"Jinbao, I'm back!" Xia Qiaoqiao couldn't wait to tie Jinbao's hair.
Although she has cut her hair short and looks like a boy, she likes to climb trees and play in the mud, but she is still a girl after all.
Once I see the cute and beautiful little baby, my heart is ready to tie her pigtails.
What kind of braid should I wear? Xia Qiaoqiao was thinking.
She has two red ropes to tie Jin Bao's braids, one on the left and one on the right...
Jin Bao must look very cute with her braided horns! Just thinking about it makes me super excited.
Xia Qiaoqiao thought of this excitedly. As soon as she stepped onto the threshold, she saw a figure running into the house.
"What are you going to do?" Xiao Jinbao asked Su Jungen who entered the back room, "Steal... rabbit? Don't steal fifth brother's rabbit..."
"What? Steal a rabbit?"
Xia Qiaoqiao rushed into the back room and saw Su Jungen bending down to take the rabbit out of the nest.
"This is Xiao Wu's rabbit, you are not allowed to touch it!"
Unexpectedly, Xia Qiaoqiao would appear. Su Jungen said: "I was the first one to see this rabbit. Why should I give it to Su Xiaowu?"
"If you can, wait until Xiao Wu comes back and confront him face to face. What's the point of stealing? Put the rabbit down quickly!" Xia Qiaoqiao said loudly.
"I said this rabbit is mine. I'm just taking back my own things, not stealing."
After Su Jungen finished speaking, while Xia Qiaoqiao wasn't paying attention, he grabbed the rabbit with one hand, grabbed a ball of sand from his pocket with the other, and threw it directly into her face.
"Bah, bah, bah!"
Xia Qiaoqiao hurriedly covered her eyes and spit out the dirt she accidentally swallowed.
When she opened her eyes again, Su Jungen had already slipped away with the rabbit in his arms.
"Damn you bastard! Even if you steal Xiao Wu's rabbit, you dare to throw dirt at me. I'll see if I catch you or not and beat you to pieces!"
Xia Qiaoqiao said that she was about to rush out to chase Su Jungen. When she saw little Jinbao in the house, she was worried that it would not be safe for her to stay alone in the house.
"I'll take you to your grandma first." Xia Qiaoqiao took Jinbao's hand and walked out of the room.
Grandma Jinbao was busy preparing meals for the family in the kitchen, and Grandpa Jinbao was sitting by the stove filling firewood.
"How long do you think it will take for the eldest and second eldest family to build their house?" Li Xiu'e said.
Su Changzhu shook his head, "I don't know, but the old man's house should be faster. Maybe it can be built in half a month, but the second son's house may not be built."
"The second daughter-in-law disappeared early in the morning. Did she go to her own fields?"
"That's right. Didn't she want to move out early? Last night she urged Erzhuang to go to the town to hire some carpenters and plasterers to help."
Li Xiu'e said "Oh", "Why did you invite those people here? How expensive is the salary? Food and accommodation are also included."
"Not only is food and accommodation provided, but you also have to be in charge of drinking, cigarettes, and food every day."
There is a saying circulating in the countryside, "A craftsman will never die of hunger in a famine year."
These craftsmen's skills are passed down from generation to generation, usually from grandfather to father, and from father to son, but rarely to outsiders.
Some people learn skills from a master when they are twelve or thirteen years old, and are beaten, scolded, and bossed by the master. The master does not hand over the real skills to him, for fear that the apprentice will starve to death.
For example, even if a carpenter, a bamboo craftsman, a blacksmith, or a plasterer joins a production team, they will get the highest work points and do the most leisurely work. After all, what they have mastered is a skill that others cannot master.
"So, if you can just figure out how to build a house by yourself, why do you need to hire someone to do it? Are you burning too much money?" Li Xiu'e kept shaking her head.
"The second daughter-in-law looks shrewd, but she is actually a prodigal. She can't save money. As soon as she got the more than twenty yuan in her hands, she had to spend it."
Su Changzhu sighed, "When it comes to running a household, the boss and his wife are better."
"Over the past few years, she has saved every penny. It is amazing that she was able to save that fifty-two yuan."
Speaking of this, Li Xiu'e lowered her voice and said, "Maybe besides the fifty-two yuan, she also secretly hid other money. We don't know."
"What are you doing? Do you want Guilan to take out all the other money?"
Li Xiu'e shook her head, "Why take it out? The boss has no job, and they have five mouths to eat, so let them use it slowly."
While they were talking, Xia Qiaoqiao passed by the kitchen and wanted to send Jin Bao inside.
Little Jinbao shook his head at her, "Sister, take Jinbao to... chase the rabbit..."
"You want to go chase the rabbit with me?"
"Hmm." The baby nodded her little head.
Xia Qiaoqiao was a little embarrassed, "But you can't run, your legs are too short."
"I know where Tutu is."
"You know?" Xia Qiaoqiao frowned in confusion, "How do you know?"
Jin Bao stretched out his chubby little index finger and pointed at his nose, "You can smell it..."
After walking out of the house, she was focused on her fifth brother's rabbit, worried that Su Jungen would eat the rabbit, and then she smelled a vague smell.
She couldn't describe the unidentified smell, but an intuition told her that it was the smell of rabbit.
Since you can command a wolf to kneel down, it shouldn't be impossible to smell a rabbit.
Jinbao thought so and decided to go with Xia Qiaoqiao to chase back the fifth brother's rabbit.
"Wow! You can actually smell the rabbit from such a distance. Your nose is so good, right?" Xia Qiaoqiao said in amazement.
"Let's leave quickly, I'm afraid... Tutu will die..."
After hearing what Jin Bao said, Xia Qiaoqiao nodded quickly, "Okay, we have to catch that big bastard Su Jungen and rescue the rabbit!"
They walked out of the yard hand in hand.
Every time he reached a fork in the road, Jin Bao could always point out the next path to take without hesitation.
Xia Qiaoqiao was a little skeptical at first, until she saw a few familiar figures beside the wheat field in the distance.
One of them is Su Jungen.
If she didn't admit her mistake, the other boys seemed to be all Li Tuwang's followers.
Li Tuwang is the son of Li Dashu, the captain of the production team. Because his father is the captain, he always shows off his power in the village and bullies the younger children.
Xiao Wu was bullied by him when he returned to the village with his grandmother when he was less than three years old.
Later, because Su Xiaowu was good at shooting slingshots, he could always catch Li Tuwang off guard, and almost burned his house down. Li Tuwang was afraid of him, so he stopped causing trouble to him.
The children in the village are now divided into two factions.
One faction is Li Tuwang, and the other is Su Xiaowu. The former always forms a clique to bully others, while the latter is a group of children who stick together to keep themselves warm and not be bullied.
Xia Qiaoqiao looked closely for a while and saw that Li Tuwang was also in the crowd, talking to Su Jungen.
"Is this Su Xiaowu's rabbit?" Li Tuwang picked up the rabbit's ears, "It's so fat!"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but swallow a few times, "Shall we bake it directly?"