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"That shouldn't be the case..." Qin Yao laughed, "We are all respectable people, at most we are just talking to join in the fun, maybe grandpa is just joking."
Gu Cheng crossed his arms and looked down at her eyes, with a smile hidden in his eyes, and said nothing, as if silently telling her: Try it yourself when the time comes.
"You think your wife is too capable." Qin Yao smiled and stepped forward to hold Gu Cheng's hand. "If everyone wants me to write, then you have to save me. You can't just leave me to the wolves."
Gu Cheng smiled and grabbed her wrist: "When the time comes, just tell them that you have to help me write it. I have a lot of past experience, enough for you to write 5 or 6 million words. You can write for the rest of your life."
Qin Yao tilted her head and squinted her eyes slightly: "Captain Gu, you are so good at bragging."
"The love poems I wrote for you could fill a book. It's not good to show this to outsiders. When we get old, we can leave it to our descendants."
"Give Ruirui a few books of his father's love poems, and give Mingming a few books, so that it will be easier for them to chase girls in the future, so that they don't become like their fathers, who became middle-aged old men before finding wives." After saying this, Gu Cheng raised his cheeks and smiled with pursed lips. His smile was "innocent and pure", like a simple and good young man in his twenties.
If we say that the 28-year-old Gu Cheng was unconsciously pretending to be young, it was all due to his natural conditions; now that he is nearly 32 years old, Gu Cheng is consciously pretending to be young by using his own conditions.
Instead, he looks younger and more handsome than the little brother Gu did back then.
Qin Yao: “…”
"It's so strange, why aren't you greasy at all? Why are you so shiny and smooth, and tender like a little brother?"
This is so unscientific!
The night wind around her made Qin Yao's arms feel cool. She felt very strange. Over the past few years, she did not become ugly. She was still fair and pretty, but she was already a mature woman with bright and beautiful eyes. She did not pretend to be young on purpose. In addition, she had lived for 26 years before she traveled through the book. Her actual age had reached 30 years old, not much younger than Gu Cheng.
And since Gu Cheng acted so young in front of her, she really felt like an older sister.
——She admitted that she called herself sister when they first met just to take advantage of her.
By now, she felt a sense of crisis. Why did this guy get younger and younger?
"Don't you like me like this?" Gu Cheng raised his hand and pulled her hair, unable to understand what the "little girl" was thinking.
Even though they have known each other for almost four years and even though she is already a mother of two children, in Gu Cheng's eyes, Qin Yao is still a somewhat naughty girl. The more he gets along with her, the younger he feels he is getting and the more wonderful his life is becoming.
In the past, he would never have had the "ambition" to test the baby carriage.
Qin Yao sighed: "Maybe I fell in love with two men, the childish you and the mature you."
"You just like my young face." Gu Cheng was open-minded. He knew that Qin Yao liked little brother Gu's face and appreciated Captain Gu's style of doing things.
"It's greasy, it's greasy." Qin Yao said coldly: "Your words have put three layers of grease on your face."
"Little brother Gu, do you know what the first principle of pretending to be young is? You can't be too narcissistic and spread the message 'Look, I'm so young' everywhere -" Qin Yao pointed at her face, "When you do this, you become greasy and smell like an old man."
"Oh, I'm most afraid of old men pretending to be young." Qin Yao shrugged, spread her hands and shook her head.
Gu Cheng had no expression on his face: “…”
"You say one thing and mean another." Gu Cheng lowered his head and quickly kissed his wife on the cheek, "Your body doesn't say that."
"You don't have to say it directly. I know that you, a young and beautiful woman in your early twenties, likes older men who are ten years older than you and often pretend to be younger - you have such a strong taste!"
Qin Yao was choked by him. The man was shameless, really shameless. In the past, Gu Cheng was choked by her words and was speechless, but now he found a way to fight back and started to say that she had "strong taste".
It’s not wrong to say that, maybe she has liked “pretending to be a young old man” from the beginning.
A true fool cannot get along with someone, no matter how much he likes their face.
In other words, the young man does not have the calm temperament of Captain Gu, and looks like a scheming man who says, "I'll just watch you make trouble."
"Well, I just have a strong taste, that's why I like your spicy and sour cucumber."
Gu Cheng said calmly: "Big cucumber."
Qin Yao kicked him and said, "You talk so greasy, I'll catch you and squeeze your oil out of you."
"Are you complimenting me? Is greasy food bad? Every family needs greasy food. With a greasy husband like me, you will never need greasy food for the rest of your life."
Qin Yao: “…”
It's not just a generation gap, but a "gap of the times". In this era, some men call themselves the "Oil King" and are quite proud of it.
The most expensive meat is pork belly, and who doesn’t want to have hundreds of pounds of lard at home?
"With a father like you, I'm worried that my son won't be able to find a wife in the future."
I can’t stand it. The kids are influenced by what they see and hear. I don’t know what kind of kids they will become.
In January 1976, Qin Yao and Gu Cheng returned to Beijing with their two children, and Chen Guixiang went back with them. The third brother and his wife stayed on the island. The state-owned hotel was busy during the New Year, and the third brother was unable to spare time. His rank and salary were being raised, and he had a wife and a daughter, so his desire to strive was rising.
After Chen Guixiang returned to Beijing this time, she never came to the island again, but stayed in the courtyard and lived with her husband. When the day came to leave and return home, Chen Guixiang was still reluctant to leave. She was reluctant to leave her son and daughter, as well as her grandson and granddaughter.
Qin Chuanrong lives alone in the courtyard, which is quite pitiful.
"You've been living too carefree on the island, and I feel a little sorry for your father." Chen Guixiang sighed and shed a few crocodile tears.
If Qin Chuanrong hadn't begged her hard on the phone, Chen Guixiang really didn't want to go back. The long winter in the north was too cold. Living in a slum, having to squeeze into public toilets and empty chamber pots, it would be better to spend the winter comfortably on the island.
The only uncomfortable thing is the hot and humid weather. Although the wind is strong and the sun is shining, it is wet everywhere.
Gao Jianguo and Chen Baozhen took their daughter back first, and Qin Yao and his wife and four other people took a boat out of the island.
It was the first time for the two little boys Ruirui and Mingming to travel far away in their lives. It was also the first time for them to leave the island by boat. They were held in their father’s arms and everything they saw was new to them.
"The two children are so old, but they have never seen snow, nor have they worn a thick cotton-padded jacket. It's a pity. This time I will take you to see the snow." Chen Guixiang pinched her grandson Ruirui's little face.
He looks like a little girl, but he doesn't have the plump and chubby face that Yaoyao had when she was a child. He is a little thin. Chen Guixiang wants to fatten him up, but he eats his meals obediently and doesn't eat much. Qin Yao says Ruirui looks like her, but the rest of him is like his father, who is picky about food.
Mingming looks like Gu Cheng, but he is not picky about food. He loves to eat, move around, and is lively and talkative. He is fatter than his brother and walks like a caterpillar, swaying from side to side.
Qin Yao really wanted to get this little guy a pair of fluffy dinosaur pajamas, but he didn't have the chance to wear them on the island. Even if he came out, he didn't have the material conditions now.
"Mom! Mom!" A child who is almost two years old is like a little motor. He loves to run and walk. His small body hides great energy. He is much more lively and powerful than adults. They have just come into this world and are full of curiosity about everything in the world.
"How about letting daddy teach you how to recognize fish?" Qin Yao found a picture book of marine animals and asked Gu Cheng to teach the children. He had seen many fish with his own eyes. It was a pure living textbook.
"No fish, no fish!"
Whether it was Ruirui or Mingming, both kids shook their heads vigorously.
Qin Yao: "Why?"
Ruirui: "Dad said this one doesn't taste good, and that one doesn't taste good either."
Comrade Gu Cheng had a unified opinion on the evaluation of the "fish catch".
"Only by eating fish can you become smart. Don't be picky about food like your dad. Mom will tell you a little secret. On the surface, your dad doesn't like to eat fish, but he actually eats a lot of fish behind everyone's back... He eats a lot of fish without letting you know."
Qin Yao spoke vividly, as if she was really describing a huge secret. Even a two-year-old kid liked to listen to this kind of "unknown little secret behind the scenes."
"He deliberately told others that he didn't like eating fish because he didn't want others to know how smart he was."
Ruirui and Mingming's mouths became "O" shapes. It turned out that their father was secretly eating fish behind their backs.
Gu Cheng: “…”
Is his wife praising him or complimenting him?
"Smart babies are always lovable, so eat more fish to become smarter."
The two kids nodded as if they understood, but no one knew whether they understood what the adults said.
However, although they are small, they like to be treated as "adults" and chat with their mother.
As for children, even if they just respond a few words in a babble, their little heads are easily self-consistent and they are also very forgetful, so they will forget it after a while.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask Dad if he ate fish."
Gu Cheng: "I did eat fish."
Gu Cheng was enjoying the sea breeze while accompanying his wife in playing with the two little kids. The two kids were noisy and only after he chatted with them would they sit still.
Chen Guixiang was particularly pleased watching from the side: "Thanks to my son-in-law who eats a lot of fish, my two grandchildren are really smart."
In the eyes of grandma, her two grandsons are extremely smart. Some people's children may not be able to dress and eat by themselves when they are five or six years old. Of course, this is rare, and most of them have ordinary performance.
Gu Cheng: "...I'll eat more fish tomorrow?"
Chen Guixiang: "You should eat more, it will be good for your brain."
Gu Cheng: “…”
It was already the coldest time of the year in the north, and the further north one went, the colder it got. The two little kids had never seen a winter like this before - but they were not afraid of the cold at all. Perhaps every child was a born little stove, and the new firewood burned vigorously.
Qin Yao and Shen Guixiang, mother and daughter, felt like they were freezing to death. Shen Guixiang also found it strange. Why was it so cold? So cold... She had never felt so cold before.
"Yaoyao, it feels particularly cold this year." When getting off the train, Chen Guixiang rubbed her hands, exhaled a puff of white air, and chatted with her daughter.
Qin Yao nodded: "It may be a cold winter that only comes once in a decade." As a person born in the 2000s, I often hear about snowstorms, droughts and floods that only come once in a decade or once in a century.
At this time, someone next to him said, "It may be a warm winter today."
Chen Guixiang: “…”
Qin Yao: “…”
After getting off the train, he was not in a hurry to go to Gu's house, but went back to Qin's courtyard first. At this moment, Qin Chuanrong was the only one living in the courtyard. The eldest and second brothers' families had moved out and lived in tube-shaped buildings. The fourth brother worked in the zoo, so Qin Chuanrong became a lone commander.
The closer she got to the slum where she had lived for decades, the more complicated her mood became. Chen Guixiang wiped away her tears. She and Qin Chuanrong had been together for so many years, and it was rare for them to be apart for these days. Now he lived alone in the slum, while other families had large families, but he was all alone. He was afraid that his life would be difficult.
"The person I feel most sorry for is your father."
Arriving at the gate of the compound, walking along the corridor into the courtyard, a group of people announced, "Guixiang, you're back. Wow, we haven't seen each other for a long time."
"Yaoyao is back too. Oh, these two little kids look like the Fuwa in the New Year pictures."
…
When they arrived at the door of their house, Chen Guixiang felt something was wrong. There were people in the house, quite a few of them. A strong smell of alcohol wafted out, along with the sound of erhu rap. Chen Guixiang's face appeared, scaring Qin Chuanrong inside so much that he staggered.
The other men asked curiously, "Lao Qin, what's going on?"
When his wife and children are away, Qin Chuanrong turns his home into a "middle-aged men's club", inviting a group of buddies to have a nice drink at home.
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