Full of food and color

Chapter 78

After breakfast, Baozhu was packing up the bowls and chopsticks in the main room, and heard Mrs. Wang say to Chen Tiegui in the side room: "When you get to the county, don't just think about your eldest son, buy some snacks for your daughter."

"I don't like the things I bought earlier, so what are you going to do with the money? Why don't you buy a few more sheets of paper for Runze, it will take a lot of paper to practice calligraphy!"

Wang replied to him: "A few small snacks cost less than two cents. Besides, my son is careful. How long will it take to finish eating the good things? Those snacks are reluctant to eat and I saved them! I gave them back to you yesterday. Xiujuan from the second brother's house took a few dollars away!" She giggled a few more times, and said, "Your daughter is kind-hearted, and she said she wanted to bring Xiujuan to our house to raise her!"

Chen Tiegui snorted a few times, "You mean what you say, little baby? My own baby can't be raised, how can I have money to raise someone else!"

Mrs. Wang snorted and scratched her husband: "As long as you talk too much, I can't be restrained?" Then she told him: "When you see Runze later, don't know how to put on a straight face. The baby is out all day. Read the book diligently, so I can praise my baby a few words, let her not worry about the house, Runsheng Baozhu and I are fine."

Chen Tiegui responded with a few words, walked out from the side room, and told Baozhu to go back to the house to clean up. He set off immediately when it was getting late, and went straight to the yard to transport the baskets of beans to the cart.

Wang followed and took the bowls and chopsticks from Baozhu, "Go, don't keep your father waiting."

Baozhu cheered and ran into the courtyard, Wang stepped out of the main room and raised her chin and told them: "Be careful on the road! Go early and return early!"

While speaking, the bullock cart had moved away slowly, Baozhu sat on the cloth bag containing beans, the sun shone warmly on her body, and asked his father with a smile: "How much can the beans be sold for?"

"Why don't you sell Sanguan?" Chen Tiegui laughed.Baozhu also jumped for joy, thinking that as a farmer, he was looking forward to a good harvest all year round, and it was great to have a good harvest in the field.He also thought that when he arrived in the county, he must talk to his eldest brother for a long time, but he should not let him know about the sale of candied haws. Although he has studied a lot, his thinking is terribly rigid. Don't you want to get angry again?
Arriving at the county seat at noon, Chen Tiegui first put the pearls at her third aunt's house, and then drove the ox cart to the market, saying that he had sold the beans before picking up Runze.

The third aunt of Baozhu was overjoyed when she saw Baozhu, and she said that the baby was white and clean, not like a rural baby at all, but like a daughter of a rich family in the county, who hugged her and praised her for a while.Baozhu is also used to her third aunt's warmth, maybe it's because she was white, fat and cute when she was a child, her third aunt didn't care about the other dolls of the Chen family, but she was very rare to her when she was young, and she praised her once she saw her. Come back, never fall behind.

Baozhu followed suit, smiled and asked her hello, and struggled to get off the ground after answering a few words, Chen Cuixi put her down with a smile, saying that she would go into the kitchen to cook egg custard for her, and let her go in to play with Jide.

I haven't seen her for a while, but Jide doesn't have any regard for her at all. Seeing her enter the house, he triumphantly asked her how the mushrooms she gave earlier were like.

Baozhu rolled her eyes, called her elder brother sweetly, and said, "Mushrooms are delicious, I will have more in the future!"

Jide frowned at her: "What do you want so many mushrooms for?"

Baozhu pursed her lips and shook her head, "Mushrooms are delicious!"

Jide rolled his eyes, "It depends on what my father brings back next time, just keep an eye out for you!"

Baozhu went to look at the characters he practiced again, and asked him with a smile when he would be able to pass the government examination. He curled his lips and said, "I'll find out when I take the exam in the spring of next year." She glanced at her again, and asked, "How are you? Isn't the handwriting uglier than that written by Scar Boy?"

Baozhu frowned, "Don't call him Scar Boy! Brother Sipei's writing is also good."

Jide snorted through his nose, stretched his arms, sat down on the desk, and looked down at her: "I only studied for one year and passed the county exam. Even my husband said I was smart! Your Brother Sipei When did you pass the exam?"

Baozhu pursed her lips, "Brother Sipei doesn't take the exam for fame, he will become a doctor in the future!" He glanced at him again: "Why don't you go to school?"

Ji De laughed, "I don't want to go to the school, my mother specially hired a teacher who comes to teach every morning, and has already left by this time!"

Baozhu opened her mouth, "Master, it will cost a lot of money, right?"

While talking, the third aunt of Baozhu came into the room with two bowls of egg custard, looked at Jide, and scolded him angrily: "Come down quickly! It's on the table all day, what do you look like!" Then she called Baozhu to eat eggs, and smiled She said that since she was here, she would stay longer and hire a car to take her back before the Winter Solstice.

Baozhu shook her head, and made up an excuse, "I want to go back, I'm going to visit my mother tomorrow!"

Chen Cuixi didn't force her, she smiled and chatted with her, and asked her about the old courtyard of the Chen family. Baozhu only visited during the winter solstice and the Spring Festival throughout the year. My aunt Zhang Fenglan gave birth to another baby boy last year. The third aunt knew about it. It seemed that nothing serious happened again. It was nothing more than my uncle’s eldest daughter, Meili. Mrs. Liu and her aunt often quarreled, but she often heard her mother talk about a small conflict.

Avoiding conflicts at home, I picked up a few things to talk to Chen Cuixi, and she shook her head and sighed: "Your grandma has such a hot temper, she must make trouble with your little aunt on weekdays! That's your second aunt Such a good person can bear it." Then asked her: "How is your second aunt doing?"

Baozhu swallowed the last mouthful of egg custard, put down the spoon and frowned, "Second Aunt has been ill before, but she was tired from what my mother said, and she was not able to recover from the wind and cold, so she has been lying in bed lately."

"Hi!" Chen Cuixi sighed, and walked outside with a bowl in her hand, "Little Xiujuan is suffering, but our little Baozhu is blessed, how much your mother cares about you!"

Speaking of the second aunt, Baozhu's previous good mood suddenly became a little gloomy. Seeing her sour face, Jide wanted to take her outside to play, but she shook her head, saying that the elder brother would come back later to say something. .

Jide pursed his lips and said she was bored, suddenly remembered something, ran into the wing room, and came out with a few bright red silk flowers in his hand, "Here! Here it is for you! Girls in the county wear it, it looks so good! "

Baozhu blinked, but instead of reaching out to pick it up, she looked up and down Jide and asked uncertainly, "Did you buy it?"

Jide was very uncomfortable being looked at by her, and he stomped his feet a few times, "I only have three girls, and I bought them for Meili and Xiujuan! You just take them back when you leave."

Only then did Baozhu pick it up with a smile, and said in her heart that she really didn't see it before. Don't look at Jide's carefree and bully appearance.

Not long after, Chen Tiegui and Runze came in from the outside, Chen Tiegui looked a little ugly, Baozhu Sangu talked with him for a while and found out that this year's bean harvest was good, the price was suppressed by the unscrupulous merchants above, and the price was even lower than in previous years It’s cheap, Chen Tiegui first negotiated with them on the price, whoever imagined it, the tricky businessman would not give in at all, he would sell it if he wanted to sell it, and he would get it if he didn’t sell it, anyway, the harvests in the villages below are good, and it’s not bad for your family of.

Chen Tiegui scolded those profiteers with a black face, and the third aunt of Baozhu also talked about what he had seen and heard in the county in the past few years. After a while, the topic shifted to the situation in the Runze School.

Runze answered their questions, thinking about Baozhu all the time, and came over to touch her little head when she had time and asked, "Have you eaten Baozhu?"

Baozhu smiled and answered him: "I ate at the house this morning, and the third aunt made egg custard just now." Then she asked Runze: "Brother, are you tired from school? When will you be at the house a few years ago?"

Runze glanced at Chen Tiegui, and said to Baozhu in a low voice: "The winter solstice is still five days away, maybe I can go back."

Baozhu knew that his father was afraid that Runze's back and forth would delay his studies, so he kept silent, and talked to him about the family situation after May, and told him almost everything, big and small, except for his own selling of candied haws Over and over again, when talking about Zhaodi crying when she went back, Runze also laughed, and said that Zhaodi should have a girl under her.

After eating at Sangu's house, after a short meeting, Chen Tiegui urged Runze to go back to the academy quickly. He said that it would not be a hindrance, and he would spend more time with his sister, but Chen Tiegui refused, saying that there was nothing serious about it, so don't delay , it is justified to go back to school earlier.He also left dozens of dollars for him to buy paper, saying that he didn't have to go home before the year.

The eldest brother always takes care of her the most when he is at home, and we will part after seeing each other for a long time. With tears in his eyes, Baozhu holds Runze's hand tightly, telling him not to worry about things in the house. Runsheng is working diligently now. , Parents are in good health, and they said that they will see each other again after the Chinese New Year, and told him not to worry about it.

Because Chen Tiegui didn't get a good price for the beans, he kept his face black all the way, and he didn't buy any snacks for Baozhu after all. Baozhu knew that his father was depressed at the moment, so he didn't care too much.

In October, Mrs. Chen and Liu came here for the first time, saying that the old courtyard wanted to build a house, so that everyone could find a way to raise some money.

Mrs. Wang didn't have much affection for her, but because of her affection, she didn't refuse directly. She only said that this year's family was in trouble, and the soybeans didn't sell much in front of her. , Let’s stop talking about building a house.

Mrs. Chen Liu always did not believe that Mrs. Wang had no money. She believed that Mrs. Wang would not help this favor, so she went back with a black face, and never came again. Mrs. Wang was very angry when she talked about it with her husband when she was free. It is said that it is Runze who is the eldest grandson. After all these years of enrolling in school, I have not seen Chen Liushi expressing anything. Her family is poor, but now she is here to make money.

Chen Tiegui didn't say anything on the face, but his heart was more or less toward his wife, where did the family get the extra money to spend?So let her talk about it.

On November [-]th, the day before the winter solstice, when Runze went home, Chen Tiegui had to scold him again.Mrs. Wang was very happy, saying that there were not many people left in the school at this time in previous years, and they all went back to the house for the holidays, and it was strange for the baby to be alone, so it is better to come back and stay for a while.

(End of this chapter)