After eating three crabs in one go, Xu Jingli felt satisfied that she couldn't eat anymore, and Li Tong didn't know when she was specifically responsible for solving the crab legs that she broke off.

"Why did you eat all my crab legs?" Xu Jingli snorted.

"Didn't you make me eat it? You said that you were responsible for solving the pearl meat inside the crab shell, and I would take care of the inside of the crab legs. Li Tong opened his mouth and approached Xu Jingli's little face, grabbing her fingers against his front teeth.

"You touch my teeth, are you gnawing on the crab legs and gnawing them loosely?"

"Hmph, it's not dirty, I'm going to wash my hands."

Xu Jingli blushed and withdrew her hand, got out of the chair and trotted out of the hall.

Cai Quanwu looked at Li Tong being teasing his eldest daughter very helplessly, you can't let him talk to an eight-year-old child about the old principles of men and women, right?

Cai Quanwu put a piece of fish meat in Li Tong's bowl and said: "Eat another piece of fish, you won't stuff your teeth when you eat fish." ”

"Thank you, uncle!"

Li Tong squeezed an innocent smile to Cai Quanwu, but in Xu Huizhen's eyes, Li Tong's child's smile looked like a smug smile.

"None of you! You, haha~"

Seeing that her husband Cai Quanwu, who has always been old and serious, would be deflated in the hands of a child, Xu Hui was really happy.

The two sisters, Xu Jingping and Xu Jingtian, also giggled with Xu Huizhen, as for why they laughed, they probably didn't know why.

So much so that Xu Jingli came back after washing his hands, the scene in the hall was very interesting, his father's face was flickering, the bad table was burying his head in eating, and his mother and two younger sisters were smiling on their faces.

Who is eating the wine-flavored crab meat again?

Time always flies, and a sumptuous dinner with fish and crab ends with a bowl of tomato and egg soup per person.

After dinner, the two sisters, Xu Jingping and Xu Jingtian, sat in the hall for a while and felt bored, and went to the bedroom next door to play backgammon hand in hand.

Xu Huizhen, Xu Jingli and Li Tong sat in the living room chatting, while Cai Quanwu sat on the edge of the sink in the courtyard and washed dishes.

Li Tong and Xu Jingli sat together on the official hat chair on the left side, and on the coffee table next to them were two white porcelain bowls and freshly brewed chrysanthemum tea.

According to Xu Jingli, the chrysanthemums in the tea bowl are picked from their own flower beds, washed and then naturally dehydrated and air-dried, and finally stored in a large glass jar.

If you are bored on weekdays and want to drink, you can use a tong to take out a few pieces from the jar and soak them in hot water.

Xu Huizhen looked at Li Tong, who was sitting on a chair with his legs crossed and hanging in the air, and said: "Little friend Li Tong, since you and Jingli are classmates and are at the same table, you will often come to the house to play in the future, and Auntie will also ask Uncle Cai to cook food for you." ”

Li Tong couldn't guess whether what Xu Huizhen said was true or false, but he was not polite, originally according to his plan, he would definitely come to Xu's house often in the future.

"Well, auntie, the adults in our courtyard and my mother all call me three boys, or you call me the same."

"Okay, then Aunt Xu will also call you three boys, and you will also call me Aunt Xu in the future."

"Three boys, did your parents ask you to send the crab you brought over today? When you go back, you have to thank them for Aunt Xu! ”

"Aunt Xu, my father died a long time ago for saving children who fell into the water, and now there are only four people left in the family: my brother, my sister and my mother." Li Tong's tone was a little low.

Xu Huizhen hurriedly apologized under the complaining gaze of her eldest daughter: "Third boy, it's Aunt Xu who is not good, and it reminds you of sad things." ”

"I'm not sad, my mother said that my father is righteous and brave, and our whole family is proud of him." Li Tong straightened his small body proudly, and then continued sincerely: "Aunt Xu, these crabs were brought to him by my brother's comrades-in-arms when they came home from Baiyangdian to visit relatives. Before I came, my mother specially asked me to bring it. ”

In the end, he briefly introduced the situation of the family to Xu Huizhen, his mother and eldest brother have no formal jobs, one picks up odd jobs on the street, the other fights against big bags in the grain store, and the second sister also goes to school in Hongxing Primary School, which is not in the same class as him and Xu Jingli.

In fact, if you really want to hide these things, you can't hide them, there are many idlers chewing their tongues in the streets and alleys, and the Xu family will definitely know if they really have the heart to inquire.

Li Tong's family background is not good, Xu Huizhen knew before that the eldest daughter Xu Jingli told her about the situation in the school, but Xu Huizhen didn't expect that the situation of the Li family was not much better than that of the difficult households.

Especially the eldest son of the Li family, how unpopular Cai Quanwu was when he had no dry neck, Xu Huizhen naturally knew very well.

A glorious people's warrior ended up like this, to tell the truth, it was really better to die on the battlefield back then.

Xu Huizhen sighed: "Three boys, it's Aunt Xu who is not good, please have a meal and let your family build so many crabs, how can such a good crab be exchanged for 3 yuan if it is brought to the market." Later, when your Uncle Cai sent you back, I asked him to fill you with twenty catties of flour and bring it back to your mother, saying that it was Aunt Xu's family's intention. ”

Li Tong waved his hand and refused: "Aunt Xu, our family doesn't spend money on these crabs, you don't need to give our family flour, and it's as much as twenty catties." ”

The price of ordinary flour in the grain store is 1 mao 5 a catty, and 20 catties of flour is 3 yuan, and another 20 catties of food stamps are needed, which is 3 yuan on the black market.

It's 6 yuan back and forth, which is a lot of money in this era when the monthly salary is 20 yuan.

Xu Huizhen was just about to open her mouth to persuade again, when she heard Xu Jingli, who had been drinking tea quietly, suddenly interjected: "This is what my mother gave you, you can just take it with confidence." ”

"Yes, this is Aunt Xu's return gift to your family, someone should have told you about the etiquette, don't break the etiquette."

Having said that, Li Tong is no longer good at refusing, these twenty catties of flour can indeed help the family a lot, in fact, he wants it very much in his heart, but he doesn't want to be looked down upon by the Xu family because of these twenty catties of flour.

Li Tong jumped down from the chair, bowed respectfully to Xu Huizhen, and said gratefully: "I thank Aunt Xu for my mother, my brother, my sister and myself." ”

"You're too polite, kid."

With these twenty catties of flour as a base, the atmosphere in the house is becoming more and more harmonious, and Xu Huizhen glanced at him when Cai Quanwu entered the house.

Cai Quanwu sat on the chair and looked at Li Tong with a smile and asked, "I heard Jingli say that you gave her the duck eggs she brought home yesterday, and my uncle wants to ask you, where did you get such a big double yellow duck egg, can you tell your uncle?" ”

Li Tong lowered his head and rummaged in the schoolbag he carried with him for a while, and took out two duck eggs from it and put them on the coffee table: "Uncle Cai, are you talking about this?" This duck egg is not our family, it was given to me by Grandma Lu, and I have the last two left here, so give them to you. ”

"Grandma Lu is?" Xu Huizhen then asked.

"Grandma Lu was a good person I knew when I was in the hospital, she would give me a duck egg to eat every day, and later she invited me to her house as a guest, and there were a lot of ducks in her yard." Li Tong made a big, big gesture with both hands.

Xu Huizhen couldn't wait to say, "Three boys, you put away the duck eggs." In fact, your Uncle Cai doesn't want to eat it himself, he wants to buy some duck eggs from Grandma Lu, and then put them in the breakfast shop and sell them to the big brothers and sisters who come to eat. ”

"That's right, but Grandma Lu didn't tell me that she was going to sell duck eggs." Li Tong pouted and thought for a while before continuing: "Aunt Xu, I know where Grandma Lu's house is, but my mother often tells me that I can't disturb others at will, Uncle Cai wants to buy duck eggs, I have to ask Grandma Lu before I can reply to you." ”

Xu Huizhen didn't speak again, but nodded approvingly.

In the evening, before Cai Quanwu sent him home, Li Tong quietly stuffed one of the two duck eggs in his schoolbag to Xu Jingli.