Tuanchang, Cheng's family.

He Yi'an is gone, but the days will not forever lose their original color because of the absence of a person. Heartache will always be healed by time, and shortcomings will be filled with firewood, rice, oil and salt, so that you can't always immerse yourself in sentimentality.

This is the law of life in an ordinary family.

Life! It will never sink to death because of sorrow.

The work of "slipping baby" has always been the duty of the eldest daughter in the family, and it is also the most suitable and reassuring. This is not! Cheng Jiangshui, who was a little tired, had been wandering outside for a long time and just came back, when he saw his mother with a tangled expression, picking up the bicycle and preparing to go out, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Mom, are you going out?" ”

Li Xiulan said with a bitter old face: "Now I'm really a little confused, I just thought about cooking and found that the noodles at home were gone, your father went to the health center again, I went to the grain station to buy bags of noodles and came back." Ay! It would be nice if he was here, this used to be his job, this is disturbing! Jiang Shui, you are optimistic about Jiang Hai, I will go back when I go. ”

Cheng Jiangshui hooked a strand of sweaty hair in front of his forehead, stepped forward and said thoughtfully: "Mom, why don't I go, your waist is not good, and the grain station is quite far away!" ”

Li Xiulan narrowed her eyes, looked up and down, and said in astonishment, "Can you do it?" ”

Cheng Jiangshui smiled brightly, stepped forward and took the handlebar: "Okay, I can ride a bicycle and hump the river!" ”

"Oh, oh......" Li Xiulan nodded hesitantly, and carefully pulled out a stack of trivial gross tickets from her pocket. The thumb of his right hand habitually reached to his lips, dipped a little saliva, and while carefully plucking and counting, he nagged and confessed: "Then I will give you the money and food stamps...... Remember, buy a bag of powder, half a bag of fine powder, and weigh me two catties of bud grain noodles...... You keep an eye on the point, the bud grain noodles should be ground by the bud grain that just came down this year, don't be fooled. Na, this is a national grain stamp, which is used to buy refined flour, this is an ordinary grain stamp used to buy ordinary flour, and the bud grain noodles are directly bought with money, and there is no need for food stamps......"

Watching his mother explain carefully, Cheng Jiangshui smiled and said, "Mom, I know this, I don't need to confess." ”

Li Xiulan raised her head and asked suspiciously, "Uh, you know?" ”

"Brother Yi and I have been to the grain station, why do I remember what I bought?"

Seeing her daughter's confident appearance, Li Xiulan was still a little uneasy, and asked again: "Then don't buy the wrong one!" Written down? ”

"Written down!" Cheng Jiangshui nodded, and repeated word for word: "A bag of ordinary powder, half a bag of fine powder, two catties of bud grain noodles, bud grain noodles should be newly ground this year, no food stamps." National food stamps buy refined powder, and others use ordinary stamps, right, Mom? ”

Li Xiulan looked at her daughter happily, with a satisfied smile on her face: "Well, you young people are still good at brains, then you should be careful when riding, don't spill food for me." ”

"Oh, then I'll go!"

Watching Cheng Jiang ride away neatly, Li Xiulan felt comfortable for a while. When the children grow up, they can help them do some "big things", isn't this the expectation and pride of parents?

With emotion, Li Xiulan looked at Cheng Jianghai, who was still hanging on the side with two snots, and looked at her Cheng Jianghai in a daze, and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.

When can this fool be as well-behaved and sensible as Jiang Shui!

Li Xiulan twisted her face and reprimanded angrily: "Look at it, if you don't go back to wash your face, you're sick to death......

On the other side, Cheng Jiangshui rode his bicycle lightly and before he went out of the gate, he was stopped by Gong Yulan, who had just returned from grocery shopping. This is the closest neighbor to the Cheng family in the group, and it is not too much to say that it is Li Xiulan's only confidant sister, and the children of the Cheng family also like this Aunt Gong, who has a similar personality to her mother and is a little arrogant.

"It's Jiang Shui, why are you going?"

Cheng Jiangshui hurriedly stopped the car and said solemnly: "Aunt Gong, I'll go to the grain station to buy some noodles!" ”

"Buying noodles?" Gong Yulan blinked her eyes and asked suspiciously, "Isn't it usually Yi'an who goes?" You little guy can move those! ”

Cheng Jiangshui hesitated and said, "Oh, Aunt Gong, Brother Yi'an has returned to Longyou, and Aunt Wanling came to pick it up!" ”

"What? Du Wanling is back! ”

Gong Yulan's eyes widened, a little incredulous, and her words couldn't help but have a bit of a complaining tone: "This, when did this happen?" Look at such a big thing, why don't I know at all? ”

Cheng Jiangshui, who is smart and understanding, seemed to hear Gong Yulan's dissatisfaction, lightly opened his red lips, and explained gently: "Aunt Gong, don't worry, I heard my parents say that Aunt Wanling came back in a hurry this time, and she just came to the new unit to report, so she didn't have much time to stay in our group field." She said that she will make a special trip to visit you and Uncle Pony after the work is over! ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, the tense muscles on Gong Yulan's face relaxed, and she looked like this, and said firmly: "I'll just say it, Wanling is also a sentimental person, and she won't be a leader with her nostrils facing the sky, and she won't even see her face." Unlike their family He Weiguo, that person is too empty. I think Yi'an was still the one I helped deliver the baby, you can see how he did to your family, let alone come to see us. ”

Speaking of the past, Gong Yulan, who has an upright temperament, also looks indignant, and is deeply influenced by the gossip mothers-in-law and aunts in the group, what should be said and what should not be said poured out of the box, regardless of whether the girl who has not come out of the cabinet in front of her can accept it.

Mentioning the rights and wrongs of the elders, Cheng Jiangshui was instantly a little embarrassed, gently brushed the hair around his ears, and said embarrassedly: "Aunt Gong, I don't understand what you said!" ”

Gong Yulan came to her senses at this time, and she didn't look at the object with her mouth long, and said curtly: "Hey! Look at me, why are you talking to your kid? Makes me look like a juggler! ”

Cheng Jiangshui smiled slightly, pursed his lips, and said softly: "Oh, by the way, Brother Yi'an asked me to tell you, he just went to Longyou to go to school, and he didn't come back if he left, so don't worry about it!" ”

"Hey!" Gong Yulan sighed: "Yi'an, this kid is fine, I don't have any opinion on him, your Aunt Gong and I are not such small-bellied people!" By the way, isn't your mom at home? ”

"Here it is!"

Gong Yulan waved her hand and said neatly: "Okay, then I'll go and make noise with your mother, you be careful." ”

"Okay, goodbye Aunt Gong."

Cheng Jiangshui turned into the car and walked away, Gong Yulan looked at the mature back, and sighed to herself: "Oh, these children have really grown up and are more sensible!" ”

In Cheng's house, Li Xiulan and Gong Yulan's parents who came with them exchanged pleasantries for a long time, and also gave Du Wanling a perfect explanation, and Gong Yulan went back satisfied.

After a while, Cheng Jiangshui came back with a backseat of grain, and there were two heavy bags of grain noodles on the horizontal bar, and the green silk on his forehead was stained with sweat.

This car and something as heavy as a half-grown teenager is definitely a heavy physical work for those small birds and delicate backbone girls. But for Cheng Jiangshui, who has been helping his mother with housework since he was a child and is diligent and quick, it is a trivial matter that can be caught by hand.

That's what the children of the poor mean when they are in charge of the house!

Properly parked the car, quickly moved the grain into the kitchen, and then packed it into various cylinders, then patted the face ash on his body, probed into the inner room, and reported to Li Xiulan, who was sitting on the kang.

"Mom, the noodles are all sold, and I've put them in the jar! Mother! ”

"Don't roar, there's someone!"

Listening to her daughter's voice, Li Xiulan was so busy that she didn't even bother to raise her head. At this moment, she is wearing a pair of reading glasses, frowning, still chanting words in her mouth, and is using a pencil the length of her index finger to scribble on the small notebook.

Cheng Jiangshui stepped forward in confusion, took out the remaining money and put it in front of his mother, looked at his mother's pensive face, and said, "Mom, this is the rest of the money and food stamps......

"Well, let it go!" Seeing his mother's indifferent appearance, Cheng Jiangshui put his head up, looked at the contents of the book curiously, and asked again: "Mom, what are you?" Mother! ”

There was a noise in her ears, Li Xiulan raised her head angrily, glared at Cheng Jiangshui who was interrupted, and then she was confused for a while, threw the pencil on the kang table, and reproached: "Oh, don't scream, where is this, I can't find a place for you to roar." ”

Cheng Jiangshui smiled wryly, and asked curiously, "Mom, are you settling accounts?" ”

"Isn't this nonsense, I asked when I saw it." Li Xiulan rolled her eyes, picked up the pencil and continued to lower her head and continue to calculate.

Cheng Jiangshui smiled teasingly: "Hehe, Mom, can you calculate accurately?" ”

"!"

Li Xiulan stopped, frowning, being looked down upon by her daughter! Although this is a fact, his face still has to be supported, so he said unashamedly to Cheng Jiangshui: "Your mother also graduated from junior high school, which is a little higher than your current education, but I don't have much memory now, and it is a little difficult to look at these numbers." ”

"What are you? I'll help you! Cheng Jiangshui said casually.

"Hey, that's right, what don't you have to do with your daughter?" Li Xiulan was stunned, secretly scolded herself for being a little old and confused, and said with a smile at Cheng Jiangshui: "Okay, my girl's study is still good, then try it!" ”

As he spoke, he turned the small notebook in his hand to his daughter, pointed, and explained in detail: "I'll tell you, these are our family's expenses." I remember very well where we have to spend money every month, where we can spend it or not, and where we must not spend it. Now, it's clearly written in this book! Do you understand? ”

Cheng Jiangshui browsed through the small notebook in a tangled manner, raised his head and said suspiciously: "Mom, why do you remember this?" ”

"I really can't live!"

Li Xiulan rolled her eyes in disgust, was patient, and quickly explained to her daughter the way she was proud of running a family: "This money has to be carefully calculated, and a penny has to be broken into two halves." Let's spend what we have to spend; This can be spent or not, we have to think about it and try not to spend it; Those who can't be spent, you have to grit your teeth and persevere, we can't spend it on this day! Alas, in this way, you can save money and live a good life, you know? ”

Cheng Jiangshui nodded thoughtfully: "Oh, I know!" ”

Looking at the beautiful and dignified cheeks of her daughter in front of her, a hint of maturity and stability faintly appeared, Li Xiulan couldn't help but be a little stunned.