man and boy

Chapter 08

Chapter 08

"Brother, don't be sad. When I grow up, I can help my brother make money." Yan Qi could feel that Chen Yang was in a bad mood. He looked up at Chen Yang, his eyes full of worry.

Chen Yang suppressed all his emotions, touched Yan Qi's face, and said, "Brother is not sad. The rice cakes will be sold out soon, and brother will take you to buy something later."

It was almost noon, and the two barrels of rice cakes and dried farm goods were all sold out.

Yan Qi happily helped Chen Yang pack his things and put the small bench on the tricycle.

Chen Yang pushed the tricycle and asked Yan Qi to follow him so as not to get lost.Yan Qi pulled his clothes obediently so as not to be scattered by the crowd.

Chen Yang took him to the market to buy necessities for the New Year and other daily necessities. After buying almost all these things, Chen Yang took Yan Qi to the stall selling candied haws.

When he came to the market in the morning, Yan Qi saw this candied gourd, the red hawthorn, wrapped in a layer of rock sugar, just looking at it made his mouth water.

"Here comes a bunch of long candied haws." Chen Yang said to the stall owner.

"Okay. Come on, kid, take it." There are two types of candied haws skewers, the short ones cost one yuan, and the longer ones cost one yuan and fifty cents. The stall owner took out a long bunch of candied haws and handed them to Yan Qi. .

Yan Qi licked his lips, he felt his saliva was about to flow out.

But he still shook his head, slowly moved behind Chen Yang, and said, "Brother, I won't eat."

Chen Yang was startled, and then understood Yan Qi's mood.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Douding, who is only six years old, also knows how to save money.

Chen Yang was in a sour mood, he touched Yan Qi's head, and said softly, "I made money selling rice cakes today, Xiao Qi yelled very hard, brother rewarded you."

Yan Qi blinked his big eyes, apparently struggling very hard.

It was the first time for the stall owner to see such a sensible child. Seeing that Yan Qi was white, tender, cute and well-behaved, he smiled and said to Chen Yang, "Your brother is really sensible. I'll give you fifty cents cheaper."

Yan Qi struggled even harder.

Chen Yang paid the money, took the candied haws from the stall owner, handed it to Yan Qi, and said seductively, "If you don't want to eat it, brother will eat it."

"Brother eats one, I eat one." Yan Qi said, pointing his fingers.

Chen Yang smiled and said, "Okay."

Only then did Yan Qi happily pick up the candied haws, and couldn't wait to take a bite.

Sweet and sour, just as delicious as imagined!

Seeing Yan Qi's eyes narrowed happily, Chen Yang couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth.

Yan Qi was eating candied haws, and seeing that Chen Yang hadn't let him sit on the tricycle, he asked curiously, "Brother, aren't we going back?"

"Wait for a while." Chen Yang led him to the place where he bought clothes. He didn't know what to say, so he followed him and looked around with his eyes wide open.

When he came to the street where he specially bought clothes, Chen Yang parked the tricycle and locked it, then took Yan Qi's hand and walked into one of the shops specializing in children's clothes.

A child in the store was trying on clothes. His father was carrying the family's bags and shopping, while his mother brought another cotton-padded jacket for the child to have a look at.

Seeing Chen Yang and Yan Qi coming in, the shop owner walked over with a smile on his face and said, "What kind of clothes do you want to buy? I can recommend it to you. Hey, this kid is really cute."

The shopkeeper took a blue cotton-padded jacket with a hood hanging next to it. The hat was surrounded by white and soft fur, which looked very warm.The shop owner said to Chen Yang: "Your brother must look good in this padded jacket, do you want to try it?"

Chen Yang also thought that Yan Qi would be cute in this padded jacket, so he took the padded jacket and asked Yan Qi to try it on.

Yan Qi asked in a daze, "Brother, did you buy this for me?"

"Well, do you like it?"

Yan Qi looked at the padded jacket in Chen Yang's hand. Compared with the old padded jacket he was wearing, this padded jacket not only looked better, but also felt better to the touch, and it was also very warm.

However, it costs money to buy.

Yan Qi shook his head and said, "Brother, I want to go back, let's go back."

"I'll buy you a padded jacket, and we'll go back." Chen Yang said.

"There is still a padded jacket at home, so I don't need to buy it." Yan Qi took Chen Yang's hand to go out. He knew the situation of Chen Yang's brother's family. Aunt Zhao would talk about the family's poor life almost every two days.

Moreover, in order to make money, my brother worked very hard, and he would not go home until dark every day.

Chen Yang held his hand, and said softly, "I need to wear new clothes during the Chinese New Year. Wearing new clothes will make me grow faster. My brother is still waiting for Xiao Qi to grow up to help my brother make money."

"Really?" Yan Qi didn't quite believe it, but Chen Yang would never lie to him.The shop owner listened to their words and probably guessed their family background. Seeing Yan Qi's sensible appearance, he felt a burst of emotion, and said, "My little friend, your brother is right. Wearing new clothes during the New Year will make you grow faster. You have to be quick to help your brother do more things."

The kid who was trying on clothes just now had already tried on the clothes, his father paid the money and took the family away, the shop owner asked Chen Yang to try on Yan Qi's clothes.

Yan Qi took off his old cotton-padded jacket and put on this new one, and Chen Yang led him to the full-length mirror.

Yan Qi's complexion is very fair, this blue padded jacket on him makes his complexion smoother and fairer, especially the white fur around the hat makes him look like a cute doll .

The shopkeeper kept boasting that Qi was cute, and Chen Yang was quite satisfied. Yan Qi was wearing new clothes, so he was naturally very happy, but he was still worried about the money for the clothes.

"I'll give you a [-]% discount." The shopkeeper is a soft-hearted person. He also has a child who is about the same age as Yan Qi. Thinking of his own little devil, and looking at Yan Qi, the shopkeeper thinks that Yan Qi is an angel.

Chen Yang was slightly stunned, and the shopkeeper said with a smile: "Your brother is really sensible. If you want to buy clothes in the future, you can also buy them from me. I will give you a discount."

Chen Yang was silent for a while, and said solemnly, "Thank you."

"You are welcome, you are still young, and you will have plenty of opportunities in the future." The owner said, "As long as you work hard, life will always be easier."

After buying clothes for Yan Qi, Chen Yang went to buy a padded jacket for Zhao Juan, and then took Yan Qi to lunch.

The two ate a bowl of noodles at a roadside stall. Chen Yang ate noodles in vegetable soup, and Yan Qi ordered shredded pork noodles with a poached egg.

"Xiao Qi, try the poached eggs here, and see if any of the poached eggs are delicious."

Yan Qin hummed, took a bite, ate it slowly, thought for a while, and said, "It's not as delicious as my brother's cooking. I like my brother's fried poached eggs. It's burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, very delicious."

Chen Yang wiped his mouth with a piece of paper, and said with a smile, "I'll make it for you tomorrow."

Yan Qi blinked and said, "Aren't the eggs sold?"

"We will keep the eggs for the new year's day for us to eat." Chen Yang said, picked up chopsticks and green vegetables and put them in his bowl, and said, "Tomorrow, we will make fried rice cakes with eggs."

Yan Qi likes to eat fried rice cakes with eggs, and when he heard that they could have them tomorrow, he immediately became more enthusiastic about eating noodles.

When the two returned home, it was already dusk.

When he arrived at home, Chen Yang found that there was a guest at home.

They are distant relatives of their family, and they don't have much contact with each other. Chen Yang is so old, so he only met a few times in my impression.

This distant relative was talking to Zhao Juan, and Zhao Juan had an uncontrollable smile on her face.

Chen Yang hadn't seen Zhao Juan smiling so happily for a long time.

Seeing him and Yan Qi coming back, Zhao Juan said happily, "A Yang, come here quickly, your Uncle Chen said he would introduce you to a job, and you can do it when spring starts tomorrow."

The Uncle Chen mentioned by Zhao Juan saw Chen Yang and said with a smile: "A Yang, I heard from your mother that you are doing farm work at home. I just know a boss who needs people on the construction site. If you want , After the new year, I will take you there. Working there will make more money than doing things at home. "

Chen Yang didn't speak, Zhao Juan got anxious, winked at him, and said, "Ah Yang, thank you Uncle Chen!"

"Mom, I want to stay with you at home." Since Chen Shibin's death, Zhao Juan's condition has been unstable, and Chen Yang is worried that she is at home alone.

"I'm fine! Isn't there still Yan Qi, you can rest assured to follow Uncle Chen to work outside." Zhao Juan said.

Yan Qi kept hiding and listened to what they said, and when he heard that Zhao Juan wanted Chen Yang to go out to work and leave him at home, he suddenly became nervous.

He was really afraid of being alone with Zhao Juan.As soon as he thought that after Chen Yang went out, he would eat with Zhao Juan every day, he felt that the place on his body that Zhao Juan had beaten with a wooden stick began to hurt again.

Yan Qi hid in the door of the room and pressed his ear to the door, wanting to hear Chen Yang's answer.

Chen Yang didn't answer right away, it was Zhao Juan who was talking to that Uncle Chen, and it seemed that even Chen Yang's future arrangements had been planned while the two were talking.

Yan Qi vaguely felt that Chen Yang was going out to work.

He was terrified, but unable to speak out.Uncle Chen said that Chen Yang could earn more money by going out to work, and he didn't have to work as hard as doing farm work at home.

Yan Qi hoped that Chen Yang would not work so hard. Every time he saw Chen Yang working in the farmland in the cold wind, Yan Qi felt very sad.

But he really wanted to be with Chen Yang, so that he didn't feel so scared.

Yan Qi thought about it, his eyes were red, he ran to the bed, hugged the quilt and cried silently.