Chapter 119 Fabricating a Personality
Xiaoyueliang's plan to go into the mountains to look for ginseng failed at the first step: she didn't know what ginseng was.
"Dad, what does ginseng look like?" Little Moon lay on her father's back, with her two short little hands tightly around her father's neck.
His daughter's love was a little suffocating. Zhao Guozhi weighed the little one on his back, let himself take a breath, and then pointed to the pile of white radishes with leaves and mud in the basket under the eaves and said casually: "Ginseng probably looks like that."
Looking in the direction of his father's finger, Little Moon saw a big, plump, white radish.
So this is what ginseng looks like!
Little Moon suddenly realized and successfully took the first step towards finding ginseng.
The second step is to go into the mountains.
She succeeded in falling at this step again.
Because her brother grabbed her disobedient little ear.
"You can't go into the mountains." Xingxing patted her sister's head.
Little Moon was bewildered: "Why? Brother, everyone says there are a lot of herbs and radishes and ginseng in the mountains. If we find them, we can buy a lot of candy!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and his pair of eyes, distinct black and white, became round and bright.
"I have candy." Xingxing held her sister's hand.
Little Moon blinked, then puffed up her face in distress when she thought of the candies her brother fed her every day.
Yes, brother has plenty of candy, no need to buy more.
"Then, then I won't go." Little Moon said, and then she took her brother's hand and ran to the backpack, whispering to him, "If we don't have ginseng, we still have radishes!"
Dad said that ginseng and radish look the same.
The same meaning, right? Just like me and my brother?
Ginseng is the elder brother and radish is the little moon. If the elder brother hides and cannot be found, then we can just catch the little moon.
Xingxing reached out and picked up a big, white, plump radish, and nodded seriously: "Yes, let's eat radishes tonight."
Zhao Yuanyuan, who "accidentally" heard the conversation outside the wall, curled her lips. Two three-year-old fools, how could radish and ginseng look the same?
But they also provided themselves with ideas.
Although there is no ginseng in the mountains, there is some in my spiritual plant space. I can use running into the mountains as a cover, and then take out a ginseng to improve the family's financial life first. Otherwise, if I continue to live such a tight life, my parents probably won't be willing to spend money on tuition for the next semester.
Moreover, relying on her years of experience in reading novels, she quickly thought of a new shortcut.
Make yourself into a Fuwa Koi, and you will gain something every time you go out. The better your family members treat you, the more benefits you will get.
The world is bustling with people seeking profit, and the world is bustling with people seeking profit.
Even blood relatives will make changes for the sake of benefits and abandon those biases that they don't like when they can gain considerable benefits from you.
Although it may only be superficial bias.
However... just having the Fuwa character is not enough, we need to add one more thing: those who are bad to us and those who have grudges against us will all suffer misfortune one after another, so that it will be deterrent enough.
This is true whether it is towards outsiders or family members.
Zhao Yuanyuan also thought it through. Now that the family was divided, if she wanted to live comfortably, she couldn't bypass her parents and step-brother to give herself special treatment every day. She would be discovered sooner or later.
She wants to live a good and honest life and become the envy of everyone.
Including my parents in this life, it doesn’t matter if they are partial. I have a golden finger and the experience of being an adult in the previous life. Sooner or later, I will make them only see me and not that precious life.
Zhao Yuanyuan walked around the corner and into the yard.
She didn't look at the two silly kids squatting under the eaves holding carrots. Instead, she walked towards the room assigned to her family without looking around.
With a specific plan in mind, Zhao Yuanyuan was a man of action, so she just did it.
After school, she went to the mountains with a basket on her back, saying that she was going to pick up some dry firewood for her home and to see if there were any ripe wild fruits in the mountains.
Children in rural areas have always been left to their own devices, so Liu Cuifang just reminded her daughter to remember to go home for dinner before dark, and then she didn't care about her anymore.
As a result, it was dark and the person didn't come back.
Seeing that the bowl of rice left for her daughter was almost cold and it was getting dark outside, Liu Cuifang finally couldn't sit still anymore. She got up in a panic and went to the village chief's house to borrow a flashlight, and then took her husband and son to the nearest mountain to look for her.
After discovering the commotion in their house, Zhao Guozhi originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but seeing his eldest brother's serious expression, he sighed, asked his wife to take the children to bed early, and followed them.
Not only Zhao Guozhi, but everyone else who heard the noise and knew that the third girl of the Zhao family had not returned from the mountains lit torches and prepared to help.
Just as the village chief hurriedly gathered the villagers to go into the mountains, Zhao Guozhi spotted a small black shadow emerging from the woods ahead.
He didn't have a flashlight, so he was on guard and called out "Yuanyuan" cautiously and tentatively.
The little figure stopped walking, and after a few seconds, a familiar childish voice came: "Dad, what are you doing?"
She seemed unaware that so many people had gathered to look for her.
The child was found and was not taken away and eaten by wild animals in the mountains. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time they couldn't help but complain about why the child was so wild and didn't know to go home after dark, causing chaos in the village.
Zhao Guodong walked forward with a gloomy face, looked his daughter up and down to check that she was not injured and had no missing limbs, then he asked her in a deep voice why she was still in the mountains so late and not going home.
Under the curious gaze of many eyes, Zhao Yuanyuan clenched the straps of the basket on her back and answered in a low voice: "Dad, I went to the mountains to dig herbs. I heard that they can be sold for money... I also want to make money for the family so that you and mom can relax and don't have to work so hard every day to support the family."
Zhao Guodong: “…”
The blame that had just emerged was dispelled by my daughter's words, and turned into heartache and touching.
Villagers: “…”
When I get home, I’ll pick up my ignorant kid and give him a good beating!
Look at other people’s children, how well-behaved and sensible, filial and caring they are?
Zhao Yuanyuan's answer not only dispelled the complaints and dissatisfaction in everyone's hearts, but also left a good impression of her as sensible and filial.
Zhao Guodong took the backpack from his daughter's back and took her to thank the villagers before he went home with his youngest brother Zhao Guozhi.
Zhao Guozhi's eyes briefly swept over the basket on his eldest brother's back.
It was covered with a layer of fluffy weeds, and it was impossible to tell what was inside.
According to his rough understanding of this little niece whose personality suddenly changed a few days ago, she is a smart person, and there must be something under this basket.
However, this thought only flashed through his mind quickly, and he did not want to explore it in depth.
When he got home, he scooped hot water from the pot and mixed it with cold water to take a shower. Zhao Guozhi returned to the house with steam all over his body.
The flickering kerosene lamp in the room went out, and the couple's night talk had just begun.
"How have you been doing in town these days?" Xie Jiaxiu asked as she tucked in the corner of the quilt for her daughter, who was kicking the quilt wildly with her short legs on the small bed.
Zhao Guozhi sat leaning against the headboard and whispered, "It's OK, but my basics are not good. The teacher said I still have a lot to learn."
"Thank you for your hard work. Don't worry about home. Our two children are very sensible, and mom will help me sometimes. You must be careful when you work outside. The most important thing is to take care of yourself." Xie Jiaxiu said gently, trying her best to dispel her husband's concerns.
Zhao Guozhi agreed, looking at the outline of his wife in the dark night and listening to the shallow breathing of his two children as they slept. He felt inexplicably touched and warm in his heart.
He had thought about his future when he dropped out of high school. He had a smooth personality and had many connections in school and town, so he never thought about returning to the village to be a hard-working farmer.
He found several jobs for himself one after another, and also secretly sold his job opportunities to others in exchange for money. He also did some other seemingly unrelated jobs, not only in the town, but also in the county town for a period of time.
He had some reality-based plans for his future, but his original future plans did not include his wife or two little kids.
Their appearance was sudden but natural, intervening in his still young life, and would occupy an important position in the future.
After having his own family, Zhao Guozhi often felt fortunate that he did not come back to tend the land as a farmer.
Although farmers are the most politically correct group in this era, the fact is that when farmers really cannot make any money, they can only make a living and find it difficult to support their families.
When he had two children, he and his wife each held one cub in their arms and had a long talk all night in this small house.
After that night, Zhao Guozhi left most of the housework to his wife, and he often went to the town, saying that he was lazy and went to find a job in the town, but in fact he went to another village farther away.
He crossed mountains and rivers to learn medical skills from a doctor who was sent down to the countryside.
Over the past three years, the doctor moved from the cowshed to the village clinic with his medical skills and was recognized by the villagers. He finally went from being completely ignorant of medical skills to being able to be taken under the teacher's wing and be treated as an apprentice.
The teacher is very good, and Zhao Guozhi feels that he has not even learned the basics of his skills.
But for the sake of his family and children, Zhao Guozhi dared not relax at all. He didn't know when the policy would change, but he always felt that things were changing and the teacher might not stay in the countryside forever.
He must seize the opportunity.
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