A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

This time, the two finally got along alone. Yang Ren asked Xu Yao a lot of questions, because he could no longer make up for his lack of hearing through mouth movements, so this chat made him particularly strenuous.As soon as Yang Ren spoke, he stretched his ears forward subconsciously, but he still couldn't understand when Yang Ren said it for the first time.

Yang Ren didn't mention the matter of eyesight first, he couldn't pass this hurdle in his heart.He just asked why Grandpa called Xu Aisu Xiao Ai, but not Aisu.

Xu Yao didn't hide it, telling him because his ex-wife's surname was Su.

In fact, with just this sentence, Yang Ren understood the general idea, and naturally he also knew the stubborn old man's attitude towards his ex-daughter-in-law.

Although Xu Yao's tone of voice became very strange, almost every word he said could be understood.Yang Ren asked a question, and Xu Yao answered a question. By asking questions like squeezing toothpaste, Yang Ren finally pieced together what happened to Xu Yao in the past ten years.

It should be said that Xu Yao's marriage failed very badly, because first of all, he didn't like the woman surnamed Su. It was the family's hard work to match them up, and his age was getting older, so they finally got together.At first, the two treated each other as guests, but slowly, the woman started to quarrel with him.After Xiao Ai was born, they quarreled even more fiercely.

(2)

In the end Xu Yao separated from that woman, and Yang Ren wondered if the woman surnamed Su abandoned the father and son because she found out that there was something wrong with Xiao Ai.But he couldn't ask such a question.

It was only later that Yang Ren found out that Xiao Ai's ears were really fine. He passed the neonatal audiometry test when he was just born, and because of Xu Yao's bad ears, Xu Yao's father paid great attention to this problem and took Xiao Ai many times. I went to the hospital for an examination, and there was no problem.

Finally, the Xu family father and son realized that Xiao Ai must have been stimulated.

Xu Yao and that woman always quarreled in front of Xiao Ai. Even though Xiao Ai was just a baby at that time, she was extremely sensitive. Whenever her parents quarreled, she would cry loudly.This is also one of the reasons why Grandpa Xiaoai hated that woman.

Yang Ren doesn't know how long the memories of her infancy can last, and she doesn't know if Xiao Ai can still remember the quarrel between her parents at that time, but she became silent and slow, which must have something to do with the shadow left in her heart at that time.

Xiao Ai looks so cute. Although she doesn't speak, her big eyes are always shining. The owner of such sharp eyes must be smart, so all Xu Yao can do is wait slowly until one day she feels safe enough Sometimes, Xiao Ai can call her father.

(3)

The stubborn old man had been suffering from a low-grade fever and fell asleep drowsily, so Yang Ren stayed to make dinner. Although Xu Yao didn't want Yang Ren to help, he had indeed become more and more powerless over the past few years.Even if he can skip meals, the elderly and children at home cannot go hungry.

Yang Ren opened the refrigerator door of Xu's family, and saw the familiar order of food stacking, as if he had returned to the steaming doctor's dormitory all of a sudden.

And the row of red coke cans on the refrigerator door made Yang Ren's heart flutter again. The old man said that his whole family didn't drink this stuff, but Xu Yao still put them in the order before.

Did Xu Yao know that they would definitely meet again?What would Xu Yao do if Yang Ren never came to the door again?

"Is it okay to eat hot pot?" Yang Ren asked him. Naturally, there is nothing to choose from when others help cook for his father and children. Xu Yao nodded and said yes.

Back then, Yang Ren didn't know how to cook at all, and the hot pot he came to Xu Yao's house every weekend was prepared by Xu Yao alone, but now, as a middle-aged man without a wife but with children, Yang Ren's independence is getting stronger and stronger. Clothes and cooking are no longer a problem. While preparing the ingredients for the hot pot, he cooked a bowl of plain noodles on a low heat.

Yang Ren can't stand any food with a special taste, such as coriander, but Xu Yao likes it very much. When eating hot pot in Xu Yao's small house, Yang Ren always asked Xu Yao to put the coriander powder away from him.

He saw coriander in the refrigerator and thought that Xu Yao loved it, so he endured the pungent smell and chopped it up and put it on a plate. This was the first time he had intimate contact with coriander.

Xu Yao's father used to take care of his son and granddaughter every day. Yang Ren asked him to rest on the bed for a while, and brought him the cooked noodles.

(4)

From preparing the hot pot ingredients to boiling the pot, Xu Yao didn't speak, he sat quietly in the living room, and only walked slowly towards the table when Yang Ren came to call him.When he was eating, his head was lowered abnormally, and his face almost touched the mouth of the bowl. Yang Ren didn't know if it had something to do with his unclear eyesight. He wanted to help, but he didn't know what to do.

Xu Yao took the chopsticks to pick up vegetables from the pot, but it didn't go smoothly. He often picked up nothing, and sometimes he managed to pick up something, and he would hold it in front of his eyes to have a look.This series of actions made Yang Ren uncomfortable. When he was a college student ten years ago, what Yang Ren looked forward to most every weekend was to have a small hot pot meal with Xu Yao, but now sitting at the table, Seeing Xu Yao's distressed and strenuous appearance made me feel very uncomfortable.

On four sides of a table, Yang Ren, Xu Yao and two children sat on each side.Just like playing mahjong, Yang Ren started to bring the colander over, waited for the soup in the pot to boil again, and began to put food into bowls for the two children and Xu Yao one by one.One pot is for him alone. After the left side is filled, the right side is filled, and finally the person on the opposite side has to be filled. Yang Ren is so busy that he doesn't eat much at all.Maybe in the future, he will never want to eat hot pot again.

In the evening, Yang Lian took his son home and bought two bottles of beer in the small supermarket downstairs.

As soon as he entered the house, Kang Xiaomeng came over and asked, "Where did you take your son to eat delicious food again?"

Yang Ren was changing his shoes. After hearing this, he looked at Kang Xiaomeng's face and thought for a while before saying, "I'm going to Xu Yao's house."

Hearing this name, another expression appeared on Kang Xiaomeng's face.

Yang Ren raised the beer bottle in his hand: "Would you like to drink two glasses together?"

Kang Xiaomeng didn't speak, and moved away to let Yang Ren into the bedroom. That night, no one knew exactly what they talked about.

The author has something to say:

It's embarrassing to accidentally spoil it. After writing so many chapters, I often call Yang Ren's name as Xiong Le. . .I'm afraid to write the same paragraph, it's so boring