Chapter 61 Candied Haws
Yuan Dabao smiled.
He looked a little silly when he smiled, with two rows of small white teeth showing, as if he had no worries at all.
Yuan Dabao was a child raised by Wang Qinghua with his hands in his hands. When he didn't want to eat, Wang Qinghua would chase him around the yard to feed him. When he didn't want to sleep, Wang Qinghua would hold him on his shoulders to coax him to sleep... There was never any sadness in his eyes, and he seemed to never know what worry and sadness were.
Like the stars on a summer night.
Bai Xue was envious for a moment. She was greedy to see Yuan Dabao's smile, and wondered if the hardships she had suffered in this life would allow her to be "Yuan Dabao" in the next life.
"Then..." Yuan Dabao originally wanted to say a few more words to Bai Xue, but at this moment he noticed that Bai Xue was wearing very little.
The fur collar of the woolen coat looked warm, but it was only a single layer, unlike the thick cotton-padded jacket he was wearing. Looking down, Bai Xue was wearing a pair of single shoes, and the exposed part of her calf must have been covered in stockings.
Yuan Dabao knew stockings. After going to school, he saw some of his female classmates wearing them, but only in the summer. In such a cold winter, he actually went out with his legs bare.
Yuan Dabao's eyes widened, and he swallowed back all the words in his heart. He muttered, "Why are you wearing so little? Aren't you cold? Then you should go back quickly."
Bai Xue was cold. Usually she would stamp her feet to keep warm while walking, but now that she was standing, she felt her legs were stiff.
"Okay." Bai Xue said.
"Then don't forget what you promised me. You must come to find us," said Yuan Dabao.
"good."
"Well, then I'll go first." Yuan Dabao turned around reluctantly and was about to leave when he heard Bai Xue calling him.
"Dabao." Bai Xue looked at Yuan Dabao and said, "Don't tell them you saw me. Okay?"
"Huh?" Yuan Dabao was a little confused and could only ask, "Why?"
Bai Xue's face flushed red, and she stammered, "Just treat it as a surprise for them."
Yuan Dabao opened his mouth wide, his expression as if he had realized what was happening. "I see! Okay, I won't tell you. I'll wait for you to come find us and give them a surprise!"
Bai Xue waved to Yuan Dabao.
Watch him disappear into the cold and clean winter night.
Yuan Dabao went back whistling, feeling very proud and swaggering, in an extremely good mood.
When they arrived at the wonton stall, the remaining three friends rolled their eyes and refused to look at him. Yuan Dabao then said to everyone with a smile, "Sorry, everyone. I suddenly saw a friend and ran after him, and forgot to tell you first. I'll treat you all to wontons today as an apology, okay?"
Zhang Yang glanced at Yuan Dabao's still-unfinished, but now completely cold wontons and asked, "Are you still eating?"
"Eat. One more bowl for each of us?" Yuan Dabao suggested.
Zhang Yang and Wei Ran both agreed. Xin Tianyi quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm not going to eat anymore. You guys can eat."
Yuan Dabao squinted his eyes and smiled: "It's just like everyone knows how much you eat. Eat, no one will laugh at you."
"I really can't eat today. I've been eating at my grandpa's house these past few days, and I've been so full at every meal that my stomach feels terrible."
Xin Tianyi rubbed his stomach as he spoke. He had thought he was feeling much better, but after eating a bowl of wontons, probably because he ate it in the cold wind, he started to feel uncomfortable again.
As soon as Xin Tianyi finished speaking, Zhang Yang stood up.
Yuan Dabao immediately called out to him, "Where are you going? Did you see one of your friends?"
Zhang Yang ignored him and walked straight across.
A grandfather was sitting on the side of the road, with a thick wooden stick next to him. It was covered with a thick layer of hay, and the hay was filled with candied haws.
Zhang Yang bought a candied haws and then walked back.
He walked to the table and handed the candied haws to Xin Tianyi, "Eat this, it will make you feel better."
Xin Tianyi almost cried and said with emotion, "I was just craving something sweet and sour."
"Here I am," Yuan Dabao said sarcastically, "I want to eat something sweet and sour, but no one is buying it for me."
Zhang Yang handed the candied haws to Xin Tianyi, and before sitting down, he kicked the bench where Yuan Dabao was sitting.
Yuan Dabao screamed in fear, and then he heard Zhang Yang shouting to the stall owner, "Three more bowls of wontons, big ones."
The three of them finished their wontons, and Xin Tianyi also finished her candied haws. The sour and sweet taste made her feel much better.
After dinner, the four of them rode their bikes home, and the three boys took Xin Tianyi home first.
Wang Fang finally saw Xin Tianyi. She opened the gate to the courtyard from a distance and said to Zhang Yang and the others, "Next time you go out to play, don't bring Tianyi back so late."
Zhang Yang immediately said, "Auntie, we were all hungry after watching the movie, so we went to eat wontons. We must come back early next time."
After hearing this, Wang Fang felt that she shouldn't vent her anger on others, and she felt embarrassed, so she politely said, "Come in and play for a while."
"No, Auntie. It's getting late. Let's go back. We'll come back to play next time." Zhang Yang replied.
"Okay, then you three should ride slowly on the way back. Don't play around and go straight home. Especially Dabao's mother, she will be worried again." Wang Fang instructed.
"good."
It was almost eight o'clock when the three of them rode to the living area of the cotton mill.
Wang Qinghua was pacing anxiously at the door. Du Lurui was knitting under the streetlight. After a while, she smiled and said to Wang Qinghua, "Come on, don't worry. The child is already that big. How could he be lost? He will be back soon."
Wang Qinghua couldn't help it and scolded Yuan Dabao from time to time, saying that this damn kid didn't know how to come back once he went out, and he would have to beat him up when he came back.
Du Lurui curled her lips and said, "When have you ever hit Dabao? Don't just talk the talk, I'm watching you today to see if you'll hit him or not!"
As the two were chatting, they saw a few people coming in from outside, walking hurriedly and carrying things in their hands.
They are all unfamiliar faces, looks I have never seen before.
Wang Qinghua followed them with his gaze, and Du Lurui said, "Don't look anymore, we're going to Juan'er's house."
The Juan'er he was talking about was Pei Juanjuan, and Wang Qinghua suddenly realized.
"Is this a gift for the New Year?"
Du Lurui raised her eyebrows, her eyes were full of self-explanatory words.
Many things are seen but not spoken out. Du Lurui lowered the bar: "Someone came last night too."
"Really?" Wang Qinghua curled his lips, "Humph!"
"Of course, whether they want it or not is another matter. We only saw people going in but no one coming out. Maybe they didn't take anything and asked them to take it out again." Du Lurui said with a smile.
"How can you send them in and then out again?" Wang Qinghua snorted, "You're kidding me."
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