Tong Jianglin couldn't fit in with the little girls' conversation, and because he felt that he was a boy, he didn't want to talk to girls who liked to play with dolls and wear hair flowers.
He turned around and talked to the little boy Niu Niu.
But after talking for a while, Tong Jianglin felt that he was really stupid. It was more difficult to talk to a little boy who couldn't speak than to join in a conversation with a girl.
Niu Niu didn't quite understand what the strange brother was saying, but when the brother spoke to him, he followed suit and made noises, as if they were having a conversation.
Xiao Jiang and Gua Gua chatted for a short while before they became like little sisters, holding hands and going out to play in the snow.
The two sisters went to play in the snow, and Tong Jianglin followed them because he also wanted to play in the snow.
Ding Li couldn't keep an eye on the children, so she let them do whatever they wanted. She had nothing to say to her husband, so she went to tease Niu Niu, who was crying loudly because his brothers and sisters were all out.
When a strange aunt talked to him, Niu Niu stopped howling and started calling for his mother.
The little baby cried for his mother, so Ding Li had to go out and tell Gua Gua, who was playing in the snow with his brothers and sisters not far away, that Niu Niu was crying, and Gua Gua asked his mother to come over.
When Gua Gua heard what his aunt said, he went to the kitchen to call his mother, but his mother didn’t come, so he called his father instead.
Zhou Chengning picked up Niu Niu from the chair and said, "I'm sorry, the child is ignorant. I'll take him away right away."
Niu Niu stopped crying when his father held him, but there were tears on his face. He felt so wronged that his brothers and sisters refused to play with him.
The aggrieved Niu Niu buried his face in his father's shoulder. Zhou Chengning stroked Niu Niu's back and took Niu Niu to the kitchen.
After going out of the shed, Niu Niu looked up again and saw his brothers and sisters playing in the snow. Niu Niu cried a few times, but none of his brothers and sisters paid any attention to him, which made him feel even more aggrieved.
After the father and son left, Ding Li turned around and asked Tong Lianggao, "Am I that scary?"
Tong Lianggao: "It's not that you're scary, it's that the kids are out and no one is playing with Niu Niu, that's why he's crying."
"What you said makes sense." Ding Li felt that this was the reason.
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"What's wrong?" Xu Xiangjuan was still cooking spicy hot pot when her husband came back carrying Niu Niu. She asked Niu Niu what happened.
The little guy seemed to have suffered a great injustice.
Zhou Chengning didn't expect that Niu Niu could feel "excluded" at such a young age: "The kids didn't take him with them when they were playing in the snow, and he was unhappy."
As soon as he came out of the shed, Niu Niu called out in the direction of his brothers and sisters, and he knew it.
"Mom." Niu Niu opened his little arms and wanted his mother to hug him, and told his mother how wronged he was.
Xu Xiangjuan can't hold the baby yet: "Be good, Niu Niu. Mommy will hold Niu Niu when the fever is done."
The family's spicy hot pot was ready. There was indeed a pot of it. Xu Xiangjuan also served three bowls of rice and an empty bowl and put them all on the tray. Zhou Chengning came to deliver the food, so her hands were free. Xu Xiangjuan hugged Niu Niu and said, "Aning, please walk carefully."
Zhou Chengning: "Okay, this meal is not as heavy as Niu Niu, I will be careful."
The spicy hot pot and rice came, Da Jiang and Xiao Jiang went to eat, but Xu Xiangjuan did not go to make her own lunch immediately.
She let Aning hold Niu Niu, and she took Gua Gua with her, and the family went outside.
"Juan, do you want to let Niu Niu play in the snow?" Zhou Chengning held Niu Niu and watched his lover rolling up Niu Niu's sleeves, and he couldn't help but make such a guess.
Guagua was rolling a snowball when he heard his father say, "Mom, Niuniu can't walk, and Niuniu is afraid of the cold."
Niu Niu, who originally wanted his father to let him go when he saw Xue, was stunned by his mother's behavior of rolling up her sleeves and couldn't utter a word.
"Aning, put Niu Niu on the ground." Xu Xiangjuan rolled up Niu Niu's sleeves to reveal his little hands.
Niu Niu is young and has small hands, so he has no gloves to wear. He also doesn't know how to put his hands in his pockets to keep warm, so in the cold winter, he can only rely on sleeves that are longer than his hands to keep warm.
Zhou Chengning obediently put Niu Niu on the snow. At this moment, Niu Niu was still holding on to his father's legs, but not as tightly as before.
Niu Niu raised his little face and looked at his mother, then at his father.
Xu Xiangjuan squatted down, her eyes level with Niu Niu: "Niu Niu, if you want to play in the snow, go ahead. Dad, mom, and sister will play with you."
Grabbing a handful of snow, Xu Xiangjuan rolled it into a small ball, placed it in her palm, and handed it to Niu Niu.
Niu Niu raised his chubby little hand to touch the snowball in his mother's hand, but quickly retracted his hand because of the cold snow.
But because he really wanted to continue playing, Niu Niu reached out to touch the snow again, but quickly pulled his hand back.
After going back and forth a few times, Niu Niu had a lot of fun and was laughing.
Once again, I can’t understand the little kid’s joke.
Guagua also rolled a snowball for her younger brother to play with. Her sister's snowball Niu Niu would also try to touch it, but would retract his hand reflexively when it touched the snow. Guagua thought that her younger brother was having fun doing this. Sometimes, when Niu Niu didn't touch the snow, she would take the initiative to put the snow in Niu Niu's hands.
Finally, Xu Xiangjuan let Niu Niu play with the snow on the ground by himself.
Looking at the pile of snow on the ground, Niu Niu tried to stand on his own without holding his father's legs with both hands.
Zhou Chengning then squatted down, held Niu Niu, and provided support for Niu Niu.
"Mom, Niu Niu will get frostbite if he keeps doing this." Gua Gua said.
When Niu Niu heard his sister's voice, he didn't dare to jump into the snow. He didn't quite understand what his sister meant, but it seemed like his sister didn't let him play.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Guagua, you still talk about your brother. Mom talks about you all the time. Do you listen to her?"
Guagua in their family is such a double-standard child. Her younger brother and she have two sets of standards.
Niu Niu will be a quiet little boy in the future. As a mother, it is impossible for her to use the same method for two children with different personalities. But this is only in terms of educating children, and has nothing to do with double standards.
My daughter is very clear about the double standards.
Guagua: "I am different from Niu Niu. My hands are bigger and harder than Niu Niu's."
Niu Niu's hands can really be described as soft and boneless. Xu Xiangjuan's hands are not big, nor slender, but a little short and fleshy. Compared with Zhou Chengning's, they are simply children's hands. But even if they are "child's hands", her hands are much bigger than Gua Gua's. Gua Gua would be compared with her younger brother who is three years younger than her.
Xu Xiangjuan began to educate the mother: "Mom and Dad's hands are bigger and harder than Guagua's, but why don't mom and dad play in the snow? Because when Guagua was his age, mom and dad didn't listen and played in the snow. They got frostbite on their hands, and their hands were swollen and itchy, more itchy than mosquito bites. If they scratched, something would come out, which was very uncomfortable, so mom and dad never play in the snow again."
Niu Niu's little head turned to his sister and then to his mother, and his hat was tilted and covered his eyes. Zhou Chengning put Niu Niu's hat back on.
When Guagua doesn't want to be obedient, she will choose to be a selective mute and pretend to be deaf and dumb. Xu Xiangjuan will not continue to educate her and let Niu Niu play in the snow.
Neither the sister nor the mother said anything, and Niu Niu's attention was turned to the snow on the ground again.
Now the focus is on Niu Niu. Everyone is watching Niu Niu. Niu Niu is no longer the kid that his older brothers and sisters don't want to play with.
Xu Xiangjuan and Zhou Chengning were very patient. Their older brothers and sisters had all gone to eat, and Guagua also had the patience to watch his younger brother play.
Niu Niu hesitated at first, but later, maybe because everyone was watching him, he got up the courage. He was very small, but he also learned from his parents to squat down. He had to squat, because if he didn't squat, he would have to throw his whole body on the snow to touch the snow.
Zhou Chengning cooperated from behind.
The two chubby little hands pressed into the snow and quickly retracted. The small body was no longer as sluggish as before. It stood up quickly and turned around, leaving a very shallow handprint on the snow.
Zhou Chengning thought Niu Niu wanted him to hug him, so he hugged Niu Niu and stood up.
Dad kindly picked up Niu Niu, but how did Niu Niu treat Dad?
Niu Niu put his two chubby little hands under his father's chin to keep warm.
The cold and wet little hands are not as irritating as the icy hands of adults, but... "Bad boy, no wonder you want daddy to hold you when mommy is around, bad boy!"
I haven't seen her so enthusiastic towards her dad before, it turns out her enthusiasm has a purpose.
Zhou Chengning patted his son Niu Niu's butt a few times, but he didn't use much force, and Niu Niu was actually amused by the patting.
Xu Xiangjuan couldn't help laughing: "Dad's face is hot, Niu Niu knows to get close to Dad's face to keep warm, Gua Gua go back with mom, let's soak in hot water, it's more comfortable than Dad's face."
"Yes, hot water is more comfortable." Gua Gua took his mother's hand and walked with her.
Niu Niu has already played in the snow. The chubby little hand pointed in the direction where his mother and sister left, signaling his father to follow.
Zhou Chengning deliberately stood there for a while, waiting for Niu Niu to cry out in anxiety, before he slowly walked towards the kitchen.
Zhou Chengning was the only one in the family who had never touched snow. Xu Xiangjuan soaked the hands of Guagua and Niu Niu with ordinary warm water without adding anything strange. After washing their hands, she dried them for the two little guys.
Fortunately, she didn't have her period, otherwise her stomach would definitely hurt after tossing and turning in the snow.
After washing Niu Niu and Gua Gua's hands, Xu Xiangjuan went to cook lunch and asked Zhou Chengning to hold Niu Niu in the shed so that she could greet any guests who came later.
The meal was ready, but Xu Xiangjuan still grabbed some vegetables from the shed to fry. Since the pan was hot, the vegetables were cooked quickly.
They were supposed to eat in the kitchen at noon, but Guagua said he wanted to eat in the shed. Xu Xiangjuan didn't object and took the dishes to the shed.
Clear the snow in the yard in the morning to prevent people from falling when delivering vegetables.
There is nothing you can do when it snows, you can only be extra careful.
When their family started to eat, Ding Li's family had not finished yet, "Juanzi, do you have any more rice? We want another bowl of rice."
"There is still one bowl of rice. Sister Ding, give me the bowl and I'll serve it." The rice was brought over. Ding Li wanted more rice, so Xu Xiangjuan served it for her. There was only enough for one bowl left in the rice bowl. After that, there would be no more rice for today.
Ding Li took out a dime from her pocket and handed it to Xu Xiangjuan: "One dime."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Sister Ding, no need. You guys have already bought so much spicy hot pot. There's no charge for more rice. I'll sit back and eat, and you guys can continue eating."
Ding Li didn't push the dime around. She took it back, said thank you, and continued eating.
After dinner, Ding Li and her family did not leave immediately. They were too full, so Gua Gua asked her brothers and sisters to go out and play in the snow with her after dinner.
With his parents around and having already played in the snow, Niu Niu was not that envious of his older brothers and sisters. After lunch, he sat quietly on his father's lap.
Ding Li had nothing to do. She lamented that this place was far away and Maodong Village was big. She had to take some time off to eat or go visit the grandparents of the children who were passing by. At other times, she really didn't have the time to come here for a meal.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Sister Ding, we will rent a store in town next year, it should be much more convenient then."
The mayor's family is considered an important customer. I'm sure they'll come here often in the future.
Tong Lianggao is the town mayor and works in the township government. I guess his family should live not far from the town school.
Ding Li: "Have you found a store?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "No, I plan to ask my dad to help me find out next year."
Ding Li: "Where do you want to be?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "I plan to live closer to school. My daughter is in kindergarten and my son will be going to kindergarten soon. The children's father is a teacher in a middle school. Living close to them will make it easier to take care of them."
Ding Li: "My parents have an empty house near the school. Because there were many houses built when the school was built, there were not many fields over there. My parents are old farmers, so they moved to another place. It's empty now. You can go and have a look when you have time."
"That's great. Let's go and see her when we have time." Xu Xiangjuan didn't take it seriously and just responded.
She felt that Ding Li was just talking, and if she took it seriously, nothing would happen.
Ding Li and her family left only after the children came back from playing.
Zhou Chengning went to wash the dishes while Xu Xiangjuan made egg tea for him.
The bowl of rice that was added to Ding Li's family was originally Zhou Chengning's lunch. He usually ate two bowls of rice at noon, and he didn't say anything when the guest asked for it. But if he only ate one bowl of rice, he would definitely be hungry in the afternoon, so she had to cook something more.
Add longan to the egg tea. Xu Xiangjuan cooks the longan first, which can also fill the stomach. When the soup boils, beat three eggs into it.
Guagua saw her making egg tea and said he wanted to eat some too, so she made one for Guagua and left two for Aning.
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