Notes on life in the urban-rural fringe area

After all, there are guests at home, and Zhao's mother wanted to take out a set of mistress Fan'er to entertain Chu Hongyi with a table of meals, but she didn't expect to be overthrown by her own son: "Mom, go and rest, I'll come, you Cooking, my dad and I are immune, what if we eat up Mr. Chu..." An angry mother Zhao wanted to chop him with a spatula.

Zhao Qikan went into the kitchen to work, but his mind was still on Chu Hongyi who was chatting with his parents in the living room. He said it was chatting, but it was mainly the Zhao couple who were chatting, and Chu Hongyi looked up at the sky.

"Teacher Chu looks so young."

"I am two years older than Qi Kan."

"Tsk tsk, hey, it really is, someone else's child..." Zhao's mother said regretfully, "Xiao Kan was not suitable for studying when he was young, and he is lucky to be admitted to university..."

"He cooks delicious food." Chu Hongyi felt that this was more important than anything else, but he couldn't understand Zhao's mother's envious look towards him. Obviously, he was more envious of Zhao Qikan.So he added: "My mother used to like him very much."

Zhao's mother sensitively captured the "before", and wondered: "Did Xiao Kan cause trouble for Ling Ci?"

"She doesn't agree..." Chu Hongyi realized what he was talking about in the middle of speaking. When he came, Zhao Qikan repeatedly told him that the matter of coming out should be done slowly and must be discussed with him, but he almost fell asleep. The "peaceful coming out plan" of the two was destroyed on the first day. The beating his mother gave Zhao Qikan was still vivid in his memory. Chu Hongyi felt his whole body tense. He can still do it.

So the Zhao couple stared at the words "he disagrees" and waited for Chu Hongyi's next words. As a result, Mr. Chu picked up a newspaper in a spirited manner, read it casually, and his eyes drifted unnaturally towards the kitchen. , If a small hook can grow in the eye, it can hook my son out of the kitchen.

"Eat, eat!" Zhao Qikan swiftly packed up four dishes and one soup, and brought them to the table. The Zhao couple saw that Chu Hongyi was determined not to complete what he had said, so they had no choice but to give up. Zhang Luo took Chu Hongyi to eat, and Zhao's mother complained Zhao Qikan: "There are guests at home, you said you only cook these few dishes..."

After staring at the dishes for a while, Mother Zhao no longer knew how to use her chopsticks. The shredded yam, the ancient meat with fragrant spinach, the squirrel mandarin fish, and the stir-fried pea sprouts were all sweet dishes. Heavy, no one likes to eat sweets---until the Zhao couple found that Mr. Chu was holding chopsticks with a happy face, and he didn't know how to use the chopsticks.

This...Although entertaining guests is to cater to their tastes, but you can't keep your family from eating, right?Only then did Zhao Qikan realize that he regarded this place as being in Shengzhou again, so he scratched his head, stood up and said that there was still a dish in the kitchen that was not ready, and hurried to the kitchen to cook another authentic Jingbang dish.

Two young men, over 25 and under [-], are of marriageable age. No matter who they visit as guests, the elders will probably chatter like this: "Ms. Chu has a stable job, and he looks so gentle. Do you have a lot of people?"

Chu Hongyi stuffed a piece of yam into his mouth, and said in a low voice, "No one is chasing you."

"Haha..." Mother Zhao reckoned that the child had read too much and was a bit pedantic, but seeing that he was simple-minded and pure, and had a decent job, and his son was developing in Shengzhou, it would be beneficial to have such a friend, so there were no disadvantages. I don't care about his ignorance, on the contrary, I like his innocence.

"Is Hongyi still shy? Girls nowadays are very bold, and they might dare to attack when they meet a suitable teacher. When Xiao Kan was a sophomore, there was a girl who traveled all the way to the imperial capital to recognize my mother-in-law..." said Here I changed the subject again: "I'm not worried about your partner, I'm afraid I'll be too busy, do you have a fixed one?!"

"Yes..." Zhao Qikan picked out the fishbone, put a whole piece of fish meat in Chu Hongyi's bowl, and regretted it when it was over, because he wanted his family to see that something was wrong!

Sure enough, during the dinner, Zhao's father didn't say a word, he just ate his food, and even dropped his chopsticks once, which made Zhao's mother nagging.

Zhao's father has been in office all year round. Although his reaction is a bit slower than ordinary people, he is better than others. He knows what kind of interaction between brothers should be.

Seeing the eyes of his son and Mr. Chu colliding with each other from time to time, and the tacit understanding like flowing clouds and flowing water, Dad Zhao's heart sank more and more.

When Zhao's father was studying, there was a gentle and handsome introverted boy in the lower bunk. He was born in a poor family but had a dignified and aggressive face. When I was in college, nothing happened except the belt at home, but the students in the lower berth were persuaded to leave by the school. I heard that it was for the sake of good character and academic excellence, otherwise they would be expelled.I wasted two years in college. Fortunately, this student has a strong heart. He studied at home for a year and was admitted to another well-known university. Later, he went to the United States all the way to study. I met him once in the class reunion in 20 years. He has an elite demeanor. , followed by a mixed-race foreigner, his lake blue eyes looked at the students in the lower bunk with infinite friendship.The exact same rings were clasped on the ring fingers of the two.And the boy in the botanical garden has already married and established a business. Although his family business is there, he can be regarded as a successful person, but the mental outlook of the two is different. How can a soul suppressed by secrets calmly face a clear and free heart.

Although the students in the lower berth seem to have a bright future, how many twists and turns are there for outsiders.That year was the era when college students were scarce. Which one of the college students who stayed in China did not succeed in all walks of life, but he wasted two years of youth in vain, and traveled across the oceans to work hard in foreign countries. As a classmate, he respected the next generation Pu students naturally have admiration and regret, but Zhao's father is naturally unwilling to put this same situation on his son. Who doesn't want their children to live in the public office without disaster or disaster?His son's aptitude can't be a public minister, but at least he can do it without disaster or difficulty, so why bother to walk such a thorny road with an uncertain future?

"Qi Kan, you said you have a girlfriend? Why didn't you bring it back to show your parents this time?" Dad Zhao made a sullen face, emphasizing the word "girlfriend".

Zhao Qikan's heart twitched, and he raised his eyes to see his father's face - "I know everything" seemed to have been written on his father's face. His father had always given him the impression that only the queen mother would follow her lead, and would surround his wife all his life. Turns out, any son has to stand aside for work, so he rarely sees his father talking to him in this way. He always thought that it was his mother who was more sad when he came out to his family.