90s Little Struggle

Chapter 121
For her own selfishness, Xiao Hong hoped that he would have a girlfriend later.

After all, if he had a girlfriend, he might be preoccupied with her. It's normal to be oblivious to sex, but I'm afraid he won't have time to help.

She felt a little guilty, as if she shouldn't expect him to become a single dog just because of this matter.

Soon he comforted himself again: it was only a year or two late to find a partner, he has been single for so many years, he probably wouldn't care about two more years, right?
After thinking about it for a while, I remembered that it was freezing outside today, and it was still pouring rain. I was afraid that the business would not be very good this morning.

There is no TV at home now, so she fell asleep after nine o'clock last night.

The bed was very comfortable, even if she couldn't fall asleep, she was reluctant to leave.

It's a pity that she could skip breakfast, but she couldn't help feeling anxious. After tossing and turning for a while, she got up quickly to go to the toilet.

They all got up, but she didn't lie down again.

Passing Xiao Fang saw the door was ajar, she moved over curiously and took a look, and saw Xiao Fang and Xu Xinning both doing their homework at the desk.

She hesitated for a moment, but still didn't disturb them, and left quietly.

In this horrible weather, she originally thought it would be deserted downstairs, but she didn't expect there to be seven or eight regular customers eating steamed dumplings.

Zhao Feifei was diligently rolling dumpling wrappers in the kitchen. She was not very skilled yet, so Wu Julan guided her in a low voice.

Zhao Laosi was also cutting pork heads outside for customers, and answered the customer's question in a good-tempered manner: "The fried chicken will start selling around ten o'clock."

"Yes, we built a shed with plastic sheeting outside, but if it rains too much, we can only blow it up at home."

Xiao Hong went into the kitchen and asked, "Where's Yanyan?"

"I'm going to the Huang's house next door." Seeing her getting up, Wu Julan asked her, "What would you like to eat in the morning?"

Xiao Hong smiled at her: "I want to eat steamed dumplings too."

"That's fine, serve it yourself on the stove, the bottom basket of steamed dumplings should be cooked." Wu Julan still didn't forget to tell her: "By the way, Xinning is here too, after you finish eating, go up and do your homework, don't worry." Don’t be shy if you do, just ask him.”

"Got it." Xiao Hong replied lazily.

It was a rainy day, there were not many guests, and Zhao Feifei came to help, so Wu Julan was much more relaxed.

Although Wu Julan treated her niece Zhao Feifei well, she cared more about her daughters, so she simply let them do their homework instead of helping them in business matters.

In the next few days, Xu Xinning came to do his homework every day, rain or shine.

Xiao Hong could only calm down and do her homework, but felt that she was very pitiful. Originally, doing homework was a painful thing, and she had to endure Xu Xinning's smiles at Xiao Fang from time to time. It's like being forced to eat dog food.

Thinking about it this way, starting school is not a very painful thing.

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and classes started after paying the tuition.

There is only half a year left before the college entrance examination, and the teachers are holding on tightly, wishing to put everything they know into the minds of the students.

Although Xiao Hong complained in her heart that studying was too hard, she didn't dare to be careless, she memorized it by rote and studied hard.

Even if I thought about it in my heart, if I didn't pass the exam, there was a way out.

But I still want to work hard, maybe I will have shit luck and be admitted to university?
Besides, she gets up early and goes to bed late every day like Xiao Fang, so she can't go in one ear and out the other, so it's a waste of hard work, right?

Now the four most important days in the countryside are Qingming, Winter Solstice, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year.

Tomb-sweeping day happened to be Saturday, and the school was on holiday for two days according to regulations. Wu Julan had already prepared incense, candles, ingots, etc., and asked them to go back to the graves of their grandparents by car.

The two sisters took the bus from Houzhai Town to Changshan Town after [-] o'clock in the morning.

Waiting for the bus from the town to pass through Shantou Village, it was almost eleven o'clock when we arrived at the village.

Smoke billows from every household, and there are children running wild outside.

The last time the Xiao sisters came back to celebrate the New Year, the toffee in their pockets was never flattened, and they gave two yuan when they saw a child, so that when they came back now, seven or eight children who were playing around saw them and cheered around and called sister .

Xiao Hong responded one by one with a smile, then took out toffee from her pocket and handed them to them, and asked with a smile: "I'll go home first, are you free to come to my house to play?"

She still learned this from herself in the dream.

When I opened a clothing store in my dream, there was no shortage of toffee and hard candy melons and fruits in the store in spring, autumn and winter, and no shortage of fruits in summer. They were used to entertain female customers who bought clothes, or to accompany their female companions and children.

In this way, when female customers are trying on clothes, children who are not interested will not clamor to leave. On the contrary, when adults are about to leave, will children still be reluctant to part?

Therefore, after school yesterday afternoon, she went to the department store diagonally opposite to buy four catties of toffee, a small half of which was kept at home, and the other half was for the children to eat.

The children are young, and if they want to inquire about something, they must answer their questions.

Sure enough, the children chewed on the sweet and fragrant toffee, and immediately talked to her: "There is no one in your house now, your father and the others opened a shop in the town, it must be early in the morning." You went out, and you don’t come back until after lunch?”

"Yes, my grandma said that your family made a lot of money selling meat."

"No, your family members go out early in the morning, come back before lunch when business is good, and come back late when business is not good."

"My grandfather said that sister Xiao Hong taught them this skill, and said that my sister is a good child who misses her family."

Another child came over and whispered to her: "My mother and second aunt whispered that my sister is so stupid, that your father is partial to his son, and now you won't have a share of the money you earn."

There were also boys who pretended to be adults, waved their hands when they heard this, and said old-fashionedly: "It's normal, my family also favors me, and from now on, all the good things in my family will be mine."

There were also boys who sniffed their noses and looked envious: "I don't have any older sisters, only my elder brother who can beat me up..."

Xiao Hong and Xiao Fang looked at each other, and learned from the children's mouths that Xiao's family has now opened a store to sell lo-mei.

They also noticed that Zhao Long and the others didn't go to Houzhai Town anymore. I wonder if they opened a stewed meat shop in Changshan Town?
I just don't know how the Xiao family's business is doing now?
And has the Zhao family figured out fried chicken?

It's a pity that I didn't go around the town when I came.

After the sisters separated from the children, they were going to go home and have a look.

Sure enough, General Tie locked the door at home, and they didn't have a key in their hands, so they went to the second grandmother's house closest to Xiao's family very logically.

The second grandfather and the second grandmother have two sons and three daughters. The daughters have been married long ago, and they have also divided the family for the two sons. Now the two elders live with the second.

The main reason is that the eldest of the family is now a small secretary in the commune in the town, and his wife has also found a job in the factory in the town. Their children are all studying in the town, and the whole family lives in the house allocated by the commune.

(End of this chapter)