The old man didn't say anything, but silently calculated something in his mind, and felt a little worried after finishing the calculation.
"Old lady, how about giving Zhizhi some subsidies?"
The old lady wanted to, but Jian Yuelan was not happy.
"Leave it to Doudou. Zhizhi won't want it."
Glancing at Jian Yuelan, who was walking around the room muttering something while holding a pen and paper, she said softly, "The child has money. We'll talk about it when she runs out of money."
"Don't forget, Old Ye and his family have been providing subsidies to the children for the past few years."
The old man was immediately furious. "This child is not good, how can you still favor one over the other?"
Oh, just accept the money from your grandparents. Not only can you not give out their money, but they also take pocket money from the children.
"Let's transfer the house to Doudou's name tomorrow, so she doesn't have to worry about buying a house all day long."
The old lady's mouth twitched as she reminded him, "Doudou can't be transferred at the moment. It can only be transferred to Zhiming."
The old man was silent, and it was as if he hadn't said anything.
I don't even want their financial subsidies, let alone such a big house.
Never mind. Don't worry about that now.
Let’s wait until Doudou grows up a bit.
Thinking of Doudou, the old man wondered, "Where is my great-grandson?"
"Here."
The child ran in from the back door with a bright smile on his chubby face.
"Grandpa, look."
He opened his closed palm as if presenting a treasure, and inside was a cricket.
"Bugs, they don't bite."
"It's a cricket."
The child was shocked. "Is this the cricket mentioned in the poem 'Shadows of banana trees outside the window at midnight, crickets chirping by the bedside in September'?"
So this is what crickets look like.
"Um."
The old man nodded and carefully picked up the cricket to examine it. "It's a male cricket that can chirp. Do you want to raise it?"
The child had never heard of crickets chirping and was very interested in the sound of crickets.
His eyes lit up immediately when he heard this. "How do I raise them? Is it the same as raising Daji and the others?"
That's not possible. If you raise a cricket the same way you raise a cat, I don't know how many times this cricket will die.
"Come on, Grandpa will take you to the yard to gather some thatch and make a cricket cage for you."
"OK."
Then, the old man and the young boy went to the backyard to raise crickets.
The old lady was busy, so she borrowed a sickle from the shop next door and went to the backyard to cut the grass.
The old tailor shop master didn’t have much energy to take care of the backyard due to his age, which resulted in the weeds in the yard being a bit overgrown.
This is also why children can find crickets.
By the time Jian Yuelan finished her work and found the backyard, the old lady had already cut a lot of grass, and the old man was crouching over and turning over the grass. Doudou followed the old man closely, carrying a delicate and small straw cage.
Ask from time to time if there is one.
Jian Yuelan, "???"
What is this thing catching?
She walked over curiously and was about to ask, but the child turned around as if he had eyes on his back and showed her the straw cage in his hand.
"Mom, Grandpa taught me how to raise crickets."
Jian Yuelan suddenly realized, "Then you have to take good care of it."
"Yeah, I'll take good care of them. They're plump and white like Daji and the others."
It is possible to gain weight, but it is absolutely impossible to be fat.
The cricket's own color means that no matter how it is raised, it will never turn white.
"Quick, bring the cage over here. Grandpa has caught another one."
The old man scooped up a cricket with his hands, and he happily took the cricket and put it into the cage.
Jian Yuelan looked at the crickets in the cage and couldn't help but remind them, "Grandpa, crickets are solitary. If you put them in the same cage, they will fight."
"Will you still fight?"
The child couldn't believe it and couldn't understand why such small insects would fight.
"meeting."
Jian Yuelan laughed and said, "Crickets are aggressive and solitary. Male crickets will fight when they bump into each other. It's considered territorial behavior."
The child suddenly realized, "I know, they don't want to live with other crickets, they just want to live on their own."
That makes sense.
She nodded, and the child pleaded pitifully, "Mom, can you make me two more small cages?"
"OK."
It's just a cage, no big deal.
Then, Jian Yuelan not only made a few small cages for the child to hold crickets, but also made a straw rabbit, a bird, etc. for him.
On the way back, he walked in an unbelievably magical manner, with a string of straw animals in his left hand and a child in a straw cage with crickets in his right hand.
With his little head held high, his little chest puffed out, and his legs splayed out, he perfectly demonstrated what it meant to walk without recognizing any relatives.
The old lady was watching with amusement and whispered to Jian Yuelan, "I'm really worried that he'll fall down from walking so arrogantly."
This possibility does exist, but it doesn't matter. Children grow up by falling here and bumping there.
"Let him fall."
She acted like a vicious stepmother and said calmly, "A complete childhood requires not only beatings but also falls."
The old man rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't know, you'd think you're a stepmother."
The old lady nodded and said, "Zhizhi is indeed unreliable sometimes."
Jian Yuelan felt that she was very reliable, but the two elders disagreed.
So, after sending the man home, she smiled and said that she, an unreliable person, was going to do something reliable.
Little Doudou, who was showing off his cricket to Daji and the others, heard this and turned to ask her, "Mom, where are you going to do something reliable?"
"Looking for your Grandpa Lin."
"Oh, go ahead then. Come back soon."
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