Chen Lishu smiled: "It won't work if I say it. I have to keep it a secret."
Everyone stopped asking questions and picked up their chopsticks and started using them.
When the two little ones saw the candles extinguished, they frowned and screamed.
"You two are as big as brats." Gu Xingping sat next to the two children. There was a plate of fish on the plate in front of her. She picked up a small piece of fish meat with her chopsticks. After carefully confirming that there were no thorns, she placed it on Xiaobai.
In the bowl in front of you.
Xiaobai hurriedly stretched out his chubby little hands, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth. It was so fragrant that he even squinted his eyes in enjoyment.
That little appearance made everyone laugh.
Gu Xingping treated everyone equally and gave a piece to his nephew Gu Yicheng.
The fish meat, which was no bigger than a fingernail, was quickly eaten by the two little guys. They immediately kicked their calves and rushed towards their aunt anxiously.
Gu Xingping had no choice but to give the two of them another chopstick.
Just as the family was sitting together eating, the phone rang.
Chen Lishu got up and went to pick her up.
"Mom, happy birthday." Rui Rui's childish voice came from the receiver.
Unexpectedly, my son still remembered his birthday.
"How are you at your grandparents' place? Are you obedient?"
Little Ruirui replied normally: "Mom, I'm doing fine."
The mother and son chatted for a while, and Mr. He and his wife also chatted with Chen Lishu for a while before they hung up the phone.
On the other side, Liu Yuemin picked out some of the remaining vegetable leaves. The edible ones were kept to make dinner at home. The ones that were really inedible were thrown directly into the trash can behind the market.
There are four garbage bins made of wood that are two to three meters long. Merchants usually throw the garbage generated in the store there, and then the sanitation sanitation will clean it away regularly.
Even though the cleaning is done in a timely manner every day, it is hot in summer and many broken things are piled together, and the sour smell can be smelled from a distance.
While Gu Xingmin was putting things away, Liu Yuemin walked towards the back of the market carrying a bag of rotten vegetable leaves.
As soon as I walked out the back door, a wave of heat hit me, mixed with a disgusting sour smell.
"I'm going to die, it's still so hot at this hour." Liu Yuemin raised her head and glanced at the sun that was setting in the west. As if unwilling to leave, she still hung on in the air, trying to use up the last bit of residual heat in her body.
Liu Yuemin didn't bother to go over, and threw the bag in her hand casually. With a "snap", the bag hit the outer wall of the trash bin, and soon fell to the ground with a "snap".
She didn't bother to pick it up at all. When she turned around and walked back, she caught sight of something out of the corner of her eye and immediately turned around again.
Next to the trash can on the other side, I saw two people bending over and carefully picking up the trash can.
Occasionally, Liu Yuemin would see people picking out trash cans when she was taking out the trash, but today these two people really surprised her.
"Chen Mancang?" She called out uncertainly.
Chen Mancang and Zhang Chunhua found a 'treasure land' in the past two days, which is the garbage dump at the back door of the vegetable market.
Although the smell is a bit unpleasant, you can pick up a lot of vegetables here. If you are lucky, you can also pick up two dead fish and rotten fruit.
City people are pretentious and call it bad if it has a slight taste. In fact, if you fix the bad parts, you won't know how good the taste will be.
Especially in this way, the family can save a lot of money.
After picking up rags today, the old couple came here again to pick up some vegetable leaves to take home for dinner. Suddenly they heard someone calling their names. Chen Mancang turned around in surprise. When he saw clearly that it was the second daughter-in-law of the Gu family, his expression changed.
, turned around quickly, dragged Zhang Chunhua away.
At least he was a respectable person in the village back then, but now he doesn't want his acquaintances to see him like this.
But he wanted to hide, but Liu Yuemin didn't do what he wanted.
Blocking his way in a few steps, he ignored the unpleasant smell around him and said with surprise: "Oh my god, it turns out she is really an uncle and aunt. I thought I was dazzled."
According to what Chen Lishu said, she also called Chen Mancang and his wife uncle and aunt.
She had seen the two of them once when Old Mrs. Chen was not around, and later she heard someone else say that they had come to the city. She didn't expect that the two of them had changed so much.
When they were in the village, Chen Mancang and Zhang Chunhua had nothing to worry about and took good care of themselves. They looked younger than Chen Mancang, who was four or five years younger.
It's a pity that I gave birth to a son who didn't live up to expectations, and ended up dying in such a disgraceful way.
Chen Baozhu's disappearance was a huge blow to Chen Mancang and his wife. Most of their original black hair turned white, they were as skinny as bones, and their backs were hunched.
The dirty and torn clothes were almost hanging from his body.
Zhang Chunhua twitched the corner of his mouth: "She turns out to be my niece-in-law. It's a coincidence that we meet here."
Liu Yuemin: "I sell vegetables in the market."
Zhang Chunhua tugged at the corner of his clothes: "Selling, selling vegetables is very good."
She and Chen Mancang came to the provincial capital out of desperation. Neither of them were young, and they had no skills that no one was willing to use. They also had a grandson to raise. In the end, they had no choice but to pick up some rags to make ends meet.
"Well, in the good days, we even built a new house. When I was alive, I helped you a lot. My third brother and sister's natal family was bullied. I mean, Uncle Manton's family is simply incomparable to your family.
"
Chen Mancang and Zhang Chunhua's expressions were a little tense.
Liu Yuemin also said to herself: "Tsk tsk, it's been thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Don't you know it? Uncle Manton's family is completely different from before. However, the children in the family are promising, and there are no people in eight villages ten miles away."
It’s comparable.”
"Don't even look at what time it is. Hurry up and go home to cook." Chen Mancang couldn't listen any more, so he turned around and left with a sullen expression.
Zhang Chunhua's face didn't look much better, but the conditions at home were not good now. Liu Yuemin also said that she sold vegetables. If she was willing to give them the leftover vegetable leaves every day, the family could save a lot of money.
Because of her thoughtfulness, even if Liu Yuemin intended to be sarcastic, she did not want to get into trouble with the other party.
"Niece-in-law, let's leave first."
After Zhang Chunhua finished speaking, he chased after Chen Mancang.
"A tiger fell down and was bullied by a dog. Now a junior can ridicule me." Chen Mancang was very angry and snorted heavily.
Zhang Chunhua: "Forget it, we are like this now..."
"What's the matter? It's not all you. How did you spoil Baozhu's good child, and ended up like that! And mom, if you still stayed at home, how could the second brother and the others leave it alone? It's better for you
, when he saw someone paralyzed, he immediately encouraged me to send him away!"
Zhang Chunhua: "You blame me for everything that has happened now? Without Baozhu, what else do I have to do to serve others? Besides, you didn't dislike the smell of my mother's shit and pee at the beginning. If you don't want to give it away, I'll give it to you no matter what.