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Chapter 89: Little Strange

Xie Hushan was carrying bedding and a bag of fertilizer, and next to him was Han Laoer, who was also carrying bedding. The two men walked out of the brigade headquarters and headed towards Production Team 3 together.

"Woof!" Suddenly a dog barked. Dahei poked his head out from behind a wall in the third team area, looked at two somewhat familiar figures, and barked tentatively.

"Dahei! Don't you recognize your father and your brother Han Laoer?" Xie Hushan handed the bag in his hand to Han Hongbing, then squatted down and opened his arms towards Dahei. He was much more excited to see Dahei than Han Laoer.

"Get lost! Dahei, come and see your half-brother who you have been separated from for three months!" Han Hongbing cursed from the side.

Hearing the two people's voices, Dahei first stood still and looked at them for a few seconds, probably wondering what his father and brother looked like. After he remembered, he pounced over like crazy, circling around the two of them, whining in his mouth, and almost shaking his tail off.

After teasing Dahei for a while, Xie Hushan finally stood up and patted Dahei's head:
"Go, tell Production Team 3 that Commander Xie is back with his troops!"

Dahei turned around and ran forward, barking as he ran.

"Dahei is such a good dog, much better than you five good-for-nothings." Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing joked as they walked.

Han Hongbing looked around the familiar village and said, "Next time you have something to do, don't call us. Just take Dahei with you."

"That's right. What can you do? Every time I take the five of you and Dahei to steal melons, it's no different than when I take Dahei alone to steal melons. You're just five gluttons, just waiting to be eaten and unable to help. When I say a word to Dahei, he goes and takes away the shoes of the militia guarding the melon field. Can you compare with him?" Xie Hushan said with a smile:

"If the five of you can also pick up the militia's shoes and run away, I will admit that you five are as powerful as Dahei, and you are all good helpers to mankind."

"do not know either……"

"Brother!" Before Han Hongbing could say anything, he saw Daxiu, dressed like a cotton ball, running towards him from a distance. Dahei, as soon as Daxiu appeared, disappeared without a trace with his tail between his legs.

Daxiu went forward and hugged Xie Hushan, his face smiling like a rotten peach:
"Brother, why did you come back just now? I saw that the militias from other teams had already returned, but your car was the slowest!"

"I prepared a gift for you!" Xie Hushan said to Daxiu with a smile.

Daxiu was surprised: "Really? Where is it?"

"Turn around and close your eyes. I'll get it for you." Xie Hushan said to his sister seriously.

Daxiu obediently turned around and closed his eyes. The next second, Xie Hushan stuffed his two icy-cold paws directly into the back of Daxiu's neck. Daxiu screamed in fear of the cold and rushed away a few steps.

"Are you cold?" Xie Hushan asked his sister with a laugh.

Daxiu saw that Xie Hushan had no gift in his hand and his neck was frozen, so he immediately got angry:

"It's so cold! Just stand there and let me beat you up, and we'll forget about it! If you dare to fight back, I'll tell my mom, grandma, and sister-in-law!"

As she spoke, Daxiu was ready to fight with her brother, but before she started, Xie Hushan had already taken out a red scarf from the fertilizer bag on the ground:

"You won't be cold if you put it on. Are you still going to hit me?"

"For me?" Daxiu didn't even think about answering the question. He stepped forward, snatched it, put it around his neck, and ran towards home.
"Mom! Grandma! Sister-in-law! Look! My brother bought this for me!"

After running more than ten meters, she suddenly remembered something and ran back to ask Xie Hushan, "Brother, did you bring anything for my sister-in-law?"

Did Miss Taozi put a curse on Daxiu?
A silly girl like her even knows how to care whether she buys things for others?

"I bought it." When Xie Hushan heard his sister's question, he bent down to take out the second scarf and handed it to Daxiu. If nothing else, at least Miss Taozi had helped him take care of his grandmother during this period, so it was only natural to give her any gift.

But Daxiu just asked, and when she heard him say he bought it, she turned around and ran home. Xie Hushan stood up with the scarf in his hand, and Daxiu almost disappeared.

Maybe the poison that Miss Taozi put on Daxiu wasn't perfect enough, and he was only half sensible.

When he was almost at the door of his house, his aunt had already come out to greet him. She took the blanket from Xie Hushan and her eyes turned red before she could say anything:

"I'm even thinner than during the autumn harvest. I can't go there anymore no matter what! This is not a job for human beings!"

"I'm fine, isn't it, Auntie?" Xie Hushan followed the aunt into the yard.

When Xie Hushan entered the courtyard, he saw his grandmother sitting by the glass window of the east room, with her face pressed against the glass, smiling at him. There were red window decorations on the window, which made the courtyard look more festive. Just by looking at the complexion of his grandmother, he knew that Miss Taozi had taken good care of her in the past three months.

At this time, at the door of the main hall, Miss Taozi smiled with her eyebrows curved. She came out and took the quilt from the aunt's hand, and carried it to Xie Hushan's room. Xie Hushan went to grandma's room first. As soon as he entered the room, he was hit by the warmth. Xie Hushan sat down on the edge of the kang, reached out and touched the kang, which was very warm. He smiled at grandma and said:

"Grandma! I'm back!"

"You're all tired and thin." Grandma touched her grandson's face and said with some heartache.

Xie Hushan smiled and said to his grandmother, "You knew I was coming back today, so you specially heated the kang, right?"

"No, how could I freeze myself on purpose? I heat the kang every day." Grandma smiled and said, "Go sit at the head of the kang, it's warm there."

Xie Hushan poured out the soap, gloves, work clothes, scarf, and cake powder from the bag:
"You can give two work clothes to Second Uncle and his family, and have Second Aunt make them smaller for Xiaobao. You can decide how to make the remaining clothes. Give one pack of soap to Grandpa and Auntie, and keep one pack for yourself. Give one can of cake powder to Grandma, and one can to..."

Just then Taozi put away the bedding and walked over. Xie Hushan looked up at Taozi. He had not had time to take a closer look at her just now when he was at the door of the main room. Now he realized that the girl seemed almost the same as before he left, with no changes. She might even be two points thinner and her face was a little pale.

He turned his head to look at his grandmother again and found that her complexion was very rosy.

Was grandma the old witch in the story she told herself when she was a child, who sucked Miss Peach's lifespan into herself?

Or maybe grandma favors boys over girls, saying one thing in front of her and another behind her back, and exploiting Taozi like a slave while she's not around? That's unlikely either. Grandma favors boys over girls, but that only applies to Daxiu. In her eyes, Daxiu will be someone else's daughter-in-law sooner or later. There's no reason to look down on Taozi, who was the grandson's daughter-in-law she chose herself.

"One can is for Taozi, and this scarf is also for Taozi. There are two in total, one for me and Daxiu." Xie Hushan originally wanted to leave one can for Daxiu, but after seeing Taozi's expression, he finally changed his mind.

Taozi smiled sweetly at Xie Hushan and did not pretend to refuse: "Thank you, Third Brother. You sit down and talk to grandma. I'll go make some noodles for you when you get home."

Perhaps afraid that Xie Hushan would think too much, he added: "Grandma made it for you, and I will be responsible for lighting the fire and cooking it."

In Bingyang County, people pay attention to eating dumplings before going out and noodles when returning home. As long as conditions permit, they always cook a bowl of noodles for people returning home.

"Thank you." Xie Hushan said.

The aunt beside him curled her lips when she heard his polite words. Taozi smiled, turned around and walked out.

Daxiu was wearing a red scarf in the house and was reluctant to take it off. She stared at the two cans of cake powder that Xie Hushan brought back, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"Grandma, is there anything going on at home while I'm away?" After Xie Hushan finished his assignment, he looked around the room and asked his grandmother.

Grandma looked at the red scarf that Xie Hushan brought back for Taozi with a kind smile, and felt that her grandson was really sensible. She said:

"It's okay. I'm fine. Nothing's wrong at home. The team's rations have all been distributed. Captain Lao Wu didn't even use me. He asked someone to weigh them for me and send them home."

"There is a medicine bottle on the windowsill. Is it for you to drink?" Xie Hushan's eyes were fixed on a corner of the windowsill at this time. He looked at a small white western medicine bottle placed there.

Although he asked his grandmother, he felt that his grandmother did not look sick and did not need to take medicine. He felt that Taozi was more likely to take medicine than his grandmother.

Grandma was startled and looked back. Before she could say anything, the aunt who was folding some work clothes had already spoken:
"That medicine bottle is mine. I bought it at the health center before I came here. After I bought it, I came directly to this hospital to wait for you. I just put it on the windowsill."

"The health center prescribes western medicine tablets by the tablet. After prescribing, they are scooped out from a large medicine bottle containing thousands of pills with a spoon and wrapped in a paper bag. It's not like I haven't run errands to buy medicine for my grandma before." Xie Hushan looked at the aunt and blurted out.

Aunt Chen Chunxiang was immediately speechless after hearing Xie Hushan's question. At this moment, Taozi, who was cooking noodles in the main room, seemed to be choked by the smoke from the stove and started coughing softly.

The next second, the auntie immediately said to Xie Hushan confidently:
"Your uncle asked someone to open it for me, so I don't have to run back and forth all the time."

Oh, this aunt who has not been home for three months and who has always told me the truth and couldn't hide anything on her face has become more capable. Now she cooperates with outsiders and lies to her own nephew?
How can this stump me?

Xie Hushan directly opened a can of cake powder and said to Daxiu who came up to him and smelled the milky aroma:

"Daxiu'er, come on, come back to the house with me, let's try this thing and see if it tastes good. If it tastes good, I'll buy you a can too."

Asking a smart person might result in a lie, but asking a big show with delicious food will definitely give you the truth.

(End of this chapter)