The next morning, Su Youfu retrieved his shoe storage from the bushes.
Although there was plenty of dew in the morning, he put his Liberation shoes in a plastic bag and no water got in at all.
He quickly took off his leather shoes and put on his Liberation shoes again.
Country people may not seem to have anything important to do on a daily basis, but in fact they have a lot of trivial things to do every day. They have to feed chickens, ducks and pigs, take care of the vegetables in the vegetable garden, water them and get rid of pests, and manage and supervise the felling of trees in the mountains.
So the couple stayed for one night and left early in the morning.
Grandpa and grandma accompanied him all the way to the village entrance, and they were very reluctant to let him go. Xiaoqi looked back from a distance and could still see the tall and short figures.
She was still wearing the new clothes she bought for her.
There was still no signal on my cell phone along the way, but there were some nice scenery along the way from my grandma's house to my own home, so I could take pictures even without the signal.
The family of three returned home and were warmly welcomed when they entered the village.
Jiang Yiru's "Appointment Along the Way" has a very high viewership rate in Lushan City. During that time period in the evening, there are not many activities in the countryside, so it is still a popular program, especially among the men at home. The women like to talk about TV dramas or something, while the men prefer to talk about things that are close to the facts, as if they can know everything about the world without leaving home.
Compared to news, local programs like "A Date Along the Way" are closer to what's happening around us and more interesting to talk about.
Unexpectedly, I saw Su Youfu's daughter on TV again last night.
Now he is no longer called Su Quezi, but Youfu instead.
When Su Youfu entered the village, he ran into his cousin working with a hoe on his shoulder. He affectionately called him Youfu, which made him tremble and feel uncomfortable. He used to call him "cripple"...
Then, when passing by several houses at the entrance of the village, he waved enthusiastically and asked if they had eaten breakfast. If not, he suggested that they come home for dinner. Sheng Juanhua, who was so proud of herself for returning to her parents' home, was frightened and shocked by her enthusiasm.
Xiaoqi is not good at dealing with the uncles, aunts and grandmas in the village, so when saying hello, he just smiles.
The family of three quickened their pace to go home and breathed a sigh of relief after entering the house.
Sheng Juanhua and Su Youfu immediately changed their clothes.
I have to work as soon as I get home. I don’t want to work when I’m wearing new clothes.
Su Youfu made a fire, while Sheng Juanhua went to let the chickens and ducks out, fed them, and then fed the pigs.
After boiling water, Xiaoqi wanted to take a bath.
There is no water heater at home for taking a shower. We put the hot water in a bucket and bring it to a small house behind the kitchen.
There is a ditch directly below the small house, so the water can just flow down.
Xiaoqi easily carried two buckets of water by himself. There was a cold water pipe connected to the small house, so he could just mix the water and use it.
Taking a shower in the school dormitory is almost the same, you have to fetch water yourself. However, the room in my aunt's ward is more advanced, with a water heater.
After washing my hair and taking a shower, I changed into an old T-shirt and sweatpants and put back on the white shoes I had been wearing.
After changing clothes, Xiaoqi went to help with the work. He was supposed to take a shower after finishing the work, but he had stayed at his grandmother's house for a whole day and had not taken a shower yesterday, so Xiaoqi couldn't help but take a shower first.
The chickens and ducks are all fed, but feeding the pigs is a little more troublesome because I bought two pigs at the beginning of the year to prepare for my daughter's school tuition. I take good care of them every day and they are almost ready to be slaughtered. They have eaten a lot during this period.
It was agreed that someone would come to slaughter a pig in two days. Su Youfu had been thinking about it and wanted to make a pig-killing meal while the pig was being slaughtered, and also celebrate his daughter's going to college.
Xiaoqi didn't want to celebrate, thinking that there was really nothing to brag about.
Sheng Juanhua's opinion is that the price of pigs is high now, so they should just drive the whole pig away. It will be more lively to eat the pig-killing dinner during the New Year. After selling the pigs, they can catch two piglets and start raising them now.
No matter how the couple argues, the pigs must be fed with plenty of food. The closer they are to sell, the better they have to be fed. Otherwise, after raising them for a whole year, if they become thin, they will lose money.
The pigs eat a lot and we don’t buy any feed. What they eat the most these days are sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves.
Su Youfu changed his clothes and went to the field to dig sweet potatoes and pick sweet potato leaves.
Sheng Juanhua wants to cook泔水.
Xiaoqi also changed his clothes and went to the vegetable garden with his father.
She felt that she was very strong. Her father was small and not good at farm work. Although he was meticulous, he was not strong enough. He had to go back and forth twice to carry the things that others carried away.
Xiaoqi wore a straw hat and carried a backpack, looking like a proper farm girl.
Everyone I met along the way looked surprised when they greeted me.
"Lucky, your college students still have to work in the fields."
"Your daughter is so good. She's been on TV and still works in the fields."
Su Xiaoqi blushed when she heard this.
She actually does very little farm work at home. She occasionally goes to the vegetable garden with her father, or goes to the mountains to bring meals to her father, and she chops firewood relatively rarely.
My mother did all the work, such as chopping wood.
Her body was so weak that she couldn't lift anything with her hands or shoulders, and her skin was prone to allergies. She didn't know what flowers and plants she touched when she went up the mountain, but her face would be swollen when she came back. Or if she was bitten by a small insect, other people would be healed in a day or two, but hers would be swollen for more than half a month.
Sheng Juanhua was anxious when she saw this. She felt that if her daughter did not study hard, she would kill herself if she married into the countryside.
Although I felt bad for her, as a country girl, she always had to do some work. Sometimes I asked her to pick vegetables or water the vegetable fields.
Xiaoqi occasionally complains, but after witnessing her parents' hard work, she is still sensible. When she was studying in the town middle school, there were many temptations, especially in the third year of junior high school, when many of her female classmates would go to Internet cafes to play games or be called to KTV to play.
It seemed like they had suddenly matured, and the relationships between male and female classmates were no longer simple, and there were more ways to play.
At that time, Xiaoqi was not sociable. While others went out to play, she wore glasses to study.
Because I feel deep down that I am different from other families. Other families have brothers and their fathers are not disabled, so it is particularly difficult for me to study.
Finally, such persistence paid off. Three students from their town middle school were admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the city, and she was one of them.
However, things became more complicated when she reached high school, because she discovered that she was among the top three students in the town's middle school, but she was almost at the bottom of the class in high school, and was naturally inferior to others in every way.
The feeling of inferiority and pride always makes me uneasy.
It was during the summer vacation that Xiaoqi truly found himself.
I feel more down-to-earth now and I am not afraid when working hard.
Initially it was due to the improved system, but later on, it was the feeling of progressing little by little through her own efforts that made her grow a lot.
Now, even when I follow my father to the vegetable garden, I don’t feel that I am inferior to my classmates.
My thoughts have matured a lot.
However, when she arrived at the sweet potato field with her father, Xiaoqi found that her deadly blood was still there. She stepped in the middle of the vegetable field and saw a big green caterpillar on the sweet potato leaves, which was still squeaking and jumping around.
It kept jumping until it reached the riverside where there were no green vegetables or even grass around, and then it stopped.
She was so afraid of the soft, fat, green little bugs that she would get creepy and her back would shiver whenever she saw them.
She is not even afraid of snakes compared to small insects.
But I just can't stand bugs. When I was a kid, I was so scared of bugs that I didn't even dare to eat vegetables.
Su Youfu recently feels that his daughter has grown up to be much more mature and stable. The old father feels relieved but also a little disappointed. He always feels that as his child grows up, she seems to be getting farther and farther away from him, and can even live well without his care.
Now I see my daughter still making noises and screaming like she did when she was little because of a little bug, not even having time to run away. I find it funny, because my daughter is always a little girl.
Xiaoqi was really afraid of insects and didn't dare to touch the leaves. Her father picked the leaves and dug out the sweet potatoes. She picked up the sweet potatoes behind him and soon filled a basket with them.
It is already very heavy. The sweet potatoes have just been dug out, are full of moisture, and are big, each weighing more than one kilogram.
A backpack probably weighs more than 50 kilograms.
"You've packed too much. Pour out half of it and carry it home. Dad will take the rest." Su Youfu saw that the sun was strong and didn't want to let his daughter get sunburned here.
"It's okay. I've been eating a lot lately and I have a lot more strength." Xiao Qi didn't want to be exposed to the sun anymore, but was afraid of bugs, so he went back with the basket on his back.
I actually carried a full basket on my back and it didn't feel particularly heavy.
She was walking home with the sweet potatoes on her back. When she passed by the village office, she didn't know what had happened, but it was very lively and there were many people. It seemed like someone had come.
By the time she got home carrying the sweet potatoes, she already knew what had happened.
Her elementary school classmate Zhang Juan actually drove back a car, and I heard that she bought it herself.
The whole village was shocked. It really was a car.
The white shell is shiny in the sun.
I heard it's a German brand.
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