Black Lotus is reborn. Hush! Just lie down and be quiet.

"Auntie, sister, you haven't had breakfast yet, right?"

Xia Qingqing pretended not to notice that they were arguing and asked with a smile.

"No." Cheng Yueyun forced a smile and glanced at her daughter.

"I just got up and didn't have time to eat."

Shen Qiuyan smiled brightly, pretending not to notice her mother's glare.

In fact, the mother and daughter had another quarrel in the morning and did not have time to eat breakfast.

The cause was that Shen Qiuyan wanted to make a cup of tea, but accidentally put too much tea leaves in it, which made Cheng Yueyun very distressed. She couldn't help but mutter a few words, and then a fight broke out.

Shen Qiuyan started to count the accounts from her childhood. She had counted these accounts countless times, and the four brothers Shen Qiubai had calluses on their ears from hearing them.

"I boiled five eggs. Qiu Bai was not yet born and the fourth child was still young. We each had one. As a result, there were five eggs when I boiled them, but only four became available when I took them out of the pot. You insisted that I ate them. You guys were enjoying the four eggs while I just watched. I will remember this for the rest of my life!"

"You just stood there and watched? You only remember grudges and not kindness. Your father gave you his eggs, and you ate them more deliciously than anyone else. Why do you still remember it for the rest of your life? You ungrateful bastard!"

Cheng Yueyun got angry when she talked about this. The eggs were cooked by her daughter, and there was one egg missing. She didn't think much about it at the time and just said a few words to her daughter. She didn't expect that this damn girl was so vindictive and would bring up this matter from time to time to settle accounts.

The key point is, the dead girl ate a lot of eggs, but her husband couldn't bear to eat them, so he gave his eggs to the dead girl. She felt sorry for her husband, so she gave the egg yolk to him and ate the egg white herself.

She remembered clearly that the dead girl was holding the egg and hiding in the kitchen to eat it secretly. She almost choked to death because she ate too quickly. It was only when she went over and slapped her hard that the dead girl's life was saved.

"You hit me so hard that my ribs were almost broken. You hit me so hard!"

Shen Qiuyan was settling accounts again, and she would remember this for the rest of her life.

Her mother slapped her so hard that her bones were almost broken.

Cheng Yueyun was so angry that she almost vomited blood. She pointed at the rebellious girl and cursed: "Why didn't I slap you to death? You took your father's eggs and ran to the kitchen to eat them secretly, like a weasel, sneaking around. You ate too quickly and the eggs got stuck in your throat. If I hadn't slapped you, would you still be standing in front of me and being so rebellious? I should have slapped you to death at the beginning, so that you, a scourge, would not live to disobey me!"

"Why don't I remember it? You made it up, right?"

Shen Qiuyan was very suspicious. How come she had no memory of it at all?

She just remembered that her mother wrongly accused her of stealing eggs and slapped her hard, almost killing her.

"I... I will beat you to death, you disobedient and unfilial thing. What do you remember? You only remember grudges and not kindness. I will beat you to death, you ungrateful wolf!"

Cheng Yueyun was so angry that she looked around for something handy, but couldn't find anything after searching for a long time. Finally, she took off her shoes and chased after him to beat him.

Xia Qingqing and Shen Qiubai watched the show outside for a long time. When the mother and daughter were tired, they went in and pretended they knew nothing.

Shen Qiubai has already handed over his work and is free these two days.

"Let's have breakfast first, and then go visit Chenghuang Temple and the Bund." Xia Qingqing said with a smile.

"Okay, you guys make the arrangements."

Both mother and daughter had no objections. They had been to Shanghai before but had never gone shopping. Today they planned to take a good look around.

The soup dumplings, crab roe dumplings and steamed dumplings for breakfast are all Shanghai specialties.

"This siu mai is actually glutinous rice wrapped in dough. It's the first time I've eaten it, and it tastes weird."

Shen Qiuyan was not used to eating steamed dumplings. She preferred steamed dumplings with meat filling. She also could not get used to salty soy milk. However, she liked crab roe buns and soup dumplings, as well as pan-fried steamed buns. They were all to her taste.

Cheng Yueyun's taste is the same as hers, and both mother and daughter like to eat the same things.

"Mom, eat this pot sticker, it's delicious."

Shen Qiuyan picked up a pot sticker and put it on Cheng Yueyun's plate, speaking very naturally.

"Yes, fragrant!"

Cheng Yueyun also naturally picked it up, took a bite, and praised it.

The tension between mother and daughter was completely gone, and they became as close as real mother and daughter again.

Xia Qingqing was a little confused. She was thinking about mediating it, but she didn't expect that it would be fine on its own without any preparation.

Shen Qiubai raised his eyebrows at her and picked up a steamed bun for her.

He had long been accustomed to it. His mother and elder sister were even more bizarre than the infatuated man and the resentful woman. When they quarreled, they were life-and-death, but when they were in good terms, they were very sweet to each other. The mother-daughter relationship could still stand the test.

The mother and daughter were eating breakfast together, their heads touching. They were also exchanging their favorite flavors. Xia Qingqing leaned close to Shen Qiubai's ear and asked, "I'm curious, who ate that egg?"

"My second brother, he didn't dare to speak out, for fear of being beaten to death."

Shen Qiubai answered while holding back his laughter.

If his second brother told this, his mother and eldest sister would definitely beat him together, so everyone in the family knew about it, except his mother and eldest sister.

Xia Qingqing's mouth twitched. What a loving family.

After breakfast, they went to the Bund, City God Temple, and Yu Garden and took a lot of photos. After a day of strolling, Cheng Yueyun and Shen Qiuyan were tired and went home to rest.

The Bund in the 1980s

Yu Garden in the 1980s

The next day, Shen Qiubai went to pick up his father and accompanied him to visit old friends, while Xia Qingqing accompanied her mother-in-law and elder sister-in-law to continue shopping.

"My hair has grown long, Qingqing. I want to get a haircut."

Shen Qiuyan wanted to go to the barber shop to get a haircut as she was about to attend her brother's wedding banquet and needed to take care of her hair.

"I need to cut it too, make it shorter."

Cheng Yueyun also wanted to cut her hair as it had grown too long.

She combed her hair in front of the mirror and sighed, "I have more gray hair."

Xia Qingqing thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Why don't you get a perm? Auntie can dye it black."

"it's not good."

Both mother and daughter hesitated. They had never permed their hair and had always kept their style simple and short, which they had maintained for decades.

They couldn't accept the sudden change of style.

But I feel a little bit of anticipation in my heart.

When I was shopping yesterday, I saw a lot of fashionably dressed women on the street. They had wavy curls and wore beautiful clothes. They were dressed so stylishly and beautifully, and I was a little moved.

"Why not? Perming your hair is very common nowadays. If you get a nice perm and wear some pretty clothes, you can go to the wedding banquet looking pretty and you will definitely be the most beautiful person in the whole place!"

The mother and daughter were so excited by what Xia Qingqing said that they were dragged to the barber shop. The shop was very big, with two rows of women getting their hair permed, which made the mother and daughter very curious.

This is a hair salon that has been around for 80 years. They don't use irons to perm your hair.

"Use the best potion to dye my mother black, and then give them a suitable hairstyle."

Xia Qingqing made a request. Nowadays, barbershops are all state-owned, the technology is quite good, and they will not sell inferior products as good ones.

It was the first time for Cheng Yueyun and her daughter to perm their hair. Everything was new to them and they didn’t understand anything, so they just let Xia Qingqing arrange everything for them.

Two customers had just had their hair permed, leaving vacant seats, so the mother and daughter were seated there. Xia Qingqing sat beside them reading a newspaper. A perm would take several hours.