Three fat cats jumped off the wall, meowing and rushing straight to Haizhu. The subordinate knocked on the door of Han's house, Grandma Hong was already asleep, and no one responded inside, so Han Ji jumped on the wall and jumped down.

Haizhu let out a "wow".

"What kind of ...... is this" Mrs. Hou smiled, the door opened, and she said, "It's getting late, we won't go over to disturb your grandmother, you go back quietly, don't say it, we'll visit you tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Haizhu waited for them all to go in, and she limped back with the cat on her tiptoes.

"Who?" Shiohei asked.

"Your sister, who will open the door for me."

Feng Ping ran over, and the others also came out, and Grandma Qi asked, "Why did you come back so late?" ”

Haizhu pointed to the next door and said, "If you come back by official boat, you will go to the restaurant for dinner first, Han Ji and his parents are here, and they will come home tomorrow." ”

"I thought it was a thief." Fengping heard the movement next door, held his breath all the time, and only relaxed after hearing this.

Grandma Qi didn't react at the time, seeing that Haizhu went to take a bath, she went into the house and continued to press the legs of the second child, head, shoulders, back, hips, legs, and feet, and she was also tired from head to toe.

"I'm blowing the lamp, you go to bed early." She walked out.

"You go to bed early, get up early tomorrow morning, Haizhu and her in-laws will come to the door tomorrow, you call the third child to sweep the inside and outside of the house, and throw away the things that should be thrown." Second Uncle Qi explained.

Only then did Grandma Qi react to what Haizhu said, at that time, she was patronizing the legs of the second child, which were soft and collapsed, and the flesh was also loose, not as thick as the legs of her old woman.

Closing the door, she stood in the yard and sighed softly, unable to sleep for a while, she took out a few children's dirty clothes and washed them in a basin.

"Milk, it's late at night, what are you washing now? Leave our garments, and we will wash them ourselves tomorrow. Haizhu leaned out of the window and said.

"I slept a lot during the day, but I couldn't sleep at night, you slept with yours, and I went back to sleep when I was sleepy." Grandma Qi looked back and said.

The clothes were washed one by one, and the water from the laundry was flushed into the gutter, and she carried a lantern and a broom to sweep the fish scales and vegetable leaves in the mud and sand, and in the alley outside the door, the gutter under the ground sounded from time to time.

Haizhu fell asleep listening to the sound of laundry, and when she woke up in the middle of the night, the clothes on the clothesline were already half-dry, and her sleeves and ties were floating high in the night breeze.

The crescent moon in the night rose to the middle, and then shifted a little to the west, and the stars gradually dimmed, and after the darkest part of the night, the night turned blue-black, and at some point, the black faded, and the sky gradually brightened.

Outside the town, the roosters crowed one after another, and the old man yawned and pushed the door open, carrying buckets and burdens, rowing to the river to fetch water in the heavy morning mist.

Grandma Qi also woke up, she went to wake up the third child, Qi Laosan opened the door with dark circles under his eyes, asked about the situation, he instantly sobered up, entered the house and explained to Bei Niang, he went over to carry a swill bucket and a commode to the beach to clean.

There was a smear of whiteness on the horizon, and when the day dawned, the old man who sold water and firewood rowed to the pier one after another, and the guards who kept watch yawned and walked down the street with heavy steps.

White smoke rose from the morning restaurant, and their first wave of guests was the yawning guards.

When the first rays of fiery red light are reflected in the sea, the sleeping people wake up, a new day begins, and the energetic people come out from behind the closed doors, and the voices of people break the silence of the night, and the streets and alleys are lively again.

After breakfast, the housekeeper brought by Mrs. Hou took people to the boat to unload their luggage, and others went to inquire about the vacant house, and the two or three alleys along the bluestone alley were within this range, and the house was rented to accommodate the entourage and the master.

In the first half of the night, Han Ji's family went out and walked a few steps into Haizhu's house, the yard was clean, the clotheslines tied to the walls were removed, the chairs, tables and windows were also scrubbed, and the water in the gutter was clear.

"Where's your little sister? There will be a full moon in two days, right? Mrs. Hou asked.

"I don't know if I'm awake or asleep, I'll take a look." Haizhu ran over, and after a while, she came over with a milk doll, and said in surprise: "I haven't grown up for a few days, I went and found that she woke up, and she didn't cry, just lay down obediently." ”

"Come, I'll hug you." Mrs. Hou took over, she took a look at the swaddling clothes, and said to Grandma Qi: "Old aunt, this girl is also the appearance of your Qi family, follow her father." ”

"The six children in the family grew up with their mother peacefully in Haizhu, Haizhu is the most similar, and his face and mouth are still with his father." Grandma Qi said.

Mrs. Hou took out a longevity lock and pressed it on the swaddling clothes, and said, "Your brothers and sisters have them, I can't leave you out, and I will grow up safely." ”

"I'll see." Admiral Han leaned over to take a look, nodded and said, "The little girl is quite fat, much stronger than when she was a child." ”

When the words fell, Xingzhu cried with tears in her eyes.

"Your voice is rough, and children are afraid." Mrs. Hou handed the child to Grandma Qi, and the people who had been on the battlefield were very angry, and ten children, nine and a half of them were afraid when they saw him.

Qi Laosan took the child and took it out to coax, and after a while, Admiral Han also took Han Ji out, and the two went to the official school to take a turn first, and then went to the island to see the situation.

Eating at the restaurant at noon, Haizhu asked Dongzhu to call her mother and Pingsheng to come over, Fengping and Chaoping went to the next door with Changsheng to see the movers, and then went to see his martial master, and the three of them ran in the alley with a series of children.

When I went to the restaurant at noon, the people in the alley asked, "Mrs. General, have you moved here?" ”

"Yes, I thought you guys were busy here, so I moved here." Mrs. Hou smiled.

"Hey, our alley is lively every day, but it is still Haizhu's most lively house when she cooks and sells vegetables." Erwang's grandmother answered, she glanced at Haizhu, and continued to ask: "You are here, don't restrain her, right?" Are she allowed to go out to sea to fish and open a restaurant? ”

"Look at you neighbors, you're afraid I'll criticize you." Mrs. Hou said to Haizhu, and said with a smile: "No, I didn't just know her, I just came to her." ”

Chapter 173: The frightened turtle is afraid of the sea

Han Ji and his father lived in Guangnan for a day and then left with the boat, Haizhu saw the boat go away, she walked back alone, thinking about things in her heart, When she turned into the alley, she caught a glimpse of a person with a dodgy face, It was Shen Sui and his mother.

"Uncle." She shouted, looked at her a few times, and asked, "Where are you going?" How is it alone? Can I help you? ”

Mother Shen smiled wryly and said, "It's not hot in the morning, I'm going out for a walk, are you going back?" Didn't go to sea? ”

"Yes, I'm about to go back, if you have nothing to do and go to my house to sit, Mrs. Hou is here, you two sit together and have something to say."

Mother Shen hurriedly waved her hand, she couldn't hide, how could she get up, she excused herself that she was going to see a relative, and left in a hurry.

Haizhu was confused, she felt inexplicable. On the way back, she turned around to Shen's house to find Shen's second sister-in-law, and the two sat for a while, and without asking anything, she went back.

Today is the day of the full moon of the star beads, Bei Niang, who has been bored at home for a month, came out, she hasn't seen the sun for a month, her face has grown a lot whiter, and she has gained weight. She came out with the child in her arms, and the neighbors in the alley praised her for her good confinement.

Hong Shanniang pointed out to her cousin and said: "Bei Niang gave birth to a baby, she hasn't hugged it much this month, the baby is crying and making trouble, Qi Laosan is hugging, and he washes diapers, and we have people coming and going in this alley, passing by his door, and from time to time you can see him squatting in the yard rubbing diapers and laundry." ”

Her cousin admitted that she was short-sighted, how could she have expected that the Qi family would have this creation, and those aspects that she disliked before were a drag was not worth mentioning in front of Haizhu's relatives.

Seeing Qi Laosan come out with a stack of diapers, and skillfully took over the child, the woman with the golden hairpin patted her sleeves and got up to leave, she instructed: "Xiaolian, don't say this in the future, after all, the two families have no fate, and your cousin doesn't have that luck, don't mention it, so as not to provoke her to be unwilling to live her own life." ”

Hong Shanniang slapped her mouth and said, "Okay, I won't mention it, I only told you about it." ”

The woman nodded, she walked towards the end of the alley, passing by Mrs. Song's house, she saw a gray figure flashing behind the door, estimating that the figure should be Mrs. Song. She thought to herself that the most embarrassing thing now should be Mrs. Song's family, who had fought and quarreled, and the Qi family was developed again, and they were probably hiding when they saw people now, fearing reprisals.

Haizhu turned into the alley and met someone, she greeted with a smile: "Go back?" ”

"Hey, you didn't go to sea today?"

"No, my third aunt is out of confinement today."

"Look at me, I just saw your third aunt, and I forgot about it in a blink of an eye." The woman patted her head and said, "Okay, then you can go back, and I will go back too." ”

The two staggered, Haizhu walked back, all the way busy greeting and chatting with the neighbors sitting outside, the cat in the house heard the sound and ran out of the door, rubbing her ankles and entering the door together.

Just after breakfast, the stew in the kitchen has already begun. Dongzhu and Fengping didn't go to the stall to sell cakes today, they both went to practice martial arts with Changsheng, and Chaoping, a fart worm, naturally followed, and the three children in the family were much quieter.

"I'll hug you." Haizhu clapped her hands at Xingzhu, seeing that the little girl did not resist on her face, she took the swaddling baby and hugged the baby, the child of the full moon looked fleshy, and she couldn't touch the bones in her hand.

"Third child, take out the scales and see how many catties Xingzhu has grown this month." Second Uncle Qi said.

Qi Laosan entered the house to get the scale, carried a basket with his hand, weighed the basket first, and then put it into the child and weighed, saying: "Eight catties and nine taels, nine catties." ”

The basket was swaying, Xingzhu didn't cry when she was lying inside, Haizhu picked her up and said, "I will be walking at this time next year, and I won't let people hold me at this time of the year after next, and I will run with my brothers and sisters." ”

"The child grows up in the blink of an eye, I still remember that you are as big as Xingzhu, and you are about to get married at this time." Qi Laosan sighed, "Time flies so fast, more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye." ”

"To put it old-fashioned, you are not a few years older than me, why didn't you say that time flies really fast when you marry your daughter-in-law? Isn't it, second uncle? Haizhu asked.

Second Uncle Qi nodded, he smiled and said: "You two are not a few years old, he has both hugged the child as a father, maybe he thinks that time only walks on him, you are still the same as when you were a child." ”

"How old am I and I'm also an elder, so I can't say this to your grandmother?" Qi Laosan came out of the house, he walked to Haizhu's side and gestured, and said, "It's still a little girl, don't be in a hurry to get married......"

"Say what?"

The voice came from outside, and when the words fell, Mrs. Hou came in, and she was the only one, without the grandmother and the maid.

"What were you talking about?" She looked at Qi Laosan with a smile.

Qi Laosan blushed, he hugged his daughter from Haizhu's arms, and said, "Let's chat, you come in and sit, I'll go change the child's diaper." ”

Bei Niang came out of the kitchen when she heard the sound, she smiled at Mrs. Hou, showed up to say hello and entered the kitchen.

"It's lively here, I'll come and sit down, you're busy with yours, you don't need to greet me." Mrs. Hou sat down, she looked at Second Uncle Qi and asked with concern, "Is there anything uncomfortable in your body?" ”

"It's okay, I don't really feel anything." Second Uncle Qi calmly gestured his body, according to normal people, it was uncomfortable for him to be trapped in a chair every day, and he also felt that his legs, hips and back would be uncomfortable, but fortunately he couldn't feel it.

The gray cat jumped on his lap and just lay down cross-legged, when the big white cat with different pupils rushed over, slapping his paws and scratching the cat's hair. The gray cat was beaten, and fled back to the chicken coop with a sigh of anger, it ran away, and the big white cat cocked its tail and hooked the ankle of the second uncle, and jumped on the wall to lie on its stomach proudly, the cat's face was facing the yard, and two cats of different colors stared at the people and cats in the yard.

Second Uncle Qi calmly patted off the cat hair that fell on his body, and Haizhu explained to Mrs. Hou: "This big white cat was a wild cat before, and it has a powerful temperament, it may be that my second uncle fed it before, so it protected him, and when he saw the other two cats sleeping on his lap, he beat him." ”

"It's very spiritual." Mrs. Hou sighed, and when she saw Qi Laosan coming out with the child in her arms, she said: "I'll hug me for a while, you can be busy with whatever you want, you don't have to surround me." ”

"Then I'll go in and cook, uncle, if Xingzhu cries, you can return the child to her father, and you can hold and play again after coaxing it." Haizhu said.

Mrs. Hou thought it was funny, she thought that Haizhu liked children, but she didn't expect her to treat children as a funny thing. She took out two gold bracelets from her sleeve and put them on the child, put them on and put them in swaddling clothes while pinching the child's hands.

"Broke the bank again." Second Uncle Qi saw it in his eyes.

"It's nothing to me."

The two of them talked without a pair, and it didn't take long for Bei Lao Niang to come over, and after a while, Qin Jingniang pulled Pingsheng over too.

"Your brother and sister are all at my house, so you can go too." Mrs. Hou told Pingsheng that she looked at this kid kindly, and said to Qin Jingniang: "Pingsheng looks like his eldest sister." ”

Qin Jingniang touched her youngest son's head and said, "Their sister and brother look like me, and they look a little similar." Go play with your second sister, don't run around. ”

It happened that Xingzhu was crying, Bei Niang came out to feed the child, and she went into the kitchen to help cook.

The sun rose in the sky, the courtyard was no longer shaded, and the people sitting in the courtyard moved into the hall, which was a little narrow, and Mrs. Hou sat down a little, under the pretext of changing her clothes and going back.

The aroma of the vegetables coming out of the kitchen became stronger and stronger, and the last dish was served on the plate, Haizhu took off her apron and came out, shouting through the wall: "Dongzhu, come back for dinner." ”

The maid of the Han Mansion heard the voice and ran to call someone, and after a while, Dongzhu ran back with someone, and Changsheng came in and said, "Little aunt, my grandmother said that my grandfather and second uncle are not at home, so I will celebrate the full moon for Xingzhu." ”

"Okay, you come in and sit down, and the table will be open immediately." Haizhu came into the house to serve food.

Grandma Qi looked up at her and said, "I should go to the restaurant for a treat today." ”

Haizhu shook her head and said bluntly: "She eats exquisitely, and no matter how approachable she is, it is difficult to change her living habits, so it's okay, just keep this distance, we don't force her, and she doesn't find fault with us." ”

Today's incident is Mrs. Hou's attitude, Haizhu also knows in her heart, and she doesn't have to do face work in the future to call her over for dinner, the two families are like neighbors, talking and talking, and when they get to the meal, they go back to their respective homes, and occasionally get together for a meal when they are interested.

There were four more people than usual for this meal at noon, and one side of the long table could barely sit down, just as Xingzhu was asleep, and Qi Laosan and Bei Niang could have a solid meal.

After the meal, Changsheng called Fengping and Dongzhu to go to his house to play, but Dongzhu and Fengping refused, saying, "We have to sleep for a while, and we have to go to the school in the afternoon." ”

"Go to my house and study, come with me." Changsheng pulled Fengping and ran home, "Grandmother, grandmother, let Fengping and Dongzhu study with me." ”

Mrs. Hou had no opinion and said, "You ask Fengping and Dongzhu if they are willing." ”

Feng Ping hesitated a little, but when he saw Changsheng looking at him pitifully, he relieved himself and said, "I'll go back and ask my eldest sister and second sister." ”