◎First update◎
"Teacher Fan is there! I'm leaving first!" Fang Zhibin was also the kind of kid who couldn't walk when he saw a teacher. No matter how naughty he was, he had a natural sense of awe towards teachers. He was a little naughty at home, so he had to be more restrained when he saw a teacher.
At this time, the best strategy is to run away.
"Hey, Binzi!" Xu Shengwei called out softly, but she had already run away, leaving him alone to go home and face his grandmother who looked grim.
"Grandma, it's Teacher Fan." Xu Shengwei hid the table tennis racket behind his body, put his right hand behind his back, and smiled playfully, "Why are you here, Teacher Fan? I'll go get you a glass of water."
Zhou Yun glanced at the almost full enamel cup in front of Teacher Fan, understood his grandson's thoughts, and immediately interrupted him.
"Xiao Wei, what were you doing just now?"
Zhou Yun was rarely so serious. He usually spoke in a loving tone and was very caring towards his children. But when he opened his mouth this moment, his throat was obviously tense and his words sounded cold and hard.
Xu Shengwei was having a fierce ideological struggle in his mind. How did that sentence go?
——Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist?
"I went to play table tennis." After saying this, he was afraid of being scolded, so he added, "Grandma, this is a healthy sport that can strengthen your body."
"Of course I know!" Zhou Yun knew what kind of person this kid was. He must have felt guilty when he said that. "Then why did you skip classes?"
"I...I didn't..." Xu Shengwei subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he caught a glimpse of Teacher Fan, he knew that his "crime" should have been exposed.
"Student Xu Shengwei." Teacher Fan saw that the student's parents seemed angry, so he stepped out to help ease the atmosphere. "The teacher is here to visit your home today. You've been skipping classes to play table tennis these days, and the teacher is worried."
Xu Shengwei looked at Teacher Fan and then at his grandmother, and said with his head down, "Yes, I was wrong."
It is always right to admit your mistakes first. This way, parents will be reluctant to take action and will be more careful with their words. This is what Biaozi said from experience.
"You!" Zhou Yun slapped the table with his hand, making a loud slapping sound. "You are good at not studying, right? You skipped classes, and you skipped classes again?"
Zhou Yun didn't really care that his grandson didn't do well in school. It didn't matter if the child couldn't study or get into college. As long as he could make a living with his own abilities in the future, that would be enough.
But she still gets angry if you skip classes. You have to sit in class even if you can't learn anything!
Table tennis? Do I have to skip class to play table tennis?!
"You usually like to play hoops and marbles, why don't you skip classes to play? Now you're skipping classes to play table tennis? Are you embarrassed?"
"Playing table tennis is more fun!" Xu Shengwei replied in a low voice, but when he saw his grandmother getting angry, he quickly shut up.
Teacher Fan quickly spoke up, "Grandma Zhou, don't be angry. We are here to solve the problem today. It's not worth it to get angry and harm your health."
"Xiao Wei, tell your teacher and grandma why you skipped class to play table tennis?"
Xu Shengwei gets excited when talking about playing table tennis. He chatters away and speaks faster. "I don't play enough during my break time, so I made an appointment with other people to play together."
"So you won't go to school anymore?" Zhou Yun shouted at the top of his voice. He was not able to catch his breath for a while and suddenly started coughing violently.
"Grandma Zhou, don't get excited."
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At this time, Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen were helping at Liu Nianhua's house. Liu Nianhua was thinking about reorganizing the things in the house. There were two bedrooms in her house, and the two brothers slept in one room with two beds.
Liu Nianhua was busy before and only had time to clean Zhou Guoping's clothes. This time, he took the opportunity to tidy up the house while rearranging the furniture.
The closet and dressing table in her room were moved around. In the past, they were used for Zhou Guoping's convenience, but now Liu Nianhua had to move the dressing table to her side.
I had to reorient the five-drawer chest and dining table in the living room, reposition the flatbed cabinets in the corners, and finally reorient the beds in my two sons’ rooms.
"Sister Hua, just tell me to let Xu Shengjie do it." Liang Baozhen stood aside and watched Xu Shengjie working hard.
"That won't work. Just take a rest and I'll help you carry it." As he said that, Liu Nianhua was about to carry the five-drawer cabinet.
"Sister Hua, leave it alone, I'll do it." Xu Shengjie was strong and quick, and finished the living room in a short while. He was ready to go to Xiaolong and Xiaohu's room again.
"Hey, Nianhua, what's going on?" Zhang Rong and her son Zhou Qingdang came back from outside and saw that the neighbor's house was very busy, as if there was a big commotion.
"Auntie Zhang, I'm thinking of changing the look of my home and rearranging it."
"Auntie Zhang, where are you coming from?" Liang Baozhen also greeted with a smile. Seeing Zhou Qingdang, she felt that this man was much more energetic after returning to the city.
"I just came back from Qinghua's place and went to have dinner at the lady's house."
"Moving furniture, right?" Zhou Qingdang poked his head into the house and took off the bag in his hand. "I'll come and help."
"No, no." Liu Nianhua usually troubles everyone a lot, so he just prepares to take care of the rest by himself.
"Nianhua, just let him go. It would be a waste for the grown men to grow so big if they don't use their strength."
Liu Nianhua had no choice but to agree after being persuaded by Zhang Rong and her son. He looked at Zhou Qingdang and said, "Thank you for your help."
"Sister Hua, you're welcome."
Zhou Qingdang and Xu Shengjie were busy in the house, while Zhang Rong, Liang Baozhen and Liu Nianhua were talking outside.
"I heard that the food market will have new dishes tomorrow, so hurry up and go."
"Okay, let's go over during lunch break." This matter was mainly Xu Shengjie's job, so she would help to pick out the items. "Sister Hua, do you want to come with us?"
"No, we can go there after get off work this afternoon. I will get off work early tomorrow."
"alright."
Xu Shengjie and Zhou Qingdang came out of the house and moved all the furniture according to Liu Nianhua's idea. Zhang Rong leaned over to take a look. Wow, this place is really different.
"Nianhua, at first glance I thought you had moved."
"Hey, after living here for so long, it's nice to change the layout. It's fresh."
Xu Shengjie turned on the tap and let the cool water wash his arms. Liang Baozhen watched from the side and urged him, "Wash the gaps between your nails, too. Wash carefully."
Upon hearing this, Xu Shengjie rubbed and scrubbed again and again, cleaning even the crevices between his nails.
Zhang Rong saw this and teased the two of them, "Xiao Xu, it's better to have a wife. She will think of everything for you."
Xu Shengjie smiled and nodded, but said nothing.
"Look at that couple, aren't you jealous?" Zhang Rong turned to her son Zhou Qingdang and said, "Think carefully about what mom said. You're not a child anymore, it's time for you to find a wife."
"Mom, let's talk about it later." Zhou Qingdang also rinsed and dried his hands, shook off the water, and said casually.
"You are such a..." Zhang Rong wanted to say something else, but Liu Nianhua had already taken out the corn and sweet potato cakes he had made today from the stove.
The plump orange-yellow corn and sweet potato pancakes smelled delicious, so she put them all on her plate and thanked her neighbors for their help. "Hurry up and eat some, they're freshly made today. I also made half a pot of sweet soup to drive away the cold, have a bowl too."
Liu Nianhua opened the lid of the pot and stirred the food in it. He then turned around and went into the house to take out a stack of four bowls from the cupboard, stacked them on the stove, and scooped one bowl at a time with a large spoon. He slowly scooped out five full bowls.
Zhou Qingdang took the sweet soup from Liu Nianhua and took a sip. It was indeed very sweet. While drinking the sweet soup, he looked at the stove and saw that Liu Nianhua had been working for a long time and his hands and feet were very nimble. He was like a spinning top spinning on the stove, busy but orderly.
"Mom, I want to drink too."
“I want one too!”
Zhou Long and Zhou Hu came back from outside and saw a number of people standing in front of their stove. Each of them was holding a bowl and drinking soup. The two brothers were both hungry.
"You two are not the only ones who can take it." Liu Nianhua looked at his two sons, who were unconsciously smiling as they spoke, and scooped two more bowls of soup. "Drink slowly, be careful of the scald."
Although Zhou Hu was young, he ate quickly. He gulped down a bowl of sweet soup, put down the bowl, and jumped to Zhou Qingdang's side. "Uncle Zhou, I want to ride a horse again!"
Zhou Hu, who had not experienced fatherly love for a year after his father passed away, finally found a 'substitute'. Normally, his mother asked him to have meals at Grandma Zhang's house, and he became familiar with the family over time.
Uncle Zhou Qingdang often took him out to play, and something even better than putting him on his neck was riding a horse.
Riding a horse is fun. You can sit very high up, much higher than all the kids!
"Xiao Hu!" Liu Nianhua put down the spoon and warned his son, "Go play by yourself and don't bother your Uncle Zhou."
He turned to the others and said, "This kid is really playful."
"Children are all like this." Liang Baozhen found it amusing to watch them coming and going.
Zhou Qingdang naturally didn't care. He leaned over, picked up Zhou Hu and sat him on his neck, holding his two sturdy calves with both hands to prevent the little fat boy from falling off if he didn't sit firmly.
"Ahhhh, wuwuwu~" Zhou Hu was very happy. He felt that he was the tallest person now. Even his mother was below him. "Mom, do you think I am tall?"
"Come down quickly, you're such a jerk." Liu Nianhua felt a little embarrassed. In the past, Zhou Guoping was too lazy to pay attention to the children's requests. He was only willing to play with the children occasionally when he was in a good mood. In recent years, he has been leaving early and coming back late, and he doesn't even pretend to be nice.
Now an unrelated neighbor is kind enough to play with Xiaohu, and Liu Nianhua feels sad when he thinks about it.
Seeing his son playing like this for a while, and then being held in Zhou Qingdang's arms and pretending to throw him into the air, he was laughing and giggling. He was really happy.
"Uncle Zhou, I want to throw it too!" Ten-year-old Zhou Long also had his eyes peeled!
But Zhou Qingdang looked at him and said with a smile, "Xiaolong, are you going to tire Uncle Zhou to death? You must be as heavy as two of your brothers."
Liu Nianhua watched the three people talking and couldn't help but think of what Luo Hongmei said a few days ago. Does she really need to find another man?
Is it really bad for the two children if there is no man in the family?
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Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie went home after drinking the sweet soup. Along the way, they talked about Liu Nianhua with emotion.
"Sister Hua is living a good life now, and Xiaolong and Xiaohu are also sensible."
"As long as Zhou Guoping doesn't come again, there will be no problem."
When she reached her door, Liang Baozhen heard Zhou Yun's angry voice.
"You don't study hard, and you skip classes just to play table tennis? What did your teacher teach you? What's the point of playing table tennis? I've confiscated your racket and ball, and you're not allowed to play anymore. Who bought this for you? Was it your brother? I'll have to tell him off when he comes back!"
Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie looked at each other. Why was grandma angry?
It sounds like the purchase of a table tennis racket was the cause of the trouble? Liang Baozhen felt a chill on her neck and touched her belly. She thought that she had a "gold medal of innocence" now!
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