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All you need is a bowl of pea greens

All you need is a bowl of pea greens

By natasha grahamPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

At that time, I had just bought a house and was renovating it. The construction crew was hired by a very good friend of mine, all of whom are said to be relatives. I began to think that since they are "own people", they should be careful to do their work, which knows that these people not only do not think about my brothers' feelings, but also work particularly rough. When installing the floor, they scattered the decoration trash all over the stairs, and in the end, despite my repeated warnings to them not to scatter it, the roughness of these people eventually gave me a lot of trouble.

On the third day of the renovation, the construction team had just started for less than half an hour, and the mistress of the opposite neighbor led a crying child into the door and asked: "Who is the owner of this house?"

Not knowing what had happened, I hastened to answer. Did not expect her to be a scolding: "You people with no conscience, gravel sand scattered all over the corridor, this is not, my daughter just went out, was slipped on the ground."

I said sorry again and again, and asked to go to the hospital to see the child, did not expect the other side still unrelentingly said: "Sorry useful? You people are of low quality, and I dare not go to the hospital to see, such a ruthless heart, I am afraid that you will do bad things to my children!" Then, without my help, he slammed the door and left.

Anyway, it is true that I am wrong, but the neighbor's attitude is too unkind, and I can't vent my anger.

Later, I thought about it carefully, distant relatives are not as good as neighbors, neighbors are not as good as the opposite door, the neighbor is a big thing, I intend to sincerely apologize to the opposite door neighbor, in order to resolve the holiday between us. I don't know, every time I met the hostess, she not only "hummed" past me, but also rolled her eyes at me. This makes people angry, several times want to come forward and her theory, but, for this kind of person, she is worthy of me and her theory?

It's been like this for six months between me and the other door. In this half year, I spent in the white eyes of the mistress across the door "eating people". So that I always have to be careful every time I go out, for fear of meeting the "tigress" across the door! However, after half a month of hard hiding, I still bumped into her gun.

At noon that day, I work especially late, on the stairs, found a familiar figure, look up, it is "tigress"! My heart is not dark, how know, this time the performance of the hostess across the door is unusual, first smiled at me, and then, from her food bag out of a bunch of cherries, very polite said: "Mr. Li, come, eat a bunch of cherries." Said, put a string of red cherries into my hands and clunked down the floor.

I was surprised. Was it a dream? I hastily opened the door. Planning to immediately tell my wife this unprecedented news, unexpectedly, at the sound of opening the door, I found that another familiar figure had already leaned out of the kitchen. It was my mother, who had come from the countryside to see us, hearing that we had been busy recently.

At lunch, the mother praised the woman across the door again and again, the mother said: "Across the door really sensible, I just gave her a bowl of peas, did not think she gave me a large pot of cherries, also a 'aunt' it..."

I looked at my wife and froze for an instant, it turns out that all you need to cure the vicious white eyes of the lady at the door is a bowl of pea!

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