With the help of his younger brother, the buckets were filled in just a few minutes, including the bucket with the stars.
On the way back, they ran into Zhang Tong and Yao Lixiang for the second time.
"Mom, we still have three buckets here."
Yao Lixiang teased, "Sister Zhang, with so many buckets, can you handle them all?"
"What are you afraid of? If we can't finish cleaning it, we'll just boil it all together and eat it with sauce. Shishi, let's go home. Mom found a really big stone crab, and I'll cook it for you for lunch."
Huge shrimp, huge crabs, it seems raining is really good.
When she got home, Han Shuyun was also back. As she expected, the school was full of puddles.
Some windows were not closed properly and were exposed to wind and rain, making the classrooms messy. The principal decided to let them air out for a day, and all teachers and students would return to school tomorrow to clean up.
Five buckets of seafood, six people of all ages washed, scrubbed, scaled, and gutted them, even faster than Yao Lixiang.
After enjoying a delicious seafood feast, Han Shuyun and He Chaoyang prepared to return to the city.
I've been away from home for a few days and it's rained so heavily, I need to go back and check on things at home, and besides, He Chaoyang's vacation is over.
"Dad, you have to come again during your vacation, Xiao Shi will miss you." Xiao Shi hugged her father's leg reluctantly.
He Chaoyang picked up his chubby son and kissed his little forehead.
"Okay, Dad will come often. Listen to Mom, Aunt and Brother here. There's water everywhere in the compound, so don't go too far. Just stay home and play."
"I understand, Master."
As expected, the couple had just left when the three of them took their two pet chickens out.
After training, he climbed the stairs very quickly on Wednesday and Thursday, zipping over three flights of stairs in a flash.
"You have the nerve to eat and drink for free at home. The whole compound went out to collect seafood, but you two lazybones didn't go out. Xu Ying, Xu Lan, let me tell you, we don't support idlers in this house. If you don't work, don't even think about eating."
"Alright, Zhou Miao, both children are sick. Xiao Ying isn't fully recovered yet, and Xiao Lan is coughing. Let them go out to enjoy the sea breeze; they might catch a cold again."
“We can go beachcombing every day, so it’s not like we’re missing out on this meal,” Guo Qiuhong remarked as she spread out fish in the corridor.
Xu Ying had been burning up on and off for a day and a night, but thanks to Xie Guihua's attentive care, she looks much better today.
Perhaps because they slept in the same bed, Xu Lan also developed a fever the next day. Xie Guihua took care of both the older and younger children, even more attentively than a biological mother.
Zhou Miao was completely carefree except for her mouth, which chattered on and on all day without ever getting annoyed.
The two children are still coughing, but instead of showing concern, she complains that they didn't go beachcombing. A stepmother is indeed a stepmother.
Zhou Miao snorted, "Of course you're not bad if you pick up so many. I haven't even seen a trace of fish at home."
Guo Qiuhong turned around and glared at her. "If you want to eat it, why don't you go pick it up yourself? Your limbs are all fine, you're not sick, do you not have hands?"
Cao Liqing came out of the water room carrying the prepared seafood, a half-smile on her face.
"Qiu Hong, your child picked up so much without any help. There's a saying that's true: as long as you're willing to put in the effort, it's never the hardworking who goes hungry."
Guo Qiuhong immediately replied, "That's right. Adults have hands and feet, why would they need to rely on children? Liqing, you've picked quite a lot too, enough to eat for a while."
Zhou Miao, of course, understood that the two were making sarcastic remarks about her, and snorted.
"Why should I, a pregnant woman, go out to pick them up? What if I slip or catch a cold and hurt my stomach? Can they bear the responsibility? Would they dare to eat the food I pick up?"
"Oh, I see. So where did the seafood you ate before come from? Did it just wander into your pot by itself?"
After hanging the last fish to dry, Guo Qiuhong rolled her eyes and went back into the house.
Talking to brainless people will make you stupid too. I just couldn't help being a smart aleck.
"you......"
Cao Liqing finished drying the fish and went back inside, too lazy to pay any attention to her.
Xie Guihua brought fish porridge over and found it strange to see three people and two chickens squatting by the wall in the stairwell.
"Comrade Zhou, what are you doing here?"
Shishi is a celebrity in the compound; it's hard not to know her.
“Sister-in-law, we were just about to get up when you came up here.”
Xie Guihua: ? ? ?
She was in a hurry to deliver food to the two children, so without asking any questions, she walked towards room 303 and found that the three people and two chickens had followed her.
Zhou Miao rolled her eyes twice, once at Xie Guihua and once at Zhou Shi, silently cursing her as a lunatic.
After spending two days together, Xie Guihua simply pretended that she didn't exist.
"Xiaoying, Xiaolan, are you hungry? Here, today we have fish porridge. Once you've recovered, Aunt Xie will take you to the beach to collect other seafood."
"Thank you, Auntie Xie."
Xie Guihua smiled.
She's been taking care of the child non-stop these past two days, which has greatly upset her in-laws, who say it's a waste of the family's food.
Little did she know that if she hadn't taken care of the child, Da Liang would have been criticized at all.
It's not that I didn't want to tell them, but I knew it would be useless to tell them.
Da Liang said he would send them off the island in the next couple of days, and she would never have to suffer that humiliation again.
Receiving a disdainful look, Shishi returned the disdain and borrowed three small stools from 301 and 302 to sit against the wall to the left of the entrance to 303.
Ugly held a radio in her hands, turned on the channel she had set beforehand, and leisurely music slowly began to play.
Hearing the sound, two chickens spread their wings and danced gracefully at the entrance of room 303, the soft music intertwining with the flapping of their wings and the clucking of their beaks, rising and falling in an endless chorus.
The colorful pheasants, with their heads held high in arrogance, exude the majestic aura of peacocks under the sunlight.
Head up, chest out, tail up, spin, wings out, flapping, knees bent, jump, then head up, chest out again...
When Cao Liqing and Dun Qiuhong heard the music, their first reaction was to look at Chou Chou, who was holding the radio. At the same time, they wondered: If there is music, why isn't the dance king dancing?
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