Zhou Xiaoliu roughly told Aunt Xiuhua about what happened at the dinner table last night, skipping the part where she talked back, and with her belly "cooing" at the moment, it was extremely miserable to Aunt Xiuhua.

At this time, there are not many people in the nearby villages who go out to work, and there are not many left-behind children, and even fewer are mistreated, so Aunt Xiuhua thinks that these children are really pitiful! When the children cried last night, it seemed that they had heard it, and Uncle Yong'an also said to the outside world that it was the children who cried when they grabbed things and grabbed them.

But what really made her decide to allow credit was Zhou Xiaoliu's next words.

"My mother said before leaving, if it was convenient to send money there, she would send it back to us as soon as she received her salary. If it's inconvenient to send money, let us use something, but if my aunt has it, I will buy it all from my aunt's side, and at the end of the year, my aunt will take the account book to my house to settle the bill, and my mother will thank you well. ”

Aunt Xiuhua believed this, if it weren't for Li Yue's repeated explanations, how could Zhou Xiaoliu, the little hairy boy in front of her, say such a big thing?

Aunt Xiuhua quickly calculated in her heart, although it was said that the three children started a partnership, but the amount of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar was quite large in a year, and she made a lot of money in this business.

I heard that the people who went to work in the south last year came back as if they had made a fortune, and when they had children who went to their house, they would definitely get a lot of high-end snacks when they came back. Li Yue went with her two eldest daughters, and the four of them earned it together, so you don't have to worry about her not being able to pay back.

Aunt Xiuhua slapped her thigh: "Okay, go back and let your sister come, I'll prepare some goods for you here first, and let her take them and sign the account book." As for what Uncle Yong'an would say, she didn't care at all, if he dared to accuse her of not taking credit, she would tell him about his mistreatment of the children.

This account went even more smoothly than Zhou Xiaoliu imagined, she was ready, if Aunt Xiuhua didn't want to take credit, she would take the gold ring given by the sixth grandfather last night to Aunt Xiuhua and mortgage it first.

So Zhou Xiaoliu replied crisply: "I'll go and call my sister." ”

She rushed to Zhou Xiaoxian's classroom without waiting for the end of class and called Zhou Xiaoxian out.

Zhou Xiaoxian was ignorant and brought it to Aunt Xiuhua's shop, she thought that Zhou Xiaoliu was so hungry that she wanted to eat something on credit, but it didn't work, if she opened this head, she would often come to eat on credit, and her parents would scold.

She was about to open her mouth to reprimand Zhou Xiaoliu, but she heard Aunt Xiuhua say: "You are here, look at the catty, quantity and price of these things, add up to a total of 53 yuan, that's right, sign here, sign and move these things back." "Aunt Xiuhua moved quickly, and it only took a short time to prepare all kinds of goods.

"Use these first, and then get them from your aunt when you run out, and still keep accounts, and I'll calculate it with your mother in the future." Aunt Xiuhua handed over the pen and account book to Zhou Xiaoxian.

Zhou Xiaoxian took the pen and account book and looked at the rice, briquettes, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in front of him, and he didn't know what to do.

Zhou Xiaoliu glanced at the account book, the account was correct, so he said to her third sister: "Sister, you sign it, I will cook at noon and wait for you to come back from school to eat." Let's start a gang by ourselves in the future, and we won't be fined for not having anything to eat. ”

Zhou Xiaoxian signed his name woodenly. After carrying her things for a long distance before she reacted, she asked uneasily, "Little Liu, what's the matter with these things?" Also, when will you be able to cook?"

"I told Aunt Xiuhua that grandpa wouldn't give us food, and Aunt Xiuhua said that we would open our own gang on credit, so we wouldn't be hungry. ”

Zhou Xiaoxian wanted to speak and stopped, although her parents didn't arrange it like this, but this is really good, she will do all the work at home and outside the house, as long as she doesn't delay school, what's so difficult about cooking?

Anyway, she had to work with her grandparents, she washed the dishes and swept the floor, and she had to wash off the clothes of so many people in her grandfather's house, and the stream was almost freezing her fingers.

She looked at her red, swollen and purulent fingers, and didn't say anything more. After delivering the things to her home, she went to class again, not far from the school, but she only took a short leave of absence, and the teacher would criticize it after a long time.

Zhou Xiaoliu waited for Zhou Xiaoxian to walk away, and began to go to the big kitchen to prepare to clean the water tank and stove, but it was not time to cook lunch, and there was no one in the big kitchen.

Zhou Xiaoliu lifted the wooden lid of the water tank and looked into the tank, fortunately, there was still half a tank of water in the water he picked up a few days ago, and there was water for washing.

While she was washing, she thought to herself, draft is a big problem!

Her family's drinking water is fetched from a well shared by the villagers, which is more than 300 meters away from her house on the edge of the stream outside the village. She wasn't sure if she could pick up the water now, or if she would wait for Aunt Xiuhua to get two more buckets on credit?

"Xiaoliu, what are you doing here?" Zhou Xiaoliu, who had finished washing the pots and pans, was making a fire and making coals, and her third aunt's surprised voice came from behind her.

"We're going to start our own business, third aunt, I'll lend you half a bucket of water later, I'll get a meal, and my sister will pick it up and return it to you in the evening." She was going to take a meal and steam it at noon, and when she cleaned it up just now, she found that there was still half a jar of pickles in her cabinet.

"How do you say this? Why did you start a gang by yourself? Didn't your parents let you live with your grandparents?" Although the third aunt knew what had happened, she didn't expect a few children to be so tough that they were going to break up the gang?

"Will you get it? don't accidentally set the house on fire!" the third aunt said worriedly. Nothing else is her business, this is a big deal, this house is all connected, the pillars, beams and crocks, but they are all wood.

"Third aunt, don't worry, my mother taught us before leaving, you see, I will!" Zhou Xiaoliu distributed the coal, then withdrew the firewood, and by the way, pressed all the firewood with the fire into a basin of water, and with a few "booms, booms", the fire was extinguished. She put the honeycomb coals into the stove again, burned them for a while, and then put in two new honeycomb coals.

Although the third aunt had no impression of Zhou's mother teaching Zhou Xiaoliu to make coal, she didn't say anything more when she saw Zhou Xiaoliu's extremely skilled appearance. In the past two days, the sister-in-law has called and punished the three children, and she also saw it in her eyes, she listened to the crying of the three children before going to bed last night, thinking that if she went out, the children would be treated like this, she was extremely worried.

So the third aunt took the initiative to scoop a bucket of water, mentioned it to the side of the water tank at Zhou Xiaoliu's house, and asked, "Has the tank been washed?" ”

Zhou Xiaoliu was surprised: "It's already been washed." ”

Her third aunt reached out and touched the bottom of the tank, and found that it had really been washed and clean, so she poured the bucket of water into the tank of Zhou Xiaoliu's house and said, "You don't have to pay it back." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Third Aunt!" I didn't expect the third aunt, who has always been careful and loves to take advantage of small advantages, to have such an enthusiastic side.

"This kid, thank you, this water doesn't need money. Hearing Zhou Xiaoliu's thanks, her third aunt also laughed, she said that she didn't need to thank her, but in her heart she was very useful to Zhou Xiaoliu's words. It also takes effort to carry water.