Beloved Concubine

Chapter 39 Surprise and Surprise
Hearing the woman's voice outside the door, Xiao Shitou's smiling face sank.

The door of the snack bar was not closed, and it was already past the time for everyone to have dinner.Chen Xiao and the others eat at different times than others. They usually stagger and eat later than others.

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

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

In fact, she had already guessed that this woman was probably Xiao Shitou's mother.Because they look alike.

"I'm Xiao Shitou's mother, and I'll bring him something."

"Please come in."

Zhou Huiqin walked into the small courtyard and saw a low square table with food on it, and several people were drinking and eating.

"Are you eating?"

Zhou Huiqin showed apology on his face.Generally, when you go to someone else's house, you have to deliberately stagger the meal time, otherwise you will be suspected of going for a meal.

"Come over and have some food together." Chen Xiao greeted: "Chunhong, go get two sets of bowls and chopsticks."

"Thank you, I've already eaten."

"We have stewed snake meat, come and taste it."

Chen Xiao couldn't help but pull her to a seat.

"What are you doing here?" Little Stone asked with a sullen face, looking away.

"Tomorrow's Dragon Boat Festival, I will weave a Baisuo and put it on for you."

Baisuo only works if his mother wears it herself.

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

Baisuo is worn by children, and it is generally not worn when adults grow up.Of course, if you like it, you can wear it if you want. There is no rule that adults cannot wear it.But if you want it to be effective, you have to wear it yourself.

"You're only fourteen, you're not considered an adult yet." Zhou Huiqin said softly.

She saw the wine bowl on the table, and she could tell that Xiaoshi 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 anything.

In this society, boys can talk about marriage at the age of fourteen or fifteen.For those who got married earlier, fifteen or sixteen; for those who got married later, eighteen or nineteen.Those who have not married after the age of 20 are either too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, or they have hidden diseases and cannot marry a wife.

As Zhou Huiqin said, she took out Baisuo from her purse.

"I don't wear it, I have to cut my face every day, so it's inconvenient to wear it." Xiao Shitou said impatiently.

"Then wear it around your neck."

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

"I've said it all, I'm already an adult, so I won't wear it."

The two were talking, four-year-old Gao Cheng was leaning against his mother's lap, holding a toy ball in his hand, looking at the food on the table, feeling a little greedy.

The two of them had indeed eaten, but it was simple vegetables and rice, which was not tasty at all.

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

"Can you use chopsticks?" Chen Xiao asked in a coaxing tone.

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

Seeing his confused face, Chen Xiao thought that he might not know how to use chopsticks and just wanted to eat, so she went to get a wooden spoon.

"Use a spoon."

Seeing his son's greedy face, Zhou Huiqin didn't stop her, bowed her head beside his face and said:

"Thank you, Aunt Chen."

"Thank you, Aunt Chen." Xiao Gaocheng said in a childish voice.

Little Shitou felt a little uncomfortable seeing his mother being so close to Gao Cheng.Turn your face aside.

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

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

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

The ball was not stable, 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 pause.Pick it up and take a look, your eyes light up!
"Where did you buy this ball?" Chen Xiao was pleasantly surprised.

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

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

The joy on Chen Xiao's face was uncontrollable.

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

"Rubber, rubber! Hahahaha!"

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

During this time she was saving money.Save money to buy horses, and then she will go to find materials.

"rubber?"

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

This ball is only the size of a fist, and the inside is probably made of bamboo, and the outside is covered with a thick leather-like thing, which is dyed in various colors.

"I haven't asked how to address it yet?" Chen Xiao asked Little Shitou Niang.

"Slave family Zhou."

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

Judging from the apparent age, Zhou Huiqin is 31, 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 what my master brought back from other places."

"from where?"

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

"Where is Jinghe? Where is it?"

Before Zhou Huiqin could speak, Xiao Shitou said:

"Jinghe County, in the south."

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

"Maybe... more than 400 miles."

Xiao Shitou has never been there, but only knows that Jinghe County mainly produces tea.Sheng'an has a business name in Jinghe County.

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

"Miss Chen, what's wrong with this ball?" Zhou Huiqin asked late.

"It's nothing, I'm looking for the material on the surface of the 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 locally produced?"

Although the ball comes from Jinghe County, the materials on it may not necessarily come from Jinghe County.

"Well, okay." Zhou Huiqin nodded.

She wants to make friends with Chen Xiao.I hope she can treat her eldest son better.

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

He knew it.The white boa described to him what a bicycle is, and he asked about "tyres" at that time.The white boa said it was made of rubber.He doesn't know what rubber is.

According to the description of the white boa, if he wants to build a bicycle, he has to start with refining materials.

He is a pharmacist, not a tool refiner.However, I know a little bit about material refining.

And to refine materials, you have to start with making tools.All in all, it's hard to build a bike out of nothing.

No wonder Chen Xiao was willing to make written evidence with him.Did she decide that he couldn't make it?
"Brother Fang, drink."

Little Stone ignored his mother.She already has a family, and why did she come to him.The one next to her legs is her son.And he...

He is an adult and can earn money to support himself.When they buy a big house in the future, if Gao Can returns to Xiling, only Gao Cheng will be taken away, not her.

He can provide her with retirement.

(End of this chapter)