Chapter 1294: Father or Stepfather (Twenty-One)
Saturday, June 14. It happened to be Chang Qinghua's birthday.
Since Xu Yaping married An Dafu, it has been more than ten years, and she will celebrate Chang Qinghua's birthday every year.
At first, she just made a bowl of longevity noodles for Chang Qinghua alone.
After a long time, their mother and son gradually gained a firm foothold in the Anjia, and Xu Yaping would cook some delicious food on this day.
Whether it is the longevity noodles at the beginning, or the big fish and meat in recent years, Xu Yaping specially celebrates her son's birthday, so that An Dafu and even the three children of the An family remember Chang Qinghua's birthday.
Xu Yaping's behavior, in the words of later generations, is a sense of ritual.
And the sense of ritual is really important in some cases.
Just like Xu Yaping, she used a simple birthday to invisibly improve Chang Qinghua's status in the An family, and successfully stimulated the three brothers and sisters of the An family.
Because, men often don't care about birthdays.
If you put a scumbag dad like An Dafu on the stall, hehe, let alone celebrate the birthdays of his three children, it would be good for him to remember when the children's birthdays were!
This also creates a strong contrast -
On the one hand, Chang Qinghua has an oil bottle, and every year on his birthday, the family will cook for him alone. An Dafu, the stepfather, under the influence of Xu Yaping, will also express something to Chang Qinghua.
On the other side, An Jianguo, An Jianfang and An Jianjun remembered their birthdays in their hearts, and waited for their fathers to celebrate them, but as a result, their fathers actually forgot!
Don't say it's grander than Chang Qinghua's birthday, it's just that Chang Qinghua's treatment can't be compared.
If you forget your own father, you can't count on your stepmother.
Fortunately, they still have a pair of grandparents who love them, and they still remember their birthdays clearly, and give them red envelopes on this day. Otherwise, because of this alone, the three brothers and sisters of the An family are estimated to be "blackened"!
Chang Qinghua's birthday at Anjia has become a habit, or a tradition.
Xu Yaping started preparing two days in advance, buying chicken, making pork ribs and ordering cakes, all kinds of busy, silently reminding An Dafu: Lao An, our family Qinghua is celebrating his birthday again.
Anne looked at this coldly, but with a loving smile on her face.
Alas, this woman is definitely a loving mother to Chang Qinghua.
But for An Jianguo's three brothers and sisters, instead of giving normal warmth, they made all kinds of calculations.
"In a blink of an eye, we Qinghua are eighteen years old. ”
Xu Yaping didn't know that her old wife had already changed, and on the 14th, she got up early in the morning to get busy.
In order to remind her wife not to delay coming back for lunch because of teaching An Jianguo, she also made a special statement.
"yes, I'm eighteen years old, and I'm an adult. ”
Anne also sighed with a little emotion, "I think that when you first came to our house with Qinghua, he was only a little over a year old, and he was less than the height of the dinner table. Now, he's become a big boy. ”
"Eighteen years old, but a meaningful age, this year's birthday celebration, we have to spend a good time with our children!"
Xu Yaping heard Anne say this, knowing that her goal had been achieved, and nodded secretly with satisfaction.
As a result, I heard Anne say, "In this case, let Jianguo and them come back for a meal at noon." Although they are not related to Qinghua by blood, they are all my children, who grew up together since childhood, and they should also be brothers and sisters, and they should love each other. ”
Xu Yaping's smile was slightly cold.
In the past, Xu Yaping liked to deliberately organize her son's "birthday party" in front of An Jianguo's three siblings, because she knew that such a strong contrast would make children have great unwillingness and resentment.
It is conducive to splitting the relationship between An Jianguo and An Dafu.
But now, she has successfully driven An Jianguo and them out, and she really doesn't want to see them come back again.
In order to celebrate her son's birthday today, she spent a lot of private money.
A large table of chicken, duck, fish, and birthday cakes are all good things.
Xu Yaping really didn't want to cheapen the little cubs of the An family.
Moreover, these three people, especially An Jianfang, are all bear children with straight temperaments and hard tempers, and they will have seizures when they disagree.
Today is a good day for her son, and she also has important things, she doesn't want to be ruined by An Jianguo and others!
However, An Dafu has always been a man of his word in the An family, and Xu Yaping's painstaking character is an empathetic and reasonable wife and mother.
An Dafu's words are reasonable, if Xu Yaping doesn't agree, it seems that she has a problem.
But Xu Yaping was really reluctant in her heart, she smiled and said with some uneasiness, "Lao An, you are right, although Qinghua and Jianguo are not brothers, they grew up under the same roof. ”
"Even I want to see them love each other. ”
"It's a pity that no matter how well we think about it, we can't stop the children from being unhappy. Alas, it's all my fault, it's because I'm not good enough to be a mother, they don't want to see me before the founding of the country, and they don't even like Qinghua. ”
"It's like three years ago...... Oops, I feel uncomfortable at the thought that Jianguo would secretly put chin beans in Qinghua's rice. The palms and backs of my hands are full of meat, both of them are my children, I, I'm really-"
In order to prevent An Jianguo and the three of them from coming back, Xu Yaping deliberately mentioned that Chang Qinghua was almost "poisoned" when he took the high school entrance examination three years ago.
Although croton is not poison, eating this thing will cause diarrhea.
During the high school entrance examination, halfway through the exam, you suddenly run to diarrhea, which will definitely affect the candidate's results.
Although An Jianguo swore that it was not him at that time, not only An Dafu, but also the surrounding neighbors, who also felt that he was the most suspicious.
An Jianguo is four years older than Chang Qinghua, and from childhood to adulthood, he is often compared with Chang Qinghua.
Not as smart as Chang Qinghua, not as good as Chang Qinghua to read, not as sensible as Chang Qinghua, not as filial as Chang Qinghua...... An Jianguo has listened to these words for more than ten years.
When everyone gossips, they don't think about it, but they also understand afterwards that if they change to themselves, they will be compared like this all day long, and they will definitely be dissatisfied.
Maybe he will hold a grudge against Chang Qinghua.
An Jianguo was young and vigorous at that time, and under the rebellious mentality, he was impulsive, and he probably did something wrong - wow, don't you claim to be a good learner and a smart person, I will let you fail the high school entrance examination!
Hmph, I can't get into high school, and you don't want to!
In this way, An Jianguo was convicted and accused of being narrow-minded and framing his brother.
In addition, he refused to admit his guilt, and fell out with his father because of this, and finally ran away from home with his younger siblings, which became even more criticized.
At that time, Xu Yaping behaved very generously, and said in public: The child is still young, and he has done something wrong in a moment's confusion, and it is not easy for an elder to deal with him.
Besides, Chang Qinghua was not hurt either, although he still affected his mood because of this incident, and then he did not perform well in the examination room, and he was not admitted to a key high school, but he was finally admitted to a high school......