Seeing Zhao Cui smiling and busy picking, Yan Qingyao looked at the oysters and sea urchins in a trance.
With her help at home, the two of them caught more and more seafood. Even Aunt Zhang was envious. The seafood they caught was almost as much as what her old man, Chen, would catch on a trip to the sea.
But other seafood at home...
Yan Qingyao thought for a while and went out.
Not long after they left, they saw Chen Yan and Chen Xing having a great time with other boys in the village. Chen Yi followed them one by one, but because of their young age, he could only watch them play.
She followed them wherever they went, never feeling bored at all.
"One by one." Yan Qingyao called her and waved to her.
It is too difficult to find a few girls in the village, especially girls who can play with Chen Yiyi.
As soon as he heard her call, Chen Yiyi immediately raised his head, with round eyes on his yellow-white face: "Four...sister Yaoyao."
Chen Yiyi immediately stood up and ran to her side with a pair of skinny calves.
She looked at Yaoyao like a magic trick, opening her palms, and there was a strange but cute thing lying in her palms.
"What is this?" Chen Yiyi asked curiously.
Yan Qingyao tore open the package, revealing the white "skin" inside the White Rabbit toffee, and said mysteriously: "This is a candy sent by a friend from my sister's town. It's sweet and tastes like milk."
When Chen Yi said this, she swallowed her saliva consciously. She could only eat candy once when someone in the village was getting married. She had already forgotten what sugar tasted like. She only knew that it was sweet, very, very sweet.
Just when she was looking forward to it, Yan Qingyao didn't whet her appetite and stuffed the candy into her mouth: "Here you go."
As soon as he took his mouthful, Chen Yiyi felt a sweet taste that spread in his mouth. Maybe this was the fragrance of milk that sister Yaoyao mentioned.
"It's so delicious." Chen Yiyi sighed vaguely with toffee in his mouth.
Glancing at his brothers who were digging a hole in the ground not far away, Chen Yiyi raised his head and glanced at Yan Qingyao. He wanted to say something but said nothing.
"My friends in town gave it to me. It's the last one."
Chen Yi's eyes flashed with sadness subconsciously, but he still said obediently: "Thank you, sister Yaoyao."
"But my friend in town said that as long as I go to town to find him, he will give me lots and lots of candies."
Chen Yiyi instantly began to fantasize, what would lots of candies look like? Is it as big as a house? She and her brothers can live in it, and they can take a bite of sweet candy every time they wake up.
Thinking like this, the candy in my mouth suddenly disappeared.
"My father is going to town tomorrow and can bring a message to sister Yaoyao."
Yan Qingyao shook her head: "My friend will not give me candy after reading the letter. He will give me candy only if I go there in person."
Chen Yiyi tilted his little head as if he understood: "Then I will ask dad to ask sister Yaoyao to go to town with him tomorrow."
The sweet taste in his mouth was gone, and Chen Yiyi licked his lips reluctantly.
This is indeed the candy in town, more fragrant and sweeter than other people’s candy.
"No." Yan Qingyao shook her head inexplicably: "The people sitting up there are all uncles. If I go with you, people will gossip about you."
After subconsciously saying it, Yan Qingyao shook her head again to get rid of this terrible thought.
What the hell! She must have been brainwashed too much by her mother, because her first thought was this.
Looking at Chen Yiyi in front of him, the confusion in his eyes became even more serious.
Yan Qingyao immediately coughed twice, leaned over and whispered a few words in Chen Yiyi's ear: "Do you understand?"
Chen Yiyi nodded with a hot look on his face: "Yes!"
The second day.
Yan Qingyao was lying on the bed in a daze, and was woken up by someone gently shaking her.
Reluctantly, she opened her eyes and saw Zhao Cuihua's worried look. Yan Qingyao subconsciously glanced out the window. It was not yet dawn!
Turning over, he planned to continue sleeping: "Mom, I will sleep for a while."
"Wake up first." Zhao Cuihua's voice was gentle, and she couldn't hide the anxiety in her tone: "I don't know what happened today. She made a lot of noise at home early in the morning to see you, and didn't let her father go out. She didn't say anything to anyone. Listen, Aunt Zhang said you don’t want me to call you, but when I see her like that, I’m afraid she’ll cry later.”
Yan Qingyao suddenly woke up after hearing this, got up from the bed, and asked while washing, "Have all our seafood been delivered?"
Zhao Cuihua nodded, thought for a while, and took another small basket: "If you give this away again, Aunt Zhang will have to be polite again if she knows that you went there specially."
Yan Qingyao was about to nod, then thought about it and shook her head: "I'm carrying the basket my mother made for me."
She specially drew another basket and asked her mother to knit one for her at home when she had nothing to do in the afternoon. After knitting, she also demonstrated it again. Zhao Cuihua praised her for being so smart, so she turned around and knitted another one for herself and went to pick it up on the mountain. For firewood, it would be much easier to pick up some bamboo.
Although Zhao Cuihua was confused, she nodded: "Okay."
I was afraid that her thin arms and legs, which had never done gravity work, were too tired from dragging the bamboo basket these days, and she just wanted to save effort.
What Zhao Cuihua doesn't know is that as her assets have increased from a few to dozens to hundreds of Wen in the past few days, the system has given her periodic rewards. The first one is strength, followed by the skin color and color required by Yan Qingyao. appearance.
The one who increased her strength the most made her look thin and small. If she was rewarded twice, she would become a King Kong Lolita who could lift 500 kilograms of dumbbells with her bare hands.
She packed the things that should be packed yesterday, and she packed the shrimps and crabs today. Before she could see clearly, Yan Qingyao immediately stood up with the basket on her back: "Mom, let me go and take a look first."
After that, he went out the door.
As soon as I stepped into Aunt Zhang's yard, I heard Chen Yiyi crying hysterically, and his voice became hoarse: "I want to find sister Yaoyao, I want to find sister Yaoyao."
Aunt Zhang comforted her gently: "It's okay, it's okay. If anything happens, tell mother. I'll see Sister Yaoyao now. She's not awake yet!"
"I'm going to find Sister Yaoyao."
"One by one." Yan Qingyao heard her heartache and immediately stepped in and took her from Aunt Zhang's hand. The six-year-old child was as skinny as a stick, so she gently held her in her arms without feeling any weight.
This voice was like a dose of mute medicine, finally solving the problem of Yiyi's constant crying. Now that it was quiet, Aunt Zhang had time to breathe a sigh of relief: "Yaoyao, you are here."
Yan Qingyao nodded, stretched out her hand and patted Yiyi's back to calm her down. She didn't know how long she had been crying, but now she was a little tired. She lay quietly on her body, breathing heavily, motionless. .
