"Hey, Uncle Ye, you haven't left yet. What are you doing kneeling on the ground with your mother (⊙_⊙?)"

Xiao Qin, who came back from buying canned oranges, was eager to claim credit from Aunt Ren, so she pushed the door into Aunt Ren's bedroom without saying hello, and saw my dad kneeling in front of Aunt Ren, holding a diamond ring in his hand and proposing.

My father and Aunt Ren both had something on their minds. When Xiao Qin saw this embarrassing scene, both of them were a little panicked. Aunt Ren said hurriedly:

"No, I didn't do anything. There was a similar action on the crew. I was in a hurry to catch up with the filming after I was discharged from the hospital. I wanted your Uncle Ye to help with the pose and think about the action design."

Xiaoqin blinked, "But mom, you are a martial arts instructor. This action looks a bit like...a bit like a proposal. Why do you need to design the proposal action?"

Aunt Ren was also a bit quick-witted, "Because after the proposal action, the female character immediately kicked the male character away, so this is a martial arts action and I should be responsible for it."

"Is that so?" Xiaoqin was dubious, "Where did this diamond ring come from? Is it a prop from the production crew? According to the background setting of the drama "Legend of the Magic Cauldron", it seems that there is no custom of giving diamond rings when proposing."

"That's because..."

When my father saw Aunt Ren being speechless, he was afraid that he could not round out the lie, so he quickly took over the conversation: "Yes, we are acting, but we are not acting on your mother's crew. I want to propose to someone else. I am not confident. So rehearse it in front of your mother..."

"Hey, hasn't Aunt Xiaojuan agreed to your proposal yet?" Xiao Qin frowned in confusion, "If it were me, after waiting for 14 years, the other party would immediately pounce on her as soon as she opened her mouth, so why would I need a diamond ring? …”

Xiaoqin turned around and put the shopping bag on the table, while her father, who was half-kneeling and trying to get up, was pinched by Aunt Ren's ears from the side, and asked in a low voice with a dark face: "So you still want to marry someone else, right? It turns out it was just a preview with me..."

Dad couldn't scream in pain after his ears were pinched, so he had to lower his voice and replied: "It's just an expedient measure. If you agree to my proposal, I will tell Xiao Qinming now, but if you don't give me an accurate answer, How should I tell Xiaoqin about our relationship? Could it be that we just slept together... Ah, stop pinching me."

Because of Xiaoqin's sudden intrusion, Aunt Ren felt that the atmosphere of the marriage proposal had been broken, so she did not intend to give her father any reply.

"Uncle Ye." Xiaoqin took two cans of heat-relieving drinks from the refrigerator for her father and Aunt Ren to drink, and said to her father a little worriedly, "You are proposing to my mother, in case someone misunderstands you." How bad it is, if it reaches Aunt Xiaojuan’s ears, it will definitely make her sad.”

Preconceivedly and sympathetic to Xiaojuan's infatuation, Xiaoqin already believed from the bottom of her heart that my father and Aunt Xiaojuan were a couple, and did not think too much about the very suspicious couple in front of her.

"I understand. I will never do anything that can easily be misunderstood again." Dad promised Xiaoqin, then turned around and asked Aunt Ren: "If it's okay, I'll leave today."

"Don't leave." Aunt Ren said suddenly.

"Then...what do you need me to stay for?" The guilty father was still eager to retreat.

"You stay and cook." Aunt Ren ordered without negotiation, "I will cooperate with you... I will cooperate with you in rehearsing the proposal. In exchange, didn't you promise to cook for us two?"

"Mom." Xiao Qin advised from the side, "Let Uncle Ye go back first. It would be bad if Aunt Xiaojuan or classmate Ye Lin are left waiting in a hurry. I can make dinner. I have been practicing my cooking skills. I will cook some delicious and nutritious dishes for my mother."

"I just want to eat his cooking today." Aunt Ren glared at my dad unreasonably, "Besides, it's almost the day when you'll have a stomachache, Xiaoqin, so don't touch your hands with cold water."

Seeing that her mother persisted and refused to give in, Xiaoqin had no choice but to apologize to her father on behalf of Aunt Ren:

"Uncle Ye, I'm sorry. My mother was in a bad mood just after being discharged from the hospital. Please don't be angry with my mother..."

"There's no need to apologize to him." Aunt Ren interrupted Xiaoqin unhappily, "There's no need to be particularly polite to him in the future, he wasn't polite to me anyway..."

He stopped talking in the middle of the conversation. Only the two of them knew exactly what it was referring to. Xiao Qin stood in the middle and was stunned for a while.

"That's right." Dad adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Your mother and I have been neighbors for many years, and you and Xiaolin grew up together. It's too weird for you to use honorific names for me. From now on, Stop yelling 'you, you'."

"How can that work?" Xiao Qin said in surprise, "Classmate Ye Lin also uses the honorific title when he calls my mother."

"You don't have to worry about it." Aunt Ren said from the side, "Just talk to your Uncle Ye how you usually talk to me. Ye Lin treats me the same way."

Dad looked happy and felt that Aunt Ren's decision had special meaning, but Aunt Ren turned her face away to prevent Dad from reading her thoughts.

"That's not good." Xiao Qin always felt that the elders were acting strangely during this period, as if they were occupied with something. "What if classmate Ye Lin sees that I don't use the honorific title for his father and thinks I'm rude?" manage."

"There is absolutely no problem with Xiaolin." Dad insisted, "Try it now, no need to use honorifics, just say hello to me."

Seeing that her mother and Uncle Ye were insisting, Xiaoqin had no choice but to say: "Uncle Ye... hello."

His eyelashes blinked again and again, his face full of confusion, as if something insubstantial was missing from these words.

Dad felt that Aunt Ren's request for Xiaoqin to be polite to him was a kind response to his proposal, because in a remarried family, a good relationship with stepchildren is a very important part.

Aunt Ren didn't necessarily think so, maybe she simply felt that she had let the other person sleep, and then she saw her child being respectful to the other person, which made her feel very unbalanced.

Thinking about it carefully, speaking completely objectively, my father has already said the famous three-character curse to Xiaoqin. Even though Xiaoqin has been scolded like this, she still treats my father like a distinguished guest. Xiaoqin and her mother were watching, and of course she couldn't take this breath.

So dad was left to cook.

Dad's cooking skills are only slightly better than those in the canteen of No. 28 Middle School. He can only ensure that there are no stones in the rice, no flies in the beans, and there is meat in the fried pork with green peppers.

So Dad feels that it is a lot of pressure to cook for Aunt Ren and his daughter. Dad has eaten the braised sea cucumber and chicken with bamboo shoots sent by Xiaoqin. He knows that Aunt Ren and Xiaoqin are much better cooks than him. Guan Gong Playing tricks in front of the door is a trick to make the person you want to propose laugh at.

Brothers fighting, father and son in the battle, my father felt that the task at this moment was no less difficult than going to the battlefield, so he called me and asked me to come and help with the emergency.

So I just finished lunch at the squad leader's house, and before I stayed for a while, I took a taxi to Xiaoqin's house, planning to prepare a dinner for Xiaoqin's mother and daughter by us, father and son.

Chinese people really depend on food. Today I did nothing but focus on food.

However, there is a difference between eating at noon and cooking in the afternoon.

Knowing that I was almost there, my father came downstairs to pick me up and planned to buy some groceries with me at the vegetable market downstairs.

On Honglou North Street, some residents were relocated from the former courtyard. My father had not changed much over the years, so he was recognized by an old lady.

"Hey, isn't this Teacher Ye?"

Because my father also ran cram schools for a period of time when he just resigned from college, so some old neighbors like to call him teacher.

"Hey, it's a pleasure to meet you. It's Aunt Wang." My dad actually remembered her last name.

The old lady smiled happily and was about to ask how my dad was doing when she suddenly saw me getting out of the taxi and walking to my dad's side.

I didn't have a deep impression of Aunt Wang. I was about to ask my father to introduce her to me, but I saw Aunt Wang's face change drastically. She said in surprise: "This... could this be your son? Why did he ruin... plastic surgery?"

Who had plastic surgery? Who would have plastic surgery to look like me? If you always think that I am disfigured, just say so.

Dad said something perfunctory, so Aunt Wang sighed and waved goodbye to us, with the deep regret that the young lady in her prime had grown into a murderer, and we were able to walk to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

When I arrived at the vegetable market, I carefully recalled the dishes cooked by the squad leader today, and wondered if there was anything simple and easy to make that I could use to borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha.

After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that the fried shrimp and green vegetables and the vegetarian stir-fried three shredded vegetables are easy to make, because the dried shrimp and green vegetables are mainly seasoned with minced garlic and dried shrimps, and the green vegetables are added to stir-fry. The vegetarian stir-fried three shredded vegetables are easier, just add shredded fern and celery. , blanch the shredded bamboo shoots in boiling water and stir-fry them together.

At my suggestion, my dad first bought the ingredients for these two dishes, but ignored the basic rules of cooking. The simpler the ingredients and methods, the more the skills are tested. My dad and I only have the following If a very powerful guy suddenly challenges an unfamiliar dish, you can imagine his end.

But no matter what, Aunt Ren has just been discharged from the hospital. Although she can't eat big fish or meat, she must eat some nutritious food. She can't buy hand-made noodles for four people. My dad and I go back and give Xiaoqin and Ren Auntie, eat it.

Because I had just tasted the squad leader's cooking skills, I had blind confidence. I didn't consider that my father and I were the worst in cooking. I was very optimistic and bought some common ingredients, ready to go back and show off my cooking skills.

Speaking of the vegetable market downstairs of Xiaoqin's house, we cannot fail to mention the shoe repairman who has an overwhelming presence in the market.

The person who once sold bugs to Xiaoqin is a former employee of the National Defense and Security Bureau. He is especially good at placing various bugs in shoes. He fell out with his boss for some reasons and is now living in hiding in the city, making a living by repairing shoes. But he gets off work on time at five o'clock every day, and every time he approaches his shoe repair hut, you can hear him cursing the Chinese football on TV.

"Idiots, a bunch of idiots, another three black minutes. The idiots in the Chinese men's football team are hereditary."

When my dad and I were walking by, we happened to hear the shoe repairman yelling at the TV in the room.

"Iraq is such a mess that you need to carry a submachine gun to buy groceries. Then everyone can win the championship. You guys are eating shit, right?"

"Look at North Korea. The North Korean men's football team is so enthusiastic when playing games. You should all be sent to North Korea's Mount Kumgang to dig coal."

"While digging coal, I took my map to the North Korean leaders and asked them to quickly destroy the US military's nuclear facilities on the peninsula and avenge my Yugoslav comrades."
Chapter completed!