In the evening, Liu Wangxue came back from a walk with the three cats outside. Tao Huayu happened to be there, along with Tao Huaxin and Qiu Xiangrong.
Since Du Yunkai returned to Hai City, Liu Wangxue's sunroom seemed to have never been filled with people. Most of the time, she was the only one there.
The only person who actively asks "Do you want tea?" whenever he has time is Du Yunkai.
Today, it was Tao Huayu who took the initiative to send her a message to ask her out for tea. Liu Wangxue was a little surprised.
Tao Huayu said: "It's my brother-in-law. He has learned a new skill, baking small cookies. They are delicious. My sister said she would send you one. I thought that I haven't had tea for a few days. How about drinking some tea with small cookies? How wonderful."
Qiu Xiangrong handed the food bag in his hand to Liu Wangxue: "I just started, and I wasted a lot of ingredients. These are the only ones that look good. Just eat them."
Liu Wangxue asked them to sit down first. She went to the kitchen, took out two small plates, and put the cookies on them.
As soon as the bag was opened, the sweet milky aroma hit her nose. Liu Wangxue couldn't help but pinched a piece and tasted it first: "Cranberry, delicious, not too sweet and not greasy."
"What's delicious?" Gu Xuelan came in and asked. When she saw Tao Huayu and the others coming, she knew they were going to drink tea again, so she came over to prepare some fruit for everyone.
Liu Wangxue picked up the plate and handed it to her: "Try these cookies made by my brother-in-law. They are really delicious."
I have to say, it suits Gu Xuelan's taste very well. She doesn't like to eat things that are too sweet or greasy, so she seldom touches the cookies and desserts on the market.
I couldn't help it and took another piece. Sweets make people happy, and not-so-sweet sweets make people happier.
Liu Wangxue placed two plates of biscuits on the tea table, and Tao Huayu immediately reached out for them.
Tao Huaxin said to him: "You eat so much at home, aren't you full yet? Be careful or you'll get fat in middle age."
"Those are defective products made by my brother-in-law. I didn't want to eat them but you forced me to eat them." Tao Huayu said back, "If I gained weight, it was because I was forced to do so. The responsibility is all on you."
Tao Huaxin rolled his eyes.
Because she was pregnant, Liu Wangxue planned to make a pot of rose and red date tea. While preparing, she asked, "Brother-in-law, why did you suddenly start making cookies? Are you planning to open a store?"
"I'm a daughter-slave!" Tao Huayu answered quickly.
"Ah?" Liu Wangxue laughed. Can you already determine the gender? It's only been a few months? Tao Huaxin said, "I don't plan to open a store. I learn this for my child."
Qiu Xiangrong smiled happily. When talking about children, he became more talkative: "Before the baby is born, learn it quickly. Little girls like desserts and milk tea. The ones sold in the market are not as authentic as the ones made at home. After I learn this, I will start learning to make cakes. From now on, I will make cakes for my daughter's birthday every year."
Putting the roses and red dates into the health pot, Liu Wangxue threw a few Dianhong tea leaves into it, turned on the switch and let it boil.
"Brother-in-law, do you mind if I pour cold water on you?" she asked with a smile.
Qiu Xiangrong didn't mind. Tao Huaxin said: "My mother poured cold water on him every day, but he was determined that it was a daughter."
Qiu Xiangrong was very determined and said, "Really, I told you I had a dream, but you didn't believe me."
Gu Xuelan came in with some fruit in her hand: "Oh, you had a dream? Then the possibility that this baby is a girl is really high."
"Mom, don't talk nonsense. What if...right?" Liu Wangxue disagreed.
Gu Xuelan asked them to eat fruit: "Do you know how you came here?"
"Could it be that my father dreamed about this?"
"It's true!" Gu Xuelan pulled out a chair and sat down.
When Qiu Xiangrong heard this, he seemed to have found his organization: "Look what I said, Auntie, I have a real example right now."
"Is this true?" Tao Huayu looked Liu Wangxue up and down, thinking of those fairy tales and myths and legends, "Are you a god who came down to earth to transcend the tribulation?"
"Why don't you ask me if there were any strange phenomena in the sky when I was born?" Liu Wangxue asked him back.
The two people discussing the "dream" girl seemed to have their own barrier and were not affected at all.
Gu Xuelan said: "I was also pregnant in a similar month as Hua Xin. Xuxu's father had a dream about a wedding. He took his daughter by the hand and handed her to another person. Then he woke up crying. After that, he firmly believed that this baby must be a girl. After the birth, it turned out to be true."
Qiu Xiangrong rubbed his knees with excitement: "Yes, yes! That's right! I dreamed of a wedding too!"
Tao Huaxin found another way to pour cold water on her: "But you didn't cry."
"That's not important," Qiu Xiangrong tried to make amends, with a proud look on his face, "My uncle dreamed of marrying off his daughter, and he couldn't bear to let her go, so he cried. I'm different, I didn't cry, probably because I was marrying into the family."
Tao Huaxin stuffed an orange into his mouth and said, "You're really good at marrying a daughter-in-law. I'll see which man can be stronger than you."
Qiu Xiangrong ate the orange happily.
Liu Wangxue's eyes widened suddenly. No wonder he spent most of his time at Yue's house. He turned out to be a son-in-law? Thinking of this, Liu Wangxue asked Tao Huayu quietly.
Tao Huayu ate the fruit and said without hesitation: "Okay, brother-in-law, this is another misunderstanding."
Liu Wangxue immediately glared at him with a reproachful look.
"I didn't marry into the wife's family, but it was almost the same as that," said Tao Huaxin.
Tao Huayu burst into laughter: "Sister, your mother-in-law will probably be mad to death after hearing this."
"You won't die of anger, but you will definitely pretend to be bedridden." Qiu Xiangrong also started to mock his own mother.
The tea in the pot was ready. Liu Wangxue poured a cup for each person. While they ate and drank, he also listened to them talking about family matters.
Qiu Xiangrong is almost also a miserable child. He has an older brother who is good at studying, and a younger brother who is sweet-mouthed and can coax people. He is in the middle, a mediocre and invisible person, who is neither loved by his father nor his mother.
He does the work, suffers the hardships, and endures the fatigue. But in the end, he is the one who is ignored.
When Qiu Xiangrong was still in high school, his older brother had just been admitted to university and his younger brother had just entered high school. The tuition and living expenses of the three children together brought great financial pressure to the family.
His parents discussed it privately and without asking Qiu Xiangrong's opinion, they went to the school and had him expelled.
That seemed to be the first time in his life that he got angry and went home to question his parents.
But a child is a child after all, and a child who has long lacked love and is precisely controlled by his parents. After being punished, Qiu Xiangrong put down his schoolbag and started to work in the fields with his father.
Although I have done it before.
Many of the children who dropped out of school in the countryside started looking for marriage when they were only 18 or 19 years old. Some of them were just over 20 years old and their children were already able to walk.
Other parents are busy arranging for their sons and daughters, hoping to find a good family. But Qiu Xiangrong's parents seem to treat this child as a farmhand, and it is good enough for him to have enough food and warm clothes, and forget about other things.
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