Ye Zhiqiu spat out the toothpaste foam in his mouth. This bastard ran too fast. He originally wanted to ask him if they would have a holiday on National Day!
After washing up, he came to the living room and greeted a few people. He filled a bowl of rice porridge and started eating it with the heated leftovers.
"I'm going to work!"
"Old Ye, it's still early, be careful and don't ride too fast."
"Okay!"
Ye Tianya went to work. Wang Fugui saw that Ye Zhiqiu had almost finished eating, so he asked, "Grandson, I'm going to school soon. Your mother has an appointment to go out. Will you be at home looking after Xiao Bailu this morning?"
Ye Zhiqiu asked in surprise, "Mom, who did you make an appointment with and where are you going to play? Grandpa, why are you going to school?"
Wang Xiaolan's eyes were a little evasive, and she laughed and said, "Your Aunt Liu and I have made an appointment to go shopping in Wangfujing together..."
Because Ye Zhiqiu didn't look up, he didn't see her evasive gaze.
Wang Fugui explained: "It's nothing, it just allows us retirees to go to the school to collect our benefits.
Because the school had to organize a team to attend the celebration, there were not many people in school that day. So we retirees were just allowed to collect our benefits early."
Ye Zhiqiu was a little surprised and asked, "Grandpa, what benefits do you have? Why not give it out now if you didn't give it out during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
Wang Fugui said happily, "Of course I won't give it out. I actually give it out during the Mid-Autumn Festival! It's just that I'm used to it. Every year, the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are given out separately. It's better to go all at once to get them all!"
Our benefits don't include many items, but they're all long-lasting items. We don't have any fresh goods, so you don't have to worry about them spoiling if you pick them up late."
Ye Zhiqiu thought of Ma Banghua’s second uncle Chen Anbang. Last time, he asked for a high price for the fish and cut it off to give as a snack to the teachers and students in the school!
In fact, if you think about it this way, the school does not have sufficient supplies, which forced him, a principal, to do such a shameless thing!
Because Ma Banghua and his friends had actually already negotiated with others, but the fish were snatched away by Chen Anbang. It was indeed a bit shameless.
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and replied, "That's fine, Grandpa, you have to go to school, and Mom, you have to go shopping, so I'll stay at home with my little sister.
Anyway, I don’t have anything to do today, so I can work on it tomorrow.”
Wang Xiaolan warned: "Son, recently because I've been busy with the sweet potato vermicelli work, your Aunt Liu has taken the lunch rations home, and I don't know what time I will be home.
"Remember to prepare lunch for the reinforcements and Xiaofang. Don't wait until they get home from school at noon and leave them without food!"
Ye Zhiqiu really didn't know about this. He ran between his two masters' restaurants every day and never had lunch at home.
He agreed. Cooking was a simple task. He smiled and said to the two of them, "I want to steam some buns for lunch. You guys should come back early, otherwise they won't taste so good if they get cold."
"Son, don't we still have tofu? Why don't you steam some tofu and vermicelli dumplings?"
"Okay, I'll make some and save some for making fermented bean curd. That stuff is often used in cooking!"
The two of them went out together at eight o'clock. Ye Zhiqiu also felt a little strange. Why were they going in different directions and going out together?
But Ye Bailu got up, squeezed some toothpaste on herself and went to wash up. Ye Zhiqiu went out to get her a towel, but it was hanging too high for her to reach.
"Big pot...where's my mother..."
"Don't talk, and don't swallow the toothpaste foam. Brush your teeth first before you talk."
Ye Bailu nodded obediently. After brushing her teeth, she took the towel and wiped her face. She put it in the basin and rubbed it properly before giving it to Ye Zhiqiu to hang up.
While she was drinking the porridge, Ye Zhiqiu told her that her mother and grandfather had gone out to do some business, so she didn't have to attend class today.
Unexpectedly, Ye Bailu pouted and said, "Grandpa said we would continue the story he told yesterday, but he didn't keep his word..."
Ye Zhiqiu was a little amused. This little girl's curiosity and thirst for knowledge were really amazing! He and the second brother were almost driven crazy by her. He didn't expect Wang Fugui to be so easy to control this girl!
I have to say, he really deserves to be a teacher!
But Ye Bailu recovered quickly. She drank her porridge and said happily, "Brother, let's go fishing! Let's see if the sea buckthorns by the river are ripe!"
Ye Zhiqiu asked curiously, "There are sea buckthorns by the river? Why haven't I seen them before?"
"Brother Erwa took us there. There are quite a few sea buckthorn trees there!"
Unable to bear Ye Bailu's pleading, he took the fishing rod and bucket, locked the gate, and followed the jumping Ye Bailu to the river.
The Sanlitun section of Liangma River had recently seen a surge in fishermen. Ye Zhiqiu had begun to understand that meat was becoming increasingly difficult to buy, with people often queuing up with meat coupons but unable to buy. This was the reason more people were trying their luck fishing by the river.
This is a clear contraction in supply, and it also means that the supply of materials is beginning to be insufficient due to drought and waste.
Ye Bailu was disappointed because the sea buckthorn wasn't ripe yet. Although it tasted more sour than sweet, it was a favorite snack for children, and not everyone could afford to buy snacks for them.
Ye Zhiqiu comforted him, "Okay, they'll probably be ripe in a few days. Then I'll take you out to pick them and eat them."
In fact, in October, you can still find wild fruits in the surrounding mountains, such as wild grapes and wild kiwis. If you are lucky, you can even pick up hazelnuts!
Ye Bailu said unhappily: "Why are the fruits growing so slowly? I've grown taller, but they're still not ripe..."
She has indeed grown one centimeter taller, from 103 centimeters to 104 centimeters. This girl measures her height every now and then, and she is so happy to have grown taller.
Every child is like this, always hoping to grow taller and older quickly and looking forward to time passing quickly.
But every middle-aged person always misses the childhood that can never be returned!
Ye Zhiqiu dug out the earthworm, put on the fishhook and cast the rod. He saw that Ye Bailu had forgotten about this matter in a blink of an eye and started to look for wild vegetables.
He couldn't help but hum two lines of the lyrics: "What can't be reached is called the distance... The place we can't return to is called hometown..."
"Brother, what are you singing? I haven't heard it before..."
"I'm homesick!"
"Brother, why do you miss home? You're homesick right after coming out. Do you want to sleep in?"
"Nonsense, big brother is not the kind of person who likes to sleep in..."
They did catch some fish, although it was only a carp weighing about 120 grams, and they also dug up nearly half a pound of wild vegetables. These were their gains in two hours.
It’s a good thing to have a harvest, so Ye Zhiqiu carried the smiling Ye Bailu on his back, carrying the fishing rod in one hand and the bucket in the other and walked back home.
When he returned home, he saw Erwa sitting at the door with a bucket beside him. Ye Zhiqiu knew that he must have caught some fish and was coming to sell it to him, the buyer.
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