Back in the courtyard, Li Guoqing parked the flatbed truck on the patio in the front yard, and then was busy unloading the materials pulled back from the match workshop.

"Sister Wang, just now the electrician came to the yard to collect this month's electricity bill, I didn't have the money at the time, this time it was the Jiang sister's daughter who paid the electricity money in the front yard, your family only has a 15-watt light bulb, and the electricity bill is 1 cent and 5 cents." The three mothers who were drying the sheets in the courtyard had an unnatural expression and told Li Wang's about paying the electricity bill.

In the past, every household did not have an electricity meter, and the electrician door-to-door charging method was also very simple, according to the specifications and quantity of light bulbs in each household, a 15-watt bulb cost 1 cent and 5 cents per month, and a 25-watt bulb cost 2 cents and 5 cents per month.

The work of paying the electricity bill is generally paid by the three masters in the courtyard for the residents of each hospital, and then collect the electricity bill from door to door.

Not paying the electricity bill is not a trivial matter, and the power supply bureau can pinch your home's electricity on the same day.

After the electricity was cut off several times, none of the residents in the front yard dared to let the Yan family pay the electricity bill on their behalf, usually the Lu family or the Jiang family paid the electricity bill in the front yard together, and the other residents returned the electricity bill to the two of them.

I haven't seen anyone in arrears for so long, Li Wang's family really can't understand why the old Yan family cares about this, looking at the three mothers and saying lightly: "Okay, it's hard work for the three mothers." ”

"Hehe, then you're busy, I'll go back first."

Li Wang carried a small bag of dates confiscated from Li Ailian's to the house, while Li Ailian chased after her mother in circles, frowning sadly to get back the confiscated dates.

When she saw her mother locking the cloth bag containing dates into a big wooden box, Li Ailian's heart was completely dead, with tears in the corners of her eyes and a pitiful face, and then her eyes suddenly lit up as if she thought of something, turned around and went out of the house to Li Tong, who was standing in the courtyard to help the eldest brother unload the goods, spread her hands and said: "Brother, our mother confiscated all my dates, and I don't have any dates now, what do you say you should do?" ”

"And what do you want me to do?" Li Tong put the cardboard back on the car that he had just lifted, and asked back.

"You should say that you are willing to give me half of the dates you have hidden." Li Ailian's eyes widened, as if to prove that she was telling the truth at the moment.

"Why?" Li Tong asked rhetorically.

"With the dates I took you to hunt, with the Aunt Xu I found, and with the reason I kept the secret for you!" The more Li Ailian said, the more justified she became.

Li Tong clenched his right hand into a fist and hammered his chest hard, as if his heart was blocked by something, and looked at Li Ailian, who was already about to search him.

"I made the dates, you are just responsible for picking them up, and even when you ask Aunt Xu for help, I will pull you there, and if I hadn't dragged you to escape, maybe you would have been caught by Sister Liu. In the end, what secrets did you help me keep? ”

"Brother, none of this matters, you just need to know that your sister loves you, and your sister is older than you, you have to learn to share any good things with your sister, and children can't eat alone?" Li Ailian really started to do it this time, and she reached out to pull the smock on Li Tong's body, she just saw Li Tong stuff a small bag of dates into the smock.

"You were born more than half an hour before me!" Li Tong was unconvinced.

"You were born a minute earlier than me, where are you hiding? Get it out of here. ”

"Don't give! I won't give it, haha, okay, I'll admit defeat, don't scratch it, I'll just give it to you. Li Tong still couldn't get rid of Li Ailian's attack with his armpits, who made him so afraid of being tickled.

When I met such a scoundrel sister, I could only admit defeat.

Li Tong reluctantly picked up his overcoat and took out a small bulging cloth bag from it, untied the cloth bag, counted out half of the dates inside and gave it to Li Ailian, and specially told her: "You have to remember to save some food, if you finish eating, you won't have anything to ask me for." ”

"Hmph, I know who you're going to give it to, stingy ghost~"

"You're a stingy ghost, or you give me back the dates."

Li Ailian shook her head at Li Tong, and then staggered towards the middle courtyard with the bulging dates in her pocket, without asking, she knew that she was going to find a few other girls in the courtyard to share the dates to eat.

The second sister Li Ailian's personality is very arrogant, and sometimes she especially likes to bully her younger brother, but she has a kind of heart-to-heart, situational spirit, and righteousness to her friends.

How to describe it?

It's a little silly and innocent and cute, but it's so arrogant that it's cute.

Li Wang, who was standing on the steps at the door, shouted at Li Tong: "Three boys, this 1 cent and 5 cents is our family's electricity bill last month, you go to Jiang's house and hand it over to your Aunt Jiang, and by the way, I will say thank you to others." ”

"Hmm." Li Tong put his right hand holding the small cloth bag behind his back, walked up to his mother step by step, took the banknote from her hand, and then stepped back step by step towards his mother. When he saw his mother turn around and go back to the house, he quickly stuffed the small cloth bag back into the smock, and turned around to go to Jiang's house in the upside-down room, just as he also had something to find Jiang Tianliang, the little fat man.

Li Wangshi pursed her lips and returned to the house with a smile, in fact, as soon as she went out just now, she happened to see the scene of the two children dividing dates, she felt that since she had taken away most of the children's spoils, she still had to leave them a little sweetness, otherwise the children would be resentful no matter how young they were.

In the living room, Li Guoqing stood in front of the square table holding iron scissors and carefully cutting the matchbox cardboard, and the already cut matchpaper shells were neatly stacked at his feet. Seeing this, Li Wang silently turned around and went out to the small kitchen under the porch, bent down and took out half a bag of flour that Li Tong had brought back from Xu's house last time from the cabinet standing in the corner, and turned out the glass jar containing white sugar that was about to bottom.

Get up and put the flour and sugar jar on the board, raise your hand to remove a porcelain basin from the wooden board of the horizontal frame, brush it with gourd silk dipped in water, pour flour into it first, add an appropriate amount of water, and quickly turn the hand holding the chopsticks to stir the flour into a liquid paste.

In the interval between stirring flour, you can make a fire to boil water, after the water boils, you can pour the stirred batter into the pot, and then sprinkle a little sugar into it to continue stirring, and finally pour the viscous paste back into the porcelain basin and let it cool before use.

Taking advantage of the natural cooling and cooling of the paste, Li Wang slowly walked into the house and closed the door with his hand, and said with a solemn expression under Li Guoqing's surprised gaze.

"National Day, Mom has a big matter to discuss with you."