Chapter 53 Trek thousands of miles, just to make you smile
After the old woman took Li Guihua and left with her things, the two sisters washed the borrowed dishes, and the two brothers Bai Ruchuan and Bai Rushan returned them.
After Zhang Yuan helped Bai Xue clean up the house, the two of them went to Grandma Zhao's house to bring Wang Cuihua and the two children back.
Bai Daliang slept on the top of the kang, and he didn't dare to let him sleep on the top of the kang when he was drunk, it was too hot.
"Xiaoxue, your grandma..." The first thing Wang Cuihua said when she came back was to ask the old white woman.
"Mom, it's okay, she didn't succeed!" Bai Xue comforted Wang Cuihua, "You rest first, I'll cook for you!"
As he spoke, he opened the kang cabinet, took rice and eggs, and went out.
"I'll help you light the fire!" Zhang Yuan followed.
It's only noon now, so he is not in a hurry to go back to the educated youth spot. Most importantly, he doesn't want to leave Bai Xue's side for a moment, and hangs around her whenever he has the opportunity.
"Zhang Yuan, did you buy these things this morning?" Bai Xue poured water into the pot, and Zhang Yuan set fire to her.
She asked Zhang Yuan while washing rice.
Although she doesn’t have to know all of Zhang Yuan’s family background to get to the bottom of it, she doesn’t like the feeling of being concealed either. Although Zhang Yuan did this to surprise her, he still didn't like it.
She has shared her biggest secret, and she also needs to know whether it is worth it.
"Xiaoxue, I went to the county last night..." Zhang Yuan whispered, like a child who was criticized by his parents for not finishing his homework.
"Last night? The county you rode to when it was dark?" Bai Xue's eyes widened, with an angry look on her face.
"Yes...but I wear a lot of clothes, and I don't feel cold when I'm riding a bicycle all the way!" Zhang Yuan admitted, but immediately said that he was neither cold nor tired.
"I've said it all, there's no need for these! How can you take the risk of cycling to the county alone in the middle of the night? Chenxi County is far away from here!"
Bai Xue admired Zhang Yuan a little, and also realized that it was a lie not to be moved by his feelings for her.
He probably rode a bicycle all night before arriving in Chenxi County? I was in a hurry to buy these things again, and I had to rush back, no wonder I didn't come back until noon.
In fact, Zhang Yuan arrived in Chenxi County at five o'clock in the morning, and his tired legs didn't look like his own anymore, but he went to a relationship without stopping to buy a bicycle, sewing machine, cloth and a watch, and asked the other party to arrange for him. The tractor pulls things over.
Now his tired walking posture is a bit strange, but he is a little reluctant to go back.
"I don't want to wrong you! You are priceless in my heart, no amount of bride price is too much, but grandma is such a person, and I have to take away all the money I put out, so I came up with this method!" Zhang Yuan Looking at Bai Xue's expression carefully, he said.
"Are you tired?" Bai Xue's eye circles were red. In her two lifetimes, this was the first time someone did so much for her silently!
"Tired..." Zhang Yuan said pitifully.
"Okay, don't burn the fire, go back and sleep quickly! You haven't slept all night, and you can't be exhausted after riding so far!" Bai Xue pulled Zhang Yuan who was squatting by the stove and pushed it out.
Zhang Yuan was pushed and shook a few times before he stabilized his figure.
"I'm fine, Xiaoxue, just finish the fire for you and go back to sleep!"
"Hurry up and go back to sleep! I'll just light the fire myself! Seeing that your face is pale, and the circles around your eyes are dark! I feel so distressed!" Bai Xue said inadvertently.
When Zhang Yuan heard Bai Xue said that he felt sorry for him, his heart was full of joy, and he felt energetic again, so he would just let him go to the county again.
Thinking of this, his legs trembled, and the space between his legs seemed to be worn out, and his buttocks were so painful.
"Then I'll go back first! Let Xiaoyun and the others help you! Don't be too tired!" Zhang Yuan finally compromised, waved his hands and walked out.
Looking at his own bicycle that was put in the yard, he quickly went around. He can't ride a bicycle now, so he might as well walk back.
Bai Xue looked at Zhang Yuan's walking posture in a funny way. This man must have worn out his buttocks by riding a bicycle, right? In order to give myself a gift, I actually rode a bicycle all night to the county to buy it. In such a cold day, I came back early in the morning on a tractor.
A boy like this deserves to die if he can afford it.
She turned around and went back to the house, took out a piece of pork belly from the space, chopped it up, cracked two eggs into the bowl, put the minced meat into the bowl, added the seasoning and stirred well, at this time the water in the pot was also boiling When it was opened, she put the rice in it, put a steamer on it, put eggs on it, and steamed egg custard.
"Big sister, rest for a while! I'll light the fire!" Bai Ruyun came out, obediently, to help her light the fire.
"It's just right, you burn the fire, cook the rice and egg custard, and the eldest sister goes in and puts the cloth away!" Bai Xue believed that the old white woman would not let it go when she saw the cloth.
"Okay! Sister, ask Xiaoxia to help you! You are quite tired this day!" Bai Ruyun is always very thoughtful.
"Okay! You cook it for mom to eat! Mom is so hungry, she still needs to breastfeed the baby!" Bai Xue said and went into the house.
"Sister, let me help you carry Bu onto the kang!" Bai Ruxia had already heard the voices of her two sisters in the room, and she had already got off the ground and waited.
"Let's go together!" The two men lifted the sackcloth up and poured it out to see that there were two kinds of cloth, one was the bright gingham for girls, the other was the dark gingham for boys. They are the most popular cloth nowadays, and they are very expensive.
"So much!" Wang Cuihua looked at the cloth on the kang in shock, "How much does it cost?"
"Mom, is this cloth enough for our family to make cotton coats and trousers?" Bai Xue didn't know much about this, and she couldn't make clothes, so she asked her mother.
"A set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers plus a coat is enough for one person!" Wang Cuihua looked at the rare cloth, "The leftovers are enough to hold several pairs of shoe uppers!"
Although everyone in the family has a pair of snow cotton, but except for Bai Xue, no one else has worn it yet.
Bai Daliang said that the whole family is too conspicuous after wearing new shoes.
Now it’s all right, even if the family is completely new from head to toe, no one can say anything, just say that Zhang Yuan gave it to them, who can doubt it?
"Mom, can you use that sewing machine?" Bai Xue asked again.
"Mom can't..." Wang Cuihua was a little embarrassed, "Mom has never used a sewing machine."
"Sister, this is the first time I've seen a sewing machine!" Bai Xue raised her hands and said when she looked at Bai Ruxia.
"I want to quickly make all this cloth into clothes for our family to wear, otherwise grandma will always miss our things! Maybe someday there will be trouble!" Bai Xue worried.
Now I have a sewing machine, but it is annoying that no one at home can use it.
"Xiaoxue, your third grandma might be able to, why don't you talk to your third grandma and let her teach us?" Wang Cuihua became anxious when she heard that her mother-in-law was thinking about it, and said immediately.
"Third Grandma?" Bai Xue asked puzzled. She had never heard of anyone in the village having a sewing machine, and Third Grandma's didn't have one either!
"Well, a few years ago, your third grandma seemed to have worked for your aunt at the textile factory in Pingyang Town for a few days!" Wang Cuihua recalled.
I was deeply impressed by this incident, because the old white woman wanted to go at the time, and the two had a quarrel for a long time. It was because the aunt didn't like her elder sister-in-law, so she gave the opportunity to her third sister-in-law. Because of this matter, the old white woman stopped contacting her aunt.
(end of this chapter)