Little Xingxing is so tanned she's practically a briquettes of coal. Since summer vacation, she's completely let herself go. Back when she was at Old Guan's, she was a servant girl, ordered around like crazy. Ever since she could remember, she'd been constantly slaving away, never getting to go out and play. After the family split up, she's been pampered by the trio and Fifth Grandpa, and she's regained the playfulness expected of a child her age. Summer vacation is spent venturing up the mountains and down the river, more like a boy than any other.
Most children of that age in the village were busy looking after other children. Back then, with few entertainment options and early bedtimes, the only outlet for emotion was the kang (kang), where children often lay on the bed. Consequently, every household had many children, and the older ones often looked after the younger ones. It was common for a teenaged child to carry a younger brother, who couldn't walk, on his back while leading a younger sister, who had just learned to walk, to school. School teachers repeatedly warned against bringing children to school, yet this practice was widespread. If they didn't bring their children with them, the older children wouldn't be able to attend.
Little Xingxing doesn't have the burden of looking after children. She's the youngest in the family, and everyone dotes on her. Plus, Jiang Huashu likes girls and often chats with his little daughter, instilling in her the idea that girls are treasures. Now, the child is very confident and fearless. A while ago, she heard about Suihe and the militia catching spies, and she regretted not participating in the arrest herself.
I was quite tired after all the fun that day. My hair was tangled and stuck to my forehead. I sat down on a small stool in the yard and didn't want to move.
He took out a piece of chocolate his sister had given him a few days ago from his pocket. He still kept his stingy habit from childhood and was reluctant to eat it all in one gulp. He looked at his fifth grandfather and his sister, then looked down at the three chocolates he still had in his hand. He stood up and put one into his fifth grandfather's mouth, one into his sister's mouth, and the remaining one into his own mouth.
Grandpa Wu thought the chocolate would be as refreshing as the cola he'd drunk the other day, the color and herbal broth. But before he could even begin to savor the chocolate, an indescribable taste spread from his tongue to his taste buds. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth, unable to express it. It was fine if this chocolate looked like donkey dung, but it was also bitter as hell. Even a dog wouldn't eat it.
These two girls have been tortured by that damn dog spy since they were young and don't know what delicious food is. One likes to drink Chinese medicine soup, and the other likes to eat donkey shit. It would be too easy for this damn guy to be killed directly.
After thinking for a while, he got up and went into the house, found a clean pair of underwear in the cabinet, opened the zipper of the small pocket inside, took out a roll of money, counted out twenty yuan, put the remaining money into the small pocket, zipped it up, folded the underwear and put it back in the cabinet.
After leaving the house, he called Jiang Huashu, handed him the money, and told him to go to the cooperative when he went to work in the village, or to the department store when he went to visit Suihe in the county, to buy some food for the two children. When buying, he should be selective and not buy things that are not edible.
Jiang Huashu was writing a short-term plan for getting rich in the west room, and was going to discuss it in a meeting when he went to work at the commune on Monday. In fact, the general framework of the plan had already been discussed with his wife. Now he had to review it again to check for omissions and shortcomings, and go over all the plans again along the thread, and think over them over and over again. There couldn't be any mistakes, otherwise it would be unacceptable if it was dug up in a few years and someone caught him.
Jiang Huashu took the money from Fifth Grandpa without hesitation and put it directly into his pocket.
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