"Brother Xie Xie Liu Tiao~" Ba Tiao picked up two pieces of chicken from the bowl and gave them to Liu Tiao, smiling sweetly.
Forget it, forgive him! Liu Tiao exhaled through his nose and continued to gnaw on the chicken leg. Then, without any hesitation, he ate the two pieces of chicken that Ba Tiao had given him. He finally felt much better...
"Hehe~" Yajo smiled as he drank the kelp soup which was just as delicious as last time.
An hour later.
The whole pot of chicken and kelp soup was completely cleared, leaving the children wanting more. San Tiao licked the soup from his lips and asked his mother when he could have kelp soup like this again.
"It will be soon." ...Next time I'll just have to wait until I come back from Caoshi. Cheng Zhenzhu thought.
When is it coming soon? The kids are starting to think about the big day coming up... National Day?
The next day was Monday.
Yitiao and Ertiao, each holding two zongzi, walked hand in hand to school, while Cheng Zhenzhu sat in the yard and began to fumble with rushes to make sandals for herself and the children.
Sister Yumei had given her a large handful of rushes. The weather was hot, and Seven and Eight had only cloth shoes to wear, or their old shoes, Three, which didn't fit them well. She considered buying two pairs, but the plastic sandals at the supply and marketing cooperative were so ugly, she didn't want to waste the money.
Sister Yumei happened to remind her that she could make straw sandals out of rush grass, so she decided to make them herself. Many dolls on the island wore these straw sandals, and they looked quite light. Seeing her confusion, Sister Yumei spent two hours teaching her how to weave them.
As she watched, she felt that she had mastered it, and it seemed that she had indeed mastered it at that time, but now she couldn't do it alone... Cheng Zhenzhu frowned, she was really not good at this job.
But "where there's a will, there's a way." After figuring it out on her own and asking for help from Sister Yumei, Cheng Zhenzhu's straw weaving skills improved considerably. At least the general outline of the insole had been determined.
Cheng Zhenzhu persevered, and after wasting three pairs of straw insoles, she finally managed to weave two satisfactory insoles the size of a foot. She squeezed them as she weaved, and the straw insoles finally came out not loose but rather delicate.
After the insoles were finished, the rest of the process became much easier for her. Cheng Zhenzhu took the cloth and began embroidering a pattern. The dolls all agreed on a panda pattern, so she ended up with twelve pandas embroidered on the cloth.
She had 502 glue and soft glue. She cut the panda cat embroidered on it to size, fixed it to the straw insole, coated it with 502 glue and soft glue, glued a soft insole underneath, sewed it together, and then made a sandal strap...
One pair, two pairs... Cheng Zhenzhu spent two days making her own, one pair, two pairs, and six pairs of shoes. As for the three, seven, and eight pairs, their feet were smaller, so they needed less material and were more difficult to make.
But two weeks before summer vacation, all seven pairs of cloth and straw mat sandals were completed.
"Mom, these sandals are so beautiful!" The six children had known their mother was making sandals for a long time, and when they saw the finished sandals embroidered with red pandas, they were all amazed. That afternoon, after taking a bath, they changed into the beautiful slippers with five toes exposed and went out. They walked around and showed off the beautiful shoes their mother had made.
Seeing that everyone seemed to be having a low reaction, they showed the adults and children on Sanshi Island various ways to make shoes, including beautiful shoes that could be made into both sandals and slippers, and even a red panda design. Only after receiving many compliments about their mother did the six children finally return home, feeling very satisfied.
Cheng Zhenzhu was incredibly happy to see these boastful little darlings. She prepared a sumptuous dinner for them that evening: a bok choy dish, pork rib and winter melon soup, and stir-fried shrimp. A complete meal: one meat dish, one vegetable dish, and one soup.
As the two little brothers, Qi Tiao and Ba Tiao, ate their vegetables and drank their soup, they felt like their fingers and faces were growing plumper. Most importantly, they'd grown taller, which made them feel a little happy...
"Mom, shall we go visit Brother Xiaohu and the others this summer vacation?" Er Tiao picked up some shrimp with chopsticks and started the topic of summer vacation.
"Let's go. Your aunt is going to give birth soon, let's go see her. We also have to go somewhere else."
"Where?" San Tiao raised his head and looked at his mother with some curiosity.
"You'll know when the time comes." Cheng Zhenzhu deliberately kept it a secret.
"Mom, will my aunt also give birth to a younger sister?" Liu Tiao suddenly asked.
"Aunt wants a son. Liu Tiao, don't say that in front of Aunt, she will be unhappy..." Er Tiao taught his younger brother.
"Oh." Liu Tiao nodded and continued eating. In fact, he didn't really care whether he was a younger brother or a younger sister. How could it be more important than eating?
"Mom, what about us?" Although he called her "Mom", Ba Tiao knew that something was different. The aunt of Tiao Tiao and his brothers was not his and his brother's aunt.
"Of course we're going together," Nijo said. "Don't worry, Auntie isn't a cannibal. She loves buying delicious food for us. And Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, and Auntie are all very nice. And Brother Little Tiger, he'll definitely be happy to see you..."
"Yeah." Qi Tiao nodded slightly.
When Hachijo heard that they had bought a lot of delicious food, he no longer had any concerns. He continued to compete with his brother Liujo in eating...
After the plan was set, Cheng Zhenzhu went to Uncle Dajun the day before summer vacation to get two letters of introduction, one to Hai City and one to Cao City.
That voice came again. It told her that it had sensed the young master's presence. He was in Cao City. She planned to take advantage of this summer vacation to see what was going on...
"This, this, and this..." Knowing they'd be leaving tomorrow morning, the six kids busily began packing. Actually, they didn't have much luggage, just two sets of clothes and some snacks.
When Qi Tiao and Ba Tiao heard that their brothers were going to bring snacks for their little sister Xiaolu and their little brother Xiaohu, they also said they wanted to bring some. The two little guys were not stingy at all and wanted to take the whole snack jar.
But their bags were full of clothes so they couldn't fit any snacks in them, so they had to take out a little more. But in the end, the two people's small bags were quite bulging, which showed their sincerity at first glance.
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