Back to Tianshui Village (3)

After dinner, Lu Xiaoxiao took a hot bath and went to bed on the kang. She felt very tired after a day of hard work, so she planned not to practice tonight.

The next morning, Lu Xiaoxiao got up and came to the main room. When she saw the quilt folded on the kang, she knew that Zhang Xu had left, so Lu Xiaoxiao re-burned the kang in the main room and went into the space to wash up.

Lu Xiaoxiao washed up, drank a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge in the space, and left the space. Then she took out a box of Jingba pieces from her luggage bag, wrapped it in cloth, and walked out towards the captain's house.

"Knock, button, button... Is anyone home?" Lu Xiaoxiao knocked on the door and shouted something into the house, then stood at the door and waited for the people inside to open the door.

"Xiaoxiao, are you back?" Aunt Caihua said with surprise after opening the door to the yard and seeing Lu Xiaoxiao.

"Well, I arrived yesterday afternoon." Lu Xiaoxiao replied.

"Come inside with me quickly. It's too cold outside. Your face is red from the wind."

"good."

"Old man, Xiaoxiao is back." Aunt Caihua shouted towards the main room before she entered it.

Lu Xiaoxiao followed Aunt Caihua into the main room and saw that there was no one else inside except the captain, so she said to the captain: "Uncle, I'm back."

"Just come back." The captain said, taking a puff of dry cigarette.

"Xiaoxiao, you don't know. When your uncle saw that you didn't come back within the stipulated time, he would go to your yard every day at noon to check. When he saw that you didn't come back, he became anxious. No, I smoke a few more cigarettes every day." Aunt Caihua looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and said.

"Uncle Rang is worried. Something happened during my trip to Beijing, so my return was delayed." Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the captain apologetically and said.

"It's good that everyone is fine." The captain looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and said.

Lu Xiaoxiao nodded after hearing the captain's words, then opened the cloth bag in her hand, took out the Jingba Piece and handed it to Aunt Caihua: "Aunt, this is the most famous pastry Jingba Piece in Beijing. You and your uncle try it and see how it tastes."

Aunt Caihua took the Jingba piece from Lu Xiaoxiao and said, "This box looks festive. You don't have to eat it to know that the taste will be the same."

"How much does a box of Xiaoxiao's Jingba pieces cost?" the captain asked, looking at Lu Xiaoxiao.

"It's not much money, what's wrong?" Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the captain with a puzzled face and asked. She didn't understand why the captain suddenly asked the price.

"We can't always accept things from you, and this Jingba piece doesn't look cheap, and we can't just take it for nothing."

Lu Xiaoxiao understood what the captain meant when she heard what he said, so she said: "Uncle, if you do this, I won't dare to come to your door if something happens. Don't I ask you to help me less? Let's talk about my room. Damn, if the three brothers hadn’t gone to help reinforce it before it started snowing, my roof would have collapsed now.”

After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, the captain said: "I will accept the things this time. Don't do this again in the future."

"I know, uncle."

"Xiaoxiao, there must be no food at your house now. Bring some back from my house when you go back later." Aunt Caihua looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and said.

"Thank you, aunt. I really don't have any food at home."

Lu Xiaoxiao chatted with them at the captain's house for about half an hour, and then she walked home carrying a few radishes and a cabbage.