Chapter 19 Returning Home (2)

Du's worried look was seen by Caiwei. She played with the ends of her hair hanging on her chest and sneered: "Mother, they are just jumping clowns. You don't have to be afraid. I have my own way to stop them.  "

As she spoke, the car had stopped. Caiwei lifted the curtain and saw her small and dilapidated courtyard, sparse fence walls, and the tall and straight poplar tree in front of the door.

Under the tree, three thin figures were looking around anxiously.

Seeing the people in the car, the three small figures ran over happily.

"Mother----"

"Eldest sister----"

The sweet call, like a warm and gentle breeze blowing into the ears, made people feel happy for no reason. Caiwei curved her eyes and opened her arms with a smile.

"Don't run, be careful not to break the eggs!" Du sat in front of Caiwei and shouted nervously.

The three little ones stopped and stared at Du with clear eyes in surprise.

"Eggs? Did mother buy eggs?"

When the youngest Wu'er heard the word "eggs", he gulped his saliva with a slurp. He seemed to see a bowl of hot, tender yellow egg cake with a few oil stars floating on it...

Originally, the family raised a few chickens, and mother would occasionally steam a bowl of egg cake for them to eat, but that was more than half a year ago. Because the family sold all the chickens to raise capital for father's business, they haven't eaten eggs for more than half a year.

"Not only did I buy eggs, mother also bought you meat buns and pancakes, and your sister also bought a lot of fat pork, all in the car, go and move it..." Mrs. Du urged with a smile.

When the children heard what their mother said, they cheered and ran to the carriage, vying to stretch out their hands: "Eldest sister, did you really buy so many things?"

"Eldest sister, I'll move it, I'll..."

"Okay, don't squeeze!" Caiwei took the bag of white rice.

"Wen'er, you and your second sister come and carry this bag of rice."

"Wu'er, take the meat buns and pancakes into the house..."

The children cheered and jumped for joy, happier than during the Chinese New Year. Their eldest sister and mother brought them a whole bag of rice and a basket full of eggs...

You know, usually only during the Chinese New Year would Dad buy two kilograms of rice, and the whole family could only eat a bowl of rice on New Year's Eve, and each person could only eat one bowl.

As for white flour, you have to wait for someone to have a birthday before you can eat a bowl of noodles. On weekdays, the family eats cornmeal porridge mixed with brown rice. Even with cornmeal porridge, you can't eat enough every meal...

Luxury items like meat buns and candy men are said to cost two or three cents each. They dare not even think about it, and have only eaten them secretly in their dreams...

When Fei'er saw those pieces of brightly colored pure cotton cloth, she couldn't take her eyes away. She was ten years old and had never worn a new piece of clothing. All her sister’s clothes were too small for her and were given to her. Her sister’s clothes were very bad, all made of earth-colored coarse cloth. Because earth color is the natural color of cloth after it is woven without bleaching and dyeing, earth-colored cloth is the cheapest. Because of its cheapness, the clothes of men, women, old and young in the family are all made of earth-colored coarse cloth.

God knows, as a girl, she wishes she could have a piece of colored clothes without patches, just like this piece of goose yellow cotton cloth in front of her. If it is made into a small jacket and worn on the body, how beautiful it would be!

The things were moved back to the house one by one. The children sat around on the kang, excitedly flipping through the new things Caiwei bought, and exclaimed from time to time. The dim candlelight reflected on their tender little faces, and those pairs of eyes with surprise and astonishment were so shocking.

Caiwei felt that there would never be a more fulfilling moment in her life than this!