Chapter 7: Parents Come Home
As soon as he thought of the events in his previous life, Zhao Qingyu felt that his stomach hurt, angina, and his whole body hurt!
Her upper and lower teeth clenched tightly and creaked.
No, don't think about it again!
Forced to calm down, she decided, it is better to study hard, in this life, she doesn't want to work so hard.
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Zhao Qingyu washed all the sheets that he had soaked yesterday, spun them in a washing machine and dried them on the roof of the building.
It's sunny here, and the landlord has set up a shelf on it to dry clothes, and their home is close to it, so it's very convenient to come here to dry large clothes.
During this period, she went to check the completion of her brother's homework from time to time, Zhao Qingfeng likes to draw as much as she does, and often writes and writes, so she draws on the book next to her, and she criticizes it a few times before she realizes it.
Waiting until noon, Zhao Qingyu began to cook.
This time, she learned to be obedient, first scooped up the rice and steamed it, and then began to prepare the dishes.
She took the meat that had been salted in advance out of the cupboard and rinsed it under the tap, because there was no refrigerator, she was afraid of spoilage, so she put a lot of salt.
Rinsing the outside with salt water, she cut the meat into thin slices, washed a few green peppers and shredded them and set them aside.
Garlic, dried chili peppers, and peppercorns are all available in the house, and she has prepared some and put them in a small bowl.
Peel some Chinese cabbage again, wash it, separate the cabbage leaves from the stem, tear it into pieces, and set it aside in a basket.
Seeing that the time was about the same, the rice cooker was already steaming, so she began to stir-fry.
Halfway through the fried pork belly with green peppers, Zhao Qingfeng came out of the room with a pen and sniffed his nose desperately: "Sister, it's so fragrant......"
Zhao Qingyu turned his head to look at him funny, and said, "Go and write, I'll call you when I'm ready, let's eat meat today!" ”
"Hmm!"
Zhao Qingfeng nodded heavily, threw his arm and trotted back, and continued to write his homework with high emotions.
Green pepper pork belly, spicy Chinese cabbage, and half a bowl of tomato egg soup that was not finished in the morning.
Zhao Qingyu pulled out the plug of the rice cooker, filled two bowls of rice, and then took off his apron to call Zhao Qingfeng to eat.
The latter was humming a little song while writing his homework, and seemed to be in a very good mood.
It seems that the encouragement of food is great, and the younger brother, who was originally sad and sad to write his homework, immediately smiled when he heard that there was something delicious, and even the homework was not so annoying.
"Let's write after eating." As soon as Zhao Qingyu finished speaking, he saw his younger brother quickly put down the pen, and happily stood up from the desk and prepared to run.
"Wash your hands first!" She hurriedly explained in the back.
When she followed, Zhao Qingfeng had already washed his hands in the sink in the kitchen, and instead of wiping it with a towel, he wiped it directly on both sides of the hem of the vest, and went to serve the bowl.
Zhao Qingyu wanted to say something, but felt that he was always nagging about these small details of life, afraid that his younger brother would rebel.
It's better to wait for him to finish his meal happily, and then talk about it.
"Sister, your cooking is getting better and better!"
During the meal, Zhao Qingfeng praised happily.
Zhao Qingyu smiled slightly, and put another piece of pork belly with less fat and more lean meat for him, and put it in his bowl.
"Sister, don't just clip it to me, you can eat it too." After Zhao Qingfeng finished speaking, he also took a piece and put it in her bowl.
"Well, eat them all."
This meal, both of them ate to a full heart's content.
Zhao Qingfeng ate three bowls of rice, Zhao Qingyu ate two bowls, the two dishes that were fried were all eaten, and the half-bowl soup was also drunk, except for a small lump of rice left in the rice cooker, the others were clean, and there was not even soup left.
When Zhao Qingyu cleaned up the table, he saw his younger brother holding his stomach and burping, and slowly returned to the room, so he couldn't help but say, "Don't eat too much next time, it's not good for your stomach." ”
"Hmm...... My sister's cooking is so delicious...... Hiccup......" Zhao Qingfeng said slowly.
“……”
Zhao Qingyu was funny and helpless, so he had to shake his head and tell him not to move, lie down and rest for a while, and then go to do his homework when he was not so supportive.
Time flies, in the days before school starts, Zhao Qingyu goes out to buy vegetables every day before the sun comes out, and after coming back, he starts a day's housework trip, and then supervises his younger brother's summer homework.
On the eve of the start of school, the parents returned.
That morning, she went out to buy groceries as usual, and when she got home, she found that the door that had been locked was wide open, and there was a sound of talking inside.
Her heart jumped, and she hurried in and bumped into her mother, who was coming out of her brother's room.
Looking at her mother, who was too young, Zhao Qingyu's tears suddenly flowed uncontrollably.
Her gray-haired mother was still full of black hair.
Zhao's mother, who was originally smiling, was stunned when she saw her tearful daughter.
"Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you?" Mother Zhao hurriedly walked up to Zhao Qingyu, turned her head nervously and called her husband, "Old Zhao, old Zhao come here-"
"What's going on?" Father Zhao came out of his room, still carrying the dust of servants, and he was also shocked when he saw Zhao Qingyu's appearance.
Zhao Qingyu wiped her tears and shook her head: "No, I'm fine, I just miss you too much......"
Hearing the movement, Zhao Qingfeng, who ran out barefoot, heard this, stopped weakly at the door, pulled on the door frame, and looked at Zhao Qingyu with the same concern.
Zhao's father and Zhao's mother heard their daughter say this, and looked at each other for a while, crying and laughing.
They had obviously come back once half a month ago, and they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and the child wanted them to be like this.
This realization made them happy and shy.
"Okay, okay, what a girl she is, and she's still ashamed like when she was a child." Zhao's mother was not polite in her mouth, but her hand gently stroked her daughter's long hair.
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This time, when the parents came back, in addition to leaving the registration fee and living expenses for the two children, they also brought a PHS.
This Zhao Qingyu remembers, when she was in high school, she had the first communication tool in her life, because her family was a rented house, so she didn't have a phone.
My parents are working outside the home and don't come home for a long time, and I feel a lot more relieved to have a phone number to contact.
At that time, PHS was still a little expensive, at least when she graduated from high school, there were only two people in the class who had this thing, and one of them was her.
It's just that she usually doesn't take PHS to school, she stays at home, and occasionally texts her parents to report the situation.
In the past, as long as Zhao's father and mother were at home, Zhao Qingyu would be much easier, she didn't have to do her own laundry and cooking, and she had pocket money, so every time her parents came back, it was the happiest time for her.
Now, her parents are still the happiest when they come back, but the mentality is completely different from before.
She took the initiative to go out with her mother to buy vegetables, went to the regular vegetable market in the town, and bought hoofs and a large grass carp, as well as some other spices that she rarely buys.
She decided to show her parents her best today, boiled fish fillet and braised hooves!