Chapter 20: Cousin
"Little Five, Big Brother is back."
Before he reached the door, Li Dong shouted.
"Wow......"
"Daguo, you're back, and I miss you occasionally."
Before the little girl arrived, the voice came first, and then under her drag, a woman appeared. No, it should be a girl, about eighteen years old, short hair, wearing a gray overalls, not pretty, it is a more durable type.
"Big table... Sister, why are you here? ”
That's right, the person who came was the eldest daughter of the uncle's family, named Lu Ling, eighteen years old this year, and I heard that she entered the brick factory in the town after graduation. Lu Ling is the third in the family, and there are two older brothers above, and the relationship with him is not bad.
"Daguo, my uncle wants to marry my cousin to 'grandpa', and my cousin doesn't ......" The eldest cousin hurriedly covered the little girl's mouth and explained:
"Dongzi, don't listen to Xiao Wuhu, it's my father who wants to marry me to Chen Lao Er from the next village, he is rich and just died of his wife, but he can be my grandfather at his age, so I won't marry, and finally my grandmother asked me to join my aunt."
Li Dong wiped the sweat on his head and pressed his chin back, the little girl was really speechless, and she almost scared her to death. Although Li's father has separated from his family, the basic relatives are still normal. Every year on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Dong and his family have to go back to their hometown for the New Year, at least on the surface, everyone is still a family.
Li Dong's grandfather is 63 years old this year, and his wife, who is Li's father's stepmother, died five years ago. Now that the old man can only lie in bed, he still wants to marry a daughter-in-law, no wonder Li Dong is so surprised.
"How can Uncle do this? Cousin, you can rest assured to stay at my house, and I'll go and persuade my uncle when I go back. Li Dong said indignantly, he didn't expect that his uncle, who usually looks kind, would do such a thing.
The little girl didn't care about the oolong just now, opened her cousin's palm, and rushed forward to hug the bag in Li Dong's hand, she had long been thinking about the delicious food brought back by Daguo. Li Dong took the opportunity to let go of the bag, adding up to less than seven or eight catties, and the little girl was absolutely no problem alone.
"Daguo, is there anything delicious here?" The little girl said coquettishly, A-Niang taught her that she must first obtain the consent of others before turning over things.
"Yes, yes, let's go inside and see." With that, the three of them returned to the living room together.
"Cousin, where's my mother?" Li Dong asked as he walked, if A-Niang heard his voice, he would have come out a long time ago.
"Dongzi, auntie, she went to the next door to return the bicycle, she just bought water in the morning, and she will be back in a while." Lu Ling replied that it was actually the aunt who saw that she was very embarrassed, and asked her to take a bath with the little girl under the pretext that she ran out of water.
Before the words fell, Lu Xiumei entered the door with her front and back feet, and when she saw her eldest son coming back, she was immediately overjoyed, but she was worried about her in the past few days, for fear that Li Dong would have an accident.
"Dongzi, you're back, let my mother see if you have suffered hardships." Lu Xiumei grabbed her eldest son's arms, looked left and right, and immediately felt distressed:
"Look, they've lost weight, haven't you eaten well?"
Li Dong is a little embarrassed, he has been working for a week, can he not lose weight? Besides, my cousin is on the side, and I am a young man, so I am a little ashamed to let my baby be like this.
"Auntie, don't worry, I eat and drink well, but I'm a little homesick and have insomnia." Li Dong made up a good reason.
Sure enough, when Lu Xiumei heard this, her eyes immediately turned red, her hands clenched tighter, and she was about to cry almost in the next second.
Li Dong hurriedly interrupted: "A-Niang, I brought you a gift, I don't know if it's appropriate?" ”
Lu Xiumei's attention was really shifted to the gift, and her eyes unconsciously aimed at the bag in the little girl's arms. Seeing this, Li Dong immediately took the bag over, and opened the bag on the spot despite the little girl's protest.
Scarves are prone to crumples, so they are placed on top of the bag and are held in a small white bag. Li Dong picked up the small bag and handed it to A-Niang, motioning for her to open it and take a look.
Lu Xiumei already has experience, although she still complains a little bit about her eldest son spending money indiscriminately, but her niece is next to her, and it is not easy to have a seizure. Opening the bag, it was a knitted fabric, Lu Xiumei breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was not a valuable, the necklace last time had made her feel distressed for several days.
took out the knitted fabric, and Lu Xiumei found that it was a scarf, bright red, which was exactly the color she liked. When the little girl saw it, she immediately clamored to put it on, and Lu Xiumei was embarrassed to try it on in front of her niece, so she surrounded the little girl.
Lu Ling stood next to her, her eyes were full of envy, what woman doesn't love beauty, just her working environment, the conditions are not allowed, isn't it also a change of pattern every day to wear hairpins?
The little girl put on a scarf and ran around the house excitedly, if it wasn't for Auntie's permission, she would have gone to show off to her friends. A few days ago, her necklace made Xiaoqing and her envious, hmph, if it weren't for A-Niang saying that she wanted to love the children, otherwise she wouldn't let them touch it.
After sending the little girl away, Li Dong took out all the contents of the bag, of course, every item has a logical origin.
"Auntie, you see that this is the date palm that Boss Wei asked me to bring back, cousin, you can also taste the sweetness." Li Dong said and grabbed a handful of dates and gave them to his cousin.
Lu Xiumei tasted it, alas, she hadn't eaten it for more than ten years. I remember the last time I ate it, it was the child's father who bought it back to please himself. At that time, I had just gotten married, and I still bought the leftover defective products sold by the store, even so, the couple ate with relish, and felt that the ginseng fruit in Journey to the West was nothing more than that.
"It's sweet, thank you Dongzi." Lu Ling was a little embarrassed, she had only eaten one of the dates at her grandmother's house last time, and it was specially left for her by her grandmother.
"Stinky big fruit, if there is something delicious, it is not called a puppet......" The little girl ran back again at some point, and saw that everyone was eating the fruit, and it was delicious at first glance, so she immediately became red-eyed, and the scarf didn't care, and she grabbed the hem of the big fruit tightly.
Li Dong smiled bitterly, you left by yourself, and without saying much, he immediately stuffed a date in her mouth, and sure enough, the villain immediately shut up and chewed the date intently.
"There's a jujube pit in it, remember to spit it out." The little girl had never eaten dates, and Li Dong was afraid that she would even eat the dates pits, so she specially reminded her.
"Daguo, what...... Is it a 'morning box'? The little girl didn't understand, but the fruit was really sweet.
Li Dong was a little speechless, the child of the last days really couldn't afford to be hurt, but fortunately he reminded him a lot, otherwise the little girl would have chewed and swallowed.
"You stupid boy, it's the hard thing in the fruit, just spit it out." Lu Xiumei explained that if it weren't for the eldest son's reminder, she really forgot that the little girl hadn't eaten fruit since she was born, and it was sad to think about it.
"Even ...... I see, isn't this it? The little girl took out a jujube pit from her mouth and handed it to Daguo.
Li Dong touched her hair, took out another date palm and handed it to her, and replied with relief: "Yes, this is it." See clearly, this fruit is called dates, remember? ”
"Dates, big fruits, even remember, sweet fruits are dates." After speaking, he stuffed the dates into his mouth, and his happy brows "flew".