Chapter 173：

The family of six is ​​tired after working for so long. After everyone left, they burned the kang in the room for lunch break, so as not to burn so many kangs in the winter. In the cabin, Xiaotangyuan sleeps back to his room when the weather warms up.

Xiaodoubao has good energy. After moving things for a day with his mother, he is not tired after returning to the house. He took out the color painting pen that the old man bought for him and squatted on the ground, intending to draw New Year pictures on the kang.

Xiaoroubao sat on the kang, dangling his two short legs, pinched the meat on his stomach, and asked his little brother depressedly: "Little brother, do you think Xiaoroubao is fat?"

Xiaodoubao was trying hard to recall the appearance of the New Year's picture doll. He looked up at his little brother with a fleshy belly, and the image of the New Year's picture doll instantly became three-dimensional. Isn't that what Xiaoroubao looks like? He painted cute little dumplings and meat buns, changed his hairstyle and then changed his apron. Isn't it a New Year's picture doll?

"I'm not fat or fat. My brother is not fat at all. Put down your clothes quickly. It will hurt your belly button when it freezes."

Xiaoroubao pursed his mouth and put down his clothes, looking sullen.

Xiaodoubao was drawing the outline of the New Year's doll in front of his younger brother, got up and straightened his younger brother's face and said, "Brother, don't move first, give your younger brother a smile."

Xiaoroubao always listened to the words of his little brother the most, and grinned.

Xiaodoubao captured this moment and set the tone with just a few strokes.

Xiaoroubao's face froze with laughter, and two little meaty hands held his face up: "What are you drawing, little brother? My face is frozen, can I stop smiling?"

Xiaodoubao looked at his overly cute brother and rolled his eyes: "Okay, okay, put it down, you are really our stupid brother."

Xiaoroubao's bun face instantly collapsed: "Little brother, sister Tiantian said I was fat, and you said I was stupid, and I announced that I was not happy!"

When Xiaodoubao just moved things, he followed Su Xiaoxiao as his little tail. He didn't know what was going on outside, so he asked Xiaoroubao, "Who is Tiantian sister?"

Speaking of Tiantian, Xiaoroubao still had a painful look on his face: "It's the sweet sister from the old grandma's house next door. She deceived us a lot of sugar when she cried, and I will never play with crybabies in the future!"

Onigiri was reading a book, and it was hard not to laugh while listening to the chat of the two silly brothers: "Little Roubao just made the little girl from the old grandma's house next door cry, and lost a lot of candy, Xiao Roubao, big brother told you , as long as you only eat three meals a day, eat less than one bowl of rice per meal, eat only one piece of candy a day, and eat less snacks and snacks, the big brother promises that you are as thin as the younger brother, when the time comes, sweet sister will I won't say you're fat."

Xiaoroubao stared at his big brother with round eyes and counted with his fingers: "I only eat three meals now, three bowls of rice each time, if I eat one less bowl, I can only eat two bowls, numb Ma only allows me to eat two candies a day, but also one less and less snacks?"

After Xiaoroubao finished counting, he quickly shook his head into a rattle: "I won't do it! I'll be hungry! I'd rather be fat than hungry!"

For small meat buns, being fat and dying is a small matter, starving is a big problem, and a big meal is the biggest!

The rice ball was so happy to hit him on the head with a book: "Yo, our little meat bun can actually understand math, it seems that he has learned mathematics well. In the afternoon, my elder brother will teach you a little deeper homework. You eat three meals a day, but You are screaming that you are hungry, you want to eat rice cakes and cakes, and you want to eat buns and small wontons. Did Uncle Yang secretly cook it for you? Seriously, you can eat more than five meals a day. If your mother is really open In the restaurant, you designate one day to eat until late."

The rice ball feels quite edible. When I was a child, my mother was worried that he would be able to eat, but I didn't expect that the little meat bun could eat more than him. If this little guy hadn't exercised a lot, he could control the amount of candy and snacks he eats. If you let it go and eat it, you'll get fat into a small meat ball.

As for the person in the family who most expects Su Xiaoxiao to open a restaurant, it must be Xiaoroubao. In his concept, the restaurant has a steady stream of things that he can never finish, so he can eat more than five meals a day.

Xiaodoubao said: "Brother, don't worry, my mother said that both Xiaoroubao and Xiaotangyuan will go to kindergarten. Xiaoroubao doesn't have time to stay in the store all day long to eat."

Xiaoroubao heard this, right? His head turned into a rattle again: "I'm not going to kindergarten, I'm going to a restaurant!"

The rice ball laughed happily: "Go tell your mother this, if you say that, she won't even open the restaurant, do you believe it?"

Xiaoroubao rolled his eyes, tilted his head and asked, "Did you go to kindergarten, eldest brother?"

Onigiri shook his head: "No."

Xiaoroubao asked again: "Little brother, have you been to kindergarten?"

Xiaodoubao also shook his head: "No."

Xiaoroubao said confidently: "Then you haven't been to kindergarten, why should I go to kindergarten?"

The rice ball tapped him on the head again: "I didn't go to kindergarten because I wanted to help my mother take care of your little brother. Your little brother didn't go to kindergarten because he wanted to help mom take care of you and Xiao Tangyuan. Do you have any younger siblings who need your care? Yes. Is it? Is there?"

Xiaoroubao suddenly looked like a deflated ball, shook his head and said, "No, Xiaotangyuan is more obedient than me, she doesn't need my care."

The rice ball was amused, and ruffled his hair: "If you have self-knowledge, come here if you don't sleep. Big brother will teach you arithmetic. If you learn it, you will be able to go to kindergarten for at least a year."

Xiaoroubao obediently crawled over and got into the bed of the rice ball. After thinking about it, he said, "Big brother, I can ask my mother to give me a younger brother or sister, then I don't have to go to kindergarten, oh my, I'm really smart. ah."

Onigiri wanted to knock him on the head again: "Mom said you were too naughty, and she died."

Xiaoroubao murmured and didn't know what to say.

Onigiri planned to change the book to teach him arithmetic, but the kung fu little guy who turned around and took the book was already sound asleep.

The rice ball pinched his face, unable to take this heartless little guy.

"Xiaodoubao, what are you drawing?" the rice ball asked Xiaodoubao.

"New Year's picture doll." Xiaodoubao said.

Onigiri looked at the blushing and pink face in the quilt, and seemed to understand something: "Don't you draw a New Year's picture doll like Xiaoroubao?"

Xiaodoubao nodded: "Yes, there are also small dumplings. Lucky boys look like them."

Rice ball: "..." Okay, the dragon and phoenix do indeed look a lot like the lucky boy in the New Year's picture, "You must never paint on the wall outside."

"Why not?" Xiaodoubao asked back, "If the weather is good in two days, I would like to draw two more on the gate of our house."

The rice ball said: "Don't, don't, don't, don't, just draw a picture in our house, you think, aren't you telling others that there are cute cubs like Xiaoroubao and Xiaotangyuan living in our house, Wan Wan What if someone else steals from our house?"

Xiaodoubao tilted his head and thought for a while: "That's right, I'll draw something else outside."

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In the 28th year of the year, Su Xiaoxiao moved in to clean up the mess. She has been rushing about the house since she came to the capital. She hadn't gone out for a good shopping yet. In the afternoon, she wanted to take the children out to buy New Year's goods. .

The Spring Festival of 1978 was still a Spring Festival with lack of materials and ticket supply. Poverty and hardship were still the main theme of most ordinary families. It may be because of the end of the movement and because of being in the capital. This year's Chinese New Year atmosphere Significant changes have been made compared to previous years.

It has become very active, and there are more cultural evenings, concerts, sports competitions that ordinary people can participate in, and even some old domestic movies that have been banned for many years have been re-released. Exhibition and so on.

Han Cheng didn't know where he got the TV ticket, thinking about buying one to come back for the New Year, which made the cubs happy. TVs are rare at this time, only black and white, and the household penetration rate may be even hundreds It is less than one part, and only some government agencies and cadre families can buy it. If Su Xiaoxiao remembers correctly, it may not be popular until the mid-to-late 1980s for ordinary people's families.

Su Xiaoxiao's family came to the Capital Department Store, which was crowded with people. There was an unprecedented New Year's stall in front of the small square in front of the door. The Spring Festival couplets were hung everywhere with lanterns and colorful decorations. The Capital Department Store has not been so lively in ten years.

There are so many people who come to buy the New Year's goods, worried that the two little ones will get separated, Han Cheng is holding his sister, the rice ball is carrying a small meat bun, and Su Xiaoxiao is holding the Xiaodoubao and moving forward with difficulty.

A few cubs are too dizzying to see. They are not the cubs who have never seen the world. In previous years, they would follow their parents to buy New Year's goods in the city. .

Xiaodoubao said: "Mom, the state-run shopping malls in the capital are really different from other places."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "It's not that the capital is different, it's that everything is different this year, and it will only get better and more lively in the future."

Han Cheng hugged his sister in one hand, and protected Su Xiaoxiao with one hand: "Your mother is right, this is the atmosphere that should be in the Chinese New Year, and it will only be better in the future. This year, CCTV will resume broadcasting the Spring Festival Gala. Let's go and buy the TV first."

Su Xiao smiled and said, "Don't we have to order in advance? Are we rushing to buy it in stock?"

Han Cheng said: "I have already ordered, and today is the day to pick up the goods."

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at him sideways: "You didn't tell us in advance about such a big thing."

Han Cheng said: "The production of TV sets is too small to be ordered. I am afraid that everyone will be disappointed if there is no stock at that time, so I didn't announce it in advance."

Su Xiaoxiao remembered: "What kind of TV did Zhang Hongtu vaguely mention to you before he left? Is it sure that the TV has arrived?"

Han Cheng nodded: "Their family also ordered one, I don't know if they will pick up the goods."

Su Xiaoxiao pushed him with her elbow: "Okay, you Hancheng, you are doing a big thing in a silent voice."

The rice ball said, "Dad, do you mean that we can watch the art gala this year by squatting on the kang at home?"

Han Cheng said: "Theoretically, this is the case, but an antenna needs to be set up. See if you can receive the station when you see it."

Onigiri looked excited and carried Xiaodou on his back to open the way: "Then let's walk faster, we will hook up the antenna when we go back, maybe we can watch TV tonight, I'm sorry to ask you to make a move, make a move, a little rush time huh..."

After crowding in the crowd for a while, the rice ball felt wrong, and turned around and said, "Dad, you give your sister to your mother, and you squeeze in alone to buy a TV set. Mom and we are doing New Year's goods at the stall outside. After you buy it, come out and find us. If we get separated, we will meet at the big flower bed at the door, and if we will not be there in two hours, we will go home separately."

Su Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and said, "Our eldest cub is smart, so let's do it like this."

The whole family was divided into two groups and acted separately.