The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"Dad, I can bargain, why don't you let me do it?"

Wang Mazi could only act as a tool to carry things throughout the whole process, it was so boring.

"..."

Ma Zi's father rolled his eyes at him and enthusiastically pushed Chen Jiahe to pay the bill.

"Uncle Wang, why are you called Mazi?"

Yuanyuan followed him outside and waited for their fathers to come out. She always felt that the name Mazi was strange.

"Don't mention it..."

Wang Mazi was named this not because he had a lot of pockmarks, but because his mother particularly liked to eat sesame cakes when she was pregnant with him, so his father gave him such a hasty name.

Of course, I have some freckles on my face, and I was often teased by my classmates when I was in school.

But compared to Ergou, Shuanzi and Goudan, the name Mazi is not that difficult to accept.

Not long after, Ma Zi's father came out with a smile on his face, carrying things in his hands. This time he saved several dollars.

Passing by the bookstore, Chen Jiahe paused at the door, looked at Ma Zi and asked, "What dictionary did you talk about last time? Do you sell it here?"

"Yes, go in and take a look."

Wang Mazi followed the father and daughter in and immediately saw the "Xinhua Dictionary" on the bookshelf.

"This is it. I'll teach you how to look up words in a dictionary when I get back."

He has almost completely taught us pinyin. With a dictionary, if we come across a word we don't know, we can look up its pronunciation based on the radicals.

"it is good…"

Chen Jiahe stroked the dictionary in his hand and took the child to look at the pencils and notebooks.

He has to teach his children what he has learned, so that when he goes to school, he will know more than others.

Ma Zi's father was waiting outside. If he hadn't known that he was going to help choose a dictionary, he would never have let him into the bookstore.

Sure enough, after Wang Mazi helped find the dictionary, he went to the bookshelf where the idle books were kept, secretly took out a novel, paid for it, and put it inside his clothes.

He toiled in the fields every day, and novels and magazines were his only spiritual food.

"Why did you hide the book?"

Yuanyuan looked at his slightly bulging collar and thought, studying is a good thing, why should he hide it?

"Shh!" Wang Mazi glanced outside and put a finger to his mouth: "This is a secret, you can't tell my father."

"Oh…"

Yuanyuan opened her little mouth wide, and Uncle Wang was afraid that Grandpa Wang would find out.

On the way back, Wang Mazi was walking behind, and his father brought up his marriage again.

"There is a widow in Lijia Village, not much older than you. You can go visit her after the New Year."

"I'm a little older, how much bigger can it be? I won't go to see it. If you want to go, go and see it yourself."

Wang Mazi felt that the blind dates his family introduced to him were getting more and more outrageous. Last month, they even introduced him to a fool.

Is he some kind of mean person?

"You still think she's too old. You won't be able to find someone like her in two years." Ma Zi's father looked at him with disapproval and turned the topic to Chen Jiahe: "Do you think he should get married?"

"..."

Chen Jiahe just glanced at them and continued on his way in silence.

If he really had to say it, he thought Mr. Wang was wrong and he didn't like others interfering too much in his life.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the atmosphere became a little awkward. Ma Zi's father turned his eyes to the child beside him and asked half-jokingly: "Is that right?"

"Let Uncle Wang be with the person he likes."

Yuanyuan smiled at him foolishly. She heard from her father that Uncle Wang had someone he liked.

"..."

Wang Mazi gave her an affirmative look. This was the answer he wanted to hear.

"You little kid, how can you understand what likes and dislikes are?"

Ma Zi's father said this awkwardly, and then stopped talking about this topic.

As I get older, of course I hope Ma Zi will have someone to accompany him in the future. Otherwise, it would be so pitiful for him to live alone all his life.

PS: I am very sorry everyone, I can only update 1,000 words today. I went to the hospital today to have a kidney stone broken. I have severe renal colic and I have been lying down for a long time but it has not been relieved. Please understand.