Aunt Duan quickly walked into the kitchen and began to help the second uncle.
The three of us children immediately gathered around us.
"Why are you here?" I asked Fang Zhongyu.
Fang Zhongyu took out a few oranges that were easy to peel, and almost put his head in his pocket: "My grandpa went to the house to apologize, and then went back to the hospital. My grandpa also said that he wanted to treat you to dinner, but he couldn't leave.
I asked my mother to come, just in time for your phone call."
Lulu sat next to her and patted her chest proudly: "I made the call!"
"What? When did you call?" I looked at Lulu in surprise. My second uncle had left everything in the hotel. I knew there was a phone on the counter, but when did Lulu call back?
"Second uncle taught me this!" Lulu excitedly pulled me to the counter, "Nuan Ting, whoever you want to hit, I'll teach you!"
I lowered my head and looked at the boxy red phone on the counter. There was a handle-like microphone on the left, with a winding wire connected to the phone, and there were several plump and cute number buttons on the right.
Phone call!
I've been curious about the phone for a long time!
My body was getting hot now, and I couldn’t wait to let Lulu teach me: “Give it to Chenxi!”
Fang Zhongyu peeled two oranges and placed them in front of Lulu and us. He rolled his eyes at the same time and said, "You girls are like brown candy, you keep sticking them together."
Lulu raised her little fist, and Fang Zhongyu ran to the door in a hurry.
Lulu stuffed the orange into her mouth, lowered her head and asked me vaguely: "Do you know Chenxi's home number?"
"You know, when I went to grandpa Fang Zhongyu's house last time, didn't I use the teacher's phone to call him? I remember Chen Xi's number."
I felt that my hands and feet started to tremble with excitement. Lulu taught me how to operate it, but I didn’t expect that it actually happened!
A serious and childish voice soon sounded from the opposite side, mixed with the sound of electricity: "Hello, my parents are not at home. If you need anything, can you call me tonight?"
"Pfft -" Fang Zhongyu folded his arms, sat at the door and burst into laughter.
The corner of my mouth twitched. This serious tone could not be connected with Huang Chenxi who squatted with me in the corridor as soon as class started.
Lulu and I covered our mouths, suppressed laughter flowing out from between our fingers.
Huang Chenxi became angry when he heard this: "Who are you?"
I quickly stopped: "Chen Xi, who do you think I am?"
The person on the other side paused for a moment, then suddenly shouted with joy: "Nuan Ting? Is it Nuan Ting!"
"Yeah! It's me!"
"Have you installed a telephone in your home?"
Lulu pushed her head over to show off and said: "It's not my house. My second uncle opened a restaurant. The phone in the restaurant!"
"Wow! That's great. Then you will be able to eat delicious food anytime in the future!"
Fang Zhongyu couldn't help but squeeze over and accused her over the phone: "Huang Chenxi, how do you know how to eat? How fat have you become?"
"Fang Zhongyu, you deserve a beating!" I looked at the helpless faces of the two people who pushed me aside, and then heard Huang Chenxi say something.
"Why are you together? Isn't today the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
Fang Zhongyu rubbed his nose proudly: "Yes, the three of us are celebrating the festival together, aren't you envious?"
Huang Chenxi was quiet for a while, and then his tone suddenly dropped: "That's great."
I felt something was wrong with her mood, so I pushed away Lulu and Fang Zhongyu and regained the territory: "Chenxi, are you in a bad mood?"
Huang Chenxi suddenly started sobbing: "My parents are working overtime again, and I am celebrating the holidays at home."
"Ah? But today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a day for family reunions?" After Lulu screamed, Huang Chenxi burst into tears.
"There is no way. My parents are doctors in the city hospital and work in the emergency department. They work overtime every day."
"Are your parents doctors?" I picked my nose awkwardly. The city hospital had the most people, and the emergency department was even more busy. We had seen this in the two days we were in the hospital. No wonder Huang Chenxi kept talking about her dad the whole time.
Mom is working overtime again.
I quickly comforted her: "Chengxi, please wait."
I jumped off the counter and ran to the door of the spacious, bright but stuffy kitchen. My second uncle and Aunt Duan were washing vegetables and cutting meat.
"Second uncle, can I invite my classmates to come to our house for the holidays?"
When the second uncle heard this, he stopped washing the vegetables, turned around and said with a smile: "Of course, the second uncle heard it, don't make your little classmate sad."
"Okay!" My second uncle is always so considerate! I raised my big smile happily, and Aunt Duan also cast a gentle look at my second uncle.
I ran back to the counter and said into the phone: "Chen Xi, why don't you come to my house to celebrate the festival? I told my second uncle and he also invited you to come!"
Lulu squeezed over again: "I invite you too!"
Huang Chenxi immediately stopped crying and asked in disbelief: "Really?"
"Yeah! Really!"
"But how do I get there?"
Fang Zhongyu's face wrinkled up: "Where is your home? Why don't we go pick you up?"
Huang Chenxi suddenly laughed, and you could feel her excitement through the phone: "Then I'll call my parents!"
Not long after we hung up the phone, Huang Chenxi called back and said that his parents agreed and asked us to pick her up at Building 3 of Huayuan Community. Then he hung up the phone in a hurry, probably to change clothes.
The three of us talked to our second uncle and Aunt Duan, took some change and went out to wait for the bus.
While still at the bus stop, I saw Uncle Han and Aunt Han turning from the community into a nearby supermarket.
The bus came, and the three of us sat in the five-seat conjoined seat at the end. Fang Zhongyu turned around and looked through the window: "Is that the neighbor of 604?"
"Yes, we moved here yesterday." It was rare that Lulu didn't quarrel with Fang Zhongyu. I was very pleased.
"No wonder, my mother and I came home this morning and saw them coming out of 604."
"Then you still ask!" Lulu glared at Fang Zhongyu through me.
"..." Well, it's normal for them to quarrel. As the most adult among them, I have to make peace with them appropriately.
"Fang Zhongyu, how is your grandpa's health?"
Fang Zhongyu lowered his eyebrows: "That's it. My grandpa said, it's a good thing you guys went there, otherwise he would have felt that his mentality has changed. Do you think ghosts can really make people look different?"
"It should be possible." I recalled the time when Aunt Li was bewitched by the hanged ghost in the Chenghuang Temple, and I affirmed, "It must be possible."
Fang Zhongyu sighed: "My aunt is really cruel, knowing that my grandfather is not in good health, yet she still does this."
Lulu looked over and asked: "What happened next? How is your aunt?"
"My uncle divorced her. When the divorce happened, my aunt made trouble at the Civil Affairs Bureau. She also threw dirty water on my uncle, saying that our family was not good to her, and my uncle even beat her."
Fang Zhongyu raised his fist angrily: "But everyone who knows our family knows that my aunt cannot give birth. My grandfather has always wanted to have a grandchild, but he has never treated my aunt harshly. My uncle has never mentioned it, because he is afraid
She was so sad that she unexpectedly bit her back."
Lulu rolled her eyes: "Isn't this a white-eyed wolf?"
"Isn't it?"
I looked out the window and couldn't understand the adult world again. Uncle Lu chose to lie in order to have a child with Aunt Lu.
But Fang Zhongyu's grandfather's family is so rich and his fat aunt is so bad, and his family is also very kind to her.
The fat aunt was so blessed that she didn't know how to be blessed, and she even teamed up with Uncle Lu to harm Grandpa Duan.