Ma Xiaolong pulled her aside: "Watch from the side, I want to play for a while before talking."
"This circle is not easy to trick at all." Ma Xiaofeng was very unwilling, and the five popsicles were just gone.
despair--
"Yo?" The boss was stunned for a moment, smiled helplessly, and took the ceramic rabbit piggy bank over: "Young girl, you are quite capable. This piggy bank is yours."
The piggy bank looks like a low-quality product at first glance. It only costs one yuan to wholesale. However, this jar alone makes the boss lose his profit, not to mention that Chen Jun still has four rings in his hand!
Ma Xiaofeng was happy and embarrassed when she saw that Chen Jun used a big one in the first trap. She just said she couldn't get it right, but Chen Jun put a big one on her. It was so embarrassing.
Fortunately, Chen Jun was just lucky, and the remaining four failed.
Ma Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief, and so did the boss.
"It's my turn." Ma Xiaolong stood behind the line, stacked the two circles, and threw it towards the bottle of Laobaigan at the end.
With a snap, it hit the bottle cap, and the ring stacked on top bounced off instantly, but the lower ring slid forward due to the impact of the upper ring, and just happened to fit on the bottle.
boss:"……"
"Wow! Brother is so awesome!" Chen Jun clapped his hands happily.
Ma Xiaofeng's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered the secret of setting traps: as long as two traps are set together, you will definitely get it!
The boss made a long face and handed Lao Baigan to Ma Xiaolong, forcing a smile on his face and saying, "Do you still want to play?"
"Play!" Ma Xiaofeng had just discovered the secret of the trap, how could she not play?
"You want to play with me, but we won't play with you anymore." Ma Xiaolong stopped when he saw the situation, so as not to let his boss hold a grudge.
"Then I'll play by myself." Ma Xiaofeng took out five yuan and said, "I bought it for one yuan."
The boss smiled brightly, asked for money, and gave the money.
"Why only ten? Isn't it twelve?" Ma Xiaofeng was unhappy.
"You only get discounts when you play for the first time. This is your second time." The boss explained.
"Nonsense, I didn't spend the money just now. This is my first time." Ma Xiaofeng stretched out her hand and said: "If you don't give me two circles, you will give me the money back."
"..."
It was impossible to refund the money, so the boss could only add two circles to her: "You little girl is quite good at bargaining."
"That's it." Ma Xiaofeng happily stood behind the line holding twelve circles, stacked two of them together, and put them on Donald Duck's piggy bank.
snap——
Set up a loneliness.
"..."
Ma Xiaofeng was shocked: How is this possible!?
"I don't believe it!"
Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap.
"..."
The boss happily retrieved the trap, and Ma Xiaofeng Orz on the spot, her heart was severely damaged.
Ma Xiaolong shook his head, I was so stupid! The trap is not as simple as you think, you have hit a wall!
At this moment, there were other children setting traps. Ma Xiaolong grabbed Ma Xiaofeng and left. Don't be embarrassed here.
"Ten popsicles..."
For half an hour, Ma Xiaofeng kept talking about popsicles that didn't exist, and his head got big when he heard it.
"Okay, take it!"
When Ma Xiaofeng saw the dollar handed to her, her waist and legs no longer hurt, and she felt more energetic when walking.
"Thank you, brother." The ten popsicles were found again, and Ma Xiaofeng blossomed with joy.
"Look at your potential!" Ma Xiaolong looked disgusted.
"Hehe." No matter how much Ma Xiaolong dislikes her, the money has already gone into her pocket, hey.
I walked around the streets with two little lolita all morning. On the way, I bought two packs of Sky Monkeys and two small firecrackers at a canteen. The owner of the canteen gave me an extra stick of lit incense.
Ma Xiaolong broke up the small firecrackers and gave half to Ma Xiaofeng. The two of them lit the fuses with incense and threw them away, and there was a pop.
Chen Jun was too young and could only watch from the side, but Ma Xiaolong let her click on a few flying monkeys.
Watching the Sky Monkey take off and explode, Chen Jun clapped his hands happily.
After returning home from such fun, the adults had eaten and drank, and now they started playing mahjong, a traditional Chinese skill.
Usually grandpa, grandma, dad, and mom share the same table, but today Zhang Chiling is here, and dad takes the initiative to give up his seat, watching TV and drinking tea by himself, which is very comfortable.
Everyone was curious when they saw the three children coming back with a bottle of wine and a piggy bank.
Ma Xiaolong briefly explained what happened in the morning about playing with hoops, and everyone suddenly understood.
Grandpa is very happy. He is the only one in the family who likes to drink a few sips. This bottle of wine basically belongs to him.
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Have something to eat at noon, take a nap, wake up and watch TV, pet the dog, have dinner in the evening, watch TV, go to bed, and the first day of the new year is over like this.
On the second day of the new year, Ma Xiaolong and Ma Xiaofeng followed their parents to a rural area eight miles away, where most of their father's relatives were.
Although my father lived in the city after getting married, his household registration status is still that of a farmer. He still retains one-third of an acre of land in the village, and his house will be cleaned up regularly to prevent it from falling into disrepair early.
My father’s house in the countryside does not occupy a large area, only 120 square meters including the house and yard. There are three bungalows in total and a storage room outside. The yard is surrounded by an adobe wall and has been exposed to wind and rain for more than ten years.
Hit it, it's already leaking air.
Fortunately, the bungalow is made of bricks and tiles. On a cold day, just boil a pot of hot water in the house and even the kang will be heated.
There was an old wooden cabinet in the corner of the kang, which was used to store bedding. Liu Ying cleaned the kang, then threw the bedding on the kang, letting the heat under the kang dry the moisture on the bedding.
After doing this, the family of four went to relatives' houses to pay New Year's greetings.
First, we went to his grandparents’ house. Both Ma Xiaolong’s grandparents were in their late seventies. When she was young, her grandma was a lady, with a gentle temperament and complex experiences. However, her grandpa was a bastard who only knew how to have fun. Even when he was old, he still smoked cigarettes every day.
The combination of the two is completely a product of the times, but they were born in that era and had no control over it.
Ma Xiaolong hates his grandfather very much, and his New Year greetings are very perfunctory. Anyway, he won't get half a cent of New Year's money from him, so he won't waste his feelings.
But he still bowed to his grandma with great respect. Grandma happily gave the brothers and sisters two yuan each, and asked about his study situation. I learned that he is now the first in the grade, and he is the best in every exam.
Full marks, grandma was very happy, took out a few candies from the tin candy box and stuffed them into his pocket: "Study hard and try to get into a good university in the future."
Grandma's words were filled with ardent expectations, but she felt a little sad when she thought that she would not be able to see the day when he was admitted to college.
After staying at his grandparents' house for half an hour, Ma Xiaolong took Ma Xiaofeng to each house to pay New Year greetings and earn some New Year's money on the way.
In the same way, children from relatives learn that their parents are at grandma's house and run to grandma's house together to ask for lucky money.
Because they didn't grow up together, Ma Xiaolong's relationship with these cousins, cousins, and cousins was just average, but it was okay that they could play together.
There is nothing interesting in the countryside, except for the land, but the air is very good and the underground water quality is excellent. Ma Xiaolong stored a large amount of well water here.
Walking in the village, almost everyone is a relative, and the hierarchy of generations is very confusing. There is a 70-year-old man calling a three-year-old child uncle, and a 20-year-old boy calling a 14-year-old girl aunt.
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For example, just now a young man in his thirties greeted him for the New Year: "Uncle, have a great New Year!"
Do you think he has a high seniority in the village? In fact, he is not, because he just met his second cousin who was still breastfeeding, and the situation was very embarrassing.
Ma Xiaolong stayed in the village for four days and returned to the city with his parents on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
In just four days, he spent most of his time storing well water and didn't want to go out to play at all. Instead, Ma Xiaofeng ran around the village with a bunch of little kids all day and went crazy.
Before leaving, Liu Ying folded the bedding and put it in a cabinet for next year.
After nearly half an hour's journey, the family of four finally arrived home.
"Woof woof woof -" Lulu shook her tail to welcome the return of her masters.
When he learned that Ma Xiaolong was back, Chen Jun ran over immediately and hugged him without letting go: "Brother, you are back!"
"I'm back." Ma Xiaolong touched her head and asked with a smile, "Have you missed your brother?"
"I think about it." Chen Jun nodded vigorously: "I think about it every day, and I think about my brother in my dreams."
"Oh! It's not that bad." Ma Xiaolong patted her back and asked, "Where's mom?"
"Mom is lying on the bed." Chen Jun said.
"What time is it? Are you still lying down?" Ma Xiaolong turned around and looked at the clock. It was already half past nine.
Chen Jun whispered: "Mom is bleeding again."
"Well……"
Ma Xiaolong patted his forehead and remembered that the last time Zhang Chiling was a relative came on the last day of 1989, and today is February 1st in the Gregorian calendar. It is indeed one of these days.
Ma Xiaolong hurried to the kitchen, cooked a bowl of ginger-date brown sugar water, and sent it to Zhang Chiling.
Zhang Chiling was lying on the bed at the moment, covered with a quilt, and the black and white TV was on, but her eyes were not on the TV, as if she just wanted to make some noise in the room.
Ma Xiaolong pushed the door open and saw exactly this scene.
Zhang Chiling seemed to have just come back to her senses. When she saw him, she smiled softly and said, "Little Dragon is here!"
"Mom, how are you? Does it hurt?" Ma Xiaolong walked to the bedside with a bowl in hand and said, "I boiled ginger and jujube brown sugar water and drank it while it was hot."
Zhang Chiling felt warm in her heart and said with a smile: "Thank you, Xiaolong. It doesn't hurt, but I'm just a little tired. Just rest for a while."
"That's good." Ma Xiaolong felt more relieved and said, "Mom, drink this bowl of brown sugar water first, and I'll help you get up."
"No, I'll get up by myself." Zhang Zhiling stood up, sat on the bedside, and took the ginger-date brown sugar water from Ma Xiaolong. The bowl was a bit hot, so holding it in both hands was a good hand warmer.
Take a sip, it's very sweet, with the taste of ginger and red dates, it feels very comfortable in your stomach.
He drank it in one gulp and drank it all in a short while. Zhang Chiling sighed and her face became much rosier.
Passing the empty bowl to Ma Xiaolong, Zhang Chiling asked, "Where is Xiaojun?"
"Playing with Xiaofeng!" Ma Xiaolong put the bowl on the table and said, "I'll help you lie down."
"No, it's not that delicate." Zhang Chiling smiled slightly and lay down again.