Chapter 18: Father-Son Fighting
The townspeople know that the area they live in has been "turbulent and unsettled" lately, and new things have popped up one after another, making people overwhelmed. Seeing that the boy of the Zhao family and the girl of the Jin family were locked at home by the parents of both sides, the two families also acted with their tails between their legs. Qi Xuanjia's "infighting" has finally become the biggest news.
To say that Qi Xuan's kid is really cunning, at first his mother and his grandmother were worried that he would be hungry if he ran out. As a result, this kid actually slipped home in the morning while they were looking for him, and after eating enough in the kitchen, he turned around and didn't know where to hide. Qi Xuan snuck back to his room in the afternoon, took some pocket money and went to the store to buy food.
Qi's father angrily went to trouble the owner of the store and asked why he didn't stabilize Qi Xuan and waited for him to come. The boss of the house was not at home, he was not at home at the time, it was his son who watched the store, and the half-sized young man didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, so how could he "ventilate the news"?
Watch the day pass and the night falls.
The parents of the Qi Xuan family began to worry, where can this stinky boy go at night?
As a result, I saw the five-year-old Xiao Doudou from the next door coming to the door, and he brought "Brother Qi Xuan's message". Xiao Doudou was changing his teeth recently, his speech was slurred, and it took a lot of effort to speak clearly, and the onlookers who listened were sweating. Qi Xuan's words were very simple, to the effect that "Mom, Dad, Grandma, I have a place to live at night, don't worry, don't come out to look for it at night, it's not easy to walk at night." Let's fight the rivers and lakes again tomorrow!ps, if you come out at night to look for it, it will break the rules, and I won't play with you tomorrow!".
made his father angry and couldn't laugh or cry!
However, he also knows his son, and knows that since Qi Xuan said that there is a place to live, there must be one, and he doesn't believe that this unlucky child dares to go to any messy place, and he is hiding in which classmate's house. But Qi Xuan's interpersonal relationship is good now, and there are many classmates, although Qi Xuan's father also asked the parents of other children to report as soon as they found out, but he still didn't get any "secret protection". He was helpless, but also subtly a little proud - well, he has been able to make such a fuss since he was a child, and he must be a character when he grows up!
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At the same time-
Ruan Wan wordlessly put a bowl of fried rice in front of Qi Xuan: "Eat." β
Qi Xuan hugged the fried rice, "Ahhh The rice is an overnight meal, the eggs are native eggs, and the diced cucumbers, mushrooms, and carrots are added to it, and the oil is also a good oil just squeezed out this year. He killed more than half of it in three or two, and the speed of eating finally slowed down, and he boasted: "Ruan Wan, your grandmother's fried rice is so delicious." β
"Of course my grandmother's cooking was delicious. Ruan Wan said such a sentence very proudly, and then said, "But I made this bowl you eat." β
"You did it?"
"Otherwise?" Ruan Wan glanced at him, and suddenly came out and robbed her of her supper and doubted her craftsmanship, so she rushed this, and she could pour half a catty of laxatives into his rice before.
Qi Xuan smiled dryly: "It's delicious, it's delicious." After speaking, he added, "It's not good for girls to eat so much at night, and they are easy to gain weight." β
"I'm growing now, eating, more, less, all, no, fat. β
Qi Xuan shrunk his neck and didn't dare to speak. I don't know if it's an illusion, when he said the word "fat" just now, the girl in front of him seemed to burst out with an earth-shattering murderous aura, cough, fortunately she didn't hold a knife in her hand, otherwise he would have hung up.
It is said that "disaster comes from the mouth", so Qi Xuan was very smart and didn't speak again, but ate the rest of the meal one bite after another, and at the end he couldn't help licking the bottom of the bowl.
ββ¦β¦ Why are you so hungry?" Ruan Wan looked at his food, and she was almost hungry.
"Don't mention it. Qi Xuan said with a gloomy face, "My dad came back suddenly in the middle of noon and almost didn't run away." I was so nervous when I took my pocket money in the afternoon that I only took a few dollars, and I only ate a pack of instant noodles and drank a bottle of water all afternoon. And my dad is really my own dad! I just ran somewhere to hide, and he appeared in a few minutes, as if he had a monitor on me, it was too scary! I've been running back and forth all day, starving to death," Speaking of this, he smiled at Ruan Wan with a shy face, "Is there any food left?"
Ruan Wan: "......"
Although she occasionally eats supper, it is not much, just a small bowl. She has eaten enough, Qi Xuan, an unlucky child, is definitely not good.
Ruan Wan sighed, turned around and walked into the kitchen.
After a while, she came out with a tray in her hand, on which were a large soup bowl and a small bowl. The two bowls are filled with clear soup noodles, no extra condiments, only a handful of green onions, which looks very verdant and attractive.
Qi Xuan, who was sitting on a stool in the courtyard, jumped up without waiting for her to come over, and helped take the tray and put it on the table, looking quite familiar.
After he sat down, he pulled the bowl, turned out two poached eggs from the bottom of the bowl, and immediately grinned and smiled.
At this moment, my grandmother passed by on the porch, and when she saw the two of them, she said very calmly, "What about eating?"
Qi Xuan: "......"
Ruan Wan also replied calmly: "There is still a little bit in the kitchen, do you want grandma?"
Qi Xuan: "......"
"No, I'm not hungry. β
Qi Xuan, who was ignored by no one else: "......"
"That's right. Ruan Wan said again, "Grandma, you can call Uncle Qi, and say that this guy is here with us." β
Qi Xuan's spirits perked up, not because he was betrayed, but because he finally had a sense ......of survival!
"Fight yourself. Grandma waved her hand, "I'm old and my eyes are bad, so I can't see the number keys clearly." And I've got something to do. β
"What's the matter?"
"There are still a few stitches left in one of the embroideries today, and I finished it. β
Ruan Wan &...... Qi Xuan: "" said that good eyes are not good?!
Ruan Wan's noodles were not much, and Qi Xuan ate quickly, and soon both of them finished eating. Behind Qi Xuan's stool happened to be the trees in the courtyard, so he naturally lay back, patted his stomach and said with a satisfied face: "I'm finally full." By the way, he cheekily said, "Let me stay here for the night tonight." β
"Are you really going to continue with your father?" Ruan Wan stood up and put away the dishes and chopsticks, "Don't make trouble, I'll call your house later." β
ββ¦β¦ I'm just making a fuss. Qi Xuan wanted to shout, but he didn't dare to shout at Ruan Wan, so he could only express his dissatisfaction with it aggrievedly.
"Your dad is for your good, and the education level in the big city is better than here. β
"So good, why don't you go?" Qi Xuan subconsciously replied, and then suddenly remembered what everyone here knew - Ruan Wan's father died very early, and her mother subsequently remarried, and she married far away, rarely coming back. Ruan Wan was brought up by her grandmother since she was a child, and even if she wanted to, she had nowhere to go. He regretted it a little, lowered his head and didn't dare to look at the girl in front of him, and held back a sentence, "I'm sorry." β
Ruan Wan picked up the tray and said with a cold expression, "It's okay." β
Qi Xuan: "......" That's not an unrelated face at all!
Ruan Wan didn't look at Qi Xuan, who looked tangled, and walked back to the kitchen with a tray. Although she knew that Qi Xuan didn't mean it, but the unintentional words were the most hurtful, even if she didn't care too much about this kind of thing now and didn't want to get angry, but let her smile after hearing these words, sorry, she couldn't do it.
As soon as she put the dishes and chopsticks into the pot soaked in water in advance, she stretched out her hands and tilted her waist, "pushed" Ruan Wan to the side, and said while adding dish soap: "I'll help!"
Ruan Wan wanted to say that "if you break the bowl, you will have to pay for it", but it turned out that this guy's dishwashing action was actually very skilled. It's normal to think about it, although Qi Xuan has parents, but the latter has been working outside all year round since he was in elementary school, and it is not uncommon for him to do a little housework when he grew up with his grandmother. In fact, it's not that he can't understand the reason why he refuses to leave, it's not that he doesn't miss his parents, it's not that he doesn't want to be motivated, and this town that carries his memories from childhood to freshman year, with respectable elders and lovely friends, is of course more reassuring than a strange city.
In that sense, he has a lot more conscience than she does.
When I went to Qiao's house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, I was dazzled, and since then I have been wholeheartedly trying to go to my "new home" to live with my mother, and I can't wait to leave immediately after I get my wish. To her at the time, the town was like a cage that held her wings, and she wished she could get rid of it immediately. Only now do I understand that this is her roots. At that time, she thought that she had become a bird that flew freely, but she did not want to just abandon the duckweed with its roots, go farther and farther with the turbid water, and gradually decay in the wandering.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
She really didn't consider what Qi Xuan said just now, but she thought that in her previous life, he "became a talent" after he went out, so she said it unconsciously. But he forgot that he was different in this life, and even if he stayed, he might not get better.
Ruan Wan just wanted to say something, when she heard Qi Xuan say again: "Ruan Wan, let me ask you something, don't be angry." β
"What?"
"What if...... I mean, if, if you have the chance in the future, do you want to get out of here?"
"Don't 'think'. β
Qi Xuan's eyes lit up, he turned his head to look at the girl standing not far away, and was about to seek further support, when he heard the second half of her sentence come out of her mouth-
"Yes, definitely. β
Qi Xuan was silent for a few seconds before he asked with some indignation, "Is there anything wrong here? Why do you all think it's better to leave?"
"It's good here. Nguyen replied, "At least for now, I don't think there's a better place to be." β
"Then why are you leaving?"
"Because the thing I want to find the most, it's not here. β
"......" Qi Xuan was stunned. Because at this moment, the moment she said this, her eyes were so bright, full of hot determination. It's like...... It's like if the thing she wants to find is in the fire, she doesn't hesitate to jump into it - she won't die to catch it.
In the eyes of others, Ruan Wan is gentle and amiable, and he often hears people who discuss her behind her back say that she is "gentle and good-tempered", and whenever this happens, he will always scoff at it, because he knows that her true character is not so good at all. But, at least to her, he had always been calm and composed, as if nothing that happened could move her. How firmly I thought this in the past, how shocked I am at this moment - because the contrast between Ruan Wan in the past and Ruan Wan just now is really too great.
He suddenly felt a little jealous, not jealous of what Ruan Wan wanted to grasp regardless of YiqiΔ, but jealous of what Ruan Wan wanted to grasp regardless of YiqiΔ. Obviously he is a little older than her, but he always accidentally bows his head in front of her.
He didn't want to leave so firmly, but he didn't want to leave here so simply, so he made this kind of "blind tossing" behavior that seemed very childish to adults. And now, he has been wandering between the two, and finally made a final decision.