Wang Hao stubbornly explained: "There are not many chestnuts stored in her mother's house, only fifty or sixty catties." How can she do any business, she is just pregnant and greedy, seeing that the fried chestnuts with sugar are delicious, she also wants to learn to fry some and eat them herself. ”

Chen Chunli is a person from Qingshui Town next door, what the streets and houses are like over there, whether there is a front yard and a backyard, everyone often walks the streets and alleys when collecting accounts, and knows it.

Whether it was saved by her mother's side or bought from someone else is self-evident.

What kind of character Chen Chunli has, everyone in the neighborhood knows it, not to mention Luo Sixteen and others who are close to Wang Hao.

Brothers, too lazy to pierce it.

……

Bai Lu felt that someone was touching his forehead in a daze, and slowly opened his eyes, and in the hazy vision, the man's enlarged version of his handsome face and wrist were close at hand.

She blinked, dazed: "Why did you touch my forehead?"

Xiao Cheng withdrew his hand unhurriedly, his palm was at a normal temperature, and his tone was as usual: "It's okay."

The morning sun shone in through the glass window, a faint wisp, hitting the circle below his eyelids like ink and blue, looking like he hadn't slept all night.

Bai Lu was puzzled: "Didn't you sleep last night?"

"Sleep."

Xiao Cheng lifted the quilt without hesitation, got up, got out of bed, put on his clothes and shoes, and looked back.

Seeing that Bai Lu also sat up, he rubbed his eyes, yawned sleepily, moved his body lazily to get up, and couldn't help but say, "You can sleep for a while."

Bai Lu patted her flat stomach and said seriously: "I'm hungry, I have to get up and make breakfast."

Xiao Cheng wanted to call her when she was ready, but she had already faded away from her lazy movements, and quickly folded the quilt and got out of bed.

Put on shoes, stretch in front of the mirror, pick up the cotton jacket on the back of the chair, put it on the body, and walk out while buttoning it, taking small steps.

It's like stepping on a cloud, light and slow.

Xiao Wei squatted by the well and brushed his teeth.

Bai Lu took the toothbrush, water cup, and enamel washbasin with squeezed toothpaste, and leaned over to receive water: "Xiaowei, tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, you should have a holiday, right?"

She started brushing her teeth after receiving the water, and she didn't usually squat, even if she squatted to pick up things, her posture was exquisite.

is not like Wang Cuihua next door, anytime, anywhere, casually, without any image of squatting.

However, when she stood and brushed her teeth, the foam was very high, and Xiao Wei was afraid that the top of her head would be white, so she moved away a little.

"Today, Friday." Therefore, regardless of whether tomorrow is Qingming Festival or not, there will be a holiday on weekends.

"Oh......" Bai Lu nodded knowingly.

Xiao Wei didn't understand why she didn't lean next to her eldest brother, why she leaned next to him, so that he was always affected by the gaze that swept here from time to time, and his whole body was like being crawled by ants.

Quickly brush his teeth, wash his face, and run back to the kitchen to wash rice and put the pot in the pot, he will cook porridge today.

Bai Lu and her eldest brother have been cooking noodles and adding eggs for the past few days, which is delicious, but they have to get up early in the morning.

The breakfast here, porridge mixed with side dishes, is very simple, just cut some diced dried radish.

Bai Lu cut two bowls, one bowl put a few pieces of chopped chili peppers, soy sauce, pickled and eaten.

A bowl without chili peppers, pure diced radish.

Xiao Wei, who is not used to eating raw chili peppers, has chopsticks to that side, and occasionally has a bowl of chili peppers with Xiao Cheng.

was so spicy that his mouth was red, so he drank a few large mouthfuls of porridge, and then continued to fight with diced chili and radish.

After breakfast

Xiao Wei went to school, Xiao Cheng went to build a house next door, Bai Lu went to the backyard vegetable garden, took a long-handled wooden spoon to the river, scooped water and poured vegetables, and sprinkled a scoop in the air.

If you pour water directly into the vegetable field, it will bend the small vegetable seedlings that have not grown up, and they will not recover for a long time.

The old hen squatted in the coop, quietly nesting eggs, occasionally raising her eyes to see the small figure in the rain in the vegetable field.

A few days ago, Bai Lu deliberately went to Sister-in-law Zhang's house, bought a batch of eggs that had just been born for a short time, picked out twelve eggs with flocculent embryos, and hatched chicks for the old hen.

Xiao Wei didn't want to be happy, although his face didn't show half of his joy, his steps ran to the chicken pen every day after school.

Halfway through the drenching, there was a sudden knock on the door outside, and Bai Lu put down the long wooden spoon and went to open the door.

The knock on the door was an older strange female elder.

She was wearing a dark old cotton coat, stepping on army green liberation shoes, her trousers were stained with some yellow mud, her figure was not fat and slightly thin, her face was round and her lips were thick, her skin was yellow and dark and slightly dark, she had obvious crow's feet at the corners of her eyes when she smiled, she was about fifty years old, and she was holding a notebook and a pen in her hand.

He spoke angrily: "This is Xiao Zhigang's son, is it Xiao Cheng's family?"

"It's Xiao Cheng's family." Bai Lu nodded.

The female elder made sure to find the right door, and then she made her intention clear: "That's the case, tomorrow on the Qingming Festival, Xiaojia Village is going to the mountain to worship the ancestors of the Xiao family, I am Li Hongying, the wife of Xiao Guofu, the head of Xiaojia Village, I came to the town today to inform the Xiao family, and by the way, collect incense and candle money, five yuan per person, a few people in your family go, just give money to a few people."

The ancestral land of the Xiao family is on the other side of the river, on the mountain side of the old countryside, and many people have moved to the town over the years.

Every year during Qingming, there will be clansmen who come to the town to inform them to go back to worship their ancestors, and Xiao Zhigang will go back before he dies.

After Xiao Zhigang died, the Xiao people did not come to inform Xiao Cheng, first, they were afraid of Xiao Cheng's reputation as a bully.

The second is that he thinks that Xiao Cheng is doing this, losing the face of the Xiao family's ancestors and ancestors, and doesn't want him to go back to worship his ancestors.

Li Hongying will come to inform Xiao Cheng today, because I heard from the people in the village who came to the town to buy things back and said that Xiao Cheng seems to have changed recently, I haven't seen him take people around the streets and alleys for a while, and I heard that he is still building a house for the family next door.

Then there is a little thing I want him to help with.

When notifying the others just now, I deliberately bypassed the next door and saw Xiao Cheng laying bricks from a distance, Li Hongying and Xiao Guofu were relieved to separate, and she came to Xiao Cheng's house to inform her.

According to the neighbor Xiao family, Xiao Cheng's little wife Bai Lu has a very cheerful personality and is very good at talking.

Li Hongying waited until Bai Lu gave her four yuan of five-incense candle money to be sure that the rumors she heard were true.

He spoke again, and his tone was much kinder: "Bai Lu, my aunt wants to ask you for a little favor."

Bai Lu also has something to do when he returns to the ancestral land of the Xiao family, it is best to help each other, and said with a smile: "Xiao Cheng is also a member of the Xiao family, everyone is a clansman, just say anything directly, if you can help me, you will definitely help."

Li Hongying saw the smile on her face, and her heart was a lot less nervous: "Up to now, we have counted the number of Xiao family members in the town who have returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, and there are already 138 people."

"The journey back to the countryside is long, it takes three or four hours to walk around the river, I heard that Xiao Cheng knew the owner of the brick factory, and I thought if I could ask him to borrow a few brick carts from the owner of the brick factory, and take the Xiao family back to the countryside to worship their ancestors.

Li Hongying deliberately pointed out that it was an army green brick truck, not a hand-cranked six-wheeled tractor.