Of course we shared a table for dinner.

After all, it's Saturday and it's night time. I have money to go out to eat, so I can buy a lot of meat and vegetables and cook a few delicious meals myself.

People nowadays have not really developed the habit of eating out, and frugality is the norm.

So at this moment, besides them, the only people in the restaurant were two men dressed as workers with tool boxes at their feet.

The old man was witty and humorous, and also knowledgeable and talented. He could talk about almost any topic. After the meal, Dadan and Erdan were conquered by the old man's cultivation and knowledge.

Seeing that the old man was not in a hurry to leave and seemed to want to chat more with the child, Su Qinghu became less anxious.

How many times in life can you meet someone like this? It's a rare experience.

She listened, and when the old man called out to her, she also said a few words. They were definitely the best chat buddies.

It was almost closing time for the store, so the group got up and walked out. Su Qinghu and Dadan and Erdan wanted to see the old man off, and the old man did not refuse.

"I'll show you the way." The old man said softly.

Su Qinghu: "Okay, whatever you want."

Along the way, they naturally talked about astronomy and geography. The two children even asked questions happily about some unsolved mysteries of mankind that Su Qinghu had taken them to the library to read.

The old man didn't think it was a big deal and explained it carefully. For some questions that he really couldn't give accurate answers to, he also provided some ideas and let them explore it themselves.

Su Qinghu dared to say that if she met a teacher like this, she could choose any university in the world.

"Just send them here." When they reached the entrance of the alley, the old man stopped and looked at Su Qinghu with a smile, "You have taught both children very well."

Su Qinghu smiled and said, "You're too kind. The main thing is that the child has a good heart. In a good environment, he won't be bad."

The old man smiled, his elegance showing through, "The way you two get along with each other is very comfortable."

"Well, the main thing is," she glanced at Dadan and Erdan, then turned to the old man and said shockingly, "I'm still a child of more than two hundred months old!"

The old man was stunned, obviously not expecting her to say that, and was shocked for a moment.

After figuring it out, the old man laughed.

Dadan and Erdan were also confused, but they had no problem with multiplication and division. After calculating in his mind, Dadan was silent, and the corners of his mouth twitched with silence.

Erdan was stunned. "Can it be calculated like this?"

You are so grown up, yet you still call yourself a child!

Su Qinghu: "Why not? In my aunt's eyes, I'm still a baby!"

Erdan grimaced, "I've got goosebumps all over the floor!"

"Then you are too lacking in self-control. Look at your brother, he is so calm." Su Qinghu ignored Dadan's behavior of picking at his trouser seam and directly retorted.

Erdan: "It's dark today, but you can't see my brother picking at his pants seam, so you say he's calm. That's not quite right, right?"

He only took a glance and knew that his brother was about to laugh himself crazy.

"My brother is weird. Normally when we're all laughing like crazy, he's laughing too, but he's different from us. He doesn't show it on his face, he's just laughing inside." Erdan directly exposed it, and then added, "Maybe my brother is already rolling around in laughter inside."

Su Qinghu chuckled, then looked at her eldest son's hand frozen in the crotch of his pants, wanting to dig but trying hard to control himself, and she chuckled even more.

She took Dadan's mood into consideration and didn't dare to smile too obviously.

If you move the flashlight slightly, it becomes even less clear.

Dadan: "Shut up."

"I won't!" Erdan said, "Unless you tell me later what the foreign language that Mom just spoke to you and to me means!"

Dadan said calmly, "Two dollars."

"Impossible!" Erdan flatly refused. "50 cents, no more!"

Dadan: "Then you can ask the teacher tomorrow."

Erdan was silent for a moment. He didn't want to spend the night thinking about this, so he gritted his teeth and raised the price, "...one dollar. Do you want to tell me? If not, forget it!"

Dadan pulled the corner of his mouth and suppressed the upward corner of his lips. "If you understand what I'm saying now, I'll give you five dollars."

“!!!”

Erdan was struck by lightning. "Five dollars?! Really five dollars?"

Dadan nodded, feeling relieved, and stopped picking at the seam of his pants.

Erdan looked at Su Qinghu tearfully, "Mom, is what my brother said true?"

"Yeah." Su Qinghu nodded and attacked again, "But the time limit has passed, so it doesn't count."

“Ouch!”

Erdan immediately howled, hugged his brother and started shaking him, "Brother, brother, brother, I want to go to the foreign language class with you tomorrow!"

"...When you go there, your focus won't be on this," said Dadan.

Perhaps it was the night, or perhaps it was because chatting with the old man had opened up his Ren and Du meridians, but he talked more than usual tonight and seemed to be more relaxed.

Su Qinghu discovered it.

The old man's wisdom accumulated over most of his life finally soothed some things in the young boy's heart.

It's not comfort or enlightenment, but the wisdom in the words is more effective for the smart guy Dadan.

She could see that the old man liked the two children, so she didn't interrupt the loving scene where the two children were telling each other about their love.

He calculated the time silently in his mind, and when he felt it was about time, he stopped the two children and said goodbye to the old man.

The adult and two children walked away, and the old man standing at the entrance of the alley could still hear what they were saying.

"Mom, my brother bullies me, I'm so pitiful!"

"Oh, you're not pitiful. You and your brother are in cahoots. I'm the one who's pitiful!"

"Mom, you can't hurt my heart like this. I listen to you the most..."

"...Dadan, your brother really hurts your heart. He doesn't listen to you anymore!"

Dadan: "...I'm still a child."

It doesn’t matter whether you listen to him or not.

"A few hundred months?" Su Qinghu suppressed a laugh, "Then you can grow up, hahaha~~"

The cheerful atmosphere spread to the entrance of the alley. Only after they disappeared from sight did the old man sigh deeply and say to the empty night, "Let's go."

As soon as he finished speaking, two young men walked out with steady steps and called out, "Engineer Zhang."

"Well, I was being willful today." The old man, who was called Engineer Zhang, nodded apologetically. "Let's go now."

The two looked at the old man's gray hair, and felt a surge of sadness and admiration in their hearts. They didn't know what to say, so they just saluted the old man together.

"Oh, what are you doing? There's no need to do this." The old man waved his hand. "Go ahead, go ahead. I'll take a look and then I'll feel relieved."

next time,

I don’t know when the next time will come, and I don’t know if there will be a next time…

"We will always remember what you have done for our country, and one day, future generations will remember it too."

"There are so many people like me. It doesn't matter whether I remember it or not. As long as I can do something for the country, I will have no regrets."

The old man walked slowly until a car came by, then he stopped, looked back at the direction of Su Qinghu and their house, and got into the car with firm steps.

"Let's go," he said.

The driver responded, and the car drove out of the capital silently...