In a blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the first lunar month, the day to return to Huadu.
Zhou Chengning was still carrying the luggage, Ping An was holding Niu Niu, and Xu Xiangjuan was carrying a small bag and Gua Gua.
Ping An had a different New Year this year. Although he had to follow Niu Niu around all day, it did not prevent him from celebrating the New Year and feeling the atmosphere.
Guagua’s motion sickness still hasn’t improved, but he doesn’t feel very uncomfortable riding the train.
When they arrived in Huadu, the couple put their luggage away first and then took Gua Gua and Niu Niu to send Ping An home.
When I arrived at Ping'an's house, there was still no adult there.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Put your things away safely, let's go have lunch nearby... Niu Niu, don't go into the room with your uncle casually."
It was lunchtime and Jiu Sheng Restaurant was closed, so we just had lunch nearby.
Seeing that Niu Niu was about to go into the room with Ping An, she, as a mother, of course had to stop them, lest Niu Niu take a fancy to anything and just give Ping An to him directly, which would be so embarrassing.
She saw through Ping An's true nature as a good person.
Since his mother didn’t let him in, Niu Niu simply didn’t go in and waited for his uncle outside obediently.
There are also gifts in Ping'an's room, which were bought by his parents before the New Year, and they were asked him to give them to his cousin and his wife on the day he returns home.
Song Pingan: "Cousin, my parents asked me to give these to you. I have to go to the New Year and it's not convenient to carry them. I will be free after lunch, so I can give them to you first."
Gua Gua and Niu Niu's eyes widened unconsciously when they saw their uncle taking out such a pile of things, wondering what delicious food was inside.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Ping An, you are already in the second half of the third year of junior high school and have to take the high school entrance exam. If these are for health supplements, you can keep them for yourself. The two children don't need them."
Niu Niu couldn't resist the temptation: "Yes, it's very tiring to go to kindergarten."
Zhou Chengning picked up Niu Niu and spanked him again: "Why is it tiring to go to kindergarten? Your sister didn't even complain of being tired when she was in elementary school."
Xu Xiangjuan was so upset that she didn't know how to continue speaking after being interrupted by Niu Niu.
Song Ping'an held back his laughter and said, "Cousin, just take them. They are not only for health, but also for stationery and toys for the two children. I don't need them."
Niu Niu is really a little funny guy.
Every time Dad spanked Niu Niu, it never hurt. Niu Niu’s attention was completely on the gifts. He was already thinking about mom taking part, leaving half for him and his sister.
Xu Xiangjuan finally took the gift back.
Song Ping'an started school on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. After lunch, his cousin and his wife took the gifts back home, but he did not follow them.
I have finished my winter vacation homework at my cousin’s hometown, but I still have to prepare my books for school, and I have been on the train for almost two days, so I need to have a good rest at home.
On the way back, Niu Niu asked his mother: "Mom, when will my cousin live with me?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Your cousin will go back to school the day after tomorrow, and Niu Niu will go to kindergarten soon. Don't talk about your cousin all the time. Your mother will still teach you a lesson when you go back."
Zhou Chengning held the gift and said sarcastically: "Niuniu, wait for your mother to come home and educate you well."
Niu Niu didn't know what he did wrong. His sister didn't remind him, so he told his mother that he was wrong and promised to never do that again.
This is all a cliché.
Because of a cliché, Niu Niu has to be educated for a longer time.
When she returned home in the evening, Xu Xiangjuan did not immediately educate Niu Niu, who looked very uneasy. She first opened the gifts to see what was in them.
Xu Xiangjuan: "There are two pencil sharpeners, one for Guagua and one for Niu Niu. There are two dozen exercise books, one dozen for Guagua and Niu Niu. There is a box of erasers with ten erasers in it, which we can all use. There is only one thick leather notebook. It's Dad's birthday today, so I'm giving it to him. Do Guagua and Niu Niu have any objections?"
"No problem." The two children shook their heads.
Zhou Chengning didn't expect that his lover still remembered him. He took the thick leather notebook with emotion and opened it. The pages were yellow in color, which made them look comfortable when they were new.
Xu Xiangjuan continued to open the gifts. Of course, she divided the milk according to the old rules. There was even a Rubik's Cube: "There is another Rubik's Cube."
She had never seen a Rubik's Cube in a department store. There were foreign words on it. She didn't know whether her uncle bought it abroad or in another department store.
Niu Niu was puzzled: "Mom, what is the Rubik's Cube?"
Xu Xiangjuan turned the Rubik's Cube a few times, shuffled the colors, and demonstrated to the children how to play with the Rubik's Cube: "This is how you should play it. Aning, here you go."
After throwing it to Zhou Chengning, Xu Xiangjuan continued to open the gifts. To be honest, she seemed quite happy while opening them.
Niu Niu really wanted to play with the Rubik's Cube. Seeing his father playing with it, he wanted to go over. However, as not all the gifts were opened yet, he was reluctant to leave. In the end, he chose to look at the gifts first and then play with the Rubik's Cube.
It was Zhou Chengning’s first time playing with it, and the more he spun it, the more messy it became. He saw that his lover’s way of playing was to spin it so that each side had the same color.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Give all these stationery to mom for safekeeping. Ask mom for what you need. Mom divided the biscuits, milk and candies the same way she did before. Does Gua Gua Niu Niu have any objection?"
Niu Niu finished reading it and said: "No problem."
He said he had no objection and immediately ran to his father to play with the Rubik's Cube.
Guagua: "No problem, Mom, I want a pencil sharpener."
Xu Xiangjuan handed Guagua a pencil sharpener and said, "Guagua, be careful when you sharpen your own pencil."
Her father sharpened all her pens. She had seen her classmates using pencil sharpeners, and now she also has a pencil sharpener.
Guagua took the pencil sharpener and went to sharpen his own pencil.
"Niu Niu, come here."
Xu Xiangjuan called Niu Niu who was giving instructions next to his father.
Hearing his mother calling, Niu Niu slowly walked to his mother, Zhou Chengning stopped spinning the Rubik's Cube, Gua Gua stopped rolling the pencil, and both the father and daughter looked at the mother and son.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Did your mother ever tell you not to ask for other people's things?"
Although it was finally taken back, the education still needed to be given.
Niu Niu: "My cousin is not someone else. I won't tell anyone else about his things even if I want them."
Niu Niu understood the logic, but he didn't consider his uncle an outsider at all. He was afraid that if his mother said no, his uncle would really not give it to him, so Niu Niu said he needed it.
Xu Xiangjuan: "You know why you won't say anything? From now on, even if he's your cousin, you, as a child, are not allowed to speak. Do you understand?"
Although children should not be taught these social etiquettes at such a young age, they should at least understand the basics. Otherwise, when they go out into the world and ask for other people's things, people will say that they, as parents, do not know how to teach their children.
Niu Niu: “I know.”
Xu Xiangjuan: "I was wrong. I will never do this again. Where did you learn this? Mom didn't even tell you where you were wrong, but you admitted it. Niu Niu just wanted to lie to Mom. Will you do this again in the future?"
Niu Niu: "I learned it from Dad. I didn't lie to Mom."
Niu Niu dragged his father down with him.
Zhou Chengning: "Dad doesn't lie to mom, but who knows whether Niu Niu lied to mom or not?"
Zhou Chengning was not at all panicked when Niu Niu suddenly took the blame for him.
Niu Niu: "I won't lie to my mother."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Dad doesn't lie to mom, and dad's things are all small things, Niu Niu's things are big things, so learn from your sister in the future."
"Well, I learn from my sister."
Guagua: "You can't ask your uncle for things."
Niu Niu: "I didn't ask my uncle for it. I only wanted it after my uncle gave it to me."
Xu Xiangjuan: "You can't take what your uncle gave you. Of course, you can have a piece of candy or a biscuit, but for the rest, you need to think about what your mother told you today."
Niu Niu nodded, indicating that he would think about what his mother said in the future.
Xu Xiangjuan let Niu Niu go, but Zhou Chengning still hadn’t seen enough.
"Aning and I will help you clean up the mess, and Niuniu and Guagua can do their own things."
At the mother's command, the right to use the Rubik's Cube fell into Niu Niu's hands.
The fat little Niu Niu could hardly hold the Rubik's Cube tightly in his hands, but he still turned it tenaciously.
It's not even two o'clock in the afternoon yet, and the sun is shining brightly outside. The quilts and blankets need to be taken out to dry in the sun, and the job of drying them is left to the tall father.
After Zhou Chengning went downstairs with a few quilts and a rag, Xu Xiangjuan began to sweep and mop the floor.
The two children went to bed first. Niu Niu: "Mom, it's Dad's birthday today. Do you want to eat egg cake?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "I don't eat egg cakes. Mom doesn't have time to make them for Dad."
The Rubik's Cube has already been in Guagua's hands. Guagua regrets: "There is no egg cake. Is that the notebook that Dad gave as a birthday present today?"
She also likes the egg cake made by her mother.
Xu Xiangjuan: "That notebook must be expensive. Your father is a teacher, so I gave it to him as a birthday present."
In fact, when I looked at the notebook, I felt that it was for Aning.
Niu Niu was not giving up: "Mom, is there anything delicious tonight?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Isn't lunch delicious enough?"
At noon, Ping An was there and it was our first meal since returning to Huadu, so we had a very sumptuous meal.
The meal at noon was indeed quite sumptuous, and Niu Niu gave up.
In fact, he didn’t remember that today was his father’s birthday. After all, he was still very young and didn’t even remember when his own birthday was. He just remembered to eat delicious food on his birthday.
Mom’s words have shattered the two children’s fantasies. Gua Gua continues to play with the Rubik’s Cube, while Niu Niu watches his sister play with the Rubik’s Cube.
I didn’t dare disturb my elder sister when she was playing with Rubik’s Cube. I just focused on watching her play.
Xu Xiangjuan swept and mopped the floor, then started to take out the kitchen utensils. To avoid dust accumulation, she put the dishes and chopsticks in the cupboard.
You still need to wash it when you use it.
Zhou Chengning came back from drying the quilt: "Juan, I've dried the quilt. It's warm outside. How long will it take to dry it before you take it back?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Two hours, the sun won't be hot at four o'clock, bring the quilt back then, I have to go out to buy groceries, you stay at home and look after the kids."
"So what else is there to do now?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Look for spider webs in the corners. If there are any, sweep them away and let the two children get out of the way."
When there is work to do, Zhou Chengning goes to work.
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