Daughter-in-law, go home for dinner

Chapter 5

The sun outside the house shone on the unmelted snow, and it was surprisingly cold when it reflected back and hit the body.He retracted his hands and held them in front of his chest, his posture was as wretched as that of the homeless man named Liu San in the village.

Standing at the fork in the east end, he paused, thinking of the cuff button, he turned and walked to the right.

When Li Zizhan heard the knock on the door, he was busy preparing lunch for the New Year's Eve.

"Time delay, go and see who is here." He stretched out his head and called to the child sitting in the hall.

Zhou Shiyan turned his head and glanced at the door, carefully put away the playing cards in his hand and stood up.When he opened the door, he saw Su Weinian standing there awkwardly with his shoulders folded and his hands folded.

"Time delay." Su Weinian didn't expect that it would be a child who opened the door, and smiled.

The child looked up at him, an imperceptible joy flashed in his eyes very quickly.He stared blankly at Su Weinian for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran into the kitchen, pulling Li Zizhan's clothes hastily.Li Zizhan lowered his head to look at him in surprise, but saw the child's face was flushed red, looking very happy.

He quickly looked up and looked outside the house.

Su Weinian smiled at him, rubbed his hands together to take off the bag, and groped inside for a while.Just when Li Zizhan was about to speak in doubt, he paused and raised his hand.

In the palm of his hand is a black cuff button.

A complicated look flashed across Li Zizhan's face, and he said uncomfortably, "So it fell on you, thank you!" He stepped forward to take the things over.

He looked down for a while, and suddenly remembered something, put the things in his pants casually, looked at him and asked, "Why are you here at this time, it's nothing important."

Su Weinian smiled a little forcedly: "It's nothing, I think it's quite valuable, so I sent it here in case the teacher was in a hurry."

Li Zizhan let out an "oh" and didn't know what to say next.

The corners of Su Weinian's lips were pursed tightly, and he tightly twisted the cloth bag with his hands.He raised his head and smiled and said, "Then I'll go first, teacher, Happy New Year!"

Li Zizhan was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Sit down for a while! Let's go after eating!"

Su Weinian refused with a smile, and turned to leave.Unexpectedly, just as soon as he took a step, he felt a small resistance behind him.He lowered his head and turned to look. The child's face was tense, and his little hand was holding the corner of his clothes.

Li Zizhan saw it and said quickly: "Stay, stay! You see, it's rare for someone to come here. Shi Yan finally found someone who got along well with him. You can play with him for a while. The meal will be ready soon."

Su Weinian looked at the child's expressionless face and refused to let go. After thinking about it, he had nowhere to go now, so he agreed.

"Shall we play cards?"

He saw a deck of cards on the table and asked.

The child raised his head and stared at him carefully for a while, and let go only after making sure that he was not leaving.He took the lead and walked to the table, climbed to the chair and sat down, without looking at Su Weinian, with an awkward look.

"Take the train?" Su Weinian raised the card to the child and asked.

The child glanced at him, didn't say anything, just put his hand on the table and sat down.Su Weinian understood, it was his agreement and he was ready to start.

Li Zizhan's "meal will be ready soon" is really a lie.He has been tinkering in the kitchen for a long time. The ingredients are ready, but he dare not cook them.Su Weinian's voice coaxing the child came from outside, he gritted his teeth and threw the fish into the oil pan, only to hear the sizzling sound of the oil exploding.There was a tingling pain in his hand, which made him tremble, and the spatula in his hand was thrown out...

When I opened my eyes, the kitchen was already a mess.The bowls and chopsticks were broken, and the dishes were dropped and dirty.Su Weinian led the children at the door and poked their heads to watch, the speechless expressions on the faces of one big and one small were strikingly similar.Li Zizhan smiled awkwardly and said, "It's all right, let's go play!"

Su Weinian patted the child's head, walked into the kitchen, picked up the debris and threw it into the trash can, cleaning it up a few times.Turning around, he said to the annoyed Teacher Li, "Teacher, let me do it!"

Someone picked up the burden, although Li Zizhan was a little embarrassed, he turned around and took the child's hand and walked out.

Walking to the table, Li Zizhan picked up the unfinished deck of cards and said to the child, "Let's continue playing."

After waiting for a long time, the child did not move.He looked up and saw the child staring at him resentfully.

Li Zizhan laughed dryly.

The child gave him a blank look, stood up from the chair, lay down on the table and snatched the cards from his hand, and sat there alone to play.

Su Weinian cooks at home all year round, and his cooking skills are pretty good.One green pepper fried meat, one dried radish with bacon, one cabbage and one tofu fish soup.Four dishes and six bowls look good on the table.Apart from his small inferiority complex, Li Zizhan was also a little surprised. It turned out that his students were so capable.In fact, he didn't know how many children in the village couldn't afford housework at this age.He is not from the mountains so he doesn't understand the suffering.

"Eat, let's eat!" Since Li Zizhan didn't cook, he rushed to do the small tasks of taking the bowls and chopsticks.

The child stood on one side at first, but when he saw Su Weinian found a stool to sit on, he ran over and sat next to each other.

Li Zizhan held back his mouth, children may not even kiss him, why is he so clingy to Su Weinian?

He didn't know that when the child was lying in the ice and snow, he still had some consciousness in his head. He didn't know what happened, he just felt so cold, he couldn't breathe, he didn't know what would happen, let alone what to do.

Just when he was so helpless, someone hugged him into a warm embrace, and he could even feel the sound of his heart beating violently while lying on that person's chest.He quietly remembered his breath, comfortable, warm and safe.

When he knew that it was Su Weinian who saved him and gave him these feelings, he naturally gave Su Weinian his trust.Later, I lived with Li Zizhan, and stayed at home alone most of the time, and Li Zizhan had to go to class.The other kids didn't know him and didn't play with him, so he held his breath and didn't take the initiative to talk to others.

But Su Weinian is different, he plays with himself, the kindness and flattery in his smile are obvious.A child is still a child, someone plays with me, and someone treats me sincerely, so he likes him too!

"Ah Nian, I see where are you going with the bag?" Li Zizhan had wanted to ask a long time ago. The one who is celebrating the Chinese New Year is carrying the bag. After thinking about it later, it is impossible for him to give himself cufflinks. yes.

Su Weinian didn't make a sound, lowered his head, and stopped picking up vegetables.

"Ah Nian?"

"I want to go out and find something to do." After being silent for a while, he finally spoke, his words were somewhat vague.

Li Zizhan frowned, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and looked a lot more serious: "It's New Year's Eve, and the mountain road is not fully accessible. What are you looking for? Besides, you are a child, and you don't study well. What are these doing!"

Su Weinian lowered his head, only the top of his dark head could be seen from the opposite side.He twitched his shoulders, stood up suddenly, turned around and walked out.

"I'm going back."

How could Li Zizhan let him go like this, he quickly got up and caught up with him, grabbing his hand.

"Let's talk first..." In the middle of the sentence, I saw the crying face and couldn't speak.Li Zizhan sighed, hugged him into his arms, and gently patted him on the back.

"Let's eat first!"

Su Weinian sat back at the table, picked up the chopsticks but lost his appetite.Seeing that the child was looking at him worriedly, he forced a smile to tell him that it was all right.

Although he didn't know what happened, Li Zizhan refused to let him go.

So it became the current situation. After washing, Su Weinian and the child sat on the bed and stared at each other, neither wanting to sleep.

Li Zizhan hugged the quilt and lay on the broken sofa in the living room that looked like it was about to collapse, gnashing his teeth.The little boy kept holding on to Su Weinian, and if he wanted to sleep with him, there was only one bed at home, so he had to give it to them.Thinking that he, as the head of the house, fell into the situation of sleeping on the sofa, his heart was bleak!

Seeing the child not sleeping, Su Weinian knew that he was worried about himself, so he lay down first.

The child sat and watched him for a while, then lifted the quilt and crawled in, the little meatballs arched and arched into Su Weinian's arms.She lay on his chest and raised her head, looking at him with two big wet eyes, very cute.

"Sleep!" Su Weinian patted the child on the back, hugged him tightly and closed his eyes.

Feeling a pair of small hands wrapping around his waist, and a pat on his back, Su Weinian felt that it wasn't that sad, and actually fell asleep just like that.

"Teacher's place will be your home from now on, you can rest assured and don't think too much about it."

The village is not big, and the story of Zhou Liping living with others spread quickly. Although Li Zizhan was not used to such things, he couldn't control them, so he could only comfort him in this way.

Su Weinian has nowhere to go, and Li Zizhan is willing to take him in without making trouble, which is already a great comfort.

He was very grateful to Li Zizhan, and planned to go out to find something to do when the spring came, which could also help reduce the burden.After all, there were suddenly two more people in the family where one person lived, and it was no longer possible to rely on Li Zizhan's meager salary.

When the new semester started, news came from the police station that Zhou Shiyan was an orphan. Although he didn't know how he fell down on the mountain, the orphanage thought the child was dead and the records had been canceled.Li Zizhan had been with the children for so long and developed feelings for them early. Looking at the expectant eyes of the elder and the younger, he gritted his teeth and took his documents to the police station to go through the adoption procedures.

Su Weinian still remembered that when the village secretary came to inform Li Zizhan that the police station had received the news, the child's face suddenly turned pale, and his eyes were full of fear and uneasiness.While he was not paying attention, he ran into the room and locked himself inside, no matter how much he persuaded him, it was useless.

Only then did he realize how paranoid this kid was.The sound like the neighing of a small animal continued to come from the room.He didn't even dare to think about what would happen if Li Zizhan came back later at that time!

When the child came out of the room, his little face was covered with tears and his nose was red from crying.

Su Weinian hugged the child, feeling a pain in his heart that he had never felt before.

Li Zizhan stood aside and teased the child: "Look at you so little, you will be twelve in two months! You have a bad temper and are so short. You are still picky eaters."

The child paused, buried his face in Su Weinian's arms coquettishly and refused to come out.

Su Weinian also laughed.