After a while, Chen Yunyun touched her belly, her eyes wandering, not daring to look at the remaining half of the melon.
The mother was also sitting upright on the small stool in the kitchen where she picked vegetables, her body straight, as if what was in front of her was not a trash can, but a high-end mahogany table in the conference room.
The atmosphere was stagnant for a moment.
After a while, Chen Yunyun was the first to lose patience and said, "Mom, this half is not fresh anymore. How about we eat it first and open another one when my dad comes back?"
"Okay." The mother nodded quickly: "You're right."
Then he picked up the watermelon, washed it, and cut it neatly with the knife.
For a moment, there was the sound of "crunching" of eating melon in the kitchen again.
In the living room, the old lady came over on tiptoe and put her head against the kitchen door. Even at her age, she could still feel her saliva dripping.
But she really didn't dare to say it. When she heard the noise inside, she tiptoed back to her room.
But after listening carefully in the room for a long time, she didn't hear any sound coming out of the kitchen. The old lady couldn't help but feel anxious...
Meanwhile, Chen Yunyun, feeling full, licked her lips and burped, "Mom, I'm full. I'm just a little greedy..."
"Then you must not overload yourself..."
The mother looked blankly at the trash can filled with melon peels in front of her, and hesitated for a moment:
"You shouldn't have thrown the melon rind away. You can pick it up and peel it to make a dish..."
Imagining the taste of the watermelon rind, Chen Yunyun couldn't help but sip her saliva, and then said with embarrassment: "That's right, we can't waste it! Otherwise, Mom, you cut another one, we can eat some more, and put the rind in the bowl."
"This way, when my dad comes home in the middle of the night and has half of the melon left, he will definitely put the rind in the bowl."
"How about..."
The mother and daughter looked at each other and said in unison: "Cut it in half again!"
Just cut a small half this time!
…
Chen Yunyun finally came to the living room holding her belly and walked around the house all night. The old lady became anxious and short of breath, and she wished she could lock this silly granddaughter in her room.
Finally, in the middle of the night, Chen Yunyun went to the bathroom several times and finally returned to her room quietly. Through the door, you can still hear her screaming while playing games.
The old lady turned over and sat up from the bed with extremely quick movements. She did not even turn on the light and went to the kitchen in the dark.
Then he turned on the flashlight on his phone, and with that little light, he successfully took out the remaining half of the watermelon from the refrigerator.
She thought to herself, although she has diabetes, she had already taken two blood sugar-lowering pills, and now she would take two more bites... just two bites, isn't that too much
To show your determination, you don't even need to cut the melon, just hold it and eat it with a spoon.
I've eaten so much that there's a hole in the hole. It doesn't matter if my son comes back and sees it, since Yunyun likes to eat like this anyway.
Thinking of this, she felt completely relieved.
…
Not long after, the door of the room suddenly made a "click" sound.
But the kitchen door was closed and the old lady was enjoying herself with her eyes closed, so she didn't hear the sound at all.
Father Chen is back.
The room was dark. My wife must be asleep at this time, but Yunyun must not be asleep. Look, I can still hear the sound...
He turned on the light, put down his phone and prepared to take a shower, but he paused as if he heard some noise in the kitchen!
It was the middle of the night, and it was pitch black inside, with only a tiny glimmer of light...
He became alert—could there be a thief in the house? !
Father Chen's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't alarm his family. He just picked up a dining table and chair beside him to block in front of him, and then tiptoed to turn the door handle.
Then!
As the door opened, he turned on the light with a click.
"Ouch!"
“Bang!”
When a familiar voice sounded, Father Chen was startled and quickly leaned over to take a look, only to see a little old lady squatting in front of him. Her round body looked particularly familiar.
She was squatting on the ground, picking up the remaining melon rinds with her hands with a look of heartache on her face, which made people feel particularly sad and pitiful.
Father Chen was anxious at the time: "Mom, if you want to eat melon, just eat melon, why are you still-"
"Oh." Halfway through, Haodaer reacted and his expression turned cold again:
"Your blood sugar level was so high in the physical examination last week, how dare you eat watermelon?!"
The old lady raised her head stubbornly: "I took blood sugar-lowering medicine!"
Then he looked at the watermelon on the ground with a look of regret: "I haven't finished eating this yet..."
It was not until then that Father Chen paid attention to the broken watermelon on the ground—what was left uneaten
The watermelon broke into two halves, and it looked like half an empty watermelon shell, with not much red flesh left!
He remembered something and gasped: "You still eat so much?!"
However, the mother's words were inconsistent: "I haven't even scraped the pulp off the melon rind..."
…
After all this commotion, Chen Yunyun, who was playing games in the room, also heard the noise. She looked outside and saw her father's shoes and bag at the door.
Look at the kitchen again—
"Great! Grandma, how dare you eat watermelon behind our backs!"
"What is stealing? What is stealing?"
Facing her granddaughter, the old lady also became domineering: "I took medicine! Besides, how can eating watermelon be called stealing?"
"But you have diabetes—" Before he could finish his words, Chen Yunyun also stared at the pile of melon rinds on the ground and shouted, "Why are you wasting so much? There's still a lot of it!"
Father Chen: ... What? I just saw you for one day, and you have become a thrifty person even though you used to eat watermelons with holes in them
How can I eat this melon? I've chewed through the rind!
It really isn’t the case!
But the old lady also looked distressed: "Yes, I was eating, it's all your dad's fault for scaring me! Look, he moved such a big stool, if he didn't turn on the light, it might have fallen on my head."
Mr. Chen also felt wronged: "I heard some noise in the kitchen, and I didn't turn on the light, so I thought it was a thief..."
"Who is the thief who stole this worthless watermelon?"
The old lady was stubborn.
Chen Yunyun suddenly remembered: "Ah, it's not that it's worthless. This watermelon is 20 yuan per pound."
Father Chen: …
Grandma Chen: …
The mother and son turned their heads and stared at her: "Yunyun, you are eating luxury goods now!"
Chen Yunyun: … I bought the melons out of kindness, but you refused to reimburse me and accused me of eating luxury goods
She then sighed, "The problem is not that you eat luxury goods, but that you don't know how to cherish them. My mother ate this melon today and it tasted delicious. She even said she would use the melon rind to cook. Now it's broken into pieces and there's no way to pick it up and cook it again. I only bought four melons and said I would leave half for you, but now there are only two left..."
The old lady also looked regretful: "That's right! It's all your father's fault."
Father Chen: …
Okay, it's all my fault, right?!
He moved the chair away angrily, held a watermelon, rinsed it under the faucet, and then cut it in half with a knife!