Xu Xiangjuan: "It's so natural that it feels unnatural. This is a lipstick color I like very much. It is close to my own lip color, but it can obviously lift my spirits. I also put powder on my face."
"Really? I can't tell at all." Guo Yanyan looked carefully.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Really, it can cover up small blemishes on the face. What covers up blemishes is another thing, concealer."
Niu Niu and Gua Gua watched their mother talking to a strange aunt for a long time.
Xu Xiangjuan: "If you want to buy it, you can go to the department store. It will probably open in the middle of next month."
Guo Yanyan: "Okay, I'll go take a look then, it's really good."
Xu Xiangjuan and Guo Yanyan left their names with each other. Guo Yanyan had to meet up with her colleagues at a certain time, so she left first.
Xu Xiangjuan took Guagua and Niu Niu to wait outside the gate.
Niu Niu: "Mom, the building."
Xu Xiangjuan: "What's wrong? Niu Niu wants to go to the department store?"
Niu Niu: “Yeah!”
Niu Niu wants to go to the department store. He hasn't been there for a long time.
"Mom, I want to go too." Except for going to the department store with her mother when she first came to Huadu, she and her brother never went there again.
The department store in Huadu is much bigger than the one in their hometown county, and they haven’t even visited all of them yet.
Xu Xiangjuan: "When Dad has time, we will go with him."
I have to buy Aning some more decent clothes. After all, decent clothes can enhance her image.
Niu Niu: "Mom, when is Dad free?"
Niu Niu is no longer a child who only knows how to agree.
"Dad is here," Niu Niu asked his father. After the exam, candidates came out one after another. Xu Xiangjuan saw Zhou Chengning in the crowd at a glance.
Niu Niu turned around to look, and was about to run over to call his dad, but there were too many people and he was afraid of bumping into someone, so he stood there without moving, staring at his father coming over.
Zhou Chengning quickened his pace when he saw his lover and children.
When Dad came, Niu Niu immediately asked Dad to hold him, and Zhou Chengning hugged Niu Niu.
Xu Xiangjuan took the examination bag from Zhou Chengning, held the examination bag in one hand and held Guagua's hand with the other, and the family went back to the restaurant.
"Dad, when do you have time?" Niu Niu asked his father on the way.
Zhou Chengning: "What does Niu Niu want to do? Dad doesn't have time."
Niu Niu's reaction can be said to be very quick: "Mom, take my sister and me to the building, don't take Dad, Dad doesn't have time."
Zhou Chengning: "You little brat, you're setting a trap for your dad again."
"What's a trap? I don't know how to dig one." Niu Niu asked his father curiously after being hit on the butt without any pain.
Zhou Chengning was too lazy to explain the trap to the three-year-old: "Ask mom, is it okay for dad not to go?"
"Mom, is it okay for Dad not to go?" The honest child Niu Niu really repeated what he asked his mother.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Dad..."
She deliberately breathed heavily so as not to let the father and son know her answer immediately.
After taking a deep breath, he didn't tell the father and son directly, but asked Guagua about his final exam: "Guagua's exam is on the 15th?"
Guagua: "Yes, Mom. I'll take the test on the 15th and get the report card on the 20th."
The first grade exams include two subjects, mathematics and Chinese, in the morning and afternoon.
"We don't need it." Niu Niu's attention was quickly diverted.
They don't have to take exams.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Mom knows Niu Niu doesn't need it. Niu Niu will study hard in the restaurant when the time comes."
Niu Niu: “Yeah!”
The topic seemed to have gone off topic.
When everyone was about to forget, Xu Xiangjuan said, "Niu Niu, you can't go to the department store unless Dad goes."
Niu Niu was anxious: "Dad, when are you free?"
Zhou Chengning deliberately said, "Dad is busy. If Dad doesn't go to the department store, Niu Niu can't go either."
Niu Niu: "Bad dad! Bad mom!"
Zhou Chengning: "It's no use calling mom, it's dad who's holding you now."
Niu Niu originally wanted to say that he didn’t want his dad to hold him, but the feeling of being held by his dad and not having to walk by himself was just so good.
Niu Niu chose to remain silent, but after a while, he felt too aggrieved and said, "Mom!"
Xu Xiangjuan: "It's no use calling mom, Niu Niu, mom listens to dad, and will go whenever dad is free."
Guagua is already a first-grade student and is not as childish as her younger brother. Her younger brother pesters her father and asks when he is free, while she tells her mother that she wants to eat candied haws.
"Mom, wait until my teeth grow back before eating. Not now."
Xu Xiangjuan also wanted to teach Guagua not to eat candied haws, because they were too hard and he might lose a few teeth if he bit them: "Well, when Guagua's teeth grow back, Mom will buy you candied haws."
...
"You two kids are so cute. When I went to your restaurant, you were all in school. They must be Gua Gua and Niu Niu, right?" Shan Nandie looked at the brother and sister with great curiosity. She had never had the chance to meet them before, and now that she had met them, it was really magical.
If she didn't know Sister Juan's age, she would definitely be mistaken for the older sister when standing next to Sister Juan. Sister Juan, who looks so young, already has a child in elementary school. Everyone was very surprised and couldn't believe that there was a child that old. But today she finally saw one.
Teacher Zhou's appearance may not conform to the aesthetic standards of mothers, but it is very much in line with the aesthetic standards of students. He is good-looking, and most importantly, he is tall and looks safe. Not to mention Sister Juan, she is someone who can be noticed at a glance in the crowd from a distance.
The two children are really cuter than each other, especially the short and chubby Niu Niu who hasn’t grown up yet.
"Mom." Niu Niu looked at his mother, not knowing what to call.
"Sister, my name is Guagua and my brother is Niu Niu. My brother and I eat lunch at school. I arrive at school before eight in the morning and my brother arrives at ten. During holidays, my brother and I sometimes go out to play, so you have never seen me and me." Guagua remembered that her mother said that those who did not have children should be called sister. Niu Niu talked to her father last night and did not remember what her mother said about going to the department store to see sister today.
Shan Nandie was really touched by the little boy, and quickly took some snacks from the drawer: "Good boy, come here, sister will give you some."
Xu Xiangjuan saw Shan Nandie grabbing a handful of sugar, biscuits and chocolate, and hurriedly stopped her: "Xiaodie, don't give the child so much food, it will cause his teeth to fall out."
"It's okay, it's okay. Eat slowly. Gua Gua and Niu Niu can share it." Shan Nandie noticed the eager look in the short and chubby Niu Niu's eyes.
Gua Gua could barely hold the pile of snacks with both hands and gave them to his mother first.
Xu Xiangjuan picked out some chocolates, one for Gua Gua and one for Niu Niu, and a bag of cookies for each of them.
Guagua and Niu Niu shouted together, "Thank you, sister."
These are all imported snacks. Shan Nandie’s family is really well-off. A girl like this works so hard and doesn’t leave any chance for others to survive.
After sharing the snacks, Dan Nandie found chairs for the two children to sit on, and Gua Gua and Niu Niu sat aside to eat snacks.
Niu Niu's chubby hands were not as flexible as his sister's, and he couldn't open the chocolate wrapped in the little gold paper.
Gua Gua had already opened it and put it in his mouth. It was just a little bigger than the candy, but not much bigger. Her brother couldn't open it, so she helped her brother open the chocolate and returned the paper to him.
Niu Niu put the paper into his pocket. The paper was beautiful and glittering with gold. He wanted to take it home to show his father.
Niu Niu grabbed the chocolate with his chubby little hands and ate it slowly, biting it and savoring it bit by bit.
The chocolate is a bit bitter, but Niu Niu can taste its sweetness if he eats it slowly.
Xu Xiangjuan also started eating snacks: "Did any guests come today?"
Shan Nandie: "There are no customers. Not many people come to the department store now, but I believe that there will be customers sooner or later. When I was selling cosmetics before, I was basically the only one doing it. I can make it through it."
Xu Xiangjuan: "It's the first day of business, it's normal, Guan Qian and I have become your long-term customers."
Shan Nandie: "Thanks to Sister Juan and Sister Qian, otherwise I don't know how I would have persisted."
Xu Xiangjuan’s inner thoughts: No, it has nothing to do with us. Even without us, you would still be a big star, thanks to your perseverance and your wealthy parents.
Xu Xiangjuan: "It's not hard to start, but it's hard to persist. If you persist, you will gain something... Niu Niu, mom will take you to wash your hands later."
In the blink of an eye, Niu Niu was seen eating chocolate with his hands, and his hands were dirty.
How could Shan Nandie not eat when she went to the restaurant before? After eating a few meals, she wanted to eat again: "Sister Juan, is your restaurant really closed? I want to eat a few more meals."
Xu Xiangjuan: "It's closed. Gua Gua Niu Niu has already closed for the holiday. We will go back to our hometown to celebrate the New Year when our cousin has the holiday."
Guagua Niu Niu has already gone on vacation, Aning is still at work, and Pingan is the last to arrive. After he goes on vacation, they will prepare to go back.
After being busy for half a year, it's time to close the shop early and take a break.
Shan Nandie: "Sister Juan, how old is your cousin? When will he have his holiday?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "He's in the third grade of middle school, his cousin Aning. His aunt didn't have time to go back to her hometown, so she asked him to go back to see his grandfather."
Shan Nandie: "The holiday will be later in the third year of junior high school, after all, we need to take the entrance examination."
Xu Xiangjuan: "It's OK. We have 20 days off, which will end around January 27th. We'll leave on the 29th and come back on the 10th."
February 6th is the Spring Festival, the first day of the first lunar month.
It will take almost four days on the road. I will return to Huadu on the tenth day and leave home on the eighth day.
Thinking of this, Xu Xiangjuan felt that her second sister would only stay at home for two or three days, and it must have been really hard for her to travel for four or five days.
Shan Nandie: "Today is the 18th, and there are only a few days left."
Xu Xiangjuan: "There are still 10 days left. If you really want to eat, you can come to the restaurant. I will cook for Gua Gua Niu Niu at noon and save some for you."
The restaurant is not far from Peking University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, but it is still a bit far from Renda University. It is ok to go there by bike, but it takes 20 to 30 minutes to walk there.
After Aning started working at Renda, she did all the tedious work. She could only get off work on time in the afternoon by working overtime at noon. She did not go home for lunch and had to eat in the school cafeteria.
During the time she was with him, she also went to the cafeteria with him to eat. It was the same old food, which was not even good in a university cafeteria.
Aning didn't come back for lunch, and the portions she made for the two children were not big, and she herself didn't eat much. If Xiaodie came over and there was one more person to eat, she could make a more substantial meal.
"Yes! I will definitely come over for lunch, Sister Juan, remember to save some food for me."
"I will definitely keep one for you... Hello, what would you like to see?" Xu Xiangjuan noticed a lady coming over and reacted faster than Shan Nandie, so she greeted the guest.
"I want to see the perfume."
Xu Xiangjuan remembered where the perfume was: "Okay, the perfume cabinet is over here. There are three layers in total. The fragrances are from deep to light from top to bottom. Xiaodie, please tell this lady in detail."
"Hello, what kind of fragrance do you want? We are currently selling floral scents. This one is rose, this one is gardenia..." Shan Nandie began to introduce the fragrance to the customer.
Seeing that she had no problem dealing with the guests, Xu Xiangjuan told her to take the children for a walk first and come back later.
Shan Nandie nodded, and Xu Xiangjuan took the two children for a walk.
There is a restroom in Huadu Department Store. Take Niu Niu to wash his hands first.
"Why don't you wash your hands, Niu Niu? If you scratch your clothes, they will get dirty."
Niu Niu: "Mom, one more, wash your hands after eating, not twice."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Another chocolate?"
"Um!"
Niu Niu knows that his mother still has chocolates.
"You wish!" Gua Gua answered for his mother.
Xu Xiangjuan: "There are five in total. Guagua Niu Niu has already eaten one, and Mom has eaten one too. When we get home, we have to give one to Dad who hasn't eaten one yet. Can Mom keep the extra one for herself?"
What mom said sounded too much like a math problem. Even though mom had already given the answer, Gua Gua couldn't help but draw a conclusion, which meant that mom now has two, right?
Niu Niu was not like his sister, who thought of the math problem. He simply understood what his mother said: "Dad hasn't eaten it, one for Dad, two for Mom, I don't want any more."
Guagua: "Niuniu can't have two. Sister is mom's friend. If mom doesn't bring us here, we can't have them."
Niu Niu: "I don't want it."
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