After going to the bathroom to wash up, Niu's father returned to the master bedroom he and his wife lived in and stayed there. Even Niu's mother didn't know what her husband was doing in the bedroom. However, because she had to prepare breakfast for the family and do housework, she didn't care about Niu's father and focused on doing her own things.

However, although Niu's mother was concentrating on doing her housework, occasionally, when she was busy, she would glance at the master bedroom and the second bedroom outside the kitchen with their doors tightly closed. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart and thought that they were really father and son, even their temperaments and habits were exactly the same.

Look, can it be different? It's not early in the morning and they are all staying in the bedroom doing their own work and not going out. I don't know whether the old learned this from the young or the young learned it from the old.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Niu's mother, who was busy in the kitchen, was about to finish all the housework and breakfast. Seeing that the time on the wall clock in the living room was almost 7:30 in the morning, Niu's mother put down the spoon in her hand and walked out of the kitchen door.

Looking at the doors of the master bedroom and the second bedroom which were closely adjacent to each other, Niu's mother thought for a while and decided to go to the door of Niu Dehua's second bedroom first.

She looked at the tightly closed door of the second bedroom. She did not push the door open without hesitation like other parents. Instead, she knocked lightly a few times, put her ear close to the door, and asked softly, "Dehua, are you up?"

After waiting for two seconds, Niu's mother clearly heard Niu Dehua's reply coming from the bedroom.

"You're up early. What's wrong, mom? Is there something wrong?"

After hearing Niu Dehua's voice, Niu's mother quickly replied, "Oh, it's good to get up! Mom doesn't have anything to talk to you about, but Dehua, it's already past seven o'clock, you have to take care of your health even if you study, right? Mom has already prepared breakfast, you eat breakfast first, it's not too late to study after breakfast!"

"Okay, I'll be right out for breakfast!"

After Niu Dehua finished saying this, Niu's mother clearly heard the sound of a chair being dragged backwards from behind the door, followed by a slight and inconspicuous sound of footsteps coming towards her outside the door. The footsteps became louder and closer.

Just as she had guessed, her eldest son Niu Dehua woke up early in the morning and couldn't wait to start studying. He didn't want to waste even a minute, which made Niu's mother feel very distressed.

After a while, the door was opened. Mother Niu saw the tall man standing in front of her, whose face looked a little pale because of staying up late. She felt distressed and complained as she led her son to the kitchen and said, "Didn't you promise me that your father and I wouldn't work so hard together a while ago? Why are you starting again now? Tell me the truth. What time did you go to bed last night and what time did you get up in the morning?"

"Yeah, don't worry, mom. I didn't study that late. I was paying attention!" Hearing what Niu's mother said, Niu Dehua hurriedly explained, "Didn't I go to bed early last night? I remember it was less than 12 o'clock, around 11:30! I did get up a little early in the morning, less than 6 o'clock, at 5:50! But it's not like I had almost had enough sleep, so I woke up so early!"

"Then getting up at 5:50 is too early!" Niu's mother, who was busy preparing breakfast for her son Niu Dehua in the kitchen, felt helpless after hearing what her son said. She poured porridge into the bowl and said to the outside of the kitchen, "You only slept for less than seven hours in total. This is not enough!"

"We finally have a weekend off, you should get some sleep! There's still a lot of time left, and you don't need to sleep for an hour or so. You have to listen to me, okay? It won't hurt to get some more sleep! I won't hurt you!"

Niu Dehua watched his mother nagging while her hands were busy preparing breakfast for him and bringing it to him. He did not feel any impatience, but instead felt the deep maternal love behind the nagging.

So when Niu Dehua saw his mother coming over with a bowl of steaming rice porridge, he quickly stood up and stretched out his hand, ready to take the hot bowl from his mother's hand.

Unexpectedly, when seeing his action, Niu's mother moved sideways to avoid her action, "It's hot, be careful! How many houseworks have you done with your delicate skin? Be careful not to burn your hand holding the pen!"

Niu Dehua didn't know whether to laugh or cry when listening to his mother's words. He could only watch his mother put the steaming bowl in front of him. "Mom, you are exaggerating a bit. What do you mean I have delicate skin and tender flesh? I usually help you with housework, okay! And what do you mean I have the hand that holds the pen? Aren't you and my dad the same?"

When Niu Dehua said this, Niu's mother had already returned to the kitchen. When she came out again, she had a plate of omelets and a few boiled eggs in her hands.

"Eat yours. This is an omelet and this hard-boiled egg. You must eat it! This is your daily task. You have to eat it even if you don't want to!"

Seeing Niu Dehua picking up a boiled egg from the bowl and peeling it, Niu's mother nodded with satisfaction and continued to say to Niu Dehua, "What do you know, little kid? You call those houseworks housework?! You are lucky that you were not born in our era. If you were born in our era, you would know what real housework is! Your father and I have both come from hard times..."

Seeing his mother about to start talking to him about her childhood, Niu Dehua couldn't help scratching his head. He threw the round and tender boiled egg into the porridge bowl, picked up an egg pancake and took a bite, "Mom, I definitely know! You and my dad have talked about your childhood so many times before!"

Niu Dehua's words made Niu's mother, who was reminiscing about the good old days, stop abruptly. She glared at her seemingly innocent son Niu Dehua, and then directed the topic to Niu's father who was still in the room, "This old Niu, he didn't even eat breakfast. After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he went back to the bedroom. I don't know what he is doing!"

Mother Niu, who was muttering to herself about her husband, stood up, told her son to continue eating breakfast, and then walked towards the master bedroom, shouting to Father Niu in the bedroom, "Old Niu, Old Niu! What are you doing? It's time to have breakfast, why are you still in there?! Are you covering yourself with the quilt and hatching eggs?!"

Mother Niu called her husband's name but received no response from him, and the bedroom was still quiet, which made her wonder if her husband was really hiding in the quilt and incubating eggs as she said?

However, when Niu's mother just walked to the door of the master bedroom, the bedroom door was opened from the inside. When she saw Niu's father standing at the door of the room, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak and looked stunned.

Niu's father, who was standing at the door of the room, did not say anything. Instead, he kept a sweet smile on his face. He reached out to adjust his collar, raised his chin with expectation and pride, and looked at Niu's mother in front of him from time to time, as if he wanted to get praise from the person next to him.

So, the couple, who held two different ideas, just stood at the door of the room, staring at each other. No one spoke. Time seemed to be confined within the one square meter area of ​​the master bedroom door.

Niu's father and mother did not say anything strangely, but Niu Dehua, who was eating breakfast silently behind the old couple, found something wrong, so he turned his head to look in the direction of his mother. However, after looking over there, Niu Dehua was as frightened as his mother and mother.

"Dad, are you crazy?!" Niu Dehua shouted in surprise when he saw clearly how Niu's father was dressed.

When Niu Dehua saw his father standing at the door of the bedroom wearing the formal suit that he only wore when giving reports at important events at work, he felt amused and surprised, but also a little helpless. "This is a parents' meeting, not your company's year-end performance review meeting. Why are you wearing all this? And a tie, do you really need to wear it?!"

Niu Dehua's interruption also made Niu's mother, who had been in a state of shock and petrification, react. She immediately shouted at Niu Dehua, "Old Niu, are you crazy?! Why are you dressed so formally?! Are you going on a blind date or getting married?! You are wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a tie?! Do you know how many degrees it is today?!"

Not to mention his son, the series of questions from his wife made Mr. Niu's face look less and less proud, and more and more embarrassed.

Only after Niu's mother finished speaking did Niu's father carefully take over the conversation, "Is it really inappropriate to dress like this? I was thinking that today is such an important occasion, so we must dress more formally. Otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing for our son?"

Mr. Niu believed that his worries were not groundless. After all, his son Niu Dehua's class was the best liberal arts class in the entire Ruxu No. 2 Middle School, or even in the entire Ruxu High School. Not to mention that this was the first parent-teacher meeting and was highly valued by the school.

So after much thought, Niu's father decided to start with his son Niu Dehua's clothing in order not to embarrass him.

To this end, Niu's father carefully rummaged through the closet and carefully took out a complete suit worth 600 yuan that he had bought several years ago for an important report for the unit. He put it on and finally paid special attention to smoothing out the small creases on the suit worth 600 yuan.

After finishing all this, Father Niu took out all the few ties in his closet. After choosing for several times, Father Niu picked out a tie that was not too bright in color and did not have many patterns. He stood in front of the mirror in the bedroom with a rather unfamiliar look, and tied the tie for himself according to the technique he remembered.

Father Niu was so focused on doing all this that he didn't hear Mother Niu calling him for dinner outside the house. After he had carefully put on all his clothes, Father Niu walked out of the bedroom calmly, ready to accept the envious gazes of his wife and children.

However, when Niu's father actually walked out of the bedroom and faced his wife and children, the expressions on their faces were not what he expected. Instead, they showed a hint of incomprehension and some shock and disgust, which made Niu's father feel quite hurt.

Seeing Niu's father's cautious look with a little bit of grievance in it, Niu's mother standing in front of him and his son Niu Dehua behind him couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted when seeing Niu's father's performance.

Yes, what's wrong with this old man in his forties who looks a little old?

He did all this just to show his best side to his son's class teacher. What was the purpose? At best, he was just a middle-aged man who had not made much progress in his career and dressed like this in order not to embarrass his son and to match his son's good grades.

Thinking of this, Niu's mother, who had lived with Niu's father for decades, was the first to react. Her tone softened and she said to her husband in a gentle manner, "It's not that there's anything wrong with you wearing this suit. After all, you really look very elegant in this suit!"

Thinking about how her husband looked when he was wearing this formal suit seven or eight years ago, Niu's mother still remembers the high-spirited look on her husband's face at that time. That look made Niu, who had been a mother for many years at the time, quite moved.

And now, Father Niu picked up this formal suit that he had worn only once and put it on again. Mother Niu seemed to see Father Niu's appearance in the past again. Although she could still feel her husband's elegance in the past, it was obvious that it was not suitable for her husband to wear it like this now.

"But you have to consider that a parent-teacher meeting is not a very formal occasion. If you really wear this way, the head teacher and parents may not think you take it seriously. Instead, they may think..."

Niu's mother didn't finish her words, but Niu's father and Niu Dehua knew what she meant next.

Niu Dehua also took over the conversation and continued, "Yes, Dad, there is no need to do this! And how tiring it is to wear this in this weather! The temperature is over 30 degrees, won't you die of heat when you go to school?! I have to remind your dad that the air conditioner in our class will not be turned on during this season!"

Niu Dehua's interruption made Niu's father's mood a little better. Niu's father was not a pretentious person. After hearing what his wife and son said, he immediately understood that his idea of ​​dressing more formally was not wrong, but he might have gone a little too far.

So Father Niu thought about it and asked the mother and son again, "Is it really inappropriate to wear this?"

Niu's mother and Niu Dehua nodded repeatedly. Niu Dehua even dropped his bowl and came behind Niu's mother. Standing behind her, he said to Niu's father, "It's really not suitable for Dad!"

However, in order not to discourage his father's enthusiasm, Niu Dehua also added, "Well, if you really want to wear it, take off this formal suit! Then change into a pair of thin summer trousers and a short-sleeved white shirt on the upper body. I think it's pretty good, and it's quite in line with your style as a public official!"

His father’s eyes immediately brightened up after seeing his son’s suggestion, and his previous disappointment disappeared without a trace.

Niu Dehua finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Niu's father willingly went back to the bedroom to change clothes.

It’s so difficult!

I have to worry about school and my old father. How can it be easy for me?!

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