Huo Jinan thought Chen Jiaojiao would say that she liked him or something, but he didn't expect that this was not the answer he wanted.
Hearing her question, he curled his lips and said.
"If you don't know how to do it, you can come and ask me. I'll be at home after get off work."
Chen Jiaojiao heard this and smiled happily: "Yeah."
Seeing that she was eager to learn and worked hard, Huo Jinan said again.
"Jiaojiao, I hope you can study hard, get into college, and see the wider world."
Chen Jiaojiao raised her head and looked at Huo Jinan, "I will, Brother Huo. I will study hard and will definitely not let you down."
When Huo Jinan saw her smiling face, he really wanted to touch Chen Jiaojiao's head, but he squeezed his hands and resisted the urge to move.
Then he added: "Okay, I believe you. But when you pass the exam, will you come back?"
Chen Jiaojiao said: "Of course I will come back. I also want to be a teacher like you."
Huo Jinan smiled and said, "Great! I'm really looking forward to working with you."
Chen Jiaojiao stretched out her hand and hooked her finger.
"Brother Huo, let's make a promise! I will definitely do what I say. Just wait for me to fulfill my promise!"
Although Huo Jinan thought this was a game for children, Chen Jiaojiao was still a child.
He smiled faintly and reached out to shake hands with her.
Chen Jiaojiao was very satisfied with today's work, and then said: "I want to go home. My sister-in-law won't be able to find me when she comes back later."
Huo Jinan nodded: "Go back quickly and don't let your sister-in-law worry."
Chen Jiaojiao nodded, turned and left.
She was in an especially good mood now, and her steps became lighter.
After Chen Jiaojiao left, Huo Jinan took the packages she had brought for him into the house.
I opened it and saw what she had given me. There was a bag of dried fruits, a few apples, a bag of rice and a few sausages.
He couldn't help but shook his head, thinking to himself: "This little girl, why did she bring so many things to me? This is going to be difficult. I don't know what kind of gifts I can give them in return to replace these things."
He is rich now, but money doesn't necessarily mean he can buy good things.
Just as he was thinking hard, his eyes suddenly fell on the bag of sausages.
His eyes widened immediately, and he muttered to himself in surprise, "How come Jiaojiao also has something like this?"
This sausage was too familiar to him, carrying a deeply unforgettable memory of his family.
When they were starving, living in poverty and about to starve to death, it was the benefactor who sent food in time, which enabled the family to survive.
Among those foods was the familiar sausage in front of him.
Fortunately, they were rehabilitated and were not killed by those people. The whole family returned to the city safely.
It’s just that the family left in such a hurry that they didn’t even have time to leave any contact information or specific address for their benefactor.
So much so that I have never found an opportunity to thank my benefactor in person.
At this moment, seeing the familiar sausage again, Huo Jinan recalled the unbearable and painful memories.
He picked it up and smelled it, it was still the familiar smell.
Then he whispered, "Find a chance to ask Jiaojiao where they bought these sausages."
He found a cloth bag, put the things Chen Jiaojiao brought in, and took it back home.
After school started, Chen Jiaojiao successfully entered the middle school in the county. Because she was older than other children, she was considered to go directly to the third year of junior high school. She studied at home using the textbooks for the first and second years of junior high school.
In order to prevent her from wasting time on the road and getting home earlier, Jiang Baige also gave her a pink bicycle that looked very cool to ride.
When a classmate asked her where she bought it, Chen Jiaojiao just said that she brought it from Shanghai.
Chen Jiaojiao herself didn't know where it came from, because she had never seen it in the supply and marketing cooperative. She guessed that her sister-in-law asked someone to help get it.
She was not a fool. Jiang Baige went out every morning and brought back a lot of things when she came back. She had never seen those foods before, so she knew without a doubt that she could not buy them here.
One day after school, Chen Jiaojiao rode her bicycle home and met Huo Jinan who had just returned home from get off work on the road.
Huo Jinan stopped her, "Jiaojiao, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."
Chen Jiaojiao agreed: "Teacher Huo, what can I do for you?"
Huo Jinan said, "I have something to ask you."
As the two of them were pushing their bicycles back, Huo Jinan said, "I want to ask where the sausages you gave me last time came from, and if they can still be bought."
Chen Jiaojiao tilted her head to look at him and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Do you want to buy it?"
Huo Jinan smiled and said, "Mm, it's delicious. I want to ask where you bought it. I want to buy some and take it home for my family to try."
Chen Jiaojiao smiled and said, "Is that so! I don't know either. My sister-in-law took them home. If you want them, I can ask my sister-in-law for you!"
Huo Jinan saw that she really didn't know much about it. Her sister-in-law bought it from outside, so she definitely didn't know much about it.
So he decided to find a suitable time to ask Jiang Baige himself.
When they reached an intersection, Chen Jiaojiao said, "Brother Huo, I'm going home first."
Huo Jinan nodded and said, "Go slowly and be careful."
Chen Jiaojiao got on her bike and went home.
When Chen Jiaojiao returned home, the only sounds she could hear in the yard were Dandan's giggling and Siyan's teasing voice.
The weather got warmer, so Jiang Baige put a big basin in the yard. When she was busy, she would put her son in the basin, and Siyan would help watch him. She tried it a few times and found that Siyan was quite good at taking care of children. When Dandan threw his toys on the ground in the basin, Siyan would pick them up and put them back in the basin.
Dandan thought it was fun and would giggle. The two of them would do this, one throwing and the other picking up, and they never got tired of it.
When Chen Jiaojiao opened the door, she saw her sister-in-law cleaning the yard, and Dandan and Siyan playing.
She parked her bike and then said.
"Dandan, auntie is back."
When Dandan saw his aunt coming back, he smiled so hard that saliva came out of the corners of his mouth, and then he reached out for her to hug him.
Chen Jiaojiao threw her schoolbag on the ground, hugged Dandan, and teased him affectionately.
I kissed his little face and said: You must miss your aunt!
At this time, Jiang Baige came over and said with a smile: "Jiaojiao is back. How was your school today?"
Chen Jiaojiao replied, "It's fine, sister-in-law. By the way, Brother Huo said the sausage I gave him last time was delicious. He wanted to ask where you bought it."
When Jiang Baige heard this, a hint of barely perceptible panic flashed across her eyes, but she quickly returned to normal.
He said nonchalantly, "Oh, sausages. I asked a friend to bring them back from out of town. They don't seem to be sold here."
Chen Jiaojiao said somewhat disappointedly, "Is that so? That's a shame. Brother Huo wanted me to help ask around."
Jiang Baige quickly said, "It's okay. I'll ask my friends to bring some next time."
She wanted to agree, take some out of the space, and ask her sister-in-law to help deliver it.
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