Dad's life

A few wisps of smoke.

A few rose from the chimneys of the two red brick houses.

In the kitchen.

Li Ran, with his little legs, would sometimes run to the stove to help his great-grandmother light the fire, and sometimes gather around his great-grandfather to peel onions.

Before he finished peeling the onions, he ran to watch his grandfather Li Jianguo kill fish.

He had a lot of fun playing in the small kitchen.

It's just that I didn't accomplish anything good.

The stove was blocked by the firewood he added, and the smoke made his great-grandmother choke and cough repeatedly.

His great-grandfather had just peeled onions, but they were all trampled under his feet as he ran back and forth. He helped his grandfather Li Jianguo kill fish, and he was covered in fish scales.

In a small pot, heat rapeseed oil.

Xu Mei, who was wearing an apron, turned around and picked up the glutinous rice noodles on the table and fried them in the oil pan.

Wait until one side is golden brown, then flip it over and fry the other side. The process is not complicated.

Li Mu can do it too.

But his son Li Ran didn't like it, so during the years of working in Ningyang City, Li Mu never did it.

After all, a person's preferences are not very important.

After his mother had fried two pieces and put them on the plate, Li Mu took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage, inserted a piece into one chopstick, and then walked out of the kitchen.

The countryside at night.

It is less noisy and more quiet than the city.

A breeze blew by, and the poplar trees around the yard made a healing rustling sound.

Li Mu hooked his feet over the pier under the eaves and sat down to eat the glutinous rice cake, which was not delicious, but after a long time without eating it, he would miss it more and more.

At this moment, the incandescent lamp in the kitchen falls from the open door to the cement floor, forming an alternating light and shadow of light and dark.

Li Mu remembers many years ago.

He was eating glutinous rice cakes in the current sitting position and the current way.

However.

Time is tired, the dusk fades away, and old dreams are awakened.

He suddenly grew up, married a wife, and gave birth to a son. It seemed that nothing had changed, but in fact everything had changed.

He went from a young man who was nicknamed "boring gourd" by his neighbors in the village to a thirty-two-year-old in a blink of an eye. Due to the pressure of life, his inner personality has gradually become extroverted.

It’s not good or bad.

But if he has a choice, Li Mu still likes to make a cup of tea, hold a book, and bathe in the afternoon sunlight.

In fact, Li Mu also knows.

Although he works hard, some of his nature cannot be changed.

Just like the way he handles things, he tries hard every time, but the final results are somewhat unsatisfactory, and he always lacks that clean and decisive momentum.

Li Mu has never denied this.

Because his character is like this.

Life requires growth. He can shoulder the burden of the entire family at the age of twenty-five, but he cannot grow into perfection in all aspects of himself.

"Li Mu, it's time to eat"

Xu Mei's cry came from the kitchen.

"Coming"

Li Mu stood up and kicked the pillar to the wall.

Perhaps only when he is with his parents can he be able to do whatever he wants like a child.

So Li Mu is proud of saving his father.

He did it.

And it’s done well.

He has many flaws in his character, but he did this thing perfectly and impeccably.

Tonight.

The food is very rich.

Li Mu's father cooked a watercress fish and his favorite mutton with carrots specially for his precious grandson.

Xu Mei fried the glutinous flour pancakes that Li Mu has eaten since he was a snack.

"Mom, why did your family buy so many apples?"

While eating, Li Mu asked curiously, "Do you like eating so much? Why didn't I know?"

"Your grandpa asked me to drag him back"

Xu Mei replied angrily, "Your cousin's barber shop has no business. He ordered a cart of apples to be sold at the door. He couldn't sell them at all. In the end, he had no choice but to sell them all to us relatives. If your grandfather hadn't called specifically,

, plus the price is not expensive, otherwise I wouldn’t buy it. I’m better off, so I just wanted to drag it back. Unlike your aunt, who was pressured by your grandpa and dragged two boxes back, except for your aunt and me, even your grandpa.

Brothers, no one is left behind, they all bought apples from your third aunt’s house”

"Yeah"

Li Mu nodded.

Li Mu was not surprised that his cousin Tony's barber shop could not open.

Forty-five-year-old people can wash, cut, and blow their hair. Who can handle it?

In fact, the price is not the most important thing. What is terrible is that the person washing hair in the barber shop is not a pretty girl or a sexy woman, but Tony's 300-pound fat wife.

Such a combination.

Let alone forty-five, if you are over fifteen, it is considered unusual for someone to get a haircut.

Tony weighs nearly 200 kilograms, and with his wife's body like Mount Tai, the two of them stay in a barber shop of more than 20 square meters.

This is not a haircut at all, but suffering.

"It costs forty-five dollars to get a haircut, and that guy can only do Qingming Festival business all year round"

"Poof"

Li Mu heard the damn words.

The glutinous rice cake squirted out of my mouth on the spot, followed by a violent cough.

I'm not saying that the people who go to Tony's shop for haircuts are not people but ghosts. It's just a way of expression.

Yes.

It’s a simple metaphor that business in Tony’s store is relatively light.

"A few days ago, your third aunt borrowed money from our family"

Xu Mei glanced at Li Mu and continued, "You also said you wanted to borrow 100,000 yuan, but I scolded you. Your father had such a big incident, and you were rejected even if you asked her. Now you still have the nerve to borrow money from our family, don't say

We have money, but even if our family owns a gold mine, we won’t lend it to her. If we have money, we will buy it, but if we don’t have money, we won’t buy it.”

"Don't my third aunt and my third uncle always say that a room in the city is not as good as a bed at home!? Why do you think of buying a house now?"

Li Mu said doubtfully.

"What Xiao Jia's wife wants"

Xu Mei frowned and said, "I also threatened your third aunt and third uncle to divorce Xiao Jia if they don't buy a house. I forced your third aunt to have no choice but to borrow money from everywhere to buy a house. She even cried when she called me a few days ago."

But there was no point in crying. I told her directly that there are many divorced couples now, just look at it and it’s not a big deal."

"..."

Li Mu was a little confused by his mother's operation.

But what's more, his cousin's wife threatens his third aunt with divorce and they spend money to buy a house.

A fat woman weighing three hundred pounds.

Where did she get her confidence!?.

No matter how many single men there are in society, women like her are not the ones who can care about them.

Could it be because the price of pork has increased?

She has also become more confident!?

Li Mu found it incredible when he thought about it. It was normal for beautiful women to go through some trouble. After all, they had a market, but what did Xiao Jia’s wife have!?

The waist is the same width as the buttocks, making it difficult for people to tell the difference.

His face is round and his arms are as thick as Li Mu’s thighs.

When walking, people mistakenly think that there is a magnitude 3 earthquake.

If a beautiful woman knocks on a man’s door, it should be an irresistible temptation. What if it’s Xiao Jia’s wife instead!?

It was the fear of heaven and earth falling.

As her knocking on the door sounded, the man would only become more and more panicked, even reaching the point of collapse. If he didn't run to the kitchen and get a knife, he would be afraid of her breaking in. He had no ability to struggle.

But she is such a woman.

How dare she threaten divorce.

Women are indeed like a fog, it is easy to find their own direction.