Wang Meilan filled the stove pit with firewood, while Xiao Ling Ding wiped the cabinet with a rag in the room.
Zhang Yuanmin and his wife are not sure when they will be back, but the stove and the kang in the house have to be burned every day. This way the house will be warm, otherwise it will not burn. If they wait for the couple to come back and start it again, how many days will it be burned like this?
The house doesn't even need to be warmed.
Therefore, Wang Meilan would come to Zhang's house every afternoon to light the stove pit, and then fill in more firewood before leaving.
Xiaolingdang is a sensible child. After sending Zhao Hong and Zhao Na back to Zhao's house after school, she saw that Zhao Youcai was the only one sleeping in the west room, so she left Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao behind, and then ran home by herself.
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After arriving home, Little Bell wiped the dust on the cabinet with a wet rag.
"Bell." Wang Meilan asked the little bell while adding firewood to the stove pit, "Why did you come back so late today?"
"Zhao Nai, Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao insisted on staying at Zhou Xiaoshuang's house." Xiao Lingdang replied: "We stayed at her house for a few minutes."
"Ah..." Wang Meilan frowned slightly when she heard this. She got up from the small bench and walked into the house. She took the rag in Little Bell's hand and said, "Don't fix the rag, Bell. It's cold in this room. Go to the outhouse to warm it up."
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With that said, Wang Meilan turned over the rag in her hand, folded it, and continued to wipe the dust with the clean side.
"Mr. Zhao, let me change the water in the basin for you." Xiao Lingdang was about to carry the water for washing the rag, but Wang Meilan stopped her again.
"You kid, don't do the cold water." Wang Meilan said, "Go to the outhouse. I'll finish wiping it with these two handfuls."
"Yeah." Little Lingdang nodded obediently, went out to the outhouse and sat on a small bench, leaning on her knees with her elbows and supporting her chin with her hands.
She missed Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng. Although it was good to be in Zhao Jun's house, and all the families treated her well. She had good food, good housing, and TV to watch and snacks to eat, but Xiaolingdang also missed her mother and her mother.
's dad.
No matter how well-behaved Little Lingdang was, she was still a child. Wang Meilan worked much more efficiently than she did. She quickly wiped the cabinets and window sills. Wang Meilan washed the rag, twisted it clean, and placed it on the edge of the kang.
Then, when Wang Meilan came out with the dirty water, she said to Little Lingdang: "Lingdang, that..."
Wang Meilan paused slightly in the middle of her words, reorganized her words, and said: "It's okay to play with Zhou Xiaoshuang from now on, but don't go to her house."
Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Xiao Lingdang was slightly startled, but she still nodded and said, "I understand, Mrs. Zhao. It was Zhou Xiaoshuang who asked Xiaohong and Xiaoqiao to go today..."
"Yeah." Wang Meilan rubbed Xiao Lingdang's head with her dry hands and said, "Her family can provide those things... tsk..."
Wang Meilan was halfway through her words. It wasn't that she had difficulty speaking, but she didn't know how to talk about those things to a child.
"Ah!" But at this moment, Little Lingdang suddenly understood and said, "I see there is a niche in her house, covered with a red cloth, and there are roast chicken and apples in front."
"Oh my god!" Wang Meilan was stunned when she heard Xiao Lingdang's words, and then smiled and said, "Old Zhou's family, are you offering all the roast chicken?"
"Zhou Xiaoshuang said that her old Xianer's birthday was celebrated." Xiao Lingdang's words made Wang Meilan curl her lips. Perhaps because of her bloodline, Wang Meilan asked subconsciously: "What's going on? Are you here to eat Xi'er?"
After saying this, Wang Meilan laughed to herself. Thinking that she should not be in a quarrel with her child, Wang Meilan gently touched Xiao Ling Dang's face twice with her hand and joked: "Do you want us to follow the courtesy?"
"No." Xiao Lingdang smiled and said, "Xiao Na took one look at the roasted chicken and Zhou Xiaoshuang's mother wanted to keep us for dinner, so we came out in a hurry."
"Ha." Wang Meilan smiled softly, then took Xiao Lingdang in her arms and walked out, saying: "If you want to eat chicken, let's stew one tomorrow. It happened that you were doing errands at Master Li's house two days ago, and there was still 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 chick in the vat outside our house."
"Really?" Zhao Hong raised his head and looked out the window, then told Zhao Na: "Go, get (qiu) back and forth."
"Hey!" Zhao Na agreed and ran out.
Zhao Na ran outside the house, and when she got there, she opened the thick iron-clad vat cap. She pushed aside the snow with her little hands, regardless of whether they were cold or not, and pulled the frozen chicken paws to pull out a big, eviscerated rooster with fluffy feathers.
Pulled it out.
Zhao Na ran home carrying the big frozen rooster. Zhao Hong saw her coming back and said, "Little sister, get a plate and pick the big one!"
"Hey!" Zhao Na agreed, threw the big rooster on the kang, turned around and ran out again.
In the dish rack, there was a long plate for stewed fish. Zhao Na took it from the dish rack to the east room and placed the big rooster on the plate.
At this time, there was a plate of apples and a plate of chicken on the stove in the east room of the Zhao family. The apples were brought by Zhou Jianjun yesterday.
Zhao Hong was the elder sister. She held the plate with chicken and asked Zhao Na to hold the plate with apples. They arrived at the door of the west room. Zhao Hongteng did not come to the door, but opened the door with her toes, and the two sisters entered the room one after the other.
When the adults are not at home, the children behave like monsters.
Zhao Jun was not at home today, Zhao Youcai was sick in bed, and the two top leaders could not go up the mountain. Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, Huang Gui, Jiang Weifeng, Chen Jinyong, and Chen Jinjun formed a team and rode up the mountain in a liberation vehicle to fight and surrounded them.
The women, led by Wang Meilan, took their donkeys to the Zhangjia Courtyard to grind flour and prepare to continue making sticky bean buns.
Therefore, before the little girls went to school, Zhao Youcai was the only one left at home.
Zhao Youcai no longer had a fever, but he still had a cough. Maybe he had eaten a pie in the morning, which made his throat irritated and his cough became more severe. He coughed all morning, and by the afternoon, Zhao Youcai's chest hurt every time he coughed.
Wang Meilan, who came back at noon, went to Han Shang and brought two packets of medicine to Zhao Youcai.
The medicine in the newspaper package contains oxytetracycline and licorice tablets. According to Han Shang, this is his exclusive formula, specially designed to treat coughs.
Wang Meilan mixed these two medicines and gave them to Zhao Youcai. Zhao's cough on his head was a little better. Wang Meilan heated the kang for him, and Zhao Youcai covered him with a quilt and fell asleep comfortably.
Until the little girls came back, Zhao Youcai was still sleeping soundly.
After Zhao Hong and Zhao Na entered the room, they placed the plate with Shanda Rooster on the right side of Zhao Youcai's pillow, and placed the plate with apples on the left side of Zhao Youcai's pillow.
Then, the two ladies quietly left and went back to the east room to watch TV.
What they just sat through was learned from watching TV in the past two days. When I went to Zhou Xiaoshuang's house today and saw people offering sacrifices to the family immortals, the Zhao sisters came up with the idea of offering sacrifices to their father.
After arriving home, she found that her father, Zhao Hong, was the only one at home, so Zhao Na took action.
In other words, you can’t let your children watch any program.
At the same time, the east room of the Li family in the west courtyard.
Li Xiaoqiao used scissors to cut out a strip of red paper. This red paper was purchased by Zhao Jun when he went to the city last time. Half of it was from the Li family and 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. Her little mouth suddenly turned red.
Li Xiaoqiao looked in the mirror with satisfaction, and then took the matchbox on the Kang table.
"Bah!" The little girl struck a match, then shook it out, then faced the mirror and drew on her sparse eyebrows with the burnt match head.
After using seven or eight matches in a row, an eyebrow similar to Crayon Shin-chan appeared on Li Xiaoqiao's left eye.
Li Xiaoqiao was very satisfied and continued to draw her right eyebrow. When she was looking at the last point, suddenly the dog in the Zhao family's yard next door started barking.
Immediately afterwards, the little flowers in Li's courtyard bloomed, and Li Xiaoqiao's heart suddenly jumped and she accelerated the speed of drawing her eyebrows.
