Chapter 27
Wang Xiaojun and Bi Chunliu went to look at other things, but they didn't spend a penny. Wang Xiaojun didn't dare spend any more, fearing he'd get scolded when he got home, and Bi Chunliu couldn't spend any more, because she had no money. She had wanted to ask Liu Xiaoyue about the clock, but when she didn't see her, she gave up.
After failing to find Liu Xiaoyue, Bi Chunliu even went to check the price of the bicycle. Well, it turned out to be a high-end item that was beyond his reach without dipping into his own savings.
Before parting, Wang Xiaojun asked Bi Chunliu to make a few bottles of chili sauce for her family, and she also prepared chili peppers and other things!
Bi Chunliu couldn't help laughing, "Okay, next time I buy meat, I'll make hot sauce with meat and we'll have it for lunch."
Wang Xiaojun held Bi Chunliu's hand and said solemnly, "You are my half-sister!"
Bi Chunliu: ...That’s not necessary.
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After returning to the compound, Bi Chunliu went to Liu's house first. After all, her lovely pork was waiting for her there.
Holding the fresh pork, Bi Chunliu and Aunt Liu said goodbye warmly.
When she got home, Bi Weiguo and the other two hadn't returned yet. Bi Chunliu's heart was pounding. She had noticed it too. Ever since she came back, she had been very nervous about her three younger brothers and sisters, afraid that they would be in danger or have any accidents.
Putting down the bag and the meat in her hand, Bi Chunliu hurried back to Liu's house. She didn't pay attention when she was at Liu's house just now, and she didn't know whether the Liu Jiang brothers had returned.
"Aunt Liu, are Liu Jiang and Liu He back? Do they know where the three of my family went?"
Aunt Liu: "They haven't come back yet. I don't know where these kids went to play again. Don't worry, I'll go to the Third Hospital to ask the twin brothers. I saw them go home earlier."
Bi Chunliu tried to calm herself down. It was okay. They would be fine. They would have dumplings at home tomorrow. "Okay, I'll go with you."
"Big sister!"
Bi Chunliu turned his head suddenly and saw the three of them standing safely not far from him. He rushed forward excitedly and touched the three of them one by one. They were very good, with no arms or legs missing, except for a lot of mud on their clothes. Then he held on to the wall as if he had lost his strength.
"Grandma, I'm back! Look what my brother and I brought back!" The Liuhe brothers were just as dirty as the Bi brothers and sisters, even dirtier. Their faces and hair were covered in mud. To those who didn't know, they'd probably just rolled in a mud puddle before returning. It looked like these two kids weren't going to avoid a scolding today.
Bi Chunliu glanced at Aunt Liu.
Sure enough, Aunt Liu's face turned blue.
Bi Chunliu quickly said, "Aunt Liu, I'm relieved that they're back. We'll go back first."
Aunt Liu: "Okay, go back soon."
After returning to the house, Bi Chunliu asked the three people where they had been and why they came home so late.
Bi Xiahe took out several extra books from her backpack and placed them on the table with a "dong".
Bi Chunliu: ??? Why so many books? They're sending out new books before I even paid?
Then Bi Qiuguo and Bi Weiguo pulled out handfuls of wild vegetables from their backpacks and said happily, "Look, sister, we dug them today! We can use them with tomorrow's dumplings!"
Bi Chunliu understood and said that he wanted to go dig wild vegetables, so the three of them went to make more vegetables for the dumplings after school. That was great.
"You did a good job, but next time you go out, remember to tell your family in advance so I know where you are going, otherwise I won't know where to find you if anything happens. Or, if I'm not at home, you can just tell Aunt Liu or Grandma Zhang. If you go out, the three of you should take care of each other. Especially Weiguo, you are the older brother, so take good care of your younger sister. You two should listen to your brother. Of course, if your brother wants to do something dangerous, stop him, and remember, I will beat him up when we get home."
Hearing the elder sister asking the younger sister to listen to her, Bi Weiguo just grinned: Hehe. No, hehe.
Bi Weiguo was not convinced: "Sister, I am also very obedient. I never do anything dangerous!!"
"I can testify that my second brother at most secretly took us to smash other people's windows." Bi Qiuguo stretched out his hand.
Bi Weiguo: "I didn't!!" He stared at Bi Qiuguo with his small eyes.
Bi Chunliu: "...Why smash the glass?"
"..." Bi Weiguo scratched his hands and said nothing.
Bi Qiuguo hugged Bi Chunliu and acted coquettishly, "Sister, don't be angry. Second brother did it for me. There's a boy in our class who is so annoying. He always picks on me during breaks and after school, and even hides my things. He's so annoying. Second brother scolded him, but he still acted like that. That's why we went there. Don't worry, no one saw us."
Bi Xiahe: "Sister, I will watch over them from now on and will not cause trouble again."
Bi Chunliu shook his head, pulled Bi Qiuguo off him, made her stand straight, and said sternly, "I'm not afraid of trouble, nor do I want you to live a life of grievance, but you must think ahead before doing anything. If it's a large compound like ours, what if someone saw you smashing the glass at his house? Or, what if someone else is at home and the broken glass hurts them? It would be better to put a sack on him and beat him up. Of course, violence is still not advisable. What I mean is to outsmart him first, and then use force if outsmarting doesn't work."
Bi Chunliu began to recall what he had said. Why did it feel like what he said was becoming less and less reliable?
"Anyway, no matter what you do, you must always prioritize your safety. Don't be afraid if anything happens, you still have Big Sister!"
The three siblings nodded heavily, understanding. They would let their third sister/elder sister outsmart them first, and then they and their fourth/second brother would put the sack on them.
Bi Chunliu was relieved. It seemed that what he said was correct. "Okay, I bought a piece of jujube paste cake today. We can each share a small half before dinner."
"Wow~ Big sister, you are so nice~" Bi Qiuguo hugged Bi Chunliu again and acted coquettishly, then looked at her with shining eyes.
Take out the date paste cake wrapped carefully in oil paper from the bag.
Bi Weiguo sipped the cake, "Sister, I thought it was a flat cake, but I didn't expect it to be so soft!"
"It's soft and sweet, so delicious." Bi Xiahe also praised.
Bi Qiuguo divided his small portion of the date paste cake into two pieces, nibbled on one half carefully, and licked the date paste cake crumbs on his hands after finishing.
"Qiuguo, why don't you eat your half?"
Bi Qiuguo wrapped the small piece of jujube paste cake with the oil paper and said, "Sister, I will send it to Cai Xiaorong later. She has given me delicious food before. The fried banana leaves made by her mother are especially delicious! She gave me a whole piece during the Chinese New Year. It smelled so good..." Bi Qiuguo could smell the fragrance just by recalling it.
Bi Chunliu stretched out her hand and suddenly saw slightly oily fingers. She touched Bi Qiuguo's head with her wrist and said, "Okay, good friends should think of each other. When we make something delicious in the future, you can share it with Cai Xiaorong."
"Yes! I'll send it to Cai Xiaorong right away."
After the family of four had dinner, the three who were still in school went to do their homework. They had to make and eat dumplings tomorrow, and they felt that they had no time to do their homework.
Bi Chunliu was wondering why their textile factory hadn't organized any Labor Day activities this year. This seemed unusual. In previous years, even if they didn't have any activities, they would have invited someone to show a movie or something, right? She remembered that their factory director seemed to have a bad relationship with the director of another factory, and that director was a big fan of organizing all kinds of activities: inter-factory social gatherings, various festival celebrations, and awards ceremony selections. She remembered that every time the director learned about something, he would contact the various cadres and leaders of their factory to organize an event, and it had to be something innovative. Chairman Ren was extremely annoyed by the commotion.
"Chunliu, are you home?"
Bi Chunliu came back to her senses and opened the door, "Sister Xiaoyue, you are here? Come in." Is the clock in her house coming?
Liu Xiaoyue walked into the room and said directly: "Chunliu, I just came to tell you about the wall clock you asked me to ask. Hey, there is indeed a defective one in our warehouse, it's this defect, it's a bit big. It is said that the porter was clumsy and accidentally dropped the wall clock when it was moved, and a large piece is missing on the back. Our deputy director took his mother-in-law to see it before, and the old lady didn't think it was good and didn't want it. But I think the wall clock is broken on the back, and it doesn't affect the time. There is no damage inside. The key is that this wall clock is much cheaper, and it is also a big brand, the same as the one in my house, it is a Jinzhong brand. Didn't I spend fifty yuan when I bought the one in my house? This one has a big defect. I asked, and they said forty would be fine. I think I will tell you again, the lowest price should be thirty-five, and our director will probably not agree to any lower price." As for the fact that the director lowered the price so much just to compete with the deputy director, he couldn't tell Chunliu.
Thirty-five? Bi Chunliu thought it was perfectly acceptable. After all, a brand new one would cost sixty or more, not to mention a watch, which was even more expensive! Thirty-five yuan was certainly not cheap, equivalent to her monthly salary, but many items of this era were of exceptional quality and could last for sixty or seventy years without any problems. So, that only made about sixty cents a year. Well, that was okay.
Bi Chunliu: "Sister Xiaoyue, if there are no problems with the wall clock, my family will take it. Are you free tomorrow? I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to find you and buy the wall clock."
"Okay, I'll go to work tomorrow. Holidays are our busiest time." Liu Xiaoyue nodded.
"Okay! Then I'll go in the morning!"
"OK!"
Liu Xiaoyue chatted with Bi Chunliu for a while and then went home. Three people in the room poked their heads out and asked, "Sister, are we going to buy a wall clock too?"
Bi Chunliu nodded. "Yes, you won't have to worry about being late from now on. Have you finished writing?"
Bi Xiahe smiled with her eyes curved, "Sister, I'm almost done."
Bi Weiguo and Bi Qiuguo looked up at the ceiling, then down at the ground: "..."
Well, I guess these two are playing again.
"Okay, wash up and start writing tomorrow morning. If you don't finish before we make dumplings, I'll deduct your dumplings."
"Ah... stop it, big sister—" Bi Qiuguo groaned. Bi Weiguo also imitated his sister and put on a pitiful look.
"...Xia He, take Qiu Guo to the bathroom to wash up." Bi Chunliu urged.
Seeing that the eldest sister didn't respond, Bi Qiuguo stopped talking: "Eldest sister, the light over there in the bathroom is broken, it's pitch black, let's go to the bathroom together, my third sister and I are scared."
"Wasn't it fine yesterday?" Bi Chunliu asked. The light over there was still on when she went to the bathroom yesterday.
"I don't know. I saw the light was broken when I went to deliver something to Cai Xiaorong last night." Bi Qiuguo hugged Bi Xiahe's arm and trembled. I couldn't see anything. It was so scary...
"Okay, let's go together. Weiguo, do you want to go? We don't have any spittoons tonight."
"...Sister, I'm already fifteen, I'm not afraid." Bi Weiguo felt like a grown man. Although he felt a little uneasy and a little scared after hearing what Qiu Guo said, he still said stubbornly, "But if you are all afraid, I can go with you."
Bi Qiuguo exposed his second brother and laughed at him, "Hahaha, second brother, if you are afraid, just come with us. We won't laugh at you, hahahaha..."
"You——" Bi Weiguo gritted his teeth.
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