Chapter 160： florist's rabbit

Chapter 160 The Flower Planter’s Rabbit

Patted Sanae on the back and asked her to go to the shady place with Hegu to play in the pig pen. Huo Lang nodded to Si Ningning, and the two went to the side to talk.

“What do you want from me?” Si Ningning asked in a brisk tone.

Huo Lang never thought that Hegu would send messages randomly. He only thought that Si Ningning asked this question because he came to see her.

There is no ink at the moment, so I simply summarized the situation after Hegu returned home at noon.

After a while, Huo Lang's scorching peach blossom eyes reflected Si Ningning's blushing face, and his voice was low and serious: "Maybe you are right? You can help him."

Si Ningning actually had no idea, but Huo Lang had helped her many times, and now that she saw signs of improving Hegu's situation, she was willing to try her best.

“The situation in Hegu may not be as serious as we thought.”

Recalling his interaction with He Gu in the morning, Si Ningning pondered: "This is not a 'disease', it's just a psychological inducement that makes him resist certain things."

"I will try to help him break free from his psychological constraints, and you should not treat him as a patient or a special being."

"You have to treat him as a normal child, patiently guide him where he resists, and don't put pressure on him."

"Okay." Huo Lang was silent, nodded in agreement, and then put his big hand into his pocket to fumble, "There is one more thing..."

“What?” Si Ningning asked curiously.

However, what she responded to was a bunch of colorful notes.

One cent, two cents, five cents, and two pieces of land. In addition, there are food stamps and meat stamps mixed in.

A large handful of bills, which had not been folded in the first place, were now being snatched out of the pocket with great force, and some of the crumpled bills fell to the ground.

The wind in the alley was so strong that it almost blew into the ditch where excrement was cleaned. Fortunately, Si Ningning was fast and even bent over to pick it up.

"This is?"

Si Ningning held the six cents she had picked up in her hand, with a confused look on her face.

“...I told them that they will be busy during this period, and I will entrust you to help with cooking, and let them go to the educated youth restaurant for lunch.”

After a pause, Horang added: "Sanae will go with me."

He decided to deal with this matter first and later, without discussing it with Si Ningning at all, so it was inevitable that he would be a little embarrassed when he said it.

Holang twisted his neck twice uncomfortably, and inadvertently looked into those shiny black eyes, and his ears began to feel hot.

He avoided Si Ningning's gaze, nodded and coughed slightly, then shook his hand forward, which held a large amount of money, and motioned to Si Ningning to hold it.

"How can we use so much?" Si Ningning muttered in protest, but was afraid that Huo Lang would let go casually and the money bills would be blown into the ditch by the wind, so he could only reach out to catch them, "I don't have much work recently. , when I’m helping the educated youths cook, I can easily make their portions, and it doesn’t take much trouble.”

As he spoke, Si Ningning knelt down, put the money bills into his arms, and quickly opened them one by one and folded them up.

His eyes flicked over and he clicked quickly. There were three yuan and fifty cents in total, three 20 taels of meat stamps, and food stamps in bits and pieces, totaling two kilograms.

Si Ningning took out five cents, a meat stamp and half a catty of food stamps. The rest, neatly rolled up and handed back to Huo Lang, "I'll take this much and keep an eye on it for you for ten days."

The outermost circle of the folded money bills was one yuan. The bills were dark red and old, which made her little hands look particularly white and clean.

Horang looked at it for a while, shook his head and said, "Public is public, private is private. They eat as much as they want, and the rest is your reward."

Actually, he wanted to say that if Si Ningning needed help in any way, he could just ask. As long as he could help, he would be willing to contribute.

But if you think about it carefully, the friendship between the two people does not seem to be that deep. This does not sound like a promise, but more like a bluff.

Thinking about this, Huo Lang changed the subject.

His attitude was insistent, and Si Ningning couldn't say anything else.

Although there was no shortage of these two cents, considering that doing "free work" could easily lead to trouble, Si Ningning thought for a moment, stretched out the rolled up money note, took out another two cents from it, and then rolled it up again. Pass it back to Huo Lang.

"These two cents are my wages for these ten days. It's just a casual job anyway. Two cents a day is enough on average." As he spoke, Si Ningning looked serious and his attitude became business-like. "Comrade Huo Lang, please do the same. Stop telling me everything, otherwise I will have to suspect that you are not trying to ask me for help, but you are trying to deceive me and report me to the commune!"

…”

Holang put his hand on his forehead and rubbed his hair back, speechless.

Si Ningning has a small mouth and a quick mind. He really can't defeat her.

But Si Ningning is willing to take part of it.

Although two cents is not much, it is enough to help with cooking for a few days.

Huo Lang took the stack of rolled bills and stuffed them into his pocket casually. Si Ningning's eyes were crooked, and with a smile, she turned around and was about to go to Hegu and the others.

"Wait."

Huo Lang shook his hand and grabbed Si Ningning's braid again, successfully earning an angry and coquettish glare from Si Ningning.

"I have something for you." Huo Lang teased with his thin lips, loosened Si Ningning's braid, pulled the bamboo basket that reached his waist and groped around inside, and after a while he took out a brown stone. come out.

“Hmm.” Huo Lang raised his chin and handed the stone to Si Ningning.

"This is it?" Si Ningning held the stone and looked at it. He said it was a brownish-yellow stone, but in fact it was more like a stony crystal.

Si Ningning raised her nose and sniffed. The smell of stone was a bit pungent, um... it also had a faint smell of alcohol.

For some reason, some fragmentary fragments suddenly flashed through my mind.

That day, Huo Lang sent her back to the Educated Youth Point. At that time, under the shadow of the trees beside the well of the Educated Youth Point, he looked down at her. There was one sentence that he repeated seriously several times:

“I remember this.”

Si Ningning raised his head blankly, his moist eyes flashing with a trace of surprise.

“Is this realgar stone?” She looked at Huo Lang and asked hesitantly.

Huo Lang nodded and confirmed Si Ningning's guess, "Realgar stone soaked in wine."

 Realgar is a type of traditional Chinese medicine. When the Four Olds were destroyed, the old things were basically put away. Traditional Chinese medicine is one of them.

Without traditional Chinese medicine, realgar is really hard to find these days.

The thing in front of me is what Huo Lang heard from a young comrade who was driving in the county. He said that the county magistrate has a hobby of making wine, and every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there must be realgar wine on the table at home.

At first, it was just a casual chat, but Huo Lang's left ear went in and the right ear came out. A few days ago, he happened to catch up with Si Ningning and cried when he encountered a snake, and he remembered it. I went to the county early this morning. Huo Lang brought over the realgar that the county magistrate had prepared for making wine next year.

This matter was not a big deal, and it could not be considered as a favor from the county magistrate, but Huo Lang still made a request to the other party, and promised to go to the county to help with some things after the busy farming season.

He said it easily, but Si Ningning still noticed some clues, "Did you go to the county today just for this stone?"

Horang nodded, but later he realized that what he said was a bit strange. He rubbed his shaved head and added, "I brought it back by the way."

Being alone in a foreign world, Si Ningning had no worries. She also knew that no one would care about her in this world. Therefore, she had long been prepared to fight alone.

However, at this moment, she really felt the warmth transmitted from Huo Lang.

Unclear emotions flashed through her heart, including loss, melancholy, and emotion, but all of them did not affect Si Ningning's ability to express her gratitude to Huo Lang.

Si Ningning looked at Huo Lang in silence, nodded for a while and sighed. Just for a moment, she raised her head and smiled sincerely, "Thank you, Huo Lang."

Holang couldn't help but be slightly startled.

He has seen the sharp-tongued side of Si Ningning, the tearful and delicate side of Si Ningning, and he also knows how smart and naive Si Ningning is at ordinary times...

But at this moment, Si Ningning's whole body seemed to be coated with a layer of soft light, gentle and sincere, and her whole figure was like the warm wind blowing on her face under the spring sunshine...

Inexplicably, Huo Lang's hot and awkward heart gradually calmed down at this moment.

He calmly looked at Si Ningning's face with a gentle smile, and said two words in a deep and hoarse voice, "No need."

"The team still has something to do, so I'll leave first. Leave them to you."

"I'll keep an eye on them." Si Ningning put her fist to her lips and laughed softly, waved her palms inward and outward for a while, winked and said playfully: "You go ahead."

Horang took another look at He Gu and Sanae who were squatting in the shadows, holding their chins in their hands and staring at them. He nodded and left.

Until his back disappeared at the end of the alley, Si Ningning looked back and walked towards Hegu and Sanae with a smile: "Your eldest brother entrusted you to me, do you know this?"

“I know.” Hegu said loudly.

Sanae, on the other hand, stood next to Hegu, wearing clothes that were similar to Hegu's. Her expression was always a bit restrained. When Hegu spoke, she just nodded obediently.

Si Ningning could tell the difference between Sanya and Sanya at a glance.

 Sanya and Zhou Xiaocui belong to the type who will restrain their behavior when facing strangers, so the first impression given to others is that this child is shy.

But actually, once you get used to it, you will know what "liveliness" means.

As for Sanae, she has a shyness that emanates from her bones, and you can feel that aura no matter in her expression or in her stance.

Of course, "shy" does not mean timid or shy, it is also a different kind of "knowledge of etiquette".

Si Ningning bent down and rubbed the hair on Sanmiao's head, "You can call me sister, or you can call me by my name like Hegu. Your eldest brother and I are friends, so you don't have to be restrained in front of me, eh?"

Although Sanae has met Si Ningning many times, she has never interacted with him directly, so she is still a semi-stranger.

However, Si Ningning was particularly patient in front of her children. Under her gentle words, Sanao quickly relaxed and smiled at Si Ningning with her small lips pursed: "Sister, educated youth!"

He Gu pouted on the side and said nothing.

Si Ningning grasped the psychology of children and chose some simple and interesting topics to interact with Sanae. With the help of Hegu, he quickly became familiar with Sanae.

As soon as light laughter came from the pig pen, Zhou Xiaocui and Sanya rushed over at the right time.

The two little girls looked like they had just come home from a nap, with mat marks on their faces.

“Xiaocui, Sanya!” Sanae greeted happily.

Zhou Xiaocui and Sanya were both excited when they heard the sound, and instantly woke up from their laziness after taking a nap.

“Ah! Sanae, why did you come out to play today!?”

"Huh? Hehe... The second brother came out to play, so I came out too." Sanae said.

Holang usually either works in the production team or is busy in the county. It is difficult to take care of some delicate things at home.

He Gu's situation was unstable. Before he joined his boss Ning Ning, he spent most of his time at home. Sanao was responsible for keeping an eye on him, feeding the chickens, picking up housework, etc., and rarely went out to play.

Children's friendship is very pure, and the games are simple. With a pair of pockmarked poles out, Sanae quickly got into it.

Although Hegu didn't get involved in the game, he didn't hide as far away as before. He squatted on the side and twirled his little hands to watch the girls play. Occasionally, he complained about who was clumsy, and he could touch the small wooden stick next to him. Yes, Zhou Xiaocui will soon receive an angry rebuke.

Often at this time, Sanya is trying to persuade her to make peace, while Sanae is coaxing her second brother to stop talking like that, while apologizing to Zhou Xiaocui.

The pig pen was full of children talking and lively. When Si Ningning came back from delivering water, he saw that they were still playing, so he joined in and played a few games.

How to say something?

Fragrance from far away and smelly from near.

The same is true for playing games. It feels fresh after one or two games, but becomes boring after playing too much.

Especially during the busy farming season, Si Ningning always felt a little bit embarrassed about playing games like this all the time. She thought about it for a moment, then put her hand over the scattered pockmarked poles on the ground and interrupted everyone's game: "Okay, we've played long enough today. It’s time to take a break.”

In an instant, four pairs of black eyes looked at Si Ningning, "Sister, educated youth, what are we going to do now?"

"Um…"

Si Ningning said with a long "hmm" and said with a smile, "Let me tell you a story."

"Tell a story?" The four little ones looked at each other, and Sanya raised her hand first and asked: "Sister, my eldest brother told me about a weasel giving New Year greetings to a chicken. Is it that kind of story?"

"No." Si Ningning shook her head, her eyes bent and a friendly smile, "This story is very long, you have to listen to me tell it slowly."

Three of the four little ones were sitting in a row obediently, with only Hegu squatting on the outside with his chin in his hands. However, they all looked at Si Ningning seriously and curiously, looking forward to the next story.

“Many years ago, there was a place called Huazhuajia, where Emperor Yan and Huangdi first unified that area, so the people of Huazhuajia would call themselves the descendants of Yan and Huang.”

Digression:

Ayao hasn’t been out and about lately, does anyone miss Ayao~~~

I don’t know if you have seen the domestic animation "That Year of the Rabbit". It is a very meaningful animation. Various animal images are used to represent various countries. It mainly tells the modern history of our country. It is very interesting. meaning of education.

If the readers have children in primary school at home, you can arrange to show them to them, so as not to forget the national humiliation and at the same time witness the footsteps of our country’s progress!

Finally, I wish you all a happy reading~~

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