Old Man Chen was startled, and he rarely shouted to the little girl he had always loved: "Why are you grinding your teeth?" How can you be an adult and let two dolls grind their teeth! "Wen Yan's temperament he knows, when the mother is returned to the child, presumably he sent Qi Ping into the house and turned around to go outside to chop firewood when the two dolls grinded their teeth, I don't know when he opened the door, when he went out is the river and the river is the wilderness, a bridge on the left, a beam on the right, his small body runs, and he may not turn to where to go.

Wen Yan's second piece of meat had not yet been swallowed, and after eating this, the meat slipped to the throat and choked and hiccuped, and Mrs. Chen glanced at her husband: "Don't you just grind your teeth twice, the children's temperament is bigger." Scooped a bowl of hot tea and poured it for Wen Yan, patting her on the back like a child. Old Man Chen trembled angrily, and immediately dropped his chopsticks, Sister Chun knew that she sprinkled a pot of lamp oil on Qi Ping's body, and let her mother protect her, and only then did she start to be afraid, pouting and not daring to say anything.

"I thought he was going to a private school, but he slipped out of the door with his schoolbag on his back, so I didn't call him." Wen Yan saw that Old Man Chen dropped his chopsticks, and she was nervous, and she swallowed along the meat, and she rolled her eyes fiercely when she choked.

Mrs. Chen rubbed her back in distress, and Old Man Chen raised and lowered: "You don't know if he didn't eat, he didn't eat any private school." Seeing that her husband was really angry, Mrs. Chen stepped up and hugged Sister Chun, stared at Old Man Chen, and scolded Wen Yan with half-truths and half-truths: "You are stupid, he grinds his teeth with Sister Chun, why don't you tell your father, you see that he ran away, it seems that it is all Sister Chun's fault, what does her child know." After a trip, relatives have to go home with a stomach. ”

Mrs. Chen's words pushed back the rest of her husband's words, her granddaughter is a guest, and even if she grinds her teeth with Qi Ping, she can't be born to reprimand her.

The family didn't eat anymore, so they all went out to look for it. Old Man Chen went to the private school in person, and he didn't dare to publicize it, for fear that Qi An would be upset if he found out. Carrying Qi An on his back, he found a child who was the same age as Qi Ping and inquired. The kid looked around the private school, and even searched all over the rockery, saying that Qi Ping hadn't come back since he got out of school. When he saw Huang Xiucai, he only said that Qi Ping was hot. After taking a half-day off, I didn't dare to say that Qi Ping was lost, Huang Xiucai took it seriously, and asked his daughter Dragonfly to send a bowl of ginger soup.

Every house searched for it. The mountains and fields also shouted again, but there was no one to see. Zhang's mouth quickly said: "Don't tell Huazi to turn around." ”

In a word, Mrs. Chen's face also changed. This is not a thing, there is a half-grown child in the next village, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, he secretly ran to the town to see the lights, and in a panic, he was taken away. It has not been recovered. The big house is not as good as in the past, if Qi Ping is really abducted, I am afraid that the first one of the Li family will not spare Wen Yan. I thought about it. attracted Zhang's reprimand, and made her purse her mouth to the truth. It must not be revealed that Qi Ping and Sister Chun grinded their teeth.

Da Dan and Qi Ping are playing together on weekdays, and when he heard that he was abducted, he only thought it was true, so he was so frightened that he cried, shouting all the way along the official road, and happened to meet Chen Zifu and Cai, who came back from the town with a tofu burden.

Hearing that Qi Ping was lost, the three-room couple was frightened. Cai Shi was full of self-blame, she delivered food to her husband at noon, and after leaving for a while, Qi Ping disappeared, but whenever she was at home, there would be no such leak. The three of them returned to the town together to look for it, and shouted all over the town, but they still didn't find Qi Ping.

Chen Qiping was spilled with lamp oil knocked over by Sister Chun, and my clothes, pants and shoes were soaked, but fortunately, the lamp oil was not very hot, but Rao was like that, and his legs and arms were still red. He felt wronged, so he walked out of the yard with his schoolbag on his back, and stood at the gate of the courtyard to see the wildflowers on both sides of the Xiaohuai River. After standing through the door for a while, he spread his legs and ran towards the bank of the river.

He rolled up his pants and went down to the river to pick up small crabs, picked reeds, picked wild chrysanthemums, knitted garlands and put them on his head, he still remembered catching crabs and selling them with his second sister last year. After playing for a while, I remembered my mother and second sister who went to Xuzhou Mansion, and felt that it was boring, so I walked slowly from the river bank to the official road, and walked towards the town.

The town is lively, some people wipe the copper plate to buy pear juice to drink, and there are also those who play spinning tops under the cool shade of the big tree, and when the play rises, bursts of laughter spread far and wide.

Qi Ping squatted on the wall and watched other children play spinning tops, clapping his hands as he watched. A little boy with a ducktail beckoned to Qi Ping, handed him the whip, and threw the top on the ground, allowing him to make a few laps.

"You go to school." The child saw him carrying a schoolbag and asked while collecting the top.

"yes." Qi Ping handed him the whip.

"I'm going to eat at home, and I'm coming to play when you get out of school." The boy enthusiastically invited him.

When the children went back, Qi Ping continued to walk down the street with his schoolbag on his back.

There is the shouting of the candy balls, the new hawthorn in the autumn, big and round, the vendor uses a knife to rip off the kernels inside, one by one on the bamboo skewers, boiled the syrup in the hot pot, put the sugar balls that are worn into strings into the pot and are covered with sugar, and the handle made of wheat straw is full of strings of sugar balls wrapped in syrup.

Qi Ping likes to eat sugar balls the most, he has not eaten a few times in the past, but now the family can afford to eat it, Li Shi instead makes up for him to eat it often, the sugar is easy to melt, and the sticky sticky is not easy to clean on the clothes, but he buys him a string every once in a while and is addicted.

Qi Ping saw that many children were holding money to buy it, this sugar ball was cheap, a string of pennies, a string of ten, and it could be eaten for half a day. He stood in front of the candy ball stall and watched it for a long time, swallowing dry saliva and not being able to find the money. The owner of the candy ball seller was an uncle with a beard, smiling and white-toothed, seeing that other children had candy balls to eat, he didn't, so he handed him a string with a smile, and others thought that Qi Ping was his child.

Qi Ping took the candy ball and greeted the uncle who sold the candy ball: "Uncle, you are here every day, next time I will ask my mother to send you money." ”

The uncle smiled and continued to wrap the sugar ball, seeing that he was carrying a schoolbag and a clean clothes sprinkled with lamp oil, he just thought he was a naughty person, so he teased him: "It's from the school, hurry up to the school, beware of the master's palm." ”

Qi Ping held the candy ball. Lick the syrup on his head with his tongue, pull the syrup out of the elder, walk all the way and see, swaying his body and swaying his schoolbag behind his buttocks, he still remembers his aunt's house, and when he walked to the front street grocery store and saw no one, he walked crookedly around the front street and walked to the back street.

The backstreets are just as lively as the front streets. Shops are open to welcome customers. Through the curtain of the door, I saw a man cutting roast chicken and cutting cloth. There is a new daughter-in-law who is picking a hairpin one by one. The cobblestones on the backstreet road protruded, and the friction was sleek and smooth, and Qi Ping walked all the way and kicked it as a juju.

He didn't eat lunch, and he got hungry as soon as he ate the candy ball. The street noodle shop was full of people. The steamed dumplings in the drawer are steaming, and the fragrance can be smelled before the basket is opened. The young man had a white towel on his shoulder, and with a smile on his face, he beckoned the guest officer to come in. Next to it, there was a large iron pot on the big stove, and the lid of the pot was lifted and white gas came out. The aroma of fried buns in the pan sprayed all over the face.

Chen Qiping swallowed his saliva and paced through the back street.

Turning an alley, I entered Willow Branch Alley. Chen Qiping looked ahead and knew that his embroidery workshop was inside.

I'm tired of walking. stood in front of the embroidery workshop, and just wanted to knock on the door, he was hugged by a person: "Qi Ping, why are you here?" ”

The person who hugged him was Xu, she and Wen Ying were in charge of the embroidery girl's daily meals, and as soon as she came from the vegetable vendor on the front street, she saw a half-sized boy standing in front of the embroidery workshop, and when she got closer, she saw that it was Qi Ping.

"Auntie." Qi Ping hadn't seen Xu for a long time, but he knew that Xu was Zhao Yiming's mother, Zhao Yiming treated him as his own brother, and Aunt Xu loved him the same.

"Why did you come here and not go to the private school?" Xu knew that Li went to Xuzhou Mansion, but he didn't know why Qi Ping came to the embroidery workshop, and he saw that one of his legs was rolled up, and half of his body was lamp oil.

Qi Ping was asked by the Xu family, how young he was, and the grievances he received in the upper room were all about it, from how Wen Yan didn't give him his candy, how Sister Chun lost her temper and kicked over the lamp oil, and how he got to the town to smoke and hook up.

"Why is it so hot, fortunately the lamp oil is not hot, otherwise it will be blistered and inflamed?" Xu took Qi Ping into the embroidery workshop, found an empty room to sit in, opened his trousers and saw a red, fortunately he was not burned, and boiled water with honeysuckle to wipe his legs. She knew about the Chen family's house, so she scolded immediately, "Black-hearted seed, he is your own nephew, and he treats him like this." ”

Knowing that Qi Ping hadn't eaten yet, he paid his private money to buy half a roast chicken, half a basket of steamed dumplings and half a basket of fried buns for him to eat. After Qi Ping finished eating, he looked at the sky, it was already half an afternoon, and he was only afraid of getting out of school when he went to the private school. Qi Ping walked all the way and was tired of playing all the way, and his eyelids were fighting, so Xu let him sleep.

Xu waited until Qi Ping fell asleep before going to Maoshan Village to report the news, and the family in the upper room was tired of looking for Qi Ping. Old Man Chen fell down on the chair angrily and gasped, his hands trembled and he couldn't hold the cigarette pouch, Wen Yan hugged Sister Chun and shrank next to Old Lady Chen, she only knew that she was afraid at this time.

Xu slapped the door hard, and his voice lit up: "Is there anyone in the Chen family?" ”

Cai's heard that she hurriedly went over to open the door, she always sent tofu to the embroidery workshop, and was familiar with Xu's, and when she came in, she said: "Sister-in-law can see Qiping from the town." ”

Xu smiled and said, "I'm not here to report the news, Qi Ping went to the embroidery workshop." ”

Cai's immediately patted his chest and chanted the Buddha, Xu didn't care about the reaction of everyone in the room, and didn't care whether the neighbors could hear it, so he immediately opened his voice and sang: "How old a person is Qiping, I don't know what anger I suffered, and I walked all the way to the embroidery workshop." As soon as I asked, it turned out to be Sister Chun's fight, that sister was really powerful, poured the lamp oil on Qi Ping's body and face, her legs were hot and swollen, and she invited Lang Zhong to drink medicine, and now she sleeps in the embroidery workshop. ”

The shouting could be heard by the whole village, and the leg injury was deliberately exaggerated, and the faces of Wen Yan and Mrs. Chen turned green.

Old man Chen knew that it must be Wen Yan and Sister Chun who gave him anger, so he ran out, Wen Yan said that he was grinding his teeth, and he didn't mention half of the lamp oil, his eyes were skimmed, and the lamp oil on the table was half gone, and he didn't pay attention to it just now, but now he smelled the smell of lamp oil all over the house, and when Old Man Chen heard that his grandson was taken care of by Xu, he hurriedly invited her to sit in the house, and Xu waved his hand: "I still have to go to the embroidery workshop, Qi Pingxi didn't eat lunch, and his hungry chest was attached to his back, so big buns ate a cage." ”

In one sentence, Old Man Chen said that he was full of guilt, and his house full of people could not withstand the concern of a person with a foreign surname to Qi Ping.

If it is said that Wen Yan has the heart to burn Qi Ping, she doesn't have the courage yet, but partiality is always there, in the final analysis, it is not her own flesh and blood, if Sister Chun is burned, Wen Yan and Mrs. Chen may not know how to make a fuss.

Xu went out of the door of Chen's house without drinking a sip of tea, and Cai's was relieved, so he took Xueyan and followed him to the embroidery workshop.

Wen Yan saw that the matter was poked out, and he hugged Sister Chun and didn't dare to say anything. Old Man Chen didn't say anything, waved his hand for everyone to eat, and Zhang went to the stove to reheat the food and brought it up. Mrs. Chen breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, as long as Qi Ping was not lost, it was not a big deal, the lamp oil was hot and it didn't burn much, Sister Chun is her granddaughter, and her husband can't beat her granddaughter.

immediately beckoned Wen Yan and Sister Chun to dinner, Wen Yan also knew that she was a married daughter, and she was a guest at home, no matter how much mistake she made, there was no reason to fight, not to mention that Qi Ping was not lost, and her heart was put down at the moment. There was a fish on the table, and the big egg sandwiched the meat from the fish's stomach and put it in his bowl, Wen Yan was unhappy and shouted, "You also deserve this piece of meat?" ”

With a "snap", Old Man Chen put down his chopsticks and raised his hand to give Wen Yan a slap. (To be continued)