Winter evenings come early, and it gets dark at four o'clock.

Chen Xingling cleaned up the room, Gu Qi sorted out the suitcase he brought, and Xiaohuzi drilled around the house, and naughty laughter sounded from time to time.

Gu Qi looked at his son, whose eyebrows and eyes were very similar to his own, but his temperament was very different from his own, and he couldn't help but secretly wonder.

"Has Yin Mo always been so active?"

The opportunity to study abroad came very suddenly, and he was only prepared for ten days.

The factory director helped to run in and out of all kinds of documents, fortunately, it was the cherished quota from the province, and the superior leaders opened the door of convenience and soon got ready to go.

During those days, she always secretly looked at him, and then quietly shed tears.

He knew that she was reluctant to leave on her own, but she had to support him.

Thinking that the two were newly married Yan'er, and she had just conceived a child, he was also very unbearable.

The night before leaving, the two stayed up all night.

As it was almost dawn, he broke the silence and whispered that the child should be born at the end of the year. It happened to be the Year of the Tiger, and if it was a boy, it would be called "Gu Yinmo", and the nickname would be "Yiyi"; If it's a female doll, it's called "Gu Yixin." ”。

Unexpectedly, he was not there, and the child's nickname became "Little Tiger", and the tiger brain was very naughty.

Chen Xingling smiled dumbly: "Yes! He was bouncing around in my belly for a long time, and he was very active. ”

Gu Qi still couldn't figure it out, and whispered: "My temperament is not like me, nor is it like you." ”

Chen Xingling stared at him with a smile and asked rhetorically, "How do you know it's not like me?" My parents said that I was naughty when I was a child, going to the house to uncover the tiles, digging out the birds' nests, going to the sea to tease the turtles and chasing dolphins, and doing all kinds of naughty things. ”

Gu Qi raised his eyebrows, and then chuckled.

"So look like me, like you. It's also fair, one person looks like some. ”

He couldn't help but imagine her pot-bellied appearance in his mind, and asked in a low voice, "At that time...... It's hard, isn't it? ”

Her husband is not around, and her mother's family is thousands of miles away in the south, she has a big belly to adapt to the unfamiliar environment, and she has to deal with the little naughtiness in her stomach, but her mother-in-law and sister-in-law around her don't want to see her.

Chen Xingling was slightly stunned and shook his head: "No matter how bitter it is, it's all over." Well, you have to look forward, don't you? ”

I'm really glad that she has successfully avoided the most difficult part of pregnancy with a little doll through it, otherwise she would definitely not have done it!

Gu Qi nodded slightly, her face was still cold and indifferent, but she felt that she said this very well.

"Mom! I'm going to take a shower! The little guy stood on tiptoe and raised his chubby, dirty little hands high: "Look! I'm all dirty! ”

Chen Xingling is a typical southerner who likes to take a bath every day. Influenced by her concepts and habits, Xiaohuzi also loves to take a bath.

"Huh?" Chen Xingling hesitated and thought for a while: "Then you have to go and boil hot water first." ”

You have to pay for a bath in the bathhouse, and adults have to pay five or four cents. Children are cheap, sometimes only two cents.

The Gu family is a large family with a single courtyard, the home is large, in addition to the toilet in the backyard, there is also a bathroom that was converted into a former conservatory, so the family does not have to go to the bathhouse to pay for a bath.

Despite this, the mother-in-law still did not agree with Chen Xingling's mother and son to take a bath every three or five times in winter, on the grounds that boiling hot water requires firewood or briquettes, which is too wasteful of money.

Chen Xingling loves to be clean, and when he works in the kitchen, he will take advantage of the stove to boil some warm water before the stove goes out, more or less store it in a hot water bottle, and then take Xiaohuzi to the bathroom to wash.

Gu Qi stood up and said softly: "You rest in the house, I'll just go boil the water." After a few days of running around, his body is also very dirty, so I will take him to wash it together. ”

“…… You wash him? Chen Xingling was a little incredulous: "Can you do it?" ”

Gu Qi was very confident, dropped the sentence "You pack up his change of clothes", and then turned around and went out.

Chen Xingling prepared the little guy's clean clothes, but he was still a little uneasy, so he went to the next door to burn the kang more vigorously, and also put the sweaters and pantyhose of their father and son on the kang to heat.

Gu Qi quickly boiled hot water, hugged warm clothes, and took his son under his arm and went to the backyard

Chen Xingling was secretly worried and silently prayed for his lovely son.

"Sister-in-law." A voice as plain as water sounded.

Chen Xingling turned around and found Gu Xuan standing under the corridor, with flour on his face and braids, as if he had just come out of the flour pile.

"You...... What's wrong? How did it come to this? ”

Compared with Gu Miao, who is lazy and looks down on people all day long, Chen Xingling prefers Gu Xuanyi, just because although she is cold and indifferent, she doesn't even say a word for a few days, but she never deliberately targets herself.

Gu Xuan's face, which had always been expressionless, appeared embarrassed, and he whispered: "I want to make steamed buns...... I'm not going to make a face. ”

Chen Xingling chuckled and followed her to the kitchen.

I saw that in the corner of the kitchen, Gu Miao was blowing the flour one after another, and he was also embarrassed.

The mother-in-law may have been so angry that she couldn't get up from hiding in her room.

You don't have to think about it to know that the two younger sisters were called by Gu Qi to work in the kitchen, which eventually led to such an embarrassing appearance.

Gu Miao glared at Chen Xingling, because of the absolute authority of the eldest brother, he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and a pair of eyes barely dug a piece of flesh from Chen Xingling's body.

Chen Xingling was too lazy to take care of her, thinking that it didn't matter if she had supermarket space, but she couldn't make her husband and son hungry for dinner.

She washed her hands, quickly circled the flour on the table, poured a little warm water into it, and kneading the messy small lumps into a large dough after a few skillful movements.

"Gu Xuan, you go to the cellar and take a cabbage, cut it in half and wash it."

The winter in Shangjing is very long, and in the late autumn, every household will stock up on a lot of Chinese cabbage and carrots that can be stored in the cellar and eat them slowly, and the Gu family is no exception.

Gu Xuan turned around to go—but was stopped by Gu Miao.

Gu Miao raised her eyebrows and snorted coldly: "Why did you call my sister to go?" Who are you to instruct us to work? ”

"Would you like dinner?" Chen Xingling kneading his dough by himself, and said leisurely: "If you want to eat, help do it, otherwise don't eat it." Why don't I wash the vegetables and stir-fry, and you can make steamed buns with noodles? ”

Gu Miao, who was covered in flour, suddenly choked!

Chen Xingling raised his eyebrows and spat out: "I can make steamed buns with noodles." My ability is qualification, you know? ”

Gu Miao was so angry that she stomped her feet, and her cheeks were swollen.

Gu Xuan, who was on the side, looked at Chen Xingling, tore away his sister's hand, and hurriedly went to the cellar to pick up a cabbage.

Chen Xingling wrapped the dough and said, "I'll take it to the room first, and the dough will grow faster in a warmer place." Gu Xuan, wash the cabbage and cut it small, just put it on the stove. ”

Gu Xuan nodded.

Chen Xingling went straight back to the room, closed the door and went to the space.

She packed the dough in a crisper bag, threw it in the large refrigerator, and turned around to go to the baking area. I struggled to find the simplest "big caterpillar" bread sticks and took them out, and then found two bacon in the deli area, and then quickly came out.

Gu Qi bought a bag of southern bacon and went home, but it didn't look very good, and the sun was not beautiful, so she wrung it into the kitchen and hung it under the eaves.

Gu Xuan had already cut the vegetables and took his sister back to the house to wash her face.

Chen Xingling cut the bread into small pieces, then put it in a pan and bake it on a honeycomb coal stove over minimal heat.

Then, she cut the bacon into slices and threw it into the pan and stir-fried, and soon the fragrant smell of the meat overflowed, and the meat also oozing lard.

Chen Xingling threw down the chopped cabbage, quickly stir-fried the salt, poured in a scoop of cold water, and then covered the pot and simmered slowly.

After a while, Gu Qi came back with his son in his arms.