sbdcsierra Chapter 975 No one is waiting
Chapter 975 No one is waiting
The old man sighed, "I think it's better not to deal with each other. You are right. Now that I have said hello, don't come to my house every other day, right?"
Although they don't have anything valuable here, it's a hassle to have strangers in their home day after day.
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "What can I do? The person has come right up to you, and you can still pretend you can't see him? You are not blind!"
Erpang took Dashu and Xiaoshu to clean up the yard. Hearing this, he comforted the two of them, "We won't be staying here for long anyway. We'll be back after the New Year, so we won't bother you for a few days."
Xiaoshu smiled and said, "We can still pretend we're not home."
Dashu was annoyed, "What's the point of being so sneaky? How dare you say that!"
Xiaoshu stopped talking.
Zhou Guo said, "It's okay. Just come to their house. It will only cost some money. People are here. We can't kick them out, right?"
When she first went to the village, it wasn't that busy in those few years. All the children in the village gathered near her house to play football and she didn't feel disturbed at that time.
Since you are here, just come. Although it is a little noisy, it is also more lively.
This is how she comforted herself.
The next day, not long after breakfast, there was a knock on the door. When the door was opened, seven or eight children of all ages were standing outside.
Looking at Xiaoshu's smiling face.
Xiaoshu was just wondering what to do when Zhou Guo's voice came from behind, "Let them in."
The children were delighted.
They rushed into the yard.
This yard is actually no different from their homes, but these children couldn't resist their curiosity. They turned their heads around to look everywhere, and found everything new and interesting.
Zhou Guo said to Xiaoshu, "Take them out to play. There are meat and vegetables in the kitchen. Take them to the yard to grill some meat."
At this time, the children's favorite thing is eating.
BBQ is the best, there is food to eat and fun to play with.
Xiaoshu can't handle it alone, so Dashu goes to help.
Soon the yard was filled with the chattering of children.
The old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and said, "I'm going to go out for a walk. I won't be back for lunch."
Zhou Guo also wanted to leave, but she had nowhere to go. She had almost walked around the county town in the past few days and found no interesting place to go.
I couldn't help but ask the old man, "What are you doing?"
The old man didn't even turn his head and said, "Let's go to the teahouse and listen to the opera."
He can be gone for most of the day.
Zhou Guo was not interested in drama and just stayed at home reading books.
The days passed quickly and it was the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
During these days, Gou Ya has been in contact with them, often sending vegetables and eggs, and even sending them whatever they don't have at home.
Zhou Guo would not let them go back empty-handed and would give them a portion of the delicious food at home.
The children of the neighbors on both sides often come to visit, and after a while, they are no longer afraid of Zhou Guo.
She often played with them, cooked food, and performed tricks. Two of them were learning to read in class. When she had nothing to do, she gave them lessons and taught them how to read.
This move made the children's parents very happy. In order to let Zhou Guo teach more, they would send a portion of any delicious food at home.
There are many foods prepared at home for the Chinese New Year, such as various meatballs, stewed meat, peanuts and melon seeds, pickles, bacon and cured fish.
The old man complained, "These kids eat and drink here all day long, and I haven't seen them send much food here. When they heard you were teaching them to read, I think they wanted to send anything edible from home here."
Zhou Guo said: "As parents, we all want our children to learn more skills so that they can have a bright future. This is normal. Anyway, we can't teach them for many days, so just treat it as a game."
The old man said, "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. When will we leave after the New Year? Okura hasn't come yet, so I guess he won't come. You can't get to the front line either. How about sending a letter to him? At least you can meet him before you leave."
Zhou Guo thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. It's best not to meet. Let him stay in the camp with peace of mind. Knowing that we are in the rear, he might be distracted."
She wanted to try her luck and spend the New Year with Zhou Da Cang, but this luck obviously didn't come, so there was nothing she could do.
"Let's go on the third day of the Chinese New Year. We'll go to Qianduo first, and then go back to Nanhe. The spring ploughing in Nanhe will start after the Chinese New Year. After we finish the work in Nanhe, we can go back to Beidi and catch up with the spring ploughing in Beidi."
Sigh, the leisurely days are just a few days away, and soon we will be busy day and night.
The old man stood up and said, "Then I'll pack up my things. Although I've only been here for ten days, why do I have so many things? Can you change your bad habit of buying things wherever you go? It's not like you have an entire house to carry around. Where are you going to put all these things?"
Especially the pots of flowers, the pot of wintersweet that cost eighty taels, although it looks beautiful, but I have to take it away.
If I can’t take it away, won’t the wintersweets be wasted?
Zhou Guo lay down in the rocking chair, took a handful of broad beans, and put one into his mouth from time to time.
Erpang was busy in the kitchen during the Great Heat and Lesser Heat, frying meatballs, frying fish, stewing pig's trotters...
Zhou Guo told them that they didn't need to make so much, just enough to eat would be enough, but several of them disagreed. They saw that other families were busy and they insisted on making all kinds of meatballs, pork skin jelly and fish jelly, and said that even if they were away, they should feel like they were at home celebrating the New Year.
It tastes like home.
Zhou Guo let them do as they pleased. It was fine to just stay there like an idiot. Listening to the quarrel coming from the kitchen, he thought it was just fine this way. It was so lively and it felt like Chinese New Year.
After eating a few broad beans, she stood up and wanted to go for a walk on the street.
Chinese New Year is tomorrow. At this time, there are more people on the streets than usual, especially the vegetable market, which is extremely lively.
Many families are waiting for these last two days to buy food for the New Year. They don't have much money and don't need to prepare much, just some meat.
She wandered around the street swinging her arms.
There were a lot of people everywhere at this time, so she squeezed into a few crowds and took a look around. Before she got in, she was almost crushed, so she had to come out.
Go somewhere else.
We went to the cloth shop and originally wanted to buy some cloth, but then we remembered that we would be leaving in a few days and the carriage was too small to store the cloth.
She sent a lot of things to Gou Ya and the others these days, but she didn't buy any.
We have snacks and candied fruits.
After a round of shopping, I ended up buying some candy, several big bags of it.
There are quite a few children in the neighborhood, and we have become familiar with them these days, so we have to prepare some things for the New Year.
Gou Ya and the others might come to our house, so we need to be prepared.
After walking around for nearly half an hour, she finally walked back carrying the candies.
She was not without a sense of disappointment, as she was thinking of spending the New Year here with her uncle. Although she felt that it was unlikely that he would come to this small county to celebrate the New Year, she always kept in mind the possibility, what if it was possible?
The old man had packed half of his luggage. Seeing that she had a smile on her face, she couldn't hide the disappointment in her eyes. He comforted her, "How about sending a letter? You've donated two million shi of grain to the army. Can't you send a letter?"
Zhou Guo shook his head. "It's already this late. It will take until tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow to send it there. It's too late."