20. Osmanthus stays overnight
The two of them were in the backyard of the Gao family, muttering on the stone bench under the bamboo bushes outside Manqing's room, when they suddenly heard an angry curse from the front yard: "Get out...... How unreasonable!"
It's none other than Gao Lao. He scolds either chickens or ducklings. The other party must not understand the four-character idiom of "how can this be reasonable", and he must have scolded Man Qing with this sentence.
Osmanthus had sharp ears, and immediately raised her neck to look in the direction of the front yard, "Ha, do you say that Gao Lao will rush to the back to scold after a while?"
Man Qing didn't raise his eyebrows, and he was still threading the needle in his hand, "No, how can he be a showman, presumably Sven still wants this-"
In the past few days, Man Qing has told sù not to care about that person, whether he likes to eat or not, whether he loves to wash his clothes or not, anyway, it's a big deal to invite Uncle Gui again and pour rice soup again...... I really feel better these days.
"Bang!" But after a moment, Gao Lao angrily came to the door of his study on the other side of the bamboo bush, and then slammed the door vigorously, and then disappeared silently.
Although the bamboo bushes in the backyard are dense, as long as you are not blind, you should still be able to see the two big girls sitting opposite. Gao Lao didn't rush to the backyard to scold them, he just slammed the door in front of them.
His Sven hadn't swept the floor yet, and he still had a layer of window paper.
Osmanthus trembled in fright, and the already unstable pillow poked into her fingers steadily, "Oops!" Osmanthus quickly put down the needle and thread in her hand and slurped her fingers, "I'm scared to death—— this needle still has eyes, and it poked into my hand—— you see, there are several small holes......" Osmanthus pursed her lips slightly, dragged out her voice, and coquettishly said to Manqing.
Man Qing looked up at the little black and strong osmanthus who had no sense of disobedience at all, and she still couldn't help but envy in her heart: Osmanthus hurt everyone at home, and she was protected when she was tired and tired, unlike her, she didn't know what coquettish was since she was a child.
Gao Lao Xuan definitely doesn't have to think about it, it is the Chai family, since Manqing can remember, she is either busy, or she is telling her how to be the daughter of a talented family. Speaking of which, when their mother and daughter really talked heart-to-heart, it was Chai Shi who came to his senses when he was dying, and took her hand and said those words.
Speaking of which, it has only been half a month since my mother passed away, but how can I feel like I am in a different world, and I have been there for a long time?
Man Qing lowered her head again, covering her thoughts, and replied softly: "If you really don't want to embroider, then rest for a while." When I'm done embroidering these two handkerchiefs, I'll help you!"
Aunt Gui knew her daughter very well, and when she asked her to come to Gao's house, she gave her a clear task: embroider a handkerchief before she could go home. Although the osmanthus has a bitter hatred for the handkerchief, she still has to sit beside Manqing and poke and poke, and there are the most small holes in a handkerchief.
Osmanthus let out a cheerful "oh" and stood up, "Shall I go and feed the chickens for you?" I have been hearing them chirping in front of me just now! Well, by the way, I will go to the backyard to pick some cabbage, chop it up and give it to the chickens and ducklings to eat, so that they will grow faster! I tell you, if you are free, go to the river to dig earthworms, so that the ducks will grow quickly, and you will have duck meat to eat without waiting for autumn......
Speaking of having meat to eat, Man Qing subconsciously swallowed his saliva. It's just a few days ago that Brother Gui Fu sent a little fish over, and I haven't seen meat in the rest of the time. Even if she wanted to concentrate on the Meilan Zhuju on the handkerchief, she couldn't help but look at the front yard at this moment, hoping that those chickens and ducklings would grow up quickly, and then fly to the dining table and become the thing in her belly.
Because of the half-heartedness of the osmanthus embroidery in the afternoon, it became directly early in the evening when the veil was not completed. Osmanthus looked at the handkerchief that she had made a few black handprints and had yellow, yellow, green, and green on it for some unknown reason, and her mouth was so pouting that she could afford to hang an oil drum. "What should I do now, Hao Manqing, you can help me!"
In the middle of the afternoon, Aunt Gui came to supervise the work, and was very dissatisfied with the progress of Osmanthus, and said when she left, if Osmanthus dared to call Manqing to help and let her know, she would burn the fire stick and serve!
The Gui family's burning stick is not just a matter of talking, it is something that Osmanthus and her brother have hated since childhood. Osmanthus is already a big girl, she hasn't been close to that stick for many years, and when she thinks of being spanked by her mother at such an age, she can't be cut off from it.
After thinking about it for a while, the osmanthus warrior slapped his thigh like a broken wrist, and said heroically: "I won't leave tonight! If I don't embroider this veil, I won't go home!" After speaking, she looked at Man Qing proudly, "How about it, let's fight at night tonight!"
Man Qing snorted and laughed, it was really Osmanthus who acted like this for a veil to be happy, "Okay, whatever you want, if you don't leave, you will sleep with me at night!"
Osmanthus stretched her neck and said proudly: "You think I'm my mother's coward! Besides, you're not afraid of what I'm afraid of, and we're two of us!"
"My family eats bracken porridge at night......"
"What can I eat if you can eat ——it, it's still bracken porridge, won't it still be served with fermented bean curd, right? This is easy to do, my brother went to the river to catch fish again today, and I'll go home and get one after a while, and I'll treat it as my food! Ah no, it's two, one for each of us—— it's not right, and Gao Lao picks, haha, we have to have three! However, let's leave the smallest one for Gao Lao, okay?"
Man Qing also thought it was funny, but suddenly thought of something again, and his smile faded, "I can't afford to light a kerosene lamp at night......"
"Ah-" Osmanthus didn't expect that all the things in front of her had been solved and this key problem had not been solved, but it had been said so well before, and thinking about the big night, she didn't have to sleep in her own home, but in the familiar and unfamiliar backyard of the Gao family - her curiosity and excitement had risen, and she really didn't want to retreat at this time, so she waved her hand heroically again, "It's okay, I have it at home, I'll go home and get it!"
Osmanthus did what she said, and she did not allow Manqing to refuse, so she ran back home, and after a while, when she came back again, she had a garment between her elbows in one hand, a string of fish in her hand, and a kerosene lamp in her other hand.
"My mother said, if you are afraid, I can come and stay with you for a few more nights, anyway, we are so close!"
Man Qing was speechless for a while, and she didn't say that she wanted to live in Gao's house because the veil was not embroidered, but found a reason for her to be afraid!
The kind-hearted Aunt Gui thought that Manqing was the same as her, and she was afraid of those gods and ghosts, and when she heard her daughter say that, she felt the same way. In addition, the two houses are separated by a wall, which is indeed close, so they are happily released.
Neither of them expected that a major event would happen on this night.