why are they still in love

The similar orderly busyness continued until after the small year.

Aside from the occasional reporters coming to ask for interviews, and Xiao Zhaoshan being summoned by the police to go to the Public Security Bureau to record statements from time to time, the house is safe and sound, closing the windows can cut off all the haze and severe cold, and locking the door can cut off most of the criticism and speculation.

However, on New Year's Eve, Dong Xin came as a guest with large and small bags of supplies, and the first thing she said when she saw Xiao Zhaoshan was: "Hey, what's the matter with your face, are you looking for a new girlfriend? Where are you? Let me see." look."

Xiao Zhaoshan wore a light green plaid apron in front of him, and was wiping the windowpanes in the living room with a rag. Hearing this, he gave her a disdainful glance: "I'm so tired these two days that I'm so tired, where can I find it?" Girlfriend? Will you find me?"

Dong Xin sent leeks and minced pork into the kitchen, greeted Xiao Chining before coming out to continue his words: "No problem."

She leaned over and said in a whisper: "With your body, face, and family background, let alone recruiting more girls, little boys are no problem. Hey, Lao Xiao, think about it carefully and turn around." I will help you ask?"

Xiao Zhaoshan turned the towel over: "What are you thinking about?"

"Of course I'm considering finding a stepmother for Chi Ning!" Dong Xin pointed to the kitchen, her voice lowered, "Is he not against it?"

Xiao Zhaoshan said: "Go and ask him, don't ask me."

"Tsk, am I not an outsider?"

"You are his godmother, why are you considered an outsider?"

Dong Xin was very sober: "In the final analysis, if the same blood is not shed, they are all outsiders."

"Chi Yan bleeds the same as him, and now he is worse than strangers." Xiao Zhaoshan rubbed up a towel in the bucket shortly, "After I divorced her, she never asked how Xiao Chining was doing. .”

Dong Xin leaned on the window frame with crossed hands and sighed, "Oh, she is not an ordinary person."

"She'll starve to death if she doesn't eat, she'll die of thirst if she doesn't drink water, she'll die of exhaustion if she doesn't sleep, what's unusual?"

"You don't think the same as us." Dong Xin said, "You can let her talk about business, but it's not interesting to talk to her. To be honest, I used to envy you. A woman treats one of the few I have given you all my affection, and I don’t ask you to pay much for her, this is simply every man’s dream.”

"Your last name is 'every' name' man"?" Xiao Zhaoshan smiled, "Since you appreciate her so much, why don't you go spend the new year with her and come to my house for what?"

"Didn't you hear the first part of my sentence! Talking to her is not interesting." Dong Xin emphasized, "Old Xiao, you know better than me that no one can give love without expecting anything in return. It’s the same as making friends. It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me or if you don’t love me. It’s all nonsense. Being loved is pressure, and you have to love even if you push it. If you are alone, if you don't need to be loyal to her, what is she trying to do? I can't figure it out. "

"What is she trying to do?" Xiao Zhaoshan twisted the towel with his eyes downcast, his tone was ordinary, "Maybe she wanted to follow the crowd, to complete a task in life, and not to be poked in the spine. Do you think, how many people in our era were not married? A beautiful woman who doesn't have a family and is surrounded by countless men should be a good source of conversation and gossip."

"What are you talking about?"

Xiao Chining came out of the kitchen with the wake-up dough and the reconciled fillings, and when he turned around, he saw two people standing and squatting at the other end of the living room, having a lively chat.

"Oh, I'm talking about your going abroad."

"We're chatting."

The two spoke together, but the answers were completely different.

Dong Xin looked at Xiao Zhaoshan in surprise, he didn't expect him to be so frank with Xiao Chining, dismantling her as a godmother face to face, there was no tacit understanding between friends at all.

Xiao Chining naturally listened to Xiao Zhaoshan.

He asked, "What happened to Chi Yan? Did Yue Zezhang trouble her?"

Yue Zezhang returned to China for investigation yesterday, and Zhongjing’s market value dropped by the limit today, and 32 billion yuan in market value evaporated in an instant.

When he went to the bathroom in the morning, he searched a lot of news secretly, and he found that the theory of "wet shoes by the river" was everywhere, basically bad-mouthing.Netizens speculated intelligently that Yue Zezhang was exposed as a fig leaf because of the misfortune of some unspeakable boss.

In this version of the story, Xiao Zhaoshan is just a pawn, a living target, dragged out by the big boss and put on stage to perform in order to attract firepower and divert the attention of the public.But Xiao Chining knew that such a trend of public opinion was guided by Xiao Zhaoshan himself.

Xiao Zhaoshan is much more powerful than he imagined.

The power of the Yue faction has sunk to the west, and no one can hurt him now, probably only Chi Yan, a soft persimmon who is outside the situation, can be pinched.

But Xiao Chining didn't care, and was even happy to see the success.

"It's nothing, I'll chat with your dad casually."

Dong Xin walked up to him, looked at the big dough in the stainless steel basin, and asked enthusiastically, "So soon, the stuffing is ready?"

"The leeks have just been washed and are still drying. Let's eat sauerkraut stuffing first at noon." Xiao Chining handed her the rolling pin, "Godmother, come roll the dumpling wrappers and I'll wrap them?"

Dong Xin waved his hands again and again: "Don't, don't, if you let me roll it, we can only eat noodle soup later, or Chi Ning, you come, and the godmother will help you."

The dough Xiao Chining kneaded was very big. She thought about the amount, then pulled up her sleeve and asked, "Do you have cabbage at home? Let's wrap another catty of cabbage and pork stuffing later."

"No, my dad doesn't eat cabbage." Xiao Chining said bluntly, "Godmother, if you want to eat it, I'll go out and buy it right away, and I'll make a plate for you to satisfy your hunger."

"Hey, our little one is so caring." Dong Xin rubbed his hair lovingly, "But forget it, I like sauerkraut and leeks too."

She glanced at Xiao Zhaoshan who was going to the bathroom to empty the sewage, and was passing the dining table with an empty bucket: "It's not like some old kid who is picky at his age."

Xiao Zhaoshan didn't accept this, put his things on the shelf on the balcony, came back and stood behind Xiao Chining, took off his apron and made a gesture to put it on him: "Look up."

Xiao Chining raised his head obediently, but kept grabbing the dough with his hands: "Dad, go wash your hands and let's make dumplings together."

Xiao Zhaoshan tied a beautiful windbreaker-style bow on the back of his waist very seriously: "I don't know."

Dong Xin shook his head: "Listen, what a good person has been corrupted by the evil capitalism."

Xiao Zhaoshan touched Xiao Chining's slender waist calmly, and said with a smile: "As long as you can, you are the successor of socialism."

Xiao Chining turned back and stared at him: "I'll teach you."

Xiao Zhaoshan leaned slightly, and the two got closer.

He lowered his eyes and asked softly, "Do you want to pay the tuition?"

Xiao Chining made an offer: "You wash the dishes later."

Xiao Zhaoshan hooked the corner of his mouth, his right hand was still on his waist: "Then I won't learn."

From Dong Xin's point of view, he seemed to be hugging Xiao Chining from behind, he was so tired that he didn't look like a father, he almost put his chin on his son's shoulder.

She felt a little strangely relieved, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong, as if they should get along like this, should be so close.

Xiao Chining didn't notice the gaze from the other side, and bumped Xiao Zhaoshan's stomach with his elbow: "If you don't want to study, just sit on the sofa, and don't bother me and my godmother."

"I'm busy too, so I have to deal with some things." Xiao Zhaoshan didn't forget to flick him on the forehead before stepping away, "Call me when it's time to eat."

When people entered the study, Dong Xincai and Xiao Chining said: "Your father has been unrestrained for 30 years, and he is the most proficient in being a shopkeeper."

She spread out a piece of dumpling wrapper that Xiao Chining had made, and wrapped the first dumpling of the meal: "Today is the first time I see him doing housework, which is interesting. How did you persuade Chi Ning?"

Xiao Chining said with a smile: "I didn't say anything. I asked, 'Should we clean up in Xiaonian today', and he put aside what he was doing and cleaned up with me."

Dong Xin also laughed: "So obedient?"

Xiao Chining slowed down his movements and thought for a while, then said, "Well, my dad is very soft-hearted."

"Oh, Chi Ning, he is not soft-hearted," Dong Xin said, "He just wants to treat you well."

"When I was studying, the study committee member of our class had a crush on him—" She suddenly leaned into Xiao Chining's ear, "Don't tell your dad that I said it, keep it a secret, or he will be in a hurry with me."

Xiao Chining nodded, put the rolling pin in front of his mouth and said "shh": "Okay, don't tell him. Go on, godmother."

Dong Xin straightened up, and said eloquently while making dumplings: "Well... If you use the current words to describe the character of that girl, it is boring. She has good grades and works very hard. The goal is to be admitted to the Chemistry Department of Peking University, so we all She thought she only had studies in her heart, and she couldn't get involved with the restlessness of adolescence or the feelings of a girl. No one would think about it."

"At that time, the school asked each class in the first year of high school to collect the intention of subdividing subjects. Our class filled out the form and gave it to her. She probably wanted to hand it over to the head teacher after the morning self-study. Anyway, she didn't put the form in the drawer. As a result, a girl passing by her desk accidentally overturned the boiling water, which completely wet her desk. She sat on the podium to discipline herself, and the classmates around her cleaned it up for her, and guess what? "

Xiao Chining had an estimate in his heart, but he still said, "I don't know, what's wrong?"

Dong Xin replied: "Someone saw that in the wrong question book she put on the table, half of it was full of pictures of your father. Although the name was not written, but after a little association, I knew it was him."

She arranged the wrapped dumplings one by one on the chopping board: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes. I heard from them that there are all kinds of angles. The way your father reads a book, listens to the blackboard, takes a nap on the table, and deserts. She has drawn all the pictures in the book."

"Where's my dad? How did he react?" Xiao Chining asked.

Dong Xin replied: "He directly asked that girl if she was interested in him, and said in front of the whole class that if you want to play with a crush, you should hide it honestly, don't come here to talk about it, he feels disgusting .”

Xiao Chining could understand Xiao Zhaoshan's "disgusting".

When he was studying in Hangzhou, those looking behind his back, and the booing sounds regardless of time and place, regardless of his personal will, were really annoying.

"I remember our study committee standing on the podium, blushing to the point of bleeding, and calmly saying that she has never liked anyone, she just likes to draw, and what everyone sees is her private practice, not on purpose Who drew it. Guess Chi Ning, what did your father say?"

"what?"

"He said, I think your level of brushwork has not reached the level where you can confidently say that you 'like painting'."

Dong Xin said lightly: "As soon as that semester ended, our study committee members left, and I was also preparing to go abroad."

She sighed: "Chi Ning, in fact, I didn't realize how hurtful these words were at the time. After all, I was his friend and I was on his side."

She suddenly felt very emotional: "But later, when I thought about your father who had just turned sixteen at that time, it was somewhat..."

"uncomfortable?"

Xiao Chining was engrossed in listening, he hadn't rolled the dumpling wrappers for a long time, he supported the edge of the table, and asked: "Godmother, you think he is too heartless, don't you?"

Dong Xin didn't expect him to say this word, his eyes widened slightly, and there was no memory on his face anymore.

"of course not."

She also put down the chopsticks with stuffing, and looked deeply at Xiao Chining: "It's pitiful, I think he is pitiful."

Xiao Chining was stunned.He disagreed, how could Xiao Zhaoshan be pitiful?

"Because he has never been loved, has never been loved, and has never experienced the tenderness given by others, he will easily trample on other people's wishes, thinking that it is something that is not worth mentioning and can be done easily."

Dong Xin finally got back to the topic: "Your father is not ruthless. He has always been very good at growing up alone, keeping a distance from others, and dealing with the malice of the outside world; but he may only now start to learn what posture he should use to embrace the evil in this world. nice one."

"Chi Ning," she said with certainty, "you taught him what is soft-hearted, what is gentle, and what is to cherish."