"Duo'er, go, go to your village chief's house and borrow a scale." Yun Dazheng closed the beehive again, holding a heavy wooden basin full of honey, and said to Yun Duo with a smile.
He didn't even need to weigh it; he could roughly estimate how much honey he'd harvested that day. Selling this honey would be a considerable income for the rural people. Yun Dazheng was naturally delighted.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Yun Duo quickly replied, then ran to put the cloth sheet away and went to the village chief's house to borrow a scale.
The village chief's gate was closed. Yun Duo called out for a while before Lu Jiajia ran to the gate and asked, "Yun Duo, why are you looking for my grandpa again? Did someone bully you again?"
"No," Yun Duo shook her head and said, "I came to borrow a scale from you. Are your grandparents home?"
Lu Jiajia said, "They're all away, they've all gone to work. It's just my younger brother and me at home, and I'm taking care of him."
"Okay... I'll come back later then." Yun Duo was a little disappointed, but there was nothing she could do about it. The village chief's family mainly farmed, and it seemed normal for them to be working in the fields at this time. She hadn't expected it.
Seeing Yun Duo's expression, Lu Jiajia immediately said enthusiastically, "I know where our scale is. I'll lend it to you, but you have to carry it yourself. Grandma won't let me carry the weight. She says I'm still young and don't have the strength. If I can't hold the weight properly, it will hit my foot and break the bones in my foot."
Yunduo quickly replied, "Yes, yes, I'm older than you, I can carry it myself, you don't need to."
Hearing Yun Duo say that, Lu Jiajia took Yun Duo to get the scale.
Lu Xiaobing was sitting on a small chair. When he saw Yunduo, he stood up happily and wobbled towards her, calling out happily as he walked, "Yunduo, Yunduo, Tang, Tang..." After a few steps, he couldn't walk anymore and sat down with a thud, grinning as if he was about to cry.
Yun Duo then noticed that Lu Xiaobing had a rope tied around his waist, with the other end of the rope tied to the table leg.
"Lu Jiajia, why did you tie Lu Xiaobing to the table leg?" Yun Duo asked as she looked at him, and ran over to pull Lu Xiaobing up and patted the dust off his bottom.
Lu Jiajia gave a disgusted look: "Oh dear, he's so naughty, always running around, and he can't even walk properly. I have to come over to open the door for you, but I can't watch him. I'm afraid he'll run out with me and fall into the yard downstairs, so I had to tie him to the table leg." As she spoke, she ran over to Lu Xiaobing's side, tapped his forehead, and said, "It's all your fault, you wouldn't sit properly on the little stool. Now look what happened, you're happy that I got scolded by Yun Duo?" As she spoke, she pinched Lu Xiaobing's cheek and made a face at him, making Lu Xiaobing giggle. Clearly, she wasn't really disgusted with Lu Xiaobing.
Yun Duo shook her head and said, "I didn't mean what you said. I was just wondering... I thought you had been tying him to the table leg all along."
Lu Jiajia immediately said, "How could I dare? He'll cry if I tie him up for too long. You don't know how much he loves to cry, and once he starts, he won't stop. He needs sugar water to drink before he'll stop crying."
As she spoke, she deliberately made a disgusted face and pointed at Lu Xiaobing, saying, "Most of the honey you gave me ended up in this kid's stomach. It's driving me crazy."
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