Chapter 539 Giving You Meat Bones
Just after they finished eating, some people from the commune came over. An old woman entered the courtyard and craned her neck to call out, "Xiulian? Is Xiulian here?"
"Yes, I'm here."
Hearing the sound, Ma Xiulian came out of the kitchen and asked the old lady very politely, "Seventh Aunt, what can I do for you?"
Although the two are about the same age, they are two generations apart in terms of generation.
Aunt Qi smiled and explained her purpose: "I just saw Da Bai coming back from town with Guai Bao and the others, so I wanted to borrow Da Bai and the sled to go to town."
She was one of the farmers who worked in the fields at the village entrance that morning, and she saw with her own eyes Da Bai taking Jiang Manyun and the two little ones to town and back.
Ma Xiulian was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Seventh Aunt, why are you thinking of borrowing Da Bai? Doesn't the commune have an oxcart?"
During the Spring Festival period, to make it easier for everyone in the village to go to town to buy New Year's goods, an oxcart will make two trips a week to help transport the goods.
Aunt Qi said, "This big white thing is faster than an oxcart! It only took a little over an hour to pull people back and forth, and it didn't even seem tired. Isn't that more convenient?!"
Even for fast-moving adults, it would take more than an hour to walk one way to town.
This white thing only takes less than an hour to make a round trip!
Moreover, oxcarts can't carry people, and it costs two cents just to haul a little stuff. Borrowing a white oxcart is different; it saves money and effort.
By all accounts, she was an elder within five degrees of kinship in the Chen family, so Ma Xiulian certainly couldn't ask her for travel expenses.
Most importantly, when his grandson saw Chen Erbao riding a sled, he cried and begged to ride a sled too, wanting to be pulled by a dog!
But they didn't have a sled or a dog, so where were they going to get this thing for their grandson to play with? As a result, the grandson refused to eat lunch and made a fuss at home!
She felt sorry for her grandson and thought that as an elder, the Chen family would definitely not refuse her request, so she came to their door to borrow it!
Hearing this, Ma Xiulian wasn't too surprised, since Da Bai was always fast!
She could tell that Aunt Qi was trying to take advantage of her, but since Aunt Qi was an elder, she didn't want to lose face, so she smiled and said, "This big white dog is raised by Guabao. If you want to borrow it, Aunt Qi, just ask Guabao if he agrees!"
Aunt Qi's face immediately darkened, and she looked rather displeased.
She thought that Ma Xiulian would agree no matter what, considering that she was an elder. Who knew that she would have to swallow her pride and ask a young girl!
But thinking of her grandson crying and refusing to eat at home, and the money she could save on the oxcart fare, she still managed a wrinkled smile as she looked at Helian Jiao: "My dear, you're so well-behaved and filial, you'll definitely lend Da Bai to your great-aunt, right?"
"No way!" Helian Jiao refused without even thinking.
Her mount is not something any human can ride at will.
However, he stretched out a chubby white finger and pointed at Big White, who was lying in the corner, and said, "If Big White is willing, I can lend you Big White. You can go and ask Big White yourself."
Aunt Qi's face turned even uglier.
That brat has no respect for her elders at all, and is completely ill-mannered!
They actually made me ask a dog!
One by one, the old ones are like this, and the young ones are like this too!
It's true what they say: if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too!
But he had promised his grandson that he would borrow the sled back when he came out, so he suppressed his displeasure and tried to coax Big White: "Big White Dog, come with me to town and I'll give you a meat bone to eat."
Although he said that, his eyes were filled with a sense of superiority as a human being.
(End of this chapter)
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