Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty Six

Ever since I invited my parents to eat at her hot pot restaurant, Ye Shengnan has become more confident in going to my house to eat.Sometimes I saw her add food and vegetables very skillfully and arrogantly at our dinner table, and chat and laugh with my parents, which made me feel confused, thinking that I was always in a dream, embarrassed What's more, I don't know whether it's a dream that we're divorced, or it's a dream that she is eating and drinking at our house now. This kind of life continued, and my parents adapted quickly. Sometimes Ye Shengnan didn’t come to my house for a meal, and my father or my mother would instinctively ask when they got to the dinner table: "Is Ye Shengnan coming back to eat today?" My mother also visited Ye Shengnan's hot pot restaurant many times to taste it. Ye Shengnan has several chain stores. Every time I took my parents to different restaurants, and twice I brought my parents together to eat and drink together. .I don't dare to say what all this means, but all this has indeed reawakened my parents' affection for Ye Shengnan and even family affection, especially since Ye Shengnan never mentioned the issue of getting back the custody of Dandan, which made me even more angry. My parents not only breathed a sigh of relief, but even began to appreciate her tolerance, and felt like they were benefiting from her.

Life is going on so plainly but imperceptibly, and I have gradually adapted to this kind of warm and peaceful life, which is like warm water, although there is no enthusiasm or taste.At my age, I am open to many things. At least I understand one truth: the bitterness of the past may become the sweetness of today, and the sweetness of today may also become the bitterness of the future.The example in front of me is: when we were living together in the past, I blindly followed Ye Shengnan's fashion, and she fell ill with any virus that was prevalent in society, such as chorea, leprosy, running a business and smuggling things, and everywhere The condescending extreme feminism that always wants to control me is disgusting, annoying and painful.Passed, broke up, and now in retrospect, these things have a completely different meaning.The flaws in her that seemed unbearable to me at the time and made me tired, combined together, actually made me reflect on her vitality, restlessness, continuous improvement, cuteness and foolishness, all kinds of things that I think are very cute now. temperament.Sometimes I occasionally think back to the time when we lived together. Some fragments and details of her life, such as riding on me as if performing the dance "Steam Mercedes-Benz to Protect the Frontier", often make me laugh. For example, she was in the courtyard of the police station The embarrassment of Li squatting on the ground with her head in her hands often makes me laugh out loud, and even the high-decibel howl that is close to the ultrasonic standard when she is crazy makes me feel kind, and I only know later , if that kind of sound is put on singing, it is called dolphin sound, which is a very difficult sound effect that requires special talent.

The strange thing is that although she met me and Wu Mingming together, she never asked me about Wu Mingming.Once, after we had dinner at our house, we went downstairs and went back to our respective residences at the same time. I pushed the bicycle, and she got into her car. For some reason, she suddenly rolled down the window and waved to me. I went to ask Her: "What's the matter?" She smiled and asked, "How's your partner going?" I really didn't expect that she would call me over in a serious manner and suddenly ask me this question. I was stunned for a moment, and was about to tell her that I was looking for it, so I could only answer her question like this.Before I could say it, she kicked the accelerator and drove the car away.I made her blink, feeling a little annoyed and helpless. Although I knew she was joking, I didn't understand why she made such a joke at this time. I wrote it down and planned to take the time to pay her back.The way I paid her back made her never think that I was paying her back at the dinner table, in front of my parents. The reason why I chose this kind of time was to remind my parents that Ye Shengnan was no longer theirs. Daughter-in-law, even though she is Dandan's biological mother, legally speaking, she really has nothing to do with our family.

I pretended to be careless, and when she was bragging to my parents with great interest that she had opened another branch store and took time to invite my parents to inspect it, I asked her abruptly: "Where are you going?" How is the stewed pig's trotter? When will you drink your wedding wine? Do you drink it in your store or choose another place?" Sure enough, Ye Shengnan was stunned, my father, mother and son were all stunned, the expected effect was achieved, I was secretly proud, waiting to see how Ye Shengnan would cope with the sudden embarrassment with her wisdom.Ye Shengnan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing, it was the real kind of laughter, not the kind of laughter performed by actors.To be more precise, it should be laughing wildly, she coughed and choked with laughter, my mother gave me a hard look, and my father's face was drawn like an old shoe sole.The rule of our family is that unpleasant things are absolutely not allowed at the dinner table, whether it is words or actions. After my parents retired in old age, this rule became stricter.My provocative question today not only made Ye Shengnan ugly, but also annoyed them, because I not only destroyed the peaceful atmosphere at the dinner table, but also might destroy the local harmony they carefully maintained.

Ye Shengnan's performance was simply outstanding, and I admired it afterwards. After laughing for a while, she ignored me, but said to the other three people: "Look, Dad Yang is jealous, isn't it funny how he looks jealous?" It is possible that there is no one other than Ye Shengnan who can resolve the current predicament so easily, at least in our family.Next, she laughed again, and then asked my parents: "Dad, Mom, have you ever seen braised pig's trotters?" My parents shook their heads: "I haven't seen it." Eggy interjected: "I've seen it before, when I was a child, it was pretty ugly."

Ye Shengnan said: "It's more than ugly. When we were young, we were classmates, and our female classmates dared not look at him..." My mother said: "No matter how ugly it is, you are still a person, so why not dare to watch it?" Ye Shengnan said: "It's not that I don't dare to look at him, but I dare not look at his two snots. When he was young, that person was too disgusting. He didn't pay attention to hygiene. He couldn't clean up his snot. The two snots were yellow It was yellow, thick, and hung on his lips. Not only did he not blow his nose, he even stretched out his tongue to lick it. The snot was almost crossing the river, and then he sucked it back. After a while, the two snots hung down again... ..."

My mother stopped her: "Okay, stop talking, it's disgusting, and let people not eat." Ye Shengnan said: "Tell me, just like this person, Yang Dadan is still jealous of others, insisting on saying that I am with him, is it ridiculous?" Eggy first stated: "It's ridiculous, it's all ridiculous." My dad asked Dandan: "Is anyone ridiculous?" Eggy said, "The snot of braised pig's trotters and my dad are both ridiculous." Ye Shengnan went on to say: "To be honest, when I see him now, I always feel that his two snots are still hanging on his mouth, saying that I am good to him, how is that possible? Are you a useless me or bury me?"

I said, "Now that I've grown up, I don't have any snot at all." Eggy said: "Floyd said that the psychological injury suffered by a person in childhood will affect his whole life. My mother was injured by a braised pig's trotter and a big nose when she was a child. The trotters are good. No wonder when I was young, no matter how clean I washed my face, my mother had to wipe my nose before letting go. It must have been hurt by the braised trotters when I was a child, and it was passed on to me to hurt me. Dandan has already entered junior high school at this time, and now is the era of knowledge explosion. The knowledge of junior high school students like him must be much wider than that of me and Ye Shengnan. I have already adapted to not discussing science and current affairs with him. Because I know that I am no match for a middle school student like Dandan in those respects.Eggy’s dream is to major in military industry, saying that he wants to develop super high technology that can sink aircraft carriers like trampling toads and eliminate stealth bombers like flies.

My mother asked him: "It's okay, why don't you fight the aircraft carrier and destroy the stealth bomber?" Eggy said, if our country has these two abilities, the Americans will no longer dare to bully us, help Taiwan achieve Taiwan independence, and bomb our embassy.My dad rooted for him and couldn't be more appreciative of the grandson who would one day save Americans from bullying us.I don't think so, I think Taiwan doesn't need to fight and can't be independent, they don't have the capital to truly be independent.The United States has money but can't afford a war with China. The only way out for China and the United States is to maintain friendship.But I dare not argue with Dandan on this issue, I know I cannot argue with him.

Ye Shengnan snorted: "Eggy, do you know what kind of aunt your dad likes?" Eggy didn't think about it: "I must like you like this, otherwise why would you get married?" Ye Shengnan said: "He likes those with long faces, with big teeth, and the teeth have to be purple." He also bared his teeth at Eggy: "Pink teeth like ours Your dad doesn't like it, it has to be the black and purple one." Eggy laughed loudly: "My father's aesthetic concept is different." The conversation between Ye Shengnan and Dandan made me very embarrassed, please explain, the explanation is not clear, and some details cannot be explained.Don't explain it, my parents looked at me very surprised, and interrogated me with their eyes what was going on.It's my turn to be embarrassed, I'm not as good at adapting to changes as Ye Shengnan, and I'm not as flexible as her. I'm not a smart type, but a down-to-earth type, so I don't have the ability to resolve the predicament immediately like her, so I can only concentrate on eating.My dad probably saw that his son was really in a mess, so he opened his mouth to intervene: "Eat, eat, don't talk nonsense while eating."

I raised my head and glared at Ye Shengnan. Ye Shengnan responded to my father's call and buried her head in eating, but I could see the complacency on her face, and there was a hint of joy in her complacency. I didn't know where her joy came from at the time. It was a long time later that I realized that the conversation at the dinner table had made her understand me.Because she was right, I have always had a jealousy toward her and the braised pig's trotters that I didn't even realize myself. Looking back calmly, the rift between Ye Shengnan and me started gradually after the braised pig's trotters came into our lives. expanding. I didn't respond to Ye Shengnan's ridicule, it wasn't that I didn't dare or that I couldn't, it was just that I wasn't in the mood.Because our unit has been affected by the reform of state-owned enterprises, everyone’s fate is facing a new ordeal. Although I probably won’t suffer too much loss with my qualifications and skills, the whole factory is panic-stricken, and I naturally can’t calm down. I don’t think it’s okay, but when I think about the future of the factory and the unknown fate of us workers, my mood is full of dark clouds and gloom.