Chapter 138 Doting Grandma
Taotao not only became a celebrity in the Agricultural University, but also a celebrity in the Five Schools Alliance.
Everyone knows that there is a teacher in the Agricultural University who is younger than the students and is as beautiful as a flower... Not only is she good at teaching, but she also often brings a cute little baby with her.
At the beginning, the students of the Five Schools Alliance found all kinds of excuses to hang out at the Agricultural University, look for people, and borrow things. Their only purpose was to see the gorgeous young teacher with a beautiful baby.
This mother and son look so beautiful!
For a long time, Taotao had been living in an atmosphere where she was inexplicably watched by everyone.
But she didn't care.
After about a month, the heat gradually dissipated.
People are used to seeing beautiful women, so they are no longer surprised by the rare things.
Taotao's life returned to normal, and she still took her children to work every day.
Maybe the greater the pressure, the higher the efficiency.
Taotao felt that the first semester of her freshman year had just begun, and in the blink of an eye it was the midterm exam, and after a while, it was time for the final exam.
The students’ test scores in this basic major that Taotao teaches are quite good.
So good that it shocked all the school leaders.
The leaders held a meeting overnight to discuss the issue. Their purpose was to prevent Bai Taotao from using the Agricultural University as a springboard. Although her goal was most likely to be the Agricultural Research Institute or a higher-level research institute...
But who would be willing to let go of such a good seedling?
So the school leaders began to talk to Taotao again and again, with only a few purposes: to urge her to take the teaching qualification exam, then to make her a regular employee, to hope that she could teach other courses, and to give her a professional title.
Of course Taotao was very happy.
But she also followed Song Zhi's advice: it is necessary to take the teaching qualification exam, but it is not necessary to become a full-time employee at the Agricultural University, after all, she is already working at the Agricultural Research Institute with Professor Fu.
Song Zhi went out to talk to the leaders of the Agricultural University again, and used the time difference to play a little trick - he clearly told the leaders of the Agricultural University that Professor Fu had helped Taotao to get a project, and Taotao would sooner or later be converted to a full-time employee at the Agricultural Research Institute. Therefore, the leaders of the Agricultural University can discuss Taotao’s class hours with the leaders of the Agricultural Research Institute.
The leaders of the Agricultural University quickly held a meeting to discuss the issue, and finally followed Song Zhi's advice and ran to find the leaders of the Agricultural Research Institute to discuss the issue of continuing to employ Tao Tao.
The Agricultural Research Institute is the superior unit of the Agricultural University, and the leaders had no impression of Bai Taotao... When they heard the leaders of the Agricultural University talking about this, they quickly found Professor Fu to inquire about the situation. After listening again, I realized that Bai Taotao is so young, smart, has solid theoretical knowledge, and has a bright future!
Therefore, the Agricultural Research Institute quickly signed teaching contracts with Taotao and Agricultural University.
At the same time, the Agricultural Research Institute also began to help Taotao urge his superiors to review and approve the project as soon as possible.
Taotao, on the other hand, took advantage of the winter vacation to read and study at home. Of course, during the Chinese New Year, the entire Bai family, in order to accommodate Lili and Taotao, who had just given birth to their children, rushed from their hometown to Kyoto to celebrate the New Year with their children.
With the help of her parents and family, Taotao studied eagerly. I read books, memorize books, and practice exercises like crazy every day. Even when she was feeding her son, she held the child in one hand and a book in the other, mumbling something...
In April of the following year, Taotao successfully passed the teacher qualification examination, and as agreed, she taught an additional professional course and became a formally employed lecturer at the Agricultural University.
Then in September, Taotao's project was officially approved by her superiors!
As a result, Taotao became a formal employee of the Agricultural Research Institute.
To celebrate this great news, Song Zhi went to the market and bought a pork shank, a pork elbow, lotus root and other vegetables. He stewed a pot of pork shank and red date soup, braised a pork elbow and lotus root, and picked some green leaves from his own vegetable garden. He stir-fried some vegetables and steamed a minced meat egg for his son. The family of three gathered around the dining table and ate happily with laughter.
Taotao picked up the soup bowl and clinked it with Song Zhi's, "Song Zhi, I want to thank you!"
——A long time ago, Taotao’s dream was to go to the Northwest to plant trees.
But Song Zhi dissuaded her, saying that there was a complete difference between being assigned to the Northwest and going to the Northwest on one's own initiative: one was to obey the assignment and do what others wanted to do. First, take absolute control of the initiative and do what you want to do.
Therefore, Song Zhi planned a promotion for her, and she devoted herself to her studies, skipping grades, graduating early, applying to stay on to teach, taking the postgraduate entrance examination, etc.
Today it is finally done!
Song Zhi chuckled, "Why thank me? I can't hold your head down and force you to study! No matter what I say... Even if I am good at giving advice, you have to be motivated and have a spirit of not admitting defeat, so that you can ride the wind and waves all the way and complete the goal a year earlier than I planned!"
Taotao tilted her head and asked him, "A year early?"
Song Zhi looked at Xiao Feibai, who was sitting on a special dining chair, eating seriously with a tin bowl and a small wooden spoon.
——When Xiao Feibai was nine months old, he started to have teeth. He would bite Taotao whenever he had nothing to do, which hurt Taotao so much. Song Zhi asked her mother to find a way to wean the child off the breast, and she cooked white porridge, soft noodles, or steamed eggs every day to feed the child.
After the initial discomfort, the child accepted it after a few days of making a fuss.
Now he can eat by himself, although not very fast, but after eating, he can make sure that the dining plate is clean without any rice grains or soup spilled on it.
Taotao also looked at her son.
Little Feibai scooped a spoonful of steamed egg and put it into his mouth with a "ah"... The delicious taste made the little guy smile. After swallowing it, he scooped a spoonful of rice and put it into his mouth and started chewing. Maybe it was because the rice was bland. The little guy thought about it and couldn't help but scoop another small spoonful of steamed egg and quickly stuffed it into his mouth...
——Song Zhi required his son to take a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of vegetables when eating. He was not allowed to eat only vegetables without rice.
So Xiao Fei quickly ate two mouthfuls of the steamed egg. He still felt a little guilty, and his big eyes rolled around...
He originally wanted to take a sneak peek to see if his parents had noticed his little action.
But he was caught by his mother?
Little Feibai was startled, and immediately scooped a spoonful of steamed egg and poured it quickly into his mother's bowl.
Taotao was both amused and confused.
At this time, Song Zhi sighed again and said, "I originally thought that your project might not be established so quickly, otherwise I would not have asked you to teach a professional course at Agricultural University... If we leave a year later, Feibai will be a little older and can follow me to the Satellite Center."
Taotao ate the steamed egg handed to her by her son and found it tasted really good. No wonder the little guy liked it so much! Song Zhi's cooking skills have really improved.
"Why, he can't go now?" Taotao asked.
Song Zhi frowned, "He's still too young. If I had just gone there, I would have had to work in the front-line workshops often. He's only a year old, and I'm afraid I might be careless or fail to keep an eye on him. There are a lot of nails and scrap metal in the workshop, and I'm afraid he might fall. Another thing is that the noise in the machine workshop is too loud, and his eardrums are still tender!"
Taotao looked at her son again and found that his attention had shifted to the bone that had been stewed in the soup.
——Even the tendons attached to the bones had been stewed until they were transparent and some of them had dissolved. But the soft and tasty meat is Xiao Feibai's favorite.
The little guy stared at the bones in the soup pot, licked his lips and wanted to eat, but he was fixed on the dining chair, and his hands were short, so he probably didn't want to disturb his parents talking... so he just stared at them eagerly.
Taotao smiled.
She picked up the big bone with chopsticks and put it aside to let the soup in the bone drain out and let the pork bone cool down a little, then she handed it to her son's bowl.
Xiao Feibai suddenly laughed, stretched out his hands to carefully catch it, then put his mouth close to it and stuck out his pink tongue for a short while...
Song Zhi frowned, "You can't lick the bones, you have to bite them and eat them!"
When the little guy heard it, he licked it a few times quickly and then started biting it.
Tao Tao continued the previous topic: "If the environment there is not good, just let him follow me to plant trees! Anyway, he has been following me for a year, there is nothing wrong with that!"
Song Zhi shook his head. "The Northwest is not Ruyi Village. There is a lack of water and electricity. There are strong winds and lots of sand... In the summer, the strong winds blow up the sand and can bury people and livestock alive! The conditions are very difficult for you to plant trees there. It is definitely much worse than me working in a workshop."
Tao Tao saw the somewhat sad expression on Song Zhi's face. After a moment of silence, she smiled and said, "The worse the conditions are, the more room there will be for improvement and advancement in the future!"
She picked up the bowl and took a sip of the delicious milky white pork tube soup. "Song Zhi, while we are still in Kyoto, our family is well-off and has abundant supplies...so from now on, we will eat good food every day!"
Xiao Feibai imitated, "Yanyan is also good!"
Taotao and Song Zhi couldn't help laughing as they looked at their childish and adorable son.
Little Feibai didn't know what his parents were laughing at, so he laughed too.
——The little guy is now one year and three months old. Song Zhi and Taotao have never been stingy with their food, so little Feibai is very tall, walks steadily, and runs very fast. However, he seems to be a little late in speaking.
Until now, I have only just learned to call dad and mom.
However, Xiao Feibai is very smart. Recently, he has been deliberately learning how his parents speak. He especially likes to imitate the last few words in every sentence of his parents. Even if the pronunciation is not so standard, he can learn the intonation to be very similar.
After dinner, it was Taotao's turn to wash the dishes today, so Song Zhi took out a set of building blocks he made by himself and played with Xiao Feibai. This set of building blocks is mainly to train Xiao Feibai to recognize different shapes and learn simple counting...
After Song Zhi taught Xiao Feibai to count and find blocks of the same shape, he let the child play by himself while he tidied up the living room. After Taotao finished washing the dishes, the family of three went for a walk in the small garden of the retirement home.
The weather in September is still quite hot. At 7:30 or 8:00, the yard is full of people going out to cool off. The adults hold palm-leaf fans in their hands and stop to chat with people. From time to time, they fan themselves to drive away the heat or mosquitoes...
The children gathered in groups based on age and gender.
The older ones were playing basketball, the younger ones were playing hide-and-seek, and the younger ones were playing skipping rope, hopscotch, and rolling hoops...
Song Zhi and Taotao both like this kind of living atmosphere.
Xiao Feibai likes it too.
As soon as he went out, he didn't want his parents to follow him and ran to play with a group of two or three-year-old children.
In a blink of an eye, Taotao and Song Zhi have been in Beijing for five years and have become very familiar with the neighbors here. Everyone watched the young couple move in, watched Taotao get pregnant and give birth to a child, and now see Xiao Feibai grow up to be so fat, white and cute... How can we not love him!
I immediately started chatting with the young couple about parenting tips.
Song Zhi saw Brother Tan and his wife in the crowd.
——Brother Tan is the original owner of the house where Song Zhi and Taotao live now. In order to raise money for his sick wife's treatment, Brother Tan had to sell this small building with a yard.
Later, Song Zhi introduced several oncology experts to Brother Tan. Over the past few years, Brother Tan's wife had surgery to remove the tumor in her body, and she actively cooperated with the treatment... It cannot be said that she has recovered to the same level as a normal person, but her mental state seems to be okay.
However, perhaps because too much medical expenses have been spent on his wife in recent years, the couple’s quality of life is obviously not very good.
The clothes they were wearing looked like they had been worn for many years and had been washed so much that the colors could no longer be seen; and they were both very thin, especially Brother Tan, who looked like a moving skeleton!
Song Zhi and Tao Tao greeted each other in a low voice and went to find Brother Tan.
He pulled Brother Tan aside and said, "Brother Tan, I want to ask you a favor."
"What's the matter?"
Song Zhi said, "In a while, Taotao and I will go to the Northwest to do front-line operations, and our house will be empty. I thought, I'd hire you to help me take care of it, and I'll pay you a little."
"How do you manage it?"
Song Zhi, "Every two or three days, clean the house and yard, and take care of the flowers and plants that Taotao and I planted... and the vegetables, grape vines, loofahs, bitter melons, etc. that we planted in the backyard. You can harvest them and eat them... Don't refuse, we're not at home, and it would be a pity if you don't harvest the vegetables and melons and let them rot in the yard."
Brother Tan asked again, "When do you usually come back?"
Song Zhi said: "Winter and summer!"
Brother Tan nodded, "No problem. When you are leaving, tell me and give me a spare key. I will come and pack for you."
Song Zhi, "I will pay you ten dollars a month."
Brother Tan, "No need! I haven't thanked you for buying my house and introducing me to a doctor! Otherwise, Xiumei's health wouldn't have recovered so well! Besides, you have a lot of vegetables planted in your backyard. I help you look after the house and the yard. The vegetables in that yard are enough for us to eat. Why are you still paying me? I can't accept this money!"
Song Zhi, "If you don't want to take the money, I'll just ask someone else!"
"Why--"
Brother Tan was anxious, "Song Zhi, why are you like this? I don't care. I won't take your money anyway! But don't worry, I will find a good house for you!"
While they were talking, Mrs. Tan came over and asked, "You two were chatting happily, why are you suddenly so cross-eyed?"
——She was a country woman who married a city man. Before she had a child, she fell seriously ill. All the relatives on her husband's side advised her husband to divorce her, but her husband refused to leave her and would rather sell his house to save her.
She was also grateful to Song Zhi and Tao Tao. This young couple was kind-hearted. Not only did they introduce a good doctor to her, but they also always said that they accidentally bought too much when they were buying vegetables. From time to time, they would give her two taels of pork, three or five eggs, or they would say that they bought fish but didn't eat the fish head... but they ended up giving her a fish head with half of the body attached, which weighed at least more than a pound...
Taotao would often cut off half of the pumpkins and winter melons she grew, or pick a handful of beans or two or three bunches of grapes and send them to her home...
Mrs. Tan felt that she was very happy.
She cherishes her current life very much...
Until I saw Song Zhi and her husband seemed to be arguing?
She hurried over to ask the reason.
As a result, when I heard my husband finish Song Zhi's request with a little excitement...
Mrs. Tan understood.
——This young couple is thinking of ways to help her!
Her eyes were red. She tugged at her husband's clothes and said to Song Zhi with a smile, "Song Zhi, we have agreed to this. However, we also have a request."
"Sister-in-law, you say."
Mrs. Tan said, "We won't take the ten yuan a month for now. When you and Taotao come back at the end of the year, give it to us all at once, okay?"
Song Zhi didn't understand why Mrs. Tan did this.
But at least they agreed.
So he nodded as well, "Then it's settled, thank you sister-in-law."
Just at this moment, Xiao Feibai suddenly fell? !
Although Mrs. Tan was talking to Song Zhi, her eyes were always following Xiao Feibai. Seeing the child fall, Mrs. Tan wanted to run over to help, but Taotao ran over first, helped Xiao Feibai up, checked the child, and seeing that the child was fine, she gave a few words of advice and let go.
Mrs. Tan arrived a step late, and Xiao Feibai had already run far away.
She had no choice but to ask Taotao with concern, "Did the child fall just now?"
"No!" Taotao laughed, "The grass is quite soft, and the little guy is very tough and can withstand the fall. He's not hurt at all!"
Mrs. Tan breathed a sigh of relief, then scolded: "Why do you say that he is tough? It's obviously because the child is healthy... This is a good thing!"
Taotao tilted her head and looked at Mrs. Tan.
——Mrs. Tan’s eyes were always following Xiao Feibai, with a gentle smile on her face.
Tao Tao thought for a moment and asked Mrs. Tan, "Sister-in-law, have you ever thought about adopting a child?"
Mrs. Tan's smile froze, and she replied in a low voice: "I do! Of course I don't want to... But what your brother Tan means is that our family's financial situation is not good. Even if we raise a child, the child will suffer with us! Forget it, wait for a while, when I am in better health, can help with some work to supplement our lives, and save some money in my hands!"
Taotao nodded silently.
Seeing that it was getting late, Song Zhi went to pick up his son who was covered in sweat and mud after playing, and went home with Taotao to wash the child.
Brother Tan complained to his wife, "Why did you take his money? Do you think he hasn't helped us enough? Over the past few years, all my salary has been used to pay for your medical expenses! I don't even have money to buy you some nutritious meat and eggs. It's all thanks to them, who send you three or five eggs, a rib, a chicken leg, etc. every week... to keep you healthy! You say he has such a small thing and comes to us for help, it's just a piece of cake for us, why do you take his money!"
Mrs. Tan smiled and said, "So didn't I tell you not to take it for now? I'll let him pay it all at once during the Chinese New Year..."
Brother Tan, "Is there any difference?"
Mrs. Tan scolded, "We have to give New Year's money to children during the Chinese New Year! He gave us some money first, so why don't we add a little bit and give it to Xiao Feibai as New Year's money!"
Brother Tan was stunned.
Mrs. Tan added, "Even you said that they have been helping us all the time, and this is the only place they want our help... So don't worry, from now on, the cleaning of the house and yard will be left to me, and you just need to do your job well!"
Brother Tan, "You——"
Mrs. Tan said, "I'm fine! Besides, if I can't finish the work in one day, I can just do a little bit every day! As the head of the family, I don't want to be a waste my whole life... I will just help Xiao Song and Tao Tao to clean up the yard, and treat it as a kind of exercise. When I feel better, I will go to the vegetable market to set up a stall and sell some vegetables..."
Brother Tan wanted to express his objection again.
Mrs. Tan smiled again and said, "Don't worry that I'll tire myself out from working so hard. You saved my life by spending all your money. I can't let you lose everything... Boss, I will stay with you until you grow old! I will even die after you. I will never let you be alone..."
Brother Tan's eyes instantly turned red.
"Well, that's what you said," the man choked up, "If you're lying, then I'll, I'll..."
The woman smiled through her tears and said, “I don’t lie.”
After a pause, the woman whispered again: "Master, when I feel better, shall we adopt a child?"
Brother Tan disagreed, "What a burden!"
The woman sighed softly.
The next morning, because Taotao had no teaching assignment at the Agricultural University, she rode her bicycle and took Xiao Feibai to the Agricultural Research Institute.
Taotao's project is called "Construction of Salt-Alkali Symbiotic Ecosystem", which aims to build a diversified plant symbiotic circle to improve the soil structure with plants and ultimately improve the ecological environment.
But setting up a project is a very difficult task.
——First you have to pick a piece of land in a suitable place.
Normally, Taotao should go to the site to inspect and select a location by herself, and then report to her superiors. Only after review and approval from the higher authorities will a certain production brigade and all the fields be allocated to Taotao as an experimental area.
But Taotao still has a young child with her!
Professor Fu sympathized with Taotao and took over the task, because at that time Professor Fu was in the northwest border area - every year during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest, almost all the people in the department went to the front line. It is now September, and except for An Qiuli and Taotao who stayed in Beijing, everyone else is away.
However, An Qiuli was neither in the department nor in the laboratory at the moment.
Taotao didn't care too much.
An Qiuli has always been lazy and evasive. It is said that she has worked for Professor Fu for three years and is the only one in the team who has never been to the front line.
If this continues, An Qiuli will most likely follow in Zuo Tianhua's footsteps - if he is unable to graduate with a master's degree and become a formal employee of the Agricultural Research Institute, An Qiuli's final fate... may still be to go to the countryside to join the production team.
If An Qiuli’s family doesn’t have any background.
But this has nothing to do with Taotao. It is entirely An Qiuli's own choice.
Taotao tied her son on her back with a backpack and went to the experiment to observe the condition of the experimental plants one by one, record them, write diaries, and organize files.
Even if she was not involved in the project, she would carefully record all kinds of data, then check the memo again, complete all the necessary operations, and finally sign and make a record.
After finishing all the work, it was almost time for lunch.
Taotao put Xiao Feibai down, held her son's hand, and the mother and son walked towards the cafeteria.
——Song Zhi would come and eat with them in the cafeteria.
After walking a few steps, Tao Tao saw Daya running towards her in a hurry, "...Auntie Tao Tao!"
"What's wrong?" Taotao stopped.
When Xiao Feibai saw Daya, he ran over quickly and said, "Yaaaa!"
Daya corrected him, "I'm not Yiya, my name is Liu Yiya!"
A year and a half ago, Liu Yinghong and Wen Jiaming had a divorce, and it was an ugly fight for both parties. Later, Taotao asked Professor Fu to find a job for Liu Yinghong - as a cleaner at the Agricultural University, earning ten yuan a month, with three meals a day.
At the beginning, Liu Yinghong took the children to live under a highway bridge outside the school and covered them with a tarpaulin. Later, the school leaders found out and found a way to clean up a storage room and arranged for Liu Yinghong and her three children to live there, charging them a symbolic rent of one yuan per month.
Relying on this, Liu Yinghong worked from dawn to dusk every day to earn three meals a day, which were shared by the four daughters... Well, Sanya was still young, so Liu Yinghong shared the meals with Daya and Erya.
The chefs in the canteen also felt sorry for her, and always filled the bowl full for her...so she and her two daughters could eat their fill.
Liu Yinghong would also take advantage of the time - every morning after the canteen finished selling breakfast, she would buy all the leftover steamed buns, cut them into slices, fry them in a pan until the surface was crispy, and sprinkle them with salt. They tasted amazing! It's crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, delicious and filling.
Liu Yinghong would take Daya to the bus stop outside the school and set up a stall to sell fried steamed buns.
A big steamed bun cost one cent, and after being cut into pieces, fried in oil and sprinkled with salt, one could be sold for three cents. The net profit can be 1.5 cents! You can earn 15 cents from ten steamed buns... Liu Yinghong can usually sell thirty buns every day, which means she can earn about 50 cents.
Sometimes she had to rush back to continue cleaning, so she sent Daya to stay at the stall and continue selling fried buns.
In addition, Liu Yinghong would carefully pick up the garbage thrown away by students.
She would collect anything that had a little value, and when she had enough, she would sell it as scrap, and she could earn two or three dollars a month...
Accumulating this and that, she can earn about twenty dollars a month! It was enough for her and her children to make ends meet.
During this process, Professor Fu and Daya also established a wonderful relationship.
Professor Fu likes children.
But ever since she held the newborn little Feibai, whose whole body was incredibly soft, she developed a fear of babies. I really like sensible children like Daya and Erya.
And because Daya is Liu Yinghong's eldest daughter, she helps her mother bear the most responsibilities, and she is also a sensible and well-behaved child...
Professor Fu feels particularly sorry for Daya.
Liu Yinghong is not stupid either. When she and Taotao were in the hospital together to give birth and Professor Fu went to see Taotao, and Taotao asked Daya to peel apples for Professor Fu, Liu Yinghong vaguely guessed Taotao's intention.
Later, after learning about Professor Fu's situation, Liu Yinghong found an opportunity to express her feelings - she hoped Professor Fu could adopt Daya.
Professor Fu has been observing Daya from the sidelines for a while and likes this hardworking and honest girl even more. After hearing what Liu Yinghong said, of course I was ecstatic.
But considering that Liu Yinghong has not divorced Wen Jiaming yet, and Professor Fu is not in Kyoto for more than half of the year, if the child is really adopted, it would not be appropriate to take the child to the Northwest...
Finally, Professor Fu and Liu Yinghong agreed that she would not adopt Daya, but she could sponsor Daya's schooling, and when she was in Kyoto, Daya would live with her. When she was about to go to the front line, Daya went back to live with Liu Yinghong. As for whether Daya is willing to support her when she is old, she will not force it.
Then, Professor Fu gave Daya a name, Liu Yiya.
Liu Yinghong begged Professor Fu to help her pick names for her second and third daughters, Liu Erya and Liu Sangya respectively.
Liu Yinghong is very grateful to Professor Fu. Although Professor Fu said that he funded Daya's schooling without expecting anything in return, she still often taught Daya: You must regard Professor Fu as your mother and benefactor, study hard now, and repay Professor Fu in the future.
And now, Liu Yinghong and Wen Jiaming's marriage has come to an end.
——Liu Yinghong filed for divorce three times in total. The first time was rejected due to Wen Jiaming’s opposition. Six months later, Liu Yinghong filed for divorce again. It was still in the mediation process, but the divorce was not successful due to Wen Jiaming’s opposition. Six months later, Liu Yinghong filed for divorce again.
Maybe Wen Jiaming finally accepted that Liu Yinghong had to divorce him...
After a long struggle, he finally agreed to divorce.
——The divorce conditions proposed by Liu Yinghong were: all three daughters belong to her, and Wen Jiaming pays three yuan in child support to Liu Yinghong for each daughter every month until the children reach the age of eighteen.
This time, Daya came to find Taotao to tell Taotao that her mother had divorced her father! Mom was very happy and wanted to treat some aunts who had helped her to dinner, so she sent her over to ask Aunt Taotao when she was free.
Taotao was both amused and confused: We need to celebrate after the divorce?
However, those who have escaped from the Wen family should celebrate.
She made an appointment with Daya and rushed to the canteen of the Agricultural University with her son.
Song Zhi has arrived.
He first went home and cooked two dishes, then came hurriedly carrying the lunch box. Seeing his wife and son arrived, he quickly took the empty lunch box and got two servings of white rice and a meat dish.
Song Zhi made two dishes. One was steamed egg yolk, which was mainly for his son whose teeth had not yet grown and whose stomach was more delicate; the other was stir-fried pork liver with garlic sprouts. Taotao loves to eat this, and it is good for children to eat pig liver every now and then...
The rice steamed in the canteen is less moist and harder.
Taotao poured the steamed egg custard into her son's rice bowl and mashed it. After the rice grains absorbed enough moisture from the steamed egg and began to soften, she signaled her son to eat the rice by himself.
Xiao Feibai ate his food obediently, his eyes rolling around.
Song Zhi frowned and said, "Mom wrote me a letter."
Taotao was stunned.
"What did she say?"
Song Zhi said: "I wrote a letter back to tell my parents that we will go to the Northwest next month, and Feibai will go with us... She wrote back because of this, saying, saying..."
Tao Tao, "She doesn't want Feibai to go with us?"
Song Zhi nodded.
This time it was Taotao's turn to frown, "That won't do."
Her father Bai Zhenggan and her mother Tang Liren doted on Xiao Mingchan and Xiao Feibai very much, probably because they seldom saw them. They doted on them so much that Lili and Taotao couldn't stand it.
For example, Xiao Mingchan doesn’t like to eat meat and is short in stature. She only eats one kind of meat, which is the cartilage on the pig's shank. But no matter how you stew the cartilage, it will always be a little brittle. The little girl loves to eat, but after eating, she would vomit in the middle of the night because she couldn't digest it...
When Tang Liren heard about this, she would buy pork shanks and make soup. After stewing, she would use chopsticks to remove the cartilage, and then use a hammer to pound the cartilage through a clean gauze until it was broken into pieces, and then give it to Xiao Mingchan to eat.
Xiao Mingchan was greedy and ate too much, and then she got a stomachache due to the greasy food.
But Tang Liren still remembers Xiao Mingchan's love of food, and still enjoys buying pork shanks, stewing them until soft, and pounding them... and then feeding Xiao Mingchan.
Lili and Tang Liren quarreled several times. Tang Liren promised not to do it again, but she still did it secretly and fed it to Xiao Mingchan...
Tang Liren and Bai Zhenggan also doted on Xiao Feibai.
One time, when Taotao came home from get off work, she saw the two of them kneeling on the ground and acting like horses, fighting for Xiao Feibai to ride on their backs...
So Taotao firmly disagreed to leave the child with her parents.
"Don't worry about it. If she asks again, just put the blame on me." Taotao said.
Song Zhi nodded and said, "We'll leave next month. I'm afraid she'll come over at the end of this month..."
really--
A few days later, Tang Liren and Bai Zhenggan rushed over from Song City, exhausted.
Taotao entertained her parents calmly.
Tang Liren couldn't bear it any longer, "I won't tell you much... You are still young and have never been to the Northwest. You don't know what it is like! It is so remote that even birds don't shit there! Feibai can't go with you! This time your father and I came here specifically to pick Feibai up! If you want to work, I won't stop you! But you can't take my grandson to such a poor place..."
After Tang Liren finished playing the white-faced role, Bai Zhenggan began to play the red-faced role.
"Tao Tao, Daddy supports your work, but Fei Bai is too young... How about this? For the first time, you can just go with Song Zhi. Go and see the environment there first, and then think it over carefully. If you think that the environment is suitable for Fei Bai, when you come back, I will never stop you from taking Fei Bai there next time, okay?"
"Not good!" Taotao said.
Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren were stunned.
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