Song Zhi was not very happy when he received Bai Taotao\'s praise.

He stared at her bright red water chestnut lips for a while...

I thought to myself, if she really wants to praise him, she has to show something substantive, right?

Like, take a bite of him or something?

But this is on a busy street.

Song Zhi sighed quietly.

Eh, I can\'t eat it anyway.

"Do you want me to wait with you?" Song Zhi asked Tao Tao.

Tao Tao nodded.

Song Zhi thought for a while, "Has your sister encountered any difficulties?"

- Having been together for almost a year, he knows Tao Tao\'s character very well. If it wasn\'t necessary, she didn\'t want to be tired of being by his side all the time. Now she made him wait, presumably something happened to her sister.

Tao Tao didn\'t hide it from him, she said a few words, and then said angrily: "Why is this man so bad! He still has the face to pester my third sister! Song Zhi, let\'s wait here, if he is sensible, Just make it clear to my sister... If he dares to pester my sister, we\'ll beat him up!"

Song Zhizhi frowned.

After a while, Bai Lili rushed out of the corner crying, and suddenly saw Tao Tao and Song Zhi standing at the door of the guest house. She was startled first, then she didn\'t speak, and headed towards the guest house with her head down. Rush in the yard.

Xu Jianhua chased after him, "Pear—"

Song Zhi stopped Xu Jianhua.

Xu Jianhua was taken aback.

Taotao glared at Xu Jianhua and said coldly, "Wang Huixin has returned, you should go find your real partner!"

Xu Jianhua said anxiously: "Peach, I, I know I\'m a jerk, I want to explain to your sister..."

"No need," Taotao said loudly, "If you don\'t want to be beaten, you\'d better leave now! Humph! You didn\'t see how my mother taught Xu Fengjuan a lesson... I\'m doing it for your own good, and I advise you to leave now. Otherwise, when my mother comes back, she knows that you bully my sister like this, she can\'t spare you, get out!"

Xu Jianhua, "Tao Tao, I-I really like your sister! I-I have no relationship with Wang Huixin for a long time!"

"You have nothing to do with Wang Huixin? Then you named my sister \'Hui Xin\'? Do you like my sister? What do you like about her? Like her look like Wang Huixin? Xu Jianhua, you are so disgusting!" Taotao was angry said.

Song Zhi also said to Xu Jianhua, "Let\'s go, Bai Lili doesn\'t want to talk to you or see you."

Xu Jianhua\'s eyes were red.

Tao Tao shoved him, "You go! Hurry up! Don\'t show up in front of my sister!"

Xu Jianhua was pushed back and forth.

At this time, Bai Lili had already run up the stairs...

Xu Jianhua raised his eyes and stared blankly at Bai Lili running in the corridor on the third floor for a while, then opened the door to enter the room, and closed the door again.

He just stood there stupidly.

Song Zhi said to Tao Tao, "Let\'s go, leave him alone."

Taotao glared at Xu Jianhua and went upstairs with Song Zhi. As soon as the door was opened, Taotao saw Lili lying on the bed, hugging the pillow and crying.

Tao Tao sighed.

The love road of my third sister is indeed a bit bumpy.

First, he had a crush on Jiang Hongzhi to no avail. Later, when he arrived in the city, he met a scum like Xu Jianhua...

Taotao sat next to her sister, without speaking, she gently stroked Lili\'s back over and over again.

Li Li cried a lot, and it was getting late, the light gradually dimmed, and the lights were not turned on in the room. She cried and cried, which turned into choking, and finally fell asleep groggy.

Taotao waited for a while to make sure that her sister was asleep, and then gently pulled the quilt over her sister\'s body, and then picked up the braised pork head meat, braised duck, braised eggs, etc. that she and her sister had packed. He crept out of the house.

She stood in the corridor and walked down to see that Xu Jianhua was no longer at the door of the guest house.

And Song Zhi\'s door was open and the light was on. Taotao walked over with the lunch box in her hand, and saw her mother Tang Liren standing in Songzhi\'s house, the two were talking, Tang Liren\'s expression was not very good.

Seeing Taotao coming with a lunch box, Tang Liren asked, "Where\'s your sister?"

"She fell asleep," Tao Tao said. "Let her sleep for a while. Maybe she will wake up after a nap, and she will not feel so bad. Mom, let\'s go to dinner first, and then call the third sister to eat."

Tang Liren, "Manager Xu\'s son came to her just now? Did he deceive her feelings?"

Tao Tao nodded.

Tang Liren cursed, "Don\'t let me see him!"

Song Zhi stood up, "Auntie, let\'s go eat first!" He took the lunch box that Tao Tao was holding.

The three went downstairs for dinner.

They bought rice and vegetarian dishes in the dining hall of the hostel, and ate the braised pork in big mouthfuls, but they also felt that their mouths were full of meat. They knew that Bai Lili was very upset when she met such an emotional liar.

Tao Tao suddenly remembered something and asked Tang Liren, "Mom, did you and Xiao Zhuzi have anything today?"

Tang Liren, "That\'s very smooth! Who would buy a house now... So when the housing management bureau heard that Zhujun wanted to buy a house, the whole unit was alarmed! They also basically understood the situation of Zhujun, after all, Songxian also It\'s not that big! I lied and said that Zhujun was my distant nephew... Then they introduced several houses, I and Zhujun went to see it, she saw a small courtyard with a single house, a total of three rooms , asks 750 yuan... Zhujun can only get 600 yuan, I simply lent her 200 yuan, and she was so happy that she pulled me and almost called Mommy!"

Tao Tao was also very happy, "Mom, in the future our family will be rich, and we will also buy a house in the city, so we don\'t have to live in a hostel every time we come here!"

Tang Liren scolded, "You are a guy who eats the meat in a bowl and drools when he sees people swallowing chaff! Sister Zhujun and his brother have no place to live, and they are now... If it\'s bad to say it, they are sleeping on the street! It was the city management who saw that her sister and brother were pitiful, so they didn\'t drive them away! It\'s a last resort for people to buy a house! It\'s not even a debt!"

When Song Zhi heard the first sentence, he immediately took a chopstick and put the braised pork head into Taotao\'s bowl.

Tang Liren continued to babble, "You still want a house here and a house there, don\'t you have a place to live? Our house is not big enough for you to live in?"

Taotao pouted and became unhappy, "Then why can\'t I buy a few more houses, where do I want to live? It\'s nice to live in the country in summer, it\'s cool! I also want to live in the city in winter. How comfortable is the water shower!”

Tang Liren: …

"Hey, what you said... That\'s true, how comfortable it is to live in the city in winter!" Tang Liren sighed, thinking about it and felt a little wrong, "But if you live in the city, where can you find money? Live in the city. It’s not like living in the countryside, where you drink well water and eat vegetables grown in your own vegetable garden… In this city, you have to pay water bills to drink water, and you have to spend money to buy vegetables…”

Song Zhi whispered to Taotao: "In the future, we will go to Kyoto to buy a house, buy a bigger one, and pick up your parents..."

Tao Tao, "How much does a house in Kyoto cost?"

Song Zhi thought for a while, "If you want to buy a set as big as yours, it is estimated that it will cost several thousand yuan... Or we can buy two adjacent small courtyards."

Tao Tao calculated an account, "Xiao Zhuzi and I usually only earn a dozen or twenty dollars a month, but selling clothing is the biggest revenue this time, and it only takes three months to earn more than 500 yuan. Oh, it\'s really hard to make money!"

Song Zhi smiled, "Don\'t worry."

Tao Tao squinted at him.

- Something doesn\'t seem right? !

She saw that the big guy\'s face was suspiciously crimson, his eyes were a little fluttering, he didn\'t dare to look directly at her, and his lips were still tightly pressed... As if trying to hold back a smile?

After the three of them finished their meal, they ordered Lili a hot meal and a vegetarian dish again, and then returned to the room.

Lili has passed the most tired time. As soon as Taotao and Tang Liren came back, she woke up, sat up with the quilt, and called her mother and sister in a hoarse voice...

Tang Liren felt extremely distressed when she saw Li Li\'s red and swollen eyes.

But when they were in the dining hall just now, Taotao persuaded her mother to let Lili not talk about Xu Jianhua when she was the most uncomfortable, and talk about it after she calmed down.

So Tang Liren tried her best to pretend she didn\'t know anything and said, "Li Li, get up and eat!"

Taotao handed a glass of warm water over, Lili took it and drank it, and then slowly ate with the lunch box.

Cheng Zhujun came to look for Taotao excitedly with a basket on his back, "Sister Taotao! Sister Lili... Look! What did I bring you!"

Taotao smiled and said, "Little rich woman is here!"

Cheng Zhujun blushed, "What kind of rich woman, if it wasn\'t for my aunt helping me today, I, I couldn\'t have bought the house directly!"

Li Li was taken aback, and her attention shifted immediately, "Have you bought a house?"

Cheng Zhujun nodded happily and wanted to laugh, but the corners of his eyes were red again, "My brother and I will move in tonight..."

Tang Liren asked quickly, "Aren\'t you in a hurry?"

Cheng Zhujun, "We don\'t move things first, and people go to sleep for a night. Now we live in a shack, there is no wall to shelter from the wind and rain, leaning against the few asbestos tiles, I always wake up in the middle of the night by the freezing cold. There Although the house has not been cleaned up, it still has a courtyard wall, a door, and a bed frame. It is much better than our floor!"

Lili was really happy for Cheng Zhujun, "Great, does your house look good?"

Cheng Zhujun\'s eyes lit up, "It\'s beautiful! There are three rooms in total, one is the living room, and my brother and I can sleep in one room each! But now my brother is still young, it\'s fine for us to sleep in one room, and then Make a room for the stuff I\'ve brought in..."

"Sister Lili, although my small yard is not big, I have already thought about it. I want to open a small vegetable field in the corner of the yard, and plant some onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, etc., and then Raising two chickens and two ducks... I can\'t take care of it. Two chickens and two ducks are just right, as long as my brother can eat a boiled egg every day, or we can eat a bowl of stir-fried chives Duck eggs will do!"

"Oh, why do I feel that these days are getting more and more exciting!" The more Cheng Zhujun said, the more excited he became.

Lili, "Unfortunately, we have already bought tickets to go home tomorrow, so we can\'t stay and help you clean up the house together..."

Cheng Zhujun said with a smile: "It\'s alright, wait until the New Year is over, and then you come to the city, then don\'t spend any more money to live in the hostel! Go directly to my house! I have already slowly packed up by that time. ...Hey, look, I\'m too busy to patronize, I forgot to come to see you and I still have something to do! Sister Lili, take a look..."

Saying that, Cheng Zhujun dumped her basket on the ground, and rolled out a lot of things bundled with old newspapers.

Lili asked curiously, "What are these?"

Cheng Zhujun, "Didn\'t you make a list for me last night? It\'s the north-south ingredients you want, and I went to find them for you. Then there was a trader who stocked up a lot of these things. He said, ah, you He will give you all the things on the list! Besides, he has these things in his place... He bundled them in bundles, and wrote his name on the newspaper. Look at these things, do you want them, if Yes, he packs up all night tonight, and sends you to the bus station early tomorrow morning!"

After speaking, Cheng Zhujun explained: "It\'s the New Year\'s Day, and many businessmen are in a hurry to clear the inventory in their hands, so they are desperately shipping. If you want these, don\'t worry, I It will help you lower the price."

Lili became interested, three mouthfuls finished cooking, squatted on the ground and looked over all the ingredients carefully, and then discussed the quantity and weight with Cheng Zhujun. The two were busy until 8 o\'clock in the night. .

Cheng Zhujun said he was leaving, but Tang Liren was worried, "Zhu-jun, I\'ll send you off!"

Cheng Zhujun quickly declined, "No, no, this is all my territory. Besides, it\'s approaching the Chinese New Year, there is a night market every day in the city, and there are many people outside, auntie don\'t have to worry about me, thank you auntie... I Let\'s go! Early tomorrow morning, I also asked the butcher\'s wife to deliver goods to the bus station, don\'t be late, auntie!"

Saying that, Cheng Zhujun ran away quickly.

Tang Liren sighed, "This motherless child should be in charge early!"

Tao Tao is very envious of Cheng Zhujun, "Mom, I want to buy a house too!"

Tang Liren: Come again?

about to scold-

Lili also said, "Yeah, I also want to have a house of my own... Just like ours, bring a yard! It\'s really comfortable to grow some melons, fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc. in the yard. !"

Tang Liren was reluctant to scold, and after a while she said, "Then, I also want to buy a house in the city!"

The mother and daughter laughed.

Tang Li and Tao Tao were relieved when they saw that Li Li\'s mood had improved.

Early the next morning, Niang Er three and Song Zhi got up early, packed their luggage, Song Zhi went to check out, and Tang Liren grabbed the time to buy breakfast in the dining hall of the guest house.

Seeing that a big basket of fresh fried dough sticks had just come out of the pan in the dining hall, she thought that she would be reluctant to use oil to fry them... Tang Liren waved her hand boldly and asked for all the baskets of fried dough sticks, and bought a few more. A meat bun or something.

The crowd hurried to the bus station.

Song Zhi took the ugly cart he put together.

At the bus station -

Cheng Zhujun was already here, with the butcher\'s wife waiting for the checkout, the grain and oil seller\'s wife, the salesman selling dry food ingredients from the north and the south, and so on.

And at Cheng Zhujun\'s feet, there is a mountain of goods piled up!

Two sacks of rice, two sacks of flour, and a sack that was firmly tied... Anyone who understands can see that there is half a pig in it! In addition, there are seven or eight sacks of different sizes! Plus the things that Taotao and Lili bought on the street yesterday...

It looks like it can fill the entire bus!

At the moment, Cheng Zhujun quoted Tang Liren how much rice, flour, and pigs.

Then she explained it to Tang Liren one by one: she asked the grain and oil boss to ask for two catties of millet, two catties of glutinous rice, and two catties of yellow rice as toppings; she also asked the butcher to ask for a whole pair of pig water as toppings; On the side, she asked the trader to ask for a pound of red dates, a pound of longan and a pound of kelp as toppings...

And the price is quite fair!

Tang Liren was very happy, and the small bosses who got the money were also very happy - it is rare for people to make such a big deal.

Here Tang Liren was doing the billing and paying, while Song Zhize carried the goods to the top of the bus in the same way. It took almost half an hour to finally tie all the things to the top of the bus. Cover with linoleum.

However, the bus conductor was very unhappy, staring at Song zhi with bulging eyes, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, meaning that your luggage is too much and heavy, and you have to spend more money.

Song Zhi pretended not to hear, and the golden knife sat on the seat with a horse, as steady as Mount Tai.

Tang Liren finished her work, and took her daughters to say goodbye to Cheng Zhujun. After getting on the bus, she heard the conductor\'s muttering, and hurriedly handed the conductor and the bus driver two dough sticks each, and said a lot of nice things...

Only then did the conductor and the driver shut their mouths. After eating the oily and delicious fried dough sticks, the bus started and slowly drove out of the bus station.

Bai Lili sat by the window, looking at the scenery from the car window.

She suddenly saw Xu Jianhua who was described as haggard? !

- He stood at the exit of the long-distance bus station, his eyes were fixed on Bai Lili who was sitting by the window, his eyes were red, and he seemed to have a thousand words.

Bai Lili turned her head aside, unwilling to look at him.

Xu Jianhua chased the bus a few steps, and seemed to be yelling at Bai Lili...

Bai Lili didn\'t want to look back.

Xu Jianhua stared blankly at the bus going further and further away.

He crouched down, hugging his head and crying.

Now that it\'s cold, everyone squeezes the bus without opening the windows, so that the car is a little stuffy.

Tao Tao had eaten fried fried dough sticks, and was so tired and bored that she fell asleep leaning on Song Zhi. Tang Li and Li Li, who were sitting in the back row, also fell asleep while leaning on each other.

The shuttle was wobbly and swayed until after five o\'clock in the afternoon before it stopped near Ruyi Village.

Song Zhi got out of the car first, and said hello to Tan Fenghui and Xing Xing who had been waiting on the side of the road. He climbed the ladder from the back of the car to the roof, and threw all the sacks, big and small. roadside…

The bus staggered away again.

Tan Fenghui and Xingxing got the letter one day in advance, and brought three empty baskets in total.

When they saw Lili, they were first concerned to ask what happened. Lili didn\'t want to talk about Xu Jianhua, so she only talked about what happened in the state-run hotel.

Tan Fenghui and Xing Xing were angry and distressed, soothed Li Li for a long time...

Following that, they saw that Song Zhi had dumped it on the roadside. There were so many things? !

At the same time, it makes people happy, but also very worried!

Tan Fenghui, "My God, Mom! What have you all bought! So many!"

Xing Xing, "Is this rice? What about this... oh, it\'s soft, is it pork?"

Tang Liren smiled and said, "Alright, alright, let\'s divide it up quickly, let\'s carry the burden back! Everyone is a little tired today, but we can have a fat year!"

On the other side, Song Zhi had already finished his two-wheeled car. He was putting the heaviest one hundred catties of rice, one hundred catties of flour and half a live pig on the wooden tray of the two-wheeled car. Liren said, "Auntie, I\'ll leave the rest to you and sister-in-law."

As he said that, he used hemp rope to tie the goods and tie them tightly, then he acted as a tracker, put one end of the hemp rope on his shoulders, and walked forward while shouting, "Tao Tao, Xing Xing, don\'t you two? Grab something, hold me on the back and balance it. Also, turn on the flashlight!"

Tao Tao Xing Xing responded with a sound, and jumped up to catch up.

Tang Li, Tan Fenghui and Lili took the poles and baskets, and divided the rest of the goods evenly. The three of them each carried a burden and followed.

Song Zhi was struggling to move forward with three or four hundred catties of cargo.

When going up the mountain, it was especially hard. He gritted his teeth and pulled at the front, while Taotao and Xingxing pushed desperately at the back. When going down the mountain, the three of them had to work together to follow the small cart, pulling the rope to prevent the goods from being too heavy and overturning the cart... At the same time, we have to pay attention to the bumpy and bumpy mountain roads. Sometimes the wheels get stuck in the cracks of the stones, and the three people have to push hard to overcome the difficulties.

Tang Liren, Tan Fenghui and Lili were not much better either.

Each of them picked at least 40 to 50 kilograms of things, and because Song zhi and the others were in front, they were faster than them, and they had a flashlight in their hands. If it\'s not safe, just try to chase it.

In this way, everyone is chasing after me, although it is very hard, but when I think about the purchase of so many things at home, not only can I have a fat year, but also a good life in the coming year!

Everyone was sweating, everyone was smiling.

In this way, when the group arrived home, it was already past seven o\'clock in the night.

Early in the morning, Bai Zhenggan directed Soybean to go to the foot of the mountain and invited Second Aunt Bai to come over to make dinner. The dinner was ready, but it was cold. He also called Hongdou to light up the lantern, which illuminated the main room and courtyard. Guessing that the time was almost up, he slowly led his grandchildren to the kitchen with a cane and instructed them to boil water.

- It\'s cold, and the family can wash their faces with hot water when they come back. I don\'t know how comfortable it is!

At the moment, Song Zhi took the lead and pulled the cart to the door of the house. Only then did he untangle the rope, and breathlessly unloaded bags of rice, flour, pigs, etc. into the yard.

Next, Tang Liren, Tan Fenghui and Lili also carried their burdens into the yard, sweating profusely.

Bai Zhenggan looked at the mountains of supplies in the yard, and was stunned, "You guys... moved the supply and marketing cooperative back?"

Taotao screamed in excitement, "Dad! We bought a lot of things! Rice, flour! And half a pig!"

Lili was also excited, "Dad! We also bought a lot of other things, food and clothing and everything!"

Bai Zhenggan, however, looked at Lili and asked with concern, "Why are you wronged in the city?"

- Originally he thought that his daughter was sick or something, but looking at it now, Lili still has the strength to carry the burden! It can be seen that it is not because of illness, but because of grievances.

Li Li\'s eyes turned red, "I, I..."

Tang Liren, "Master, do you have hot water?"

Bai Zhenggan, "Yes! There is hot water... Hot water from red beans and soybeans! Let\'s see if you should wash your face first, or who should take a bath first, hey, I\'ll have a hot meal!"

Tan Fenghui hurriedly said, "Dad, don\'t go, I\'ll cook the meal! Lizi, go take a shower first! Let\'s take turns taking a bath and dinner!"

Lili bowed her head and walked away.

Tang Liren winked at Bai Zhenggan, and the couple went back to the house.

Over there, Xing Xing ordered a pair of little nephews, "Red beans and soybeans, pour a glass of water to eat!"

Red Bean replied sweetly: "Okay!"

After everyone had enough rest, drank water, and took turns taking a bath... Then they sat around the kang bed together and had a lively dinner.

Tang Liren was in high spirits, "Now our small storeroom is full! After the autumn harvest, our family received 500 catties of rice, and even gave your uncle 100 catties. For the flour, just for these, our family will be able to eat enough next year!"

Bai Zhenggan smiled.

The family has a large population, and five or six hundred catties of grain... It takes a year to eat, but it is still not enough. But those who will go to work next year, while working, receiving some food rations, and usually doing some side jobs, will definitely be able to live a prosperous life!

Tan Fenghui also laughed, "Uncle gave us 100 catties of rapeseed oil! When we cook next year, we don\'t have to save oil to the death. With enough oil and water, the food is delicious and hungry!"

Xing Xing, "Let\'s expand our vegetable garden and order a variety of dishes! Next year, we will not only have enough food, but also have enough vegetables! By the way, there is a bamboo forest in the back mountain of our house. When the spring starts next year, at least a few hundred dollars can be collected. Jin sweet bamboo shoots! Save enough for yourself, you can even dry it and take it to the town for some other dishes to eat..."

Taotao, "I also bought a lot of very rare rapeseeds, and I will try to plant one in the spring to see what they are all about!"

Lili couldn\'t help but said: "Flour is a good thing, it can be used to make cakes, noodles, and gnocchi. It is the best for breakfast, but every day you have to get up an hour earlier... Knead the dough for 15 minutes and wake up for half an hour. , and then rolling out the noodles... it\'s a bit of work!"

Song zhi held the bowl to eat and didn\'t say a word, but he was already thinking about how to make a noodle machine.

After everyone was talking and laughing, it was already late at night.

Tao Tao was squeamish. After running around all day, she was so tired that she fell asleep before finishing her meal.

Tang Liren asked Tao Tao and Xing Xing to go to sleep.

She brought Tan Fenghui and Lili, and dealt with the half-lazed pigs and pigs into the water overnight...

The next day, when Tao Tao Xing Xing woke up, I saw red beans and soybeans guarding the dryer, shaking the scull there?

In the previous rainy season, Tao Tao thought it was raining and the clothes couldn\'t be dried, so Song Zhi fiddled with a clothes dryer. There is a strong smell of meat in the air at this moment, so this clothes dryer can also be used for kang bacon?

"Is this kang bacon?" Tao Tao asked.

Hongdou nodded, "Sigu, Grandma said, Soy and I\'s task these days is to cook a shelf of bacon and sausages. Looking at it every day, Soy and I can get a toffee every day!"

Taotao smiled, rubbed the red bean\'s head, and then pulled the hood to look inside. On the shelf, there were sausages filled with meat. They looked different colors. They should be meat sausages, pig liver sausages, and glutinous rice pig blood sausages. Several of these. In addition, there are hangings of bacon, pig intestines, pig lungs and so on.

Taotao asked Red Bean again, "Where\'s your mother?"

Hongdou, "Ama, my mother, and Sangu only went to bed at dawn. Don\'t call them for breakfast, and call them up after lunch."

Tao Tao asked with a smile, "Then what do you want to eat in the morning?"

Hongdou, "Ama said don\'t bother with breakfast. Yesterday, she bought fried dough sticks in the city, and let us each have two fried dough sticks and a cup of hot milk... This is the breakfast for the people in the city! Sigu, I also want to eat the city. Liren\'s breakfast!"

Tao Tao forgot the fritters.

Immediately, she went to the kitchen, boiled a pot of boiling water, made a bowl of milk for one person who didn\'t sleep well, and served it with two oily fried dough sticks for one person...

White sugar is added to the milk powder, which makes it extra thick and sweet; the fried dough sticks are salty and heavy. Tao Tao was tired of eating the two fried dough sticks, and the remaining half was given to Song Zhi.

The New Year is approaching, and there is nothing wrong. Song zhi went to his blacksmith shop after breakfast. Taotao and Xingxing opened the house\'s warehouse, and took stock of the wool pants, long pants, outer pants, socks and so on that she bought from the city, and sorted them one by one. good…

The two sisters were busy while whispering.

Tao Tao tells Xing Xing about Lizi sister and Xu Jianhua.

Xing Xing gritted her teeth in anger, "If I were here, I would definitely beat him up! Why is it so bad!"

Tao Tao, "…"

Before she could speak, she suddenly heard a familiar voice—

"Hui\'er? Hui\'er! I\'m back!"

All the people in the yard were stunned.

"Red beans and soybeans? Is anyone at home? Open the door! I\'m back!"

Hongdou laughed and shouted, "Dad! My dad is back!" Then he jumped and ran to open the courtyard door.

Tao Tao and Xing Xing also rushed out of the small warehouse.

Sure enough, Big Brother Dongsheng was carrying a satchel and a sack, and walked into the house in a hurry.

— He was wearing leather shoes, black trousers, and a white shirt, over a black jacket. The style of the whole body is no different from that of the educated youth from the city, but he has lost a lot of weight and looks more refined, but the whole person still looks haggard and tired.

Bai Zhenggan came out wearing clothes and a cane.

When Dongsheng saw him, he was very excited, his eyes were red, "Dad!"

"Come back? Oh, you, why didn\'t you tell me in advance? I, we\'re going to pick you up!" Bai Zhenggan\'s eyes were also red.

Dongsheng put the sack on the ground, choked and said, "I-I don\'t care, no, don\'t take it..."

Tao Tao and Xing Xing ran over, "Brother, you\'re back!", "Brother, why are you here at this time? The bus usually arrives at night!"

Red beans and soybeans have been entangled with Dongsheng.

Dongsheng hugged his son and daughter in one hand, and kissed his son and daughter well, and then answered Xing Xing\'s words, "My classmates and I took the train to the county town. We arrived last night. Someone came to pick him up by car. I took the train. After a half-ride ride... I spent the night in the town, and came back in the morning by a fellow villager\'s ox cart."

Then he asked his son and daughter, "Where\'s your mother? And your grandma and your third aunt?"

Red Bean Milk said in a milky voice: "Ama, Mom and San Gu have been busy all night, washing pig intestines and filling bacon... I didn\'t go to bed until six o\'clock in the morning... Dad, our family can have a good year this year! Our family has Lots and lots of rice, and lots and lots of bacon and sausages!"

At this time, Tao Tao and Xing Xing had already split up.

Tao Tao went to make breakfast for the eldest brother, made a bowl of hot milk and two fried dough sticks; Xing Xing made hot water for the eldest brother to wash his face.

Like offering a treasure, Hongdou took Dongsheng to see his small warehouse.

Looking at the small warehouse full of various grains, Dongsheng was stunned.

During the half year he was away from home, he obviously lost a strong labor force, how could he still...

Think about it when he went to the provincial capital to go to school, and he took away twenty dollars from the family!

For a time, Dongsheng was both ashamed and guilty!

After reading the small warehouse, Huangdou took him to the main room to see his little brother.

The little mung bean is seven or eight months old, grows very strong, and crawls very fast. Usually Bai Zhenggan looks at him, but Bai Zhenggan\'s waist is not good, and he can\'t do anything. The family was afraid that he would fall off the kang bed, so they made a pair of bamboo fences.

Tao Tao was afraid that the fence would be too sharp and hurt the baby, so she tore an old clothes into rags and wrapped the fence.

At this moment, Mungdou was walking slowly, leaning against the fence, and looking at Dongsheng curiously.

He didn\'t know his father at all.

It\'s just that the looks of the father and son are strikingly similar, coupled with the natural closeness in the blood—

Mungdou grinned at Dongsheng and let out a giggle.

Dongsheng stretched out his hand, took his younger son in his arms, and sighed, "Mung bean has grown so much! It\'s really strong!"

Mung Bean likes to be hugged by others, which can broaden his vision and make him laugh happier now.

Bai Zhenggan laughed and told Dongsheng some interesting things about mung bean.

At this time Taotao and Xingxing brought breakfast and face wash, Dongsheng handed the mung bean to Taotao, wiped his face, and ate breakfast again, Bai Zhenggan said to him, "Go back to your room to rest, Stop arguing with your mother, she\'s old, and she just stayed up all night and got up again, and she\'s afraid that she\'ll get sick after being tired from the New Year... See you at noon, let\'s have dinner together!"

Dongsheng responded and looked at Mung Bean again.

Mung Bean\'s attention has been attracted by Tao Tao—

Bai Zhenggan scolded lightly, "Your son has us to watch over you! You should take care of your daughter-in-law first... Poor, you live a good life in the city, but leave her and the child at home, and become a father and mother again, I also have to take care of our two old people and those little sisters!"

Dongsheng nodded, turned his head and entered the East Room.

Bai Zhenggan instructed Taotao and Xingxing again, "Yesterday you all worked hard, and today your eldest brother is back, you two put down the mung beans, and quickly think about what we should have for lunch... Don\'t save it!"

Taotao responded, put the mung bean on the kang bed, and surrounded it with a fence, "Little mung bean, you are good, the fourth aunt will make you something delicious!"

Mung Bean smiled and imitated her speech, "Ow...Ow!"

Tao Tao and Xing Xing went out of the main room and discussed while walking.

"There are still some pig intestines left on the stove. Mom and the others have taken care of them. Why don\'t we make a stir-fried pork intestine with chopped peppers?"

"Okay! This is good, I\'m drooling just thinking about it!"

"Simmer another bowl of bone soup?"

"Bone soup should be stewed at night. At this time, it takes up firewood and takes up the stove. If you want to make other dishes, you can\'t use it!"

"Sure, let\'s stew the tube-bone soup that night! Let\'s mash the pork and steam it with the eggs, okay? Red beans, soybeans, and mung beans love this!"

"Okay! Let\'s burn another eggplant with sauce, Song zhi loves it!"

"What does the big dish do?"

"Do you still need to ask braised pork? This time we use dried bamboo shoots to stew, it should be delicious too!"

While they were talking, the sisters suddenly heard a strange and subtle voice from the east room - there was a sing-song of the elder sister-in-law, which seemed to be resentful and weeping, and there seemed to be the gentle coaxing of the elder brother, and there was even a rhythm. sound?

Tao Tao and Xing Xing glanced at each other, and at the same time covered their mouths with their hands, blushed smugly, and ran away lightly.