In mid-October, when the autumn wind blew, Huo Xi returned to the capital.
Breathing the familiar scent in the air, my face was intoxicated. No wonder all wanderers miss their hometown. They have traveled thousands of miles back home just because they miss their hometown.
"Is this the capital? I finally arrived in the capital!"
The docks in the outer city were still bustling, and I was stunned to see You Qing and Chu Yi coming back to the capital for the first time.
Youqing had never traveled far, let alone been on a boat. At first, he was shaking when walking on the boat, felt dizzy, and vomited whatever he ate. He was fine in a few days. He and Chu Yi had a great time jumping around on the boat.
"On the first day of the new year, we have arrived in the capital. What if you meet Mr. Li who wants to arrest you and bring you to the palace?"
"I'm not afraid. Besides, Mr. Li is only in our area, and he won't come to the capital. Even if I meet those people, I'm not afraid. I didn't press my fingerprints. I'm the master's slave now, and I have demerits in the Yamen. , I’m not afraid of them.”
The two children chatted together. Huo Xi turned to look at them and smiled.
Leaving a few guys to unload the goods at the dock, Huo Xi took his luggage, Tayue and others back to Qionghua Lane.
News of Huo Xi's return was not sent home, and no one in the family knew that Huo Xi was back.
When she returned to Qionghua Lane, she saw Mrs. Yang and Grandma Zou taking An An to sit and chat with several women in the alley, while watching An An learn to walk.
Huo Xi opened the curtain: "Mom! Grandma!"
Mrs. Yang and Grandma Zou looked up and said, "Oh, Xi'er is back!" They trotted to the carriage.
"mother!"
"You're back, why have you been gone for so long?" Yang looked her up and down and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she was fine.
Huo Xi allowed her to touch her, then looked at Grandma Zou, "Grandma Zou is in good spirits."
"Okay, okay. You kid has been gone for so long, and you don't know if your family is worried about you."
The entrance to the alley was not far from home. Huo Xi got out of the car and asked Huanxiang Xiahe to take the local products from the north and divide them among several aunts and uncles.
Everyone happily accepted it and gathered around her to inquire about her well-being.
Huo Xi likes the ordinary market atmosphere of Qionghua Lane, where people don't have so many calculations when interacting with people, and they don't have so many ideas about family status.
Unlike the houses in the inner city, where everyone closes the door and stays in their own homes. If there is a fire, no one will go out to take a look. After living here for ten years, you don’t know your neighbors.
She likes to live in Qionghua Lane, and so does my mother.
Huo Xi took An An and held her in her arms, looking into his big eyes. "Does An An not recognize my sister? An An calls her sister, sister."
An An was held in her arms, not crying, just looking at her.
Now An'an is one year old and almost three months old. We just saw him stumbling around, but he probably can't speak yet.
"An'an doesn't know how to call her sister yet." Yang looked at them with a smile.
"Really? An'an can't call her sister, so how can she recognize her?"
Huo Xi hugged him and bumped him twice, and looked at him a few times. An An grinned, put his little face against hers, and then lay on her shoulder.
She seems to recognize her sister.
Huo Xi immediately became happy, "Let's go, sister will take us home safely."
With a smile on her face, Mrs. Yang greeted several women: "My daughter is back and she has gone to my home."
"Come back, come back, look at you talking about it every day, it won't finally bring you back, but go back quickly." Several women joked.
Almost all the residents in Qionghua Lane work in the women's workshop. They have also obtained vegetables, firewood and other daily necessities from the Huo family for many years, and they all know the affairs of the Huo family very well.
The residents in Qionghua Lane get along extremely harmoniously. Even if the children at home who are studying have become successful and can buy a house in the inner city, everyone is still unwilling to move and prefers to live in Qionghua Lane.
Huo Xi hugged An An all the way back home, feeling a little tired. Looking at An An's chubby appearance now, her little face and hands were chubby, she just hugged An An for a while, and her hands were sore.
"An'an can walk, right? You can't when my sister walks. Come on, take a few steps and see me." Put him on the ground and let him walk.
Let go of his hand and open your own to protect it. An An takes a step forward and she takes a step back.
An An trembled slightly, swaying with each step, which made Huo Xi very happy. After a while, An An was not happy anymore. He ran towards her in a few steps, lay in her arms and stopped moving, and even raised his legs towards her.
Lift him up and ask her to hold him.
"Why is this kid so lazy?" Huo Xi patted him gently.
Mrs. Yang came over with a bowl of sugar water, "Drink some water quickly. Why don't you send a message to your family so that we can pick you up at the pier."
Huo Xi took it and drank most of the bowl, sighing that she felt comfortable. "Why are you picking me up? It's not like I don't know the way."
Turning around, she saw An An looking at her with big eyes. He put the bowl to An An's mouth. He came over, guarding the bowl with his small hands, and drank the remaining sugar water with a gulp.
When he was done, he smacked his tongue twice and stared at the bowl.
"It's gone, it's gone." Huo Xi tipped the bowl to him.
An An turned to look at Yang again, "No. That's for my sister. Mom will make some milk powder for you later."
An An understood and lay back in Huo Xi's arms.
Yang and Grandma Zou made sugar water for Ta Yue and others who had followed Huo Xi back. Seeing that she had brought two boys back with her this time, they hurriedly asked her a few questions.
Youqing and Chuyi hurriedly introduced themselves to Yang and Grandma Zou.
The two of them liked such a clever boy very much. "Hey, you are so young, and your family is willing to let you go on a long journey alone?"
"I'm willing to give it up. We want to follow the girl. We haven't been to the capital yet."
"Yes, my dad was very busy, and I was already asleep when he came back. I haven't seen my dad for two or three years. When I learn to read a lot of words with the girl, I can write letters to my dad.
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"Yes, I also wrote letters to my grandparents, parents and sisters." Chu Dian nodded his little head.
"Oh, what a lovely child."
Grandma Zou loves children very much. She felt very sad when she saw that Youqing and Chuxiao had left their families at such a young age, and she asked them to ask questions.
"Mom, where is my dad?"
"Your father has been in Zhuangzi during this time. The shop sent hundreds of stones of cane sugar to Zhuangzi, and your father is busy."
"A few hundred stones of sucrose?"
"Well, Yujiang went to Fujian to transport goods and bought it from a sugar shop. The price is also cheap, only twenty-five cents per pound. Plus what the shop collects, there is a lot of cane sugar in Zhuangzi now."
"Then I'll go thank Uncle Yu in two days. Can his little son speak?"
"Yes. He can talk a lot now. Your Aunt Zheng often picks him up to play with An An."
He glanced at Grandma Zou and said with a smile: "Your Uncle Yu has taken a liking to Xiao Sheng and wants to marry Grandma Zou."
"Ah, is it Yu Ya?"
Grandma Zou smiled, "Isn't it Yu Ya? Yu Miao is still young. The two families know each other well. Yu Ya's child is a good hand at home and abroad. Your grandpa and I are very satisfied."
"Is Brother Zou Sheng satisfied?"
The two of them have grown up together. It would not be a good thing if they could not create sparks and only obey the wishes of adults.