Novel "Jackie Chan" 79 - Dad narrates: My wife is on a business trip, and the two of them are blind

My wife is going to Hangzhou to recuperate, and this is the first time she has caught up with such a good opportunity.

For his wife, this is undoubtedly a great thing, she just likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, and this time she is going to Hangzhou, "there is heaven and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou", this famous saying is known to everyone on the earth. Wouldn't it be beautiful to visit paradise!

But for me and Komatsu, this is bad news. Because the "chief manager" of the family is gone, how to take care of the stall of eating, drinking, and Lazar? We all feel that we haven't caught it. This time, I realized a truth: if the housewife is not at home, the sky of this family will fall.

Married for more than 20 years, I can't say that the two of us have never been separated, but every time we have separated before, I have been on a business trip and my wife is at home. Although I left my wife, whether it was to attend the meeting or go to the grassroots level to investigate, there was a special person to receive me, and I didn't have to worry about food, housing and transportation, so I didn't feel any inconvenience, but I had a feeling of freedom and freedom when I finally got out of my wife's monitoring.

This time it's different, this time I'm staying at home and my wife is out. Housework, which I usually don't think is a big problem, has become a big problem this time.

First of all, there is the problem of eating, my mother-in-law is usually very picky eater, I don't eat, I don't eat, it's hard to serve. Coupled with the fact that she is a little deaf in her ears, it is difficult to ask her old man for advice every time she cooks. My wife is her own daughter, and it's okay to shout no matter what, but if I shout at her, she won't be happy. Then there is the fact that Komatsu is at home on vacation now, and he has to think about what he eats. Although he didn't dare to be picky in front of me, if the food was not delicious, he would not eat it well, eat a little at the dinner table, and then quietly run out into the street to eat lamb skewers.

The question of what to eat is already a headache, and the headache is even more about who will do it.

It stands to reason that whose old lady can't cook? Hey, my mother-in-law won't do it. When she was a soldier, she cooked in the canteen; After changing jobs, my father-in-law cooked; After my father-in-law died, my wife cooked for me; My mother-in-law has a good life, so she still can't cook. When my wife and I first got married, my wife said that her mother couldn't cook, and I didn't believe it. I think the old lady must be lazy and don't want to do it. Once, when my wife came home late from overtime, the old lady was so hungry that she couldn't bear it, so she discussed with me and said: Let's cook some quick-frozen wontons to eat? I said yes. I thought: Doesn't the old lady know how to cook wontons? I didn't take the initiative to help in the kitchen. After waiting for half an hour, I thought it should be cooked, why didn't I move? Ran to the kitchen to see: the water has been boiled, the wontons have been boiled in the pot, but her old man is unhurriedly washing the fungus one by one, seeing me come in, she said with a smile: "The seasoning package in the quick-frozen wontons is not delicious, I am going to put some fungus, mushrooms or something, to make the soup fresher." ”

I said, "Let's stop eating wontons today and eat a piece of soup instead." ”

Only then did my mother-in-law remember to come and see the wontons in the pot, which had been boiled for too long and had all been boiled out.

My mother-in-law can't count on cooking, let alone Komatsu, a few days ago I asked him to steam the leftover buns, and he didn't know how much water to put in the pot when steaming the buns, and almost burned the pot out.

Alas, it seems that no one can count on it, only I do it myself.

When I walked into the kitchen, I found that my wife couldn't find anything when she wasn't at home. Where is the oil? Where's the spice? And where is the rice? Why did the wife hide them so deeply? Are you afraid that the Japanese devils will come to sweep up?

I was annoyed when Komatsu slipped into the kitchen and asked flatteringly, "Dad, what are we going to eat at night?" ”

I said angrily, "What are you asking?" What I do you eat. ”

Komatsu was not affected by my emotions, and still said with a smile: "I just ask, I know you don't want to cook, hehe." ”

I said, "Of course I don't want to cook anymore, I have to cook for you when I go home after a day of work." What do you call this? ”

Komatsu said, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to do it, I have a suggestion: Let's eat outside, right?" ”

I said, "What good things do you think?" Don't want to cook and go out to the restaurant? Do you know how expensive the food in a restaurant is? ”

Komatsu said: "Let's not order those expensive dishes such as fish and shrimp, just order a spicy chicken and a boiled beef, which can't be used for fifty yuan." ”

I said, "Who gave you fifty dollars for nothing?" Do you know how beneficial the food in a restaurant is? I'm telling you this, fifty yuan can only buy two dishes in a restaurant, the same money, if we buy vegetables and cook them at home, we can make at least four dishes, believe it or not? ”

Komatsu said unconvinced: "If you say so, it's not worth it to buy vegetables and cook them yourself." It should be cost-effective to grow your own vegetables, raise your own cattle, and grow your own crops. ”

The stinky boy actually raised the bar with me, if I would have been in a hurry with him normally, but now I ignored him. First, because my wife is not at home, I have to maintain a harmonious atmosphere in the house; The second is that I think my son's words are really strong, and he cleverly uses logical reasoning to reason my original quite reasonable words into a fallacy, and treats him in the way of others, so that I don't know how to answer him for a while, which shows that this kid has made progress in logical thinking.

So I didn't discuss with him the question of whether it was worth eating out, and turned the topic to Komatsu and his grandmother, I said, "Your grandma's legs and feet are inconvenient, you let her follow us to eat outside, do you think it's appropriate?" ”

This trick worked very well, and Komatsu had nothing to say and looked very disappointed. He asked, "What are you going to do for us?" ”

"Jajangmyeon."

"Eating jajangmyeon?" Komatsu's face suddenly darkened, and I knew that he didn't like to eat jajangmyeon, but eating noodles was relatively simple and time-saving.

Komatsu rolled his eyes, as if he had an idea, he took off the apron hanging on the wall and tied it to his body, and said to me, "Dad, you can rest, I will cook for you today." ”

I was stunned in my heart, thinking that this was too unexpected, Komatsu had never cooked, what could he do?

I said, "Don't be foolish, when you figure out how to cook, I'm afraid your grandmother and I will starve to death." ”

Komatsu said: "Look down on people! Look at me showing you a hand, and I'll make you a potato roast beef. ”

Hehe, this kid really dares to think that potato roast beef is a famous dish. I remember when we were children, when our teacher organized us to criticize "Soviet revisionism", he told us: "The socialism advocated by Khrushchev is a potato and beef socialism. "At that time, the domestic supply was very tight, and we children were very hungry, and I thought to myself: no matter what doctrine, if people all over the world can eat potatoes and beef every day, it will be a good doctrine! I didn't expect my son to make this dish now.

I asked Komatsu, "Do you know how to make potato roast beef?" ”

Komatsu nodded: "Yes." ”

"When did you learn it? How did I not know? ”

"I didn't study it formally, I usually watched my mother do it, and I think I can do it too."

"Tell me first, what are you going to do? I don't have that many potatoes and beef for you to spoil you. ”

Komatsu cleared his throat and said, "First of all, the beef is stewed, the potatoes are roasted in the microwave, the skin of the potatoes is peeled, cut into small pieces, put in the beef stew, and grunt over the fire." ”

I asked skeptically, "Then you can eat it?" ”

Komatsu thought for a moment and added, "Oh, by the way, and salt and soy sauce and — with five-spice powder, oh, and curry powder." ”

I said, "You are talking on paper, do you know how to stew beef?" Do we have beef? Besides, the beef stew takes at least two and a half hours, and when you have stewed the beef and prepared the dishes, we will finish dinner and it will be almost the middle of the night. ”

Xiao Song said mysteriously: "Dad, we don't need to be so troublesome, I investigated today, there is still a piece of sauce beef in the freezer of our refrigerator, let's use that piece of beef, and we can use it by thawing it in the microwave oven." ”

Hehe, that's a great idea, this kid can work a little bit now. If there is potato roast beef, who would want to eat fried noodles!

I suddenly remembered something again: "It's not enough to just eat potatoes and roast beef, what do we eat as our staple food?" Can you stew rice? ”

Komatsu shook his head.

I said, "I can't stew it well, it's either hard or boiled into porridge, and your grandma can't do it either." ”

Komatsu had an idea and said, "Why do we want to eat rice, why don't I go out and buy some pancakes and come back?" ”

"Your grandmother has bad teeth, she can't bite the pancakes, and besides, she doesn't like to eat potatoes and roast beef."

"It's okay, my grandma loves quick-frozen wontons, and my mother bought ten bags for her before she left, and put them in the refrigerator to freeze. I'll cook wontons for her, what do you think? ”

I didn't expect Komatsu to be able to arrange things so thoughtfully, it seems that this child has really grown up. My wife was not at home, and we had a good little life, so I said to my son happily:

"Okay, I'll see what to do. But it's not enough to eat pancakes, so I'll make you another tomato and egg soup. ”

"Oh!"

Actually, it's not a big deal if my wife isn't at home.

The problem of eating was solved, and three days later another incident happened.

That night, I slept late because I was writing a document, and I was in a daze when I suddenly heard a strange sound from another room.

I was immediately alarmed, because last night a burglar had stolen one of my wife's fur coats, a small box of my treasured commemorative coins, and some cash.

The loss of a lot of possessions was already very distressing to us, but what terrified me even more was that while our family was asleep, several dark figures crawled into my house from the balcony, stood only two feet away from my head, and took my wife's fur coat hanging on a hanger and my little suitcase on the bookcase. I wonder if the thief ever stared at me viciously? Did he have a sharp knife in his hand that shimmered with cold light? If I had woken up with urine at that time, I would have opened my eyes and made eye contact with the thief...... OH, MY GOD！ The consequences are unimaginable!

It's only been three days, could it be that the thief has tasted the sweetness and is coming back again?

At this moment, there was another noise in the hallway, and then I felt like someone was moving lightly in the living room! My heart was pounding, although I was a soldier, but I had never experienced this terrible scene of three watches in the middle of the night.

Whew, hmm, it must be the sound of someone moving, definitely not my delusion. What to do?

Call someone? No, we are trapped in the house, and if we startle the thieves, they will kill them, and we will be in danger before the help arrives. Besides, if you live in a building and your neighbors are very indifferent, who will come out to help you? I don't even know my neighbor's last name right now!

Called Komatsu? Not even more. Don't look at his 1.8 meter big man, he is actually still a child, and he was scared to death. If you don't call him, he may still be safe, and if you call him, you may bring him death, and you must not call him.

I slowly rolled out of bed and pulled out a sword and a large flashlight from under the bed.

I crouched at the foot of the bed, clutching my sword. I thought: I can't take the initiative, if the thief is just stealing, ignore him, because once he is alarmed, it is easy to kill people, and I admit to it. If a thief enters my or my family's room, I rush up and do whatever it takes, to protect my family.

At this time, I clearly heard a "bang" in Komatsu's room, as if someone touched the leg of a chair, and the thief had entered Komatsu's room! Sons are in danger!

Without further ado, I immediately rushed out like a leopard!

I rushed to the living room, suddenly turned on the large flashlight in my hand, and shone it into Komatsu's room, while shouting, "Who?" ”

Under the beam of light of the flashlight, a pale, panicked face appeared, holding an AK47 assault rifle in his hand!

Boy! It's still a gunman, it seems that today I am more than lucky. I can't care so much, I have to go out in order to protect my son. I raised the sword I held in my right hand, ready to stab at the other man.

That's when I suddenly heard a voice: "Dad! ”

I was stunned, what's going on? Who's calling me?

When I looked closely, I recognized that the person in front of me with an AK47 assault rifle turned out to be Komatsu! He was holding the same plastic replica gun I had bought for him in Hong Kong a few years ago.

I quickly turned around and looked around with my flashlight, but I didn't notice anyone else. It seemed that it was a misunderstanding, so I breathed a sigh of relief and turned on the lights.

Under the soft light, everything returned to normal.

I calmed down, and saw Komatsu in his pajamas, trembling all over, and holding the toy gun in his hand at a loss, alas, at the critical moment, my son turned out to be such a dejected bear.

I walked over and grabbed the gun from his hand and threw it on the couch.

I asked Komatsu, "What's the matter with you?" You scared the hell out of me! ”

Komatsu muttered, "You scared me!" Now my heart is still jumping! ”

I said, "I heard movement in your room and thought another thief had entered." ”

Komatsu said, "I also heard movement in your room, and I thought another thief had entered our house." ”

It was a long time because the wind blew the kitchen window "clang", which woke me up and Komatsu almost at the same time, both of them wanted to go over to see, but at the same time they heard movement in each other's room, and they thought it was a thief coming in, so they each found a guy to hold in their hands, ready to fight with the thief. But they are not willing to take the initiative, and they all want to wait until the last moment to make a move. The two of us thought of going together the whole time, so there was a misunderstanding. Hey, how else to say that father and son are also "heart-to-heart".

The danger was lifted, and as soon as Xiao Song's mood stabilized, he began to brag again: "Dad, you see that I'm okay, we won't drop the chain at a critical moment, dare to stand up, not afraid of sacrifice, dare to rush out and fight the gangsters." I think that's what you often call 'revolutionary heroism', and today I've stood the test of actual combat, right? ”

In fact, I was not satisfied with Komatsu's performance tonight, but after thinking about it: at the critical moment, my son did not hide in the bed and shiver, he is usually so afraid of the dark, and he can still be brave and come out with a toy gun to see if his father is in danger, which is indeed commendable.

I teasingly said to him, "How are you going to fight the gangsters?" Just use this broken toy gun? ”

Komatsu said: "Don't underestimate this gun, this gun can shoot plastic bullets, it hurts to hit people's faces, I am going to shoot a burst, at least scare the gangsters, and then I will take the opportunity to pounce on ......"

I interrupted him with a smile, "Alright, alright, I'm glad you didn't hit the barrage, otherwise I would have been miserable." In the middle of the night, let's go back to bed, I have an important meeting tomorrow morning. ”

Komatsu nodded and was just about to leave, when suddenly a strange cry came from the next room: "Whoa-whoa-whoa-", in the middle of the night, the voice sounded creepy. Komatsu, who had just been a hero, turned pale with fright at this time.

"Whew-w-"

The voice came again, and this time it was Komatsu who reacted quickly, and he shouted: "It's grandma!" With that, he quickly ran into his grandmother's room.