Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Qiu Luming looked at the hand that was about to twist his ear and shouted, "Qiu Dabao is here!"

"Stop fooling me!" He Manshu twisted Qiu Luming's ears twice before giving up.

Qiu Luming rubbed his ears, feeling extremely annoyed. Although it didn't hurt, that scene was too scary!

Having a mother who is a teacher is actually quite painful. The occupational diseases of teachers are not only pharyngitis and qi deficiency, but also the habit of pulling people's ears and throwing chalk ends. Take Teacher He for example, her "shooting skills" are very accurate. She has been shooting for 30 years and has become a sharpshooter who can hit whatever she points at. At home, if there is no chalk ends, she will just throw the chopped onions, garlic, and radish heads on hand to attack her family. The feeling of being targeted all the time is comparable to the white terror!

"Grandma!" The next second, Dabao's voice came over. He Manshu screamed and rushed to Pianxia, ​​"My baby is really back!"

As soon as she opened the kitchen door, Qiu Jiye, Qiu Huaixin and Qiu Dabao, three generations of the family, came in from the side building. Dabao threw himself into He Manshu's arms, "Grandma, I missed you so much!" She had clearly come back last night to have a free meal, but now she acted as if she hadn't seen him for days.

"Hey, grandma misses Dabao too!" He Manshu's mood improved visibly, and her voice was so sweet that it gave people goose bumps. "Dabao, are you hungry? Grandma will give you some radish meatballs?"

Alert lifted.

Qiu Jiye and Qiu Huaixin did not go into the house immediately. They both used brooms to sweep the snow off their leather shoes and stamped their feet.

Qiu Huaixin said, "The hospitalized patient was taken away by his relatives, so I left work early."

"Then we can have a peaceful New Year!" Liu Xiaomei asked again, "Is it snowing outside?"

"It rained a little, but not much."

Liu Xiaomei took the coats, hat and gloves from her father-in-law and husband and hung them on the hanger in the living room. She saw Qiu Jiashu sitting by the window with a sad face, and shook her head at him implicitly, signaling him not to ruin the atmosphere of the family reunion dinner.

In the kitchen, Qiu Huaixin smiled and patted his younger brother on the shoulder, "The third brother seems to have grown taller again!"

"I've grown another 180.5 centimeters. I'm centimeters now!"

Liu Xiaomei came out of the living room and said with a smile, "Five points! Calculating points and money may not be as accurate as calculating height!"

"Of course, the first thing we look at when we see a man is his height. Look at Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok. Aaron Kwok is obviously more handsome and dances better, but he is not tall enough. Overall, he cannot compare to Leon Lai! Oh! If a man is not taller than 1.8 meters, he is a second-class cripple!" Qiu Moshi said, and suddenly took a step back, "Hey, brother! I'm not talking about you!"

Qiu Huaixin said seriously, "Height does not represent ability. Lenin, Khrushchev, and Napoleon were all short. Cao Cao was not tall either. The height of wisdom is the true height of a man!"

"But brother, why do you give so many examples of short people? You are only 1.78 meters tall, and you are not short!" Qiu Luming blinked and asked in confusion.

Liu Xiaomei laughed out loud, "Our father is 1.82 meters tall, your second brother is 1.85 meters tall, and now your third brother is over 1.8 meters tall, so he is the only one left. How can he not feel resentful?"

"But big brother has long legs, he looks like 1.85 meters tall!"

"That's what your elder brother would love to hear."

"So what do you mind?"

Qiu Moshi said, "Silly girl, men's concern for height is the same as girls' concern for whether their skin is white or whether their eyes have double eyelids!"

"But I don't mind my skin color or my double eyelids!"

"That's because you are naturally fair-skinned and have double eyelids! It's really easy to talk without any pain in your waist!"

"I say this even when I'm sitting here! A person's appearance is just a shell. The most important thing is to have a beautiful and noble soul!"

"Well said! My daughter has grown up and has her own opinions!" Qiu Jiye cheered loudly in the living room.

Qiu Moshi wanted to argue for a few more sentences, but when he heard his father's voice, he immediately stopped talking and bowed to Qiu Luming, "Lady, you win!"

Qiu Luming was praised by his father and felt very proud for three seconds.

Then I heard my father calling, "Third brother, come here!" I thought that the father and son had not seen each other for a long time and it was time for them to test each other.

"Hey!" Qiu Moshi quickly agreed and went into the south bedroom.

Qiu Jiashu came out of the living room, without looking at anyone, and went straight into Qiu Luming's small bedroom. He threw himself on the kang and covered himself and even his head with Qiu Luming's big down jacket.

Liu Xiaomei quickly closed the door and winked at Qiu Huaixin. The couple tacitly kept silent and quickly started preparing the New Year's Eve dinner.

At four o'clock, the Qiu family's dining table was crowded with plates piled up, displaying sixteen delicious dishes full of color, aroma and taste and full of auspicious meanings.

The third brother took Dabao out to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and then the New Year’s Eve dinner began.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was quite harmonious and full of laughter. Teacher He rarely talked about life principles or the international situation. Instead, he happily played a piece on the accordion.

Qiu Jiashu is a policeman after all. He managed his expression well and even told his family a joke with a smile, "Didn't Youyou and I go to Harbin last year? The teachers' family building of our police academy is just outside the playground. That day, our training team was having a military physical education class on the playground. The team leader's five-year-old son ran to the playground to play and gestured to us. After a while, he felt it was boring, so he suddenly turned around, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted to the family building outside the wall: Mom! Are you done?"

Hahahaha!

Everyone burst into laughter. Liu Xiaomei almost spit out the fruit wine in her mouth and started to cough. Qiu Luming patted her back and rolled his eyes at Qiu Jiashu, "It's New Year's Day, second brother, you are so disgusting!"

"This bad boy is deliberately not letting us eat!" He Manshu laughed as she picked up a red peanut from her plate. Without moving her wrist, she flicked her middle finger and the peanut flew towards Qiu Jiashu's forehead.

Qiu Jiashu quickly leaned back, opened his mouth to catch the peanuts, and chewed them with a smile, "Thank you, Mom!"

Sister-in-law Liu Xiaomei seemed particularly happy today. She drank some fruit wine and smiled with her eyes narrowed. Encouraged by Qiu Huaixin, she also sang a Cantonese song "Shanghai Beach" following the accompaniment tape. "The waves are running, the waves are flowing..." As soon as the first sentence came out, the whole family was shocked: This is too similar! Sister-in-law not only has a voice very similar to Ye Liyi, but also has extremely standard Cantonese pronunciation. If the microphone at home can be more professional, the effect will be even better!

Qiu Moshi pretended to take out a notebook from his pocket and stretched out his hand to his sister-in-law across the table, "Comrade Liu Liyi! Please sign for me!"

Liu Xiaomei smiled and rolled her eyes at him, "Go!"

Qiu Luming's eyes lit up, "Sister-in-law, you are amazing! You can even speak Cantonese!"

Qiu Huaixin smiled and explained, "During the Lantern Festival, your sister-in-law's city bank had a big party, and she was selected to represent the county bank to attend, and she was performing this show. Your sister-in-law has some talent for languages, and she secretly practiced at home for a week, picking out every note and word, and she managed to break all the buttons on my recorder, and she also mastered this song."

Qiu Moshi gave a thumbs up, "She is indeed a talented woman worthy of my eldest brother! She can be a lady in the living room, a good cook, a good wife and mother, and respectful to her parents-in-law. She can write, calculate, sing and dance!" After saying that, he glanced at He Manshu, "She is almost as good as my mother!"

"Mo Shi, stop talking! I can't be compared with our mother. Our mother was a university student from a prestigious university in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and I'm just a technical secondary school student. If I hadn't acted early, I would definitely not have been able to marry into such a good family!" The eldest sister-in-law became much bolder after drinking, and even said that she should have acted early.

Everyone laughed. He Manshu patted Liu Xiaomei's hand and said, "Xiaomei's marriage is a blessing to our Qiu family. Although her education is a bit disappointing, it's not because she is not smart enough, but because our teaching quality is not good enough. Now the policy is good, you can receive further education and don't leave regrets in your life. I heard that someone in the Rural Credit Cooperative has signed up for Ha Jinzhuan's correspondence course. Xiaomei, you can also sign up. Mom will pay your tuition and help you take care of your children. In short, as long as you study and strive to make progress, Mom will support you!"

"Mom!" Liu Xiaomei called out "Mom" over and over again. Tears were falling from her eyes. She hugged He Manshu's arms and put her head on her shoulders. "Mom, you are so good! You are so good! You are closer to me than my own mother!"

He Manshu laughed and patted her daughter-in-law's face. "This silly child, you worked hard all day to cook a large table of dishes, but you didn't eat much and got drunk first." After saying that, she turned to look at Qiu Luming, "Yoyo, remember this, if you dare to tell your old lady that she is better than me in the future, I will not recognize you!"

After hearing this, Liu Xiaomei still leaned on He Manshu's shoulder and giggled.

Qiu Luming's answer was firm, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! There is no one better than my mother in this world!"

"You're so talkative! I'd be very lucky if you didn't get angry." He Manshu glanced at her second son who seemed a little absent-minded, paused for a few seconds, and finally said, "It's almost six o'clock. Jiashu, go and take the food left in the kitchen to Xiao Zhou. No matter what, a girl who is away from home during the New Year's Day must have a hot meal."

Qiu Jiashu stood up suddenly, "Hey!"

Then he went into the kitchen with a smile on his face, opened the stew pot, saw the four dishes that had been prepared in advance, and hurriedly found all four lunch boxes in the house and quickly put the dishes in.

He Manshu said to her husband bitterly, "I have raised him for twenty-five years, and today is the day he has been the most obedient!"

Qiu Jiye laughed, "Go ahead, Jiashu. If it's not Chinese New Year, even if she's an ordinary classmate, you should invite her to your home for a meal. But in Jiayang, bringing a girl back for Chinese New Year means we're going to get engaged, but her parents are so vehemently against it, so your mom and I decided that we still can't invite her to our home for New Year's Eve. Remember to explain to Xiao Zhou that we welcome her to come to Jiayang again if she has the chance."

"Okay, Dad!" Qiu Jiashu had already filled four lunch boxes. He scooped a shovel of rice from the stew pot, put it on top of the vegetables, pressed it down, covered it with a lid, and also brought two pairs of chopsticks.

Qiu Luming stood at the door of the living room, looking at the unconcealed joy on his second brother's face, and felt a little sour and painful in his heart. The thoughts in his mind blurted out, "She is definitely not worthy of my second brother!"

Qiu Jiashu looked back at her and said without getting angry, "Little girl, you know nothing!"

The four lunch boxes were stacked two by two and put in a red net bag. Qiu Jiashu also found an old cotton jacket and wrapped the four lunch boxes.

——The speed is so fast.

"The police don't respond so quickly, right?" Qiu Luming asked, wrinkling his nose. "Shall I go with you?"

"no!"

Five or six voices rang out at the same time, startling Qiu Luming. "What are you doing?"

Qiu Moshi pulled her back and sat down. "My parents said no because they were worried that you would catch a cold if you went out at night. My second brother was afraid that you would offend others with your words. As for me, the simplest thing is that I just think it's time for you to perform!"