Yatou and Tongtong usually eat slowly, but with their grandma coaxing them, they eat much faster.
After a while, the girl was the first to shout that she was full.
Xia Zekai looked carefully. It was a small bowl as big as a palm. The girl ate one bowl, which was her usual amount of food.
Tongtong had already eaten more than a bowl, and Luo Xiyun said to Liu Chunhua: "Mom, don't give her any more food. She can't digest so much food, and she will have to worry about it if she accumulates food at night."
Luo Yan's mother said: "It's okay. Children will grow taller if they eat more, and they will grow faster..."
Xia Zekai smiled and said nothing. The old man basically had good intentions, but he ignored the essential issue. How much appetite can a child have? After all, there are only a few weird ones.
It feels very quiet at night in the countryside, with only the chirping of insects and the barking of dogs, and I get up with the crowing of cocks in the morning.
When Xia Zekai got dressed and came out, he saw that his mother-in-law had gotten up and was cooking.
Maybe she heard the sound of the door opening. Liu Chunhua turned around and saw him and said, "Zekai, why don't you sleep more? It's hot in that room?"
"No, it's quite cool. I'm used to getting up early in the morning." Xia Zekai was talking to his mother-in-law.
When talking about what happened to them in Qicheng, Liu Chunhua was happy to hear the stories about Yatou and Tongtong's usual mischief. As for whether they studied well or not, that was not within her scope of consideration.
In Liu Chunhua's view, children should be at the age of play before they are five or six years old. Now, it is good, as they are sent to kindergarten early, and some who are over two years old are sent to nursery school.
She couldn't accept it and wanted to scold her: "You think about things differently now than we did at that time. I can't help you. If you and Xiyun have something to do, just discuss it. She has a straightforward temper and speaks quickly, but it's nothing."
Malice, Zekai, please give her a little more space."
Xia Zekai waved his hand: "Mom, you are still worried about this because she bullied me!"
"Hey, Zekai, you are a good boy!" Liu Chunhua lowered her head and put wood into the stove, and the big pot made a roar.
She said: "I killed a big rooster two days ago. Before I had time to eat it, I stewed it this morning."
Luo Xiyun also got up and heard the conversation outside. She felt sweet in her heart but said nothing.
Especially when her mother said that she was straight-tempered and could not speak her mind, she was very unhappy: "Mom, I heard you talking bad about me. Be careful that I won't buy you anything in the future."
Liu Chunhua ignored her and said, "Whether you want to buy it or not, I will treat you as my daughter."
"Haha!" Xia Zekai hid and laughed.
After finally coming back, after having breakfast at his mother-in-law's house, Xia Zekai drove the three of them with his mother-in-law to the next-door village, where Luo Xiyun's grandfather lived.
The old couple were both quite strong. When they saw their eldest granddaughter and her two great-granddaughters coming, the old man was very happy. He took out a handkerchief that looked a little yellow from the back room and counted two from it.
100, one for each person, must be given to Yatou and Tongtong.
The two of them had no idea about money and were not familiar with the grandfather, so they didn't dare to accept it.
Luo Xiyun blocked it: "Grandpa, please take the money back quickly. We are not here to ask for red envelopes."
Her grandmother said: "You kid, what's wrong with a hundred dollars? Hurry up and let them keep it."
In the end, I accepted the two hundred yuan.
After hearing the eldest granddaughter Luo Xiyun say that they would return to Qicheng at noon, the grandmother hurriedly went to cook, no matter how long it had just been after breakfast.
Liu Chunhua wanted to stop her: "Mom, don't bother, just let them eat something at my place at noon."
The old lady was still unhappy: "It's yours, so don't worry about it."
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At noon, after returning from Luo Xiyun's grandparents' house, Xia Zekai felt a little confused and lay down for an hour before starting to pack up and return.
When he was about to take something out, Xia Zekai's eyes widened.
During the hour he was sleeping, his mother-in-law had already tied several bags with various dishes in them.
There were two more boxes. Luo Xiyun said: "My mother just took out the chickens and fish from the refrigerator, sealed them with plastic bags, and put them in cardboard boxes."
"This..." Xia Zekai was dumbfounded and very moved.
It was exactly the same as his mother's behavior. She was afraid that they wouldn't be able to eat or drink well outside, and that they would spend money in many places outside. Every time they came back, they would stuff as much food and meat as they could into the car.
Xia Zekai also knew that they had bought this in advance.
Before leaving, Liu Chunhua was still wary of Xia Zekai and Luo Xiyun, saying: "Zekai, Xiyun, let me tell you two in advance, don't play the same trick on me again, I don't need your money.
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"Hehe!" Luo Xiyun smiled and said, "Mom, if you don't stay, you won't stay. I'll go to the toilet first and then leave!"
Xia Zekai took out 1,000 yuan and sent it to his mother-in-law: "Mom, this is for the grandparents. We won't give it to them. Please take the time to help send it to them."
If you give it in person, you will definitely be rejected, but the 200 yuan given to the two girls cannot be taken in vain.
Liu Chunhua wanted to say that she didn't need to give it to her, but seeing her son-in-law's straight eyes, she finally nodded and accepted it: "Okay, I'll give it to you."
Ten minutes later, they packed up and got into the car. Before leaving, the girl seemed to feel something. She turned back and looked at Liu Chunhua standing outside the car, and cried at that time: "Grandma, I want grandma, I won't leave."
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When she cried, her emotions aroused her, and Tongtong started crying too.
Outside the car window, Liu Chunhua, who was standing against the wall, burst into tears when she heard her granddaughter crying. She turned around and raised her hands to wipe her eyes, but she was afraid that she would miss her granddaughter, so she quickly turned her head away after wiping.
, tears fell from his eyes again.
Luo Xiyun was sitting in the back seat, and she also cried.
He was still shouting: "Zekai, go quickly, go quickly!"
Xia Zekai was deeply touched. The two figures standing at the door of Xiazhuang's hometown seemed to overlap with the old figure standing at the base of the wall. They were both parents!
Really old!
As the car drove out of the bumpy country road, Xia Zekai even joked: "I've been here for five or six years, and this road has never been repaired. Is it possible that you are still waiting for me to repair it?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? If you really want to repair it, just pay for it!" Just when Luo Xiyun was in a mood, he backed him up with just one sentence.
Xia Zekai wisely kept silent, and the car got on the highway after driving a few kilometers.
Luo Xiyun remembered something, and she said: "I almost forgot, I have to call my mother to tell her."
"What, where did you hide the money again?" Xia Zekai asked her with interest.
Leaving some money for the old man seems to be a game of wits and courage.
Give it in person and basically don’t accept it.
The old trick of hiding under the sheets on the bed, under the pillow, or in the quilt won't work anymore. In the moment before leaving, the old man will stare at you to death.
After Luo Xiyun called her mother, she said, "Mom, I pressed something on the beam at the door of our toilet. Please go and see if it's still there. Don't drop it in the toilet."
"You damn girl, you've learned how to play tricks on me, haven't you? I told you I don't want your money. Come back and take it away, or you won't come back again." Liu Chunhua knew it as soon as she heard this.
Her daughter left money again, so she opened her mouth and cursed.
This is my mother-in-law!
The Jiqing Expressway was not fast at all, but the Changshen Expressway was okay, with few cars and no speed limit. Xia Zekai just stepped on the accelerator and drove to 120. He felt that this was the feeling of driving.
Tongtong is a person who is not afraid of trouble. She kept shouting: "Dad, drive faster, drive faster!"
"Sit tight, if you jump around again, I'll beat you up. This time, you won't have your grandma to protect you." Xia Zekai scared her. This trick worked really well. The little chubby girl immediately stuck her head into her mother's arms.
Gone inside.
She also turned to look at her father from time to time, fearing that he would reach out and slap her.
After taking an hour to run the 100 kilometers on the Changshen Expressway, I turned onto the Jiqing Expressway and it was over. It was better to run at a slower pace. I don’t know what happened in front of me. From his point of view, it formed a line.
The long convoy of steel vehicles could not hold on any longer.
We waited for more than half an hour before the long line of cars in front started moving again.
When Xia Zekai slowly moved forward with the traffic, he realized that something happened in front of him.
A red car was inserted under the rear of a semi-trailer. There were a lot of glass fragments on the road, the shell of the car body, and a liquid mixed with water and oil scattered all over the ground.
There are also some dazzling reds.
Luo Xiyun quickly covered the eyes of the two girls and hugged their little heads, not daring to let them get up to look.
She also lowered her head and said, "Zekai, drive slower, we are not in a hurry to go home."
"It's okay, I know it!" Xia Zekai said.
He said inexplicably: "Daughter-in-law, after we go back and buy a house, we will change cars and get a Volvo to withstand collisions."
"Get out of here, why are you still thinking about bumping into me a few times to test the hardness?" Luo Xiyun started to scold him.
But having said that, it doesn’t matter if I get a new car, she likes it too!
After running for an hour and a half on a stretch of Jiqing Expressway that was less than 50 kilometers long, he clearly heard his wife exhale after getting off the expressway.
He smiled and asked, "Why, are you scared?"
"Nonsense, aren't you afraid? Look at how badly that car hit me. The roof of the car was flattened. How can I still be alive?"
This is true, but Xia Zekai took a special look just now. There was a lot of red liquid in the car, but the people were gone, so they must have been taken away.
At least two more unfortunate families were born in this world.
After eating a lot of meat at her parents' house, Luo Xiyun didn't want to cook anymore when she returned to Qicheng, and Xia Zekai didn't want to eat either. In the end, Xia Zekai went out and bought a watermelon, removed the seeds, and cut the watermelon into small pieces.
Use the juicer at home to puree the whole watermelon into pure watermelon juice, and that's it for dinner.
Not to mention, Yatou and Tongtong both like to drink.
Xia Zekai leaned back and sat on the sofa. He said, "Daughter-in-law, please take a look at the real estate when you have time. If there is an existing house, we will buy it."
