Xin also saw his father walking down the path down the mountain carrying a bucket.

When his father came home, he looked inside the bucket and saw that it was half a bucket of crayfish.

He couldn't help but laugh: "Not bad, so many crayfish."

There used to be no crayfish here, but in the mid-1990s, some wild crayfish came from nowhere, and they quickly multiplied.

Within a few years, the ponds and channels were overflowing with crayfish.

At first, no one was very good at eating crayfish, so they made more and more.

It was only three or four years ago that people began to buy crayfish. A pound of crayfish costs about one yuan, and when it is cheap, it is even only 50 cents.

At that time, Yan's father bought some ground cages and put them in the water to catch crayfish. Sometimes he could catch thirty or forty kilograms a day.

However, fishing is only possible during the period from April to June, and very little at other times.

There were no competitors at first, so I could make dozens of kilograms a day.

But after he made money, everyone followed suit and put cages on the ground. As a result, there were cages a few meters apart in the ditch, and the crayfish that were already overflowing became less and less.

In just a few years, crayfish has become a luxury snack. More and more people eat crayfish, and the price of crayfish is also getting higher and higher.

Within a few years, the purchase price in the countryside had risen to four yuan per pound.

It’s just that there are very few wild crayfish left, and more and more people are fishing for crayfish.

Don't say you can catch thirty or forty kilograms a day, even if you can catch three or four kilograms, thank God.

Father Yan got up in the morning and went to collect crayfish. He put dozens of them in cages on the ground, and the furthest places were placed three or four miles away, so he didn't come back until this time.

The small half bucket of crayfish I brought back was actually only two or three kilograms, which was already a good harvest.

There was also a snakeskin bag placed in the bucket, and the mouth was tied. When opened, two eels and several loaches were found. These were gifts for catching lobsters in ground traps.

Dad Yan lifted the snakeskin bag to the patio, where there was a water tank. There were eels and loaches in the water tank, which already weighed several kilograms.

While pouring the eels and loaches in the snakeskin bag, he asked Yan Xin: "Do you want to eat this lobster? If you like it, just stay and eat it. If you don't like it, the lobster collector will come over later.

Sell ​​it to them."

"Keep it for yourself," Yan Xin said, "I haven't eaten crayfish for a long time and I really miss the taste."

In the past, when crayfish were rampant, no one in the village knew how to eat them and no one liked to eat them.

Later, when it could be sold for money, some people in the village liked to eat it.

The higher the price, the more delicious it is.

Don't know what's going on.

The current purchase price is four yuan per catty, which is already a very high price for the people in the village.

But Yan Xin knows that the price will get higher and higher in the future.

In his memory of his previous life, the highest purchase price was more than 40 yuan per pound - but that was in early spring, and there were very few crayfish that could be caught at that time.

By that time, there were basically no wild crayfish left, and they were all raised artificially.

At that time, he wanted to eat crayfish so much that he couldn't bear to spend the money.

Father Yan himself is very frugal, but he is still very generous to his son. Since his son wants to keep these crayfish to eat, he will not sell them for money and keep them for himself.

Two or three kilograms of crayfish can be sold for more than ten yuan. It's not a waste, and if your son eats it, he won't feel reluctant to part with it.

Then he asked Yan Xin: "Where are the eels and loaches? They have accumulated several kilograms these days. If you want to eat them, keep them for yourself. If you don't want to eat them, I will pick them up and sell them in the town tomorrow morning."

The price of loach is not very high, but the price of rice eel is more expensive. Usually it costs more than ten yuan per catty. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, if you are lucky, you can sell it for more than twenty yuan per catty.

The eels kept in this water tank already weigh four to five kilograms. If you pick them up and sell them, they can still fetch over a hundred yuan.

A hundred dollars is not a small number for Dad Yan.

Yan Xin took a look.

This water tank is filled with wild eels and loaches, which are absolutely good things.

He actually wanted to stay and eat it all.

But after calculation, he would only stay here for two days and would leave after breakfast the day after tomorrow. He brought back a lot of food from the county supermarket, and the father and son could not eat that much.

He also knew that after he left, his father would never be willing to eat such expensive food and would sell what he could.

These things are worthless after the Dragon Boat Festival.

His father will inevitably feel distressed when the time comes.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Keep the big eel, keep two or three pounds for lunch tomorrow, and sell the rest."

Dad Yan said: "There are also a few fat loaches. Do you want to keep the fat ones and eat them?"

Yan Xin reached out and touched the water tank, and indeed saw several fat loaches.

The loach here only costs a few yuan a pound. It's really uneconomical to think that such a good thing is sold at such a low price, so I might as well eat it myself.

Then he smiled and said, "Well, let's make a plate of spicy crayfish and a plate of loach stewed with tofu for lunch today."

They both washed their hands and went into the kitchen to have breakfast.

Two meat dumplings per person, plus an egg.

This is Yan's father's first time eating meat rice dumplings - only glutinous rice is put in the rice dumplings here, and nothing else is put in. They are dipped in sugar when eating.

Yan Xin didn't like eating rice dumplings like this, so this time he bought meat rice dumplings.

Yan's father ate half of it and started to praise: "These rice dumplings are very delicious, better than what we have eaten before."

"Of course." Yan Xin said with a smile.

Being able to make his dad feel delicious makes him feel that his efforts were not in vain.

Dad Yan asked him again: "How much does this cost?"

Yan Xin didn't want to say it was too expensive, because if it was too expensive, his father would be reluctant to part with it, and the taste would be different.

Of course, you can't say it's too cheap. If you say it's too cheap, you won't be able to believe it - there's a lot of meat in it, it's very sincere, and the price can't be that low.

After thinking for a while, he said: "This is originally three yuan a piece, but the supermarket is holding an event. If you spend more than ninety-nine yuan, you can get a coupon and buy this kind of rice dumpling with a 50% discount, so it is actually only worth one yuan."

Five one."

When Dad Yan heard that he had taken advantage, he felt that the rice dumplings tasted even more delicious when he ate them.

While eating breakfast, Yan Xin also mentioned that he bought five pieces of tofu from Bai Xiaoling.

Dad Yan said: "A few days ago, I saw that girl selling tofu on a bicycle. She was very embarrassed when she was selling. Her face would turn red when anyone asked her a question, but she seems to have gotten used to it these past two days."

Then he sighed again: "It's not easy for a teenage girl to do such a thing."

"Yeah, it's not easy," Yan Xin said, "I have just finished high school and am willing to share my family's worries. I can be considered a sensible child."

Father Yan nodded in agreement, glanced at his son, and thought that his son also went out to work after finishing high school, and was quite sensible, so he felt a little proud inexplicably.

Yan Xin added: "I heard her say that her mother is still alone and has no companion."

Father Yan said: "I heard someone say that others despised her mother as a widow, saying she was a husband, which is unlucky. She also has a daughter to raise, so it's not easy to find her."

As he spoke, he thought of his hard work in the past few years and sighed: "He is also a miserable person."

Yan Xin also sighed, and after a while, he said: "It's no wonder that someone tried to match her up with you last year. Only the two of you can understand each other's difficulties and not dislike each other."

Dad Yan suddenly felt uncomfortable: "Just talk about her, what are you doing to me?"

Yan Xin smiled and said: "I don't mean anything else, I just suddenly feel that you two are really suitable for each other."

"Don't talk nonsense." Dad Yan said.

However, after being reminded by Yan Xin, he also felt that the two of them were indeed quite suitable - if he had to find a companion.

After breakfast, Yan's father went out to work, while Yan Xin stayed at home, chatting online and so on.

At ten o'clock, we started preparing lunch.

Brush the two or three kilograms of crayfish one by one with a toothbrush, peel the garlic, cut the ginger, and prepare the chili peppers.

This is how to make spicy crayfish.

In addition, I fished out one or two pounds of plump loach from the water tank, took out the gall and internal organs, cleaned them, and prepared to stew the tofu with the loach.

There is a way to stew loach with tofu, which is to use very small loaches to fill the tofu, but there are not such small loaches in it, so just use the largest loach to stew it.

By the time the meal was ready, it was already past 12 o'clock, and Yan's father happened to be back, so he started to have lunch.

Father Yan did not go out to do farm work, but to pull a small cart to cut mugwort in the wild, preparing to take it to the town to sell during the Dragon Boat Festival.

It is a custom here to hang mugwort and calamus on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits.

Mugwort and calamus are not valuable at other times, but they can still be sold for some money on the Dragon Boat Festival.

After lunch, Dad Yan went to the ditch again to pull calamus in the afternoon.

After returning home, I mixed the calamus and mugwort together and bundled them into portions so that they would sell better tomorrow.

In fact, the family does not need this hard-earned money, but he does not know that in his mind, the family still owes a debt of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, which needs to be repaid as soon as possible, otherwise he will not have peace of mind.

Yan Xin wanted to persuade him not to work so hard, but he swallowed the words again.

Being able to turn one's labor into wealth, for his father, is realizing the value of his life.

The moment you receive the money, you are absolutely happy.

If he told his dad that there was no need for him to put in any more work, his dad might feel a great sense of loss.

This is not particularly tiring work, and it can make his father feel the joy of making money, which is also good.

Changing one's habits is difficult.

His father has indeed listened to his persuasion in the past two years. He is no longer as hard as before, and his health has indeed gotten better. He looks as if he is more than ten years younger.

That's enough. There is no need to do it all in one step and let his father stay at home and do nothing, just waiting for his support.

If that were to happen, it might not be a good thing for his father.

It’s not a very good thing for the body, nor is it a very good thing for the mind, and it will lose a lot of happiness.

Only when his father truly realizes that the family no longer needs him to earn money to live a prosperous life, will he slowly let go.

What Yan Xin can do now is to cook while his father is working.

The food he cooked for dinner was brought from the county. It was meat and vegetables, not rich, but it was acceptable.

As for the taste, even he is quite satisfied with it.

In the past few months, he has been working for Ai Lili and also learned some cooking skills. His cooking skills are quite good in rural areas where taste is not very important.

While eating, Dad Yan lamented that life is so happy now that he can eat meat casually.

This was not the case a few years ago. It was rare to get a taste of meat unless it was a holiday.

The father and son had a good time at the dinner table, recalling their sorrows and sweet memories. They both felt that they had lived a hard life in the past, but now they are very happy.

"You will be happier and happier in the future!" Yan Xin said to his father.

Father Yan deeply agrees: "When you pay off your debt this year, save some money to marry a wife and have a child, then you don't have to worry about anything."

"Don't worry," Yan Xin laughed, "my wife will have it, and my children will have it too."

Speaking of the daughter-in-law, Yan's father couldn't help but ask: "Are you still talking to that girl from the Xiao family?"

Yan Xin pondered for a moment and said: "We are still in contact, but we are no longer talking about it."

He felt that this matter would be exposed sooner or later, so it was better to expose it now.

In this way, whether he brings Feng Xi home or takes Aili home, his father will be able to accept it.

At that time, he only coaxed his father to build a house smoothly. Now that the house has been built, if he continues to coax him, things will not end well in the future.

"Why didn't we talk about it anymore?" Dad Yan became anxious when he heard this, "How did you offend her?"

Yan Xin didn't feel comfortable arranging Xiao Shiyu's fault. He just said: "I didn't offend her. We are still friends now and keep in touch frequently."

"Then why don't we talk about it?" Dad Yan said, "I remember that girl was very good."

"She is really good, but this thing has to be about fate," Yan Xin said while thinking about the reason, "It's just that the two of us are not in the same place, too far apart, and some things have been figured out between us.

Our feelings can only be regarded as the feelings of classmates and friends, not to the same level as before between men and women, so after communicating with each other, I felt that it would be better for everyone to let it go."

Father Yan thought to himself: "Why are you so particular about a daughter-in-law?"

He still doesn't understand the world of young people.

I was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed: "You guys..."

Yan Xin smiled and said: "Dad, don't worry, our conditions are not bad, I will definitely be able to find a wife to marry when I reach the age of marriage."

Things have come to this, and Father Yan can't say anything except sighing.

We talked about Xiao Shiyu during dinner, and Yan Xin didn’t expect to receive Xiao Shiyu’s QQ message that night.

Seeing that the person who sent the message was Xiao Shiyu, Yan Xin was shocked and thought to himself: "Is this telepathy?"

Xiao Shiyu contacted him on QQ, but the contact was not very frequent. We would chat for a while about once a week, and it didn't involve anything ambiguous. We just wanted to say hello, learn about each other's life, and talk about things we both knew.

people.

This time I sent him a message to ask him if he would go home to spend the Dragon Boat Festival with his dad.

Yan Xin replied to her: "I got home yesterday."

Then he asked: "Did you go home for the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Xiao Shiyu replied depressingly: "School is not on holiday, so there is no way to go home for the holidays."

Yan Xin: "Poor child."

Xiao Shiyu: "I envy you so much. You make your own time. You can go home when you want, and you can go wherever you want."

Yan Xin: "I also envy you for being able to go to college."

Xiao Shiyu: “College is not fun at all.”

After posting this, he posted another: "Summer vacation will be over in a few days. I made an appointment with some classmates to go to Guangdong Province to have a look. Old classmates, do you have time to meet?"

Yan Xin hesitated for a moment and replied: "There must be time. Tell me the day of departure and I will pick you up."

Thanks to Canoe in the Sea for the 5,000-coin reward. I haven’t seen such a large reward for a long time. I’m so excited.

(End of chapter)