When taking photos, Su's mother was still sitting in the C position, Wen Li and Su Qing were sitting on both sides of Su's mother, and on the other side of them were Su Che and Cheng Fangyi.
Su Qianfan, Su Qianshan and Daya Qianya were standing behind the adults.
Erya, Sanya and Siya sat cross-legged in front of Su's mother.
The first photo is normal.
The style of the painting started to go off track from the second picture onwards.
Maybe it was the flash when taking the photo that scared the two little ones. Their eyes were as big as copper bells and their mouths were in the shape of a big O.
The third picture just captured the scene of Xiaowu peeing.
The fourth picture shows Xiaowu playing with his little brother.
In the fifth picture, the two little ones started crying loudly.
Su Qing thought to herself, I now have something to hold over my son - that's great.
If Xiaowu and Xiaoliu offend her in the future, she will have something to hold against them!
Five group photos were taken, Su Che and Wen Li took a few individual photos, as did Su Qing and Cheng Fangyi.
The two small families took a few more photos with Su's mother.
Finally, as usual, the children took a group photo by themselves.
After coming out of the photo studio, Su's mother walked back and forth on the street three times. First, she went to the department store and bought a bunch of red, green and colorful socks, and then bought a pair of Liberation shoes for each person. When she saw there were thermoses, she bought two more. Later, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some snacks.
Then he took out the shares of Daya and the others separately.
"This is for you. Remember to study hard. If you need anything, go to the textile factory and find your father. If your father is not here, go find Uncle Xiao Wu. When I get back to the village, I will say hello to the old man driving the cart and ask him to wait for you on Friday afternoon."
After having a great time shopping, Su's mother invited everyone to take the donkey cart back to the village.
Leaving behind five children looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Didn't you say you would send us to school?"
"It's considered a gift..."
“I gave it to you, but it feels like I didn’t give it to you.”
"Let's go back. I'm hungry. I wonder what delicious food Uncle Wu has made?"
"Do you remember the way?"
"I remember. I'll lead the way."
Xiao Wu had been looking at the door again and again. He wanted to go out to look for someone, but he was worried about the pig's trotters stewing on the stove.
The faint aroma of pig's trotters wafted out, attracting several children to watch.
"Uncle, what delicious food have you cooked at home?" A brave boy walked up to Xiao Wu and asked.
"Go away, stop talking nonsense. There's no pot to cook at home."
If he dared to admit it, someone would come and confiscate it within a quarter of an hour.
"You're lying! I can clearly smell the meat! My grandma even said I have a natural nose like a dog, so I can never be wrong."
"There's no meat. If you're craving meat, tell your grandma to buy some at the state-owned restaurant."
Everyone is living a tight life nowadays, and he is reluctant to give the luxury of eating meat to others.
"Uncle Xiao Wu, we are back."
Just then, Su Qianfan and the others came back. He was too lazy to pay attention to the child. He locked the door and ignored everyone.
At this time, the boy's grandmother came and said, "Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei, it's time to eat. What are you doing there?"
The boy named Xiao Hei had his head pressed against the door, wishing he could turn into a wisp of smoke and float into the house to eat the meat.
"What are you doing here, you stupid kid? Don't you know it's time for dinner? If you're late, you won't even get any rice soup."
"Grandma, don't make any noise. I'm smelling the meat."
The old lady looked around and said, "Where does the smell of meat come from? You must be craving meat! Hurry up, go to the street to get some food."
Xiao Hei was dragged away by his grandmother reluctantly.
Before leaving, he shouted to the inside of the house, "Uncle, I'll bring food to your house later." He was sure that there was meat in this house.
"Uncle Xiao Wu, who is that boy?"
"I don't know him, maybe he's a neighbor, just ignore him."
Several people closed the kitchen door and began to feast on the pot of pig's trotters.
The next day, Xiao Wu took them to Yuanshan Middle School to register.
When the teacher learned that the five children were from the same family, he couldn't help but look at them with more respect.
Nowadays, it is very impressive for a family to have one or two children attending junior high school. What kind of family can support five at once?
"Do you live on campus? There's an extra fee for that."
"Teacher, I don't live on campus."
"What about lunch? Don't you eat at school?"
Xiao Wu quickly answered: "No, teacher, they don't eat at school."
What a joke! He finally found a dining companion, how could he let her go so easily?
"Okay, after you pay the fee, take the slip and go over there to pick up the books. Classes will start at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, with four classes in the morning, and end at 12:00 p.m. Classes will start at 2:30 p.m., with three classes, and end at 5:30 p.m."
"Okay, thank you, teacher."
In this way, Su Qianfan and four others began their junior high school life.
But the children had no sadness about leaving home at all, and they excitedly discussed going to the scrap yard to hunt for treasure.
"Brother Qianfan, why don't you take this with you?" Erya raised the old radio in her hand.
"It must be badly damaged, otherwise no one would have left it at the scrap yard."
Anything that can be repaired and still used will not appear here.
"Take it back and have a few teachers try it out. Maybe it can be fixed. These scraps won't cost much anyway."
In Erya's eyes, Fenglin and his companions are omnipotent.
"Then you can pick it up as you see fit."
The kids would come to the scrap yard every afternoon after school to pick up bargains, just like they were looking for treasure.
Xiao Wu looked at the two large sacks of waste brought back by the children and felt a little confused. Could it be that the black market business has been so bad recently that the boss can't afford to support the children?
"Qian Fan, uncle wants to ask you if you're short of anything at home recently. Tell me and I'll take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it."
"No."
Su Qianfan was confused and didn't know why Xiao Wu asked this.
"Is everything going well at home lately? Nothing... um... happening, right?"
Daya was the first to react, and she said with a stifled laugh, "Uncle Wu, everything is fine at home. We just want to earn some pocket money, so we went to the scrap yard to see if we could find any bargains."
Now it was Xiao Wu's turn to feel embarrassed. "So what did you pick up?"
"Yes, this sack is full of books, high school books, some materials and novels. Pick up a few more so we don't have to take turns using them.
This sack is filled with discarded pots and pans, a radio, and two jewelry boxes."
The kids didn’t know what was good, so they just took whatever they liked. They only spent one dollar on two big sacks.
Little did he know that he had picked up a big bargain.
Xiao Hei's grandmother was very curious when she saw a few unfamiliar faces suddenly appear, but she became bored when she saw them enter Xiao Wu's house.
"I was saying, where's the meat to eat? If you could eat meat, you would have been married long ago. Why is he still single at the age of twenty? And there are a bunch of poor relatives who come to ask for money. I don't know which eye Xiao Hei sees to eat meat."
Xiao Hei made a fuss at home for a long time because his grandmother didn't let him go to Xiao Wu's house.
The first weekend of the children's junior high school life soon arrived. Su's mother had already waited for them under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village with Sanya and Siya.
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