Chapter 47 Award Ceremony
Tao's father and mother had already prepared two large basins with warm water and placed them on the cement floor at the entrance of the courtyard.
Tao's parents were waiting at the door. When they saw them coming back, they went to ask, "Why did you fall into the lotus field again?"
Xu Qingsong walked towards the basin holding Pengpeng, and said with a smile: "I was playing around and got caught by the crayfish, and ended up falling in by accident."
Liu Wangxue also carried Xiaoci over and used another basin to wash it. But Xiaoci seemed to have not recovered from the shock after this incident, and held Liu Wangxue's arm tightly, unwilling to go into the water.
Tao's mother squatted beside to help, scooping water with a ladle and pouring it on Xiaoci. She asked, "How come the cat also fell in? Oh, such a beautiful cat rolled into this mud."
Liu Wangxue was helpless: "It was too lazy. It was sleeping on the dog's back, and it was dragged away."
The children squatted aside and started a discussion: "We can't play with crayfish."
“It will pinch your hands.”
“It hurts!”
“It hurts so much!”
Youyou asked Jinghe: "Brother, what is crayfish?"
Jinghe didn't know how to describe it.
The fat boy next to her gestured to Youyou: "Like this, there are two pincers, click, click."
It made Youyou laugh.
At this time, Tao Huayu came out of the yard, carrying a plastic bucket and a bottle of cat shower gel.
When he and Li Yu came back, he bought some things for Xiao Ci and put them in the trunk of the car. He came back a little late yesterday, so he didn't go to send her off. Now it's just the right time to take out the shower gel and use it.
Tao Huayu handed the shower gel to Liu Wangxue, and took away her and Xu Qingsong's small bamboo basket, opened the lid, and poured all the crayfish in. However, crayfish were not easy to catch, and after pouring three baskets in, they still didn't cover the bottom of the bucket.
He added some clean water into it, brought it to Youyou, and the children all came over to take a look.
Tao Huayu said to Youyou: "Hey, this is crayfish."
It was the first time that Youyou saw this kind of shrimp. Her eyes widened and she pointed at the bucket and said to Jinghe, "Brother, the crayfish are so small, even smaller than the big lobsters!"
When these words were spoken, the adults laughed.
My brother-in-law came back on his electric tricycle and drove straight into the yard without stopping. Tao Huayu carried the bucket in and helped my brother-in-law unload the car.
After washing off the mud on her body, Xiaoci was finally willing to stand in the basin. Liu Wangxue squeezed a handful of shower gel and handed the bottle to Xu Qingsong.
Pengpeng first stood outside the basin, letting Xu Qingsong wash off the mud on his body, and then went back into the basin. He stubbornly protected the injured paw, standing in the basin still maintaining the three-legged posture, with the injured paw resting on the edge of the basin.
The cats and dogs were covered in foam, which immediately attracted the children's attention.
"Sister, it looks like a snowman!"
"It's not a snowman, it's a snowcat!"
"And the snow dogs!"
Youyou asked Liu Wangxue: "Sister, can I touch it?"
Liu Wangxue was afraid that the one she agreed to, the others would also want to touch her. She was worried that if they stayed wet for too long, the cats and dogs would catch a cold, so she had to make it quick.
So she said, "The cat is all wet and uncomfortable. Sister, please wash it quickly and dry it before you touch it, okay?"
"Okay!" Youyou is a very talkative child. After agreeing, she squatted obediently aside and watched Liu Wangxue give the cat a bath attentively.
Wenxi and Du Yunkai had also returned by then, and Tao Huayu pulled out a hose to help everyone wash the mud off their gloves and waterproof suits. After washing them clean, they took them off and hung them in the shade in the yard to dry.
Compared to Pengpeng, Xiaoci is not that big, so it was rinsed clean quickly. The remaining water was used by Pengpeng.
There was no special hair dryer or drying box for pets here, so Tao Huayu found two towels with good water absorption, wiped the two cats with water, and then took out a hair dryer.
I just made do with it and set it to strong wind and low temperature, keeping it away from the hair. It took a long time to blow dry.
The children exclaimed in unison: "Wow!" Another beautiful cat and a handsome dog.
Tao Huayu brought some iodine to disinfect Peng Peng's paw wound. It was a little painful, but compared to being pinched by a crayfish, it was nothing, so Peng Peng obediently let him apply it.
After applying the paint, it still maintained the posture of standing on three legs. As for Xiaoci, she didn't want to get off the ground, so she clung to Liu Wangxue and asked him to hold her.
Wenxi exclaimed in amazement: "Your two are really precious."
"I can't help it," Liu Wangxue pretended to be embarrassed, "Of course I have to pamper my own treasure."
Mother Tao washed the fruits and shared them with everyone. She also shared the snacks that Tao Huayu bought with the children. The children said thank you very much.
"Everyone," Tao Huayu pushed the scale out from the warehouse, "It's time to select the champion!"
Tao Huayu and his brother-in-law lifted the plastic baskets from the tricycle onto the scale and weighed them one by one. Everyone ate fruit and gathered around to watch.
Each basket is marked, making it easy to identify its owner.
The result of the weigh-in was that my brother-in-law's team won. Yue Cheng and Lan Xiaoxi cheered immediately. Although the children beside them didn't understand why, they were infected by the atmosphere and applauded them.
"No way?" Tao Huayu couldn't believe it. The basket of his team was only a little less than that of his brother-in-law's team by a little over one kilogram. They lost. "Brother-in-law, did you do anything on the way back?"
Tao's mother immediately slapped Tao Huayu a few times: "It was you who wanted to compete, and it was you who was not as skilled as the other person. Why did you suspect your brother-in-law of cheating after you lost?"
"Hahaha, Auntie, you fought well!" Yue Cheng cheered, "Brother-in-law is a very upright person, we can't let him slander him!"
Several children also clapped their hands and cheered: "Oh! Uncle Huayu got beaten! Uncle Huayu got beaten!"
Tao Huayu dodged Tao's mother's palm and pointed at them: "If you shout again, the snacks will be confiscated!"
The children immediately covered their mouths one by one.
Youyou held a piece of snow cake, leaned on Jinghe's legs, and giggled.
After everyone laughed and joked for a while, Du Yunkai asked Tao Huayu for paper and pen in a serious manner, wrote an award certificate by hand, promised qualification for the PC game internal test, and signed it together with Xu Qingsong.
Then Tao Huayu went to great lengths to organize an "award ceremony", played music, and hosted a segment on the spot. In the end, the certificate was kept by his brother-in-law, and this honest farmer smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed.
After the fun, we prepared to make lunch, and everyone joined in. When we discussed it together before, everyone ordered dishes in the group, and the most popular ones were fried lotus root boxes and glutinous rice lotus root.
When they went to the lotus field, Tao's mother and father rode their electric bikes to the town's vegetable market and bought a lot of vegetables.
The minced meat has been prepared. Everyone worked together to wash and cut it. Soon the fragrance wafted through the courtyard.
(End of this chapter)
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