Chapter 44: Wiping the Mouth
Zhou Peng patted his leg when he saw her nodding, and suddenly said: "On the way, I always felt that I forgot something, it turned out that I forgot to wipe my mouth, the last time Da Niu's father came out of Widow Chen's house, Da Niu's mother beat him, saying that he didn't know how to wipe his mouth when he stole food!"
Zhou Peng asked Zhou Xiaoliu vaguely while rinsing his mouth with a water cup: "Why do you say that Widow Chen is so good to Da Niu's father, and secretly gives him delicious food......
Zhou Xiaoliu put a needle on the lit oil lamp and roasted it, wiped it again, aimed at a blister on the sole of his foot, hesitated for a while, and said, "Maybe Da Niu's father helped her work!"
Zhou Peng spit out the water in his mouth, and then said again: "Then I will also help her work, will she also secretly give me delicious food?"
Zhou Xiaoliu's hand shook, "Hiss!"
She turned her head and said to Zhou Peng affirmatively: "You can't do that job!" At least in the next few years, you can't do it!
Zhou Peng thought about it, and said to himself with some discouragement: "Also, I can't do heavy work, I can only pick up half a load of water." ”
Zhou Xiaoliu sighed: Although my brother is smarter than himself, he is still a child after all! He still doesn't understand that in the adult world, some things can't be eaten casually, and some jobs can't be done.
She was no longer distracted, and in one fell swoop, she burst all the blisters under her feet, and all ten toes curled up in pain, which was sour!
After she put on her shoes and socks and rinsed her mouth, Zhou Xiaoxian just returned home from school.
As soon as Zhou Xiaoxian entered the door, he put down his schoolbag and turned around to heat up the meal on his own stove in the big kitchen.
Dinner is still white rice with chopped pickles.
Zhou Xiaoliu was in a daze at the rice bowl, and he didn't move his chopsticks for a long time, and Zhou Peng also took the chopsticks to pull the rice chop around, but he didn't eat half of it.
When Zhou Xiaoxian saw the expressions of his younger brothers and sisters, he sighed and said helplessly: "I don't want to eat pickles, but what else can we eat besides pickles......?"
Zhou Xiaoliu and Zhou Peng glanced at each other, then turned their heads to Zhou Xiaoxian at the same time and said, "We have money!"
Zhou Xiaoliu took out ten ten-yuan banknotes prepared in advance from a pocket, pushed them from the table to Zhou Xiaoxian's face, and said, "Jin Hong said that I was too thin, let me take it to buy meat to eat." Sister, you take it, let's go to the market together tomorrow, there are many kinds of dishes on the market, let's buy some to eat!"
Zhou Peng looked at her in amazement, and said in his heart: This excuse is very perfect! It seems that Xiao Liu's not very bright brain has been exerted again. Only gave a hundred yuan, then there are nearly two hundred yuan left, so she will definitely not be able to spend so much, and she doesn't mind helping her spend it together.
Zhou Peng, who had been thinking about it in his heart, squeezed his eyebrows at Zhou Xiaoliu, saying that he would definitely keep it a secret and would not disclose the rest of the money to the third sister.
Zhou Xiaoxian didn't mean to be half happy when he saw the money, but reprimanded Zhou Xiaoliu loudly with a calm face: "How can you accept money from people casually? When did our mother teach you like this?"
Zhou Xiaoliu thought to herself, pushing the origin of the money to Jin Hong's head, the third sister all reacted like this, if she took out the gold ring directly, the third sister would probably have to set up a table to claim the lost and found.
Zhou Xiaoliu resisted the urge to cover his ears, and in order to cover up his weakness, he retorted at the highest volume: "That person is all in a big car and left on a plane, can I catch up and return it to him?"
Then, she softened her tone and said softly: "I remember, when I grow up, I will pay him back when I earn money." ”
In fact, Jin Hong really stuffed money at her when she left, but she returned it immediately. Jin Hong persuaded her to take it first and return it to him when she grew up.
She smiled, when she grew up, maybe Jin Hong would have forgotten that there was such a person as her. A few hundred yuan may be a trivial matter in Jin Hong's opinion, he forgot about it if he gave him a favor, but for her, it was a big favor, and she had to remember it for a lifetime. It's not that she really can't live without those hundreds of yuan, so she resolutely refuses to accept it.
Zhou Xiaoxian opened his mouth after listening to his sister's words, and suddenly didn't know what to say. They really need money now, and Xiaoliu is right, Jin Hong has returned to Beijing.
Otherwise, let's do what Xiaoliu said? Yes, spend it first, and then pay it back later! But when my mother writes a letter, I must mention this matter when I reply to the letter, and I can't forget it.
Zhou Xiaoliu saw that although the third sister was entangled, she finally accepted the hundred yuan, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Zhou Peng saw that his sister finally stopped asking where the money came from, so he begged: "Third sister, let's go to the market tomorrow to buy some meat and cook a broth to drink, okay?"
Zhou Xiaoxian locked the money in the drawer of the old dresser, and while eating the rice that was almost cold, he replied, "I'll talk about it tomorrow!"
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In the middle of the night, Zhou Xiaoliu went to the back mountain again, planning to distribute the dark clothes he bought to the ghosts, and then give the dark coins to her sixth grandfather alone.
Because she could no longer use the charm of evil spirits, she asked the first ghost she met when she went out to inform them one by one, and then gathered all the ghosts together.
Although the ghosts had just received a lot of filial piety from their children and grandchildren, they were still as happy as children who could only get new clothes in the New Year, and they couldn't wait to put on the new clothes that Zhou Xiaoliu burned to them.
After all the clothes and coins were burned to ashes, Zhou Xiaoliu extinguished the sparks, checked them carefully, and after making sure that there was no fire hazard, he went home to make up for sleep.
As soon as the sky dawned, Zhou Xiaoxian woke up Zhou Xiaoliu and Zhou Peng.
After the three of them washed, Zhou Xiaoxian heated up the leftovers from last night, divided them into three bowls, brought them to the small round table, and then took a soy sauce bottle and poured three drops of soy sauce on each of the three bowls of rice, and said to Zhou Xiaoliu and Zhou Peng: "Mix it yourself!"
Zhou Xiaoliu self-reflected, he had just eaten two full meals, and he actually began to pick his mouth, which is not right. Didn't I eat the soy sauce bibimbap at this time in my previous life, why do I feel a loss of appetite now?
She warned herself that when you don't have money, don't remember the delicacies you used to eat, and you can't afford to eat them now!
Zhou Peng mixed his own rice and began to eat happily. While eating, he swore in his heart: I want to earn money when I grow up, and after I earn money, I can take soy sauce bibimbap, and then I can put a few drops in it, how beautiful it is!
Zhou Xiaoxian saw that her sister didn't do it for a long time, so she thought that she thought that she was too little soy sauce, so she opened the lid of the soy sauce bottle, dripped two more drops of soy sauce into her sister's bowl, and said with a distressed face: "Is it enough now?
Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the darker rice, and the only thing left was no appetite.
She reversed her rice bowl with that of her third sister, and then pulled the part drizzled with soy sauce into her brother's bowl, and said softly, "I don't like to eat soy sauce bibimbap." ”
When Zhou Peng heard this, he looked up at her, and thought to himself, it's different when you're rich, Xiaoliu actually started to look down on soy sauce bibimbap. Then he won't eat soy sauce bibimbap after he earns money, by the way, let's eat fried noodles with shredded pork instead!
He swore again in his heart: When you grow up, you have to make good money, and after you earn money, you can eat shredded pork and fried noodles, and you can add a few dollars of meat if you want, how beautiful!
After swearing, he lowered his head again and ate happily.