Chapter Thirty-Seven: Mother White's Invitation
When the two sisters of the Bai family returned home, it happened that Bai's mother and Bai's father came back from worshipping the gods in the temple, and smelled the gunpowder smell of firecrackers on the two of them.
So as soon as the words came to his mouth, he became: "No wonder I said that I would take you to worship God in the morning, but I didn't want to go, it turned out that I was going out to play with firecrackers." ”
Mother Bai didn't say that she wouldn't let the two sisters play, but mainly hoped that Bai Poria could follow them to worship God and ask for a wish to bless her with a good score in the college entrance examination. It's not as pious as what others ask for her to beg for, and she only knows how to play when she gives birth to this child when she is so old.
Thinking like this, Mother Bai's gaze shifted slightly and fell on Bai Susu. The little girl is also in the sixth grade, fortunately, she is only in elementary school, and she doesn't have to worry much about her academic performance, but her body is too weak, she doesn't like sports, and she is as lazy as her father!
Her thoughts turned a thousand times, and in a short period of time, Mother Bai counted the three fathers and daughters of the Bai family in her heart. And a father and daughter didn't know anything about it, and they were happily huddled on the sofa to watch the replay of last night's Spring Festival Gala, leaving Bai's mother in place.
During this period, Dad Bai glanced back and saw that Mother Bai was still standing there, and casually asked, "Why are you standing there, didn't you say that you want to prepare lunch", and then without waiting for Mother Bai's reaction, he turned his head and competed with Bai Susu for the position.
"You're wearing too much, taking up all my place, and sit next to you. ”
"Don't sit down again, I'm going to be squashed by you. ”
"Wow, blame me, dad, can you please not sit cross-legged, you took my place....... Bai Poria, did you learn Chinese with your feet, and the empty position over there is so exaggerated. ”
“.......”
Mother Bai raised her hand to support her forehead and sighed helplessly, deciding not to watch these three living treasures play anymore, walked over and pulled Daddy Bai's ears, "Didn't you say that you came to cook on the first day of the new year, hurry up and work, do you want to be lazy for a year!"
After speaking, Mother Bai turned her eyes and asked Bai Susu, "Do you want to call Grandma Liu next door to come over for lunch together." ”
For so long, Ms. Liu's kindness to Bai Susu has been seen by Bai's mother. During the Chinese New Year, she saw that the next door was deserted, thinking that Ms. Liu was a lonely old man, and Bai Susu was usually close to each other, so she had the idea of inviting the other party to come to the house as a guest.
"Hey, yes. Bai Susu's eyes lit up, and he was not afraid of the cold immediately, so he ran out of the door quickly, and ran to the door of Ms. Liu's house and knocked on the door.
In fact, Bai Susu also thought about inviting Ms. Liu to come to her house to celebrate the New Year together, but because she was not at home, and the attitude of adults towards Ms. Liu was very vague, Bai Susu thought about discussing it with Bai's mother later.
As a result, I didn't expect that Mother Bai would take the initiative to mention it, which is not a surprise.
"Oh, Susu, why are you here, come in, it's too cold outside. ”
Bai Susu shrunk his neck, hurriedly entered the door, and came to the living room with a familiar car, noticing that there were a lot of letters on the table in the living room, so he asked Ms. Liu, who came in one step behind in order to close the door: "Were you reading the letter just now, did I disturb you." ”
"Nope. Ms. Liu poured Bai Susu a cup of hot flower tea, motioned for Bai Susu to sit down on the rattan chair, and then asked Bai Susu about his intentions. For this traditional festival of the Spring Festival in China, Ms. Liu specially went to learn about it, and knew that the average family basically went to relatives everywhere in the three days from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year, and it would take more time for those with more relatives.
After taking a few sips of flower tea, Bai Susu felt that her body was warm, and then she told Ms. Liu about Bai's mother's invitation.
Ms. Liu, like Bai Susu, was pleasantly surprised by Bai's mother's invitation and expressed her willingness to accept the invitation, and then soon began to fall into a panic, because she did not prepare gifts for guests in advance and did not know what to give.
Hearing this reason, Bai Susu was speechless.
It seems that whether it is in the movies that Bai Susu has seen, or in the Western etiquette learned in books, Westerners seem to like to give their own handmade things when giving gifts, focusing on the heart rather than the value of the gift. Although Ms. Liu is an overseas Chinese, because she has been living abroad, her behavior and habits still follow the etiquette of Westerners.
Bai Susu watched Ms. Liu rummag through the pages, as if she was going to do something for the gift, and hurriedly stopped her.
"Liu, you don't have to bother so much. After getting acquainted, Bai Susu and Ms. Liu directly called each other "Liu" when they got along, which sounded closer in Ms. Liu's words.
"No, this is the first time your mother has invited me, so I'll have to prepare a gift....... Do you think I'll be able to bake some cookies now?"
"Oh, it's good for you to come here. Bai Susu tried her best to persuade Ms. Liu not to waste her energy on preparing gifts, in her opinion, today's lunch meal was just a visit between friends, and there was no need to be so cautious.
But the habits of life abroad seem to be deeply rooted in the bones of this old man, and he can't listen to Bai Susu's persuasion at all.
In the end, Bai Susu picked her cheeks, gave up her persuasion of Ms. Liu, and lowered her head to Poke who was nesting at her feet and said helplessly: "Ms. Liu seems to be really excited, don't you say?"
Poke looked up at Bai Susu in response.
"Hee-hee-hee, you little chubby dog. Bai Susu leaned over and smoothed Shun Boke's fur, and his eyes suddenly swept to the letters on the table, some looked old and some were relatively new, all of them were in English, and the dense just glance made Bai Susu feel a pain in his head.
In the past, English was the most scummy in all her subjects, and reading English books was really like reading tadpole texts.
It was rude to peek at other people's letters, although Bai Susu couldn't understand it, but she still staggered her eyes and continued to tease Boke, but at the moment when she staggered her eyes, Bai Susu saw the corner of the envelope pressed under the letterhead, and the Chinese characters exposed on it were the address of Ms. Liu's house.
That's not the point, the point is the word.
Super!Grade!Good!Look!
At least it's the best-looking word Bai Susu has ever seen.
It is said that words are like people, Bai Susu wanted to see what the owner of the writing looked like in this second, but the next second Bai Susu was amused by his own thoughts, and felt that his brain was probably frozen.
Smiling and smiling, Bai Susu found that Pok on the ground was looking up at her suspiciously, she bent the corners of her mouth, played with Poke for a while, and then got up and shouted to the kitchen: "Liu, I'll go home first, and I'll call you when I'm going to eat." ”
Ms. Liu answered in the kitchen.