After a while, Chen Yunyun touched his belly and his eyes wandered, not daring to look at the remaining half of the melon.
The mother is also sitting upright on the small bench in the kitchen where she is choosing dishes, her body upright, as if what is placed in front of her is not a trash can, but a high-end mahogany table in the conference room.
The atmosphere was stagnant for a moment.
After a while, I heard Chen Yunyun lose his composure and say: "Mom, this half isn't fresh even if it's left alone. Why don't we eat it first, and my dad will open another one when he comes back."
"Okay." The mother nodded quickly: "You are right."
Then he picked up the watermelon and washed it, then raised the knife and cut it neatly.
For a moment, there was the sound of "clicking" melons in the kitchen again.
In the living room, the old lady crept over and put her head on the kitchen door. She was so old that she could feel her saliva dripping.
But she really didn't dare to say it. Now she heard some movement inside and quickly tiptoed back to the room.
But after listening in the room for a long time, she didn't hear any movement coming out of the kitchen. The old lady couldn't help but feel anxious...
And here, Chen Yunyun, who felt so full, licked his lips and couldn't help but burped: "Mom, I'm full. But my mouth is still a little greedy..."
"Then you can't bear it until it's too late..."
Mom's eyes were blank, staring at the trash can with melon rinds in front of her, and she hesitated for a moment:
"You shouldn't have thrown away the melon rind just now. You can pick it up and peel it to make a dish..."
Imagining the taste of the watermelon rind, Chen Yunyun couldn't help but sip his saliva, and then wondered: "That's right, it can't be wasted! Otherwise, Mom, you cut another one, let's eat some more, and put the rind in the basin.
"
"This way, if my dad comes back in the middle of the night and has just half of the melon left, he will definitely put the rind in the basin."
"or……"
The mother and daughter looked at each other and said in unison: "Cut it in half again!"
This time only cut it in half!
…
Chen Yunyun finally came to the living room with his belly in hand and wandered around the room non-stop all night. The old lady was so flustered and short of breath that she wished she could lock this silly granddaughter into her room.
Finally, in the middle of the night, Chen Yunyun went to the toilet several times and finally returned to the room. Through the door, she could still be heard crying and howling while playing games.
The old lady rolled over and sat up from the bed, her movements were extremely quick. She didn't even turn on the light at this moment, and went to the kitchen in the dark.
Then he turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, and with the little light, he successfully took out the remaining half of the watermelon from the refrigerator.
She thought to herself that although she had diabetes, she had already taken two hypoglycemic pills just now. Now she would take two more bites...just two bites. Isn't that too much?
To show determination, you don’t even need to cut the melon, just hold it and eat it with a spoon.
It's so bad that it won't matter if my son comes back and sees it. Anyway, he likes to eat like this.
When she thought about it this way, she felt at ease.
…
Not long after, the door to the room suddenly "clicked".
But the kitchen door was closed, and the old lady was intoxicated with her eyes closed, so she didn't hear the sound at all.
Father Chen is back.
The room was dark. My wife must have slept at this point, but there was definitely no such thing. No, you could still hear the sound...
He turned on the light, put down his phone and prepared to take a shower. However, he paused and seemed to hear something moving in the kitchen!
It was dark inside in the middle of the night, with only a little light...
He became vigilant - could it be that there was a burglar in the house?!
Father Chen's heart skipped a beat, but without disturbing the family, he just picked up the dining table and chairs in front of him, and then tiptoed to unscrew the door handle.
Then!
At the same time as the door opened, he clicked on the light——
"Ouch!"
"Snapped!"
When a familiar voice sounded, Father Chen was startled. He quickly looked over and saw a little old lady squatting in front of him. Her round body was particularly familiar.
She was squatting on the ground, picking up the remaining melon rinds with her hands full of distress, which made people feel particularly sad and pitiful.
Father Chen was anxious at that time: "Mom, you can eat melon as long as you want, why are you still-"
"Oh." Halfway through, the big boy reacted and his face turned cold again:
"Your blood sugar was so horribly high in your physical examination last week. How dare you eat watermelon?!"
The old lady raised her head stubbornly: "I took anti-diabetic medicine!"
Then he looked at the watermelon on the ground with regret on his face: "I haven't finished eating yet..."
It was only then that Father Chen found his mind to look at the smashed watermelon on the ground - what was left uneaten?
This watermelon was smashed in half, as if it was half an empty shell, with not much red flesh left!
He thought of something and gasped: "You still eat so much?!"
However, the mother’s words did not match her words: “I haven’t even scraped off the skin of this melon…”
…
After all this fuss, Chen Yunyun, who was playing games in the room, also heard the noise. When she looked outside, her father's shoes and bag were at the door.
Look at the kitchen again——
"Wow! Grandma, how dare you eat watermelon behind our backs!"
"What does stealing mean? What does stealing mean?"
Facing her granddaughter, the old lady also became aggressive: "I took medicine! Besides, how can eating watermelon be called stealing?"
"But you are diabetic -" Before he could finish his words, Chen Yunyun stared at the puddle of broken melon rinds on the ground and shouted: "Why is it so wasteful? There are so many more on top!"
Dad Chen: ...what? After just one whole day of absence, you have become a frugal little expert, eating watermelons and chewing on them all the time.
How else to eat this melon? Eat through the rind!
Not really!
But he saw that the old lady also had a heartbroken look on her face: "Yes, I was eating because your dad scared me! Look, he moved such a big stool. If he didn't turn on the light, he might hit me on the head of this old lady.
Already."
Father Chen was also aggrieved: "I heard something moving in the kitchen, but I didn't turn on the light. I thought it was a thief..."
"Whose thief stole this worthless watermelon!"
The old lady is tough-talking.
But Chen Yunyun suddenly remembered: "Ah, it's not worthless. This watermelon costs 0 yuan a pound."
Dad Chen:......
Grandma Chen:......
Both mother and son turned to stare at her: "Yunyun, you are now enjoying luxury goods!"
Chen Yunyun: ...I bought melons with good intentions, but you didn't reimburse me, and you still said I was eating luxury goods?
She then sighed: "The problem is not that you eat luxury goods, but that you don't know how to cherish them. My mother ate this melon today and it tasted great. She also said that the rind should be used for cooking. Now that it is smashed, there is no way to pick it up and cook it again.
I only bought 4 melons originally, and I said I would leave half of them for you, but now it’s better, there are only two left..."
The old lady also looked regretful: "That's right! It's all your father's fault."
Dad Chen:......
Okay, you all blame me, right?!
He moved the chair away angrily, holding a watermelon in his arms, flushing it under the faucet, and then snapped it in half with a knife!
The "Chinese Story" at Station B is very interesting! I like that little monster so much!