Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 197
Cheng He was waiting for the child to wash up, and then boiled egg noodles for her. He was surprised to see Zhao Si coming in with a gift, and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to give her a birthday present." Zhao Si answered with a smile.

Today she was dressed up anew, more grandly, as if she had been well-dressed.

Usually in school, although she is also a famous brand all over her body, she still tries to keep a low profile and try not to make a huge difference from others.

But today, she made an exception and dressed up carefully.

In a few days, the school will be on winter vacation, and she will be able to go home.

Cheng He blurted out: "How do you know that today is her birthday?"

After asking, he couldn't help feeling a little regretful.How do you know, isn't it obvious?

Zhao Sizai replied, "Didn't Cheng Xinxin make a copy of her household registration book when she went to the school to register? Didn't it have her birthday on it?"

Apparently, she came prepared, and even expected the answer, and she answered without changing her face at this time.

Cheng He stopped talking and stopped talking.

When Zhao Sizai walked in, he said, "You play here for a while, Cheng Xinxin goes to wash her face and brush her teeth, and I'll cook egg noodles."

"What? She eats egg noodles for her birthday today?" Zhao Si was defending Cheng Xinxin.

Cheng He said: "What's the matter? I wanted to eat it when I was a child, but I couldn't eat it."

At that time, the eggs were kept and sold for money to save some tuition fees.

"Go, can you compare with yours now?" Zhao Si said with a smile.Obviously she didn't want to wrong the little girl.

Cheng He had already stepped on the snow and ran to the kitchen.He thought to himself, what can't be compared now?Today's egg noodles are not something you can eat casually.

The matsutake chicken soup stewed yesterday, he divided it into two portions, one portion was eaten yesterday, and the other portion was boiled egg noodles today.

Such egg noodles, can you get them?
The matsutake chicken soup is cooked, and the rest is just cooking noodles, which is very fast.After a while, he was carrying a tray with three bowls of hot noodles on it.

Cheng Xinxin had already finished washing her face and brushing her teeth under Zhao Sizai's urging, and sat down on the dining table in a well-behaved manner.

Seeing the food being served, the little girl immediately danced on the chair, mumbling: "Eat noodles, eat noodles..."

Cheng He said: "Xinxin, sit down better and be careful not to fall..."

Zhao Si couldn't help laughing when he saw the little girl's appearance.

Childhood is carefree!
Three bowls of hot chicken noodle soup were placed in front of three people.

Things like a child's birthday are not a big deal. Cheng He didn't go to the village to publicize it, and he just had a good time with her.

Cheng Xinxin didn't need to be urged to eat, and she wasn't the type to grab a stick to grab a few bites. At this time, she quietly ate noodles with chopsticks.

Although she ate slowly and covered her face, she still ate happily.

Zhao Si was looking at his bowl, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "This is... matsutake?"

She has eaten it before, and she also knows that it is very expensive. She knows that it needs to be transported by air, and it is not something that can be eaten with money.

I didn’t expect it to be in this bowl of birthday noodles!

She couldn't believe it.

"Where did you buy this?"

Can I buy it in Nanshan City?Did Cheng He buy it yesterday?

Cheng He replied: "I picked it from the mountains yesterday, try it, is it new?"

Zhao Sizai couldn't wait to pick up a piece and put it in her mouth to taste. It was fresh and special, and she couldn't help but be full of praise: "It's really fragrant! It feels fresh. It's fresher than anything I've tasted before."

Didn't expect there to be on the mountain behind?She expressed surprise.

I heard that this thing is very expensive. If there are all over the mountain, wouldn't it be a fortune?

She has no experience in farming, and imagined that matsutake would be all over the ground like farming, that would be really good.

However, she vaguely remembered that she had seen it on the Internet before, saying that matsutake had no precedent for artificial cultivation, and of course the wild ones were picked less and less.

Now that I can eat it once, it should be regarded as a commemorative edition.

Cheng Xinxin didn't think as much as they did, anyway, she ate by herself.

After eating the noodles on it, a smooth poached egg was revealed. The little girl looked like she had found a treasure, and she showed off to Zhao Sizai: "Auntie, look, I have an egg..."

Zhao Si also had it in her own bowl, but she also cooperated with her performance, and the actress looked envious and said, "Really? Give me a taste, okay?"

Cheng Xinxin giggled, dragged the bowl closer to her, and said, "No."

This is cooked by my father, how can I share it with others?
Seeing her like that, Cheng He couldn't help laughing and said, "Baby, eat quickly."

I'm really afraid that she will drag it twice and overturn the bowl.

Everyone ate two bowls of steaming chicken noodle soup and sat comfortably on the chairs.

Cheng He wiped off the oil on the child's face and said, "Okay, let's go play."

She couldn't sit still after eating.

She was unwilling to put aside the big doll her father gave her.And there are ten sets of beautiful skirts, she can change many times and play all day long.

What Zhao Sizai gave her was a learning robot that could tell stories, and she also liked it very much.

These are all indoor toys. Anyway, it's snowing outside, so I can't go out to play, so I just stay at home and play.

The winter in the south is no better than that in the north. There is no central heating here, and each family either warms up by the fire or uses a heater.

In Cheng He's new home, except for the empty room next to the kitchen, when it was repaired, a few holes were specially left for ventilation and a place to warm up, and the rest of the place had to be heated.

The newly built houses cannot be blackened every room.

Looking at his daughter who was playing with toys intently, Cheng He felt a kind of plain happiness.

He asked Zhao Sizai, "I'm going back in a few days, right?"

It's almost winter vacation.

She came to support education, and she has nothing to do after the winter vacation.

Zhao Sizai nodded: "Well, soon."

She didn't expect that she would stay here for so long.

"Will you come again next year?" Cheng He asked.

"I don't know, let's talk about it." Zhao Sizai replied.

Teachers are no longer a problem in elementary school. Even if she doesn't come, there will be no teacher to teach.

The question is whether she wants to come or not.

Next, neither of them had anything to talk about, and the room suddenly fell silent.

Two adults watched a child play with a toy intently.

While playing, Cheng Xinxin murmured, "Little Swallow, wearing a floral dress, comes here every spring..."

The little girl's face was pink, and the pink floral jacket on her body made her delicate.

Zhao Si was looking at her, and suddenly asked: "Why didn't you see her miss her mother?"

She asked very lightly, and didn't mean to let the little girl hear.

Cheng He glanced at Zhao Sizai.He had thought she wouldn't ask.Because if she wanted to ask, she should have asked a long time ago, so she wouldn't wait until now.

Why can't she resist asking today?

Zhao Sizai didn't look at Cheng He, but he could feel his eyes looking at him.

She really didn't want to ask.

But seeing that innocent pink face and those eyes that resemble Xiaoqian, this question suddenly popped up.

In fact, this question has been lingering in her mind for a long time.

Why didn't you see the process and miss your mother?
Cheng He didn't evade the question. He said, "Her mother left when she was one and a half years old. She doesn't have much memory of her. How can she remember?"

A one-and-a-half-year-old child does not have much memory.

If she didn't have that person in her mind, the word "mother" would be nothing more than a symbol.

Just like she lost her "grandpa" and "grandma", she has never had it, and she doesn't feel regretful about it.

Zhao Sizai suddenly became a little excited and asked, "You never mentioned her mother in front of the child?"

Cheng He looked at his daughter and said lightly: "What's there to mention? What's the benefit of mentioning it? She left without saying a word. I mentioned her every day in front of the child, so that the child would know from an early age that it was her mother who didn't want her. ?"

Zhao Si was taken aback, her mother doesn't want her?

But Xiaoqian obviously misses the child so much that she goes crazy!Every time she sent her a picture of her child, it made her cry for a long time.

Seeing Xiaoqian's appearance, she once thought Cheng He had abandoned her, otherwise, how could she rush to Taohua Village like this?
What was it that made her and him become like this?
Also, now that the child is young, as long as someone grows up with her, she will not feel that there will be nothing without a mother.However, she will grow up sooner or later.

Will she not long for her mother when she grows up?

Zhao Sizai was silent for a while, then murmured: "You hate Xiaoqian very much, don't you?"

"Hate? Not now." Cheng He said flatly.

He was not curious to hear the word "Xiaoqian" from Zhao Si's mouth.He had expected it.

If it was two years ago, he knew that someone might have her contact information, and he would have inquired like a lunatic.

But now, he has looked away.

Knowing that Zhao Sizai should be friends with her, he didn't intend to ask her.

Time really is the best healer.

Zhao Si looked at him and couldn't help but said, "Is there some misunderstanding between you?"

"Misunderstanding? Maybe! I don't know either. Anyway, she didn't tell me anything when she left. But it's not important now." Cheng He shook his head and replied.

"Then don't you want to go and find her?"

Cheng He looked at Zhao Sizai and said, "Didn't I look for her? I've been looking for her for two years. She said she was from Fengcheng. I went to Fengcheng to look for her. Only then did I know that the addresses she told me were all fake. ..."

Zhao Si was taken aback for a moment: Fengcheng?Where is Xiaoqian from Fengcheng?She is clearly a Pearl...

Why is she lying?

What is going on here?
Cheng He said: "Okay, let's stop talking about this topic here. I don't want to talk about it next time, especially in front of children."

He turned his head and looked at his daughter who was playing with toys in the distance.

They chatted quietly, she should not have heard.

After Cheng Xinxin put on a new dress for the big ba la ba la Xiao Moxian, she ran over excitedly and said, "Dad, Dad, look, I changed..."

Those obsidian-like eyes were almost the same as hers.

Cheng He smiled, stroked her head, and said, "Baby is awesome! Xiao Moxian should say thank you."

Cheng Xinxin was praised, and happily ran away to continue playing.

Zhao Si was watching, feeling inexplicably heartbroken.

She exhaled lightly and said, "It's her birthday today, can I have a birthday cake?"

It's snowing outside, it's dangerous to drive out.

Cheng He said: "I bought some things, I can DIY in a while, and make one myself."

Zhao Sizai said, "Then let me help you."

After studying abroad for several years, I learned how to make a few simple cakes.

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