On the morning of May 3, it rained heavily in the sky.
Xu Hongping stayed in the living room, holding Li Feng and walking back and forth, saying: Feng'er is good, little boy is good, be good, be good...
Li Feng closed her eyes and said: Uh-huh-uh! !
"Mom, let me hug you." Shitou put the book on his hands and shouted:
Xu Hongping responded: "No need, Feng'er has already closed her eyes, she is going to sleep soon."
"Shitou, I just saw a joke. It's quite interesting." Tang Bo said with a smile:
Shitou replied: What a joke! It makes Dad laugh so hard!
Uncle Tang replied: It is not a joke, it is just a point of laughter brought out by one word.
Tang Bo continued: Let's talk about a student. He was taking a Chinese class. In class, the teacher asked everyone to write a composition. The title of this composition was "I have to eat."
After a while, the class time had passed, and the gentleman did not write a single word of the composition. There was a dull title written on the homework book - I want to eat.
After the gentleman walked home, he sat lazily at the table, took out the exercise book, and wrote two lines of words "I love to eat, but my mother won't cook for me".
At this time, he felt a little tight in his stomach.
So he let go and ran to the toilet.
Just at this time, his mother came back. His mother walked to the table and took a look at the homework book. It said that mother would not cook for me.
My mother immediately ran into the kitchen (the kitchen and the toilet are next to each other) and shouted: Son! What do you want to eat!
There was no reply from the gentleman.
Mom soaked the rice and shouted: Son, if you don’t want to eat, I will make porridge.
"Pfft~" The gentleman let out a series of farts.
Then, the shit was pulled out with a "pop" sound.
Everyone laughed and said: Haha...
Shitou asked: What happened next?
Uncle Tang continued: Later this gentleman yelled, "Eat, eat, eat, eat shit, I'm in the toilet!" After wiping his buttocks, he came out, sat down at the table and "taken a look", then quickly picked up an eraser and erased the word "no" from his homework book.
Shitou smiled and said: Interesting.
"I didn't expect that my husband could say such humorous words. My husband usually doesn't speak even a few words. Today I talked a lot about shit and piss, so you don't have to worry about dirtying your mouth." Xu Hongping called:
Uncle Tang then said: Yes! What I said just now is indeed a bit dirty and "hard to reach the level of elegance".
Xu Hongping said solemnly, "You are just a nerd."
"Dong dong dong" There was a knock on the door.
Shitou quickly stood up and trotted to the door.
As soon as he opened the door...
"Shitou, it's raining outside. Make way for me and let's go inside." Uncle Zhu got into the house and said:
Then, Sulan walked into the house with her umbrella.
Shitou shouted: Sister Sulan, you are here too.
Su Lan replied: Yes.
Shitou closed the door and shouted: Uncle, Sister Sulan, please put your rain gear on the bucket next to you.
Sulan shook her umbrella and said: The umbrella is full of water.
The stone replied: Just put it in the bucket.
Uncle Chu put away his coir raincoat and bamboo hat and asked: Shitou, what are you doing?
Shitou responded: My mother is coaxing the children, my father is reading, and Sister Erfeng is sewing insoles in the back room.
"Me! I'm just an idler." Shitou raised his hands and said with a wry smile:
Uncle Chu continued: I don’t think it looks like it!
"Ah! Except uncle, why are you bringing two bags?" Shitou said blankly:
Uncle Zhu was picking up the wet clothes and said: Today is two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, so I brought two rice dumplings here so that you can have a try.
Shitou argued: Unless the uncle is interested, it is raining heavily outside. You came here in the rain just to deliver rice dumplings to us. This is calling us...
"What! Shitou doesn't welcome us?" Uncle Zhu asked back:
Shitou replied: No, no, except for uncle and Sister Sulan, please sit in the back room.
Uncle Zhu lifted his feet and walked towards the back room step by step.
Sulan followed closely.
Xu Hongping saw Uncle Chu walking in and called out: Brother Chu, sit down quickly, sit down quickly.
The uncle said politely: "Sit down, sister-in-law."
Uncle Tang stood up and said with a smile: Except for eldest brother, rare guests, rare guests.
Sulan walked into the living room and called: Auntie.
Xu Hongping replied: Su Lan, sit down quickly.
Uncle Chu shouted: Sulan, this is Uncle Tang, come and see Uncle Tang.
Su Lan said politely: "Hello, Uncle Tang."
Uncle Tang smiled and said: OK, OK.
Shitou walked to the tea set, "poured the tea" and shouted: "Uncle, please drink tea."
Uncle Chu replied: "You put it on the table, I will drink it later."
He rummaged through the bag, took out a bunch of rice dumplings from the bag, and shouted: Brother Tang, sister-in-law, come here and try some.
Xu Hongping said: "Brother is too polite, just come if you come!" Go and do these things!
Uncle Zhu said: It's almost the Dragon Boat Festival, we made some rice dumplings, it happened to rain today, so I brought a few over.
Shitou held a cup of tea, stood next to Sulan, and called: Sister Sulan, have a cup of tea.
Su Lan took the tea, looked at the child in Xu Hongping's hand, and asked: Aunt, how old is this child?
Xu Hongping replied: Xiao Feng'er is still young, and today is not enough for two months.
Sulan said: Auntie, please give me a hug.
Xu Hongping replied: That's fine, I'll go over and get a rice dumpling to eat.
Sulan put down the tea cup, picked up the child, shook it, and whispered: "Baby, be good, baby, sleep well..."
Xu Hongping opened a rice dumpling and handed it to Uncle Tang.
Uncle Chu smiled and said: "Brother Tang and his wife are so loving that it is enviable."
"What kind of affection! He is just lazy and doesn't even want to eat." Xu Hongping said:
Uncle Chu continued: Brother Tang is not lazy, it’s because you are too diligent.
Xu Hongping argued: If I don’t help him, what else can I do? We are already an old couple, we can only help each other and live the rest of our lives in an ordinary way.
"The stone will follow." Xu Hongping held a rice dumpling and said:
Su Lan said: Aunt, the child is asleep, please put her on the bed!
Xu Hongping took a big mouthful of rice dumplings and replied: I was about to go in to cook, so I took it in.
"Sister-in-law, wait a minute! It's still so early, what are you going to cook?" Uncle Chu interrupted:
Xu Hongping said: You have walked a long way, and you should be hungry.
Uncle Chu said: Sister-in-law, there is no need to go to work. It is raining today. I came here today because I want to chat with you...
"Mom, I'm going to take two rice dumplings for Sister Erfeng to eat. Let me hold Xiaofeng'er!" Shitou called:
Shitou went over and took two rice dumplings and walked straight towards Sulan.
Xu Hongping shouted: Shitou, be careful, you may wake up the child.
Shitou grabbed the rice dumpling with one hand and hugged the child with the other.
Sulan shouted: Auntie, the stone is thick and the hands and feet are thick. Let me carry the child in!
Also, I have heard the name "Sister Erfeng" many times, but I have never met her. I knew it when I saw the words she embroidered on the handkerchief, which were so lifelike! Sister Erfeng is so skillful that I was lucky enough to come to my aunt's house today, so I can take this opportunity to give Sister Erfeng some advice.
Xu Hongping smiled and said: Sulan is modest, you spoke so well of Erfeng, I feel ashamed for her.
However, it would be nice for you to meet, as you young people have more interesting topics to talk about.
"Sulan, please be careful, you must hold the child firmly." Uncle Chu said:
Sulan responded: I understand.
Shitou took Sulan into the back room.
Uncle Chu asked: Sister-in-law, what was the name of the child just now?
Xu Hongping replied: Her name is Feng'er.
Uncle Zhu argued: I mean, her real name.
"Her real name is: Li Feng." Xu Hongping replied:
"Li Feng, isn't your daughter called Er Feng?" Uncle Chu continued:
Xu Hongping explained: The child's name was taken from Shitou. The name is Shitou's surname and Erfeng's first name...
"Yes, the child's name is indeed taken from the stone." Tang Bo called:
Uncle Chu smiled and said: If you don't tell me, I really don't understand. This name is quite innovative.
"There is one more thing, I don't know how to say it!" Uncle Chu said with a melancholy face:
Xu Hongping responded: Apart from uncle, what else can I do? You might as well say so.
Uncle Zhu thought for a moment and said: The matter is now at this point, I can't care about that much.
He waved and whispered: Come here, come here.
Xu Hongping and Tang Bo came over together.
Uncle Chu said softly: Brother Tang, sister-in-law, you may have noticed that my girl is in love with the stone...
"That's it." Xu Hongping interrupted:
Uncle Chu continued, "That's right!" When our daughter reaches this age, we, as her parents, should not interfere at all with her personal emotional matters.
But what she loves is stones.
Besides, I have a close relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Tang, and I don’t want to cut off our relationship over this matter.
Now, I abandon this old face and come here to ask you two to think of a solution...
"Except for brother, you can think like this! I am deeply gratified. We have already been aware of your lady's intentions towards Shitou, and Shitou is also well aware of it. The reason why Shitou did not go to pierce it is because, first, she took Su Su into consideration. Lan’s own face, and secondly, thinking about the relationship between our eldest brother and us..." Xu Hongping responded:
Uncle Chu called: Sister-in-law, please keep your voice down. Shitou and the others have been in for a while. If they come out, Su Lan hears this...
Xu Hongping said: Brother, don't worry, Sulan has gone in, she must be surrounding Erfeng.
Besides, it was raining heavily outside and she couldn't hear anything unless she was close!
"We'd better be careful." Uncle Chu replied:
Xu Hongping said: "Let's keep our voices down."
Uncle Tang shouted: "Brother, please sit down and let's sit down and chat."
Xu Hongping pulled up the stool and called, "Brother, please sit down."
Uncle Chu raised his hand slightly and said: Sister-in-law, you are welcome! You don't have to be busy, I'll just stand.
Xu Hongping argued: Except for the eldest brother, he has been at our house for so long and has never sat down.
Could it be! Are you afraid that we will charge you for bench fees?
Uncle Zhu continued: "My sister-in-law is joking."
Xu Hongping said: If you don’t sit down, how will we talk about things next?
"Okay, okay, I'll sit, I'll sit, if I don't sit down, my sister-in-law will scold me." Uncle Chu held the tea cup and sat down on the stool.
Xu Hongping responded: "I don't dare to scold you. Not to mention my sister-in-law, the neighbors will also accuse me. If they start arguing with me, each of them can drown me with a spit."
Except for the uncle who said, "Sister-in-law, don't pretend to be poor!" Let’s get down to business.
"I brought my daughter here today mainly because I want her to come and get to know Erfeng, so that she can see clearly the gap between herself and Erfeng, and let her retreat when faced with difficulties." Uncle Chu continued:
Xu Hongping thought for a while and muttered: Difficult, get rid of the big brother's idea - yes, it is also a good way...
"Listen to my sister-in-law, you have other ideas! Tell me and listen!" Uncle Zhu said:
Xu Hongping replied: My method is very simple, just let nature take its course.
Uncle Zhu took a sip of tea and called out: My sister-in-law’s method is not as good as mine...
"Except for brother, don't be anxious! This kind of thing is not about eating or drinking. It comes and goes quickly. It has to be done slowly." Xu Hongping continued:
Xu Hongping said: "Except for eldest brother, you are Sulan's father. What is Sulan's temper and character like!" I think you know very well that according to my observation of Su Lan, except for the method that the eldest brother thought of, if it is applied to Su Lan, it will probably not work.
"Hey! This girl really doesn't make people worry." Uncle Chu lowered his head, touched his forehead with one hand, and sighed:
Seeing that Uncle Chu was worried, Xu Hongping advised: Brother Chu, don't worry! As Brother Zhu said, as parents, we should not interfere with children's matters, especially emotional matters. We should not interfere, and we cannot interfere. We can only wait and see what happens and let nature take its course.
Uncle Zhu said: I don’t understand what my sister-in-law said!
It's just that I feel aggrieved.
I have been running around for half my life, and I only have one daughter. When I grow up, this happens, and you call me!
To be honest, Shi Shi is a hero, a true gentleman, and a good man who is one of the best in a hundred. Our couple also like him very much. I can say that I can't put it down.
However······
"Uncle, what are you talking about! Why are you looking so sad!" Shitou came back and shouted:
Uncle Chu turned his head and asked: Shitou, where is Sulan?
Shitou replied: Sister Sulan is still inside, and she is learning to sew handkerchiefs with Sister Erfeng.
"Oh!" Uncle Chu exhaled gently towards Xu Hongping.
Xu Hongping said: Shitou, please sit down! We are talking about you and Sulan.
Shitou pulled over a stool and said: Sister Sulan and I!
Uncle Chu called out: Since you know what Sulan thinks about you, why are you still with her?
Shitou hesitated and said: I want to reject her face to face.
But!
Xu Hongping replied: The stone is not to blame, we are helpless to do anything about it.
"Yes! We old people are at a loss what to do, let alone you!" Uncle Chu continued:
Shitou comforted him: "No need to worry except uncle!" Sister Sulan is kind-hearted and beautiful. In the future, there will be a better person than me to protect her and cherish her.
"But it recognizes you now." Uncle Chu replied:
Shitou called out: Shitou is not worthy. Shitou has Sister Erfeng and Xiaofeng'er.
Uncle Chu replied: When things have reached this point, we can only resign ourselves to fate...
