Chapter 27
"Until the crops are harvested again, don't let your dogs run around. If they are caught by bad people, they will be killed and eaten."
Hearing this, Yun Mian also reached out and hugged the little gray wolf's head, frowning slightly: "But at home, mom won't let us eat too much."
"Why?" Zhao Xiaoli looked at her in surprise. For a moment she thought her ears were broken, otherwise how could she hear Yun Mian say that her mother didn't feed her enough?
Aunt Yunjin is a powerful figure who managed to bring Yunmian through survival during the famine. With her original reminder and the huge compensation from the Zhao family, how could she let Yunmian starve?
"Because a month ago, Aunt Xinghua said that my mother took good care of me~" Yunmian buried her face in the thick fur of the little gray wolf and muttered, "When my mother went back, she would not let me eat enough, nor would she feed the little gray wolves. If we were hungry, she would chase us out and let us go out to find food by ourselves."
When the little girl talked about this, her tone was full of grievance. It was obvious that she didn't understand why her mother was so cruel to let her and the dogs starve.
Zhao Xiaoli: “…”
She looked at Yunmian's cheeks which had become thinner without her noticing, her pupils slightly constricted, and in an instant countless cold white beads of sweat rose on her back.
Aunt Xinghua's words may have been unconscious, but they definitely sounded a wake-up call to Aunt Yunjin.
Everyone says that natural disasters bring three years of suffering. Before the autumn harvest arrived, everyone in Hongshan City had a hard life every day.
In this kind of environment, if someone lives well, he will become the enemy of the vast majority of the suffering people. Everyone in Zhaojiagou knows that Yunjin received compensation from their family. Not only money, but also chickens and ducks... These are the capital for survival in the years of great disasters.
Maybe someone has been eyeing the Yun family for a long time, and not just their dog. Or maybe it was precisely because they had a dog that those people did not act rashly.
Zhao Xiaoli's pale face was too obvious. Yun Mian pulled her sleeve curiously and asked softly, "What's wrong with you? Aren't you full?"
Zhao Xiaoli shook her head in a daze and said in a trance, "No, but... I shouldn't be full."
Although she gave a lot of money and the gold to the village cadres, Zhao Xiaoli knew how capable her parents were, so just in case, she hesitated for a long time and finally left twenty yuan for herself.
Coupled with her strange good luck, her family, especially herself, has never lacked food, so much so that now she is almost as tall as the skinny Yunmian, and even the flesh on her hands is whiter, tenderer and plumper than hers.
Looking at Zhao Xiaoli's hurried back, Yun Mian blinked in confusion, not understanding what was wrong with her.
But she soon lost interest in these things, as the system uncle said that she had completed 50% of her main task.
Yun Mian looked blankly at the slightly turbid water in the pond at her feet, shook her head and stopped thinking about it, then stood up and ran out of the village with the little gray wolf.
There were no fish or shrimps left in the pond, as they had almost all been caught by the villagers. So if Yun Mian still wanted to find food to fill the stomachs of herself and the three dogs, she could only go to a more distant river with the little gray wolf.
Midsummer, night.
Yunmian was too hot to sleep, so she simply moved a small stool and sat in the yard with her mother and three dogs to cool off.
Whenever this happened, she would look at the three dogs lying drowsy on the ground with special envy.
Because they have a lot of long hair, they can bury their faces in their paws and will not be bitten by buzzing mosquitoes.
Unlike her, since the beginning of summer, the red mosquito bites on her body have been increasing day by day and have never gone away.
Yun Jin held a large palm-leaf fan in her hand and slowly fanned her daughter, while expressing some doubts that only a real mother would have.
"Does this mosquito have eyes and a brain and can it understand human language? Why doesn't it bite anyone else but only targets you to suck blood?" Just as he asked, the palm-leaf fan in his hand fell against the wind.
"Pah!" The body of a mosquito was flattened and stuck to Yun Mian's thin arm.
Yunmian stared at her mother aggrievedly: "It hurts~"
Yun Jin blurted out: "Just bear with the pain."
Yunmian: “…”
The system squatted on the wall and commented: "Mianmian, it's like this, the love that mothers have for their children is sometimes like a storm that is hard to bear."
Yunmian Gulian: So mom has hit her many times these days under the pretext of hitting mosquitoes!
System: "After all, there aren't many opportunities to beat a child without any reason!"
If you miss this summer, you will have to wait until next summer.
Yun Mian stopped talking altogether. She hugged her elbows angrily and stared at the stars in the sky in a daze.
But she couldn't fall asleep when she heard the rustling sounds and frogs croaking coming from the fields on all sides. Her mother happened to move out the bamboo mat and spread it in the yard. Yunmian lay on the cool bamboo mat, covered with a thin blanket, looking at the twinkling little stars in the sky, and talking to her mother in a casual manner.
"Mom, when will autumn come?" She felt more and more that it was becoming more and more terrible for everyone without food. Yesterday, she took the little gray wolf to the river to catch fish. The little gray wolf finally caught a small fish, but after getting ashore, it was snatched away by a big child of eight or nine years old. She couldn't let the little gray wolf bite people, and she couldn't beat the other party, so she could only watch the food that belonged to her and the little gray wolf being snatched away by the big child.
She still knew that older child. Two years ago, he was willing to spend money to buy candy in exchange for the chance to touch the puppy.
But this year he became a bad boy who bullied other children and snatched fish from them. After returning home, Mianmian told her mother about this. She thought her mother would take her to the child's house to get the fish back, but her mother did nothing but told her to be more careful next time.
Although Xiaoli was angry when she found out in the morning, she also said that the older child was trying to survive, and if he was not in this era, he would never become like that, so he was not a really bad child.
Yunmian couldn’t understand or comprehend what her mother and sister Xiaoli said. She just felt that the world was slowly becoming scary.
If even a good child can suddenly become a bad child and doesn't even care about being bitten by a dog, what about other children and adults?
Is it still as good as she thought before?
Uncle System said that after the crops are harvested in the fall, people will no longer behave like this.
So, mom, when will autumn come? How long do we have to wait? When autumn comes, will everything really return to the way it was before?
"It's almost time." Yun Jin slowly waved the palm-leaf fan in her hand and said softly, "Mian Mian, do you still remember the spring you looked forward to when you were five years old?"
Spring will be here soon, and likewise, autumn is not far away.
After getting her mother's answer, the little girl forced a reassuring smile, looked at the bright twinkling stars in the sky, and slowly curled up beside her mother and fell asleep.
The midsummer night brings with it the residual warmth of the wind, the croaking of frogs in the fields outside the courtyard, and the occasional hoarse and long chirping of cicadas that stay up late...
Yun Jin slowly stopped fanning with the palm-leaf fan in her hand and gently smoothed her daughter's messy hair aside. She herself did not sleep, but used the wind from the fan to silently drive away the annoying mosquitoes of the sleeping child.
The system squatted on the wall of the courtyard, watching this scene, and suddenly realized that it and the host had been in this world for two years, and Yunmian had grown from a five-year-old child to seven years old.
When she starts school this fall, she will be a second-grade student.
In the future, where will she go in this world?
Will her mother be there to accompany her and protect her at every step she takes? Will she be able to live a carefree and happy life like she is now?
Yunjin was right, winter is over and spring is here.
Summer passes and autumn harvest comes.
Zhaojiagou, which had been silent for a whole year, became lively again. The village chief and everyone stood on the ridge of the field, gazing at the grain crops that were destined to have a good harvest. For a moment, they hugged each other and burst into tears. Several old people walked into the field with crutches, stretched out their hands tremblingly to touch the wheat ears, but the next second they knelt on the soft soil, kneeling in this golden wheat field, crying and laughing, sobbing madly.
When the brigade cadres announced the official start of the autumn harvest and that the state would exempt all workers and peasants in Hongshan City from handing in part of the grain and allow everyone to keep it for themselves, the entire production brigade was excited.
Yunmian ran to the fields under the fierce scorching sun of the autumn heat like a gust of wind, holding in her hand the first place she had just won before school, and jumped on the edge of the field to cheer to her mother: "Mom! I got first place again! The teacher rewarded me with a persimmon! It's a big and soft persimmon, not a sour wild persimmon. The teacher said it's super sweet. Mom, let's eat it together tonight!!"
The little girl with a rosy face was jumping and dancing on the edge of the field, holding a test paper in one hand and a tempting big red persimmon in the other. Her smiling face made the people working below shake their heads and laugh, and turn to look at Yun Jin with envy or kindness, who stopped and stood up with her back straight.
After autumn, we will enter a new cold winter. The system, Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli all know what this winter means to Yunjin.
So in the days before the New Year, Yunmian took the three dogs and went nowhere. They followed their mother like little followers all day long, fearing that if they failed to keep an eye on her, her mother would sneak out and run around, then lose sight of the road and fall into the river.
Zhao Xiaoli also ran to the Yun family three times a day nervously. Facing Aunt Yunjin's suspicious and penetrating gaze, she could only bite the bullet and say that she came to find Yunmian to do homework together. As for whether Aunt Yunjin believed her in her heart, with two children plus a system, she had no confidence at all.
Until that day finally comes.
Yunmian had been fidgeting since morning and was steadfast in her refusal to let her mother leave her sight.
Zhao Xiaoli also knocked on the door early in the morning, and hesitantly told Aunt Yunjin to stay at home and not go anywhere today.
But how perceptive is Yun Jin? She had already sensed something when Zhao Xiaoli came to her house a few days ago. Now Zhao Xiaoli said it so bluntly, and thinking about the locust plague last year... Yun Jin really didn't go anywhere that day, and just quietly prepared the New Year's goods at home.
When the time finally passed midnight, Yunmian and the system both breathed a sigh of relief. Yunmian cheered and rushed over to hug her mother's waist, happy like a little fool.
Mom survived!
Mom is the best!
Mommy wants to live a long life with Mianmian!!
Yun Jin quietly watched her daughter's unconcealed silly smile. Yun Mian knew nothing about it, but the system seemed to have noticed something. However, by the time she wanted to remind Yun Mian, it was too late.
"Mianmian, your mother is gone. How do you live alone?"
"..." No matter how slow Yun Mian was, she knew that this question was very problematic. Under her mother's penetrating gaze, she slowly withdrew her hand, covered her head with the quilt and prepared to pretend to sleep to get away with it.
But maybe the quilt was not thick enough to block out my mother's voice.
"If you don't want to tell me, then let mom guess." Yun Jin's voice was soft and gentle. She sat on the edge of the bed, patting the child who was pretending to sleep under the quilt through the quilt.
"My mother may have left our Mianmian for some reason. In the days that followed, Mianmian, a little girl, could only grow up eating food from many families just like Gou'er and Li Shuanzi. Gou'er still had his grandmother, but our Mianmian had no relatives in this world."
At this point, Yun Jin paused. In the end, she chose not to say anything to her daughter. Instead, she closed the door and sat in the windy yard. She didn't know where the system would stop, so she sat down facing one direction. Her voice became much lower afterwards: "...Mianmian will have a hard life. She won't be able to go to school anymore. She will be bullied by other children in the village. Other children can cry to their parents when they fight, but what should I do if my Mianmian is bullied?"
"I don't know who you are, and I don't know why Zhao Xiaoli can predict certain things, but I am sure that no matter what Mianmian looks like, she is still my daughter."
Yun Jin raised her eyes and looked at an empty spot. The system happened to be squatting there, listening quietly to what a mother who learned that she was supposed to die yesterday wanted to say.
"How can a child be without family?" Yun Jin's eyes were filled with tears, but she tried to remain calm: "Everyone in the village is kind-hearted and willing to give Mian Mian a meal to keep her alive, but she has no family to teach her and raise her. She doesn't know anything. What will she do when she grows up?"
Will I suffer a loss? Will I be cheated? Will I be bullied?
Will he... turn into a little scoundrel like Li Shuanzi, stealing and cheating in order to survive, and no longer be the well-behaved and lively person he is now?
Yun Jin didn't dare to think about it, but when she faced the cold moonlight all over the ground and thought about the tension of the two children who followed her everywhere yesterday, she had to think more.
Mianmian just turned seven years old. She is so naughty and clingy. If I leave suddenly and no one takes care of her and coaxes her, how will she grow up so hard?
How much grievance and suffering will she have to endure in the future?
"..." She actually wanted to say a lot of things. When she was speculating about that possibility, she sat alone in a daze all day, and always unconsciously wondered what her daughter's future would be like after she died.
If there really is reincarnation of ghosts and gods in the world, then I definitely would not want to die like that. I would definitely find a way, even if I have to become a ghost, to stay with my daughter and watch her grow up with my own eyes.
But she didn't know, she had no idea how her daughter survived in the reincarnation after her death.
She is still so young, what should I do if she is hungry? What should I do if she kicks off the quilt at night and catches a cold? What should I do if she is sick and misses her mother?
Yun Jin wiped away her tears, closed her eyes and slowly calmed herself down. Then she sat at the door in a daze, watching over her daughter in the house.
If I really died, how did I die?
Eaten by wild wolves in the mountains? No, she would never allow herself to leave her daughter to die alone. Even if it was a wild wolf, even if it was a jackal, tiger or leopard, she would definitely find a way to crawl back to see her daughter.
Did she die suddenly of illness? No... My daughter was still so young, she would not let herself die so easily even if she had one foot in the grave.
Yun Jin's mind was in a mess and she didn't know how long she kept crying until the door behind her was gently opened and a small hand grabbed the hem of her clothes and shook it.
"Mom~" Yun Mian approached carefully, stretched out her hands and slowly hugged her mother: "It's so cold outside, let's sleep together?"
Yun Jin held her daughter in her arms, but was afraid that the coldness from her body would be passed on to her and make her catch a cold, so she gathered all her thoughts and took the little girl back into the house. After tucking her into the bed, she held her in her arms through the quilt and sighed softly and silently.
Tomorrow is the Little New Year, and after that, it will be spring again.
My daughter's grades have always been very stable. When she went to collect her final exam notice, Teacher He said that although Mianmian was not as smart as Zhao Xiaoli and could not apply what she had learned to other situations, she was very serious and hardworking in her studies and never daydreamed in class. Her careful and serious attitude towards study made it easier for her to get first place several times than the careless Zhao Xiaoli.
Next fall, Mianmian will be in the third grade.
Time flies. Two days ago, Zhao Xiaoli's mother talked to her about sending the two little girls to the county to attend middle school in the future.
Although it seems still far away, Yunjin and Li Jiaxiu both feel that they should save money for their children's education earlier. Otherwise, if their children are really capable and get into middle school, it would be a sin for their parents to be unable to send them to school. No matter what, they cannot delay their children.
So Yunjin carefully calculated the family's current property, which was actually not much. Most of the compensation money from Zhao Guangcheng's family was spent during the disaster. Half of the dozen or so chickens and ducks were stewed to nourish Mianmian, and the other half were sold in exchange for food and money.
Now the family doesn't have much money in bits and pieces, and it's barely enough to send my daughter to school. But the county is no smaller than the village, and the people there have to spend money on everything they wear and eat, and everything is superior to the villagers.
Yun Jin didn't want her daughter to go to the county town or a larger city in the future, where she would suffer from inferiority complex due to the gap between her family and others. She also didn't want her to focus on other external things. Yun Jin herself understood better than anyone how sad it was to be laughed at and felt inferior, so she never wanted her daughter to fall into this mess again.
In the past two years, she has learned a lot of words, read a lot of books, and understood a lot of principles by following her daughter.
Coupled with the huge impact that the speculation that was basically confirmed in the past two days had on her, Yun Jin suddenly felt that she could no longer be trapped in this small Zhaojiagou.
She may have let her daughter down once before, so this time, she couldn't hold her daughter back again.
After the mother and daughter in the cabin finally fell into a deep sleep, the system rolled into the ice water bucket below.
It needs to be calm and cool.
How did things get to this point? Why did Yun Jin suddenly guess so many things? They clearly didn't tell her anything!
And why did Zhao Xiaoli's mission progress increase like crazy after 12 o'clock? Whether it was the main quest or the side quest, it was all increasing!
Could it be that her psychological barrier was actually the death of Yunjin and Yunmian, rather than the fact that she had not suffered any setbacks as she initially thought?
What about the side quest? Is it because the person whose luck was stolen is still alive and well, so the side quest progress bar moved automatically? !
Isn't the mission of saving this world a little too easy?
But if you think about it, it is not that simple. After all, who can refuse the benefits and good fortune that come to their doorstep? Who would not wish for good luck and wealth?
Zhao Xiaoli resisted the benefits that were within her reach. She no longer accepted the favoritism of fate, so those people who deserved to die were finally alive and well.
After the system calmed down a little, it came out of the water scoop and just in time to see the bright moonlight shining through the window into the house.
It thought of what Yun Jin had just said.
She was worried that her daughter would have a hard time and suffer a lot without her mother's care and companionship, and might even become a bad person in a broad sense.
But she guessed so much and thought so much, but the only thing she didn't dare to guess was: whether a child without a mother could really live in peace and grow up.
Yun Jin is so smart, she must have known the answer in her mind, right? Otherwise, how to explain that it could also be rebirth. Zhao Xiaoli was mature at a young age, and her words and actions were full of adult calculations, but Yun Mian was never noticed by her and was still illiterate.
It can only be that she died early and was young.
And what Yun Jin was muttering about was actually just her trying to cover up her own pain with another cruel fantasy.
The system flew to the window sill and stopped, looking up at the swallow's nest under the eaves of the Yun family's roof that had been built for who knows how many years, and thought along the lines of what Yun Jin had said: Winter will soon be over, and when spring comes, those swallows that have flown away should fly back with their families, right?
I wonder if Yunmian will, when she grows up, become like the swallows that fly south for the winter, and fly back every year to Yunjin's side, and continue to chirp and act like a spoiled brat like she did when she was a child.
"Yun Mianmian!" The girl's irritable voice rang out in the classroom, and the classmates turned their heads to watch the fun as if they were used to it.
Yun Mian held up a pink envelope and looked back at Zhao Xiaoli with innocent eyes, and said in a crisp voice: "Sister Xiaoli, your face is so red!"
Zhao Xiaoli couldn't help but grit her teeth. She really wanted to grab the naughty girl Yunmian and bite her ears hard!
"Give it back to me!" She was so angry that she stepped on the bench to strengthen her momentum.
Yunmian nodded obediently: "Okay, I'll give it to you."
Zhao Xiaoli: “???”
Are you so easy to talk to today?
After looking at her suspiciously, Zhao Xiaoli decided to trust Yunmian again and reached out for the letter: "Give it back to me!"
"Here~" Yun Mian handed it to her nonchalantly.
Zhao Xiaoli retracted her hand reflexively: "..."
Oh no, is Yunmian plotting something? It was so strange that she was a little hesitant to answer it.
This is the update that should be for today. There should be an extra 3,000 words for today at 10:30. I love Mianmian, I love everyone!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
There is a star next to the warm sun.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Fluorescent 50 bottles;
Qibai 17 bottles;
Nanai is 77 12 bottles;
Hexagonal Salamander, Gululu, Ye Yi 10 bottles;
Tea Mountain Elk, Silent Little Monster, Winter Light Cat, 5 bottles of Sanyu;
Xiuning 3 bottles;
2 bottles of Bloody Rose, Yu Yu and Wen;
1 bottle of Xiao Xiao Xue, Qing Meng, and Tui Zi;
I will continue to work hard~
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