At about 9 o'clock in the morning, a Buick LaCrosse with a Beijing license plate was running on the highway and drove towards Chengjiapo, Dayao Town, Anwu County.

At this point in time, there are very few cars on the road, and Cao Shujie drives very fast.

Cheng Xiaolin saw it in the back seat and instructed Cao Shujie: "Shujie, just drive slowly, let's not be in a hurry." ”

"It's okay, I know what to expect." Cao Shujie said.

Before and after, he is also a veteran driver for more than 20 years, and he has always taken safety as the core!

Meng Meng is looking at the little pug in the cardboard box in the back seat, with this puppy there, she is surprisingly quiet now.

Cao Shujie didn't expect that such a naughty child would become a lady because of a little pug, which he didn't expect, but in some ways, he was also very lenient with this little pug.

For example, he has never been in the habit of bringing his dog to the car, but this little pug is an exception, and this is the second time.

The little pug raised his head in the cardboard box and looked down at its cuteness, and the little pug's eyes looked very smart and circled.

If you look closely, you'll notice that this little pug has a bit of a charm in his eyes.

It is very smart and seems to know that Meng Meng is the most favored in this family, and it is also moving closer to Meng Meng to get more attention and attention, and then get benefits.

Cheng Xiaolin is also very pleasing to the eye when she looks at this little pug now.

She can't remember how long she can sit in the car and play with her phone as relaxed as she does now, and the last time she didn't have to think about coaxing Meng Meng like this was a long time ago when she took the train to school.

After a while, Cheng Xiaolin looked sideways at the little pug playing with her daughter, and she thought about adding a meal to it another day.

At least a chicken thigh, or a bone with meat, or no sincerity.

"Little dog, let me tell you, grandma's family has an older brother." Meng Meng said very squeamishly.

She then shook her head and said, "But when you get to grandma's house, if my brother touches her, you will bite him." ”

Cheng Xiaolin: "......"

She never expected that her daughter would have such an extremely dangerous idea, and she was glad that she found it early.

She didn't have the heart to play with her mobile phone this time, put the mobile phone in her pocket, and hurriedly said: "Mengmeng, when you get to grandma's house, you can't let Xiaobai bite your brother, or you won't let you go, you know?" ”

"Why?" Mengmeng had a blank expression on her face, and she couldn't understand what it had to do with her naïve little head?

She said: "If my brother doesn't touch Xiaobai, I won't let Xiaobai bite him." ”

Cheng Xiaolin taught her again, only to find that Meng Meng seemed to have a strong desire to protect her 'things', and it seemed difficult to reverse his thoughts in a short period of time.

On the rest of the way, Cheng Xiaolin kept reasoning with her daughter, her mouth was dry and she felt a little tired.

In the second half of the remaining half, Cheng Xiaolin inexplicably felt that the distance was too far, she was going crazy, and her husband Cao Shujie also drove to the door of the house.

Cao Shujie just wanted to get out of the car, and then pulled the door shut again.

He told Cheng Xiaolin, who was in the back seat, to dress Mengmeng in thick clothes and put on a hat, then reopened the door and got out of the car, and opened the back door for his wife.

A cold wind slipped into the car along the open door, and the moving Cheng Xiaolin shrank back, and she hugged Mengmeng tighter.

"Why is it so cold now?" Cheng Xiaolin muttered.

I didn't feel it in the car just now, but as soon as I came out, I felt that the temperature had dropped by several degrees unusually.

Cao Shujie looked up at the sky, and he said, "Wife, look, it's a little different." ”

Cheng Xiaolin heard her husband say this, and she also looked up at the sky, the sky was really not good-looking.

"The weather forecast two days ago said that there will be snow in the near future, so it won't fall today, right?" Cheng Xiaolin felt speechless.

She really doesn't want to snow today, her mother's house has not installed radiators, or use the most primitive stove to heat up, driving the temperature in the room to rise the heating method, but only in the master bedroom has this configuration, if it snows, the temperature will continue to drop, if it rains too much, they can't go back, and it will be uncomfortable to think about it at night.

Cao Shujie also thought of this, and he also took the initiative to say: "Wife, is there a radiator installed here?" No, let's pay for my parents to install it. ”

"Besides, I really don't know where it is, and my parents won't let you pay for it." Cheng Xiaolin said.

"Mommy, puppy." Mengmeng hadn't forgotten the little pug and asked her mother to help bring it out.

"Wang, Wang." Pug Xiaobai suddenly saw an unfamiliar environment and subconsciously barked a few times.

When it saw Meng Meng, it quieted down again.

Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin were surprised when they saw this scene.

"Husband, this little pug is quite smart, it seems to know Mengmeng." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cao Shujie nodded: "I found out about this two days ago, this puppy is indeed quite smart, and the few in the family will be likable." ”

"Is this bullshit, hahahaha" Cheng Xiaolin couldn't help laughing.

While the two were talking, Cao Shujie opened the trunk and was about to take his things home, when at this time, the closed door of his mother-in-law's house opened from the inside.

Mother-in-law Li Xiaojuan took her grandson Cheng Tiandong's little hand and appeared at the gate, and after seeing them, she hurriedly took her grandson to this side.

Walking up to Cao Shujie and them, Li Xiaojuan habitually asked, "Shujie, your road is going well." ”

Cao Shujie nodded with a smile and said, "Mom, it's okay, there are not many cars on the road." ”

"Mom, it's so cold outside, why did you still come out with Dongdong." Cheng Xiaolin said.

As soon as she finished speaking, Cheng Xiaolin heard her nephew cough 'cough'.

The cough was very rapid and very severe, and his face was red after a cough, Cheng Xiaolin raised his eyebrows: "Mom, Dongdong has a cold?" ”

"Well, I came out to play two days ago, I wore little clothes, he had a little cough and runny nose, nothing else, I gave him medicine, you can rest assured, it's okay." Li Xiaojuan said.

Cheng Xiaolin started from her own point of view, and her heart was very complicated.

Especially in the group of children, the disease of cold is the most easily contagious, and everyone's physical condition is different after infection, some are light and some are heavy, but Meng Meng belongs to the kind of situation in the lungs as soon as he coughs, and it is particularly troublesome to treat, children are uncomfortable, and adults also suffer.

She also felt that she was a little careless this time, why did she forget to ask about it when she called his mother before she came.

Seeing that his wife's face was not very good, Cao Shujie knew what his wife was thinking at a guess, and shook his head at his wife with his back to his mother-in-law, signaling her not to say more.

Cheng Xiaolin thought that since they were all here, they couldn't go back, and the best way was to wait for their cousins to stay away.

But Cheng Xiaolin forgot that this point is the most difficult, who cares about this child.

"Wang, Wang......"

The little pug was held on a leash by Meng Meng, rubbed on her legs, and barked when she saw a stranger.

The barking of the pug immediately attracted the attention of Meng Meng and her little cousin Cheng Tiandong.

Even Li Xiaojuan asked curiously: "Linlin, where did the puppy come from?" ”

"Mom, it was Shujie who got it for Mengmeng, Mengmeng likes this puppy very much, and she has to let her take it when she goes out." Cheng Xiaolin said.

"Grandma, puppy." Since seeing Cao Shujie and them, Cheng Tiandong, who had not spoken, spoke for the first time.

"Eh, go check it out, your cousin's puppy, don't touch it." Li Xiaojuan also knew to ask his grandson not to touch the puppy to avoid being bitten.

But when Cheng Xiaolin heard her mother say this, she was just thinking about finding some reason to stop her, but her nephew Cheng Tiandong had already run to the puppy, standing opposite Mengmeng, and looking at the white-haired little pug at his cousin's feet.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" Dongdong coughed a few times in succession, and when he coughed violently, some spittle stars were still coughed out by him and floated in the air.

And he happened to be the little cousin Meng Meng.

Cheng Xiaolin couldn't look back on anything else, so she hurriedly asked, "Mom, do you have a mask at home?" ”

"What do you want a mask for without that?" Li Xiaojuan asked her daughter.

Cheng Xiaolin looked at her nephew Cheng Tiandong and said, "Isn't Dongdong coughing, especially these children, colds are the most contagious, and Meng Meng can easily get bronchitis when she catches a cold." ”

When Li Xiaojuan heard this, she said: "There are really no masks at home, why don't I go to the pharmacy to buy a few?" ”

"Mom, forget it, don't buy it, there is still ginger and brown sugar at home." Cheng Xiaolin asked.

Li Xiaojuan nodded: "Yes, you mean to boil some brown sugar ginger water for her, right?" ”

"Yes, yes." Cheng Xiaolin looked at her nephew and said, "Give Dongdong a bowl to drink, it will be effective in preventing and treating colds." ”

"Alright, get in." Li Xiaojuan said.

Li Xiaojuan and Cheng Xiaolin, their mother and daughter, took Dongdong and Mengmeng's hands and walked home.

The little pug followed Mengmeng to the house, and Cao Shujie followed with something at the end.

He asked, "Mom, isn't my dad back and not at home?" ”

"He went to settle the bill, and his contractor said that he would settle the money for them for half a year." Li Xiaojuan said so.

Hearing this, Cao Shujie was not surprised, these years with the project, the checkout is really not fast.

A lot are owed a year.

The stove was lit in the house, and the red flame was lit, which made the room very warm.

As soon as she entered the house, Cheng Xiaolin went to cut ginger slices and prepared to boil brown sugar ginger water.

Mengmeng and Dongdong their cousins got together and looked at the pug Xiaobai, Mengmeng said proudly: "It's called Xiaobai, but listen to me"

"Xiaobai." Dongdong heard his cousin say this, and shouted, but the pug Xiaobai didn't bird him, he was very unconvinced, and stretched out his hand to touch Xiaobai.

But Xiaobai kept remembering Mengmeng's order, and when he saw that someone else wanted to touch him, he directly raised the dog's head and called 'Wang', which startled Dongdong.

"Wow!"

Cheng Tiandong's children were very frightened, and they were so frightened that they cried on the spot.

Cheng Xiaolin, who was cutting ginger slices, heard her nephew's crying, she didn't know what was going on, so she asked, "Shujie, what's wrong?" ”

"Dongdong wanted to touch Xiaobai just now, but Xiaobai screamed and scared him." Cao Shujie looked at his daughter and felt a headache.

This girl is really not worrying.

When Li Xiaojuaner heard this, she didn't think much about it, she came over to coax for a long time, and Dongdong stopped crying.

I want to touch the pug Xiaobai again, but Xiaobai is very smart this time, plus Cao Shujie stared at it, Xiaobai didn't dare to scream and scare people, so he let Cheng Tiandong touch him a few times, looking like a good baby.

Meng Meng saw that Xiaobai was very popular, and she was quite proud.

After Cheng Xiaolin boiled the brown sugar ginger water, she asked Cao Shujie to bring two small bowls, one for each of her daughters and nephews, and coaxed them to drink.

Meng Meng stuck out her tongue while drinking, and shouted vigorously: "Mom, it's so spicy, it's so spicy." ”

"Phew!" She seemed to want to vomit the spicy energy, but it was useless.

After a while, sweat was oozing from her forehead.

Cao Shujie took his daughter's thermos cup, let her drink a few sips of water to flush it, and at the same time took a few pieces of paper to wipe the sweat beads on her forehead.

Cheng Tiandong saw his cousin drink all the bowl of brown sugar ginger water next to him, and he also drank two sips with Gu Dong Gu Dong, and no one persuaded the rest to drink it.

When Cao Shujie and his father-in-law Cheng Rengui came back, Cheng Xiaolin was serving food to the table, and when she saw him coming in, she shouted happily: "Dad, you're back." ”

"Linlin, Shujie, when did you arrive?" When Cheng Rengui saw his son-in-law, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, he swept away the sadness just now, and he also became happy.

"Dad, we arrived at 9 o'clock, my mother said you go to ask for the account, how about it? Did you give it? Cheng Xiaolin asked him.

It's not that I expect him to have a few dollars, it's just curiosity.

Hearing his daughter's inquiry, Cheng Rengui sighed: "It's okay to give it for three months, it's better than not one point." ”

"Ah, isn't it half a year? Why do you give so little? Cheng Xiaolin was very angry, she said: "The New Year is more than two months away, and you only pay three months' salary there." ”

Cheng Rengui is used to it, he said: "This is good, at least a little bit of settlement in advance, in previous years, the first half of the year could not be obtained until the end of the year." ”

Cao Shujie didn't feel strange when he heard his father-in-law say this.

Li Xiaojuan heard her wife say that she only got three months' salary, and she was very helpless, but she couldn't help it.

Cheng Xiaolin complained to her husband Cao Shujie: "Shujie, why do you say these people are like this, they have their own money, why don't they settle the bill?" ”

Cao Shujie said with a smile: "Wife, you really don't understand, the contractor is really not necessarily rich." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his father-in-law Cheng Rengui also nodded and said, "This money is still Li Guangqing who wants to die or live from the project, otherwise he will have to wait until the end of the year." ”

"Dad, are you out of work because of this?" Cao Shujie asked.

Cheng Rengui nodded: "Yes, we took the lead in making trouble with each other, but it can't be done if we don't make trouble, something happens to Cheng Dagua's family, and we need money, Li Guangqing has been paying in advance, and he doesn't have much money in his hand, so he can only find a project to ask for money." ”

Cheng Xiaolin suddenly realized that there were so many things in the middle.

Li Xiaojuan was irritable when she heard it, and she said, "It's time for dinner, hurry up and eat." ”

She spoke, and no one else talked about it, and gathered around the table to prepare for dinner.

After lunch, Cheng Xiaolin went to boil some brown sugar ginger water and gave it to her daughter and nephew.

Cao Shujie accompanied his father-in-law to drink tea and chat, and when it came to the incident at noon, Cao Shujie asked his father-in-law: "Dad, will you go to the construction site in the future?" ”

"I'm thinking about this too, but I won't do anything else if I don't do this." Cheng Rengui is very helpless, he doesn't have any excellent skills.

Cao Shujie pondered for a while, and then said to his father-in-law, "Dad, or I'll give you an idea." ”

"What?" Cheng Rengui asked him.

Then I heard Cao Shujie say, "You raise cattle." ”

"It doesn't take much, just raise four or five heads at a time." Cao Shujie said.

He said, "You have 50 cows at a time, like me, and I will buy another batch of calves in the next year." ”

"Dad, if you want to raise it, I'll help you contact the calf, and the price is not expensive." Cao Shujie said.

Hearing his son-in-law say this, Cheng Rengui was really moved, and he hesitated and asked, "Okay." ”

"Dad, can I still lie to you, this cattle raising is generally more convenient, you just have to feed them regularly every day, and there is nothing else." Cao Shujie told his father-in-law about his experience of raising cattle during this time.

After Cao Shujie finished speaking, Cheng Rengui was even more moved, and he said, "I'll discuss it with your mother." ”

"Dad, this is a big deal, you guys have a good discussion." Cao Shujie said: "If you raise cattle at home, you just start raising less, explore experience, and then think you can, raise more, anyway, after a long time, it will definitely be better than you working outside." ”

Cheng Rengui also understood this truth, he nodded, with a contemplative expression on his face.

When he saw his wife Li Xiaojuan, Cheng Rengui told his wife about 'raising cattle'.

After listening, Li Xiaojuan did not express her position directly, mainly because she felt that her wife was honest, and she had never done this job before, and she always felt that he was not that material, it was better to work honestly to earn some money, and her heart was more down-to-earth.

But Cheng Xiaolin saw that her mother had never had a clear attitude, and then said: "Mom, it's good to raise cattle." ”

"Anyway, we have those 50 heads at home, and we haven't seen much." Cheng Xiaolin said.

Until Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin left, Li Xiaojuan did not clearly say whether to raise or not.

"My parents are too hesitant to do things, looking ahead and looking backwards, this can't work." Cheng Xiaolin said in the car.

Cao Shujie heard her say this, and said with a smile: "Wife, you can't say that, how old are our parents?" ”

"I'll be 50 years old after the New Year." Cheng Xiaolin opened her mouth and said, she remembered it very clearly.

Cao Shujie looked ahead and smiled: "Yes, it's this age, can you expect them to accept their own business at once?" ”

"But that's cattle breeding!" Cheng Xiaolin said.

Cao Shujie asked her: "Wife, tell me if our father starts raising cattle, will he rely on these cows to generate income in the future?" ”

Cheng Xiaolin nodded: "That's right." ”

"It's not enough, this is the foundation of their survival in the future, they think about it, they are responsible for themselves, there is nothing wrong with it." Cao Shujie said.

Cheng Xiaolin also reacted, but she was thinking too simply.

……

On the way back, it was getting darker and darker, and there were gradually more pedestrians on the road.

Although there was a little delay on the way, I still got back home smoothly.

When Wang Yuelan saw them coming back, she was very surprised: "Shujie, Linlin, I thought you were going to stay, why did you come back again?" ”

"Mom, there's a lot of work at home, so I can't live there." Cheng Xiaolin said.

She wanted to live there, but when she thought that there was so much work in the orchard, she was not sure.

In addition, her nephew has a cold and has been coughing very seriously, and if she speaks from her heart, Cheng Xiaolin is afraid that her daughter will be infected.

But these words were not said to her mother-in-law, and Cao Shujie did not think about it in that direction.

Wang Yuelan also mentioned one thing, she said: "Shujie, the person who installed the radiator in the town has come, and after measuring the size of the house, he left, saying that he would come to install it in about three days." ”

"Why is it so slow?" Cao Shujie wondered.

Wang Yuelan glanced at her son and said, "It's cold now, and there are many people installing radiators, which is already fast." ”

Cao Shujie is right to think about it, think about it carefully, and he can accept it in three days.

Before going to bed at night, Cheng Xiaolin boiled a bowl of brown sugar ginger water for her daughter to drink, and seeing that her daughter had not coughed, Cheng Xiaolin's hanging heart was half relieved.

But the good fortune seemed to have come to an end, and at about 12 o'clock in the evening, a sound of 'cough, cough, cough' sounded, which seemed particularly clear in the middle of the night.

Cheng Xiaolin, who was sleeping, was woken up by her daughter's cough.

She saw that Mengmeng kept coughing, and when she coughed badly, her back arched, and she knew that Mengmeng was still not spared.

"Shujie, Shujie ......"

Cheng Xiaolin woke up her husband.

"What's wrong?" Cao Shujie asked in a daze, and then heard his daughter's cough.

He understood at once and said, "Don't worry, I'll go find medicine for Mengmeng, you give her a drink and pressure first." ”

"Hmm!" Cheng Xiaolin nodded, she reached out and fumbled for her daughter's thermos kettle next to the pillow.

"Smack!"

Immediately after a dazzling burst of light, it was Cao Shujie who fumbled with the switch on the wall and turned on the lights in the room.

While Mengmeng was drinking water, Cao Shujie hurriedly went to the small medicine box outside to pick up the medicine for coughing.

Cao Shujie quickly pulled the medicine box, only then did he find the medicine for cough, he found a small cup, put the medicine in the cup, poured warm boiled water and stirred evenly, and then took it back to the house and handed it to his wife: "Wife, let Mengmeng take the medicine." ”

"Hmm!" Cheng Xiaolin looked at her daughter's uncomfortable cough, she was also very distressed, and blamed herself even more: "Shujie, it's good if I ask more when I call my mother, if I know that Dongdong has a cold and cough, we won't go back first, and the Dongdong of the province will infect Mengmeng, making her so uncomfortable." ”

Cao Shujie comforted her: "Wife, don't think so, Mengmeng may not be infected by Dongdong, she may be running crazy, one cold and one hot, and she has a cold." ”

"Don't comfort me, I know it." Cheng Xiaolin watched her daughter still cough after drinking the medicine, and she coughed too anxiously for a while, and even spit it out.

The two of them watched as their daughter spit on the sheets, and the smell of fermented rancidity came, and the sheets had to be removed.

After such a toss, it was finally difficult to wait for Mengmeng to stabilize, and let Cheng Xiaolin move back and forth with Mengmeng on the bed, and Cao Shujie pulled the part that Mengmeng spit out with his hand to remove the sheets.

When he was done, it was almost two o'clock in the middle of the night, and he couldn't even care about putting on the new sheets, so he couldn't stand it.

Wang Yuelan and Cao Jianguo heard the movement and wanted to come over to help, but they were stopped by Cao Shujie.

"Dad, Mom, I'm done, you guys go back to sleep." He said.

That night, the two of them tossed for most of the night, and neither of them slept well.

Until the next morning, Cao Shujie rarely got up an hour late, but he still felt very sleepy and didn't seem to wake up.

Good night to friends this morning!

(End of chapter)