040, Adopting Godparents
040, Adopting Godparents
Liu Sanniang could only apologize. She had a flash of the thought of going back to prepare some meat and setting up a stall in the afternoon. However, she thought about how the child had been busy with her for so many days without a break, and today was a holiday. She really couldn't bear to let the child follow her out to sell things in the afternoon.
So this thought just flashed through her mind, and she didn't say it out loud.
"It's okay, it's okay." Although he couldn't buy anything, the customer was a reasonable person and didn't blame the businesswoman. "How about this, if you can't eat it today, you can leave a jar of meat for me tomorrow, and I'll come and get it at this time tomorrow." While speaking, the man took out a hundred coins from his pocket and handed it to Liu Sanniang.
"Okay, I'll keep it for you tomorrow." Liu Sanniang took the deposit and assured the other party.
The man nodded and left.
Customers passing by later saw that others had already packed up their stalls and knew that they had sold out, so they did not come over to ask.
It was not yet noon when they packed up their stall, but there were still some dishes left unwashed by the customers. Liu Sanniang moved the things to the yard behind the pancake shop and drew well water to wash the pots, bowls and chopsticks.
Seeing the child squatting beside her to help her wash the dishes, Liu Sanniang's eyes flashed with a trace of distress and she said to the child: "Qilang, why don't you go sit over there for a while, I'll clean up here."
"Mom, I'm not tired. Let's wash up quickly and go to the front to ask my uncle and aunt if they want to come to our house for dinner so that we can go buy some vegetables. Today is a holiday, and I'm afraid everyone will be out buying vegetables. If we're any later, the vegetables on the street will be sold out." Lu Mingfei reminded his mother.
"Why don't we leave these things here and come back later to clean them up?" Liu Sanniang then remembered that today was a festival, and they still had to go to the street to buy vegetables for tomorrow. The meat had been ordered, so they could just go to the butcher stall to pick it up, but she was also worried that if she went too late today, the meat would be bought by someone else.
Because of this concern, the mother and son discussed it and quickly washed their hands and left.
Liu Sanniang took her son to the pancake shop in front to invite Boss Lu and Xu Yueniang to have dinner at their house this afternoon.
"Okay, that saves me from having to cook. We'll shamelessly go to your house for a meal." Xu Yue Niang agreed as soon as she heard it.
Seeing that his wife had agreed, Boss Lu looked at her with a doting look on his face. Since his wife had already agreed, how could he say no? He could only agree to it.
The three of them agreed to have dinner at the courtyard they rented in the evening, and Liu Sanniang took the children to the street to buy things.
The mother and son went shopping on the street and bought a lot of things, including meat and vegetables for tomorrow morning, as well as dishes for tonight's dinner.
After returning to the backyard of the pancake shop to wash the dishes and pots soaking in the basin, Liu Sanniang went to the pancake shop in front to say hello to Xu Yueniang, then picked up her load and went home with her child.
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Today, their pancake shop closed early because they sold out some of the items.
Before the sun set in the west, Xu Yueniang and Boss Lu closed the door of their house, brought gifts to Tongshu Street, and found the small courtyard rented by Liu Sanniang and her family of three.
“Knock knock—”
"I'm coming, is that someone outside?" Lu Mingfei asked when he heard the knock on the door.
"Qillang, it's your aunt and your Uncle Lu." Xu Yueniang, who was outside the door, heard the child's voice asking and responded.
When Lu Mingfei inside heard the response from outside, he hurried over to unbolt the gate of the yard and invited the two guests outside in.
Liu Sanniang, who was busy in the kitchen, heard Xu Yueniang talking outside and came over to greet Xu Yueniang and her husband. She took the food from Xu Yueniang and gave him a disapproving look, "I just invited you to my house for a meal, why did you bring anything?"
"I have it at home, so I brought it here." Xu Yue Niang said with a smile.
But Liu Sanniang knew that these things must have been bought by someone else, but she couldn't bring herself to point it out. The food was still cooking in the pot in the kitchen, and she hurried into the kitchen to work. She said to the two guests, "We'll have dinner after cooking two more dishes. Have a drink of water first."
"Qillang, pour a glass of water for your Uncle Lu and your Aunt." The latter sentence was an instruction to his own child.
"No, no, we just drank some water from home, so you don't have to pour it for us." Xu Yueniang waved her hand to the boy who was about to pour water for them, and said to Liu Sanniang, "Let me do it with you. It will be faster if we do it together."
"Old Lu, go upstairs and check on Qilang's father." The latter part of the sentence was an order to his own husband.
"Okay." Boss Lu responded.
Liu Sanniang was still saying that she could do it alone, but Xu Yueniang came over and pushed her into the kitchen, and the two of them went into the kitchen to cook.
Lu Mingfei glanced at his mother and called out to Boss Lu who was standing next to him, "Uncle Lu, my father is in there. I'll take you to see him."
"Okay, you go ahead." Boss Lu knew that the Lu family had rented a small courtyard here on Tongshu Street, but this was his first time here.
Lu Mingfei also knew this, so he led the way in front.
Lu Youtian, who was inside, also knew that there were guests coming to his house for dinner today, so when he heard the sound of people talking outside, he knew that the guests had arrived. Not long after, his son brought the guests into the house to see him.
After entering the room and sitting down, Boss Lu looked at Lu Youtian sitting on the bed and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
"Much better." Lu Youtian said.
While his father was talking to Boss Lu, Lu Mingfei went outside and poured two glasses of water into the house, one for the guests and one for his father.
"Thank you, Qillang is so good." Boss Lu looked at the little boy with eyes full of smiles and love. He raised his hand and touched the little boy's head.
"You're welcome, Uncle Lu. You talk to Dad here. I'll go outside to see Mom and Aunt." Lu Mingfei was not used to people touching his head, so he left Boss Lu here to talk to his father. He went to the main room outside, poured two glasses of water and took them to the kitchen for his father and aunt to drink.
The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the long alleys and falls on the yards of every household.
Many people were cooking at home, with plumes of white smoke rising from their overhanging chimneys. It was a holiday, and the aroma of frying meat wafted from many homes. It seemed that because it was a holiday, many families had bought some meat.
Not everyone in the city can afford to eat meat every meal. Those who can afford to eat meat every meal are all rich families. Ordinary people have simple meals for three meals a day. Only during the Chinese New Year and other festivals do many families eat meat.
Therefore, during this period, the aroma of meat wafting from the alleys before dawn every day was a kind of happy torture for many people. It was precisely because of the daily smell of meat during this period that many families bought meat and cooked it during the festival.
While other families were still cooking, dinner was already ready at Liu Sanniang's home.
We have guests at home today, and the dishes they cook today are particularly rich.
They set up a table outside in the yard to eat. Boss Lu even brought Lu Youtian out of the house and had him sit on a chair outside to eat with them.
Four adults and one child, five people sat down around a small table.
Because Lu Youtian was still taking medicine and couldn't drink alcohol, he asked the host to put away the jar of wine that Boss Lu brought, and save it for next time when Lu Youtian's injuries healed and they could have a drink together.
During the meal, Lu Youtian expressed his gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Lu for taking his family in and staying at their home some time ago, and for their help to his family during this period.
"Don't say thank you, you have already thanked us many times." Boss Lu waved his hand and asked Lu Youtian and his wife to be polite to them individually.
Boss Lu looked at the child sitting beside him, glanced at his wife, then looked at Lu Youtian and Liu Sanniang, and couldn't help but mention another thing, "Yue Niang and I have been married for many years, but we have never had children. Every time we see Qilang, Yue Niang and I think, if this was our child, I wonder how wonderful it would be."
"Old Lu and I are afraid we can't give birth to a child as gifted and talented as Qilang." Xu Yueniang truly believed she couldn't give birth to such a wonderful child, and she wasn't just flattering Lu Youtian and his wife. Even if you burned incense for eight lifetimes, you might not be able to give birth to such a gifted child. Anyone who could give birth to such a wonderful child was truly blessed.
Lu Youtian and his wife looked at each other, and suddenly they both understood what Boss Lu and Xu Yue Niang meant.
Boss Lu also knew that Lu Youtian and Liu Sanniang were not stupid people. Since things had come to this, he just said it directly, "The last time Yue Niang met Qilang, she told me that she wanted to adopt Qilang as her adopted son. But we were afraid that you would not agree, so we didn't have the courage to mention it until now."
"It's Qilang's blessing that you like him." Lu Youtian looked at his wife while speaking, asking her what she meant with his eyes.
Liu Sanniang reacted and didn't feel unhappy at all. She even smiled and said, "I'm so happy that there are two more people who can love Qilang together with us. I don't know what Qilang himself thinks."
"Qillang, if Uncle Lu and Aunt Yue Niang adopt you as their adopted son, that means you will have two more adoptive fathers and adoptive mothers in the future, who will love you together with your father and mother. Are you willing?" The first thing Liu Sanniang thought of was the child's reaction to this matter, and she explained to the child what adoptive fathers and adoptive mothers were.
Boss Lu and Xu Yue Niang both looked at the child who was being questioned by the adults.
As someone with an adult soul in his body, Lu Mingfei naturally understood what foster father and foster mother meant. He was somewhat moved by the fact that when his parents in this life heard someone wanted to adopt him as their adopted son, his mother's first reaction was to ask him what he thought. Meeting two pairs of eyes, one questioning and the other expectant, he thought for a moment, then nodded and smiled at Boss Lu and Xu Yueniang, calling out, "Foster father, foster mother."
"Why!"
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