Time seemed to pass quickly, and it was the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye, and the construction site had stopped work long before the frost season came.
Zhou Tianlei's workload has not decreased, because it is the twelfth lunar month. As the saying goes, after the twelfth lunar month, it is the new year. This period is the peak sales season for pigs.
Zhou Tianlei and the workers were busy in the factory day and night, buying pigs, killing them, cutting them up, and shipping them.
It had been half a month, and Cheng Xiang could hardly see his figure all day long. In the middle of the night, he felt someone lying next to him, and when he woke up in the morning, he was gone.
Sometimes I just stay out all night and rest in the pig farm, while a few people work in shifts.
I was busy like this until the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, when the children were all on holiday, Cheng Xiang also started to prepare New Year's goods.
It was time to buy some new clothes for the children, and it was time for Zhou Tianlei to add some clothes. He didn't care about wearing them, and just changed back and forth with those few clothes all day long.
Opening the wardrobe, I slowly found a colorful cabinet filled with Cheng Xiang's clothes. There were only a few monotonous gray and blue clothes belonging to Zhou Tianlei, hanging pitifully on one side of the wardrobe.
A woman's wardrobe will always lack one piece of clothing, and a man's wardrobe will always have those few items of clothing. It's so shameful and shameful, Cheng Xiang couldn't help but reflect.
Having made up his mind, Cheng Xiang took the children into the city the next day.
Department stores are hung with lanterns and colorful ribbons, giving them a Chinese New Year atmosphere. There are also a lot more products in the stores and a dazzling array of products.
The person in charge of the store had the foresight to place a carousel in the middle of the mall so that people who bring their children to the mall would have a place to go.
The children had never seen a carousel before. The children looked at it and couldn't move. They stared at it eagerly and refused to move.
Cheng Xiang went over and paid, one for each person, and then shouted from Tianxing: "Tianxing, take them to line up and sit together for a while."
Tian Xing said shyly: "I'm not going. You go with them while I look at the bag."
Cheng Xiang shook his head: "I don't want to sit on this thing. I'm dizzy. Go ahead and get them in line quickly."
Tian Xing took Zhou Yang and Zhou Qing to queue up. Cheng Xiang sat on a stool nearby. He didn't have a mobile phone to check, so he could only sit there.
After a while, he suddenly heard a noise in the queue. Cheng Xiang seemed to hear Tian Xing's voice and quickly got up and rushed over.
A fat woman shouted at Tianxing and Qing'er at the top of her voice, "Why are you squeezing? Look at the damage to our new leather shoes."
Qing'er was protected by Tian Xing in his arms, timidly holding her uncle in her arms.
Next to the fat woman was a little girl who was all red. The red leather shoes on her feet did have footprints.
"What's going on?" Cheng Xiang walked over and asked.
The fat woman saw Cheng Xiang and said in a low voice: "Is this your child? Look, our leather shoes are all dirty."
Cheng Xiang glanced at Tian Xing, who shook his head and said calmly: "We didn't squeeze him or step on her shoes. They jumped in line."
Cheng Xiang glanced at the fat woman and said, "Sister, when you come out to play, you must abide by the rules. Please line up at the back."
The fat woman rolled her eyes at them: "You believe what he says? Who saw us jumping in line? Did you?"
It is true that Tianxing and the others are ranked last, and no one can prove it.
"I don't believe him, how can he believe you?" Cheng Xiang said funnyly, "You just jumped in line. Our children don't have the same experience as you, and you still slapped us and said we stepped on your shoes? Sister, you can't lie in front of your children. Okay, don’t teach the kids bad things.”
"Your child is the one who lied. It was the little girl who stepped on it. I saw it. Looking at you, are you from the countryside? You look like you have never seen the world. You must be jealous of our child wearing small leather shoes and stepped on it on purpose. ." The woman was aggressive.
Qing'er pouted and shook her head: "I like these shoes, so I looked at them and didn't step on them. I hope my mother will buy them for me."
The fat woman sneered: "Can you afford it? The little girl doesn't admit that she did something wrong. She is really poorly educated."
Zhou Tianxing looked at the woman coldly, squatted down, picked up Qing'er's foot, stepped on the little girl's other shoe, and asked in a cold voice: "Do you think the footprints are the same?"
Several people were dumbfounded when they saw Tian Xing's actions.
But it is true that the two shoe prints are completely different.
The little girl who was eating candied haws reacted and started crying: "My shoes, my new leather shoes, are all dirty. You have to pay for it. You have to pay for it."
The fat woman became even more angry now: "What are you doing? Are you blatantly bullying others?"
Cheng Xiang knelt down and said to the little girl: "Kid, if we step on your shoe, we will compensate you. If the other shoe is stepped on by someone else, he will also accompany you, so you have two pairs of shoes, right?"
The little girl suddenly stopped crying, as if she wanted to understand something. She took her mother's hand and said, "Mom, this shoe was stepped on by the candied haws seller just now. Let him pay for it. Let him pay for it."
As she spoke, she took her mother to find the candied haws seller.
The fat woman nodded her daughter's head and said, "Are you stupid?"
Cheng Xiang chatted to the side: "Kids, we have to have a first-come-first-served basis. If the person who steps on you first will pay, we will pay. Go find the candied haws seller quickly, or they will go away after a while."
The little girl refused to let her go, stomping her feet and dragging her mother out. The woman had no choice but to glare at Cheng Xiang, and was dragged out by her daughter.
Everyone watching the excitement laughed, and everyone knew that the fat woman was making trouble unreasonably, but Zhou Tianxing stepped in to make up for it, and no one expected it.
Cheng Xiang looked at Zhou Tianxing and smiled. This guy really had a straight temper.
"What do you think? Are you going to make up for it?" A playful voice came from behind.
Cheng thought that when they turned around, they turned out to be Fan Xinping and Fan Mengmeng.
Fan Mengmeng flashed her big glasses and looked at Zhou Tianxing brightly.
Zhou Tianxing suddenly lost his cold temperament and seemed a little shy, smiling sheepishly.
"Are you guys coming to the mall too?" Cheng Xiang looked at Fan Xinping and asked with a smile.
Fan Xinping responded: "Isn't this the New Year? My mother asked me to bring my sister to do some New Year shopping. When I heard the noise here, I came over to watch the excitement. I didn't expect it to be you."
Just as they were talking, it was their turn on the merry-go-round.
"Do you want to sit down, Mengmeng? Go up and play with them." Cheng Xiang looked at Fan Mengmeng with a smile.
Fan Mengmeng nodded obediently.
"Then go." Fan Xinping said to her sister.
Zhou Tianxing carried Zhou Qing and Zhou Yang onto the turntable of the merry-go-round, stepped up on his own legs, turned around and stretched out his hand to pull Fan Mengmeng up, and he also helped her onto a white pony very considerately.
Fan Mengmeng smiled sweetly at Zhou Tianxing: "Thank you."
Zhou Tianxing nodded slightly, found a pony behind her and got on it.
The wooden horse began to rotate, and Zhou Yang and Zhou Qing smiled excitedly.
Fan Mengmeng smiled happily and sweetly. She still looked back at Zhou Tianxing, but Zhou Tianxing had a cold look on his face. He even thought that Zhou Yang's giggle was childish.
Cheng Xiang looked at them from below, and she couldn't hold back her claps. She felt that it was hard to suppress the curve of her mouth at this moment.
The children were having fun while Cheng Xiang and Fan Xinping were chatting below.
After a while, Cheng Xiang got to know Fan Xinping a little bit. After graduating from high school, she responded to the country's call and went to the countryside. She originally thought of going to the vast world and making a big difference. Unexpectedly, less than a year after she went there, she became an educated youth. She was recalled, and she hurriedly ended her career as an educated youth and returned to the city.
