"I know him too well." Xu Haizhou said, "My father is a very traditional man at heart, a bit chauvinistic. Although you and An An are not the bad people they imagine, he probably still feels uncomfortable with you, so he is cold to you and deliberately gives you a cold shoulder."
"Ah? If I leave, wouldn't it make me look even more immature... What if your dad has a worse impression of me?"
"No, let's go out for a while, my mother will persuade him."
How else can we say that Xu Haizhou knows his family well? As soon as the family of three came downstairs, they started cursing in the room upstairs.
"Look at you, you were the one who insisted on writing a letter asking Haizhou to come back, and you were the one who gave others a cold face after you came back! Why are you so stern? The child brought you tea and water, but you gave him a cold face and didn't even look at him. The child is only four years old, can he withstand your sullen face?"
I'm lucky I didn't cry!
Yu Zhilan was used to being a people's teacher. When she lectured people, she was very clear and always got to the point.
"Oh, come on. Are you annoyed or not? How could I not know?" Xu Yonghe fanned the cigarette impatiently. Ten minutes passed and the cigarette was still not rolled up.
"You know?" Yu Zhilan snorted, "When the child comes back later, I'll want to see how you knew it."
Xu Yonghe: "..."
Xu Haiping also sighed: "I guess my brother and sister-in-law have also seen the letter, otherwise they should have returned last year."
"Most likely." Song Wenmin said helplessly.
She actually didn't quite agree with the letter she wrote last year. If her younger brother and sister-in-law saw the words in the letter, who knows what they would think. But Xu Haiping was confident and thought that Qiao Lu was a village woman who couldn't understand words.
Now that’s great, the “village woman” has even graduated from junior high school!
"I think Qiao Lu is no worse than the people in the city. You were worried that Haizhou would be controlled by a village woman before, but now it seems that you are the fool." Song Wenmin was speechless when he said this. "How can the people you went to in the countryside compare with the rural areas in the south? There must be barbarians in such a barbaric place."
Even if her speech and temperament can be faked and learned, Qiao Lu will still help her man do business. The woolen coat is such a beautiful piece of clothing, it's made by her own hands!
Such ability is hard to achieve even for women in cities, let alone in rural areas. It is not just talk that says she is amazing.
Yu Zhilan sighed: "Your brother has not caused any worries to the family since he was ten years old. I was wondering, how could such a sensible child find a rural girl to take care of him? Look, he is not worse than the girls in the city."
"Yes, I think that even married women may not be as good as my sister-in-law." After saying this, Song Wenmin remembered something and said, "Haiping was worried before, saying that he was afraid that my sister-in-law would be an unreasonable shrew. It was a headache just thinking about it. What happened? Now he is really going to dig his eyes out!"
"Yes." Arrogance and prejudice, this is really wrong, "And Qiaoan... Oh, what a good child, if she was from Haizhou."
Xu Haiping lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling absentmindedly: "So, this person should never be impulsive. Even if he finds a lesbian who is married for the second time and has a child, as long as Haizhou feels happy, isn't that enough? Right?"
Song Wenmin rolled her eyes at him: "It's hindsight."
…
It was around seven or eight o'clock, and it was not yet time for the residents of the tube-shaped building to go to bed.
Originally, everyone was staying at home to keep warm, when suddenly they heard a burst of clear laughter downstairs, ringing like small bells, full of joy and liveliness.
I went out to take a look and found that it was Xu Haizhou playing snowball fight with his wife and son!
I heard that Xu Haizhou's wife is from the south. The weather in the south is hot and there is no snow. No wonder she ran out to play snowballs in the middle of winter. She must have just arrived in the north and couldn't wait.
The children in the room couldn't sit still anymore and joined in one after another.
Kids in the north are better at playing snowball fights than Qiaolu and Qiaoan. The three of them played with each other in a soft and itchy way.
This addition left Qiao Lu and her son completely defenseless. They ran away screaming and hid behind Xu Haizhou.
Not to mention Qiao An, Qiao Lu was no match for the group of kids either. She dejectedly ran behind Xu Haizhou with her son to avoid the attacks.
It's so fun to bully Southerners, hahaha - the children's crazy laughter can be heard from two rows of houses away.
Fortunately, Xu Haizhou was blocking the way ahead.
He was very agile, extremely agile. After all, he was a native northerner, so there was no way he would lose a snowball fight.
He had to take care of his son and wife behind him and greet these children in front of him, but he didn't look panicked at all!
While Xu Haizhou was fighting vigorously, the two little timid kids, one big and one small, were hiding vigorously behind him. They held onto his clothes and ran with him, occasionally picking up a snowball or two to sneak attack the kids. It was so funny!
"Hahahaha——" The laughter filling the ground in the middle of winter was truly a spectacle.
At the end, Xu Haizhou's face, head, and body were covered with snow residue, and he looked extremely ferocious.
Looking at the mother and daughter behind him, only their hair was a little messy.
"Hahahaha——" Seeing his ferocious look, Qiao Lu laughed unceremoniously.
The mother and daughter worked together to brush off the snow on his body: "How is it? Did it hurt your face?"
With a happy smile on his face, he shook his head: "No, I basically avoided them all."
Phew—the man started to laugh foolishly again, as if he was dreaming back to the youthful days two years ago when they first met.
"You're quite clever. I can tell you played a lot when you were a kid."
Qiaoan had been playing until his hands had lost feeling. He didn't feel cold at all while holding the snowball. Instead, he felt hot.
Jumping excitedly in the snow: "It's fun! Snowball fights are fun! Daddy protects me and mommy!"
Having snowball fights is so much fun. There are so many kids here, and they don’t mind at all that he is from the south. They are so enthusiastic!
As he spoke, he heard sporadic footsteps coming from the corridor behind him.
"Haizhou, stop playing. Let's go to the bathroom and scrub our bodies." Xu Haiping came downstairs carrying a bucket of water, with his wife and daughter beside him.
"good."
"Can I still play with you guys tomorrow?" Qiao An looked at the children reluctantly.
"We are all on vacation, we can have fun!" everyone responded enthusiastically.
After getting the answer, Qiao An took his father's hand and skipped towards the road.
Here, the two brothers were arm in arm with Qiao An going to the men's bathroom, while there, Song Wenmin was taking her daughter and Qiao Lu to the women's bathroom.
It was awkward to say that we had just met and were going to take a bath together. In the Northeast, bathhouses require scrubbing. Unfortunately, my sister-in-law enthusiastically said she would scrub Qiao Lu's body!
Qiao Lu couldn't refuse the kindness, and she felt very upset.
She would like to call this "short" twenty minutes the memory she most wants to delete from her first half of life!
When I came out of the ladies' room, my face was as hot as a cooked lobster!
Xu Haizhou and the other two had been waiting at the door for a long time. Song Wenmin walked towards Xu Haizhou, holding her stomach and laughing:
"Haizhou, you, my little wife, can blush even when you're taking a bath. How interesting!"
Qiao Lu was so embarrassed that she wanted to escape underground instantly.
Xu Haizhou raised his eyes and looked at his young wife.
After two years of marriage, it was actually rare to see her shy. Sometimes, when they made too much noise at night, she would be shy for a moment, but it was dark and even if he wanted to see her, she wouldn't let him.
It's okay now, everyone has seen it.
It is... a different kind of charm.
Xu Haizhou smiled as he was thinking wildly. He held her hand and squeezed it. It must be because she had just taken a shower. Her hand was so soft and warm, incredibly soft.
Even he has never taken a "鴛鴴浴" with his own wife, so it must be his sister-in-law who got it.
After taking a shower and returning to the tube building, Qiao An was as lively as a little bird.
"Grandpa~Grandpa~Grandpa!"
The baby's clear voice attracted several families to open their doors and greet the little guy.
"Grandpa~"
This shout made Xu Yonghe's heart tremble violently, and he said he couldn't bear it!
"Grandpa, look! I brought you a little snowman." He held the little snowman in his hand and handed it to Xu Yonghe as if it were a rare treasure.
"Why did you give me this thing?" Xu Yonghe was confused, looking at Qiao An's smiling face, not knowing what to do.
The little boy laughed innocently: "Dad said grandpa is a little irritated, so he wants to give you a little snowman to cool you down~"
Hahahaha——Song Wenmin almost burst out laughing and had to use a lot of effort to hold it back.
Yu Zhilan couldn't help laughing out loud.
The only people who weren't laughing in the room were Mianmian and Anan, two innocent babies, who looked at the adults who suddenly laughed in confusion.
Is the snowman funny? Adults are so weird.
"Brat!" Xu Yonghe glared at Xu Haizhou with his eyebrows raised, his eyes wide open as if he was about to spit fire.
The brat was making indirect accusations and was so angry that he asked Qiao An to give him a snowman. Is he that mean? He has no respect for his parents!
Looking at Qiao An's innocent face, he had no idea that he was being "used" by his father!
Xu Yonghe was so angry that he almost died. He reached into his pocket out of habit, but didn't find what he wanted. He turned around and walked to the cupboard, opened the door, found some cigarettes, and rolled them up...
This time it was quick, I finished rolling it in one minute, I lit it with a match, took a deep breath, and exhaled clouds of smoke...
"Dad, we have two kids at home, don't smoke in front of them."
"You little bastard!" Xu Yonghe frowned, and the cigarette ash fell on the back of his hand, which made him shudder: "You want to control your father's smoking?"
Xu Haizhou said innocently: "I don't really want to intervene, but the main reason is that the children are young and breathing second-hand smoke is bad for their health."
Xu Yonghe: "..."
He just kept smoking without stopping. After about half a minute, he suddenly put out the cigarette and threw it on the table.
He stood up, walked around the room, glanced at Qiao An, then looked at the boy's mother, and walked out of the door with his hands behind his back for no apparent reason.
"Dad, where are you going?"
Xu Yonghe didn't even turn his head and snorted unhappily: "Strolling!"
Strolling? It's dark and cold in the evening, why would you go out for a stroll?
Turning his head, he saw that the half-smoked cigarette on the small table was mysteriously missing. Xu Haizhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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