It's snowing.

After a deep sleep, Chen Nongmo woke up, opened the curtains and pushed open the window.

As the daylight spread into the dim house, the snowflakes falling outside could be clearly seen.

The snow is already very thick, and I don’t know how long it will last.

Chen Nongmo casually sighed and stretched out at the window. He simply stretched for a few minutes to activate his stiff body before starting to tidy up the room and himself.

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?" In the kitchen, Cao Qiuhua, who was carrying a kettle of hot water to scald chicken feathers, saw the little girl come in and moved to the front of the big wooden barrel to block the chicken in the barrel.

Chen Nongmo was not afraid of these bloody things. She just looked unrealistic. In fact, she was quite experienced in killing chickens and fish. "I've had enough sleep. It's already past seven o'clock."

In an era when most people get up around five o'clock, she is considered a lazy sleeper.

"I'm glad you're not sleepy. Have you brushed your teeth and washed your face? Once you're done, go have breakfast." As he spoke, Cao Qiuhua put the kettle on the ground, took a rag from the shelf to wipe his hands, and prepared to serve breakfast to the little girl.

"Tell me where it is and I'll get it myself." She didn't have the nerve to just ask for food and clothes.

Although Cao Qiuhua felt that girls were more delicate than boys, he would not stop the girl from doing anything.

Especially since Demao and Ji Mo had suffered a lot, she would only feel at ease if Yu Yu was at least able to take care of himself.

So she raised her chin towards the stove and said, "It's warming up in the pot inside. Be careful when you take it out. Don't get burned by the edge of the pot. There's milk powder on the table outside. Do you know how to make it?"

Being treated as a little kid again, Chen Nongmo suppressed his shame and said, "Yes!"

= After finishing breakfast quickly, Chen Nongmo cleaned up the dishes and found a small stool to sit next to the wooden barrel, and helped Qiuhua's mother to remove the chicken feathers.

"You don't need this. It's dirty. If you're bored, just walk around the house. There are also melon seeds and peanuts in the cupboard."

Chen Nongmo didn't listen. The house and Peanuts wouldn't run away again, so he continued to help pluck the feathers.

But she paid attention to her speed and tried to act like a novice: "Where are Father Zong, Brother Xiao Hu, and the brothers?"

Seeing the little girl clumsily insisting on working, Cao Qiuhua thought that she was uneasy and wanted to find work, so he stopped trying to stop her. He just quickened his pace and did more work himself: "It's almost the New Year, and we need to store more meat at home. Your father has taken the second, third, and Xiao Hu to the back mountain to check the traps early in the morning."

Chen Nongmo was a complete layman when it came to hunting. When he imagined three strong men sweeping across the back mountain, he pursed his lips and asked with a smile, "When will you be back? Is it okay if it's snowing outside?"

"What kind of snow is this? It's just a sparse snow and will stop at noon at most. It's just snowing for fun. We'll be back before lunch." Cao Qiuhua was quick and skillful. In just a short while, he had almost removed all the feathers from the old hen, leaving only some fine hairs that needed to be carefully cleaned.

"I'll go change the water." She handed the chicken to her daughter, bent down and went outside with the wooden bucket.

After pouring out the dirty water and chicken feathers, he returned to the kitchen and filled half a basin with warm water. He began to deal with the small fluff on the chicken before continuing, "Your fourth and fifth brothers went to the village to borrow books."

Chen Nongmo rubbed his nose, which was a little itchy from the floating hair, with his wrist and asked in confusion, "Borrow a book?"

"Well, borrow elementary school textbooks. We don't have any at home. The fifth child has the best grades, so ask him to teach you from the first grade. When you can keep up with the progress of junior high school, we will send you to school." Cao Qiuhua was really considering his little girl.

If she were really sent directly to first grade with other children of a few years older, not only would she be embarrassed, but rumors would probably also spread.

Yu Yu didn't know about this matter before, and no one else in the village knew about it.

She didn't want her daughter to be gossiped about, so it would be better for her to teach herself until she reached junior high school level before going to school.

The illiterate Chen Nongmo responded with a slightly sad tone: "Okay."

Cao Qiuhua didn't know the girl's inner frustration, and smiled as if remembering something, "By the way, don't worry about your parents. Your father and I will go to the village committee this afternoon to call your eldest brother. He is in the army and knows a lot of people. He should be able to find out where Demao and the others are."

Hearing this, Chen Nongmo paused, looked up and asked in surprise: "Really? Then. Can I go with you?"

Maybe. Maybe that half-brother, the only blood relative to her whom she had never met, already knew where her parents were?

After witnessing with her own eyes the bad attitude of people towards the so-called "reform through labor" elements in this era, she wanted to know her parents' whereabouts as soon as possible, even if there was only a slight possibility.

The little girl has been very calm from yesterday until now, and is more sensible and well-behaved than a normal 15-year-old child.

This was the first time Cao Qiuhua saw her so excited, so she was reluctant to refuse: "Go if you want to. By the way, I'll take you to see the old secretary. Although you are five generations away from the family, you have to call him Fourth Uncle according to seniority."

"Want to bring a gift?"

"Why? You're still a child."

"I'm not a kid anymore. In a dozen days, I'll be 16 next year."

"That's just your age in Chinese years. Why would you, a young man from a small family, need to be polite before you get married? Even if you were to be polite, it would be the Fourth Uncle, your elder, who would give you the red envelope."

“.”

= After lunch.

Brother Hu left.

Chen Demao's incident would not implicate him. When he realized that the internal strife had affected him, he had already arranged the guard's place in advance and promoted him one level based on his outstanding performance in recent years.

Therefore, Xiao Hu, who is on vacation during this period, will have to report to the new unit after visiting his relatives in the next city.

As the boss, Cao Liu brought a few pickled and dried rabbits and a large piece of wild boar meat as a thank-you gift, and personally sent the people to the county town to take a bus.

The big guys who stayed at home were not idle either.

The three boys who had no habit of taking naps rarely went out for a run and stayed at home watching their sister study.

"1, 2, 39, 10, let's learn these numbers today. Sixth sister, you try to see if you can write and recite them in one day." The 15-year-old fifth child, Chen Yi, is in the second grade of junior high school. He has excellent grades and a gentle personality, and he works very hard as a teacher.

Behind him were the fourth brother Chen Jun and the third brother Chen Huai, who were watching the fun.

But when asking a graduate student from a prestigious university to start learning again, even if Chen Nongmo, who is not very proficient in acting, pays attention, he still shows some differences.

So, when Cao Qiuhua woke up from a nap, she heard her sons praising her sister as a genius.

She said as a matter of course: "Isn't it natural that Yu Yu is smart? Do you guys need to deliberately say it?"

Hearing this, Chen Nongmo, who had a normal brain and not an outrageously high IQ, looked away guiltily.

Cao Qiuhua looked at Chen Yi again and said, "Old Five, you should pay more attention and make adjustments based on Yu Yu's progress. Your father, I and your sister will go call Wu Wen."

The three brothers all looked over, and the youngest brother spoke up, "Let's go together. The eldest brother hasn't been back for three years."

"Then let's go together."

= Chen Zong is a taciturn man, but he is very considerate to his wife and does not have any derogatory male chauvinism.

Worried that his wife might fall, he would sweep every place where she needed to step clean even though it had been snowing for the past two or three months.

Twenty years of persistence.

He was alone before, but now that his children have grown up, he brings his sons along.

Therefore, Chen Nongmo was protected by a group of tall men, and he had a smooth journey towards the village.

Looking at the thick cotton shoes on her feet that were almost not stained by the snowflakes, she couldn't help but look more at Zong's father who was walking in the front, side by side with Qiuhua's mother.

I couldn't help but sigh that maybe a sentence I saw somewhere before was true.

A person's maturity has nothing to do with age. Mr. Zong, who is five years younger than Qiuhua's mother, is obviously the one who takes care of others.

"Hey! Are you going to the back mountain to trap rabbits?" The fourth brother, Chen Jun, who has a lively personality, looked at six or seven young men and women not far away, and immediately waved his hands loudly.

Chen Nongmo also looked over and saw a few people standing in the vast white snow.

Chen Yi explained in a gentle voice: "Those are educated youth. Every year, a few are assigned to our village. After a few years, there are already more than a dozen of them. Do you see the two rows of houses in front? That's where they live."

The educated youth were a special product of this era. As he got closer, Chen Nongmo could see everyone's faces clearly.

He dresses more smartly than the people in the village.

Five boys and two girls.

One of the girls was very beautiful, in line with the aesthetic of that era, with an oval face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose bridge, and two pigtails. She was also tall, about 1.7 meters tall, and she stood there in a pretty manner, making the surrounding environment brighter.

Chen Nongmo did not move closer like his fourth brother did. He just looked at them curiously for a few times, then looked away and continued to follow everyone's steps.

"Sixth sister, if you want to trap rabbits, fourth brother and I will take you there some other day." Chen Huai, who thought the little girl was fond of rabbits and went to the mountains every day, said that it was no big deal.

"I think you deserve to be punished. If Yu Yu wants to go, he should go with the second brother or your father. With your reckless temper, don't get lost." Cao Qiuhua turned around and glared at his son, warning him not to give rash advice.

The young man wanted to save face, so he stiffened his neck and retorted: "Mom, I'm 17, and will be 18 soon. I'm only two years younger than my second brother. How could I lose my sister? You're just talking nonsense!"

Chen Zong turned around and glanced at the third brother indifferently.

Chen Huai: "Ahem. Well, Lao Liu, what mom said does make sense."

Chen Nongmo. Who is the sixth? You are the sixth!

As they walked away, no one heard the voices of the educated youth behind them, some expressing their amazement, some warning: "Oh! That's the girl the village is talking about, right? What's her name? She's so pretty, I've never seen a girl as pretty as her."

"That's right, Xiuxiu, you're pretty too! You two are just not the same type."

"It seems that something happened at her home and she came here to seek refuge?"

"Who cares? It has nothing to do with us."

"The villagers are very united. You should keep some of your thoughts to yourself and don't speak them out. We are already living a more comfortable life than many educated youth. Don't make the villagers angry with us."

"I know, I know."

“.”

= 738 troops.

Chen Wuwen has been busy coordinating the group's training plan for next year with Shao Zheng recently and has not been assigned any other tasks.

So when the communications room notified me of a phone call, I was already in the army.

As he rushed out of the office, someone followed him.

Chen Wuwen turned back as he ran: "What are you doing? It's my home phone!"

Seeing that he had discovered him, Shao Zheng took a long step and simply walked side by side with his friend, with an unassuming smile on his handsome and gentle face: "What's our relationship? Aren't your parents my parents? I guess it must be about asking about Master Chen. Maybe my parents will ask me to answer the phone. I'll take the initiative to go, and save my parents the phone bill."

Even though he knew his brother was worried that he would receive some bad news, Chen Wuwen still felt jealous when he kept talking about his parents. He couldn't help but retort, "What if he is introducing me to someone? She has urged me so many times."

Hearing this, Shao Zheng looked his friend up and down, then said with a little disdain: "It's unlikely. You're not as pretty as me, your personality isn't as good as mine, and your mouth isn't as sweet as mine. Even if our mother wanted to introduce someone, she would introduce them to me first."

Chen Wuwen. I x*%fuck*xx (dirty words have been blocked)

(End of this chapter)