Chapter 118 Moon Fish, it's time to drink water~
Children don’t understand the grudges and entanglements of adults.
In the young little heart, what is filled the most is always playing hide-and-seek, eating candies, and every meeting, parting and hug.
Little Moon watched Second Aunt come and go in a hurry.
She sat on a long bench, swinging her short legs, and resting her head on her brother's shoulder. She held a half-eaten corn tortilla in her hand, chewing it, and asked vaguely, "Hehehe~Auntie, why don't you eat a meal and then stop eating?"
Zhao Huayang sat opposite the brother and sister. He was the only one who was specially left behind by his parents to eat tortillas. Hearing this, he also chewed on the tortillas and replied: "Because she is going home!"
Xingxing raised her hand and covered her sister's mouth as she was about to speak.
Then I watched my sister chew the tortilla in her mouth and swallow it, and then I let go of her mouth and set it free.
Little Moon didn't mind her brother's actions at all. She shook her head obediently and continued to ask a hundred thousand questions.
"But, this is Second Aunt's home, right?"
Don’t think that children are ignorant. In fact, every time the adults chat, the little ones prick up their ears and listen very carefully.
She had heard her grandmother tell her second aunt that this would always be her second aunt's home.
Why does Second Aunt want to go back to another home when she already has one?
Can a person have many homes?
Without even waiting for the big brother to answer, Little Moon dumped out all the questions in her mind.
Finally, she blinked her big, bright eyes and waited eagerly for her elder brother's answer.
Zhao Huayang, who was already confused by the question, said: "..."
Is this the horror of being uneducated? Can't even answer a three-year-old sister's question?
Once again realizing how terrible it is to be uneducated, the little boy was shocked all over. Even the steamed corn tortilla made from dough kneaded with sugar water in his hand lost its fragrance. He quickly finished it in a few bites, politely said thank you and goodbye, and then rushed back to the neighbor's house like a ghost, rummaged through the drawers, found the crumpled books and started studying.
The older brother is gone.
And my brother.
Little Moon turned and looked at her brother.
The stars are silent.
The stars are rising.
Xingxing looked at her parents who were treating her and her sister like monkeys.
The couple: "..."
"I'll go and see if your grandma's teeth can chew the biscuit." Zhao Guozhi stood up slowly, holding the biscuit and eating while walking away.
Xie Jiaxiu touched the furry heads of her son and daughter and said softly, "This is your second aunt's parents' home. The place she went back to is called her husband's home."
As women, daughters-in-law, wives and mothers, Xie Jiaxiu slowly explained the difference between the two families to the two confused children.
Ten minutes later, Little Moon nodded, not quite understanding what was going on.
Xingxing seemed to be thinking about something, and then, in her mother's surprised eyes, she commented softly: "The home where my mother's mother is is called my mother's home, and the home where my father's mother is is called my husband's home."
Xie Jiaxiu really didn't expect to hear such an exceptionally accurate evaluation from her son.
To be precise, her fragmented explanation for most of the time was still not as clear as her son's words.
Little Moon also understood.
She finally swallowed the last small piece of corn tortilla, then raised her little hand and said in a baby voice: "I know, the place where Xiaoyue and brother are is my mother's mother-in-law's house~"
Xie Jiaxiu smiled and nodded, and gave each of the smart children a small piece of corn tortilla as a reward. "That's right, Mom's stars and moon are both very smart, smarter than all the other children combined!"
Qiuqiu, who was watching from the sidelines: “…”
I really want those parents who compare their own children with other people’s children every day to listen to this. This is called positive comparison and praising!
The turmoil of splitting up the family did not last long.
But the stars are still keen to discover some subtle changes in life.
The two families have to cook at different times, and the daily necessities have to be clearly divided. My mother and aunt have to take care of the housework for their respective families, but when they separate, it is actually not as tiring as before.
There hasn't been much change in the lives of my father and my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather still works diligently every day, and my father still slacks off and wanders around town every day.
But Xingxing discovered that even though her mom and dad were not productive enough, the family was not short of food and clothing.
Not only that, but my dad’s pockets would always produce peach cakes, candies, biscuits and other snacks that were rare in that era.
Xingxing became a little curious about this.
However, this curiosity soon shifted to other places, such as... the cowshed and educated youth center specially set up in the village.
"I heard from my grandmother that the people living in the cowshed are all bad guys. If the brothers and sisters in the educated youth camp don't go to the countryside, they will become the same bad guys when they grow up!"
"No, no, my grandma said that those were all scholars. They drank a lot of ink and turned black. They were really terrible!"
"But... that old man looked really pitiful. I secretly saw him eating grass in the mountains."
"They are not pitiful at all! My father said that these people were very rich before. Our whole village put together is not as rich as them. They are only suffering a little bit now. The grandparents in our village have suffered all their lives!"
"Do I have to suffer? I don't want to suffer... I like to eat sweet candies~"
"I don't know... I don't like suffering..."
When children get together, they always have endless topics to talk about.
Adults always think that the topics among children are childish and boring. In fact, children’s horizons are not narrow. They live in the same village and always prick up their ears to eavesdrop on adults’ conversations. The children running around the village actually see much more than adults think.
After school today, a bunch of kids got together and chatted, and before they knew it, they were talking about the people in the cowshed and the older brothers and sisters in the educated youth center.
There were educated youth living in the homes of children. They said that the older brothers from the city were very hygienic and polite, but their families said that they did not know how to work and their hands were covered with blisters from just holding a hoe, which looked very painful.
There were also children who accidentally came into contact with people in the cowshed. When they saw how thin they were, they felt a little scared, so they subconsciously stayed away from them and secretly observed them in the dark.
Xingxing listened to all the comments and then looked at Zhao Yuanyuan who was standing behind a group of cubs and also listening quietly.
His third sister is ready to interact with the humans in the cowshed.
Xingxing was not very interested in this at first, but the way her third sister came up with to get in touch with the cowshed forced Xingxing to take it seriously.
She wanted to use the excuse of looking for herbs to go into the mountains and secretly contact the people in the cowshed while avoiding the villagers. She wanted to use the danger as an opportunity and excuse to get to know the people in the cowshed.
Zhao Yuanyuan thought that she was only six years old, which was definitely an age that could make everyone relax their vigilance and defenses. Even if some of her little tricks were seen through, they would be forgiven or ignored because of her young age. What's more, as long as she could bring benefits to the other party and let them meet their basic needs for food and clothing and survive in this desolate and difficult era, then over time, plus the grace of saving her life, the rewards she would get in the future would definitely not be small.
This was the most convenient and easiest shortcut she had chosen for herself to cross classes.
Xingxing doesn’t think there is anything wrong with the protagonist’s third sister wanting to take a shortcut, but Xingxing doesn’t want herself, her sister, and her family to become the bones paved on this shortcut.
He didn't want to see five more graves.
So when the news that "there are many medicinal herbs in the mountains, even the most precious ginseng" spread among the children like the wind, Xingxing returned home and replaced all the well water in the pot with spiritual spring water when helping her mother to light a fire and cook.
A large pot of spiritual spring water was bubbling away, and the people who finally ate the meal were the family of four after they had divided up the family, and grandma, who was coaxed by her parents to eat at the table every day.
A family of five, all together.
Because his mother was in poor health, Xingxing could only find opportunities to secretly replace her spiritual spring water. Occasionally, his mother would find him sneaking around the dog, but with Xiaoyue and Qiuqiu covering for him, Xingxing would always restore everything to its original state before being exposed, causing his mother to secretly suspect that he was hiding in front of the water tank in the corner to urinate.
Dad was barely feeling well, so Xingxing changed the water in his kettle three times. When he felt that it was enough, he stopped.
Grandma is old, so like mom, Xingxing holds a small bowl and feeds her water every day. The old lady tried to refuse, but the little girl held the small bowl and started to catch her and her sister's tears... He Guizhi couldn't afford to offend two crying babies, so a bowl of sweet warm water every day made her look several years younger.
As for the little moon...
Xingxing held the small bowl in front of her sister, tilted her head, and coaxed her with curved eyes: "Little Moon Fish, it's time to drink some water~"
Little Moon smiled happily, holding the bowl obediently and bringing it to her brother's mouth, "Brother Xiaoyu, you drink first~"
The two kids would do this every day, taking turns to drink a small bowl of spiritual spring water. Little Yueyue just thought that this was scooped out from the water tank by her brother.
The water tasted sweet because it was scooped out by her brother and fed to her.
Little Moon firmly believed it.
Because she loves her brother so much, Little Moon feels that she wants to give all the good things in the world to her brother, and share them in half each. She takes the small half, and her brother gets the big half.
So, when she heard that someone had really found ginseng from the mountains, when she heard that a ginseng could save lives and could be sold for a lot of money, Little Moon held her increasingly chubby and tender face in her hands, and began to feel excited and longing.
If Xiaoyueliang finds ginseng and sells it for a lot of money, she can use the money to buy candy and biscuits for her brother, and raise her brother to be tall and fat, making him more powerful and richer than the brothers of all the other children in the village!
After thinking about it, Little Moon sighed again, looked at his own little fat paws, and felt very disappointed: Why can other people's hands find ginseng, but his own hands can even put clothes on backwards?
Not far away, the stars were also looking at their two little hands.
My hands should be a little more useful than my sister's.
One of them was used to pull my sister's ear, so that she would be obedient and not follow other children into the mountains.
The other hand is used to hold the sister's hand, so that the sister's hand is no longer a useless hand, but a super useful little fat hand that is specially used to be held by her brother to prevent her from getting lost, abducted or missing.
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