Stepmother

    Song Zhaodi softly spit out four words: "Because I like it."

    "Can we be together if you like?" Erwa tilted her head and asked Song Zhaodi.

    Song Zhaodi thought about it: "Yes. But if two people want to live a lifetime, it is more important to be suitable than to like."

    "If you don't like it, you can't be together." Think about it for yourself, "It should be the most important thing, right? Mother."

    Song Zhaodi felt that it was a bit inappropriate to talk about "likes and dislikes" with her children, and she was afraid that her words would mislead the children: "If you meet two girls in the future, you like one of them a little, and you like the other very much. , but the person you like very much, she doesn't like me, which girl will you be with?"

    "Why doesn't she like mother?" asked subconsciously.

    Song Zhaodi: "There are many reasons for not liking someone." He washed his hands and walked to the eaves, and whispered, "For example, I don't like Sister Chen, just because she is hypocritical, no other reason. .

    "The girl you like very much, maybe because I'm black, doesn't like me and doesn't respect me. The other girl is very filial and respects her elders. Which one would you choose?"

    "No other options?" Dawa asked curiously.

    Song Zhaodi smiled: "Two is not enough? Zhong Dawa, how many girls do you want to like at the same time?"

    "I don't know." Dawa thought about it seriously.

    Song Zhaodi touched his head: "When you grow up, when you meet a girl you like, you must first consider whether she is suitable for you."

    "We remembered it, mother." Reborn answered.

    Song Zhaodi think about it: "For example, your father and your mother, their family backgrounds are similar, but your mother is not your father's good match."

    "I probably know what it means." Zili said thoughtfully, "It would be great if Dad could meet Mother."

    Song Zhaodi said with a smile: "Your father doesn't look down on me. I am from a rural area, and my parents are farmers too. The gap between your father and yours is too big." so tall."

    "Mother, I've grown taller." Sanwa said suddenly.

    Song Zhaodi almost choked: "I know."

    Song Zhaodi: "Talking about self-reliant father and mother. You don't need to understand, and it's not about your father and me."

    "Just tell me if you don't want to tell me." Zhong Dawa snorted, "I don't want to know yet." Jumping off the bench, she suddenly thought of why he was standing on the bench, "Mother , Erwa just said that Aunt Liu Ping and her partner are not like a family, so will they still get married?"

    Song Zhaodi affirmed: "Yes."

    "The mother said that it is not like a family, but also means that they are not suitable?" Zili didn't understand, "Then if they get married, will they be able to live well?"

    Song Zhaodi: "It depends on whether they want to live a good life."

    "What do you mean?" Dawa frowned, "Mother, don't talk halfway."

    Song Zhaodi: "Your dad knows that I'm tired of cooking and making clothes, so I tell him to do laundry and do the dishes. Sometimes your dad doesn't want to do it, but in the end he does it all. If your dad doesn't do it, I'm very angry, and we will quarrel. If we quarrel every day, will our family be able to live well?"

    "You and Dad quarrel every day." Zhong Dawa reminded her.

    Song Zhaodi choked and gritted her teeth: "I'll show you what a quarrel is today."

    "No, no." Zhong Dawa hurriedly hugged Song Zhaodi's arm, "I know, self-reliance and rebirth, as well as Erwa and Sanwa, you are playing with my dad. .Never had a fight."

    Song Zhaodi tapped his forehead: "Do you understand now?"

    "What did your mother say?" Zhong Jianguo was not busy today, so he walked back from the camp by himself. He shouted at the door to open the door, but no one paid him any attention. Zhong Jianguo turned in by himself, "Research what to eat at noon?"

    Song Zhaodi: "Today, let's eat vegetable porridge."

    "When I didn't ask." Out of the corner of Zhong Jianguo's eyes, he noticed a young man beside the pressure well of the Liu family, and asked subconsciously, "Liu Wei is back?"

    Song Zhaodi did not answer and said, "Look carefully."

    Zhong Jianguo turned around, the man pressing the water straightened his waist, and carried the water into the house: "Where is the little white face?"

    "Aunt Liu Ping's object." Dawa said.

    Zhong Jianguo didn't react for a while: "Liu Ping?"

    Liu Ping's skin is a little dark, she looks like Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu has single eyelids, a slender face, and his facial features are not distinctive. It can be said that his appearance is not good. His appearance on Liu Ping can only be called handsome. But Liu Ping's height is like her mother, about 1.6 meters.

    The man who was carrying the water just now was thin and tall, at least 1.75 meters. He had the same thick eyebrows and big eyes as Zhong Jianguo. The difference was that Zhong Jianguo had a square face, a standard man's face. The face of Liu Ping's object is not big, white and clean, and it looks gentle.

    Zhong Jianguo asked, "Are you right? Don't talk nonsense."

    "My aunt said it." Song Zhaodi said, "A few days ago, my aunt called me to go shopping in Hangzhou just to entertain her future son-in-law."

    Zhong Jianguo walked under the porch and faced the Liu family courtyard, and couldn't help frowning: "This is too, too unreliable?" After a while, "It's not to go to the dishes to find a partner. When shopping for vegetables in the market, which one is the water spirit to choose which one. When looking for others, you have to weigh yourself."

    "Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai - one is willing to beat and the other is willing to suffer." Song Zhaodi said, "Even if the two quarreled every day after they got married, this man would not dare to talk about divorce casually in a short time."

    Zhong Jianguo nodded: "That's true. Although the military cannot control the local area, since Uncle Liu is the division commander, the local leaders have to give Uncle Liu three points."

    "Yes." Seeing Liu Ping coming out, Song Zhaodi looked away, "What's for lunch?"

    Zhong Dawa blurted out: "The big goose is stewed in an iron pot."

    "Believe it or not the goose bites you." Song Zhaodi twisted his face, "I killed the goose on New Year's Eve this year."

    In the Spring Festival of 1971, Zhong Dawa was not able to eat the stewed goose in the iron pot, because Liu Ping's marriage was scheduled for the eighth day of the first lunar month. ,

    Sister Duan gave Song Zhaodi the only rooster in her family, took away the big goose raised by Dawa, and kept Liu Ping when she returned home, and used the big goose to entertain the neighbors and Master Liu. comrade-in-arms.

    On the sixth day of the first lunar month, when Mrs. Duan came to catch the goose, Zhong Dawa almost cried.

    Seeing that the child was very uncomfortable, Song Zhaodi held back her tears. In the afternoon, she slaughtered the **** given by Mrs. Duan and simmered it with potatoes, making two pots of vegetables. The big baby had a round belly. It feels better in my heart.

    Master Liu is Liu Yang's uncle, and Liu Ping is also Liu Yang's only cousin. As soon as Liu Ping's marriage was decided, Mr. Liu asked Song Zhaodi to write to Liu Yang, inviting their family to attend Liu Ping's wedding.

    The eldest sister of the Song family didn't want to cause trouble to her sister, so when she replied to Song Zhaodi, she said that they were going to the island on the seventh day of the first day.

    When Song Zhaodi read the letter, several children were around. At that time, Song Zhaodi said casually that when Liu Yang's family came, he would kill all the drakes.

    Zhong Dawa was full and did not forget this: "Mother, Dali will arrive tomorrow, shall we still kill ducks?"

    Zhong Dawa: "I'm full. But I still feel bad. I think I have to eat another duck leg to get better."

    "Believe it or not, I'll give you a slap?" Zhong Jianguo raised his hand.

    Zhong Dawa: "It's the mother who wants to kill the duck, and it's not that I told the mother to kill the duck."

    "Kill two and save one, and save it until the Dragon Boat Festival." Song Zhaodi said, "Dad, Liu Ping gets married in two days, your grandma Liu will also ask us to go to their house for dinner, You can still eat your goose then."

    Zhong Dawa: "When Grandma Liu came to catch the goose, she said that the goose in our family is big enough to make six pots of vegetables. Mother, six pots of vegetables." She stretched out her little finger, "I feel You can get a piece of goose meat the size of my finger."

    "Then I'll find her to come back?" Song Zhaodi said.

    Zhong Dawa shook her head: "Don't ask for it, we all ate other people's cocks."

    "Is it delicious?" Song Zhaodi asked.

    Zhong Dawa nodded: "It's delicious."

    "I eat so well at night, shouldn't I get up and exercise?" Song Zhaodi asked.

    Zhong Dawa waved her hand: "I don't want to go out for a while."

    "You think too much, big baby." Gengsheng said, "Mother's intention is to tidy up the table and take it to the kitchen, and keep Dad's brush."

    Zhong Jianguo smiled and said, "Since you know that I am a father, can you all be filial?"

    "Mother cooks, I set the fire." Erwa said loudly, afraid that his father couldn't hear.

    I called my father Zhong Jianguo and my mother Song Zhaodi for several months. I called them every day, and I couldn't help thinking of the two as my parents. Talking in this house, it is not like I cared about this and that before, "Dad, I scraped the potato skin."

    "I helped my mother take off the chicken feathers together." Gengsheng said.

    Zhong Jianguo nodded: "All of you are good, only I did nothing."

    "Yes, Dad." Sanwa blurted out.

    Zhong Jianguo was very happy: "What have you done?"

    "I, I'll move the bench." Sanwa recalled carefully, "Leave the table with the second brother."

    Song Zhaodi reminded: "And take chopsticks."

    "Yes." Erwa said, "I brought the steamed buns out of the kitchen."

    Zhong Dawa pointed at the chopsticks and bowl: "I'll send these to the kitchen now."

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    "Dad, don't you know? Everyone on the island knows that you do housework." Zhong Dawa came out and said after walking behind him.

    Zhong Jianguo stopped suddenly: "Who said that?"

    "When you wash your clothes in the morning, people passing by our door can see it on tiptoe." Zhong Dawa said, "The mother in the forest also asked her mother, how can I ask you to wash? Clothes, you are not only a man, but also an officer. Mother said you like to do housework. Not only do you wash clothes, but you also like to wash pots and dishes."

    Zhong Jianguo changed his face: "Song Zhaodi?!"