Zai Zai Grocery Store

Lin Dong's expression became serious, and his dark eyes kept staring at Ruan Xinping. When Ruan Xinping hung up the phone and sat down at the dining table, his gaze still didn't look back. Ruan Xinping asked curiously, "Baby, why don't you eat? Look at your mother." What are you doing?"

Lin Dong asked, "Mom, did something happen to Dad?"

Ruan Xinping has always known that Lin Dong is a very smart and sensitive child, especially with a strong ability to perceive the surrounding environment. She just chatted with Pei Shiwei a few more times, and the child felt that something was wrong, but it was not a big deal, so she spoke Explain to Lin Dong: "Father is fine, but something happened to Dad's company."

"whats the matter?"

"I just lost a little money. Your father wants to make money back, so he won't come back for a while. Your father is afraid that we will encounter bad people, so we will not return to the imperial capital for the time being, and stay in the small town."

"When will dad come back?"

"I don't know yet." Ruan Xinping really didn't know how Pei Shiwei should solve the company's problems.

"Then I will give all the money I saved to Dad. Can Dad come back soon?"

Ruan Xinping smiled, touched Lin Dong's small face and said, "It should be possible. When your father calls back later, you can talk to him and tell him to come back soon, okay?"

Lin Dong nodded: "Okay."

"Then let's eat quickly."

"okay."

Lin Dong ran into his room after eating, took out his piggy bank, poured out the money in it, counted it, and put it back into the piggy bank. Suddenly, he remembered that his grandma gave him a passbook. He pressed the passbook under the piggy bank again, and put it on the bedside with special attention, and gave it to his father when he came back, and then Lin Dong began to live frugally.

Mu Xinghe, He Xiaochuan, Qiqi and Jiang Xiaojun bought snacks to eat, but Lin Dong insisted on neither buying nor eating.The four of Mu Xinghe didn't think there was anything wrong at first. After the final exam, when the four of them went to the countryside and came back, they all had the pocket money given by their relatives in their pockets, and ran happily to the small shop every day. What? Crispy noodles, spicy strips, and jelly, the four of them bought them with great enthusiasm.

But Lin Dong was indifferent.

Qiqi asked: "Lin Dong, don't you want to buy it?"

Lin Dong said, "I won't buy it."

"Don't you want to eat?"

"I don't want to eat." Lin Dong swallowed silently.

"You're already swallowing, and you still say you don't want to eat!" Regarding eating, Qiqi has rich experience and amazing insights, and said with certainty: "When I want to eat, I will swallow. "

As soon as Mu Xinghe heard it, he handed the crispy noodles to Lin Dong.

Lin Dong insisted, "I won't eat."

Qiqi leaned over again and said, "Why don't you eat it? If I were as rich as you, I would buy spicy sticks every day."

Lin Dong said, "I have no money."

"You have, you have a piggy bank."

"That won't work, it's for my dad."

Mu Xinghe asked, "Why did you give it to your father?"

Lin Dong glanced at Mu Xinghe, and said disappointedly: "Because my father's company lost money, my father has to make money to go home. I want to give my money to my father, so that my father will come back sooner. In the future, I will It costs less."

The four of Mu Xinghe were stunned for a while, feeling that this was so sad that they didn't know what to say. Mu Xinghe immediately took out the money in his trouser pocket, gave it all to Lin Dong, and said: "I'll give you mine too."

Jiang Xiaojun and He Xiaochuan paid for it one after another.

Qiqi followed suit, but deducted [-] cents when giving Lin Dong the money, and said, "Keep [-] cents... because I, I, I haven't eaten enough yet, and I want to buy another bag of crispy noodles. Everything else is fine." Here you go."

Of course, Lin Dong didn't ask for money from Mu Xinghe and the others. It was inappropriate, so he returned it to Mu Xinghe and the others one after another, saying, "It's enough for my father to give it to me. I also have a lot of money in my passbook."

Qiqi asked: "Did you give it all to your father?"

Lin Dong nodded.

"Then what do you do when you buy a bicycle?"

"I don't buy bicycles."

"If you don't buy a bicycle, how can you go to the first grade of junior high school?"

Jinli Township has Jinli Primary School and Jinli Middle School, but Jinli Middle School is not located in Jinli Township, but in the suburbs far away from Jinli Township. Children go to school by bike.

But before going to middle school, you must first learn to ride a bicycle. Generally speaking, children in Jinli Town start learning to ride a bicycle when they are in the third or fourth grade. For example, Mu Xinghe and Jiang Xiaojun learned to ride a bicycle when they were in the countryside last summer. Because of his young age, Dong hasn't learned it yet.

This bicycle must be learned, but before learning, you have to buy a bicycle. Mu Xinghe and Jiang Xiaojun's father has already put buying a bicycle on the agenda, but Lin Dong plans not to buy a bicycle.

He Xiaochuan said affirmatively: "If you don't buy it, how will you go to school?"

Lin Dong said, "I'll walk."

Qiqi answered, "Jinli Middle School is far away."

He Xiaochuan then said: "That's right, you will be in the fifth grade soon, if you don't hurry up and buy a bicycle and learn to ride a bicycle, you won't be able to go to junior high school."

Qiqi asked: "Don't you want to learn to ride a bicycle?"

Lin Dong bowed his head and said nothing.

Mu Xinghe said, "Dongdong, it's okay, I'll ride you by bicycle."

Lin Dong's eyes lit up, looking at Mu Xinghe.

Qiqi followed and poured cold water on it: "But Lin Dong wants to ride by himself."

Mu Xinghe said: "I can let him ride my bicycle."

Qiqi said again: "You let him ride, how do you go to school?"

Mu Xinghe said, "He carried me."

Qiqi said seriously: "You are heavy! He can't carry you!"

"..."

Mu Xinghe looked at Qiqi, why did he feel that Qiqi deserved a beating today? He raised his foot and kicked Qiqi's fat buttocks. he.

Mu Xinghe ignored Qiqi, looked at Lin Dong, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said, "I have a way to buy a bicycle for Dongdong!"

The four of Lin Dong asked together: "What way?"

"Make money!"

Since Pei Zhiwei's return date was uncertain, Ruan Xinping also wanted to feel the summer in Jinli Town and write some songs, so she didn't plan to return to the Imperial Capital so early this summer, so she took Lin Dong to spend the summer vacation in Jinli Town.

Lin Dong is very willing to spend the summer vacation in Jinli Town. In addition to regularly writing summer homework, he runs around with Mu Xinghe, Jiang Xiaojun, He Xiaochuan and Qiqi every day. The five children work from dawn to dusk.

Before dawn in the morning, the five children took bamboo pole paste and net bags to the woods next to Jinli Township to stick cicadas and pick out the shells. After dawn, they went to pick up wine on the streets of Jinli Township. At noon, I went to the river to catch lobsters, and then took them to the market in Jinli Town to sell them together.

At the beginning, the five children shy away from selling them, and all shrank back. It was Mu Xinghe who had the cheek to put the things on the street, and asked with red ears if he wanted to buy them.

The first time was raw and the second time was familiar. After Mu Xinghe made a start, everyone let go, and gradually found their way. Later, in Jinli Town, the whole beverage bottles, cicadas, cicada shells and crayfish all found regular customers. I sold it directly to other people. After more time, the five children also bought Uncle Liu’s Mahua. They sold Mahua everywhere in Jinli Town to earn the difference. Just like this, they were busy every day, exposed to the wind and the sun, and the five children collectively blacked out. Not to mention the first layer, prickly heat has grown on the forehead.

Lin Lihua specially bought prickly heat powder and applied it to the foreheads of the five children. Each of them looked like Yixiu in the cartoon "Brother Yixiu", but it didn't itch after applying it. She took off her short sleeves and wore big He sat on the mat in the living room of Lin Dong's house and ate watermelon, which made Ruan Xinping laugh.

Ruan Xinping squatted beside the mat and gently touched Lin Dong's forehead, asking, "Your aunt painted it for you?"

Lin Dong nodded.

"Does it still itch?"

"It doesn't itch anymore, but my aunt said, if I still go out to bask in the sun, it will still itch."

"Then don't go out to dry the sun." Ruan Xinping said.

Lin Dong immediately replied: "No."

"why?"

"I have to go out and make money!"

"What are you doing to make money?"

"Buy a bike!"

It was Mu Xinghe's idea to make money to buy bicycles by himself. Mu Xinghe turned his head and said to Ruan Xinping, "Aunt Ruan, we are almost making enough money. If we make enough money, we will buy the bicycles from Uncle Liang!"

Ruan Xinping looked at Lin Dong in surprise, and asked, "Do you want to buy a bicycle?"

Lin Dong nodded: "Well, I bought a bicycle to go to junior high school."

"But you're only in fifth grade at the beginning of school."

"I have to learn to ride a bicycle first."

"Then why don't you let mom and dad buy it for you?"

"Didn't Dad lose all his money?"

"Then don't you still have money saved? You have saved enough money to buy a bicycle."

Lin Dong took a bite of the watermelon and said, "The saved money is for Dad. If you give it to Dad, Dad can come back sooner. Don't always go out when you come back."

Ruan Xinping was originally smiling, but when she heard her son say this, her smile slowly narrowed, she looked at Lin Dong seriously, reached out and pinched the melon seeds from his mouth, and asked softly, "So, these days, you get up early and go to late at night. You know, the mahua sellers just don’t want to burden their parents and want to earn money to buy bicycles?”

Lin Dong nodded.

Ruan Xinping felt sore and warm in her heart. She was so lucky to have such an excellent and considerate son. She didn't know what to say for a while, but Qiqi said first: "We help Lin Dong earn money to buy bike."

He Xiaochuan nodded while holding a piece of watermelon: "Yes."

Mu Xinghe said: "Go back to middle school by bicycle together."

Jiang Xiaojun said, "Yes."

Seeing that the four children were so kind to Lin Dong, Ruan Xinping was moved, touched their heads one by one, and asked, "Baby, what do you want for lunch? Auntie will make it for you."

Qiqi spoke first, "I want to eat braised pork, big pieces."

Jiang Xiaojun immediately said: "Shut up, let's go home and eat."

Mu Xinghe said, "Yes, let's go home and eat."

He Xiaochuan said, "I'll go home and eat too."

Qiqi whispered, "Then I'll go home and eat."

Ruan Xinping and Lin Dong looked at the four children very puzzled, Lin Dong asked Jiang Xiaojun in a low voice: "Why do you go home to eat?"

Jiang Xiaojun whispered: "Meat is very expensive, Qiqi is super edible."

Doesn't your father lose money?How can there be money to buy meat?

Ruan Xinping smiled and said, "It's okay, Lin Dong's family has enough money to afford meat, don't worry, Auntie will make it for you, eat it with your stomach open."

Hearing this, Lin Dong and the others looked at Ruan Xinping suspiciously, a little confused. At this moment, they heard a neighbor's voice outside the door: "Hey, who is this? Isn't this Dong Zai Zai's father? He's back."

"Well, I'm back, I'm back, has Mrs. Niu eaten?"

"Not yet, how about you?"

"Me neither, I just got home."

"..."

The first and fifth children in the living room immediately recognized Pei Zhiwei's voice. Lin Dong called out "Dad" happily, then looked at Ruan Xinping, and said excitedly, "Mom! It's Dad who's back!"

Ruan Xinping was also a little excited, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, your father is back."

"father!"

"Uncle Pei is back!"

Lin Dong got up first, and was the first to rush out of the yard. Ruan Xinping, Mu Xinghe and others followed, and then saw Pei Zhiwei who hadn't seen him for more than a month. Pei Zhiwei was wearing a shirt and trousers, with a coat on his arm. Looks like it's just finished.

"father!"

"Micro awareness!"

Lin Dong and Ruan Xinping shouted together, and after shouting, they saw two old men standing behind Pei Shiwei.