Yoshida Mii

Chapter 125
In the afternoon before the Dragon Boat Festival, Mrs. Huang, who hadn't shown up for a long time, came to the door.At that time, Dong Bao was bending over and concentrating on pressing wooden boards and stones on the tofu, and he didn't take it seriously when he heard Xiao Hei's persistent barking. It was Zhang Xiuyu who poked her, and she saw Mrs. Huang standing at the door.

"Grandma, why are you here?" Dong Bao was stunned for a moment, then smiled.As soon as she saw Huang Shi, she immediately thought of Song Bai, and felt very unhappy, but she still greeted her with a smile. Huang Shi was her grandmother, no matter how much she went too far, she could only pay respects and make offerings.

Mrs. Huang stood at the door, still with a straight face, and looked around. The yard was not much different from when she came last time. There was a chicken coop and a doghouse at the base of the wall. Chickens were crowing and dogs were barking. Looked a lot more angry.

Mrs. Huang coughed, cleared her throat, looked at the granddaughter in front of her and didn't know what to say. Compared with the thin yellow-haired girl who could be blown down by a gust of wind when they just separated, Dongbao is now white and her hair is black. There is also flesh on the face, and I don't know how many times better than before.Looking up again, she saw the tofu being pressed in the yard, dripping water dripping down, Huang's eyes became hot, how much does it cost every day!
"Where's your mother?" Huang asked.

Dong Bao yelled into the kitchen, "Mom, my grandma is here!" He yelled at Xiao Hei who kept barking at Mrs. Huang, and stomped his foot, and Xiao Hei whimpered twice reluctantly. Lie back in the nest.Huang's came rarely, so Xiao Hei didn't recognize her.

Mrs. Li responded in the room, and hurried out, with the rice for making zongzi sticking to her hand, she smiled when she saw Mrs. Huang, "Mother, why are you here?"

"I can't come?" Mrs. Huang choked on Mrs. Li as soon as she opened her mouth. She was very upset. The mother and daughter had nothing good to say, and their stomachs were full of black water. They asked the same thing.

Li's smile didn't change, if Huang didn't open his mouth to choke people one day, it would be the sun coming out from the west. "Look at what mother said, of course you can come."

With a straight face, Huang looked at Li Shi who was full of smiles, and curled her lips. If she put it aside, Li Shi would not dare to talk back, but would just lower her head and let her scold. After earning money, the tail is raised, and they don't pay attention to the elders. Now that I think about it, I regret it. I knew that Li's illness was not a big deal, and I couldn't separate the family.

"Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, you and Dong Bao go home for the holiday." Mrs. Huang said in an orderly tone, and when she saw Dong Bao opened her mouth and wanted to speak, she immediately said: "That's it, go home for dinner at noon tomorrow, Mr. Sanye has returned from the academy, and it is rare for our family to be reunited."

After Mrs. Huang left, Dong Bao asked Mrs. Li, "Mother, are we really going back to eat?"

Mrs. Li sighed, and said: "Your grandma has come to tell you, we must go back." As if comforting Dong Bao, Mrs. Li said, "Don't worry, it's just a meal. Come back. Mother will tell you first, no matter what your grandma says, you are not allowed to talk back, bear with me for a while, do you hear me?"

Dong Bao nodded, of course she knew this, even if Mrs. Huang tried "ginseng cock" on her and Mrs. Li, she had to pretend she didn't hear it.

When a few people came back from the academy today, they bought another [-] catties of glutinous rice. The meat dumplings sold very well, and the supply was in short supply these two days.Mrs. Li purposely wrapped thirty big rice dumplings, with a lot of meat, and planned to give ten to the Lin family, keep ten for her own family, and send ten more to the Song family.After all, it's a holiday, it's different than usual, if you don't even give the gift on purpose, it's too unreasonable.

The next day was the Dragon Boat Festival, and the academy was on holiday.Dong Bao didn't have to prepare the meals to be sold in the academy, so it was much easier, and he and Zhang Xiuyu sewed sachets at home all morning.

Dongbao's needlework is not good, not to mention Li Shi who can make clothes and put shoe soles, even Zhang Xiuyu can't compare, but fortunately, she is full of fresh ideas, first cut the cloth into shape and then sew, it smells like a butterfly Baos, heart sachets, and gourd sachets are all made of bright red silk fabrics, stuffed with spices wrapped in cotton, which look festive and fresh.

"You will come up with fresh ideas!" Zhang Xiuyu smiled and nodded Dongbao's forehead. Most of the sachets she made were shaped like longevity locks for children, but they were more or less embroidered with patterns, with cloud patterns. The ones with bluegrass also took a lot of work, but they don't look as spiritual as the sachets made by Dongbao.

Dong Bao giggled, put the sachets he had made side by side and admired them slowly, and said with a smile: "Just admit it, what you make is not as good as mine!"

"Hey!" Zhang Xiuyu snorted, pointed to a sachet with two hearts side by side, and said with great contempt: "What the hell are you doing?"

Dong Bao raised his eyebrows and smiled, you don't understand this!
After the two made sachets, each of them hung a few and went to the town. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are a lot of people coming to the town to go to the market.Walking to the stall, Dong Bao saw Master Yan was there, sitting at the low table behind drinking bean curd, with a peeled meat dumpling beside him.

"Master Yan, you are here!" Dong Bao laughed.

"Yeah." Master Yan simply nodded towards Dongbao, quickly picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp, and finished eating the zongzi in two or three strokes.

While Mr. Yan was drinking bean curd, Dong Bao tied six zongzi with hemp rope, and when he got up, Dong Bao handed the zongzi to Mr. Yan and said with a smile, "Mr. Yan, take it back for Xiao Xu to taste. .”

"You have a heart." Lord Yan nodded, and took out a string of money from his bosom and was about to hand it to Dong Bao.

Dong Bao hurriedly took two steps back, and said with a smile: "Master Yan, Xiao Xu even called my sister. I asked Xiao Xu to eat this rice dumpling, and it doesn't cost money!" From the beginning to the end, he has a "poker face" and is serious. It's really embarrassing for Xiaoxu to face such a serious father all day long.

"Just now I drank a bowl of bean curd and ate a zongzi." Master Yan said, insisting on giving the money.

Seeing the situation here, Mrs. Li didn't care about the work at hand, and hurried over and said: "Master Yan, it's just a bowl of tofu flower, it's not worth much, so let's treat it as our treat for Mr. Yan to eat for the festival today. Now, then..." She originally wanted to say that Dong Bao was sick at that time, and it was Mr. Yan who paid the medical fee and consultation fee quietly, which made her feel very sorry. In contrast, a bowl of tofu curd What does a zongzi count?It's just that Mrs. Li thought about it, it was not easy to tell the past of the two families in public, and she was afraid that Mr. Yan would think that she was wordy, and she was concerned about trivial matters, so she didn't say any more.

Mr. Yan insisted on giving money. In his opinion, this mother and daughter are good. Although the family lives poorly, they have not improved their good nature. Help, I heard from Liang Zi two days ago that there were some thugs who didn't have good eyesight and wanted to bully them, so he came to eat bean curd at the stall these few days, and he also took the opportunity to give everyone a signal that this stall is covered by him.

Mrs. Li didn't dare to push Lord Yan's money directly, so she could only lower her head and wave her hands with a smile, and didn't dare to look up at the person directly, but one insisted on giving it, and the other refused to accept the money. When Master Yan handed over the money, she was so frightened that she hurriedly took two steps back, her heart beating violently, for fear that someone would see and say something nasty.

"Dong Bao, send Master Yan off!" Li Shi said in a shrill voice, and quickly lowered her head and went back to the stall to get busy.

Lord Yan couldn't refuse anymore, his face was flushed faintly, he was the one who was abrupt just now, so he had to put away the money, nodded at Dongbao and prepared to leave.

Dong Bao didn't pay attention to the changes in the expressions of the two of them. She also saw that the hands of the two accidentally touched each other when you were pushing me to block. Think elsewhere, touching hands or something... Isn't it normal!

"Hey, wait a minute." Dong Bao smiled, took out the sachet she sewed this morning from her purse, picked out a gourd sachet and handed it to Master Yan, "I almost forgot, this one is also for Xiaoxu .”

I heard that Mr. Yan has no female relatives in his family, so it is estimated that no one sews this, and Mr. Yan does not look like someone who will buy sachets outside.Xiao Xu is only six years old, so it shouldn't be a problem to give him a sachet, Dong Bao thought.

Master Yan took the small sachet, smiled at Dong Bao, and said kindly: "Call me Uncle Yan from now on, don't call me Master Yan anymore."

"Hey, good, Uncle Yan!" Dong Bao replied with a smile.

After Mr. Yan left, Mrs. Li secretly observed Dongbao several times. Seeing that her daughter looked normal, she was slightly relieved. Thinking of accidentally touching Mr. Yan's hand just now, she felt annoyed for a while. Fortunately, her daughter didn't see it. Seeing it, I might think of her as a mother!
In the afternoon, when Mrs. Li finished her homework, she led Dong Bao to Song's house with ten rice dumplings, twenty eggs and five catties of tofu.

This was the first time Dong Bao and Li Shi returned to Song's house after the separation. As soon as they entered, Dong Bao smelled the stench in the air. He couldn't help wrinkling his nose, looked at the pig pen and chicken pen, and complained: "It hasn't been cleaned for a few days? Fortunately, they can still eat!"

When there was no separation before, she and Song Zhaodi took turns cleaning the pig pens and chicken pens every day.When it was Song Zhaodi's turn, Song Zhaodi seldom cleaned it. Anyway, Dongbao would clean it up the next day. Song Zhaodi was still secretly having fun, thinking that she was very smart.

Now there is no Dong Bao to share the cleaning work, and Song Zhaodi is not a hardworking person, and she just messes around with the cleaning, the whole yard is not smelly.

"Okay, don't talk too much." Li Shi pushed Dongbao, and said in a low voice: "Just come and have a meal, and then pass."

The two were talking, when they saw the curtain of the main room lifted, and Song Bai, who was dressed in a clean blue cloth gown, came out of the room and saw Li's mother and daughter.

"Third Uncle, you're back?!" Dong Bao greeted.

(End of this chapter)