sbdcsierra Chapter 1139: Offering to Youcai
Chapter 1139: Offering to Youcai
Chapter 1139: Offering to Youcai
Yong'an Village, Zhang Yuanmin's home.
Wang Meilan was adding firewood to the stove, while Xiao Lingdang was wiping the cabinet with a rag in the house.
Zhang Yuanmin and his wife may not be able to come back for sure, but the stove and kang in the house must be heated every day to keep the house warm. Otherwise, if they don't heat the stove and wait for him and his wife to come back, the house will never be warm no matter how many days they heat the stove and kang.
Therefore, Wang Meilan would come to Zhang's house every afternoon to light the stove and then add more firewood before leaving.
Xiao Lingdang was a sensible child. After sending Zhao Hong and Zhao Na back to the Zhao family after school, she saw that Zhao Youcai was the only one sleeping in the west room at home, so she left Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao behind and ran back home by herself.
After arriving home, Xiao Lingdang wiped the dust off the cabinet with a wet rag.
"Lingdang." Wang Meilan added firewood to the stove and asked Lingdang, "Why did you come back so late today?"
"Grandma Zhao, Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao insisted on going to Zhou Xiaoshuang's house." Xiao Lingdang replied, "They stayed at her house for a few minutes."
"Ah..." Wang Meilan frowned slightly when she heard that. She got up from the small stool and walked into the house. She took the rag from Xiao Lingdang's hand and said, "Lingdang, don't do it. It's cold in this room. Go to the outer room to warm up."
As she spoke, Wang Meilan turned the rag in her hand over, folded it, and continued to wipe the dust with the clean side.
"Grandma Zhao, let me change the basin of water for you." Xiao Lingdang wanted to fetch water for washing the rag, but was stopped by Wang Meilan again.
"Don't throw cold water on me, kid." Wang Meilan said, "Go to the outer room. I'll finish wiping in two strokes."
"Yeah." Little Bell nodded obediently, went out to the outer room and sat on a small stool, resting her elbows on her knees and supporting her chin with her hands.
She missed Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng. Although life was good in Zhao Jun's house, where everyone was nice to her, where she ate well, lived well, and had TV to watch and snacks to eat, Xiao Lingdang also missed her mother and her eccentric father.
No matter how well-behaved Xiao Lingling was, she was still a child after all. Wang Meilan worked much more efficiently than her and quickly wiped the cabinets and windowsills. Wang Meilan washed and wrung the rag and placed it on the edge of the kang.
Then, when Wang Meilan came out with the dirty water, she said to Xiao Lingdang: "Lingdang, that..."
Wang Meilan paused for a moment in the middle of her words, reorganized her words, and said, "You can hang out with Zhou Xiaoshuang in the future, but don't go to her house too often."
Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Xiao Lingdang was slightly startled, but still nodded and said, "I understand, Grandma Zhao. It was Zhou Xiaoshuang who insisted that Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao go today..."
"Yeah." Wang Meilan rubbed Xiao Lingling's head with her dry hands and said, "Her family, those things... Tsk..."
Wang Meilan stopped talking halfway. It wasn't that she was embarrassed to speak, but she didn't know how to talk about those things with a child.
"Ah!" Little Bell suddenly realized and said, "I saw a niche in her house, covered with red cloth, with a roast chicken and apples in front of it."
"Oh my god!" Wang Meilan was stunned by Xiao Lingdang's words, and then she laughed and said, "The Zhou family is really good, they even provided the roast chicken?"
"Zhou Xiaoshuang said her old fairy is having a birthday." Xiao Lingdang's words made Wang Meilan curl her lips. Perhaps due to blood relationship, Wang Meilan subconsciously asked, "What's going on? Did she go to have a feast with you guys?"
After saying this, Wang Meilan herself laughed. Thinking that she shouldn't be so sarcastic with her child, Wang Meilan gently touched Xiao Lingdang's cheek twice and jokingly said, "Did you let me give a gift?"
"No." Xiao Lingdang smiled and said, "Xiao Na took a look at the roast chicken, and Zhou Xiaoshuang's mother wanted to keep us for dinner, so we hurried out."
"Heh." Wang Meilan smiled softly, then took Xiao Lingdang in her arms and said as they walked out, "If you want to eat chicken, let's stew one tomorrow. It just so happens that your Master Li had some business the other day, so there's a little chicken left."
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"Second sister." In the east room of the Zhao family, Zhao Na said to Zhao Hong who was putting apples on the plate, "There is a little chicken in the tank outside our house."
"Really?" Zhao Hong looked out the window, then told Zhao Na, "Go, get it."
"Hey!" Zhao Na agreed and ran out.
Zhao Na ran outside and went to the back of the house to lift the lid of the jar covered with thick iron sheets. She didn't care whether her little hands were cold or not, she brushed away the snow on top, and pulled out a plucked and gutted rooster by its frozen claws.
Zhao Na ran home carrying the frozen rooster. Zhao Hong saw her coming back and called out, "Little sister, get a plate and pick the big one!"
"Hey!" Zhao Na agreed, threw the big rooster onto the kang, turned around and ran out again.
In the bowl rack, there was a long plate for stewed fish. Zhao Na took it from the bowl rack to the east room and placed the big rooster on the plate.
At this time, on the kang in the east room of the Zhao family, there was a plate of apples and a plate of chicken. The apples were brought by Zhou Jianjun yesterday.
Zhao Hong was the older sister. She held the plate of chicken and asked Zhao Na to hold the plate of apples. The two of them arrived at the door of the west room. Zhao Hong had no hands free, so she used her toes to tap the door open, and the two sisters entered the room one after the other.
When adults are not at home, children act up.
Zhao Jun is not at home today, Zhao Youcai is sick in bed, and the two leaders refused to go up the mountain. Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, Huang Gui, Jiang Weifeng, Chen Jinyong, and Chen Jinjun formed a team of six and took a Liberation vehicle to go up the mountain to fight.
Led by Wang Meilan, the women led the donkey to the Zhang family's villa to grind flour and prepare to continue making sticky rice dumplings.
So, before the little girls finished school, Zhao Youcai was the only one left at home.
Zhao Youcai no longer had a fever, but he was coughing. Maybe the greasy pie he had eaten that morning irritated Zhao Youcai's throat, and his cough became more severe. He coughed all morning, and by the afternoon, his chest hurt every time he coughed.
Wang Meilan, who came back at noon, specifically found Han Shang and got two packets of medicine for Zhao Youcai.
The medicine wrapped in newspaper contains oxytetracycline and licorice tablets. According to Han Shang, this is his exclusive formula, specially for treating cough.
Wang Meilan mixed the two medicines together and gave them to Zhao Youcai, who then took them. Zhao's cough got a little better. Wang Meilan heated up the kang for him, and Zhao Youcai covered himself with a large quilt and fell asleep comfortably.
Zhao Youcai was still sleeping soundly until the little girls came back.
After Zhao Hong and Zhao Na entered the room, they placed the plate with the rooster on the right side of Zhao Youcai's pillow, and placed the plate with the apples on the left side of Zhao Youcai's pillow.
Then, the two girls quietly retreated and went back to the east room to watch TV.
What they just sat on was what they learned from watching TV these past two days. When they went to Zhou Xiaoshuang's house today and saw that they were worshipping the guardian deity, the Zhao sisters came up with the idea of worshipping her father.
When they got home and found that her father was the only one at home, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na started to take action.
In other words, you can't let your children watch all kinds of programs.
At the same time, in the east house of the Li family in the west courtyard.
Li Xiaoqiao used scissors to cut off a piece of red paper. This red paper was purchased by Zhao Jun when he went into the city last time. The Li family's half was prepared by Jin Xiaomei for Li Baoyu's wedding.
Li Xiaoqiao held the red paper in front of her mouth with both hands, and pressed the red paper between her upper and lower lips, and her little mouth turned red all of a sudden.
Li Xiaoqiao looked at herself in the mirror with satisfaction, then took the matchbox from the kang table.
"Sizzle!" The little girl struck a match, then shook it out. Then, she faced the mirror and used the burnt match head to draw on her sparse eyebrows.
After using seven or eight matches in a row, Li Xiaoqiao finally had an eyebrow on his left eye that looked like Crayon Shin-chan's.
Li Xiaoqiao was very satisfied and continued to draw the right eyebrow. When she was about to finish the last dot, the dog in the Zhao family's yard next door suddenly started barking.
Then, the little flower in the Li family yard started to bloom. Li Xiaoqiao's heart skipped a beat and she quickened the speed of drawing her eyebrows.
This is half a chapter today. I will finish the remaining half chapter tomorrow. I had a little drip today and I feel less uncomfortable, but my physical condition is poor. Maybe some medicine irritated my stomach and intestines. I got a stomachache when I came back. Tomorrow morning, I will have another injection, and then I will come back to write tomorrow afternoon.
Sorry... it's killing me
(End of this chapter)