"Dad Chu, can I learn to drive?" Wang Yueyue asked excitedly.
"Okay, why not? I'll teach you as soon as it's okay. I'm very easy to learn. Once you learn how to do it, I'll get a license for you, so you can drive to work by yourself in the future."
"Hey, thank you, Dad Chu."
"Ahhh"
"Oh, our little brat wants to learn too. How about we wait until you grow up? Grandpa will teach you in person."
"oh oh"
The little stinky baby sat in his mother's arms, squatting and crouching, clapped his little hands happily, not sure if he understood.
…
It was late at night, and when Ding Qiunan entered the bedroom after taking a shower, her child had fallen asleep on the small bed beside the kang, and her husband was leaning on the bedside, reading a book in his hand.
"Dear, I heard from our sister that Qin Huairu came over to look for you at noon?"
"Well, she will be waiting at the entrance of the alley when I come back." Li Chu folded the book and put it on the bedside table, and then picked up his wife who was sitting by the kang.
"You wanted me to help bring some money to Xiaodang, but I refused. Let her take care of herself first."
"When will she and He Yuzhu leave?"
"I guess I should have boarded the train heading south by now." Li Chu glanced at the watch on the wall and saw that it was already past nine o'clock.
"Oh~" Ding Qiunan sighed and snuggled into her husband's arms: "I hope they both can be well. After all, they are old neighbors from before. This time they go south, it may be difficult to see each other again.
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Li Chu said nothing, but held his wife's arm slightly tighter.
Although he didn't like the behavior of those two people, but what his wife said, after all, they are old neighbors for many years, and they are not too young. After this separation, they may never see each other again.
.
With his appearance, everyone's life in that courtyard has undergone major changes.
For the Yan Bugui and Liu Haizhong families, as well as several other families who originally lived in that courtyard, life is indeed getting better and better, and it may get even better in the future.
But for the elder brother and aunt who are no longer here, as well as Qin Huairu's family and He Yuzhu, it really can't be said to be that good.
"My dear, can you sing me another song?" Ding Qiunan raised her head from her man's arms and said.
"What song do you want to listen to?"
"Whatever, as long as it's sung by you, I like to listen to it."
"Okay, let me think about it."
"I want to sing to you, now that I am young and beautiful,
Flowers bloom to your heart’s content, decorate your years and my buds,
Who can take your place? Love as much as you want while you are young.
My dearest one, let’s be together despite the long journey,
Let me sing to you, give me your innocent smile,
………”
Ding Qiunan lay there, looking at his man infatuatedly, listening to him sing quietly.
"You are still young, but I have become an old woman." After the song ended, she said with a smile on her face.
Li Chu didn't say anything, he just reached out and kissed his wife's forehead.
"Don't move yet, stay close." Ding Qiunan seemed to have discovered something, and straightened up and sat up.
"What's wrong?"
"I just noticed that you actually have white hair! Let me help you pull it out."
"What's so surprising about this? I'm fifty-two years old, so it's normal to have gray hair."
"It's only fifty-one, how can there be fifty-two." Ding Qiunan muttered dissatisfiedly while looking for the white hair.
"Yes, you are right."
"My dear, do you think I will have wrinkles all over my face when I open my eyes one day?"
"How is it possible? Even if wrinkles develop, they won't appear suddenly. There is always a process."
"Why do people get older? It would be better to stay young."
"Haha, are you kidding? If that happens, the earth won't be overrun by humans and explode."
"Oh, what I mean is that you will always have this youthful face, even if you are seventy or eighty years old, and then until the functions in your body deteriorate, you will die of old age, which does not mean that you will not die."
"Aren't the things you mentioned being studied in various countries now? Isn't that why I made the anti-wrinkle prescription?"
"Oh, it seems so."
"How many white hairs are there?" Li Chu felt like he had to pull them out two or three times.
When he combed his hair after washing in the morning, he really never noticed whether there were any white hairs on his head.
"Don't worry, I pulled out two of them and I'll see if there are any more."
After a while, Ding Qiunan gave up the idea of continuing to search, and stretched out his left hand and spread it out in front of his man like a treasure.
"Look, I only found these two silver ones. Give me the book and I'll put it in the book."
"What are you doing with this? Just throw it away. There will be more and more in the future."
"Oh, give it to me quickly. I'm going to see how many hairs I can pull out before you get a lot of gray hair."
"Don't let me lose your hair any day."
"What are you talking about? Am I that unreliable? Give me the book quickly."
"But I will flip through this book when I have nothing to do. If you put it in it, it might fall out one day."
"That's right. Then take out the notebook with the rubber band from the bedside table drawer."
Li Chu reached out and opened the drawer and took out a blue plastic-covered notebook.
After Ding Qiunan took it, she clamped the two white hairs in the cover, then put the rubber band on them and put them in the drawer. She also got into her man's arms again.
"What's in your notebook?"
"Have you not seen our family's daily income and daily expenses?"
"Why should I look at what you memorized?"
"By the way, dear, you just gave Yueyue and Wenhui the car you just mentioned, what should I do if I refuel it in the future?"
Nowadays, you can't refuel your car with money. If you don't have a gas ticket, your car will just sit there and look at it.
He just drives his car directly to the army's fuel depot to refuel his car. He doesn't need a fuel stamp at all, he only needs to sign for it.
But in the future, the other two vehicles will need gas tickets.
"It's okay, I'll find a way later."
That's what Ding Qiunan asked. She never had to worry about the tickets her family needed. Her man could always find a way to get some weird tickets.
"When you teach Yueyue how to drive, you should also teach me how to drive."
"Huh? You want to learn anyway. Didn't you say you wouldn't learn before?"
"I had a driver before, so I didn't bother to learn."
"Okay, it's not easy to learn. I almost learned it in two days. If I want to become proficient, I have to practice slowly."
"Then I can just drive it when I go to work."
"Okay, I will be responsible for taking the car from now on!"
"Well, I will be your full-time driver from now on!"