Chapter 252 God of Wealth Helps
Liang Ziqiang and his wife had just walked into the house when they heard someone behind them calling "Second Uncle" loudly.
When I turned around, I didn't know how Liang Xiaohai came here at this evening, and he was not alone. There was also a half-grown boy of eight or nineteen years old with him, whose nickname seemed to be Youyu.
Xiao Hai was crying so hard that his tears and snot were all over his face. His face was smeared with tears and snot, and it was hard to tell whose child he was without looking closely.
Running over, Liang Xiaohai wiped a snot bubble from his face, grabbed Liang Ziqiang's clothes and continued to call him second uncle.
Liang Ziqiang was anxious: "Xiao Hai, what's wrong with you? If you have something to say, just say it. Don't rub bubbles on others!"
Seeing his face full of fear and disgust, Chen Xiangbei couldn't help wanting to laugh, and came over to glare at him: "Look at what you look like! In two months, when our baby is born, shit and urine will be all over you, and you will be so scared that you will close the door and hide!"
Liang Ziqiang wiped the snot bubbles off his clothes, thinking that he had been fooled by two kids in his previous life. How could this be the same? How could a newborn baby and a four-year-old kid fooling around with bubbles on someone be the same thing?
Chen Xiangbei was patient and asked Liang Xiaohai: "Tell Second Aunt, Xiaohai, what's wrong with you?"
The couple thought that the candy was probably stolen. But they thought it was not right. If it was the eight or nineteen-year-old boy who stole his things, he should have run away. Why did he come to Juzipo to find them? "Uncle Big Turtle!" Xiaohai sobbed, "Big Turtle ran away, gone!"
Hearing the first half of the sentence "Second Uncle is a big turtle", Liang Ziqiang wanted to raise his hand and slap him. Who is a big turtle? Calling someone a turtle is too much!
Then, when he heard the big turtle run away, he almost dropped his jaw in shock: "I've kept it for more than half a year. It usually stays in the basin. How could it run away?!"
The big boy next to him, Chou Yu, was also in a low mood, with his head down. Now he raised his head and told Liang Ziqiang: "I've always wanted to play with his big turtle. I finally collected a few pieces of shoe-bottom candies and exchanged them with him today! Xiao Hai ate my candies and agreed to let me play with the big turtle for an afternoon. I took him to the beach to play, and then... I went to watch others catching crabs, and the big turtle crawled into the sea and ran away..."
So that's how it is! Liang Ziqiang finally understood the whole story.
"No, Xiao Hai, didn't I just give you some candy a few days ago? Why are you exchanging it for shoe-bottom candy?"
Who can I blame for losing my turtle for a few pieces of shoe-bottom candy? "Wow, second uncle... shoe-bottom candy is also delicious, different from White Rabbit!" Liang Xiaohai cried, but he was not vague when talking about candy.
In fact, shoe-bottom sugar is maltose. Some people make maltose from wheat grains or glutinous rice, and from time to time they carry it on their shoulders and sell it from village to village.
Since not every villager has the spare money to buy sugar, vendors often offer to exchange worn-out shoe soles for sugar. Two pairs of worn-out shoe soles can be exchanged for a piece of maltose.
The villagers simply stopped calling it malt sugar and started calling it "shoe sole sugar".
The vendor patted the sole of his shoe with the same hands, and then turned around to get the maltose. The scene was a little unacceptable to parents who were a little bit tidy, but it was one of the most beautiful scenes in the eyes of children.
At this time, the perpetrator cockroach hung his head, looking like a cockroach.
Sometimes the nicknames given to children in the village are really amazing, such as 甴曱 (yóu yuē), which means cockroach in their area. This boy is called 甴曱, and his expression and actions really resemble cockroaches.
Nowadays, there are quite a few children in the village who are given nicknames similar to animals. Villagers think that the more rustic the name, the easier it is to raise the child.
Cockroach rubbed his hands, Xiao Hai cried so hard that he almost died. He had never been so sad when his mother beat him.
Liang Ziqiang looked very troubled: "I have already run away, there is no point in you coming to find me..."
Xiao Hai wiped his eyes and said, "Even if it ran away, it must still be in the sea. Uncle, next time you are sailing, if you encounter it again, please help me bring it back!"
This time, Chen Xiangbei and Liang's mother, who was walking by, were both angry and amused when they heard it.
Mother Liang wiped her eldest grandson's face with a towel and said,
"Do you think the sea is the basin in your house? Where can you ask your second uncle to find it back?!"
Chen Xiangbei winked at her husband and said, "You're looking for a needle in a haystack!"
Cockroach was more realistic and suggested: "Next time you go out to sea, if you see a turtle again, can you catch one for him? Otherwise, he will keep pestering me!"
Liang Ziqiang suddenly remembered that, by coincidence, he encountered a entangled turtle when he was collecting the floating gill net today. It was much bigger than the turtle at home.
Unfortunately, he couldn't predict that Xiaohai would lose the turtle half a day in advance, otherwise he could have brought the big turtle home, which would have been a seamless transition.
"Okay, okay, if we really encounter a turtle when we go out to sea, I'll catch you another one. Maybe it'll be bigger."
Only after Liang Ziqiang agreed did Liang Xiaohai finally feel at ease.
Liang Xiaohai went back satisfied. Lizhi came back from the vegetable field and asked after realizing it:
"Second brother, mom told me that the big turtle ran away? I knew Xiao Hai was a loser!"
Lizhi kept scolding Xiaohai while grinding his teeth. Liang Ziqiang reminded him, "Stop scolding and keep an eye on your two big birds!"
Now that Liang Xiaohai has lost his toys, wouldn’t his attention quickly turn to the two oystercatchers?
When Lizhi heard this, he really moved a stool to the side of the cage, as if he was going to eat and sleep with the oystercatcher...
The next morning, Liang Ziqiang woke up early and found that Chen Xiangbei was not beside his pillow.
As her belly grew bigger, Chen Xiangbei hasn’t gotten up so early in the morning recently. I don’t know why she got up so early today.
He also got up and walked out of the bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the aroma of noodles in the living room. There seemed to be a smell of fried eggs mixed in.
On the table, there was a large bowl half filled with noodles.
I don’t usually eat noodles at home…
Not only egg noodles, but there are also cooked, unpeeled eggs on the table.
"Whose birthday is it today?" Liang Ziqiang scratched the back of his head.
"Who are you talking about?" Chen Xiangbei came over with chopsticks and looked at him with a smile, "I can't even remember my birthday. Everything is going well for me, and I get whatever I want every day!"
Liang Ziqiang came to his senses after hearing what his wife said. Today is his birthday?
Today is April 15th. Coincidentally, the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar fall on the same day this month, which means that today is March 15th on the lunar calendar, my birthday.
It's really strange that he didn't realize his own birthday at all, but he remembered his parents' birthdays. His father's birthday is next month.
Also, Chen Xiangbei’s birthday was in more than two months, and he remembered it too.
"Every year has this day, every year has this day, may you be safe and prosperous!" His mother also came over from the kitchen and said to him.
Liang's father's congratulations were very unique and had a great background. He started by saying to Liang Ziqiang:
"March 15th is the birthday of Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth! You were born on the same day as the God of Wealth, so you will definitely become very rich. The money will roll in and you will make more and more!"
Zhao Gongming is the Taoist God of Wealth as passed down among the people. His birthday happens to be on the 15th day of the third lunar month, so Liang's father said this to him.
"Thank you for your good words, Dad!" Liang Ziqiang replied, sweating in his heart.
Born on the same day as the God of Wealth, who wouldn’t feel a little pressure? “Brother God of Wealth, can I have the egg?” Lizhi had already raised his chopsticks.
When it came to her mouth, all the logic was compressed into "Second Brother God of Wealth", it was so simple and crude.
It makes as if there is an equal sign between Liang Ziqiang and Zhao Gongming.
"What do you want to eat? Your second brother will start eating first today!"
Lizhi and the chopsticks in her hand were pulled aside by Liang's mother.
"Together, together!"
Liang Ziqiang quickly symbolically picked up a piece of egg with his chopsticks. In a blink of an eye, Litchi came over again and started to grab the egg...
Just as they were eating, Zhu Tianpeng also came over. He said he had already had breakfast in Xiaolang Village, but Liang's mother ignored him and quickly took the bowl and chopsticks to fill his bowl and told him to eat more.
This breakfast is indeed more substantial than usual, but it uses a little more eggs...
It seems that next time I go to the street to buy lean meat, I have to bring some eggs back. During pregnancy, regardless of other things, it is best to eat an egg every day.
The weather is very sunny today, so we definitely cannot go to Longjuling to collect the floating gill nets, so we will continue to Niushi Island.
Before leaving for the beach, his wife gave him two eggs and a bag of sweet rice cakes.
Liang Ziqiang almost burped at her. Did he eat all the eggs for the whole month in just one day?
Sweet rice cakes were okay. Eating sweet rice cakes on birthdays was also a custom here. But Liang Ziqiang didn't realize that his wife secretly made sweet rice cakes for him yesterday.
Carrying eggs and sweet rice cakes, I set off for the beach again.
I wonder if there are still many valuable sea bream left on Niu Shi Island after their last vigorous fishing.
Especially the rarest black hair, I don’t know if I can come across it again...
Burst
(End of this chapter)
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