Grandpa Su looked at his confused old woman and walked over to her and said, "Hongdou, don't listen to your grandma's nonsense. Dabao fell and broke his leg these days and scared her. She's almost losing consciousness."
Grandpa Su urged Grandma Su, "The two children must be anxious to come back. They haven't even had a bite of food yet. Go to the kitchen and make some food for them first. The rest can be dealt with after they finish eating."
"Okay, I'll go right away." Grandma Su knew that she was being disliked, and she glared at Grandpa Su unhappily, then turned to An Hongdou and whispered, "I know your grandpa dislikes me for interfering with your child management. The old man has been like this all his life, and he doesn't allow others to interrupt him when he's taking care of the children. Besides, I never said anything when you two were taking care of the children, right? I only said a few words this time because I was worried about the injury on the child's leg. Don't take it as an offense, Hongdou. You have to wait until he recovers before you teach him a lesson."
"Grandma, I know. I just wanted to scare him." An Hongdou smiled and comforted the old lady.
Grandma Su nodded and said, "You haven't seen the children for several days. Play with them for a while. I'll go make you some food."
"I'll go help my great-grandmother." An Changyue also went to the kitchen.
Grandma Su said with relief: "No, no, you just got off the bus, you must be exhausted, just take a rest, and I'll make you a bowl of noodles. Your aunt still has some dried noodles, so it won't be a big deal."
Grandpa Su loves noodles, but rolling noodles is tiring for him at his age. There is a noodle machine in An Hongdou's space, so he gave them some dried noodles, which are convenient to eat.
The story they told was that Shen Xiangzhi got it from the black market.
Grandpa Su knew what Shen Xiangzhi had been doing over the years, so he only told Grandma Su to let her take care of the children and not to ask about anything else.
Grandma Su was not an ignorant old woman, and she was just too old to bother with anything, so she just did whatever the old man and the children told her to do.
Since Grandma Su was not around, Grandpa Su felt embarrassed to stay in the house, so he simply went to sit in the living room.
Erbao and Sanbao also ran into the room to surround An Hongdou. Dabao didn't dare to act pretentiously at this moment and covered himself in the quilt guiltily.
Erbao's eyes were also wandering, as if he wanted to hide but didn't dare to leave.
Only Sanbao had clear eyes, but he seemed to be gloating when looking at his two brothers.
"Tell me, what's going on?" An Hongdou looked at Dabao and Erbao seriously. She knew the personalities of these two kids well, and it was unlikely that Sanbao would run away without telling the adults.
Dabao carefully moved the quilt aside a little, revealing his head, and said, "Yes... I played around during the day and didn't finish the homework assigned by my great-grandfather. At night, I made an appointment with An'an to go out and play together. Then my great-grandfather made me stand in the corner, so I asked Erbao to help me watch the door and climb over the wall. As a result, I just climbed up and heard someone outside shouting "thief", and I lost my balance and fell down."
"Who is An An?" An Hongdou had never heard of this name.
Erbao was eager to show off and answered quickly: "An An is our classmate. He also lives not far from here, so we play together."
It is normal for a child to have a playmate. An Hongdou did not ask too many questions. Instead, she asked him, "Do you know you are in the wrong? Your great-grandfather and great-grandmother are still willing to serve you at such an old age, but you don't listen to them and let them worry less. Instead, you are naughty and mischievous. I asked you to learn from them, but you even wanted to jump over the wall secretly to escape. I think you deserved to fall, so you should be taught a good lesson..."
After being scolded, Dabao and Erbao lowered their heads guiltily and dared not say a word.
Unlike their great-grandfather’s pretend slapping of the palms, when their parents fought, they really beat the children.
After teaching the two disobedient kids a lesson, An Hongdou asked Sanbao, "Sanbao, didn't you know beforehand that the two brothers climbed over the wall to get out?"
"I know." Sanbao said, "I reminded them not to go out, but they didn't listen."
"If they don't listen, why don't you call your great-grandmother and great-grandfather?" An Hongdou knew that the three of them lived in the same room, and it would be impossible for her to have said that two of them had gone out and one didn't know.
Sanbao didn't answer. He just stood straight and pursed his lips tightly, obviously not convinced.
An Hongdou knew what he was feeling awkward about, so she pulled him over and held him in her arms, "Sanbao, Mom is not blaming you. Mom just thinks that you two are brothers, and you should work together no matter what you do. If you know the other person has done something wrong, you should remind them to correct it. You can't just watch them make more mistakes..."
After that, An Hongdou looked at Dabao and Erbao again, "And you two, as older brothers, don't you know what to do and what not to do? Why don't you listen to your younger brother's advice?"
"I was wrong……"
Dabao and Erbao said it in unison.
They didn't dare to admit it. They were angry because Sanbao didn't let them go out. They felt that as the older brothers, they had no right to be controlled by their younger brother, so they climbed over the wall stubbornly.
Grandma Su called her from outside, "Hongdou, come out to eat."
"Hey, I'm coming." An Hongdou responded, and then said to Dabao and Erbao: "You two should reflect on yourselves. Don't think that this matter will just pass. I will teach you a lesson when your father comes back."
An Hongdou went out, leaving the three children in the room.
Erbao rolled his eyes, feeling a little guilty when he saw Sanbao not saying anything. He walked over and patted him on the shoulder like a little adult, "Old Third, I'm sorry for you. I've made you get scolded as well."
"It's good that you know." Sanbao glanced at him, "So how are you going to compensate me?"
"What?" Erbao immediately glared, not wanting to pay attention to Sanbao anymore. He stepped in front of Dabao and deliberately changed the subject, "Brother, we haven't memorized the book that our great-grandfather asked us to memorize today. I'll go get the book and we can read it together."
Dabao naturally would not object, and urged him, "Go quickly, go quickly."
Rather than asking Sanbao for compensation, he might as well study.
However, before Erbao could run out, Sanbao said, "Since we are brothers, I will give you a discount. Ten dollars each."
Erbao stopped with a droopy face, "I don't have any money."
"I don't have any money either." Dabao stared.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Sanbao recently, he is determined to spend all their pocket money.
Dabao and Erbao were very generous at the beginning, until the New Year's money they had saved in recent years was running out, and now there is not much left, then they realized that they have to protect their own little treasury.
An Hongdou didn't know what happened between the three brothers. She only knew that Erbao and Sanbao walked out together, one was obviously in a good mood, while the other looked like he had lost a million or eight hundred thousand.
But isn't that the truth?
I was cheated by Sanbao again, and Erbao’s money box is almost empty.
This summer, he may not even be able to afford popsicles.
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