"Dad, why haven't you found me yet? You're so stupid." Mengmeng squatted behind the sofa. After a little longer, she lost her composure.

"I'm looking for it. Oops, where did Mengmeng hide it? Why can't I find it?" Cao Shujie said.

He searched several rooms, but he couldn't find even the shadow of a ghost.

Sitting on the sofa, Cao Huifang watched her brother's operation throughout the whole process. In addition to admiration, she was still impressed!

It's not that easy to be a 'blind person', so her brother deserves full marks.

Seeing her brother turn around, Cao Huifang gave him a thumbs up.

But in Cao Shujie’s opinion, is this mocking me?

Cao Shujie was so angry that he wanted to take off his shoes and throw them at his sister.

Just as Cao Shujie was walking forward, Mengmeng might have numbed her legs from squatting, or maybe it was because she was annoyed that her father was too stupid. She stood up and ran directly to her father: "Dad, why are you so stupid?

, I’ll hide it there, and you won’t be able to find it.”

She also pointed to the sofa, which made Cao Shujie not sure what to say.

Cheng Xiaolin was cutting meat in the kitchen. When she heard the noise outside, she couldn't help but laugh softly. Her hand shook and she almost cut her finger.

I don’t dare to be distracted this time, and hurry up and work hard.

"It's so cute, why don't you use your brain when playing games?" Cheng Xiaolin muttered.

Cao Shujie played games with his daughter until around nine o'clock in the evening. Mengmeng began to feel sleepy again. Cao Shujie was overjoyed and quickly held her in his arms, humming a lullaby and slowly coaxing Mengmeng to sleep.

After Mengmeng fell asleep, she carried her upstairs and put her on the bed. Cheng Xiaolin asked her, "Are you tired today?"

"Nonsense, my whole body hurts from exhaustion." Cao Shujie complained.

He got up in the morning and went to the market in the town. He had been really busy all day. In the evening, he took his daughter to set off fireworks and just played games with her. Cao Shujie didn't rest at all.

He felt like all the bones in his body were falling apart now, and he desperately wanted to lie down on the bed and sleep.

Cheng Xiaolin also felt sorry for him and said, "You lie down and I'll rub it for you."

"Okay." Cao Shujie lay down happily.

When Cheng Xiaolin was rubbing the tight muscles on her legs and arms for him, not long after, she suddenly heard snoring in her ears. When she turned around, she saw that her husband had fallen asleep.

"I'm so tired, I want to sleep too." Cheng Xiaolin also lay down next to her husband and followed him into sleep.

…

At the same time, in Xinjiang Changji, Cao Zhen and Patiguli have been getting together since they declared their relationship. According to the original plan, he should have returned to Mingbo Textile Co., Ltd. in Pingyuan County last week.

He had to find various excuses to delay his reporting work until now.

This time his uncle Lian Xuezhu called him personally. In addition, the company had the Spring Festival holiday on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. There were still six days left. Cao Zhen couldn't leave this time.

Patiguli held his arm and asked him in a consultative tone: "Stay for two more days?"

Cao Zhen felt a faint pain in his back. It was great to live a non-stop life these days, but the days were long, so he couldn't die of overwork in advance.

"Patiguli, I will leave early and come back early, and try to come back as early as possible after the new year." Cao Zhen said.

"Well, I've prepared everything for you. You can take it back and share it with your family and friends." Patiguli pointed to the two suitcases in the room, which contained the Xinjiang she had prepared.

specialty.

These things cost a lot of money, but after all, Patiguli was a small restaurant owner and a wealthy woman, so she didn't care about this small amount of money.

When Cao Zhen packed his luggage into a backpack and took a taxi to the train station, Patiguli kept looking at Cao Zhen affectionately, really reluctant to let him go.

Cao Zhen also said jokingly: "Patiguli, why don't you go back with me."

Thinking that it would be boring for Patiguli to celebrate the New Year here alone, it would be better to go back with him.

Patiguli thought for a while and shook her head: "It's too fast. I have to slow down. Next time, I will definitely go back with you."

Cao Zhen stopped trying to persuade her. The two of them held hands and waited for the bus at the station. There were many people at the waiting station, who had come from all over the country and had worked hard for a year and were ready to go home and reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year.

I don’t know how much time passed before the train pulled into the station.

The loudspeaker in the waiting room started shouting "ticket check", and Cao Zhen held Patiguli's hand tighter.

"Go quickly, I'll wait for you to come back." Patiguli said with a smile.

At this moment, the smile of this alien girl was deeply etched in Cao Zhen's mind, and he felt that he would never forget it in his life.

As he walked forward with the flow of people, Cao Zhen dragged two suitcases, and looked back at her from time to time. The short journey to the ticket check made him feel like he was about to leave.

Cao Zhen boarded the train dragging two suitcases and carrying a black backpack. He found his soft sleeper and sat down. His heart was still a little empty. This time, he really knew what it was like to be in love and he also knew how to be worried.

What a feeling.

He took out Patiguli's photo from his bag and looked at it carefully. Cao Zhen thought about throwing the photo to his mother when he got home: "You've already put down the blind date. I'll find a daughter-in-law for you."

"Haha!" Cao Zhen giggled.

After a while, Cao Zhen felt sleepy. After working hard for a few days, Cao Zhen couldn't stand it anymore, so he lay down on the berth and started to sleep.

In the rhythm of the train's "clang, clang, clang, clang", Cao Zhen also fell into a dream.

There were also many homesick people on this train. They all lay down on small tables, sat on hard seats, or stood in the corner leaning against the wall of the train car, slowly falling asleep.

When there were more people, some were eating instant noodles, some were eating garlic, and some were taking off their shoes to sleep. Coupled with the smell of sweat from people who hadn't changed into new clothes or hadn't taken a shower, all kinds of smells slowly filled the carriage.

The fusion spread and the whole carriage was filled with this strange smell, but no one complained. At this time, nothing could stop them from eager to go home!

…

The moon sets and the sun rises, and it's a new day.

Cao Shujie got up at about five o'clock and took Daha, Erha and the four brothers to the Yellow River dam in the east for more than an hour.

The energetic Daha and Erha are not so active now.

Cao Shujie watched the four of them changing day by day, thinking that when he first picked them up, they all looked like little puppies, but now even the lightest Erha weighs almost 50 pounds, and the heaviest one weighs 50 pounds.

Hei Ye weighs over 60 pounds, and time flies so fast.

"Daha, Erha, Dahei, Xiaohei, after the Chinese New Year, you will be two years old. Do you want to find a bitch for you and end your single life?" Cao Shujie was thinking in his mind.

If they were left alone for the rest of their lives, never having tasted the wonderful feeling of a match made in heaven, and leaving no seeds when they grow old, wouldn't it be too miserable for them? Wouldn't the four brothers also have to hate themselves when they go underground?

?

"Oh!" Daha howled at him, as if to express his dissatisfaction.

Erha squinted his face, not even bothering to look at him.

As for the two German shepherds, their dog eyes were always staring at the north, not knowing what was there to attract them.

While he was thinking wildly, Cao Shujie suddenly saw a van roaring towards him from the north.

Seeing that the car had a foreign license plate and three people sitting in the car, Cao Shujie thought that these were people who had returned from working in other places, so he didn't pay attention and let the car run past him.

"Woof, woof, woof," the big black man with yellow and black hair barked wildly, his cry was like thunder, which made people feel scared.

Xiao Hei also called out, and the two of them struggled to jump on the chain, trying to catch up.

Cao Shujie glanced at the passing van suspiciously, but he didn't pay much attention.

"gone."

Cao Shujie stood up and led his four dogs home from the dam intersection in the north.

However, there were three people sitting in the van that Cao Shujie didn't pay attention to. When they passed by Cao Shujie and the four dogs, they all looked out.

The fat man in the middle row of seats asked in surprise: "Damn it, Brother Qiang, where are the four dogs? Can you handle them?"

"Play a ball, didn't you see there was someone there? Besides, those four dogs are so vicious, what are you going to do?" Brother Qiang, the bald man in the passenger seat, scolded him, speaking without any sense.

Hearing what Brother Qiang said, the person driving the car said: "Brother Qiang, we can wait and wait for the right opportunity before doing it."

"That person who came out so early must be a dog walker. I guess his home is nearby. It's not far anyway. We can go to other places first to get a few more dogs and sell them during the Chinese New Year to make more money.

Hua Hua.”

"Let's go take a look at the front first." The bald Brother Qiang said after pondering for a moment.

Stealing a dog has never been a glorious thing. If someone is really caught, they can be beaten to death.

But those four dogs just now were really good dogs!

In addition to the three of them in the car, there were several dogs of different breeds and sizes lying behind the middle row of seats. It was unclear whether they were dead or alive.

…

After leading Daha and the four brothers back home, Cao Shujie tied them up before entering the house to wash hands and cook.

Who knew that his wife was busy in the kitchen, saw him coming back, and asked him: "You're back so soon?"

"It's too cold on the dam. Wife, did you get up to make the dumplings?" Cao Shujie walked up behind his wife, put his arms around her waist, put his chin on his wife's shoulder, and stared at the dumplings rolling in the pot.

.

"You came back just after I finished making the mutton stuffed dumplings. What a good time." Cheng Xiaolin gave him a look.

Who knew that Cao Shujie had sharp eyes and a quick mouth, so when his wife turned her head, he pecked her directly on the mouth.
To be continued...