Chapter 127 Brought back gifts from Guizhou
When Zhu Xiu Yu arrived, Zhuang Chao Ying had just gone to the station to pick up Tu Nan and Peng Fei to take home.
She hurried forward to take their luggage.
"Tunan and Pengfei are back. It must be hot on the train! I'll go make some mung bean soup so you don't get a heat stroke."
She was busy running around, leaving Tuanan and Pengfei confused. They looked at each other in confusion.
After putting the things away, Zhu Xiuyu looked at the lunch box on the table and said hurriedly:
"Oh, this rice is not enough. I'll go cook some noodles."
After saying that, she went to the kitchen as if she knew the way there well.
"Dad, this Aunt Zhu..."
"Tunan, you and Pengfei go wash your faces and hands. The train is too dirty."
Tunan went to wash his face and hands.
Pengfei didn't go. He started taking things out of a bag: "Uncle, these are the things my mother asked me to bring. I'll go wash my hands and face after I pack them up."
"Your mother is the same. She asked you two kids to carry so many things." Zhuang Chaoying couldn't help but blame.
"Uncle, I'm not tired, I can carry it!" Pengfei grinned.
Zhuang Chaoying saw that Pengfei was very organized, so he helped to clean up every year and knew where everything was placed.
He cleaned up and took all the food to the kitchen, where he saw Zhu Xiu Yu busying herself with her sleeves rolled up.
Seeing him come in, Zhu Xiuyu said affectionately:
"Pengfei, the kitchen is hot, go wash your face and then you can eat."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Aunt Zhu!"
Soon, Zhu Xiuyu brought two bowls of noodles and a bowl of scrambled eggs.
Everyone watched her deftly place three bowls on the table and open her lunch box.
"Come on, come and eat. Two bowls of noodles and a rice. The three of you can choose."
"I want to eat noodles!" Pengfei spoke first when he saw there was meat in the lunch box.
"Pengfei, mix the scrambled eggs into the noodles. You're from Guizhou, so I like spicy food too. Tomorrow, I'll bring you a bottle of homemade chili sauce."
"Okay, thank you Aunt Zhu."
Zhuang Chaoying pushed the lunch box in front of Tunan and chose noodles for himself.
Pengfei didn't touch the egg, so Zhu Xiuyu walked to the table, picked up a spoon, put two spoonfuls on each of their noodles, and put one spoonful in Tunan's lunch box.
Zhu Xiuyu was about to go to the kitchen to make mung bean soup when Zhuang Chaoying stopped her:
"You have work this afternoon! You don't have to cook."
Zhu Xiuyu stood up and said, "Okay, you guys take your time eating. I'm going to work first."
"Goodbye, Aunt Zhu!" the two children said at the same time.
Zhuang Chaoying wanted to take a few steps to help him, but Zhu Xiuyu gently pushed his hand away: "What are you talking about? Go eat!"
Zhuang Chaoying turned around and saw Tunan and Pengfei looking at him. He probably understood the relationship between the two.
Tunan lowered his head and ate.
Pengfei saw that the air pressure was too low, so he talked to Zhuang Chaoying about the interesting things that happened on his way home, and the atmosphere at the dinner table eased a little.
"Uncle, my mom brought something for Aunt Huang. Brother Tunan and I will deliver it to her later, is that okay?"
"Of course." Zhuang Chaoying nodded in agreement.
"Hasn't your textbook been finished yet?" Pengfei asked when he saw the bed full of books.
Zhuang Chaoying wiped his glasses and said, "How could it be that fast? But I did write a lot while you were gone."
Tunan didn't say a word the entire time.
After dinner, the two took a shower, changed clothes, and then went to find Xiaoting and Dongzhe.
Huang Ling and the others haven't gotten off work yet, but Xiaoting and Dongzhe are at home.
Xiaoting is reading a book and Dongzhe is reading a picture book.
"Brother Tunan, Brother Pengfei, you are back! I finally have someone to play with! Come on, let's go play ball!" Dongzhe immediately threw the book away.
"What time is it now? Have you completed your task today? Once my mother comes back to check, you're dead." Xiaoting gave him a blank look.
"Let's play ball tomorrow! We just got off the train and we're all dizzy. I think I can handle the ball." Pengfei continued.
"Oh, then read the picture books. I knew you were coming back, so I borrowed a lot of books in advance." Dongzhe pushed the picture books in front of the two of them again.
"Can I...watch TV for a while?" Pengfei thought it was nice to go back, but he missed the TV a lot.
He thought that when he made money in the future, he would buy a TV for his home in Guizhou.
"Walk!"
"Lin Dongzhe, they can see it, where is your homework?"
"Write, I'll write while I read!"
In the end, the four of them went to watch TV while eating the potato chips that Pengfei brought back.
The potato chips were dipped in chili powder, which made Dongzhe and Xiaoting slurp them and couldn't stop eating them.
"Don't eat it all, leave some for Mom and Aunt Song." Tuanan reminded.
"Brother, I left a packet! This packet is for Xiaoting and Dongzhe." Pengfei was very happy to see that they liked the food. It was worth his mother's hard work to prepare it and his long journey to carry it back.
While watching TV, Dongzhe asked Tunan if he was having fun in Guizhou.
Tunan told him some interesting things, which made Dongzhe envious. He said to Pengfei:
"Brother Pengfei, please take me with you when you go back next summer! I also want to go to Guizhou."
"Sure! As long as Aunt Song agrees!"
Xiao Ting said calmly, "I think you just don't want to study."
"Even if you want to go, you can't! Auntie said you are a girl and you have to go with your mother!" Dongzhe said proudly.
"Then you should study hard! If you don't do well in the exam, I don't think you can go, and it's no use calling your mother!" Xiaoting was not willing to be outdone.
When Huang Ling and Song Ying returned home, they heard the house was bustling with activity.
"You two are back!"
"Aunt Huang, Aunt Song, my mom asked me to bring you a lot of things."
Pengfei stood up excitedly and led the two of them to see a bag placed at the door.
He took things out of the bag one by one.
"Aunt Huang loves to eat dried bamboo shoots. I told my mom that when the winter bamboo shoots are in season, I'll buy some from the locals, dry them, and send them to you."
"Don't bother your mother, she and your father are very busy."
Pengfei shook his head: "My mother agreed."
Then he took out a bag of wood ear mushrooms and a bag of dried mushrooms, both of which were wild.
"Wow, this is good stuff!" Song Ying's eyes lit up when she saw it.
"My mom said it's safe to eat mushrooms, my dad knows how to eat them."
Then there are three big bags of dried chilies.
"This pepper is the least spicy one." Pengfei explained.
"Your mother is so thoughtful. She carried you all the way here. What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Let's eat fish!" Zhou Huaiyi's voice rang out at the gate of the yard.
Huang Ling looked back and saw that he was holding two fresh fish, which were quite big.
"Stew or braise?" Zhou Huaiyi asked as he walked into the yard.
"Uncle Zhou, I want to eat braised food!" Xiaoting replied.
"Then braise it." Zhou Huaiyi picked up the fish and went into the kitchen.
When he arrived, the cooking job was given to him.
Tuanan also greeted Zhou Huaiyi politely when he saw him, but he looked listless.
Huang Ling put all the things Pengfei brought into the kitchen cabinet, and then helped Zhou Huaiyi.
"Xiaoting is the happiest to eat fish, what about Huailan?" Huang Ling asked.
"Huailan will have a day off tomorrow. She will take a bus to visit her aunt after get off work and will come back tomorrow. The factory gave her two fish, which I can't finish by myself, so I thought Xiaoting would like them anyway, so I took them." Zhou Huaiyi told her.
The two were busy in the kitchen. When Tuanan passed by the kitchen, he heard the two chatting intimately.
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