Li Licai returned to the pavilion outside and sat down.

"Your house is so nice, everything is convenient for you."

Doesn’t this girl want to stay at home?

"Even if you praise my house to the sky, I won't let you stay. My house only has four rooms, and my third brother has to bring his classmates back."

"Oh." Li Li pouted. "Going to the bathroom in my house is so scary. Bugs are crawling everywhere."

"Do you have spare space at home? If so, build a bathroom yourself for a few hundred dollars."

"Yes, it's a very large space! Otherwise, I will bring my mother here tomorrow to take a look at your bathroom. Maybe she will like it and agree."

Zhou Xiang nodded, "Okay, come and see!"

The whole morning passed like this. After seeing off the three people, Zhou Xiang felt a little tired. Li Li was too childish and couldn't sit still.

In the afternoon, the weather was too hot and they agreed to rest at home, so Zhou was glad that he didn't have to stay with them all day.

I was having a sound nap when I heard a knock on the door. "Sister, open the door, we are back."

Zhou Xiang jumped up and said, "Third brother is back?"

I got off the kang and opened the door, and it was really my third brother and Zuo Heng.

"Third brother, Zuo Heng, you guys are back? Did you get your report cards?"

The two of them looked at Zhou Xiang's sticky hair and chuckled.

"Sister, your hairstyle is so cute!"

Zhou Hua teased his sister.

Zhou Xiang scratched his hair with his claws, "Okay, you haven't told me your grades yet!"

Zhou Hua touched the tuft of hair on her forehead and said, "My four subjects all scored above 90, and my left horizontal score was above 95."

Zhou Xiang nodded, and the tuft of hair also swayed. "Not bad, not bad, very good. I'm going to kill a chicken for dinner tomorrow and ask Dad to cook it."

Zuo Heng smiled as he looked at Zhou Xiang, who had a cute messy hair and spoke mature words. The panic he felt when he first arrived at the Zhou family subsided.

Da Huang and Xiao Huang followed Zhou Xiang. Da Huang kept raising his front legs to show his presence, because his little master had no time to pay attention to him after he got up.

Rourou and Qiuqiu followed behind Dahuang, because she was their mother and they remembered her.

So Zhou Xiang went to the bathroom to wash up and took a bunch of cats. He took the opportunity to feed the four puppies. The four puppies only calmed down after they were full.

"Zuo Heng, Third Brother, how did you bring them back?"

"I paid for an extra ticket and hugged them all the way."

"Now the house is lively."

Zhou Xiang took Zuo Heng and his third brother to see the changes at home.

Look for the strange things on the left and look for the changes on the right.

"My sister did all this, right?"

"Yes, it's more convenient now. By the way, how will you and Zuo Heng live? Big brother's kang can accommodate one person, so if we move the wooden bed to the window of the main room in the north room, we can also accommodate two people."

"Let's set up the bed together first, and then ask big brother how he wants to sleep."

"Okay, I'll go clean it up."

"Together, we're together."

"By the way, where are my second sister and eldest brother?"

"Second sister said to go and ask eldest brother to come home."

The three of them began to clean up the wooden bed in the inner room of the south room. There were a lot of odds and ends on it, so Zhou Xiang simply wrapped it up with a torn bed sheet. They were all his second sister's things.

Throwing it on the kang, the three of them moved the various parts of the bed together. The bed board was quite heavy, so Zuo lifted one end horizontally, while Zhou Xiang and Zhou Hua lifted the other ends.

After being carried to the yard, Zhou Niao came back.

"I'll lift it, I'll lift it. You can't lift it, big sister, hurry up."

Zhou Niao instructed Zhou Yu to carry the bed frame into the main room. Zhou Xiang and Zuo Heng each held a bed leg, fastened the bed frame, and moved the wooden boards to arrange it.

Reed mats, sedge mats, sheets, thin quilts, done.

"Brother, you and Brother Zuo Heng sleep on the kang in the south room, and I'll sleep on the wooden bed in this room."

Zhou Hua nodded, "Okay, then go clean up the kang!"

The three boys began to pack their things. Zhou Xiang dragged his second sister into the inner room and pointed at the large package on the kang. "Your things, sort them out."

"I have nowhere to put it after I organize it!"

"You tidy up first, I'll ask someone to build the cabinet, okay?"

"Thank you, sister. Hit it bigger. I have a lot of this stuff."

Zhou Xiang nodded and thought, if he asked the carpenter to build a roof, he would be able to put down all these messy things, right?

After Zuo Heng and Zhou Hua finished packing their things, they went outside to look at the shed.

Sitting on the scalding hot swing chair, he was reluctant to get off. Zhou Xiang pulled his third brother up and said, "Your bottom is burning. After the sun goes down, wipe it with some cool water and sit back down. Do your homework here tomorrow morning. I have three other classmates coming."

Zhou Hua touched his butt and followed his sister's pull into the yard.

"Zuo Heng, this is your home too, don't be restrained. My dad has changed a lot now, don't be afraid."

Zuo Heng nodded, "Okay, I know. My second sister just smiled at me and said she welcomes me."

"Yeah! My second sister can't change it either."

Zuo Heng smiled, but he knew in his heart that these were all the result of Zhou Xiang's efforts. At least he had enough food and clothing, and only with the confidence could he make changes.

Zhou Yu was cooking, and Zhou wanted to go in to help. "Second sister, Zuo Heng is an orphan. He rents a house with Third Brother and usually takes care of Third Brother a lot. So, I let him come here during the summer vacation to experience the family atmosphere. You should be careful with your words."

Zhou Yu nodded repeatedly, "I understand. I'll treat him as my younger brother, just like Zhou Hua."

Zhou Xiang looked at her meaningfully.

"What's wrong? Am I wrong?"

"That's right. The key is how did you treat your brother under your grandmother's high pressure?"

Zhou Yu smiled awkwardly, "That was in the past, let's not talk about it anymore. From now on, I'll treat them like I treat you, okay?"

Zhou Xiang finally nodded, "Okay."

When Zhou's father returned home and saw Zuo Heng, he realized it was Zhou Hua and said with a smile, "Welcome to our home. Don't be polite or restrained. Just make yourself at home."

Zuo Heng nodded, "Thank you, uncle."

"You're welcome."

Zhou Hua called out softly, "Dad!"

Father Zhou looked at his younger son, who had grown taller and gained some weight, and patted him on the shoulder. "Hey! Welcome home!"

Zhou Hua was frightened by his father's rare gentleness. Is this still the father who is like a kitten in front of his grandmother and like a tiger at home?

Father Zhou ignored his frightened son and walked into the kitchen. "Zhou Hua is bringing his classmates home today. Did you cook anything good?"

Zhou Xiang turned around and said, "Let's make some fried eggs and heat up the leftovers from lunch. We'll kill a chicken tomorrow and buy some fish. Mandarin fish has fewer bones."

"I don't know if there will be any mandarin fish tomorrow."

“If you can’t buy mandarin fish, buy big fish.”

"Okay, I understand."

When Zhou's mother got off work, she was very happy to see her youngest son and Zuo Heng coming back. "Zuo Heng is here? He treats this place like he's in the county town."

Zuo Heng smiled sincerely this time, "I will, don't worry, Auntie."

I didn't go out to feed mosquitoes for dinner, but drank hot porridge quietly under the ceiling fan.

After dinner, while it was still daylight, Zhou Niao took out his toys to treat his two younger brothers.