Hearing the voice of the woman outside the door, Xiaoshi's smiling face sank.

The door of the snack shop was not closed, and it was already past the time for everyone to have dinner. Chen Xiao and others have different meal times from others, they are generally staggered and later than others.

Zhou Huiqin could have entered through the front entrance of the store, but she chose to go through the back door.

"Are you ......?" Chen Xiao asked.

In fact, she had already guessed that this woman was probably Xiaoshi's mother. Because their eyebrows and eyes look very similar.

"I'm Little Stone's mother, I'll send him something."

"Please come in."

Zhou Huiqin walked into the courtyard and saw a low square table set up in the courtyard, there was food on the table, and several people were drinking and eating.

"Are you eating?"

Zhou Huiqin looked apologetic. Generally, when you go to someone else's house, you must deliberately stagger the meal, otherwise you will be suspected of going to eat.

"Come over and have some food together." Chen Xiao beckoned: "Chunhong, go get two pairs of dishes and chopsticks." ”

"Thank you, I've already eaten it."

"We've stewed snake meat, let's try it."

Chen Xiao couldn't help but say and pulled her into a seat.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Shi asked with a calm face and eyes looking away.

"Tomorrow during the Dragon Boat Festival, I will make up a hundred ropes and come to put them on for you."

Baisuo asked his mother to wear it herself.

"I'm not a kid anymore, I don't wear that."

Baisuo is worn by children, and generally does not wear it when they are adults. Of course, if you like it, you can wear it, and there is no rule that adults can't wear it. But if you want it to work, you have to wear it by your mother.

"You're only fourteen, so you're not an adult." Zhou Huiqin spoke softly.

She saw the wine bowl on the table and could see that Little Stone was drinking. She wanted to say a few words, saying that he was too young to drink. But after thinking about it, I didn't say it.

In this society, boys can talk about marriage at the age of fourteen or fifteen. those who marry early, fifteen or sixteen; Later, eighteen or nineteen. Those who have not married after the age of 20 are either too poor to marry a daughter-in-law; Either they have hidden diseases and can't marry a daughter-in-law.

Zhou Huiqin said, taking out Baisuo from her purse.

"If I don't wear it, I have to shave my face every day, and it's inconvenient to wear it." Xiao Shi's tone was a little impatient.

"Then wear it around your neck."

Baso can be worn on the wrist or around the neck.

"It's all said, I'm already an adult, don't wear it."

The two talked, and the four-year-old Xiao Gaocheng leaned on his mother's lap, holding a toy ball in his hand, looking at the food on the table, a little greedy.

The two of them did have a meal, but it was a simple green vegetable and rice, which was not delicious at all.

Chen Xiao saw that the little guy wanted to eat, so he put snake meat and chicken soup in front of him.

"Do you know how to use chopsticks?" Chen Xiao asked in a coaxing tone.

Xiao Gaocheng half-opened his mouth, looked at Chen Xiao, and nodded.

Chen Xiao looked at him ignorantly, thinking that he might not know how to use chopsticks, but just wanted to eat, so he went to get a wooden spoon.

"Use a spoon."

Zhou Huiqin looked at her son with a greedy look, did not stop it, lowered her head and said to his face:

"Thank you, Aunt Chen."

"Thank you, Aunt Chen." Xiao Gaocheng has a milky voice.

Xiao Shi saw that his mother was so intimate with Gao Cheng, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Tilt your face aside.

Gao Cheng held a toy ball in one hand and scooped meat with a spoon in the other. The child was clumsy and almost knocked the bowl over.

"Put the ball down and hold the bowl with the other hand." Zhou Huiqin taught.

Xiao Gaocheng put the ball on the table, held the bowl in his left hand, and held the spoon in his right hand.

The ball did not hold steady, fell off the table, bounced a few times, and rolled to the bottom of the table. Chen Xiao lowered his head to pick it up.

When she touched the ball, she felt a shock. I picked it up and looked at it, and my eyes lit up!

"Where did you buy this ball?" Chen Xiao was pleasantly surprised.

Whenever she catches a market in the county seat, as long as she is free, she will go around the street to see if there is such a thing.

"My dad bought it for me." Xiao Gaocheng drank chicken soup and ate meat.

Chen Xiao's face was uncontrollable with joy.

"What's wrong?" Fang Yu had never seen her look like this.

"Rubber, rubber! Hahahaha! ”

In the mountain they walked out of before, Chen Xiao had never seen a rubber tree. In the county seat for more than two months, I have not seen anything related to rubber.

She was saving money during this time. Save money to buy a horse, and then she's going to look for materials.

"Rubber?"

Fang Yu took the ball suspiciously and looked at it carefully.

The ball was only the size of a fist, and the inside was about made of bamboo, and the outside was wrapped in a layer of something like a thick skin, which was dyed with various colors.

"Haven't asked me how to call it?" Chen Xiao asked Xiao Shiniang.

"Slave Zhou."

"Sister Zhou, where did you buy this ball?"

Judging from the apparent age, Zhou Huiqin is thirty-one and Chen Xiao is fifteen or sixteen. In fact, they were about the same age.

Just now Zhou Huiqin asked her youngest son to call her Aunt Chen, so now Chen Xiao calls her Sister Zhou.

"This is my grandfather who came back from outside."

"From where?"

Zhou Huiqin thought about it carefully and replied, "From Jinghe." ”

"What is the Silent River? Where is it? ”

Before Zhou Huiqin could speak, Xiao Shi said:

"Jinghe County, in the south."

"How far is it from here?" Chen Xiao asked.

"Probably...... More than 400 miles. ”

Xiaoshi has never been there, but he only knows that Jinghe County mainly produces tea. Sheng'an has a trade name in Jinghe County.

"I still have a big one, and my dad bought me a lot of them." Xiao Gaocheng didn't know what the adults were talking about, just showing off that he had a lot of balls.

"Miss Chen, this ball...... What's wrong? Zhou Huiqin asked.

"Nothing, this layer of material on the surface of my search ball." Chen Xiao thought for a while and asked, "Sister Zhou, can you help me ask your master, is this ball made locally in Jinghe County?" Is this layer on the surface of the ball locally produced? ”

Although the ball is from Jinghe County, the above material is not necessarily from Jinghe County.

"yes, okay." Zhou Huiqin nodded.

She wants to be good friends with Chen Xiao. I hope she can be nicer to her eldest son.

"Let's eat, the food is getting cold." Fang Yudao.

He knew it. The white worm described to him what a bicycle was, and he asked "tires" at that time. The white oyster said that it was made of rubber. He didn't know what rubber was.

According to Bai Ana, if he wants to build a bicycle, he has to start by refining materials.

He is an alchemist, not an alchemist. However, I know a little bit about the refining of materials.

And refining materials, you have to start with refining tools. In conclusion, it's hard to build a bike when there's nothing.

No wonder Chen Xiao is willing to make a note with him. Did she decide that he couldn't make it?

"Brother Fang, drink."

Little Stone ignores his mother. She already has a home, and she still comes to him for something. It was her son who was on her lap. And he ......

He was already an adult and could earn money to support himself. When he buys a mansion in the future, if Gao Can returns to Xiling, he will only take Gao Cheng away, not her.

He can give her a pension and send her to the end of his life.