Fifteen, the old man picks and eats deflated again
After waiting for a while, Osmanthus finally came over with a basket of things. When she entered the courtyard door, Osmanthus was still very uncomfortable, first looked left and right, and then poked her neck to look into the main room, as if she dared to come in only if she was sure that Gao Lao was not at home.
Man Qing looked funny, so he shouted at her: "Come in, I'm the only one in the front yard!"
"Hehe," Osmanthus smiled, "I'm not used to drilling through the back door--I came to see you a few days ago, and there were people coming and going, and I didn't even look carefully-ah, your jujube trees are so big! Do you remember, when we were children, we once picked jujube trees on this jujube tree to eat, and we almost couldn't get down! Haha-"
Man Qing poked at her mercilessly, "That's how are you, I didn't climb a tree!"
"Okay, okay, you've been good since you were a child, and I took you to make it bad, okay!" she said and handed over the basket in her hand, "The cucumbers in my house grow well, and my mother asked me to bring some to you to taste." I still have a lot of chili seedlings at home, I don't see you have them at home, so my mother asked me to pull some over, and I'll help you plant them in a while. I still have eggplants and chi-beans at home, what do you want? If you want to turn around, you can go to my vegetable patch and pull them, anyway, my family is enough--where is Gao Lao Li's not at home?"
A bunch of osmanthus flowers, and finally suddenly lowered his voice to say this, Rao is recent Manqing was depressed, and he couldn't help but laugh in a low voice, "Yes, in the back!"
Osmanthus was obviously a little jealous of that old-fashioned and arrogant Xiucai Gong who never took others seriously, and frowned when she heard this, "Ah, what should I do, how can I help you grow peppers!
Man Qing laughed and scolded her in a low voice, "Ye Gong is a good dragon", then took her basket, looked through it, and continued to go to the kitchen with a number, "You can help me in a while." There are so many, I have to plant until tomorrow! You can sit down for a while, I still have some things I want to ask you to help with!"
"Oh," Osmanthus didn't sit down, and walked over to help carry water. She has been working in the fields with her parents and brother all the year round, and her body is much stronger than Manqing, so she doesn't have any difficulty at all, and with a slight shake, a bucket of water will be lifted, and she doesn't even need a wheel, "You can say anything." My mother said, my family's work is almost done, and I will come over to help you work today. When are we going to plant seedlings? After a while, when the sun is big, it will be difficult to plant -- do you still have an acre of land in your house that has not been planted? My mother said, we don't have much seedlings in Xiaogaozhuang, and if you still want to plant, Dagaozhuang is estimated to have a little bit, then you have to hurry up and ask--If it's not convenient for you to ask, my mother said that I can help you ask--"
While washing the pot in her hand, Man Qing listened to the chatter of osmanthus tidbits, and tears almost fell.
Osmanthus and Aunt Gui are people in a completely different world from their Gao family. They don't read it, they all go to work in the fields, their fields are full of vegetables, their fields are free of weeds, their yards are full of piles, they talk loudly, they talk a word without any rules, they don't come to comfort her when she just died, but ask her if she wants to plant that acre of land.
Looking at the osmanthus flowers, Man Qing felt that the events of the previous few days were like a dream. Niang doesn't seem to have saved in this world, Gao Lao is just an ornament, these trivial and trivial things in front of them are the real ones, and they are what she sees when she opens her eyes-
She doesn't want to live like her mother, and she doesn't want to be a person with eyes on the top of her head like Gao Laojiao, she wants to live her life with her own hands like the osmanthus family. She believes that as long as she is willing to work hard, she will definitely be able to live a better and more lively life like the osmanthus family!
"What's the matter, why don't you speak? Let me ask you!" Osmanthus carried another bucket of water and poured it into the water tank of the Gao family, "Your water tank is really high! I guess even your little arms and legs can't pour it in! Do you still have firewood at home, are you going to collect firewood? I heard Xiaohuabu say that you went to the field by the roadside to pull weeds yesterday? You must not have finished pulling it, will you go today? If you go today, I will go with you!"
Man Qing slowly swallowed back her tears, and while speeding up the movements of her hands, she went to respond to Osmanthus's words. She found that she didn't have to open her mouth to say a lot of things, Osmanthus and Aunt Gui had already thought of it for her, and by the way, they had thought of solutions.
"In a moment you will help me to take the clothes that have been accumulated for the past few days to the river and wash them—too many for me to wash until the afternoon. After washing the clothes, if you still have some time, you can accompany me to the side of the mountain to get some firewood. In the afternoon, I mainly plant chili seedlings - I still want to plant some beans, and you can help me talk to Aunt Gui when the time comes!"
"Okay, no problem!"
I went to the river to wash the things and collected three bamboo baskets, including Manqing's clothes, bed sheets to be changed, and more linen that was soiled a few days ago. Osmanthus took two bamboo baskets in one hand, Man Qing held a bamboo basket in one hand and a soaphorn box in the other, and the two walked to the gate of the courtyard with great difficulty.
"Ahem—" A heavy dry cough came from the study in the back. Osmanthus was stunned by this voice, and almost didn't fall! When she first came in, she asked Gao Lao to pick out a sentence, but then she said so many words, she almost forgot how Man Qing answered at that time, and she didn't want Gao Lao to be really there, and coughed dryly to express her dissatisfaction with them - the majesty of Xiucai Gong immediately turned Osmanthus into a little white rabbit, she stopped, craned her neck to look back, and motioned for Man Qing to answer.
Man Qing knew what Gao Lao meant by this. His robe was almost dirty into a rag, and he couldn't shake it in a chic way for a long time, so although he didn't want to pay attention to her, he still coughed dryly to signal Manqing to work.
In fact, there is another meaning in Gao Lao's dry cough: remember to come back at noon to cook lunch! But he is a talented old man, and he is embarrassed to put these vulgar three meals a day on his mouth, so he can only hope that Chai has taught a smart and clever daughter, who can draw inferences from others and know what he wants to say.
Of course Manqing knew, but she would be a fool if she thought she knew. So she continued to walk forward without looking back, and beckoned to the osmanthus as she went, "Go, go, don't stand in my way! We have to hurry, or the sun will be strong in a while, and the sun will die!"
"But--high-ahem, what should I do?"
"What to do? You still don't think you're dark enough, and if you dry it again, you'll be charcoal!"
Black is the death hole of osmanthus, she is most afraid that others will dislike her black, and she is afraid that it will be black again, so she instantly put Gao Lao aside and said, "Then let's go quickly." Let's say okay first, you're not afraid of the sun, give me the location under the willow tree!"
"No problem, let's go!"
Seeing the two dead girls walking out without talking or laughing, Gao Lao was so angry that his beard almost stood up: why did their Gao family have such an unfilial girl, it was really-really angry with him!
Angry, he really has nothing to do. Thinking that he might be hungry again at noon, he decided to go to the kitchen and take a look at it, and if there was anything to eat, he would have to prepare something.
After washing the clothes, Man Qing and Osmanthus looked at the three blue clothes and were a little worried: there is no place to dry!
In the front yard of Gao's house, there are stone tables and chairs, small rockery and pebble paths, and grape trellises with crooked neck jujube trees, but there is no clothespole, because Gao Lao thinks that it is unelegant and will destroy the scenery of a yard - Man Qing can ignore it, she directly took out two hemp ropes from a side room where sundries were placed, pulled them on the grape trellis and the jujube tree, and conjured up three clotheslines, and then the cloth in the yard was dried.
When Gao Lao came out of the study again, he saw that a good yard had become like this, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
He doesn't speak, but someone else speaks.
Man Qing thought that Osmanthus had done so much work, and she still had to entertain her at noon. But as soon as I entered the kitchen, there was a fire: the kitchen was turned into a mess like a thief, and a few freshly washed dishes were touched with a few handprints - at a glance you knew which person had read the book in the dog's belly had done it!
Man Qing thought that the kitchen that had been busy all morning had become like this again, and as soon as the anger came, he began to curse loudly in the direction of the square: "Where did the damn rat come from, he always runs to the kitchen to steal something to eat!
Gao Lao's face was flushed, and he shrank in the room, not daring to go out at all.