Chapter 50: Lively

86_86276Jack, who wanders around the village, has opened the eyes of the villagers who have only heard of his name, and has shown great tolerance to the Mandarin villagers who are full of his tongue.

A few children happily followed Jack, and everyone wanted to tease him to say a few words, although none of them spoke bird language, but foreigners who could speak bird language did not speak Mandarin very well.

Seeing that he couldn't understand, Jack was also happy to explain with his hands and feet.

I think my child is too skinny, for fear of annoying foreign friends, after all, the family is tall and tall there, and it looks very scary, and the parents are very happy to stuff their own things into Jack's hands, red persimmons on the branches, red and sweet apples, and pears with thin skin and flesh, and Jack is not afraid of being dirty and peeled and ate a persimmon.

"Hmm......" Jack's whole face was wrinkled together, although the persimmon was already a little soft, but the entrance was still very astringent, it was difficult for him to describe his bad mood at this time, a string of wow-wow-wow-wow, several children looked at him in a daze, and looked at each other as birds and beasts.

It's scary for this foreigner to have his eyebrows and eyes furrowed together, and his mouth can speak so quickly.

"Jack, how are you feeling?" Xia Ruo handed the water scoop handed by the aunt at the door to Jack and asked him to rinse his mouth, and he was a little embarrassed to see his pitiful appearance of squeezing out tears, after all, Jack didn't know, but she knew that the persimmon was not sweet enough to eat.

"Natsu, this taste, the tongue is numb......" Jack rinsed his mouth and felt much better, and hugged the pear that was about to slide down because of his movements.

"Astringent, persimmons are not fully ripe and will feel astringent in the mouth, this can be taken back and put together with apples or bananas, and you can eat it in a few days, I can ask my mother to make persimmon cakes for you, especially delicious." Xia Ruo helped him share a few persimmons and freed his hands.

Jack nodded happily, raised his right hand and looked at the water scoop in his hand, "This container is very special, is it made of wood?" ”

"No, it's a vine plant that grows, and when it's young, you can stir-fry and eat it, you can call him a gourd, and when you're old, you can dry it and hollow out the things inside to make this kind of scoop for water." I'm afraid that Jack won't understand, Xia Ruo said this sentence in English.

"Amazing......" Jack looked at the container in his hand in surprise, it turned out to be a vine plant, it was amazing, "Scoop, very good, very powerful." ”

The peasant aunt had long been amused by Jack's expression, a water scoop was still a rare thing, and seeing that he was going to return it, she hurriedly waved her hand and made a gesture to him.

Jack thanked him again and again, Xia Ruo was really enthusiastic about the people in the village, and put the dates and persimmons given by the villagers into the water scoop, and Jack smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth.

When the two of them got home, Zhao Lan had already prepared a meal and waited, because Xia Ruo's teacher came, Zhao Lan specially went to the store to buy some beef and cut it with shredded green onions, and picked some eggplants, green peppers, and cucumbers in her yard, and steamed eggplants and cold salad, cucumber cold salad, and green peppers were also shredded and mixed with soy sauce, after all, it was summer, and I was afraid that the foreign teacher would have no appetite.

Stir-fried shredded potatoes and tomatoes and eggs filled the table with fresh colors, even if it was a small dish from the farmhouse, it was appetizing.

Xia Mingming hurriedly came back from outside with a bucket of drinks, and saw that Teacher Yang was still talking to Zhao Lan in the kitchen before she was relieved to find a cup, how could she be left behind in the matter of eating.

After all, there is no man in the family, although he is Xia Ruo's teacher, in order to avoid suspicion, it is not appropriate for him to live in his own home, so Jack was arranged in Fang Fang's family in the backyard, Fang Fang's man Xia Dajun is very happy to communicate with this foreigner, and Zhao Lan also asked Xia Ruo to call him to accompany Teacher Jack to eat at noon.

The peasant family is hospitable, eating without drinking, and drinking without drinking is not hospitality, so Xia Dajun put on a posture of drinking from the sea, which scared Jack, and hurriedly waved his hand to say no. In the end, it was replaced with beer for liquor, and the two of them were quite happy to drink it.

At the dinner table, Zhao Lan didn't have anything to say, so she sandwiched a few chopsticks and dishes for her two daughters, and only after a simple two-bite meal did she hear someone shouting at her door.

At this time, it was time to eat, and the very quiet surroundings were agitated because of this shout, and Xia Ruo's little dog barked and pounced on the door.

"Blackie, come back." Xia Ruo shouted, and the voice outside the door didn't know that it was Yang Qinqin, who was going to deal with her.

"What's the matter with my sister-in-law?" Zhao Lan opened the door in the past, and spoke very politely, Xiaomeng's leg was injured a while ago, Fang Fang went to her sister-in-law's house to ask for medical expenses after returning home from the county, and her sister-in-law was a money-keeper, and the two had a big quarrel in the east of the village, and in the end they took part of the money.

Yang Qinqin suffered a loss in money, and she always thought that the third and fourth children were not kind, taking advantage of their own family, and they didn't say bad things behind their backs, and they didn't look at it when they met.

If she doesn't deal with her, Fang Fang can't wait to be the other party is air than her.

However, everyone in the village knows that Xia Ruo's family has a foreign teacher, can Yang Qinqin's lively personality miss this opportunity?

"It's nothing, I heard that there was a guest at home, why didn't I call your eldest brother to accompany me, don't let people say that our old Xia family is not sensible." Yang Qinqin entered the door as she spoke, she used to give people a big hat, and as soon as she said that Zhao Lan was wrong, she usually came to her relatives' house, and she had never seen her so enthusiastic, she only accepted things and did not leave people, and she was a sister-in-law who did it.

Thinking of this, Xia Ruo was angry, when she came to her relatives during the Chinese New Year last year, she just said that she didn't prepare anything at home, so she asked her uncle to bring someone to Zhao Lan's house for dinner, and she could really do it.

She has always been thick-skinned, just like now she was ignoring it yesterday, but today she can come to the door and sit in the living room where people are entertaining.

Yang Qinqin looked at Jack very impolitely, even if Jack was wide-hearted, he moved the stool a little uncomfortably.

Xia Dajun listened to his daughter-in-law all day long, and he was a little awkward in the face of this sister-in-law, and he and Jack buried themselves in drinking and eating, and the speed was much faster.

"What is this foreign teacher called? What if you also poured a glass of water for your aunt? Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Yang Qinqin immediately mobilized people.

"If you call him Teacher Jack." Zhao Lan glanced at her second daughter while talking.

Xia Ruo reluctantly poured a glass of water and put it in front of Yang Qinqin, and went to his room after eating the rice in his bowl.

"Where is Mr. Jack's house, America?" There are so many foreign countries, Yang Qinqin doesn't know a few, and the United States is the one that appears the most in the news broadcast, so she remembers it the most.

"How can we ask this, Teacher Jack doesn't speak Mandarin very well, and we can't understand it." Zhao Lan explained softly, seeing that Teacher Jack didn't react much, she probably didn't understand, and she was a little relieved.

"You just have a lot of things, you are Ruoruo's teacher, why can't you ask, do you want to take Ruoruo to study abroad because of Ruoruo's good grades?" Speaking of this, Yang Qinqin's eyes lit up, she hasn't gone far yet, if she can go out to a foreign country all at once, it won't be beautiful, if not, it's okay to find a job for her own man, aren't foreign wages quite high?

"Sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense, Teacher Jack is teaching in a key middle school, and Ruoruo won't go abroad." Going to school in the county Zhao Lan thinks that the child is far away from her, where would she agree to Xia Ruo to study abroad, and this is completely Yang Qinqin's own idea, if Teacher Jack understands, maybe what to think of their family.

"Why can't you think about it, you're just too timid." Yang Qinqin can't see that Zhao Lan is afraid of anything, and she can't enjoy happiness. "What does Mr. Jack want to eat, we have everything in our house, go to our house to play?"

"Teacher Jack is leaving tomorrow." Yang Qinqin's appearance was too urgent, and Zhao Lan hurriedly explained, and she said something that she couldn't get by.

Yang Qinqin's face immediately became bad, and her feelings were in vain.