At this time, there was a knock on the door, Qiao Yi stretched out his head to look, and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy standing at the door, he was dressed in blue, with beautiful eyebrows, and a basket in his hand standing a little shyly.

Qiao Cheng hurriedly went out and responded: "Eh, is this little brother looking for someone?" Doesn't it look like a person from our village? ”

The young man smiled embarrassedly: "Yes, my parents and I just moved in from other places, and we just moved into Wanjia Village today, my name is Lin Shi, uncle, you can call me Xiaolin." As soon as he finished speaking, he put the basket in his hand on the pier: "This is what my father and mother asked me to send here, I just moved in, and I should visit the neighbors." ”

Qiao Cheng saw that he hurriedly pushed and refused, but Lin Shi insisted on leaving something, and in the end, Qiao Cheng still accepted the basket and invited Lin Shi and his parents to come to Qiao's house as a guest at night.

As soon as Lin Shi left, Zhang hurriedly asked, "Whose child is this, it looks very raw?" ”

Qiao Cheng put the basket on the table before replying: "I said that I was newly moved, so I sat next door, called Lin Shi, and my parents asked him to come and visit." ”

"Just moved in? Then there is only the old house of the old Zhang family next door? The Zhang family moved to other places and handed over the house to the government for sale, which turned out to be sold to their family. Zhang was a little surprised.

Qiao Cheng nodded: "It should be, I have asked Lin Shi to tell his parents to come to our house for dinner in the evening." ”

Qiao Yi raised his hands in agreement when he heard this: "Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, Dad, you did the right thing." ”

Zhang also smiled: "Everyone has come to visit, of course we have to entertain well." ”

Qiao Liu blinked his eyes with a curious expression: "However, what is in this basket?" ”

Zhang took away the blue cloth on it, and saw that the basket was filled with some pastries that were only available in the town, white brown sugar, and a basket full of them. ”

Qiao Cheng sat on the chair and looked at it without saying anything, took a handful of money from his waist and stuffed it to Qiao Yi: "You go to Sanshui's house at the head of the village to buy some pork, and then make some wine, and you can watch and buy some of the rest!" ”

Qiao Yi stretched out his hand to take it: "Okay, then I'll go now." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the empty small bamboo basket in the yard and ran out. Sure enough, when I got out of the courtyard gate, I could see that the house next door had been empty and people had moved in, and the young man in blue was busy in the yard. Qiao Yi turned his head and walked towards the grocery store at the head of the village.

Walking home with the things he bought, Qiao Yi calculated the cost of buying things along the way: "Well, two catties of pork are 18 yuan, a pot of wine is 12 yuan, four pieces of tofu are 2 yuan, Dad has a total of 32 Wen, Dad gave 45 Wen, and there are 13 Wen left, and there are many vegetables in the vegetable garden, which is enough." ”

Qiao Yi, who was about to enter the house, found that a child in light blue clothes was squatting under the acacia tree in front of the house, looking about the same as Xiao Si, about eight or nine years old, and was jumping up and down to pick up the acacia under the tree to play, Qiao Yi looked funny: "Whose child are you?" How come I haven't seen you? ”

The child was startled when he suddenly heard someone speak, raised his head and stared round, his nose and mouth were small and round, his lips were red and his teeth were white, and because of his young age, he felt like a boy and a girl, he saw Qiao Yan talking to himself, and pointed with his little hand: "I am from that family, I moved here today, which family are you?" ”

Qiao Yi pointed to the acacia in the courtyard: "I'm your neighbor's family, I see that you have been picking up acacia to play, do you like acacia very much?" ”

The child nodded his head seriously: "Yes, is this flower called Acacia?" It's so fragrant. ”

Qiao Yi walked to the door and held the courtyard door: "Child, do you want to come in and play?" ”

The child frowned, obviously dissatisfied with Qiao Yi calling himself a child: "I don't call it a child, my name is Lin Yi." After speaking, he looked at the clean and orderly small courtyard: "Okay, since you sincerely invite me, I will reluctantly go with you to have a look!" Saying that, he walked to Qiao Yi's side and took Qiao Yan's hand, Qiao Yi smiled helplessly, and pulled him into the courtyard gate.

Everyone showed full curiosity about Lin Yi, and after knowing that he was the child of the new neighbor, he picked up candy and roasted food to entertain him, Qiao Liu took him to see the pigs and chickens in the yard, and went to the vegetable garden to pick cucumbers and tomatoes for him to eat.

As soon as it was dark, Qiao's family cooked a meal, Qiao Cheng went to invite the Lin family to dinner, Uncle Lin was still a little shirking, after hearing that his youngest son had already gone, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then he happily responded.

Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin followed Lin Shi silently to Qiao's house with him, and saw that Lin Yi was already a guest, sitting at the table like a little adult, the Lin family sat politely, Qiao Yi, who was about to serve food, hurriedly pulled out Xiao Si, who was sitting in the room reading a book after class, and asked him to sit next to Lin Yi, Lin Yi was originally very curious about Xiao Si, a peer and future playmate, but as soon as Xiao Si came back, he just said hello to himself and went back to the room and did not come to play with him, which made Lin Yi very dissatisfied. Now seeing that he was pulled out by Qiao Yi and sat next to him, Lin Yi gave Qiao Yi an appreciative look with satisfaction, although he was ignored by Qiao Yi in the end.

There are six dishes and four soups on the table, Zhang's and Qiao Li's skills are good, the Lin family was still a little restrained, but after drinking some wine and eating some dishes, a few people chatted, the atmosphere became more and more lively, and Uncle Lin and Qiao Cheng faintly still had a tendency to hate each other.

Qiao Nan and Lin Yi are children, and they are not interested in adult topics, so they run off the table and sit in the courtyard to enjoy the shade after eating.

Qiao Yi picked a small watermelon that was cold in the well in the afternoon, cut it at the waist, took two iron spoons and divided it among the two children, the children who had never eaten like this were obviously fresh and happy, and the two of them held the watermelon bowl and laughed.

On the way home, Lin Yi cautiously leaned into Lin Shi's ear: "You have to tell Brother Shen that I like Sister Gardenia very much, so I agreed to the favor I said before." ”

Lin Shi nodded in agreement and smiled and pinched Lin Yi's ears: "Well, I will convey your words to him tomorrow." ”

Qiao's family, who didn't need to pick flowers to make purses, was idle all of a sudden, Qiao Li and Zhang sat in the hall and talked softly, Qiao Liu chopped the vegetables in the yard and threw them into the chicken pen to feed the chickens, Qiao Yi stood at the door and watched Qiao Nan go to the school, the breeze passed lightly, and a lot of acacia fell, Qiao Yi stood under the acacia tree like this, looking up at the tree full of flowers.

It should have been a very quiet and beautiful time, but it was interrupted by a female voice who suddenly intervened, "Oh, cheap embryo" Qiao Yan looked at the passer, and it turned out that it had stopped for a few days.