Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Received the envy of all the children along the way...
Before Ning Shaoming went out to work, he kept all the rice that was harvested from the land allocated to him last year and did not sell it.
That amount of rice is enough to feed the two children until the end of the year, with quite a bit left over.
The remaining rice could be sold to provide enough money for the children to eat vegetables.
In other words, the rice and vegetables that the two children eat at home are free of charge.
If the money they sent back was only for two elderly people and two children to spend, they would have enough meat every day.
But his children could only eat meat once every few days.
Ning Shaoming's heart ached as if it was pricked by a needle again, and he couldn't help but recall what his wife said when they talked about dividing the family property.
If he could have divided the family business earlier and chosen the empty residential land, it wouldn't have seemed so difficult for him to accept.
After the two children finished eating the salt-baked chicken, they chose the ones they liked from the two bags and kept them.
Zhao Ruyue took a small portion of the remaining things, which were just two loaves of bread and some snacks such as potato chips, egg tarts, wafers, and candies. She put them in a smaller bag and asked her son to give them to his cousins.
Most of them were put into the supermarket shopping bags, and then the socks, scarves, silk handkerchiefs and gloves for Wu Li and Huang Wenfa's parents and their two children were taken out and sent to them.
I said to Ning Shaoming, "Go to the kitchen and see what to have for lunch. I'll continue to clean up the room. Let Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia take these away. After dinner, go see my parents."
Ning Shaoming nodded and stood up: "Okay, by the way, why don't you bring a bag of candy and biscuits for Wen Fa's family as well?"
"No, they will definitely buy a lot of these things when they come back. I guess we won't be able to finish them even after the New Year. Besides, we have so many childhood friends. If we give them to Wen Fa's family, will we give them to other families?"
After hearing what she said, Ning Shaoming did not insist on giving it to her. After all, they were childhood friends and it would not be right to favor one over the other.
Ning Shiqiu came back from delivering things to his cousins and received another task. He was so excited that he completely lost the composure of a little adult.
He immediately ran to the front yard with great interest and put his bicycle in front of the door: "Mom, I can use my bicycle to carry the things!"
Zhao Ruyue looked at her son in surprise: "You can already ride a bicycle?"
"I borrowed a classmate's car and learned it in advance."
"That's perfect." Zhao Ruyue took out the child chair she had bought. Her son said he wanted to ride a bike to take her daughter to school. She was worried that her daughter was too young and would fall backwards if she sat on the back seat, so she bought the child chair as well.
"I'll put the child seat on Xiaoxia. Let Xiaoxia sit in the back seat later. Hold one bag and put the other bag in the basket in front. You ride slowly and be careful of the cars on the road."
Although there are not many motorcycles on the roads in my hometown now, let alone cars, I still have to remind people of what needs to be done.
Ning Shixia really wanted to ride her skateboard there, but there were very few children on the street with skateboards, and only one child who was older than her and her brother had one.
She couldn't borrow anyone's skateboard before and couldn't learn in advance, so she hasn't learned it yet. She can only squat on the skateboard and walk with her legs supported.
I had no choice but to give up using my own "transportation" to carry out the mission and sit on the back seat of my brother's bicycle.
Zhao Ruyue stood at the door, fixed the child chair, and then carried her daughter up, asking her to hold the things carefully and not drop them:
"Inside that black bag, there is a small red bag, which contains scarves, gloves, and socks for your Aunt Xiaoli's parents. When we arrived at your Sister Miaomiao's house and gave them the things, we told them that their parents had paid for these things, and asked Miaomiao to deliver the things her mother bought for her grandparents."
The two children nodded: "Remember!"
Huang Wenfa's house is not far from their home, and it takes less than five minutes to get there by bike.
The two children came to his door steadily, but did not enter. Instead, they shouted to another family with familiarity: "Sister Miaomiao! Brother Xiaode!"
After shouting a few times, Huang Miaomiao and her brother finally came out from their neighbor's house.
"Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia? Are you looking for us?"
Huang Shengde's eyes widened when he saw Ning Shiqiu's bicycle: "Xiaoqiu, did your parents really buy you a bicycle?!"
"Yeah!" Ning Shiqiu nodded vigorously, feeling a little proud in his heart, "I've said it before, my parents will definitely not go back on their word. I also bought Xiaoxia a skateboard, but I didn't bring it with me because it was inconvenient to bring the skateboard because I had to give you something. If you want to see it, you can come to my house."
Huang Shengde ran to Ning Shiqiu and circled around the bicycle: "I want to see! Xiaoqiu, can you let me ride your bicycle?"
Ning Shiqiu hadn’t had enough riding yet: “Wait a few days, you guys get your stuff first.”
"Aunt Xiaoli and Uncle Wenfa asked my parents to bring back the things they bought for you. My mom said they have given the money," Ning Shixia handed over the bag she was holding.
Then he pointed to the supermarket shopping bag in the basket in front of him and repeated clearly what his mother had told him: "The white bag contains bread and snacks, a row of Wahaha, a bottle of Nutri-Express and a bottle of Coke!"
She has tasted them all and really liked them. She originally wanted to keep them all, but her parents said to give half to Sister Miaomiao and Brother Xiaode first, and keep the other half. They could buy her another one another day after she finished it, so she agreed.
Ning Shixia pointed to the black bag she was holding just now and said, "This black bag contains a scarf, socks, and gloves. There is also a red bag inside. My mother asked Sister Miaomiao to deliver the things in the red bag to your grandparents."
Hearing that there was something delicious to eat, Huang Shengde no longer cared about Ning Shiqiu's bicycle.
He immediately stepped forward and took out the supermarket shopping bags from the basket: "Wow, they are so heavy, luckily I am strong!"
After moving the bag out, Huang Shengde wanted to open the bag and take some snacks while standing on the street. As soon as he untied the knot on the bag, he was hit on the hand.
They were so busy talking that no one noticed that an old lady came out from the Huang family and stood beside them, watching them for a while.
"Grandma, why did you hit me?" Huang Shengde rubbed his red hands and complained loudly, "You hit my hands red, look at me!"
The old lady glared at him and said, "You deserve it! Who told you to leave things on the street? Look at the ground, isn't it dirty?"
Huang Shengde took a look and didn't think it was that dirty. He usually lay on the ground and played marbles with his friends.
Before he could say anything, the old lady had already threatened him: "I was passing by this morning while herding cattle and I saw a cow pooping here. Do you want to eat cow poop?"
Huang Shengde looked down at the ground, but didn't see it.
But he knew that when the cows passed by early in the morning and finished defecating, the still hot and steaming feces would be shoveled away by people and used as fertilizer.
From this morning till now, there are so many people coming and going, so it's normal that we can't see it.
Huang Shengde was successfully disgusted: "I don't eat cow dung! I'll take it home, and my floor will be clean now!"
The old lady nodded with satisfaction: "That's right." This silly boy, didn't he see that there were so many children watching outside? If he was unpacking the food outside, shouldn't he share some with others?
Those are good things I brought back. How much should we share? Are you stupid?
The old lady watched her grandson move things into the house, then turned around and asked Ning Shiqiu and his sister with a smile: "Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia, do you want to go to grandma's house to play? Grandma asked Brother Xiaode to give you some candy."
Ning Shiqiu waved his hand: "No, mother-in-law, we have some at home, and my parents are waiting for us to go back for lunch. We'll go back first."
The old lady also knew that their parents would definitely buy it for them when they came back.
But the parents of the two children had a good relationship, and whenever a child came to deliver something, she would at least put some food in their pockets before letting them go.
The brother and sister had no choice but to take two candies each and ride away quickly on their bikes.
After they left, the old lady went home, looked at the contents of the two bags, took out the red bag, put some snacks into it, and then asked Huang Miaomiao to deliver it to her grandparents' house.
Before she could tell her grandchildren not to go out and tell others that there was delicious food at home, Huang Shengde had already got something good and had taken it out to show off, with a bunch of other children following him back.
The old lady hurriedly took all the things into the room and hid them.
Huang Miaomiao also held the sweet bread in one hand and a red bag in the other, and happily walked towards her grandmother's house while eating.
She and the bread in her hand, like Ning Shiqiu and his sister who were riding their new bicycles, received envious glances from all the children along the way.
At this time, except for Ning Laoer's family who lived in the teachers' dormitory in the county, the rest of the Ning family had already sat neatly around the dining table, ready to eat lunch.
Ning Shichun pulled a chair over to Ning Shaoming and sat down: "Uncle San, the bread you asked Xiaoqiu to give me just now is so delicious. I want to eat more. Do you have any more?"
Zhao Ruyue didn't think anything of it, but Wang Haiyan couldn't stand it anymore.
She rolled her eyes at her greedy son, feeling ashamed: "Ning Shichun, how old are you? Still begging for food like a child, do you have any shame?"
Ning Shichun really didn't feel embarrassed: "This is my third uncle, we are family members, not outsiders, why can't I ask?"
"How dare you talk back!" Wang Haiyan reached out to slap her son. She had never seen anyone so greedy!
Ning Shaoming hurriedly stopped him and tried to smooth things over: "It's okay, don't hit the child, sister-in-law. What Xiaochun said makes sense. I'm his uncle, there's nothing I can't ask. It's just bread, not something valuable. The child can eat it if he wants. I remember there should be more, I'll ask Xiaoqiu to get it."
He looked at Ning Shiqiu and said, "Xiaoqiu, go see how many are left. If there are enough, give one to each of your cousins."
Ning Shiqiu put down his chopsticks, ran to the room and came out with two loaves of bread, handing them to his cousin.
Ning Danping took the bread with a red face, but Ning Shichun looked very proud. He didn't even eat lunch and said that he would just eat the bread.
Wang Haiyan glared at her complacent son with disdain and said, "He's still a child. He's the eldest brother of his generation. He'll be eighteen next year, and he still hasn't done anything serious!"
She looked at her brother and sister-in-law who were sitting next to her and eating in silence.
She had originally thought that her brother-in-law and his wife were doing well, so she would ask them to take her son, who was almost an adult, didn't like studying, and couldn't get into technical secondary school or high school, out to work after the New Year, and find him a good job.
But how could she bring herself to speak when her son was so unstable?
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