Although Fang Ze was only a teenager of fifteen or sixteen, as he gained more experience, he understood more and more the concerns of adults. He had been prepared for not being able to recognize his younger brother and did not seem disappointed at this moment.
Moreover, he was already very grateful that Xiao An's current mother allowed Xiao An to call him brother... After thanking him again, Fang Ze said that he had something to do and did not stay for dinner. He left directly with big strides.
Seeing that they couldn't keep this big brother whom they had a good impression of even with the braised pork, several of them looked a little regretful.
"This big brother..." Liu Tiao stood at the gate of the yard, looked at the tall figure for a while, and suddenly spoke.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Zhenzhu asked Liu Tiao.
"He actually doesn't like braised pork!" Liu Tiao said in an almost accusing tone, "The braised pork made by my mother is so delicious, but he refuses to eat it and says he doesn't like it..."
Cheng Zhenzhu laughed in silence. That was just the older child's kind excuse. He didn't want to stay and cause them any trouble. She understood their fear, so she didn't go out of her way to stay. She'd talk about it later.
"Okay, I'm going to cook. You all should clean up." Cheng Zhenzhu looked at the back that gradually turned into a small black dot and said to the others.
"Yeah!" Liu Tiao nodded happily. At lunch, he even asked his mother for an extra piece of braised pork, saying it was for his older brother who had left.
"Okay, you try it for that big brother..." Cheng Zhenzhu agreed and picked up the largest piece of braised pork with fat and lean meat for Liu Tiao.
I have no objection to the other points. After all, there is plenty of meat, and my mother always gives me enough~
The youngest, Jiu Tiao, had no objection either. He buried his little face in the rice bowl, with gravy hanging from his mouth, looking very satisfied. Now he can eat a little of everything.
......After eating the braised pork, Liu Tiao felt inexplicably listless for a while, and he looked listless. He occasionally muttered to himself "big brother" and looked a little confused.
Cheng Zhenzhu noticed Liu Tiao's mood swings and took advantage of the sunny weekend to take her and Liu Tiao to town for some shopping. She even bought some of Liu Tiao's favorite trough cakes.
After eating the tsao gao, Liu Tiao's mood immediately improved. He did his homework, hummed a song, and went to school happily the next day with a piece of tsao gao in his pocket. He couldn't show off his big cake to his classmates, but he could always show off his small cake!
Cheng Zhenzhu was quite impressed by Liu Tiao's quick change of mood. However, it was good...
Because the older brothers were back at school, on Monday it was only Seven or Eight who went up the mountain to earn work points. Without the temptation of braised pork or the pressure of the older brothers, the little Nine became a little unruly and ran around.
After all, his mother didn't stop him from looking around... He would move his two short legs around and laugh, and he would usually get a biscuit or something after every round.
So, because of Jiu Tiao's activeness, every time the four brothers Tiao Tiao went to school, Qi Tiao and Ba Tiao ran around but couldn't get many work points, but they could occasionally get a few bites of biscuits.
However, on weekends when several major departments have holidays, the whole family can go out and usually earn more than ten work points. If you are more diligent, 20 is not impossible.
The pearls are strong and efficient, usually earning 7 or 8 work points. Occasionally, one of them gets 4, but generally they earn 2 or 3 work points. The others are also capable.
Even the tinkering Jiu Tiao was particularly conspicuous when he mingled among the dolls on weekends. Of course, he certainly didn't get any work points...
They counted their work scores and began looking forward to the sweet potato pancakes in July and August. Of course, before the sweet potatoes, they were more eager for the delicious foods that were right in front of them: fried mushrooms, spring rolls, mugwort cakes, and wild vegetable dumplings.
Just after the arrival of April and a rain, several fishermen put on their shoes and old clothes and prepared to head up the mountain. Cheng Zhenzhu applied some seaweed water to the allergy-prone Jiu Tiao, hung a small basket on his back, and let him go.
"Mom, ahhhhh~" Jiu Tiao's excited little voice began to float around again after hanging the small basket. He was very excited holding a small hoe in his hand. This was the smallest one he had found among all the ones...
"Okay, let's go." Cheng Zhenzhu locked the lock and led the troops up the mountain. Picking mushrooms, digging wild vegetables, and picking mugwort leaves in March and April every year has become a family tradition.
"Let's go~" After shouting, Liu Tiao ran to the front like a flash.
Bajiao saw it and hurried to follow.
Several of them also ran very fast.
“Here I come~~~~~” Jiu Tiao is walking more and more skillfully now. Not only does he run by himself, he also pulls his mother along to run.
Cheng Zhenzhu smiled and followed. In the blink of an eye, her children had grown a little bit bigger. To be honest, it was quite a sense of accomplishment...
When the few of them went up the mountain, many people were already picking mushrooms. There were some trampled mushrooms everywhere. These were mushrooms that had been confirmed to be poisonous and inedible.
"We've run out of mushrooms here. Looks like we need to go a little further up the mountain..." The mushrooms were fresh, delicious without any seasoning. The islanders and the educated youth were all rushing to pick them, slowly making their way up the mountain. As for picking wild vegetables, that came after the mushrooms.
When the educated youth Yu Xiaoyue saw Cheng Zhenzhu and seven children going up the mountain, she couldn't help but hide, but her eyes were full of resentment.
I don’t know if she was targeted by “Peng Aiqing” or what, but every time she said a few words, she would either suffer from constipation on the spot or after a few days, and no one would respond to her calls. After this happened so many times, people on the island thought she was sick.
It wasn't because she said there were ghosts or she was sick. After all, everyone on the island was convinced that there was a ghost named "Peng Aiqing" floating around Sanshi Island, protecting Cheng Zhenzhu's family...
They thought she had a problem, but they knew they would be punished, yet they still gossiped about her. Even Xu Xia, the biggest gossipmonger on the island, stopped gossiping about Peng Aiqing's family...
Yu Xiaoyue was extremely disdainful of being compared to Xu Xia. However, every time she succeeded in getting her way, she was teased again, leaving her feeling utterly humiliated. Now, no one wanted to talk to her anymore.
Moreover, she was already 22 years old and still unmarried. Seeing that these hard times seemed to have no end in sight and the hope of returning to the city was slim, the group of people who had gone to the countryside with her were all married, and even those who lived the worst off could at least have enough to eat.
As for her, she has never been able to get married. All this is because of the ghost in Cheng Zhenzhu's family!
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