Chapter 113 Let the Educated Youth Sister Come to Our House
Xingxing caught two small fish.
One is light-colored and almost transparent, and the other is black as ink.
Little Moon loves every fish that her brother catches.
On the way back, she would from time to time look at the small boat made of leaves in her father's hand, and nervously reminded her father: It doesn't matter if you can't catch the fish, but you must not shake the fish caught by your brother out to prevent them from falling to death.
The little girl has no filter for her biological father and her expectations of him are pitifully low.
Zhao Guozhi: “…”
Because I couldn't catch any small fish, my daughter despised me.
He stared at the fish fry in the leaf boat in his hand, and he racked his brains to figure out why he couldn't catch even one fish fry, even though he was so smart? !
The fish was right there, his eyes could see it clearly, his mind could understand it clearly, but why couldn't his hands obey him?!
Xingxing listened to her father's gradual doubts about life, held her sister's hand, secretly pursed the corners of her upturned mouth, and her eyes were brightly filled with smiles.
On the way home, Zhao Guozhi walked as slowly as a snail because he was holding the two children's "precious fish" in his hands.
It just so happened that the two cubs' short legs struggled for a long time, but were not much faster than the turtle. The three of them successfully reached an agreement on the speed, and they all walked back slowly and leisurely without any hurry.
When he arrived at the place where the bicycles were hidden, Zhao Guozhi suddenly let out a sigh of relief.
Then he lowered his head and met two identical, serious little fair faces.
Zhao Guozhi felt inexplicably guilty for a moment, and coughed softly, "...What's wrong?"
The stars looked at the leaf boat in Dad's hand, which was already dangling with only a few drops of water left. The little moon began to charge for the little fishes, with her hands on her chubby waist and red eyes condemning her dad.
"Dad, our little fish is about to die!!"
Little fish cannot live without water, and they will die soon if they leave the water.
Just like Little Yueyue cannot leave her father, mother and brother, otherwise she will die soon!
Zhao Guozhi met his daughter's moist, accusing gaze, and his son's slightly furrowed brows. He was full of excuses but couldn't speak, so he could only coax the child in a low voice: "They won't die. I still have boiled water in the kettle from this morning. I'll pour some for them later..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard his daughter's voice split as she asked angrily, "Dad, do you still want to scald them to death?!"
Zhao Guozhi: “…”
I’m not, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense!
I was speechless for a moment, but Xiaoyue took it as my consent.
The next second, the little girl's cry echoed through the mountains and forests.
The culprit was at a loss and could only look to his son for help.
The stars are in a daze, the stars come back to their senses, the stars sigh.
"Dad, give me the fish." Xingxing spread out his little hands and took over the "heavy" burden from his father's hands.
What Xingxing wants to raise is a lively little fish like her sister, not a dead fish.
He took the little fish in his hand, turned around without letting his father see, poured out the remaining water in the boat, and secretly got a similar amount of spiritual spring water for the little fish.
Seeing the little fish become active again, Xingxing breathed a sigh of relief silently. She poked the water surface lightly with her slender, white fingers and watched the two little fish flee as if frightened. She pursed her lips happily and smiled with her eyes curved.
Then, he held the lively little fish and showed it to his crying sister.
Little Yueliang stopped crying and smiled with her white millet teeth as if by magic. She looked at her brother with eyes full of admiration.
Zhao Guozhi watched this scene and couldn't help but laugh along.
The two little ones seem to have their own little world. They can understand each other's joys, sorrows, anger and happiness. As twins, they will be the closest siblings in the world.
As long as the two children grow up together, even if my wife and I grow old one day in the future, we will not close our eyes and leave this world with full of worries.
The little fish is alive again.
Xingxing wrapped the little fish and the spiritual spring water with layers of wider and thicker leaves. Sitting on the back seat of Dad's bicycle, his butt was sore from the bumping along the way, he finally made it home for dinner before dark.
As soon as they got home, the two children didn't even bother to rub their buttocks. They hurriedly found a small glass jar, filled it with water, and put in the jar the little fishes that had also been wilted by the bumpy ride.
Little Yueyue was lying on the edge of the table, with her chubby chin resting on the back of her little hand, staring intently at the little fish swimming in the glass jar without blinking.
Xingxing sat next to them and listened to Qiuqiu giving them some information about this small fish. The most important thing was, what the small fish needed to eat to fill its stomach.
"Brother~" Little Moon suddenly tilted her head and asked curiously, "Are the little fishes twins like us?"
The two little fishes were not similar, but Little Moon thought they were very much like herself and her brother.
Xingxing also looked at the fish swimming leisurely in the glass jar and shook her head, "They are not twins, but they look a little bit alike."
"How do they look alike?" Little Yueliang moved her butt and insisted on sitting right next to her brother.
Xingxing looked at the two little fish, one light and one black, and answered softly after thinking for a while: "They will all grow up together, just like us."
Little Moon was thoughtful.
When it was time to eat, the little girl held the spoon and scooped a piece of delicious meat into her brother's bowl, then whispered in her brother's ear: "Brother, the little fish seems to be a little different. And the big brother and the third sister will grow up with us~"
There were two little fish, but there were four children. Even the pork bought by dad had to be counted and divided among the whole family.
Xingxing touched her sister's cheek with the back of her hand and did not answer.
After dinner, the farmers were not idle either.
The corn that was just picked two days ago needs to be husked and peeled. Every family has a quota, and the whole family works together. They carry small stools and poke the corn with long cones under the moonlight. The poked corn cobs are thrown to the children. Although they are small and have small hands, their combined efforts can reduce a lot of burden for the adults.
This is the daily routine for the past two days.
But tonight seemed different.
Someone was shining an expensive flashlight, shining its dazzling light on the family's faces. Xingxing tilted her head to block the light for her sister, and covered her eyes with her red little hands from peeling corn kernels, squinting to look at the approaching people.
"Kid, this is the captain of your commune team." Qiuqiu was the first to recognize him and said in a subtle tone: "This world seems to be a little interesting."
I always like to create some plots where enemies meet on a narrow road.
I almost ran into the team leader's daughter and the educated youth having a love affair at noon, and in the evening I met the team leader who seldom came to visit.
Fate is truly beyond words.
Xingxing didn't know what was so fun, so when the other person put away the flashlight and walked over to chat with grandma, Xingxing also withdrew his little hands and picked up the dried corn to shell the grains manually.
Diligent and conscientious, not lazy at all.
Little Yueliang leaned on her brother. It took her a long time to pinch off a few kernels of corn from the corn in her hand. She collected all the kernels and planned to ask her mother to string them together with needle and thread so that she and her brother could play the game of catching the kernels.
Because she was too small and her hands were small, the other older friends wouldn't let her play, so she learned it secretly and came back to play with her brother!
She and her brother have been best playmates since they were in their mother's womb!
On the other side, the team leader was asking He Guizhi if there was any room in her house to accommodate one or two educated youths.
"This year, seven or eight more educated youths were assigned to our homes. The educated youth sites are already full and there's no room for more. How about your family..."
The captain was about to say something, but the old man blocked it back in a bad mood.
"Pingwazi, open your dog... eyes and look around. My whole family is crammed into a shabby house! I am so old, with old arms and legs. In order to make room for them, I have long planned to divide the family and let them find a foundation to build a house by themselves. In the end, no matter how much I persuaded you, you refused to open your mouth. The application I handed to you has not been approved yet. Now you can finally open your mouth. It turns out that you want to force our whole family to death to make room for the educated youth from the city, right?!"
The words were full of sarcasm and criticism, and she did not forget to mention her grievances and demands. Xingxing was so absorbed in listening to her that she even forgot to peel the corn in her hand, and started to learn the art of saying no from her grandmother carefully.
But at the same time, people have completely different views and perceptions of these words from different perspectives.
Zhao Yuanyuan felt depressed and ashamed.
She was really fed up with the old man's rudeness and roguery. He could never speak nicely and would never negotiate anything. He would always speak in a sarcastic tone and try his best to embarrass others without giving them any face at all.
Isn't it just because you rely on your age and seniority to bully others?
In Zhao Yuanyuan's eyes, the grandmother who was playing witty tricks with the captain at the moment was simply stupid and vicious. She didn't even think of using a soft tone to gain benefits for herself. She just started to make a scene like a shrew and was very annoying.
Just like she had experienced in another era, those old people who would take advantage of their age to preach, bully, or even commit fraud even when they were unreasonable, with a sarcastic and shrewd look on their faces.
She lowered her head tightly, her whole body filled with resistance and irritability. She didn't want to think about what kind of contempt and disdain the captain had for her grandmother and her family at this moment.
She felt inferior at the moment. In front of the head of the commune brigade, her grandmother had brought disgrace to the whole family.
However, communication between adults will not end because of her resistance.
After pushing and shoving for a long time, the team leader had said everything he wanted, but he still couldn't get the old lady to agree to take in one or two educated youths.
Just when he was at a loss, a crisp voice suddenly rang out.
"Grandma, let the educated youth sister come to our house and live with me. I want to learn knowledge from her. I can get 100 points in the exam and make you proud in the future."
Zhao Yuanyuan really didn't want to miss this opportunity. She wanted to get in touch with the educated youth, get channels to contact city people from them, and even more wanted to obtain the knowledge they learned during that era.
The most important thing is that she was really tired of being a slave in a small family, and she also hated having people like her grandma and dad act like a bully in the outside world and embarrass herself. She couldn't hold her head up high when she went out.
She has a golden finger and the memory of future generations. She knows what earth-shaking changes will happen in the future. She also knows that those who are now sent to the cowshed to be criticized and struggled will be able to restore their previous status once they live for a few years and are rehabilitated. Overnight, they will become people she can no longer reach.
So she realized that time was running out. Now that there were educated youth going to the countryside and staying in her house, Zhao Yuanyuan could seize this opportunity. Just like a vine clinging to a branch, she would grow rapidly and occupy the entire tree, wrapping her branches around it, competing to absorb the nutrients and vitality that originally belonged to the tree.
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