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"Old lady, you're just overthinking things. With San'er here, what's there to worry about!" Xie Tiesheng immediately retorted unsatisfied upon hearing his wife's incessant nagging.
"You old man, what got into you this early in the morning? Can't I even speak now?" Zhou Xiuhua, having been pampered recently, couldn't stand her husband suddenly losing his temper at her.
"Don't worry about it, I can't be bothered with you."
After saying that, Xie Tiesheng snorted lightly, put on his coat as he walked, and said to his wife in the kitchen:
"Hurry up, it's the crack of dawn, and you haven't lifted a finger yet. Who wants breakfast now? If you keep dawdling, I won't wait for you."
Nowadays, the old couple would also, influenced by the military environment, wake up early and take a slow stroll on the narrow paths downstairs, accompanied by other elders or ladies from the nearby residential buildings.