This time, Old Mrs. Tian came back before the sun set.
When she entered the yard, she heard crying coming from the yard next door. Old Mrs. Tian slowed down her pace and glanced into the yard of the Huang family next door. She saw the less than one-year-old child from Zhang Lanru's family crawling and crying in the yard.
Zhang Lanru's family was not well-off, and they could not leave someone at home to look after the child during the autumn harvest. The sun was too strong outside, so they put the child on the floor in the inner room, where the child played. Then they would come back from time to time to check on the child and change his diaper.
I don’t know what happened today, but the child actually crawled out.
Old Mrs. Tian sighed. She still couldn't feel comfortable letting the child crawl around in the yard. It would be troublesome if the child crawled into the toilet and fell into it and drowned. Besides, it was not a good idea to let the child crawl around in the yard all the time.
She ran to the gate of the house next door, but it was locked. Fortunately, the wall was not high, so Old Mrs. Tian stepped on the wall and climbed over it.
The child was covered in mud and chicken droppings. Old Mrs. Tian felt a little disgusted. She grabbed the only clean part of the child's clothes, the back of her collar, and carried the child into the house. There were a lot of children's clothes hanging in the yard. Old Mrs. Tian changed her into clean clothes and a clean diaper, and then put the dirty clothes in a basin to soak.
She didn't dare put the child on the kang, for fear that the child would crawl to the ground and fall, so she put the child on the ground as well. After closing the door of the inner room tightly, Old Mrs. Tian climbed over the wall and went home.
After waking up from a nap, Tian Tian went up the mountain to pick chestnuts. However, she couldn't pick these things on the mountain for long. After it got cold and snowed, few people went up the mountain anymore.
It just so happened that Shen Lingling and Tian Yun were also going up the mountain, so Tian Tian made an appointment with them to go together.
Everyone was chatting while picking up mountain products. At first, they talked about Tian Lili giving birth to a child, but then the conversation went off track and they started talking about other things.
Tian Tian heard Shen Lingling talking about Fang Siwen every three sentences, and asked curiously: "Lingling, do you still like Fang Siwen?"
Tian Tian originally thought that this was just an ordinary question, but she didn't expect that Shen Lingling's face turned red after hearing it.
Tian Tian opened her eyes wide in horror, "You're not serious, are you?"
Shen Lingling hesitated for a few seconds and said a little embarrassedly: "I have been in contact with him a lot recently. I think he likes me very much and even gave me a flower."
Shen Lingling thought about the time she had been in contact with Fang Siwen, and also remembered how Fang Siwen had praised her for being cute before. She felt that what Tian Tian had said to her before was just to scare her.
Tian Tian looked at Shen Lingling with an obviously trapped expression and didn't want to persuade her anymore. However, Fang Siwen looked gentle and refined, and had a strong scholarly air, which made him really likable. Gu Pei'an would sometimes see Fang Siwen, and every time he saw him, he would be happy to look at him a few more times.
"Are you sure he only said those words to you? And not to other girls as well?" Gu Pei'an confirmed.
"No!" Shen Lingling felt relieved when she saw Tian Tian didn't say anything. "He seldom interacts with other girls in the team."
After hearing what Shen Lingling said, Tian Tian didn't say anything.
Seeing that Tian Tian was silent, Shen Lingling happily shared her sweetness with Tian Tian, "I couldn't believe it when Fang Siwen said he had a crush on me. How could he be attracted to me, a country girl who hadn't been to school for many days?"
"Have you two confirmed your relationship now?" Tian Yun asked.
Shen Lingling nodded shyly, "He asked me a few days ago if he could date me."
Tian Tian was silent for a while. Shen Lingling was a very good person, kind, generous and simple.
But when encountering such a thing, she still wanted Shen Lingling to think about it. Fang Siwen has a good family background, is good-looking, well-educated, and well-educated. He must have seen many women since he was a child. Why would he fall in love with Shen Lingling?
Even if there was something about Shen Lingling that attracted Fang Siwen, the gap between the two was still too big.
But seeing Shen Lingling so happy, Tian Tian didn't say anything to spoil the fun. She just sighed and shut up.
Next, Shen Lingling spent the whole afternoon talking to Tian Tian and Tian Yun about how she and Fang Siwen got along.
After listening to this, Tian Tian felt that Fang Siwen really liked Shen Lingling.
"Lingling!" Tian Tian suddenly said, "If you really like Fang Siwen, then you must study hard! Fang Siwen is a high school student, you can't be much worse than him!"
If Fang Siwen really likes Shen Lingling, Shen Lingling should also work hard to improve herself. When two people are together, one cannot always lower himself or herself to accommodate the other person. Otherwise, they will not be able to stay together for long.
Shen Lingling was a little confused. "I was just thinking about it. The pressure at home is too great. I don't want to continue studying after elementary school. My eldest brother also said he was looking for a wife recently. It will cost a lot of money to do it, so I can't continue studying."
Shen Lingling was a little disappointed when she said this. "I was thinking of going to the county town to study with you guys, although we can still go home together on Saturdays and Sundays."
Tian Tian felt helpless after hearing this. Sometimes it's not that the children don't want to go to school, but that their families really have no way to support them to continue their studies. They may even skip meals and have to give up their lives just to go to school.
At this time, it is good enough to be able to have enough food and clothing, so how can there be extra money to enjoy the spiritual world?
"It doesn't matter! If you want to continue learning, we will come back to teach you during the holidays!" Tian Yun said.
"Forget it!" Shen Lingling refused. "Actually, I just enjoy the feeling of going to school, but I don't really like studying. Studying is useless anyway. I'll get married sooner or later."
This time Tian Yun stopped talking and just picked up the mountain products in silence.
Shen Lingling didn't notice their abnormal behavior. She hummed a song while picking hazelnuts quickly into the sack.
After returning home, Tian Tian put the matter of Shen Lingling out of her mind. She had tried to persuade Shen Lingling earnestly before, and her words were already worn out.
There is nothing that can be done about the matter of school and relationship. It is not something Shen Lingling can control now, but Tian Tian is a little unhappy with Shen Lingling's attitude of giving up studying.
She studied very hard in her previous life. Although there are nine years of compulsory education, you will not have to pay for tuition and textbooks in junior high school. You have to pay for everything yourself.
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