Chapter 99: Meeting the In-Laws and Showing the Gift (Catching Bugs)
After a while, Father Xiao came out of the bathroom. Mantou was whispering to Qiao Qinglu. Qiao Qinglu took out a bottle of medicinal wine from her bag (space) and handed it to him. He walked over with the bottle and gave it to Father Xiao.
"Grandpa, does it still hurt? Let me rub it for you."
Father Xiao took the medicinal wine with satisfaction, "Oh, I didn't expect your mother to prepare this. This is a good thing, I will rub it myself."
The tactless son and his group realized that something was wrong and hurried over to offer help.
"Dad, don't be embarrassed, I have experience in this."
Xiao Qinyu unscrewed the bottle of medicinal wine, poured it into his hands and started rubbing it.
"Ouch, be gentle, be gentle. I'm sixty years old, with old arms and legs. I'm not one of those soldiers. I can't stand your tossing and turning."
Mantou, Doubao and Tangyuan all looked at their uncle disapprovingly, and the three of them gathered together for a small meeting.
Mantou commented: "Uncle is really fierce."
Tang Yuan nodded, "I don't care about people at all."
Doubao curled his lips and said, "If I were older, I would definitely snatch my aunt away."
Tang Yuan agreed: "That's right. He's such a rough guy, how can he be worthy of the pretty and gentle young aunt."
Mantou disagreed, "No, mom is the prettiest."
Doubao retorted: "No matter how pretty my mom is, I can never beat my dad."
Tang Yuan sighed and patted Dou Bao, "Alright, the little kid can still read faces."
The bean buns are wilted.
Mantou patted his brother and said, "What's so good about the girls in the class? They're always acting like spoiled brats. My Tangyuan is better. She's pretty, good at fighting, and she never cries."
Tangyuan gave Mantou a look that said "you're smart", and Doubao became even more wilted.
Qiao Qinglu was listening to the gossip with her ears perked up, almost bursting out laughing. These furry kids are really amazing.
She shook her head and packed the gifts to take to the Yu family, a set of "eight big items", including blessing cakes, Taishi cakes, longevity peach cakes, wedding cakes, silver ingot cakes, rolled pastry cakes, chicken oil cakes and jujube flower cakes; two bottles of Feitian Moutai, two bottles of Hongtashan, two bottles of Yunyan, and she forgot to buy water balls.
After more than ten minutes, Xiao's father's hand felt better and no more pressing was needed. Qiao Qinglu quickly asked Xiao Qinyu where she could buy a water bottle nearby.
Xiao Qinyu thought for a moment, "There's a service center in the military district. I wonder if there are any people there at this hour."
Xiao Qinyun: "Do you want a ticket? Where is it? I'll go check it out."
Xiao Qinyu put his arm around his eldest brother's neck and said, "I have tickets. Let's go together."
"OK."
After leaving the guesthouse, Xiao Qinyun and his brother walked around the military district service center, but the water chestnuts were sold out, so they had to buy two cans of water chestnuts, which was better than nothing.
Here, Father Xiao talked about the betrothal gift cautiously.
"Qinglu, the betrothal gift I gave you before was 666 yuan. I should have given Mengmeng the same amount, but I thought Qin Yu is too far away and I can't take care of him. Any help is appreciated, so I'm going to give him 1001 yuan. What do you think?"
Qiao Qinglu smiled and said, "Dad, you underestimate me. Not to mention that the 666 yuan deposited in the bank for 8 months has an interest of more than 200 yuan. Besides, you have helped us a lot in the past few months. How can I argue with my younger brother and sister-in-law about this?"
Father Xiao smiled with relief, "Yes, yes, yes, I'm old and think too much, please be more understanding."
"Dad, look at what you said. You are so gentle."
Tangyuan immediately came over and said, "Grandpa has lost a lot of weight. He can even take us to practice military boxing every day. His fists are so powerful and majestic."
Doubao also nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, Grandpa is very powerful. If I practice sparring with Grandpa, he can throw me to the ground with just one move."
Father Xiao waved his hands happily and said, "Not really, not really," his heart was filled with joy.
He knew that the eldest son's wife was a generous and capable person who would not care about such a small amount of money, and the children were all good. But even if she didn't care about these details, he had to speak openly, otherwise there would be a gap, and how could they live in the same yard?
Now that it's out in the open, there's no more trouble. The children are all married, and when he passes away, he can give an explanation to his wife.
As they were talking, Xiao Qinyun and his brother came back. Qiao Qinglu looked at the can of food Xiao Qinyun was carrying and said, "Okay, there's nothing we can do without water."
Since the old man mentioned the betrothal gift just now, Qiao Qinglu also talked to Xiao Qinyu about the color TV and tape recorder.
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