Chapter 11: Chance Encounters
Grandma Liu has been a little sick recently, her appetite is not good, she can't eat and has no energy to get up and move, Chen Xin has been more than a week when she heard it, she thought about it for a while, and simply brought the food she made to visit Grandma Liu.
When I entered the house, I saw that Grandpa Liu was boiling porridge for his grandmother, and the porridge was so clear and watery that he didn't have much appetite when he looked at it.
"Your grandmother Liu had a cold before, let her go to the hospital to see if she was not willing to go, but it became more and more uncomfortable, and now I can't eat anything, and I can't cook, so I can only boil some porridge for her every day. ”
Grandpa Liu also felt uncomfortable, but there was no way, it happened that the children at home were not there, he thought about making a phone call to the children to say that his wife disagreed, saying that he would recruit the children back if he was too big to do anything, and what to do if he delayed his work.
Chen Xin didn't agree with her idea, but it was hard to say anything. simply took over Grandpa Liu's work and made porridge for Grandma Liu again.
She boiled multigrain porridge, added some glutinous rice and millet to the white rice, threw away two slices of ginger, boiled for half an hour, when she was about to get out of the pot, she put the finely chopped fish into the porridge, sprinkled a little salt and pepper, and sprinkled some green onions when she put it into the bowl, and the spoon stirred, the fragrance came out.
"Eh, Xiaoxin's cooking skills are good. "Grandma Liu's appetite is not good, one is because she is sick, and the other is because the family is too lonely, now there is a chubby little bun and laughing with her non-stop, plus Chen Xin's craftsmanship is far beyond Grandpa Liu, she didn't feel much and ate a bowl and a half belly.
"There are still in the pot, but Grandma Liu, you can't eat it now, I'll heat it up for you later." Because she didn't eat much for a long time, Chen Xin was also afraid that it would be easy to accumulate food if she suddenly ate too much, and the gastrointestinal digestion of the elderly was not as good as that of young people, so eating less and eating more meals was the right choice.
In addition to the porridge, Grandpa Liu also ate the breakfast brought by Chen Xin. Seeing that his wife's spirit has improved a lot, his appetite has also opened, if it weren't for Chen Xin staring, he was afraid that he would have to eat.
After eating, Chen Xin asked Grandpa Liu and his family to take Zhang Zhang's little fat man downstairs to go to the event, while she was busy making lunch at home.
Although the weather is hot, you can still be outdoors during this time before lunch, especially there are a few big trees downstairs, under the trees are stone tables and stone benches, which are cleaned every day, and they are not dirty at all.
The little fat man has lived here for a long time, many people still remember him, and seeing that he is now more round and cute than before, they all want to tease him, especially the little fat man's serious little expression of chatting with people, so that these grandparents who are at home with children are rare.
When it was time to eat at noon, Grandma Liu's son hurriedly ran back. He came back to see the news that his mother was sick after hearing the news from his neighbors, and he was relieved to see his mother and father playing with the children downstairs.
Grandpa Liu was very dissatisfied with his son and didn't have a good face for him. If he hadn't heard from his neighbors, he wouldn't have known that they had died.
Grandma Liu is also angry, but she understands that the child is really busy with work, I want to say that the old man, the old man is also kind, I want to blame my son, looking at his hurried appearance is not really unfilial.
"Brother Liu hasn't eaten yet, so hurry up and wash your hands and eat. Chen Xin didn't mix, but seeing that the room was in a stalemate, she could only come out and say hello, "Brother Liu, do me a favor, take this small stew pot out, and I'll serve other dishes." ”
Grandma Liu's son was also uncomfortable, and when she heard Chen Xin's greeting, she got up and went to the kitchen to help, which could be regarded as easing the atmosphere.
"Brother Liu, don't be angry, Grandpa Liu is also uncomfortable. Grandma Liu didn't want to eat anything when she was sick before, and everyone lost weight in two days, so she wanted to ask you to come back and have a look, but Grandma was not happy to say that she was afraid of delaying your work. ”
"What's the delay, I knew my mother was sick, even if I asked for leave, I had to come back. ”
"Actually, I don't think you don't have time at all no matter how busy you are. It's not that you should come back often, at least a month and a half a month to come back to have a meal with your grandparents, and you can make a phone call for three or five minutes without delaying things. I always think that there is still more time, but in fact, time is really running out. ”
Liu Jianmin was silent for a while after hearing this, and stood for at least two or three minutes before going out with a small saucepan.
After eating, Chen Xin planned to take the moth back, originally wanted to play here until dinner left, but Brother Liu came back, and looking at the appearance of their family, I am afraid that they have to talk about it, so Chen Xin simply excused the little fat man to take a nap, went downstairs with the help of Brother Liu, and then made an appointment with Grandma Liu that she would accompany the two old men to the newly renovated park next week to play, and then pushed the moth away.
She doesn't care about what the Liu family talks about, she just hopes that Brother Liu can come back to see the two elders more, although Grandpa Liu and Grandma Liu are very open-minded, but none of the old people don't want to be lively around them.
She bought some fruit along the way, and planned to make an egg stew for the moth in the evening, and ate some fruit for dinner. She has eaten too much meat in the past two days, and she is a little tired, so it's good to eat some vegetarian scraping oil.
When I got downstairs, I almost collided with someone, and the bag containing the apples was scratched, and the apple bones rolled to the ground.
"Eh, what's the matter with you?" Chen Xin, who was hit and almost didn't stand firmly, raised her head angrily and yelled at the other party.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention. ”
The man who bumped into Chen Xin was a man, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, quite tall, not handsome, but definitely at the upper middle level, and more importantly, this man had a good figure, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and he couldn't hide his abdominal muscles in a T-shirt.
The man quickly helped Chen Xin put away all the apples on the ground, and when he saw that the bag was broken with a hole, he immediately didn't know what to do with the apples.
Chen Xin glanced at him, and when he saw that the moth was fine, the anger in his heart was much less. I took a cloth bag from the small bamboo cart and put the apples in it.
"Okay, okay, be careful next time. What if I bump into the old man?" she said casually, not expecting that the technology of touching porcelain had not yet been born.
"What, if it's inconvenient for you, I'll help you move it up?" The man didn't walk away, but enthusiastically wanted to help Chen Xin carry the fat moth upstairs, but his sudden enthusiasm made Chen Xin subconsciously feel a little wrong, and immediately looked at the man vigilantly.
"No, I can do it myself. ”
"I really don't mean anything else, I'm sorry for hitting you and your son just now, and I want to make up for it. ”
The man spoke very sincerely, and he didn't look like a suspect in his appearance. But the problem is that the bad guy won't write the word "bad guy" on his face, Chen Xin feels that it is better for her aunt and nephew to be careful.
It just so happened that at this time, Uncle Tie was going back to get something for Song Xin, and when he saw Chen Xin and a man in a stalemate, he thought that someone was playing hooligan on Chen Xin, so he hurriedly trotted over.
"Uncle Tie do me a favor, help me carry the apples up, and I'll carry Zhang Zhang up. ”
Turning his head and saying to the man: "It's okay, it's okay, you can be careful next time, my uncle is here, he can help me." ”
The man glanced at Uncle Tie, then at Chen Xin, nodded and turned around without saying anything.
"What's going on?" Uncle Tie was confused, he thought it was a man who wanted to play a hooligan, but when he walked in, it didn't seem to be the case.
Chen Xin said what she accidentally bumped into just now, and finally said: "He said to help me pick up the little fat man, I didn't dare to agree, the family is just me and the little fat man, what if he wants to do something." Fortunately, Uncle Tie, you are here, otherwise I would have thought about going to the shop first. ”
Uncle Tie also felt that it was better to be careful, and after helping Chen Xin take things upstairs, he told her that he would go directly to the shop to find him when he came back in the future, and if it was inconvenient, he would throw the cart in the room behind the shop, anyway, there was nothing there, just a small table for Yang Yi to do his homework.
Chen Xin also thinks that this is the way to go, the distance between the horizontal and vertical home and the shop is not far, and it is troublesome to move up and down like this every day.
But because of this, I want to buy a new house, preferably with a yard on the first floor, which is convenient for Zhang Zhang's activities.
Just thinking about it, I heard Uncle Tie come up again and tell her that someone came to her today, saying that he wanted to partner with her in business, and left a phone number.