Chapter 43: Eating
Zhang Mei looked behind Lin Xue and said, "Xuexue, you can come to our house for dinner today, call your cousin to come over, you haven't come to our house for a long time."
Lin Xue smiled at Zhang Mei and said, "Auntie, no need, I have picked all the dishes, and I will go home to cook soon."
Zhang Mei grabbed Lin Xue's left wrist and said to her, "Xuexue, can you listen to your aunt?" Why don't you come over for dinner with your cousin today? You take these dishes upstairs, put them away and come down, An An and I will wait for you on the first floor, and later, your uncle will drive over to pick us up. ”
Lin Xue hesitated a little: "But, today the two of us went to grandpa's house for dinner so suddenly, grandma shouldn't have cooked for the two of us, right?"
Zhang Mei patted the back of her hand and said, "Are you stupid? Xue Xue, I'll call your grandma now, and she'll know! ”
Lin Xue really doesn't want to go to her grandparents' house, since the funeral of Lin's father and Lin's mother, the two of them have not had any contact, and her relationship with her grandparents is not very close.
Lin Xue: "Okay, auntie, after I take these dishes to the second floor, I'll go back to dinner with you."
Zhang Mei: "This is good, Xuexue, what's your cousin's name?"
Lin Xue: "... His name is Liu Ruxi. ”
Liu Ruxi, who had been standing behind Lin Xue, walked to her right hand, he lowered his head slightly, and said with a light smile: "Auntie, hello."
Zhang Mei stared at the handsome face that came into front of her, and she praised Liu Ruxi: "Your name is Liu Ruxi, right?" That's the right name for you! I see you're tall and handsome, why don't you become a model? ”
Liu Ruxi blinked: "I haven't considered this profession yet."
Zhang Mei: "I think if you go to be a model, you will definitely be popular!"
Liu Ruxi: "Okay, I'll think about it seriously."
Zhang Mei: "Hey! Do you also work in the city center now? ”
Liu Ruxi: "No, I just work at home through the computer."
Zhang Mei: "Oh, that's good, how much money do you make a month?"
Lin Xue was a little unhappy when she heard Zhang Mei ask Liu Ruxi like this, she thought: This aunt is really good, she can ask everyone she just met how much money she can make a month, won't she feel embarrassed?
Liu Ruxi thought for a while: "This, I haven't carefully calculated the amount of money I earn every month, but I think this money is more than enough to pay for my living expenses."
Zhang Mei wiped her nose with the back of her hand: "Xiaoliu, you have to calculate your monthly income in the future, you have to know how to manage money, if you don't manage money, money will ignore you!"
The smile on Liu Ruxi's face faded: "Okay, Auntie, I'll remember it."
Zhang Mei looked at Lin Xue: "An An and I went out shopping just now, she said she wanted to eat jelly in the supermarket, no, I just went to weigh a big bag of jelly with her, and when we get home, let's eat it together!"
Lin Xue: "Thank you, auntie."
Zhang Mei: "We are a family, you don't have to say thank you to me!"
The four of them walked to the cashier together, Zhang Mei and Lin Anan walked in front, Lin Xue and Liu Ruxi stood behind them, Lin Xue found that Lin An'an standing in front of her was still the same as before, half a head shorter than herself, she couldn't understand, her eldest uncle Lin Guang and Zhang Mei were taller than her parents, it stands to reason that Lin Anan should also be taller than herself, why would she be half a head shorter than herself?
Lin Anan wore a watermelon-red short-sleeved dress today, with a white cloth long skirt underneath, her hair was tied up high, making a cute ball head, she handed the bag of colorful jelly to the cashier, Zhang Mei took out a bright green wallet from her purple bag, took out a few hundred yuan from it, handed one of them to the cashier, turned back to Lin Xue and said, "Xuexue, you bring up that cart of things, I'll pay?"
Lin Xue shook her head and said, "No need, auntie, I have money."
Zhang Mei: "It's not a question of whether you have money or not, we don't have to worry so much about our family, you bring it up, I'll pay for it."
Lin Xue waved her hand, she just wanted to say something, Liu Ruxi, who was standing next to her, had already lifted the cart to the cash register, he took out a black bank card and handed it to the middle-aged female cashier: "Hello, swipe my card."
The cashier took the bank card in Liu Ruxi's hand, handed the receipt that had been typed early in the morning to Lin An'an, and began to scan the barcode of the product into the code scanner, Lin Xue and Zhang Mei were stunned at the same time, and they looked at Liu Ruxi together. Zhang Mei spoke first: "Xiaoliu, your movements are too fast, right?" I was just about to hand the money to the cashier, and you gave her a bank card first. ”
Liu Ruxi bent a pair of fox eyes: "So you don't have to fight for payment."
Zhang Mei: "Xiaoliu, you are really, you should let me, the eldest aunt, pay."
Liu Ruxi smiled and said nothing.
The cashier said to Yoo Ru-hee, "Do you need a shopping bag?"
Liu Ruxi: "Yes."
Cashier: "Okay, it's one hundred and nineteen dollars in total, please enter the password."
Liu Ruxi stepped forward to enter the password, and the cashier put all the goods into the large shopping bag one by one, and after a while, the cashier handed the receipt and the bank card to Liu Ruxi, he put the bank card in his trouser pocket, and lifted the large shopping bag with his left hand.
Lin Xue looked at his left hand and asked, "This bag is very heavy, do you feel pain in your hands when you hold it?"
Liu Ruxi shook his head: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."
Zhang Mei said to Lin Xue: "Xiaoliu, this kid is really good, is his home on your grandmother's side?"
Lin Xue licked her front teeth with her tongue: "No, he's just a distant relative of my grandmother." Her heart was sweating, and she thought: Auntie, you must not bump into my grandmother in the future, if you ask my grandmother about Liu Ruxi, you will have to wear a goof.
Zhang Mei didn't continue to ask, the four of them stepped on the stairs paved with beige tiles, walked up to the first floor step by step, and finally arrived at the back door of the first floor of the Xinyuan Commercial Building.
Zhang Mei took out her golden brand-name mobile phone, pressed it a few times, and put the mobile phone screen close to her left ear: "Hey, husband, Xue Xue and her grandmother's cousin are coming to our house for dinner today, where are you now?" Hurry up and drive to the first floor of Xuexue's house and pick us up and take us home. ”
A somewhat hoarse, but quite nice baritone voice came from the phone: "Well, I'll be at Xuexue's house soon."
Zhang Mei: "Then be careful, bye." She hung up the phone and said to Lin Xue: "Xuexue, your grandparents haven't seen you for a long time, you should go back for dinner today."
Lin Xue: "Hmm."
Zhang Mei: "Hey! Look at my memory, I forgot to call your grandma and ask her to get her ready for dinner. She turned on her phone again and pressed the call: "Hey, Mom, Xue Xue and her cousin are coming to our house for dinner today, do you remember to add two more meals!" Uh-huh, I'm hanging. ”
The four of them walked side by side to Lin Xue's house, Zhang Mei's left was Lin Xue, on the right was Lin An'an, and Liu Ruxi walked on Lin Xue's left side, and they soon walked to the 97 underwear store.
Zhang Mei: "Xuexue, go up quickly, An An and I will wait for you on the first floor, and after a while, your uncle will drive over."
Lin Xue: "Okay, then you can wait a minute." She walked to the small door with Liu Ruxi, she took out the key, opened the small door, she pushed the roller shutter up, and when Liu Ruxi came in, she pulled the roller shutter down again, she looked at his left hand like a work of art and asked, "You let me take it, okay?" I have a lot of strength, and I'm afraid that your hands will deform when you often hold these heavy things. ”
Liu Ruxi asked her rhetorically: "If I give it to you, won't your hands be deformed?" My hands are not used to play the piano. ”
Lin Xue: "......" She felt that he would definitely not take the bag of things to herself, so she stopped making a sound.
The two walked up to the second floor, Lin Xue took out the key to open the door, Liu Ruxi changed his shoes, and after he sorted the vegetables and fruits in the shopping bag, he put them back in the refrigerator.
Lin Xue asked him, "Wait a minute, we're going to grandpa's house, I don't know what to take...... Didn't we buy apples and bananas today? Why don't you take these two?"
Liu Ruxi nodded: "Just take these two, anyway, these two fruits add up, and the amount is enough." He walked over to a gray locker next to the refrigerator and crouched down, he opened the cabinet door, took out a folded brown shopping bag, and took out the apples and bananas that had just been put in the refrigerator and put them in the brown shopping bag.
Lin Xue: "Wait a minute, if my grandparents ask where your home is, you will say that it is in Beihai."
Liu Ruxi tied a knot with the two straps above the shopping bag: "Well, okay."
After the two of them changed their shoes, they walked down the stairs together, Liu Ruxi pushed the roller shutter up, Lin Xue looked out of the door, she saw a middle-aged man with a height of about 1.75 meters, his figure was not fat or thin, although he was not thin, but he was not strong, his skin was healthy wheat.
He stood next to a silver-gray sedan with his back to her and smoked a cigarette with gray smoke surrounding him, and he wore a dark blue short-sleeved shirt with a pair of silver-gray suit pants. Zhang Mei stood on his left and grabbed his arm, and Lin Anan stood on his right playing with his mobile phone.
His hair is the same as Dad Lin's, it is a dark brown natural curl, but his curls are big wavy type, while Lin Dad's curly hair is small wavy type.
Lin Xue frowned, she remembered that Dad Lin was like him in the past, always smoking often, as long as Lin Xue saw Dad Lin smoking in front of her, she would be very disgusted, she would let Dad Lin hide in the bathroom or go to the balcony to smoke.
She has quirks: when she doesn't smoke, she can't stand other people's second-hand smoke, and when she smokes, she only allows others to smoke with her next to her.
She grabbed Liu Ruxi's left hand and walked with him to a newly opened store next to her home, looking at the family of three.