Tian Tian nodded gloomily. Only then did she realize that Wu Degang must have encountered a famine a few years after he was born, and there was not much to eat at that time.
People say that the family is quite small. Wu Degang had such a miserable life when he was a child, so her uncle is a little biased towards Wu Degang.
Tian Tian felt that being partial was wrong. Moreover, it was not Wu Degang alone who suffered during the famine years, but his whole family suffered and went hungry. Why should Wu Degang be the only one being partial now?
But since Wu Juan said so, she didn't say anything. She had her aunt and grandmother to protect Wu Juan and would not let her starve.
What's more, people nowadays are just satisfied with having enough to eat, and many people don't attach importance to studying. It is rare in rural areas for someone like Grandma Tian to require every child in the family to go to school.
Moreover, in the current environment, even if you study, you may not be able to change your destiny. When Tian Tian thought of this, she felt a little lost.
Wu Juan did not notice Tian Tian's little disappointment. She rolled the candy around in her mouth, trying to make every part of her mouth taste sweet. She also wanted the sugar to dissolve more slowly so that she could eat it for a while longer.
Unfortunately, the sugar was so small that it melted quickly. Wu Juan swallowed her saliva with some disappointment and wanted to eat more, but she also knew that she shouldn't ask Tian Tian for more, so she said nothing.
Knowing that Wu Juan had eaten the candy in her mouth, Tian Tian pulled Wu Juan back to the house. As soon as Tian Zhuo saw Tian Tian, he hugged her and said, "Sister! Did you go to poop?"
Tian Tian was still immersed in that depressed mood. When she saw Tian Zhuo running over, she smiled and rubbed his head, "Why didn't you go play with Shugen and Caogen?"
She could hear the excited screams of the tree roots and grass roots even in this room.
Tian Zhuo curled his lips and said unhappily, "Brother Gang and the others won't play with me! I don't want to play with them anymore."
Tian Tian didn't like Wu Degang in the first place, and she got even angrier when she heard that he had left Tian Zhuo out. Isn't this isolation? !
She pulled Tian Zhuo to find Wu Degang, "Let's go! I'll teach them a lesson!"
"No!" Tian Zhuo refused to go. "If they don't like me, I won't like them either. Going to him won't make them like me. I still have Brother Bao Bao, I don't care about them!"
Tian Tian was stunned, "You're not angry?"
"I'm just a little unhappy," Tian Zhuo said honestly, "but I don't know them, so if I don't want to play, then I don't want to play!"
Tian Tian noticed that Tian Zhuo said this without any reluctance. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that Tian Zhuo was right. Their home was far away from their grandmother's house, and they only visited once a year.
But Tian Zhuo was young and didn't remember much, so to him, these cousins were really just strangers. They were not as close to him as his friends in the team who had no blood relationship with him.
Seeing that Tian Zhuo was not angry, Tian Tian decided not to care about the matter. She wanted to settle the score with Wu Degang before because she was afraid that Tian Zhuo would be hurt, but since Tian Zhuo didn't care at all, there was no need for her to bother with Wu Degang.
"That's fine! If you don't want to play with them, then don't go and join them."
Although Tian Tian and Tian Zhuo spoke in low voices, they were in the same room after all, so everyone could hear them no matter how loudly they chatted.
Everyone saw that Wu Degang didn't play with Tian Zhuo just now. Except for Lin Meishuang who taught Wu Degang a lesson, everyone else thought it was just a little fight between children and no one took it seriously.
Now when Grandma Lin heard what the two siblings said, her face darkened. She reached out and called Tian Zhuo and Tian Tian over, "Tiantian, Xiao Zhuo! You two come sit over here with Grandma!"
Tian Tian looked at Grandpa Lin who was sitting next to Grandma Lin and smoking, and felt a little disgusted, but after all, it was the elder who spoke, so Tian Tian still pulled Xiao Zhuo over.
"It's boring for you two to stay here. I'll put a handful of peanuts for each of you. Take them and go play with your brothers and sisters." As she said that, Grandma Lin put a handful of peanuts into the pockets of Tian Tian and Tian Zhuo's cotton-padded jackets without saying a word.
Tian Tian looked at the peanuts and felt a little unhappy. Ever since the two siblings came, Grandma Lin didn't say anything about getting them anything delicious. Even if grandma's family conditions were not good, you should at least let the children eat some peanuts and chew some biscuits.
Grandma Lin acted as if she didn't see them. She even gave them the two smallest pieces of egg cake. She was afraid that there would be a rift between them and their cousins, so she started to invite them to go find Wu Degang and the others to eat peanuts, treating them like fools.
"I won't go. They are just a bunch of little boys. They have no sense of propriety when playing and make a lot of noise. They even want to tear the roof off. I am happy to stay with you and listen to you talk." Tian Tian refused.
"Besides," she set her eyes on Wu Juan who was sitting next to her aunt, "I like Sister Juan Juan, and I want to stay with Sister Juan Juan."
Grandma Lin glanced at Juanjuan and said, "That's fine. It's good for you two little girls to have a private chat together. You are sisters and your ages are similar. You should get along well."
Lin Meishuang understood what Grandma Lin meant, and looked a little embarrassed and reluctant.
After saying that, Grandma Lin lowered her head and glanced at the little carrot-head Tian Zhuo, "Xiao Zhuo, didn't you play with the tree roots and grass roots before? Why don't you go find them now?"
Tian Zhuoren was small but not stupid. He said loudly and firmly, "Shugen and Caogen went to play with Brother Degang. They didn't take me to play, and I didn't play with them either. I played with my sister and Sister Juanjuan."
Grandma Lin sighed helplessly after hearing this, "Then you guys go play in the hut, grab some more peanuts and melon seeds, and have some fun."
After Tian Tian and the other two left, Grandma Lin, who was listening to Grandpa Lin and the others chatting happily, moved closer to Lin Meishuang and whispered, "Go home tonight and have a good talk with Degang. How can he, as an older brother, be so mean to his younger brother! Your second sister is the best married among you sisters. Old Madam Tian is such a powerful person! Your brother-in-law is an accountant in the brigade and graduated from junior high school. He has connections in the commune and the county. Their younger generation, Tian Yuan, is still a soldier in the army and has graduated from high school. He will definitely be the most promising person in their old Tian family in the future."
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