190 Kids, the drama is over!
Su Taotao put away the notebook Fu Yuanhang gave her. They were already at the door. After thinking for a while, she took the children back.
She looked at her watch. At this time, the members had just finished work. If she went to the private plot to pick some vegetables or something, she would run into a lot of people:
"It may be difficult to avoid people at this time. I just didn't think carefully enough. We can't go out now. There are too many people in the village paying attention to us. Let's eat first. A few minutes won't hurt."
The little things in the village can spread in an instant. It is easy to arouse suspicion if you enter the house and go out immediately.
Especially their family, they are the center of the topic, and the children are also eye-catching. Although time is tight, it won't hurt to spend a little time.
The whole family finished the meal in less than ten minutes.
Being preoccupied with things also greatly reduced the taste of this delicious meal.
Mumu's longed-for catfish was no longer tasty, and he and Fu Yuanhang were now thinking about the starving hero in the air raid shelter.
Zhou Linglan took this opportunity to bake a few egg pancakes.
"Let's do a scene at the door," Su Taotao said, "Mumu, you asked for the braised pork from the state-owned restaurant, so I went to buy it."
The children were so smart that they understood immediately. Mumu immediately ran to the door and shouted,
"Sister Taozi, the food you cooked today is not to my liking. The catfish is too fishy. I want to eat the braised pork from the state-owned restaurant!"
Su Taotao shouted back, "It may be sold out at this time. Can we eat it tomorrow? We can also buy it on the train."
Mumu ran to the door and rolled around like a naughty child:
"No, no, I'm not full at all, I want to eat now, my mother asked you to take good care of me! The food in your broken village is not delicious, only the glaze is barely edible! Anyway, I want to eat braised pork now! And the food on the train is not as delicious as the state-owned hotel!"
Su Taotao: "..." Child, the drama is over.
"Okay, okay, I'll buy it for you, but I can't guarantee it."
Mumu shouted: "You will definitely get it if you hurry up, but it will be gone if you are slower! Ah Hang, accompany me to dig some more glaze. It's so hot that there is not even a watermelon. I can only eat glaze! By the way, remember to buy a watermelon if there is one!"
Su Taotao: "..." Mumu, if you don't apply for the comedy academy in the future, I will be the first to disagree.
Zhou Linglan also joined in: "It's not the season for cold potatoes yet. They will grow several times bigger in the future. It's a pity to dig too many. Can I go and get you some cantaloupe?"
The naughty child Mumu shook his head like a rattle: "No, no! I only eat cold potatoes, the kind I dig myself!"
Fu Yuanhang packed up his things and came out. Zhou Linglan took the opportunity to put the baked cakes and water into his backpack: "Go ahead, try to pick the bigger ones, and let the small ones grow longer."
Mumu put his knowledge into practice: "Damn you, you don't understand, only the small and tender ones are delicious, and the big ones are not delicious when they are old!"
Zhou Linglan didn't know what to say for a moment.
Now is the official start of the division into two groups.
Sure enough, as soon as they left, the neighbors who had been paying attention to their good deeds poked their heads out from the walls or doorsteps:
"Zhengtu's mother, is he teasing your cold potatoes again? Where did this little ancestor come from? Why is he so difficult to serve?"
Zhou Linglan smiled gently: "He is the child of a colleague of Zhengtu's unit. The child is very good, but he has never suffered much and is a little spoiled."
The neighbor curled her lips: "How is he spoiled? He is obviously a ancestor. He wants braised pork and pulled cold potatoes in the middle of the day. If it were my child, I would have beaten him a long time ago."
Another neighbor who was leaning on the wall also said: "Yes, I heard that you bought big pig's feet this morning. Isn't it enough for him?"
Su Taotao was right. There were too many eyes staring at their house. Although there was no malice, it really made people feel uncomfortable.
Zhou Linglan: "The pig's trotters are for dinner. They haven't been cooked yet."
Another neighbor who came out under the sun with a bowl of rice in his arms said: "That kid is such a jerk. I heard him say he wanted to touch frogs last night, so Zhengtu's mother took him to touch frogs in the middle of the night."
Zhou Linglan: "...It wasn't the middle of the night. I had just finished dinner. I hadn't touched frogs for a long time, so I just went to join in the fun."
Mumu was such a good kid, Zhou Linglan still wanted to help him restore his reputation.
The neighbor leaning on the wall didn't take it seriously: "That kid is a troublemaker, don't let him corrupt your Ah Hang. Ah Hang is getting better and better, and he is clean and innocent. I almost didn't recognize him."
The neighbor holding the bowl of rice came closer and closer, looking into the yard: "You caught a catfish last night, right? I just smelled the smell and my mouth is watering. The ancestor doesn't like the fishy smell, how about I help you eat some? If there is no fish, you can just mix the soup with the rice."
Zhou Linglan held the door: "Excuse me, Chenchen and I are going to eat."
After saying that, she slammed the door.
The neighbor was turned away, and said something like "The richer the city, the more they are." Then he left with a curse.
Zhou Linglan closed the door and turned around to see Chenchen standing behind her with a stick.
"Chenchen, what are you doing?" Chenchen
raised his head and looked at his grandmother very seriously: "Mom, I have a mission for you~~Watch over the house~~beat the bad guys~~"
Zhou Linglan bent down and picked him up: "They are not bad people, they are just good people, they don't have any bad intentions, Chenchen, eat some more."
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Su Taotao went straight to the commune post office. It was lunchtime, and there were not many people in the post office. The aunt on duty was eating with a lunch box.
Su Taotao found a phone farthest from the aunt and called the city bureau.
After the call was connected, she lowered her voice and said what was written in the notebook, and then added a detailed address. She also said that if she needed a guide, she would send someone to her house to tell her quietly, and it must be done quietly.
After she hung up the phone and paid the money, she didn't hear any gossip. The eldest mother even said, "I don't know what she said, it's so mysterious, it doesn't seem like a good thing."
Afterwards, Su Taotao went to the state-owned hotel and confirmed that the braised pork had been sold out long ago.
On the way back, she actually ran into a farmer who was changing watermelons.
Su Taotao changed one and tied it to the most conspicuous position in the back seat to ensure that everyone in the village knew that she came out in the hot sun at noon to buy braised pork and a big watermelon for Mumu, the "naughty child."
Fu Yuanhang and Mumu talked and laughed all the way to the private plot.
When he met other members on the road, Mumu took the initiative to ask if they had watermelons to exchange, otherwise he could only eat cold potatoes.
Now, everyone in the village knows that Mumu is a greedy person, sometimes he is greedy for braised pork, sometimes he is greedy for big watermelons, and he never stops.
Li Guobang didn't expect them to come back so soon. His legs were already sore and numb. If it wasn't for the coolness in the air-raid shelter, he would be soaked all over.
"Don't worry, my sister-in-law has gone to report the news, you should eat something first." Fu Yuanhang said.
Li Guobang thought his sister-in-law was a young wife in the village, so he asked him: "Is she reliable? Can I trust her?"
Fu Yuanhang said with a straight face: "There is no one more reliable than my sister-in-law in this world. She can run a factory, so why can't she do such a small thing?"
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