The project in Li Boshan's hands is nearing completion. Their entire project team is sorting out data, writing research reports, and living and eating in the laboratory for several days.
I finally had some free time today, and I was going to go home, take a good bath, and take a nap, but I got home when it was almost dark.
As soon as he entered the alley, he saw a sneaky figure.
When I got closer, I saw an old lady in her 70s or 80s. She looked like a well-dressed person. The gold jewelry on her hands and ears were very bright in the dark night.
The old lady stood at the door of his house, looking in the direction of the Li family.
"Who are you looking for?" It wasn't that he wanted to say hello deliberately, but the old lady was blocking his way home.
The old lady was so frightened by Li Boshan that she almost jumped up. She turned around and rolled her eyes at the sloppy-looking Li Boshan, and said fiercely: "None of your business! Huh~"
"It's none of my business, but you blocked the door of my house." Li Boshan chuckled and pointed to the door of his house.
The old lady looked at Li Boshan and then at the door in front of her. She couldn't believe it, but she still moved her steps and leaned to the side to put some distance between herself and Li Boshan.
Li Boshan knew that he looked very embarrassed now. After all, he hadn't changed his clothes for more than a week, and he hadn't shaved his beard. His sleeves had been burned with a hole when they were put on the laboratory stove this morning, and a small amount of cotton was exposed.
Son.
But he didn't care what the old lady thought of him. He just wanted to get home quickly and give his wife and son a good hug.
Li Boshan knocked on the courtyard door. After a while, there was movement in the courtyard. The old lady took two steps back and hurried out of the alley.
"Did you just talk to someone?" Feng Yanhong just heard something moving outside the yard, and she thought she heard it wrong.
"Well, it's quite a strange old lady. I don't know if she's here to do some digging in advance. I'll remind everyone tomorrow not to let anyone target my house."
Before Li Boshan entered the door, he looked back at the old lady's back and saw that her steps were very vigorous.
Feng Yanhong followed his gaze, but saw nothing.
"It's almost the New Year's Eve, and there are a lot of thieves. If they really come to steal something, we have to take precautions together."
Who has no spare money in the past two years? If the money is stolen just before the new year, how will they survive the new year?
"I'll talk to Aunt Gao tomorrow."
Li Boshan closed the door and entered one after another with Feng Yanhong.
Child Li Kehang was watching a cartoon. He looked back and was stunned. He didn't seem to recognize that the person who came through the door was his father.
Li Boshan looked at his son's unfamiliar eyes and touched his stubble awkwardly.
"I'd better go and clean up first, so as not to scare my son."
Li Boshan went to the bathroom to clean up for more than half an hour, changed clothes and came out. The little guy was finally willing to call daddy.
And once he got into his arms, he refused to come out. Li Boshan didn't even bother to eat until he coaxed the little guy to sleep.
Feng Yanhong saw him coming out rubbing his arms and said angrily: "Just get used to him. It's not so difficult to coax him to sleep normally. There's no need to hold him like this."
Li Boshan bared his white teeth and smiled brightly, "I'm usually not at home, isn't it? It's not a big deal for children to act coquettishly occasionally."
Feng Yanhong glanced at him and handed him the chopsticks.
I don’t know who it was who told her righteously that boys should not be spoiled or treated with kindness.
It's better now, she has become a vicious villain, and only her father is better in the world!
Li Boshan went to school again early the next morning. Feng Yanhong told Aunt Gao what happened last night while having breakfast at Li's house.
"Oh, that might be true. I heard that thieves nowadays all commit crimes in gangs, and there are some who stand guard and let out smoke. If it doesn't work, I have to tell everyone quickly."
"If you see a suspicious person again, call him directly and send him to the police station. We look forward to having a good New Year all year round. It would be terrible if someone steals this hard-earned money again!"
Aunt Gao was a firecracker. When she left the house, the alley exploded. Fortunately, the news spread in just a moment.
In the afternoon, when the sun was shining, Aunt Gao helped Grandpa Second and Grandma Chai to go out. When she walked to the door, she saw a man wearing a patched cotton-padded jacket and a faded headscarf wrapped around his head.
The old lady with a cane walked forward tremblingly.
"Second brother! It's really you, I really saw you."
As the old lady spoke, tears fell from the corners of her eyes.
The second master's expression was shocked. He looked at the person in front of him carefully and frowned.
"Who are you?"
The old lady became anxious now, and her tears stopped falling. She took two steps forward, but was stopped by Aunt Gao, who had quick hands and eyes.
"Old lady, please be patient. If someone falls, it will not be a good thing."
"Second brother, I am Caixia, your little sister Li Caixia!"
The old lady looked at the second master aggrievedly and wiped her eyes with her sleeves.
"I really didn't expect that I would see you again, I..."
The second master raised the corners of his mouth and smiled sarcastically.
"You think I should have died long ago, don't you? Didn't you say you would never come back in this life?"
"Why don't you, that foreigner of yours, even buy you some decent clothes? Why are you so old and so miserable?"
His sister has always looked like his father's third concubine, and she's used to putting on airs.
Not worthy of sympathy at all!
If she had not stolen the only two gold bars in the family, her eldest nephew Li Qin would not have died of wound infection!
"Second brother, please don't mention it. I was deceived by Jack! Woohoo~ I regret it so much. I didn't listen to you, second brother. It was my lard that deceived my heart..."
Li Caixia cried so pitifully that she even aroused Aunt Gao's sympathy. Chai Muchhen looked at Li Caixia with a cold face, as if she saw her through and through.
"Second Master, look at this..."
Of course, Aunt Gao knew that this was a family matter and she couldn't interfere with it, but these three were so old, so they couldn't just stand at the door and blow the cold wind.
To say that this was the aunt of the Li family, she really had no memory at all. The second master had not seen this aunt show her face in the decades since she moved back.
"Come home and talk." The second master supported Chai Muzhen and slowly turned around and walked back. There was no emotion or anger on his face.
Family scandals should not be made public. Even if he disliked his sister, he could not expose these scandals in front of outsiders.
"Second Master, why are you back again?" Ji Shuying was washing clothes in the washing machine in the yard. She didn't hear the movement outside the yard at all. When she saw the old couple helping each other in, her face was full of confusion.
"Humph! Our sister-in-law from the Li family is back!" The second master glanced back, with a little anger on his face.
As soon as Li Caixia entered the door, her eyes quickly looked around the yard, and she smiled a little when she saw Ji Shuying.
"Why do you look familiar? Oh~ I remembered, you are Mr. Ji's little daughter, right?"
Even without looking at her appearance, Ji Shuying knew who she was from her tone of voice.
Ji Shuying glared coldly, with a bit of ridicule in her expression.
"Hey~ Which aunt do I think you are? So it's you? Didn't you say that the shit on the other side of the ocean smells good and you will never come back in this life?"
"Looking at your appearance...are you in trouble? You shouldn't be. Don't you have a lot of means?"