Zai Zai Grocery Store

"it is good!"

Lin Dong responded simply, and rushed up to pull the fat boy, but he was too thin to be effective at all. Seeing that the fat boy was about to overwhelm He Xiaochuan with his body advantage, he felt anxious, and lay down on the fat boy's arm. bite.

"Ah!" the fat boy yelled.

He Xiaochuan was frightened.

Lin Dong was even more terrified, he quickly let go, and took two steps back, before he could stand still, the fat boy threw He Xiaochuan away and threw him to the ground.

"Lin Dong!"

He Xiaochuan got angry all of a sudden, rushed up and sat on the fat boy and shouted "Don't hit my brother", and he also protected Lin Dong in his behavior. As for the anger towards Lin Dong in the morning... it was at the time when Lin Dong was protecting him All dissipated in an instant.

Then he beat the fat kid to tears. The fat kid sat on the ground and cried loudly. He pointed to Lin Dong and He Xiaochuan who were sitting on the ground and said, "You hit me, you hit me together, I'll tell my mother to go, I'll go home Tell my mom."

Lin Dong: "..."

He Xiaochuan: "..."

With the sound of crying, the fat boy left, and Lin Dong looked at He Xiaochuan in panic.

He Xiaochuan looked at Lin Dong happily.

Lin Dong said weakly: "He told his mother to go."

He Xiaochuan didn't mind and said, "It's okay."

"Auntie will be angry."

"No, your aunt is not at home, she won't know."

Lin Dong bowed his head and said nothing.

He Xiaochuan saw a piece of skin on Lin Dong's forehead all at once, and he stretched out his hand to poke it, which made Lin Dong hiss. He quickly asked, "Why is it broken?"

Lin Dong stretched out his hand to touch it, and frowned in pain: "I don't know either."

He Xiaochuan said angrily: "Qiqi must have pushed him when he fell just now. I'll hit him and avenge you!" Qiqi was the fat kid just now.

"I can't fight anymore!" Lin Dong said.

"why?"

"Aunt Li said it's time for dinner."

"Then, call after dinner!"

"..."

He Xiaochuan got up from the ground, pulled Lin Dong up, and said, "Lin Dong, we will be friends from now on, okay?"

Lin Dong looked at He Xiaochuan puzzled.

He Xiaochuan explained: "You helped me just now, we are now friends, you know?"

Lin Dong nodded.

"Okay, then it's settled!"

He Xiaochuan dragged Lin Dong to the grocery store, looking very happy, but when he saw the injury on Lin Dong's forehead, he was a little angry and worried, fearing that his parents would find out.

Lin Dong was more worried than He Xiaochuan. Although he helped He Xiaochuan, he bit someone and got into trouble. If he would have been beaten at his uncle's and aunt's house, will he be beaten this time?

He stayed in the grocery store anxiously, looking up the road from time to time.

Finally at dusk, when the setting sun touched the horizon and the dim halo spread over Jinli Town, Lin Lihua and He Qingzhang appeared.

aunt!

Aunt is back!

Lin Dong was both happy and anxious.

He Xiaochuan has already rushed up.

"Dad! Mom!"

"Hey!" He Qingzhang responded.

He Xiaochuan ran up quickly and hugged Lin Lihua's leg, Lin Lihua said: "Go away, I'm exhausted, I can't hold you anymore."

He Qingzhang smiled and hugged He Xiaochuan, hugged him and kissed him.

Standing at the door of the grocery store, Lin Dong looked at He Qingzhang and He Xiaochuan enviously, and then looked at Lin Lihua uneasily.

Li Yu also came out from the counter to greet him.

He Qingzhang and Lin Lihua stepped forward and said, "Li Yu has worked hard."

Li Yu smiled and said, "It's not hard, it's not hard, by the way, how is your mother?"

Lin Lihua sighed and said, "I fell and broke a bone, and I'm still in the hospital. Alas, I just can't sit still. What is she doing climbing up the slope? It's a small expense now, so much suffering. She's getting older. The recovery is still slow, there is really no way."

Li Yu comforted: "As long as it's nothing serious, it's fine if it's nothing serious. Now it's enough to rest in peace. By the way, are you guys eating?"

"Eat, eat, how about you?"

"I ate it at noon, but not at night."

"Did you do it at noon?" Lin Lihua asked.

"Yeah." Li Yu said with a smile, "I just quarreled about two dishes, and they weren't very tasty."

"It's really hard work for you." Lin Lihua said gratefully: "He also helped me look after the shop and take care of my children."

Li Yu said with a smile, "I didn't look after the store for you, it was all Lin Dong."

"Lin Dong?"

"Isn't it? This kid knows everything. He sells washing powder, washboard, soy sauce and vinegar. It's so powerful that I don't need to learn it at all."

Lin Lihua He Qingzhang looked at Lin Dong when he heard the words.

Lin Dong stretched out his hand and handed over one yuan and fifty cents to He Qingzhang.

Only then did He Qingzhang remember the money that Lin Dong sold the brown sugar in the morning. He was answering the phone at the time, so he forgot about it. Unexpectedly, Lin Dong still remembered that he was really warmed by this little boy, and he took the money Explain the origin of the money to Lin Lihua.

When Lin Lihua smiled gratifiedly, she caught a glimpse of a scar on Lin Dong's forehead, her gaze was fixed, she quickly squatted down to check, and asked, "Lin Dong, what's wrong with this end?"

Lin Dong then remembered the incident of biting someone and getting into trouble, and instantly became nervous, afraid that Lin Lihua would blame him.

Lin Lihua asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

Lin Dong reached out to touch his forehead.

Lin Lihua stopped her and asked, "Where did you get hurt?"

"I got into a fight with someone." Li Yu said.

Lin Lihua didn't believe that Lin Dong would fight with others, so she immediately turned to He Xiaochuan.

Scared, He Xiaochuan crawled behind He Qingzhang.

"Did you fight with someone?" Lin Lihua asked.

He Xiaochuan lay on He Qingzhang's lap, looking at Lin Lihua warily, as if he was ready to run away at any time.

Seeing that He Xiaochuan was about to be beaten, Li Yu hurriedly stopped him and told the story. Originally, Lin Dong's forehead injury was not so obvious. It was Qiqi's mother who brought Qiqi to communicate at noon, so as not to affect the feelings of the neighbors. Yu was talking, but who knew that He Xiaochuan fought with Qiqi again, Lin Dong was pushing He Xiaochuan while protecting He Xiaochuan, and hit his head on the shelf, bloodshot from the knock, that's why it was so obvious.

Lin Lihua looked at Lin Dong.

Lin Dong was terrified, his little face turned pale, fearing that his aunt would scold him like an uncle and aunt, he instinctively shrank back.

Lin Lihua reached out and grabbed him.

His body tensed up in fright, and he quickly covered his head with his small hands, afraid of being beaten.

Seeing this, Lin Lihua felt sore in her heart, and said softly, "Gungu won't hit you, come here and see if it hurts, aunt?"

Lin Dong put down his little hand and shook his head blankly.

Lin Lihua softened her voice again: "Doesn't it hurt when you knock?"

Lin Dong shook his head again.

Lin Lihua said distressedly: "It's okay, I don't blame you if I hurt my aunt."

Only then did Lin Dong say in a weak voice, "It hurts from knocking, but it doesn't hurt now."

"Crying?"

"No."

"Good boy."

Lin Lihua hugged Lin Dong to her side, looked at the wound carefully under the light of the incandescent lamp, took out the trauma medicine from the drawer, and treated Lin Dong, Lin Lihua touched Lin Dong's small face and said: "Okay, there will be no scars gone."

Lin Dong reached out to touch the wound.

Lin Lihua stopped and said, "You can't touch it."

Lin Dong nodded obediently, and really stopped touching.

Lin Lihua has never seen Lin Dong's child who is so obedient and so painful. She may be a picked child. She always has an inexplicable feeling for Lin Dong, but she has not studied for a few years, and she doesn't know what it is. Gentle, I don't know how to appease Lin Dong's sensitive heart, so I treat Lin Dong according to instinct. When I go home at night, I am afraid that Lin Dong will knock again, so I hug Lin Dong in my arms and walk home.

He Xiaochuan grabbed Lin Lihua's clothes and talked to Lin Dong: "Lin Dong, my mother hugged you."

Lin Dong remained silent.

"Lin Dong, you call me brother."

Lin Dong didn't call.

"Lin Dong, why don't you call me brother?"

"My brother is a bad guy, but you are a good guy."

"Why?" Even Lin Lihua was curious and asked, "Why is brother a bad guy?"

"Because my brother hit me."

Lin Lihua naturally thought of Lin Dong's cousins, and asked, "Do all the elder brothers of your uncle's family beat you?"

"Well, you still scold me."

So don't call him brother He Xiaochuan, so that He Xiaochuan won't beat him. This is Lin Dong's own logic. Lin Lihua and He Qingzhang were silent after hearing this. After a while, Lin Lihua touched Lin Dong's little face and said, "Okay, then no Call me brother, and I will call you Xiao Chuan from now on."

Lin Dong nodded and smiled, and the pear blossoms at the corners of his mouth bloomed again, which was seen by He Xiaochuan. He Xiaochuan pointed at Lin Dong and said, "Mom, look, there are flowers growing at the corners of Lin Dong's mouth when he smiles."

"That's not a flower." He Qingzhang answered.

"That's a pear vortex."

"It's just flowers."

"Pear vortex."

The father and son were arguing about the small dimples on Lin Dong's mouth when he smiled, which made Lin Lihua look at it curiously. Lin Dong was embarrassed to look into Lin Lihua's arms when he saw it, which made Lin Lihua and He Qingzhang laugh out loud.

Especially Lin Lihua, Lin Lihua is not a gentle woman, nor is she beautiful, she speaks in a rough voice, sometimes with mantras, and laughs like a haha, the kind that can be heard thousands of meters away, but Lin Dong just thinks that she is the most gentle and beautiful person in the world.

Lin Dong leaned in Lin Lihua's arms until he got home, took a shower and slept in the west wing. He Xiaochuan no longer placed glass beads, but said to Lin Dong: "I have to sleep half of the bed, you sleep the other half, you know ?"

Lin Dong nodded: "I know."

"You have to listen to me, you know?"

Lin Dong nodded again: "I know."

"Then next time Kiki fights with me again, you bite him again."

Lin Dong directly refused: "Auntie said you can't bite people."

"can."

"No."

"can."

"No."

He Xiaochuan raised his hand to scare Lin Dong.

Lin Dong's beautiful eyes blinked in shock.

After all, He Xiaochuan didn't hit Lin Dong, but said with a small face, "You have to listen to me!"

Lin Dong nodded.

"Then are you still going to bite Kiki?"

"Don't bite."

"Huh!" He Xiaochuan grabbed the glass beads again and placed them on the bed, but today they were placed in the middle, clenched his fists and said, "If you occupy my territory, I will beat you!"

Lin Dong nodded, seeing that He Xiaochuan was lying on the bed and sleeping, he also lay down obediently, looking at the dim light above his head, the light seemed to have a tail, emitting thin rays of light, as beautiful as the stars in the sky.

Lin Dong watched. He didn't understand what a sense of belonging was, but he had a vague feeling of "home". Lying on the bed and watching the lights, he was as stable as he used to sit in his grandfather's arms and watch the stars. fell asleep.

The next morning, when the weather was cool, Lin Lihua found long-sleeved trousers for He Xiaochuan and Lin Dong to wear. When she opened Lin Dong's backpack, she found that there was nothing in it except a few worn-out summer clothes and sandals.

The Lin family really... Lin Lihua turned around and took out He Xiaochuan's clothes from the cabinet for Lin Dong to wear. Fortunately, Lin Dong was younger than He Xiaochuan, so he could wear He Xiaochuan's clothes from last year, which saved some money.

In fact, she is not rich. He Qingzhang works as an elementary school teacher in the town, and her salary is meager. She opened a grocery store and made a lot of money in the first two years. Well, now that my mother-in-law is in the hospital again, she doesn't even dare to buy new clothes herself.

However, when putting Lin Dong on He Xiaochuan's old clothes, she still planned to take Lin Dong to the market to buy a pair of shoes, so she said, "Qingzhang, you didn't have class this morning, did you?"

He Qingzhang replied: "No."

"Help me look at the store for a while, I'll go buy a pair of shoes for Lin Dong."

"I'll go too." He Xiaochuan said.

"Where are you going, open a shop with your father."

"I'll go."

"Do you want to be beaten?"

"..."

Lin Lihua took Lin Dong to the small town market. On the way, they met Uncle Li, Aunt Zhang, Grandma Zhang, Grandma Wu, etc. Lin Lihua greeted them one by one, and asked Lin Dong to follow suit, and pointed to the small bungalows in the town one after another. Said: "This is Grandma Zhang's house, this is Uncle Wu's house, this is Grandpa Wang's house..."

Lin Dong nodded.

When I walked to the market, I met Erye Qiu, and Lin Lihua greeted him warmly. Seeing him carrying two packs of white sugar and a pack of pepper powder, Lin Lihua was not very happy. I muttered to myself: "What the hell, you're still talking about relatives, relatives don't take care of their own business, they go to other grocery stores to buy things, shit relatives!"

Lin Dong blinked his black eyes and looked at Lin Lihua, then looked back at Second Master Qiu, saw the things that Second Master Qiu was carrying, frowned and thought for a while, then looked at Lin Lihua.

Lin Lihua happened to arrive at the shoe store, took a pair of shoes for Lin Dong to try on, and finally bought two pairs for Lin Dong, Lin Dong hadn't worn new shoes for a long time, so he was very happy, put on a new pair of shoes, hugged a pair of shoes, and went back to the grocery store It aroused the envy of He Xiaochuan.

"Give me a pair to wear." He Xiaochuan said.

Lin Dong hugged the shoes and said nothing.

"Give me a pair to wear." He Xiaochuan said again.

Lin Dong looked down at the new shoes on his feet, then handed the shoes in his arms to He Xiaochuan.

"Xiaochuan, your feet are too big to fit." Lin Lihua said standing at the counter.

"It's not big, I can wear it."

"All right, all right, you won't die until you reach the Yellow River."

He Xiaochuan still couldn't put on Lin Dong's shoes, so he returned the shoes to Lin Dong.

Lin Dong lovingly repacked the shoes into the shoe box, and put them neatly in the corner. She cherished them very much, and made Lin Lihua want to laugh. Her family’s life was rough, but Lin Dong seemed to be naturally gentle and delicate. Everything he does is methodical, like a gentle little nobleman.

Lin Lihua thought wildly, Lin Dong's parents might be officials or scientists for generations, otherwise how could they be so smart, but Lin Lihua's thinking didn't diverge for a long time, a small pickup truck drove up to the door of the shop , came to deliver goods to the grocery store, before Lin Lihua stepped forward, the phone rang, she answered it casually, hung up the phone, and shouted: "Xiao Chuan!"

"What are you doing?" He Xiaochuan ran in from outside the shop.

"Your Grandpa Wang wants two bottles of vinegar. You send them over, and I have to receive them."

"I dont go."

"Auntie, I'll go." Lin Dong got up from the small stool and said.

Lin Lihua looked at Lin Dong and asked, "Do you know where Grandpa Wang lives?"

"Live by the bridge, there are two big lions at the door."

"How do you know?" Lin Lihua asked in surprise.

"Auntie just said that."

Lin Lihua didn't even remember talking about it, but that wasn't the point. The point was that He Xiaochuan could deliver the goods, but he was worried about Lin Dong delivering the vinegar, so he shouted, "Xiaochuan, go with your brother."

"I do not."

Lin Lihua immediately pointed to He Xiaochuan and said, "Say it again."

He Xiaochuan turned his head and said to Lin Dong, "Let's go!"

Lin Dong walked out of the grocery store with two bottles of vinegar in his arms.

Lin Lihua stood at the intersection and looked at it and said, "Lin Dong, come back as soon as you deliver it, don't be playful, don't get lost."

"Auntie, I know."

"Xiao Chuan, look at my brother."

"understood."

He Xiaochuan took Lin Dong's clothes and walked towards Grandpa Wang's house. When he reached the door of Grandpa Wang's house, He Xiaochuan slammed on the courtyard door and shouted loudly: "Grandpa Wang! Grandpa Wang!"

"Who is it?" An old voice came from inside.

"I'm Xiaochuan."

"Ah, Xiao Chuan."

The courtyard door was opened, and an old man with gray hair appeared. He smiled when he saw He Xiaochuan, but was startled when he saw Lin Dong.