Chapter 39 Boss, Happy Birthday to You (1)
Early in the morning, Bai Taotao hid aside and laughed.
Xing Xing noticed it and ran over to ask, "Fourth sister, what are you laughing at?"
Taotao put her index finger in front of her lips, motioning Xingxing to speak more quietly, and then pointed in the direction of her third sister.
Xing Xing saw Bai Lili humming a song while combing her hair in front of the mirror. She looked left and right, smiling, and tried hard to push down the hair on her head with the comb...
Taotao held back her laughter, stretched out five slender white fingers, and whispered, "She got up at five o'clock!"
——I’ve been combing my hair for an hour, but I don’t know if I’ve become bald!
At this time, Tang Liren shouted in the yard, "Lizi, go out! Remember to wear your hat!"
Bai Lili immediately responded sweetly, "Hey! Okay, I'll be right there!"
Then he happily took the bamboo hat and turned around——
She found her two sisters hiding in the corner trying to hold back their laughter?
"What are you looking at! What's so good about it! Haven't you seen people going out to work or to farm?" Bai Lili felt a little embarrassed and scolded her sisters, but she couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, "Oh that's great, I can finally go out! Hahahaha..."
The joy is simply overwhelming!
Taotao and Xingxing also burst into laughter.
The third sister went out to work with her mother. Xingxing asked Taotao again, "Fourth sister, Jiang Hongzhi has married Zhou Chunni, and they are leaving today. Do we still need to keep an eye on the third sister?"
"Are you stupid?" Taotao stretched out her hand and pinched Xingxing's nose. "It wasn't Jiang Hongzhi who framed our third sister, it was Yan Naqian! As long as Yan Naqian stays in the village, we can't let our guard down! Who knows who she'll frame next?"
"Oh! Got it!" Xing Xing rubbed her nose and muttered, "Why do you always call people stupid?"
Tao Tao, "Just based on those little actions of yours... Alas! You still say you are not stupid! Now I am watching you, you will be fine. If one day I am not by your side, and you are so stupid... what should I do!"
After hearing the first half of what Fourth Sister said, Xing Xing's heart skipped a beat. She wondered if Fourth Sister had discovered what was going on between her and Song Sui?
But when she heard the second half, Xing Xing immediately got angry and asked, "Why aren't you by my side?"
——In the dream, the silly sister had depended on her for her whole life!
Tao Tao said strangely: "Because I want to be a worker-peasant-soldier student! I want to go to university in the future!"
Xing Xing breathed a sigh of relief, "I want to go too! I'll go with Fourth Sister!"
"Tsk, I've already started serving the people! I look after the library and patrol the fields every day. I've discovered pests and diseases several times and solved the problems early!" Tao Tao said proudly, "What about you? What do you do every day?"
"I am my fourth sister's follower!" Xingxing answered very proudly.
Taotao: ...
"If I opened this university, I would definitely let you go." Taotao sighed.
What a pity it is not.
Forget it, let’s find another opportunity for Xingxing!
Now Taotao is going to inspect the fields.
So she put on her backpack and prepared to go out.
The little nephew is too young, still a baby, so the eldest sister-in-law does not go to work. She concentrates on taking care of the child and doing some needlework at home. Lili and Xingxing take turns doing housework at home. Today, Lili goes to work, so it is Xingxing's turn to do housework at home.
Seeing Taotao was about to go out, Xingxing quickly followed with a bucket of clothes, "Fourth sister, wait for me, I'm going to wash clothes!"
Tao Tao asked her, "Why don't you wash it at home?"
——The house is connected to a bamboo tube, which can bring water down from the mountain. As long as it is not the dry season, there is no need to go outside to fetch water.
Xing Xing replied: "It's just that the water tank is not full! Let's go and tell Brother Song Zhi to go and inspect the mountain. I don't know if the bamboo tube is misplaced or what..."
The two sisters said goodbye to their father and sister-in-law, left home together, and went to the blacksmith shop first.
It was still early and Song Zhi was making preparations. He hadn't started the iron stove yet. I heard that the water tank at home was not full of water? He immediately took off his leather apron, took a sickle and prepared to go up the mountain to take a look.
However, he paused again and looked at Taotao with an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Tao Tao asked curiously: "What?"
He smiled and said, "It's okay, we'll talk about it later." Then he took the sickle and left.
The two sisters walked towards the rice fields.
When they arrived at the river, the laundry dam was surrounded by wives who came to wash clothes. Xingxing couldn't find a place to wash clothes, so she simply put the clothes and the bucket aside. She talked to her sister-in-law and asked her to help watch them, and then she went to where her mother and sister worked with Taotao.
A sister-in-law called Tao Xing and her sister, "Xingzi, your mother helped Zhou Chunni with the wedding banquet all day yesterday. Did Zhou Chunni give your mother any hard work compensation?"
"I don't know!" Xingxing replied.
The wives started to chatter.
"Oh, you actually expect Zhou Chunni to understand the ways of the world!"
"I'm telling you, Zhou Chunni didn't pay me! Not a cent! I was helping out last night, too. Not to mention the wages, more than a dozen of us worked hard all day, and Zhou Chunni didn't even say thank you!"
"Then you're still going?"
"Did I go there for her? I went there for Aunt Zhenggan's sake! I went there for Aunt Zhenggan's sake. Otherwise, even if Zhou Chunni invited me, I wouldn't want to go!"
"Aunt Zhenggan is so kind!"
"Uncle Zhenggan is a nice guy too! Otherwise how come they are a family?"
"I think it's not good to be too nice. Zhou Chunni is a piece of shit! Xiaoni is still so young, and she just abandons her without caring about her. Why would Uncle Zhenggan and his wife help such an ungrateful person?"
"Oh, do you really think Uncle Zhenggan is just being kind and being nice to Zhou Chunni for no reason? He's doing it for Chunsheng's sake!"
"That's right! You are young and have only been married for a few years. You don't know what happened in the past... When Taozi was little, she was stupid and got into danger many times. It was Chunsheng who risked his life to save Taozi!"
"Yes, I remember one time Nansheng took Taotao to ride a cow, but the cow got scared and threw Taotao over! It was Chunsheng who pushed Taotao aside. Taotao was fine, but Chunsheng's foot was broken by the cow's hoof... He was lame for more than half a year before he recovered!"
After hearing what everyone said, Taotao was a little stunned.
She searched her memory carefully and remembered that there was indeed a time when she was a child when her second brother took her to ride a bull. It seemed that the bull went crazy, and then a little brother held her and tried desperately to escape and hide...
But her perception was poor and she had no idea who the little brother was.
All she could say was that in her memory, the little brother who had helped her would appear from time to time, but she couldn't be sure if it was Chunsheng.
Tao Tao wasn't the only one who was shocked by the wives' words...
And there is Zhou Chunni.
She was about to leave the village with Jiang Hongzhi... She dreamed of leaving here, leaving this poor mountain village where she had been humiliated by the title of "landlord's bastard" for nineteen years.
But when it came time to leave, she felt very confused and felt uncertain and flustered.
She didn't have much to take with her, so she just needed to pack it up briefly. But the uneasy feeling in her heart made her feel very uncomfortable, so she prepared to go out to find Tang Liren. Unexpectedly, when she passed by Xiliba, she heard the village wives talking about her.
Zhou Chunni suddenly realized that since Tang Liren had organized such a wedding banquet for her yesterday, she should be paid.
She couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Without her mother’s guidance, she really… knew nothing.
Zhou Chunni left silently.
She found Tang Liren in the rice field and said, "Aunt, you helped me organize the wedding banquet yesterday. Should I pay you for it?"
Tang Liren was stunned.
She looked Zhou Chunni up and down for a while and said with a smile: "What, have you come to your senses?"
Zhou Chunni understood that she should indeed pay Tang Li wages, but she didn't know how much.
She took out a neatly folded handkerchief from her trouser pocket, opened it, and revealed several banknotes hidden inside. She held the handkerchief in front of Tang Liren and said, "Aunt, I don't know how much money I should give you. You can take it yourself!"
Tang Liren: "No need!"
“Yes.”
Tang Liren, "It's really not necessary. Not to mention that I watched you three siblings grow up... just because your brother saved Taotao several times before, we should have repaid this favor! In addition, when your brother left, he entrusted you and Xiaoni to us... Oh, by the way, how are you going to settle Xiaoni?"
Zhou Chunni clenched her handkerchief and shook her head, "I, I don't know..."
——Xiao Ni knelt down and cried, begging her not to marry Jiang Hongzhi and not to go with him. She also said that as long as she stayed in the village, Xiao Ni was willing to work on the farm and earn work points to support her.
Zhou Chunni disagreed, and the two sisters had a big fight. Xiao Ni no longer wanted to talk to her. Including just now, she wanted to tell Xiaoni a few words, but Xiaoni had gone somewhere...
After hearing Zhou Chunni's words, Tang Liren's face changed, "You don't know?"
——Xiao Ni was only twelve or thirteen years old. Her brother went to study in another province and her sister was in a hurry to get married. Even if Chunsheng entrusted Bai Zhenggan to take care of his two younger sisters before he left, it was impossible for him to really adopt Zhou Xiaoni.
So Zhou Chunni is planning to completely ignore Xiaoni?
Zhou Chunni's eyes welled up with tears, and she said to Tang Liren, "I don't know, auntie! I really don't know... Please teach me!"
Tang Liren looked at Zhou Chunni, feeling helpless, and said:
"Chun Ni, I have to say something, taking advantage of my age - there are children in the village who lost their mothers when they were young. Hong Hong, Yue Xiu and Gui Hua also lost their parents at an early age and grew up eating at other people's homes. But they are more sensible than you... You have to pay people to help with the wedding banquet. Even if no one teaches you how to do it, you should ask around... At the very least, you should think about why others should help you for no reason?"
"I'm not going to argue with you about this for your brother's sake. When you get out there in the future... you have to understand that no one will treat you well for no reason!"
Zhou Chunni's eyes were filled with tears.
Tang Liren continued, "I'm being frank. Just because of what you said to my daughter Li Zi, I don't want to bother with you. But my family owes your brother a favor. When he left, he asked us to take care of you and Xiao Ni. So as long as you ask, I will help you! You see, this is the blessing your brother has saved for you. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to ask me."
"Speaking of brothers and sisters helping each other, think about it yourself... What have you done for Chunsheng and Xiaoni over the years? What have they done for you? Your brother just left, and you followed him... What will Xiaoni do alone? She is still young and can't do farm work. How can she earn work points to exchange for food? Do you want to starve her to death?"
Zhou Chunni hurriedly shook her head, "No, no——"
"Or do you want to throw her into our house? Because you know we can't just watch Xiaoni starve to death? Or do you want to throw Xiaoni into a nursing home and let her fend for herself?" Tang Liren questioned.
Zhou Chunni cried out, "But I... can't do anything!"
Just as Tang Liren and Zhou Chunni were talking, Taotao and Xingxing had already run over. Not only did they hear the conversation between Tang Liren and Zhou Chunni, but they also found Xiaoni at the other end of the field.
Xiao Ni lay on the edge of the field, crying, and it was obvious that she had heard clearly what Tang Liren and Zhou Chunni said!
Zhou Chunni didn't notice Xiaoni's whereabouts. She just stuffed the handkerchief with the rolled-up banknotes into Tang Liren's hand out of anger, "Aunt, give these to Xiaoni! This is all the money I have...give it all to her!"
Tang Liren took a step back and avoided it. "I won't do this. You go find Xiaoni and explain it to her. If she is willing to accept the money, she can keep it. If she doesn't want to accept your money... I can't be a bad guy, right?"
Zhou Chunni, "How could she not want money?"
Xiao Ni's angry voice rang out——
"I don't want your money! If you want to leave, just leave! Why do you have to say one thing and do another?"
Zhou Chunni turned her head and looked at Xiaoni.
Xiao Ni was furious, her eyes were red and swollen, her hair was messy, and her face was covered in dirt, making her look like a little beggar!
For a moment, Zhou Chunni was a little afraid to face her sister, so she lowered her head and handed over the handkerchief wrapped with money, "Xiao Ni, stop making trouble... Keep this money..."
Xiao Ni sniffed and said loudly: "I'll say it again! I don't want your money! Zhou Chunni! Listen to me! I'm going to make a bet with you too! Ten years! Ten years later..."
Xiao Ni cried for a while, "Ten years later, I will be living a good life! I will be living a good life without you! My brother will be living a good life too! Zhou Chunni! You will definitely regret leaving us!"
Zhou Chunni was also angry, "You are talking nonsense! I will never regret it! I will never regret leaving here!"
Having said that, Zhou Chunni turned and left!
After walking a few steps, she turned to look at Zhou Xiaoni again, threw the handkerchief tightly in her hand in Zhou Xiaoni's direction, and said loudly: "If you don't want this money, just throw it away!"
Zhou Chunni ran away crying.
Xiao Ni picked up the handkerchief while crying and staggered to chase Zhou Chunni.
She wants to return the money to Zhou Chunni!
She doesn't want her money! ! !
However, Xiao Ni noticed that whenever Zhou Chunni saw a villager, she would stop and bow to him, "Uncle, after I leave, please take care of my Xiao Ni! I will kneel down and kowtow to you!"
Having said that, she didn't care whether the other person was willing or not, she knelt down and kowtowed, then stood up and ran away crying.
On her way back to the village committee, Zhou Chunni met at least 20 to 30 villagers, and she kowtowed to every one of them... Finally, she went to Bai Zhenggan's house. She was too embarrassed to go in, so she knelt outside the Bai family's yard and shouted loudly to Bai Zhenggan, and then kowtowed three times towards the main house of the Bai family...
Xiao Ni followed her, crying her heart out.
Finally, Zhou Chunni returned home, quickly packed herself up, washed her face, and hurried to the educated youth station carrying a simple little bag.
Jia Xiaohong told Zhou Chunni that Jiang Hongzhi had already gone to the village entrance.
Zhou Chunni hurriedly chased after him again——
Jiang Hongzhi had missed two buses waiting for her and was already getting impatient. When he saw her this moment, he didn't say anything, but just glared at her fiercely, took two steps back in disgust, and deliberately kept a distance from her.
Zhou Chunni, holding the small bag, couldn't help but look back at the village.
The small mountain village she had hated for nineteen years was located in the mountains, quiet, lonely and isolated from the world.
However, when the time came to leave, the extreme hatred of the past seemed to turn into a deep concern.
What she recalled were the gorgeous red azaleas that bloomed all over the back mountain in early spring; the purple wild grapes that hung on the branches in midsummer; the plump duck eggs distributed by the production team after the autumn harvest; and the sweet cabbages that were frozen by the snow in the middle of winter...
There is also the brother's thin but reliable shoulders, and the sister's innocent and naive laughter.
Zhou Chunni's tears rolled down.
At this time, the shuttle bus slowly arrived——
Jiang Hongzhi got into the car and looked back at Zhou Chunni.
Zhou Chunni also timidly followed him into the car, holding her small bag.
The shuttle bus started slowly.
Zhou Chunni suddenly became uneasy again.
——Everyone advised her not to leave, but if she didn’t leave, how could she change the future? What will her future be like after going to a new place? By the way, Aunt Zhenggan is a good person. She once advised me earnestly to learn cultural knowledge. It seems that it is time to learn to read. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even recognize the road signs and would be scared when I go out…
Suddenly, Zhou Chunni turned her head and looked out the window——
I saw the disheveled little girl crying and chasing after me desperately. She was waving and shouting desperately?
Zhou Chunni was startled and pressed her face against the glass window.
She watched Xiao Ni run after the bus for a long time, and her shoes were kicked off, but Xiao Ni didn't care. She quickly got up and continued to chase barefoot...
The shuttle bus was going faster and faster.
In the end, Xiao Ni was out of strength and could no longer catch up, so she squatted on the ground and burst into tears with her head in her hands.
The small, lonely figure gradually turned into a small black dot and finally disappeared.
Zhou Chunni stood stiffly, hugging her small bag tightly, tears streaming down her face.
==
The autumn harvest is approaching.
The millets in the rice fields turned golden. Each ear of millet was full of grains and hung its heavy head. When the wind blew, it made a rustling sound and turned into a golden ocean.
Taotao ran around in the fields.
The faces of the old masters were filled with the joy of a good harvest, and they all said that this year was a bumper year. They believed that after completing the grain payment task, they would be able to fill their own granaries with grain!
Taotao was also very happy.
It was the first time for her to feel such a rich joy of harvest, and she thought that she had contributed a lot - it was worth it for her to take care of this farmland for so long, just like taking care of a child who was slowly growing up.
"Tao Tao!"
Someone called her name in the distance.
Taotao turned around and saw it was Yan Naqian? ? ?
——This Yan Naqian is full of bad intentions, you have to be careful with her!
Taotao immediately became alert.
As soon as Yan Naqian walked in, she found that the little beauty was looking at her with a frown and her big eyes wide open?
She laughed, "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm not a bad person!"
"You are!" Taotao said seriously.
Yan Naqian: ...
"Is it Jiang Hongzhi's business that makes you think so?" Yan Naqian asked with a raised eyebrow.
Taotao didn't say anything.
Yan Naqian, "Yes, I did it! But have you ever thought that if Jiang Hongzhi was really a gentleman and didn't want to take advantage of those girls, why would he be tricked into the cornfield by those little notes again and again?"
"I helped him understand such an important truth, and also helped Zhou Chunni achieve her wish... Besides, they don't have to get married. Everything is their own choice. I don't think there is anything wrong with me."
"On the contrary, I think I am open and honest, and I can tell anyone anything." Yan Naqian winked at Tao Tao and asked, "Right?"
Taotao nodded: Yes, yes, yes!
It's such a waste of time talking to you.
So Taotao turned around and ran away!
Yan Naqian was stunned and said anxiously: "Hey! Bai Taotao! Wait a minute..."
Taotao doesn't care about her!
"Song Zhi is right! You should wait until you learn to talk to me when you have something to say!" Tao Tao said as she ran, "Don't waste other people's time!"
Taotao ran away.
Yan Naqian was so angry that she stomped her feet!
Taotao went to the blacksmith shop.
Song Zhi was so busy that he had no time to rest.
Tao Tao looked at the various farm tools neatly placed on the side for a while and asked him, "Are you going out again?"
Song Zhi said, "The Red Star Factory sent me a message, asking me to go over again. I will try to come back in three days, so I should be able to catch up with the grain harvest."
Taotao, "You wanted to tell me this this morning?"
Song Zhi blushed a little, "Would you come with me, please?"
Taotao thought about it.
——Song Zhi often went into the city, but Taotao seldom went there, unless the Red Star Factory gave Taotao an invitation letter, but such opportunities were rare.
So what Song Zhi meant was: Taotao did not have the mission to go into the city, but he wanted to go with her.
"Okay!" Taotao nodded.
Song Zhi was overjoyed!
"Then, should I tell your parents that it was the Red Star Factory that sent you the invitation letter?" he asked cautiously.
Taotao thought about it again and nodded, "Okay!"
Otherwise her parents wouldn't let her go.
Sure enough, that night, when Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren heard that Red Star Factory had sent Taotao another invitation letter, they were both happy and worried.
"But the threshing is about to start, and I really can't leave!" Tang Liren said anxiously, "This year is a bumper year, and your sister and I have to clean up the debris piled up in the barn... Hey, can you let the Red Star Factory wait a little longer? I'll go with you after the harvest is over?"
Song Zhi said awkwardly: "I'll just go with Taotao..."
Everyone in the Bai family simply chose to ignore him.
Bai Zhenggan, "Let Xingxing accompany Taotao!"
Xingxing was also anxious. "But everyone has been busy these days. The aunts and sisters-in-law have no time to cut grass for the pigs. The pigs are crying with hunger! No one picks up the eggs in the chicken and duck pens! Today, the team leader forced Jiafang, Qiugui and I to sign a military order. The three of us will be responsible for the pig grass, chicken and duck feed for the next three days. We also have to pick up chicken and duck eggs, and shovel chicken and duck manure... The three of us have been busy all day today and haven't finished anything. We also agreed to go up the mountain to cut grass for the pigs at five o'clock tomorrow morning! Sister-in-law, you will have to work hard at cooking at home these days! Wait for me to come back and wash the clothes!"
Tan Fenghui, "You can do your thing, I'm at home!"
Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren looked at each other.
"Then go ahead, Taotao! It's always good to have something serious to do!" Tang Liren made up her mind and said, "But you have to come back early!"
Bai Taotao nodded, "Do you want me to bring anything back?"
Tang Liren thought for a moment, "If you can, bring back some cloth. I'll give you some money. Our family is well off this year, so we can buy each of you a new dress! You can handle the rest on your own! Also, remember to mail the letter I wrote to your second brother!"
Bai Taotao agreed.
The next day, Taotao and Song Zhi caught the early bus.
Taotao got up too early in the morning and was too sleepy, so she snuggled in Song Zhi's arms and slept warmly and sweetly.
The shabby and old bus kept shaking and it didn't arrive at the county town until after three in the afternoon.
Taotao's butt was flattened!
Song Zhi went to the guesthouse with the letter of introduction.
The waiter was a little embarrassed, "Comrade, are you two a couple?"
Song Zhi's face flushed immediately, "What?"
The waiter said, "It's like this. Recently, we have a reception task in the guesthouse. The rooms are almost full, and there is only one room left. Are you two brother and sister or husband and wife? Can you stay in one room? If you must stay in two rooms, you two may have to go to the county party committee guesthouse in the west of the city!"
——This guesthouse is very close to the Red Star Factory, only seven or eight minutes’ walk away; if Song Zhi stayed at the county party committee guesthouse, he would have to take two buses to get to the Red Star Factory.
Of course Taotao doesn’t want to live so far away!
"Let's live in one room!" Taotao said loudly.
Song Zhi's face was extremely red.
The waiter completed the formalities and gave Song Zhi two keys.
The two of them went upstairs to put their luggage.
Tao Tao asked him, "Are you still going to the Red Star Factory now?"
Song Zhi nodded. "Take a nap in your room this afternoon. I'll call Cheng Zhujun to accompany you. Don't go out alone. Wait for her to come."
Taotao was indeed a little tired - the long-distance bus was so bumpy that she almost fell apart.
So Song Zhi left in a hurry.
Taotao was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
Until I heard someone knocking on the door.
She rubbed her stiff eyelids and ran to open the door.
The person who came was indeed Cheng Zhujun, holding an enamel bowl in her hand.
"Taotao! You're finally here!" Cheng Zhujun said happily, "Oh, by the way, this is what Mr. Song asked me to bring for you. Come and eat it!"
Taotao had already smelled a strong spicy aroma and asked curiously, "What is this?"
Cheng Zhujun, "Potato noodles!" As she said this, she opened the enamel bowl with a handle, revealing a large bowl of round, plump noodles with soup.
Potato flour?
Taotao's eyes widened.
Her family often eats potato jelly, which has become one of their staple foods.
However, this potato noodles is different from hers, it is steaming hot and contains soup and water!
"I was afraid that you don't like spicy food, so I put the chili sauce on the noodles. You try it first. If it's too spicy, pick out the chili sauce!" Cheng Zhujun said.
Taotao tried the hot sauce and found it was indeed spicy. "Oh, this is too spicy. I can't handle it. I only need a little bit."
Suddenly remembering something, Tao Tao asked Cheng Zhujun again, "Would you like to eat something too?"
Cheng Zhujun shook her head, "No, I won't eat it, you eat it!"
Seeing that the lid of the enamel bowl was just a small shallow plate, Taotao put the chili sauce into the lid, added a small half bowl of potato flour, and gave Cheng Zhujun a pair of chopsticks, "Here, you eat too!"
“No, no!”
"You eat it, I can't eat something that spicy!"
"Then...thank you Taotao!"
"You're welcome!"
The two chatted while sharing potato noodles.
Cheng Zhujun took out a small notebook and said to Taotao excitedly: "Taotao, do you know? We really made money!" As she said that, she handed the small notebook to Taotao, and took out a thick stack of money from her pocket, ranging from big unity notes to dimes and cents.
"In less than three months, we have earned a total of 112.43 yuan!" Cheng Zhujun said excitedly, "Look! Check the account book!"
Taotao looked through the account book.
The account book records the daily amount, and I remember it clearly:
Purchase: June 14, 3.5 yuan, towel.
Out: June 17, 5.2 yuan, towel.
Profit: 2.7 yuan, clearing inventory
In: July 8, 15 yuan, processed handkerchief.
Out: July 9, 5 yuan, processing handkerchief.
Out: July 10, 10 yuan, processing handkerchief.
Out: July 12, 8 yuan, processing handkerchief.
Profit: 8 yuan, clearing inventory
…
Tao Tao, "Don't you usually take a break?"
Cheng Zhujun, "Rest? Making money is resting! I like making money!"
Taotao laughed.
Cheng Zhujun, "Taotao, we agreed to split it in half, so how about we split it in half now?"
"OK!"
So Cheng Zhujun counted the bills in her hand one by one, "Now we have some goods in stock at home. We can get about 40 yuan each from the money we have on hand. We won't divide the change, it's hard to calculate, so... 40 yuan each?"
Taotao nodded.
Cheng Zhujun gave Taotao four big unity notes and asked Taotao to sign in her little notebook.
Then she breathed a sigh of relief, "Taotao, do you know what is the most difficult thing for me?"
Taotao tilted her head and looked at her.
Cheng Zhujun sighed, "That's right... as soon as I had some money, I wanted to buy some nutritious food to nourish my brother! But then I remembered that you once said that the ten yuan of capital must not be touched! So I gritted my teeth and didn't touch the money! And then I actually made it through! Look, we each earned forty yuan in three months!"
Then Cheng Zhujun counted on her fingers and said:
"Now that I have money, I will buy a whole chicken and stew a big pot of chicken soup. We will just eat the chicken and drink the soup...all we can eat and drink! Then I will buy ten kilograms of eggs. My brother and I will eat a boiled egg every day to nourish our bodies! I will also take my brother to the hospital for treatment! Now that I have money, I don't believe that I can't cure him!"
Seeing Cheng Zhujun's excitement, Taotao also felt very happy, "That's great!"
Cheng Zhujun asked Taotao, "Have you figured out how to spend the money?"
Tao Tao, "My mother asked me to buy some cloth... This year, everyone in our family can wear new clothes for the New Year!"
Cheng Zhujun, "Then my brother and I will each buy a new set of clothes! By the way, this time, just like last time, I will take you to the cloth factory to buy some cloth scraps or something?"
Taotao nodded and lowered her head to sip the potato noodle soup.
She really likes this hot potato noodles with soup. The soup tastes good and the potato noodles are soft and sticky!
Moreover, the weather is getting colder day by day, so it is not appropriate to eat jelly at home. If you can turn the cold jelly into hot potato noodles with soup every noon, it will be delicious and warm your stomach!
Taotao asked Cheng Zhujun how to make potato flour.
Cheng Zhujun shook her head, "I can't make it, I bought it outside! If you like it... wait for Mr. Song to come back and ask him to take you out for a walk! Tomorrow is Saturday, there will be a night market in the evening, and the police and urban management will not be working! There are so many snacks sold at the night market! Some people make it on the spot, you can go and learn it secretly!"
Taotao nodded repeatedly and looked at the sky. Is it getting dark?
"Are you leaving now?" Taotao asked.
Cheng Zhujun nodded. "I have to rush to the factory to get food, send it home and eat with my brother, and then I have to open the stall in the evening... Taotao, Mr. Song said that you should not go anywhere today. Wait for him to come back!"
Taotao nodded obediently.
Seeing that it was getting late, Cheng Zhujun packed up the dishes and left.
Taotao also packed up and left the guesthouse.
She didn't go far.
——There is a black market near the train station.
Taotao walked around the black market for a few rounds, bought a lot of things, and ran back to the guesthouse panting.
Fortunately, Song Zhi hasn't come back yet.
She hummed a song and began to decorate the house.
——A few bouquets of gardenias were placed on the windowsill and bedside table, and the whole room became fragrant!
——Put a bowl of washed fruits on the desk, including grapes and kiwis.
——She also took the thermos downstairs to get some hot water, washed two porcelain cups, put them in place, and took a bag of milk powder and placed it next to them.
——The highlight is the bowl of noodle soup that Taotao bought!
Taotao was afraid that the bowls outside were not clean, so she bought two brand new enamel bowls. After washing them, she went to the vendor and bought a bowl of braised pork head noodle soup. Because she didn't know when Song Zhi would come back, she asked the vendor to separate the two portions of noodle soup, one bowl for the soup and one bowl for the noodles, to prevent the noodles from clumping together.
Next, Taotao sat in the room and waited.
In fact, she really wanted to go downstairs to watch TV...
But she was afraid that Song Zhi would come back when she went downstairs. She wanted to see his surprised expression with her own eyes, so she suppressed the urge to watch TV and waited patiently.
It was past ten o'clock in the evening when Song Zhi finally returned.
He took out the key and unlocked the door. He first smelled the rich fragrance of flowers. Then, in the dim light, he saw Taotao lying on the bed, spread out in a spread-eagle position, sleeping soundly.
Hearing the noise, she got up and rubbed her eyes. The first thing she said when she saw Song Zhi was, "Why did you come back just now..." Her half-awake voice was delicate, and her tone seemed to reveal infinite grievance.
Then, she suddenly smiled like a bright lady and shouted in a sweet voice, "Song Zhi! Happy birthday to you!"
Song Zhi was stunned.
——How did she know that today was his birthday?
Taotao got up quickly, walked to the table, reached out to feel the temperature of the enamel bowl, and said in annoyance: "Oh, it's cold!"
But she soon thought of a solution.
She brought the enamel bowl to the washbasin and poured half a basin of hot water into it; then she quickly used milk powder to make two cups of hot milk, and poured the boiling water into the enamel bowl containing the cooked noodles, ran the water over it to let the noodles thaw, and then poured the water away.
After the noodle soup was heated up by boiling water, she divided the two bowls of noodle soup and called out to Song Zhi excitedly, "Song Zhi! Come and eat the longevity noodles! You must eat longevity noodles on your birthday!"
Song Zhi looked at her steadily, his eyes red.
"How did you know... today is my birthday?" he asked in a low voice.
Tao Tao, "I didn't know that at first, but I saw your ID card when I checked in at the guesthouse."
Song Zhi: ...
"Come here and eat noodles!" Taotao urged him.
Song Zhi moved over step by step, and at her signal, sat on the chair.
Taotao reached out her hand, touched the top of his head, and said in a serious tone: "...You are one year older now. You must be obedient in the future. Don't be naughty or cause trouble. Be a good boy!"
——When Taotao was in the fairy world, every year on her birthday, her master would personally cook a bowl of noodle soup for her, then touch her head and remind her to be good and obedient.
After saying that, Taotao looked at Song Zhi eagerly, signaling him with her eyes: Eat the noodles quickly! If you pick up your chopsticks, I can start eating too! This noodle soup looks delicious...
However, Taotao felt that Song Zhi's whole body suddenly stiffened?
He looked at Taotao with red eyes, and there seemed to be a layer of mist in his eyes. His lips were trembling violently, as if he wanted to say something, but...
I can't utter a word.
The sky is big, the earth is big, the birthday star is the most
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