"Jinhua, when you get home today, hand the watermelon over to your mother right away. Maybe you'll get fewer scoldings."
Qin Yao covered the half-cut watermelon with gauze, placed it in the bamboo basket, and handed it to the little girl's wrist with these instructions.
Jinhua looked at her own round, full belly and let out a burp filled with watermelon scent, nodding gratefully at Third Aunt.
"Can I go now?" Jinhua had a solemn expression as if she were going on a heroic mission.
Qin Yao nodded heavily, "Off you go, little girl!"
Jinhua walked away with her heavy bamboo basket, looking back every few steps. Ah Wang, sitting on the doorstep eating watermelon, watched her safely enter the village and turn into the Liu Family's old house, then turned to Qin Yao in the courtyard and said, "She's safely home."
Qin Yao signaled Ah Wang to finish up quickly, "In a while, we'll go to town to pick up Da Lang and the others."
