Chapter 22: Purchasing New Year's Goods
After a full meal and a hot bath, Xin Xiaoluo had already thrown the earrings out of the clouds, dizzy, rolling around on the bed and falling asleep unconsciously.
"This kid doesn't even sleep with a quilt!" Xin's mother made a cup of hot milk and prepared to give Xin Xiaoluo to drink, and when she entered the door, she saw that someone was sleeping dead, wearing shorts and short sleeves and sleeping outside the quilt.
Turn off the lights and whisper to her the door.
"Mom, isn't she coming back yet? The meal was already cold. "The table was full of dishes that the siblings often ate, but no one came.
"The company is busy with work, your sister and she often work overtime, I'm used to it, Yifeng, you eat first."
"Mom, don't wait, let's eat first, what are we waiting for her to do?" He snatched the bowl and served a bowl of rice to Tang's mother.
"Yifeng, are you still angry with your sister? My relationship with your dad doesn't rise to the future of the two of you, it's not something you can understand! No matter what he's done, at least it's still your dad!"
The glamorous middle-aged young woman has become an aunt with firewood, rice, oil and salt, Tang Yifeng is not a taste in his heart.
"Mom, you love him stupidly, what he did is something I can't forgive for the rest of my life, it's not worthy of being a husband and father at all, he has left us, are you shameless for him?"
"Smack!" The slap was crisp and loud, and the five finger prints were clearly engraved on his left side of his face, did it hurt? It hurts even more in my heart.
The click of the door was synchronized with the slap, Tang Xunyi passed by his younger brother, but he didn't look at her.
"Yifeng, come back!" He strode away and refused to escape, and Tang's mother realized that she had hit him.
"Mom, don't worry, I'll pull him back." Put down your bag, put on and take off half of your heels to chase him.
"Yifeng, you wait!" He walked too fast, there was no figure of him at the door of the apartment, in the cold winter night, the darkness stretched the time, Tang Xun walked around the community a few times, and finally saw him at the entrance of a building.
He sat on the untiled concrete staircase, his short, stiff black hair standing on end, his eyes drooping, the fingerprints on his face crimson red, his arms slightly extended, his long legs arched, and the pair of gray slippers on his feet that he had not had time to change. The entrance to the corridor was gray and dark, and Tang Xunyi stood opposite him, blocking the faint light that shone on him.
"Yifeng, mom didn't mean it."
"I know."
"I went to Dad's because—"
"I don't want to know, it's your choice, I have no right to interfere." Even if he was unhappy with her decision, he still wouldn't comment on her approach.
"Things between parents are very complicated, we can't figure it out, you shouldn't slam the door and leave, Mom loves you very much, and now we are her only support."
"Sometimes, I think she loves that person more, and if it weren't for the fact that things got to that point, she wouldn't even get married. It is precisely because I feel sorry for her that I will lose my words. Sister, you let me be alone for a while, and I will go back. He was drowning in darkness and his thoughts were confused.
"It's cold outside, get home early." Without a coat, she wore a thin turtleneck sweater that made her shoulders shrink, and by the white light, the thin shadow faded away.
"Hello? A-Yao. ”
"Yes, Yifeng, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, I just want to call you and listen to your voice."
"Do you miss me? Whatever you want to say, accompany you to the end! Hahahaha" The voice of sweet laughter echoed in his ears, and he didn't know how many confused and tired nights he had cured.
"Nothing to say, go to bed early, I'll take the time to supervise you not to stay up late, good night."
"Thank you for the overseer, promise to go to bed early, bye-bye."
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"What's the matter, Xiaoluo, what are you talking crazy about?" Xin's mother heard Xin Xiaoluo's non-stop howl from a long distance in the living room, and gently hit her calf with a feather duster.
"Oops, oops, it hurts! What about bastards? As soon as I opened my closed eyes, I saw the feather duster in my mother's hand.
"Dead girl, call your mother a bastard! Get me up and go out with your dad to buy New Year's goods. Xin's mother didn't say a word, lifted her warm quilt, and the cold air got into her pants, "Mom, let me sleep for a while, I just came back yesterday, let me work today, it's unreasonable!"
"Xin Xiaoluo, don't you want to grab the quilt, you'll start to be lazy when you come back from vacation, right? I'm going to strangle you in the cradle. ”
"No, it's already rooted, and it can't be stifled. Give me two more minutes, good old man!" Pulling the quilt, he refused to let go.
"Sleep on your head, you are not allowed to sleep, now get up and wash your face and brush your teeth, you see that your eyes are." Xin's mother took the quilt away and gave her one last warning.
"Xin Jiangguo, I asked you to fry an egg for a long time, and it's still not good? What's the use of you, the old fair man of Lijuan next door cooks and washes dishes all by himself, why don't you know how to learn from others? After nagging his daughter, it was Daddy Xin's turn again.
"Wife, I'll fry it right away, you must like the shape of the egg!" Father Xin was coaxed by his wife to say omelette at half past six, and an hour and a half have passed so far.
"Xin Xiaoluo, what are you still doing in the room? He's dead? "The roar of the lion in Hedong keeps coming, and the roots of the ears can't be cleaned.
"Okay, get up, don't rush it!" Ears are going to explode!
Two large plates, lying on a black coal-like omelette, a nice shape is a heart, and a little ketchup is placed in the middle.
"Dad, are you doing black-hearted eggs today? How can it be black like this, can you eat it, it won't be poisoned. Xin Xiaoluo pinched a piece with chopsticks, "It's also black inside, Dad, you're too hot, I don't dare to eat it." ”
"Xin Jiangguo! What you've done to the kitchen! You beat me two rows of eggs, my old days. The irascible Xin's mother was dealing with the tragedy in the kitchen, and the next second she carried the pan to the living room table.
"This pot, I bought it last month, and you burned out! What's that plate, Black Egg? Do you want to poison your daughter? ”
"Meiling, don't be angry, I don't know how to fry eggs, I'll buy the pot and eggs in the afternoon." Dad Xin really couldn't get his hands on the omelette, and it took a lot of effort to make it shape.
"You don't know how to fry, why don't you say it in the morning? I said how did you suddenly become virtuous, it's all fake! The money for the pot and eggs is deducted from your pocket money every month!"
"Why? I have a pitiful little pocket money every month, and all the money I earn is given to you, are you so ruthless? "Father Xin is unbelievable!
Xin's mother glanced at him, "Xin Jiangguo, don't think that I don't know that you have hidden private money, and now you will bargain with me!"
Dad Xin was silent and didn't dare to refute! Xin Xiaoluo drank white porridge and chewed salted radish, just like watching a circus with Erlang's legs crossed and almost applauded his parents! From childhood to adulthood, they have been like this, noisy and noisy, mom is strong, dad is tolerant.
In the afternoon, Xin Xiaoluo followed Xin Jiangguo to the department store, "Dad, this new year hasn't arrived, it's too early to buy New Year's goods!"
"You have to buy New Year's goods as soon as possible, is it possible that you will buy them tomorrow for the New Year? The Chinese New Year is a great event, and the people of the whole country are looking forward to this day! Of course, you have to prepare well in advance. Father Xin's words carried the same love for the New Year.
"For the Chinese New Year, shall we pick up our grandparents?"
"I don't know, look at your mother, the countryside is too troublesome, the old man doesn't like to travel long distances, it's better for us to go over, your mother doesn't like the environment in the countryside. When you married me, you didn't know that I was from the countryside, and if you had known in advance, I am afraid that there would be no you!"
Xin Xiaoluo heard the inferiority complex and discomfort in his father's words, Xin's mother Zhang Meiling is from the city, and Xin Jiangguo came to the city from the mountains. The strong Xin's mother didn't make a fuss, she only said two words in her mouth and didn't say a word, in fact, he knew in his heart that she had always cared.
Xin Xiaoluo couldn't bear it, "Dad, you are very good, your grandparents are also very good, and the countryside is not bad, I will go and tell my mother, let's go back to our grandparents for the New Year this year!" I can't remember exactly, I haven't spent the New Year with my grandparents for about five or six years, and I miss them so much. ”
"I miss them too, I haven't been back for many years, it's too unfilial." Xin Jiangguo's cloudy eyes were red, he had nothing to achieve at the age of forty, and he did not fulfill his filial piety to his parents, and he felt a lot of guilt.
"In the future, I will honor them with my father, as well as my mother! Let's go, let's go and see the New Year's goods. Xin Xiaoluo took Xin Jiangguo's arm and went to the mall with him to buy New Year's goods.
The supermarket is dazzling, fruits, candies, melon seeds, drinks, milk, vegetables, rice noodles, and the partitions are obvious. There are many activities such as site-wide promotions and bundles.
"Help, how about we buy a few snack gift packs? Cheap and affordable. "Want Want gift package, childhood memories!
"The trap is a trap created by the seller, you don't think that the bundle of gift packages, the promotional activities are much cheaper, deceive foolish consumers, the small packets of snacks placed in it are not cheap, you also buy more and more, just in the hands of others!"
"Huh?"
"Also, it's so cheap, I guess the expiration date is definitely a week! Take a look!"
Xin Xiaoluo looked up the logo at the bottom left of the gift package, and sure enough, the ginger is still old and spicy, and the shelf life is still five days!
"Dad, I want to eat it, and I can eat it in half a day without buying it back, and the shelf life has no effect on me at present, even if it has many traps in the big gift package, and the small package of snacks is expensive to take out, but I like all kinds of snacks to be sold together! You see, there is a reason for selling something, of course you are right, but your daughter is not useful!"
"You girl, a bunch of crooked reasoning, I'm serious, you can't fall into a trap when you broadcast it every day in the news."
Choosing not to listen to him alone, Xin Xiaoluo turned around and went to the elderly nutrition area, there were so many supplements such as brain platinum and elderly milk powder that I didn't know how to choose.
"Xiaoluo, it's useless to buy these, grandparents don't like to eat, your mother bought a lot a few years ago, it's expensive, and the second old man is moldy at home, saying that it tastes weird!"
"Dad, just because grandparents don't like to eat doesn't mean they don't need it, maybe they don't know how to eat, you may not have bought it right, and now the elderly should eat a little bit of health food, otherwise why do people produce this?"
"So what do you think grandparents will like to eat? Grandpa has high blood pressure and can not eat health food, grandma has diabetes in recent years, sugar must be strictly controlled, in the countryside they will hardly pay attention, we go back mainly to accompany them. Xin Jiangguo stopped the health supplement she had put in her shopping cart and put it back where it was.
"Dad, I want to go back to my hometown as soon as possible to accompany my grandparents!"