"Hu Zi's mother! Hu Zi! Hu Zi!"
In the evening, Li Ying slammed the gate of Sanyuan.
After a moment, the door slowly opened.
Little Tiger stuck his head out and shouted, "Grandma!"
Li Ying hurriedly squeezed in and asked suspiciously: "Huzi, I went to the office to look for your dad - they said your dad was on a business trip, when is the appointment?"
Little Tiger replied: "The afternoon before yesterday."
Li Ying asked with concern: "The afternoon before yesterday? He hasn't come yet? Did he say when he would come?"
"No." Little Tiger answered crisply: "Dad said he has to go on a business trip. The location and itinerary are not yet determined. I will try to get home before the New Year."
"What?!" Li Ying stared in surprise: "Then-then it will take half a month?! Where did he go on a business trip? What does it mean to be uncertain?"
Xiao Huzi explained: "It means that we can't let others know and we have to keep it a secret."
Li Ying thought about it suspiciously and didn't ask any more questions.
"Is your mother home? Are there any eggs in the kitchen?"
Little Tiger replied: "There are twenty-three."
Li Ying walked quickly to the kitchen, explaining: "Your Aunt Xuan has been studying hard, I have to make some eggs for her to eat. Your mother will be here soon--"
"My mother is doing the accounts in the study." Xiao Huzi interrupted her.
Li Ying waved her hand without caring: "She can settle her account, I'll take the eggs and leave."
Little Tiger couldn't help but ask: "Grandma, haven't you been to the cafeteria to eat recently?"
"Yes." Li Ying replied, "Your Aunt Xuan doesn't like crowds, so I'll make some rice for her when I'm full. It's winter vacation now, and she's been staying up late for exams. I plan to steam a few eggs tonight to nourish her."
Little Tiger nodded and said, "Oh, oh." "I'm on vacation too. My mom said that my fourth uncle will come to pick me up to live with my grandparents tomorrow and stay until the New Year."
"Oh! That's great!" Li Ying narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Remember, eat more fish, shrimp and fish soup. By the way, when you come back, remember to bring a few pounds of prawns for grandma."
"Okay, I remember it." Xiao Huzi wrote it down carefully.
Li Ying thought for a moment and lowered her voice, "I heard from your mother last time that your grandmother raised a large flock of ducks and chickens for the New Year. When you come, remember to ask your grandmother to kill a few and bring them over."
Little Tiger rolled his eyes, pouted and asked, "Is it too much? Mom said that we can't ask for too much, otherwise it will be wasted if we can't finish it. Wasting is a bad habit, don't learn it."
"It won't be wasted." Li Ying narrowed her eyes and smiled, explaining, "It's not just you and your family that need to eat. Your aunt Xuan and I will also need to eat, and your uncle and the others will also need to eat. If you don't bring more, there won't be enough for the Wu family."
Little Tiger nodded and said "Oh".
Li Ying walked into the kitchen with satisfaction, went straight to the wooden cabinet and opened it. At a glance, she saw a basin of beautiful big eggs and a dozen pork sausages.
"Wow~~" She quickly pulled out the net bag from her pocket and quickly put all the sausages in it.
Little Tiger ran into the yard to play by himself.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door!
Little Tiger thought it was his aunt coming to cook, and was about to open the door -
"Is anyone there? Is Gu Qi here?" a strange male voice shouted.
Little Tiger remembered his mother's instructions and approached carefully but did not open the door.
"Who are you looking for? My father is not home."
The male voice outside answered, "I'm the postman, and I'm here to deliver a letter to you. Kid, are there any other adults at home? This is a letter from abroad, and you must sign for it before you can receive it."
"Please wait!" Little Tiger ran to the study.
After a while, Chen Xingling took his son and opened the door.
The postman handed over an envelope with an unfamiliar pattern, and pointed to a piece of paper beside him and explained, "Are you Gu Qi's family member? Sign your name here, please!"
Chen Xingling took the envelope and found that it was written by Gu Miao!
In the past, in my hometown, the kitchen often used the rice cakes or book pages that my two sisters-in-law had eaten to wrap food.
A person's handwriting is like his character. Gu Xuan's handwriting is rigid and stiff, with no emotion. Gu Miao's handwriting is big and fat, with a fuzzy beginning and end, and some dots and horizontal lines are often written incorrectly or omitted.
She only took a glance and immediately guessed that it was written by Gu Miao!
Good boy! After two months, he finally found the heart to send some news home.
She quickly signed her name and thanked the postman.
The postman rode away briskly on his bicycle.
Little Tiger stood on tiptoe to look curiously: "Mom, who wrote this? The postman just said it was sent from abroad - is it Aunt Miao?"
"Yes." Chen Xingling handed him the letter.
Little Tiger took a quick glance and asked, "Aunt Miao wrote a letter to Dad?"
"Yes." Chen Xingling whispered: "Go in and show it to your grandma."
Little Tiger ran to the kitchen excitedly with the envelope in his hand: "Grandma! Grandma! Aunt Miao sent me a letter! Little Aunt sent me a letter!"
Chen Xingling closed the door and followed slowly.
When I arrived at the kitchen door, I found Li Ying hugging Xiaohu and crying loudly.
Little Huzi was reciting a text in school with a loud voice, reading word by word: "...Brother, I want to go home. I miss mom and Yucheng. But there is no boat here, so I can only wait a few more months. When the boat comes, I will go home right away."
Chen Xingling rolled his eyes secretly.
As she expected, Gu Miaogen could not endure the hardship and could not share the suffering with Chen Nantai outside, so he would soon find a way to escape.
After Xiao Hu finished reading, he couldn't help but mutter, "Aunt Miao's Chinese is not good enough. The letter is so messy. She just wrote whatever she thought of. The whole letter is just about her wanting to go home. There is nothing else."
Li Ying cried with tears on her face and patted Xiao Huzi's chest.
"You know what I mean, little boy! She has never left me since she was little, and as soon as she leaves, she will want to come back immediately. How many months will it take to get a boat? How long will it take? Has she written it?"
"No!" Little Tiger said, "The time is not written, and the name is not signed. But judging from what is said inside, it should be written by my aunt when she just arrived there. Because there is a saying here, 'I haven't eaten anything I like in the past two or three days.'"
When Li Ying heard this, she felt even more distressed.
"My precious... she can't even eat well... she must have lost weight. She has never suffered from hardship since she was a child, and going so far away all of a sudden... how can she bear it! My Miaomiao..."
Chen Xingling took the envelope, glanced at it, and said, "According to the date on it, it will take at least two months for a letter to arrive."
Li Ying wiped her tears and asked, "Hu Zi's mother, what should we do now? Is there an address above? Let's go find Ah Miao!"
"There is an address, which seems to be a city." Chen Xingling shook his head: "It's not easy to find without a specific address. I'll look it up on a map and ask some old overseas Chinese."
Li Ying urged: "Then go quickly."
"It's already dark." Chen Xingling said, "If you want to ask, you can only ask today. You can only inquire about it. It's impossible to look for it abroad."
Li Ying glared at her with disdain and said, "If you don't want to go, then I'll let Ayi go! Aqi is not at home, but I still have Ayi! I knew you can't be trusted!"
"If I were unreliable, you would have been dead long ago." Chen Xingling's eyes swept across the large net bag beside her and asked, "Eggs, bacon, cabbage, green onions - you emptied the kitchen, right?"
Forehead?
Li Ying pouted awkwardly: "We were just talking about Ah Miao, why are you talking about something so off topic?! You guys should go find Ah Miao quickly! Ask an old overseas Chinese who knows the way to take you there! Hurry!"
"I don't have time, and I don't have money." Chen Xingling explained coldly: "It's almost the end of the year, and I have a lot of things to do here. Aqi is on a business trip, and there is no one at home to help. You need to apply for a passport to go abroad, and it will take one or two months to get a passport. Also, a few boat tickets cost at least several hundred yuan, and I don't have that much money. Mom, do you have money?"
These words struck Li Ying right in the heart and completely stunned her!
All the money Li Ying had had wasted on gambling, and now her two sons only give her 10 yuan a month. She can't even scrape together 5 or 6 yuan, so where can she get a few hundred yuan?
Li Ying hesitated: "You...you don't have any money? How about - how about borrowing from your mother's family."
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