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Volume 7: Across the West Chapter 399: Family

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    During dinner, the six members of the Chen family gathered in the dining room. Because it was rare for the family to be together like this, Li Duanyu specially opened a Maotai that had been hidden for more than 20 years. Compared with the simpler ones on the dining table,  A dinner of dumplings and rice porridge. The Maotai restaurant opened by Li Duanyu is definitely a bit too extravagant. Fortunately, there are several such items in the house. She doesn't feel bad about it. For her, the whole family can sit down  Eating a meal together is more comfortable than anything else.

    As usual, the brothers Chen Ze and Chen Xi sat next to their grandma, one on the left and the other on the right. The brothers and sisters seemed to have been trained to know the rules. They each held small bowls and chopsticks, and watched eagerly as grandma filled their bowls.  Holding big dumplings with thin skin and thick fillings, they didn't dare to talk much at the dinner table. After grandma served them the dumplings, they each said obediently: "Thank you, grandma." Then before moving their chopsticks  , the brother and sister also shouted "Grandpa eats, dad eats, mom eats" in sequence. This whole process is almost like a small robot.

    Chen Yang looked at the miserable state of his children and couldn't help but feel a little sad. At the same time, he couldn't help but think of the times when he and Ruonan were young, weren't they like Chen Ze and his brother and sister who were disciplined by their mother?  Do you have to behave so well?

    Of course, the most Chen Yang can do is criticize his mother's education methods in his heart, but he doesn't have the courage to say it out loud. After all, he was raised by his mother in this way back then, and he doesn't have the same three views now.  , is your career successful?

    Chen Ruonan poured a glass of wine for his father and Chen Yang, and then poured half a glass for his mother and himself.  Then he sat back next to Chen Yang, picked up his bowl, picked up a dumpling, dipped it in the sauce on the small plate, put it in his mouth and tasted it. To be honest, the dumplings from Lao Chen's family really tasted average, at least.  It's much worse than the sauce dishes made by Xian'er and other kitchen experts.

    Because he had something on his mind, Chen Yang didn¡¯t talk much at the dinner table and just served dumplings, peanuts and wine in silence, of course.  The rules of the Chen family were set by Li Duanyu.  They have always been silent when eating and sleeping. Over the past few decades, the family has always seemed very quiet and deserted when eating together. It is very different from ordinary people's families.

    Both little guys have good appetites.  After eating more than ten dumplings each.  Then he followed grandma out of the table.  Of course, there is no time for the two of them to move around freely. They follow the schedule set by grandma.  They had to go for a walk with grandma, and when they came back, they had to go back to the study to practice calligraphy for another hour, and then they could go to bed separately.

    However, after Li Duanyu left with the children, Chen Yang and the others became obviously much more comfortable and began to talk more casually.

    "Dad, didn't I ask you to talk to mom? School is on holiday, so don't arrange so many teachers for the Ozawa brothers and sisters to learn this and that. They are either learning piano or calligraphy every day, or else  Why don't you just learn some etiquette? There are a lot of part-time courses planned. Do you think this is necessary? Anyway, it makes me feel bad to see you."

    Chen Ruonan put down the bowl and chopsticks and mumbled to his father in a low voice.

    Chen Yaohua took a sip of wine with an expressionless expression, and said calmly: "If you want to say it, you can tell your mother yourself. Didn't you see that I have nothing to say to your mother in the past two days?"

    "Dad, you are a grandpa!"

    Chen Ruonan angrily said that in front of her father, she always said whatever she wanted, which was exactly the opposite of Chen Yang. Chen Yang was obviously much closer when he was with his mother than when he was with his father.

    Chen Yaohua has always been very kind to his beloved daughter, and he never hesitates to smile. Unlike when he is in front of his son, he always puts on the face of a strict father. Therefore, when he heard his daughter's accusation, he also  He didn't take it seriously, smiled, and didn't say anything. He picked up the wine glass to fill up another glass for himself.

    When Chen Yang saw this, he quickly stopped the wine bottle in his father's hand: "Dad, please stop drinking so much."

    You must know that the Chen family¡¯s wine glass is almost as full as the waiter¡¯s two ounces of wine. For an old man who is almost sixty years old, he really cannot drink more.

    "I'm happy today. It'll be fine if I drink more." Chen Yaohua shook his head, gently pushed Chen Yang's hand away, and said, "We haven't had a drink together for more than half a year, so you can stay with me tonight."  Have two more drinks.¡±

    Chen Yang was still waiting for more persuasion, but Chen Yaohua had already filled up his cup and secretly shook his head. He could only fill up a cup for himself.

    Seeing Chen Yang pouring a large glass of wine, Chen Ruonan frowned slightly and said, "Chen Yang, I told you, dad, you should drink less."

    "Look at you, am I drunk with just a little wine?" Chen Yang glanced at Chen Ruonan helplessly, "Hurry up and eat the dumplings you made." He pointed at his bowl with his chopsticks,  The dumplings in the bowl were so thin that they were almost mushy.They piled up, "Look what all these things you have packed in your bag? Fortunately, you are still a mother. If you tell me, I will blush for you."

    "Chen Yang, you!" Chen Ruonan was so hurt that his pretty face turned red. Although he felt a little embarrassed, he still insisted: "What happened to the dumplings I made? Aren't there a lot of good ones? Just  But the mother was given to the children in the front, didn¡¯t you see that just now?¡±

    "Only those slightly better ones, I guess it must have been done by Sister Lan. Otherwise, it's Mom's craftsmanship, so you can stop patting yourself on the back."

    "you!"

    Chen Ruonan's lie was exposed by her husband on the spot. She was immediately ashamed and angry. She reached out under the table and pinched Chen Yang hard. At the same time, she wished she could find a hole for herself to burrow into.  However, Chen Yang did not accuse her wrongly. She was raised by her family as the most standard kind of wealthy daughter since she was a child. How could she do these housework if she didn't have a finger in the sun?

    Chen Ruonan gave Chen Yang a hateful look and complained to his father: "Dad, if you don't talk to him, you just watch him bully me, right?"

    Chen Yaohua looked at his son and daughter from the side, his eyes full of joy and satisfaction. At this moment, he rarely joked: "Haha, you girl, why are you dragging your young couple's affairs with me? You really want me?  Say, I don¡¯t think Xiao Yang said anything wrong about you. Can you see for yourself if your skills can be shown to others? "

    Being ridiculed by his closest family members, his husband being like this, and now even his father would not help him, Chen Ruonan was so ashamed that he stood up with a red face and angrily hummed softly: "You don't like eating shit?"  !I¡¯m going to go upstairs to sleep!¡±

    After saying that, he turned around and left the restaurant with a stamp of his feet.

    The remaining two men didn¡¯t take it too seriously. They were all members of the same family. They naturally knew Ruonan¡¯s temper, but they weren¡¯t really angry with them.  I'm just too embarrassed to stay any longer.

    And Ruonan left.  After that, the two father and son didn't have so many scruples. They drank wine and chatted slowly, but most of them were Chen Yaohua casually asking about Chen Yang's work situation, and Chen Yang was in front of his father.  Of course there is nothing to worry about when it comes to speaking.  Instead, he talked a lot about his views on Huahai officialdom and even the current high-level officials.

    Both of them are heavy drinkers.  There was no problem at all in slowly finishing a bottle of Maotai. If Chen Yang hadn't been worried about his father's health and refused to open another bottle, Chen Yaohua would be in the mood today.  That is definitely unbearable.

    But it just so happened that not long after the father and son finished drinking, Li Duanyu took Chen Ze and brother and sister back home after a walk. After settling the children, she returned to the living room. Chen Yaohua sat in the living room for a while.  The son went back upstairs to read as usual, while Li Duanyu stayed in the living room and talked to Chen Yang about the relationship between mother and son. However, unlike Chen Yaohua, what Li Duanyu asked most about was Chen Yang's living situation in Huahai.  Chen Yang naturally answered all questions and made his mother happy. During this period, Chen Ruonan came down once, but he seemed to still remember the embarrassing incident at the dinner table, so he didn't bother to talk to Chen Yang and told his mother.  After a few words, he went back upstairs to take the two children who had finished their schoolwork to take a bath.

    It was almost half past nine when the mother and son¡¯s chat ended.

    Back upstairs, Chen Yang went directly to get a basin of hot water and brought it into Chen Yaohua's bedroom. When he entered the room, Chen Yaohua was sitting by the bed reading a tome. He walked to the bed with the hot water basin.  Next to him, he took out a low stool from under the bed with ease, put down the basin, and naturally helped his father wash his feet.

    ¡°Dad, you haven¡¯t had the same old problem with your feet lately, have you?¡±

    Chen Yang asked while helping his father gently massage a few acupuncture points on his feet.

    "It's been so many years, and it's impossible to get completely better. Now that I can still walk, it's considered God has been kind to me." Chen Yaohua looked at the book in his hand and replied casually.

    "Dad, I've thought about it. There's no need for you to step back. I'm still here now."

    As soon as Chen Yang finished speaking, Chen Yaohua put the book aside and interrupted with a slight cough: "Xiao Yang, I have my own sense of responsibility for this matter, so don't think too much about it." After that, he sighed softly.  , "Well, your mother wants me to quit now, but I have thought twice about it. I still have to stabilize myself before the change of office. After the change of office, without your mother nagging me, I will definitely quit completely as soon as possible."  Come down, Xiao Yang, I won¡¯t hide it from you, your grandpa actually means the same thing.¡±

    Chen Yang felt a little sad, but he felt more of a deep and selfless father's love. He raised his head and looked at his father, hesitated for a moment, and still wanted to persuade him again: "Dad, you'd better do it again"

    "Haha, don't talk about this anymore." A faint smile appeared on Chen Yaohua's face, with some emotion, and at the same time he looked at Chen Yang with relief, "Xiao Yang,??I know that you now have your own ideas and your own ways of doing things, but for me, it is enough for you to grow up and be able to support our Chen family. I say this, you understand.  ?  "

    Chen Yang didn't say anything else, he just pursed his dry lips and nodded.

    At this moment, Li Duanyu stood quietly at the door of the bedroom, looking at the scene that made her feel very intimate. Listening to the chat between the father and son, her eyes were full of tenderness. For some reason, her eyes quietly turned red as she listened.  .

    "Mom, what's wrong with you?" Chen Ruonan, who had just finished his work, walked up to his mother and asked in a low voice with some surprise. As he spoke, he looked towards the room.

    With just one glance, she understood why her mother suddenly felt sad.

    Indeed, although Chen Yang didn't have many opportunities to wash his father's feet and do foot massages after working, in fact, this scene was not unfamiliar to the mother and daughter outside the door. Chen Yang had done this almost every day since he was a child. However,  For the mother and daughter, it seems that they can never get enough of this warm scene. It seems that only at this time, the family seems to be full of deep family affection (To be continued)
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