At half past five in the afternoon, Tsai Tsai returned. There was a typhoon today, and the school dismissed the day students early for safety reasons. Usually Zhiyuan cooks at more than six o'clock, but today considering that Tsai Tsai has to review at night, he hurried to the kitchen to cook when he saw Tsai come back, and found that there was a power outage in the kitchen! There are often power outages on typhoon days, so it's not surprising that you can't cook! The key is that Tsai Tsai has final exams on Friday and Saturday, and he has to read and revise tonight no matter what.

Zhiyuan let Tsai Tsai rest for a while, and went downstairs to buy candles and meals by himself. The house was dim, and the grandfather and grandson could only stay on the balcony to watch the wind and rain and make fun of the ripples.

Today's work is not busy, Gui Ying can go home as soon as she gets off work, but it is windy and rainy outside, and it is not easy to drive, Gui Ying secretly thought: It's better to wait, wait for the rain to light up and then go back.

Gui Ying has not forgotten Zhiyuan's indifferent expression before, and there is some resistance and some estrangement. There is no inevitable causal relationship between Zhiyuan's missed deadline and the old man's disturbance, but Gui Ying can't help but attribute the incident to Lao Ma. Zhiyuan didn't send her any messages yesterday, and Zhiyuan didn't reply to the message she sent to Zhiyuan. If you want to say that there is a contradiction between these two people, it is clear that there is no fighting; To say that nothing has happened is clearly self-deception.

Gui Ying is in an empty office, sorting out emotional matters alone. For so many years, she always seems to be the first to apologize and the first to soften, just because she is a few years younger than him and he is more educated than her? There was obviously a huge difference between them, but this difference seemed to have been swallowed by Gui Ying. She felt that there was something, and she let it disappear without it. She doesn't want to be the one in her marriage who always takes the initiative to make peace.

One day's ****, the message sent by my son from morning to this time is about to overflow, and my husband has no one. How Gui Ying wished that Zhiyuan could call her or send her a message.

The middle-aged woman was playing with her phone in the office in frustration and boredom, when she suddenly received a text message - from the city government. The information content shows that due to the typhoon, Shennan Avenue has been blocked and cannot be opened to traffic. Gui Ying chuckled in her heart, Shennan Avenue was blocked, how could she go home? I can't drive a car, so I can only take the subway. Gui Ying sent a message to her son, saying that she came back by subway and asked the family to eat first. When Tsai Tsai received his mother's message, Zhiyuan happened to come back with a lot of things.

"Dad, let's eat, let's review after eating! I bought him three candles, plus a rechargeable lamp at home, and barely survived the night. Zhiyuan put the food he bought on the table.

"Dad, my mom said that the road is not passable, she can't drive back, and said that she came back by subway, let's eat first!" Tsai Tsai showed Zhiyuan the content of the message.

"Oh yes? Their company is far from the subway entrance! Now it's windy and rainy, tsk......" Zhiyuan was naturally worried about his wife Gui Ying, he stood behind the old horse, hesitated for a few seconds, and then said: "Forget it, you two eat, I'll go to Yingying's company to pick her up!" Belch...... I'll give her a call first! ”

After Zhiyuan finished speaking, he dialed Gui Ying's phone, and only said that she should stay in the company and not move, and he would immediately go over to pick her up now. When Gui Ying heard this, her face bloomed with excitement, her mouth couldn't wrap her teeth, and she was silly in the office alone.

"So adult, I still need someone to pick it up!" The old horse doesn't understand.

"Grandpa, don't you know, what should I do if the typhoon passes through the rain, the wind is strong, the lightning is thundering, and the billboards and branches on the road fall down and hit people? If my dad doesn't go, I'll pick up my mom! "A father's love for his daughter is very different from a son's love for his mother.

"You're as thin as a sesame seed! If something does come down, she's fine with your mother's big body, good fellow - you're smashed! Tell me if you're going to save trouble or to add to it! "The old circus said.

"Dad, you eat, I'll go first." Zhiyuan changed his clothes and shoes, turned around and took two big umbrellas and went out.

After He Zhiyuan left, Lao Ma and Zai Tsai were holding a box of lunches and eating noodles with chopsticks.

"These noodles are all gnocchi – it's so unpalatable! Grandpa, what should I do if I can't eat? "Tsai Tsai spits out the truth. It turned out that Zhiyuan was in a hurry, so he casually put some hot dry noodles and a little side dish downstairs and came up, but Qiaozai was hungry, and the young man ate very hard.

"It's a little sticky! The noodles in the south are as thin as a hair, and they are not chewy! It's not flavorful! "The old horse can't eat the noodles even if he stirs them, Xu is not hungry, Xu is disgusted.

"Hey, my dad isn't here, grandpa why don't we go and eat, I'm very hungry, this is really hard to eat!" Tsai put down his chopsticks and happily proposed.

"Isn't there a power outage? Didn't we stop upstairs and downstairs? "Lao Ma thought that it was the same as in the village, and when the power went out, the whole earth would be dark.

"No, the circuit downstairs is different from the one in the community, and there are a lot of people eating at that barbecue restaurant when I come back!" Tsai Tsai loves barbecue the most, and the barbecue restaurant he misses just happened to be on sale today.

"That's it!" The old horse was weak in words.

"That grandpa...... Can you go? You can't go, I'll bring you back! Tsai pointed to the old horse's feet.

"The restaurant is not far from our house! I haven't been downstairs except to the hospital! "The old horse also wants to move and stomp on the earth. Floating on a tall building all day long, my heart is not steady.

"Huh? No way! You torture yourself so much! "Tsai Tsai didn't believe that after his grandfather arrived home, he never went downstairs except for the hospital.

"Huh...... I really haven't been downstairs! The old horse was amused and said, "You can go a mile, but you can't go more." ”

"That's enough, our house is an elevator upstairs and downstairs, and the elevator will not be powered off if the power supply is in the community, grandpa, you just need to walk - two or three hundred meters!" Tsai Tsai counts against the ceiling.

"Let's go! Tomorrow you take the exam, grandpa will take you to eat tonight! Strengthen your faith and open your luck! The old horse waved his hand, stood up and said, "Go!" Let's rub it together! I've changed my taste, I've really had enough of your dad's cooking! ”

The grandfather and grandson set off to change their shoelaces and umbrellas, and the boy helped his grandfather all the way, entered the elevator, and got out of the elevator. Lao Ma didn't know much about restaurants in the south, so he wanted to eat a few bites of dumplings, but he ran several dumpling restaurants before and after and didn't find the open. The child wants to eat barbecue again, this barbecue old horse has not eaten - he has eaten it in the town, greasy and greasy is not delicious, I really don't want to, but I am afraid of slipping on a rainy day - the old man has no rut, and finally can only follow the boy to eat barbecue.

The old and young entered the barbecue restaurant, and there were quite a lot of people in the store. After sitting down, Tsai began to order his favorite food, and Lao Ma held the menu and glared at Li Kui's white eyes - the price on the menu was extremely expensive, more expensive than eating a banquet in the town! The old horse saw from the top and from the bottom to the top, and felt that he was only suitable for eating a potato, and he didn't dare to order anything else.

Tsai Tsai took a look at Lao Ma's concerns, and said generously to the waiter standing beside them: "A handful of prawns, a spicy grilled fish, four squid skewers, three skewers of shiitake mushrooms, three skewers of cabbage, two eggplants, five pork skewers, five beef skewers, five mutton skewers, five skewers of pork kidneys, four chicken thighs, two baked eggs, ten roasted steamed buns, five bread slices, and two bowls of wontons......"

Tsai Zai finished ordering in one breath as if chanting, in the process he peeked at his grandfather while ordering, he ordered which old horse to find which price, he thought that his grandfather would interrupt him and stop him, but he didn't expect the old horse to be silent from beginning to end. Tsai Tsai laughed in his heart, but he didn't say anything. The old horse squeezed the menu with one hand and the crutches with the other. Finally, the old man couldn't help it.

"Can you finish your order so much?"

"No matter if the dishes are full, isn't there still you to eat, grandpa!"

"Two people can't eat so much!"

"Yes! The barbecue was very appetizing, my classmates and I ate it for two people, and we ordered more than that! ”

"What if you can't finish eating later? Can I get a refund? The old horse asked in a low voice.

"Grandpa, you're so funny!" Tsai pointed at the old horse and smirked.

After a while, Lao Ma remembered something and asked, "Son, do you know what your parents do?" That day, the grandfather of the village came to our house, and they asked me, sizzle...... I didn't know! ”

"Grandpa, you don't know what your daughter and son-in-law do? Oh my God, you haven't asked in so long since you've been home? Didn't my uncle ever tell you? He Yiming, who was in his teens, couldn't believe the other side of the domineering old village chief's extreme sluggishness.

"Oh, that guy makes money, I'm ...... I'm embarrassed to ask! The old horse looked down at the table.

"This ...... What does it have to do with money? You elder is too derelict in your duty! My mom and dad remember my final grades every year clearly! I forgot they remembered! Grandpa, if you were my guardian, how cool it would be! More than ten years of stocking! It's cool! Tsai jokingly pointed at the old horse.

"Talking about the point - the work of the two of them!" The old horse is disgusted.

"My mom is a trade show – show sales. My mother's company used to be a magazine, and then it held an exhibition. The city government has a large area called the Convention and Exhibition Center, and their company has contracted to hold exhibitions for a few days, inviting major enterprises in their industry to participate in the exhibition. A booth is about 10 square meters in size, and large companies will buy dozens or even hundreds of booths at once, and small companies may have one or two booths, and my mother's job is to sell booths. Their company has magazines, and my mother also sells advertising space in magazines, which is advertising sales! ”

"Oh, so your mom is a salesman!" After listening to Tsai Zai's introduction, Lao Ma instantly sobered up, as if he had turned to a picture in his mind that could be matched.

"Oops, it's not the same as a sales pitch! Generally, exhibition companies will take the initiative to find my mother, and my mother will also take the initiative to open up new customers. Their company is the boss in the industry, and my mom is the business manager of their company, and my mom's job is different from the kind of salesman you think of as an advertisement. Tsai Tsai touched the confused emotion on the old horse's face.

"Oh, how do you calculate your mother's salary!"

"Overall, it's based on commissions. Magazines have magazine commissions, and exhibitions are based on booths. The company holds exhibitions twice a year – once in May and once in November. One year, I really wanted to hear my mother say that she made a net profit of seven or eight hundred thousand yuan at that exhibition, but in the past two years, it seems to be average, not so much. Tsai shook his leg and tapped the palm of his left hand with chopsticks.

"Oh yo! It's an exhibition that earned seven or eight hundred thousand yuan this month! Lao Ma was so shocked that he didn't believe that his daughter was so capable, and the original national character face was shocked into a round and big meatloaf face.

"Well, at the beginning of the first year, my mother seemed to have only earned one or two hundred thousand, and since she became a sales manager, she has made a lot of money all at once - in the past few years, I obviously feel that your daughter has become rich and wealthy!" Tsai made a little grimace and pointed to the tip of the old horse's nose with his right hand.

"Oh my God! The money in the city is so easy to make! The old horse shook his head.

"Where to make money! It's very hard, a month or two before each exhibition, my mother is so busy that she can't see anyone at all! I often accompany customers to drink, and several times customers are dissatisfied and say that my mother cried...... I think my mom has worked super hard these years! Anyway, you basically can't see her before the exhibition, but now the exhibition is over, so it's leisurely. Tsai lowered his head and rubbed the four fingers of his left hand with his right thumb.

"Then what does your mother have to be a manager?" Lao Ma really couldn't see what his daughter had any powers.

"My mother said that their department was originally divided into two factions, the head of the two factions was a man, particularly strong, and often in order to grab customers, every time the exhibition was contradictory, and finally the big boss saw that there was no way, let my mother be a woman, average ability, average business person as a manager. Those two sides are too strong, so whoever is the manager and the other side are not convinced. My mom said that there were too many customers in the hands of the two factions, and the big boss was afraid that they would leave, so no one wanted to offend, and oh - my mom was on top like this! Isn't that ironic? Tsai asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh, your mom is so lucky!" The old horse straightens his waist, and he can naturally attribute any achievements of his children to himself.

The old man paused, was proud for a moment, and then asked, "Then what does your father do all day?" I see him hiding in the house every day and not coming out! ”

"My dad is writing a novel!" Tsai Tsai held his face up, his eyelids half-covered and looked down at his hands.

"What? What to write? The old horse asked, stretching his neck.

"Write a novel! Writer! Do you understand? Tsai also stretched out his head and shouted.

"Your dad does this! I thought he was digging into the computer to make a fortune! The old horse was thoughtful.

"I'm speechless! How could my dad do Taobao? My mother is a military general, my father is a literati, he took care of Yangyang first after he resigned, and then he tutored him throughout the high school entrance examination, and he only wrote a novel in the second half of last year. Tsai Tsai explained seriously.

"Na...... Is it profitable to write that? The old horse asked with a grin.

"I'm too embarrassed to ask! Grandpa, are you going to ask? I'll help you find out. Tsai raised his eyelids.

"Oh don't don't, I don't know! Just ask, that means your family's expenses are all on your mother, right? The old horse concluded.

"Well, it's been a few years." Xiao Erlang nodded sincerely.

"And how did you buy your house?" Lao Ma asked all the housekeeping chores of their family in one go.

"The house was a down payment from my grandmother and my uncle, and I don't know how much they paid for, huh...... My parents also have savings in their hands, so I bought a big one in one go, and the renovation money was paid by my parents. "Tsai Tsai is honest, he answers whatever the old man asks, and he does not hide it.

"Then who's going to pay the mortgage now?"

"My dad was still working when my dad was working, and now my mom works...... But as far as I know, the mortgage has already been paid off. My mom has paid off the mortgage with all the money she has earned from the fair in the past few years, and I heard them say that it has been paid off - it seems to have been paid off at the end of last year. So the past two years have been relatively relaxed, and now my monthly living expenses are twice as much as those of junior high school, which used to be less, and I have to apply for additional snacks! Your daughter used to be too picky, and she also had to look at the receipts when I bought a five-dollar pen! Tsai Tsai took advantage of the situation to complain.

"Oh, I see." The old horse was in a daze.

"Grandpa, why...... You don't know anything? My grandmother knows all about my family! Even the grandfather Zhang that my grandmother married knows about our family! Tsai tilted his head, his eyebrows furrowed.

"That's because your mom never told me! She didn't say how did I not know? I'm not a fortune teller! The old horse spread his hands and looked innocent.

"Why didn't my mom ever tell her dad about her most important thing - grandpa, you have to reflect on yourself! As long as I tell my parents about a major event, my grandmother knows all about our family, and my uncle also knows, why don't you know? It's not that I'm criticizing you, grandpa, you deserve to be a father - not very passing! Could it be that you are the legendary father who cheats the corpse and is absent from the father? Anyway, I think you're a bit derelict in your duties! Tsai Tsai's right hand pointed directly at the tip of the old horse's nose, and there was a look on his face that he did not pass, did not approve, and you could not do it.

The old horse looked at the child's appearance of pretending to be an adult, funny and sad. He remembered most of the big and small things about Xingbang and Xingsheng, but this daughter, as if she had been lost for many years, had almost no common memories between their father and daughter in the years when they lost contact. The old horse sighed, he had really ignored his Yingying before.

If Xingbang or Xingsheng used this tone to talk to the old horse today, I am afraid that the old horse's slap will come first before the words are finished, but the old man listened to his grandson talk to him in an equal and joking tone, and he didn't feel offended, and even listened very carefully. Tsai Tsai is not unreasonable, although he is young, but he is no longer an ignorant child, he already has a standard and framework for judging right and wrong in his chest, although this framework is still a mold, not stable and solid.

Lao Ma squinted at his grandson's immature and sensible expression, and his heart became inexplicably proud.

Soon the dishes came up, and the table was filled with plates of various sizes, and the plates were full of baked dishes. Tsai Tsai took a big bite to eat, and the old horse was like a dragonfly with water, he wanted to let Tsai Tsai eat first, and then eat it himself. The dishes are more and more spicy, especially the grilled fish, which is covered with a thick layer of red peppers. The old horse's heart trembled, he wanted to eat but didn't dare to eat, he was old, and his stomach was not good.

"Boy, you eat less of this fish, the family meal and school meal are not so spicy! You're going to have a stomach upset when you suddenly eat so spicy! The old horse was worried.

"It's okay, I love spicy food! I'm half Hunan! "Tsai Tsai's right hand with chopsticks never stops.

The old horse tasted a bite of the fish, so spicy that he kept drinking water and inhaling, the old man pointed to the grilled fish and said: "Boy, you really have to eat less of this, you will definitely have diarrhea!" You've got an exam tomorrow! Don't spoil your stomach! The old horse said with a breath of air.

"It's okay, it's okay, I've got a magic trick! Drink more water and yogurt when you go back later! Grandpa, you eat yours, don't worry about me! "Tsai also inhaled the air, but the chopsticks couldn't stop.

The big boy had chopsticks for oily vegetables and chopsticks for spicy meat, alternating back and forth without stopping, and the old horse was worried and couldn't stop it, so he could only let him eat.

Seeing that the boy had eaten badly, Lao Ma took out his wallet under the table, quietly counted the red tickets, he looked up and counted, about one or two hundred before and after, he took out three red tickets, and then raised them to the table and called the waiter: "Come, settle the bill!" ”

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" Tsai stopped talking and asked in surprise.

"Pay the bill!"

"I paid early! People pay the bill first and eat later! Tsai pointed to the announcement on the wall of the shop.

"When did you pay the bill?" The old horse was stunned.

"Just now!"

"I didn't see you giving money!"

"I'll go! What era, where to use the yuan now! All mobile phone payment, didn't you see the QR code I was scanning the corner of the table just now? My mom gave me pocket money and didn't need cash anymore! Now everyone who gives out red envelopes during the Chinese New Year uses mobile phones! Tsai Tsai pointed to the QR code, explaining a new technology and reprimanding an outdated person.

"Oh!" The old horse nodded frequently as if he had lost something. He seemed to understand, but he didn't understand at all. "Sizzle...... So how much did you pay? The old horse asked quietly with a sideways face.

"One hundred and sixty-seven!" Tsai Tsai said lightly and unintentionally, and the listener's ears were wide open and his eyes were round, and his eyebrows flew to the sky. Lao Ma couldn't believe it, there was only one bite of a skewer of meat, and the grilled fish was a little smaller than a palm, so why did it cost so much money. Incredibly, the old man kept shaking his head, refusing to accept the high prices and high prices here.

Tsai Tsai helped the old horse to walk back, and the old man sighed for a long time along the way. This meal made the old horse both worried and uncomfortable. The old horse didn't want the boy to eat more, for fear that he would eat bad stomach; I don't dare to eat more because it's too expensive, so I just want to let my children eat enough. In the end, the boy couldn't finish eating a lot of leftovers, the old man was afraid of spicy and couldn't eat it, and the mutton skewers he ate before were still angry in his stomach.

"Grandpa, do you think it's expensive?" Tsai saw through the complexity on the old man's face.

"Isn't that expensive? It's a big table of dishes in the town - do you know the banquet dishes and hard dishes? "The old horse has a strong bite.

"That's the country! Besides, I have to eat a bowl of noodles casually, and I have to be twenty or thirty? ”

"What's twenty or thirty?" The old horse looks at the boy squarely.

"Your Shaanxi oily noodles are a bowl of fifteen, and your Shaanxi's Zhenzi noodles are not delicious in a bowl of seventeen; I often eat a bowl of 20 old Beijing mixed sauce noodles; There are also beef noodles that I often eat, with small portions of 25 and large portions of 35; In a beef shop, a casual serving of fried noodles costs an average of twenty-five yuan; The Northeast has 18 large portions of leek egg dumplings, 23 large portions of three fresh dumplings, and 30 large portions of mutton dumplings...... I'm talking about the cheaper ones that you can accept, and the average price of my favorite noodles is twenty-seven or eight. Grandpa, haven't you eaten in the store in Shenzhen? "Tsai Tsai looked up at the old horse.

"What do you say? I'm like an old cow in a cow pen every day, how do I know the price here! Next time you're done eating, give me the receipt, I have to take a look at it before I believe it! The two of them said and got into the elevator.

"Is our house a cattle pen?"

"Yes, there are two calves in the pen!"

"Grandpa, you swear!" Tsai poked the old horse's head.

"Hey, hey, hey......" was poked by his grandson, and the old horse smiled shyly.

"It turns out that my mother's request for a small ticket is genetic! She inherited your slamming the door, right? Tsai asked with a smile.

"I'm me, she's her, your mother wants to inherit my three successes, and I'll be a big boss early, do you still need to work for others?" The old horse threw his head up.

"Grandpa, it turns out that you are such a narcissistic person! My mom used to say you were narcissistic, and I didn't believe it! ”

"Not now, I'm old, I can't go out!" The old horse sighed.

An old man and a young grandparent swayed home, talking and laughing.