Cheng Tianyuan was having breakfast with four old people, while chatting about how many fruits the pomegranate tree in the back garden could bear this year.
"It didn't work last year!" Xue's father curled his lips: "There was too much rain during the flowering period, and the flowers fell to the ground. In the end, each tree only bore a few fruits."
Liu Ying laughed and said: "The pomegranate tree is of good variety and the fruit it produces is so delicious."
"Yes, yes!" Xue's mother smiled and said, "There are few knots, but they are all big and red, especially the juice is very sweet."
Xue's father disagreed: "This year is better. It happens to be sunny during the flowering period, and there is rain when the fruits grow. They have sufficient nutrition, sufficient water, and plenty of juice."
"Fewer but better." Xue's mother said: "Anyway, we have five or six trees. Even if there are only a dozen fruits left in one tree, there will still be dozens of fruits. As long as this is enough to eat, don't be greedy for too much."
"Yes!" Liu Ying laughed: "It's easy to get tired of eating too much. If you eat dragon meat every day, it doesn't taste good. How can pomegranate fruit compare to dragon meat, right?"
Everyone laughed.
Xue Zhilan joked: "It seems that my mother-in-law has eaten dragon meat and knows that dragon meat is definitely better than pomegranate fruit."
Everyone laughed again.
Xue Ling came and sat next to Cheng Tianyuan.
Liu Ying invited her to drink corn juice and explained: "This is squeezed from fresh corn. It tastes really good and very sweet! Add a little bit of sugar and it's already sweet enough."
"Okay, let me try it too." Xue Ling took a spoonful and looked around: "By the way, where is the third child? Didn't he say he was going out early today?"
Cheng Tianyuan replied: "He got up late and took a few steamed buns and a glass of corn juice to eat on the way. He asked Xiao Huang to go out with him and drove out in your old BMW."
"Okay." Xue Ling nodded.
Xue Zhilan asked doubtfully: "Ling Ling, didn't you agree on the work last night? Why did A Heng and his daughter come over so early in the morning to have breakfast? I see that his face looks very bad, and the dark circles under his eyes are so dark that he must have been busy last night.
I had to stay up all night."
Forehead?
Xue Ling's eyes flashed slightly, he turned away and took a small steamed bun to eat.
"We didn't reach an agreement, so he didn't go to bed until midnight. Afraid of delaying the process, he brought the plan over early in the morning and asked me to help review it. He also wanted to send Xiaohan to study, so he came here to eat together.
breakfast."
"So that's it." Xue Zhilan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Recently, his mother and I have fallen ill one after another, and it's been very hard for him to support himself. I see that his hair has become a lot thinner these days, and it seems that he will be bald soon.
Average. By the way, Ah Huan is the same. His forehead is getting cleaner every year. He will probably go bald before he reaches fifty and just become a monk."
"Where!" Xue's father objected: "We don't have this inheritance in our family! You and I, although we have gray hair all over our heads, sometimes less, we still have hair on our foreheads."
"Really." Xue Zhilan couldn't laugh or cry: "Both brothers are like this, one is brighter than the other. I asked Ah Huan, and he said that it is probably because he is under too much pressure at work, too busy every day, and the hormones in his body are not as good as when he was young, so
My hair falls out in piles every day.”
Cheng Tianyuan asked curiously: "Uncle, isn't this related to genetics?"
"Maybe." Xue Zhilan said: "Speaking of genetics, we really don't have such a gene here. However, their uncles are like this, and they all become bald at the age of forty or fifty. Maybe their mother's side as well.
Genetic influence."
Xue Ling thought for a while and said: "Nowadays, there are more and more bald people, and they are getting younger and younger. Every time there is a high-level meeting, almost all male compatriots have bald heads. Even young and middle-aged people.
It’s thinning hair. I think this should be related to the high pressure of young people nowadays, diet and health, etc.”
"Hey!" Xue's father sighed: "Young people today are really under a lot of pressure."
Liu Ying shook her head: "What kind of pressure? We have food, clothing, housing, and the transportation and sanitation environment are so good. Where does the pressure come from? It was really difficult when we were young. If we don't work, I guess
I won’t have anything to eat tomorrow. I can’t eat much meat all year round. I drink cold water every day and do heavy work. How can I still get by? I think it’s mainly because young people nowadays have such a good life that they have a lot of problems.
There are a lot of problems. Just like the depression mentioned on TV yesterday, why can’t you think about it? How can you still be depressed when you have food and drink? Let me tell you, let them do heavy work and hard work for a few days, they will
I know how wonderful life is now, and I can no longer feel depressed."
Everyone laughed one after another.
Cheng Tianyuan said warmly: "Mom, depression is a neurological disease and is very complicated. Just talk and laugh. Don't talk nonsense when you go outside, lest people think you are insinuating someone."
“Yes.”
If you accidentally irritate someone, that would be bad."
Liu Ying nodded "Oh": "That's okay... then I won't talk about it anymore."
"It doesn't matter if we talk about it at home." Xue Ling said with a smile, "We won't tell anyone about it anyway."
"That's right!" Mother Xue said: "We are just having fun at home, what are we afraid of!"
Xue Zhilan stood up after eating, "Brother Wu, let's go to the back garden for a walk in the shade?"
"Let's go!" Xue's father gestured: "The sugar cane I planted has grown so tall, let me take you to take a look!"
Xue Zhilan suddenly became interested, "It seems that there is still sugar cane to eat this winter - it's great! The vegetables and fruits grown at home are sweeter than those bought outside. I must order one first."
"No problem, no problem."
After a while, the old people went for a walk after eating, leaving only Cheng Tianyuan and his wife.
Xue Ling lowered his voice: "Do you need to go out in the morning? Why don't you take a day off and stay at home to rest. You almost didn't sleep all night last night, and you don't look very good."
Cheng Tianyuan smiled bitterly: "There is a contract to be signed in the morning, so I have to go. I will come back after I finish my work, and try to come back for a two-hour nap at noon. Have the father and daughter been coaxed? Have they gone to school?"
"Alas..." Xue Ling nodded: "I've stopped it for the time being."
Cheng Tianyuan was still not at ease: "A Heng's work is not safe enough, so you still have to help take care of it. I think back when we were working in the county, A Fang quietly ran away with someone, and my parents didn't know about it until the next day. The communication was poor at that time.
Traffic is poor, and looking for someone is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We have no choice but to post a missing person notice. People, when we are young, we are impulsive and confused. Once we take the wrong step, we will make many mistakes in the future. It's okay to come back.
, if you can’t come back, you’ll be like that for the rest of your life.”
After a pause, he added in a serious tone: "We can't let her follow her mother's old path."
Xue Ling patted the back of his hand and whispered: "Don't worry, I asked Xiaochao to follow quietly. He will keep an eye on Xiaohan secretly and contact us immediately if anything happens. Things are different now. Communication and transportation are excellent. Find a
It’s not difficult for people.”
Cheng Tianyuan smiled slightly and said yes with approval.