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At noon the next day, the whole family sat in the yard to eat.

Liu Xia and Mao'er each brought a large bowl of dumplings and sat on the swing to eat them. The mountain breeze blew across their cheeks with a slight sense of autumn. Liu Xia was so comfortable that he almost wanted to write a poem to express his good mood.

However, after he yelled an "Ah——" in a loud voice, he was exhausted, and then he said to the cat: "Dumplings are really the most delicious food in the world."

It may be because he used Mandarin along with the tone of the aria, so a certain individual was misunderstood.

The cat said appreciatively, "Uncle, your poem is actually quite beautiful, but it's a bit too short."

Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, Liu Wei and Liu Rui next to each other looked at each other and felt a little toothache.

Liu Xia didn't feel embarrassed at all, and said to Mao'er seriously: "Uncle, this belongs to the realist school, and also has the characteristics of the minimalist school."

Liu Wei couldn't take it anymore, and said to Liu Xia: "Uncle, I really didn't know you were so thick-skinned before."

Liu Xia nodded: "That's mainly because you haven't met Mao Jianyong. Once you meet him, you'll know what kind of gentleman your uncle and I are."

Liu Chuan looked at Liu Xia, twisted his butt half a circle on the tree bump, expressing his intention to stay away from Liu Xia.

Liu Xia raised his eyebrows at him triumphantly, and stuffed a dumpling into his mouth.

There are two staple foods at home at noon today: noodles and dumplings.The dumpling stuffing left over from yesterday is enough for three or four adults, and if there is not enough, we eat lo noodles.

Liu Xia loved to eat dumplings since he was a child. He once claimed that even grass, as long as it was made into dumplings, he would find it delicious, so the family didn't even have to think about it, and he would eat the dumplings first.

Mao'er's hobbies are always the same as Liu Xia's, so Mao'er also eats dumplings.

Then there is Liu Chuan, he has been in the army for so many years, and it is the southern border. The meals of the troops are basically in line with the folk customs of the station. People there hardly eat dumplings, so Liu Chuan couldn't eat dumplings in those years. He is now He likes dumplings as much as Liu Xia.

Liu Yun and Liu Lei, the two little guys, every time Liu Chuan came back, it took them a while to get intimate with him, but it might be due to the nature of father and son's affection. He likes to be dependent very much, no matter what Liu Chuan does, the two of them must follow suit before giving up, and the food is the same.

Now, the two little guys just moved a small bench by themselves, and sat obediently in front of Liu Chuan, digging up the dumplings with a small spoon and eating them with difficulty but with great interest, their faces were covered with dumpling stuffing.

Seeing that they finished eating the one in Xiaoou, Liu Chuan gave them another one from his own bowl.

The cat ate half of the bowl, and saw that there was not much left in Liu Xia's bowl, so he got off his lap, put the bowl on the ground, and ran away.

After a while, he came back carefully carrying a medium-sized aluminum basin, and Xiumei followed him, holding two large plates full of dumplings.

Mao'er walked up to Liu Xia: "Uncle, come, dumpling soup."

The dumplings in Liu Xia's bowl were just finished, so Mao'er put half a bowl of dumpling soup in for him, and Xiumei put two plates of dumplings on the tree bumps: "There are only so many left, it's not enough, so let's just make up for it today." Let’s eat some more noodles, and I’ll wrap it up for you tomorrow if I want to eat.”

Liu Chuan said: "That's enough, sister-in-law. If you return the bag tomorrow, make less stuffing, and it will be enough for Yao'er and Maoer to eat. I will eat noodles tomorrow."

Mao'er came over, Liu Chuan stretched out his bowl, Mao'er filled his bowl with dumpling soup, Liu Yun and Liu Lei immediately stood up, and their little heads lay on the edge of the bowl to drink the soup together.

The original soup turns into the original food. When the locals eat dumplings, they don’t have the habit of making another soup. They always drink the noodle soup of boiled dumplings.

The cat took the basin again and poured some noodle soup into the bowl of Liu Rui who was eating noodles, and then took the bowl again and sat on Liu Xia's lap dangling to eat.

Liu Changchun said: "Yaoer, if you want to use something small, as long as I can make it, just tell me."

The cat suddenly remembered, and said: "Grandpa, please make me a steamed bun basket. My uncle and I have no place to put the steamed buns we bought. We put them on a plate, and there is only water next to the plate; There is a vegetable basket, and the vegetable basket should be bigger, every time I buy vegetables, there is no place to put them, they are all placed on the floor, which is not good."

Liu Changchun nodded: "Middle boy, how about weaving a wicker basket? The wicker basket is strong and beautiful. I'll make one for you now, and I'll make another one for you next spring. The wicker is soft in spring, so it's good to weave it out." "

The cat said, "Come on, make something beautiful for me, grandpa."

Liu Changchun said: "Grandpa must be able to do a lot of things and do a lot of things, and I will make you the best boy."

Liu Xia twitched his legs and said to Mao'er: "Little butler, ah, that's not right, it's the little butler old man."

Mao'er twisted her buttocks beautifully: "That's right, who can do anything? If I don't care about you, you'll spend money recklessly, our penny... Uncle?"

Following Liu Xia's suddenly dazed gaze, Mao'er turned his head to look, and saw Liu Mao and Liu Changxing walking up the slope.

Mao'er turned to look at Liu Xia, Liu Xia had already withdrawn his gaze, and opened his eyes wide at Mao'er's puckered mouth, expressing his surprise at Liu Mao's sudden return, and then picked up Mao'er with one arm and put it down: "I'll come over to say hello to your Grandpa Changxing, wait for me, boy."

Mao'er nodded, and Liu Xia walked over with the bowl in hand.

The cat unconsciously fiddled with the dumplings in the bowl, looked at the mountain peaks in the southwest, her face puffed up, and that person came back every time when the family was the most lively and happy, not beautiful at all.

After Liu Mao quietly called his older elders and peers next to him, Chang'e Sun and Xiumei dragged him to the main room: "You haven't eaten yet, let's go and see how hot you are, go back to the room Wash your face here, I still have the scorpion, I'll make some noodles for you and your Uncle Changxing."

Su Xiaohui greeted Liu Changxing and wanted to enter the house with Xiumei to help cook, but was stopped by Sun Yufang: "Sister-in-law, you can eat, there are only two bowls of noodles, and there are dried noodles. I'll go to light the fire. Sister-in-law will serve some noodles. I hit it."

Liu Yun also yelled at Su Xiaohui: "Mom, I'll eat the tiao."

Su Xiaohui didn't insist anymore, Liu Chuan definitely wanted to have a few words with Liu Changxing, so she came over to watch the two little guys continue to eat.

Liu Changxing only gave Sun Chang'e a special product brought to him by a colleague from out of town—a pack of bean curds, but he refused to enter the house: "Don't be my meal, sister-in-law Qi, I have to go home quickly, or My grandpa and uncle should be in a hurry, so I just put it in the yard and said a few words to my seventh brother, starling and my nephew, and then left."

Liu Xia and Liu Changxing greeted each other, said a few words, then sat back on the swing, and then called to the somewhat wilted cat: "Come here, baby, let's swing around and eat dumplings, let's go down."

Mao'er's mood improved immediately, Liu Xia poured his leftover dumplings into his bowl, put his bowl aside, grabbed the rope, and said to Mao'er, "Come up."

Mao'er raised his leg and sat on Liu Xia's lap facing Liu Xia's face. Before he could sit still, Liu Xia started to swing on the swing.

The cat yelled "Ah", and quickly wrapped its legs around Liu Xia's waist, otherwise he would throw the bowl and lie on his back.

Liu Xia succeeds in playing a prank, laughing and swinging the swing higher and higher.

Mao'er stuffed a dumpling into his mouth while he was laughing, Liu Xia fell silent for a moment, and Mao'er laughed happily: "I'm calling you, I'm telling you to coax me on purpose."

Liu Xia was playing around with the cat here, while a few adults were talking over there.

Liu Changxing first expressed his gratitude and uneasiness to Liu Chuan for taking care of Yong Bin in Rongze, and finally said to Liu Chuan: "Although they are all in the same village, it's not like going to your place once in a while, you invite them It's not very exciting to go to restaurants, but they will let Rongze go to school for several years, and no one can afford it after a long time.

Chuan'er, with you in Rongze, if something happens to them, someone they know will help them. This is much better than others. In the future, don't buy anything for them in normal life. I have discussed it with Erping and I. If you do this, we will ask Yongbin and Xiaoqiang to return to Wangning to go to school. I can’t say that you helped arrange the school for the children. I will rely on you up. "

Liu Chuan said with a smile: "No, Uncle, just those two times, my unit happened to eat sesame seed sandwiches and steamed buns, and I thought it was easy to take, so I bought two more and called Xiaorui to give to a few children, so that they all tasted it." Taste, I don’t usually buy anything for the children, now I go to Yuancheng for further study, and I come back once a week, and I don’t have time to take care of them.”

Liu Chuan didn't want to say more about this matter. He never thought of deliberately keeping this matter from Su Xiaohui, but he didn't specifically tell her about it either.

It makes sense for Liu Chuan to take care of his own nephew and his distant nephew. After all, Guan Qiang and Hua Yun are only from the same village, and he and Su Xiaohui are not very rich. If he has to spend money to take care of everyone in a village, no matter how reasonable Su Xiaohui is It is estimated that there is no way to accept it.

Liu Changxing is a delicate person. As soon as he said something, he realized that he might have said something wrong, so he immediately changed the subject and talked about their mine affairs.

Luogezhuang Coal Mine has been clamoring for reform recently, completely eradicating the big pot, and implementing competitive employment optimization combination. Liu Changxing said that he and Guan Erping are almost running the job. Compete for a captain.

Liu Changqing nodded and said: "That's the way it should be, if you don't get lazy and play tricks, you get the same salary as if you worked hard and worked hard. After a long time, everyone wants to be lazy and play tricks.

You and Erping are right, we don’t want to bully anyone, but we can’t always be controlled by others, and we have to listen to what others say is wrong, and we have to follow suit. , both of you are not cowards, you should try your best to earn money. "

Among the great-grandchildren of the third grandfather, Liu Changxing was not the eldest, but when Liu Changqing had a contract job to discuss with the third grandfather, the third grandfather pointed it out to Liu Changxing. This was definitely not just because Liu Changxing had gone to high school.

Facts have proved that the old man is very accurate in judging people. Liu Changxing has used his meager salary to take care of a large family for so many years, instead of just caring about his small family, but his advantages are not only this, the third grandpa It is because he has spotted some qualities in Liu Changxing that are very similar to Liu Changqing.

And Guan Erping's father, Guan Maitun, also has the same vision as the Liu family's grandpa when it comes to seeing through people's hearts.

Liu Changxing said: "Seventh brother, I just want to hear a word from you. Neither Erping nor I dare to tell others about this thought, for fear that people will say that I don't know the heights of heaven and earth as a contract worker."

Liu Changqing said: "Why do they say you? Don't say that you are a regular worker in the mine. There are three or five generations of people in China. How many grandparents are not farmers?

People living in the city and living in the countryside, it’s just that the country’s special situation in the past few years after liberation, there is no way to implement such a policy, get a household registration, and restrict people so that they can’t move, so they just divide people into three or six. Nine waited.

Basically, they are all human beings, who is more noble than whom, and how inferior is who?

Work hard Changxing, in this day and age, a capable, down-to-earth, peaceful and upright person, no matter where he puts it, he will be able to make a good appearance sooner or later. "

Liu Changxing said: "I know." He hesitated for a moment, looked at the main room, and then continued: "We Liu Mao are not useless, we can write and count, but it's his daughter-in-law..., oh..."

Liu Yu couldn't help but ask: "Is that embarrassing person messing around again?"

Liu Changxing nodded: "The former son scolded Liu Mao and his deputy stationmaster's daughter-in-law for a long time, because Dengke knocked his leg while playing with other people's children. I saw it when I went to Liu Mao's today, so I will The fingernail was a big piece, and the skin was scratched, so she scolded other children, saying that she had long seen that he was not a good thing when he was young, and cursed that he would die sooner or later. She was only a little over two years old, and she scolded other people's children. Would the mother be willing to hear it?

In the end, they began to scold each other. There were so many people around to watch the fun, but no one commented on her being reasonable. She might feel that everyone on the station was looking at her. It was a joke. , She just yelled at us Liu Mao, still the same old way, saying that she was bullied because of Liu Mao's incompetence, saying that everyone in the station bullied her.

Erping and I felt that Liu Mao's life was difficult, and we would go to sit for a while from time to time, wanting to talk to him.

But every time I go, Liu Dongju starts to tell me a lot of things about old sesame seeds and rotten millet. It's all about our family. Why does she worry about this family? If I didn't know what she was like, just based on her mouth, I would definitely think that after she married Liu Mao, people in our family were mean to her, and Liu Mao abused her every day.

Even when Liu Mao hugged Nana after work, she would have a fight with Liu Mao if she didn't hug Nana first when she got off work, and it turned out that our family was cowarding Liu Mao, deliberately making him despise admission, in order to make us... ..." Liu Changxing looked at the big oak tree, and lowered his voice a little: "I want our cat to take over Liu Maoli's shift in the future and eat commercial food.

Well, she hasn't stopped for a day. I told Erping and I more than once, but I just can't figure it out. She is not ugly, and she went to high school. She should be educated and reasonable, right?Why did she... oh, really... I really can't say, I'm a big man, I really don't want to talk about a woman's size, but it's time to optimize the combination soon, and she went to make trouble again, calling us Liu Mao What are you doing? "

Liu Wei was angry while listening, and scolded angrily: "This turtle is a granddaughter, and she has also been a teacher, why can't she make sense of it?

It's fine if she doesn't care about my second uncle. We have so many children in our family. I don't need her to take care of them. I support my second uncle. It counts if she treats my second uncle well. Now she still hurts my second uncle like this all day long. It's too messy Lamb? "

Liu Wei said to Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun: "My lord, tell my second uncle to divorce her. Is it right? We don't want this kind of scumbag woman."

Except for the chirping of birds and the sound of Liu Yun and Liu Lei's small spoons touching the small Ou, the yard was suddenly quiet.