all the mornings

Chapter 44 The Night Comes (3)
When Li Sichuan said this, it meant that he also admitted Xiaoyu's cognitive system.But he went on to say: "The most important thing is that I know how happy it is to be penetrated by light, just like when I stand under the dome of a Gothic church and look up, I can't help but kneel down." The sense of oppression and dizziness produced by that kind of architecture is so perfect that it coincides with human desires, and its solemnity and sanctity cannot be doubted. Great architects are psychologists, and they know how to use buildings to make people fearful. Great love It has destructive power and the ability to create the world, making people live and die for it. This is the power of love, not because you are Huo Xiaoyu or Yu Jin, but because the person who is caught in it is either Li Sichuan, Le Congqian, or anyone people, anyone in the world."

"Si Chuan, are you a philosopher?"

"No, I'm just like you. I'm torturing myself. Ask myself questions and try to answer them."

"Then you are also Dinghaishenzhen." Xiaoyu said.

Li Sichuan laughed loudly, "I'm still the Monkey King."

Xiao Yu also laughed.

The laughter of the two people was sent back with the sound of waves rising from the sea.

On the day of Grandma's first seven days, Xiao Yu still went to the mourning hall.The night before, she was tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep until midnight. Li Sichuan said: "Go tomorrow. If you don't go, I'm afraid you won't feel at ease for the rest of your life."

After he spoke, Xiao Yu decided to go, but she still said: "Don't take the baby, I can go alone."

Li Sichuan said: "Why would I let you go alone? That's fine, I'll wait for you in the car with the baby, and I won't go to your uncle's house. Come out after you say goodbye, let's find a restaurant in the city to eat. It’s a shame that I haven’t even been to a good restaurant when I came back once.”

Xiao Yu ignored his complaints and asked, "Do you know what the first seven mean?"

Li Sichuan shrugged and said: "I really don't know, but it must be some important day that makes you so attached."

Xiao Yu shook her head and said mockingly, "You are really out of this world."

Li Sichuan immediately made a fluttering expression, Xiao Yu snorted, and said: "The first seven means that the soul will go home to visit the living relatives on the seventh day after death. Therefore, on the first seven days, we must set aside Take seven meals."

Li Sichuan clicked his teeth twice to show his dissatisfaction with this statement.

Xiao Yu suddenly laughed and said: "There is a joke that the children of a certain family don't want to go to school, and lie that the old man in the family has passed away. The child's teacher came to visit the house and saw the old man sitting in the hall, so the teacher scolded the child. The old lady is witty. Said, 'On the first seven days of today, I'll come back and have a look.'" Then he laughed.

Li Sichuan was shocked and said, "I never thought that Huo Xiaoyu would tell jokes!"

Xiao Yu gave him a white look, and Li Sichuan praised: "That's right, you have mastered the knack of telling jokes in such a suitable situation. From now on, you will take care of telling jokes, and I will also enjoy being a master once again."

Li Sichuan had had enough of the jokes, so he nodded and said, "So that's what happened to the first seven."

Xiao Yu had no choice but to smile helplessly and said, "It's all for living people to see."

Li Sichuan said: "You are really right."

Xiao Yu said: "I'll go burn a stick of incense and make my last wish."

Li Sichuan said: "That's right."

Xiao Yu said angrily: "I don't need you to tick and cross each sentence of mine, and I'm not studying grammar to answer the test paper."

Li Sichuan laughed and kissed her, "This is my Huo Xiaoyu."

Early the next morning, Li Sichuan drove into the city in a car that Yu Xiushan had left for them.On the way, he called Jin Yan and Yu Xiushan and told them about their plans to go to the city. He said to Jin Yan that Xiaoyu was coming to sacrifice Qiqi, and to Yu Xiushan that he was recommended a good shop.

Jin Yan said: "Okay, I will come to pick up Xiaoyu."

Yu Xiushan said: "It happens to be the fifth day of the lunar new year, and the restaurants are open. I will contact you later and reserve a private room for you. I can't make it. I have a distinguished guest today." Li Sichuan hurriedly said: "No, no, no. You can just accompany the guests."

He declined Yu Xiushan politely, put down the phone and said to Xiao Yu: "If your father comes, how can we eat well and comfortably?"

Xiaoyu ignored him, Yingying asked: "Are you talking to grandpa?"

Li Sichuan let out a "hmm".

Yingying asked again: "Why can't you eat when grandpa comes?"

Li Sichuan was taken aback for a moment, and almost laughed out loud, but finally held back, and said shamelessly, "Ask your mother, your mother knows everything."

Xiao Yu rolled his eyes at him, and said to Yingying: "Because he doesn't eat well, I'm afraid grandpa will punish him to pick up all the rice that falls on the table and eat it."

Yingying laughed and said, "It turns out that Dad is afraid of being punished by grandpa. Yingying eats well, and Yingying will pick up rice grains for Dad."

Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and said, "Li Sichuan, so you need your daughter to supervise you every meal. Didn't you graduate from kindergarten?"

"You graduated, you and Yingying graduated together." Li Sichuan answered quickly.

"Bah." Xiao Yu spat at him.

Li Sichuan laughed and said: "Huo Xiaoyu, if you want to talk about being poor, you are definitely not my opponent. If I beat you, it is called victory without martial arts."

Xiao Yu replied to him one more word: "Get lost."

Li Sichuan honked the horn proudly.

Yingying seemed to have discovered something, and said happily: "Huo Xiaoyu. It turns out that mother's surname is Huo."

Xiao Yu gritted her teeth and said, "Li Sichuan!"

Li Sichuan laughed so hard that he almost drove the car into the air.

When he arrived in the city, Li Sichuan followed Xiao Yu's instructions and drove the car to the place closest to Jin's Alley, stopped and said, "We won't go down, you will come out after you burn the incense. Call if you have something to do."

Xiao Yu nodded, got out of the car and walked into the alley.Li Sichuan immediately called Jin Yan and said that Xiao Yu would be there in 2 minutes, and Jin Yan agreed.

Yingying heard him hang up the phone and asked, "Dad, why don't we go with Mom?"

Li Sichuan thought about it and said: "Baby, Mommy is going to say goodbye to her grandma. If we are on the side, it will divide Grandma's heart, and she will not be able to talk to mom properly. It is not easy for mom to come back once, grandma I will not come back after going, let them talk quietly for a while."

"Mom's grandma, is she dead?" Yingying asked.

Hearing what she said, Li Sichuan thought in his heart, they kept talking about grandma and grandma. In fact, Yingying didn't connect the grandma in the adult's mouth with the grandma in her mouth. It was right for her to go into the mourning hall and see Grandma's body and portrait.

"Well, do you know what death is?" Li Sichuan asked back.

Baby shakes his head.

Li Sichuan said: "Death is a very unhappy thing. How to put it, you want to meet and talk to a person, and this person will never hear or see. It's like when Dad is working outside, you can You can make a video call with Yingying. No matter how far you go, Yingying can hear Dad’s voice, and Dad can see Yingying’s face. But if the mother’s grandma is dead, she can’t return coming."

"Then death is really too bad." Yingying said with a serious face, stayed for a while, and then asked: "Dad, that Yingying is watching TV with so many people on video." ?"

Li Sichuan was stunned again.Both human images and voices can be recorded, and the media are just audio tracks and electromagnetic induction.What about the soul?The medium is a person with supernatural powers?Like Xiao Yu in his youth?Or like the baby who was not far from here that day?
Li Sichuan shuddered again.

"Yingying, this question needs a whole physics book to explain it thoroughly. Now in simple terms, yes. But, we are watching, they are watching the video. Look at the people on the street, they are walking, we I'm watching. Look at the two brothers and sisters talking in front. Is it the same as the one on TV? Oh, it's arguing. Guess what they said? You go to the movies with me. No, go to my house first. I don't Go to your house. I told my mother that I will watch a movie after I go. I will talk about it after watching the movie. You won’t go after the movie. Yo, let’s do it. Haha, the girl is angry, let’s go. .”

Yingying watched and listened to his explanation, and was amused by him to giggle.Li Sichuan said: "Did you see it, live newspaper drama. Baby, in the future, you must never go to the man's house first, and you must let the boy come to visit his father-in-law first, and see if I don't cut him."

Yingying covered her mouth with one hand and smiled. When the door of the car next to her opened, Xiao Yu got into the car. Seeing the two smiling so happily, she asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Li Sichuan said with a smile: "We are watching the little lovers quarreling in front of us. I will explain on the spot and teach Yingying how to fall in love."

These words provoked Xiao Yu to say angrily: "Li Sichuan, isn't it too early to teach this now?"

"It's not too early, someone has already proposed to her." Li Sichuan started the car and asked, "Where are you going?"

Xiaoyu was startled, and asked Yingying: "Is someone proposing?" Yingying smiled shyly and turned her head without answering.Xiao Yu helped her forehead, "Li Sichuan, I completely lost to you two."

Li Sichuan said triumphantly: "I got my true biography."

Xiaoyu had no choice but to ignore his smugness and said, "Let's have lunch first, and you can go to Anping Bridge in the afternoon. You must be interested in the bridge built during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty."

"Oh, there is such a good place? We must go. Where can we eat then?" Li Sichuan asked.

Xiao Yu became impatient, "I haven't been back for five years, so I don't know where there is a good place to eat. Didn't you ask my dad? He didn't reply you?"

Li Sichuan shook his head and said, "Sure enough, she is in the same class as Yingying."

Xiao Yu burst out laughing, and Yingying touched her hand.The two looked at each other and smiled.

Li Sichuan had no choice but to find a place by himself. The car slid slowly along the side of the road, keeping his eyes on the signs on the side of the road. He saw a lot of high-end cars parked in front of a seafood restaurant with a rather interesting decoration, so he said: "Look at the car for dinner. Wrong, here it is."

Xiao Yu was noncommittal, and reached out to unbuckle the buckle of the baby seat, and Li Sichuan knew it was acquiescence.The three got out of the car and walked into the store. The foreman came and took them into a small private room.There was a private bathroom in the small private room, Xiao Yu took Yingying to the bathroom, washed her hands and came out, sat down and said, "I'm sorry."

Li Sichuan asked: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Xiaoyu said: "Uncle said that Grandma once said to leave the old house to me. She left suddenly and didn't leave a will, but the oral will is also a will. Now this house belongs to me."

"Your uncle doesn't live here, does he?"

"Yes, he has a staff building built by the school, and he has not lived here for a long time. This is equivalent to Grandma's ashram. Before she passed away, she was still practicing for others."

"In their industry, there is no such thing as retirement? Like washing hands in a golden basin?" Li Sichuan asked.

Xiao Yu shook his head.The door of the room was pushed open, and the waiter handed over the menu card to Xiao Yu to order. Xiao Yu casually flipped through it and ordered a few dishes with local characteristics. After the waiter poured tea and left, she said, "Why would she ?”

This sounded a little emotional, Li Sichuan said: "What are you going to do with the old house? Didn't you mean demolition?"

"Let's tear it down, it's best to tear it down, I don't like it there."

"It's a pity. There will be one less room in such a stretch of old residential areas."

"But what to do with it? Young people have moved out, only the elderly are left, and they will all leave in a few years. Or it can be transformed into a dining landmark like Shanghai Xintiandi to meet the needs of tourists."

"That's also a good choice. Tourists need such a place to stop, eat, shop and have a rest. Although it's very superficial, what's the point of simply treating it as a mall?"

"Choose a name, call it Yujin Hill?"

"Yu Jinshan, this name is good. People will think that it is the babysitter of Kingsoft PowerWord."

Xiao Yu smiled helplessly, "It's nothing to you."

"I'm a rational optimist. Matt Ridley has a great book on human economics and I recommend it."

"Nerd." Xiao Yu said.

The door opened, and the waiter brought appetizers, Xiao Yu picked two and put them in the baby bowl, the two of them ate and continued to chat.The door was pushed open again, someone came in, the two of them didn't care, they thought it was hot food, when they looked up, they were all taken aback.

It was Li Sichuan who reacted quickly and immediately stood up to say hello, "Mrs. Yu, long time no see, didn't you go out to play during the New Year?"

Yu Xiushan's wife sat down gracefully and dignifiedly, and said, "Xiao Yu, I haven't seen you for many years, and you haven't changed at all. Brother-in-law Li, you are also the same as before. Oh, this is the baby, so cute. I heard from your father that you are back, so I waited and waited at home, from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the new year, but I didn't see you coming home. I heard that you were eating here, and I happened to be here with my friends, so I came here. Xiaoyu, why don't you go home to worship your ancestors after raising a baby?"

Xiao Yu remained silent, not even looking at her out of the corner of her eyes.

Li Sichuan also felt embarrassed, and at the same time found it inconceivable—what is Mrs. Yu doing here?No one here will welcome her.

Mrs. Yu looked at Yingying, her eyes gradually became wet.She took out a handkerchief to imprint the corners of her eyes, and said, "Yingying? Come to my aunt and let my aunt see you."

Yingying stared at Mrs. Yu with wide eyes, frowned, turned to look at Xiaoyu, then at Li Sichuan, blinked, grabbed the chopsticks, and popped two small peas into her mouth.As soon as he pursed his lips, the marks of the two millet nests at the corners of his mouth became a little deeper.

Mrs. Yu looked at her round face, a pair of round eyes and a pair of round rice sockets, her eyebrows were black and shiny, and her white skin was under her head. She was as cute as a child in a fairy tale book. When he spoke, his voice was almost crying.

"Xiao Yu, it's great that you have a baby. Poor your sister, the doctor said she can't have a baby. That bastard from the Le family hasn't been home for a long time."

Xiao Yu turned pale and turned her head away, but judging from her red ears, it was obvious that she was already angry.Li Sichuan thought that the reason for her anger was definitely not because Le Er didn't go home, but because Mrs. Yu said this in front of her.What right does Mrs. Yu have to complain in front of her?

Li Sichuan couldn't bear to read any more. He stopped Mrs. Yu and said, "Mrs. Yu, we're just going to have a meal here. No, the dishes just came out and we haven't touched our chopsticks yet. Why don't we wait until we finish our meal? Are you free to contact me again?"

Mrs. Yu ignored his hint, all she wanted was someone to talk to her, she immediately turned to Li Sichuan and said, "Brother-in-law Li, you have a daughter, and you don't know the pain of not having a child. Everyone scolded her from top to bottom, saying that she took up the position and couldn't give birth, and if she couldn't give birth, she should give up her seat and let someone who could give birth sit. They forced her to divorce, but Ah Xiang didn't want to hear it, so she went to Europe to relax I went. Brother-in-law Li, how pitiful is Ah Xiang?"

She talked for a long time by herself, and it was difficult for Li Sichuan to interrupt.After she paused for a while to catch her breath, she hurriedly said, "Mrs. Yu, the second sister may not let others know about such a private matter. We are outsiders, so it is inconvenient to hear this. Mrs. Yu, can you go home first? We are all hungry. Yes, I have something to do in the afternoon after dinner. How about I call and ask Mr. Yu to pick you up?"

Mrs. Yu groaned and said, "Aren't you hungry? That's good, that's good. I'll ask someone to bring you more food." She stood up and opened the door, and said to the outside, "Hey, what's your name?"

The waiter at the door hurriedly stood in front of her and said, "My name is Lin. Chairman, what can I tell you?"

Mrs. Yu said kindly, "Go and ask the executive chef to add some delicious dishes to this private room. First serve three bowls of wing soup, and then add an abalone in top soup. Today's Guan Yan is good, so let's have three more cups of apricots." Juicy Guanyan, let's go."

Li Sichuan thought it's no wonder she came so fast, it turns out that this seafood restaurant is her property, so it's not surprising that the ears reported to God so quickly.He stood up and said, "Mrs. Yu, I don't think the dishes you ordered are suitable for Xiaoyu's taste. Xiaoyu, if you don't want to sit down, then let's go to Pizza Hut for pizza, shall we?"

Xiaoyu pushed to get up, but was held down by Mrs. Yu who was sitting next to her, and begged, "Xiaoyu, because you and Axiang are sisters, please help her. You live like this Well, you have a husband who loves you, your daughter is still so good, you have a prosperous career, and you are becoming more and more beautiful. You are satisfied with everything, you share some blessings with Axiang, she is your sister after all."

(End of this chapter)