Chapter 108 He's bragging
In the evening, Helian Jiao and Gu Tingyun stood on the stone bench together to watch their grandmother cook.
Chen Erbao stood to the side, watching intently, afraid that his little sister would be taken away. "Sweetie, I'll take you to fly kites again tomorrow."
Helian Jiao shook her head and said in a childish voice, "No, it's going to rain tomorrow."
Dragons have an instinctive sense of weather changes.
Upon hearing this, Ma Xiulian said to Zhao Mei, who was chopping vegetables, "Eldest daughter-in-law, after you finish washing the clothes later, don't hang them out to dry in the yard, hang them under the eaves."
Zhao Mei didn't ask why, and simply nodded and agreed. Listening to her mother-in-law was always the right thing to do!
Chen Erbao, without a shred of doubt, changed his tune and said, "Then your brother will play marbles with you at home."
Those marbles were his most cherished treasures, and he rarely let others play with them. He was still heartbroken when he lost one.
Helian Jiao shook her head again: "I don't like playing marbles."
She couldn't understand why her second brother liked a few glass beads so much, after all, the little princess was a rich dragon who could play with a luminous pearl worth a thousand gold pieces like marbles.
Chen Erbao was now in a dilemma. He couldn't possibly play cat's cradle and shuttlecock with his sister, could he?
He's a grown man; he would never, under any circumstances, play games that only little girls play!
At this moment, Gu Tingyun said, "Sweetie, I'll bring Lego over tomorrow so we can play together."
Helian Jiao tilted her head, looking at him adorably, and asked, "What's Lego?"
Gu Tingyun explained, "LEGO is just a lot of small pieces of wood. We can assemble these small pieces of wood into cars, houses, and tracks."
Chen Erbao immediately jumped up, pointed at him, and shouted, "Baby, don't believe him! He's bragging! The houses are made of mud, and the cars aren't made of wood!!"
Helian Jiao blinked her big eyes and said in a soft, sweet voice, "Houses and cars can both be made of wood."
The ordinary people who live in the South China Sea region live in houses and carriages made of wood.
Gu Tingyun also said seriously, "I'm not bragging. You'll see when I bring the Lego tomorrow."
The Lego set he brought out this time was a birthday gift from his aunt this year, and it's also his favorite set, so he's kept it unopened.
Seeing that his younger sister actually believed this pretty boy and not her brother, Chen Erbao was heartbroken.
Oh dear, he's so angry!
Just as he was pounding his chest in frustration, Jiang Manyun arrived at Old Chen's house on a brand-new old bicycle to pick up her son.
Zhou Zhaodi, who was squatting in the yard washing vegetables, immediately went up to him, her eyes shining, and asked, "Comrade Jiang, is this the bicycle you bought? It must be worth a lot of money, right?"
She had a loud voice, and everyone in the kitchen could hear her. So Chen Erbao instantly rushed out like he'd been injected with adrenaline: "Where's the bicycle?!?!"
Not only Chen Erbao, but even the three Chen brothers stared intently at the imposing and powerful old bicycle, their eyes filled with envy. But this envy was completely different from that of Zhou Zhaodi and Li Chunhua.
The man's admiration stemmed from his love for the bicycle itself; he envied Jiang Manyun for owning a bicycle that they didn't have.
The women envied her for being able to afford a bicycle; it gave her face and style.
Surrounded by the intense gazes of the Chen family, Jiang Manyun calmly said, "It won't cost too much money, just three industrial vouchers."
During this time, she had gained a fairly good understanding of the impoverished living conditions in the countryside, so she omitted the specific figures to avoid upsetting the Chen family.
But Zhou Zhaodi was still astonished: "Three industrial vouchers are required."
(End of this chapter)
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