Celestial Masters Alliance

No matter how early we want to get up, the old man always gets up before us. When I was kicked awake by a log, the smell of steamed dumplings came from outside. I sat up in a daze, looked at Mu Mu who was getting dressed in a hurry, and quickly slapped the trumpet and shouted: "Get up quickly, Mu Mu is going to hit you with snowballs."

This trick was very effective. The trumpet immediately jumped up like an electric shock and shouted: "Wait a minute, wait a minute! I'm getting up! I'm getting up right away!" When he saw Mu Mu who was putting on his shoes, he gave me a fierce One kick.

Before breakfast was finished, the coal delivery man had already arrived at the door of the yard. They were all local acquaintances. Naturally they knew that grandma was alone and did not greet us, so they started unloading coal on their own initiative. I secretly ran back to the house and prepared red envelopes to give out to people who often helped. I felt deeply guilty. We were far away, and the villagers had to help with big things and small things. This small amount of money could not represent my gratitude to them at all.

After sending away the coal seller, we stacked the charcoal in the shed next to the house door in the yard, and repaired the shed by hammering and hammering the wood with nails and hammers. Grandma stood in the snow and watched us working. I gave Mu Mu a wink, and Mu Mu stopped what he was doing and said to Grandma, "Grandma! We made an appointment to take Shan Yu around today, but we won't do it tonight." Be sure to come back, you don’t have to wait for our door, go to bed early!”

I secretly turned around to look at the grandma. She never responded to Mu Mu's words. She stared at Mu Mu for a while, and then her eyes fell on me. Her eyes were clearer than ever before. My heart trembled violently, and I felt that grandma had seen through our lies and even knew where we were going. This feeling was clear and strong, and the charcoal in my hand fell to the ground.

Mumu glanced at me with disdain and deliberately cursed: "You are such a young master, you can't do anything well!"

Xiaobao felt the depression keenly, and quickly adjusted the atmosphere with a smile: "Grabbing bricks and collecting charcoal are not within the scope of veterinarians' expertise! You see, we reporters will be close to life, right! Grandma?"

The eldest grandma sighed and paused for a while before speaking: "In a moment, you go down to the cellar, light all the oil lamps in the cellar, then move all the vegetables in the cellar to the kitchen, and then put all the supports on the ground on the west side of the cellar and On the roof on the east side, place two of the jars in the cellar on the north side, and pile the others under the supports. Pay attention to digging two holes under the ladder and bury the ladder feet, at least a hand deep. Don't put them on the ground when you come out. Put out the oil lamp, do you understand?”

Grandma rarely spoke to us in such a commanding tone. I was a little confused. East, west, braces, etc., in fact, I didn't understand them at all. Mumu understood it and quickly replied: "I know, grandma! Let's go get it after we finish this!"

The eldest grandma nodded and went back to the house without saying anything more.

"I feel like Grandma has seen through us!" I whispered.

The wood began to work, ignoring me. Xiaobao whispered: "There is a ghost in my heart, and everything I see is a ghost! Work quickly! Don't be lazy."

After finishing the coal shed, I followed the wood down to the cellar. The cellar is much warmer than the ground, and even has some moisture. Grandma's strange behavior made me pay special attention to the cellar today. It's strange that I didn't notice how big and deep the cellar was before. Most people's cellars are at most two meters deep, but grandma's cellar is at least five meters deep.

The wooden ladder was replaced with a steel one at some point. Ladders made of steel are not often used because if you forget to wear gloves in cold weather, they will stick to your skin. The ladder alone is abnormal enough.

Xiaoba made a hanging basket and helped us transport potatoes, cabbage, etc. from the cellar upwards.

"Why does grandma transport all the vegetables to the kitchen?" I asked Mu Mu in a low voice.

Mu Mu sighed and replied: "After the New Year, people should be busy..."

Yes, after the New Year, people are busy, and there is no time to pay attention to a lonely old woman. "No! Didn't Grandma ask us not to turn off the lights when we go up?"

The wood was also stunned for a moment, and he stared with me at the kerosene lamps hung in a row on the wall. The brightness after they were all lit can be described as brightly lit. When we lit the kerosene lamps just now, it was obvious that each lamp was filled with oil. I estimate that they can burn for a whole day.

"Forget it! Grandma has her own reasons. If she doesn't want to say it, even if we ask, there will be no results!" After saying that, the wood began to arrange the supports on the ground according to the requirements of the grandma.

I put the last few vegetables into the basket that Xiaoba had put down, and began to dig a hole under the ladder and fix the ladder feet.

After finishing all the work, it was past lunch time. The grandma was busy making lunch, and we were also busy, finishing the meal extremely quickly. After dinner, grandma asked about Shan Yu, and I quickly tried to smooth things over by saying that she didn't come over because she wasn't feeling well. The eldest grandma nodded slightly and stopped asking any more questions.

After we finished cleaning up, the eldest grandma waved her hand and said, "Go and do your own business!" After saying this, the eldest grandma's eyes fell on us, and she felt as if she hadn't finished speaking.

Xiaoba went back to the house first to get his backpack and sat at the door waiting for us. I glanced at the wood, and he winked at me, telling me not to ask further questions.

The eldest grandma had been sitting at the dining table, as if she was lost in thought. We said goodbye to her again, but she just raised her hand without any response. The wood pulled me away, and I looked back frequently with guilt, and found the grandma standing by the window watching us walk out of the yard, seeming to be muttering something.

"Grandma is so weird today!" I couldn't help but say it after getting in the car.

Trumpet was weighing his body in the back seat, as if he was listening to music with a strong rhythm: "Hmm! The atmosphere is a bit dull! He hesitated to say anything as if he was about to send us to the battlefield."

"Grandma has hidden many things from us, maybe it has something to do with where we are going..." Mu Mu said, then hesitantly shook his head, as if to deny what he just said.

Seeing the tangled look on his face, Xiaoba and I both tacitly avoided talking. Mu Mu quietly called the restaurant owner in the morning and specifically asked the boss to cut the meat roll into small pieces and put it in a bag. When we arrived, the boss had already prepared everything according to the wood requirements.

Xiaoba weighed the urea bag containing the live chicken with a bit of disgust and asked: "Boss, will they poop in the car?"

I glanced at him, and the boy quickly shut up. The boss looked like he had seen the God of Wealth and said: "The boss who called me told me that we must have live chickens. I don't dare to make the decision without permission and kill the chickens for you."

While I was counting the money to the boss, I casually interrupted and asked: "How is business going during the Chinese New Year?"

"Oh! We eat at home during the Chinese New Year, how can anyone go out to a restaurant! You are my biggest customers in the new year, so I will sell my chicken to you!" The boss smiled flatteringly, and his trumpet and wood turned. He rolled his eyes and loaded the things into the trunk.