"the tiger! Toilet! Toilet! ”

In the evening, Li Ying slapped the gate of the three gardens with a crackling sound.

A moment later, the door slowly opened.

Little Huzi poked out his little head and shouted, "Grandma! ”

Li Ying hurriedly squeezed in, and the fox asked: "Huzi, I'll go to the office to find your dad - they said that your dad was on a business trip, when did it happen?" ”

Xiaohuzi replied: "The afternoon before yesterday." ”

Li Ying asked with concern: "The afternoon before yesterday?" Haven't come back yet? Did you say when you would be back? ”

"Nope." Xiaohuzi replied crisply: "Dad said that he was going on a business trip, the location is temporarily uncertain, and the return trip is also uncertain, and he strives to go home before the New Year." ”

"What?!" Li Ying glared in surprise: "That-that's not half a month?!" Where did he go on a business trip? Not sure what it means? ”

Xiaohuzi explained: "It means that you can't let others know about it, and you have to keep it secret." ”

Li Yinghu thought about it suspiciously, and didn't continue to ask.

"Is your mom home? Are there eggs in the kitchen? ”

Xiaohuzi replied, "There are twenty-three." ”

Li Ying walked quickly to the kitchen and explained: "Your aunt is studying hard, I have to get some eggs for her to make up for it." Your mom will be back in a moment—"

"My mom is settling accounts in her study." Little Tiger interrupted her.

Li Ying waved her hand indifferently: "She settles her account, and I'll leave after taking the eggs." ”

Xiaohuzi couldn't help but ask, "Grandma, haven't you been to the cafeteria to eat recently?" ”

"Yes." Li Ying replied: "Your aunt doesn't like to be lively, so I'll call some back to feed her when I'm full." She has a winter vacation, and she has stayed up late for the exam for a while, so I plan to steam a few eggs tonight to make up for her. ”

Xiaohuzi nodded "oh oh": "I'm also on vacation." My mother said that my fourth uncle would come to pick me up tomorrow and go to my grandparents' house and stay until the Chinese New Year and come back. ”

"Yo! That's a good idea! Li Ying smiled and narrowed her eyes, and said, "Remember, eat more fish, shrimp and fish bubbles." By the way, when you come back, remember to bring a few catties of prawns to grandma. ”

"Okay, I remember." Xiaohuzi carefully wrote it down.

Li Ying thought for a while and lowered her voice: "I heard your mother say last time that your grandmother raised a large flock of ducks and a flock of chickens to eat for the New Year." When you come back, remember to ask your grandmother to kill a few and bring them over. ”

Xiaohuzi rolled his eyes and pouted, "Will it be too much?" Mom said that you can't ask for too much, otherwise you won't be able to finish it and it will be wasted. Waste is a bad habit and you can't learn it. ”

"It won't be wasted." Li Ying smiled and narrowed her eyes and explained: "Not only your family of three wants to eat, but you and your aunt and I want to eat, and your uncle and they also want to eat." If you don't bring more, you won't be able to go home. ”

Little Tiger Zi "Oh oh" nodded teachablely.

Li Ying was satisfied and shook into the kitchen, went straight to the wooden cabinet to open it, and saw a beautiful pot of big eggs and more than a dozen pork sausages at a glance.

"Wow~~" She hurriedly pulled the net out of her pocket, and Mari loaded all the sausages.

Little Tiger ran back to the yard to play.

There was a knock on the door outside!

Xiaohuzi thought that her aunt had come to cook, and was about to open the door-

"Is anyone there? Is Gu Qi here? A strange man's voice shouted.

Xiaohuzi remembered her mother's advice, and stepped forward carefully, but did not open the door.

"Who are you looking for? My dad wasn't home. ”

The male voice outside replied, "I am a postman, and I have brought you a letter." Kid, do you have any other adults in your family? This is a letter from abroad, and it must be signed before it can be received. ”

"Please wait!" Xiaohuzi ran to the study.

After a while, Chen Xingling led his son to open the door.

The postman handed over an envelope with an unfamiliar pattern, and pointed to the paper on the side to explain: "Gu Qi's family, right?" Sign your name here, be quick! ”

Chen Xingling took the envelope and found that it was Gu Miao's handwriting on it!

In the past, in my hometown, the kitchen often used the notebooks or pages used by the two sisters-in-law to wrap food.

People are like their words, Gu Xuan's words are written at a glance, and the strokes are hard, and there is no emotion. Gu Miao's characters have always been big and fat, the beginning and end are vague, some points are horizontal, and she often makes mistakes or omissions.

She only glanced at it, and immediately guessed that it was Gu Miao who wrote it!

Boy! After two months, I was finally willing to give my family a little news.

She quickly signed her name and thanked the postman.

The postman got on his bicycle and left briskly.

Xiaohuzi tiptoed curiously: "Mom, who wrote it?" Uncle Postman just said that it was sent from abroad—isn't it Aunt Miao? ”

"Yes." Chen Xingling handed him the letter.

Xiaohuzi glanced at it and asked, "Aunt Miao wrote a letter to Dad?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Xingling whispered: "Go in and show it to your grandmother." ”

Xiaohuzi took the envelope and ran excitedly to the kitchen: "Grandma! Grandmother! Aunt Miao has a letter! My aunt has a letter! ”

Chen Xingling closed the door and followed slowly.

When I arrived at the kitchen door, I found Li Ying crying profusely while hugging Xiaohuzi.

Xiaohuzi was reading word after word in a loud voice reciting texts at school: "...... Big brother, I want to go home. I miss my mother so much, and I miss Yucheng so much. But there was no boat to go back here, so we had to wait a few more months. When the ship comes, I'll go home right away. ”

Chen Xingling secretly rolled his eyes.

Sure enough, as she expected, Gu Miao couldn't endure hardships at all, and she couldn't share the hardships with Chen Nantai outside, and she would soon find a way to escape back.

After Xiaohuzi finished reading, she couldn't help muttering: "Aunt Miao's language is not good, a letter is written in a mess, she writes whatever she thinks, and she wants to go home throughout the whole article, and there is nothing else." ”

Li Ying cried with tears on her face and patted Xiaohuzi's chest.

"Stinky boy, you know Mao! She's never left me since she was a kid, and as soon as she walks away, she wants to come back. How many months before there is a ship – how much longer? Did she write it? ”

"Nope!" Xiaohuzi said: "The time is not written, and the name is not signed." But as far as it goes, it should have been written by my aunt when she first arrived there. Because there's a saying, 'I've been here for two or three days, and I haven't had a bite to like.' ’。 ”

When Li Ying heard this, she was even more distressed.

"I'm Dibao...... I can't eat well...... It must have been thin. She has never suffered since she was a child, and she went so far all at once...... Where can I stand it! I'm wonderful......"

Chen Xingling took the envelope and glanced at it a few times, and said, "According to the date above, it will take at least two months to send a letter back." ”

Li Ying wiped her tears and asked, "Huzi,, what should I do now?" Is there an address on it? Let's go find Ah Miao! ”

"There's an address, and it looks like it's a city." Chen Xingling shook his head: "I don't have a specific address, it's not easy to find." I went back and looked at the map, and then asked some old overseas Chinese. ”

Li Ying urged: "Then you go quickly." ”

"It's getting dark." Chen Xingling said: "If you want to ask, you can only ask tomorrow." You can only inquire, and it is impossible to look for it abroad. ”

Li Ying glared at her in disgust and said, "If you don't go, then I'll let Ah Yi go!" Archie isn't at home, and I'm still here! I knew you couldn't be trusted! ”

"If I couldn't be trusted, you would have drunk the northwest wind." Chen Xingling's eyes swept over the big net pocket beside her and asked, "Eggs, bacon, cabbage, green onions - you have emptied the kitchen, right?" ”

Forehead?

Li Ying pouted in embarrassment: "Just talking about Ah Miao, what are you doing so far?!" Hurry up and find Ah Miao! Looking for people to know the way of the old overseas Chinese to take you to find! Come on! ”

"No time, no money." Chen Xingling explained coldly: "It's almost the end of the year, and I have a lot of things to do here. Archie went on a business trip, and there was no one at home to help him. If you want to apply for a passport when you go abroad, you can't get a passport in a month or two. Also, a few tickets are at least a few hundred dollars, and I don't have that much money. Mom, do you have any money? ”

One sentence poked Li Ying's heart and directly stunned her!

All the money around Li Ying is gone, and now her two sons only give her ten yuan a month. At present, she can't make up five or six yuan in her body, so where can she go for a few hundred yuan!

Li Ying hesitated: "You...... Are you out of money with you? Or—or go back to your parents' house to borrow it. ”