Early the next morning, Li Chu started busy in the kitchen.
He doesn't like to eat mutton steamed buns at night. The buns are doughy and difficult to digest if eaten at night.
The mutton was stewed last night, now it's time to bake the pancakes.
The kitchen door was pushed open, and when Li Chu looked back, his daughter appeared at the door.
"Hui Hui, why did you get up so early?"
Even as he spoke, his hands did not stop.
"Dad, thank you!"
The daughter thanked her inexplicably, causing Li Chu to stop moving his hands, and he turned his head and took a look.
"What's wrong? You got up early in the morning just to stir up excitement?"
"I knew it would be like this." Wen Hui complained secretly in her heart.
"Dad, just because I said yesterday that I wanted to eat mutton steamed buns, you started working on it last night and got up so early in the morning and continued working on it, so I thought of coming over to say thank you."
"Silly girl, I am your father. What happened to me taking care of you before you lived independently and had a family?
How long can I take care of you? From the time you are born, it will be about twenty years at most. When you get married, you will no longer be as willful as you were at home."
Wen Hui leaned against the door frame of the kitchen, looking at her father with a slightly blank look in her eyes.
"Dad, seriously, you are so good, how will I find a partner in society in the future?"
Li Chu was amused by what his daughter said: "Who told you to look for someone in my mold? Do you lack fatherly love?"
"But you are so good to my mother and you have pampered me since I was a child. If I look for a partner in the future, it will be difficult for me not to compare you."
"I dote on you and spoil you because I am your father. You are looking for a partner in the future, not a father. Why should you let others be like me? A family is for two people. Whether life is happy or not,
That requires the joint efforts of two people.
Huihui, remember, in this world, except for me and your mother, no one has to pamper you, and you can't find a partner with this idea. They are all raised by your parents, so why should you want someone else?
I love you. Think about it carefully and see if this is true."
After saying that, he poured the mixed dough from the basin onto the chopping board and continued to knead it.
Wen Hui stood there, quietly thinking about what her father had just said.
"I am good to you and respond to your requests. In fact, it has another meaning."
"What does it mean?"
"I let you have a rich material life and a rich spiritual life since you were young, so that when you enter the society, you won't lose your head just because of other men's casual sweet words."
"Dad, I don't know how."
Li Chu turned his head and looked at his daughter with a smile: "Really? That's the best!"
After saying that, he started to divide the kneaded dough on his hands into balls, picked up the rolling pin and rolled it out a little thinner.
How does it feel to eat a bowl of hot mutton steamed buns in the cold early morning?
How come it feels so good, my whole body feels warm after eating.
Lu Ping, who usually has a small appetite, had a nice big bowl.
After eating, I took another sip of mutton soup.
"Ah, I'm so happy. I haven't had mutton steamed buns in a long time."
"You are too easily satisfied!" Wang Yueyue, who was working hard, raised her head from the bowl that was bigger than her head, glanced at Lu Ping and said.
"Oh, Yueyue, you don't understand. You won't be able to realize it until you leave home and go somewhere else in the future."
Wang Yueyue's little head shook like a rattle.
"I don't want to. I will follow Brother Xuan from now on. I will go wherever he goes."
Well, Lu Ping, who had just eaten, was stuffed with another mouthful of dog food, which made her roll her eyes.
Seeing her deflated look, Wen Hui snickered on the side.
"If you're still smiling, go ahead and eat your food."
Lu Ping patted Wen Hui angrily.
Wang Yueyue didn't care anymore, lowered her head and continued to cook.
Seeing that Yueyue's face was stained with some soup, Wenxuan took out a handkerchief from his pocket. Wang Yueyue naturally brought his face towards her, waited for Wenxuan to wipe her, and then lowered his head.
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Lu Ping, who was sitting opposite, looked at their tacit understanding and said it would be a lie if she said she wasn't jealous.
But who told her not to have such a childhood sweetheart?
"Pingping, when you eat, you eat, and when you drink soup, you drink soup. It doesn't matter. Just watch what they are doing. It will only make you more and more angry."
"Li Wenhui, if you don't speak, no one will think you are mute."
"Oh, you Lu Ping, I want you to avoid getting hurt, but you don't know a good heart, just look at how I tickle you."
When the two of them started to quarrel, Wenxuan was very discerning and picked up his and Wang Yueyue's bowls, and then the two of them sat down at the same table where their parents were eating.
"Wenxuan, you wash the dishes later and use some of the medicinal powder on the sink, otherwise it will be too oily to clean."
"Dad Chu, don't worry about it. I will wash it later."
"Okay, we, Yueyue, are still the best!"
"hey-hey!"
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A happy life was lived day by day, and soon the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, and it was time for Wenxuan, Wenhui and Luping to return to school.
Last Sunday, Li Wenxuan's ancestor worship ceremony went smoothly. Many guests came to his home, almost all of them were elderly men. There was even an old man who was over a hundred years old. He was walking with a cane and was trembling.
of.
There are also many uninvited people, even in Beihe and Jinshi.
Li Chu didn't even know some of them himself, and some of them were whom Master had visited once before.
Uncle Wang and the man from the nursing home had a long conversation in the study room.
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After sending away the three children, Li Chu drove Ding Qiunan and Wang Yueyue back home.
Wang Yueyue will live here from the beginning of this semester. Her parents are not here, and her grandparents' place is too far from the school, which is really inconvenient.
"Yueyue, you will have dinner at my aunt's house next door at noon. If you want to go out to play, remember to bring your keys. We are going to work."
"I know, mom Qiunan, goodbye, dad Chu."
After watching her open the door and go in, Li Chu started the car and drove to the hospital.
"What meeting are you having today?"
"It's not really a meeting, it's just a report on the investigation results of the case from a year ago."
"Oh." As soon as he heard about that case, Ding Qiunan immediately lost interest in asking.
She knew that many things her man came into contact with were confidential, and unless he took the initiative to tell her, she would not ask more questions.
After Ding Qiunan got off the car at the hospital gate, Li Chu drove straight to the health entrance.
Inside the hospital, downstairs of the administrative building, two men and a woman were negotiating with the sentry.
Among the two men, one of them was Xiao Zheng from Dongshan who had come to see Li Chu before but didn't see him.