see you in spring

Chapter 83 Exogenous Branches
"I'm hungry, little winter melon, what's delicious for lunch today?" Jia Lie deliberately ignored the dark-faced Dongqing, got up and walked out of the room, went to the living room, picked up his daughter who was watching TV, and kissed her hard.

My daughter thought she was blocking her from watching TV, so she struggled a few times and said, "Mom, don't make trouble. You can ask your dad yourself."

Seeing that he couldn't get around it, Jia Lie glanced at Dongqing, who was silent, and said flatteringly: "Chef, what delicious food did you cook for us today?"

"You've had enough to play, why do you still need to eat?" Dongqing sat down next to her daughter, feeling stuffy in her heart. She didn't look at Jia Lie and watched cartoons with her daughter.

"People are like iron and rice is steel. Of course we have to eat." Jia Lie was all focused on the game when he was playing the game just now, but now he really feels hungry.

Dongqing said angrily: "There is no food. I just asked you to come out to eat but you didn't eat. The noodles were lumpy and I fell over."

"Falled?" Jia Lie was a little displeased: "Do you know what time it is now? At this time, you are still wasting food?"

"You are the one who wastes food, not me." Dongqing actually didn't throw away Jia Lie's portion of noodles, but put it in the refrigerator.He just wanted to let her know how much playing games delayed things.

Seeing Dongqing's aggressive look, Jia Lie felt unhappy: "Isn't it just to play some games? Why are you so excited? If I don't accompany the child, don't you still have me? I usually am so tired from work, but now I finally have some time at home. Let’s take a break, what’s wrong if I play some games?”

"Is that just for a while? You can just play for a day."

Jia Lie pointed to the clock on the wall: "Holly, open your eyes and look. I started playing at nine in the morning, and it's only two in the afternoon. Do you think this is a day? Is your day so short?"

"How old are you? You haven't played many games yet. You have time to rest at home, so you should rest. You used to shout that your spine hurt and your shoulders were sore when working on the computer. Now you will be fine if you use the computer to play games. ?”

"Holly, I don't understand. I used to listen to you when you didn't let me play games when I was in school, but now that I'm married and working, what's wrong with me playing games?"

"Mom and Dad, please stop arguing." Xiao Donggua covered her ears and looked at them pitifully.

Dongqing felt guilty because she had promised the child, but she still couldn't help but quarreled with Jia Lie.

Jia Lie also felt a little sorry for the child. She sat down and touched the child's head: "Okay, mom and dad will stop arguing."

Dongqing turned around, walked to the kitchen, took out the fried noodles from the refrigerator, and reheated them for Jia Lie: "Eat it while it's hot."

Jia Lie knew that what he had just done was wrong, so he hurried down the steps given by Dong Qing.

She picked up the chopsticks, smelled the noodles, and said to her daughter: "The noodles made by dad are so delicious. Do you want to eat some more?"

Little Winter Melon licked her lips and nodded with an unsatisfied look on her face: "Okay."

Both Jia Lie and Dongqing were amused by her cute appearance, and the atmosphere finally eased.

Halfway through Jia Lie's meal, Dongqing's cell phone rang.

She glanced at him. When Dongqing picked up the phone, she called "Dad" first, then turned on the speakerphone and handed it to Little Winter Melon: "Say hello to Grandpa."

"Happy New Year, Grandpa." Little Winter Melon said in a sweet voice, "Grandpa, I miss you so much."

"My good granddaughter, grandpa misses you too." Dongqing's father on the other side heard his little granddaughter's voice, and the pain in his body instantly eased a lot.

"Dad, are your legs and feet feeling better? How are you getting along with the aunt who takes care of you?" Jia Lie took out a tissue to wipe his mouth, leaned over and asked on the phone.

"Jia Lie, my legs and feet are much better. Thank you for your sister and brother-in-law for taking care of me during this time. You also helped me find a good nanny. Thank them for me."

"That's right. Dad, please rest in peace and recuperate. If you need anything, just tell us."

"Hey, where's... Holly? I want to tell him something." The old man asked over there.

Dongqing knew that the old man must have wanted to say something inconvenient for Jia Lie to hear, so he quickly turned off the speakerphone and walked into the small room with his cell phone.

Jia Lie didn't know what the old man was mysteriously going to tell Dongqing, and she didn't want to know either.There are too many things going on during this period, and her energy is limited. Now she just hopes to get out of the isolation period safely without any more extraneous things.

"Mom, why did Dad come into the room to make a phone call?"

"Because they want to whisper. Okay, children, don't ask so many questions about adult matters, eat quickly, take a rest after eating, and mom will do some exercises with you when you get up."

"Why do you have to do exercises? It's a holiday now." Xiao Donggua looked reluctant, and the noodles in the bowl suddenly lost their flavor.

"You are going to elementary school in September this year. Of course you have to do more exercises, otherwise what will happen if you can't keep up? Do you want to be the last one?"

Little Winter Melon pouted: "I don't want to."

"That's right, eat quickly." Jia Lie took a piece of paper and wiped the sauce from her daughter's mouth. When she heard Dongqing's voice getting louder in the small room, she sighed, wondering what she was really afraid of. What.

After Xiao Donggua fell asleep, Dongqing hesitated for a long time, and finally said to Jia Lie: "My dad... doesn't want that nanny to come to the house."

"Why? Didn't Auntie do a good job?" Jia Lie was a little unhappy. She had vaguely heard the conversation between Dongqing and the old man outside the door just now.Her sister and brother-in-law had spent a lot of effort to hire the nanny. She was also related to her brother-in-law. She didn't know how to tell her brother-in-law about it when the old man said he didn't want it.

"No, no, no, my dad said that aunt is very nice. I also know that it was your brother-in-law who worked hard to invite her, but..."

"but what?"

"My dad said... this lonely man and widowed girl stay together all day long, and the neighbors gossip." Dongqing knew that in a big city, no one would care about such nosy matters.But in small places, it is a long-standing after-dinner conversation among the neighbors.His father has always been upright and would not tolerate others talking behind his back.

Jia Lie laughed angrily at the old man's brain circuit: "I said, is the old man too narcissistic? He is so old, who would spread gossip about him?"

After all, he is his father, so Dongqing can still understand his father's distress: "Just because you are already this old, you can't lose your security at this late age."

Jia Lie saw that Dongqing was siding with his father, and she was furious: "Your father was confused for a moment, so you followed suit? His leg is injured now. Who doesn't know that the aunt was invited to come back to take care of him?" ? Who would think about that when they have nothing to do? Besides, now is the time when the epidemic is serious, and there is not even a soul on the street outside, so who is gathering together to chat without risking their lives? "

Dongqing sighed: "I have already told my father what you said, but now he is stubborn and accepts death, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Seeing how helpless he was, Jia Lie snorted coldly: "Okay, since your dad is going to save face and suffer the consequences, then let him. I don't care. From now on, you can handle his affairs yourself."

Dongqing came over licking her face: "The old man knew that he did something wrong, and he was afraid that you would blame him, so he didn't dare to tell you himself. He asked me to say sorry to you."

Although Jia Lie was angry, he was still a junior. Hearing the old man saying sorry, he kept silent.

Dongqing knew that Jia Lie was a talker, so he quickly struck while the iron was hot and said what he said next: "The old man knew that he couldn't take care of himself, so he thought he might as well go to a nursing home. He would have to go there in a few years anyway, but now it's just... It’s just that the time has been advanced.”

"It's okay if you think it's okay. You don't need to tell me." Jia Lie felt that the old man had his own ideas, and she was simply tired and didn't want to interfere with their affairs anymore.

Dongqing hesitated for a few seconds: "This matter... I really need to tell you. You are the only one in our family who has the ability to accomplish this."

After being together for so many years, this was one of the few flattering words Jia Lie heard Dongqing say.

She didn't expect this wood-like holly to be able to talk. She raised her eyelids and said, "Then tell me, I want to see why I have to do anything."

"Didn't you say before that you have a classmate who works as a leader in the largest public nursing home in my hometown? Can you help me ask if there are any beds? If so, can my dad be accommodated?"

When Jia Lie heard this, she realized that only she could do this. What Dongqing said was indeed not flattery, but the truth.

(End of this chapter)