Chapter 74

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

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

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

"If you don't like it, you can't be together." Think for a while, "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 one you like very much , she doesn't like me, which girl will you be with?"

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

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

"The girl you like very much may not like me and treat me with disrespect because I am black. 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 either." 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." Gengsheng replied.

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

"I probably know what it means." Zi Li said thoughtfully, "If only Dad could meet Mother."

Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "Your father doesn't look down on me. I'm from a rural area, and my parents are farmers too. The gap between your father and yours is too big." She stretched out her hands and gestured, "At least three babies are as tall."

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

Song Zhaodi almost choked: "I know."

"Mother, what are you talking about?" The big baby looked at Song Zhaodi, then at Self-Reliance and Rehabilitation, "Why can't I understand.

Song Zhaodi: "I'm talking about independent 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 said Aunt Liu Ping just now. If she doesn't belong to the same family, will they still get married?"

Song Zhaodi affirmed: "Yes."

"Mother said that it's not like a family, but also means that they are not suitable?" Zi Li 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?" Da Wa frowned, "Mother, don't talk halfway."

Song Zhaodi: "Your dad knows that I'm tired of cooking and making clothes. I ask him to do the 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 both will Quarrel. If we quarrel every day, can our family 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 quarreled."

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

"What did your mothers 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, "Study 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 didn't answer and said, "Look carefully."

Zhong Jianguo turned around, the man who pressed the water straightened his waist, and carried the water into the house: "Where did the little white face come from?"

"Aunt Liu Ping's object." Da Wa said.

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

Liu Ping's skin is a bit dark, and he looks like Mr. Liu. Mr. Liu has single eyelids, a slender face, and has no distinctive features. 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 tall. He had the same thick eyebrows and big eyes as Zhong Jianguo's. 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, "You are 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 eaves of the corridor, facing the Liu family courtyard, he couldn't help frowning: "This is too, too unreliable?" After a pause, "It's not to go to the vegetable market to find a partner, which one is the smart choice. One. When looking for someone else, you have to weigh yourself."

"Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai - one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer." Song Zhaodi said, "Even if the two quarrel every day after they get married, this man will not dare to casually say divorce in a short time."

Zhong Jianguo nodded: "That's true. Although the military can't 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 do you have 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."

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

Sister-in-law Duan gave Song Zhaodi the only rooster in her family, took away the big goose raised by the baby, and kept Liu Ping on the day when she returned home, and used the big goose to entertain the neighbors and the comrades of Master Liu.

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

Song Zhaodi saw that the child was uncomfortable, so she held back her tears. In the afternoon, she slaughtered the rooster given by Mrs. Duan and stewed it with potatoes, making two pots of vegetables.

Master Liu is Liu Yang's uncle, and Liu Ping is 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 lunar month.

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

Zhong Dawa didn't forget this when she was full: "Mother, Dali will arrive tomorrow, shall we still kill ducks?"

"Dad, aren't you full yet?" Zhong Jianguo wondered, what was his son in his last life, and he was thinking about eating every day.

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 my mother who wants to kill the duck, and it's not me who told my mother to kill the duck."

"Kill two and keep 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, and then we can eat yours. Goose."

Zhong Dawa: "When Grandma Liu came to catch the geese, she said that our family's geese are big enough to make six pots of vegetables. Mother, six pots of vegetables." She stretched out her little finger, "I feel like I can get my finger so big. A piece of goose meat."

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

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

"Is it delicious?" Song Zhaodi asked.

Zhong Dawa nodded: "It's delicious."

"Eating so well at night, should I get up and exercise?" Song Zhaodi asked.

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

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

Zhong Jianguo smiled and said, "Since you know that I'm a father, how many of you can't be filial?"

"Mother is cooking, I'm burning the fire." Erwa said loudly, afraid that his father wouldn't hear.

Self-reliance called Zhong Jianguo's father, Song Zhaodi's mother, for several months, shouting every day, involuntarily regarded the two as 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, but I'm the only one who didn't do anything."

"Yes, Dad." Sanwa blurted out.

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

"I, I'll move the bench." Sanwa recalled carefully, "Raise 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."

Zhong Jianguo sighed: "Your father and I are exhausted every day, and I have to wash the pots and dishes when I get home. If this story spreads, the whole island will say that your mother is not virtuous and you are ignorant."

"Dad, don't you know? People all over the island know that you do housework." Zhong Dawa came out and said after she stood up.

Zhong Jianguo stopped abruptly: "Who said that?"

"You wash your clothes in the morning, and people who pass by our door can see you on tiptoe." Zhong Dawa said, "The mother in the forest also asked her mother, how can I ask you to do laundry, you are not only a man, You're still 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?!"