Tu Ba Mei said with a sincere face: "I will give it to you sincerely, you will accept it steadily, if it weren't for your mother and son to help me today, I might still be worried about guarding a few big boards of tofu that can't be sold." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Then, then I'll take it." Aunt He took out the money bag sewn on the waistband of her trousers, carefully rolled the money and stuffed it in, smoothed the placket, she remembered something, Jiang Fuhai specially told her when she went out in the morning, "Gu Ran's mother, what, I have something to tell you." ”

Tu Bamei happily used a rubber band to wrap the bills of different denominations, and she didn't raise her head when she heard the words, "What's the matter, let's talk about it." ”

"It's such a thing, Sichun Ta Da said, this girl has to have a ceremony. We countrymen have a lot of broken etiquette, don't be surprised. ”

"Oh," Tu Ba Mei raised her eyes to look at Aunt He, "then what does Brother Jiang want?" ”

Aunt He smiled and said, "He didn't think about anything, he just asked me to ask you, he wanted you to take Sister Ran to my house for a meal on Sunday, so that Sister Ran could meet the brothers above." You see...... Can it work? ”

Tu Ba Mei thought that she would have to engage in a big battle, eat a meal, and recognize people, why not? Readily agreed, "This is as it should be, I also wanted to pick a day to take her to your house and recognize all the family members." Then this Sunday afternoon, I will ask my eldest to send her and the seventh child here. When the time comes, I will take them with you, they will be inseparable when they are young, and if you only take the eighth child to the seventh child, she will cry endlessly at home. ”

Lao Qi Gu Xi is Tu Bamei's heart, no matter what happens, she can't forget Lao Qi, but Lao Qi is missing.

Tu Bamei arrived home at a few minutes after four o'clock, usually Gu Xi and Gu Ran either played in front of the house or at home, if she played at home, as long as she shouted, Gu Xi would fly out like a bird and throw herself into her arms. But today there was Gu Ran alone at the door of the house, she didn't know where to pick up a glass bead, squatting on the edge of the ditch with her back to Tu Bamei, and pressing the glass beads vigorously into the soft mud, there was already a messy string of glass bead holes at her feet.

"Sissy, why are you alone?"

Hearing Tu Bamei's voice, Gu Ranteng got up and turned his head, staring at Tu Bamei who came over with dark eyes.

"Look at you, you're dirty, I've been following your ass all day to help you wash your clothes." Tu Bamei glanced her up and down in disgust, and then glanced into the room, "Where is Xixi?" Where did she go? ”

Gu Ran lowered his head and rubbed the mud stuck to the glass beads, and his voice revealed a little grievance, "Donglian said hide and seek, and then ...... And then I just, I couldn't find them...... It's gone. ”

"Your name is Winter Lotus? That's your fifth sister, no big or small, will make people say that you don't have a tutor, you can't call your name in the future, do you know? Tu Bamei said and raised her feet into the house, regardless of whether she listened or not.

The fourth Gu Chunfang was reading in the back room, and the sixth Gu Qiushui was not at home, the school had finished the exam a few days earlier for the summer vacation, and this afternoon to take the report card and summer vacation homework, Tu Bamei thought that Gu Xi must be the fifth and sixth children to lead the play, so she didn't take it to heart. After entering the house, she first went to the pigsty to take a turn, and picked some long beans and tomatoes and peppers and other side dishes in the field, and returned to the kitchen She sat on a small bench to choose vegetables, glanced at the fourth child through the window of the back room, and began to chatter, "I know how to read all day long, I don't say how the business is when I contract the tofu house the day before, a girl will take the secondary school teacher exam and have a formal job in the future, and she has to go to high school." Graduated early and helped the family early, and was not sensible at all. ”

The fourth child sat in front of the bed, staring at the book, and asked casually, "How is the business today?" ”

"Do you want to ask now? I don't like to tell you yet! Tu Ba Mei felt that her tone was too perfunctory, she had a temper in her heart, and if she had a temper, she would have to find something for her, "Go, carry Lao Ba to the water pipe and wash her face and hands." ”

The fourth child knew the consequences if she disobeyed the order, so she got up and tore off a towel on the wire in the outhouse, and came out to take Gu Ran to the water pipe. The fourth child unscrewed the water faucet and bent down to rub the towel, not beware, Gu Ran suddenly tugged at the hem of her clothes, leaned over and stretched out a hand to block the water faucet. Immediately, the water splashed and sprayed the fourth child's face, and Gu Ran laughed happily.

"No wonder Mom doesn't like you, it's so annoying!" The fourth child wiped his face, wrung out the towel and wiped his face for Gu Ran angrily, Gu Ran's head kept twisting, shouting that she had hurt herself. "Then I'll ask my mother to wash you, okay?" Gu Ran shook his head, "Don't!" The fourth said, "Then you can be honest, and if you make trouble again, I'll call my mother." ”

After washing her face and hands, the fourth child saw that there was mud in the nail cover of Gu Ran's big toe, she frowned, squatted down and hugged Gu Ran to her lap and sat down, just took off her right sandals and heard a noise on the opposite road, and then saw a few old men and old ladies running from the front door of Yu Yuehong's house, shouting all the way down in their mouths, and vaguely heard that there was a child who ran to swim in the reservoir of Xiaguzhai and drowned.

The fourth child has always been deaf to the things outside the window and indifferent to them, washed Gu Ran's feet, she took her back, and when she walked to the door, the sixth Gu Qiushui also came back.

"What about Donglian and Xixi, aren't they with you?" The fourth asked casually.

Qiushui shook his head and said; "I was doing my summer homework with my classmates, so I didn't go with them."

The fourth said "oh" and told Gu Ran not to play in the mud and went back to the house to continue reading. Qiushui followed up in the back room, took off her schoolbag, and took out her report card, when she first entered the house, she saw Tu Bamei's cloth bag hanging behind the bed tent in the outhouse, and knew that Tu Bamei was back. She walked to the kitchen and didn't see Tu Bamei, and was about to ask the fourth child, when she heard Tu Bamei talking to someone in the vegetable garden behind, and heard the voice Tu Bamei coming to the kitchen.

Tu Ba Mei went to the vegetable garden to pick some green beans, and after she came in, Qiushui handed over the report card.

"How many points did you get?" Tu Bamei didn't pick up her report card, glanced at her hand and walked straight to the outhouse. "Where's Sissy?" She didn't see it in the outhouse, and Gu Xi turned around and asked Qiushui.

Knowing that Qiushui was not with Lao Wu and Gu Xi, Tu Bamei took the report card from her hand and told her to look for it. In this family, the fifth and sixth scales are inseparable, and the fifth leaves the sixth to take Gu Xi out to play without Gu Ran, which makes her feel a little strange.

The sixth Gu Qiushui looked around outside, and came back and said that he didn't see them.

"Where is the death, I won't peel off her skin when I look back!" Tu Bamei stood by the stove and was choosing green beans, there were dishes in the basin on the side, and she came out with the basin after choosing green beans, and the fourth Gu Chunfang glanced at her and said; "Earlier, I heard someone shouting that it looked like a child had drowned in the reservoir of Xiaguzhai."

"What?" When Tu Bamei heard this, her face changed, she put down the basin and ran out, "Xixi!" She put her hands together and looked around and called out to Gu Xi loudly, "Have you searched all the villages?" She turned around and asked Qiushui who had followed her out.