Yoshida Mii

Chapter 151
After Master Liu finished his meal, he and Mrs. Liu supported each other and left.Dongbao and the others were unwilling to accept the money for the meal, but Liu Fuzi insisted on giving it, and said very seriously that if he didn't accept it, he would be ashamed to eat the dishes cooked by the little girl in the future.

In desperation, Dong Bao took a total of four kuai from Mrs. Liu, [-] kuai for vegetables, and [-] kuai for pancakes, and the buns were given to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Liu to try out.

Dong Bao looked at the figure of the two walking hand in hand, and suddenly felt a little envious. Seeing that the couple lived together, although they were not considered rich, they were loving, harmonious, and respectful of each other. He's a fun-loving person.

"It's really incomparable!" Zhang Xiuyu said in a low voice, "Looking at Mrs. Liu, we all said that we invited him to dinner, but we still have to pay. Why is your third uncle so sloppy!"

Dong Bao snorted, "That's why I scolded him for reading into the stomach of a dog!"

"I'm afraid he's going to hate us this time!" Shi Li shook her head and sighed. She has been married to the Song family for more than ten years, and she has watched this little uncle grow up. What kind of person is Song Bai, Li Shi It couldn't be more clear.

"It's unreasonable!" Dong Bao angrily said, "It's because of us to bear hatred against him! Why should he bear hatred? It's his fault."

Mrs. Li sighed and said: "Your third uncle...he has a lot of face, we have completely lost his face today. He is the youngest, and your grandpa and grandma dote on him, pointing at him to be a scholar and a Jinshi." Yes, I'm used to it."

Of the three sons of the Song family, except for Song Yu who is shameless and doesn't care about his own face, her talented father Song Yang and this younger uncle Song Bai are both very face-saving people, and what they care most about is whether others think highly of him or look down on him.

In the past, when the scholar's father went out to sit at the table and brought back the leftovers from the wine table, Huang's eyes were narrowed because of his liking, and he said that his son was promising, and that others looked up to her son.

This is a problem with old man Song and Huang's education methods, Dong Bao thought to himself.The question of face is a very mysterious thing. If a person has ability and good character, others will naturally think highly of him and be willing to make friends with him. On the contrary, if this person is incompetent and has poor character, who can really think highly of him? he?Willing to give him face?
I don't know if Song Bai said "XXX is my friend, treat me to dinner, think highly of me" all day long, is it an expression of extreme confidence in his ability and character.

"We can't get used to his bad temper." Dong Bao said, "It's best if he doesn't come again in the future, mother, don't worry, look at the students and masters in the academy, they all stand by our side "They are not Song Bai's parents, so they don't have the leisure to coax him and pamper him.

Mrs. Li nodded, with a trace of indescribable sadness and sadness on her face, and she said to Dong Bao after a while, "Your father made great efforts to support your third uncle, and he was unwilling to eat or wear clothes. Which scholar would live with him?" The same? Which scholar’s ​​daughter went to work in the field at such a young age like you? Your father failed to go any further, and all his hopes were placed on your third uncle. Alas, whoever imagined it, your third uncle has become like this.”

Even if Mrs. Li doesn't know how to read, she also knows that if someone like Song Bai doesn't study hard and hang out with the gangsters outside, it's no wonder that he can pass the exam!
She doesn't feel sorry for Song Bai, but regrets Song Yang's painstaking efforts. Although Song Yang treats her and Dong Bao badly, they are husband and wife for more than ten years, and she is not worthy of Song Yang in her heart.What's more, her daughter was going to be sold just to support such a person. Now that she thought about it, she felt unwilling.

Several people packed up the shop, closed the door and prepared to go back to Tagouji.Dong Bao felt that running back and forth like this was a toss-up. Fortunately, it only took a month to complete the furniture and so on. After this month, it would be easy to move here.

On the way home, Zhang Xiuyu whispered in Dong Bao's ear: "When you scolded your third uncle this morning, I seemed to see your grandfather."

"What?!" Dong Bao exclaimed.

Li Shi and Li Hongqin hurriedly looked over and asked, "What's the matter?"

Dong Bao quickly said: "It's nothing, just now my sister suddenly talked to me, I was taken aback." When Mrs. Li and the others stopped paying attention to them, Dong Bao asked, "What's going on? You see clearly No?"

"I don't know either." Zhang Xiuyu said hesitantly, "Aunt Qiuxia and I were busy steaming steamed buns in the kitchen. When we heard the noise outside, we hurried out and saw someone not far from the door. , It’s quite like your grandfather, wasn’t he worried that you would suffer at the time, so he didn’t pay much attention to that person, and later, when he went to look again, that person disappeared.”

Dong Bao thought for a while, and in his impression, Old Man Song seemed to have never been out of Tagou Market, so he probably wouldn't go shopping in the market. Old men with dark purple faces and tall, thin faces like Song's can be found everywhere in ten miles and eight villages. Zhang Xiuyu didn't know Old Man Song very well, so it was likely that she had misunderstood, so she didn't tell Mrs. Li.

When they returned home, they saw Quanzi squatting at the door waiting.When he saw Aunt Qiuxia, Quanzi's eyes lit up, he was wronged but also happy and said, "Mother, why did you come back?"

Aunt Qiuxia quickly asked, "What are you doing here? Have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." Quanzi nodded and said, "My dad rolled out the noodles and even made me a poached egg. It's delicious."

Aunt Qiuxia was relieved when she heard her son say that she had eaten, and asked with a smile, "Then what are you doing squatting here?"

Quanzi said with a smile: "I have something good for Sister Dongbao." As he spoke, he raised his hands that were gathered together.

"What good stuff?" Dong Bao asked with a smile, this little brat is still quite mysterious.

"Look!" Quan Zi suddenly spread the things in his hand in front of Dong Bao.

Dong Bao immediately took a step back, startled, and said with wide eyes, "Why are you doing this! I don't want it!"

Successfully scaring Dong Bao, Quanzi immediately became proud, narrowed his eyes, and said, "This is a good thing. I caught you last year too. Sister Dong Bao, you are getting more and more timid!"

What Quanzi held in his hand was a long, gray bug with black dots, big semicircular wings, and a pair of curved tentacles on its head. Beetles and the like, she remembered that there were many such things in the woods when she was a child. Later, some villagers contracted the woods to plant trees and sell them for money. They were afraid that the wood would be harmed by insects, so they sprayed them with pesticides. Since then, they have rarely been seen. It's a bug.

"Don't be naughty!" Aunt Qiuxia patted Quanzi's head and reprimanded: "You are such a grown-up person, and you still bully your sister Dongbao!"

Quanzi rubbed his head, and argued, "I don't have it!" He took out a thin and hard grass stick, and passed it through the hard skin of the worm's neck, and the worm was fixed on the stick. Yes, flapping its wings non-stop.

"Here, the wind it blows is really cool." Quanzi smiled and offered the treasure, "I searched all morning to find such a big one."

Dong Bao was touched and took the worm. She still didn't dare to bring the worm too close to her, but she also felt the breeze brought by the worm's flapping wings.

She remembered that when her cousin took her to play with her when she was a child, she also made such a "worm-moving fan". A little wind is far inferior to the effect of an electric fan, but it is fun for children to play.

"Thank you!" Dong Bao thanked with a smile.

Quanzi patted his head in embarrassment, and when he was about to speak, Zhang Xiuyu next to him teased him and said, "What about mine? Quanzi, you are biased, why do you only give it to you, Sister Dongbao, and not to me?"

"Yes, yes." Quanzi immediately nodded ingratiatingly, "Sister Xiuyu, I'll catch another one for you this afternoon!"

Zhang Xiuyu smiled and shook her head, "Forget it, I don't need it, you catch it and keep it for yourself."

"What do you want to do here to be courteous?" Aunt Qiuxia asked with a smile, her son knew it well, if there is nothing to do to be courteous, it is either rape or robbery!

Quanzi chuckled twice, and said coyly: "Tomorrow, I want to go to the town market with Shuanzi and eat bean curd."

Upon hearing what Quan Zi said, Mrs. Li immediately said, "What's there to say, just come here." After thinking about it, since the shop opened at home, Quan Zi has never come to eat bean curd, so Mrs. Li said Displeased, she asked Aunt Qiuxia, "Did you stop letting Quanzi come? If you want to do this again, I won't obey!"

Aunt Qiuxia saw that Mrs. Li and the others had a good business, so she was afraid that her son's passing would cause trouble. Besides, their bean curds were sold for money, so it was not good for her son to always eat them for nothing.Seeing Mrs. Li say that, Aunt Qiuxia also nodded with a smile, "Sure, it was your Aunt Li who asked you to go and eat bean curd, why don't you hurry up and thank you Auntie!"

Quanzi immediately said crisply, "Thank you aunt, I will catch more fish and shrimp for aunt in the future."

"That's not necessary." Mrs. Li smiled and shook her head, "Now the river is flooded, so don't go to the river." Small fish and shrimp, there are many people selling them in the town, and they can be bought for a penny Why let the children go to the river to fish for two or three catties.

After Song Bai returned to the academy, he collapsed on the bed and sulked. All he could think about was how to get revenge on these ignorant people who looked down on him after he passed the examination. An old man is looking for you!"

When he went to the door to see, old man Song was wearing a blue coarse coat, black trousers, and a patch on the knee of the trousers. He was sitting on the threshold of the academy smoking a pipe, and there was a hemp bag next to him.

"Why are you here?" Song Bai's expression changed, and he looked left and right. There was no one at the door at the moment, so he hurriedly dragged old man Song into a small alley next to the academy.

When his father came to visit him, Song Bai didn't feel happy at all, dressed like this, he looked like a beggar, and he was someone who deliberately threw him away!Let others know, who will think highly of him!

(End of this chapter)