Liu Xiaozi lay down early, thinking that as long as he fell asleep, time would pass faster. But he was hiding something in his mind, which made him turn over and over on the kang, and he couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

I counted sheep for a while, and tried to recite the Three-Character Sutra for a while. I counted thousands of sheep. I recited the Three-Character Sutra silently for more than ten times, but it still had no effect at all.

From time to time, I began to imagine the scene of meeting tomorrow. What would I say? What would Mr. Liu say?

As a result, Liu Xiaozi couldn't sleep even more.

After a lot of tossing and tossing, Liu Xiaozi fell asleep without any memory.

Being nervous and unable to sleep is a common problem for many people.

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Giggles...

In rural areas, the most indispensable thing is the big rooster that crows in the morning.

The genius was bright, and at five or six o'clock, the big roosters woke up, holding their heads high one by one, and crowing vigorously.

Moreover, as long as one big rooster crows, other big roosters will also crow. The noisy people can't sleep at all, so they have to get up and feed these domestic chickens and ducks, blocking their mouths with food.

People in the village also use the rooster's crow as a signal, and get up early when listening to the rooster's crow. This has become a daily routine in many villages.

Liu Xiaozi was dreaming. In the dream, he was standing on the podium of the school, wearing a red scarf around his neck. All the school leaders around him were applauding him, and countless students and parents in the audience were also applauding him.

He applauded.

Xia Mingjie held a golden trophy in both hands, walked up to the podium with a smile on his face, and walked towards him.

Liu Xiaozi happily wanted to take over the golden trophy, but at this moment, the crow of the big rooster sounded, and Liu Xiaozi woke up from his dream.

After rubbing the blurry eyes, Liu Xiaozi looked at the clock on the wall. It showed that there were still 5 minutes left, which was 6 o'clock sharp.

After getting dressed as usual, Liu Xiaozi got up. After going to his thatched house to relieve himself, Liu Xiaozi picked up a broom and started cleaning the yard.

For rural people, their houses may be dilapidated and their doors may be broken, but their yards must not be dirty. If a family has discarded animals buried in their yard, it will definitely be laughed at. Such a family will also be labeled as a lazy family.

Whoa, whoa, when the big broom made of bamboo strips was swept, it would make a big splash, and soon Liu Xiaozi was sweeping his yard.

"Son, the meal is ready. The porridge is all over your head. Wash your face and go inside to eat." Mother Liu opened the door and said to Mr. Liu.

"I know, Mom."

Liu Xiaozi put down the broom in his hand, went into the house, and poured the dirty water in the washbasin into the yard. Liu Xiaozi filled himself with fresh water again.

Just using the smelly soap, Liu Xiaozi washed his face.

"Son, eat a boiled egg. Our two old hens can now lay an egg every day. It's accurate." Mother Liu was obviously very satisfied with her hens.

As he spoke, he reached out and put the boiled eggs with the skins on Liu Xiaozi's porridge bowl.

There were two boiled eggs in total. After Mrs. Liu peeled them off, she didn’t keep any of them and put them all in her son’s bowl.

"Eat it, Mom, aren't there two of them? One for each of us, just right." Liu Xiaozi said as he was about to pick out an egg from the bowl and give it to his mother.

"Stop fussing, I won't eat it. Mom doesn't like eggs, so you can eat them."

Liu's mother hurriedly intervened to stop her.

The four big lies in life: Dad is really not tired, Mom doesn’t like to eat, there is still time, come back next time.

At this moment, Mother Liu is telling the lie of love like this.

Liu Xiaozi knew his mother too well and knew that nothing he said would be of any use, so he simply didn’t say much. He just picked up his chopsticks and started slurping the pickled vegetables and gazi shreds on the table.

Started to eat.

A bowl of rice porridge and a steamed bun were eaten quickly. As for the two boiled eggs in the bowl, Liu Xiaozi also ate one, but Liu Xiaozi only took a bite of the other and remained in the bowl.

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"I've finished eating. Mom, today Mr. Liu and I are going to the city to do errands. I don't know what time we'll be back yet. You don't have to wait for me at noon. You can eat your own meal first."

After Liu Xiaozi finished eating, he wiped his mouth with his hand, said something, got up and walked outside.

"Hey, you should just eat that egg." Mother Liu said.

"I can't eat any more!" Liu Xiaozi turned around and shouted.

"This child is a total waste every day. What a good egg. I just took one bite and stopped eating." Mother Liu sighed, stretched out her hand to pick up Liu's rice bowl, and took out the food in the bowl.

Eggs, poured into his own bowl.

Just eat it with steamed buns and pickles.

The flour for steaming steamed buns was bought with the money Liu Xiaozi got back a few days ago. On weekdays, she would steam some coarse-grain steamed buns, or corn pancakes, wowotou, etc. She couldn't bear to eat white flour.

Liu Xiaozi left his yard, closed the door, and went to Master Liu's house.

He knew without even looking that his mother would definitely eat the egg he deliberately left behind. He had tried this little trick many times and succeeded every time.

When he arrived at Mr. Liu's house, Mr. Liu saw Mr. Liu in the yard, sweeping the floor with a big broom.

"Master Liu, please rest for a while and I'll clean it."

As soon as Mr. Liu entered the yard, he reached out to take the big broom from Mr. Liu's hand.

"Why are you here so early?" Mr. Liu didn't show any pretense. He directly gave the big broom to Mr. Liu and let him help him clean the yard.

"I'll sweep the floor first, and then I'll tell you after I finish."

Walls have ears. Liu Xiaozi didn't want others to hear about this matter, so he didn't say it in the yard.

After cleaning the yard of Mr. Liu's house in three strokes, the two men went into the house.

"Master Liu, I contacted the people from the Procuratorate yesterday and made an appointment with them to meet at the No. 1 Department Store in the city at 9 o'clock this morning."

Inside the house, Liu Xiaozi told Mr. Liu about his appointment with Xia Mingjie.

"Okay, it will be safer to meet in the city and stay away from our gang of spies in Hongxing Village. Since you have already made an appointment, let's leave now. We have to catch the car to go to the city. Let's leave early so that we don't miss anything.

." When Mr. Liu heard this, there was no emotion or anger on his face, he just said something calmly.

"Master Liu, I see you're a cold potter and a cold stove. You haven't eaten yet. I'll heat some food for you first. It's too late for you to leave after you finish."

When he entered the house just now, Liu Xiaozi saw no sign that the fire in the outhouse had been lit at all, and the water used to cook the dumplings yesterday had not been poured into the large iron pot.

At that moment, I knew in my heart that Master Liu had not eaten breakfast at all.

"No, digestion is not that good as we get older. I ate the leftover dumplings last night and they haven't finished digesting them yet. I'm not hungry at all. Let's go first."

Master Liu shook his head and insisted on leaving.

When Liu Xiaozi saw this, he couldn't stop him anymore. He thought that when he arrived in the city, he would buy some breakfast for Mr. Liu.

In this way, the old man and the young man left Hongxing Village early in the morning.

At this moment, Zhang Quan and Yan Zhong, who still didn't know that they were about to be in disaster, were still sleeping soundly in their respective homes.

The old man and the young man walked and took the bus for a long time before they arrived at the gate of the First Department Store. The mall was not open for business at this time, but there were already many people waiting outside the door.

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There are people who come to browse the shops, and there are also workers with signs hanging around their necks that say bricklayer, carpenter, electrician, etc., looking for jobs here.

When the two men saw this, they didn't join the crowd and found a seat across the road to wait.

There was a tricycle passing by on the roadside. There were two large iron buckets in the car, which were still steaming.

"Big ballast porridge, salted duck eggs, and sourdough bread."

"A bowl of rice porridge costs a dime."

The people on the car rode the tricycle slowly and shouted loudly.

When Liu Xiaozi saw these three rounds passing by, he remembered that Mr. Liu was still hungry, so he hurried forward to greet them.

"How do you sell dough cakes?"

"A dime a piece."

“Where are the salted duck eggs?”

"2 cents."

"Give me two dough pancakes and a salted duck egg."

Liu Xiaozi counted out forty cents and handed it over.

Grabbing the dough cakes and salted duck eggs with his hands, Liu Xiaozi returned to Master Liu happily.

"Master Liu, you can eat it while it's hot. Unfortunately, the market isn't open yet and there's no place to get water, so we have to make do with it for now."

"What are you doing with this money?"

Mr. Liu complained, but he still took the pancakes and salted duck eggs.
Chapter completed!