After saying goodbye to Jiang Tinghuang, Lu Hao drove all the way home, chewing gum all the way to get rid of the smell of cigarettes in his mouth.
I had quit smoking before, but I couldn't help but smoked another cigarette while watching a movie in the afternoon, so I broke my vow.
There is a famous theory in psychology called the broken window effect, which roughly means that if a car on the road has a broken window and no one takes care of it, it will soon become more broken, other glass will be broken, things in the car will be stolen, and even the wheels may be removed.
Perhaps people always have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that when they see something perfect, they want to make it more perfect, and when they see something broken, they want to make it more broken.
Quitting smoking often fails here.
Every time I smoke one, I feel like all my previous efforts have been wasted, so I just let it go and decide not to quit.
However, after mastering his mentality, Lu Hao felt that it was no big deal. He just smoked one cigarette and didn't smoke next time. He had to quit smoking and there was absolutely no reason to just throw away everything.
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Home.
The atmosphere at home is very harmonious today.
The two babies are now one month old. All the sharp corners in the house have been carefully covered, so the two babies can roll around on the ground as they please.
They can't crawl very well yet, but they can turn over. They are doing all kinds of confusing things on the thick mat like two little fools.
Next to the two of them, the general was lying there lazily, with his white belly exposed. What was with those "loving" eyes?
The general was an old dog, very understanding of human nature. He wasn't worried about hurting the two children, but rather...
Huh?
Lu Ping'an's little hands were groping around on the dog's belly, and suddenly he felt a bulge, and he couldn't help but pull it hard...
General: o(╯□╰)o!!!
His whole body suddenly stiffened, his eyes were stunned, and when he saw Lu Hao coming in, he immediately let out a pitiful whimpering scream.
Life as a dog is so hard.
This little ancestor grabbed my vitals.
As soon as Lu Hao entered the room, he almost laughed out loud. Chu Wen, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, also quickly took action, picked up Xiao Ping'an, and kicked Ba Wang by the way.
The Overlord moved away with his butt sticking up, then changed to a lying position, lying down with his legs tightly clamped together.
Everyone in the family laughed out loud at this scene.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the living room was so harmonious that even Lu Hao felt it was a little weird.
Zhou Xiaomeng was sitting on the sofa eating fruit and playing with her cell phone. Next to her was her mother peeling walnuts for her. One seat over, her father was cracking walnuts. He crushed the paper-shell walnuts one by one, peeled out the kernels inside, and offered them to the mother and daughter.
Chu Wen is taking care of two children.
In the kitchen, my father was cleaning a fish and scraping its scales, while my mother was cooking.
Lu Hao walked around in a circle and was really a little confused.
What happened today?
The sun rises from the west?
You know, when the parents of both families come over, Chu Wen is usually not at home. Even if she is at home, she hides far away in a room on the second floor to avoid embarrassing situations.
Although everyone seems to be harmonious on the surface, one can always feel that invisible but omnipresent "membrane".
Ultimately, it's still awkward.
But now, that awkward feeling is gone, and we really are like a family, living in harmony with each other.
"What good day is today?"
"Why did you buy a cake?"
Seeing a cake and a few small gifts on the dining table, Lu Hao couldn't help but ask with a smile and gave Chu Wen a look.
"Guess?"
Zhou Xiaomeng put down her phone and asked with a smile.
Many thoughts raced through Lu Hao's mind: his parents' birthdays, his father-in-law and mother-in-law's birthdays, Xiao Meng's and Chu Wen's birthdays, none of them were the same.
As for the two kids’ birthdays, that’s even more of a stretch, as they’ve only just passed their full month.
There's really nothing worth remembering.
"What? You're pregnant again?"
Lu Hao laughed and joked.
Suddenly a pillow came flying towards him.
"you……!"
Even though she had already given birth, this joke still made Xiao Meng blush. What kind of joke is this? She's pregnant again. What has she become? A sow?
Besides, it’s been less than two months since I gave birth to my baby. How can I be pregnant with you?
After a lot of laughter, Lu Hao finally understood what had happened.
It turned out to be Chu Wen's credit.
She made full use of her intelligence and combined it with her superb rhetoric and sincere attitude, and successfully obtained Zhou Xiaomeng's consent and the approval of both parents. She was promoted from a marginal figure in this "family" to the godmother of two little kids.
It is said that in Lu Hao's hometown, there is indeed a custom of "adopting a godmother".
Generally, after the child is born, the mother's best friend, or someone with a higher social status among the relatives and friends, will recognize the child in advance and accumulate some incense and favor, in case it may be useful in the future.
The top three professions on the "godmother" list are teachers, doctors, and civil servants.
In short, it is a disguised form of climbing up the social ladder, an act of forming a small circle that is a mixture of personal relationships and interests.
Just like Lu Hao, he also had a godmother who was an elementary school teacher and a junior high school classmate of Lu’s father.
Throughout elementary school, she took special care of Lu Hao and treated him like her own son. During festivals and birthdays, Lu Hao would always bring gifts to her home.
Later, due to health reasons, Lu Hao died. At the funeral, he was required to wear mourning clothes and hold banners like his own son, and to see him off.
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