As a simple working people, Jiang He gave full play to her virtue of hard work. After cleaning up the house, she took the whole family to the store to clean it, and then went to the old house to paste couplets for hygiene.
The flower shop is not far from the old house, without a car, just take a walk.
Xu Qing, who was unwilling to move, and Xu Shian, who was reluctant, walked slowly on the road. Jiang He took Xu Jin's little hand and urged them to move.
"Dad, why are these manhole covers round?"
Xu Shi'an had too many doubts about this world, and tried to get familiar with life on earth with the help of adults.
This is a stupid question that even Jiang He has never asked. Xu Qing doesn't know who his son followed, or are children so stupid
"To prevent anyone from asking why it's square."
"That… "
Xu Shi'an froze, his head couldn't turn for a moment.
When Uncle Zhao saw the cheerfully dressed people, he greeted them with a smile and touched Xu Shi'an's head by the way.
It's not fun in winter, but in summer, Xu Shi'an is wearing crotch pants and can play his little chirp, just like playing Xu Qing back then.
"Grandpa Zhao."
The siblings were very polite, so happy that Uncle Zhao touched his pocket, took out several pieces of candy and stuffed them for them.
"Come over here to clean up. Actually, she doesn't live there all the time, so she can't be free." Xu Qing felt lazy and asked Jiang He to take the children first, while he used this as an excuse to take a break.
"It's good to be diligent, and the old house should be clean even if you don't live in it. This is called blessed land, Feng Shui."
Uncle Zhao wrapped himself in a coat and shook his body, took out a cigarette from his arms, and seeing Xu Qing wave his hand, he happily picked one up, "How old are they? Are they going to elementary school soon?"
"There are still two years left, when the time comes, I will go to elementary school here."
"I think it's better to just move back. It's not convenient to live so far away to go to school."
"It will be troublesome to run back and forth here at noon." Xu Qing said with a smile. The school district is getting more and more in demand, and it is already considered good.
It was also the siblings who caught up with the wave of the opening of the second child, and now they have fallen again.
While the two were talking, a young girl came out of the community, she was stunned when she saw Xu Qing, and Xu Qing was also stunned.
Long time no see, Xiaoyan has turned into a big girl, with long hair and shawls, wearing light makeup, maybe specially matched clothes and makeup, and the hooked eyeliner looks a little mature.
After a glance, Xiaoyan may have nodded his head slightly, or it may be Xu Qing's illusion, in short, he has said hello. .
"Is that Xiaoyan?"
When she walked away, Xu Qing was a little uncertain.
"Can't you recognize me? I used to follow you every day and call him Brother Xu."
"Eighteen changes in the female college, I don't recognize it." Xu Qing shook her head, still thinking about the person she just saw, familiar yet unfamiliar.
"That's right, I was a little chubby before, but now I'm doing well." Uncle Zhao exhaled a puff of smoke and said with a smile, "Maybe he can really become a star."
Xu Qing laughed, and Uncle Zhao raised his eyebrows: "You don't believe me? I heard from Mrs. Cheng that she seemed to be talking about something...something."
"Internet drama?"
"That's right, it seems to be..." Uncle Zhao touched the leather hat on his head a little confused, sometimes it is hard to remember these things when he is old.
Xu Qing was surprised this time, and looked back again.
Thinking about how old her two children are, she should... have already gone to college, as if she heard Aunt Cheng happily mentioning about the college entrance examination two years ago.
Things are different...
Xu Qing was not too lazy, he felt the same, and walked home slowly, Jiang He had already wrapped his head in a cloth, and was sweeping the cobwebs on the corner of the wall with a broom.
While picking up the couplet for the siblings to unfold, Xu Qing talked about what happened just now.
"Xiaoyan?"
Hearing Xu Qing talking about Xiaoyan, Jiang He turned his head in surprise, but also a little happy.
"It's been a long time since I saw her. When she grows up, she doesn't go back to grandma very much."
When Xu Qing forced her to learn linear equations in two variables, she took Xiaoyan to play minesweeper secretly.
"They are all grown up girls now, just like when you first came here."
"Maybe you won't recognize them when you meet them on the street." Jiang He could imagine that Xu Jin and Xu Jin were both so old.
"You studied with her at the beginning, but now she is going to university, and you gave birth to two children..."
"She's a child, can I do the same?"
"So you're still the one you didn't like the most, the stupid one will just..."
"Say more!" Jiang He glared at him.
She is now a dignified flower shop owner. There is no such thing as a stupid person who can only do laundry and hold children.
Old houses are easier to clean. There are no people living in them, so there are not so many messes and stains. Many furniture are also covered with cloth. It is enough to sweep away only a little dust, and then paste new couplets on the doors. Refreshed outside and in.
Having a house of one's own makes one feel unspeakably stable in one's heart. Of course, one more is more stable. This may be something engraved in one's genes. Looking at the old house, Jiang He is extremely satisfied.
Xu Qing leaned back on the old sofa, crossed his legs, and teased Shi An with candy wrappers. When he heard the conversation outside the door, he looked up, and Jiang He was pulling Xu Jin outside the door to talk to someone.
After a while, Aunt Cheng's loud voice sounded, Xu Qing got up and took Xu Shi'an over to say hello to Cheng Yulan, neighbors, Shi'an held a full moon banquet and Cheng Yulan also ran over to stuff red envelopes.
Cheng Yulan is getting older, and the wrinkles on her face seem to have suddenly increased, and she doesn't walk with her head high like before, showing the old man's spirit, but she is still in good spirits, and her speech is still loud.
"A good boy is a good boy."
She patted Shi'an's head, and then Xu Jin, her face was full of kindness.
After her wife left, Cheng Yulan lived alone and liked children more and more.
"After the Chinese New Year, I will go to Ali's side, and I seldom come here."
Cheng Yulan told Xu Qing about this with a smile, feeling a little emotional.
She has lived here for most of her life. Although she can still move now, she is always a bit lonely. After retiring, she should live with her daughter.
The neighborhood is getting older and older, just like the people living here.
There will still be lights and festoons in the community during the Chinese New Year, with small colorful flags hanging on them, and the words "Celebrating the festival" posted on them, and the children running and jumping in the open space are still the same, just a different batch.
"Just talking to Xiaoyan, I feel that she is a little alienated from me."
Walking on the road, Jiang He felt a little sad. She used to play games secretly with that girl.
"Being a star, I have no common language with you, a woman with a baby."
"Don't talk nonsense, just grow up, and the age difference is a bit big."
"You are still an ancient person, you are more than a thousand years younger, have you alienated her?" Xu Qing hummed.
"Just do it on purpose!" Jiang He pinched his arm.
Interrupted by Xu Qing, all those little thoughts disappeared.
Xu Jin and Shi An looked at each other, both a little surprised, mother is an ancient person
"Dad, is Mom an ancient person?"
"Well, but don't talk nonsense with others, this is our family's secret."
"Okay!" The siblings agreed very simply.
Then he turned around and sold Xu Qing.
"Ancient people?"
Zhou Suzhi heard Shi Anshen cryptically say this "secret", for some reason, she wanted to pull Xu Qing over and beat her up.
He has become a father, but he still can't learn to be prudent, and he keeps talking about trains every day.
"Still a heroine." Xu Wenbin didn't even lift his head.
"Grandpa knows too?" Xu Jin covered her mouth in surprise, it seemed that her mother was really an ancient person and didn't run away.
"Crap..."
Xu Wenbin wanted to talk nonsense, seeing that the two dolls were by his side, he didn't say everything, that bastard Xu Qing was addicted to pretending.
"When the two of them were not married, they were called "women and women." Xu Wenbin reminded Zhou Suzhi when he saw that Zhou Suzhi didn't understand.
Then he was a little disdainful, curled his lips, "If you tell him to read more, he won't, at least he will be like the whole lady on TV, and be a heroine, shame on me."
When Xu Qing and his wife came back from shopping, Jiang He rolled up his sleeves and went into the kitchen. Xu Qing wanted to help out, but the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law rushed out impatiently because they thought they were in the way.
Facing the two cubs every day, he didn't bother to bring them. It happened that Xu Wenbin liked to take them. Everyone was happy. Xu Qing took the frozen pear to the balcony to blow the air.
The floor heating at home is too hot, he always likes to stay on the balcony for a while and look downstairs.
Qin Maocai on the opposite balcony seemed to be growing backwards. As he got older, black hair grew from his temples. He was full of energy, with piercing eyes.
Taking Qin Xiao to play with Xiongba on the balcony, he could faintly hear the sound of arguing in the living room behind him, the New Year's... Xu Qing smacked his lips, and Qin Maocai looked at each other, silent.
Xiongba is already very old, the lifespan of a dog is not as long as that of a cat, and it may be because he was too active in the early stage. Winter Melon has been slacking off and recharging his energy. Now there is not much change, but Xiongba has obviously aged.
Just like cubs can live for a long time, but monkeys don't live long... Xu Qing thinks this is probably the reason.
While gnawing on the frozen pear, he heard what Xu Wenbin and Zhou Suzhi said in the living room behind him, and suddenly froze, he stuffed a pear in his mouth and forgot to chew.
"You can't tell others about your alien identity?"
Xu Qing felt as if he had heard Xu Wenbin whisper such a sentence just now, and he didn't know if it was a hallucination. When he looked back, both Xu Wenbin and Zhou Suzhi were a little nervous.
"No... Dad, what did you just say?" Xu Qing couldn't calm down anymore, and went back to the room to make sure.
"I didn't say anything just now."
"You said my mother is an alien?"
Xu Qing stared at Zhou Suzhi carefully, trying to see the flowers on her dozens-year-old mother's face.
"You heard it wrong." Zhou Suzhi frowned and slapped him aside, the boy's expression made people feel creepy.
"..."
"Don't care if I said it or not, do you believe it? I said your mother is an alien, and she flew away?" Xu Wenbin sneered, this son may have a problem with IQ, why is he acting so unbelievable...
"No, what's your reaction? I said your mother is an alien, and then you believed it?" Xu Wenbin was stunned.
He saw Xu Qing's hand tremble.
Xu Qing's eyes are extremely complicated, Xu Wenbin's appearance is too familiar.
Yes, you are an ancient person, who will believe you if you tell me? —At the beginning, he seemed to be leaning on the chair in the same posture and told Jiang He.
Very shit.
"..."
"..."
"..."
The family was silent, Xu Wenbin was thinking about what went wrong, Zhou Suzhi was worried about whether Xu Qing's IQ would gradually decrease with age, and whether it would affect the children, and Xu Qing was trying to clear his mind.
Just now when he was eating pears on the balcony, he suddenly heard Xu Wenbin lower his voice and tell Zhou Suzhi that aliens...
This is not right.
"So..." Xu Wenbin said, and then shut up, he was also very entangled.
I wanted to teach Xu Qing by example, don't talk nonsense with the child, you are an adult and don't take it seriously, but the child is very likely...
But what is Xu Qing's reaction now? !
Damn!
If Xu Wenbin painted his face black, it would be a real black question mark face.
Thirty people, why are they as stupid as Xu Shi'an? What happened to the father and son
"I just want you to feel that parents talking nonsense will have a subversive effect on children... um... um... It seems that you feel it." Xu Wenbin organized his words.
"... the feeling is too deep."
Xu Qing let out a long breath.
"you understood?"
"Understood."
"So why do you believe your mother is an alien? Is she anything but human?"
Xu Wenbin was so puzzled by this question that he was terribly confused.
He thought that Xu Qing would raise the bar and not take it seriously, but he had thought about it, but he didn't expect Xu Qing to react like this.
"You said she was an alien, of course I believed it."
"Nonsense, you said Jiang He is..."
Xu Wenbin looked towards the kitchen like a choked chicken, and immediately realized, isn't he as stupid as Xu Qing
Mentally retarded will lower the IQ of a whole street. He didn't believe it before, but now he believes it.
IQ is contagious.
But it is very tangled, how can a handsome young man look normal, so stupid
Xu Wenbin was so entangled, he became angry when he saw Xu Qing, and went into the study with his hands shaken, out of sight and out of mind.
"Don't you two be gods and ghosts all day long, and teach the children what to do if they fail."
"They are smart and different from ordinary children."
"Then you can't teach blindly."
"You can see how smart they are now, don't you worry about me? When I was this old, I played with mice picking up chicken shit. Look at the two of them. Let alone picking them up, you have to avoid them from a distance. This proves that…”
"Prove that the two of them are smart, not as stupid as you." Zhou Suzhi snorted.
Xu Qing was speechless. The good thing about the siblings is that they are smart, and the bad things are taught. The good things about him are taught by the old couple, but the bad thing is that they are stupid.
What else is there to say.
"Come here!" After a while, Xu Wenbin showed his head from the study, beckoning to Xu Qing who was outside.
"What's the matter, Dad?"
Xu Qing went into the study and said.
"sit down."
Xu Wenbin commanded, crossed his hands to support his chin, and sat behind the desk.
He had thought for a long time just now, and after sorting out his thoughts, he felt more and more confused.
Xu Qing is a ghost, if you say he is stupid, then there are not many smart people.
But why did you react so strongly to his words? It seems illogical to really believe in the existence of aliens.
Xu Wenbin lowered his head, tapped his forehead with his thumb, rubbed it lightly, and when Xu Qing was puzzled, he finally said, "There's something wrong with you."
"I'm fine."
"There's something wrong with you."
"I… "
"Jiang He came from ancient times, so he didn't have an ID card, no job, and no one knew him?" Xu Wenbin joked, asking this ridiculous question.
If Xu Qing is abnormal again, it is worth pondering.
"..." Xu Qing was stunned upon hearing this.
Xu Wenbin carefully observed his expression, Xu Qing gradually laughed, which made Xu Wenbin's heart skip a beat.
"Yes, she flew here in ancient times." Xu Qing nodded, paused and leaned forward: "Dad, do you believe it? Tell my mother, will my mother believe it?"
"..."
Xu Wenbin stared at him for a long time without speaking.
He really wanted to smack the kid.