Chapter 176 Zhou Zhou’s Abnormality
After the ship went to sea, Jiang Xia returned home and planted the flower seedlings and fruit tree seedlings.
The grapes planted earlier have already begun to climb up and occupy a corner of the grape trellis. They are green and have a tendency to develop rapidly.
Other fruit trees also sprouted new buds, looking lush and full of vitality. Some of the flowers planted in the corners are also blooming. Purple periwinkles and sunflowers are small and cute in the sunshine.
After Jiangxia finished planting flower seedlings and fruit seedlings, she went to make lunch.
Zhou Chenglei's comrades brought a lot of things. In addition to fruits, they also had sausages, bacon and large hams. She made a claypot rice with cured meat, a plate of steamed dried golden pomfret with shredded ginger, a fried macaroni, and a seaweed, egg drop and winter melon soup.
Macaroni is the easiest to grow when the weather is hot. It will grow wildly if there is enough water. Other green leafy vegetables are difficult to grow. But the beginning of autumn has passed, and when the weather cools down, there are many green leafy vegetables to eat.
Jiang Xia saw that Zhou Zhou was a little uneasy after eating, and thought that she was reluctant to leave Zhou Chenglei. After she finished eating, she washed a bunch of grapes for her to eat: "My uncle came back before the Mid-Autumn Festival. After Zhou Zhou finished eating the grapes, he went to sleep for a while before going to school. I will wake you up then, you know?"
Zhou Zhou nodded obediently, "Okay"
Jiang Xia. I saw her eating grapes a little absent-mindedly, and I thought: This child is really sensitive.
Zhou Chengyan followed the big ship out to sea and disappeared, so she must be very worried about her brother-in-law!
Jiang Xia went back to her room to translate. She was always serious about her work, until Zhou's mother's voice sounded outside: "Why hasn't Zhou Zhou gone to school yet? All my brothers have gone."
Zhou Zhou whispered after hearing this: "Let's go now."
Jiang Xia looked at the time and saw that it was only ten past one. The school didn't start classes until two o'clock, but the school opened at half past one.
Zhou Zhou usually goes to school at one o'clock.
Not only her, but also many children in the village like to go back to school early to play. A group of children were playing on the road while walking back to school.
There are also some students who have change with them and want to go to the school canteen early to buy something to eat.
Jiang Xia thought about how she gave Zhou Zhou a dollar as pocket money on the first day of school to prevent the school teacher from asking for any stationery. She had no money to buy it, and she didn't dare to ask the adults for it when she came back.
When Zhou Zhou was in preschool, all the stationery was leftover from his brothers. Of course, this can no longer be the case.
Having not given Zhou Zhou pocket money for several days, Jiang Xia put down her pen, took a dollar from the drawer, and walked out.
Jiang Xia has never raised children, but she has been a child. When she was a child, there was a time when she saw her classmates having money to buy snacks and she was particularly envious.
When she saw that Guangzong Yaozu and his brothers often asked Tian to pick flowers, they also asked Zhou’s father and Zhou’s mother for pocket money to buy snacks.
But Zhou Zhou is too sensible. She is afraid of causing trouble to adults, so she never asks adults for pocket money.
Jiang Xia walked out and asked Zhou Zhou: "Zhou Zhou, do you want Auntie to take you to school on a bicycle? Auntie is free at home today."
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "No. , I’ll go by myself.”
Jiang Xia didn’t insist and let her go.
Children in this era walked to school by themselves. It may be an exaggeration to say that they climbed mountains and waded in rivers, but this was really the case for some rural children when they went to school.
But the Zhou family is not far from the school. The school is next to the short mountain in the next village, and it only takes ten minutes to walk.
Jiang Xia put one yuan in her schoolbag and warned: "This is this week's pocket money. If Zhou Zhou wants to eat or needs to buy anything, just buy it yourself. If the teacher asks you to buy it, You don’t have enough money for the school supplies. Come back and tell your aunt, and she will give you some more money. Do you know?” He nodded, and then said: "I'm going to school, grandma, goodbye aunt!"
Jiang Xia rubbed her head and said with a smile: "Be careful on the road and remember to wear a hat."
Zhou Zhou nodded obediently and went out.
But after she walked out of the village, she walked slower and slower. She waited until there were no more school classmates on the road. Guessing that class was about to begin, she speeded up and ran to school.
The class bell rang at this time. Zhou Zhou ran into the classroom panting, sat down, and breathed a sigh of relief.
After two classes in the afternoon, there is a third free activity class.
Zhou Zhou did not go to the playground to play, but did his homework in the classroom.
Suddenly several senior boys came to the classroom and surrounded Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou's face turned pale and his body was trembling.
“Little bastard, where’s the money?”
Zhou Zhou clenched the schoolbag in the drawer and shook his head: “No.”
A boy saw it, grabbed Zhou Zhou's schoolbag, opened it, turned it over, found a dollar inside, and threw the schoolbag on her!
"Little bastard, bring the money over tomorrow and don't tell me, or I'll beat you to death!"
After the boys got the money, they ran away in a hurry.
After several people ran out of the classroom, they came to a big tree outside the playground.
The man holding the one dollar asked: "Brother Qiang, is she really not going to tell the adults at home?"
There was a senior boy of about eleven or twelve years old under the tree. Waiting: "Don't worry, she is too timid to tell anyone! Besides, she has no parents, she is just a little bastard, no one cares about her. Where is the money?"
"No one cares about her, so what does she do? Got money?" He gave him a dollar.
“She can steal it! Her brother-in-law’s family is very rich, and he is the only one in our village who has a big boat. Today, his brother-in-law also sailed a big boat out to sea. People who go out to sea don’t go home for ten and a half days! What are you afraid of? Let’s go and buy dolls.”
The boy who spoke took the money with a look of evil in his eyes.
The little bastard’s aunt caused his grandmother to be arrested, and his father did not dare to go home for fear of being arrested.
As a result, no one gives him pocket money now!
So isn’t it fair that he robbed the little bastard of his money?
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Jiang Xia spent the entire afternoon working as a translator at home, while Father Zhou was making iron frames in the yard.
Seeing that the light in the room dimmed, Jiang Xia left the room to make dinner.
Zhou Zhou still used the chair as a desk and wrote pinyin letters in the yard very seriously. Jiang Xia did not disturb her.
I heard that when a child is focusing on one thing, don't disturb her, otherwise her attention will always be interrupted and she will develop the habit of inattention in the future.
At this time, Zhou Mu came into the yard carrying a bucket of fish and said with a smile: "Your eldest brother gave us a bucket of fish and some shrimps. This fish has many bones, but the meat is very fresh and sweet."
People in the Zhou family actually like to eat spiny fish. There is a saying that "the more fish bones, the fresher the fish."
Jiang Xia took it and said with a smile: "I will do it."
For dinner, Jiang Xia made a stewed barracuda, a stir-fried pepper with bacon, a steamed egg with shrimps, and a stir-fried loofah with minced garlic. Steamed eggs with shrimps is Zhou Zhou's favorite dish. She doesn't eat much at noon, so Jiang Xia makes her her favorite dish.
For dinner, they mixed rice with shrimps and poached eggs. Zhou Zhou ate really well. Seeing how delicious she was eating, Jiang Xia smiled and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Zhou Zhou smiled: " Delicious!"
Jiang Xia laughed.
Zhou's father asked Jiang Xia: "Xiao Xia, are you going to sea tomorrow?"
Hearing this, Jiang Xia looked at Zhou's father and smiled and said, "Okay."
Now that Zhou Chenglei is not here, just The two families went to sea together. The people who went to sea were Zhou Chengxin and Zhou's father. The money earned from fishing and fish farming were equally divided.
As for other income, such as whoever picks up something valuable, everyone should own it, which is fair.
Jiang Xia wants to go to the bottom of the sea tomorrow to see if there are any pearl oysters. She wants to try artificially cultivating pearls.
This can greatly increase the probability of pearl formation.
Of course she had never tried it, but she had seen it in a pearl farm in her previous life and had seen how it was done in videos on the Internet, so she wanted to give it a try.
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