"Second sister, you said before that a classmate is working on the construction site in the northern part of the county?" Chen Xihua turned to ask her second sister. At this moment, Chen Jinhua was leaning back lazily in her chair, looking utterly hopeless!

"Yes, there were two before, but I don't know if they're still there! Xiao Wu, I'll go ask now!" Chen Jinhua perked up immediately when she heard that Xiao Wu was asking her about something else. As long as it wasn't about the final exam, it would be fine.

She just got back from Jiangshi Degao this morning. Final exams are really torturous. Why do schools have to have exams?

"No need. This afternoon, come with me to the construction site in the new district. If we run into each other, we'll talk about it!" Chen Xihua thought for a moment and decided to go and check it out first.

Chen Jinhua secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay!"

"Fifth sister, I got two 100s on my final exams, and 90 in English!"

Just then, Chen Xiaoliu returned from outside, her eyebrows raised, her mouth wide open, and her eyes smiling as she looked at her fifth sister with great joy.

But then, as if remembering something, his brow furrowed again, a hint of annoyance in his expression: "I bombed the English test. One of my classmates got a 98!"

"It's okay, Xiao Liu, you're great! Those two English questions you got wrong were a bit difficult, just review them a couple more times in the future!" Chen Xihua said with a smile, encouraging Chen Xiao Liu. She took Chen Xiao Liu's final exam paper and looked at it carefully, not just going through the motions and checking the scores.

She even flipped through the back pages, looking at the answers she had written for each question. Knowing that Chen Xiaoliu could easily sense whether she was being sincere or just going through the motions, she never only looked at the scores.

"By the way, second sister, were your final exams difficult?" Chen Xihua didn't want to ask, and guessed that she hadn't done very well, but when she saw her second sister glaring at Chen Xiaoliu with a look that looked like she wanted to hit someone, she couldn't help but ask!

Chen Jinhua's expression changed quickly, and he chuckled, "...It's alright!"

It's all that idiot Chen Xiaoliu's fault. What's so great about elementary school grades? She got a perfect score in first grade too. Why didn't she just take it back and put it away?

Chen Xiaoliu wasn't afraid of his second sister's glare. Elementary school holidays started a few days early, and the results were released today. He was a little worried when he left home, afraid that he wouldn't do well on the test. Although his fifth sister wouldn't dislike him because of his poor grades, he still wanted to do well.

Seeing that Fifth Sister was indeed very happy, I felt relieved. "Fifth Sister, can I have a gift?"

"Hmm! What gift should we talk about first?" Chen Xihua asked, somewhat surprised. This was the first time Chen Xiaoliu had asked her for a gift based on his academic performance.

"A four-wheel drive toy race car!" Chen Xiaoliu boldly asked. He already knew that he could ask for anything he wanted, but his fifth sister might not necessarily buy it for him! But he didn't need to worry about his fifth sister scolding him.

"Watching cartoons?!" Chen Xihua knew that at this age, the cartoons boys liked most included those about mini 4WD cars. Xiao Liu must have seen it in front of another convenience store on his way home from school.

"Yes, Fifth Sister, is that alright?" Chen Xiaoliu looked at her expectantly.

“It’s not impossible…” Chen Xihua paused for a moment.

Chen Xiaoliu wanted to roll his eyes: Fifth Sister, just say it! It's always like this! She was deliberately teasing him.

"Promise me you'll go for a run every morning this winter break. Look at you now, you're almost as chubby as you were when you were little!" Chen Xihua looked Chen Xiaoliu up and down, deliberately showing a bit of disdain.

It was okay in the summer, because she sweated a lot every day and Chen Xiaoliu was able to lose some weight. But now that a semester of autumn and winter has passed, she has started to gain weight again!

"Yay! As long as you call me every time, Fifth Sister, I'll definitely keep going!" Chen Xiaoliu immediately promised.

"Xiao Wu, I also go for a morning run every day. Can I have a gift?" Chen Jinhua's eyes lit up when she heard this; she was envious. She wanted a gift too; she had been thinking about it for a long time. It wasn't that she couldn't afford it, but she still wanted to ask Xiao Wu's opinion.

"Oh? Second sister, what kind of gift do you want?" Chen Xihua asked in surprise. Did her second sister need to ask her for a gift?

"Matchstick gun!" Chen Jinhua said, then looked around, but still secretly glanced at Xiao Wu to see her reaction!

Upon hearing this, Chen Xihua understood why her second sister was asking her. It wasn't about whether she could afford it or not; it was because she was afraid Chen Xihua wouldn't agree to her buying it. "Second sister, wait a little longer. After your college entrance exam, you'll have more opportunities to play with other things."

After my second sister takes the college entrance exam, regardless of whether she gets into university or not, I want her to join the army. It would be best if she gets into university, as special forces recruit through special channels and the screening process is easier.

Chen Jinhua immediately became listless: "Okay!"

She knew it would be like this! She also knew that Xiao Wu would make her join the army. She thought, well, let's just wait and see. The college entrance exam is what it is. She already knows the material for the second year of high school, and the material she doesn't know is just so-so!

"Little Five, I want a Little King learning machine! The language repeater model!" Fourth Sister Chen Xiuhua also expressed her desire.

Although the third sister, Chen Meihua, was also looking longingly at Chen Xihua, she didn't dare to mention it, and the fifth sister wouldn't agree to let her buy it either.

“Okay, I can buy the ones for Fourth Sister and Sixth Sister.”

Second sister, you don't need those little kids' toys anymore, there will be more fun ones in the future!

Besides, how can you, a 1.7-meter-tall kid, be carrying that thing in your hand? Which kid would want to play with you?

Chen Xihua imagined the scene of her second sister playing with a group of children while holding a matchstick gun. Wasn't that bullying the children?

"Third sister, you probably don't need to buy anything, right?" Chen Xihua asked her third sister with a half-smile, truly delighted!

"No..." Chen Meihua bit her lip. If she didn't want to buy it, she wouldn't buy it. Anyway, she would wear a school uniform.

...

Around 3 PM, Chen Xihua and Chen Jinhua went out again! This time they rode bicycles and arrived at the new district of the northern part of the county in twenty minutes.

There is a north-south avenue with buildings under construction on both sides, as well as completed buildings, some ten or twenty stories high, but most of them are around twelve stories.

This time, Chen Jinhua was finally riding his bike at a leisurely pace, instead of rushing around like he was on the gas pedal. Chen Xihua sat comfortably on the back, looking around slowly. After riding for about five more minutes, the further north they went, the fewer construction sites there were on both sides, and they started to see wasteland and suburban farmland.

"Xiao Wu, isn't that Brother Jun's small truck?" Chen Jinhua was quite familiar with Wang Jun, the purchasing agent from the provincial capital. She and Xiao Wu usually went together to hand over the bags to him.

When she first met Wang Jun, she memorized his license plate number, fearing he might be a swindler.

Just as Chen Jinhua finished speaking, and they were about to reach the suburban farmland, at the northernmost part of the new district, on the right side of the main road, three or four people emerged from a very new construction site—three men and one woman.

Chen Xihua also peeked out and saw that it really was Wang Jun and Sister Wang Ying. She didn't recognize the other two men.

"Brother Jun, Sister Wang!" Chen Xihua called out, raising her voice. Then, she jumped off her bicycle and walked towards the four people.

At this moment, Chen Jinhua also stopped his bicycle.