post middle age

Chapter 21 Lite Drunk
As soon as Li Te received Ke Ke's call, he rushed home to fix the faucet as soon as possible. He didn't drive, picked up the tool bag at home, and rode an electric car to go out. In fact, his home is not far from Ren Shuxia's house, only three Let's go to an intersection. On the way to Ren Shuxia's house, he even went to a hardware and plumbing store to buy a new faucet and waterproof tape.After a while, he came to the door of Ren Shuxia's house. After knocking on the door, it was Ren Shuxia who opened the door. When she saw Li Te covered in snowflakes, she hurriedly let him in and asked:
"It's snowing outside, why don't you drive here, look at your head covered with snowflakes?"

"It's okay, am I here in a hurry?" Li Te replied with a smile.

Ren Shuxia handed him a dry towel and said to him:
"Wipe the snow off your head first, and then work!"

"Okay!" Li Te took the towel and went to the bathroom.As he wiped his hair, he said:
"It's this faucet again. It broke last time. I said buy a good quality one, but my aunt won't let me buy it. You have to buy good ones for things that are often used at home!"

"Then what brand do you want to buy, I'll buy it right away!" Ren Shuxia asked hastily.

"You know good and bad, I bought it a long time ago!" Li Te took out a brand new faucet from the kit.

"Yes, Mom, you are a rich lady who doesn't eat fireworks, how do you know about rich rice, oil and salt?" Ke Ke also booed from the side.

"Kids, what do you know, hurry up and do your homework!" Ren Shuxia ordered solemnly.

"Decree! Mom, I'm going to do my homework right now!" After Coco finished speaking, she saluted her mother with a "snap".

"This ghost girl!" Li Te said, looking at Ke Ke.

Seeing the back of Ke Ke going to the study to do homework, Li Te asked in a low voice:
"Do you have a good relationship with your daughter?"

"Aren't you agreeing to her to participate in the animation tour the day after tomorrow, otherwise, she wouldn't bother talking to me?" Ren Shuxia replied with a wry smile.

Li Te unloaded the broken faucet first, while Ren Shuxia stood beside her and asked in a low voice:
"How can I help?"

"You, you'd better go out. You can't help here? By the way, make me a cup of hot tea later, after work, drink it, and warm up?"

"Okay, don't leave at noon, your Auntie Ding went out to sell meat early in the morning, let's make dumplings for lunch today!" Ren Shuxia said with a smile.

"It's a coincidence that I came here today, just in time for my aunt to make dumplings. It's been a long time since I've eaten handmade dumplings made by my aunt, and now I'm drooling just thinking about it?" Li Te looked greedy as he worked.

"Don't worry, I'll let you eat enough today! When the time comes, I'll let you taste the dumpling stuffing on my plate."

"You can still make dumpling stuffing, I wouldn't believe it even if you were killed." Li Te glanced at Ren Shuxia.

"You underestimate people, besides, you won't be allowed to eat dumplings today." Ren Shuxia pretended to be angry and said.

Li Te looked at Ren Shuxia's serious face, and said with a smile:
"Yan'er, I just like to see your serious face, and listening to you speak, as if I have returned to the youthful years when I was your apprentice."

"Keep your voice down, don't let Keke hear you." Ren Shuxia glanced at the direction of Keke's study, and exhorted shyly.

"Okay, go and boil water for me. I can't concentrate on my work when you are here." Li Te said and pushed Ren Shuxia out.

Li Te went to the living room and said to Ren Shuxia:

"You open the valve, let me try to see if the newly installed faucet is leaking?"

"Okay!" Ren Shuxia said and went to the kitchen, unscrewing the valve.

Li Te turned on the new faucet and tried both the hot and cold water separately, and the effect was quite good, so he said with confidence:
"Okay, Coco, the faucet is ready to use."

After Ke Ke heard it in the study, she hurried out and thanked with a smile:

"Thank you, Uncle Li Te!"

After washing his hands, Li Te picked up the hot tea that had been brewed on the coffee table, took a sip, took a deep breath, and said with a happy face:

"This tea smells so good!"

Ren Shuxia, who was sitting on the side, knew that Li Te's words were a pun, so she didn't answer his words.

While Li Te was drinking tea, he peeked at Ren Shuxia from the corner of his eye. Ren Shuxia also seemed to feel Li Te's burning eyes at this time. She blushed, lowered her head, and asked softly:
"Just look at it, and secretly look at it, am I that good-looking?"

"Yeah, I can't get enough of it in my life!" Li Te said affectionately, holding Ren Shuxia's hand.

"I'm going to die, but is Keke at home?" Ren Shuxia tried her best to break free from Li Te's hand, and said anxiously.

Li Te didn't speak, but still had a smile on his face.

By the way, are you busy the day after tomorrow? "Ren Shuxia asked.

"The company is also on holiday now, and I have nothing to do. In a few days, I will go back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year with my parents." Li Te replied.

"That's good. Keke will go to the City Youth Palace to participate in the animation tour in the morning the day after tomorrow. You can drive with us then." Ren Shuxia said.

"By the way, I haven't told Yao Ting yet. I have to ask her to come to my house to sleep tomorrow night, and make up for Ke Ke the next morning." Ren Shuxia called her best friend as she spoke, and Yao Ting answered the phone with full promise.

"Then what time will I come the day after tomorrow?" Li Te asked.

"Well, I have to ask Ke Ke to see what time her activities start." Ren Shuxia said this, and shouted towards Ke Ke's study:

"Coco, come out for a moment, let me ask you something?"

Coco came to her mother and Li Te and asked:

"Mom, what's the matter?"

"What time will your event start the day after tomorrow? I want your Uncle Li Te to drive us off."

"Mom, no need, I heard that there is a special car to pick you up for this event, and why are you going to so many people, I will be nervous."

"You girl, let's go cheer for you, it's not good to be a member of your cheerleading squad!" Li Te urged anxiously from the side.

Ke Ke glanced at Li Te's anxious face, and she seemed to understand in her heart. She also knew that Uncle Li Te had always loved his mother. This opportunity may be very important to him. In fact, in her young heart, she had already put Uncle Li Te became a relative, so he said with a smile:

"Okay, for Uncle Li Te's sake, this princess will agree! Then you can come at eight o'clock tomorrow, and the event will start at nine o'clock."

"Ke Ke, you are so funny, you still call yourself a princess? I have to ask for your permission to do something for you." Ren Shuxia said with a smile beside her.

Seeing her mother's happy face, Ke Ke warmed her heart, but said in another tone:
"But I have three conditions. If you don't agree, I won't let you go!"

"Well, there are still conditions, three, that is thirty, we agree to you too!" Li Te blurted out after hearing this.

"First, go to the scene and don't order me; second, don't laugh at me; third?" Ke Ke said this, tilting his head and suddenly couldn't think of it, and he was anxious, so he yelled:
"Is this the third one, that is, everything must be obeyed by me!"

"Okay, we promise you all!" Li Te replied clapping his hands.

"What about mom?" Ke Ke asked worriedly.

"I promise you too!" Ren Shuxia replied with a smile.

"I'm relieved, but, Mom, you can't go back on what your lord promised?" Ke Ke said with a secretive smile.

"Okay, okay, okay, I promise to do it!" Ren Shuxia glanced at her daughter lovingly, and said vowedly.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, grandma and grandpa came back after selling meat. As soon as they got home, grandma greeted Li Te immediately:
"Li Te is here!"

"Our faucet is broken, I asked Li Te to help fix it!" Ren Shuxia said to her mother with a smile.

"Auntie, I heard that dumplings are made at noon today. Now, I'm lucky!" Li Te said to his grandma with a smile.

"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'll make you full for lunch today!" After finishing speaking, grandma went to the kitchen, busy picking vegetables and washing meat stuffing...

Ren Shuxia came to the kitchen and said to her mother:
"Today I will make dumpling stuffing, and I will let Li Te taste my cooking."

Li Te also came to the kitchen at this time, and said with a smile:

"By the way, Auntie, let me make dumplings at noon today. Let me make noodles. You have been busy all morning. Go to the living room and rest!"

Grandma glanced at Li Tehao's own daughter, couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and replied repeatedly:

"Okay, okay, okay, I'll take a rest today too! There will be two of you!" After finishing speaking, grandma happily left the kitchen.

Ren Shuxia glanced at Li Te in surprise, and asked:

"You, will you meet again?"

"Underestimate people, I am a master at making noodles?" Li Te replied with a proud face.

Just like that, two people were in the kitchen, one was busy making noodles, and the other was busy making dumpling stuffing.After a while, the noodles were reconciled, and Li Te began to use dumpling wrappers again. Ren Shuxia looked at Li Te's skillful craftsmanship, smiled and praised:
"I didn't see it, are you really good at it?"

Li Te also took a deep breath of the dumpling stuffing at this time, and said:
"I didn't expect that you, a technical expert, can still make such delicious dumpling stuffing."

When the two said this, they suddenly felt that it was awkward to compliment each other face to face. They looked at each other and smiled, speechless to each other, and began to busy themselves with the work at hand.

At this time, Ke Ke walked into the kitchen, and as soon as she smelled the aroma of dumpling stuffing, she shouted in surprise:

"Fennel dumplings, my favorite, mom, I want to make dumplings today!"

"Okay, I don't need you here, go do your homework!" Ren Shuxia said to Ke Ke.

Ke Ke didn't listen to her mother's words, and brought the dumpling stuffing to the table, then took some dumpling wrappers, and shouted:

"Grandma, grandpa is making dumplings!"

"Okay!" Grandma and grandpa came to the dining table with a smile.

They started making dumplings.Ren Shuxia was not idle at this time, ready to boil the dumplings.While rolling out the dumpling wrappers, Li Te took them out from time to time...

Grandpa also deliberately took out a bottle of Dukang Daqu wine that has been preserved for many years, poured a full glass of wine for Li Te, and said with a smile:

"Come on, come on, come on, today we won't go home until we're drunk!"

"Yeah, I'm happy today, you can drink to your heart's content, the dumplings are just wine, the more you drink, the better!" Grandma said uncharacteristically today.

The big guys were talking and laughing while eating the dumplings, enjoying themselves...

Finally, Li Te said:

"Today's dumpling is called Xiang!"

Ren Shuxia looked at the drunk-eyed Li Te, handed him a bowl of sour soup with seaweed and eggs, and said:

"Drink too much today, come, drink some sour soup, sober up!"

Li Te was so happy today, he really drank a lot, nestled on the sofa, and slept until five o'clock in the afternoon, then he woke up and left Ren Shuxia's house.

(End of this chapter)