20demayo Chapter 170
Chapter 170
It has been a long-standing custom in Xiagang Village to build a long tent when holding a banquet. The colorful tent not only looks festive and peaceful, but also can provide shelter from wind and rain when the weather is bad.
Xia Donghai and his brothers worked from dusk to around eight o'clock in the evening, and Fu Chaosheng followed behind to help them.
"Old Xia, do you think this will work?"
Zhang Bencai tied the last rope and then slowly climbed down the ladder.
"Okay, as long as it is tied tightly, it will be fine. Anyway, it will only be tomorrow, so it will be over soon."
Looking at the roof of the tent that was built all the way from the yard to the door, Xia Donghai nodded with satisfaction after he finished speaking.
"Well, it's almost done anyway, why not put the tables and chairs in advance?"
Hearing Zhang Bencai's suggestion, Xia Laonian also said:
"I think it's okay. We can drink in the yard later, and it will be cooler."
Just like that, with the help of Zhang Bencai and Xia Laonian, the tables piled up next to the door were immediately set up.
Cui Dayong brought a total of more than a dozen tables and chairs. Xia Donghai placed six sets in the yard, and the rest were all arranged in the shed that had just been built outside.
"Thank you for your hard work, let's go in and have a drink."
After everything was done, Xia Donghai invited Zhang Bencai, Xia Laonian and others to enter the yard and take a seat.
Coincidentally, Cui Dayong and the housewives who had finished processing the ingredients in the kitchen also dispersed and prepared to go home.
Xia Donghai wanted to keep them for a drink, but Cui Dayong was worried about something going on in his store, so he left in a hurry.
The women had been busy all afternoon, and because they had to rush back to cook for their husbands and children, they left Xia Donghai's house one after another after Cui Dayong left.
Xia Donghai's wife first prepared a few side dishes for Zhang Bencai and the others, and then went to the kitchen with Xia Dongping to clean up today's dinner.
Since the ingredients were ready, Xia Donghai's wife quickly cooked a few hot dishes.
Xia Xiaotao, who was called downstairs by her mother to eat, searched for Fu Chaosheng in and out of the yard for a long time, but never saw the shadow of Fu Chaosheng.
"Auntie, have you seen my brother?"
Xia Xiaotao saw Xia Dongping coming out of the kitchen with a plate, so she asked casually.
"I didn't see him. Could he be playing with Yuwei and Yuhang in the main hall?"
After hearing what Xia Dongping said, Xia Xiaotao ran directly into the main hall. As a result, when she asked Sun Yuwei and Sun Yuhang, they both didn't know where Fu Chaosheng had gone.
Confused, Xia Xiaotao had to go back to the kitchen, just in time to see her mother busy serving food to the family.
"Mom, where's my brother?"
"Ah Sheng?"
"Yes."
"He said he had something to go out and wouldn't be home for dinner. What, do you have something to do with him?"
"What? He went out after nine o'clock? Didn't you ask him where he went?"
"Really, why should I ask him this? Ah Sheng is not a child."
Hearing her mother say that Fu Chaosheng went out so late, Xia Xiaotao suddenly lost her appetite for dinner.
Xia Xiaotao ate a few mouthfuls at the table and put down the bowl and chopsticks in her hand.
Xia Dongping could see that Xia Xiaotao seemed a little unhappy, so she tried to comfort her.
"Don't worry, Xiaotao. Ah Sheng is not the kind of person who would mess around. He must have something important to do when he went out so late. You'll know when you come back and ask him."
"He can go wherever he wants. I don't care!"
Xia Dongping heard Xia Xiaotao's hypocritical words and secretly winked at Xia Xiaotao's mother.
At Xia Dongping's signal, Xia Xiaotao's mother glanced at Xia Xiaotao, who was frowning, and then smiled at Xia Dongping and neither of them spoke.
"I'm full. You guys eat slowly!"
Seeing Xia Xiaotao get up and leave the house, Xia Dongping moved to Xia Xiaotao's mother and the two of them started chatting quietly again.
"See if my guess is right, sister-in-law? I told you that Xiaotao is interested in Ah Sheng, but you and my elder brother didn't believe me. You're embarrassed now."
"Yeah, I didn't see it before, and I guess your elder brother still doesn't know it."
"It's good that you don't know, so that Xiaotao won't be embarrassed when more people know about it. When they get along well, they will tell us naturally."
"That's right, but I don't know what Ah Sheng thinks?"
"I think it's not much different. Haven't you seen that sometimes Ah Sheng looks at Xiaotao, just like Erkang looks at Ziwei in the TV series, hahaha..."
Xia Dongping suddenly laughed while talking.
After Xia Xiaotao came out of the house, she didn't go back to her room, but ran to the door and sat on theOn the banquet stool, Xia Donghai pretended to take a cool.
If it were normal, Xia Donghai's house might have closed long ago, but today was an exception. After all, there was something going on at home tomorrow, not to mention that Xia Donghai and Zhang Bencai were drinking enthusiastically at the moment, and it would probably take at least an hour or two to leave.
As the night deepened, Xia Xiaotao had been outside for a long time.
Every few minutes, she would look up in the direction of the village entrance, but there were no vehicles or pedestrians on the quiet street except for a row of sparse street lights.
After about half an hour, Xia Xiaotao finally couldn't sit still anymore. Just as she was about to get up and go back to the house, she suddenly found a beam of light shining from a distance.
Xia Xiaotao looked closely and found that it was a car that appeared in the direction of the village entrance.
She immediately thought of Fu Chaosheng, so she quickly moved her legs that were numb from being pressed.
As the sound of the engine got closer and closer, the car that was speeding in the night drove directly in front of Xia Xiaotao and suddenly stopped.
As Xia Xiaotao expected, after the car door opened, Fu Chaosheng walked down from the driver's seat, holding a small brown paper bag in his hand.
"What are you doing outside, Xiaotao? It's cold at night, be careful not to catch a cold!"
After Fu Chaosheng got out of the car, he saw Xia Xiaotao standing alone at the door and immediately became concerned about her.
But when Xia Xiaotao heard Fu Chaosheng say that, she didn't buy his account at all.
"You still want to come back? It's past ten o'clock, don't you know? You are not familiar with the roads here, and you drive out in the middle of the night. Do you know that the whole family is worried about you?"
In fact, except for Xia Xiaotao, no one else in the family took it seriously, especially Xia Donghai, who didn't even know that Fu Chaosheng had gone out at night.
But Xia Xiaotao couldn't directly say that she was worried about Fu Chaosheng, so she had to use her family as a cover.
Seeing Xia Xiaotao's angry expression, Fu Chaosheng scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.
"I know, I'm out for something."