Jiang Baobei looked at the piece of crispy pork in front of him and Qiu Xia’s smiling expression and felt a little bitter in her heart. She couldn’t even taste the crispy pork when she put it into her mouth.
“You, as a mother, don’t even pick up a piece for Xiao Wu. Our Xiao Wu is the birthday girl today. How about this, Uncle will use the crispy pork that your mother queued up to buy to please our Xiao Wu.”
After living together for more than two months, Feng Chenghai also discovered the coldness between the mother and daughter.
Feng Chenghai also asked Qiu Xia the reason privately, but Qiu Xia always evaded the question by saying that the mother and daughter were used to this way of getting along.
After all, he was only a stepfather, while Qiu Xia was the child’s biological mother, so he couldn’t say much about this matter and could only help Qiu Xia to make up for it from time to time.
For example, if Qiuxia didn’t love her daughter, she wouldn’t have queued up at the Internet celebrity store on her birthday to buy the crispy pork that was rumored to be the favorite of girls of their age and started stewing pig’s feet early in the morning, just because soybean pig’s feet soup was her daughter’s favorite.
Therefore, Feng Chenghai emphasized this point when he picked up the crispy pork for Qiu Wu, just to let Qiu Wu know that her mother did love her.
“Thank you, Uncle.”
Qiu Wu picked up the bowl and took the crispy pork with chopsticks from Feng Chenghai, but she kept paying attention to Jiang Baobei’s expression from the corner of her eye.
‘Qiu Wu’, who was reborn from the age of 40, could see many things more clearly than when she was a little naive and impulsive at the age of 16.
For example, the stepfather in front of her. In her previous life, she always felt that the other party had taken away her mother, so she was indifferent to many of his good intentions.
When she returned to the age of sixteen again and looked at her stepfather from the perspective of a bystander, she felt his efforts to close the relationship with his stepdaughter.
Jiang Baobei tastelessly ate the piece of crispy pork that Qiu Xia put into her bowl, thinking about what Feng Chenghai said just now.
This was the crispy pork that her mother queued up to buy for her…
She couldn’t be naive anymore. Did she really think her mother liked her?
The meal was apparently a great success. After lunch, Feng Chenghai helped Qiu Xia clean up the table and then went to work. Maintenance workers were different from other jobs and had to work overtime on weekends.
Not long after Feng Chenghai left, Qiu Xia followed him out. The housewife on the same floor heard from somewhere that a newly opened supermarket nearby was having a promotion.
If you spent more than 168 yuan, you could get ten free-range eggs for an extra yuan. Not only that, some daily necessities in the supermarket were also on sale, and the price was 60% to 80% off the usual price.
It happened that the paper towels and soap at home were almost used up, so Qiu Xia accepted the invitation of the housewife on the same floor and went to the supermarket to buy a lot of things.
Now, Qiu Wu and Jiang Baobei were the only ones left in the room.
“Let me take you to see photos of my childhood.”
Ah Wu said to Jiang Baobei who was a little silent after lunch.
“Okay!”
Jiang Baobei forced herself to cheer up and nodded happily to Ah Wu.
“My mother is remarried. I just called my stepfather as Uncle. You should have noticed it, right?”
Qiu Wu took Jiang Baobei to another room.
Feng Chenghai bought his house early, with a total area of more than 140 square meters. Therefore, in addition to three bedrooms and a small study room, there was also a storage room that was not particularly large.
This room was mostly filled with winter quilts and old clothes that were no longer worn. There were also some miscellaneous things piled up in this room.
“My mother and Uncle remarried not long ago. The things in the rental house were not sorted out in time. I guess some old photos are still in this room. Wait, let me look for a while.”
The storage room was a bit messy, with several cardboard boxes piled up. These cardboard boxes were filled with Qiu Xia and Qiu Wu’s things. It was just that there were too many things after moving, so they didn’t have time to sort them out.
“How about you help me find it, Baobei?”
Qiu Wu pointed to one of the boxes and said to Jiang Baobei: “The album is not big. The cover is a photo of a panda eating bamboo. It is easy to distinguish.”
After saying that, Qiu Wu turned around and flipped through another cardboard box.
Jiang Baobei did not think much about it and dug up the box according to Qiu Wu’s instructions.
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