After returning home, because I was very tired today, I made simple dinner. Xie Xingmu cooked three bowls of noodles, covered with poached eggs, vegetables and shrimps, and greeted Yu Chu and Chi Duoduo who were watching TV to eat.
"Can you replace the green vegetables, Uncle, don't put green vegetables on my noodles in the future." Chi Duoduo complained dissatisfiedly, poking the two green vegetables with a small fork.
Xie Xingmu unbuttoned his apron and asked, "Then what is it covered?"
"Put a piece of candy or ice cream on it." Chi Duoduo rolled his round eyes.
"You have a good idea, eat it quickly, and don't leave it behind."
Yu Chu sat down opposite Xie Xingmu, picked up a few noodles and fed them to his mouth. Xie Xingmu looked up at him and asked, "How does it taste? Is it delicious?"
Yu Chu didn't answer, just looked at him with watery eyes, and slowly bit the noodles into his mouth piece by piece.
Xie Xingmu really stopped eating the noodles, and held up his chopsticks to look at him.
Yu Chu ate all the noodles into his mouth, then stuck out his tongue, and licked around his upper lip.
Slap.
Xie Xingmu's chopsticks fell on the table.
"Uncle, hahahahaha, uncle, you can't even hold chopsticks."
Chi Duoduo's sudden burst of wild laughter broke the viscous atmosphere, Xie Xingmu picked up the chopsticks expressionlessly, and said, "Is it strange that these chopsticks are oily and can't be held firmly? Eat quickly, there's not even a single vegetable The rest."
After speaking, he stood up, went back to the kitchen and changed his pair of chopsticks, and when he came out, he used the chopsticks to order some of Yu Chu's bowls: "You too, eat the noodles well, don't do anything else, and don't let the vegetables stay .”
His expression was very natural, as if nothing had happened just now.
The ambiguity in the air was swept away, Yu Chu pouted, and honestly began to eat noodles.
"Do you remember what I asked you last time?" Xie Xingmu asked suddenly.
"whats the matter?"
Xie Xingmu stirred the noodles with his chopsticks, and said, "It's about sending you to school."
"I don't want to go to school." Yu Chu muttered.
Chi Duoduo also echoed in a low voice: "I don't want to go to school either."
"You have no right to object." Xie Xingmu said coldly to Yu Chu: "I will hire you a tutor to make up a year's lessons."
"... Why do you make up lessons?"
"Go to the college entrance examination."
Yu Chu put down her chopsticks and protested sullenly, "I won't take the college entrance examination."
"Then what do you want to do in the future? Drink and feast around? Or go to gamble?" Xie Xingmu took a vegetable from his own bowl and threw it into his bowl.
"Who told you that your technology is so backward? You don't even have intelligent people, otherwise I could make skin for intelligent people." Yu Chu also sneered.
Chi Duoduo's eyes lit up: "Xiao Chu, is Ultraman intelligent? I have two, you can make him a skin."
Xie Xingmu took a breath like a toothache: "If you don't want to study for the college entrance examination, what else do you want to do? Tell me about it. You are not allowed to mention smart people."
Yu Chu thought for a while and said, "I want to make a cake."
"Past pastry chef?" Xie Xingmu pondered for a moment, then said, "Okay, pastry chef, I'll go and see if there are any training classes, and I'll send you to study for a while."
Chi Duoduo's eyes brightened: "Xiao Chu, you are going to make a cake. The chocolate cake is delicious."
Yu Chu turned to look at him, picked up the chopsticks, and threw the vegetables that Xie Xingmu had just picked up for her into his small bowl.
Chi Duoduo stared at his noodle bowl, looking as if he had been struck by lightning, and looked up at Xie Xingmu in despair.
Xie Xingmu pretended not to see it, Chi Duoduo had no choice but to eat the green vegetables aggrievedly.
When Xie Xingmu finished a big bowl of noodles, Chi Duoduo bit his chopsticks and said, "Uncle, I'm already full, but I can't eat the rest."
Xie Xingmu glanced at his noodle bowl, felt that it was almost done, and said, "Then don't eat, go brush your teeth and play again."
"Yeah." Chi Duoduo got down from the table happily.
Xie Xingmu picked up Chi Duoduo's leftover half bowl of noodles, and looked at Yu Chu who was also biting his chopsticks: "You can't eat anymore?"
"Yes." Yu Chu nodded.
This bowl of noodles is indeed a bit too much, and it is covered with poached eggs. He really can't finish it.
Xie Xingmu reached out to take his bowl again, and poured the half bowl of noodles left by Chi Duoduo into his own noodle bowl, mixed them with chopsticks, picked them up and put them in his mouth.
"Ah, what are you doing?" Yu Chu was shocked when he saw this movement.
Xie Xingmu took a mouthful of noodles and said, "I'm not full yet, it just so happens that you two have enough left over for me."
"But that's what's left of us."
Xie Xingmu asked strangely: "Then what's the matter? You two are not outsiders."
After speaking, he ate it with a big mouthful.
Yu Chu sat across the dining table and watched, remembering the sentence that you two are not outsiders, her heart was pounding uncontrollably, and the corners of her lips curled up.
After eating, the three of them went downstairs for a walk. Walking on the deserted boulevard, Chi Duoduo held Xie Xingmu with one hand and Yu Chu with the other.
The sun hadn't set yet, but there were already a few stars hanging in the sky. Yu Chu looked up at the sky, feeling the peace in his heart that he had never felt before.
Xie Xingmu took off a broken leaf from Chi Duoduo's head, and asked, "Xiao Chu, can you pick up and drop off Chi Duoduo for a few days?"
"Where are you going?" Yu Chu asked immediately.
Xie Xingmu laughed: "I'm not going anywhere, I just have a new case at hand, and I'll be very busy these days, so I might not be able to go home."
"Oh. Okay." Yu Chu endured the disappointment and agreed.
Xie Xingmu said: "The security level of my house's door lock is very high, as long as you go out, you can take a taxi, and it's fine if you don't go out alone when it's dark."
"knew."
When they arrived at a small forest, Chi Duoduo let go of the hands of the two of them and jumped to pick up fallen leaves. Yu Chu was about to follow, when Xie Xingmu beside him suddenly said, "Don't move."
After speaking, he squatted down and went to tie his loose shoelaces.
"...Your shoelaces had a loose buckle before, and they slipped off easily. Look, look at my technique, wrap it around like this, and then wear it down again. Well, it's very firm like this, and the knot won't come loose. …”
Yu Chu stood still, looking down at Xie Xingmu's hair. The thick hair looked stiff and frizzy, reminding him of what he had heard, that people with it had hard hearts.
Hard-hearted
This statement is obviously incorrect.
Because Chi Duoduo was going to school the next day, Yu Chu set the alarm on his phone that night. When the bell rang, he heard the door close just in time.
Xie Xingmu just went out.
Yu Chu turned up and looked down from the window. After a while, I watched the off-road vehicle leave the exit of the underground garage and drive out of the community gate.
He didn't look away until he couldn't see the trace of the car, began to change his pajamas and wash up. After packing himself up, he went to the children's room and woke up Chi Duoduo.
Chi Duoduo was carried out of the bed by him, sat on the edge of the bed in a bear pajamas, and greeted sleepily: "Xiao Chu..." Then he fell back, wanting to continue sleeping.
Yu Chu grabbed him, went to get the clothes that Xie Xingmu had placed on the chair in advance, stuffed them into his hands, and said, "Duo Duo, change your clothes quickly."
Chi Duoduo looked at the clothes with squinted eyes, and said in a daze, "Well, change clothes."
Yu Chu stood by the bed, looked at Chi Duoduo messing around with his pajamas, and asked, "Can't you wear clothes?"
"Yes." Chi Duoduo tried hard to pull the collar of his pajamas over his head, causing his face to become deformed.
Yu Chu was a little skeptical: "Is that usually worn by you?"
"Uncle put it on for me." Chi Duoduo said with difficulty.
It turned out that he still couldn't wear clothes.
The child's body is very soft, and the clothes are not easy to wear. Yu Chu took a lot of effort to dress him well, and there was already a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.
Then he took him to the bathroom to wash up, squeezed toothpaste on the child's toothbrush, and saw Chi Duoduo grabbing the round neck of the T-shirt with his hands, twisting his neck from side to side.
"What's wrong? Is your neck uncomfortable?" Yu Chu asked him.
Chi Duoduo said, "I think it's weird here."
"Don't move, let me take a look." Yu Chu put down his toothbrush and touched his neckline, only to find that the front and back of the clothes were wrong, and there were some hoops around his neck.
So I put the clothes on again.
After washing up and leaving the bathroom, Yu Chu found that breakfast was already on the dining table, which should have been prepared by Xie Xingmu early in the morning.
There are porridge, milk, custard buns and fried eggs. There were also two empty bowls with clean chopsticks on them.
After breakfast, the two of them went out with their schoolbags on their backs. Yu Chu took out his phone to check the time, and found that Xie Xingmu had sent him four messages in total.
The first one was a transfer of 2,000 yuan, followed by a voice message. After Yu Chu clicked on it, Xie Xingmu's voice came out: I've made your lunch and put it in the refrigerator. I don't have time to make dinner. You two go out to eat. This is the food and taxi fare for the past few days. Go to a good restaurant, clean and hygienic, and don’t just eat hamburgers every day. You must take a taxi when you go out, don't go shopping alone, and call me if you have any abnormalities.
Then there was another transfer of 5,000 yuan, followed by a voice message: This is your pocket money, don’t spend it indiscriminately, don’t use it for gambling, report every transaction to me, and tell me if it’s not enough .
Yu Chu seemed to see the way Xie Xingmu was speaking these two messages, talking while driving, frowning slightly, with a serious expression on his handsome face.
He smiled and nodded.
After leaving the gate of the community, I stopped the taxi, and it was just right when I arrived at the kindergarten, so I was not late. Yu Chu led Chi Duoduo to the door of his classroom, but Chi Duoduo didn't go in, but stood there without moving.
"Aren't you going in?" Yu Chu asked.
Chi Duoduo said: "Xiao Chu, you haven't kissed me yet. Every time my uncle sends me into the classroom, he will kiss me."
He nodded his forehead.
After Yu Chu looked at him for two seconds, he bent down and touched his forehead with his lips.
Only then did Chi Duoduo happily enter the classroom, and said loudly, "Xiao Chu, come pick me up this afternoon."
"knew."
Yu Chu was watching a TV series at home, and was hungry at noon, remembering what Xie Xingmu said, he made lunch, so he went to open the refrigerator, and saw a plate of beef curry rice sealed with plastic wrap, with a sticky note on it: Put it in the microwave oven, Cook on high heat for two minutes.
After staring at the flamboyant words for a few seconds, Yu Chu took out his phone again and sent Xie Xingmu a Tuzki twist.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, Xie Xingmu did not reply to the message, obviously busy, so Yu Chu put away the phone, put the rice in the microwave, and set the time for two minutes.
Ding.
The sound of the meal being hot and the phone message sounded at the same time, Yu Chu quickly took out the phone, and saw Xie Xingmu replying to the message.
Xie Xingmu: Have you eaten yet
With a smile on Yu Chu's face, he opened the microwave oven, took a picture of the rice inside, and sent it over.
Xie Xingmu: There are pickles I made myself on the dining table. I’m busy. Don’t forget to pick up Duoduo. Water the green plants on the top floor. I forgot these few days.
As soon as Yu Chu replied "um", he saw that Xie Xingmu also sent Tuzki and turned his butt over. He immediately clicked on the expression bar and sent Tuzki to sway from side to side.
Xie Xingmu sent Tuzki to scratch the wall, Yu Chu sent Tuzki to hug the bottle for a kiss, and Tuzki flew out a heart.
There was no movement on Xie Xingmu's side, it was time to go to work, Yu Chu brought the meal to the dining table, opened the sealed bottle on the table, and took pickles from it to eat.
In the afternoon, he had already watched the latest episodes of several TV series, played with his phone for a while, and then went to the top floor to water the green plants that Xie Xingmu had mentioned.
Xie Xingmu opened a small garden in the corner of the top-floor platform. Yu Chu didn't pay attention to it, but only knew that it grew lush and lush. Now when he carried a small bucket to water it, he realized that there were green plants, all grown vegetables. .
Yuchu didn't recognize some vegetables, but he recognized shallots, peppers and tomatoes. The peppers were growing well, and the tomatoes were green and red, and they were about to ripen.
Xie Xingmu's house was cleaned twice a week by the housekeeper, and during his stay on Xingyuan Island, the housekeeper took care of the dishes.
Yu Chu felt a little funny, took a picture of this vegetable field, and sent it to Xie Xingmu: Is this a green plant? What are you planting these for
He knew that Xie Xingmu was busy, so he didn't think about asking him to reply to the message, so he went into the vegetable field after sending it, and squatted down to water the vegetables.
Unexpectedly, Xie Xingmu came back.
Xie Xingmu: There are no pesticides in these vegetables, I grow them for Duoduo to eat. OK, I'm off to work.
Yu Chu wanted to say that he was busy so he didn't reply to the message, but when he thought that he was going to reply to this message again, he put away the phone directly.
As a result, just as the phone was put away, a message came from Xie Xingmu.
Xie Xingmu: I have observed a small cucumber for several days, it should be edible today, you pick it off and eat it.
Xie Xingmu: Don't talk, I'm really busy.
Yu Chu stared at the screen for a long time this time, after making sure that Xie Xingmu hadn't sent any more messages, he put away his phone and started looking for that little cucumber. Finally, I found the shadow of the little cucumber behind a clump of green leaves, hanging tenderly in the air.
He carefully picked off the cucumber, only wiped it twice on his clothes, took a bite, and the fresh and tender cucumber fragrance filled his mouth.
When the time was almost up, he set out to pick up Chi Duoduo. There were already many adults waiting to pick up the children at the entrance of the kindergarten. He stood inside and stared at the closed carved iron gate together.
When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the security guard opened the iron gate, and the grandparents trotted in, like a small torrent, and Yu Chu trotted in with the crowd.
The children had already carried their schoolbags and sat obediently on their seats. The teacher stood guard at the door of the classroom, and when he recognized an adult, he asked the children of that family to come out.
There were more than a dozen parents in line in front of Yu Chu. When he slowly moved forward, he looked into the classroom through the glass window and saw Chi Duoduo at once.
Chi Duoduo sat downcastly on his seat, his head drooping, and he looked unhappy.
When Yu Chu sent Chi Duoduo to school in the morning, the teacher had already seen him, so when he saw him, he immediately called his name in the classroom: "Chi Duoduo."
Chi Duoduo looked up, and when he saw Yu Chu, a smile appeared on his face.
Yu Chu led Chi Duoduo out of the school, avoiding the surrounding crowd, and asked, "Did you fight today?"
Chi Duoduo said, "I didn't fight, it's wrong to fight."
Yu Chu looked down at him, and said calmly, "That means you were only beaten, and you didn't fight back?"
Chi Duoduo pursed his lips.
"Didn't your uncle teach you how to fight?" Yu Chu suddenly became angry and asked with a sullen face.
"No, my uncle told me not to fight, and tell him when something happens, and he will fight with other children's fathers." Chi Duoduo lowered his head, "But I dare not say it anymore, I am afraid that he will beat other children's fathers died."
Yu Chu: ...
But Chi Duoduo quickly put this matter behind him, and discussed with Yu Chu what to have for dinner with great interest: "Xiao Chu, let's go eat a hamburger?"
Yu Chu remembered Xie Xingmu's order not to eat hamburgers, and immediately wanted to refuse, but Chi Duoduo looked at him expectantly, hesitated for a while, and said, "I can take you to eat hamburgers, but you can't tell your uncle."
"Okay, I will definitely not tell him." Chi Duoduo said happily.
The two went to a nearby fast food restaurant and bought a lot of food to fill the table. Chi Duoduo covered his mouth with ketchup, and asked Yu Chu with some French fries, "Xiao Chu, are you afraid of my uncle?"
Yu Chu lowered his head and sipped his Coke, and replied without raising his eyes, "I'm not afraid."
Chi Duoduo didn't quite believe it: "Then tell me not to tell him."
Yu Chu raised her eyelids and glanced at him: "That's because I'm afraid he's going to talk too much, you know?"
After dinner, he took a taxi back home. Yu Chu took Chi Duoduo to the fitness area on the top floor, stretched his neck and said, "Chi Duoduo, come here, I'll teach you how to fight."
Chi Duoduo was very excited when he heard the words, he jumped on the spot twice, but twisted his hands nervously: "But Xiao Chu, the teacher and uncle both said that it's wrong to fight."
Yu Chu thought for a while, and coaxed: "I'm not teaching you to push others to the ground and cry, and when others bully you, you have a way to control him so that he can't do anything."
"Is that so? Doesn't this count as a fight?"
"No, it's called defense."
"Anti... what is it?"
"It's not a fight anyway."
Chi Duoduo happily trotted over: "Okay, then I will learn, Xiao Chu, teach me."
Yu Chu taught very seriously, and didn't take it seriously at all. Chi Duoduo was just a five-year-old child: "See, grab my arms and sweep my calves with your feet... I reach out to you, and you turn around after grabbing my arms. Put your back against my chest... You are all children, so you can push it up..."
Chi Duoduo also learned to be methodical. He fell to the ground and quickly got up without pain at all.
After Yu Chu finished teaching, he asked him to practice, and when the practice was over, he taught him some self-defense methods by the way.
"If a bad guy strangles your neck like this, you just bite down on his hand...Of course it's not for you to deal with children, it's a bad guy, a bad guy, understand?"
Chi Duoduo was exhausted from practicing, so Yu Chu took him to take a bath, filled the bathtub with water as he usually saw Xie Xingmu do, threw two plastic ducklings into it, and carried the stripped Chi Duoduo into it.
He squeezed out a ball of shampoo and rubbed it on Chi Duoduo's head. Chi Duoduo lowered his head and pinched the duckling. Just as he was about to get the nozzle, he heard Chi Duoduo suddenly call him: "Xiao Chu."
Without waiting for Yu Chu's answer, he said to himself again: "Xiao Chu, you won't leave me, right? You, me, and uncle, we will always be together."
Yu Chu stopped and asked, "Do you really want us to be together?"
"Well, the three of us will always be together." Chi Duoduo said seriously.
A strange soft emotion surged up in Yu Chu's heart, which made him suddenly at a loss. He gently twirled Chi Duoduo's hair with his hands, and after a while he said in a low voice, "Okay, the three of us are always together."
"Then you have to keep what you say, and you can't sneak away."
Yu Chu asked strangely: "Why did I run away secretly?"
"You are a cat given to me by my uncle, and the cat at my deskmate sneaked away, so don't run away." Chi Duoduo said.
"I'm the cat your uncle gave you?" Yu Chu thought for a while before realizing, "Don't you know what a cat looks like?"
"I know." Chi Duoduo lowered his head and patted his belly.
"Then I don't look like a cat at all."
Chi Duoduo retorted: "Yes, after the cat in Mimi Wanderings becomes a human, it looks very similar to you."
The softness in Yu Chu's heart was swept away, she turned on the nozzle to wash off the foam from Chi Duoduo's body, covered it with a towel, and carried her back to the children's room.
"Xiao Chu, can I-"
Yu Chu interrupted coldly: "No."