Chapter 58 Bringing Up a Baby
Suning didn't feel much sleepy after not sleeping for a whole night, but there was inevitably a hint of fatigue in her brows and eyes.
When I brought Xiaoqiu home, I saw the little guy looking at Zhang Qin's urn on the table. His red eyes were bloodshot, and the teardrops hanging on his eyelashes were falling one after another.
He sighed deeply, took her hand and gently comforted her, "Xiaoqiu, do you still remember your mother's wish?"
"Remember, remember..."
There was a thick nasal sound in her young voice. Xiaoqiu sobbed and nodded while answering, causing her tears to fall even more. "Mom... wants to go home."
"So we have to be good. , I can’t cry like this anymore. If I get sick, I can’t take her home, right?” "
"Xiaoqiu is so good."
After touching her head, Suning pulled her up and went to the kitchen, "Let's eat something first, and then sister will help you take a bath. Change clothes.”
Considering that Xiaoqiu is often hungry and has a weak stomach, she plans to cook some noodles that are good for the stomach and easy to digest.
Light the fire in the earthen stove, clean the pot and boil hot water.
Xiaoqiu, who finally stopped crying, was not idle. She took the initiative to sit by the stove and help look after the fire and add firewood.
After a while, two bowls of Yangchun noodles were cooked, sprinkled with some chopped green onions, and a poached egg was placed for each of them.
Putting the soup noodles on the table, he took out two pairs of chopsticks from the bamboo tube and said, "Xiao Qiu takes the noodles and eats them quickly. It won't taste good if they get lumpy later."
" Thank you, Sister Ningning.”
White and slender noodles, as well as plump and poached eggs, were things they would never dare to think about before today.
There is only Sister Ningning in the family, and she receives monthly rationed subsidies for grain and oil. Even though she is young, her mother and Brother Guzi have already told her about these common sense issues.
Now that I am such a sluggish person, I don’t have a household registration in the city to receive subsidies for food and oil. What if Sister Ningning is hungry along with me?
So much so that the little hand holding the chopsticks dared not move. Xiaoqiu raised her eyes and timidly said, "Sister Ningning actually... you don't have to cook fine grains for me, I can eat anything, really!" ”
Brother Guzi said that fine grains are very expensive, and one kilogram can be exchanged for many kilograms of coarse grains, which is enough for them to eat for a long time.
Chen Gu, broken rice, buckwheat husks and sweet potatoes are all delicious. She is not greedy for polished rice and white flour.
Suck~
Well, not at all.
"Haha, don't worry, eat it. How old are you, and you can still eat me up? My sister knows it, eat the noodles quickly."
Crying children can eat sweets, and sensible children But it makes me feel distressed.
Maybe it was because of her tough attitude, or maybe she was too young to withstand the temptation of delicious food, but in the end Xiaoqiu still obeyed and started to eat happily.
I finished the bowl of noodles without even the soup, making my belly feel as hard as a ripe watermelon.
The two of them were walking in the yard to eat and watering the vegetable fields, flowers and trees.
Waiting for the water in the pot to boil, Suning washed her thoroughly from top to bottom. When she could no longer remove any mud, she slipped out of the wooden bathtub and put on her smallest clothes. Short sleeves.
"Pfft~"
"Hehe~"
It is short-sleeved on herself, but it becomes a short dress on the little one. You can imagine how thin she is.
Zheng Le was mussing Xiao Qiu's hair with one hand, suppressing the smile in his eyes, and Suning felt heartbroken as if he had been stung by ants.
I thought that what I just saw was a skinny body, with obvious ribs protruding from the chest and bruises everywhere.
He is just a child over five years old, and the person who did it is simply an animal!
"Sister Ningning? What's wrong? Is Qiuqiu's dress not good?"
"No, I was just thinking that another big sister will come later and take Xiaoqiu with me. Go buy two beautiful little dresses.”
Hearing the words “beautiful” and “little dress”, Xiaoqiu couldn’t help showing an expression of joy, and the corners of her raised lips dropped for a moment.
If my mother knew that Qiuqiu not only ate noodles and eggs, but also wore new clothes without patches, she would be very happy.
Would it be more peaceful to watch her in the sky?
"Xiaoqiu..."
"Ning Baogai, I'm here~ Xiaoyuan, don't bite my skirt, or I'll beat you up!"
Luo Shuangshuang's voice just screamed There was a sound in the yard, and the long skirt with red and white polka dots reaching her ankles was bitten by Xiao Huan, causing her to raise her fist and threaten fiercely, "Oh, if you don't let go, I will really beat you!"
"Ning Baogai, the little people in your family have quite a bad temper. They are so bullying!"
I just muttered something "weirdly ugly" in my voice yesterday, why don't I just change it to "weirdly cute" in time? Already?
"Small circle, let go, don't bite the skirts of lesbians!"
"Hahaha, you can't even be a gangster, you know."
Luo Shuangshuang Seeing it let go and glanced at the hem of her skirt that was wet and stained with saliva, she was almost laughed out of anger at this guy. Before she could say anything else, she saw the girl hiding behind her friend.
Hey, does Ning Baogai have any preference for black and thin people?
"What's your expression?" "Hey, hey, no, is this the girl next door? Why are you here?"
Patted Xiaoqiu's hand that was holding her tightly. Hands, Suning introduced them both, "Xiyou, this is Xiaoqiu, Xiaoqiu, this is the Shuangshuang sister I just told you about."
"Hello, Shuangshuang sister~"
"Hey, Xiao Qiuqiu, sister, I'll treat you to some candy!"
Looking at the candy she handed over, Xiao Qiu didn't take it but looked up at Sister Ningning beside her and saw that she ordered it. He nodded before taking it and whispered thank you.
"Xiao Qiu, why don't you play with Xiao Yuan in the courtyard first?"
"Okay."
He gave Luo Shuangshuang a look and pressed Xiao Qiu. The stupid hair on the top of his head smiled and let the two little guys play for a while, while he entered the main room with a strange expression on his face.
Tell her in a low voice everything about Zhang Qin and the future arrangements for Xiaoqiu.
Luo Shuangshuang looked at the small box on the table with sympathy and fear. After experiencing the last time she was almost trafficked, Luo Shuangshuang hated human traffickers even more.
If it weren’t for Ning Baogai, her ending would probably not be much better.
If he were really sold to a remote mountain inaccessible to people, he wouldn’t be able to escape without Zhang Qin’s intelligence and patience!
"Ning Baogai, we are very lucky to meet you."
Whether it is her, Zhang Qin or Xiao Qiu.
Luo Shuangshuang held her hand and her eyes couldn't help but moisten as she spoke.
"What are you talking about? Don't cry. I won't be able to coax you."
"Pfft~Who is crying!"
"Okay, okay, you Isn’t it okay?”
Lifting his chin arrogantly, Luo Shuang nodded with a smile in his eyes.
The two joked for a while, and Suning stood up and took her bag, "Let's go, take the little guy to buy two clothes. It's not like wearing mine like that."
"Alright, count me in. How about you pay for the tickets?"
"I should be happy if someone is willing to save the tickets for me."
...
Fuchi Department Store.
In the children's area, Suning bought Xiaoqiu a pink dress with puff sleeves and a butterfly pattern, a white short-sleeved dress with dark blue overalls, and a pair of small plastic sandals.
These cost less than 30 yuan, not counting the cloth tickets.
Xiao Qiu, who had put on new clothes and new shoes, overheard Price licking his nails nervously.
"Sister Ningning, why don't you buy it?"
"What? Do you not like it?"
"It's too expensive. Sister Ningning's clothes are very good and very new..."
"It's strange for a small person to worry about it. Be careful not to grow taller!"
Pay the ticket. Luo Shuangshuang, who came over with the receipt, listened attentively, raised his hand and tapped her forehead, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
“This is a gift given to us as a sister because she likes Xiao Qiuqiu. If a certain kid doesn’t like it, then we will be sad~”
“No, no, I like it very much. Yes!”
“That’s great, the little kid should happily wear new clothes and new shoes.”
“Yeah, thank you, Sister Ningning, thank you, Sister Shuangshuang!” "
Xiaoqiu pursed her lips and showed a sweet smile to her: Qiuqiu is happy, not only because she has new clothes and new shoes, but also because she has two very good children without her mother. elder sister.
Suning and Luo Shuangshuang naturally didn't know what the little guy was thinking. They each held her hand and continued shopping around before slowly walking out of the building.
"Ning Baogai is waiting for you to come back. I should report here and start working."
"Is everything done?"
"Well, when I went back last night, my father told me that I would start work the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Luo Shuangshuang curled her lips. As expected, her parents She didn't agree with her following Ning Baogai to do the shopping, because she couldn't bear the hardship and didn't have the ability to adapt.
Okay, think about it, if she is really allowed to go on a business trip to a place she is not familiar with, she...maybe she really can't do it?
(End of this chapter)