Backyard, large dining room

Cheng Tianyuan was having breakfast with four elderly people, while talking about how much fruit the pomegranate trees in the back garden could bear this year.

"It didn't work last year!" Xue's father curled his lips: "There was too much rain during the flowering period, and the flowers fell to the ground. In the end, only a few fruits were born in a tree."

Liu Ying laughed and said, "The pomegranate tree has good varieties and the fruits it produces are so delicious."

"Yes, yes!" Xue's mother smiled and narrowed her eyes: "It's so small, but they are big and red, especially the juice is particularly sweet."

But Xue’s father disagreed: “It’s better this year. It happens to be sunny during the flowering period, and when the fruit grows, there is rain again, which is full of nutrition, moisture and juice.”

"It's good to have less and more essence." Xue's mother said, "Anyway, we have five or six trees. Even if one tree has only a dozen fruits left, it will still be dozens of them. Just eat enough, don't be greedy for too many."

"Yes!" Liu Ying laughed: "It's easy to get tired of eating too much. I don't feel good about eating dragon meat every day. How can pomegranate fruit compare to dragon meat, right?"

Everyone laughed.

Xue Zhilan teased: "It seems that my mother-in-law has eaten dragon meat. She knows that dragon meat must be better than pomegranate fruit."

Everyone laughed again.

Xue Ling came and sat next to Cheng Tianyuan.

Liu Ying asked her to drink corn juice and explained: "This is squeezed from fresh corn. It tastes so good and is very sweet! The little sugar is enough to be sweet."

"Okay, then I'll try it too." Xue Lingsouled a cup and looked around: "By the way, where is the third brother? Didn't he say he'd go out earlier today?"

Cheng Tianyuan replied: "He got up late and took a few buns and a glass of corn juice to eat on the way. He asked Xiao Huang to accompany him to go out and drive your old BMW out."

"Okay." Xue Ling nodded.

Xue Zhilan asked in confusion: "Ling Ling, have you not agreed on your work last night? Why did Ah Heng and his daughter come here early in the morning to get breakfast? I saw that his face was very bad, his eyes were so dark that they were so dark that they were probably busy all night last night."

Forehead?

Xue Ling's eyes flashed slightly, and she turned her eyes away and took a small bun to eat.

"He didn't agree, so he went to bed until midnight. He was afraid that he would delay the process, so he brought the plan early in the morning and asked me to help me check it out. He also wanted to send Xiaohan to study, so he came here for breakfast together."

"So that's how it is." Xue Zhilan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Recently, his mother and I fell ill one after another. He has worked very hard alone. I saw that his hair has become much thinner for a while, as if he will be bald soon. By the way, Ah Huan is so, his forehead is getting cleaner every year. I guess he will be bald without having to be fifty. Just be a monk."

"Where!" Xue's father objected: "We don't have this inheritance in our family! Look at you and I, although we have gray hair all over our heads, there are still hair on our foreheads."

"Really." Xue Zhilan couldn't laugh and cry: "They both brothers are like this, one is brighter than the other. I asked Ah Huan, and he said that it was probably because of the stress of work and being too busy every day. The hormones in all aspects of the body are no longer as good as when they were young, so their hair falls off every day."

Cheng Tianyuan asked curiously: "Uncle, isn't this related to genetics?"

"Maybe," Xue Zhilan said: "When it comes to genetics, we do not have such genes. However, their uncles are like this, and they are all naked when they are in their forties or fifties. Maybe there is also the genetic influence of their mother."

Xue Ling thought for a while and said, "Now there are more and more bald people, and they are getting younger and younger. Every time they hold high-level meetings, the male compatriots are almost naked. Even middle-aged and young people have thin hair. I think this should be related to the high pressure on young people, diet, health, etc. of now."

"Hey!" Xue's father sighed: "Young people are really under great pressure nowadays."

Liu Ying shook her head, "What pressure? You have to eat, wear, and live in. The traffic sanitation environment is so good. Where does the pressure come from? It was really difficult for us to be young. If we don't work, we will probably not have to eat tomorrow. We can't eat meat a few times a year, and drink cold water to do heavy work every day. Wouldn't we still get through it? I think, it's mainly because young people now have a good life, so they have a lot of problems. Just like the depression mentioned on TV yesterday, why can't we think it out? You have to eat and drink, how can you still be depressed? If you ask them to do heavy work for a few days and work hard for a few days, they will know how wonderful life is now, and they can't get depressed all of a sudden."

Everyone laughed one after another.

Cheng Tianyuan said warmly: "Mom, depression is a neurological disease, which is very complicated. You, just talk and laugh, you can't talk nonsense outside, so as not to think you are alluding to whom."

"Yes." Xue Ling whispered: "A few days ago, everyone still remembers the fact that the depressed patient in Siheyuan Community jumped off the building. You are not interested, but you have mental problems and may be very sensitive. If you accidentally stimulate others, it would be bad."

Liu Ying nodded "Oh": "That's OK... Then I won't talk about it in the future."

"It's not hard to talk at home." Xue Ling smiled and said, "We won't say it anyway."

"That's it!" Xue's mother said, "We are talking and playing at home, what are we afraid of!"

Xue Zhilan stood up after eating, "Brother Wu, let's go to the back garden for a walk?"

"Let's go!" Dad Xue gestured, "The sugarcane I planted has grown so tall, so let's take a look!"

Xue Zhilan suddenly became interested, "It seems that there will be sugarcane to eat this winter - it's great! The vegetables and fruits I grow are sweeter than those I buy from outside, so I must reserve one first."

“No problem, no problem.”

After a while, the elderly went for a walk with full food, and only Cheng Tianyuan and his wife were left.

Xue Ling lowered his voice: "Do you need to go out in the morning? Why don't you take a day off and stay at home to rest. You didn't sleep all night last night, and your face was not very good."

Cheng Tianyuan smiled bitterly: "There is a contract to be signed in the morning, so I won't go. I will come back after I finish my work and try to come back for two hours at noon. Have the father and daughter coaxed me? Go to school?"

"Oh..." Xue Ling nodded: "I'll stop you for the time being."

Cheng Tianyuan was still not very relieved: "Aheng was not doing things safely enough, so you still have to help take care of it. Thinking about when we worked in the county town, Afang quietly ran away with someone, and his parents didn't know until the next day. At that time, the communications and traffic were not bad, and finding people was like looking for needles in a haystack. We had no choice but to find someone except to find someone to make a statement. People, when we were young, were impulsive and confused. Once we took the wrong steps, we would have to make a mistake in the future. It would be fine if we could go back, but if we couldn't go back for the rest of our lives."

After a pause, he added a deep tone: "You can't let her go the old path of her mother."

Xue Ling patted the back of his hand and whispered: "Don't worry, I asked Xiaochao to go with him quietly. He would stare at Xiaohan in secret and contact us immediately if there is anything. Now it's different, communication and transportation are excellent, so it's not difficult to find someone."

Cheng Tianyuan smiled slightly, praised and said yes.
Chapter completed!