Chapter 349: respect for other people's polite behavior
As soon as the car stopped, Zheng Wentao, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately came up with a smile on his face. "You guys are still early. Minglong just left to pick someone up."
"I'm just going. It's already nine o' clock. I guess I'm a little late." Li Haitang pushed the door open and got out of the car. He opened the door behind him and let the two children down.
"The Shen family is not very far away. Half an hour is enough to go back and forth." Zheng Wentao reached out and took the two children down. Seeing that Duoduo was dressed so beautifully today, he touched the child's shoulder lovingly, "Duoduo is very beautiful today, like a little princess."
"Grandpa, my aunt made this dress for me. She said she designed it herself. There's only one dress." Duoduo reported happily.
"Oh, yeah, it's beautiful."
As they spoke, Li Xiaoqin and the other Zheng family uncles and relatives who had arrived earlier came out. They exchanged a polite greeting. The two children also called out politely under the guidance of their parents, and a large group of people crowded into the house.
Just as they sat down to have a sip of tea, Zheng Mingze and his wife came back with their children. Seeing that Li Haitang and the others had arrived earlier, they smiled and said, "We met Minglong on the way here. When he saw that we were all here, he was so anxious that he stepped on the accelerator and rushed to the Shen family to pick them up."
"I had urged him at home several times before, and I was dawdling in the room to tidy up. I still found it inappropriate to get my hair done here, and it was inappropriate there. I combed it for a long time before I was satisfied. I'm in a hurry now. It's not safe to drive so fast and behave so shakily. Maybe the shen family won't be satisfied when they meet." Li Xiaoqin rarely scolds his son, but he doesn't perform well at critical moments, and he knows that he may be nervous.
Duoduo was holding on to the lychees to peel and eat. Hearing grandma say this, he said with a small face, "Why not be satisfied? Uncle is the most handsome and the best. Today is a good day for him. He has to dress up beautifully so that he can respect his elders and aunts who are about to enter."
"Oh, my Duoduo knows a lot." Li xiaoqin laughed.
Everyone else laughed. Zheng mingze walked over to pick her up, weighed her in his hand, and asked with a smile, "Duoduo, where did you learn all this?"
"Big uncle, mom taught him. Mom said to dress appropriately and try to be as neat and tidy as possible for parties and events. It's a polite act to respect others." Duoduo recited what his mother had said.
Zheng Mingze turned to his son, Zheng Kaiwen, and took the opportunity to teach, "Kevin, did you hear what my sister said?"
"I heard you." Zheng Kaiwen, who was already a teenager, nodded and looked down at his clothes, wondering, "I'm dressed so neatly. I'm not embarrassed."
"Your mother changed your clothes when you first left. The one you wore before was crumpled and looked like a beggar."
Zheng Kaiwen felt that what his father said was too exaggerated. It was a little wrinkled, and there was still a big difference from beggars. He liked the twins very much. Seeing that his father had taken his sister away, he immediately went to play with An' an.
"Duoduo, come down. Don't get the lychee water on your uncle. You'll stain his clothes later." Li Haitang waved at his daughter.
Duoduo was picking up the lychees, and he was obediently twisting his butt to come down, "Uncle, put me down. I'll peel the lychees for you to eat."
"Sit on this little stool and uncle will peel it for you to eat." Zheng Mingze was actually a slave to her daughter, speaking softly to her and yelling at her son.
His wife, Wang Meiqi, brought him a cup of tea and sat down on the sofa beside him. She smiled and said to everyone, "Now these old men like girls and talk to girls very gently. When they turn around and look at their son, they immediately change their faces like fierce tigers."
Many people in the living room agreed with her. Naughty boys were not welcomed, and gentle little girls were loved by everyone. Girls like Duoduo, who were cute, sensible, polite and lively, were the most popular. Everyone would praise them and hug those who were close and familiar.
"Uncle, why don't you like brother Kevin? Why do you hate him?" Duoduo finally finished peeling the lychees in his hand and handed them to his elders.
"You eat." Zheng mingze stuffed the lychee into her mouth and answered her question with a smile, "Uncle didn't dislike brother Kevin, nor did he scold him. Only occasionally when he was naughty and noisy would he give her a serious education."
"It's not a serious education. It's about hitting me." Zheng Kaiwen, who was playing with his brothers, immediately seized the opportunity to complain.
Duoduo immediately answered, "Uncle, you lied. Brother Kevin said you were going to hit him."
Zheng Mingze glared at his son and had to lead the conversation to him. "Zheng Kaiwen, tell me why I want to smoke you. Explain to all the elders and sisters and let everyone judge whether what you did that day was not a good thing to clean up."
Zheng Kaiwen stopped talking and grabbed a few lychees from the coffee table and distributed them to the other brothers.
"See, he's too embarrassed to say it himself." Zheng mingze didn't say anything about his son's bad deeds and only peeled the lychees for Duoduo to eat.
Duoduo chewed on the lychee and took the initiative to tell him, "Uncle, I also did something wrong yesterday. I played with my brother while swimming. I accidentally poked his nose with my finger and caused him to have a lot of nosebleed."
"Next time you play, be careful not to poke your nose and eyes with your fingers. It's not safe. Last month, your aunt's hospital accepted a small patient, a boy of five or six years old, who was also a few boys playing with each other with bamboo branches, and accidentally poked him in the eye, blinding him." Zheng Mingze patiently gave her an example.
"Ouch, it's so serious. He was blinded by the stab in his eyes. This child has been ruined for the rest of his life, and he has also ruined a family." Li Xiaoqin frowned.
Wang Meiqi was working in the hospital, and the patient was in her department, and sighed, "No. A very delicate boy, whose next eye was injured and blind, cried and cried all day long, and his parents regretted and blamed themselves with tears all day long."
Duoduo listened attentively to the real story that the elders told him. Her big eyes, which were like a clear spring, blinked. Suddenly, she grabbed the lychee and ran to her mother. "Mom, I really know I was wrong. I don't poke my brother all the time anymore. I don't poke him at home when I play."
"Well, be good. Just be aware of your mistakes. In the future, not only should you not poke your brother, but you should also not poke other children. When you play together, you should be careful not to chase and play with sharp things. This is very easy to cause trouble." Li Haitang was relieved that the child was so sensible.
"I remember." After Duoduo finished speaking, he sat back on the small stool to eat lychees and did not play with other boys.