Zai Zai Grocery Store

Nowhere to sleep?

Lin Dong asked puzzledly, "Why is there no place to sleep?"

Qiqi replied: "I don't know either."

"Then do you know where my aunt is?"

"In the backyard, I'll go with you."

"it is good."

Lin Dong walked through the crowd with a small schoolbag on his back. As soon as he walked into the backyard of the grocery store, he saw Lin Lihua. Lin Lihua was talking to four or five aunts. He couldn't see any emotion. His eyes moved slightly, and he saw Lin Lihua. He Xiaochuan.

At about the same time, He Xiaochuan also saw Lin Dong. He hurried over and said, "Lin Dong, my parents had a fight!"

Lin Dong nodded: "Yes."

"My uncle is a bad man!"

Before Lin Dong could answer, Qiqi asked first, "Why is he a bad guy?"

He Xiaochuan said angrily: "Because he likes to gamble!"

"Dominoes?"

"Ah."

"Win or lose?"

"I lost, I lost a lot of money, and I asked my dad to pay it back, and asked my dad to sell the house."

"Don't let your father pay it back!"

"My dad wants to pay it back!"

"Then your father is also a bad person!" Qiqi concluded.

He Xiaochuan immediately defended: "My father is not a bad person!"

Qiqi explained: "Your father is a bad person. If your father pays back the money, you will have no place to sleep. Your father is a bad person."

He Xiaochuan insisted: "My father is not a bad person."

"Yes."

"I'll beat you again."

He Xiaochuan raised his small fist at Qiqi.

Qiqi immediately faltered, and moved two steps towards Lin Dong.

He Xiaochuan asked unconvinced: "Lin Dong, tell me, is my father a bad person?"

Lin Dong said seriously: "Uncle is not a bad person, uncle is a good person, and uncle is also a good teacher."

He Xiaochuan nodded heavily.

but--

But because my uncle is a good person, the whole family has no place to sleep. He turned his head to look at Lin Lihua. Lin Lihua followed the neighbors and aunts towards the outside of the grocery store. Everyone went back to their respective homes, Lin Lihua ignored her uncle, Xiao Chuan and him, but turned around and walked towards the house. He immediately followed with small steps, watching Lin Lihua enter the yard, enter the east wing, and watch Lin Lihua lay on the bed with her clothes on her back. with him.

He didn't dare to speak, so he stood at the door for a while, then took off his schoolbag and sat on the threshold of the east wing room, opened the first grade Chinese, read the text silently according to the pinyin mark, and as he was reading, He Xiaochuan ran over and shouted: "Mom, Lin Dong, it's time to eat, Dad is cooking!"

Lin Dong put the language documents together, put them in his schoolbag, carried them on his back, looked at He Xiaochuan, then at Lin Lihua who was lying on the bed, and called, "Auntie, it's time to eat."

"Don't eat." Lin Lihua's voice was hoarse.

"But Dad let you eat." He Xiaochuan continued.

Lin Lihua immediately said loudly: "Don't eat! Let him go!"

He Xiaochuan was taken aback.

Lin Dong was also shocked.

Lin Lihua said softly: "Dongdong, you go to eat, and go to school after dinner, be obedient, you understand?"

Lin Dong said softly, "I know."

"Go."

"Ah."

Lin Dong took He Xiaochuan to the grocery store for dinner. They ate noodles, which were ready-made dried noodles in the store and boiled in boiling water. There was no problem. Lin Dong concentrated on eating, while He Xiaochuan curled his lips and said, "It's unpalatable."

He Qingzhang's face sank, and He Xiaochuan immediately started eating again. Before the meal was finished, He Qingzhang went to the kitchen to fill a bowl of noodles, fried two poached eggs and took them home. A poached egg for Lin Dong and He Xiaochuan.

Lin Dong asked, "Hasn't Auntie eaten?"

He Qingzhang hummed.

Lin Dong didn't know what to say. After dinner, he went back home to look for his aunt, but the door of the east wing was closed. He lay on the crack of the door and looked in, and saw that his aunt was still asleep on the bed, so he He sat at the door and flipped through the books, read the illustrations on the books, read the pinyin on the books, and waited for the teacher to read what he didn't understand. He sat until Mu Xinghe and others came to find him to go to school. He leaned on the crack of the door and whispered: "Auntie, I'm going to school."

After speaking, he put his ear on the crack of the door to listen to the voice, but he didn't hear his aunt's reply, so he leaned on the crack of the door again and said, "Grandma, I'm going to school. I'm going to the classroom of the first grade."

Lin Lihua's weak voice finally came from inside: "Go, don't fight with others in school, you understand?"

Hearing his aunt's voice, Lin Dong felt at ease. He responded happily, and followed Mu Xinghe to school with his schoolbag on his back. He had two classes in the afternoon, one was math, the other was music, and the other was music. The class teacher taught the children's song "Lu Binghua". He studied it very seriously and sang it to his aunt when he was about to go home. However, he needed to clean up after class, so he forgot about it and went back to the grocery store. Ask He Qingzhang: "Uncle, has Auntie eaten?"

"No."

"Why doesn't Auntie eat?"

"Say you don't want to eat, it's not good."

"It's not delicious, then, then I'll go see my aunt."

"Go."

Lin Dong ran home with his schoolbag on his back. The door of the east wing was still closed. After thinking for a while, he ran back to the west wing, took off his schoolbag, put it neatly on the table, climbed onto the bed, and put himself on the bed. He pulled over his small pillow, unzipped the zipper, and took out six dollars from it. That's right, only six dollars, which was his entire deposit.

Holding the six yuan tightly in his slightly meaty little hand, he ran out of the house, ran to the streets of Dongdajie, searched around and finally found the uncle who sold the offal, but the uncle's offal was good, so the people in the queue were special He was a little afraid of crowds, but he timidly stood at the back of the line, and when it was his turn, he said, "Uncle, I'll buy it for six yuan."

"Xiao Zai Zai, six yuan is not much."

"But I only have six dollars."

The offal seller chuckled and said, "Then uncle will give you more."

"Thank you uncle."

Lin Dong ran home quickly with more than six yuan worth of offal. One of them fell down accidentally. Bu Bu felt a little pain in his knee from the fall. He curled his mouth in pain and wanted to cry. He tried to bear it and felt that the pain was not so bad. He ran again, ran into the house, and went straight to the east wing. He tried to push the door, but he couldn't open it, so he pushed it again, but it still wouldn't open.

He remembered that there was a key to the East and West Wings in the drawer. Usually, my aunt used the key to open the door in the drawer. He also took the key to open the door and opened the door for a long time before opening the door. Then he happily entered the West Wing and came to Lin Lihua. Lin Lihua just opened her eyes and asked, "Did you open the door yourself?"

Lin Dong nodded.

"How do you know where the key is? Your uncle doesn't even know."

"I saw my aunt let it go."

Lin Lihua looked at Lin Dong and asked, "School is over?"

"Ah."

"Where's Xiao Chuan?"

"Xiao Chuan and Uncle are in the store."

Lin Lihua glanced at the sky outside, the sun had already set and the sky was darkening, and asked, "Did you just come back from school?"

"Ah."

"Why did you come back so late?"

"I swept the floor, and I also bought offal."

Lin Dong hurriedly handed the offal to Lin Lihua.

Lin Lihua glanced at it and asked, "Your uncle told you to buy it?"

"No, I bought it myself."

"Where did you get the money?"

"I won at chess."

Lin Lihua was taken aback, looked straight at Lin Dong, and asked, "Why do you want to buy offal?"

Lin Dong replied, "Because my aunt didn't eat."

"Then how do you know that my aunt likes to eat offal?"

"My aunt said so."

Lin Lihua didn't know what to say for a moment. She looked straight at Lin Dong. Lin Dong was a good-looking child, with good-looking eyes, a good-looking nose, and a good-looking mouth. When put together, he looked even better. There is no such good-looking child in ten miles and eight villages. , the most important thing is to be sensible, because I have suffered too much in the Lin family, so I am extra sensible.

Many children who grow up in adversity will have some shadows in their hearts, but this child just blooms heart-warming flowers from the shadows, dazzling, pleasant and charming, no one can resist his kindness and warmth , Lin Lihua couldn't help holding Lin Dong in her arms, hugging her tightly, sad emotions met with scalding warmth to breed inexplicable grievances and sadness.

Lin Lihua couldn't help sniffing.

When Lin Dong heard the voice, he didn't know the worldly things about adults, and he couldn't think about it so complicated, so he asked, "Auntie, do you miss Grandpa?"

Lin Lihua replied: "Yes, aunt misses Dongdong's grandpa."

"Grandpa is in the sky. Auntie, look, that star is Grandpa."

Lin Lihua let go of Lin Dong, followed the direction Lin Dong pointed, looked through the window, saw the blinking stars in the sky, sad and warm, and then looked at Lin Dong, Lin Dong's black eyes were shining brightly.

Lin Lihua couldn't help touching Lin Dong's face, she liked it very much.

Lin Dong said in a crisp voice: "Auntie, don't sleep, get up and eat, otherwise you will be very hungry, and you will feel very uncomfortable when you are hungry."

Lin Lihua sniffed again, said hello, and then asked: "Dongdong, Auntie asks you, we will move to the backyard of the grocery store in the future, okay?"

"Is my aunt going to live too?"

"Ah."

"OK."

"How's it going?"

Lin Dong thought for a while and said, "You don't need to close the store, you can sell things every day, and you can make money every day. If you make money, you can...you can buy a lot of offal."

Lin Lihua smiled.

Lin Dong also laughed.

"That's right, moving to a grocery store can sell groceries every day, how nice it is."

Lin Dong nodded heavily.

"Let's go, aunt, get up and take Dongdong to eat."

"it is good."

When Lin Lihua got up from the bed, she caught a glimpse of Lin Dong's little red palm out of the corner of her eye. She picked up Lin Dong's little hand to have a look, and asked, "What's wrong with your hand?"

Lin Dong said, "I just fell down."

"Where did you fall?"

"The intersection ahead."

"Where else did you fall?"

"My legs."

Lin Lihua quickly picked up Lin Dong, rolled up his little pants, and saw that his right knee was torn. Lin Lihua's distressed eyes were sour. No one had ever been so pure to her.

This little cub.

She touched Lin Dong's head, carried Lin Dong out of the room, treated Lin Dong's wound, then took Lin Dong to the kitchen, cooked two dishes, cooked porridge, and bought two steamed buns. Lin Dong said: "I Call Xiao Chuan and uncle to eat."

Lin Lihua said, "Don't call them."

"I want to call Xiao Chuan."

"Don't call him, just the two of us eat, and they eat in the store."

"it is good."

Lin Dong and Lin Lihua were sitting in the living room having dinner. After eating, He Qingzhang and He Xiaochuan came back. Seeing the two of them eating, the father and son were surprised at first, and then had different reactions.

He Qingzhang is delighted.

He Xiaochuan was unhappy, walked up to Lin Dong and said, "Lin Dong, why don't you ask me to eat?"

Lin Lihua answered: "I won't let you shout."

"why?"

"It's annoying to watch you."

He Xiaochuan couldn't speak, so he looked at He Qingzhang.

He Qingzhang moved a stool to sit in front of Lin Lihua, and said, "Lihua, I'm sorry, I didn't expect my elder brother to be such a jerk, and the transfer of the real estate certificate is already going through the formalities. He made this happen."

Lin Lihua ate on her own.

He Qingzhang added: "I contacted my father and sister-in-law, and they said they would give us the foundation of our hometown to make up for our loss."

Lin Lihua continued to eat without saying a word.

He Qingzhang admitted his mistake again and again, it was indeed not his fault, this house was originally given to the eldest by the grandpa and grandma of the He family, and the grocery store house belonged to the second son, He Qingzhang, but the boss sold the house to He Qingzhang because he didn't do anything serious Anyway, they are not in Jinli Town, but the boss has been procrastinating about the transfer of ownership, until now the boss owes a whole lot of debt, and the house was paid off, so He Qingzhang is equal to both the person and the house.

Lin Lihua blamed him for being so soft whenever he encountered a family matter, and he was cheated by his elder brother once or twice. If she hadn't stopped him last time, he would have given his elder brother a guarantee, so this She ignored him the first time, and in the next few days, she didn't even pay attention to He Xiaochuan, and devoted herself to taking care of Lin Dong's daily life.

Lin Dong was the most sensitive, knowing that his aunt and uncle were angry, he did not dare to say a word, and accepted it silently. Of course, he was very happy in his heart, but he hoped that his aunt and uncle and Xiao Chuan would be happy too. This Sunday morning, the weather was exceptionally warm , he was sitting in the sun at the door of the shop basking in the sun, seeing Mu Xinghe and Mu Huaian walking over with a bag, he immediately shouted: "Xinghe, what are you going to do?"

Mu Xinghe replied: "Go to the bathhouse, do you want to go?"

"I'll go." Lin Dong replied.

"Then you have to find an adult to go with you."

"I'm looking for my aunt."

"Your aunt can't, your aunt is a woman, you have to find your uncle."

"it is good."

The conversation between Lin Dong and Mu Xinghe was overheard by Lin Lihua. Now that the weather is really cold and she can't take a bath at home, she asked, "Lin Dong, do you want to go to the bathhouse?"

Lin Dong nodded: "Yes, I want to go."

Lin Lihua said: "Then you go and tell your uncle."

"Auntie, tell uncle for me."

"You tell it yourself."

"Auntie, please tell me."

It was rare for Lin Dong to beg Lin Lihua for something. Lin Lihua turned to look at He Qingzhang who was reading homework in front of the counter. He Qingzhang wanted to say something a long time ago, but he had suffered too much from Lin Lihua recently, so he didn't dare to speak easily. He just waited for Lin Lihua to speak now.

Lin Lihua said: "Now take Lin Dong Xiaochuan to the bathhouse to take a bath."

He Qingzhang replied instantly: "Okay."

Lin Lihua gave He Qingzhang a blank look.

He Qingzhang hurried up to ask Lin Lihua about the precautions for taking a bath. Lin Lihua was afraid that he would not be able to take care of the two children, so she said a few more words, and the couple came and went.

Lin Dong, who was standing not far away, looked at his aunt and uncle smiling very cutely. When He Qingzhang turned his head and saw Lin Dong's appearance, he said, "Lihua, look at how wicked this little boy's smile is."

Lin Lihua looked at it and said, "What are you laughing at, little guy?"

Lin Dong giggled.

He Xiaochuan, who was stacking the plane, raised his face and said, "Lin Dong, you are so stupid."

Lin Dong said, "You are stupid."

"You silly."

"You silly."

"Besides, I'm stupid and I'll hit you."

"Don't call me stupid."

"it is good."

When Lin Dong and He Xiaochuan followed He Qingzhang to the bathhouse, they not only saw Mu Xinghe, but also Jiang Xiaojun Qiqi, four adults and five children, so there were only nine people in the bathhouse, four adults in the big bath, and five children in the small bath .

"Take a good bath and don't fight." Mu Huaian confessed.

After Lin Dong and the five agreed in unison, they all sat in the small bathtub honestly, and then you looked at me and you, He Xiaochuan suddenly said: "Qiqi, you are so fat!"

Qiqi immediately retorted: "I'm not fat."

"Then what are you?"

"I'm fat."

"Aren't fat and fat the same?"

"It's different. When my mother says fat, she means a pig. I'm human, and I'm fat."

"The pig is much thinner than you, and you are fat."

"You are fat."

"You are fat."

"You are fat."

"..."

The two were arguing and arguing to pick up the water and splash it, you splashed me, I splashed you, and they had fun, so the five of them stood in the small pool and splashed water, and even Lin Dong also splashed, and there was cheering at first Laughing, followed by:

"You splashed in my eyes."

"You spilled it in my mouth."

"You stepped on my foot."

"..."

Then they got into a ball, and the five children fell sideways in the pool, and they all took a sip of the bath water. Mu Xinghe quickly hugged Lin Dong to prevent Lin Dong from slipping and continued to drink the bath water.

But Qiqi and He Xiaochuan were not so lucky. After taking a sip of the bath water, they slipped and slipped again before they could stand still. After taking two more sips, they were choked by the bath water and started crying.

As a result, the adults hurried over, lifted the five children out, and then the five children stood in a row in the bathhouse with their buttocks naked, and waited for the adults to wash them before starting to wash them. The ass is just a slap, honestly.

Originally, the five children still held grudges against each other, murmured quietly, and even secretly drew a circle to curse each other to drink two more sips of bath water next time they took a bath.

However, after leaving the bathhouse, we met at Mu Xinghe's home to do homework, because the midterm exam was coming soon, Jiang Xiaojun's father wanted Mu Xinghe to make up for Jiang Xiaojun, and He Qingzhang and Qiqi's father also wanted He Xiaochuan and Qiqiduo to get along with each other. High achievers play.

Mu Huaian didn't mind either, so he asked the five children to study together.

So after Lin Dong and the others went home to drink water, they all ran to Mu Xinghe's house and sat reading together. Jiang Xiaojun asked if he didn't understand, and Mu Xinghe didn't answer the question at the end, and directly gave it to the four children including Jiang Xiaojun. Attend class.

Jiang Xiaojun listened in a cloud of fog.

Qiqi and He Xiaochuan didn't understand at all.

Only Lin Dong could understand that he listened very carefully, and had a feeling of admiration for Mu Xinghe. He felt that Mu Xinghe was so powerful, as powerful as a teacher, and he listened more seriously.

Jiang Xiaojun asked again: "Xinghe, what are these two characters? Why are there so many strokes?"

Mu Xinghe replied: "Tadpoles."

Jiang Xiaojun asked confusedly: "Have we learned it?"

"Haven't you learned the text "Little Tadpole Finds Mom"?!"

"Where?"

"On the book!" Mu Xinghe roared loudly.

Jiang Xiaojun was coaxed by Mu Xinghe's roar.

Mu Xinghe went back to the room angrily, found the book of the second volume of the first grade, threw it in front of Jiang Xiaojun and said, "Isn't this the same? What have you been doing in class?"

Jiang Xiaojun didn't dare to speak anymore.

He Xiaochuan and Qiqi were afraid of Mu Xinghe.

Lin Dong blinked his watery eyes, looked at Mu Xinghe, then at Jiang Xiaojun, Jiang Xiaojun opened the book, and read according to Mu Xinghe's instructions:

"The warm spring came, and the ice in the pond melted. The mother frog woke up after sleeping all winter. She crawled out of the mud hole, jumped into the pond with a plop, and gave birth to a lot of black grass on the water plants. The round eggs of...

"...a big fish came swimming, and the little tadpoles saw two big eyes on the top of their heads, and a wide and big mouth. They thought it must be their mother, and they chased after them and shouted: 'Mom! Mom!'...

"...the frog giggled when she heard this, and she said: 'Oh! Silly boy, am I your mother!'...the mother frog jumped into the water with her children Let's play."

This was originally a short story. Jiang Xiaojun read it without any emotion, but Lin Dong listened to it with great emotion and a sense of imagery. When he got home, he found Lin Lihua who was packing up and preparing to move and asked, "Auntie, am I a little tadpole?" ?”

Lin Lihua was taken aback: "What little tadpole?"

Lin Dong opened his eyes wide and said, "It's a little tadpole looking for my mother. When I grow up and turn into a frog, my mother will recognize me. Am I a little tadpole?"

Lin Lihua was puzzled.

He Qingzhang explained it to Lin Lihua, and Lin Lihua remembered the previous texts, one of which was "Little Tadpole Finds His Mother". Lin Dong was sensitive and simple, human and innocent, yet he would think that he was a little tadpole. Lin Lihua couldn't laugh or cry.

Lin Dong looked at Lin Lihua longingly.

Lin Lihua didn't know how to answer, so she turned to look at He Qingzhang.

He Qingzhang replied: "Yes, you are a little tadpole."

"Then when will I turn into a frog?"

"Well, wait until you grow up a bit."

"Okay, then I'll grow up soon."

"Yes, eat more in the future."

Lin Dong nodded heavily.

Lin Lihua asked: "Is that why you want to find your mother?"

Lin Dong nodded.

Lin Lihua was a little disappointed, but said in a blink of an eye, "Okay, then we will look for it."

"Then will my mother find me?"

"Yes."

"Then why can't she find me?"

"That's because he didn't see you. When you stand where many people can see you, they will recognize you."

Lin Dong thought for a while and said, "Then if I go on TV, they will be able to see me."

Lin Lihua laughed and said, "Yes, if you go on TV, people all over the country will see you. If you have the ability, you can go on TV. However, you will have a midterm exam soon, so you have to study hard."

Lin Dong nodded: "Okay."

"Okay, let's go to school and try to get a good grade in the exam and get a big red flower."

"Auntie, there are no big red flowers in the first grade."

Lin Lihua laughed and said, "Okay, you passed the exam, and my aunt will make you a super nice red scarf with a sewing machine."

"Okay, then I'll help my aunt pack things first."

"You don't need to clean up."

However, Lin Dong still helped Lin Lihua pack her luggage until evening, and the family ate together. He Qingzhang and Lin Dong He Xiaochuan talked about the mid-term exam. The top ten students in the school will be awarded certificates. There is a special wall in the house, which is Posting certificates to the two cubs to see who posted the most, Lin Donghe Xiaochuan listened carefully, and read the book very honestly that night.

The next day, we went to the school for a general meeting, held a school general meeting, and held a small class meeting. In the small meeting, the head teacher not only talked about the midterm exam, but also talked about the singing competition on New Year's Day.

singing competition?

Lin Dong didn't quite understand, but he heard that the homeroom teacher was singing in a competition. If he sang well, there would be prizes and bonuses. He would sing in the city and be on TV. If he was on TV, his parents would be able to find him. The little dirty bang bang bang non-stop.

The class teacher said with a smile: "Students, go back and ask your parents if they let you sign up for it, okay?"

As soon as the head teacher finished speaking, he saw a classmate raising his hand in the classroom. He took a closer look and saw that it was Lin Dong. The head teacher asked, "Lin Dong, what's the matter with you?"

It was the first time for Lin Dong to be so active. After being called, he timidly stood up. Before he could speak, his little face flushed.