Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 211 The Third Brother Asks for Money
Xu Qing walked out of the state-run store, came to the parked bicycle, took out the key to unlock it, then tied the two noodle pockets together, put them on the back seat, tied them with rope, and put the bag containing pork and pancreas He hung the net bag on the handlebar, raised his foot to lift the parking rack, crossed the crossbar with his legs, and rode his bicycle back towards the courtyard.

In March in Forty-Nine City, the weather was neither cold nor hot. Xu Qing cycled through the crowd, neither too fast nor too slow.On weekends, there are always a lot of people on the street. On the one hand, Xu Qing has to be careful to avoid pedestrians, especially children running recklessly on the street.

On the other hand, you also have to avoid cars coming from the front or behind you.

There are not many cars these days, but Forty-Nine City is the place with the most cars in the country. Anyway, the country is here, so compared with other places, there are naturally more cars.

In places other than Sijiu City, it is not easy to see a car. Like some remote rural mountainous areas, it is rare to see a car all year round.

On the contrary, children born in Forty-Nine City have seen all kinds of cars driving on the street since they were young.

Of course, they have also seen old rural men in the countryside riding donkey-drawn carts coming to the city to go to the market.

Most of them are still bicycles as the main means of transportation.

Xu Qing was riding Xu Damao's bicycle all the way back to the compound, and met Yan Jiecheng in the alley who was about to go out.

Yan Jiecheng was wearing a clean blue cloth today, and he was very energetic. When he saw Xu Qing came back from shopping early in the morning, he took the initiative to say hello:

"Qingzi, how's your outfit?"

Xu Qing pinched the car brake, stood in the middle of the alley, looked around, nodded and said, "It's not bad, what's the matter? Go on a blind date?"

Yan Jiecheng shook his head with a smile and said, "Brother, I can't use a blind date, let's go on a date!"

Yan Jiecheng finished speaking with a proud look on his face, clapped his hands on his clothes, raised his hands and said goodbye to Xu Qing, and then hurried out towards the alley entrance.

Xu Qing smiled and continued riding back to the compound.

In the front yard, the third uncle and the second uncle were sitting in the yard having a battle and playing chess. The first uncle was smoking a cigarette and chatting with the third aunt and the first aunt.

Xu Qing pushed his bicycle and stood in the front yard to chat with everyone before going back to the backyard.

At the moment in the backyard, the little girl is carrying the dirty clothes in the washing tub and walking out of the house, ready to wash them while the weather is nice.

Now she is able to do the housework. She takes the initiative to do housework without her eldest brother Xu Qing's words.

She had cleaned the kang in the main house and the bed in the hut where she slept with a feather duster, and now she wanted to do laundry.

When she looked up and saw her elder brother coming back, the little girl hurriedly bent down and put the wash basin at the door. She shook her braid and ran to Xu Qing. She reached out and unhooked the net bag on the handlebar and carried it back into the house.

As for the two pockets on the back seat of the bicycle, Xu Qing took them back to the house.

The second brother and the third brother have not come back yet. The little girl has just taken a piece of soap she just bought and left the house. Xu Qing stands alone in the kitchen and uses his power to divide the food he just bought.

Thirty catties of flour turned into sixty catties.

Twenty catties of cornmeal became forty catties.

However, Xu Qing did not pour all the food into the noodle urn, but kept some of each for his second and third brothers to take away when they returned from school in the afternoon.

As for the pork in the net bag, Xu Qing also divided it once, half a catty became a catty, and he was going to have a good meal with his younger siblings at noon.

Now eating meat at home is almost always on weekends.

Usually there are only him and the little girl in the room, and the second and third brothers are not there, so there are not enough people, so we have to move to the weekend, wait for the two brothers to come back, and eat together.

Walking out of the kitchen, Xu Qing returned the bicycle to Xu Damao. Xu Damao just woke up, with hair like a chicken coop, leaning against the door, smoking a cigarette, looking at the little girl in the courtyard who was washing clothes with a washboard, and said to Xu Qing :
"Qingzi, your sister is getting more and more sensible now, look, you don't even have to wash your clothes by yourself now."

Xu Qing took out the cigarette on his body, handed one to Xu Damao and said, "Brother Damao, you are already engaged, and when you get married, won't someone wash your clothes for you?"

Xu Damao took the cigarette from Xu Qing, put it behind his ear and said: "That's different, you are your sister who washes it for you, and I will be my daughter-in-law after I get married. No matter how good my daughter-in-law is, I don't have my sister."

Xu Qing smiled, turned to look at the well-behaved and sensible little girl, and said nothing.

After chatting with Xu Damao for a while, Xu Qing turned his head and saw the second brother Xu Aiguo, the third brother Xu Fengming, and the two sons of the second uncle's family, the four of them walked from the middle courtyard into the backyard together.

"Brother, we are back!"

Xu Fengming played with the schoolbag that was supposed to be on his body, walked to the door of Xu Damao's house with Xu Aiguo, grinned at Xu Qing, and said, "Brother, our school will be closed for another week, haha, next week, I won't be here anymore." Don’t listen to those old men nagging in my ear.”

Xu Aiguo was not as happy as Feng Ming. He nodded and said: "Brother, the school is closed today, but I brought all the books back. This week, I read at home by myself."

Xu Qing hummed, turned to look at Xu Fengming, raised his eyebrows, and raised his hand to knock his third brother on the head.

"You just brought back an empty schoolbag?"

Xu Fengming scratched his head with a smile and said, "Brother, then you guessed wrong, I have something in my schoolbag."

While speaking, Xu Fengming reached out and took out the badly worn abacus, shook it and said, "Brother, look."

Xu Qing was so angry that he didn't hit anywhere, and if he raised his foot, he would kick the angry third brother.

But Xu Fengming had expected it a long time ago, so he quickly stepped aside and ran towards the little girl.

After Xu Qing and Xu Damao said a few more words, they turned around and took their second brother to the little girl's side. They grabbed the third brother's ears, took her into the house, and tidied her up severely.

The third brother is the same as three years ago, still worry-free, in school, fighting, skipping classes, there is nothing he won't do.

That's clever, he was able to cover up the matter himself, and didn't let Xu Qing go to school to help him deal with it.

So, after Xu Qing verbally reprimanded her, she sent her to the courtyard to help the little girl wash clothes.

As for the patriotism of the second brother, Xu Qing just asked about the study situation in the past week, and then asked him to read a book in the room.

The two younger brothers have different temperaments, and Xu Qing doesn't want to discipline them in the same way.

When eating lunch, Xu Fengming bit the steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth, while sandwiching Xu Qing's stir-fried pork, praised:
"Brother, your fried dishes are still delicious. Xiaoya's fried dishes last week are far worse than yours."

The little girl rolled her eyes at her third brother, snorted, and was too lazy to pay attention to him.

But Xu Fengming said to the little girl: "Actually, the food you cook is also delicious, but the eldest brother is our eldest brother after all, and he is a little better than you. It's normal."

Xu Fengming coaxed the little girl, then looked at Xu Qing with a smile and said:
"Brother, can you give me a piece of pocket money? I'm going to hang out with some classmates in my class this afternoon."

(End of this chapter)