all the way

Monday, August 26st.

It rained again the night before yesterday, and the weather was much cooler. Lying on the ground to sleep at night, the temperature is just right, and I won’t be woken up by the heat again. But the cat was a little excited, and woke up a little after four o’clock.

The windows on both sides were open, and there was a dim light in the room.

Mao'er looked at Liu Xia, who was still in a deep sleep. He turned sideways, looked at Liu Xia's face for a while, raised his right hand, and traced Liu Xia's outline in the air from a distance of two centimeters:

Left eyebrow, right eyebrow, two eyebrows are exactly the same;

Right eye, left eye, oh, my uncle's eyes are bent down when he is asleep, they are so beautiful, just as beautiful as when he was awake;

Nose, the nose is so high, hey, it can still move;

The mouth, the mouth is always closed so tightly when sleeping, huh?Why does this seem a little rough?Is it still a little angry, cooking porridge today...

"Smelly cat, you're getting angry before dawn!"

Mao'er's little finger was caught suddenly, Liu Xia smiled and opened his eyes: "I don't know if my uncle dozed off until midnight last night, he was going to die?"

Mao'er rolled over and climbed onto Liu Xia's body, with his head resting on his chin: "You lied, you lied, you woke up a long time ago and pretended to be asleep, I never touched you."

Liu Xia lifted him up, and rubbed his forehead against his forehead for a while: "I didn't touch it, I didn't touch it, I can feel it even if I didn't touch it, the sixth sense, you know? Intuition."

Mao'er lightly tapped Liu Xia's forehead with his own forehead: "It's a lie, you're just pretending to be asleep, so who can feel it at such a distance? You can worry about me because I'm going to report on the first day, I didn't fall asleep."

Liu Xia pressed his little head and lay on his neck: "Baby cat, you also know that it's the first time you come to a new place and my uncle is worried, so you must study hard after you arrive at school. You are smarter than others." A few years younger, try not to cause trouble.

This is not our house, not Wangning. There are many small local ruffians and rascals here, and there are also small hooligans. We can't learn from them, we have to learn from the good ones.

At the beginning, you will definitely not have any friends, so you should play with brother Rui first, and as you get familiar with it, you will have your own good friends.

At the beginning of the semester, I guess you may rank relatively low in the exam. It doesn't matter, my uncle will not be angry because of this, you are so smart, as long as you work hard, you will definitely catch up slowly.

Remember, the most important thing is to listen carefully in class. If you don’t understand, write it down in the book first. Ask the teacher after class or ask your uncle when you come back.

If someone thinks that we are old-fashioned and look down on us, or some teachers look down on you because you came from Wangning, ignore them, don't take them seriously, uncle and your sixth uncle came here like this at the beginning, now, uncle and Uncle Six is ​​better than them, isn't he?

As long as you study hard, one day you will live a better life than those who look down on you now. "

Cat Cengceng: "I know, I won't bother with them.

When Brother Xiaorui and I first went to Wangning, some people looked down on us. Later they found out about you, third uncle, fifth uncle, and sixth uncle. They knew that there are so many college students in our family, and third uncle is still working as a policeman in Rongze , eat commercial food, no one dares to look down on us anymore.

Uncle, I will definitely study hard, and I will be admitted to a good university, and I will earn as much money as I can for you, so that you don't have to go out to work anymore, and you can enjoy yourself at home every day! "

Liu Xia kissed him hard on the forehead: "It's my uncle's good cat, come on, get up, let's go out for a run first, and report for duty when we come back for dinner. Your third uncle will definitely take your little one with you." Brother Rui left early."

Sure enough, when Liu Xia and Mao'er arrived at the school at 07:30, Liu Chuan and Liu Rui were already standing in the shade of a tree waiting for them.

Mao'er and Liu Rui ran towards each other from a long distance, and then they ran back to Liu Chuan laughing and laughing.

Liu Rui jumped up and down a few times excitedly, and said to the cat: "Sneakers are really fun to run in. Brother Xiaowei can also see it, but he doesn't want to wear them, so he put them away. I didn't I’m willing, but my third uncle said that my uncle bought it for us to wear when school starts, if I don’t wear it, my uncle still thinks that I don’t want to see it, so I will put it on.”

The cat also jumped a few times lightly: "Yes, I can wait to see you."

Liu Rui touched the white base, the collar and cuffs of the cat wearing a round-neck short-sleeved sports jacket with sky blue circles: "You look beautiful in this, too, but you look good-looking and foreign-looking, if I didn't know you , I must have taken you as a kid from the city, hehe, but your face is a little dark."

Mao'er looked at his clothes, it was a set with sky blue shorts underneath, and he was indeed very nicely dressed, but he squinted at Liu Xia who had just walked over with his eyes: "It's so expensive, we My uncle didn’t buy it, so he didn’t listen to what I said, so he just asked the waiter to put it on, and he put on two sets at once, and there were two long-sleeved sets.

I got angry and ignored him and ran out, so he pulled it down, or else he wanted to buy me another autumn coat like that inside.

Brother Rui, why do you think our uncle is so big-handed?He earns money every day by going out to work and suffering, why doesn't he know what a pity it is? "

Liu Rui looked at Liu Xia, who made a little grimace at him, and glanced at Mao'er.

Liu Rui returned him the same grimace to express that he understood his hint, and then said to the angry cat: "We are in the countryside, and we come to the city to go to school. Isn't our uncle always afraid that others will look down on you and want to call you Wear it better!

Don't be angry, my uncle spends so much money to make you happy. If you are unhappy, the money is not wasted, uncle. He loves you so much all day long. If you are unhappy, our uncle should be unhappy too. "

Mao'er looked back at Liu Xia, who looked at him with innocent and lonely eyes.

The cat immediately ran over and hugged his waist: "I'll wait to see you buy me some clothes, because I always feel sorry for our money, I have so many clothes this time, don't waste money like that again in the future ah!"

Liu Xia immediately admitted his mistake: "Uncle, if you spend money recklessly in the future, you will ignore me for a week, have you won the prize?"

Liu Chuan laughed when he saw it: "Yaoer, you buy a few pairs of jeans and t-shirts once, and I said you spend a lot of money and you still talk to me, this time you admit it? Cat, take care of you from now on." Uncle, if he spends money like this, he will not even think about saving his wife in 800 years."

Mao'er nodded heavily at him: "After he agrees, he will give me all the salary and bonus as soon as he is paid, and I will save them all. He will not want to spend them indiscriminately in the future."

Liu Xia spread out his hands towards Liu Chuan, Mao'er raised his small face at him and let out a "hum", proudly went to play with Liu Rui again.

Liu Xia also continued to talk to Liu Chuan.

Because of the rain, Liu Chuan and Su Xiaohui couldn't go home yesterday, and he felt particularly uneasy, because he was going to report to the Yuancheng Police Academy on NO. He didn't have time to go back at all, but it was a good thing to go to the police academy to study such a big thing. His family didn't know about it, so he felt very regretful.

He said to Liu Xia: "I heard from Zhang Xiaotian that the police academy recruits students from the whole province, and students don't go home on Sundays, so sometimes there are classes on Sundays. If I can't come back next week, you can go back as much as possible." Let’s go, tell my family about me, I want to make our uncle, mother and elder brother happy.”

Liu Xia said: "I know, as long as I can, I will definitely find a way to go back.

By the way, third brother, our captain called me up yesterday afternoon and said that the measurement report I submitted in the morning, the team planned to use it to participate in the evaluation of the standard model of the measurement report by the General Administration, praised me a few words, and revealed a bit, Said that my bonus this month will be the same as that of other technicians in the team. It is estimated to be more than 300. I also want to tell my uncle and my mother, so that they don’t always think that I only have dozens of yuan a month after I go to work. , live frugally and refuse to ask for my money.

However, the team leader also said that because the scale of our project itself is relatively small, the geological structure is relatively simple, and the calculation data is relatively simple, the possibility of the report winning is not very high, but he thinks the report I made is the best he has ever seen. The prettiest of specifications. "

Liu Chuan looked at Liu Xia's smug look, and was really happy for him: "As long as your leaders recognize your ability and work attitude, it doesn't matter whether you win or not."

At eight o'clock, the students started queuing up to report, and Liu Chuan led Liu Rui to the gate of class one (1) to queue up to report and pay the fee.

Because Maoer is a transfer student, the only newcomers in the class are him and a boy named Wang Hui. The tuition fees of the other students have already been paid before the holiday of last semester, so the two of them don’t need to line up. Once you pay the tuition, you're done.

Wang Hui and the hydrology team are separated by a national road, and he is also a child of a thermal power plant that has just been established a few years ago. The technical personnel of the power plant are also transferred from all over the country. Wang Hui speaks fluently with a Tianjin accent. Putonghua, with a few words, I became familiar with the cat.

Liu Xia was very happy that Mao'er made new friends on the first day, so that at least he wouldn't have no one to talk to in class.

Mao'er was assigned to class 1 (78), which is considered a key class, because when Liu Chuan transferred Mao'er, except for Chinese, Mao'er scored 95, and all other subjects were above [-], and the math was perfect, even Liu Xia used to have a headache Because of Su Xiaohui's tutoring, Mao'er's grades have always been very good. Last year, his grades never fell below [-] in various exams.

Today is just a report, after paying the money and receiving the book, you can leave.

Liu Xia and Mao'er looked at their schedule together:

6:30-7:20 in the morning, early self-study;

7:20 - 8:00, breakfast;

There are four and a half classes at noon, and school is over at twelve o'clock.

The first class starts at 02:30 in the afternoon, four classes, dinner at 06:30, evening self-study at [-]:[-], and school ends at [-]:[-].

Both Liu Xia and Mao'er were a little bit dissatisfied. They both hated morning and evening self-study. They both thought that the morning and evening should be the warmest family time, and they should spend it with their families.

The same goes for Liu Rui. When he saw the cat, he complained to him very uncomfortable: "Why do you have to go to evening self-study everywhere? Our fifth uncle didn't go to evening self-study, didn't he also get into such a good military academy?" ? I always don’t want to go.”

Liu Chuan and Liu Xia looked at each other helplessly and smiled. What can be done? Almost all students in China are like this. No matter how reluctant they are, they must urge the children to strictly implement the school's work and rest system, otherwise the teacher's eyes will not be enough.

Liu Xia and Yue Desheng have already greeted each other today, and if they don't go to work, Liu Chuan has to go to work, so after leaving school, Liu Xia took Liu Rui and Mao'er back to the hydrology team.

School will start tomorrow, so he doesn't let the cat practice calligraphy and reading, but let the two of them sit on the bed and watch TV, so that the cat can relax for a day.

At noon, he didn't let Mao'er cook. He took Mao'er and Liu Rui out to eat stewed noodles, and ordered a plate of sauced beef for them.

After eating, Liu Rui said: "Uncle, I can hardly walk after eating. Why are stewed noodles and sauced beef so delicious?"

Liu Rui was weak since he was a child, and often vomited due to indigestion. Liu Xia was afraid that he would not be able to digest after eating too much today, so he led the two of them to the shopping mall on purpose. digestion.

It was cloudy and cool today. Liu Xia felt that Liu Rui's food should have almost disappeared, so he led the two of them happily home, but as soon as he entered the gate, he got bad news. Tell Liu Xia: "Yuegong didn't find you just now, let me tell you, you will go to Sandaohe with him tomorrow, and wait for the car of Rongze Mining Bureau at the gate at 06:30, remember, 06:30 [-], don't be late."

Liu Xia didn't expect that on the first day Mao'er went to school, he would go out again, Liu Hai was not there, and Liu Hai would return to the capital in three days, and he wouldn't be here anymore, why is Mao'er alone at home? manage?

The cat can cook, but when he used to cook, Liu Hai basically prepared the previous procedures, and Liu Hai taught him to cook. Now that Liu Hai is away, it takes him nearly half of the cooking time to run home from school at noon. Hours, more than an hour in the middle, he will be very nervous to cook a meal for himself.

There is also a cafeteria in the county, but after Liu Chuan visited the cafeteria, he never let Liu Wei eat at school, and Liu Xia would never let the cat eat there.

Liu Rui also thought of this question, he said: "Uncle, why don't you let the cat go back to have dinner with me at noon, my third aunt..."

"I won't go." The cat interrupted Liu Rui: "I can cook, I can wait to see my family, uncle, even if you don't leave home, I can come back at noon, I won't go to the old city, I want to go home every day."

Liu Xia looked at the cat worriedly: "Boy, what are you doing at home?"

The cat said firmly: "I don't care, anyway, I want to come back every day, and I'm not going anywhere."

Liu Xia was worried all afternoon, and finally ran to Yue Desheng to ask about the situation.

Yue Desheng told him that he really couldn't come back at noon. It would take at least two and a half hours to walk from Rongze to the mountains at the junction of Sandaohe and Linxian.

When Liu Xia was at his wit's end, Liu Chuan came to pick up Liu Rui. As soon as he entered the room, he first took out two stacks of receipts and handed them to Liu Xia: "This is a meal ticket for 30 catties and a vegetable ticket for [-] yuan. I'm going to Yuancheng , if you have fieldwork tasks, the cat will not be able to eat.

I have explained to Master Wang and Xiaojun that I will not stay home, and when Xiaorui and Maoer go to eat, please take care of them. "

Liu Xia rushed forward and hugged Liu Chuan until he lifted his feet off the ground: "Third brother, you really saved my life, haha, lucky people have their own fortune, my cat is blessed; baby, this time Uncle don't worry about it."

The next day, after dinner, Liu Xia drove the cat to the school gate and told him again:

"Put the meal ticket and the money in the schoolbag separately; remember to give you the key, Xiaorui, or you won't be able to go home if you lose this one;

Uncle said it again, you must keep to the right on the road, use the sidewalk, even if there are no cars, you have to wait for the green light before crossing the road, do you hear me?

You see, this slope is so long, and the road below is full of carts that pull soil and bricks, and the speed is very fast. In case of something serious, you have to stop every time, and you can see clearly that there are no cars on both sides. ;

The food at the Public Security Bureau is good, you can eat whatever you like, my uncle didn’t ask you to save me money, my uncle wants you to grow taller and fatter, I will ask Uncle Ma when he comes back, what if he says you only eat vegetarian dishes every day Yes, uncle is angry..."

The cat suddenly jumped up and kissed Liu Xia on the face: "Uncle, go back quickly, you will be late if you don't go, I'm almost ten years old, this is the fifth time you said it, I remember it Living."

Liu Xia slapped him on the back of the head: "You think Uncle is being talkative, don't you? If you weren't so naughty at home, would I worry so much?"

Mao'er waved to him, and ran to the classroom. Liu Xia watched him enter the classroom, and then got on the bike and hurried back.

As soon as he put his bicycle in the shed, the car from the Mining Bureau came.

This time they were invited by Rongze County Mining Bureau to assist them in a geological exploration in Sandaohe,

The Rongze County Mining Bureau has not been established for a few years, and the internal organization seems to be very complete, but in fact there are very few professionals. lacking,

The normal work of the Bureau of Mines is basically administrative. When encountering the need for real exploration and development of mineral deposits like this time, they can only turn to professional geological exploration agencies.

Yue Desheng gave Liu Xia and the others a working time of 06:30 in the morning and 05:30 in the afternoon, and they would leave when they reached a certain point. In this way, they should return to Rongze around [-]:[-] in the evening.

After listening to Yue Desheng's arrangement, Liu Xia felt scratched and uncomfortable. He took the cat to the city just to make up for the regrets of the past so many years, and to let the cat live by his side with peace of mind. Now it's good, they open their eyes every day They had to separate, and it was time to go to bed when they met, so why did he bring the cat here, so that the cat would guard an empty house every day and wait for him to come home?

However, Liu Xia didn't show his distress at all. He knew very well that this was his job. An old engineer and leader like Yue Desheng did the same thing with him every day. What right do you have to complain?

The field environment this time is a mountainous area similar to Liujialing. The advantage compared to Liujialing is that their work area is only about ten miles away from the road. No, they work in the real wilderness.

According to them, the Bureau of Mines is cooperating with them, but the five people who are actually responsible for entertainment and learning skills are not counted. Their surveying and mapping team is actually composed of ten people. The only technicians are him and Yue Desheng, and the other eight are workers.

After starting homework, Liu Xia quickly felt that compared with the people he and Li Jiyue worked with last time, these people were far behind in terms of initiative and tacit cooperation.

Liu Xia didn't know the internal personnel composition and division of labor in other surveying and mapping units. During his internship, he followed Xie Renjie's surveying and mapping team. There were only about [-] people, and he stayed with him for three months. He thought that the surveying and mapping team's personnel were fixed like that A few people, a few technicians with many skilled workers and a few logistics personnel.

Only now did he know that this was not the case in their team. The technicians were composed of several departments that were relatively fixed, and the workers who worked with them were all temporary.

Workers have independent departments, namely the first, second and third construction teams. After receiving the task, the technical department chooses the construction team to cooperate with.

In the last project of the power plant, they cooperated with eight people led by team leader Zheng Chaoyang. After their project was completed, Zheng Chaoyang and the others were combined and left by other engineering teams. The team leader Zhang Yuanchao led the people.

Zhang Yuanchao was very friendly, always cheerful, and he did whatever he was asked to do, but he was not as comfortable as Zheng Chaoyang and the others.

Zheng Chaoyang took the initiative to direct the workers under his leadership to prepare everything in advance, and would even take the initiative to discuss with Li Jiyue to push forward the progress. All the work they could do should not be done by Li Jiyue and Liu Xia as much as possible, and given to them as much as possible. Make time for them to do the calculations.

Zhang Yuanchao and his men obeyed the orders to work, and they seemed to want to rest as long as they could, but if they were really called to work, they would not resist.

Liu Xia doesn't mind carrying more equipment and doing more errands, but he hopes to maximize his work efficiency, complete the project earlier, and live a life of going home on time every day.

Obviously, to achieve this goal, it is not the best choice to cooperate with Zhang Yuanchao's team.

But Liu Xia still showed enough respect to Zhang Yuanchao and the others. He felt that these people were older than him and rich in experience. In fact, they are all very good people.

Liu Xia thought, the ten fingers are not the same length, he can't ask every collaborator to be the same as Zheng Chaoyang.

At noon, Liu Xia was amazed by Zhang Yuanchao's craftsmanship. Looking at the ordinary noodles mixed with pepper and eggplant, they tasted very good. Zhang Yuanchao also thoughtfully made two kinds of stewed noodles. Stir-fried eggplant with tomatoes, those who don't like spicy food also said it was delicious.

Liu Xia misses Mao'er even more. He doesn't know how the little guy is eating now. Although Liu Chuan is still in Rongze, he will definitely pick up Mao'er and Liu Rui and take care of them for dinner, but Liu Xia just can't rest assured. .

A few people from the Mining Bureau invited them to go out to eat in the town outside when Liu Xia and the others finished work at noon. After being rejected by Yue Desheng, they left by themselves. When it was nearly five o'clock, a person came back. Xiao Dong who entertained them, the driver and the three technicians who followed him did not come back.

Liu Xia and the others finished work for the day at [-]:[-], and when they got into the car on the highway, it was already [-]:[-].

Along the way, the three technicians from the Mining Bureau kept their faces dark and silent. Xiao Dong stayed with Xiao and Liu Xia in embarrassment.

The car stopped at the gate of the hydrographic team, and it happened that several people from the unit were cooling off at the gate, including Wan Jianye. Wan Jianye said to Yue Desheng and Liu Xia: "Yue Gong, Xiao Liu, we will help move the equipment back, you all go home early Well, it's almost nine o'clock."

As soon as Yue Desheng nodded, Liu Xia ran up the stairs three steps at a time, and ran to the door of his house, but found that the window was still dark and the cat hadn't come back.

Liu Xia opened the door a little discouraged. The room was neat and clean, but it was also empty.

Liu Xia stood in the middle of the room and looked around. When the little guy was not at home, every item in the room seemed to be less energetic, and looked so dry and lifeless.

His body was sticky and uncomfortable, but Liu Xia didn't bother to take a shower, dropped his bag, drank a glass of water, and went downstairs again.

Although there is only one day, today is Mao'er's first day of school. He can't wait to see the little guy and ask him how he is doing at school today, is there anyone bullying him, and can he keep up with the rhythm of the teachers here.

Liu Xia rode his bicycle along Zehe Road to the west, and just after passing the intersection of Zehe Road and Xinghua Road that made him particularly worried, he saw a flood of people coming from the west road: After school.

After passing Xinghua Road, the road leading to the county can be regarded as the continuation of Zehe Road to the west, but it is much narrower than Zehe Road, and it is a relatively steep and long uphill road. The south of the road is the original old county party committee compound , the north of the road is a crop field more than one meter higher than the road.

On such a narrow downhill road, several of the students who rode down on their bicycles headed down were slapsticks, and they uttered a sharp cry of "oh ho ho". Road bike flow.

If Liu Xia and the two cyclists beside him were not fast, they would have been knocked over by the falling bicycles.

The woman with crab braids yelled: "I'm in a hurry to go home and grab my filial piety hat. Damn, I'm going to run into you bandits every day after get off work. How wide is the road and how wide do you take? You don't know how to keep to the right?"

Her voice was drowned out by the joyful laughter of the students, and no one had time to look at her.

Liu Xia supported the car and stared at the continuous flow of people, looking for the figure of the cat.

Finally, he saw Mao'er running forward among the crowd like a small fish. The girls in front of him blocked him with their arms around each other's shoulders. Mao'er jumped to a power pole on the side of the road He stretched out his arms and ran forward while maintaining his balance, quickly overtook those girls, jumped into the crowd and continued to run.

"Liu An, good boy, uncle is here." Liu Xia stood on tiptoe and waved at the cat, but he was almost sure that the cat couldn't hear him.

But the cat saw him right away, jumped up and waved at him, and ran towards him yelling.

"Ha, uncle, hahaha, uncle..." Mao'er put his arms around Liu Xia's neck, with his legs wrapped around his waist, laughed and called happily: "I knew you would come to pick me up, I knew You know I miss you, haha, I knew I would see you after school, uncle..."

Liu Xia rubbed his chin against his small face, and put him on the back seat: "Of course my uncle knows, so I will come to pick you up as soon as he comes back, how good you are, do you think you can keep up..."

Mao'er answered Liu Xia's questions in the same way, and then excitedly talked about what he saw Yong Bin, Guan Qiang and Niu Huayun today: "The three of them saw me and didn't speak for a long time, and they said they didn't know me. Yes, they also said, grandparents and grandpa said, if they see me, tell me that they miss me at home, let me go back to see them on Sunday, uncle, will you rest this Sunday? I can I miss home, but I miss grandma and the others."

Liu Xia was also homesick, he never expected that he would go back to Rongze to work, and he would not be able to go home for more than a month: "I don't know, if we take a break, even if we just sit for two hours at home, we will Let's go back, okay?"

The cat nodded excitedly: "Okay, an hour is fine. I'm not afraid of running the mountain road, as long as I can see grandma and uncle. By the way, uncle, let's buy some more sauced beef back? Our family likes to eat it, let's eat it." Buy more."

Liu Xia said: "Okay, buy five catties, or seven catties, and send some to my uncle. Last time I bought less, so I didn't give it to my grandfather. Your uncle is a bit embarrassed, but he is afraid that I will spend more money." , I didn’t say anything.”

The cat said: "Then let's just buy ten catties and give some more to Grandpa, Grandpa will be happy."

Both of them were starving, and it was obviously unrealistic to cook after going home, so they ate stewed noodles before going home.

Liu Xia spent a day in the mountains, feeling very uncomfortable. Mao Er let him sit in the bathtub, knelt behind him, and rubbed his back twice vigorously with a towel.

Liu Xia felt much more comfortable, and sat lazily in the bathtub and slowly rubbed the front of his face. The cat washed it three times, five times and two times, and ran out with his bare buttocks: "I came back at noon and soaked the mung beans, Wang. Grandpa said, after soaking in this way for a long time, it will bloom soon when you boil it again, and after a while you can drink mung bean soup."

Liu Xia yelled to the outside: "Uncle, just drink plain water, good boy, it's past nine o'clock, don't make soup."

The cat answered outside: "Don't worry about it, just wait and drink later."

Although it was only a few days, Maoer mastered the skill of using the kerosene stove. After the water in the pot boiled, he adjusted the fire to the most suitable position, and then came back and sat opposite Liu Xia to start doing homework.

Liu Xia needs to do much more data than Mao'er's homework. After half an hour, Mao'er finished her homework, and the mung bean soup was ready.

The cat put rock sugar in both bowls, and then both bowls were only filled with half a bowl of mung bean soup, and then took out another bowl and poured the mung bean soup back and forth between the two bowls: "Xiaoyun and Xiaolei When they saw something to eat, they jumped up in a hurry, like when grandma and mother gave them cold porridge, they said it was the fastest way to cool it down."

Liu Xia said: "Don't be so busy, my uncle is not in such a hurry, just drink it after it cools naturally."

The cat continued to pour: "No, you put so much pepper in the mutton stewed noodles just now, you have to drink mung bean soup to put the fire down, or you will have a sore throat and you can't help it."

By the time Liu Xia finished counting, it was already a quarter past eleven.

He wiped the drool from the corner of the mouth of the sleeping cat in the crook of his left arm, and was about to put him on the ground. The cat opened his eyes immediately: "Ah? I, I fell asleep, uncle?"

Liu Xia hugged him and stood up, came to the mat and put him away: "No, I just poked my mouth a few times, my uncle came over after taking a pee, you wait for my uncle."

The cat nodded in a daze: "Yeah."

After Liu Xia came back, he lay down and stretched out his right arm. Mao'er turned over on the pillow, put his legs on his waist, and soon fell asleep again.