Chapter 117 Bean Wax Bird

Send Uncle Cheng Gui and Niu'er away. Several people ate casually here in Qijing Hutong, and then went home with Xiaomei. Xu Xinger coaxed Taoer to take a nap, and then helped Xiaomei wash clothes by herself.

"You all go into the house and rest for a while. When you enter the door, you are guests. How can you work when you come!" Xiaomei was very sorry and kept competing with Xu Xinger to do it.

"Is there much work? Let's do it faster together. After finishing it, we can take a break." Xu Xinger couldn't grab her clothes, so she had to get up and help pour water.

Shanzi's skirt is stuffed in his belt, and his sleeves are also raised high. He is holding an axe to chop wood aside. As he moves, he occasionally throws out a string of fine beads of sweat, reflecting a light in the sun.

Xu Xinger held the water in her hand, quietly walked behind the mountain, splashed it, and then turned around and ran away.

Shanzi was shocked. Seeing that Xu Xinger was naughty, he glanced at her funnyly, raised his hand and rubbed the water stains on his face. He looked at her and said, "If you are afraid of my heat, give me a handkerchief to wipe it."

"Okay, wait a minute!" Xu Xinger pulled the well water again, soaked the handkerchief and twisted it half dry, and handed it to Shanzi.

Shanzi raised his hands and signaled that his hands were not clean, and asked Xu Xinger to wipe them for herself.

Xu Xinger held the handkerchief in her hand, "clapped" on Shanzi's face, then rubbed it, took down the handkerchief and said, "Okay, wipe it clean!"

"Puff!" Xiaomei, who had been watching, couldn't help laughing, "Xing'er will be funny, and it's rare for you to have such a good relationship."

Shanzi felt hot when he heard this, but looking at Xu Xinger not thinking much at all, he thought that she was young and still don't understand these now. But how did he know that Xu Xinger didn't think about it at all because she knew everything.

Xiaomei is a few years older than Xing'er and is almost the age when she should kiss. Seeing this situation, she can't help but smile at Xu Xing'er.

"Sister Mei, let me tell you something." Shanzi has been calling Xinger like this. In fact, I don't know whether Xiaomei is bigger than herself or not, but neither of them cares, so they are used to calling it like this.

"What's the matter?" Xiaomei twisted the clothes in her hand hard, and then shook off the rope hanging in the yard.

"I heard that your grandmother's waist and legs were not good before, and Xing'er and I were thinking about asking my second uncle to help us take a look. As a result, my second uncle went to other places to do business. Recently, I just sent a letter and said that I would be home in two days." Shanzi stood in front of the wood cutter with an axe in his hands and said, "My second uncle is still good at bone and so on. We think that there will be no harm in any case, Xiaomei, what do you think?"

Really? That's great!" Xiaomei's eyes lit up and said with surprise, "We have found a lot of doctors to see my breasts. The orthopedic doctor has seen a lot and taken a lot of soups, but it has always has no effect. We are almost hopeless. Whether it is useful or not, I am very grateful that you can have this kind of heart."

"It's out of the way to say this." Xu Xinger helped Xiaomei dry the sheets, and the two hung them flat on the rope. "I just hope it can get better, even if it doesn't hurt."

The three people spoke, and the work in the yard was quickly finished. Xiaomei picked up the basket that sank in the well in the morning. It was a big green-skinned watermelon, soaked in the cool well water for most of the day, and now it has cooled into the core.

Shanzi held a knife and put it on the watermelon. With a little force, he heard a crisp sound, and the watermelon cracked in half at that time.

"Oh, this melon is really picky, dry watermelon." Shanzi boasted that he put half of the watermelon into the kitchen cupboard, and the other half was directly cut into triangles. First, he took two pieces into the house for Grandma Mei. The remaining three people ate happily in the yard with a dustpan.

Xu Xinger washed her hands with water, wiped the watermelon juice at the corners of her mouth, and boasted, "This watermelon is really sweet. It's cold and delicious."

The three people cleaned up the yard and went back to the house. Xiaomei asked Shanzi to go to the east house. Usually, her father and brother lived there, and Shanzi naturally lived in this house at night.

Xu Xinger entered the west room and saw Taoer sleeping soundly on the top of the kang. She knew that she had been excited last night. Now she was sleeping and touched her forehead. Seeing that she was a little sweaty, she sat on the edge of the kang, picked up the fan and beat it gently for her, and then talked to Grandma Xiaomei.

"Xinger, aren't you tired? Let's sleep together!" Xiaomei settled the mountain before entering the house, raised her hand to cover her mouth and yawned.

"I don't have the habit of taking a nap. If you are tired, you can sleep for a while. We are here to disturb you. I have to let you go with us at night, but I dare not tire you anymore." Xu Xinger said jokingly.

"You girl, you speak so well!" Xiaomei was not polite when she heard what she said. She put her slippers on the kang and said, "I'll just sleep for an hour. Remember to call me." Then he lay down with his face and fell asleep in a short time, with a uniform breathing sound.

Xu Xinger is actually a little tired, but because of her usual habits, she doesn't feel sleepy. Thinking of going out at night, she also lay down beside Taoer, closing her eyes to refresh her mind and gently hitting her fan.

Towards evening, Xu Xinger got up and woke up Xiaomei and Taoer, tidied up Taoer's clothes and hair, and led her to the yard to wash her face.

"Sister, I'm back!" A little boy ran in outside the door, sweating and rushed in with a smile on his face. He looked up and saw Xu Xinger and Taoer. The expression on his face was stunned. He stopped hesitantly, looked back at the gate, and turned his head to look at his house, as if to confirm whether he had gone the wrong door.

Xu Xinger couldn't help laughing, threw the veil to Taoer to wash her face, and then went over and asked, "Are you Xiaozhu?"

"How do you know what my name is?" Xiaozhu's eyes were alert, but he leaked the stuffing as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Haha!" Xu Xinger looked at him who was about to blow up, smiled and shouted in the room, "Sister Mei, why is your brother so funny?"

Xiaomei came out of the room and saw her brother busy saying, "Xiaozhu is back? Why don't you call someone quickly? This is the sister Xing'er I often talk to you about. This is her sister Tao'er.

"Is Brother Shanzi also here?" Xiaozhu has known Xing'er and Shanzi for a long time, but he only heard his sister mention it. Because he is going to school, he has never seen it, but he especially worships and likes Shanzi.

Mainly because Shanzi often made some things in the mountains. In the past, he only held peaches, but later he knew that Xiaomei also had a younger brother, only two years older than Taoer, so he took some to the city from time to time for Xiaomei to give it to his younger brother.

"Your brother Shanzi is also here, in the east room!" Xiaomei reached out and grabbed her brother, took a towel and wiped his face first, and then let him into the room.

"Brother Shanzi!" Xiaozhu went straight to the inner room and rushed to Shanzi. "I'm still raising the wax mouth you brought me last time. I'll take you to see it." After saying that, he pulled the mountain to the backyard.

The mountain brought last time a bean wax bird, the size of a pigeon, with gray-brown hair. The top of the head and the tip of the tail of the wings are black, but the mouth is conspicuous yellow, which is particularly easy to distinguish like a layer of wax, so there are also people who call it a waxy mouth.

This kind of bird is very easy to raise and close to human beings. This bean wax flew into the mountain house a few days ago, and then refused to leave. It drilled into the house every day and couldn't get out.

Shanziniang likes to be clean and doesn't want to raise these things. At first, she just rushed out. Later, one day, she found that the bird actually left a pool of bird dung on the table. She was immediately anxious and ordered whether it was completely driven away or caught and eaten, so that Shanzi must solve the bird as soon as possible.

When his mother gave the order, Shanzi naturally obeyed and caught the bird without any effort, but Shanzi was a little unbearable to see that it was not only not afraid of himself, but also rubbed his fingers with his mouth.

At first, he wanted to give it to Tao'er for fun. Who knew that Tao'er was not interested in birds or anything. When he saw the bird, he just came forward to look at it, and then ran away to play with himself.

Coincidentally, when she went to the city to talk about this matter, Xiaomei said, "If you don't have anywhere to send it, just bring it to me. My brother likes birds the most. When he was a child, he also got a bean wax for him, but later he somehow flew away without tlingering it. He thought about it for a long time. At first, I thought about getting another one for him. Later, family affairs I forgot too much. I didn't remember until you said it today!"

The two immediately got along well, and turned to Tianshanzi and brought the bird into the city. Xiaozhu really liked it very much. He asked his father to make a hanging rod, tied the feet of the bean wax to the crossbar with a string, and kept it at home.

At first, Xiaomei was worried that such a thin rope would definitely be broken. But I didn't expect that this bird was pleasant by nature and didn't want to run at all. It could eat melon seeds from Xiaozhu's hand.

Xiaozhu liked it more and more, and named the bird Xiaogua. When Xu Xinger heard the name for the first time, she held Shanzi's shoulder and smiled for a long time.

"Xiaogua, do you still remember Brother Shanzi!" Xiaozhu talked to the bean wax seriously, took out some melon seeds from the jar on the window sill, and said while feeding it, "Brother Shanzi brought you into the city, right?"

Shanzi reached out and touched the head of the bean wax and looked at its oily appearance. It seemed to be fatter than when he brought it. He knew that it must have been fed well. No wonder the bird was so intimate with Xiaozhu that he didn't want to leave at all.

"The bean wax bird is smart. You can feed it raw. When it is ripe, you can untie the rope, and you can also teach it to fly out and then fly back, holding things and so on." Shanzi had seen the old man in the village raise beans and wax seeds before. The bird was spiritual and did not need to be tied up. Every day, he flew and played in the yard. As soon as the old man shouted in the house, it immediately flew in and landed on the old man's shoulder and helped the flint when the old man smoked.

"Really?" Xiaozhu was very happy to hear this. He stretched out his finger and gently touched the bean wax's head. "Xiaogua, do you hear me? As long as you are obedient, I will untie the rope for you after a while, but you are not allowed to fly out and come back. You have to be obedient, you know?"

Two people, one big and one small, stood under the eaves, teasing birds head to head. You talked very speculatively.