Chapter 263 Opinions
After getting off the car, Lin Qi found that a pair of eyes had been looking at her, following her like a shadow. She looked in the direction of the eyes and met a pair of smiling eyes. The other person also waved at her. Lin Qi was startled and nodded slightly to the other person.
Is that Zou Fan’s wife?
She is not very pretty, but she gives people a comfortable feeling at first sight.
Zou Fan's four-year-old son has a chubby face and looks very cute. The seventh child, who was in charge of taking the gifts, gave the gifts to the child and took the opportunity to pinch his little chubby face.
Xu Hexiao also brought a gift, a box of his own Dahongpao tea. When he came back, he thought that he might need to give gifts, so he packed a few extra boxes as backup, and now he really needs it.
Lin Qi herself didn't carry anything, but her eldest daughter was carrying a basket of bright red cherries.
"Where did you buy these cherries? I've never seen such big cherries in Zhoucheng." Zou Fan's wife asked in surprise.
"I brought them back from the capital." Lin Qi lied without batting an eyelid. In fact, the cherries were grown in the newly bought house, and there were three large baskets of them in the trunk of the car.
"This must be more than ten kilograms, how come you brought so much?" Even if they had a car, they had a large family and needed to bring a lot of things. They probably didn't bring many cherries back, so I gave them more than ten kilograms, which was full of sincerity.
"We thought it tasted good, so we took some more. Sister-in-law, you can try it." Lin Qi said.
"Then I'll try one first." Zou Fan's wife didn't mind the unwashed cherries, she picked one up and put it in her mouth. As soon as the cherry entered her mouth, her smiling eyes lit up, "It's very delicious, very sweet, and very juicy."
Zou Fan's wife ate one, then another, and when she wanted to eat a third, Zou Fan stopped her, "We have to eat soon."
Zou Fan's wife stuck out her tongue playfully and smiled sweetly, but she said something reproachful, "He is always like that, he likes to control people."
Lin Qi also laughed. Xu Hexiao happened to pull out a chair for her, so she sat down. Xu Hexiao helped her scald the bowls and chopsticks with boiling water, brought warm water for her to wash her hands, and poured her tea.
The seven children nearby fend for themselves.
Zou Fan and his wife: “........”
At the dinner table, Lin Qi and Zou Fan's wife chatted about the children. Xu Boxi and the other seven learned that Zou Fan worked in the police station and asked him many questions, most of which were about various cases. As for Xu Hexiao, he took care of Lin Qi the whole time.
After dinner, as they walked outside together, Zou Fan suddenly said, "Your children seem to be very unusual."
Xu Hexiao smiled somewhat proudly, "They are all from the special training camp, and they always take first place in every assessment."
Zou Fan and his wife's faces changed. Others might not have heard of the special training camp, but they were different. Not only had they heard of it, but they had also learned about it in detail.
What does it mean to get first place in every assessment in the special training camp?
It’s just like being number one in the country.
Zou Fan looked at the seven children. In ten or even dozens of years, they would probably become household names.
Zou Fan and his wife returned home in silence.
After returning home, Zou Fan could not help but say, "Yesterday morning I ran with their family. They ran for two hours, and I refused to admit defeat, so I gritted my teeth and ran with them for two hours. When we stopped, I fainted, but their three youngest children were fine."
His wife was extremely surprised. Zou Fan had won awards in both the long-distance and short-distance running events in annual sports meets, but he couldn't outrun a nine-year-old child?
"You can run for two hours without any problem, right? Why do you feel dizzy?"
"They're fast. Almost twice as fast as I normally am."
".......No wonder. It seems that what they said is true. When our son is six years old, can he also participate in the assessment of that special training camp?"
"That special training camp only accepts 100 children. Sometimes, they don't accept even one in a year. The standards are extremely high and our family can't meet them."
"We still have two years to prepare. Is there no hope after two years of hard work?" Zou Fan and she are both in good physical condition, and she doesn't think her son is worse than others.
"No. In addition to physical fitness, intelligence is equally important. The four older children in their family are now studying in college and have been in the top universities in the country for two years. The four older ones are only twelve or thirteen years old, and they were ten years old two years ago. Do you think our son can go to college at the age of ten?"
"...No. I think I know why you like Lin Qi."
To be able to give birth to children like that, their mother must be pretty good.
Zou Fan was silent.
He made himself a cup of tea, using the tea leaves that Xu Hexiao had given him. The moment he smelled the fragrance of the tea, he perked up, "I'll divide this tea between my dad and your dad."
"You haven't even drunk it yet, are you sure it's good?"
"You don't need to drink it, just smell it and you'll know it's special."
"Okay, give some to both dads. And the same with these cherries, give some to both moms as well."
Lin Mo and Li Min didn't know that Lin Qi and the others were not at home for dinner, so after work, they picked up the children and went to Lin's parents' house together.
Lin's father and mother didn't know they would come tonight. After several meals of big fish and meat, the old couple couldn't digest it. Taking advantage of the fact that Lin Qi's family was not here tonight, they cooked white porridge with two dishes of pickled vegetables. When the old couple was eating with gusto, Lin Mo's family pushed open the door and came in.
“........”
"Why are you here again?" Lin's father blurted out.
The atmosphere stagnated.
Father Lin realized that his words were inappropriate and hurriedly explained, "I meant that I didn't cook anything good tonight, and you didn't tell me in advance, so your mother and I only cooked two bowls of porridge."
Lin Yuan looked at the porridge and side dishes with disdain on her face, "Grandpa, why are you eating so lightly? Are you reluctant to eat meat?"
Father Lin shook his head, "No. Grandpa is a little tired of eating too much meat and fish these past two days. He wants to eat some porridge and some vegetables to relieve the pressure on his stomach."
"Grandpa, you enjoy all the delicious food, why don't you call me?" Lin Yuan pouted in dissatisfaction.
Father Lin: “…”
"Yuanyuan, you can't be so ignorant." Li Min said to her daughter with a stern face, and then turned to Lin's father and mother, "Yesterday my brother-in-law said that he would make sour plum soup for Yuanyuan today. Yuanyuan always remembered it. When we went to pick her up, she kept asking to come here, so we brought her here."
But when they came, only my parents-in-law were at home, and dinner was not prepared. Yesterday, my brother-in-law said he would prepare sour plum soup for Yuanyuan, and Yuanyuan agreed. Doesn't this mean that they will come over for dinner tonight? Isn't this something everyone knows?
"Well, He Xiao didn't forget about this, but he was outside all day and didn't have much time to cook sour plum soup. He gave me a jar of honey and told me to give the honey to Yuanyuan when she comes next time. This honey is very fragrant and sweet, not worse than sour plum soup. Yuanyuan, take it back and drink it with water." Mother Lin said, taking out a jar of honey from the cupboard.
The jar is not big, and can hold about one kilogram. Lin Yuan took the jar and couldn't let it go. "Grandma, I want to taste it now."
"Okay, grandma will make you a cup right away. Shang Shang, one too." Mother Lin went to get the cups, ignoring Lin Mo and Li Min.
Instead, Father Lin looked at his son and daughter-in-law and asked, "Shall I go cook noodles for you?"
"Dad, you drink your porridge, we will cook it ourselves." Lin Mo refused Lin's father.
"Then I'll get you noodles, vegetables, eggs, oil and salt." said Dad Lin.
"Grandpa, I want to eat the meat from yesterday." Lin Yuan suggested.
"That meat needs a long time to cook. I'll get you some lean meat. Grandpa bought it and marinated it in advance. That will taste good too." Father Lin said.
When Lin Yuan heard that it was delicious, she immediately agreed, "That's fine."
Dad Lin was quite generous and brought out a plate full of lean meat.
Lin Mo's family ate the noodles and left without even washing the bowls.
"It's too obvious that my parents treat us differently. My younger sister's family has a table full of meat, but our family is only entitled to noodles?" Li Min's tone was filled with displeasure.
"Didn't my parents say that they didn't know we were coming and didn't make any preparations in advance?" Lin Mo frowned.
"Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know? Yuanyuan said yesterday that she would come over today to drink sour plum soup." Li Min didn't believe what her parents-in-law said.
"Old people have bad memories. Besides, even if we eat noodles, there are eggs and meat. It's not like we have to eat porridge with our parents. I see the two children are eating very happily."
"It would be fine if you didn't mention meat, but I'm even more angry when you mention meat. There's so much meat in my parents' kitchen, but they didn't even ask us to bring some back. They're tired of eating meat themselves, but why don't they think about their grandchildren having no meat to eat." There was no kitchen in the house, so a corner was set up in the living room to store kitchen utensils and some ingredients, rice and flour, etc. They usually called that place the kitchen. She was shocked to see so much meat as soon as she entered the door. She had never seen so much meat except at the vegetable market.
"Those are the meats bought by Qiqi and the others. They are for my parents. It's fine if we didn't buy them for my parents, but how can we take the things that Qiqi bought for my parents?" Lin Mo's face looked unhappy.
"How do you know it was Qiqi who bought it?"
"My parents are reluctant to buy so much meat at once. They used all their money to buy a house for us, and they don't have that much money to buy meat."
“........”
On the other side, Mother Lin was cleaning up the dishes with a slightly gloomy look on her face.
"My daughter-in-law was looking at the meat before she left. Why didn't you let them take some home to eat?" said Lin's father.
"Then why don't you ask them to take it back and eat it?" Mother Lin asked back in an unfriendly tone.
"There's not much meat left from the ones I bought, and it's not right to take the ones bought by Qiqi and Hexiao." Dad Lin felt sorry for his son, grandson, and granddaughter, but he also knew that it was not right to give his daughter's things to his son without her consent.
"You also know that it was Qiqi who bought it. Qiqi bought so much, but they didn't buy anything. I didn't ask them to buy anything for us two old people, but Qiqi and Ah He bought gifts for their whole family. Shouldn't they give some gifts back to Qiqi's children? Qiqi and her family haven't come back these years, but they still send a lot of things every year. Every year, there is a gift for them. How many times have they returned the gifts?"
The more Mother Lin spoke, the angrier she became. Her son was obviously not like this before, but after he started his own family and his daughter-in-law took charge of the household, her son seemed to have become a miser and never spent a penny.
"Don't even think about taking any New Year's goods from me this year."
"Where are Shang Shang and Yuan Yuan? There's so much meat at home, why don't you give them any to eat?"
"Yuanyuan is a little foodie. When she sees the delicious food here, she will definitely come here every day. As for Shangshang, he is inseparable from his sister every day. When his sister comes, he will come too. This is perfect. We can see our grandchildren every day."
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