While Uncle and the doctor and aunt were busy, I asked Sister Xu to go out to buy some cooked vegetables. I was watching Abel amusing his mother by the door when I suddenly saw a burst of smoke drifting in. Ah Bo and his mother were choking and coughing. The smoke came out of the kitchen.

"Not good! It's on fire! ”

I panicked and rushed to the kitchen. Smoke billowed from the kitchen and I couldn't open my eyes.

"Tofu, you guys go to the balcony to breathe, I'm penetrating honeycomb coal, it's too smoky!" The aunt's shouts came from the smoke, accompanied by bursts of coughing.

The kitchen must not be able to enter, not even the hall. Fortunately, there was a small balcony outside the hall, otherwise I would have had to run out. Living in this smoky environment all year round, physical health must be affected by Yan zhòng. Auntie is a doctor, she should know this.

"Ahem! Ahem! ”

After a few coughs, the aunt finally couldn't help but run to the balcony. She gulped down the fresh air from the balcony, panting. After catching her breath, the aunt explained that her family usually burns firewood, but recently it has been a hazy weather, and the newly picked up wooden blocks are not dry. I had no choice but to be extravagant and burn honeycomb coal.

Burning honeycomb coal is already a luxury for the aunt, and it is even more impossible to use gas. Gas was too expensive for her to burn. Tian Jingjing's mother burned firewood to save money, while the doctor's aunt burned firewood because she couldn't afford briquettes and gas.

Hey, the two mothers are both thrifty and thrifty wives and mothers. Could it be that a good mother and a good wife are forced out? After about ten minutes, the smoke finally cleared. But in the hall, there is still some smoke wafting. The doctor returned to the kitchen and began to cook.

After about half an hour, the doctor's aunt finally brought out a plate of Chinese cabbage. The aunt was in a very happy mood, she said that it was good to burn honeycomb coal, just stir-fry and ignore the fire, saving trouble. It's sad to see how hard life is for this family.

It's the twenty-first century, and they're still living in the seventies and eighties of the last century. It's really out!

"Ouch, it's been a long way to sell cooked food, and there's not even a supermarket nearby. If I knew, I would have driven to buy it. Sister Xu finally bought cooked food and came back, she gasped for breath and kept complaining in her mouth.

That's the way the old living quarters are, with small traders and vendors all over the place, but it's impossible to find a decent variety of big shops.

The doctor's aunt fried Chinese cabbage and tomato scrambled eggs, and Sister Xu went into the kitchen to heat up the cooked food. The aunt's son finally came out after she was repeatedly urged to enter the house. As soon as he saw the tomato scrambled eggs, his eyes lit up, and he poured half of the tomato scrambled eggs into his bowl and ate them himself.

The doctor's aunt gave half of the remaining tomato scrambled eggs to her mother-in-law, and the remaining half was given to her husband, and she only ate Chinese cabbage. Her husband didn't want to eat it, so he pushed her around. Auntie pointed to the kitchen and said with a smile, "The delicious food is still to come."

A plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes turned out to be a luxury dish for the aunt's family.

"Son, eat slowly, don't choke." The aunt saw that her son was eating fast, as if someone was going to rush to eat with him, so she reminded her son with a smile.

Although Auntie's husband is thin and inconvenient, his amount of food is not less than that of a normal person. There are too few tables to accommodate so many people. In order to make room for a place, he picked up the dishes, carried the rice bowl, and held a small plastic stool, and ran to the balcony to eat by himself.

When he served the rice bowl, his hands kept trembling, and he almost wanted to fall. Seeing that he was struggling, the aunt helped him carry his rice bowl to the balcony and put it on another slightly higher stool.

Sister Xu bought five or six cooked foods and filled a small dining table. When the aunt's son saw it, his eyes widened and his saliva flowed.

"Mom, what's the holiday today? It is so rich, many times more grand than the Spring Festival. There is such a good dish in the back and I don't say a word. He put a chicken leg in his bowl and complained to his mother.

I thought he was either mute or mentally abnormal, but I didn't expect him to be a completely normal person.

"Son, these dishes were bought by the two bosses. Tonight, you should eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in advance, let go of your stomach, and eat a lot. The aunt took a piece of braised fish and put it in her son's bowl.

Auntie's son looked up at me in surprise, and then looked at Sister Xu with the same surprised gaze, with a look of envy. I smiled and made a gesture: "Eat, eat, don't look around." ”

He nodded, and then buried himself in the work. He thought the chopsticks were inconvenient and troublesome, so he simply put his hands together. As a result, not only did he get his beard full of oil, but his hands were also oily. The aunt smiled and took a rag and came over to help him wipe the oil off his hands, like a child.

Sister Xu took out a piece of meal paper and handed it to her aunt. The aunt carefully wiped off the grease stains on his beard and around his mouth little by little. Hey, I'm in my early thirties, and I can't take care of myself, it's really sad.

There are three people in my aunt's family, paralyzed, disabled, and stupid, and they all have to be taken care of by her alone, so tired and hard. But her mentality is still very optimistic. If she didn't have a very optimistic and positive attitude, such an environment, such a family, she would not be able to live at all.

The aunt said that his son's name is Li Xiaoxiao, who has been taciturn since he was a child, but he is talented and intelligent, and his reading grades are among the best from primary school to middle school. Especially in painting, he is very talented, and has won countless awards large and small, and has also held solo exhibitions.

After graduating from college, I joined a nice big company and became a designer. The spring breeze along the way is proud, and it seems that it is also successful. However, a phone call made his life trajectory take a turn. Suddenly, one day, his first girlfriend, who had been in love with him for many years, told him that she was going to cross the ocean to find her ideal life.

Since then, Li Xiaoxiao has been in a slump, and his work is completely out of shape, until he is fired. He painted his thoughts about the girl into pictures and pasted them on the head of the bed and glued them to the wall. Wow, it turns out that the painting next to the bed was painted by him himself, genius!

In my own mind, I formed a plan that I needed a genius in art. On the way back, I discussed with Sister Xu and planned to tap Li Xiaoxiao's potential. Sister Xu was a little worried, saying that Li Xiaoxiao had been separated from society for many years and might find it difficult to adapt to society, worried that it would be difficult for him to adapt and integrate into the work team, and that he would be incompatible with his colleagues, which might make him even more inferior.

I said that as long as he was given a certain task every day and asked him to complete it on time and in quantity, slowly, his self-confidence would recover. Sister Xu couldn't help me, so she had to agree with me and let him follow Bu Wenya and enter the design team of the Eight Nations Championship Company first.

Reading the first book of the novel