90s, The Cannon Fodder Wife of the Paranoid Boss is Reborn

Chapter 45 A little favor

Wang Hao bit the bullet and explained: "Her mother's family doesn't have many chestnuts, only fifty or sixty pounds. How can she do any business? She is greedy even though she is pregnant. Seeing that sugar-roasted chestnuts are delicious, she also wants to learn how to do it. Fry some and eat it yourself.”

Chen Chunli is from Qingshui Town next door. Everyone knows what the streets and houses there are like and whether they have front or back yards. We often walk around the streets when collecting bills.

 It is self-evident whether it was saved by her natal family or whether she bought it from someone else with great efforts.

 Chen Chunli's temperament is known to everyone in the neighborhood, not to mention Luo Shiliu and others who are close to Wang Hao.

It's just a matter of brothers, I'm too lazy to expose it.

 …

 Bai Lu vaguely felt someone touching her forehead, and slowly opened her eyes. In her hazy vision, she saw an enlarged version of the man's handsome face and wrist, very close at hand.

 She blinked her eyes and looked confused: "Why did you touch my forehead?"

Xiao Cheng calmly took back his hand. The palm of his hand was at a normal temperature, and his tone was as calm as usual: "It's okay."

The morning sun shone in through the glass window, and a faint ray hit the dark green circle under his eyelids. It looked like he hadn't slept all night.

Bai Lu was confused: "Didn't you sleep last night?"

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Xiao Cheng slowly opened the quilt, stood up, got out of bed, put on clothes and shoes, and looked back.

Seeing Bai Lu also sitting up, she rubbed her eyes, yawned sleepily, and lazily moved her body to get up. She couldn't help but say, "You can sleep a little longer."

Bai Lu patted her flat belly and said seriously: "I'm hungry. I need to get up and make breakfast."

Xiao Cheng wanted to call her when he was done, but she had already stopped her laziness and quickly folded the quilt and got out of bed.

Put on your shoes, stretch out in front of the mirror, pick up the cotton-padded jacket hanging on the back of the chair, put it on, button it up, and walk out, taking small steps.

 Just like stepping on clouds, light and slow.

 Xiao Wei squatted by the well and brushed his teeth.

Bai Lu took a toothbrush filled with toothpaste, a water cup, and an enamel washbasin, and came over to receive the water: "Classmate Xiaowei, tomorrow is the Qingming Festival. You guys should have a holiday, right?"

She started brushing her teeth as soon as she got the water. She didn’t squat often, and even when she squatted down to pick things up, her posture was very particular.

Unlike Wang Cuihua next door, who squats anytime, anywhere, casually, without any image.

However, when she brushed her teeth while standing, the foam was very high. Xiao Wei was afraid that the top of his head would turn white, so he moved away a little.

“Today is Friday.” Therefore, regardless of whether tomorrow is Tomb-Sweeping Day or not, the weekend is a holiday.

 “Oh…” Bai Lu nodded knowingly.

Xiao Wei didn't understand why she didn't lean closer to her eldest brother, why did she lean next to him? As a result, he was constantly being affected by the glances that glanced here from time to time, and his whole body felt like being crawled by ants.

Hurry up and brush your teeth, wash your face, and run back to the kitchen to wash the rice and put it into the pot. He should be the one cooking the porridge today.

Bai Lu and her eldest brother have been cooking noodles and adding eggs for the past few days. They are delicious, but they have to get up early in the morning.

The breakfast here is porridge mixed with side dishes. It is very simple. Just cut some dried radish into cubes.

Bai Lu cut into two bowls, and put a few pieces of chopped chili pepper and soy sauce into one bowl, marinating it and eating it.

 There is no chili in the bowl, just diced radish. Xiao Wei, who is not used to eating raw chili peppers, always puts his chopsticks in one direction, and occasionally picks up the bowl of chili peppers with Xiao Cheng.

My mouth was red from the spicy food, so I drank a few big mouthfuls of porridge, and then continued to fight with the diced peppers and radish.

  After breakfast

  Xiao Wei went to school, Xiao Cheng went to build a house next door, and Bai Lu went to the vegetable garden in the backyard. She took a long-handled wooden spoon to the river, scooped out water and poured vegetables on it, and sprinkled it in the air.

If you pour water directly into the vegetable field, it will bend the small vegetable seedlings that have not grown up, and they will not recover for a long time.

 The old hen squatted in the chicken coop, quietly laying eggs. Occasionally she raised her eyes to look at the little figure soaking in the rain on the vegetable field.

A few days ago, Bai Lu went to Zhang's house and bought a batch of eggs that had just been laid. She picked out twelve eggs with flocculent embryos and gave them to the old hen to hatch chicks.

 Xiao Wei was extremely happy. Although his face did not show any joy, he ran to the chicken pen after school every day.

Halfway through pouring the vegetables, there was a knock on the door suddenly. Bai Lu put down the long wooden spoon and went to open the door.

 The person knocking on the door was an older female stranger.

She was wearing a dark old cotton coat, military green liberation shoes, with some yellow mud on her trousers. She was not fat but slightly thin, had a round face and thick lips, and her skin was yellowish and slightly dark. When she smiled, she had obvious crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. She was about five years old. He was more than ten years old, holding a notebook and a pen in his hand.

He spoke calmly: "Is this Xiao Zhigang's son, Xiao Cheng's family?"

“It’s Xiao Cheng’s family.” Bai Lu nodded lightly.

The female elder confirmed that she was looking for the right family, and then explained her purpose: "This is it. Tomorrow's Qingming Festival, Xiaojiacun will go to the mountain to worship the ancestors of the Xiao family. I am Li Hongying, the wife of Xiao Guofu, the head of Xiaojiacun. We will come to town today to inform Xiao Family members, please pay for the incense candles, one dollar and five per person. If there are several people in your family, just give money to a few people."

The ancestral land of the Xiao family is across the river, on the mountain side of the old rural village. Many people have moved to the town in recent years.

Every year during the Qingming Festival, clan members would come to the town to inform them to go back to worship their ancestors. Xiao Zhigang would go back before his death.

After Xiao Zhigang's death, the Xiao clan members did not inform Xiao Cheng. First, they were concerned about Xiao Cheng's reputation as a bully.

 Second, he felt that Xiao Cheng would bring disgrace to the Xiao family’s ancestors by doing this, and they did not want him to go back to worship their ancestors.

Li Hongying will come to inform Xiao Cheng today. She heard people from the village come to the town to buy things and said that Xiao Cheng seems to have changed recently. I haven't seen him walking around the streets with people for a while. I heard that he is still building a house for the people next door. house.

 Furthermore, I have a small matter that I want him to help me with.

When notifying others just now, they deliberately went around the next door and saw Xiao Cheng laying bricks from a distance. Only then did Li Hongying and Xiao Guofu feel relieved to separate, and she came to Xiao Cheng's house to inform them.

I heard from the Xiao family in the neighborhood that Bai Lu, the young wife of Xiao Cheng's family, has a cheerful personality and is easy to talk to.

 Li Hongying waited until Bai Lu gave her four yuan for a five-scented candle before confirming that the rumors she heard were true.

He spoke again, with a much more friendly tone: "Bai Lu, aunt would like to ask you to do a small favor."

 Bai Lu also had something to do when she returned to the ancestral home of the Xiao family. It was best to help each other. She said with a smile: "Xiao Cheng is also a member of the Xiao family. We are all members of the clan. If you have anything to say, just tell me. If you can help me, I will definitely help."

Li Hongying saw a smile on her face and felt relieved a lot: "As of now, we have counted 138 people from the Xiao family in the town who have returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors."

"It's a long journey back to the countryside. It takes three or four hours to walk around the river. I heard that Xiao Cheng knew the owner of the brick factory, and I was wondering if I could ask him to borrow some brick trucks from the owner of the brick factory to take the Xiao family back to the countryside. To worship the ancestors, those big six-wheeled brick trucks in military green can carry many people at a time. "

Li Hongying specifically pointed out that it was a military green big brick truck, not a hand-operated six-wheel tractor.

 (End of this chapter)