The next morning, Zhou's mother had just come back from shopping at the market, and Zhou Xue came to her with a scale.

Recently, Grandpa Zhou always said that he didn't have time to go to the market, and told Zhou's father to bring a knife of meat back to his house if he wanted to go grocery shopping.

Grandpa Zhou only said that he would help buy meat, but he never mentioned the matter of giving money. This is a deliberate advantage.

Dad Zhou knew Grandpa Zhou's careful thoughts, but he was not good at being a son and asked Grandpa Zhou for money, so he had to pay out of his own pocket and lied to Zhou's mother that the money was given by Grandpa Zhou.

Zhou Xue hung the better-looking knife of the two knives on the scale, pushed the scale on the push rod, and said, "Sister-in-law, why is it only a pound of eight taels of meat?"

When Zhou's mother heard this, she hurriedly took a look, and sure enough, it was one pound and eight taels, no! She obviously bought two knives and two pounds, and the money she paid was also four pounds, could it be that the two knives of meat were not evenly divided?

She also weighed her knife meat, uh, it was also a pound and eight taels, and the butcher was actually short of her pounds and two!

Zhou's mother hurriedly explained, and then converted the two taels of meat into cash and handed it to Zhou Xue.

Zhou Xue knew that her father had never given money, and the meat was taken for nothing from the eldest brother and sister-in-law's house. She took a scale today, it was completely on a whim, and she didn't expect to get money in addition to meat.

She listened to Zhou's mother's explanation, looked at the money handed over by Zhou's mother, and instantly understood what was going on. It must be that the eldest brother was afraid of the sister-in-law's trouble, so he gave money for his father.

She rolled her eyes and said, "Sister-in-law, you deliberately only bought one catty and eight taels and then reported the number of two catties, right? I got caught and returned my money, right?"

Zhou's mother explained again with a bitter face.

Zhou Xue saw that it was almost there, so she pointed to the money in Zhou's mother's hand and said, "This money is too little, you have to add the previous one." I haven't weighed it before, so who knows how much less it was!"

So, Zhou's mother, who was kept in the dark by Zhou's father, was blackmailed by her sister-in-law Zhou Xue for 50 yuan.

Zhou's mother has been sullen. Not because he was shortened and was asked for 50 yuan, but because his character was suspected.

At noon, on the edge of the big kitchen stove, Zhou Xiaoliu stretched out his chopsticks and put a piece of meat in Zhou's mother's bowl, and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou's mother put down the chopsticks and said: "The butcher who sells meat has actually begun to lose two catties, today this knife meat is enough to miss my two taels, and Grandma Liu, who sells ginger, at least I have two large pieces of ginger, I asked her to spare me half of the garlic, and she also shouted that she was going to lose money......"

Zhou Xiaoliu said softly: "You are also a rich man, it is not worth it to be angry for such a little money." ”

"That's not what I said, even if they have money, they can't be short of two, and they must be honest in business. And the most important thing is not this, it's ......"

Zhou's mother learned what Zhou Xue said about her, and then said with a heartache: "How can I be that kind of person!"

Zhou Xiaoliu nodded, my mother is by no means that kind of person.

Mother Zhou, who lived so tightly in her previous life, would repeatedly remind people to drop money, and never stepped on her feet like others, and picked them up in her pocket after waiting for others to go away.

Seeing that Zhou's mother was still frowning, Zhou Xiaoliu suggested: "Next time you go to the market, you can also bring your own scale!"

Many of the aunts and aunts who go to the market will bring their own rod scales, and they may not be weighed, but when they are put on top of the vegetable basket, those who sell things are a little afraid to shorten their things.

Zhou's mother sighed and said, "It's not necessarily useful to bring a scale, if you really have to worry about it, people will say that there is a problem with our scale." "Or, there are a lot of scales, and the price is only slightly raised...... She's in a hurry, so she has time to shop around every time she buys something!

Zhou Xiaoliu was stunned, and then said with emotion: I didn't expect that there would be so much knowledge in a set. Is someone else too shrewd, or is he too idiotic?

Thinking that his IQ was probably really a little low, Zhou Xiaoliu instantly felt bad.

Zhou's mother poured out her thoughts, and she felt much better. She began to talk about what she had seen and heard when she was in the market today.

"Today's set was particularly lively. The fortune teller Zhao Banxian was smashed by someone...... Lao Xia, who sells fish, was stolen from three large grass carp...... Xu Youren, who opened a sacrificial shop, was kind again, and picked up a little beggar covered with rotten sores as his son......"

"What? What does the kid look like?" Zhou Xiaoliu was worried, Xiafeng Town is not far from Zhoujiawu, Liu Dabao's appearance Zhoujiawu people are all familiar with each other, after Xu Tianci borrowed the corpse to return his soul, if he still stays in the town, will it cause any disputes?

"Looks, all over the body, there are a lot of sores on the face, it is estimated that even if it is cured, it will leave a large scar. Mother Zhou also saw the child's face, it was really pitiful and terrifying.

Zhou Xiaoliu muttered softly: "In this way, then I will rest assured." ”

……

After eating, Zhou Xiaoliu planned to wash his face and take a nap for a while. She picked up a handful of water from the basin and splashed it on her face several times, then opened her eyes and looked up, ready to go and wipe her face with a towel.

Zhou Peng, who had just come out of Jin Hong's room, beckoned to her and said, "Little Liu, come here." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu wiped the water droplets on his face and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Jin Hong asked you to go to his room, saying that he had something to say to you. Zhou Peng replied.

Then he asked worriedly, "Isn't there anything coming again?"

Probably not? Could it be? Zhou Xiaoliu knocked on Jin Hong's door with doubts.

"Tuk, tuk. ”

"Come in!" Jin Hong replied from inside the door.

Zhou Xiaoliu pushed the door into the room, sat on the small square stool at the table, hunched over, supported his cheeks with his hands, looked at Jin Hong with a serious face, and said weakly: "Say it! I'm mentally prepared." "No matter how bad it is, it's just another wave of ghosts.

Jin Hong suddenly laughed and said, "I called you here to give you a gift." ”

"What gifts?"

"Look. Jin Hong waved his hand, and a small beam of blue light lit up in front of Zhou Xiaoliu's eyes.

"What is this?"

"Shhhh......hh

Jin Hong recited the word "go" again, and the green light turned into tiny points of light, through the window, through the door, through the tile cracks, and went in all directions.

Zhou Xiaoliu reached out and fished it out, the cyan light spot was on her hand, and drilled into her skin, and after finding that it couldn't get in, he swam around between her fingers and floated out.

Cyan light dots floated around Zhoujiawu, silently burrowing into the skin of everyone in Zhoujiawu. Grandma Zhou, who was feeding the chickens, shook her hand and said, "Why do I seem to have forgotten something?"

Grandma Zhou shook her head, grabbed a handful of millet and sprinkled it on the ground, watched her own chickens happily pecking at millet, and said in her heart: Probably because she is old and begins to forget.

"Mom, what about our dad, why didn't he help me go to Miss Yang's house in Yangjiaao to propose marriage?" Zhou Qinghu's impatient voice sounded.

……

Zhou Xiaoliu naturally felt the changes in the people in the village, so she looked at Jin Hong in surprise.

Jin Hong said softly: "This is the trick of forgetting words, I know that you don't want to be famous since you were a child, and you don't want others to look at you in strange eyes, so I will give you this trick of forgetting words." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu looked at Jin Hong fixedly, not knowing what to say for a while.

"I'm going to be away for a year or two, with the White Tiger and the Wasp. When we're gone, you'll be able to live a peaceful and peaceful life as you wish. ”

Zhou Xiaoliu was very happy when he heard his words, but thinking that the separation was imminent, it was not good to show joy, so he tried his best to ask in a flat tone: "Really?

Jin Hong touched her head like Zhou Peng, and chuckled: "At least a year or two, maybe longer." ”

"And when are you leaving?"

"Let's go now. As soon as Jin Hong's words fell, the person disappeared.

Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the empty room and said, "This is leaving, I haven't said goodbye yet!"