Chapter 268 Spring Cleaning (13)

Malanhua's son Bai Zhiqiang will bring his wife to Pujiang. After joining the two old people, they will go to Zhejiang together. The two families will meet formally and discuss the marriage.

Xiaobai got the news, so she worked very hard to draw pictures to give to the bride she had never met.

She was still thinking about the new clothes in the closet. They were given to her by Boss Zhang. There were two pieces. One of them was a bright red wool coat. She wore it only once, on the day she went to film "The Secret Corner". After that, it was put away by her aunt and hung in the closet.

Xiaobai especially liked this dress. The red color was festive. Her aunt told her that she could wear this dress on the day when her cousin and the bride came, and she could also wear it as a flower girl when her cousin got married in the future.

She would open the closet every day, raise her little head to look at the new clothes hanging up, thinking about it, and looking forward to the bride coming soon.

The little girl prepared two paintings for the couple. One was a picture of a little white boat scattering flowers for them. This was her own painting, all based on her imagination. The other was a picture that Zhang Tan gave her ideas for, and then Wu Shiying taught her to draw.

She liked both paintings very much, but if she had to compare, she would like the first one more, because in that picture she was a flower girl scattering flowers, while in the second one, she was just a little angel with wings.

Little angels are definitely not as good as little flower girls, she thinks.

Xiaobai not only prepared two paintings, but also planned to make two big red envelopes. One day she saw her uncle and aunt discussing about giving red envelopes to the bride. She listened for a long time and felt that she should make a red envelope for the bride.

Her aunt said she didn't need it because she was still a child, but Xiaobai didn't have the confidence that the bride would like her, so she secretly prepared two red envelopes. The red envelopes were bought for her by Jiang Bin, and she didn't pay for them. She only gave a pancake. She wanted to give two, but Jiang Bin said one was enough and he would give her some change, but she refused. She felt that she had taken advantage.

Money? There was no money, it was with her aunt. Her aunt would not give her money, saying that she was a child and would lose it. So there was no other way, Xiaobai wrote a "1" on a piece of paper and circled three "0"s behind it. She followed the same method and prepared two copies, hiding them in her small bag, waiting for her cousin and the bride to arrive.

"Xiaobai~~~ move this out, be careful, don't run, walk slowly, the floor is wet and slippery." Malanhua was cleaning and asked Xiaobai to move her small stool out and put it in the corridor.

"I know, look at me." Xiaobai ran with the small stool, clattering, clattering, leaving a string of small footprints on the floor.

Bai Jianping, who was mopping the floor, looked at it speechlessly and said dissatisfiedly: "What's going on, Xiaobai, why are you running around? Look at you, I'm mopping the floor for nothing, are you teasing me?"

Xiaobai put the stool away, turned around and poked his head, laughing: "My aunt asked me to do this, go and ask my aunt for help."

Bai Jianping certainly wouldn't go to Malanhua, he couldn't argue with Lao Ma, so he just humiliated himself.

"Don't come in, just play outside."

Today, the house is cleaned up to welcome the bride and groom. Many things in the house have been moved to the corridor, and now they are piled up like a mountain.

"Don't you want me to work?" Xiaobai asked.

Bai Jianping wiped off the small footprints left by Xiaobai and said, "No, it's damp and cold in the house. You should play outside and get some sun."

Xiaobai lay on the door edge and said, "That's so embarrassing."

Bai Jianping smiled and said, "Oh, you are so polite. What's there to be embarrassed about?"

Xiaobai: "You are an old man, and I am a little friend. Little friends should help old people."

Bai Jianping's smile disappeared immediately, and he waved his hand irritably, asking Xiaobai to get out.

Get out if you want to.

"Ba Shi~~~" Xiaobai climbed onto Bai Jianping's special broken rocking chair and lay on it, rocking. The sun was shining on his body, warm, like his mother's embrace. Hey, what does a mother's embrace look like? I don't know, anyway, it's so comfortable and cozy.

After a while, Xiaobai shouted: "Uncle, I will sing for you?"

A voice came from the room: "Yes, can you order a song?"

"Yes, yes, please order it."

"Please sing "Malan Flower"."

"..."

"What? Sing it."

"Uncle, you are a black ass, do you want my ass to bloom?"

"What are you afraid of? Uncle supports you, what are you afraid of? If your aunt hits you, I will be the first to disagree. Look at my method, and you will know why I am called Bai Jianping."

"Why?"

When he said this, Xiaobai had already climbed down from the rocking chair, lying on the edge of the door, and asked curiously.

Bai Jianping said proudly while mopping the floor: "When I was young, I beat wild boars and wolves. Do you know what wild boars and wolves are?"

"Yes, woooo woooo is a wolf, hum hum hum is a wild boar. You beat wild boars and wolves, and now you want to beat your aunt, right?"

"Not really, I just scared her so she wouldn't dare to beat you."

"My aunt won't beat me. My aunt loves me so much, and I love my aunt too."

This was very unusual, Bai Jianping immediately felt it, and realized that the situation was not good, and immediately changed his words: "You two are good, I can talk with peace of mind, your aunt used to be a flower in the village, you know, she was a fairy back then."

The word fairy made Xiaobai laugh.

Bai Jianping also laughed, and turned around very naturally, looking behind him, sure enough! Old Ma was standing behind him.

"Hello, fairy."

"What's so great about beating Gray Wolf and Peggy? You always bring it up."

"Don't be so proud, just play with your friends."

Malanhua let him go for now, and Bai Jianping breathed a sigh of relief.

The three of them were busy all morning, and finally cleaned this simple home and made it look brand new. The stickers and paintings on the wall were torn off and replaced with new ones. The hole in the broken sofa was also filled. Malanhua filled it with a cute little bear. Now no one can recognize that there was a hole there. Xiaobai always fell into it.

The only thing that was not torn off was the poster of Su Lan behind the door, which Xiaobai swore to protect.

In the afternoon, Bai Jianping painted the wall and removed all the stains on the wall. Now the wall looks brand new, not only white, but also pink. The pink one is the bathroom, and the latex paint was selected at Xiaobai's request.

The idiot ran to the bathroom again and again to look at it, and kept crying.

These latex paints are all good brands. For Bai Jianping, it is a good deal, and they are odorless and pollution-free.

Malanhua called Xiaobai to her side and warned her: "I am warning you now, kid, you can't paint on the wall in the future, understand?"

Xiaobai often paints and writes on the walls at home. Over the years, it has almost become her drawing board. Before the renovation, the walls below one meter were painted dazzlingly, and above one meter, they were clean and clearly divided.

Xiaobai nodded, and it would be a fool to disagree.

"Go and play."

Xiaobai ran to the little bed and looked at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall beside her bed. Fortunately, this part was preserved.

In the living room, Bai Jianping put away the brush and paint bucket and said to Malanhua: "There is one more thing, why don't you paint the wall next to Xiaobai's bed? It's dirty there too."

"Leave her a little memory."

On that small wall, there are the two words "Mom" written by Xiaobai for the first time. Malanhua once sat there and cried.

After a long busy time, everyone had dinner. Xiaobai asked when his cousin and the bride would arrive, and his aunt said the day after tomorrow.

"Our home is so beautiful, the bride will definitely like it." Xiaobai said naively.

Malanhua smiled bitterly and looked around. Compared with the past, the home was indeed brand new, but it was small and simple, which could not be changed. Xiaoqiang and Xiaoyang might not come to this home when they came to Pujiang.

Although they might not come to the house, the two still cleaned it carefully for a day, just in case.

She turned her head to discuss with Bai Jianping if there were any better hotels nearby, and let Xiaoyang stay in the hotel when the time came.

Xiaobai asked curiously: "Why stay in a hotel? Come to our house."