Chapter 21 Work
After dinner, Ling Zhuoqun leaned on the sofa in a daze. The house seemed to be very different since Li Luo came.

In the past, when he returned home, it always seemed dead, with the windows and doors always closed. But now, the Lings' home is clean and tidy, and occasionally he can hear Li Luo humming a tune he has never heard of in the kitchen.

Maybe people in the city like to listen to music. He can sing, but it's always the same songs like "Unity is Strength" or "Yellow River Cantata"...

Never before had there been such a brisk sound, echoing throughout the house.

I don’t know if it’s because of his mood, but I always feel that the atmosphere in this house is much more cheerful.

Yaya laughed more often, Damao and Ermao ate faster, and had satisfied looks on their faces while eating. Why hadn't he noticed these before?

Moreover, when he was at home before, he always took the initiative to clean up the dishes, and Da Mao and Xiao Mao were urged by him to do their homework. But after Li Luo came, the job of washing dishes was contracted by the two brothers.

What kind of magic power does Li Luo have? How could he integrate into this family so quickly?
Li Luo stretched lazily. He had been busy all day and felt a sense of accomplishment. After eating, he began to feel sleepy. Yaya had also been playing outside all day and was now lying on Li Luo's shoulder with blurry eyes and her little head shaking from side to side.

Ling Zhuoqun wanted to say something, but when he saw Yaya's expression, he chose to remain silent.

Li Luo first carried Yaya to her bed and coaxed her to sleep, then went downstairs and asked Ling Zhuoqun to look after Yaya for a while as she needed to wash up before going to bed.

After washing, Li Luo lay on the bed with a fresh look, thinking about his work. He turned to Ling Zhuoqun and said, "I want to go back to the city tomorrow."

"Well, okay. I'll take a leave tomorrow and take Yaya with me." Ling Zhuoqun rubbed his eyebrows and said.

"No need. I can take Yaya with me to the city." Li Luo found that Ling Zhuoqun did not even ask Aunt Wang to come and take care of Yaya. Presumably, Ling Zhuoqun had some grudge against Aunt Wang in his heart.

"Isn't it inconvenient?" Ling Zhuoqun thought that Li Luo missed her family, so she wanted to go back to the city to visit.

We brought Yaya with us when we went back and forth, so their family members would gossip about us, right?
A fair-skinned, young girl married to an old, divorced man with a child would probably make her unable to hold her head up at home.

Li Luo shook his head: "It's okay, you are busy with work, I took Yaya to the city to deal with some things and came back soon."

Ling Zhuoqun opened his mouth, but finally swallowed his words and nodded heavily.

Li Luo will deal with her work matters tomorrow. Now that she is married, it is not convenient for her to continue working in the city. However, it is not good to waste this job opportunity like this.

So Li Luo decided to go to the textile factory tomorrow and sell his job to earn some money.

After all, not everyone can work in a textile factory. These jobs are formally organized. To use the eternal words, it is weaving, which is a stable job!

I work in the factory every day, protected from the wind and rain, and I also receive housing and meal subsidies. At the end of the month, I can earn at least 50 yuan.

If Li Luo hadn't always followed Qi Liancheng and bought food for him, the original owner's small treasury would probably have saved a lot by now.

At that time, many people were vying for a formal job but failed to get one. Moreover, the position could be inherited by one's children or family members. It was a job that could provide food for one generation and provide peace of mind for several generations.

So she would not let Lin Ge reap the fruits of the original owner's labor. She knew that if she did not sell this job opportunity, the original owner's parents would give this job opportunity to Lin Ge.

Although Lin Ge went to college in the end, after she took over the position, she did not return it to the original owner. Instead, she gave her job to her future sister-in-law, winning the favor of the Qi family.

This made the Qi family, who had originally been deeply resentful of Lin Ge's identity, suddenly change their views on this daughter-in-law who was originally from the countryside and was replaced.

In addition, Lin Ge was admitted to university in the end, and was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Qi Liancheng, so Lin Ge's second half of life was like a cheat, and he lived a smooth life. The original owner was framed to death, and in the end, there was only a tattered newspaper covering the original owner's body, and no one even claimed the body...

Li Luo would not give up this opportunity. After all, this was the result of his own hard work. How could it be snatched away so openly by this thief?

After making up his mind, Li Luo finally felt relieved.

The next day, Li Luo got up early in the morning. She went to bed too early the day before. For Li Luo, whose biological clock only lasts for eight hours, she would open her eyes and go to work at the appointed time.

After getting dressed and going downstairs, Ling Zhuoqun had already disappeared. In a daze, she seemed to hear Ling Zhuoqun asking her if she needed him to take care of Yaya. She answered no and then turned around and fell asleep again.

The two brothers, Da Mao and Xiao Mao, had already steamed potatoes in the kitchen, and there were two boiled eggs in the boiling water in the pot.

In this era, children in rural areas mature early and can basically cook their own meals. Whether the food tastes good or not is another matter, as long as they can make do with it to fill their stomachs.

"Is this what you eat in the morning?" Li Luo couldn't bear it any longer. The little flowers of the motherland should not be destroyed like this!

Although in the plot Da Mao grew up to be crooked, he is not yet to the point of being paranoid. Maybe she can correct him.

Da Mao and Xiao Mao retreated behind Li Luo and nodded.

Seeing the two brothers' vigilant expressions, Li Luo didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "How can these things be nutritious? You wait."

As he spoke, Li Luo took out the cooked potatoes and eggs, and handed the eggs to the two brothers, one for each.

Then he boiled a kettle of water and asked the two brothers to drink from it.

After rinsing the potatoes with cold water, tear off the skin and mash them into a paste with chopsticks. Then add some flour, pepper and salt to the mashed potatoes and mix them together.

After a while, an orange-yellow dough appeared on the chopping board.

The two brothers watched Li Luo's operation in shock. They saw that the dough was transformed into a long cylinder under Li Luo's skillful hands, and then cut into several even-sized portions with a knife and pressed into pancake shapes.

Put a frying pan on the stove, apply a layer of oil on it, and put the pancakes in after the pan is hot.

There was a "sizzling" sound, and soon the aroma of potatoes wafted out.

It takes less than a minute to flip the potato pancakes upside down and out of the pan, and the fragrant and soft potato pancakes are ready. Both sides are golden and crispy, with a burnt brown texture, which is the Maillard reaction that Michelin chefs love most.

Li Luo patted his flour-covered hands with satisfaction, put the potato pancakes on a plate, and brought them out of the kitchen. There were exactly ten pancakes, no more, no less.

The pancakes are big enough for one person to be full.

"Eat two and take two to school. Fill the kettle with boiling water and eat the pancakes slowly. Potato pancakes can easily cause choking..."

Li Luo muttered to herself, and unknowingly became more and more talkative, more and more like an old mother who was worried about her children. However, these were things that Ling Zhuoqun could not teach the children. It didn't matter, she would teach them.

(End of this chapter)