Chapter 928

Director Lin checked the time and said with a smile: "Mom, I feel your complexion is good today. Cuizhi, did you help my mother-in-law go out for a stroll this afternoon?"

Cuizhi, who was sitting on a chair, stood up and nodded.

This is a woman who looks quite pretty, but the look in her eyes when she looks at Director Lin is somewhat complicated; there is a kind of awe in facing the mistress of this house, as well as a kind of unwillingness, and even resentment.

Her eyes flickered and then she looked away.

Director Lin acted as if she didn't see it and said: "I'll go cook first; let's talk slowly after we finish eating."

Director Lin's eldest son was admitted to university last year, her second daughter and youngest daughter are both in middle school, and her youngest son just started elementary school.

In this era, there is no such thing as picking up and dropping off children for school, and the Foreign Trade Bureau also has its own school for children; without leaving this compound, basically all problems of food, clothing, housing, and transportation can be solved.

Of course, if you don't want to buy things in the compound, you can also go out; there are department stores, vegetable markets, and non-staple food stores nearby.

It hasn't been long since May Day, and there are no fresh vegetables in this season, but now the land is contracted to individuals, and many farmers have quick minds, especially in the villages relatively close to Beidu City, who will grow some baby bok choy, baby spinach, and the like, but these are hard to come by.

Director Lin just bought steamed buns from the unit cafeteria; the steamed buns made in a large iron pot are much better than those steamed at home.

So the family members in the compound usually buy steamed buns in the cafeteria; of course, these steamed buns cannot be bought every day either. But Director Lin is, after all, the director of logistics who also supervises the cafeteria; she is not so serious and rigid that she wouldn't even dare to buy steamed buns.

There are radishes at home, and a batch of goods was imported from Hong Kong some time ago, which are beef cubes and lamb cubes; this was something Lu Qiao helped to arrange.

Every employee of the General Bureau gets half a jin, while leaders get eight liang. Director Lin doesn't feel that cooking under such conditions is a troublesome matter.

Large steamed buns paired with homemade pickled vegetables, then radish shredded, put lard in the pot, add green onion to explode the fragrance, stir-fry the shredded radish until soft, add soup, and then add the beef cubes; this is basically complete. It took no more than twenty minutes, and the meal was served on the table.

Her son doesn't eat at home; he boards at school. The two daughters led their little brother into the house, and as soon as they smelled this fragrance, they immediately rushed into the kitchen.

One called Mom, the other called Mom; one said it smelled so good, the other said they were so hungry.

There was absolutely no scene where the children were all won over by Cuizhi as others thought.

If you cast aside those remarks of Cuizhi, this is actually a very warm family.

Director Lin didn't reflect, because there was no need to reflect.

Her family's affairs are very simple; because of an accident, her mother-in-law was paralyzed in bed.

At that time, her younger brother happened to have brought their mother over, and the two old people naturally knew each other.

Before the mother-in-law got sick, her temper was very gentle, and her mother's personality was also very gentle; when the two were together, they got along quite well initially.

Of course, her mother did it more so as not to increase her burden, so she took the initiative to come over to take care of the mother-in-law.

Where is it so easy to take care of a patient?

Not only taking care of her eating, drinking, and sleeping, but also turning her over and massaging her.

Her mother fell ill, and she immediately sent her mother home; first, she hired someone with nursing experience to take care of her, but the mother-in-law didn't agree, saying there were relatives in her hometown, and her name was Wang Cuizhi. There were many brothers and sisters in her family, and her mother favored boys over girls; the girls couldn't even get enough to eat at home, living just like livestock, and life was very difficult. Letting her come to the city could be considered giving her a way to survive.

Just like that, Wang Cuizhi was brought over.

This is an ordinary girl.

At the beginning, everything was very good, and she and her husband were also sincerely grateful to Wang Cuizhi.

Who could have thought that so many messy things would arise later.

Director Lin is now glad that she paid her a salary from the first month.

That's right, this is a salary.

Although in the mother-in-law's mouth, this is pocket money.

Taking care of the old lady's meals is also part of Wang Cuizhi's job content.

After the old lady finished eating, the mother-in-law wanted to talk to Director Lin.

Director Lin sighed, specifically went to her side, lowered her voice, and said to her: "Xiaolei's grandfather looked for me two days ago, saying that the son he had with that woman is sick and wants to go to the First People's Hospital for treatment, and then hopes that Xiaolei's father can put in a word, and then have the medical expenses fully reimbursed."

The old lady originally wanted to force Director Lin to say what she was thinking.

The old lady isn't stupid either; let alone that the current daughter-in-law has such ability and status, even the initial daughter-in-law was better than Wang Cuizhi who takes care of her.

It is impossible for her to let her son divorce his wife.

Now this house was allocated to them by the Foreign Trade Bureau, and the compound they live in is also the Foreign Trade Bureau's.

If they divorced, could she still live here?

It's just that she finds everything unpleasant, wants to make a fuss, and besides, Wang Cuizhi has indeed paid a lot, and she can't bear it, wanting to find her a good job, preferably the kind where she doesn't have to work much but can still get paid, and then take care of her when there's nothing to do. After all, she has gotten used to her service.

Thinking thousands of things in her mind, she didn't expect Director Lin to tell her this, and her complexion changed immediately, scolding Director Lin: "What Xiaolei's grandfather? He has no grandfather! You, you... how can you, this woman, be disloyal to your own family?"

Director Lin's complexion changed, and she slowly straightened her back, looking at her mother-in-law with a calm expression.

Wang Cuizhi stepped aside, and the old lady couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

She was never afraid of her daughter-in-law speaking loudly to her, or even scolding her.

What she feared was just like this, looking at her with a calm expression.

Then she heard Director Lin say with a frown and a calm voice: "Mom, tell me who is being disloyal to their own family?"

The old lady could only bite the bullet and say: "No, no..." and then immediately changed the subject, first scolding very harshly, and then saying: "This shameless person, still wants my son to reimburse medical expenses for that wild seed of his. Don't pay attention to him, why should we pay attention to him? I'm telling you, if you agree, I won't be finished with you..."

While the old lady was scolding, Director Lin had already closed the door to her mother-in-law's bedroom.

Director Lin curled the corners of her mouth, sighed, and said very helplessly: "Actually, Xiaolei's father and I have always had a stance; the one without a stance is you. If every time you saw my father, you had this attitude, how good would that be."

Hearing this, the old lady's face flushed red, but she couldn't say a single word.

Director Lin stopped paying attention to the old lady; her gaze fell on Wang Cuizhi, and she said in a very gentle voice: "Cuizhi, after I finish cleaning up the kitchen, how about the two of us go to the study and talk alone?"

Wang Cuizhi nodded and said in a muffled voice: "Okay."

But for some reason, she felt that today's Director Lin was a bit different from usual!