"He's at home, he's been waiting for you to come back, so let's get in. ”

Li Xin and Xia Xiaona opened the back door, took out a few bags of things from the back seat, and then followed their mother into the house.

As soon as they entered the door, Li Xin's father greeted them from the living room.

"Dad, this is Xia Xiaona. Li Xin said.

"Hello uncle!" Xia Xiaona greeted respectfully.

Li Xin's father smiled kindly and replied, "Well, good, good." I've been waiting for you to come, you haven't been home for so long, Li Xin's mother has been watching you at the window several times. Sit down, sit down, and we'll have dinner in a moment. After speaking, he was busy looking for a cup and preparing to make tea for Li Xin and Xia Xiaona.

Li Xin looked at it and quickly put the things in his hand on the coffee table: "Dad, don't be busy, I'll come." ”

Xia Xiaona opened the bag on the coffee table, took out a few beautifully packaged boxes and said, "Uncle and aunt, I heard Li Xin say that you like to eat Shanghai pastries, so we brought you a few boxes and two cashmere sweaters." ”

Li Xin's parents said happily: "You see that you brought so many things with you the first time you came to our house, it's so polite!"

Xia Xiaona smiled embarrassedly and said, "I don't know what to buy, in fact, this is all picked by Li Xin." ”

Li Xin came over with two cups of tea and put them on the coffee table, and then asked his parents and said, "Dad, Mom, where are your cups? I'll add some water to you." ”

Li Xin's father said, "No, no, you drink, we all have water in our cups." Let someone else sit and stand like this when you get home. ”

Li Xin pulled Xia Xiaona to sit down on the sofa.

Li Xin's mother said, "Little brother, you have come all the way back, are you tired? If you are tired, go back to the house to rest for a while?"

Li Xin said: "It's okay, don't be tired." ”

"Then you sit and watch TV, and I'll go to the kitchen with your dad to cook, and we can have dinner in a while." After saying that, Li Xin's parents got up and prepared to go to the kitchen to cook.

Xia Xiaona hurriedly said, "Uncle and aunt, I'll help you do it." ”

Li Xin's father said: "No, no, you and Li Xin sit and watch TV, the dishes are all prepared in advance, and it will be good to fry two more dishes." ”

After Li Xin's parents entered the kitchen, only Li Xin and Xia Xiaona were left in the spacious living room.

Xia Xiaona returned to the sofa and sat down, grabbed Li Xin's hand and whispered, "I'm so nervous!"

Li Xin smiled: "What are you nervous about? This is my parents, and I am not an outsider, what are you afraid of?"

"It's because it's your parents that I'm nervous. Do you think they'll like me?"

"Do you see how happy my parents are, like they don't like you?"

"I'm just nervous anyway. ”

"Don't be nervous, just think it's in your own home. ”

"It's easy to say, aren't you nervous about going to our house for the first time?"

Li Xin thought for a while: "It seems to be a little." ”

"yes, you're going to be nervous, let alone me. ”

"It's good to get acquainted with it for a while, my parents are very welcoming. ”

"Hmm. ”

After a while, Xia Xiaona asked in a low voice, "Why does your mother call you little brother?

"yes.

Xia Xiaona smiled and said, "It's fun, how can you have such a little name, hehe." ”

Li Xin said: "What is this, there is something more fun." Do you know what my dad called me when I was a kid?"

"What do you call?"

"Call me brother. ”

"Brother?" Xia Xiaona asked in surprise.

"Yes, my mom calls me my little brother, and my dad calls me my little brother. My mom's name hasn't changed yet, but my dad's name has become less since I graduated from college. When I was a child, a little friend from one of our compounds came to our house, and when I heard my dad call me that, they all thought it was so strange, and they asked me why did your dad call you brother?"

"yes, I think that's a strange name, too. Xia Xiaona asked with interest.

Li Xin said disappreciatively: "What's strange about this, my dad has called me that since I was a child, I'm used to it." There's something more outrageous than that, and guess what?"

"How can I guess this, you tell me. ”

Li Xin said: "My uncle performed it very literarily and down-to-earth on the basis of my mother calling me my little brother, and directly called me a little sweet potato." ”

Xia Xiaona smiled dumbly: "Little sweet potato?

"Yes, but they don't often use this name, whenever my uncle calls me a little sweet potato, not only can I not react for a while, but even the cousins and cousins in my uncle's family think it's funny when they hear it. Whenever this happens, my uncle and they will say seriously, what's so strange about this, that's what we called Li Xin when he was a child. ”

Xia Xiaona laughed when she heard it: "This name is really down-to-earth, I think they should continue to call you that." ”

Li Xin said: "It's really funny to think about it now, but after graduating from college, they rarely call me that, just like my dad rarely calls me brother." ”

"And what does your dad call you now?"

Li Xin thought for a while: "My dad doesn't talk much, but he can say one sentence after another." He now either calls me Li Xin or calls me my little brother like my mother. When I was a child, my mom beat me up for being naughty, but my dad never lifted a finger from me. If he thinks it's time for me to discipline me, he'll call me aside to talk to me. Strange to say, I'm not afraid that my mother will beat me, but I'm afraid that my father will talk to me. ”

"Really?"

"Hmm. ”

"It seems that you were quite dishonest when you were a child. ”

"No, if I was really naughty, I wouldn't be what I am now. You haven't seen that kind of particularly naughty child, my dad and they have played with me since I was a child, and there are two children in the compound who have been playing with me since I was a child, and the two children are particularly naughty type, and we basically can't play together in junior high school and high school, and those two children are the kind of ruffians in the current eyes. ”

"No wonder you're so bad, didn't you learn from them back then?"

"Am I bad?"

Xia Xiaona was about to answer, when Li Xin's mother came out of the kitchen and said, "Little brother, you two have come over for dinner." ”

Li Xin took Xia Xiaona into the restaurant connected to the kitchen, and Li Xin's father said to Xia Xiaona: "I don't know what you like to eat, so I prepared a few home-cooked dishes." ”

Xia Xiaona said: "Uncle, you're welcome, I can eat anything." ”

Li Xin's father said, "That's good, sit down and eat, you must be hungry after such a long journey." ”

Li Xin greedily smelled the fragrance of the dishes on the table: "Wow, these are all dishes I like to eat!"

Li Xin's mother looked at her son lovingly and said, "If you like it, eat more!"

Li Xin pointed to the dishes on the table and introduced Xia Xiaona and said: "This sweet and sour crucian carp, barbecued pork and this eggplant steamed taro flower are my mother's specialty dishes. This fried pork and vegetarian fried eggplant should be made by my father, the taste of the fried meat is much stronger than that in the restaurant outside, and this vegetarian fried eggplant, my dad can fry the taste of mushrooms, don't believe you to taste it. ”

Saying that, he sandwiched a little vegetarian fried eggplant and put it in Xia Xiaona's bowl, Xia Xiaona tasted it and said, "Well, it's really delicious." ”

Li Xin's father smiled: "Little brother, you can put some fish and meat for Xiao Xia to eat, how can there be a reason to only let guests eat vegetarian dishes." ”

Xia Xiaona said: "Uncle, it's okay, I'll come by myself what I like to eat." ”

Li Xin said: "That's it, you can do it yourself what you like to eat, it's not right to be polite at my house." You see, this bitter thorn flower bean rice soup and cabbage taro soup are also my favorite foods when I was a child, and they don't have such a good taste in restaurants outside, so you can try them later. ”

"Okay, I don't know which one to eat. ”

Li Xin's mother said, "Eat slowly, eat more." ”

Li Xin asked while eating, "Dad, Mom, how are you doing lately?"

Li Xin's father said: "It's all good, it's all good, you don't have to worry about this, just go to your class with peace of mind." ”

"Oh, that's good. Dad, you have high blood pressure, drink less. ”

"I don't usually drink. ”

Li Xin's mother said: "When your father heard that you were coming back, he was so happy that he drank two glasses when he was happy." ”

Li Xin's father pointed to the wine glass on the table and said, "How big can two glasses of wine be with such a bull's eye cup? ”

Li Xin stood up and leaned over to look at the wine cup in front of his father: "Then you can only drink two glasses, it's not okay to have too much." ”

Li Xin's father smiled kindly and said to Xia Xiaona, "Look, he actually took care of me." ”

Xia Xiaona looked at the father and son, pursed her lips and smiled without speaking.

Li Xin's mother sandwiched a sweet and sour crucian carp in Li Xin and Xia Xiaona's bowl: "You eat more food." ”

Xia Xiaona said, "Thank you, Auntie, I'll come by myself." ”

Li Xin's mother said: "Actually, Li Xin can make fish herself, it tastes good, have you ever eaten it?"

Xia Xiaona smiled and said, "Does he still cook? ”

"When he was a child, he used to go to the fields with his classmates to catch fish, to go to the river to fish, maybe it was dry, and he caught a lot of fish that our family ate at that time. ”

"I've heard him say that. ”

Li Xin's mother said: "He used to get all the fish he caught in the river and in the fields when he was a child, and the fish he fried in oil was delicious. ”

Li Xin said: "I will only fry the fish, and nothing else." ”

Li Xin's mother said: "You just don't like to learn, isn't it sweet and sour fish when it is fried and boiled with green onions, ginger, bad chili, sugar and soy sauce?"

Li Xin said, "Is it that simple?"

"It's not that simple. ”

"Okay, then I'll try. ”

"You said you too, I don't know how many days to come back early, so that you can stay at home for a few more days. You're only coming back today, won't you have to go back to work early tomorrow morning?"

"Well, I can only stay at home for one night, and I will rush back to work early tomorrow morning. ”