After leaving Ruyi Tea House, Li Sangrou bought a few bags of pine nut candy, lion candy, and chili nuts on the way, and went to Shima Lane.

In Shima Lane, in Zhangmao's big yard, Xiu'er and Manjie'er took Cui'er and a few of them. They had just left early school and returned home.

A group of children were crowded in the kitchen. When they heard the yard door being pushed open, Xiu'er rushed out step by step. Seeing that it was Li Sangrou, she immediately cheered, "It's aunt!"

A group rushed out of the room.

"Auntie! Auntie!" shouted and rushed towards Li Sangrou.

Li Sangrou smiled and opened her arms, and let them pounce on her and hugged her together.

"When will the aunt come back? My mother said you have gone to do something big!" Xiu'er and Man Jie'er stood steadily and greeted Li Sangrou.

They were already ten years old after the New Year, and they realized that they were at least half an adult, so they didn't pounce on it. Xiu'er reached out to take a bag of food and handed it to Sister Man.

"I just came back a few days ago, your mother hasn't come back? Who cooks for you?" Li Sangrou turned around and picked up Dazhuang.

Dazhuang couldn't squeeze Cui'er or Sister Guo, so he could only hug Li Sangrou from behind.

"My mother is so busy! So are her mother.

We cook our own meals, and we also cook dinner. Sometimes, we have to give my mother a meal.”

Xiu'er and Manjie'er each held a few bags of food and put them on the table under the corridor.

"I can cook too! Sister Guo can do it too!" Cui'er jumped and shouted.

"Hey! Sister Guo can do it too? What can Sister Guo do?" Li Sangrou looked surprised.

"I can scramble eggs!" Guo Jie'er and Cui'er followed Li Sangrou, talking and dancing.

"I, I, too!" Dazhuang struggled from Li Sangrou's arms, and then shouted and jumped.

"How can you do it? So great! Then what will you do?" Li Sangrou sat on the chair under the corridor, opened her eyes wide and expressed surprise, looking at Dazhuang and asked.

"It will burn fire!" Da Zhuang's voice was loud.

"Current fire is not considered cooking!" Cui'er reached out and patted Dazhuang's head.

"Forget it! Even if it's the case! The elder sister has the final say!" Dazhuang Xiaopang pointed at his elder sister, "Auntie! I'm going to school! I went to school last year. Last year, I was only five years old, only five years old, so I went to school!"

Dazhuang lit himself, extremely proud.

"You went to school because no one took you! My mom spent a lot of money, and the husband accepted you! It's not because you are smart!" Cui'er immediately explained the truth about Dazhuang going to school at the age of five.

Sister Guo plunged into Li Sangrou's arms and lifted up the clothes outside for Li Sangrou to see.

"Auntie, I dreamed of you! Auntie, look at my new clothes, silk! It looks so beautiful!"

"Is that so? I dreamed that my aunt was doing? This silk dress is so beautiful, why don't you wear it outside? How can I see it when I wear it inside?" Li Sangrou hugged Sister Guo, lifted up her coat, and looked at the bright green silk jacket inside.

"I have it too! Auntie! I'm red, I think my looks good! My mother said that Sister Guo looks good in green, so I said: Sister Guo is a fruit, and the fruits are all red!" Cui'er also squeezed up and lifted up her coat to show to Li Sangrou.

"Cui'er called Cui'er. She should wear green, and my mother must have done something wrong." Sister Guo couldn't stop laughing.

"They were climbing trees at school and rolling on the ground. Aunt Zhang regretted it and said: Two monkeys shouldn't have put on their clothes!" Sister Man poked her head out of the kitchen and continued with a smile.

"Auntie, have you eaten?" Xiu'er also stretched out from the kitchen and asked with a smile.

"No, make one more bowl and let me taste your skills." Li Sangrou smiled.

Xiu'er responded with a crisp voice.

"What did you dream about your aunt doing?" Li Sangrou asked at Sister Guo.

"I dreamed that I was lost, it was full of fog and ghosts. I was frightened and saw my aunt. I hugged me and I fell asleep." Sister Guo said that the ghost, and a faint fear flashed across her face.

"She started crying, I heard it! Later, my mother carried Sister Guo to her bed." Cui'er and Sister Guo squeezed together.

"You still knew you were asleep in your dream?" Li Sangrou pinched Guo Jie'er's nose.

"I fell asleep later." Sister Guo giggled and reached out to pinch Cui'er's nose.

"And I! I heard it, I fell asleep too!" Dazhuang squeezed hard between Guojieer and Cuier.

"Sister Cui'er, come here to serve the meal!"

Not long after, Xiu'er shouted in the kitchen.

Cui'er and Guojie'er, one after another, Dazhuang dragged it to the end, rushed into the kitchen, and brought out a bowl of fried chicken, crispy meat, spinach salted soup, a stack of oil cakes, a plate of sesame oil mixed with mustard greens, and a large plate of fried eggs.

Li Sangrou had a meal with a few children.

Xiu'er quickly packed up the dishes and put them into the basin.

Sister Man twisted the wet veil, handed it to Sister Cui'er to wipe her face, and then wiped Dazhuang's face.

Several people carried their schoolbags, Xiu'er carried Dazhuang's schoolbag and dragged Dazhuang. Sister Man pushed Cui'er and Guojie'er and hurried out to go to school.

Li Sangrou and them went to the entrance of the alley together, watched them wave their hands at her, and ran toward the school with a smile. After a moment, he turned around and went to Zhangmao and the others' workshop.

Because Zhang Mao and his team had too many people and were too crowded, they bought a big cart shop in Shizi Alley in the middle of last year and moved to Shizi Alley.

The Shima Lane is much farther away from the Shima Lane where Zhangmao and the others live.

Because the big car shop was in the deep alley and the business was not good, the old shopkeeper passed away and no one took care of him, so he asked the house to take action.

Zhang Mao and Sister Gu liked each other once they went there. Although they were a little far away from home, they bought it immediately and moved the workshop there.

This is Li Sangrou's first trip to the Persimmon Alley, and she is watching both sides while walking.

There is a street from the Persimmon Alley. Li Sangrou was looking up at the lantern hanging high. The ones hanging the lights were from the boot shops. There were a few new boots hanging under the lights, rotating with the lights.

Li Sangrou was admiring the ad's uniqueness. There was a familiar voice behind her, with a slight uncertainty, as if she was greeting her.

"aunt?"

Li Sangrou turned around.

Zhao Rui rushed over with a look of surprise behind her, "What an aunt! Such a coincidence!"

Zhao Rui has grown much taller and looks like an adult. He is wearing an indigo silk gown and an indigo silk cotton cloak outside, which looks refreshing and pleasing to the eye.

"It's so tall." Li Sangrou raised her hand and patted Zhao Rui's arm.

"Well, it's taller than my aunt." Zhao Rui was happy and excited, "On the first day of the first day of the New Year, my younger brother and sister went to pay New Year's greetings to my aunt, but I couldn't find my aunt either in the rice-fried Lane or in the shop.

I went again at night, but I didn't see it.

Later, I found my uncle. The uncle said that you were going to do something big, and that he was leaving too.

My aunt's business is done?"

"Well. Where are you going?" Li Sangrou glanced at the big basket in Zhao Rui's hand and changed the topic.

"Send things to Ah Niang, the tea she often drinks, her waist pillow, her cup, and a few bags of snacks. Ah Niang can't stop snacking." Zhao Rui lifted the basket and answered very carefully.

"Where has your mother gone?" Li Sangrou asked in surprise.

"Make a accounting room at Aunt Zhang and the others." Zhao Rui smiled, "I don't know about this yet? I have been there for half a year.

A few years ago, my sister and younger brother were young, so my mother had to take care of the two younger ones and didn't care about anything else.

Later, when the younger sister grew up, she followed her to and from school, and she didn't have to worry about it. My younger brother also followed her husband to learn to read. When the mother got free, she began to miss her father and Jiangdu City again.

Later I went to see the blind uncle and said that the blind uncle was idle, and I had to find something to make my mother have no time to think about this and that.

The blind uncle said, my mother is a good dealer in making the accounts. In the past, when my father was there, my mother was in charge of the accounts in the residence.

The blind uncle took me to find Aunt Zhang. It was a coincidence that Aunt Zhang was missing someone to take charge of the accountant.

At the beginning, my mother refused to go. My eldest sister and I were bothering each other and finally told her to go and try it.

Who knows.”

Zhao Rui stopped talking and laughed, "Later, my mother kept her account all day long, remembering the matter and that matter in the shop.

The day before yesterday, I said that there was a stint and that I was too busy to go home. I sent me a message asking me to take her cup, her waist pillow, etc.."

Li Sangrou's eyebrows raised and fell, and she couldn't help laughing.

That blind man really knows how to arrange it.

"I'm going to your Aunt Zhang's place too, let's go together." Li Sangrou signaled to Zhao Rui, and asked while walking: "How are you studying now? Did Tong Sheng get the exam? Mr. Wen once said that you wrote a good article."

"Children have passed the exam.

Just as I was about to talk to my aunt about this, Zhao Rui's tone fell slightly, "My articles and knowledge are good, but not so good that they are particularly good. If I take the imperial examination, I will be afraid that I will take the exam for a few years.

The teacher in the school said that I was not able to pass the exam before I was thirty, and after I was thirty, I would also have good luck.

Even if you have good luck and can get the exam, you will have to work outside the exam in 100% of the time.

At home, my grandmother, older sister, and younger brother.”

Zhao Rui paused, "No one at home supports me. I thought, it would be better to take the official exam. If you do well, you can achieve the eighth grade and seventh grade without having to do anything outside.

I am smarter than me, so I will ask him to take the exam in the future. My family can't afford two scholars."

"You make your own decision on this matter. You can arrange whatever you think is good, and it won't be too bad." Li Sangrou was silent for a moment, looking at Zhao Rui and smiling.

"Well, I told my uncle that he also said this to my aunt. I have been thinking about it for a long time and think that this is the best and the family can be safe and sound." Zhao Rui smiled.

The two of them were talking and turned into the Persimmon Alley.
To be continued...