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"have you eaten?"

"Still working on it." Yuan Mu asked, "What about you?"

"I'm about to wash the vegetables."

"Okay." Yuan Mu didn't have anything to say, she felt comfortable hearing Sheng Fengshi's voice.Even if Sheng Fengshi is silent for a while, as long as the phone is on, she knows that Sheng Fengshi is there, and she feels at ease.

After a while, Sheng Fengshi's voice came again: "How is Zou Qi?"

Yuan Mu said: "She looks very happy and is chatting with Xiaopi now. My dad is in the kitchen and they haven't met yet."

"Go and chat with them, too."

"They're talking about snacks, I can't talk."

"Don't talk, just sit there, Zou Qi will like to have you by his side."

"Yeah." Yuan Mu agreed, and said, "I'm going to give Zou Qi a stool in the afternoon."

"Pay attention to safety, beware of wooden thorns in your hands."

Yuan Mu smiled and said, "I see. I'll call you again tonight."

"Ok, I will wait for you."

After hanging up the phone, Yuan Mu walked into the room.Zou Qi and Xiao Pi set up Monopoly's chessboard on the coffee table. Yuan Mu took a look and thought it was quite complicated, so he sat down beside Zou Qi and prepared to watch the game.

Zou Qi said: "Just waiting for you, don't you know how to play this? We will teach you, and we can play together after dinner."

Yuan Mu was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Let's begin."

Zou Qi seized the time to explain the gameplay to Yuan Mu. While she was explaining, Xiaopi demonstrated on the chessboard. The temporary teacher duo cooperated tacitly, and the student Yuan Mu quickly learned it.Lao Zang called Xiaopi in the kitchen, Xiaopi got up and yelled, "Here we come!" and ran over quickly.

Yuan Mu said: "The food is served, let's wait at the dining table."

"Do you want to take away the coffee table?" Zou Qi asked, pointing at the rich man.

"No, let it go."

The dining table was round, with five seats in a circle, and two idlers sat next to each other without doing anything. Lao Zang and Xiao Pi came in and out serving dishes and setting chopsticks, and the table was soon full.

"So many dishes..." Zou Qi expressed surprise in a low voice.

Yuan Mu: "They are very edible and won't be wasted."

"Oh." Zou Qi smiled reassuringly, "I thought it was to entertain me, hehe, I was afraid of my small appetite, I only ate a few bites of each dish, and there was a lot left in the end, which is impolite. You usually eat so much ah?"

"No, I only cook three or four dishes at ordinary times. I don't use this kind of plate. They are all served in big sea bowls. My father was worried that you might not be used to it, so he wanted to make several more dishes. You have a choice."

Zou Qi nodded.

After the dishes were served, Yuan Songlin finally came out of the kitchen. He rubbed his hands together a few times, held them together, and placed them on both sides of his body. He walked over and sat in the empty seat between Yuan Mu and Lao Zang. He took a serious look at Zou Qi, didn't dare to look at it for too long, picked up his chopsticks and said, "Let's eat."

Zou Qi guessed that Yuan Songlin was probably as talkative as Yuan Mu, but she really didn't expect it to be this short.Both Lao Zang and Xiao Pi started to pick up vegetables for dinner, and Yuan Mu didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it, and Zou Qi didn't know green leafy vegetables with a chopstick.Holding the chopsticks, Zou Qi was a little hesitant, wondering if Uncle Yuan was planning to chat after dinner?She looked over and saw Yuan Songlin's face bursting into laughter and felt that she should say something.She called out, "Uncle Yuan."

Yuan Songlin was startled, put down his chopsticks and asked carefully, "What's wrong?"

Zou Qi smiled and said, "Thank you Uncle Yuan for cooking so many dishes, uncle has worked hard."

Yuan Songlin was stunned for a while, Lao Zang Xiaopi and Yuan Mu both looked up at him, Zou Qi also smiled and waited for him to speak, Yuan Songlin's face was a little hot, his eyes were a little hot, he lowered his head Said: "It's not hard, it's not hard, eat it quickly, tell me if it's salty or light, I'll take it and redo it."

Zou Qi took a sip of stir-fried shredded pork with wild vegetables and said, "It's delicious. I've never tasted this kind of dish."

Yuan Songlin smiled so that the creases on his face stretched out, and he spoke more sharply: "This is a wild vegetable from here, grown by myself. I think it is delicious. I will make it in the afternoon."

Zou Qi said, "Okay."

Most of the dishes on the table are made by Yuan Songlin.Zou Qi tasted every dish, and the taste here is a bit different from the food at home, it is more refreshing, which suits her appetite very much, Zou Qi ate half a bowl of rice more than usual.

After eating, Lao Zang and Xiao Pi washed the dishes, and they bickered with each other in the kitchen. The cheerful atmosphere was completely different from that in the living room.

Yuan Songlin: "I heard from Yuan Mu that you studied law?"

"Yes, there are still several years to go."

Yuan Songlin looked carefully at Zou Qi's eyebrows and eyes, and could see the appearance of his ex-wife. He felt nostalgic and said, "It's good to study law, you have a future."

Zou Qi said: "I think learning carpentry is also very good, how practical it is."

"Yes, it's practical." Yuan Songlin nodded, then shook his head and said, "It's not as good as in the past. Now machines are used instead of manual work, and we have been adding machines. Some people don't require manual work. As long as they can do it quickly, they have to use machines. .I don’t need to draw the drawings by hand anymore. I can see them very clearly when I make them on the computer. I heard that carpentry in the city needs to be verified..."

Yuan Mu: "Father, talk about something else."

"Oh, yes, let's not talk about that." Yuan Songlin frowned, not knowing what to say.

Zou Qi said: "Uncle, you can say whatever you want, we just chat. I don't know carpentry, but it sounds interesting."

Yuan Songlin paused, looked at Zou Qi's face and said, "Zou Qi, uncle is so happy to see you."

Zou Qi had some unknown emotions in her heart, which made her want to cry.Yuan Songlin didn't grow a beard, because he didn't take care of it, his skin was a bit rough, his facial features were not handsome but very coordinated, his whole face looked ordinary and gentle, Zou Qi compared secretly, she and Yuan Songlin didn't look very good They are similar, but looking at Yuan Songlin's simple face, she can feel a kind of kindness, just like when she saw Yuan Mu.

Yuan Songlin's cautious attitude towards her and the way he called himself "uncle" couldn't keep her from being moved.

"I'm also happy to see you again." Zou Qi said with a smile.Although she can't remember what happened when she was a child, she believes that Yuan Songlin once loved her silently but wholeheartedly, just like Zou Weiliang now.It's just that fate sometimes can't be controlled by others. She and her biological father don't have such a deep fate, so they have been separated for so many years. When they meet again, she already has a warm family.

Yuan Songlin said: "Yuan Mu will stay in the city from now on, if you have any troubles, you can find her."

Zou Qi took Yuan Mu's arm and said, "I'm going to trouble her soon, my sister said she would make me a small stool this afternoon."

"Really?" Yuan Songlin smiled, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, "Then I'll go pick the wood and tidy it up first."

Zou Qi: "I just had dinner, let's sit down for a while. We're going to play Monopoly, will uncle know?"

"This?" Yuan Songlin pointed to the coffee table, waved his hand and said, "I don't know, you guys play, I'll watch you play."

Lao Zang and Xiao Pi came out after washing the dishes, Zou Qi called them over, and the four of them played together.Yuan Songlin watched them give money and build a house for a while, even though he didn't understand what it was for a long time, he smiled happily.

At the end of the game, the fun is all in the quarrel between Lao Zang and Xiaopi, the two of them are not really quarreling, you yell at me and I yell at you, they insist on fighting to the death in the game.Yuan Mu said to Zou Qi: "We usually don't have much entertainment, except watching them pinch."

The war between Lao Zang and Xiaopi has risen to personal attacks, both of them are swearing, and the curses are even more brilliant without dirty words. If a word can be turned into a drop of water, they can flood the house.Zou Qi laughed and trembled, she had no energy to respond to Yuan Mu.

When they were tired of scolding each other and the rich man had had enough fun, Yuan Mu and Yuan Songlin went to fight on the small stools, and Zou Qi sat on the chair from a distance to watch, Lao Zang and Xiao Pi were like two bodyguards. Standing by her side, they showed a tacit understanding at this time, explaining the steps of Yuan Mu and Yuan Songlin one by one.Zou Qi saw the wood turned into a stool with her own eyes, and said three consecutive words "it's amazing".

Yuan Songlin still had work to do, and he couldn't say anything when he stayed in the same room with Zou Qi, so he went to work with Lao Zang in the next room.Xiaopi and Zou Qi were sitting in the living room watching TV, Yuan Mu was by the side, and his mind was a little distracted.

"I'll go out and make a phone call," Yuan Mu said.

Zou Qi asked curiously, "Who are you calling?"

"Teacher Sheng."

"Oh..." Zou Qi scratched the back of her head. It is true that Yuan Mu has no one else to call. The call at noon should also be to Teacher Sheng, but friends don't need to contact so frequently, right?Zou Qi felt that this way of getting along was quite strange.

Zou Qi asked: "What did you call?"

Xiaopi squinted his eyes and asked, "You didn't use your mobile phone very much before. Is this Teacher Sheng male or female?"

Zou Qi answered for Yuan Mu: "Teacher Sheng is the counselor of our class, a female teacher."

"Female teacher..." Xiaopi was obviously disappointed.

Yuan Mu said: "I have a good relationship with Mr. Sheng, and I want to chat even if we have nothing to do."

Zou Qi expanded this sentence in her mind, thinking that Yuan Mu might have been holding back too much because she hadn’t chatted for so many years. Now that she met Teacher Sheng on the same channel, the two cherished each other, and the enthusiasm for chatting broke out together. , will be like glue.Thinking about it this way, Zou Qi understood very well, and waved her hand and said, "Go and make a call, and talk more, Mr. Sheng must also want to talk to you if you don't go to work during the holiday."

Yuan Mu went out with his mobile phone.

The phone went through quickly.

"It's not evening yet, why did you call me?"

Hearing Sheng Fengshi's ridicule, Yuan Mu couldn't help but blush, feeling that he was too impatient and not stable at all.

"I miss you." Yuan Mu continued his instability to the end.

"I know."

Yuan Mu felt that his heart was soothed, and the flame of longing was stopped by this sentence and turned into a small flame.

"I miss you as well."

Another sentence came from the other side, Yuan Mu's small flame rekindled into a big fire with a "chuss", burning her tears.

Yuan Mu said: "I think I'm really weak, why do I miss you so much?"

There was a moment of silence over there, and Sheng Fengshi replied, "Because I, too, miss you so and so."