Danqing

"You have made calls to foreign countries. Last month, our home phone bill increased by more than 100!" Father Tan stretched out his index finger and tapped Qin Songxue's forehead twice.

Qin Songxue was a little hurt from being touched, and she took two steps back while clutching her forehead, and at the same time said in horror: "More than 100! I don't know!" He didn't know that the phone bill is so expensive, and 100 yuan is a huge sum of money for Qin Songxue , can buy five hundred bibabu, one hundred bags of popcorn, fifty boxes of big rolls... He can imagine how angry his mother was when she went to pay the phone bill.

"You!" Father Qin nodded his forehead again.

Tan Songxue wasn't very afraid of his father in his heart, usually his mother was much more strict with him, basically his mother beat him, his father basically didn't intervene, his father's occasional spanking of his ass was not as serious as Chen Ke's.

"Mom knows what I'm going to do! She'll beat me to death! Dad, help me find a way!" Tan Songxue looked at his father for help.

Father Qin: "..."

He was waiting for Tan Songxue to admit his mistake, but he didn't expect that this little bastard not only had no intention of admitting his mistake, but also wanted to put him on the same side?Father Tan is angry and funny, why is his son so virtuous?If his mother was here, Tan Songxue would have admitted his mistake by rolling on the ground.

"Do you know you're wrong?" Father Tan has a good temper and basically never loses his temper, which is why Tan Songxue is not afraid of him.

Tan Songxue lowered his head and played with his fingers: "Understood." His standard is whether his mother will beat him, and now that more than 100 yuan is gone, he must be beaten.

"Go and admit your mistakes to your mother." Father Tan was straightforward.

"Ah?" Tan Songxue still expected his father to help him, but asked him to take the initiative to admit his mistakes. How is this different from what he thought?

"Ah, what, your mother already knew about it. She told me to come back early to catch you when you confessed your mistake. Maybe she won't beat you if you admit your mistake today." Father Tan frightened a little bit. Qin Songxue.

When Qin Songxue heard that she was really fooled, she said little by little that she knew.

During the meal, Qin Songxue took the initiative to admit his mistake to his mother and promised not to make random calls again.

"Mom, can I ask you a question?"

"Tell me, what's the problem?"

Qin Songxue frowned, bit her chopsticks, and said after a long time, "When will my prize arrive?"

Qin's father and Qin's mother looked at each other and asked, "What prize?"

Qin Songxue said solemnly: "When I watch the big windmill at five o'clock every afternoon, there will be prize quizzes after the animation in it. The questions are so simple, so simple, so simple! I call them every day to answer questions. There will be prizes!"

He memorized the phone numbers of the column team by heart. The prizes during this period were very attractive. He couldn't help but called the column team a few times, but he still hasn't responded yet.He answered all those questions correctly, but he didn't receive a single prize!Is the column group deceiving people?

Qin's mother was angry and funny, the little bastard only saw the prizes, and automatically missed the words "have a chance to win", and made a few calls, but none of the prizes came out, and the phone bill went up.

Qin Songxue was severely educated by Qin's mother.Qin's father was right, because he voluntarily admitted his mistakes, he was not persecuted by sweater needles, but Qin's mother said that because he wasted the family's money, he had to be fined to do housework. The sky bowl can be offset.

Tan Songxue disliked doing housework the most, but this time he made a mistake, so he had to agree even if he didn't want to.He was so depressed that he went to sleep with Chen Kezhi again that night.

Because of this incident, Qin Songxue was very depressed for a few days, and Qin's mother was worried that he would break the bowl, so every time she washed the dishes, she put the bowl into the basin first, took it to the bathroom and put it under the faucet.Because she was squatting, although Qin Songxue washed slowly and wasted a lot of detergent, she didn't break a single bowl.And Tan Songxue, like his father, is a bit of a perfectionist, washing every dish three times, for fear of leaving any oily spots.

Mother Qin is very satisfied with this.

But according to Qin Songxue's consistent urine behavior, the number of days to be honest will not exceed three days.

Chen Kezhi also found it strange that he hadn't heard Tan Songxue being scolded for five days. He didn't believe that Tan Songxue would change his ways and turn into a good baby.

Sure enough, on the sixth night, after taking a shower, Chen Kezhi found that Tan Songxue was lying on his bed again. When he lifted the quilt, Tan Songxue was about to cry with red eyes.

Chen Kezhi watched for a long time but didn't find that he was beaten, so he held the little meat dumpling in his arms: "Why are you crying?"

Qin Songxue didn't care about Chen Kezhi's cold body, she got into his arms and cried, "Grasshopper... woo... I broke the tape recorder in our house..."

Chen Kezhi frowned. The tape recorder was considered a valuable item. How could Tan Songxue break it?

"Woooo...the tape recorder in our house is black, I want it to be whiter and look better... woooo...because the prickly heat powder is white, I poured the prickly heat powder on the tape recorder... woo... Then the tape recorder broke..."

Chen Kezhi: "..."

Only Tan Songxue could do this kind of shit.

Chen Kezhi: "Aunt Li hit you?"

Qin Songxue: "Woo...my mother didn't hit me, she told me to wash the dishes for a year...she said the tape recorder is so expensive, I can only pay for it if I wash the dishes for a year... woo... ..."

Chen Kezhi: "..."

He understood why Tan Songxue was crying, one was because he had to wash the dishes, and the other was because he was worried about money.

After school started, Chen Kezhi was promoted to the third grade of elementary school, and Qin Songxue entered the preschool class.It took a lot of effort for Qin Songxue to enter school. Qin's mother had more face than Chen's father. When Qin Songxue entered school, she was not even tested for poetry. She only recognized a few figures like other children and did a few simple additions. Subtraction passes the test.

At that time, Chen Kezhi had practiced calligraphy for four years. Even though he was very talented and willing to work hard, due to his young age, he still couldn't write the charm in his works, and he only learned the basics.Father Tan never systematically taught him the knowledge of calligraphy. Now that he has practiced for four years, he has gained some foundation. Father Qin gave him a copy of "Shuowen Jiezi" and asked him to study it carefully and repeatedly.

Chen Kezhi asked him when he started to learn seal cutting and traditional Chinese painting. Father Tan thought for a while and said, Xiao Ke, will you engage in this line of work in the future?Chen Kezhi shook his head. He said that although he likes calligraphy, he doesn't know how to eat it.Father Tan replied, then just learn seal cutting, and learn some superficial Chinese painting, don't waste time.Chen Kezhi nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, Father Tan still felt a little pity. Chen Kezhi was a rare and good seedling. From the moment he wrote the pen, he decided to train him as his successor, but Chen Kezhi's heart was not here.Even though he is only over eight years old, he has a direction for his life in the future. Even if this direction is not specific, it will not be based on art.

But on the other hand, if Chen Kezhi devotes himself to art, it will tie his hands and feet.

Handwriting is like a person, Father Tan saw Chen Kezhi's usual writing exercises, and he could faintly see the momentum from the beginning to the end, and what he usually did, and his grades in school showed that he would definitely not be a simple character in the future.

And he knew that Chen Kezhi really liked calligraphy, so if he continued to practice like this, Chen Kezhi would definitely be the pride of Tan Boan.So, what if Chen Kezhi does not engage in this business?

Since then, Tan's father changed his plan of teaching Chen Kezhi, almost specializing in calligraphy, instead of being proficient in calligraphy, seal cutting, and traditional Chinese painting like Qin Songxue.

Fast forward to the millennium.

The millennium can almost be seen as a dividing point of an era, and many changes started from this year.

Because the price of honeycomb briquettes has risen too fast, the price difference between burning coal and burning liquefied petroleum gas is getting closer and closer. Out of cleanliness considerations, the Qin family and the Chen family switched to liquefied petroleum gas this year.The Chen family father and son can finally take a hot bath at any time, but they have developed a habit of taking a cold shower, and Chen's mother still laughs that they are not born to enjoy life.

At the beginning of the year, Qin's mother went to the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee for a one-year internship. After the Chinese New Year, she went to report. At the same time, she applied for an on-the-job graduate student at J University. She lived in two places with Qin's father and son. At that time, there were only national highways and railways, expressways and airplanes. There is no connection. It takes more than ten hours to take the train from the small county town to the provincial capital, and the ticket has to be bought by someone, which is very troublesome. Basically, I can’t see each other several times a year.When Qin's mother left, Qin Songxue cried heartbreakingly, and said that she would be obedient in the future and would not make trouble again, and told his mother not to leave.

Qin's mother was also reluctant to part with Qin Songxue, a child of this age has never been separated from his parents.She remembered that when Tan Songxue was more than two years old, she was studying at the party school. For several weekends, Tan Songxue couldn't find her, and insisted on telling Tan's father that she was going to find her mother, and if she didn't go, she would roll on the ground.It was still raining heavily that day, so Father Tan had no choice but to hold the umbrella in one hand and hug him in the other, and walked for more than an hour to the party school.Qin Songxue was dry, but Father Tan's lower body was drenched, and his throat was a little uncomfortable that night, and he drank two bowls of ginger soup to recover.

Knowing that Qin's mother was leaving, Tan Songxue was not happy at all this year, and she couldn't even raise her spirits to collect the New Year's money.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in previous years, the adults were very busy, especially Father Qin, several dancers from the art troupe had to rehearse, and Mother Qin was also busy greeting each other with administrative agencies in various places.Qin Songxue usually wakes up at 08:30 during the winter vacation, Qin's father and mother are not at home long ago, and Chen's mother is taking the senior year of high school this year, and she has no time, so Chen Kezhi takes him to have breakfast every day.

"Grasshopper..." Tan Songxue poked the fried dumplings on the plate with his chopsticks and suddenly his eyes turned red.

Chen Kezhi put down his chopsticks and reached out to wipe away the tears he just shed with his thumb, then continued to calmly rub chili on the fried dumplings.

Qin Songxue rubbed her face twice with her chubby hands: "Grasshopper, I can't eat..."

Chen Kezhi spread the chili evenly and stuffed it into Tan Songxue's mouth: "Eat."

Tan Songxue lost his appetite when he thought of his mother leaving, but he had no resistance to Chen Kezhi, and obediently opened his mouth to eat.Others have small mouths, so one fried dumpling can last for a long time.

After eating a fried dumpling, Qin Songxue continued what she said just now: "Grasshopper, I suddenly remembered that when I was so young, a grandma promised to come to see me, but she never came... I had forgotten... …" As he spoke, he poked the cold fried dumplings on his plate depressedly.

Chen Kezhi paused, wasn't Tan Songxue talking about his grandma?The two old people haven't been back since his grandfather's illness worsened and went to the provincial capital. They would make a phone call during the Chinese New Year.Unexpectedly, Qin Songxue would remember it so clearly.

"What if my mother never comes back after leaving... The provincial capital is so far away, she usually says that I am the most disobedient, if my mother meets an obedient child, will she not want me..." Tan Songxue Speaking of this, I will cry again.

Children like to think wildly. Chen Kezhi rubbed his head helplessly: "Grandma has to take care of grandpa. Grandpa is seriously ill and can't come back. Every year grandma calls to ask you. She didn't come on purpose. Your mother Just go to work for a year and come back, why don't you."

"I miss my mother..." Tan Songxue's voice was choked up.

Chen Kezhi thought for a while, and said to Tan Songxue, "When you turn six years old, may I take you to find Aunt Li?"