Chapter 2 II

Just as Xia Li reached out to touch the small gold bead hanging on her chest, her sister Xia He's shout came from outside: "It's time to eat!" Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xia Li didn't answer, but got up from the bed quietly, put on her slippers and walked outside, it was already seven o'clock at this time, and the sky was getting dark.

Xia's house is on the first floor, a small room with two bedrooms and one living room, more than 80 square meters, and it is a new house divided by Xia Zhongguo's unit three years ago.

There is a dining table in an open space between the kitchen and the living room, which is used as a dining room, and Xia He, who called himself just now, is already sitting at the table, shaking his legs and waiting to eat.

Xia Li glanced at it and walked towards the kitchen, at this time Wu Chunhua was still stir-frying, Xia Li glanced at the steaming cylindrical iron guy, knew that this was a rice cooker, skillfully opened the cupboard, took four bowls out, and then began to serve porridge.

The Xia family usually stir-fried porridge and steamed buns at night, Xia Li brought out all the rice here, and then went in to take the steamed buns out of the steamer with chopsticks and put them on a large plate, and Wu Chunhua's stir-fry here was also good.

A stir-fried meat with green peppers, a scrambled egg with green onions, and a cold tomato and cucumber are considered a very hearty dinner.

Xia Zhongguo, who finished reading the news, glanced at his eldest daughter Xia Li, who was helping to put the chopsticks, and then looked at his youngest daughter Xia He, who had already scooped up the chopsticks and began to pick meat to eat, frowned and said, "Xiaohe, your mother hasn't come yet, why did you eat it first?"

Xia He just stuffed the meat into his mouth before he had time to chew it, he heard his father's reprimand, and his heart suddenly became unhappy, this big pear, as soon as he came to the house, there was no good thing, he only came home for a few days, and he was scolded several times, and he put down his chopsticks a little coyly.

Wu Chunhua came out with tomatoes and cucumbers, and saw her little daughter pouting and looking unhappy, her face suddenly fell, and she said to her husband who had already sat down: "Xiaohe is still young, don't talk about children all day long, which makes the child have no confidence, and everyone will shrink back when he sees him in the future." ”

Wu Chunhua knows her husband's psychology, she has gone to college, and she always has the kind of nobility that regards herself as an intellectual, if she messes with him and doesn't, if she says it according to his mind, then it's right.

Sure enough, as Wu Chunhua expected, Xia Zhongguo's frowning brows relaxed, and he said to Xia He with a gentle expression: "Your mother is also right, in fact, I don't want to talk about you all the time, but I hope you can learn more from your sister and help the family do something." ”

Xia He quickly nodded at Wu Chunhua's suggestion to indicate that he knew, but he rolled his eyes disapprovingly, hum, I am a little princess who grew up in the city, Xia Li is a native girl who grew up in the countryside, how can she compare with me.

Seeing that his youngest daughter was taught, Xia Zhongguo said that he was very pleased, and the family of four began to eat.

Xia Li didn't eat slowly, but she was very gentle, and she drank two bowls of porridge in a row and ate two steamed buns before stopping.

Although Xia Zhongguo was used to the amount of food his eldest daughter had now, Ren was very surprised, and asked with some confusion: "Big pear, what did you eat at noon?"

Xia Li drank the last mouthful of porridge and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief before looking up at Xia Zhongguo and replied, "Dad, I ordered noodles at noon." ”

In just such a minute, Xia Zhongguo saw from Xia Li's series of actions that his eldest daughter had good dining etiquette, she would not talk to people with something in her mouth, and she would also look at others when she spoke.

Xia Zhongguo nodded, with a smile on his face: "Well, school is about to start, you see what stationery you want to buy, this weekend, I will take you and your sister to buy some." ”

Xia Li nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, Dad." Then he began to clean up the mess on the dinner table.

Xia Zhongguo watched his eldest daughter clean up the dining table, and then walked straight into the kitchen, only then did he come back to his senses, he must talk to his wife at night, how do you feel that she is not very close to their eldest daughter.

Here, Wu Chunhua and Xia He were already sitting on the sofa in the living room and started watching TV.

Xia Li washed the dishes and chopsticks, cleaned up the kitchen, and then simply washed her hands and face and went back to the room.

After a while, Xia Li, who had changed into sportswear, came out of the small bedroom below with a towel around her neck.

Wu Chunhua's gaze just glanced at it and returned to the TV, while Xia He twisted his body and shouted: "Mom, I want to go and play with Lele!"

Wu Chunhua patted her daughter's little head and said, "Go, come back early, it's the first year of junior high school when school starts, how can you still look like a child." There was a pampering in his tone that was hard to ignore.

Here, the eldest daughter and the youngest daughter went out, and Xia Zhongguo came out with a cup of tea, sitting in front of Wu Chunhua with a somewhat serious expression.

He saw the scene just now, the eldest daughter is only 15 years old, and the school is only in the third year of junior high school, the youngest daughter is 12 years old this year, and the first year of junior high school is the beginning of school, and the wife is far less concerned about the eldest daughter than the younger daughter, and the same goes out, but the wife tells the younger daughter to come back early, but she ignores the eldest daughter, which is not a good phenomenon.

After Xia Zhongguo finished speaking, Wu Chunhua felt a little embarrassed, indeed, the two children were conceived and born by her in October, and she was not very close to the eldest daughter who was brought up by her mother-in-law, and she was much closer to the younger daughter who grew up in front of her, and she didn't blame herself, this boss didn't seem to be close to herself.

Seeing his wife's embarrassed face, Xia Zhongguo knew that everything was too much, so he talked about his plans for the weekend, planning to borrow the unit's car, take the children out to eat, and buy some school supplies and new clothes.

Wu Chunhua had no opinion on these, and the two of them chatted for a few more sentences and talked about the unit.

Xia Zhongguo is 38 years old and is in the finances of the county government, while Wu Chunhua, 37 years old, is a junior teacher in the county who only became a regular three years ago.

Although Wuming County is a county seat, it is not small at all, there are two large coal mines, and there is a steel mill, so the flow of people in the county is not small.

There are two middle schools in the county, one is the first middle school in the county, and the other is the second middle school in the county, which used to be called "Mingzu Middle School", because one of the townships in their county is an ethnic minority township, so it is specially built, and it serves ethnic halal meals.

However, later everyone called it No. 2 Middle School, and the teaching quality of the two schools was equal, but the promotion rate of No. 1 Middle School was higher in the high school, so everyone still tended to go to No. 1 Middle School.

And Xia Li was originally in junior high school in the countryside, but she was only picked up this year, and her academic performance was average, and Xia Zhongguo was afraid that the progress of the first middle school would be too fast, but the gains outweighed the losses, so he found a relationship to let Xia Li enter the second middle school.