"Eh? Uncle Ye, you haven't left yet? What are you doing kneeling on the floor (⊙ _ ⊙?)? "
Xiao Qin, who came back from buying canned oranges, was in a hurry to get credit from Auntie Ren. She pushed open Auntie Ren's bedroom door and saw my dad kneeling in front of Auntie Ren with a diamond ring in his hand proposing!
Both my dad and Auntie Ren had a guilty conscience. Xiao Qin saw the awkward scene and both of them panicked. Auntie Ren quickly said:
"No, I didn't do anything! It's just that there's a similar action in the crew. I was in a rush to catch up after I left the hospital, so I wanted Uncle Ye to help me pose and think about the action! "
Xiao Qin blinked, "But mom, you're the martial arts director! This action looks a bit … a bit like a marriage proposal! Why does mom need to design a marriage proposal! "
Auntie Ren was also quick-witted, "Because after the marriage proposal, the female character immediately sent the male character flying with a kick! So it's a martial arts action! I should be responsible for it! "
"Is that so?" Xiao Qin was doubtful, "Where did this ring come from? Is it a prop from the crew? According to the setting of the Magic Cauldron, I don't think there's a custom of giving a diamond ring when proposing? "
"That's because …"
My dad saw that Auntie Ren was tongue-tied and couldn't make up a lie, so he quickly continued: "That's right, we're acting! But it's not your mom's drama. I'm proposing to someone else and I'm not confident, so I'm rehearsing it in front of your mom … "
"Eh? Did Auntie Xiao Juan not agree to your proposal yet? " Xiao Qin furrowed her brows in confusion, "If it was me, I would have already waited 14 years and pounced on her as soon as she opened her mouth. I wouldn't even need a diamond ring …"
Xiao Qin turned around and placed the shopping bags on the table. Auntie Ren pinched my dad's ear and asked with a dark expression: "So you still want to marry someone else, right? So it was just a rehearsal … "
My dad couldn't cry out in pain even though his ear was pinched, so he could only reply in a low voice: "That's just a temporary measure! I'll tell Xiao Qin right now if you agree to my proposal, but if you don't give me a definite answer, how am I supposed to tell her about our relationship? Don't tell me we've only slept together … Ah! Stop pinching me! "
Because of Xiao Qin's sudden intrusion, Auntie Ren felt like the marriage proposal atmosphere was ruined, so she didn't plan on replying to my dad.
"Uncle Ye." Xiao Qin took out two cans of drinks from the fridge for my dad and Auntie Ren, then she said to my dad with a bit of worry, "It wouldn't be good if someone misunderstood you proposing to my mom. If it gets to Auntie Juan's ears, she'll definitely be sad."
First impressions plus empathy for Xiao Juan's infatuation, Xiao Qin already thought that my dad and Auntie Xiao Juan were a couple, so she didn't think too much about the suspicious couple in front of her.
"I understand. I won't do things that are easily misunderstood in the future." My dad agreed, then he turned around and asked Auntie Ren: "If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first?"
"You're not allowed to leave!" Auntie Ren suddenly said.
"Then … what do you need me to do?" Dad was still in a hurry to leave.
"You stay here and cook!" Auntie Ren ordered without any room for discussion, "I'll cooperate with you … with your proposal. Didn't you agree to cook for us in exchange?"
"Mom." Xiao Qin persuaded, "Let Uncle Ye go first. It wouldn't be good if Auntie Juan or Ye Lin classmate got anxious. I can cook dinner since I've been practicing my cooking skills. I'll make delicious and nutritious dishes for mom! "
"I want to eat his cooking today!" Auntie Ren stared at my dad unreasonably, "Also, it's almost time for you to have a stomachache, right? Don't get your hands in cold water! "
Seeing her mom's insistence, Xiao Qin could only apologize to my dad on behalf of Auntie Ren:
"Uncle Ye, I'm sorry. My mom was in a bad mood after being discharged from the hospital, please don't be mad at my mom …"
"You don't need to apologize to him!" Auntie Ren interrupted Xiao Qin unhappily, "You don't need to be too polite with him in the future, it's not like he was polite with me …"
She stopped halfway through her sentence. Only the two of them knew what she was referring to. Xiao Qin stood in the middle in a daze.
"That's true." My dad pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Your mom and I have been neighbors for many years, and you and Xiao Lin grew up together. You're treating me like an outsider by using honorifics, so don't call me 'you' anymore."
"How can I do that!" Xiao Qin was flabbergasted, "Ye Lin classmate also calls my mom with honorifics!"
"You don't need to worry about it." Auntie Ren said, "Just talk to Uncle Ye the way you normally talk to me, and it's the same for Ye Lin."
My dad had a happy expression as he felt Auntie Ren's decision had a special meaning. But Auntie Ren turned her face away and didn't let my dad read her thoughts.
"That's not good, right?" Xiao Qin always felt the elders were acting weird as if they had something to worry about, "What if Ye Lin classmate thinks I'm rude when he sees me not honorifics to his dad?"
"There's definitely no problem with Xiao Lin!" My dad insisted, "Give it a try now, no need to honorifics, just greet me!"
Xiao Qin saw that her mom and uncle Ye both insisted, so she could only say: "Hello … Uncle Ye."
Her eyelashes blinked again and again, her face full of doubt, as if something illusory had been lost in those words.
My dad felt that Auntie Ren telling Xiao Qin not to be polite was a kind response to his proposal. Because it's important to have a good relationship with a stepchild in a remarried family.
Auntie Ren didn't necessarily think that way. Maybe she simply felt that it was unfair to see her child being respectful to him after she slept with him.
If I think about it, objectively speaking, my dad's actions were equivalent to cursing Xiao Qin. Xiao Qin was cursed like that, but she still treated my dad like a VIP. Xiao Qin's mom was watching from the side, so of course she wouldn't be able to take it lying down.
So my dad was left to cook.
My dad's cooking skills were only a bit better than 28 Middle's cafeteria. He could only make sure there were no stones in the rice, no flies in the beans, and meat in the stir-fried meat with green peppers.
That's why my dad felt a lot of pressure cooking for Auntie Ren and her mother. My dad has eaten the braised sea cucumber and bamboo chicken that Xiao Qin brought over, so he knows that Auntie Ren and Xiao Qin's culinary skills are much better than his. He's trying to show off in front of an expert and making a fool out of himself.
Brothers in war, father and son in battle. My father felt that the difficulty of this task wasn't any less than that of a battlefield. That was why he called me and asked me to help him.
That's why I didn't stay long after I finished lunch at the class leader's house. I took a taxi to Xiao Qin's house and planned on having us prepare dinner for them.
Chinese people really think food is the most important thing. I didn't do anything else today, I just revolved around food.
But there's a difference between eating lunch and cooking in the afternoon.
My dad came downstairs to pick me up when he knew I was almost there. He was going to buy some groceries with me at the food market.
On North Red Building Street, some of the residents were moved from their former compound. My dad hasn't changed much over the years, so he was recognized by an old lady.
"Oh, isn't this teacher Ye?"
When my dad had just left the university, he also ran a cram school for a period of time, so some of the old neighbors liked to call him teacher.
"Oh, nice to meet you. You must be Auntie Wang." My dad actually remembered her last name.
The old lady had a smile on her face and was about to ask about my dad, but she suddenly saw me get out of the taxi and walk to my dad's side.
I didn't have a deep impression of Auntie Wang. I was about to ask my dad to introduce her, but I saw Auntie Wang's face change and she said in shock: "Is … is this your son? How … did he get plastic surgery? "
Who got plastic surgery! Who would get plastic surgery to look like me! If you think I'm disfigured, then just say it!
My dad said perfunctorily. Auntie Wang sighed with regret. She waved goodbye to us, and we went to the market to buy some groceries. My dad gave her a perfunctory reply. Auntie Wang sighed and said goodbye to us.
When we arrived at the food market, I carefully recalled the dishes the class leader cooked today. I wanted to see if there was anything easy to make that I could present to the Buddha.
After thinking for a long time, he felt that Vegetable Shrimp and Vegetarian Stir-Fried Three Shredded Vegetables were easy to make because Vegetable Shrimp was mainly seasoned with minced garlic and shrimp and stir-fried with vegetables. Vegetarian Stir-Fried Three Shredded Vegetables was even easier. He just needed to blanch shredded bracken, celery, and bamboo shoots in boiling water and stir-fry them together.
Under my suggestion, my dad first bought the ingredients for these two dishes, but he ignored the basic rule of cooking — — the simpler the ingredients and cooking method, the harder it was to test the craftsmanship. My dad and I, two guys who only had a very powerful lower body, suddenly challenged unfamiliar dishes, the result could be imagined.
But no matter what, Auntie Ren just got out of the hospital. Even if she can't eat big meals, she should at least eat something nutritious, right? It's not like we can buy four servings of hand-rolled noodles. When my dad and I go back, we can leave the leftovers for Xiao Qin and Auntie Ren!
Since I just tasted the class leader's cooking, I was blindly confident. I didn't consider that my dad and I were a pair of trash when it comes to cooking. I optimistically bought some common ingredients and prepared to show off my cooking skills when I go back.
Speaking of the food market below Xiao Qin's house, I can't help but mention the annoying shoe repair uncle.
He once sold Xiao Qin a listening device, a former member of the National Defense Security Agency. He was especially good at placing all kinds of listening devices in shoes. Due to some reason, he had a falling out with his superiors. He currently hides in the city and repairs shoes for a living, but he gets off work at 5 every day. Every time I go near his shoe repair shop, I can hear him cursing at China's soccer team on TV.
"Idiots! A bunch of idiots! It's another three minutes of darkness! China's football team's idiots are inherited! "
When my dad and I walked past, we just happened to hear the shoe repair uncle cursing at the TV in the house.
"Iraq is so chaotic that you have to bring a submachine gun to buy groceries, yet they still won the championship! Are you guys eating sh * t?! "
"Look at North Korea! The North Korean soccer team is so passionate when they play! You guys should all be sent to Mt. Kumgang to mine coal! "
"When you're digging coal, bring my map to the North Korean leaders! Tell them to hurry up and destroy the US military's nuclear facilities on the peninsula and avenge my comrades in the Southern Alliance! "
Damn, shoe repair uncle, your voice is way too loud! Fortunately, there are no foreign spies here, and no one is connected to the US or the Korean government. Otherwise, it would be very dangerous for you to say something like that!
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