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It was very sudden that Liu Hai decided to come back, and the money in his hand was tight, so in a hurry, he only bought gifts for a few little guys, and they were all very common and practical things, but even so, the little guys were still happy up.

The little fat man took that set of brightly colored educational toys as beautiful stone eggs, and smashed them loudly. After smashing enough, he threw the high one in his hand, with an accompaniment in his mouth: " Woo-boom-yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

The little fat man completely ignored the educational function of the toy, and used it to exercise his physical fitness first.

Liu Yun and Liu Lei wore beautiful half-height snow-proof boots and jumped in line on the kang: "Boom, boom, boom, boom, fifth uncle, you lie down and let us go over, we are wearing new Huaquaga shoes to fight!" Electric ram!"

Liu Ling woke up with a start, hugged Liu Yun who was leading the way, and turned him around: "Uncle Wu can't hit the baby on his stomach, you two should fight around the table."

The two little electric rammers obediently surrounded the Kang table, continued to "thump" and jumped forward vigorously.

During the two days when the two were preparing for the kindergarten in Liu Xia’s unit during the summer vacation, the hydrology team dug the foundation and prepared to build a coal shed. In those two days, the electric ramming happened to smash the foundation. The two went to see it a few times, and developed Such a game project.

Liu Xin put on her new boots, ran over and sat beside Liu Xia, then lay back, her legs raised straight in the air: "Uncle, look."

Liu Xia patted his leg: "Boy, it's useless to show my uncle. We don't sell such foreign-looking things here. After my uncle has seen it, I have no place to buy it for you."

Liu Xin chuckled: "It's not uncle, I'm asking you to take a look. These shoes are as beautiful as the sneakers you bought me. I can wait to see them. It's also beautiful for me, Brother Liu An, to buy some for my children. I Now a person has several pairs of such beautiful shoes, and the children in our village are all envious of me."

The cat said: "You will have a baby when you see it. If my uncle is busy in the future and your shoes are too small, tell my brother and I will buy them for you."

What Liu Xin often wears now is the sneakers that Maoer just bought for him not long ago.

The sneakers that Liu Xia and Maoer bought for Liu Xin in the summer are already too small, and they are a little too tight. The last time Maoer came back with Liu Chuan and Liu Wei, he saw them and didn’t make a sound. They also sold leather sneakers, so I bought four pairs at once, two pairs for Liu Xin, one pair for each of Liu Yun and Liu Lei.

When they brought back Liu Xin's new shoes in summer, the two little cowards snatched a pair, each wore one, and ran away like a boat, but the two of them still had a great time playing. He regretted not buying them for the two little cowards, but it was not worthwhile to go to Yuancheng for two pairs of shoes, and he was not willing to let Liu Xia spend more money, so he just let it go. Xia was not at home, so Maoer bought it with the money he saved on weekdays. He felt that this would not add a greater burden to Liu Xia.

Liu Xin took off the boots and handed them to Liu Wei: "Brother, put them away for me first, and wear them next year. Uncle, Brother Liu An, my uncle said, he will buy me any shoes I want to wear in the future, Xiaoyun You don't care about Xiaolei after that, my uncle will take care of it, you should save more money in the future, it's time for my uncle to save money and prepare to marry a wife."

Liu Xia continued to hang around the cat, pinching his earlobes and playing: "Don't say that uncle has no plans to marry a wife, even if he really plans to marry, he doesn't expect to buy you these few pairs of shoes.

Brother, don't teach your children these things all day long. They will make them think that when my uncles get married and marry a wife, they are like outsiders, and they shouldn't even buy them a pair of shoes. "

Liu Kui tapped the walnut with the pliers and said, "Boy, it's not an outsider. You have grown up and should have your own affairs. You can't spend all your money on them."

Liu Xia said: "I earn hundreds of dollars a month, how much is it to buy a few pairs of shoes for my children?"

Liu Ling said: "Oh——Brother, according to you, you should have your own family after you married your sister-in-law. You must have a lot of things on your own. Why didn't you ask to separate and live on your own? What are you doing with me all day long?

Even after the land is distributed to individuals, if you don't care about me, going out to do something with your sister-in-law is much better than staying here with us, why don't you go out? "

Liu Kui said with a smile: "Boy, can it be the same? Big brother is the boss. Before you grow up and take care of yourself, big brother can leave you to our uncle and mother and go out by yourself?"

Liu Xia said: "That's right! Then, before our child grows up to take care of himself, my uncles will have jobs and earn money, and I can leave the child to you. I take care of you." Saving money to marry a wife?"

Everyone in the room laughed, and Liu Chuan said Liu Kui: "Brother, don't quarrel with Yao'er and the others, you can't beat them; how many times have I told them, besides food, what good things should I buy for these two bastards?" It’s all a waste of money, Yao’er and Mao’er don’t listen, they have to buy them anything good they see, kitten fishing, building blocks, plastic inserts, puzzles, cars, whatever is rare, buy them anything, talk about these things It can exercise thinking and develop imagination, but look, is it good to have the same thing on them now?"

Liu Yun and Liu Lei stopped playing the electric ram, and said together: "Yes, my brother bought me a volleyball that is not bad, and it is still round!"

The basketball Liu Xia bought for the two of them died within a few days after sending it back. Liu Yun’s little hand was also injured because of it, because Liu Lei was curious about what magical things were inside the basketball, such a big heavy ball, Actually, the harder you shoot, the higher you jump.

The two little things conspired, secretly took Liu Changqing's two carving knives and a chisel, hid in the firewood cave to dissect the basketball, and finally cut off a piece of flesh on Liu Yun's left index finger, almost to the bone.

It was the first time that Liu Lei was spanked by his uncle, he was so wronged that he wanted to die, he cried so much that he didn't even eat the fried old dragon, no one could coax him, and in the end Liu Kui, who regretted it after the beating, took Liu Lei After Yun came back from the health center, he carried him to his own room alone, peeled off the old dragon and fed him, and slept with him in his arms for two days at night before the little guy recovered.

For Liu Kui, it was just a necessary punishment for a child who was too naughty, but for the little guy, being spanked by his most trusted and favorite uncle may be a catastrophe.

The gentleness after punishment can help the little one not fall into the fearful fantasy of being rejected or even abandoned by his relatives after he realizes his mistake.

After hearing what Liu Wei said, Mao'er bought a volleyball and two flower balls, and asked Liu Chuan to bring them back.

The two now often play volleyball with Liu Xin and Nana in the yard as football, but Huapiqiu has long since disappeared.

Su Xiaohui nodded: "If the volleyball is gone, then you two should not be slapped on the buttocks, but should be served by broom bumps."

Nana said earnestly: "Third aunt, uncle said you can't hit the baby if you lose something. The baby didn't throw it on purpose. They are still young and can't take care of the luggage."

Liu Yun jumped into Mao'er's arms, and made a face at him: "Brother, how are you, don't hit Xiaolei and us."

Mao'er put his arms around him and wandered with Liu Xia: "Well, you don't need to slap him, but use a branch."

Liu Xia squeezed Mao'er's face: "Scumbag, don't you see that the two of them will feel weak if they don't fix it?"

Liu Hai didn't bring any fashionable French products to the adults at home.

The two places have different races and skin colors, and the living standards are very different. The concept of consumption is also very different. France's world-leading fashion and expensive cosmetics are not affordable for a poor foreign student like Liu Hai. Well, even if Liu Hai had the money to buy those things, the Liu family really wouldn't be able to wear them.

Liu Hai, who grew up in a poor life, is very good at bargaining. The price of a decent piece of clothing in France can be converted into RMB, and you can buy a lot of clothes in China. He brought back German marks and US dollars. People exchanged it into RMB for him at an unbelievable speed. As a result... the things he and Liu Ling bought for several elders were duplicated - they were all down jackets and a women's tuanhua Tang suit.

Sun Chang'e took the big red flowered padded jacket that Liu Hai bought for her, and sighed distressedly: "My child, our family now sells cloth by itself, and your sister-in-law made a lot of clothes for me, and I can't wear them all. Your third elder brother and third sister-in-law bought clothes for your uncle and me, but your uncle didn't call me.

This piece of clothing costs hundreds of dollars. Your uncle, your uncle, and your eldest brother are running outside all day long, and there are two pieces of clothes for a change of clothes. I don’t do anything at home all day. What are you doing with your clothes? "

Liu Ling just laughed and didn't speak. The one he bought for Sun Chang'e was maroon, and it was the same brand as Liu Hai, but the color was different.

Liu Hai took the clothes from Chang'e Sun and put them on her with a smile: "You have cooked and washed clothes for so many people all your life, and you are more panicked than anyone else. If I don't buy them for you, who will buy them for you?"

Mao'er and Liu Xia exchanged a knowing look, and Mao'er said, "Grandma, don't feel bad, if it wasn't for the snow on the day my uncle and I came back from Shangcheng County, we couldn't go to Yuancheng, my brother-in-law planned to go too." I’ll buy you a down jacket, my uncle also wants to buy one of these old landlord’s clothes for my great-grandfather and you both, and tell you to experience the joy of being a local mistress!”

The whole family laughed, and Liu Changqing smiled and said to Sun Chang'e: "No wonder the children want to buy you this kind of clothes. It's so good to wear. It's very festive. Wear it, just like the landlady in the movie."

Liu Changqing's words were tantamount to complimenting Liu Hai's foresight in a disguised form. Liu Haite buttoned Sun Chang'e and said, "Mom, it's really pretty. You can wear this when we take a photo tomorrow."

Liu Yun and Liu Lei have stayed at home for more than three years. They are used to going to bed early and getting up early. Now they go to bed almost two hours later than their usual time. The two of them have had enough tossing around. She began to talk about it, but refused to sleep, Liu Yun leaned against the cat's arms, and commented in a daze: "Grandma, you are wearing this flower...clothes...look, look... ...Like...a beautiful daughter-in-law." After finishing speaking, she closed her eyes and snored a little.

Liu Lei, who was in the same state as his brother, emphasized it again before falling asleep: "That's right, grandma... is like... Hua's daughter-in-law, don't call... don't call... for Xiaoyun... we two...Hua quack Shoes...take off..."

Liu Hai happily hugged Sun Chang'e and laughed: "Mom, did you hear what the child said? He said that you are like a beautiful daughter-in-law, a beautiful daughter-in-law, mother, when children say beautiful daughter-in-law, it means good-looking and beautiful. Doesn't it? It proves that I have a good eye, doesn't it?"

Liu Changqing touched Chang'e Sun's sleeve: "When your mother was really a beautiful daughter-in-law, I couldn't make her wear such good clothes. She had to suffer with me when she was young."

Sun Chang'e pushed Liu Hai's face and pulled him away: "Climb aside, you dare to laugh at your mother, Xiaoling, screw him up for me."

Liu Ling leaned over with a smile, twisted the flesh on Liu Hai's cheek, and turned half a circle: "Mom, look, is this twisting right? If it doesn't hit, I'll twist it in a different way. There are one hundred and eight ways of twisting." It's up to you to choose."

Liu Hai held his face and yelled: "Oh, fifth brother, don't dare to twist it, it hurts so much!" Everyone in the room looked at him and laughed.

Sun Chang'e stretched out her hand to hit Liu Ling: "Little turtle, you are so obedient and kind, but why have you become such a naughty grandson after serving as a soldier for two years? Who are you learning from?"

Liu Chuan patted Liu Lei, who was soundly asleep, and said, "Who else can I be with? Zhenbei, Zhenbei looks like a grown-up when he's doing business, but he's very naive in private, Xiaoling spends time with him It’s grown up, if you don’t learn from Lipi, you won’t be at a disadvantage in your mouth?”

Liu Ling let go of her hand, rubbed Liu Hai's face playfully, came back and sat down by the window sill: "Oh, to carry out the commander's order to the letter, and to be able to formulate various tactics flexibly according to the specific situation, how can you still do it?" No, it's really hard to be a human!"

Liu Xia nodded to Liu Ling: "Fifth brother, third brother is right, you are really just like Brother Zhenbei, you are getting more and more skinny in your studies."

Sun Chang'e took off her clothes and folded them slowly, and said to Liu Changqing: "How can there be such a comparison? When we got married, the clothes I wore were better than those of the beautiful daughters-in-law in our village all these years later."

Xiumei and Yufang were burying the steamed sweet potatoes in the ashes together, and said, "That's right, I am too. Even now, some people in our village say that I look good in that red flower dress when I get married, but go out Looking at the clothes my daughters are wearing now, I feel that they were so old-fashioned in those days!"

Yufang said: "A few years ago, during the Chinese New Year, my sister-in-law and my uncle went back to Sunjia Village. Although my sister-in-law didn't wear the best clothes, I still envied her. I thought my sister-in-law was the happiest and the most beautiful."

Liu Ling said: "Sister-in-law, you will be blessed in the future. You will have a beautiful life. If you marry a man from my family, as long as you don't pursue any superior glory and wealth, you will have a good life. My fourth brother will definitely not be happy in his life." I will beat you and scold you."

Su Xiaohui took the sleeping Liu Yun away from the cat's arms, and said to Liu Ling, Liu Hai, and Liu Xia: "Yes, I think so too, but I still think our mother is the happiest, not only because my uncle treats us well. Hello mother, I won’t let her be beaten for the rest of my life, and because of you, you are so upbeat, my uncle and mother feel at ease every day, that is the real blessing.”

Xiaohui's parents are now very angry because of her younger brother Su Xiaozhi's marriage, which makes her feel that these younger brothers from her husband's family are really good and rare.

Xiumei said: "Xiaoling, Xiaohai, Yao'er, you all should hurry up and fall in love and get married. Once you get married, there will be a few more lucky women in this world. Hey, Xiaohai, don't you Will you bring me back a foreign girl with deep sockets and blue eyes?"

"Ah!?" Liu Hai blinked.

Everyone saw something unusual in Liu Hai's reaction, and all stared at him.

Liu Xia asked in disbelief: "Sixth Brother, you, you are not really dating French Nier, are you? I heard that all Caucasians have that smell, aren't you afraid of discomfort?"

Liu Hai pretended to be nonchalant: "No, where did that happen? My fifth brother is not married yet, why should I panic?"

But it was too late, everyone felt that Liu Hai's reaction just now was very suspicious, Liu Rui came over and squeezed beside Liu Hai: "Six uncles and six uncles, please tell me, isn't French Nier beautiful with long miles? Did you talk about it? "

Liu Wei sat dangling on the edge of the kang with Liu Xin behind her back, and booed: "That's right, Uncle Six, I used to read about it in magazines, but now someone in our family talks about this kind of cross-border love, tell me to listen to it. "

Liu Hai laughed and scratched his head: "Well, I'm not talking about it formally, just, just... I think she's interested in me, hehe, I'm afraid our family won't welcome her, so I just pretend not to know."

Unexpectedly, the whole family looked at Liu Hai with quiet smiles, waiting for him to explain honestly.

Liu Hai is helpless: "Her English name is Laura, and her Chinese name is Yu Danqiu. Her great-grandfather was sent to France to work in France during World War I. Her great-grandmother and grandma are both German, and her mother is American." Chinese, so she has three-eighths of German descent.

Her grandfather was an officer of the Kuomintang, and went to Taiwan during the liberation, and later went to the United States. Her father met and married her mother when she was studying in the United States. Dan Qiu is a German citizen, and their family now lives in Germany. "

The whole family was stunned, so complicated?

Liu Hai scratched his head: "I don't know what to say, the things in her family before sound complicated to us, but in fact it's normal in Europe and the United States, and their going abroad is different from our country, but it's easy, especially between European countries. , It’s almost the same as our province and that province, so it’s not uncommon for parents to be from different countries.

Although Danqiu is of German nationality, she has relatively little German blood in her body. She is almost completely Chinese. "

The whole family exchanged glances with each other, and they all breathed a sigh of relief: If Liu Hai led back a girl with a high nose and deep blue eyes, they might not be able to get used to it for a while.

After Liu Hai finished speaking, Liu Chuan asked him: "You're going to say, it's just that this girl named Dan Qiuli is interesting to you? Don't you have any ideas?"

He specially emphasized the tone of the word "a little".

Liu Hai blinked at Liu Chuan, trying to appear innocent.

Everyone looked at Liu Chuan in admiration: The detective's feeling is different. Liu Hai's appearance is obviously not honest enough to explain the problem thoroughly.

Liu Wei, Liu Rui, and Mao'er ran against Liu Hai together: "Uncle Liu, just pour it out honestly, what's the use of whining? Anyway, my third uncle is here, and you will be punished if you tell nonsense." If you expose it, you won’t be able to spare a single word in the end.”

Seeing Liu Changqing and Sun Chang'e, Liu Hai felt guilty.

Liu Changqing said: "Tell me, baby, haven't you already said everything, she is actually a Chinese, isn't it because her ancestors were left in a foreign country for some special reason, it's nothing, there were many such things before.

Before liberation, when people couldn't survive, they fled famine and begged for food. Wherever they went, they were killed if they could survive. It didn't matter too much. When the central plains were hit by disasters in the 40s, how many people escaped?Now if you go to several provinces in the west, you can meet fellow villagers even if you move a little. "

Liu Hai patted Liu Changqing's shoulder and smiled: "Uncle, I knew that you are the best, hehe.

Well, third brother, in fact, she has been chasing me. I wrote to my fifth brother that she was going to play in Marseilles, but someone snatched her bag in the street. I also... went to Marseilles to play in the street I was doing a portrait for someone, and when I heard her yelling, I just... cough cough, fourth brother, I'm a little thirsty. "Liu Hai caught Liu Ling's seemingly indifferent but warning gaze, and hurriedly stopped.

He was actually very careful, but he was really happy when he got home, and he was completely relaxed in front of his family, so he forgot the secret he had been carefully guarding.

Liu Yu took the bowl of water from Xiumei and gave it to Liu Hai, and Liu Ling took the conversation and spoke for Liu Hai.

Before going abroad, Liu Hai crammed a few months of French. At that time, he felt that his level was already very good, but after he arrived in France, he found that the slowed-down standard French of the cram school teachers was completely different from the slang-speaking French of their school professors. , often after a class, except for those professional vocabulary and fixed personal titles that he memorized, he couldn't understand a few syllables at all.

But Liu Hai didn't want to waste time on the preparatory school, he wanted to finish his studies and return to China early.

Once, at a gathering of Chinese students from several nearby universities, a senior who came to France two years earlier than Liu Hai said that there used to be an international student like Liu Hai who had poor French and didn’t want to go to a French school. He didn’t make progress, and in a fit of anger, that person bought a train ticket to a city far away from Paris during his vacation, and then spent a month walking back on foot. Along the way, he had to ask for directions, enter restaurants, and stay. All had to be in French. He used this method to force himself to listen and speak. When he came back, he could speak fluent French.

Therefore, Liu Hai bought a train ticket to Marseille as soon as the summer vacation was over. Marseille was the city he had heard about the most before going to France, except Paris.

Liu Hai plucked up the courage to make portraits on the streets of Marseille, forcing himself to communicate with ordinary French people, and at the same time, he wanted to earn some money.

But at noon on the third day, he encountered Yu Danqiu being robbed. A Chinese who was doing business in Marseilles witnessed the whole process of Liu Hai’s act of righteousness. Gangsters and street hooligans were very rampant, and the police basically did nothing. He helped Yu Danqiu get back his bag and gave the black man his feet. Liu Hai didn't stop for a while, and left quickly.

Liu Hai bought a train ticket back to Paris at that time, and he met Yu Danqiu again on the train, and later he knew that Yu Danqiu had been following him from the time he took a taxi to the train station, and she fell in love with Liu Hai at first sight.

After Liu Hai returned to Paris, he began to do portraits on the street. His customer for the first three days was Yu Danqiu alone. Full body, half body, front, side, face close-ups, various poses, clothing, hairstyles, Liu Hai I drew dozens of portraits of Yu Danqiu, even remembering the freckles on her face.

Yu Danqiu can speak Chinese, English, German and French fluently. This passionate and persistent girl taught Liu Hai French in this way, and Liu Hai also firmly remembered her.

After the summer vacation, Yu Danqiu entered the Mechanical Engineering School of a junior college not far from Liuhai School, and then began to pursue Liuhai openly.

Liu Hai had always thought that girls living in developed capitalist countries should be selfish, willful, vain and coquettish, and it was absolutely impossible for their family to marry such a girl, but later found out that this was not the case at all.

The foreign girls around him may be selfish, willful, and vanity, but none of them are squeamish, and all of them are independent and tough, and Yu Danqiu is the same.

Yu Danqiu's parents only paid her tuition fees, and she earned her own living expenses as a nanny. She picked up the children for a single mother every afternoon, took care of the two children one day a week, and worked as an interpreter in her spare time.

Yu Danqiu can play the piano, the violin, and cook simple Western and Chinese food. Liu Hai's only formal dress was washed very neatly by her...

Liu Ling narrated the communication process between Liu Hai and Yu Danqiu in a simple and clear way. The dangerous experience in Marseille was easily described by him as similar to that of the bum on Wangning Street who took a few taels of melon seeds from others. the behavior of.

The unavoidable descriptions of Liu Hai’s life are all beautified by him to the greatest extent. For example, making money from street portraits is said by him as the highest state of foreign artists’ pursuit of creative freedom and romance. Otherwise, it is not enough to reflect the artist’s uniqueness.

Finally, Liu Ling said: "Yu Danqiu told Xiaohai that according to the tradition of her grandma's family, regardless of gender, she has to choose a highly technical major during college, but if the family needs it after marriage, women can give up their jobs and concentrate on love." Husband and son."

Liu Changqing nodded: "Her family has a good tradition. There is no certainty in the way of the world. There is a solid skill at your side, and you can earn a living at any time. A good skill is the foundation for your life."

Mao'er turned her head and said quietly to Liu Xia: "I will learn the best technique in the future, and I can earn a lot of money. I tell you to do nothing, and let the family concentrate on eating well."

Liu Xia's chin lightly rubbed against his forehead: "Big cat."

Liu Ling tugged Liu Xia's ears to make him sit up straight, indicating that his father was talking, and the two of them paused.

Liu Changqing continued: "There is no need to give up work for the sake of husband and son. Your mother and I are both in good health. It should be fine to give you a few miles. The children can see that they can go to school. Maybe we can give Xiaowei and Xiaowei Rui and Mao'er are all very careless."

Liu Xin climbed up from Liu Wei's back to Liu Changqing's side: "Grandpa, there is still me, grandma, you two don't care about me?"

Liu Changqing smiled and pulled Liu Xin into his arms: "Don't worry, grandpa doesn't care who my little Xin is in charge of? Don't grandparents look at my child every day now!

Come on baby, grandpa is in your arms, go to sleep, grandpa has something to say to your fifth uncle. "

Liu Xin lay comfortably in Liu Changqing's arms, but did not sleep, holding Liu Wei's hand to play.

Liu Changqing patted Liu Xin lightly, and said to Liu Ling: "Xiao Ling, I understand what you are going to say. This girl is called Dan Qiuli. She is a good person, good tutor, and good for Xiao Hai; Xiao Hai herself I wish this girl, you have already passed the test for Xiao Hai, right?

Let me say something to Xiao Hai now: Xiao Hai, as long as you feel that you are right, and that your mother and I have no objection among that girl, I will meet you when you bring her back, but—”

He looked at Liu Ling: "Xiao Ling, when you talked about Xiao Hai's affairs, you were very clear. Xiao Hai is two years younger than you, and he has already found a good girlfriend, what are you doing?"