In the first month of the year in the north, the weather is still very cold. Zhou Keke lives alone at home, can’t cook, doesn’t know how to heat, and doesn’t even have bedding. If Feng Yuzhen hadn’t come to help, Zhou Keke’s living environment would not be optimistic.
Xie Ying went there with her grandma. Grandma wiped the kang clean for him and took the bedding outside to dry with Xie Ying. Then, they opened all the doors and windows. Once the air circulated, the home became much more comfortable.
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Zhou Mingli and his wife have been away from home for too long, and they have not come back with their second son. Many places in the house need to be cleaned, and Zhou Keke can't clean them thoroughly. He thinks that two days will be enough. Feng Yuzhen worked for a long time and said dissatisfied
: "Your parents have been too neglectful of you, so they didn't even think of coming back together to take care of you for two days."
Zhou Ke washed the towel by himself and smiled nonchalantly: "I left home when I was eighteen years old. Taking care of myself is not a problem. I told my parents that I can do anything so that they don't have to worry about me."
"But no matter how capable you are, you are still a big boy and not as careful as your mother. Alas, Xie Chong's parents have been married for so many years. As long as they are not at home, I will still worry about whether they can do the laundry and do the laundry.
Will you be hungry for food...why isn't your mother worried at all?"
Almost everyone said that Xue Qin was too indifferent to his second son. Perhaps only Zhou Ke did not care: "It's okay, as long as they live a good life and take care of themselves, I am very grateful to them. I don't want them to come back with me."
, as soon as I enter this house, my mother will think of my brother and be sad again. So, it’s just right that she doesn’t come back.”
Zhou Keke excused his parents with every word, but Xie Ying felt very sad when she heard it. Although the second brother is a upright man, he may not be able to take good care of himself. He works hard outside for many years and comes back at most once a year.
But even this time, he couldn't feel the love of his parents.
Thinking of this, Xie Ying said unhappily: "Just because you are very powerful, Teacher Zhou and Teacher Xue are unwilling to spend time on you? No wonder others say that only children who cry can eat candy. Second brother, you have to learn how to
Act like a spoiled child, and they will feel sorry for you even more."
Zhou Keke laughed loudly: "I haven't been able to act like a baby since I was a child. I'm almost thirty, you want me to learn to act like a baby?"
This suggestion is indeed not very reliable. Xie Ying scratched her head and smiled sheepishly. Feng Yuzhen said: "Okay, Xiaoying, stop criticizing the two teachers. If we continue like this, we will become the provocateurs."
The relationship between my brother and his parents is over. When the two of them come back, I will talk to them carefully and let them pay more attention to your second brother."
Zhou Ke said "no need", but in Xie Ying's view, the second brother was indeed a little lonely. Even if he was dissatisfied with his parents, he still didn't want to let outsiders neglect his parents, right? But Feng Yuzhen is a reputable elder.
, Zhou Keke did not refute her statement.
There are cold pots and stoves everywhere in Zhou's house, and the heating is not very hot. On the way home, Feng Yuzhen said to herself: "Let him come to the house for dinner - alas, this child has a strong self-esteem, let him come to the house
He may not be willing to eat - Xiaoying, during the few days he lives in Rulin Street, you can give him some rice porridge, steamed buns or something like that in the morning, okay?"
"Of course!" Xie Ying said happily: "Second brother will not starve, I will be happy."
Early the next morning, Xie Ying took two lunch boxes and jumped out of the door. When she thought that the food might be spilled, she slowed down and walked very carefully. She wanted to knock on the door of Zhou's house, but found that
The door was open a crack, and someone was talking in the yard.
Xie Ying recognized it immediately. It was Wang Jingyi's voice.
It was only seven o'clock in the morning, and the sun had not yet fully risen. Xie's family always got up early, but Wang Jingyi got up even earlier than them. She must have come to deliver food to Zhou Keke when there was no one around.
"Second brother, this is the sugar cake from the store at Qiao Beitou. This is the first batch. It is fried until it is brown and crispy. I bought a lot of it and will send you some."
"Oh, you're still in graduate school and don't have much money. Come on, come on, I'll reimburse you."
"No, second brother, I have enough living expenses now, so it's no problem to buy a few candy cakes. You have finally come back, you must be thinking about this bite."
"Hmm..." Zhou Xingzhi seemed to have swallowed a candy cake, and said vaguely: "You really can't buy something so delicious outside."
"Second brother, eat slowly. They also have freshly squeezed soy milk. Drink it while it's hot."
"Okay... Jingyi has really grown up and is so good at taking care of others."
Wang Jingyi smiled shyly.
Zhou Keke rarely opened up his heart: "My parents don't know what my favorite food is, and they don't care about whether I have breakfast."
"Second brother... I'm not excusing your parents, I just feel that they feel very awkward... In order to take care of your eldest brother, they have neglected you for many years. Now they want to care about you, but they don't know where to start. Just like me.
Mom, sometimes, I feel that she still wants to care about me and my brother, but she doesn’t know how to do it, and she feels upset about it... People, that’s how it is sometimes.
You are so naughty, you will be irritable because you are at a loss... I think Teacher Xue and Teacher Zhou probably have the same mentality. You have missed you for many years. They don't understand you and want to get close to you, but they feel awkward. They want to care about you.
, but you will make mistakes. If you want an apple, they may give you a pear... just like this, you will feel uncomfortable, and they will also feel awkward."
Zhou Keke stopped chewing. If Wang Jingyi hadn't said this, he would never have imagined that his parents didn't care about him, but were annoyed because they didn't know how to care.
He couldn't get used to his mother's cooking, and he was straight-tempered and wouldn't hide his emotions. His mother must have been very hurt. His mother bought him a down jacket, but he bluntly said that the quality of the winter clothes issued by the army was the best, and this one
The down jacket might as well be worn by his father; his father runs with him, and he doesn’t understand that his father wants to kiss him.
His father wanted to talk to him, but his mind was filled with the idea of "running". He rode away from the dust and left his father far away. After running with him a few times, his father stopped "disturbing" him.
He has exercised. Dad himself said that running together will only hold him back, so let him run freely!
Zhou Ke's mouth was full, and he forgot to chew and swallow. Bits and pieces of getting along appeared in front of his eyes. His parents had indeed done a lot for him. They were unfamiliar and clumsy, and they approached him cautiously.
But he pushed them away like a fool.
If you think about it carefully, he really looks like a mechanical wooden man!
"What's wrong, second brother, are you choked? Or is the candy cake not delicious?"
"It's delicious..." Zhou Keke hurriedly swallowed it and said, "Jingyi, thank you..."
"Thank me for what?"
The noise outside gradually became noisier, and there were more and more people on the street. Wang Jingyi did not hear Zhou Xingke's answer, so she said eagerly: "Second brother, you eat slowly, I'll leave first. Let others see,