Ruan Xi did not discuss physics with him. He took a deep breath, closed the book in his hand, and returned it to him. Then he pulled out a small bunch of grapes from his schoolbag, put them on his book, and said, "I'll treat you to some grapes today."

This is not a common thing. Ling Yao did not touch it, but just said: "Eat it yourself."

Ruan Xi reached out and picked one, then smiled and said to him, "Let's eat together."

Ling Yao met her eyes that were flashing with fragmented light, lowered his head after a moment, and reached out to pluck one.

The two of them sat on the hillside, sharing a small bunch of grapes, watching the sun slowly set to the top of the mountain.

Ruan Xi asked: "Is it sweet?"

Ling Yao said: "Yeah, very sweet."

Because of knowing her, he has tasted sweetness twice recently. Last time it was toffee, this time it was grapes.

Ruan Xi said: "I am older than you, so you can call me sister from now on, and I will recognize you as my younger brother."

Ling Yao smiled happily, turned his head to look at the sky which was slightly tinged with red clouds, and did not respond to this.

Ruan Xi was carrying her schoolbag back home. When she reached the door of her house, she ran into Sun Xiaohui, who had just returned home with a basket of pig feed.

Sun Xiaohui held a mud-covered sickle in one hand and supported her waist with the other hand, and walked with a limp.

Ruan Xi and Sun Xiaohui had nothing to say, so they just glanced at her and went straight into the house.

Sun Xiaohui was so angry at her attitude that she sneered, "You don't know how to call your elders when you see them?"

Ruan Xi just said perfunctorily, "Hello, Second Mother."

After that, he went into his room, put down his schoolbag, sat down and took a breath and rest.

Sun Xiaohui walked into the house and put down the backpack. Seeing Ruan Jie chopping wild vegetables, she became even more furious. Her eyes were like knives as she glared at Ruan Jie fiercely.

Ruan Jie greeted Ruan Xi, lowered her head without looking at Sun Xiaohui, quickly chopped the chicken feed, mixed it with rice bran, and went to the chicken coop to feed the chickens. She had just cooked pig food and fed the pig that Liu Xinghua left behind when she separated from her family.

She didn't pick any wild vegetables to feed the pigs and hens that were given to Ruan Zhigao and Sun Xiaohui, so Sun Xiaohui gave her a murderous look.

Sun Xiaohui worked on the farm for a day with the collective, and then went to the hillside and fields to pick wild vegetables. Now she has to cook pig feed and chicken feed by herself. After feeding the pigs and chickens in the pen, I have to cook, so I have no time to rest at all.

Before the family split up, household chores such as washing clothes, sweeping the floor, cooking, washing dishes, feeding pigs and chickens were all done by Liu Xinghua, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie. After the family was divided, Sun Xiaohui had to take care of everything on her own.

Ruan Changgui did heavy work when he was working. He had to go into the mine to dig copper and carry the copper down the mountain in a basket, or carry manure and water up and down the mountain to the dry land. He was exhausted at the end of the day and needed more rest after work.

Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua are not young anymore and can help her share the burden, but she is used to asking Ruan Jie to do things instead of her two precious sons, and her two precious sons don't know how to do these things, so she can only do it herself.

So she clenched the pig food while gritting her teeth in anger, hating herself for giving birth to such an ungrateful daughter who didn't help her share the burden.

She was so angry that she lowered her head to chop pig food for a while, then suddenly asked, "Xiaoxi, what have you been doing outside these two days?"

Ruan Xi was sitting in the room resting. When he heard the sound of Sun Xiaohui chopping pig food, he knew that Sun Xiaohui was angry. She didn't want to pay any more attention to Sun Xiaohui, so she just said perfunctorily to her: "Learn a craft."

Sun Xiaohui smiled and said, "Is that true? Would the old tailor be willing to teach you?"

Ruan Xi: "Why don't you ask the old tailor?"

Sun Xiaohui - Oh, there's no way the old tailor could teach you.

She said, "You are probably lazy and don't want to work, so you leave all the housework to our Xiaojie. You are free when you go out, but she is busy from morning till night. Xiaojie is a stupid child. She didn't even know she was cheated and sold, but she rushed to help count the money."

Ruan Xi sneered speechlessly, "I didn't expect that you love Xiao Jie so much, Second Mother."

Sun Xiaohui was choked for a moment, and then she said, "She was born to me, if I don't love her, who will?"

Ruan Xi sneered, "Your face is thicker than the city wall."

Being humiliated so mercilessly by a junior, Sun Xiaohui instantly became angry again. She chopped the kitchen knife in her hand fiercely on the wooden chopping board, not wanting to look embarrassed, and took advantage of her status to ask, "Ruan Xi, how can you talk to an elder?"

Ruan Xi: "What did you say? Didn't you hear it all?"

This disrespectful girl! ! !

Sun Xiaohui was so angry that her hands were shaking, her chest was heaving, and she wanted to go into the house and tear Ruan Xi apart.

But Ruan Xi was not her own child, and the old man and the old lady in the family all protected Ruan Xi. Moreover, Ruan Xi's biological father was an officer. She had the heart but not the courage, so she could only swallow her anger and picked up the knife to chop the pig food.

Ruan Jie was standing outside the chicken coop feeding the chickens when she heard Ruan Xi and Sun Xiaohui quarreling in the house. She felt a little scared and worried. When she was about to go into the house with the worn-out enamel basin, Liu Xinghua just came back.

Seeing Liu Xinghua was like seeing a strong backer, and Ruan Jie immediately felt relieved. Before she could say anything, she went into the house with Liu Xinghua, only to see Sun Xiaohui taking out her anger on pig grass. Every blow of the knife was filled with strong emotion.

Liu Xinghua didn't pay much attention to Sun Xiaohui and turned to go to Ruan Xi's room.

Ruan Xi saw her come in and smiled and said to her, "I made you angry."

Liu Xinghua also laughed and mouthed, "You deserve it!"

After saying this, they both laughed out loud.

Ruan Xi was not affected by Sun Xiaohui. She chatted and laughed with Liu Xinghua and Ruan Jie while cooking dinner. After Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng finished their work and came back from outside, they served the meal to the table in the main room and ate while chatting and laughing.

Speaking of Ruan Xi not coming back for lunch, Ruan Jie said, "Sister, I know what you had for lunch. A loofah fried with eggs and tiger skin green peppers. It was so delicious that you could smell it outside the gate, right?"

Ruan Xi responded quickly: "You came to find me?"

Ruan Jie nodded at her. "Grandma saw that you hadn't come back yet, so she asked me to go to the old tailor's house. I saw that you had already eaten at the old tailor's house, so I didn't go in to disturb you. Everyone says that the old tailor is difficult to get along with, but I think he's pretty good."

Ruan Xi lowered her voice slightly, "It's really good. When he came back in the evening, he even gave me a bunch of grapes."

Hearing this, Ruan Changsheng suddenly perked up and said in disbelief: "Grapes?"

Ruan Xi looked at him and nodded, "It's grown in his yard."

Ruan Changsheng slurped up a mouthful of porridge and said, "I, your fifth uncle, have never eaten grapes in my life. Are they sour?"

Ruan Xi shook her head, "It's sweet. Let's eat it together after dinner."

Ruan Xi's family of five had finished dinner when Sun Xiaohui had just finished preparing it.

Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie put away the dishes and went back to the side room. They waited for Ruan Zhigao, Ruan Changsheng and Liu Xinghua to come in. Ruan Xi went to the room, took out the bunch of grapes from her schoolbag, put them in a basin, washed them, and brought them to them.

After seeing the grapes, the four of them all believed it - the old tailor was really good to Ruan Xi.

Seeing that there were enough grapes to share, Ruan Changsheng didn't hesitate and took the lead in pinching one and putting it in his mouth. After tasting the sweetness of the grapes, his whole face lit up and he nodded, "Mm, very sweet and delicious."

As he said this, he picked two more, one for Ruan Zhigao and one for Liu Xinghua.

Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua each tasted one and nodded in agreement that they were delicious.

Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui took Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua to eat in the main room. The green vegetables cooked with oil, salt and minced garlic were so delicious that Sun Xiaohui's anger that had been pent up for the day disappeared.

She spoke calmly, no longer emotional, and said to Ruan Changgui, "This won't work. You still have to let Xiaojie live with us. If this goes on, wouldn't it be a waste for me to give birth to a daughter? She'll just be doing chores for other people all day long."

Ruan Changgui was a coward. He ate his meal and said perfunctorily, "Let's talk about it later."

Sun Xiaohui looked at him, "Are you so afraid of your parents?"

Ruan Changgui was a little impatient, "Why are you talking about this while we're eating? We can talk about it later if there's nothing else to do."

Seeing him like this, Sun Xiaohui took a deep breath and decided not to say anything for the time being. Anyway, the daughter was hers, and she can't escape it no matter how hard she tries. Let's talk about it later.

The brothers Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua don't care about these things at home. No matter what happens, they will not go hungry. Now that the family has divided up, the food is better and they don’t have any worries at all.

The two brothers ate quickly and ran outside to play after eating.

As a result, after playing for a while, the two suddenly came back. Ruan Yuejin was older and more mature, while Ruan Yuehua directly blocked Sun Xiaohui and stared at her with an exaggerated expression and said, "Mom, grandpa and grandma brought Uncle Wu and Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, the five of them are eating grapes there!"

Hearing this, Sun Xiaohui subconsciously didn't believe it, "Nonsense, where did they get the grapes to eat?"

Ruan Yuehua's eyes were wide open, "My elder brother and I were lying at the door and saw it with our own eyes. It was really grapes."

Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui looked at Ruan Yuejin, who nodded and said, "I heard that the old tailor gave it to Ruan Xi."

Did the old tailor give it to Ruan Xi?

Sun Xiaohui was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Impossible! How is this possible?"

Everyone in Fengming Mountain knows the old tailor's character. If he could give Ruanxi grapes, the sun would rise from the west, and ten of them would rise at once!

Ruan Yuehua was very anxious, "Won't you know if you go and take a look?"

You're right, seeing is believing. Sun Xiaohui put down her chopsticks and followed Ruan Yuehua out. She walked lightly to the door of the side room, stopped, and stretched her head to look inside.

Seeing that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were eating grapes, she frowned so much that a raisin appeared on her brows.

She didn't say anything to embarrass herself, and quietly retreated back to the main room.

Seeing her come in, Ruan Changgui looked up and asked her, "Really?"

Sun Xiaohui looked greedy. She sat down, picked up her chopsticks, looked at Ruan Changgui and nodded: "I am eating grapes."

Ruan Yuehua said from the side: "Mom, I want to eat grapes too."

Ruan Changgui ignored him and continued to ask Sun Xiaohui: "Did the old tailor give it to Xiaoxi?"

Sun Xiaohui held the chopsticks and thought for a while, with a doubtful look in her eyes: "Do you think the old tailor can give it to her? Otherwise..."

She lowered her voice and said, "She must have stolen it..."