There are flowers and wine, hoeing and farming

Chapter 22

Under the oppression of his younger sister, Cheng Zhiyuan still made a few simple small hairpins. With the help of Ning, Qiaoqiao took the hairpins and inserted the cloth balls made of wrapped strips into them, making them into cute hairpins. Pink little hairpin.

After waking up in the morning and asking Ning to braid herself, Qiaoqiao handed Ning a pink hairpin and asked her to pin it to her side. In the vague mirror, Qiaoqiao shook her little head triumphantly , I think a four or five-year-old girl looks good no matter what.

After putting it on, she jumped off the high stool and asked Ning, "Mother, does it look good?"

Ning nodded: "It's pretty pretty."

"I'll let dad go see it." Qiaoqiao cheerfully went to show off to Cheng Daman.

Cheng Daman was naturally full of praise, but Cheng Zhiyuan didn't roll his eyes this time, but took a closer look at her hairpin for a while, figured it out, and finally left without saying a word.

"Where's Big Brother?" Qiaoqiao searched for a while and found that Big Brother was gone.

"Let's stay in the house. I saw him washing here just now."

"I'll go find him." Qiaoqiao ran to the room where the eldest brother and the younger brother lived, saw a figure beside the bed, and immediately jumped over: "Brother, look at the hairpin that Qiaoqiao made by himself, isn't it good-looking? "

"En, it looks good." Cheng Zhigao didn't turn his head, and responded in a low voice.

"Brother? What's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

"No, you go and play." After finishing speaking, Cheng Zhigao lay down on the bed directly, with his back to Qiaoqiao, looking a little tired.

Qiaoqiao stood for a long time before going out, came to Ning's side and said: "Mother, I think elder brother is sick? He just got up and went to lie down again."

"Really? Then you wait here, mother, go and have a look." Ning stroked Qiaoqiao's hair and got up to Cheng Zhigao's room.

"How about it?"

"It's nothing, he said that he went to bed late yesterday thinking about a woodcut, and now he wants to sleep again when he wakes up, so he can go back to sleep."

"Oh."

After the meal was ready, Cheng Zhiyuan, who was hungry and growling, sat down at the table and waited. Cheng Daman had just returned from the field. He went to check on the crops. After walking a long way, he was also very hungry. .

Qiaoqiao sat down and waited after serving the pasta. The fish that Ning’s steamed today was a piece of fish given by Zhang’s next door. Some sweet potato vermicelli were paired with wild vegetables picked from the field, and a big plate was full, which Qiaoqiao couldn't handle.

As soon as the fish came up, he smelled an aroma, Cheng Zhiyuan immediately lowered his chopsticks to pick up a piece of fresh and tender fish, and continued to put it in his mouth even though it was hot.

"How about Daman? Is it salty enough?" Ning thoughtfully handed a piece of pancake to Cheng Daman.

"Hey, where's the elder brother?" Qiaoqiao sat on the high stool, with her two legs dangling in mid-air and asked.

"I'm going to call him. Didn't I call him just now? Didn't the kid hear it?"

When Ning came back, she shook her head and said, "Let's eat first. This kid, for some reason, said he wasn't hungry. We'll eat later. Let us save some for him."

Qiaoqiao frowned with her chopsticks in her mouth, what happened to the elder brother?Why is it so strange?

"Hurry up, I'll grab a piece for your elder brother, and you can eat yours." Ning looked at her dazed little daughter and said.

Qiaoqiao ran to the yard to feed the chicks after eating. She was alone in Zheng Cang's house and Ning Shi didn't allow her to go, but the younger brother was busy with his own work and ignored her at all. And the eldest brother didn't know what was wrong, and suddenly became so silent.

Sprinkling a handful of grain residue, Qiaoqiao touched a young hen that had just grown up. The back was warm, and the feathers were not so hard, but soft.

"Qiaoqiao, when the chicken lays an egg, you pick it up and put it in the small basket in the kitchen, and then check if there are fifty more?"

"Okay, I'll pick it up later."

After the chickens were full, Qiaoqiao filled the small bowl they drank with water. It was very pleasant to see them pacing in the yard leisurely and occasionally pecking at the small stones on the ground.

Qiaoqiao simply closed the yard door and let the chicks continue to walk in the yard, and she went to pick up eggs from the nest. Today, the chicks are probably in a good mood, and there are two more eggs than usual. These days add up There are more than 60 in total.

Qiaoqiao hurriedly called Ning Shi, Ning Shi checked the number, happily left five for dinner, and took the rest to the town to sell.

In the evening, Ning's reheated the leftover fish soup at noon, and added some ingredients to make a new dish. In addition, the eggs were fried with green onions, and they were served hot and fragrant.

"Brother won't come to eat again?" Qiaoqiao saw the younger brother walk in and sat down by herself, and asked him strangely.

"Well, it's said that I ate late last time, so I'm not hungry yet."

Qiaoqiao put down her chopsticks and hurried over.

She pushed open the door and shouted, "Brother, eat!!!"

"I'm not hungry yet, you guys eat first." Cheng Zhigao was standing with his back to her, and seemed to be carving something in his hands.

"Then we'll finish eating, and I won't keep it for you." Qiaoqiao said angrily.

"it is good."

"..." This made Qiaoqiao speechless. She rushed forward and grabbed her elder brother's sleeve, and asked anxiously, "Brother, what's wrong with you? Why don't you go to eat all day?"

"I'm going to eat, it's just late, you little girl." Cheng Zhigao said a little dumbfounded.

Listening to the elder brother's tone, it seems that there is no problem, but Qiaoqiao discovered that there must be something wrong with the elder brother who has not turned around to look at her.She clenched her fist, rushed to Cheng Zhigao, and came face to face with him.

"Hey, big brother..."

Cheng Zhigao put down the things in his hands, looked at his little sister, a little embarrassed and helpless, finally just sighed, and waved to him: "Go back and eat first."

"Brother, do you have those pimples on your face?"

"Really? Probably?" Cheng Zhigao didn't know why.

"Brother, I'm going to let the doctor take a look at it. Look at your face, how ugly it is? What if you get a scar?"

"No." Cheng Zhigao felt that a man shouldn't care about his appearance, what's wrong with his ugly face?Having so many pimples is no big deal.It's just a little sore, but it'll be fine in a few days.He didn't care about his appearance that much, he still wanted to see a doctor just like a girl because of his face.

Qiaoqiao came to Cheng Zhigao to observe carefully: "Why did I only see one or two last time, but there are so many all of a sudden?"

Cheng Zhigao felt a little embarrassed by his sister's big eyes that were carefully inspecting. He just wanted to shake his head to avoid it, but his face was fixed by Qiaoqiao's little hand: "Is it acne or acne? Or is it puberty acne? Hey, I don't understand either. .But so many, red and hard, probably belong to acne.”

"What did you say?"

"No……"

"Qiaoqiao, why don't you come over for dinner, did you find your brother?" Ning pushed open the door and walked in, and saw a pair of children sitting inside: "Not yet... Ah, Zhigao, you have this look on your face." What's wrong?"

"Mother, it's okay." Cheng Zhigao tried to bow his head a little awkwardly, but Qiaoqiao fixed it.

"Mother, take brother to see the doctor, look, how serious it is."

"No, no, mother."

Ning felt that the light in the room was not good, so she pulled her eldest son out of the room to watch carefully. Cheng Daman and Cheng Zhiyuan also followed, and they all suddenly understood the reason why he didn't want to see anyone today.

"Why don't you go see the doctor and ask him to prescribe some prescriptions. I think this is an internal cause, otherwise it wouldn't happen all of a sudden." Ning touched her son's face distressedly.

"Yes, a child of this age will be fine in a few years." Cheng Daman said with some indifference.

Qiaoqiao's mouth is opened, how many years?How many more years will you be like this?That's not okay.

She anxiously grabbed the hem of Ning's clothes and pulled it vigorously, motioning her to squat down: "Mother, brother is going to say his wife!!"

"Let's go, let's go to the medical clinic in the town and ask the doctor to give you a pulse." Without saying a word, Ning grabbed Cheng Zhigao and was about to leave immediately.

"Hey, hey, don't be in such a hurry, we haven't finished our meal yet." Cheng Daman shouted.

"You can eat at home, I will take the children by myself."

Cheng Daman was ridiculed inexplicably, and he was a little puzzled, but fortunately he was not stupid. He knew that his wife was angry, so he hurriedly went to the house to get some copper coins and chased her out. , you are not allowed to run outside, do you hear me?"

"En." Cheng Zhiyuan nodded.

"Let's go eat." Cheng Daman closed the door from the outside, ran all the way and shouted: "Wait for me."

Qiaoqiao stayed where she was and giggled, Cheng Zhiyuan looked at her younger sister, squeezed her face, and twisted her smile greatly: "Let's go, go in and eat."

"my face……"

(End of this chapter)