Aunt Li Mei’s house was a common flat-topped house in the past in the past. It was at the intersection. There were three rooms on the left and right, and there were bedrooms on both sides of the left and right. There was a kang in the middle. In the middle, it was a small yard in front of me. It was a cellar used to store vegetables in winter. It was made of yellow mud in the corner to make a small house for cooking and bathing. It was pasted one piece on the side and digged out the window towards the intersection, which was where the convenience store was opened.

When I came on the way just now, Anna asked indirectly and had basically figured out the situation in Aunt Li Mei's house.

Li Mei's uncle and Li Mei's father were both forest farm workers. More than ten years ago, an accident occurred in the forest farm, and the two unfortunately died at the same time. Li Mei, who had no husband and brother, went to the Forestry Bureau to cry every few days. The bureau leaders couldn't stand it and arranged for her eldest daughter Chen Li, who was only sixteen years old at the time, to work as a female worker in the county textile factory. She contacted the district to approve her to open the convenience store. Aunt Li Mei gave up.

Chen Li got married many years ago. She is still working in a county textile factory. Her son-in-law’s surname is Song. She has no formal job and is a bricklayer. She goes wherever she has a job. Her daughter Song Xiaoni is now following Aunt Li Mei.

Chen Chunlei, the son of Aunt Li Mei, is seventeen years old this year. He is in the third year of high school at Luoping No. 1 Middle School and will take the college entrance examination next year. He usually lives in school and only goes home on weekends.

"Meimei, this is the room your sister used to sleep in. I know you are coming, so I have cleaned it up for you. After the kang is burned, you will stay there. Chunlei will only go home for one night anyway, so he can build a shop in the middle room! Look, is that okay?" Aunt Li Mei led Anna into the room on the left, put down her suitcase and said.

The house is not big, but it is neatly tidy. There are bright stickers on the walls of Mu Guiying fighting Jin Wushu. There is a kang against the wall, with the old-fashioned national printed bed sheets on it, the quilts are neatly stacked, and a pink embroidered pillow with mandarin ducks playing in the water on the top.

"It's pretty good. Thank you aunt!" Anna couldn't help but thank you.

"You kid, I don't know how many thanks you have said since you met. I am your dear aunt, why are you so polite to me! You take a break first. Aunt will make dumplings for you now!"

Li Hong went out happily.

Anna packed the box a little, and was embarrassed to eat for nothing, so she also left the house to help.

Aunt Li Mei and the pork and green onion filling, put it aside, and skillfully kneaded the dough, picked it into even small dough, used a rolling pin to roll out pieces of dumpling skin, and finally started to wrap it. Xiao Ni also knelt on the stool to help wrap it.

After washing her hands, Anna started to wrap it. The package was ugly and she couldn't stand firmly on the table. Especially compared with the beautiful dumplings they put out, they were even more pale. Seeing Xiao Ni staring at the dumplings she made, Anna smiled embarrassedly.

"Little girl, why are you laughing at?" Aunt Li Mei quickly saved Anna's face, "Your aunt is a technical secondary school student! A talent!" After saying that, she asked Anna, "Meimei, your mother came to write last year and said that you were a substitute in elementary school and have not been promoted to a regular class?"

Anna didn't know Li Mei's past experiences very well, and she replied vaguely.

Aunt Li Mei didn't care, and by the way, she told Anna about her son Chen Chunlei's college entrance examination next year.

"...I'm waiting day and night, hoping that your brother can get into college and then get out of the country to get distribution. With a good job, I've been relieved in my life. Your brother is also very successful and has always had good grades. In the past, the exam was the top three in the class. I was so lucky. Last year, the country stipulated that the college entrance examination should have one more English. If there are so many subjects, your brother will not be able to speak English! Now, once the exam is taken, the ranking will fall back. But I'm so worried that English will be dragged down by then. What do you think about the country? We Chinese are good, why should we take foreigners? "

Anna said, "Aunt, I know some English too. If Chunlei doesn't understand anything you don't know when he comes back, you can ask me."

Aunt Li Mei was very surprised, "Is that so good? That's great! Mei Mei, if you really can help your brother's English, that's a great help!"

Anna smiled and nodded: "Auntie, I will try my best."

Aunt Li Mei was very happy. She said some other gossip. Soon, the dumplings were packed on a large table. The honeycomb coal stove was burnt to the hot pot, so she lifted the lid and poured the dumplings into the boiling water. After a while, white and fat dumplings floated up. Aunt Li Mei put a large bowl for Anna, put out her own spicy sauce and sesame paste, and took out a few pickled garlic from the outside marinating jar, washed it and broke it on a plate, and the three of them served it on the table to eat.

Anna originally didn't know how to eat garlic. But Aunt Li Mei had a good craftsmanship. She tried to eat one and unexpectedly found that the taste was quite good.

"Meimei, I know you can't eat spicy sauce. This is the sesame sauce my aunt made for you a few days ago. You can dip it in and eat it."

"Thank you aunt!"

Anna smiled and thanked.

After eating the dumplings, Anna began to fall in love with the atmosphere of Aunt Li Mei's family. After arriving here for no reason, the depressed mood that had been accumulated in her heart was also diluted a lot.

After eating the dumplings, Anna helped Aunt Li Mei pack her clothes and returned to her house. Under Xiao Ni's curious eyes, she opened the suitcase and packed her things. After a while, Aunt Li Mei also came to see her pack her boxes. Every time she saw it, she exclaimed and touched a brightly colored Hermes silk scarf and couldn't let go. Seeing that she liked her, Anna remembered the scarf that she cried and dirty when she was holding her in the police station in the afternoon, and said, "Auntie, give it to you!"

Aunt Li Mei shook her head quickly, "How can this work? Look at the material is silk. You can buy it at least ten yuan, right? Besides, the color is so fresh that I am so old, so how can I wear it?"

Anna smiled and said, "It's not expensive. It's only a few dollars! Besides, the clothes are dark in winter, and they are paired with a highlight scarf to boost your spirits. I'll tie them for you." As she said that, she tied her around her neck and tied a beautiful bow.

Aunt Li Mei no longer refused, looked in the mirror happily, and scolded happily: "You kid, see what you dressed me up!"

It was dark outside and it was very cold. But the kang in the house was very warm and laughing constantly. Anna spent her first night at Aunt Li Mei’s house.

...

It was just a temporary measure to pretend to be Li Mei. Anna knew in her heart that it was impossible to just treat herself as Li Mei and stay here. But now she just followed Aunt Li Mei home, and it was impossible to leave immediately. She decided to talk about it later for a while.

Anna was embarrassed to eat for free. Xiaoni was in the Forestry Bureau Kindergarten, which was quite far from home. Aunt Li Mei had to pick her up sooner or later, and she had to take care of the convenience store alone. She was very busy, so she helped her watch.

When Li Hong's child, his niece returned to the south, came. The news soon spread among the neighbors. In the first few days, people came to the convenience store to see Li Mei talk about her and her mother before. Seeing that Anna was beautiful, sweet-mouthed, educated, and had no partner yet, many aunts and aunts began to enthusiastically arrange to introduce her partner to her, which made Anna laugh and cry.

However, since Anna came, the business of this convenience store in Aunt Li Mei's house, which was originally bleak, has improved a lot more than before. This is true. Many forest workers, especially young men who have no partner, would rather take a long way to Aunt Li Mei to buy a pack of Bai Furong for 30 cents after get off work. So a few days later, Aunt Li Mei's entry last month, which could have been sold for three months, was out of stock, and other things were sold soon. Aunt Li Mei was so happy.

One of the most frequent frequent visitors is Qiu Gaohe, the round-faced police officer, who comes to buy a pack of cigarettes almost every day. And he buys Yingchun cigarettes for one dollar each.

Forget it for the first few days, but in a few days, Anna saw that he had been buying like this. That day, he rode his bicycle over again, and out of kindness, reminded him that it was not good to smoke too much.

Qiu Gaohe didn't dare to look at Anna, and hesitated and said, "Didn't Aunt Li ask me to take care of the business that day...I'm buying it for my dad..."

There are many people here, especially those who are older and smoke fiercely. Anna saw many old ladies smoking pipes. Seeing him say this, she smiled and collected the money and gave him a pack.

Qiu Gaohe took the cigarette, turned around and pushed the bicycle and left in a hurry.

"Hey, I'm going to find you one more!"

He had just given a two-yuan banknote. Anna shouted at his back.

"Remember it first, and then deduct it next time!"

Qiu Gaohe rode his bicycle hard, and in a blink of an eye he disappeared.

Anna shook her head and added a note to the credit book hanging on the wall: "Qiu Gong'an, I owe him a piece."

...

A few days later, Aunt Li Mei's son Chen Chunlei returned home from middle school.

Chen Chunlei was very kind-hearted and was very polite when he saw Anna calling "sister". Aunt Li Mei said that Anna knew English, so he asked Anna if she didn't understand. Chen Chunlei agreed.

It was dark at night, Anna tutored Chen Chunlei in English, and Xiaoni was painting at the table. Aunt Li Mei looked at the convenience store.

High school English is actually quite simple now. But Chen Chunlei's foundation is indeed poor. I guess English was not included in the college entrance examination subject before, so he hadn't studied it well.

When Anna was tutoring Chen Chunlei, Aunt Li Mei lifted the curtain and walked in with the accounting book, "Meimei, Qiu Gongan owes a piece here, what does it mean?"

Aunt Li Mei was originally illiterate, but after running a convenience store for so many years, she also recognized some commonly used words for accounting.

Since Anna reminded him to smoke less that day, Gongan Qiu has not been here again in the past two days.

Anna said: "Last time he came to buy a pack of cigarettes, and I gave him two pieces. I asked him for one. The others had already run away, so I'll write it down so I won't forget it."

Aunt Li Mei smiled and turned around and went out.

At around ten o'clock, Chen Chunlei and Xiaoni went to bed. After Anna finished washing up, she climbed onto the kang and was about to go to bed. When she saw Aunt Li Mei coming, she hurriedly got up.

Aunt Li Mei sat on the edge of the kang and said with a smile: "Meimei, aunt, look at that Qiu Gongshuo seems to be interesting to you. Qiu Gongshuo is good at work and has a spirit. She is also a dual-working family. How about you, auntie, have a partner?"

Anna was startled and shook her head quickly, "Auntie, don't!"

"It's pretty good!" Aunt Li Mei advised, "It's not that my aunt is in a hurry to get you out of the house. But you are in your twenties. If you have a suitable person and have a partner, you will have a lifelong end."

"Aunt, I know you have good intentions. It's just that not long after my mother passed away, and I really don't have the heart to think about this now."

Aunt Li Mei nodded, "Oh, that's right, I didn't expect this floor. Then forget it, let's talk about this later." She smiled and said, "Mei Mei, my aunt actually has a good thing to tell you. You are an intellectual, so it's not a good idea to help me see the store like this. I went to find someone today and asked you to ask for your relationship to ask you to go in and be a teacher. I can take care of the convenience store myself. It's better for you to take substitute classes than to help me see the store like this, right?"

Anna was stunned.

Aunt Li Mei thought she was surprised and smiled and said, "It may not be possible. Wait for replying. Don't expect too much. I originally wanted to wait until I finished talking to you, but I couldn't help it. It's getting late, so go to bed. I'm back home too."
Chapter completed!