Wang Yingxi was just talking about it. She treated Qiu Yuling's rejection as a joke and didn't care at all.
"Then you'd better come back early. I don't dare to sleep alone."
"Okay, I get it. Just let go of me quickly and let me go faster so I can come back sooner."
Thanks to the team leader, Qiu Yuling borrowed a bicycle from the logistics department at the site and set off with her old actor's flower bag.
From a distance, I could see three little kids sticking their butts out to make a snowman.
"Red bean, orange bean, yellow bean, look who I am?" The three brothers turned their heads to take a look, but couldn't recognize him. They continued to turn their heads and work hard to complete their great cause.
"Hey, you've become successful now. You don't even like candy anymore?"
Hearing that there would be candy, the three brothers immediately shook off the snow on their hands and wiped their hands on their lapels, "Hello, Auntie~~~"
The seniority is correct, but the name is a bit arbitrary.
"It's okay if you can't remember. Let me introduce myself again. I'm your aunt, remember?"
Regardless of whether they remembered it or not, the three brothers immediately changed their words and shouted "Aunt~~~" in unison.
Her sister-in-law's voice came from a house not far away, "Chidou, play for a while and then take your brothers into the house. If you play too much, you might get your hands dirty."
Huang Duoer's house also covered the windows with a layer of plastic paper like other houses, so she couldn't see who was outside. She just saw an adult standing in front of the door for a long time, and she thought it was a passing farm worker or something.
I wanted to call the baby into the house so he wouldn’t get cold.
After calling out several times but seeing the children not respond and come back to the house, he put Yundou on the kang, put on his jacket, and planned to go out and bring the person back himself.
When she went out, she found that it was her sister-in-law. She was immediately surprised and said, "Little sister? Little sister, why are you here? Why are you still standing outside? Come in quickly."
Chidou, go to your Uncle Li's house and tell your dad to come back. Tell him your aunt is here." Chidou was the one giving the orders, but the whole army was carrying out the orders. With a loud "bang," all three of them rushed out like little firecrackers.
Huang Duoer quickly let the person into the house, "It must be cold on the road? Take off your shoes and get on the kang to warm up. I'll make you a bowl of sugar water. Kidney beans, this is our aunt..."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry. Don't add sugar. I'll just drink some hot water to warm my intestines. The kidney beans are already this big? Five months old?"
"She's almost six months old. When she was born, the doctor said her position was wrong or something, so she suffered a lot. She's a little weaker than her brothers, but her brothers can sit up now, and she's just starting to roll over..."
The two sisters-in-law chatted about family matters for a while, and Huang Duoer realized that Qiu Yuling had gone to the dugout first, but someone else was already living there. They showed her the way, and she asked along the way.
"We moved here after the autumn harvest before the New Year. We have two rooms, one inside and one outside, which is enough for us. We're staying at home today. We have some meat, so I'll go make some bread and dumplings for us.
That girl is very well behaved and doesn't cause any worry. If you're tired, just lie down and take a nap. Your elder brother is at the Li family in the back row and will be back soon."
Qiu Yuling said she couldn't sleep, so she worked with her.
"Okay, wait until I've kneaded the dough, and then we'll wrap it together. How are Mom and Dad? It's New Year's Eve this year, and even though there's no work to do, they won't let anyone take a holiday. I even sewed a cotton vest for each of them, but I didn't have time to send it over."
"They are all doing well. Mother is just worried about you, especially Little Yundou. She can't come over, so she keeps talking about you."
"Oh, we are all fine. Let's go back and tell our parents not to worry. When the baby is a little older, we will find a time to bring him back to show him to them.
It's just right now. I heard there's a lot of commotion outside. It's not so bad here, except that the discipline is getting stricter. Everything else is fine. But I wonder what's going on with my parents?"
"The farmers didn't do anything wrong, and there's nothing wrong with them. They're just like you. They spend more time studying documents, and they all have to go to literacy classes..." Apart from Li Xiaojuan, that fool who ran to the team to make a presence, no other team made as much trouble as they did.
But I won't tell her about this.
As the two were talking, the little Yundou, who had been well-behaved all along, suddenly started humming.
"She probably needs to pee. This girl hums when she's peeing, unlike the other three brothers who only hum when they feel uncomfortable after peeing."
As she spoke, Huang Duoer deftly lifted her daughter's legs, pulled her to the edge of the kang, picked her up, and poured her urine into the wooden bucket brought in from outside the door.
The little girl was indeed holding it in. After she finished peeing, she put the water back on the kang and looked at her fingers again.
They sat and talked for quite a while. Qiu Yuling leaned over and took out a set of dark red cotton trousers and a cotton jacket with small flowers. "When my aunt came, she didn't have time to go back to the village, so grandma made another set for me. I'll send it to you later."
"Oh my, why do you make so many? Inch dolls, inch long. There are her brothers'. I left the ones that were not badly broken as they were. I only took apart and modified the ones that were too bad. She had enough."
That's what she said, but the look on her face as she held up the little piece of clothing and couldn't let it go couldn't deceive anyone.
"Well, since this is the first time I've seen it, I have to get a new one for our little Yundou, don't you think, Yundou?"
The baby sucked his fingers hard, making "puff, puff".
"My little sister is here?" As soon as the door opened, Qiu Dashan took off his Lei Feng hat, put it on the edge of the kang, and pulled Qiu Yuling to ask questions.
Qiu Yuling repeated the same words to her elder brother.
"So you came here with the working group. Do you mean you won't live at home anymore?"
"Well, I won't be staying here anymore. The headquarters has arranged accommodations, and everything is very convenient. Besides, I won't be back for a day or two. It will probably be over by the end of this month. I'll come over when the team leader gives us a break."
Huang Duoer took out a small handkerchief from the inner room and handed it to Qiu Yuling.
"What is this?"
"I told you to take it to our parents, Brother Shan. You take care of it first. I'll go to Aunt Qiao and exchange it for a plate of pickled shallots. Our little sister loves it."
Having said that, without waiting for anyone to react, he took a plate of pickled ground noodles and walked out the door.
"Brother, why are there twenty more?" Qiu Yuling opened her handkerchief and wrapped eighty yuan in it, some in small and some in whole.
"The other twenty is what your sister-in-law earned from shearing sheep. After she told me about it, I realized how much my parents took care of her. This money is her extra money to show her filial piety to them."
"Ah? It's rare for my sister-in-law to be so kind. There are so many mouths to feed in your family. Besides, my third brother and I both have jobs. Take out these twenty."
Qiu Dashan held his little sister's hand and said, "This is a gift from your sister-in-law to our parents. Just take it with you. By the way, she also made two cotton vests. When you leave one day, your brother will give them to you and you can take them back to your parents.
She has so much work to do that it’s almost Chinese New Year when she finishes sewing. I originally thought we would have a few days off during the Chinese New Year and could go back home, but we didn’t expect this to be the arrangement this year. It’s just in time for you to come, as you can still wear it for a while today…”
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