Chapter 183 Lu Xiaoxue and Qingcao meet for the first time

Calculating the time, Lu Jingxue should have arrived at the unit.

"He called at around 2:00 pm, but I didn't see him when I went to your house, so I told him to call again at 6:00 pm tomorrow." Grandpa continued.

"Oh, okay, thank you, Grandpa, I'll pick him up tomorrow." Xia Qingqing thanked him softly.

"You're going to pick up your mother from your parents' home. Well, Qingshu is here too." The eldest grandfather looked at Xia Qingshu and said with a smile,

"That's right. Relatives should visit each other often. It's not good for them to come and leave just after dropping off things."

In the past, when Xia Qingshu came with things, he would never enter the house. Instead, he would ask the eldest grandfather at the telephone booth to pass them to Xia Qingshu, so the eldest grandfather remembered him easily.

"Grandpa is right." Xia Qingxi nodded in agreement, then looked at the grandpa and said with a smile:

"My brother will never bother you to pass on things in the future."

After saying goodbye to the grandpa, the group returned home. Xia Qingxi helped Guo Yumei take the backpack and put it aside. No wonder she didn't let her carry it just now. It was too heavy.

Xia Qingxi looked down at the backpack and found that there were dried cowpeas in it, and the rest were fresh vegetables in season.

The vegetables were very heavy, and it took more than ten miles to carry them on the mountain road. I think it was because last time when Xia Qingxi came home, she casually praised the delicious vegetables at home, so her mother specially carried it over.

Vegetables are the most common vegetables, but because of this heavy family affection, they become extraordinary.

Knowing that everyone must be thirsty, Xia Qingling immediately went to pour a few glasses of water.

Xia Qingcao gently placed the bamboo basket covered with cloth on the table, took the water from Xia Qingling's hand, and drank it in big gulps. It seems that she is really thirsty.

When Xia Qingling came out of the bus station, she noticed that Xia Qingcao was very careful to protect the bamboo basket in her hand. She was very curious and asked:

"Qingcao, what's in your basket? It's so precious."

"Open it and take a look." Guo Yumei said with a smile, looking mysterious.

Xia Qingying walked to the table in confusion, raised her hand and took the cloth from the bamboo basket. When she uncovered it, she noticed that it was not a piece of cloth, but a piece of clothing. When

she uncovered the clothing, she saw more than twenty beautiful gray-white chicken mushrooms in the basket.

"It rained yesterday, and Qingcao went to the field to pick them. She was afraid that they would go bad and she couldn't bring them back, so she tied the basket with a rope and dropped it on the cool edge of the well. Fortunately, the weather is not hot today, so they are not bad." Guo Yumei said softly.

For fear that Xia Qingying would worry, she did not tell Xia Qingcao that she fell down the hillside when she was trying to pick chicken mushrooms from a high place.

There are more than ten miles of mountain road from home to the town, and it will take three or four hours to sit in the car. Xia Qingcao just held the basket in her arms with both hands, and never put it down.

Looking at the chicken mushrooms in the basket, almost every one of them was intact, Xia Qingcao's nose was a little sour. What kind of chicken mushrooms are these? They are obviously the deep love of her brother for her!

Xia Qingcao tried hard to suppress the sourness on the tip of her nose, half changed the subject, and asked half puzzledly,

"Why put the clothes on it?"

"There are always people on the road who are curious to take a look, and acquaintances ask to eat it. Qingcao is afraid that others will damage it, and afraid that others will take it away, and it will not be enough for you to eat, so I covered it with clothes." Guo Yumei explained.

Looking at the beautiful chicken mushrooms, none of which were damaged, Xia Qingxi couldn't help it anymore. She raised her hand and hugged her brother, saying,

"Thank you, Qingcao." Then she praised him, "It's great to have a brother."

Xia Qingcao was shy, and her face turned red after being praised. She was held in her sister's arms, but she didn't push her away like last time. The corners of her mouth even raised a slight arc.

Fearing that the mushrooms would go bad and Qingcao's kindness would be wasted, Xia Qingxi looked at her father-in-law Lu Baichuan and said,

"Dad, we won't go out to eat tonight. Let's eat the chicken mushrooms first, so that they won't go bad."

The chicken mushrooms were fried with oil and then put in the noodles. The taste was so fragrant that it almost made your tongue fall off.

Lu Baichuan looked at the chicken mushrooms on the table, thinking that it would be a pity if such a good thing was spoiled before being eaten, so he nodded and agreed.

After everyone drank the water, Xia Qingying took her brother and younger brother to the room prepared for them, so that they could rest in the room if they were tired, and then came out and told Guo Yumei that she and she would stay in the same room at night, and Guo Yumei happily agreed.

After resting for a while, Guo Yumei, who couldn't stay idle, started to prepare dinner for everyone, so Xia Qingying took a basin, then carried a basket, and went to the faucet with her mother to wash all the chicken mushrooms.

Looking at the faucet that can be opened to release water, Guo Yumei said with a sigh while washing vegetables:

"It's great to have this pipe. I don't have to go out to fetch water."

"In the future, every household will have this tap water, and our hometown will also have it." Xia Qingying said to Guo Yumei with a smile.

"Really?" Guo Yumei looked unbelievable, and then said: "If it really can be, it will be so great."

As the two were talking, they saw Lu Xiaoxue coming back from school with her schoolbag and the youngest son of the Mai family. Seeing Xia Qingying washing vegetables, Lu Xiaoxue immediately asked:

"Why are you washing vegetables? Aren't you going out to eat in the evening?"

"I'm not going out to eat today. I'll eat noodles at home." Xia Qingying replied.

Lu Xiaoxue pouted as soon as she heard this, and said very dissatisfiedly:

"We agreed to eat out yesterday. I don't want to eat noodles. I want to eat out!"

"Today we will eat the chicken mushroom noodles brought by Qingcao. They are much more delicious than those outside." Xia Qingcao pointed to the chicken mushrooms that were being washed and said.

Lu Xiaoxue was very unhappy. She turned her head and walked back home. Unexpectedly, she bumped into Xia Qingcao who was walking out as soon as she reached the door.

Although Lu Xiaoxue was a little fatter, Xia Qingcao was taller than her after all, and her forehead hit him directly on the chest.

Because Xia Qingcao had been doing farm work for a long time, his body looked thin but very strong. This collision directly knocked Lu Xiaoxue back a few steps.

She was already unhappy, and now she was hit by someone. She covered her forehead and immediately shouted:

"Who are you? Are you blind? You hurt me?"