"Mom is out, don't talk." Lu Yinbing, wearing a baseball cap, solemnly warned the two naughty kids beside her, "Look, who else is so chattering besides you two? If you continue to be naughty, I won't bring you two out next time."
The two turned away from each other in childish huffs.
Lu Yinbing didn't know what was going on. The two children suddenly started to make a noise, as if they were quarreling. The quarrel was quite fierce. The two were held in Lu Yinbing and Liu Xinmin's arms respectively, and they were stretching their arms and legs as if to fight.
Is a theater a place where you can make noise? Lu Yinbing is not someone who would tolerate her children becoming naughty. It's okay for them to be naughty, but it's not okay to make noise in public. You can make as much noise as you want behind closed doors.
Xia Lu pursed her lips, looked at Liu Xinmin with a pitiful face, and said aggrievedly: "Grandma..."
Liu Xinmin raised her hands in surrender and said, "Calling me ancestors is useless. Your mom and I are on the same side." Eighty percent of Lu Yinbing's current educational methods are copied exactly from the education she received from Liu Xinmin when she was a child.
Xia Lu turned his head away.
Liu Xinmin: “…”
Hey, this little brat is quite good at reading people's faces. Knowing that she can't be relied on, she didn't hesitate for a second. Liu Xinmin gently hit her on the arm, and Xia Lu moved her butt.
"It's been exactly one year since our father died. It happened to be today, May 5, your name day, Irina. It was cold and snowing that day. I felt like I couldn't live anymore, and you felt like a dead person. But now a year has passed..."
Xia Yitong was on the stage, the lights from the drama stage shining on her made-up face. The drama began, and both children quieted down.
Perhaps due to their genes and the influence of their mothers, they have a much better innate sense of art than the average person. Even though it is too difficult for them to understand Chekhov's "Three Sisters" at their current age, this does not prevent them from being immersed in it. Even the lively Xia Lu only changed a posture in Liu Xinmin's arms during the two or three hours of the drama performance.
"If only I knew! If only I knew!"
The drama ended with thunderous applause.
Amidst thunderous applause, the curtain slowly parted, and all the actors came out hand in hand, bowed and thanked the audience.
"Mom!" Xia Lu shouted excitedly in the audience, her little arms and legs fluttering happily in her grandmother's arms. When Xia Lu called out like that for the first time, Lu Yinbing covered her mouth and told her not to shout outside. Later, she thought that children of good girlfriends would recognize each other as godmothers, so it was okay to call her mom, and her personality would never collapse anyway.
Xia Yitong smiled at his family members in the audience.
Someone came up to the stage and presented flowers to Xia Yitong. Xia Yitong held a large bouquet of lilies and politely thanked the audience.
Lu Yinbing went backstage in a low-key manner.
Xia Yitong was removing her makeup. She walked to the side and poked the bouquet of flowers. "This is of great quality. It costs a lot of money. She must be your die-hard fan."
Xia Yitong just smiled and said nothing.
Every time someone sends her flowers, she would come over and act jealous for a while. At first, Xia Yitong tried to explain it to her in a nice way, but later she found that Lu Yinbing didn't need any explanation at all, she just wanted to be jealous, and she would get mean to you if you tried to stop her from being jealous.
Seeing that she ignored him, Lu Yinbing continued to nag for a while, saying things like "you don't love me anymore", "I'm out of fashion and no one sends me flowers", "You're still smiling even though I'm in this state" and other nonsense.
Xia Yitong listened to her every word, but Liu Xinmin, who was watching Xia Yitong's play for the first time, couldn't stand it anymore, "Why are you so nagging? Are you in menopause? You're making my head hurt."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong had also removed her makeup. She touched Lu Yinbing's hand hanging by her side, then turned around and opened her arms to the two children, "Come here, let mommy hug you."
One by one, they rushed into her arms. Xia Lu was more sturdy and ran in front. With a thud, Xia Yitong was knocked against the dressing table with her back. She hissed, and Lu Xia, who caught up with her, slapped Xia Lu on the arm.
The two children had already had a quarrel before the performance started, and now with old and new grudges added up, they soon started fighting.
The adults separated the two little kids. Xia Lu's eyes were still red. She felt much more hurt emotionally than physically by her sister beating her. She loved her sister so much, so why did her sister always beat her
Lu Xia looked indifferent. He was the first to go home and the same when getting in the car. He stood by the passenger door and refused to go to the back seat with the door opened.
Lu Yinbing was helpless in the face of her stubborn face, so she let Liu Xinmin hold her and sit in the front.
Xia Lu was sitting alone in a child's chair, with the seat next to her empty, and she immediately started crying.
Xia Yitong coaxed her again. Lu Xia, who was sitting in the front row, heard her sister crying in the back row. She looked straight ahead with a serious look on her face. Lu Yinbing glanced at her, and she looked back with a clear look in her eyes.
Lu Yinbing was actually moved by the eyes of a little kid like her and had a strange feeling.
Liu Xinmin was sent back to Lu's house, and Lu Yinbing drove back to her own home. It was already past eleven and almost midnight. One of the children was crying and excited, while the other... No one could tell what she was thinking.
After getting off the car and going home, Xia Yitong walked in front holding the fragile Xia Lu who was clinging to her arms, while Lu Yinbing walked behind holding Lu Xia's hand. She observed Lu Xia's expression again, and it seemed that he was a little conflicted.
The two sisters, who always had a good relationship, did not say a word to each other after entering the house for the first time. Especially Xia Lu, who used to stick to her sister like a dog-skin plaster, but now she went to the bathroom by herself as soon as she got off the bed, "Mom, I want to take a shower."
The children were placed in a bathtub filled with hot water, and remained silent like their enemies.
Xia Lu finished washing first, and was carried upstairs by Xia Yitong wrapped in a bath towel. Lu Yinbing half-crouched on the edge of the bathtub, wiping her eldest daughter's back with a soft wet towel, and said, "Sister is sad, did you know that?"
The confusion in Lu Xia's brows became more obvious.
She obviously knew it and was troubled by it.
Children are children after all. No matter how mature they are, they cannot be as tense as adults for two or three days.
"Why did you hit your sister?" Lu Yinbing did not stop his hands. He lifted her arm and wiped her armpits. He asked in a very casual tone, without questioning or blaming.
Lu Xia pursed her lips.
Lu Yinbing waited for her patiently.
When they washed her legs, Lu Xia spoke up, with a hint of displeasure in her tone: "She caused Mom to get bumped into."
Lu Yinbing raised an eyebrow: "Hmm?"
Lu Xia pursed her lips even tighter, frowned and said, "When she ran over, she hit mom's back. It hurts. She's so heavy."
"..." To be honest, Lu Yinbing had completely forgotten about this matter. Besides, it was nothing. Isn't it normal to be bumped by your own child? She complained madly in her heart but looked friendly on the surface, "So you hit her?"
"Yeah." Lu Xia said, "Mom's performance is very hard. She shouldn't be like that. She still does it, and I still beat her."
Lu Yinbing's mood suddenly became complicated.
…
"Do you know why they fought tonight?" After returning to the room, taking a shower and lying on the bed, Lu Yinbing couldn't wait to share with Xia Yitong the secret he had just learned from his eldest daughter.
"Why?" Xia Yitong turned sideways and tucked the quilt on Lu Yinbing's side.
"Guess what." Lu Yinbing felt that the reason could not be told so easily, so he kept it a secret.
"I guess..." Xia Yitong pondered, "Did Xia Lu steal her sister's food before?"
"no."
"Xia Lu stole her toy?"
"no."
"Xia Lu damaged her sister's book, and it was exposed today?"
"When did the book get damaged?" Lu Yinbing asked in surprise. How could this happen
Xia Yitong recalled: "About a week ago, she accidentally tore off a page of paper while playing, and then secretly hid it back. It was the black and white comic book that Lu Xia liked, the one with a skull on it."
Lu Yinbing couldn't help but said distressedly: "It looks like Xia Lu will be beaten again."
Lu Xia was probably the one who cherished books the most among the four of them, even more than Lu Yinbing. She didn't even fold the pages of a book, but had to run to the study to get a bookmark to clip it. Lu Yinbing was reading a book and found that the bookmark was gone, and then she realized that it was taken away by her eldest daughter. So she bought another box of cartoon books and put it downstairs, specially for Lu Xia to use.
With a whole page torn off, there is basically no room for maneuver.
Xia Yitong said, "I'll go buy Lu Xia a new, identical book tomorrow? Anyway, her book is no different from the new one. Xia Lu is too pitiful."
Lu Yinbing: "Don't, indulge her bad habits. The book belongs to her sister. Not only did she not apologize immediately after tearing it up, but she also hid it secretly with the intention of covering up the truth. You did the same, you just watched her hide it?"
Xia Yitong felt guilty: "I... I didn't think so much at the time."
She was playing with her cell phone on the sofa, while Xia Lu was playing by herself. Then, somehow, she got a piece of paper torn from a book in her hand. She was scared and nervously put it back into the book.
Xia Yitong really just watched it for fun, and Xia Lu looked so adorable at the time, she was so bewildered that she didn't even think there was anything wrong with it.
Lu Yinbing glanced at Xia Yitong and asked, "Are you still yelling six six six over there?"
Xia Yitong: “…”
Although not, it’s almost there.
Lu Yinbing showed an understanding expression, his lips moved, and after a while he said something with an unknown emotion, with a hint of reproach in his eyes: "You."
Xia Yitong suddenly felt aggrieved, her nose felt sore, and she said nothing.
What happened to her? Her most vivid memories were spent in the orphanage. She didn't have any photos left, and she didn't remember what her parents looked like, not to mention what they said to her when she was a child, and whether they taught her these things. Moreover, she had a rough childhood, and she had been cautious in doing things since she could remember, and would never touch things that didn't belong to her. How could she think so much
She didn't think of what happened for a moment, so why did he say that to her
The more I think about it, the more wronged I feel, so wronged that I almost cry.
Lu Yinbing looked at the ceiling above his head, and didn't notice that Xia Yitong was wrong. He kept saying, "It's okay this time. Just be more careful next time. Children's moral character should be cultivated from an early age. There's a saying that goes, if a child steals needles when he's young, he'll steal silver when he grows up. Although our child won't do that, a little crooked is still crooked."
Lu Yinbing felt a gravity on his shoulder. Xia Yitong stretched out his hand and pushed hard, almost pushing Lu Yinbing to the ground.
Lu Yinbing: "What are you doing?"
When she turned her head, she was suddenly stunned. Are those tears in Xia Yitong's eyes
Lu Yinbing was so frightened that she almost lost her soul on the spot. She rushed forward and hugged him, speaking nervously and incoherently: "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
"You're mean to me." Xia Yiting struggled hard in her arms to prevent her from holding him.
"I didn't." Lu Yinbing felt like she was wronged and heartbroken. "I just told you... I was wrong. I was really wrong. I shouldn't have been so mean to you."
What's the point of talking about reason at this time? Lu Yinbing slapped himself in the face in his heart and said, Are you a pig
"I really didn't think it would be so serious at the time." Tears as big as beans welled up in Xia Yitong's eyes and fell on the skin of Lu Yinbing's neck, burning hot.
"It's not serious, it's not serious. How can it be serious? It's just tearing a page of a book."
"When you are a kid you steal needles, when you grow up you steal silver. That's what you said."
"I didn't say anything. I just farted." Lu Yinbing hurriedly coaxed, "I can only speak after the fact. If I were there, I would definitely give her a double-click of six six six, and maybe even teach her how to hide it."
"Don't comfort me, I just don't care about the child." Xia Yitong has begun to deny herself.
"I really care about you. You don't know how much they like you."
"They like you better."
"No way, Lu Xia wouldn't hit her just because her sister bumped into me."
Xia Yitong: “???”
She asked, "What hit you? Who did you hit?"
The culprit who caused the current situation returned to Xia Yitong's sight in a different manner. Seeing that Xia Yitong's attention was finally diverted, Lu Yinbing touched his back and felt a thin layer of sweat. He relaxed and said, "Didn't the two brats fight tonight? It was Lu Xia who started it first. It was because Xia Lu ran too fast and bumped into you."
Xia Yitong was stunned: "Ah?"
Lu Yinbing said: "When I heard this, I thought, why is this feeling so strange? I am obviously your legitimate wife, why was it not me who hit Xia Lu when she bumped into you, but my daughter? And I didn't even notice that. I was so negligent."
Xia Yitong: “…”
Lu Yinbing said, "Do you want me to let her bump into you again? Then I'll beat her up to show my strong girlfriend power."
Xia Yitong looked at her with pity, as if she were caring for a mentally retarded person: "... You're crazy."
Lu Yinbing hugged her with a giggle, but his tone was very serious: "Now you realize how much your daughter loves you. You are really a very good mother and a very good wife." Lu Yinbing always felt that something was wrong, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Change the order of these two sentences. Good wife should come before good mother."
Xia Yitong gently hit her, nestled in her arms, looked up and said, "And then? Didn't you try to persuade Lu Xia? The great children's educator."
"Thank you for the compliment," Lu Yinbing blushed at her address and said, "I persuaded her. I told her that her sister was hurt by her and might be crying in bed now. She told me that she would comfort her and asked me not to worry."
"This child..." Xia Yitong didn't know what to say. She was touched but also felt strange. "She is precocious. She is really nothing like her sister."
"People are all weird, and children are no exception. Don't think too much about it." Lu Yinbing comforted her. She understood Xia Yitong's thoughts to some extent. Xia Yitong hoped that the child could be happy, do childish things at a child's age, and fully develop his nature. But Lu Xia's nature... did she have such a thing as a child's nature? Fighting with Xia Lu was probably the only place where her nature could be brought into play, and even too much.
The two mothers who were still worried at this time did not expect that when this child really showed her nature, she would be even more difficult to deal with than the other one, because her nature seemed to be different from that of ordinary people.
This is a later story.
That night, after reviewing the past and looking forward to their children's future, the two mothers fell into a deep sleep. When they woke up the next morning, they saw the two sisters lying head to head in the living room. They ignored the expression of disgust on Lu Xia's face which was actually love, and smiled at each other. It turned out that it was best to let the children deal with their own affairs.
Lu Xia glanced at the two of them, especially Lu Yinbing. Lu Yinbing smiled at her and gave her a thumbs up. Lu Xia showed a relaxed expression.
When Xia Lu saw Xia Yitong coming down the stairs, she rushed over like a cannonball. Lu Xia frowned and shouted at her. Xia Lu was alert and stopped her steps that were about to rush into Xia Yitong's arms. She walked over slowly, hugged Xia Yitong's thighs, and smiled foolishly with her head raised.
Lu Xia came over, touched Xia Lu's head in praise, and walked away.
Xia Lu ran after her sister with her head shaking and small steps, even leaving Xia Yitong behind. Compared to her sister and her mother, she liked her sister more.
Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong sat on the sofa, looking at their two daughters with satisfaction. Xia Yitong said with emotion: "Sometimes when I see Lu Xia is so sensible, I feel very warm in my heart, isn't it, Teacher Lu?"
"Yeah." Lu Yinbing smiled, with a hint of sympathy in her eyes, and sighed, "Besides, the two of them have such a good relationship, I can't bear to ruin it. I'm such a bad mother."
"ah?"
Lu Yinbing glanced at her indifferently, then glanced in a certain direction. Xia Yitong followed her gaze and saw the small bookshelf belonging to Lu Xia in the living room. The comic book with a skull printed on it was placed neatly in the center.
No way
Xia Yitong opened her lips slightly, feeling unbelievable about her own guess.
Lu Yinbing blinked at Xia Yitong, straightened her expression, and said gently in a voice that the two children in the living room could definitely hear: "Lu Xia, where is the comic book you told me about last time? Mommy wants to read it, too. It would be even better if you could open it page by page and tell me about it."
Xia Yitong: “… … …”