Chapter 79?
Since late May, it has finally stopped raining in Pengcheng, and the long-lost sun has lit up the sky!
Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren took all the clothes and beddings in the house to the balcony and used the scorching sun in May to dry the moisture in the beddings.
Since the weather cleared up, the sun has never been absent. It hangs in the sky all day long and is gradually getting warmer.
On Children's Day this year, Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren continued to go to the nursery to watch their daughter's performance, and took their daughter to the newly opened KFC on the pedestrian street to experience it.
McDonald's and KFC are both Western fast food restaurants. Lin Qiu couldn't tell the difference between them. But Wang Shan preferred the curly-haired uncle in yellow clothes and insisted that she would go to McDonald's next time.
The dragon boat team on the Xixiang River is still training non-stop. The sound of drums and calls attracts people on both sides of the river to look around.
"Do you remember the last time we came here to watch the dragon boat race?" Wang Xiuren picked up his daughter who was standing on tiptoe to look around, and turned his head to ask Lin Qiu.
"How could I not remember it? This is my first time watching such an exciting dragon boat race!"
Lin Qiu recalled the scene two years ago when the family of three came to watch the dragon boat race and laughed, "I remember Shanshan drooled in your hair!"
"That's right! You still push your bike to the river every afternoon to buy popsicles!"
What happened two years ago seems like just yesterday, yet it also seems like a long time ago.
"Mom, I'm not drooling!" Wang Shan was a little unhappy when she heard her mother say that she drooled into her father's arms.
"I'm very hygienic! Only babies drool, not me!"
Looking at his daughter talking nonstop, Wang Xiuren pinched her nose.
"Yes, Shanshan doesn't drool. The drool on Daddy's head is from the pig!"
Wang Shan could now understand good and bad words. When her father said this, she immediately said angrily: "I am not a pig!"
Wang Xiuren burst into laughter when he saw this.
"Mom!" Wang Shan's eyes widened, "Look at Dad!"
Lin Shan pretended to hit Wang Xiuren, and Wang Xiuren responded by saying “ouch”.
When Wang Shan saw her father being beaten, she immediately protected his shoulders and said to her mother angrily, "Mom, you can't hit Dad! The teacher said you can't hit people."
Lin Qiu held back his laughter, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have hit my father, I apologize to him!"
Then he said to Wang Xiuren, who was also trying to hold back his laughter, "I'm sorry."
Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I turned my head to the side, covered my mouth, and my shoulders kept shaking.
Wang Xiuren held his daughter in his arms and could only hold back his laughter, his face turning red.
"Dad, Mommy told you I'm sorry, please tell me it's okay!"
The little leaky cotton-padded jacket couldn't see how hard his father was trying to hold his breath, and even straightened his tilted head.
"It doesn't matter!"
After saying these three words, Wang Xiuren couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Wang Shan thought that her parents were "shaking hands and making peace" and smiled happily, and she also grinned.
Sometimes, children are really the glue that holds a family together. From the first time you hold this miracle of life, the world of two people becomes wider and richer.
Not long after Children's Day, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming.
When he first came to Pengcheng, Lin Qiu still had the time and energy to make rice dumplings for his family and as gifts. Since I started running the newsstand, I have never packed it again.
It’s not because of anything else, I just really don’t have much time.
Lin Qiutian works at the newsstand every day, from 6:30 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening. How can he have the time to make rice dumplings?
So on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, Wang Xiuren got up early and went to the vegetable market to buy rice dumplings and bundles of calamus and mugwort.
He just opened the door and Lin Qiu was about to go to the newsstand.
"Don't change your shoes. I'll take over today. You carry the rice dumplings and mugwort leaves in!"
Lin Qiu took the rice dumplings and moxa leaves, and handed the bicycle key to Wang Xiuren, "Don't buy breakfast, I'll cook the rice dumplings and bring them to you later!"
"Okay! I'm waiting to eat zongzi!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Xiuren closed the door.
Add water to the pot, put the rice dumplings in, cover the pot, and light the fire. All the actions are smooth and done in one go.
Lin Qiu hung mugwort and calamus leaves on the doors and windows, and found that there was still a bunch left, so he hung it directly on the wall behind the TV.
This wall used to be clean. After developing the photos taken in the photo studio, Wang Xiuren bought photo frames, put the photos in them, and nailed them to the wall. In the middle is a family portrait of three people, with photos of Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu and a solo photo of Wang Shan distributed around the family portrait.
Now there is an additional string of mugwort and calamus leaves tied with a red fiber rope.
While the rice dumplings were still not cooked, Lin Qiu took out the mop and mopped the floor, watered the flowers and plants on the balcony, and tidied the sofa.
Then I went to the kitchen and opened the pot.
The steaming water carrying the fragrance of the rice dumplings drifted into the kitchen and into my nose.
Lin Qiu poked it lightly with chopsticks. Good, it's cooked.
He put out the fire and ran to the bedroom to wake up Wang Shan.
Wang Shan was a child who had no temper when waking up. After being woken up, she sat on the bed blankly, rubbing her eyes, without crying or making a fuss.
Lin Qiu found some clothes and asked her to put them on herself.
Summer clothes are mostly short and thin, which are very suitable for children of this age to learn how to dress.
Wang Shan quickly took off her baggy nightgown and put on her sports shorts. She encountered difficulties when putting on her sports T-shirt. She got her head and left hand through, but couldn't get her right hand on.
"Mother!"
Wang Shan raised her right hand to seek help.
Lin Qiu helped her take off her T-shirt and patiently taught her how to put on clothes step by step.
After putting on her clothes, Wang Shan stood in slippers on the small stool that Wang Xiuren had made for her, squeezed toothpaste to brush her teeth, scooped water with both hands and rubbed it on her face, and finally wiped it dry with a dry towel.
While Wang Shan was washing up, Lin Qiu had already peeled a rice dumpling and put it in Wang Shan's bowl to cool. After she finished washing up, the mother and daughter enjoyed a delicious breakfast together.
"Mom, the rice dumplings are so delicious!" Wang Shan chewed the bacon in the rice dumplings with big mouthfuls.
Lin Qiu took the rice off her face and said, "Everything you eat tastes good!"
"Carrots are not tasty! Bitter melon is not tasty!"
Wang Shan blinked her big eyes and gave an example to her mother.
"Eat quickly! You still have to send some rice dumplings to your father!" Lin Qiu tapped her forehead.
After the mother and daughter finished eating and washed the dishes, they carried four rice dumplings to the newsstand.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, factories all have a day off, so the newsstand business is very good from early in the morning.
When Lin Qiu and her daughter arrived, there were quite a few people standing outside the newsstand counter. Lin Qiu held Wang Shan in his arms and squeezed into the counter. He put the rice dumplings aside and began to look for newspapers and books for the customer. By the time most of the customers had left, the rice dumplings were basically cold.
"It doesn't matter. The weather is hot, so eating it cold is just right!" Wang Xiuren chewed the rice dumplings nonchalantly.
Wang Shan was very filial and fanned her father. Her father was so tired that he could only eat cold rice dumplings.
"What are we going to eat for lunch?" Wang Xiuren chewed a rice dumpling and squinted his eyes, enjoying his daughter's service.
"Pingping is also on holiday today. Let's wait for her to come over and discuss it together." Lin Qiu wanted to wait for Lin Ping to come over so that they could call home together.
"Let's go out and eat. We don't have to go to the market again!"
"I think there will be a lot of people if we go out to eat today. I wonder if there will be seats." Lin Qiu was worried that he would have to wait in line for a long time.
"Let me go and take a look later. It's too hot to cook in this weather!" Wang Xiuren planned to queue up first.
"Sister, brother-in-law!"
Lin Ping walked into the newsstand with a plastic bag in both hands.
"Auntie!"
When Wang Shan heard Lin Ping's voice, she rushed out like a little cannonball.
"Shanshan! Look what I bought for you!"
Lin Ping raised the plastic bag in his right hand, which was filled with bright and juicy cherries.
"Hey, this thing is not easy to buy! It should be expensive, right?"
Wang Xiuren had seen them at the owner’s home. They were piled up on a white porcelain plate, like rubies, and looked expensive.
Lin Ping smiled and said, "I just happened to come across this and it's a holiday, so I bought some for everyone to try!"
"What is this?" Wang Shan opened the plastic bag, pinched out a bright red cherry and asked.
"cherry!"
Lin Qiu and Lin Ping said in unison.
"oh."
Wang Shan was about to open her mouth to ask something when she was interrupted by the ringing of the phone.
Wang Xiuren was closer to the phone and picked up the call directly.
"Hello? Excuse me..."
Before Wang Xiuren finished speaking, he heard a cry from the other side, and his face suddenly turned as pale as paper.
"What? Gone?"
Wang Xiuren is on the verge of collapse.
Lin Qiu quickly supported him.
After hanging up the phone, Wang Xiuren said with dull eyes: "My family said Xiuxin passed away! Let me go see him for the last time."
"What?"
Lin Qiu and Lin Ping were horrified.
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