Chapter 84 (2/2)
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The sound of the wheels creaked on the uneven stone road. The long shadow accompanied Gu Zheng's footsteps on his return journey, which also made him not so lonely.
The one door shed belonging to him was getting closer and closer to him in the yellow sun. Gu Zheng suddenly looked up, but when he saw the figure in front of his house, he showed a warm smile.
On the half open threshold sat a girl with her head down and mended. She was sewing fast, like competing against the last light of the day.
”Caifeng, stop working. The sun is going to set. It's bad for your eyes.”
”Hurry back to the house. I have something for you!”
Caifeng, who looked up with joy at the sound, saw the return of elder brother Gu she was thinking about. How could she hide the joy on her face? Her playful dimple suddenly became deep, and even her crisp voice seemed to jump with joy: ”Hey, I listen to elder brother Gu, I quit now!”
With that, he obediently put the needle and thread into the basket in his hand, patted the dust on his ass, and pushed down the door of the yard to the greatest extent.
Gu Zheng kept talking. He drove the car through the door. After Caifeng entered the hospital, he turned his face and covered the door of the courtyard.
At this time, in the courtyard, the half stone and half wood kitchen had already emitted faint cooking smoke, and Caifeng's mother was boiling the water in the pot in front of the stove.
”Aunt, this is cooking! Where's our uncle?”
Gu Zheng stopped the car steadily and didn't find anyone. The uncle mentioned by Gu Zheng came out of the temporary living room, followed by two suntanned little carrots.
”What's the matter? Gu Zheng, you're looking for me? What's the matter?” although the uncle was bent by life, he had a pair of extremely bright eyes.
”Uncle, you'd better be here. What do you think I brought you?”
Seeing the master Gu Zheng, he directly dragged a noodle pocket out of the back seat of the rickshaw and handed it to Caifeng's mother who was still busy in front of the stove.
As soon as the woman with a thick face opened her half tight pocket, she issued a surprised cry of joy: ”it's rice, it's rice.”
Looking at the surprised people in the hospital, Gu Zheng grinned and said, ”I know you people from the Northeast prefer rice.”
”Today, a batch of cheap old rice was brought into the grocery store at the entrance of the Hutong. As long as half the price of ordinary rice, I think it's very cost-effective. The quality of the rice looks ok, so I bought a few kilograms and came back. Let's fight a tooth sacrifice together.”
”It's impossible!”
Before Gu Zheng finished his words, he was interrupted by Caifeng's father.
The rather tough man refused without thinking about it.
”Uncle, I don't give this rice for nothing!” Gu Zheng was still happy. ”On weekdays, I know my aunt mends clothes for others, while sister Caifeng specializes in collecting and washing clothes, but I haven't touched my clothes and bedding since you moved into my small yard.”
”Not only that, every time I go home, you have helped to prepare the meal.”
”These days, even if you hire a servant, there is no more considerate care than your family.”
”So uncle, don't be polite to me. How much do Caifeng and aunt need to do for people, don't they?”
There was no room for Caifeng's father to refuse. Gu Zheng, who talked to himself, stuffed his noodle pocket into the arms of Caifeng's mother who had returned it to him, and left the kitchen without looking back.