Qi Mengmeng moved closer to Li Lai Di and asked anxiously, "Just what, sister-in-law, do you want to spend money?"
Li Lai Di sighed, "That person lives in the village next door. She's an old lady. Everyone knows what she did in the past, so everyone avoids her. If you want to see her, you have to go there at night."
"Go at night?" Qi Mengmeng frowned. They were now living in a staff housing complex and it would be difficult to explain if they came back at night.
"Sister-in-law, can we go during the day? Although Leilei is not my child, I feel sad when I hear him crying all the time at night." Qi Mengmeng glanced at Leilei who was happily playing with Xu Weiwei.
"This," Li Lai Di didn't dare to guarantee it. The old woman had a very strange personality. If she hadn't saved her by accident, she might not have been willing to let her daughter see it.
Finally, Li Lai Di agreed to take Qi Mengmeng to ask her mother-in-law tomorrow.
Qi Mengmeng thought she had to wait two days, but unexpectedly she could go the next day. She was very grateful to Li Laidie.
It was getting dark and Qi Mengmeng was about to take Lei Lei back home. Li Laidie put the red bean cake that Qi Mengmeng brought on her own plate, hesitated for a moment, and grabbed a handful of peanuts from the cupboard and put them on the plate.
"These are the peanuts that someone from my hometown brought over. Give them to Leilei to eat for fun." Li Laidie handed them to Qi Mengmeng.
Qi Mengmeng took it with a smile, and asked Lei Lei beside her to say thank you to Li Laidie.
When Xu Daming saw Qi Mengmeng leave, he came out from the inner room, poured himself a glass of water, and asked, "What did you two say just now?"
Li Lai Di glanced at Xu Weiwei before whispering the purpose of Qi Mengmeng's visit. Xu Daming glared at her and said, "How dare you tell others about this?"
"Who am I doing this for?" Li Lai Di was not afraid of Xu Daming at all. She put the plate of cake that Qi Mengmeng brought in front of Xu Daming.
"Look at the cake she brought. It contains red beans and glutinous rice flour. These are not cheap things. Besides, you have a good relationship with Gu Guizhi. I guess it was Gu Guizhi who asked her to come to me. Did you tell anyone about Weiwei?" Li Laidie glanced at Xu Daming.
Xu Daming picked up a piece of red bean cake and stuffed it into his mouth. The sweet and sticky taste made him stunned for a moment. After he finished eating, he finally understood what Li Lai Di meant. He looked to the side and said, "Well, I just told two or three people I'm close to."
There is no need to guess, Gu Guizhi must be one of these two or three good people, otherwise Qi Mengmeng would not have come to find him.
Li Laidie glared at Xu Daming, thinking that he was now blaming her for the mess he had caused.
"Okay, stop eating. Save these pieces for Weiwei to eat tomorrow." Li Lai Di picked up the red bean cake and walked towards the kitchen.
The temperature is getting cooler at night, so there is no need to worry about the cake going bad.
Xu Weiwei was pouting beside her. She had only eaten two pieces, while her father had already eaten three.
Xu Daming picked up Xu Weiwei and tapped her nose affectionately: "You little fat girl, you think your daddy eats too much."
Li Laidie came out of the kitchen and told the two to stop making noise and get ready for bed.
Xu Daming and Li Laidie are neighbors and grew up together as childhood sweethearts. If it weren't for Xu Daming, Li Laidie might not have grown up, so the relationship between the two is very good.
The houses in the family compound are not soundproof. Lei Lei was crying two nights ago. They were close to him and actually heard some noises, but they just thought the child was shy and didn't think much about it. But now Qi Mengmeng has said it, and it seems that Lei Lei was crying very hard.
In the middle of the night, Lei Lei started crying again. Li Lai Di heard the noise, sat up, and asked Xu Daming to get up and listen as well.
Xu Daming turned over and said, "What's so good about this? You can take your child to see it tomorrow."
Li Lai Di knew that he had something to do the next day, so she didn't bother him. After listening for a while, she lay down and fell asleep. She thought that she must say something good for Qi Mengmeng tomorrow, otherwise the adults would not be able to stand the child crying like this.
At the Gu family next door, Qi Mengmeng woke up the moment Lei Lei started crying. She skillfully brought Lei Lei over to coax him. She didn't go to the outer room to turn on the light, but directly found a rechargeable flashlight from the space.
With the light on, Qi Mengmeng coaxed Lei Lei for a while, and Lei Lei finally calmed down and slowly fell asleep.
Qi Mengmeng couldn't sleep anymore and a bitter smile appeared on her face. It seemed that this child was really difficult to raise.
The next morning, Qi Mengmeng asked Lei Lei again, and sure enough, he still didn't remember what happened last night. Qi Mengmeng sighed and decided to take a look at Lei Lei quickly. It was not a good thing for him to cry every night.
Qi Mengmeng told Gu Guizhi yesterday that she might have to take Lei Lei to see the doctor today, and asked them to buy their own meals in the hospital.
After breakfast, Qi Mengmeng waited at home for a while before taking Lei Lei to the next door.
Li Lai Di had already packed her things. Seeing that Qi Mengmeng and Lei Lei were both dressed very casually, she nodded. They were going to the village and couldn't show off.
"Mengmeng, I forgot to tell you yesterday that the old lady doesn't ask for money when she treats people, but only wants food, and it must be fine food, such as rice or white flour. It would be even better if there are red dates, brown sugar, etc."
Li Laidie was about to go out with Qi Mengmeng when she suddenly remembered something.
Qi Mengmeng was delighted because she had all these things in her space.
Li Lai Di looked at Qi Mengmeng's expression and said, "If you have it at home, we can take it with us first. If we agree, we can show it to the child directly without having to make two trips."
Qi Mengmeng nodded: "Sister-in-law, we did buy some fine grains, but not much. I wonder how much is appropriate?"
Li Lai Di thought for a moment and said, "I estimate that ten kilograms is about right. If there are red dates, brown sugar, etc., it can be less."
Nowadays, most people eat coarse grains, and fine grains are only eaten to improve the diet. Ten kilograms is really a lot.
Although Qi Mengmeng wanted to treat Lei Lei, she didn't want to show off her wealth too much.
She looked at Lei Lei first, hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "I bought ten kilograms of flour at home, but I used some of it to make dumplings for Guizhi these two days. There are probably seven or eight kilograms left at home. I'll add some rice."
She smiled bitterly and said, "We just got here and we don't have much to buy. Let's wait for Lei Lei to take a look before we buy more."
Li Lai Di estimated that the Gu family would not put so much fine grains, so she comforted him, "Remember these, and when Lei Lei's family comes to find you, ask them for them. Fortunately, there are only you and Captain Gu in your family, so there is no burden."
This was a test. Qi Mengmeng smiled but said nothing. She went back to the house, found a cloth bag, filled it with seven or eight kilograms of flour, and poured out more than three kilograms of rice. After thinking for a while, she also put in a large handful of red dates. This should be enough.
When Li Lai Di saw her coming out with the flour bag, she exclaimed "Ouch", ran back home and got a basket to put the flour in.
"How can you just carry this girl out like this?"
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