Sihaizi didn't understand what his fifth brother meant, and looked puzzled, "Where can you buy sesame paste candy? You need a candy ticket to buy that thing."
"Of course I know that sesame paste candy requires candy tickets, but have you forgotten what I told you just after eating? In Lingbao House..."
Hearing what Wuchaozi said meaningfully, Sihaizi suddenly reacted, "Are you saying that the thing that appeared in Lingbao House is sesame paste?"
"Shh! Keep your voice down! There are not only sesame paste candies, but also bean root candies," Wuchaozi said, "I have already tasted them, and they are both very delicious."
Sihaizi couldn't help but swallowed his saliva, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? And my parents, too, didn't tell me..."
"Haha, you guys came back too late in the afternoon. It's time to have dinner by then. Mom said that if I told you, you might not have the appetite to eat after you tasted the candies and biscuits, so I planned to tell you and the third brother tomorrow."
"You just said candy and... cookies?"
"Yes! Haha, those biscuits were so delicious! They were so crunchy in my mouth that I ate three biscuits in a row."
The sesame paste candies and bean root candies already made Shihaizi excited. Unexpectedly, there were also biscuits. He never thought that he would have the opportunity to eat biscuits.
After pinching his face to make sure he was not dreaming, he rolled on the bed, "Ah! I want to eat cookies too, I have never eaten these things before."
"Just wait, I'll ask my mother to bring you a few pieces to eat tomorrow morning," Wu Chaozi said with a smile. "We can't eat it now. My mother has locked all the delicious food in the cupboard in her house." She said
You should eat sparingly and don't let me eat more."
Although Sihaizi was extremely greedy, he did not have the courage to go to his parents' house to steal food, and finally fell asleep while imagining the taste of candies and cookies.
Early the next morning, their mother got up early to cook.
Shen Su'e attached great importance to the first meal of the New Year. She first boiled hot water, mixed it with cold water to make warm water, then added white flour and salt and started kneading the dough.
Lingbao was wearing a beautiful red coat and followed her mother as usual, "Mom, are you cooking noodles for today? Or are you going to make pancakes?"
"Today we eat dumplings," Shen Su'e said with a smile. "We eat dumplings stuffed with pork. After kneading them, we give them dough first..."
While the noodles were waking up, she started to chop the meat filling. After the meat fillings were processed and the noodles were ready, she sprinkled some flour on the chopping board, put the awakened noodles on the chopping board and rolled them into long strips, and then
Shape into small pieces of dough.
"It's so interesting, mother, can Lingbao help?" The short little guy is not as tall as a chopping board. She is standing on tiptoes, and her big eyes are bright, as if they are inlaid with countless stars.
Her mother was so cute by her cute appearance that she couldn't help but want to kiss her, "Mom, I'll wash your hands later, and then we'll make dumplings together."
"Great! Lingbao and mother make dumplings together!"
When the mother and daughter were happy, there was a knock on the courtyard door, and Dadongzi's voice came from outside, "Mom, I'm here to pay New Year's greetings."
"It seems to be eldest brother," Lingbao glanced outside, "Mother, let me open the door for eldest brother."
Shen Su'e didn't think much and nodded and said "Yeah".
When the door was opened, Dadongzi was slightly stunned. He felt that the little girl in front of him was so beautiful, probably because she was wearing a red printed jacket and had two braids. Lingbao looked festive and cute.
It's hard to take your eyes away.
Shugen pouted, "Dad, why does she have new clothes?"
"Dad, I also want to wear new clothes." Tu Gen said.
Their father also felt strange and wondered where their mother got the cloth.
Logically speaking, there should be no cloth at home. Last year, more than half of the cloth tickets issued by Captain Li were used by the second daughter-in-law to make clothes for her wealthy family, and the other half were used as patches to repair the clothes of more than a dozen people in the family. hole.
Although he was confused in his heart, since the family had separated, he couldn't say much. He patted his two sons on the head and said, "Stop arguing. When the weather gets hot, let your mother make you some short-sleeved clothes to wear." "
After saying that, he took his two sons and walked into the yard.
"Mom," Dadongzi noticed the white smoke coming from the chimney and said towards the kitchen, "I brought tree roots and soil roots over to wish you a happy new year..."
"Why are you here so early? It's not even bright yet," Shen Su'e said inside the kitchen without leaving the kitchen, "I'm very busy now and I don't have time to greet you."
With that said, she said to her daughter: "Lingbao, go and wake your father up and ask him to greet your eldest brother and your nephews."
The little girl responded obediently and ran to call her daddy.
"Dad, why did grandma say that we are that little girl's nephews?" Shugen tugged at his father's sleeve, "She is younger than me, and I am not her nephew!"
With that said, he pushed his younger brother Tugen out and said, "Let Tugen be her nephew. He is young and he is suitable to be someone else's nephew."
Tu Gen didn't quite understand what a nephew was, but after listening to his brother's words, he felt that it was very embarrassing to treat others as a nephew, so he said excitedly: "No, no, I don't want to treat others as a nephew! Woo hoo hoo..."
Unexpectedly, the youngest son would cry directly. Dadongzi was at a loss and said: "Why are you crying? Who said you are Lingbao's nephew? It's true!"
"Why is he not Lingbao's nephew?" Jiang Qingshan's angry voice came from the house, and then the door was opened. He pulled Lingbao out and said angrily, "Lingbao is your sister, your son Of course he is Lingbao’s nephew!”
After saying that, he looked at Tree Gen and Tu Gen, "You two guys are really the same. When you see Lingbao from now on, you will call her 'aunt', do you hear me?"
"I don't want it! Who wants to call her aunt?"
Shugen wanted to say more, and his grandfather pointed to the door, "If you don't call me, go out immediately. Lingbao doesn't have a nephew like you, and I don't have a grandson like you."
"Dad, what are you doing? Shugen is right. After all, Lingbao is younger than him. It's normal that he can't scream. I think..."
Before the eldest son could finish speaking, Jiang Qingshan interrupted: "You don't have to think about it, I'm just the one who dislikes your two sons and has no education at all. On the first day of the new year, he came to my house making noises and crying. I'm so unlucky!" "
Shugen pouted his mouth, which could hold an oil can, "Dad, grandpa curses, let's not come to pay him New Year's greetings in the future!"
"You think I want to see you?" Jiang Qingshan's tone was full of disgust, "Get out of my house now!"
Over the years, in addition to feeling guilty towards his wife and children, he had also unknowingly accumulated a lot of resentment in his heart, both against his sons and his two grandsons, especially the eldest grandson, Shugen.
When he was paralyzed in bed, Shugen, a boy from the neighborhood, once ran into his house with the neighbor's children to laugh at him.
“My father can’t walk, he can’t even sit down, and he poops on his pants all the time. It stinks like hell!
My family’s lack of money is all blamed on my grandfather. He has to apply medicine every day, but it’s useless. There are pustules all over his back. It’s so disgusting. Next time my dad squeezes the pustules on him, I will show you, haha
…”
At that time, Jiang Qingshan tried to comfort himself. He couldn't blame the child for not understanding anything and being childlike. But since he had a daughter, Lingbao, he found that not all children were as ignorant as his grandson.
When Lingbao saw his back for the first time, he said, "It must hurt a lot, right? Daddy is so pitiful. Don't be afraid. It won't hurt if Lingbao touches it."
I still remember that time when her fingers were stained with her own blood and touched the bed sores on his back, all the purulent ulcers healed.
There is a well-behaved and filial little Lingbao as his daughter. Jiang Qingshan didn’t like anything about Shugen’s grandson, “Didn’t you hear? I told you to get out!”