Chapter 6 The Humanistic Relations of the Fair
It turned out that the rice soup that Liu gave her before was boiled from polished rice, no wonder she didn't notice that it tasted wrong. Bai Jiaojiao had mixed feelings in her heart. So she decided to have a good relationship with her neighbors first, and she couldn't hide from people anymore. "Hello auntie."
"Hey." Aunt Wang answered and immediately looked at the beautiful white girl in front of her in surprise, although she was wearing a half-old green cotton folded skirt, but the whole person was as tender as the green onion. "Whose little lady is this?"
"Auntie, I'm Sanniang." Bai Jiaojiao smiled.
Aunt Wang was stunned, and looked at it carefully twice, with surprise. "Are you Kyauk-kyao? Are you all cured? ”
"Sister met the fairy, and the fairy cured Sister A's illness." Ah Lian said proudly, their family is blessed by the gods.
"Ah Lian said nonsense, my aunt also knew that my illness was not a serious illness in the first place, and she had an accident by hiding at home all the time. This time, it may be that the doctor's medicine is effective, so it is almost better. Bai Jiaojiao thought about getting closer and explained.
"That's a good man." Aunt Wang was a little embarrassed. "Jiaojiao, you see that my aunt's mouth shouldn't be said, don't take what you said just now."
"My aunt has been helping our family, and I'm really causing you trouble." Bai Jiaojiao took two eggs and held them in the palm of his hand. "There are no good things at home, this is the egg I just picked up, so I should exchange these sweet potatoes with your aunt."
"I can't do it." Aunt Wang shirked it, seeing that although she had a lot of sweet potatoes to suppress her hunger, they were actually left out for a long time and no one had eaten them.
"Yes, you've taken care of us for so long." Bai Jiaojiao pretended to be angry. "A-Niang also said that she will have more help from her aunt in the future, does her aunt think that this egg is not sincere enough? Then I won't dare to accept these sweet potatoes from you. ”
"Oh, you girl, forget it, can't my aunt accept it?" Aunt Wang had no choice but to accept it, but she praised Bai Jiaojiao again and again.
After sending Aunt Wang away, Bai Jiaojiao took Ah Bao to carry sweet potatoes inside, and Ah Bao was reluctant to think about it. "Eggs, eggs."
"Sister, those two eggs." Ah Lian was also a little distressed, it was the only one in the family who could add food.
Bai Jiaojiao smiled. "Ah Lian, my aunt has helped us so much, should we repay her too?"
"Hmm."
"If you help people so many times and don't get any good, will you still do your best to help?" Even if they did, they wouldn't be so concerned. Eggs are precious to them, but they don't starve to death if they don't have them. But without these sweet potatoes, they risk starving to death.
Aunt Wang is one of the few families in the village who are willing to make friends with their family, and this relationship cannot be broken, let alone blindly ask for help because of poverty. She believed that the two eggs would be more valuable in exchange.
Ah Lian nodded and shook her head in understanding, although she didn't understand it yet, she always felt that what Sister Ah said made sense.
Only Ah Bao is still innocent and full of eggs, pitiful and sad. "Po also wants to eat eggs."
"Po hasn't eaten eggs for a long time?"
"A-Niang said that the eggs should be exchanged for money......"
Bai Jiaojiao sighed, indeed, after selling eggs, maybe the whole family can still have enough to eat. "Sister and you promise that you will have eggs to eat every day in the future, okay?"
"Really?"
"Well, let's pull hook, and Ah Lian also has it." Not just eggs, but others. Bai Jiaojiao said secretly in his heart.
It was almost noon, Liu hurried back to cook on the fire, after seeing so many sweet potatoes on the pot, he was taken aback, and then asked the reason and went to Aunt Wang's house to thank him.
Bai Jiaojiao saw that Liu Shi entered the kitchen without saying a word, and followed in.
Liu, who was squatting in front of the stove and lighting the fire, thought about it and decided to burn a sweet potato paste. "How did you get in?"
"I want to help A-Niang, A-Niang doesn't have to work so hard."
"You still have to rest well to get better, you don't have to do these things." Liu thought about it and pushed her out.
"I'm not one of those rich little ladies, where are I so squeamish." The Liu family really raised her as tofu.
Liu's eyes immediately turned red when he heard this. "It's A-Niang who is sorry for you, you shouldn't suffer these hardships, A-Niang is useless."
Bai Jiaojiao immediately grabbed Liu's arm and coquettishly. "Auntie, don't cry, I don't feel hard." At the bottom of my heart, I wondered, I don't know why Liu is so stubborn, it seems that he has always spoiled Bai Sanniang since he was a child, and he didn't let her do anything compared to his younger siblings, so that this body was quite weak.
But that's not a good thing for her, and her priority is to fit in and change all that.
So after soaking for a while, she reluctantly persuaded Liu to allow her to stay in the kitchen, but she was still not allowed to do anything like splitting and starting a fire.
"Mother heard Aunt Wang say that you exchanged eggs for those sweet potatoes?"
Bai Jiaojiao was afraid that she would be unhappy, so she asked tentatively. "Auntie, is there anything wrong with what I did?"
"No, no, Kyaukjiao has grown up, and A-Niang is happy." Liu lowered his eyes and sighed to himself, and stopped asking. Even Bai Jiaojiao, whose eyes had been glued to her, couldn't see what she was thinking.
After eating lunch, Liu immediately packed two more servings and sent them to Bai Father and Bai Hua. The three sisters and brothers sat leisurely on the white broken bed board to eat.
Bai Lian'er bit her lip in distress, but the little person's eyebrows were wrinkled, and she said it herself without waiting for Bai Jiaojiao to ask her. "The sweet potatoes and rice given by my aunt are only enough for a few meals for our family, Sister, I won't eat dinner."
"Nonsense, you two are still growing your body, how can you skip eating." Including herself, although she didn't eat well, she was hungry if she didn't eat a meal.
The top priority is to make money, "Ah Lian, how much silver do we have in our family?" ”
"The money is all in A-Niang's." Ah Lian naturally didn't know, so she climbed out of bed and picked at the corner for a long time. "This is given by A-Niang."
The money that the three of them save every year for the Chinese New Year is hidden in Ah Lian's place, and no one usually uses it, but there are only twelve copper plates when they count over and over again.
Is she going to rely on these twelve copper plates to start a family, the girl with outstanding looks stood in front of the window with her hands behind her back, tears streaming down her heart, how can she still worry about her life in this life.
"Kyauk-kyao, Ah Lian." A gust of wind broke in, and Bai Jiaojiao immediately held the twelve copper plates tightly in the palm of his hand, and the miser attribute exploded.
"Second brother, what are you doing in such a hurry?"
Bai Hua, who didn't know that he was being treated as a thief, didn't notice his sister's abnormality, but just raised the bowl on the table and poured a large sip of cold water. "Is A-Niang at home?"
"A-Niang just delivered you food." That's her bowl! Calm on the outside, Bai Jiaojiao, who roared inside, rolled his eyes.
Her brother never knew what the difference between men and women was, but she was twelve years old! He looked down at his chest and twisted his face silently.
"It's miserable." Bai Hua slapped his thigh, "Kyaukyao, you quickly take Bao Alian to hide." ”
"Are you in trouble again?" The Bai family has two evils, one is that she is weak and sick and loses money and goods, and the other is this benevolent brother, who provokes life and is not a little overlord.
Bai Hua suddenly looked sad when he heard this, "You are my most intimate and beautiful sister, how can you say this about your second brother, I am not causing trouble, they are here to provoke me." ”
Yes, it seems that it is really in trouble again.
"White birch, you come out for me."