Chapter 255: Honey and Oil (Page 1/2)
After Huo Li took a stroll around his grandson's space, he felt filled with satisfaction.
When he walked out of the space, he said to Huo Qingci: "When you have some free time to rest, grandpa really wants to go into your space again to go fishing."
Hearing his grandfather's words, Huo Qingci readily agreed: "Okay, Grandpa, I will prepare a few fishing rods by then, and we can go fishing together when we have time."
At this moment, Huo Li suddenly remembered the delicious soft-shelled turtles they had tasted before, and asked with a smile, "Did you also catch those soft-shelled turtles we ate in the pond?"
Huo Qingci quickly shook his head and began to explain in detail: "Grandpa, soft-shelled turtles are actually very difficult to catch. Generally speaking, they can only be caught by setting traps in the ground.
You need to mince the chicken liver, hepatitis A and other internal organs into small pieces, make the appropriate bait, and then put it into the ground trap. Finally, you just need to wait for the turtle to crawl into the ground trap on its own!
He was not very familiar with the bait used by Manman, but those baits had a fatal attraction to soft-shelled turtles. In order not to reveal Manman's secret, he naturally could not tell his grandfather about it.
"Okay, I get it. You go out and take care of the two children."
Huo Qingci walked out of his grandfather's room with a smile. Liao Sijie came over and handed him a letter.
"Cousin, my parents wrote a letter. It's for you."
Huo Qingci guessed that his aunt must have put the two letters in the same envelope to save on stamps.
He took the envelope and said, "Si Jie, is your aunt writing to you to discuss your marriage?"
Liao Sijie nodded. "My parents can't take such a long vacation, so they may not be able to come back."
"Oh, then when are you and Lin Jing going to the island to visit your parents?"
"Lin Jing said he might not have time this year, and we'll have to wait until next year when he takes a long vacation..." Liao Sijie said in a low voice.
Huo Qingci asked again, "How about betrothal gifts and dowries?"
"My dad told me to invite my aunt and uncle, and you and my cousin's wife to go to the Lin family to talk sometime."
"Si Jie, your cousin's wife is very busy at the end of the year and may not have time to go to the Lin family. I will go with my parents."
Huo Qingci directly rejected Lin Man's proposal to go to the Lin family. Liao Sijie naturally understood what her cousin meant, and she did not continue to dwell on it.
After the two children fell asleep, Huo Qingci took out the letter written by his aunt and read it with Lin Man.
Lin Man saw the letter asking her to go to the Lin family to discuss the betrothal gift, and said, "Auntie, you should know about my relationship with the Lin family, right?"
"She knows. She apologized in the letter, saying that it was Sijie who wronged you. I don't know what Sijie said to my aunt, making her think that she would marry Lin Jing."
Lin Man chuckled, "You'll only know if you ask your cousin. Besides not wanting to set foot inside the Lin family's gate, I don't go to the Lin family's house because I'm really busy."
I'm knitting a sweater for you, but there are still two sleeves left to be finished. It will probably take another week to finish it.
Besides, winter vacation is coming soon. Apart from teaching students every day, the remaining free time is either spent on marking test papers or attending meetings.
What about the end-of-term summary, what about the next year's plan, there is a meeting every other day."
"What are your school's plans for next semester?"
"At the beginning of March, we will learn from Lei Feng and take students to do good deeds. At the end of March, when the weather gets better, we will take them on a spring outing.
Some suggested climbing the Great Wall, some suggested visiting the Forbidden City, and some suggested going boating in the park. Finally, the principal said that he would take the students to a farm for a picnic next spring.
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The school has a sports meet in May, and in June we have the anniversary celebrations... so many plans in short."
After hearing what Lin Man said, Huo Qingci felt that being a teacher was not easy. He took out the opened durian from the space, broke off a piece and handed it to Lin Man.
Lin Man said, "I just brushed my teeth, and you asked me to eat again."
"Be good, just eat one piece."
Lin Man had no choice but to take the durian and said while eating, "Qingci, you brought grandpa into the space, you didn't open this durian for him, did you?"
"Yes, my grandfather ate two pieces of the flesh and said it smelled bad but tasted good. He asked me what it was called and why China didn't have it.
I told him that this was a fruit tree that came with the space, and I didn’t know which country it came from.”
"Grandpa must be very curious about your space. Did he ask you how it came about?"
"Yes, Grandpa is very curious and excited. As for how I got this space, it might be related to the wrong food I ate when I was a child."
Lin Man was very confused, "What did you eat wrong when you were a child?"
Huo Qingci shook his head, "I don't know what it is exactly, but my grandfather said that when I was three years old, my grandmother took out one of her green beads and fed it to me as candy.
My family was scared and took me to the hospital. The doctor prescribed some laxatives and left me alone.
I know that one day I suddenly had a dream and entered a strange place, and I was scared at that time.
I didn't dare tell anyone, for fear they would call me crazy. Gradually, I got used to it, and I became even more afraid to tell anyone, fearing I'd be captured and imprisoned by the enemy."
Lin Man didn't expect Huo Qingci to get his space this way. She joked, "Your grandma stuffs things into your mouth without even checking to see if it's candy. You're so obedient."
"Everyone was poor back then, and you had to wait until Chinese New Year to eat candy. Grandma suddenly gave him a bead, and he swallowed it without a second thought, right? I don't remember anything about it when I was three years old. Grandpa told me all this."
"This is a blessing in disguise for you. You should thank grandma for feeding you."
"Well, I should thank my grandma."
It is said that when people are well fed and warm, they will think about sex. After eating the durian, Lin Man got up to wash up. As soon as she finished washing up, Huo Qingci pulled her into the bathroom to "play in the water together".
Lin Man admired Huo Qingci very much. He looked gentle and noble on the surface, but he was actually a wolf that could never be fed. Less than ten minutes after he finished building the bathroom, he carried her to the guest room and continued building it.
After doing it twice, Lin Man was really exhausted and had to raise her hands in surrender. "Qingci, it's already half past ten. Let's go to bed early. I have a lot of things waiting for me tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll carry you to take a bath."
"I don't want you to carry me. I'll go by myself."
Lin Man lived a happy life, but Yang Huiling was miserable.
When she got home, she thought her man would apologize to her, but Huo Junlin came back without saying a word. He washed his face and feet and went straight back to his daughter's room to sleep.
Yang Huiling sat on her son's bamboo bed in the living room and cried, saying that she was unlucky and had married the wrong person.
"Wen Jing, I was blind to find your father, and tonight he slapped me to protect your grandfather. I don't want to live with him anymore. I want a divorce."
Yang Huiling just cried casually, but Huo Wenjing took it seriously. "Mom, are you really going to divorce Dad? We're almost fifty years old now. Wouldn't we be laughed at if we divorced?"
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