Chapter 192: Write a letter to your future self...
In the blink of an eye, it’s the end of the year.
This year, the Bai family celebrated the New Year in two different places.
Xingxing became pregnant and stayed in Nandu with Song Sui to take care of the baby. Tang Liren retired and moved to Nandu to take care of Xingxing. So during the Chinese New Year, Bai Zhenggan, Bai Nansheng and Tan Fenghui took the little beans to Nandu to celebrate the New Year...
Of course, Hongdou didn't go.
She went abroad to study.
Song Xi rushed to Kyoto to celebrate the New Year with Tao Tao, Song Zhi, Fei Fei and Mo Mo.
It was the first time that Song Xi set foot in her son's villa, and she was shocked as soon as she entered.
The yard was small, covered with soft lawns, and beside the pebble path were bushes with small flowers. The bougainvillea in the corner was in full bloom, and under the wall was a row of colorful flowers...
Song Xi looked at the beautiful and tidy yard and always wondered if she was dreaming.
So he ran out again and looked—
Kyoto is in the north, so let alone winter, once autumn comes, the leaves of the deciduous trees will fall off... In the dead of winter, it is hard to see any green when walking on the street.
how……
Why are the inside and outside of this courtyard two different worlds?
Song Xi ran into the yard again, even taking off her shoes and socks and stepping on the grass.
Well, this turf is real!
Then he bent down, shook the flowers, and sniffed their fragrance...
Well, is this flower real too?
Song Zhi stood at the kitchen door, wearing an apron, holding a basket of tea leaves, teacups and a kettle in one hand, looking at his father's childish innocence, and couldn't help but feel helpless, and asked, "Dad, what are you doing?"
Song Xi looked up at his son, his eyes moved to the flowered apron tied on his chest, and he couldn't help but smile.
——Because of various misunderstandings in the past, he and his son were full of thorns. At that time, he was as gloomy as a ghost crawling out of hell. His son was also like a walking corpse, with dead eyes. When he looked at him, he did not hide the hatred that filled his heart to the point of overflowing from his eyes.
The misunderstanding is now resolved.
He was surprised to realize that his son was tall and handsome, with gentle eyes, and the flowered apron he wore on his chest made him look so down-to-earth.
Song Xi stood up straight, looked up at the sky, and said proudly: "I just want to see... whether these flowers and plants are real!"
Taotao smiled.
Feifei and Momo rushed to answer -
"Grandpa! All the flowers and plants in our house are real! They are planted by my mother! The grass my mother grows... is green even in winter! The flowers my mother grows bloom all year round!"
"Grandpa, only the flowers and plants my mother grows are so amazing! The flowers and plants outside our yard are not grown by my mother, so they lose their leaves and die in winter! Grandpa, my mother is a fairy!"
Song Xi looked at Tao Tao, "Fairy?"
Tao Tao explained with a smile, "...It's not that mysterious! The main thing is that the grass and flower species I chose...are relatively cold-resistant. Also, these flowers and plants are fertilized and I usually take good care of them...After all, I take care of them all year round just to make them look full of life even in winter!"
Song Xi nodded.
He continued to look east and west.
Song Zhi stood at the door of the living room, "Dad! Come in and have a rest, and drink some tea that your daughter-in-law brought from her hometown."
Only then did Song Xi walk into the living room with the guards.
Don’t be fooled by the fairy-like beauty of the small courtyard outside. In fact, this house looks... quite poor.
The most valuable thing in the living room is a black and white TV placed on the TV cabinet.
In addition, the living room is decorated... It exudes the (poverty) elegance (poverty) and (chill) sourness everywhere.
There is a large bookshelf against the wall in the living room, which is filled with various books. There are huge landscape paintings hanging on the wall, small vases of flowers on the desk and coffee table, glass fish tanks with small goldfish, and a few strange but beautiful rocks...
The wooden sofa is covered with a thick dark gray sponge cushion and a beautiful floral pillow. The curtains are light green, which brightens the living room, making it warm and practical.
"No wonder you were able to turn my villa into something useful in just one day when you were in Nandu! Compare it with your house...my house is really not good, it doesn't have any human touch!" Song Xi commented.
Finally, he praised Taotao generously, "My daughter-in-law is really capable!"
Taotao smiled.
She looked at the guard following behind her father-in-law.
There were three people in total. The leader was still Zhao Hongjun. The other two guards were younger and looked familiar.
Song Xi also noticed her daughter-in-law's gaze, and said helplessly: "I didn't want them to come, but they insisted on coming... Even if my level should be equipped with guards, I'm resting now! Well, I'm resting... Can you guys also take a rest?"
Zhao Hongjun said: "Of course not! Commander, you forgot that you fell down last month!"
Taotao was startled and walked forward to grab Song Xi's arm, "Dad, you fell down? Is it serious?" Without saying a word, she passed some spiritual energy over.
Then he asked, "I didn't hear my mother say that!"
——Judging from Zhao Hongjun’s attitude, Song Xi must have fallen pretty hard. But if it is really that serious, her mother Tang Liren, sister Xingxing, and brother-in-law Song Sui are all in Nandu!
Why don’t they know?
Song Zhi was also a little nervous and asked repeatedly: "What happened? How did you fall?"
Song Xi glared at Zhao Hongjun fiercely and complained in a low voice: "Didn't we agree not to mention this?"
Zhao Hongjun, "At that time, we had no place to tell anyone, so we had to accept whatever you said... Taotao, you don't know, the leader gave us a death order at that time! He said that we couldn't let Xiaosui and Xingxing know, and we couldn't let my mother-in-law know..."
Song Xi was stunned. "What? Have you found someone to support you now?"
"Isn't that so?" Zhao Hongjun said loudly.
Song Xi was stunned.
Zhao Hongjun started to complain to Song Zhi and Tao Tao.
"Song Zhi, Tao Tao, you don't know! The chief's body... there is no good spot larger than the size of a palm! He was injured countless times when he was young, and now he has more or less left a lot of sequelae, but he never said anything. He couldn't hold on, fainted, and was sent to the hospital... When the doctor checked, ouch! I didn't even dare to open my eyes to look at his medical report! But this time I brought all the chief's medical reports and medical records... You two are brave, you two take a look!"
Song Xi was anxious, "You guy! Are you sick? I'm here to spend the New Year with my son and daughter-in-law. Why did you bring my medical records? Do you want me to spend the New Year lying in the hospital?"
Zhao Hongjun yelled, "I can't control you, so I'll let someone who can control you take care of you!"
Song Xi was stunned by Zhao Hongjun's yelling.
Zhao Hongjun said to Song Zhi and Tao Tao angrily: "... During the military exercise last month, we didn't allow the commander to go to the front line, but he insisted on going! He even trained with the new recruits! Those new recruits were all 18 or 19 years old, young and strong..."
Song Xi said angrily: "I'm not old either!"
Zhao Hongjun ignored him and continued, "In the end... I don't know when he got hurt, and he didn't say anything until the military exercise was over. I saw that his walking posture was not right, and he was impatient when I asked him... Finally, he returned to the office and sat on a chair... I guess he was in so much pain that he fell to the ground with the chair!"
"We were terrified and rushed him to the hospital. The doctor took a look at the picture and said, 'He said...'
Song Xi interrupted Zhao Hongjun and said, "I am fine now, am I not?"
Tao Tao asked Zhao Hongjun, "Uncle, what did the doctor say?"
Zhao Hongjun raised his hand, wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and said with a sob: "The doctor said that in everyone's joints, there is a layer of cartilage growing around the parts connecting the bones. The joints can move freely and flexibly with the protection of these cartilages! But the commander... he may be too tired, and the cartilage has been worn away!"
Taotao was shocked.
Zhao Hongjun continued, "Now, whenever he moves, the bones in his knee joints collide with each other! Every step he takes is excruciatingly painful!"
"I'm not afraid of pain!" Song Xi shouted.
Song Zhi looked at his father in a daze and remained silent for a long time.
Tao Tao asked Zhao Hongjun, "What did the doctor say? How should this be treated?"
Zhao Hongjun replied: "The doctor prescribed some medicine. You have to take it three times a day. You also have to rest more... Don't overwork yourself. Otherwise, the growth rate of the cartilage won't keep up with the rate at which it continues to wear out. It's best to rest for a year or two..."
Song Xi cursed: "It would be better for me to just die! Rest in peace forever!"
Zhao Hongjun said to Taotao angrily: "His temper...Taotao, please judge for yourself! Is he willing to listen to advice? Don't you know, I've really had enough of being humiliated!"
"Why are you following me now, since you've had enough of this?" Song Xi cursed.
In a hurry, Zhao Hongjun spoke out the truth, "...Then I have nowhere to go!"
Song Xi was stunned for a moment and turned his head away.
Taotao looked at her father-in-law, then looked at Zhao Hongjun who was crying out of anger...
She first said to Song Xi: "Dad, I have to criticize you for this. You must accept it humbly and cannot avoid your health problems. This time you are in our territory, you must listen to our instructions! However, I can guarantee that you will never spend the New Year in the hospital!"
Song Xi snorted and turned his head to the other side.
However, he looked at Zhao Hongjun again cautiously.
Taotao smiled and said to Zhao Hongjun, "Uncle, you've had such a hard time putting up with my father-in-law's bad temper over the years! From today on, just complain to me! I promise to cure his bad temper during this time... After the New Year, he will definitely listen to you when it comes to his health!"
Song Xi was anxious, "Girl! Don't bend your elbow outward!"
"I'll listen to whoever speaks reasonably!" Taotao said mercilessly.
Zhao Hongjun's expression eased a little. "That's fine! Taotao, let's make it a deal... By the way, the chief is home too, the three of us will stay at the guesthouse outside! If the chief wants to go out, he must tell us. Tomorrow we will go to the Kyoto Military Region to borrow a car from General Guan... We have a car, so it will be convenient for the chief and you to go wherever you want."
Tao Tao, "Why do you want to move out? We have a house at home! Feifei and Momo and I live upstairs. There is a study downstairs. I have already decorated it and let Dad move in... There is also a guest room. There are bunk beds in that room. I will ask Song Zhi to make a bed on the floor for you... That will be three beds!"
"Our house is not small either. There is a toilet and bathroom on the first floor. It's very convenient. If you don't like staying in the living room, there is a tea room next to the vegetable garden in the backyard. It's nice to read a book there..." Taotao said.
Zhao Hongjun was a little embarrassed, "Your family is reunited! We are here... We are just worried that you will feel uncomfortable, this is not good!"
Tao Tao, "Your leader is a family to us, but he is also a family to you! You have been with him for much longer than we have... Listen to me on this matter! Let's make it a deal! Besides, I won't let the three of you live here for nothing. Let's redistribute the housework and everyone will take turns!"
Feifei and Momo each took a guard and took them to see the guest rooms.
Song Xi whispered to Tao Tao: "I'll give you the food money for the three of them..."
Tao Tao also lowered her voice and said, "Okay, then don't let Song Zhi know. I'll hide it secretly as my private money."
Song Xi laughed out loud.
In this way, Song Xi settled down here.
The next day, everyone split into three groups.
Zhao Hongjun went to Guan Qingbai to borrow a car; Taotao and Song Zhi took Song Xi to the hospital for treatment, and guard Xiao Chen followed; another guard Xiao Zhang stayed at home to accompany Feifei and Momo.
The night before, Taotao and Song Zhi saw Song Xi's medical records and physical examination reports over the years.
Just as Zhao Hongjun said, Song Xi's body was basically a tattered quilt made of coarse cotton cloth full of patches and filled with old quilts!
——It doesn’t look that great from the outside, but once you take the cover off, the inside is completely rotten!
Taotao and Song Zhi looked through Song Xi's medical records and were so frightened that they couldn't sleep well all night.
So now I found a medical expert that Song Zhi was familiar with and asked him to interpret it carefully...
The couple sat upright and listened to the expert for the whole morning. The more they listened, the heavier their hearts became.
At noon, Taotao asked the guard Xiao Chen to book a private room at the restaurant opposite the hospital, and Song Zhi and Taotao invited the expert to have dinner together. During the meal, the expert made a lot of suggestions regarding Song Xi's rehabilitation. Taotao took out her notebook and wrote them down carefully.
Song Xi felt very uncomfortable.
No one had ever treated him like this before.
——This feeling of being disciplined was very strange, but it also made him feel... very greedy.
After dinner, Song Zhi sent the expert back to the hospital; Taotao called Lili and said that Song Xi was here and wanted to treat everyone to dinner, and hoped that Mrs. Huo could invite her friend who was an old Chinese medicine doctor... everyone could come together. Lili understood and made an appointment with Taotao.
Later, Song Zhi also ran out and spent money at the convenience store to call Guan Qingbai, telling him the time and place of Taotao's banquet for Lili and Old Mrs. Huo, and inviting Guan Qingbai to come to dinner at that time.
Song Xi was very unhappy when she saw her son and daughter-in-law taking turns running outside to make phone calls. She grumbled, "This is too inconvenient for you... You have to go outside to make phone calls over and over again to find someone! Install a phone!"
Tao Tao smiled and said, "Actually, there's no need for that. Song Zhi and I both have telephones at work. Normally, if we're not at work, we're at home. If something happens and we can't be found at work, we can just come home..."
Song Xi, "What if I go back to Nandu and you're at home, how can I find you?"
Taotao: ...
Song Xi said bluntly, "Installing a telephone in a private home, if it was ten years ago, it would have been impossible! But now... we have already started the reform! To put it bluntly, it's all about money! Song Zhi, go ask how much it costs to install a telephone, and I'll pay for it for you!"
Song Zhi actually wanted to persuade his father again. Installing a telephone was expensive, costing about three thousand yuan, which was really unnecessary.
But he suddenly received a signal from Taotao.
Song Zhi was stunned, but he had to follow Taotao's wishes and said okay to his father.
Later, Taotao told Song Zhi: Your dad just wants to call us at ordinary times! Let's just install one. We don't lack that little money... Besides, my parents' house also has a telephone. Although the initial installation fee is a bit expensive, it will be much more convenient to contact them in the future.
Song Zhi nodded.
Song Xi privately gave Tao Tao 5,000 yuan and said, "... the money for the phone installation is also included! I don't think there will be much left, so you take it first... Mainly, I didn't expect the initial installation fee for the phone this time. It's okay, your father-in-law also has a salary of more than 300 yuan a month, and I'll save a little for you and Xing Xing every month in the future!"
The old man said to Taotao, "I was going to buy a house for you and Xingxing... but this is the situation now. You two don't have a formal job in Nandu, so you can't count on the welfare housing provided by the company! So I asked Xiaosui to go to the village in Nandu and buy two residential plots. The procedures were completed quickly..."
At this point, Song Xi sighed again, "Two plots of land cost me 60,000 yuan! Alas!"
He even thought that he had worked all his life and had no place to spend his salary, so it was amazing that he could save tens of thousands of dollars. Unexpectedly, I spent all my money after buying two plots of land…
Taotao could hear the displeasure in the old man's tone and said with a smile, "It's okay. Didn't Xiaosui start a company? When he makes some money, we'll build the house."
Speaking of which, Cheng Zhujun and Wang Xuepeng have been doing business and making quite a bit of money. Especially in recent years, the business environment has become significantly more relaxed, and the amount of money that Cheng Wang and his wife send to Tao Tao has also increased...
Taotao has a savings of no less than 100,000 yuan. Song Sui is better at making money than Cheng Zhujun and Wang Xuepeng. Taotao asked Xingxing... Song Sui's net worth has reached one million!
Even now, it is not a difficult task for the Taoxing sisters to go directly to Nandu to buy land and build a house.
But it’s better not to let Song Xi know about this.
That's why Tao Tao deliberately said that she would talk about it after Song Sui started a company and made money...
Little did he know that Song Xi sneered, "He... is just a young boy, what kind of business can he do!"
Tao Tao was unhappy and said, "Dad, don't always treat Xiao Sui as a child! He is thirty-nine years old...almost forty!"
Song Xi, "He has never done business before! He knows nothing!"
Taotao smiled secretly and thought: It seems that Song Sui usually pretends to be quite well behaved in front of the old man?
She said sternly, "Dad, you can't say that. Xiaosui is very smart, and if she doesn't know how to do business...then just take your time!"
After a pause, Taotao smiled and told Song Xi, "Dad, you know, during the South China Fair in October, Xiaosui received a lot of orders from abroad for us! Melons, grapes and winter dates from the Northwest, rice, garlic sprouts, cabbage from Ruyi Village... the orders are huge! He even received an order for a batch of straw hats! I heard that a foreign customer wants to buy 20,000 straw hats..."
Song Xi was stunned, "How come I didn't know? He didn't tell me!" His tone revealed deep surprise and pride.
Taotao rolled her eyes at him. "It's because you hurt your knee and you don't dare go home, for fear that Xiaosui and Xingxing will find out, right? It's not that Xiaosui doesn't want to tell you, but you're not home at all, so how can he tell you?"
Song Xi scratched his head and forced to change the subject, "Hey, when can this phone be installed..."
So, before the Lunar New Year, Taotao's family installed a telephone.
Two days later, it was time for Taotao and Lili to have dinner as agreed upon.
The Shunji Restaurant that the two sisters chose that day is an old restaurant with a history of over a hundred years. After liberation, it became state-owned and was renamed the State-owned 327 Hotel.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, not only did the supply and marketing cooperatives transform themselves into department stores, but even state-owned restaurants followed the trend of the market economy... They took off their state-owned signs and had to compete with privately-owned restaurants for customers.
Therefore, the state-owned 327 Hotel restored its previous name - Shunji Restaurant.
Taotao's family, Lili's family, young and old, the private room suddenly became lively!
Song Xi seldom came to Nandu, but he had known Mrs. Huo before, though they hadn't seen each other for many years...When they met this time, they talked about old times and got along very well.
At Taotao's invitation, Mrs. Huo also invited an old Chinese medicine practitioner friend of hers to come.
Tao Tao asked the old Chinese doctor to feel Song Xi's pulse, check her tongue, check the whites of her eyes... She also followed the old Chinese doctor's instructions and rolled up her pants to show her knees...
In fact, Song Xi was quite unhappy.
But Mrs. Huo kept praising Taotao and Song Zhi for their filial piety. In addition, Song Xi also knew that this was the good intention of her daughter-in-law, so she changed her anger into joy and did everything obediently.
Taotao then took out her little notebook and carefully wrote down the health-preserving advice given by the old Chinese doctor. She also asked the old Chinese doctor to prescribe a prescription for Song Xi to regulate her body...
At this time, Guan Qingbai hurried over.
Meeting old friends is another kind of lively event.
Song Xi and Guan Qingbai were close friends. When the two old men met, they were like children, punching each other and kicking each other. They looked at each other, yelling, cursing, and laughing. In the end...
Both of them had red eyes.
Song Xi asked Song Zhi, "Have you heard about me and your uncle Guan?"
Song Zhi nodded.
——Guan Qingbai’s best friend is Song Xi. Song Zhi knew what kind of person his biological father was from his adoptive father. Therefore, I admire him very much, respect him, and worship him...
Song Xi laughed and said, "What he said is not true, what I said is true!"
Guan Qingbai smiled.
Next, it turned into a meeting to recall the past and cherish the present.
Song Xi talked about how he and Guan Qingbai met during the war-torn era and how they became friends of life and death.
——At the beginning, they were both soldiers in the same company and didn’t know each other. Because of a battle, they were the only two left in their company. At that time, both of them were seriously injured. They supported each other and lived in the wilderness, surviving by eating wild vegetables and catching voles. After recuperating for half a year, both of them recovered from their injuries and went together to find the team. As a result, the two were assigned to different teams and went their separate ways from then on. However, the two would occasionally hear of each other's reputation and knew that the other had slowly grown up.
——The reason they met again was that Song Xi accidentally intercepted a piece of intelligence that a reinforced battalion of 30,000 Neon troops was preparing to ambush Guan Qingbai! Knowing that Guan Qingbai was in danger, Song Xi decided to rescue him. But at that time, he and Guan Qingbai's team were separated by the Neon Army, and it was impossible to notify Guan Qingbai in advance.
In the end, Song Xi used very clever tactics to throw the Japanese army into disarray time and time again. Guan Qingbai realized that there must be a reason behind the Neon Army's haphazard attacks. Finally, after a mixed guess, I came to the conclusion that reinforcements must have arrived. So the two armies sent scouts to each other, and finally met on the way. In the end... the two armies cooperated and wiped out the 30,000 Japanese troops with less than 10,000 troops!
When the two armies joined in victory, Guan Qingbai's troops had been out of food for three or four days, and everyone had a belly full of hay. After the Neon Army was completely wiped out, thousands of people, including Guan Qingbai, suffered from vomiting and sickness for many days. Song Xi saved the medicine and food from his army and distributed them to them...
——Once Song Xi was seriously injured on the front line, and due to lack of medical care and medicine, he simply couldn't hold on. Guan Qingbai was also injured at the time. When he heard that Song Xi was dying, he leaned on his crutches to find Song Xi and gave all his anti-inflammatory and anesthetic drugs to Song Xi. Guan Qingbai even carefully scraped off all the ointment on his splint to give to Song Xi. In the end, Song Xi survived and after half a year of recuperation, he finally recovered.
…
Song Xi, Guan Qingbai, and Old Lady Huo were the founders of the New China and were included in the textbooks for elementary and junior high schools.
But when they talk about their own experiences in person, it is very different.
The children from the Song and Huo families listened with great interest and ate their meal comfortably.
However, when everyone had eaten their fill and were about to leave and go home, Guan Qingbai suddenly felt a little sad.
——Song Xicai used to be a lonely man, but Guan Qingbai has children, daughters and a wife.
Now what?
Both the Song family and the Huo family have large families, but he was the only one who came to the appointment alone.
Song Xi doesn't know yet that Fang Ling wanted to hurt Taotao and was placed under house arrest in a hot spring sanatorium by Guan Qingbai.
So he asked, "Is Fang Ling still not well?"
Guan Qingbai felt ashamed, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. He knew his best friend Song Xi too well - Song Xi felt indebted to his son and daughter-in-law. What if he knew that Fang Ling wanted to harm Taotao? I'm afraid Fang Ling will die without a burial place!
Guan Qingbai had no choice but to nod, "As people get older, they always have problems here and there."
Song Xi agreed, "Yes! In the past, I didn't want to look at any medical records or physical examination reports! If I didn't look at them, it would prove that I was fine, and I would just pick up the gun and continue to do it! But it's different now! Now my son and daughter-in-law are watching over me every day, and I can't miss a single pill..."
Guan Qingbai laughed and scolded, "Come on, you've just shown up in front of me!"
Song Xi chuckled and asked, "How are your kids?"
Guan Qingbai was silent for a while, then said, "Shanshan is most like her mother... She also loves painting like her mother. Now she is studying abroad to become a professor! Hailong went to Tibet to help. He wrote a letter a few years ago saying that he had started a family there. Now, my eldest grandson Changchang was born in the same year as Momo..."
"Sheng Hao is now a diplomat! His wife is in poor health, so they adopted a child who is about the same age as Ming Cheng and Ming Yong. He will take the college entrance examination next year..."
At the end, Guan Qingbai sighed and said faintly, "Hai Fu is divorced."
Song Xi was stunned.
"Hai Fu is divorced?" Song Xi couldn't believe it.
Guan Qingbai nodded and held his forehead.
Song Xi, "...Yunqi is a good kid! He came to see me when he went to Nandu on business. I took him out for dinner for two days. He's a nice guy!"
Guan Qingbai, "I know he's a good person."
Song Xi: ...
——I see. Since there is a consensus that “He Yunqi is a good person”, it means that the one with the problem is Guan Haifu.
Guan Qingbai murmured, "I don't understand her! Maybe she was spoiled by her mother. She was in the art troupe, but she couldn't dance. But once she got pregnant, I don't know why she had to practice dancing... She jumped around all day long. The child was gone, and she was hurt. She couldn't get pregnant afterwards."
"I don't know why she blamed Yunqi for the miscarriage. She and him were in a cold war for two or three years... Later, I forced her to join Yunqi's unit. I wanted them to get along well... But they ended up arguing even more. Last year, she forced Yunqi to divorce, but Yunqi disagreed, so Haifu... hurt Yunqi with a kitchen knife!"
Hearing this, Song Xi's eyes widened in shock.
——The couple quarreled and even used a kitchen knife?
Guan Qingbai was even more irritable and annoyed, and continued speaking in one breath, "I guess Yunqi had given up on her and agreed to divorce... This happened at the end of last year. I was also very angry at the time, but what was the use? They told me after they had already divorced..."
"But what makes me even more angry is that... it was Haifu who insisted on getting a divorce, Yunqi disagreed, and Guan Haifu even stabbed him! But this year, she acted like she had seen a ghost and insisted on pestering Yunqi and wanting to remarry him!"
Song Xi:? ? ?
I don’t understand the world of young people, but I was deeply shocked.
After thinking for a while, Song Xi asked cautiously, "Did they remarry?"
Guan Qingbai shook his head, "Yun Qi doesn't agree to remarry!"
He sighed tiredly, "I don't understand the things of young people! Maybe I'm too old..."
Song Xi decided to cheer up his old friend as well, so he asked Guan Qingbai, "Have you been able to get away lately?"
"What are you doing?" Guan Qingbai asked.
Song Xi answered mysteriously, "Just tell me if you are free! My eldest grandson took me to a great place... It's very interesting. If you can get away, I will take you there too!"
Guan Qingbai was stunned and thought for a long time... He couldn't figure out what was so good about Kyoto that could make the knowledgeable Song Xi so mysterious and fond of it.
So Guan Qingbai arranged his work and went to meet Song Xi.
result--
Song Xi took Guan Qingbai to... a video hall near Taotao's home? ? ?
Of course, Feifei Momo is here, and Song Xi’s three guards are also here!
Guan Qingbai looked at a wooden board placed at the entrance of the video room. On it was written the words "5 cents to watch a martial arts movie, 20 cents to watch a whole day", and the broadcast schedule read: The Legend of Chu Liuxiang, the latest Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Going to Tiger Mountain Again, Huo Yuanjia...
Guan Qingbai was both amused and annoyed, and asked Song Xi, "Is this the good place you mentioned?"
"Yes!" Song Xi said confidently, and then asked him, "...Have you been here?"
Guan Qingbai answered honestly: "No."
"Come on, come on! Let's go in and watch... I tell you, it's really good! It's really good! Xiao Zhao, buy tickets, buy tickets!" As he said that, Song Xi pulled Guan Qingbai into the video room.
At the beginning, Guan Qingbai looked down on the environment of this video hall.
But then I saw the big color TV, the chic martial arts costumes, and the wonderful and bizarre plot...
Guan Qingbai: It smells so good!
A group of people huddled in the video room, stretching their necks to watch the show.
At lunch time, Taotao waited at home for a long time but no one, old or young, came home for lunch?
She rushed to the video hall to grab someone and take him home for dinner.
As a result, Song Xi took the lead in making trouble and was unwilling to go home for dinner because he was watching Chu Liuxiang and was about to see the finale.
Taotao was both angry and amused, so she had to go home, pack the food in a lunch box and bring it over... She also had to watch her father-in-law drink up all the medicinal soup prescribed by the old Chinese doctor before she would stop.
Later, even Guan Qingbai was addicted to the martial arts films in the video hall.
The old and the young got together every day and watched all the martial arts films that interested them in just a few days... Only then did they calm down.
The New Year is coming soon.
The Spring Festival is a holiday for people all over the country to rest and have a holiday, so every household has to stock up on things.
The various foods that Taotao and Song Zhi bought not only filled up the kitchen, but also the rooftop on the second floor.
For the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, under Taotao’s arrangement, everyone in the family participated in cooking. Guards Zhao Hongjun, Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang also showed off their skills and cooked a dish with the flavor of their hometown. Even the youngest child, Mo Mo, roasted a few sweet potatoes in a charcoal basin with the help of his brother.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family sat around the fire in the living room, watched the Spring Festival Gala, ate snacks, and chatted...
Song Zhi went upstairs and tinkered with something for a while, then came down carrying a cardboard box.
Taotao smiled as soon as she saw the cardboard box. "You have a good memory. I had forgotten about this."
Song Xi asked curiously: "What is this?"
"A letter to the future." Song Zhi said seriously.
"What?" Song Xi was puzzled.
Taotao explained with a smile, "Dad, it's like this... We have a habit in our family. Every year on New Year's Eve, we do three things..."
——Make a New Year’s resolution.
——Take stock of how much of the plans set last year have been completed? What has not been achieved? We must reflect and find out the reasons.
——Write a text message to yourself next year, the year after, and the year after that.
Tao Tao then explained, "Didn't Song Zhi go abroad three years ago? Once he went abroad, he couldn't come back for two or three years. So we haven't opened the letter we wrote to ourselves for two whole years."
Song Xi nodded, "This is a good habit, count me in from now on!" Then he told Zhao Hongjun and the others, "You too!"
Song Zhi opened the carton and took out the notebooks and letters inside. Seeing his father looking at him eagerly, Song Zhi smiled and handed the notebook to his father - the notebook recorded the New Year's plans he, his wife and children had made a few years ago.
He then distributed the letters to his wife and son.
Feifei opened her letter and exclaimed after just one look, "Oh my God! My dream has come true!"
"What what?" Taotao asked.
Momo also said impatiently: "Brother, what did you write?"
Feifei handed the letter to her mother and said loudly and happily, "The year my father went abroad, I wrote a letter saying... I hope my father will come back for the New Year, and that my grandfather will come too, so that our family can have a happy New Year together!"
Everyone was stunned.
Then, everyone laughed again.
The letter written by Feifei was circulated among everyone.
Soon, it was passed to Song Xi.
On the letter paper, a few numbers were written in childish handwriting:
...I hope Dad's work abroad goes smoothly and he returns safely. I also wish that Nandu’s grandfather and father can reconcile and we can celebrate the New Year together.
Song Xi looked at her son and daughter-in-law, then at her two older grandchildren, her eyes red.
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