Chapter 26: The Next Door Neighbor (Tipping and Change)
What Yan Zhenwu didn't know was that Aunt Guo had actually made up the "tragic experience" of Meng Zhen and the three of them in her own brain.
Poor to see the child, these three children, the biggest look is only one year or two years older than her A-Xing'er, they are already fatherless and motherless at such a young age, how will they live in the future.
While sighing in her heart, Aunt Guo secretly glanced at Meng Qi, who had fine skin and tender meat, and Su Shen, who was particularly handsome.
In her opinion, the black, thin and thin Meng Hao must have endured hardships, and it should not be a problem to adapt to the future rural life, but the white and soft Meng Qi and the handsome and dusty Su Shen are clearly incompatible with a rural place like them that is full of mud, and they will have to live in this kind of place for a long time in the future, and they don't know how much hardship they have to endure to adapt to it.
Su Shen and Meng Qi didn't know that they were secretly sympathetic to the country woman in front of them, and after greeting Aunt Guo's family of three, Su Shen had already continued to work, while little Meng Qi looked at Guo Yang, who was silent and barely raised his head, and Guo Xing'er, the little girl who was holding the hem of her mother's clothes with a restrained face.
Guo Xing'er was stared at by him, and she couldn't help but become more and more nervous.
Although she had hardly ever been out of the village, she instinctively knew that a rich young master like Meng Qi was not the same kind of person as their family at all.
Even the little girl complained a little bit about her mother-in-law, she felt that with the wealth of the Meng family, people didn't want to have a good neighborhood relationship with a country man like them.
As soon as she thought of this, Guo Xing'er couldn't help but think of the bad thing that not long ago, she was scolded by her distant cousin of her cousin's family in the town with a contemptuous look at "mud legs", and then she was pushed by the other party.
Her cousin had just married into the town, and her distant cousin's family was not really wealthy, but the children of the town seemed to naturally despise the children of the village.
Her distant cousin, whose family is in the town, basically shows off her strength against their group of "mud legs" every time she follows her cousin back to the village to visit relatives.
Guo Xing'er, whose father died early and her mother and brother are busy with their livelihood every day, is the person she loves to bully the most. Liang Chang is thin and short, but any child whose family conditions are better than a star and a half can beat Guo Xing'er in strength and size.
Guo Xing'er also knew that she was weak, so she would deliberately avoid her distant cousin every time, but the other party was like bullying her and being addicted, every time she came to the village, the other party would do everything possible to find Guo Xing'er, taunt and push her.
This made Guo Xinger very dislike those "city people", in her limited knowledge, "city people" is basically equivalent to "unpleasant".
However, just when she was hesitating whether she wanted to drag her mother away, Meng Hao smiled and gave her a piece of mung bean cake brought by the county.
The mung bean cake is very fragrant, and the small red flower on it is also very delicate and cute, Guo Xing'er stared at the mung bean cake and swallowed her saliva secretly.
"Eat, it's delicious." Meng Zhen smiled, and she didn't have the domineering and lofty arrogance of "city people" at all.
Guo Xing'er subconsciously looked at her mother-in-law - she wanted to eat, but she didn't dare.
Their family is very poor and can't afford to pay such a valuable gift from others, Guo Xinger is afraid that she will add more burdens to her mother and brother.
Aunt Guo really waved her hand again and again as she expected, helping her daughter refuse this pastry, "Don't you dare to give her such a precious thing." ”
Meng Zhen smiled and stuffed the snack into the little girl's hand, "Aunt Guo, you're welcome, our two families will be neighbors in the future." As the old saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and in the future, we will have three children, but we will have to rely on Aunt Guo to take care of you. ”
Aunt Guo wanted to say that she would definitely do her best, and wanted to say that Meng Zhen didn't need to give her daughter a snack, but this snack had already been caught by her daughter, and she was embarrassed to put Meng Zhen back in the snack box.
There was no way, Aunt Guo had no choice but to accept Meng Hao's kindness.
She pushed her daughter, "Don't you want to thank Miss Meng?" ”
The little girl's hand holding the mung bean cake was a little stiff, and she timidly glanced at Meng Hao, who had a kind expression and a bright smile, "Thank you, Miss Meng." ”
Meng Hao rubbed the little girl's sparse hair that was dry and yellow, but clean, "Good." ”
She didn't think that others would put on an old-fashioned adult kiss when they saw her little one, but they couldn't help but smile a little more on their faces.
Aunt Guo sent her daughter, "You go back to watch the door first, and your mother and your brother will help Miss Meng and them clean up." ”
Guo Xing'er ran away when she heard this, "I'm here to help, I'll send the snacks home first." ”
"Then don't forget to lock the door." Aunt Guo shouted, and when she heard Guo Xing'er answer outside the door, she turned her head to look at Meng Zhen and the others.
Guo Yang had silently walked to Yan Zhenwu's side as early as when his mother said that he wanted to help, and the young man didn't talk much, but he could see the work in his eyes.
He picked up the shovel to help Yan Zhenwu and the mud, Yan Zhenwu wanted to stop him, but Guo Yang was very stubborn and refused to hand over the shovel.
The little boy had a tendon, and felt that his sister had taken other people's money to eat, so he had to repay it with action.
Aunt Guo is also a man of action, and before Meng Hao finished saying "I won't trouble you", Aunt Guo had already picked up the small broom and helped her clean up the dust on the window lattice.
After all the floating ash was cleaned up, Aunt Guo fetched water to help wipe the doors and windows, Meng Hao couldn't persuade her, so she had to move her position by herself, enter the house, and spread Hao Mengyun's newly bought bamboo mat on top of the kang.
With the addition of the three very capable helpers of the Guo family, mother and son, Meng Zhen's work efficiency has increased by about double, and the work that was originally expected to be completed after dark was solved before noon.
Seeing that the sun was shifting to the west, Meng Hao hurriedly washed her hands and beckoned everyone to eat.
The mother and son of the Guo family refused to stay, firstly, they did not have the habit of eating at noon, and secondly, they were embarrassed to "take advantage of others".
Meng Zhen and the others are easy to talk about, but the three aunts Guo have always insisted on their own opinions, Meng Zhen has no choice - people insist on refusing to stay, she can't block the courtyard gate and have to keep people.
In the end, they each took a step back, and Meng Zhen took half a package of braised pork, half a roast chicken, and ten steamed buns to Aunt Guo, who was full of guilt and asked her son to send Meng Zhen two large bundles of firewood, a basket of vegetables, a basket of eggs, and a jar of pickled cucumbers.
The pickled cucumber was pickled with fresh cucumbers that she couldn't finish eating in the yard a few days ago, and the taste was salty and fragrant, which was very delicious.