"Mom, you're back!" I fiddled with my shirt collar one last time and opened the door.
"Why are you so slow? Didn't I tell you to wait for us at the door?" My mother asked strangely, looking at me who was out of breath.
"Um...there's a guest in this house." I said awkwardly.
At this time, Zhao Yanyan was also fully dressed and walked out of my bedroom. When she saw my mother, she whispered: "Hello, aunt!"
"Oops! There's a guest at home, Leilei, why didn't you tell me earlier? You didn't have lunch at noon, right? Lao Liu, go wash the fish and cook the rice quickly!" My mother started to give orders, even before my father had time.
After changing clothes, I was kicked into the kitchen.
"Auntie, please stop working, I'm fine." Seeing that my mother was busy cooking just after she came back, Zhao Yanyan hurriedly tried to dissuade her with embarrassment.
"It doesn't matter. We still have to eat if you don't come. Let Leile's father do his work while we talk for a while." My mother said affectionately.
I'm so dizzy, what's wrong with my mother? She's more enthusiastic than me when she sees a beautiful woman. Last time it was Xia Jing, this time it's Zhao Yanyan.
"Girl, sit down, don't stand! Leilei, hurry up and pour some water for your classmate. Are there no drinks on the balcony? Bring some!" my mother yelled at me.
"Auntie, don't bother me. I don't want to drink water." Zhao Yanyan waved her hand hurriedly.
"It's okay, let Liu Lei do his work." My mother didn't know that Zhao Yanyan felt even more distressed if she tormented me like this.
Sure enough, Zhao Yanyan looked at me with an apologetic look, and I gave her an indifferent smile. When I brought the drink, I heard my mother chatting with Zhao Yanyan: "Girl, what's your name?"
"Auntie, my name is Zhao Yanyan." Zhao Yanyan also relaxed a lot and lost the previous restraint.
"Zhao Yanyan, this is a good name. Are you and Leilei in the same class?" my mother asked with a smile on her face.
"Yes, we are at the same table." Zhao Yanyan replied.
"Oh, it turns out we're at the same table! Hello, we're at the same table. You guys should help each other in your studies!" My mother took the drink from my hand and gave it to Zhao Yanyan.
"Auntie, Liu Lei doesn't need help from others to learn from him!" Zhao Yanyan started to put gold in my face again.
"Then let Leilei help you." My mother was also very happy when she heard Zhao Yanyan praise me.
"Mom, please stop saying a few words. Zhao Yanyan is second in school and doesn't need my help." I also opened a bottle of drink myself. To be honest, I was really thirsty.
"Ah, then this is even better! One of you is first and the other is second. We will communicate more together in the future!" My mother got in touch with Zhao Yanyan in a short time.
"Well, Leilei, you also go to the kitchen to help your dad with the work, don't wait here." My mother saw that I was not doing anything around, so she started to find something for me to do again.
I winked at Zhao Yanyan and told her not to talk nonsense. Zhao Yanyan immediately gave me a reassuring expression.
"Dad, there's no need to cook so many dishes, just deal with it." I said to my dad who was packing the fish.
"Is that okay? It has to be like that when someone comes to the house!" My dad put down the packed fish and started cleaning the pot.
"By the way, Liu Lei. Tell dad, what's going on with that little girl?" My dad finally got around to it and started questioning me.
"What's going on? She's my deskmate!" I started to act stupid again.
"My deskmate? My deskmate, can you let her come to our house? Tell me honestly, do you like her?" Unexpectedly, my dad didn't hold back and went straight to the point. I didn't even know what to do.
Well answered.
"I-I-" I really don't know what to say.
"Leilei, there are no outsiders in the kitchen. We are talking to each other. Dad, I can tell you that if you like her, tell her as soon as possible and don't do it. I think that girl is quite beautiful and I like her.
There will definitely be no shortage of people, right? Am I right? Anyway, it’s not a big deal for kids your age to fall in love. I think your mother and I were about the same age as you when we first met.
What you say is to strike first. If I hadn't expressed my attitude to your mother first, maybe you wouldn't be here now!" My father whispered to me with beaming eyes.
I was dumbfounded when I heard that. Is this still my dad? Why is he so different from his usual serious and upright father?
"Cough - cough -! Don't be stunned, hurry up and help me wash the vegetables. Don't tell your mother what I just told you, this is the ancestral secret book of our old Liu family!" My dad coughed twice and said to me.
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Ancestor secrets? How come I haven't heard of it before? If you taught me this way in my previous life, maybe I would have figured out Zhao Yanyan by then.
"Okay, son! This girl is pretty good. There's nothing to say about her appearance. Don't let me down, your dad!" My dad patted my shoulder and put fish scales on my body.
"I -" I was so embarrassed that I didn't know how to answer. Did I tell him that I had already taken care of Zhao Yanyan?
I helped my dad skillfully. In fact, I can also cook these dishes, and I really did it a lot in my previous life, but I couldn't show off too much. Even so, my dad still praised me in confusion and said,
The vegetables are cut much more neatly than before.
After the two of us had been busy for a while, three dishes, one soup and one fish were quickly put on the table.
"Come over and eat!" My dad set the dishes and chopsticks and shouted to my mom and Zhao Yanyan who were chatting happily in the living room.
My mother led Zhao Yanyan to the dining table with a smile. Zhao Yanyan was also smiling. What were the two of them communicating at this moment? Looking at their intimate expressions, could my mother have adopted someone as her goddaughter?
"Yan Yan, you're already hungry. You eat first and don't worry about others! Just treat this place as your own home." My mother handed Zhao Yanyan a pair of chopsticks and said.
Huh? It seems that this sentence is very familiar. I remember the last time I went to Zhao Yanyan's house as a guest, Zhao Yanyan's mother said the same sentence to me.
Thinking of this, I raised my head and found that Zhao Yanyan was also looking at me. It was probably her who had also thought of this. The two of us looked at each other and smiled.
I was extremely depressed during the meal. My mother kept picking up vegetables for Zhao Yanyan. Every time I wanted to take off my chopsticks, my mother would be the first to take the vegetables away. I even wondered for a while whether I was her biological child.
. My dad seldom spoke during the dinner, and most of the time it was my mom who talked loudly. Often after my mom said a topic, Zhao Yanyan would either laugh out loud or discuss it non-stop, while my dad and I would
He looked confused, is this the so-called topic of women?
Moreover, what made me extremely unhappy was that my mother complained more than once that she regretted giving birth to a boy. It would be great to have a daughter who we could talk to without talking and go shopping together. After hearing this, Zhao Yanyan immediately said,
In the future, if I have time, I will often come back to my house and chat with my mother, which makes my mother smile from ear to ear.
Zhao Yanyan, on the other hand, was smiling like a kitten that had successfully stolen a fish. (To be continued)