Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 489

Chapter 489: Wedding Pastries
Hearing his eldest brother’s words, Li Chenmo nodded and said, “Indeed, my elder brother has discerning eyes and is more experienced.”

He glanced at his second brother and said, “Only a man who has experienced a happy marriage can know it at glances. It seems that my second brother still has to work hard to bring my second sister-in-law back as soon as possible. So, you can experience marital bliss.”

Li Lingyun was annoyed by his words and kicked him. Unfortunately, before the kick hit Li Chenmo’s butt, he dodged it and said with a smirk, “Second brother, if you want to kick me, you have to practice for a few more years.”

Realizing that they might start fighting again, Li Chenze quickly said, “Okay, didn’t we agree to leave with Xiao Li later? We should finish the work early.”

“Second brother, has Xiao Li told you who the matchmaker is?” Li Chenmo asked.

“He didn’t tell me, but it should be Aunt Su or Aunt Lin. Both of them are experienced matchmakers.” Li Lingyun said.

Since Xiao Li said he would invite a matchmaker, they did not interfere in this matter. As for the betrothal gift, it is given on the day of the proposal. Today, they first went to Liu’s house to propose to Liu Hua and asked for her parent’s permission.

Because the pigs had grown so big, they produced lots of manure every day. It took them nearly an hour to transport all the pig manure to the pit on the mountain. When Li Chenmo came back from the pig pen, Dong Li and Dong Huang were already awake and watering the vegetable garden.

After cleaning himself up, Li Chenmo went to the kitchen to help his wife prepare breakfast.

In the kitchen, Lu Jueyu was making scallion pancakes when he heard her husband’s footsteps. Seeing him walking in, she said, “Husband, my sister-in-law and Meijia will be here in a moment. We agreed to make 50 portions of wedding cakes for Xiao Li.”

Li Chenmo walked to his wife, leaned over, kissed her lips, and said, “Mhmm, I’m going out soon. My second brother asked me and my eldest brother to go with Xiao Li. Since he has no family, we will go with him as his family.”

Lu Jueyu nodded and asked, “Did he prepare any gifts? Although today is not the proposal day, he can’t visit the Liu family empty-handed.”

After thinking about it, Li Chenmo said, “It’s so sudden. I don’t know what he has prepared.”

After hearing what he said, Lu Jueyu thought for a while and said, “In that case, how about we prepare some gifts for him?”

“Wife, do you have any idea?” Li Chenmo asked.

Lu Jueyu nodded and said, “Although I don’t have a close relationship with Sister Liu Hua’s family, I heard from my second sister-in-law that Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu like to eat fish the most. Coincidentally, I just made smoked fish yesterday.”

“How about two smoked fish, a half kilogram of fruit slices, and a kilogram of pork sausage?” she asked.

After he thought for a moment, Li Chenmo nodded and said, “Then we do as you say. I will take it with me later.”

“Okay.”

When the sun rose from the horizon, Lu Jueyu and her family had just finished breakfast when Pan Meijia, Zhang Dongmei, Chen Anwen, and Wang Muxiao came over. Hearing a knock on the door from the front yard, Lu Jueyu went to open the door, while Li Chenmo and the children cleared the table.

Opening the door, Lu Jueyu saw them coming with a bamboo basket filled with oil paper.

“Sister-in-law, Meijia, you are here. Please come in.”

Walking into the house, Wang Muxiao said, “Jueyu, we brought some oil paper. I asked Ah Hua yesterday and she said she needed at least 80 packages of wedding cakes. There are many elders and married cousins ​​on her mother’s side.”

Lu Jueyu nodded and said, “I have already guessed the number and prepared the ingredients. Sister-in-law, in addition to the common red bean and mung bean pastries, do you want to add some other pastries?”

“Since the Liu family still has a great grandma, we should add grandma cakes.” Zhang Dongmei said.

“Alright,” Lu Jueyu nodded.

When they arrived in the backyard, Li Chenmo and the children had already finished washing the dishes. He walked up to his wife and said, “Wife, I’m going to change my clothes and go out. It might take me a few hours before I return.”

“En, don’t forget to bring the gift.” Lu Jueyu reminded her husband.

“Mhmm.”

Not long after, Li Chenmo left the house with the children. Before going to Xiao Li’s house, he took his adopted children to school on his bicycle.

After locking the door, Lu Jueyu came to her bedroom and took out several packages of paper-cuts from her space. It was leftover from her wedding, and it was new. The glue was made from rice paste and was commonly used in this era. When she went to the kitchen, she saw her sisters-in-law and Pan Meijia making red bean and mung bean paste for filling.

Zhang Dongmei saw her coming and asked, “Jueyu, are there any pastries you want to add to the wedding cake?”

Lu Jueyu thought for a while before she said, “I plan to make Sesame balls, Red twill cakes with red bean filling, Yellow twill cakes with salted egg yolks filling, Shortbread cookies, dried tangerines and ginger, hard sesame and peanuts candies, and jujube. A total of eight types.”

Everyone was stunned when they heard her words. Usually, the groom’s family prepares sesame balls with two kinds of fillings. If the groom’s family is financially better off, they will add milk candies or some dried fruits.

This was the first time they had heard of so many types of pastries.

“Jueyu ah, we only know how to make sesame balls and grandma cakes. This is the first time I heard the names of those cakes.” Wang Muxiao said.