Mr. Prodigal is throwing something

Crazy enough, Li Ta took Cen Yu to have lunch, there is a noodle shop in the village.

It is said to be a noodle shop, but it is actually a small workshop of its own. It has no fixed business hours, and when someone has noodles, it is not expensive. It is [-]% of the price of noodle restaurants in town.

"His family only sells water noodles. When I was a child, I went to school and passed by here every day. I was so greedy, but I couldn't eat it very much at that time. Every time I ate it, I ate it for a month or two..."

As for the noodles, one bowl per person. The ones at home today are young people. Li He doesn’t eat noodles in the store very much, and he has been away for more than a year. Chattering next to him, asking which family's son-in-law it is...

The two avoided it, quickly ate some noodles and fled.

When passing by the tea card room of the shop owner's house, he met Li Shouxin playing cards in the yard.

The poor people here can only spend extravagant entertainment during the Chinese New Year. They don't gamble, but gamble with Mai Rener.

The person sitting next to him whispered to Li Shouxin and pointed to the car in the "parking lot".

However, Li Shouxin just glanced at it and didn't say anything else.

Li Ta took Cen Yu to his elementary school, which was in the next village, and he walked out of the village for more than half an hour.

Cen Teng originally planned to drive there, because Li Shouxin was in the courtyard, and Li Shouxin didn't want to pick up the car, so the two walked there.

There was no one on duty in the school, the short iron gate was locked tightly, and a few words were engraved on a wooden board on the top: xx village primary school, the golden paint is about to fall off.

Looking in through the iron gate, one can see the end of the playground at a glance. The playground is covered with snow, which has melted a little, and muddy ground is exposed here and there.

There are only three floors, the first floor is for grades one, two and three, the second floor is for grades four, five and six, and the third floor is just one room, which is the teacher's office.

There are less than ten teachers, after all, there are only six classes in the whole school.

"It's nothing compared to the schools in the city," Li Tata held the iron gate with both hands and looked inside, mockingly said to himself, "Winter vacation is okay, if summer vacation comes, the first thing to do when school starts is not to distribute new books, but to shovel the playground. The weeds can grow as tall as a baby in two months."

Cen Teng laughed when he heard it, but couldn't stop laughing—there is no kindergarten here, and the children stay at home until they are six years old, and go directly to the first grade, including Li Zhenru.

"Daughter, is she in the first grade?"

Li nodded, "Yeah."

"But..." Cen Yan took a deep breath and said, "She needs to go to a special school for children, the kind specially set up for deaf-mute children. She is studying in an ordinary primary school. It's useless and a waste of time."

Li He nodded: "I think... Is it okay to bring her to Xi'an after the summer vacation next semester and let her go back to the first grade?"

Cen Yan asked with a smile: "Yes, why not? You still have to ask me?"

"I'm afraid you will find it troublesome. She sees everything as if she is in a fog. She can't help you in life. I have to take care of her."

Cen Teng smiled and pinched Li Ta's waist: "I don't care, it's good that I can't see it, and there are some things that I can't let her see."

Li he was talking about serious business, he turned his head and gave Cen Teng a look.

Unable to enter the school, Li took Cen Yu to walk around the school. There were children firing and throwing cannons nearby, and they heard bangs and bangs from time to time.

The village primary school can also be regarded as a village where people live together. There are often dogs barking, women calling their children, and motorcycles honking in the distance.

"When I was studying, I was envious of those students who were close to the school. They could go home to eat, but after a while I was envious, and I still felt that it was better to eat at school. The school can eat rice, [-] cents a bowl, which can be covered with beef brisket and stewed. Potato cubes. There is no beef brisket in it, but there is beef brisket juice, which is very thick, and the bibimbap is delicious..."

Cen Teng listened quietly to Li Tata, without interrupting himself, he would bump into people occasionally when he came and went, and he didn't dare to hold Li Tata's hand, so he could only bump Li Tata's elbow from time to time to let Li Tata know that he was there. listen.

"We only have three subjects, Chinese in the morning, math in the afternoon, no English, and physical education once a week. The head teacher of the first and second grades is an old teacher with gray hair. He retired after teaching us. He is from this village. He passed away a few years ago, and I went to visit the tomb on Ching Ming Festival.

"The third grade has a new head teacher. He is very young. I heard that he is a teacher transferred here from the city. He teaches us mathematics in the third and fourth grades, and teaches us Chinese in the fifth and sixth grades. He is also a physical education teacher. He seems to be married. It should be now, I Do the math, I'm in my 30s, and I seem to be teaching in the town..."

As he listened, Cen Teng imagined that Li Ta at that time was also like the kids playing firecrackers nearby, covered in mud, with snot hanging from his nose when he went to clubs.

Cen also tried to imagine the gray-haired old teacher, the young math teacher who taught physical education... Cen suddenly thanked them, even Huniu's family, and even people he didn't know in the village...

The environment they formed is the hometown that he is familiar with and nostalgic for, and it is a place that brings him bitterness but joy.

The Chinese countryside is really a magical place, poor, difficult, backward, and conservative, but there are always laughter and laughter on the rural land, and the smiles on the rough faces are always bright.

Li talked all afternoon, and the two of them walked aimlessly all afternoon. At five or six o'clock, they finally walked back home.

Chen Qiushuang had already brought her grandmother and daughter home, and was preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Li he sat under the stove to light the fire, pulled Cen Yu to the side to warm the fire, taught Cen how to light the fire, and then stood up to help Chen Qiushuang wash and chop vegetables.

The family bought meat, and even bought snacks such as melon seeds and crisp candies. Li didn't mention the donation, and just watched the family's situation gradually improve. That's all there is to do.

Li Shouxin came home in the middle of the New Year's Eve dinner, took a jug of wine, and took a taxi in the village - he didn't open the bottle of famous wine that Cen Yan bought.

The Li family's New Year's Eve dinner was simple, with the dim electric lights on, Chen Qiushuang added a bench for Cen Yu and Li He to sit in front of the kang.

The whole family gathered around Kang for the New Year's Eve dinner, and both Cen Dian and Li Ta were a little embarrassed.

Chen Qiushuang poured wine for Cen Yu, and said with a smile: "That little brother, this morning, at the aunt's house next door, don't mind, that girl Hu Niu is like this, lively and lively, she is actually a Good girl, she is also studying in Xi'an, our family is not good enough for her in Xi'an, you..."

"Auntie," Cen Yan hurriedly drank the glass of wine in front of him. It was strong and spicy, and it was sorghum wine brewed by the farmers themselves.

"I didn't take it seriously, I have a partner."

"Oh..." Chen Qiushuang smiled awkwardly, "That's right, let me just say, you are such a good-looking talent, it's strange if you don't have a partner."

Li Shouxin didn't want to see women acting as matchmakers everywhere, so he snorted: "Your children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so what are you worrying about? You can forget about your own family, and worry about outsiders?"

Cen Teng thumped in his heart, an outsider... well, he is indeed an outsider, but his mood still inevitably became depressed - Li Shouxin didn't like him, even if he was Li's friend, he was also an outsider.

Li immediately saw Cen Teng's loss, he said, "Cen Teng is not an outsider."

Chen Qiushuang hurriedly smoothed things over: "Yes, yes, you're not an outsider. You don't rely on others' help when you are outside, so you can have today?"

Nannan couldn't see clearly, so she picked up a piece of ginger and ate it, it was so spicy that she gasped, and she also said: "Brother Cen is not an outsider, I like brother Cen."

Li Shouxin spat out a bone, "That's right, without the help of others, he wouldn't be able to achieve what he is today, and even drove back to show off."

Li Ta didn't say a word, and there was silence on the table.

Cen Teng has a violent temper, he doesn't like others to look down on Li him, and Li's old man is not good either, so he couldn't help but say: "Uncle, I didn't help him much, it's because he is willing to suffer..."

Li He took Cen Yu's hand under the table, signaling him not to speak.

At this time, grandma smiled and said: "Xiao Cen is right, we are able to endure hardships in the west."

After the old man said something, Li Shouxin couldn't say it anymore, so Chen Qiushuang hurriedly changed the subject, but the words were still the same.

He just asked Cen Dian if his partner was from the city, how old he was, and when he planned to get married, and told Li Ta: In the future, Cen Dian will have to pack a big red envelope when he gets married!

Cen Teng clenched his fists tightly, and he is a person who does not consider the consequences of doing things, Li Tatar is really afraid that he will say something unscrupulously, so he said it now.

Chen Qiushuang chattered endlessly, and after talking about Cen Yan, the topic naturally changed to Li him: "Go to the west, you are not much younger than Xiao Cen, while you are young, you can also try to find a girl to hang out with, mainly It's because you don't have a degree, and once you get older, you will have no advantage..."

Li Ta took the trouble, "I'm not in a hurry."

Chen Qiushuang said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, Xiao Cen's condition is so good, wouldn't he have already fallen in love with him?"

Li he put down his chopsticks, endured and endured, then picked up the chopsticks again, patiently picked up food for his grandmother, and said, "I'll wait until Cen Yu gets married."

Chen Qiushuang smiled: "You child, you have to get married before you get married..."

Li Shouxin hadn't spoken for a long time, but he opened his mouth at this moment, which shocked Cen Yu and Li He.

He said: "What if he never gets married? You just follow him and never get married?"

Both Cen Yu and Li were taken aback, they didn't expect him to say that.

In fact, Li said before, "I'll get married when Cen Yan gets married." There's nothing wrong with Li Shouxin asking this question, but the two of them have a ghost in their hearts, and they brought out the "follow him" in this sentence, which is not so simple. up.

Li Shouxin said again: "You think you hide your name and send some money home every month, so I don't know what you are doing outside?"

Chen Qiushuang pushed her man: "That money was donated by that charity station in Xi'an..."

Li Shouxin glanced at his woman, and said bitterly: "What kind of love station, can you know our family's difficulties, and know that our girl is blind, and she has to go to elementary school, so donate money for her to study? Donate three taels a month Thousands of donations?"

Nannan's complexion is not very good, she feels like she is about to cry.

"Stop saying a few words!" Chen Qiushuang said.

Li Shouxin took a sip of his wine and said, "Ninny, help grandma go to bed."

Nannan couldn't see clearly, but she could hear that her father was angry, and she didn't know why her father suddenly became angry, "But I haven't eaten enough yet."

"Let's eat later!" Li Shouxin said.

Grandma had already stood up, and tremblingly went to hold Nannan's hand, "Ninny, help grandma go to sleep."

Nanni wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve, and helped her grandma into another cave dwelling.

Here Chen Qiushuang was in a hurry, "What are you doing! It's the New Year's Eve dinner!"

Li Shouxin ignored him, and asked Li Ta again: "You haven't answered yet. If he doesn't get married, you will never get married?"

Now Cen Teng has fully confirmed that his relationship with Li Tata has been exposed——

Li Shouxin is not an idiot. He felt that something was wrong since the two of them entered the door last night. He is very sensitive. He always feels that the way his son takes care of this tall stranger is very similar to how his wife takes care of him, sharing weal and woe with ordinary people. My friends are not close at all.

Li took a deep breath and said, "Yes."

"What qualifications do you have?" Li Shouxin pressed, "Whether someone gets married or not doesn't matter to you?"

Li He lowered his head, tears welling in his eyes.

He was very wronged, he didn't like his father, because his father once "abandoned" him because of the so-called "leukemia".

But he still calls "Dad" humblely, and pulls Cen Yu together to call "Uncle" humblely. He still longs for his father to like Cen Yu like his mother, even if he just regards Cen Yu as his son's friend.

Cen Yu held Li Tata's hand tightly, and squeezed it hard, he said: "He is qualified, I like him."

The author has something to say: The atmosphere in this chapter seems a little tense, but I am actually very happy (too unkind)

In fact, it is because today is the birthday of my kitten, he is one year old!

Then there is the big kitten. When I first adopted him, the previous owner said that he was more than one year old, but the exact number of the previous owner is not clear. I have to ask the previous owner about this (yes, my big cat has such a bad luck) , I don’t know that my birthday must be a very sad thing, but it’s okay, today is also the big cat’s birthday, you two spend it together, one is three years old and the other is one year old, happy birthday cats and cats