It was soon noon, and Lian Xiaomin didn't leave, so she stayed at her aunt's house for lunch.
Xiaofu and Xiaoya’s things were all taken with them. The two kids drank milk powder, and Lian Qiuping also fed them some millet porridge.
After dinner, Li Xianghai winked and called his niece to the yard. He asked in a deep voice, "Xiaomin, little girl, did you fight with bandits last night? I saw it secretly. You took an educated youth to the brigade headquarters."
Seeing that she couldn't hide it anymore, she nodded.
"Yes, uncle, I saw Yu Lei contacting the bandits, how could I not tell them? So, I caught him..."
"It's not dangerous, don't worry. Yu Lei is as tall as a little chicken, he's definitely not my size!"
"You, you should call someone else next time. There's another one in Wanli, a bandit or spy, so cunning." Li Xianghai still couldn't help but worry and shook his head. He really couldn't do anything about her.
Lian Xiaomin said in her heart, you haven't seen the two tricks I showed at the captain's house.
I was much more ruthless than Wang Kui’s swordplay. I took down a large group of people by myself.
Knowing that her uncle meant well, she said, "Yes, I know, don't worry."
After Zhang Dacui came back, she didn't tell her anything.
It seems that Uncle Shengli did not reveal that he climbed over the wall to attack the bandits.
Rui Ge and Xing Ge were both in the yard at the time and saw her.
Since Grandma Cui was completely unaware of the situation, I guess Uncle Shengli gave some instructions before he left, but he didn't reveal a word.
The other elderly people, women and children in the Zhang family were hiding in the house at the time and didn't know about her. If the three of them hadn't said anything, no one else would have known.
Anyway, it seems that the word didn't reach the ears of outsiders.
She thought to herself that as the leader of a team and a legendary figure in the villages and towns, Zhang Shengli was really smart.
He knew it very well, and maybe he could even tell that this group of people were coming for Zhang Wenyong and his men.
In the afternoon, Lian Xiaomin saw that Xiaofu and Xiaoya were still taking a nap. The weather was hot, so she left the kids here and had fun with Xiaofeng at home in the afternoon.
Say hello to my aunt and go for a stroll at the educated youth site.
When we got there, we saw that indeed, several female educated youth did not go to work.
Everyone was a little scared yesterday. In fact, at the beginning, a masked man went straight to the educated youth site.
As a result, he was discovered by several male educated youth, who beat him out with sticks and quickly closed the gate.
The lone bandit did not turn around to call his other accomplices to go.
But everyone was so scared that several female educated youth even hugged each other and cried.
The farm work is not heavy now, so they asked for leave from the team and took a day off.
Pei Ziqiu didn't go either. He was very happy to see his good friend coming, and he was just about to go find Xiaomin.
Just when I was about to let her into the house to talk, Lian Xiaomin said, "How about we go to my house? I have something delicious for you~"
"Okay, let's go."
The two little girls left the educated youth center and headed west to the foot of the mountain. It was close and they could reach the mountain in just a few steps.
After returning home, Lian Xiaomin pretended to go to the woodshed, but actually took out a big round watermelon from the space.
I was thinking to myself that when I go to pick up the kid in the evening, I will put a watermelon in the backpack and bring it to my aunt's house as well.
Pei Ziqiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he helped her get a knife from the kitchen to cut the meat into two halves. He then inserted two spoons and had each of them take half and eat at the kang table.
"Oh, these watermelons from the north are so sweet! Xiaomin, this is my first time eating watermelon in the Northeast."
The person on the other side who was about to pick up a spoon to dig in felt relieved after hearing what she said.
In order to avoid being exposed, she deliberately planted a crop of Northeastern "landmine" watermelons in the black soil of the space.
Hehe, the round and plump “big landmine” is authentic.
Before she traveled through time, she bought a cart of Dongtai watermelons at the market downstairs. They were produced in Jiangsu Province and were also very famous. She kept them for herself and her younger siblings to eat when no one was around.
The two little girls ate the watermelon with their stomachs full. They really enjoyed it. It was refreshing and a real delicacy in summer.
After a while, both of them were full and stopped to rest.
Pei Ziqiu sighed and suddenly remembered that last summer, his family also gathered around the dinner table and shared a big watermelon.
My eldest brother cut it into slices with a knife. He is such a perfectionist that even the melon was cut so evenly.
The younger brother was greedy and wanted to eat two more pieces, so the older brother taught him a lesson and told him to control his mouth and not get diarrhea... His parents spoiled him too much, and only the older brother could control this ten-year-old kid.
Lian Xiaomin wiped the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, looked up and saw what was wrong with Xiaoqiu.
He was so excited just now, craving for this big mine, and ate it so lavishly, not at all like the gentle way he usually eats.
But in a flash, he looked a little sad. What happened?
"Qiu'er, what's wrong? Why are you still crying (with tears in your eyes)? Haven't you recovered from the trauma of the bandits last night?"
Pei Ziqiu sniffed and wiped his eyes: "Sister has..."
Then the two of them burst into laughter again. She could speak these crude words "naturally" and fluently without any sense of incongruity.
The little girl put down the spoon, lifted her two long black braids behind her, raised her head, and sighed softly.
"Xiao Min, last night I saw the fire in the village, the bad guys rushed into the village, and everyone was in a panic. Suddenly I remembered the time when my family was ransacked... that feeling."
Lian Xiaomin opened her eyes wide, stopped eating, and looked at her without saying a word.
It seems there is a story behind this. No wonder he is always worried.
However, in this era, this kind of thing is a big deal. The fewer people who know about it, the safer it is, so she couldn't ask too much.
"Xiao Qiu, I won't tell you much about what happened in your family, but since you have already arrived in Sandagou, you are safe now. You must protect yourself well."
"If there's anything you need my help with, just let me know."
It was meant to be words of comfort, but after hearing them, the person on the other end started to shed tears.
I can't stop it, it's like it's been suppressed for too long and finally exploded.
Lian Xiaomin went to get a new handkerchief and handed it to her to wipe her tears.
This little girl is only two years older than me, and is only sixteen, but she is not a crybaby at all.
When he is doing farm work, you can see that he is quite strong.
He must have encountered something and felt very aggrieved. He couldn't show it at the educated youth training center, so he kept hiding his emotions.
Pei Ziqiu cried for a while and finally stopped crying. She felt embarrassed and got off the kang to wash her face, wiped it with a handkerchief, and came back again.
Sitting cross-legged on the kang again, she seemed to have let go of all the emotions in her heart and became much more relaxed. She confided the truth to her trusted friend.
It turns out that Pei Ziqiu’s grandfather is Pei Zhaojia, a famous red capitalist in Shanghai.
Mr. Pei, 55 years old, originally had a large family and wealth, but he only had one son and one daughter, his son Pei Yaohui and his daughter Pei Shiyun.
He thought that he had donated most of his family property, and that he would be able to stay safe given his status.
He never expected that when the wind started to blow, he would be instantly defeated by that son-in-law of a treacherous family, Hu Yixun.
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