Bai Lu carried the vegetable basket and went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

Before leaving, I asked Xiao Wei if I wanted to go together, in recent days, the little guy has suddenly changed a little big, and he will go grocery shopping with her whenever he is free and help her carry the vegetable basket.

Today, he refused without hesitation.

Bai Lu looked at the main house where the voice came from in surprise.

The little figure sits upright in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, writing homework, there is a high table opposite the table of the Eight Immortals, and there is a new white telephone on the high table, and the little figure writes homework for a while, and then looks up at the white telephone.

I'm afraid of missing something big.

Bai Lu didn't change at all when she came back from shopping.

After washing the dishes and returning to the kitchen, the small figure still did not move, like a sculpture carved on the table of the Eight Immortals.

Is it too much homework, or the phone is too good-looking, or is it too much to miss Xiao Cheng?

But Xiao Cheng often didn't go home before...... Could it be that there is something urgent to say to Xiao Cheng?

Bai Lu couldn't think of a reason so she went back to the kitchen to cut vegetables, and as soon as she finished cutting the vegetables, Xiao Wei came in.

Without saying a word, sit down in front of the stove and burn the fire.

In a second, it will return to its former diligent and small appearance.

Bai Lu glanced at him from top to bottom and asked softly, "Were you bullied at school?"

Xiao Wei shook his head: "No."

Bai Lu thinks about it, who doesn't know that his brother is Xiao Cheng, who will not rush to find a draw.

"Then do you have something important to tell your brother?" Bai Lu stir-fried curiosity while stir-frying.

Xiao Wei looked serious: "There is a man in the family."

Bai Lu: "......"

A spoonful of salt is sprinkled in the pot.

Good guys, let's eat salted fish together!

"People are here to install phones."

"He's a man."

"Brother Ling asked the family to install the phone."

"So I'm going to tell my eldest brother that the phone is installed." The little bald head has an honest and serious face.

Bai Lu suspected that his complaint was a complaint.

Sure enough, the suspicion was verified at night.

"Jingle bell—"

The night was thick, by the well in the front yard, Bai Lu was wringing the last piece of freshly washed clothes, and the main house sounded a crisp and pleasant bell, piercing the night and hitting people's hearts.

Xiao Wei, who took a shower and washed his clothes and dried them first, ran out in a panic like burning his eyebrows.

"Sister-in-law, is the phone ringing?"

Bai Lu couldn't cry or laugh: "Yes, it's so loud, can't you hear it?"

Xiao Wei touched the top of his hairless head at a loss, and pulled his clothes tightly, his voice was full of irrepressible excitement: "Is it the eldest brother calling back?"

"That's right, only your brother knows the phone number at home, who else can your brother have?"

Bai Lu carried the clothes in the bucket to the corridor to dry: "Go and answer the phone, listen to your brother's voice on the phone, is it the same as when he was at home."

Xiao Wei quickly turned around, and just took a step back again: "Then what should I say first?"

"Hmm......" Bai Lu thought for a while while holding the clothes pole, and chuckled: "Say hello first, let's say hello."

The little guy nodded and immediately ran back.

The phone rang one after another, and the non-stop ringing seemed to show how anxious the owner on the other end of the phone was.

Seeing that his little hand was about to touch the long white earpiece, the phone suddenly stopped ringing.

The image of the small body was struck by lightning, and he stood stiffly in place, his little face puzzled and nervous.

Is it that the eldest brother has been waiting too long and is impatient?

The little figure followed suit, went back to the corridor to find Bai Lu, and lowered his head as if he had done something wrong: "The phone is not ringing, the eldest brother must be angry."

"No, it's not." Bai Lu comforted and patted the little guy on the shoulder: "The phone also has a break time, the bell rings a few times and no one listens to it, it will automatically end, and the person who needs to call will dial again before it will continue to ring, it's not that the phone is hung up, and it's not that your brother doesn't want to call."

"Really?"

Xiao Wei raised his head, and his eyes slowly returned to light.

Bai Lu knows a lot of things, what Bai Lu says is never wrong, what Bai Lu says must be right.

Bai Lu nodded in the little guy's expectant gaze: "Really, you go back to the Eight Immortals Table and sit and wait, otherwise your brother will call back later, no one answers, he will think that no one is home, think that we are all available, he will change the time very late, and call back again......"

As soon as the words fell.

The main house sounded again.

"Jingle bell—"

Bai Lu's words were fulfilled.

Xiao Wei was shocked, I don't know if he was too nervous or too excited, he stood motionless.

Bai Lu pushed his little shoulder: "Go quickly."

The small figure "swished" and flew back to the main house.

The white telephone receiver was quickly grabbed by a small hand and placed next to the bare little ear.

Silence.

Xiao Wei's mind went blank, he clenched his earpiece and stood straight in front of the high table, forgetting everything he wanted to say.

Until, on the other end of the phone, the man's low magnetic word came first: "Hey......"

The familiar sound suddenly crashed into the eardrum, instantly waking up the excited and overly nervous little head.

"Hello!"

I finally remembered Bai Lujiao's greeting.

Xiao Wei listened to the man's voice on the phone, and his eyes were full of joy.

Big brother called him!

Big brother called him for the first time!

"Where's Bailu?"

A basin of cold water poured Xiao Wei from head to toe, and his whole body was cold, from his ears to his heels.

I was so shocked that I had to answer: "I'm drying clothes."

There was an instant silence on the other end of the phone.

A moment of silence dispersed from both ends of the phone.

I don't know how long it took, and the voice came from the earpiece again: "Is it ready?"

Xiao Wei: "......"

"Not yet."

There was another silence for an unknown amount of time.

Xiao Wei looked back, Bai Lu hadn't dried his clothes yet, his hand that didn't hold the phone pinched the edge of the table, and his other small hand pinched the phone, pinching and pinching.

"A man is in the house today."

A man's voice immediately came from the silent earpiece: "Who?"

"Installing a phone."

Xiao Cheng: "......"

After being silent again, Xiao Wei paused and continued: "When I came back from school in the afternoon, I heard a neighbor chatting and saying that our chestnuts have a new market, and they are a husband and wife, and they drive a small tricycle to get the goods in the morning."

Xiao Cheng did not hesitate to give a word: "Oh."

Xiao Wei wanted to continue chatting, but he really couldn't find a topic to talk about: "I'll go and see if my sister-in-law has dried her clothes."

"Hmm."

No one is left behind.

The little bald head ran away with a sad little face.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!"

Bai Lu had just finished drying her clothes and put the bucket back in the shower, and a small figure of a fast runner was ushered in by her legs.

The little figure raised his bare little head, his big eyes were full of small resentment, and he pursed his lips and said, "Big brother asked you to listen to the phone."

Bai Lu looked puzzled: "I don't have anything to say, just talk to him, didn't you really want to talk to your brother just now?" Why don't you talk about it for a while? ”

Xiaowei's eyes became even more resentful: "I'm done talking, you go talk to your eldest brother."

(End of chapter)