Lu Cheng didn't sleep at noon. He was the only one in the empty house and couldn't sleep. Seeing that it was almost half past one, Lu Cheng closed the door and went to the army next door.
However, after waiting at the army gate for a long time, Lin Qingqing and Lu Haici did not come back, so he had to give up.
At this time, Lin Qingqing and Lu Haici were leaving the supply and marketing cooperative.
Lin Qingqing bought three popsicles, and Director Ma wrapped them in oil paper, and then wrapped them again with the defective cloth she bought. The weather is hot, and if the popsicles are not wrapped well, they will melt easily.
"Mom, can I have one when I get home?" Lu Haici was sitting on his bicycle, thinking about the ice cream all the time.
"Okay." Lin Qingqing said. She was not that particular. Some modern parents are very harsh in disciplining their children, telling them they can't eat this or that, but Lin Qingqing was not that particular.
"Wow, that's great." Lu Haici licked his lips, "Mom, we have three popsicles, one for you and one for me. Who should I get the other one for?" He didn't think about his dad at all.
Lin Qingqing said: "For your father."
"For dad... Dad doesn't like to eat." In Lu Haici's impression, his father just doesn't like to eat these things, not even milk candy.
Lin Qingqing said: "If your father doesn't like it, I'll give it to you."
Lu Haici's eyes lit up: "Really?"
Lin Qingqing said: "Really? But you have to send it to your father first."
"Yeah." Lu Haici felt relieved. His father definitely didn't want to eat it, but he could have two ice creams. That was great.
At 12:00 a.m., Lin Qingqing drove Lu Haici to the family compound. Lin Qingqing put him down and took out two ice creams: "One is for you, and one is for your father. I'm going home first."
"I understand. Don't worry, Mom." Lu Haici took the ice cream and walked towards the army.
The ice cream didn't melt much because it was well wrapped. It might also be because it was frozen solid when it was in the freezer. Lu Haici took two ice creams to the entrance of the army and said to the guard, "Hello, uncle, I'm looking for my dad."
The guard knew Lu Haici. Before Lin Qingqing married Lu Cheng and followed the army, Lu Haici often came to see Lu Cheng with a lunch box at mealtime, so the guard knew him. Seeing Lu Haici now, the guard joked, "Haici, what's the matter with you coming to see your father?"
Lu Haici said obediently: "My mother and I bought popsicles at the supply and marketing cooperative, and I brought them to Dad." After thinking for a while, Lu Haici added, "It's okay if Dad is busy." This way, if Dad can't have some, he can have it.
The guard naturally didn't know what Lu Haici was thinking: "Wait a minute, I'll call your dad."
Lu Cheng was reviewing documents. When the phone rang, he never thought it would be Lu Haici who called him: "Hello, this is Lu Cheng."
Guard: "Deputy Captain Lu, Lu Haici is here. He said he bought some popsicles at the supply and marketing cooperative and is here to bring them to you."
Lu Cheng: "I don't... I'll be right over." He originally wanted to say that he didn't eat popsicles, but when he thought that the popsicles must have been bought by Lin Qingqing, he changed his words.
At the entrance of the army, Lu Haici stared at the guard and asked, "Is my father busy?"
The guard smiled and said, "Your father is free. He said he'll be here soon."
"Ah?" Lu Haici's face completely fell.
Even so, Lu Haici didn't have the courage to run away with the ice cream, so he could only wait for his father here. Lu Cheng didn't let Lu Haici wait for long, but he showed up in just one minute. He looked at Lu Haici with a sad look, and stretched out his hand expressionlessly: "Where's the ice cream?"
Lu Haici handed him one of the ice creams in his hand: "I've already eaten it when I was in the supply and marketing cooperative." He said this without any reason.
Lu Cheng tore open the ice cream packaging. Although the ice cream did not melt much, it had melted and softened a little. He opened his mouth and took a big bite. The cool feeling flowed through his mouth and into his whole body. It must be said that eating popsicles in summer is refreshing.
Lu Haici watched, and he angrily tore open the packaging of his own ice cream, telling his father with his actions that he still had some.
"So what?" Lu Cheng suddenly asked.
"Ah?" Lu Haici didn't understand for a moment. He stuck out his tongue and licked it in small bites, which was completely different from his father who ate one-third of it in one gulp.
Lu Cheng: "You said you had already eaten at the supply and marketing cooperative, so what?"
"So I ate two today, and you only ate one." Lu Haici said, "That's why mom likes me more."
Lu Cheng didn't expect that this little bastard would have such thoughts. He lowered his eyes to look at the little bastard who was not even as tall as his waist, then stretched out his hand and said, "Give me this ice cream too."
"?" Lu Haici opened his eyes wide and looked at his father in disbelief, as if his father had told him some bedtime story that scared him so much that he even forgot to lick the ice cream.
Lu Cheng said expressionlessly: "I am your father, do you want to respect me, or do you not want to respect me?"
If Lin Qingqing were here, she would definitely say that Lu Cheng was committing "moral kidnapping."
Suddenly, Lu Haici's whole body froze. He looked at the ice cream, then at his father, his eyes red with grievance.
"So you are a little liar. All your previous statements about respecting me were lies." Lu Cheng continued.
"I didn't. I'm not a liar." Lu Haici defended himself loudly, his voice choked with sobs.
"Then it's not enough for me, so give me the other ice cream." Lu Cheng said as a matter of course.
Lu Haici hid the ice cream behind his back: "This is what my mother gave me." How could Dad do this? How could he snatch ice cream from other kids? Woo woo woo woo... If I had known, he wouldn't have come.
"Did mom ever tell me that I can't eat two popsicles?" Lu Cheng said this on purpose, knowing full well that Lin Qingqing would never say that.
Lu Haici pursed his lips and said nothing. His mother hadn't said it, but Lu Haici knew that his mother liked filial children. What should he do? Lu Haici bit his lower lip, tears streaming down his face. Finally, when his father really didn't change his words, he handed the ice cream he had just licked to his father.
At this time, the cream on the ice cream was already falling down.
Lu Cheng took it as a matter of course and gulped it down.
“Wuwuwu…” Lu Haici couldn’t help it and made loud noises, then he pushed Lu Cheng away and ran towards the staff quarters.
Lu Cheng watched him run and continued to eat the ice cream in big mouthfuls. He felt even better when he ate two ice creams at a time.
The guard looked at Lu Cheng for a long time without coming back to his senses. Is the Lu Cheng in front of him, who was snatching ice cream from his son, really the Deputy Captain Lu he knew
Lu Cheng noticed his gaze, turned around and said, "Don't spoil the child." After saying that, he strode away.
Woohoo…
Lu Haici ran home crying all the way. Many people heard his crying on the way, but he ran too fast and did not give anyone a chance to ask.
Lin Qingqing was doing the accounting at home. Yu Xiuyao and four other women were involved in the work of cleaning the food, so she naturally had to calculate everyone's accounts. Halfway through the calculation, she seemed to hear Lu Haici crying.
Lin gently rubbed his temples, thinking that he had heard wrongly. Lu Haici was happily eating popsicles at this time, so why would he be crying
“Woo woo woo…”
Lu Haici ran into the yard crying and jumped into the house. Before Lin Qingqing came to her senses, he had already run into the room and threw himself into Lin Qingqing's arms: "Mom... wuwuwu..." Seeing his mother, all his grievances burst out and he cried even more miserably.
Lin Qingqing quickly put down the things in her hands: "What's wrong with you? Who bullied you?"
"Dad, you are a bad dad, wuwuwu..."
Lu Cheng
Lin gently touched his head, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his tears: "How did your father bully you? Didn't you go to give him ice cream?"
It would have been fine if he hadn’t mentioned the ice cream. As soon as he mentioned it, Lu Haici couldn’t stop crying: “Dad… Dad ate both… both ice creams, wuwuwu…” He licked the two ice creams, wuwuwu…
Lin Qingqing: “…” She didn’t even know that Lu Cheng had this side of him. Was he deliberately bullying her son
"Okay, don't cry, don't cry. Ice cream is nothing. I'll make you French fries, okay?" Lin Qingqing comforted helplessly, "French fries are even better than ice cream."
Lu Haici choked up a few times: "French fries? ... Better than... than ice cream?"
Lin Qingqing said, "Yes, okay, let's go make French fries. We won't give them to your dad when they're done, okay?"
"Don't give it to him, hide it." Lu Haici answered without any hesitation.
Lin Qingqing heard his crying, and only intermittent sobbing remained, and continued: "Then you go wash ten big sweet potatoes, and mom will do it for you after she calculates the account, okay?"
"Well, okay, I... I'll go wash them." Lu Haici ran out, went to the kitchen, picked up the wooden basin, and picked out ten of the biggest sweet potatoes.
Lin shook her head gently. This means that no matter how old a woman is, there is always a little princess in her heart, and no matter how old a man is, there is always a little boy in his heart.
The accounts for four people were calculated very quickly. In addition, Lin Qingqing had already calculated two of them before Lu Haici came, so after calculating and checking the remaining accounts and making sure they were correct, Lin Qingqing went out.
Outside, Lu Haici was washing sweet potatoes with his butt curled up, one by one, very carefully.
Lin Qingqing took a kitchen knife, came to his side, peeled the sweet potato, and asked curiously: "Hai Ci, why did your father eat both ice creams? What did he tell you?"
Lu Haici thought about the delicious French fries, and the ice cream incident had calmed down a lot, but he was still angry when he mentioned it. "Dad said that if I want to be filial to him, I have to give him both ice creams. If I don't give them to him, I'm not filial to him."
Lin Qingqing: “…” It’s hard to imagine that this is what the serious Deputy Captain Lu would say.
"I... I'm a good child, I... I gave all the ice cream to my dad." Although Lu Haici had calmed down about this matter, he still felt sad when he talked about it, and his eyes became red again.
Lin Qingqing hurriedly said: "Your father is so mean. The French fries we make later will be for you alone." But son, don't show off in front of your father.