Never mind, there’s no point in thinking so much now. The most important thing today is to go shopping for groceries.
Seeing that Guagua was having a great time, Xu Xiangjuan simply waved to Niu Niu who was watching his sister playing hopscotch nearby.
While watching his sisters playing hopscotch, Niu Niu would also look at his mother. His mother waved, and he quickly noticed it and said to his sister Gua Gua, "Sister, Mom."
"Niu Niu, let Niu Niu go." Seeing that his mother was looking for Niu Niu, Gua Gua let Niu Niu go.
After informing his sister, Niu Niu trotted over to find his mother.
The running of the little fat ball really makes his mother worried, so Xu Xiangjuan just took a few steps forward to save Niu Niu from having to run too much.
Niu Niu: "Mom."
Xu Xiangjuan tried to slow down her speech so that Niu Niu could understand: "Be good, Niu Niu. Mom is going to buy groceries. Niu Niu and your sister are playing here. Don't go anywhere else. Mom will be back soon after buying groceries. Niu Niu and your sister can say hello, okay?"
Niu Niu agreed: "Okay."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Niuniu, continue playing with your sisters. Mom is going to buy groceries."
"Yeah!" Niu Niu looked back at his mother every few steps, but his mother was still standing there without moving.
When Niu Niu arrived at the place where his sisters were playing hopscotch, Xu Xiangjuan waved to Niu Niu and went to buy vegetables.
Niu Niu saw his mother leaving, and told his sister what his mother said, "Sister, mom is buying groceries, we are waiting for her."
After all, Huadu is not in a village or town, so she can ignore her younger brother. After all, he has his parents and grandparents to look after him. Now Niu Niu is without an adult around, so as a big sister, Gua Gua has to keep an eye on her younger brother: "Niu Niu, don't run around. Watch us play games. When you grow up a little, you can play with us."
"Yeah!" Niu Niu continued to watch his sisters playing hopscotch.
When Xu Xiangjuan came back from shopping, Niu Niu and Gua Gua had stopped playing hopscotch and started playing cat's tuck.
Niu Niu has a share in the rope skipping game. Niu Niu is the child who holds the rope. It is a little difficult for his chubby little hands to hold the rope, but compared to holding the rope, rope skipping is more difficult for Niu Niu.
"Mom!" Niu Niu looked up and saw his mother not far away, and immediately called her.
Guagua had his back to his mother. When he heard Niu Niu calling for his mother, he turned around and really saw his mother.
After saying goodbye to her sisters, Gua Gua took Niu Niu to reunite with her mother.
Guagua: "Mom, what did you buy today?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "I bought shrimp and lettuce today. How was Guagua Niu Niu's fun with the sisters?"
Now that she has nothing to do, Xu Xiangjuan likes to eat some fresh vegetables and also wants to get familiar with the people nearby, so she buys vegetables every day and has gotten to know the vegetable market well.
Niu Niu answered first: "Very good."
"The sisters are very nice. They all let me play with Niu Niu." Since coming to Huadu, Gua Gua has never been disliked anywhere except in a small shop where he was not welcomed by the shop owner.
Niu Niu: “Yeah!”
"As long as you have fun, mom will make shrimps for you at noon." It was only when Aunt Shou said this that Xu Xiangjuan realized that the family hadn't eaten shrimps for a long time and they should buy some shrimps to take home.
As for saying that his daughter was craving for shrimps, it was just a casual remark. Fortunately, Gua Gua didn't say it was wrong.
Guagua: "Great! Let's eat shrimp! I've been eating too much fish lately, and I don't want to eat fish anymore."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Is fish bad? Your father loves to eat fish. Fish is very healthy and can help you grow taller. Your father grew so tall by eating fish."
My man can eat anything and is not picky at all, but he prefers fish.
He has been studying recently, so she cooks fish for him every now and then to nourish his body.
When Niu Niu heard about growing taller, he immediately said, "Grow taller, I want to eat fish."
He is the shortest among the kids, so he needs to grow taller quickly.
Guagua looked familiar with the routine: "Mom lied to you. Mom used to tell me that eating vegetables will make you taller, eating carrots will make you taller, eating rice will make you taller. In Mom's words, there is nothing that won't make you taller."
Guagua has figured out her mother's routine very well. Fortunately, she is young and short, so she thinks her mother is tall. Otherwise, she could have refuted it by saying that her mother eats fish and she didn't see how tall she is.
Xu Xiangjuan: "If you eat well, you will grow taller. Children should not be picky about food."
We chatted all the way back home and found that my father was still studying hard.
Xu Xiangjuan was going to cook, so she asked Niu Niu and Gua Gua to go inside.
When Zhou Chengning saw his lover coming back, he asked Gua Gua Niu Niu to stay put and went to help his lover cook.
Xu Xiangjuan was removing shrimp threads: "Aning, please help me peel the lettuce and then go inside to look after Gua Gua and Niu Niu. These two little guys are a real worry."
Fortunately, there is a faucet and a floor drain in the house, otherwise it would be very inconvenient to cook and wash clothes on the third floor.
There is a laundry room downstairs, which charges by the number of times. If she is not washing large clothes, she will wash them directly in the house.
Normally, I put up a table to wash vegetables. If I want to wash clothes, I move the table away and use a basin.
In order to prevent laundry water from leaking into the bedroom, the dirty laundry water is poured directly into the floor drain in the corridor outside the door.
There are many water pipes here, which is quite convenient.
Zhou Chengning: "Well, I'll go in and take care of the kids after I finish peeling the lettuce and garlic."
At noon, my wife said we would have shrimps, stir-fried lettuce slices and egg drop soup. Apart from peeling and dissolving the skin, he basically didn't need to do anything. I would go in after he finished all that.
The two children, Niu Niu and Gua Gua, knew that their father’s desk was a sensitive place. No matter how many times their mother told them not to touch it, they refused because they had other things to do.
"Niu Niu, this is not the way to flip it. Sister will teach you." The brother and sister were each sitting on a small stool flipping the flower rope.
At the beginning, it was Guagua who was holding the ball and Niu Niu turned it over. After all, Niu Niu was always the one holding the ball outside, so when they got home, Guagua decided to let Niu Niu try.
But Niu Niu was really not good at it, and his fat little hands even tangled the rope.
Gua Gua couldn't bear to watch it, so he demonstrated it to his younger brother.
Zhou Chengning finished helping, washed his hands with soap, made sure there was no garlic smell on his hands, and went inside.
The time when he starts cooking at home is his fixed resting time of the day except for sleeping.
"Dad." Niu Niu saw his father come in and called out to him. He didn't want to hold the rope anymore. He also wanted to play catwalk and wanted his father to hold him.
My sister said she would demonstrate, but she just kept playing.
"What does Niu Niu want to do by calling dad?" Zhou Chengning sat on the edge of the bed.
Niu Niu held up the flower rope to show his father, "Dad, support it."
"Dad will support you. Gua Gua can definitely play it. Can Niu Niu play it?" Zhou Chengning took the rope directly from Niu Niu's chubby little hand.
"Yes." The confident Niu Niu just says "yes" regardless of whether he can do it or not.
Zhou Chengning had never played with the rope before, and it was only with Gua Gua's guidance that he mastered a basic trick. The distance of the rope tied on a child's hands was normal, but in his adult hands, the distance was much shorter.
Zhou Chengning walked in front of Niu Niu. He wanted to see what Niu Niu would look like.
Niu Niu struggled for a while, and when his little fat hand touched the rope, he retracted it, and finally, "Sister, come first."
"I'll go first, then I'll go first." Gua Gua was an expert at playing the fancy rope game, and he finished without Niu Niu even watching him carefully.
Gua Gua is done, now it’s Niu Niu’s turn.
Now his sister and father were watching him as he played cat's tangle. Niu Niu knew he would mess up the rope, but he still tried.
When the floor was really messed up, Niu Niu ran away quickly to look for his mother.
Xu Xiangjuan had just covered the pot and was stewing shrimps when she saw Niu Niu rushing over like a cannonball. She quickly stabilized Niu Niu and said, "Niu Niu, are you hungry? We'll have lunch later. Stay inside with dad and sister first."
"Sit here." Niu Niu still didn't want to face his father and sister, so he simply sat at the dining table and waited for dinner to start.
Gua Gua and Zhou Chengning came out shortly afterwards and sat down at the dining table.
Niu Niu played with Xiaopang's paws, putting his left hand on his right hand, and his right hand on his left hand, as if nothing had happened just now.
Xu Xiangjuan was helpless. "It will take some time to cook the meal. There is a lot of smoke here."
"Juan, it's not big, it's okay."
Guagua and Niu Niu said in unison: "Not big."
"It's up to you."
...
May 10th is Zhou Chengning’s written test, May 17th is the interview, and May 9th is Xu Xiangjuan’s birthday.
On May 9, Zhou Chengning did not plan to study and prepared to celebrate his birthday with his lover.
Guagua: "Mom is beautiful."
Niu Niu: "It looks good."
Without waiting for their father to speak, the two children praised their mother first.
Today Xu Xiangjuan changed into the skirt that Zhou Chengning gave her on her birthday last year. Fortunately, it is not like the bright red skirt she wore two years ago, which she could not wear out. This simple and elegant skirt would not look too different when worn out.
I’m not cooking lunch today, instead my family will go out to a restaurant.
Xu Xiangjuan changed into a skirt and prepared to buy cosmetics after lunch. She also bought a pair of well-fitting shirt and trousers for Aning to wear during the interview.
In the school district, except for most of the elderly grandmothers and aunts, most women in their twenties, thirties and forties have to wear makeup when going out.
Although the makeup is rather heavy and most of the time you can't see the technique behind it, it is undeniable that wearing makeup when going out is an inevitable trend for women in big cities.
On the day she came, she not only bought pots, pans, furniture and daily necessities, but also bought clothes for Niu Niu, Gua Gua and Aning. She dressed up beautifully to go out today, and of course she couldn't let the children and men dress so simply.
She is still simple, but at least she doesn't look like a bad woman who abuses her husband and children.
When going to a restaurant, I looked for one I had eaten at before. At this time, I didn’t dare to eat at one I had never been to, for fear that Aning would get an upset stomach as she had to take a written test the next day.
"Niu Niu, don't touch your mother's skirt with your dirty little hands, okay?" Although Niu Niu had not touched Juan's skirt yet, Zhou Chengning couldn't help but warn her in advance.
"Not dirty!" Niu Niu spread out his two chubby little hands to show his father, showing his father the palms and backs of his hands.
Dad is the worst. He will slander children.
Zhou Chengning: "You can't touch it unless it's dirty."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Aning, Niu Niu is not going to touch it, and Niu Niu's hands are obviously clean. Let's go eat. I'm hungry."
The birthday boy is the most important person today. As soon as he spoke, Zhou Chengning did not say anything about Niu Niu's dirty hands and directly picked up Niu Niu.
Even if she is not the birthday girl, mom is still the most important person in the family.
This way Niu Niu won’t dirty his mother’s skirt.
"It's not dirty." Niu Niu was picked up by his father and asked his father to continue looking at his hands.
Zhou Chengning replied perfunctorily: "Yeah, it's not dirty."
Xu Xiangjuan was in front holding hands with Guagua. The mother and daughter were much more harmonious than the father and son.
...
"Doesn't Dad look good?" Xu Xiangjuan was very satisfied with the shirt and trousers that Aning was wearing, and asked the two children.
"It looks good." Niu Niu thought it was very beautiful. Now he really didn't dare to ask his father to hug him, for fear that his chubby little hands would leave small prints on his father's snow-white shirt.
Xu Xiangjuan doesn't like bell-bottom pants and plaid shirts. To her, formal occasions require formal clothing, and the clothing must be appropriate.
Look how handsome he is now. If she were the interviewer, she would give him full marks for his image.
It was also the first time for Zhou Chengning to wear such a snow-white shirt. Not only did he not let Niu Niu touch it, he himself didn't dare to touch it.
Guagua also thinks his dad is handsome: "Mom, Dad looks so good in this outfit, can we not hug Niu Niu anymore?"
"I don't want dad to hold me. They're dirty." Niu Niu looked at his chubby little hands. The more he looked, the dirtier they seemed. He went home and asked his mother to wash his hands twice with soap.
He insisted that his hands were not dirty when he went out, but when his father wore a white shirt, he felt that his hands were dirty.
Xu Xiangjuan looked at it for a while. Although she was very satisfied, she always felt that something was missing, that is, the leather shoes.
"How can you wear a suit without leather shoes? I'll go buy some later."
"Ma'am, you have very good taste, and this suit is very suitable for your husband." The salesperson at the suit counter complimented at the right time.
In fact, it was not really flattery. It was the first time she saw someone coming to buy a suit and was so good at choosing.
Xu Xiangjuan has only found one that fits her now, mainly because her daughter Aning has a good figure. "Can you give me this belt as a gift? I think this suit is not cheap."
It is still necessary to bargain when it is time to bargain.
Suits here are sold individually, so there is no need to buy a whole set. She did not plan to buy a suit jacket. The reason she did not buy a suit jacket was because there was no suitable one, and secondly, it would save some money.
Compared to a complete suit, a shirt and suit pants are better, which is formal but not too outstanding... Well, her Aning herself seems to be quite outstanding.
"OK."
"Aning, go change it. I'll pay the bill here." Xu Xiangjuan paid the bill.
Zhou Chengning changed his clothes very quickly, but he was afraid that he would not be able to bear the sight of his lover paying the bill.
Guagua and Niu Niu were whispering on the side. The two children planned to not only say that their mother was pretty, but also that their father was pretty.
Dad is best when he doesn't talk.
After buying formal clothes, we have to buy leather shoes, and the whole family accompanies my mother shopping.
Xu Xiangjuan also bought some cosmetics for herself and short-sleeved shirts for her two children, so that everyone got something and no one was left out.
After returning home, Xu Xiangjuan went to hang up Zhou Chengning's formal suit, while Zhou Chengning placed his lover's cosmetics and the purchased mirror in the empty space on the right side of the desk.
It was her lover's dressing table. When Xu Xiangjuan saw the desk-type dressing table, she thought about it and decided to use a partition to block it to prevent anything from turning over and dirtying Aning's books.
It's enough for her to put makeup on a small area.
...
The result of Zhou Chengning's written test will take three days to come out. He did not think the content of the test was difficult and he was confident of passing the written test. His current concern, apart from the job interview next week, is the issue of his two children going to school and kindergarten.
After the interview is over and the results are obtained, no matter good or bad, you should first choose a suitable kindergarten and primary school with your lover.
In the past, there were not many choices in the town. As long as parents were willing to spend money, their children could go to school. But it is different now. There are many primary schools and kindergartens in Huadu, and some conditions have gradually been required. For example, some primary schools and kindergartens can only be attended by children from Huadu.
So parents need to spend some time to choose, and just having money is not enough.
After Zhou Chengning finished his written test and came out of the classroom, he walked to the east gate of the school to go home, but unexpectedly he saw his wife and children.
Niu Niu saw his father, opened his arms, and said stutteringly: "Dad, today... don't think about anything else... let's go eat."
In fact, it was his mother who told him not to think about anything else today and asked him to tell his father, but Niu Niu really couldn't remember it, so he spoke haltingly.
Zhou Chengning picked up Niu Niu and said, "Dad doesn't want to think about anything else. Let's go eat."
The food at home had already been cooked and was being heated up. Xu Xiangjuan estimated the time and came here early to wait for Aning to finish her written test.
It was the first time for the two children to visit the Renda campus. Everything was new to them. The school had not yet expanded, so Xu Xiangjuan took the two children for a walk and waited at the east gate.
In addition to the young students, most of the people taking the written test were young girls and boys in their early twenties. I thought Zhou Chengning was also in his early twenties. After all, looking at his age, you couldn't tell that he was already in his thirties.
So this family standing together attracted the attention of many students and people taking the written test.
The family did not stay and left soon.
...
Because her husband was taking an exam, the children didn't know about it so Xu Xiangjuan didn't mention the exam either, wanting her husband to have a calm mind. The result wasn't important and he could try again with effort. After all, as an adult with hands and feet, he wouldn't have failed anyway.
On Sundays, Xu Xiangjuan takes the children out early, because the two children can play with a large group of children on Sundays. What they look forward to most every day is playing with the children on Sundays.
After sending the two children to the playground, there were already a few other children there. Xu Xiangjuan went to buy breakfast. She hadn't had breakfast yet. The little ones all wanted to come early on Sunday, so she simply didn't cook and went to buy breakfast.
After the two little ones ate it, she had to take it back to Aning.
"Sister, when will the other sisters come?" After mom left, Niu Niu asked Gua Gua.
He felt that a large group of children were having a lot of fun, although he always felt the least involved.
Guagua was waiting too, but she knew the time: "I'll be here after we finish breakfast."
"Hey, isn't it embarrassing for a boy to hang out with girls all day?" A male voice suddenly appeared. Niu Niu didn't identify himself with the boy, but still looked at the person who was speaking out of curiosity.
He is a boy who is a head taller than his sister.
"What's it to you?" Gua Gua obviously knew that the man was talking about Niu Niu, and he retorted rudely.
The few children around saw that the little bully had arrived and did not dare to go over to tell the two new children not to mess with the little bully.
"Who are you talking to like that? I heard from my grandma that two rural kids came to our area. You must be them." The little bully saw the two new kids playing with a group of girls on Sunday and he was already unhappy. If Lou Linglu was not his cousin, he would have come over to teach the two new kids a lesson.
"What's it got to do with you?" Just because Gua Gua has a good temper doesn't mean she can tolerate a child with a bad temper.
"What's it got to do with you!" Niu Niu probably knew that the older brother in front of him had no good intentions towards them, so he imitated his sister's words.
"A country kid from the countryside." It was the first time that the little bully met such a tough kid. He grabbed Niu Niu's collar and pushed Niu Niu to sit on the ground.
After the younger one pushed, it was the older one's turn. But before he could push Gua Gua, Gua Gua came over and pushed him, "Don't bully my brother!"
"Don't bully my sister!" Niu Niu got up and pushed the bad kid together with his sister.
Gua Gua alone couldn't push the Little Bully down, and the Little Bully didn't move at all. But with the help of Niu Niu, the two kids pushed together, and they still made the Little Bully stagger.
The little bully was very strong, and with another push, the brother and sister both sat on the ground at the same time.
The little bully grabbed Guagua's braid and wanted to pull Guagua up. Guagua was about to bite the little bully's calf. Niu Niu burst into tears and climbed up while crying, not allowing the little bully to pull his sister's braid.
Seeing this, the children around were ready to call the adults over.
Before Gua Gua could bite the Little Overlord, his mother came over.
"What are you doing? Let me go!" Xu Xiangjuan put her breakfast on the ground, ran over and knocked the bully's hand away.
When an adult comes over, the little bully is ready to fight even the adult.
Xu Xiangjuan is not a person with a good temper. Of course she can't stand it when she sees other children bullying her own child. When the child was about to fight back, she controlled him directly.
Although she is not as strong as her daughter Aning, she is still quite strong.
Although the aunt looked bad-tempered and fierce, she was a righteous aunt after she taught the little bully a lesson. The children around gathered around and chattered.
The little bully was still struggling. Xu Xiangjuan heard from the other kids that it was the little bully who took the initiative to bully her child: "Guagua Niuniu, you guys caught your mom. We can't bully others, but if others bully us, we have to bully them back. Now you can hit me as you like."
Guagua's braids were grabbed, so he grabbed the little bully's hair hard. Niu Niu kicked the little bully's legs. Although he was not very strong, he was still beating the little bully.
After the two kids had fought enough, Xu Xiangjuan said to the bully, "Apologize, say sorry to the two kids."
"Don't tell me! I'll beat you again later!" The little bully stiffened his neck and was not ready to surrender at all.
He doesn't think he did anything wrong.
Xu Xiangjuan thinks it is not good to slap a child, but if the child does not listen, a slap is okay.
"My dear grandson! What are you doing, woman?" The little bully's grandmother came over, and the children who were originally chattering with Xu Xiangjuan about what had just happened immediately fell silent.
The little bully’s grandmother is also a big bad guy.
"What am I doing? This kid hit my two children. What do you think I did? I was educating your children for you! If the children don't apologize, and if their parents don't apologize, they have to apologize to my two children. If they don't apologize, I will go to the children's parents' workplace and make your family uneasy!" Xu Xiangjuan didn't slap the child, but pushed him back to his grandmother. Her voice and expression were vicious, as if she was going to eat the grandparents and grandchildren alive.
Niu Niu and Gua Gua hid behind their mother.
"Are all rural women as uncultured as you?" Seeing her grandson looking frightened, the child's grandmother became much calmer after hearing Xu Xiangjuan's words, but she still didn't want to apologize.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Yes, you are from the city, your ancestors were all from the city, you are noble, you have good manners, I just don't have good manners, today you bullied my child without an excuse, I just want to make a scene, apologize! If you don't apologize to my child today, I will stay with you, who doesn't know who here? You kid, don't even think about running away, I won't hit the child this time, but if you bully my child again next time, I will slap him directly!"
The little bully and his grandmother hit a wall, and the children around them immediately started chattering again.
Many of them had been bullied by the bully, and their core wish was that the bully apologize.
It seems like he is seeking justice for Guagua and Niu Niu, and it also seems like he is seeking justice for himself.
The little bully’s grandmother used to be very powerful, and whenever her grandson bullied other children, the children’s parents would come to her, and they would reconcile in the end. Her grandson would still bully the other children and make them afraid to sue the parents again. Now it’s like a small soldier meeting a big soldier, and it’s even harder to explain his unreasonable behavior.
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