Zhou Xiaoxian waited for Zhou Xiaoliu to squeeze into the crowd before she reacted, she glanced at Zhou Peng, and said, "Xiaoliu hasn't brought any money yet, how can I buy meat?"

Zhou Peng was led by Zhou Xiaoxian into the crowd, and he didn't know which adult's elbow hit his nose, his nose was sore, and he almost fell into tears.

He didn't want to squeeze in anymore, so he called "Third Sister" twice, but Zhou Xiaoxian was still trying to break through, as if he didn't hear his voice, he impatiently shook off Zhou Xiaoxian's hand, and blurted out the words in his heart: "Xiaoliu is rich, we don't have to squeeze in." ”

Although the crowd was noisy, Zhou Xiaoxian sensitively grasped the key word "money", she no longer squeezed into the crowd, but looked at Zhou Peng with a frown, waiting for him to say it again completely, so that she could confirm that she had not heard it wrong.

Zhou Peng turned his head left and right to avoid the third sister's sight, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the third sister was already getting angry, he knew that he couldn't hide, so he said directly: "Xiaoliu still has money, there are a lot of them." But in the end he didn't divulge any other information.

He also regretted it a little in his heart, he originally wanted to keep it secret for Xiaoliu and then get a piece of the pie, but now he ......

"Let's just stand there and wait for her, what if she squeezes out and can't find us?"

Hearing Zhou Peng say this, Zhou Xiaoxian, who was so angry that he wanted to immediately grab Zhou Xiaoliu out of the crowd and teach him a hard lesson, stopped.

Therefore, when Zhou Xiaoliu finally squeezed out of the crowd, handed the meat in his hand to Zhou Xiaoxian, and smiled at Zhou Xiaoxian as if he was invited, Zhou Xiaoxian not only praised her, but also shouted at her with a red face: "How much did Jin Hong give you?"

Zhou Xiaoliu wilted in an instant, just in a hurry to buy meat to eat, forgetting that this money is private money, she glanced at Zhou Peng, thinking, it is estimated that her brother said that she leaked her mouth, but since the third sister still thought that her money was given by Jin Hong, then the brother has not told the third sister where the money came from.

She had the audacity to lie: "A total of one hundred and fifty yuan, I bought nineteen yuan and two cents of meat, and there are thirty yuan and eight cents left." She cautiously glanced at Zhou Xiaoxian's face, and didn't go berserk anymore, well, it seems that my brother didn't say how much money there was.

She touched her pocket, took out thirty eight cents, handed over twenty of them to Zhou Xiaoxian, pinched the remaining ten cents in her hand, and said, "Buy me shoes for these ten yuan, I have never bought new shoes since I was a child, and the current shoes and soles are broken." ”

She tried to avoid the crowd and raised her left foot and motioned for Zhou Xiaoxian to look at the soles of her shoes.

Zhou Xiaoxian looked at the meat in his hand, snatched the ten yuan from his sister's hand, put it in his pocket, and took his younger brothers and sisters to continue to move in the sea of people without saying anything.

Zhou Xiaoliu lamented in his heart: New shoes, my new shoes...... It's also in the soup!

Zhou carefully squeezed around the sea of people with her brother and sister dejectedly, and when she raised her head again, she found herself standing in the department store.

A pair of beautiful red shoes were picked up and put down by Zhou Xiaoxian, picked up and put down, and then Zhou Xiaoxian sighed, turned his eyes away, and no longer looked at it.

Zhou Xiaoxian walked around the counter, stared at Zhou Xiaoliu's feet for a while, and then pointed to a pair of small white shoes on the counter and asked the salesperson, "Is there anything smaller than this pair?"

Zhou Xiaoliu was instantly moved.

The price of ten yuan a pair of shoes was cut to seven yuan and five cents a pair after Zhou Xiaoxian's bargaining, and after paying, Zhou Xiaoxian directly stuffed the shoes into Zhou Xiaoliu's hands: "Try it, if it is not the right size, you can change it." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu's heel stepped back slightly, and the old shoes on her feet fell off, she put on the new shoes with joy, moved her toes, and nodded at Zhou Xiaoxian: "It fits very well, thank you, third sister! I thought you wouldn't buy it for me if you took the money away!"

Zhou Xiaoliu doesn't plan to change them after wearing new shoes, this is the first pair of shoes that fit in her life!

"You don't look at the meat you bought, it's all bones that can't be gnawed and lean meat with firewood, the money is left in your hands, what should you do if you are wronged again?" Zhou Xiaoxian shook the meat in his hand and motioned Zhou Xiaoliu to look at it himself.

Zhou Xiaoliu silently self-examined, well, the money is in his own hands, and he will indeed spend it unjustly. If I was myself, I would be satisfied if I could cut off one dollar when I bought shoes just now, but the third sister cut off two dollars and five cents.

"But this is the tenderloin, the most tender piece of lean meat in the pig's body, not firewood at all, and this bone is also a large barrel bone on the pig's hind leg, which is broken to cook soup, delicious and nutritious!" Zhou Xiaoliu pointed to the meat and bones and explained, the money was not unjustly spent.

Zhou Xiaoxian was suspicious: "What Jin Hong told you?" Xiao Liu also went to Uncle Qingsong's house to eat some good things in the days when she played with that Jin Hong, probably Jin Hong told her, otherwise, where would she understand this.

I bought it, and Zhou Xiaoxian didn't plan to say more. She glanced at the red shoes on the counter again, then took a deep breath and prepared to leave with her younger siblings.

"Sister, shall we buy a vegetable basket? The one at home is broken, and we forgot to bring it today. Zhou Xiaoliu pointed to a pile of beautifully woven bamboo baskets outside the door of the department store and said to Zhou Xiaoxian.

In the case of crowding, the straw rope is more likely to break. If the meat is really squeezed out, it will be difficult for you to squeeze back and pick it up through the surging flow of people, and even if you finally squeeze it back, it is estimated that the meat has also been picked up by others.

When Zhou Xiaoxian heard this, he immediately nodded, although a basket costs two yuan, but the meat in his hand costs nearly twenty yuan, if it really falls, there is nowhere to cry. Buy!

Besides, when Zhou's father and mother were at home, even during the Chinese New Year, they didn't buy so much meat at one time. It's too ostentatious to just carry it like this, and when I go home later, I will definitely meet those aunts and aunts on the way, and it's too troublesome to explain.

It's necessary to buy a basket! When the time comes, put the meat at the bottom, and put a few vegetable leaves to block it, and no one will find out.

Zhou Xiaoxian, who had bought the basket, looked in the direction of the vegetable stall, there were too many people, she planned to go over to buy vegetables alone, let her younger brothers and sisters stand at the door of this department store and wait, she would come to pick them up after she bought the vegetables. By that time, the set will almost disperse, and there will be fewer people, so there will be no need to be squeezed and bumped into anymore.

When Zhou Peng and Zhou Xiaoliu heard this, they immediately nodded, and Zhou Xiaoliu took Zhou Peng's hand and said to Zhou Xiaoxian: "Sister, you go, I will be optimistic that my brother will not run around." We're just standing still and waiting for you. ”

Zhou Peng glanced at her: "Am I better than you?"

Zhou Xiaoxian touched the heads of the two of them with a smile, squeezed towards the vegetable stall with the basket, and occasionally looked back at the door of the department store to see if his younger siblings were still in place. At the same time, she thought: Next time, I'll come to the market by myself, don't bring the two of them, there are too many people in the set, what if I get lost?