After seeing off the confused He Yuzhu, Li Chu pushed the bike home.
Footsteps sounded behind me.
"Dr. Li, thank you so much!"
Looking back, I saw that the person speaking was Ran Qiuye from next door.
"Hello, Teacher Ran, why do you need to thank me so properly?"
"I saw it just now." Ran Qiuye pursed her lips a little shyly and raised her hand to brush a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Teacher Ran, you mean He Yuzhu, right? Have you met him?"
Ran Qiuye nodded: "I've seen him attend Jia Geng's parent-teacher conference. I always thought he was Jia Geng's father, but I later found out he was a neighbor."
After she finished speaking, she seemed to realize something and asked, "Dr. Li, why are you wearing a military uniform today?"
"Oh," Li Chu looked down at his clothes. "Qiu Nan and I have both joined the army and are now working at the General Hospital."
Ran Qiuye looked at his clothes with envy, and that look made Li Chu feel uncomfortable all over.
Fortunately, he had arrived at his doorstep. He quickly said goodbye to Ran Qiuye and rushed into his house as if he were escaping.
"Pfft," Ran Qiuye couldn't help but laugh as she watched Li Chu's actions. But after a couple of laughs, a feeling of disappointment welled up inside her.
Looking at the closed gate, he stepped forward and walked towards his own house next door.
Wenhui and Wenxuan were playing with the puppies at the doghouse again.
Puppies grow so fast, they look different almost every day.
Today, two of them were able to take a few shaky steps.
But as I grow older, the day I leave this home will come soon.
Wenhui and Wenxuan were still debating which puppy to keep.
When I arrived at the kitchen, Ding Qiunan was cooking. She was going to steam buns today, and she had already put the dough up there when she got up in the morning.
Li Chu took off his coat, washed his hands, and went into the kitchen to start kneading dough.
"What was He Yuzhu doing here just now?"
"He came here because he wanted to..."
After hearing her husband's words, Ding Qiunan was speechless.
Just like Li Chu had felt earlier, he had nothing to say.
Is his head full of water?
Over the past few years, she has learned many new and interesting words from her husband.
"Who knows? Maybe he's too self-important. He thinks he's good enough that any woman should be interested in him."
Ding Qiunan curled her lip: "Let's not talk about the conditions for now. He's only thirty years old but looks forty, and he's as big as a shoehorn. Who would want him?"
Li Chu suppressed a laugh; his wife was getting increasingly sharp-tongued.
"He does look a bit older than his age."
"Was he a little anxious? He was extremely anxious. I reckon it would be strange if Qin Huairu hadn't taken a liking to him if he hadn't brought back meals every day."
Yes, he agreed with that point. Although Qin Huairu was already a mother of three, she still had a pretty good figure compared to some other women, and most importantly, she was quite beautiful.
"Let them do whatever they want. I've already passed the buck to an old man and woman. Let's see how they handle it."
Hearing this, Ding Qiunan wanted to laugh. She didn't expect her husband to be such a cunning person, dragging those two into the mess with just one sentence.
Ding Qiunan was furious when she thought about how those people had urged her husband to go see Aunt Jia.
You all live in the same courtyard, and you're all highly respected people, yet none of you are willing to speak up. You just want to find someone to take the blame for you. You're all so malicious.
That old lady was the same; Li Chu did his best to treat her chronic leg pain every year, but she still set a trap for him.
There's also an old man here. Even if you're not grateful, you can't do anything malicious.
Seeing his wife's face turn pale and then red, Li Chu knew she must have been thinking about what happened before.
"Honey, don't think about it anymore. Just try to have less contact with people from over there in the future."
"Hmph, I used to think Xu Damao was cunning and loved to bully honest people, but now I see that at least Xu Damao wouldn't repay kindness with enmity."
In recent years, not only Li Chu, but even Ding Qiunan's perception of Xu Damao has changed considerably.
A man who dotes on his wife, loves his children, and remembers the kindness others have shown him—no matter how bad he is, he can't be all that bad.
She is now increasingly grateful that her husband bought this house and moved out back then.
Otherwise, who knows what kind of rumors or gossip would have spread about me among the people in that courtyard.
Listening to his wife's complaints, Li Chu smiled and didn't say anything, placing the kneaded buns one by one onto the steamer rack.
Then he lit the stove over the plate; he liked to steam his steamed buns using a coal fire.
After the steamed buns were ready, the family sat happily in the yard to eat, with the three big dogs sitting nearby, waiting for someone to feed them something delicious.
When they had almost finished eating, Li Chu suddenly blurted out, "Huihui, it's rare that you didn't get scolded by Mom for eating today."
Xiao Wenhui is very naughty and doesn't eat well. Ding Qiunan always criticizes her for not eating properly. But today, she sat here obediently and ate very quickly.
She glanced at her father with a resentful look, then didn't say anything, picked up the bowl with both hands, and drank her porridge.
Ding Qiunan was just about to praise her daughter when, with a "clatter," Xiao Wenhui lost her grip and the bowl fell over, spilling porridge all over the table, her clothes, and the floor.
The air suddenly froze.
Little Wenhui stared blankly at her father, then at her mother, her little mouth twitching as if she was about to cry.
"Hahahaha," Ding Qiunan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
My hands were shaking so badly I could barely hold the bowl, and I almost spilled the porridge.
Although Li Chu's smile wasn't as exaggerated as his wife's, it was still a broad smile on his face.
I put down my chopsticks, picked up a rag, and wiped my daughter down first.
Then I lifted her off the chair and made her stand on the ground.
After trying to hold back her tears for a while, Xiao Wenhui said with a droopy face, "Daddy is bad."
Li Chu squatted down in front of her daughter, suppressing a laugh, and helped her take off her coat.
“What’s wrong with Dad? Look, you spilled the food and I didn’t say anything. I even helped you change your clothes.”
"It's because you just said that I spilled the food."
Ding Qiunan, who had stopped laughing, started laughing again after hearing her daughter's words.
Xiao Wenxuan sat beside her, staring blankly. He couldn't understand why his sister had spilled the food.
It wasn't until Li Chu cleaned up all the spilled food on the table that Ding Qiunan finally leaned back in her chair, clutching her stomach, and stopped laughing.
"You're such a jinx! My daughter was perfectly fine today, but your words have ruined her and she barely drank any porridge."
Li Chu shrugged and used a spoon to feed his daughter the porridge in his bowl.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk while eating anymore. That way my daughter won't blame me, and my wife won't say I'm a jinx. My son is the best behaved."
"Dad, it's best if you don't say anything, otherwise Mom will laugh so hard her stomach will hurt again."
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