"You're quite punctual, come on, there's work for you today!"

Ling Ran was happy. The first sentence sounded unpleasant, but the second sentence sounded like he accepted his existence.

The three people first went to the north end of the farmer's stall and saw a big gray goose with its long head stretched out.

I also remembered that when I was at my grandfather's house, my cousins ​​always asked me to buy candy.

There was a big goose on the road, which flew up and chased me. I was so scared that I screamed and cried and ran forward. I had to run a long way before the big goose let me go. But my cousins ​​would not let me go and still sent me to buy candy.

So my grandparents' house are both my nightmares.

Seeing Zhou wanted to retreat, Ling Ran slapped the goose's head, and the goose obediently retracted its head.

"See? If you dare to hit it, it won't dare to twist you. It only bullies the weak and fears the strong."

Ling Ran also knew about Zhou Xiang's experience at her grandfather's house when she was three or four years old, and he felt sorry for her. Apart from her parents who were relatively nice to her, none of her other relatives loved her and they all loved to bully her.

Humph, if I have the chance in the future, I will help the little girl get it back.

Zhou wanted to ask his father to quickly select the geese and put them in the bag.

Father Zhou chose a docile gray goose and a fat mallard.

After weighing, when Zhou wanted to pay, the stall owner was still looking at Zhou's father. Only after seeing Zhou's father nod did he accept the money from the little girl. Could it be that the little girl is the one who runs this shop?

The goose and the duck were put into a snakeskin bag, and a hole was torn in the bag to let their heads stick out.

Father Zhou specially selected a large red rooster and said, "Think about it, the feathers on this rooster's tail are good. I'll pick them off and sew a shuttlecock for you later."

Zhou Xiang nodded. Dad remembered a lot of his hobbies! Although he no longer liked playing these games after his rebirth, he still appreciated his father's kindness.

Ling Ran interrupted, "I have some screws and washers. I'll bring them to you tomorrow."

"Well, at least two. One is too light and hard to kick. Once it's sewn up, we can kick it!"

Ling Ran grinned happily. The little girl had already listed him as the first playmate she thought of.

After buying the poultry, go buy some firecrackers and send them back together.

There were already quite a few people in the firecracker store, and Ling Ran squeezed in directly.

The crowd was unhappy and turned around to scold him, but when they saw it was the little devil, they simply gave him way.

So, Zhou Xiang and his daughter, following Ling Ran, easily reached the counter. For the first time, Zhou Xiang felt that the title of Little Devil was quite useful.

For example, at this moment:

"Hey, Ling Ran, are you here to buy firecrackers? Okay, I'll give you the number you want first." The salesperson said to Ling Ran.

Then no one in the crowd objected, and instead moved to the sides.

Ling Ran looked at Zhou Xiang, who said, "Six sets of the 500-head variety, and twenty each of the Ertizi, the Sky-piercing Monkey, the Fire Tree and Silver Flower, and the Colorful Pearl. Do you have any firecrackers? Twenty small boxes of them, too."

Ling Ran touched the little girl's head. She was timid but loved to play with firecrackers.

The salesperson hurriedly picked up the goods. When the people in the crowd heard that the little girl bought so many fireworks, they all took a breath. This store was really generous to the girl. She only bought a few fireworks for fun. How much would it cost to buy dozens or hundreds of them!

When he saw that the little girl paid for the bill herself, he began to complain in his heart, thinking that this family was too generous to give the little girl so much money to spend.

Zhou Xiang pulled Ling Ran and whispered in his ear, "I forgot to ask Zuo Heng to buy firecrackers. We'll go find him when we get them."

Ling Ran nodded, straightened up, and covered his red ears.

Then he picked up the cardboard box on the counter and said, "Let's go!"

When Zhou Xiang saw that he could lift so many firecrackers and fireworks effortlessly, he knew that he was very strong. Fortunately, he was dragged here today.

I completely forgot that he would come even if I didn't delay.

The three of them brought the things back and scattered the chickens, ducks and geese in the narrow alley next to the firewood shed, blocking it with wooden boards.

Ling Ran placed the firecrackers in the main hall of the house, where there were rarely any open flames.

The three of them went to the kitchenware store to buy new bowls and chopsticks, and then Zhou's father took them back. Ling Ran accompanied Zhou Xiang to the grain station to buy bran.

Since I was at the grain station, I might as well buy some rice and flour. For more than 20 yuan, I bought 50 kilograms of rice and 50 kilograms of flour.

When Zhou's mother came back and looked at the piles of things at home, she felt for the first time that celebrating the New Year was a relaxing thing. She didn't have to worry about money or not having time to go shopping.

Zhou Xiang had just mixed the bran and was feeding the chickens, ducks, and geese. When he saw his mother coming back, he quickly put down the broken basin, went back to the house, washed his hands, and prepared to eat.

Ling Ran was also invited by Zhou Xiang to have lunch. Ling Ran had worked very hard today, and there was still work to be assigned to him in the afternoon!

Zhou's father specially cut off a piece of fish and cooked it, and served it with minced meat and tofu, pork ribs and kelp soup, and spicy and sour shredded potatoes.

Zhou Xiang sat happily at the table, waiting for dinner to start, because the fish his father cooked was the most delicious.

Ling Ran discovered that Zhou Xiang was most interested in the fish cooked by Zhou's father. He used every chopstick to pick up the fish meat, but he was very slow when eating the fish.

It turned out that he was picking out fish bones, so he picked up a large piece of fish with chopsticks, carefully picked out all the bones, and put it in Zhou Xiang's bowl.

Zhou Xiang saw the extra fish in his bowl, looked up to see Ling Ran, and thanked him with a smile, "Thank you, I'm most afraid of fish bones."

Ling Ran took it to heart, thinking that he would learn how to cook fish and make it for the little girl in the future.

After lunch, Zhou wanted to ask his mother for some cloth to sew bags to hold his down.

After a few clicks on the sewing machine, several small cloth bags came out. Ling Ran, wearing the mask that Zhou Xiang had washed, began to help pack the down. There were more than three pounds, which filled four small cloth bags.

Pull open the cover of the stove, pick up the broken honeycomb coal, start a high fire, leave half of the water in the pot, put in a bamboo tray, put the cloth bag on the tray, cover it, roll the toilet paper into long strips, wet it, and block the edge of the lid to prevent heat from escaping.

After steaming on medium heat for nearly an hour, Zhou Xiang opened the lid, took out the cloth bag, and poured it back on the kang. He sniffed it and found that the fishy smell was very little. He wondered what it would be like after it dried. Handmade ones couldn't keep up with the machine-made ones of later generations.

Press the sheets all around and scrub the pot several times before starting to boil water. After the water boils, scoop it out and pour it out, scrub the pot again, and boil water again.

Looking at Ling Ran who had been busy for two or three days, he asked, "Have you finished your winter vacation homework?"

"Almost done, only two more to finish."

"I'm almost done with my work here. If you come again, bring your homework and we can do it on the kang so our hands don't get cold."

"Okay." The little guy in his heart was jumping for joy. The little girl took the initiative to invite him to come home and play.

At night, Zhou Xiang quietly put the chickens, ducks and geese into the space. He was worried about leaving them outside. If the wolf named Huang came, the chickens would become its food.

Looking at the big goose running happily in the space and pecking at its vegetables, Zhou Xiang regretted taking it in, but the yellow wolf didn't dare to eat it.