The shuttle bus from the countryside to the city takes almost 40 minutes, and it takes 2 hours to drive on the road, which is still not blocked. Usually Jiang Shen and Tan Lingling go to the city in the early morning, and there are not many places to go with him. I also go shopping in the mall during the holidays.
After all, Shubao and Goumao had more salt than he had eaten for several years, not to mention the roads he had traveled, and Jiang Shen didn't know the places he dragged him into the city.
"Don't be timid." Gou Mao patted him on the back, "It's not like we didn't bring money."
Jiang Shen was wronged: "I don't bring much."
Gou Mao: "What are you afraid of, there are tree treasures."
Shubao turned around: "What do you say about me?"
Gou Mao immediately said: "Isn't it good to go to the mall, why come to Sam's Supermarket!"
"Is it affordable to go to the mall to buy it?" Shubao is quite practical, "Besides, Sam's Supermarket is not cheap."
There is only one Sam's Supermarket in the urban area, and it is a membership system. Among Jiang Shen and his friends, only Shubao has a card, and of course the card is Li Zhuo's. A few people are like headless chickens who don't know what to buy. After all, children in this age group are the most practical, and nothing is better than good food.
The imported food section in the supermarket took up quite a large area. Gou Mao and Jiang Shen squatted in front of the shelf, unable to move their eyes away from the chocolates on it.
After Shubao turned around and came back, he found that they were still in place.
"..." Shubao, "buy a box."
Gou Mao and Jiang Shen turned their heads together with a "swish", their gazes were like laser lights.
Shubao sighed, squatted down with them, and asked, "What do you want to buy?"
Jiang Shen and Gou Mao pointed at the same time, and the comparison was a bit cruel.
I have to say that Jiang Shen is really a rare and sensible child, and he is referring to the cheapest little Dove. Gou Mao is not polite at all, and looks like he is ready to throw Ferrero into the shopping cart.
Shen Shubao's face was full of black lines, he gritted his teeth and said, "Ferrero, you buy it yourself!"
Gou Mao turned pale with shock: "You are partial!"
Shubao: "It's not like you don't have money!"
As soon as money was mentioned, Gou Mao's voice quieted down again, and after a while he said slowly, "Hey, I'm going to lend it to Shen Zi..."
Jiang Shen half-opened his mouth, and probably didn't understand why he was involved again. He was moved when he recovered. He looked at Gou Mao sincerely, and shouted: "Brother Gou Mao..."
Gou Mao's expression was also complicated, and he couldn't hold back after holding back for a long time, and said, "If you're already calling me brother, can you stop calling him by nickname?"
Jiang Shen finally hesitated for a long time, and decided to give Bai Jinyi a chocolate. Based on his current savings level, he could only give a box of Dove at most, but at least it was not polite, but he would give it a few more times in the future.
Afterwards, the three of them went to the fruit area to look at the strawberries. They leaned their heads together and observed carefully on the countertop full of fruits. Sure enough, they were generally bigger than the ones they planted themselves. Dog Mao urged: " Buy one for you to try?"
Jiang Shen pursed his mouth: "It's so expensive..."
Gou Mao: "I'll buy it for you."
He picked a box for Shubao to hold, and turned around to pick and choose others. Although Jiang Shen was greedy for strawberries, he didn't have any extra spare money to buy them. He had the cheek to eat dog hair and his conscience was disturbed, so he simply went to other places. Check the shelves to see if there is anything you can afford.
After Shubao and Goumao had finished picking the fruits, they were startled when they turned around and saw the figure of Jiangshen. Fortunately, the younger brother couldn't go far. Not long after, Shubao found him at the shoe shop.
Jiang Shen squatted in front of the shoe rack, holding two pairs of ballet shoes in his hand, as if they were comparing each other. The child had a rare dignified expression, and the sorrow and resentment between his brows were deeply wrinkled. Gou Mao subconsciously wanted to call him: "deep… "
Shubao pulled the man, and suddenly asked, "How much money do you have left?"
Gou Mao is inexplicable: "What's wrong?"
Shubao raised his chin: "Buy a pair of ballet shoes for Shenzi."
"?" Gou Mao was confused, "Why buy him ballet shoes? Are you going to farm in them?"
Shubao threatened him with a cold face: "Do you still want to copy your homework?"
Dog hair: "..."
Shubao: "And don't let him find out that we bought it for him on purpose."
"Are you sick?!" Gou Mao was about to go crazy, "Are you saying we stole it?!"
Shubao thought for a while: "Just say you bought the wrong one."
Gou Mao finally figured it out: "After all, I'm sick?!"
In the end, Jiang Shen was naturally reluctant to buy a pair of shoes. After calculating the remaining money spent on Dove, Jiang Shen was so preoccupied that he didn't notice what his two brothers bought when he was queuing up to check out.
On the bus going back, Gou Mao dismantled the Ferrero and ate it out. When he handed it to Jiang Shen, he suddenly gave an exaggerated "wow": "I bought the wrong thing!"
Shubao came over to take a look at the occasion: "What did you buy wrong?"
Gou Mao took out a pair of ballet shoes from the shopping bag, and said in a strange way: "How could I buy this!"
"..." Shubao obviously couldn't accept his flamboyant acting skills. He stretched out his hand and squeezed the opponent's back hard. After one glance, he reluctantly suppressed his expression.
Now, Jiang Shen was the most at a loss. He really didn't know how the dancing shoes he was looking for appeared in the shopping bag. He lowered his head and flipped through the shoes as if he was not sure, and raised his face, dazed and surprised looked at the two of them.
Gou Mao's face became hot when Jiang Shen saw it, coughed and said deliberately: "The supermarket doesn't allow returns. These shoes are useless, so I have to throw them away."
Jiang Shen held on tightly and said earnestly, "I, I'll give it to me, I'm useful."
Gou Mao deliberately asked him: "What's your use?"
"..." Jiang Shen couldn't explain the reason, sweating profusely, as if he suddenly remembered something, he took out the remaining money from his pocket, and stuffed it into the dog's hair, "I bought it, these I will give you the money first, and I will definitely pay it back in the future.”
Gou Mao frowned: "What are you doing?" He was a little upset, and pushed the money back, "I'll give you the shoes if I give them to you, what do you think of me?"
Jiang Shen was dumb for a while, still racking his brains to say something: "No, I..."
"Okay." Shubao smiled to smooth things over, "We don't use these shoes, you can take them if you want, as for why..." He paused, raised his hand and rubbed Jiang Shen's head heavily, " If you give it to you, you will give it to you, we don’t ask.”
When Chen Maoxiu arrived home, Chen Qingling was coloring the sketches he had drawn in the afternoon. He didn't bother to say hello when his brother came in, and pretended not to see him, just scribbling on his own.
Gou Mao took out the strawberry box, washed it and removed the stalks, put it in a bowl, handed it to Qing Lingzi, and said fiercely on purpose: "Do you want to eat?"
After a while, Qing Lingzi stretched out his hand and squeezed one into his mouth condescendingly: "You guys went to buy it?"
Gou Mao ate one himself: "I went to Sam's supermarket."
Qing Lingzi couldn't help rolling his eyes, complaining: "Don't take me either..."
Gou Mao raised his chin and pointed to her drawing board: "Don't you have to hand in your homework?"
Qinglingzi pursed his lips and did not refute. He carefully painted the rice fields in the painting green. Goumao looked at it for a while, and suddenly asked, "I bought a pair of ballet shoes for Shenzi."
"Huh?" Qing Lingzi was startled, "You know?"
Gou Mao narrowed his eyes, and it was rare for him to be smart: "What do you know?"
Qing Lingzi did not doubt that he was there: "Jiang Shen is learning ballet." The little girl's expression was rather hopeful, "I saw him a few times when I went to the Cultural Palace. It hurts, he didn't make a sound, and he dances beautifully." Qing Lingzi sighed like a little adult, and flicked his paintbrush, "If I didn't learn painting, I would also learn ballet."
Gou Mao said unhappily: "Come on, you are as delicate as a flower, can you bear that hardship?"
Qing Lingzi: "..."
Gou Mao picked up the strawberries and was about to go out, but after taking two steps, he turned around and said, "Don't tell Shenzi that I know about his dancing, the puppy is so thin-skinned."
Outside the yard, Shen Shubao was carrying a basket of eggs in his hand and was about to send it to Jiang's house. He met Chen Maoxiu who had just come out, and both of them were stunned for a moment.
Shubao spoke first: "Where are you going?"
Gou Mao curled his lips and said, "Go and deliver strawberries to Shen Zi." He glanced at the basket, "How many eggs?"
Shubao looked down and said with a smile, "Let's get 60, it's enough for a deep child to eat for a month."
Gou Mao nodded: "I'll deliver it next time."
Shu Bao raised his eyebrows, the two of them tacitly didn't reveal what each of them knew, and when they got to the middle of the road, Gou Mao couldn't help but ask, "When did you know?"
Shubao made a calculation: "A few months earlier than you."
The dog hair tasted a little bit: "The kid told you himself?"
"How is that possible." Shubao laughed, "It's not like you don't know Shenzi's nature. He neither wants to be treated differently nor trouble others. He never says a word about the grievances and sufferings. It’s not something to show off at all.”
Gou Mao didn't speak, he kicked the yellow mud floor while walking, and said in a muffled voice, "I'll leave him the breakfast milk later."
Shubao was a little disgusted: "You don't need it, I've already given him mine, two cups a day is enough, if you drink any more, your stomach won't be able to digest it."
Gou Mao is not very happy: "As long as you are a good person, if you do it for so long, it seems that my brother has bullied him."
Shubao smirked: "So I'll let you buy the shoes."
Tan Lingling knew that her son had gone to Sam's supermarket, so she was not surprised to see Dove on the table. It was Jiang Shen's first time to go to the city with his friends when he was so old. His face was red with excitement. He changed into new dancing shoes and practiced a few basic movements in the room.
Tan Lingling couldn't help laughing at him: "Look how beautiful you are."
Jiang Shen took off his dancing shoes in embarrassment, and checked them again as if they were treasures. He was not willing to throw away the old dancing shoes, and planned to wear them when practicing at home.
"I bought the wrong shoes because of dog hair." Jiang Shen told his mother everything, "He refused to ask me for money..."
Tan Lingling pondered for a while: "Then you give him something else?"
"What to give..." Jiang Shen thought hard for a long time, and finally cheered up suddenly: "Yes! I can copy his homework for him!"
Tan Lingling couldn't laugh or cry: "This is not a good thing."
Jiang Shen can't control good things and bad things, he just thought it was a good idea, so when Gou Mao and Shu Bao came to give things, Jiang Shen's attitude was very serious and positive: "Brother Shu Bao, give me your homework, I will Copy it for Gou Mao!"
Shen Shubao, who has always taken advantage and never suffered a loss, would never have imagined in his life that his first loss and Chen Maoxiu's first advantage were all given by Jiang Shen.
And it doesn't matter whether it's a loss or a cheap one.
It's all piping hot.
branded in people's hearts.