Chapter 43
43.
From Yi Hanxing's words, Liu Huaixu felt that he must have said something wrong, otherwise the little girl opposite him would not have become so excited all of a sudden.
Liu Huaixu thought about what he had said before and analyzed it together with Yi Hanxing's words. He probably understood that she was unhappy because he said she was short and fat?
Unable to understand why stating the facts would cause such a big reaction, Liu Huaixu decided to humbly accept Yi Hanxing's correction and adjust his wording: "I should have said that Japanese civilian women need to work daily and are vegetarians. Although they are about the same height as you, they are generally not as white, rosy, and healthy as you."
Yi Hanxing knew that his reaction might seem a little extreme to people of this era. After hearing what Liu Huaixu said, he took a deep breath and nodded in agreement.
What else can we do? It's good enough that Liu Huaixu is willing to change his words. Do we expect him to suddenly evolve into someone like Tian Guangqian or Yang Qin? He's still a patient.
So, because Yi Hanxing gave up dwelling on this matter, Liu Huaixu never understood why Yi Hanxing was angry. He could only tell Yi Hanxing what he wanted to say in confusion and then let Yi Hanxing leave.
Han Xing was walking on the road and was unsurprisingly ridiculed by Yi Hongxing.
"Who's worried about not growing taller?" Yi Hongxing said with a grin, asking for a beating: "I won't tell you!"
Yi Hanxing took a deep breath.
"Come to think of it, your third brother and I won't talk about it. Your second sister had bound feet, ate little, and didn't exercise much, but she was over 1.55 meters tall by the time she was thirteen," Yi Hongxing said. "Then she slowly grew to over 1.6 meters. We were born to the same mother, so why didn't you grow taller?"
Yi Hanxing took a deep breath again and said, "I can bear it!"
"Could it be that I have too many tricks in my head and can't grow tall?" Yi Hongxing said, touching his shaved chin.
Yi Hanxing: I can’t bear it anymore!
"Yi Hongxing! Who are you calling short? Who are you calling cunning?" Yi Hanxing pounced on him and wanted to kill his brother.
Yi Hongxing quickly jumped back: "You can't hit me with your short arms!" Seeing Yi Hanxing continue to rush towards him, Yi Hongxing quickly spread his legs and ran, saying as he ran: "You can't catch me with your short legs!"
Yi Hanxing was so angry that he cried out.
The fight between the two attracted the attention of the leaders of the base. One leader reached out and grabbed Yi Hongxing: "What are you two siblings fighting about?"
Seeing Yi Hongxing being caught by the leaders, Yi Hanxing hurried over, not daring to do anything big in front of the leaders. Yi Hanxing just pretended that he couldn't brake in time and stepped on Yi Hongxing.
Yi Hongxing made a grimace.
The leaders are all funny
He looked at the brother and sister, pretending not to notice Yi Hongxing's feigned pained expression, and asked, "What happened to you?"
"Leader, he said I'm short because I'm cunning!" Yi Hanxing complained quickly, "Please help me."
When the leaders heard this, they were surprised that such a thing could happen. But when they thought about Yi Hongxing, they didn't find it strange. They started to criticize him, "Hongxing, you are already in your twenties and almost thirty. Can you be more mature and let your sister take charge?"
"That's right! How can Han Xing be short..." The leader glanced at Yi Hanxing and changed his words: "How can you say Han Xing is short? Hasn't she started growing yet?!"
Yi Hanxing: Listen to me, thank you, because of you...
"You don't know." Yi Hongxing quickly defended herself, "Just now, our Japanese teacher Liu said that she was short and plump and should imitate Japanese aristocratic girls. She almost jumped up. Isn't this disrespectful to the teacher? I just said something to her."
If someone else said this, the leaders might believe it out of respect for the teacher, but when Yi Hongxing said this, given his previous history of causing trouble and many nonsensical actions, the leaders looked at each other, and it was obvious that there were three words in everyone's eyes: don't believe it!
However, the reason is false, but what Liu Huaixu said should be true.
One leader praised him, "Look at how good Han Xing is! Although he's not quite as tall yet, he's fair and chubby, and looks like a healthy child. The most wealthy Japanese people raise their children to look like this."
"That's right, what a blessing it is." The leaders echoed.
After hearing what the leaders said and seeing Yi Hanxing's expression of doubt about life, Yi Hongxing, who was pleased, didn't care that his sister stepped on his foot. He just said, "I still have to do some research. I'll go first. Goodbye, leaders, goodbye, Hanxing." Then he ran away.
Han Xing was left facing a group of leaders who were in their thirties or forties, who could be her fathers in modern times, praising her cuteness, strength, health, and rosy complexion.
What else could Yi Hanxing do? He could only secretly forgive them and accept their praise.
When he was alone, Yi Hanxing touched his belly thoughtfully, pinched the swimming ring that piled up when he sat down, and finally couldn't help running to his friend's house to borrow a clothes-making ruler to measure his waist.
Xiaohua's family has always been engaged in tailoring and embroidery work. Xiaohua's mother can visually estimate the body's data without a ruler. When she heard that Yi Hanxing wanted to borrow a ruler to measure her waist, Xiaohua's mother waved her hand and said, "Why do you need a ruler? I know it at a glance. It's two feet and five inches!"
Yi Hanxing converted the centimeters and had a bad feeling in his heart, but he couldn't help but ask, "Do you remember what my waist circumference was before?"
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How could I not remember? I was about two feet three inches tall back then." After hearing this, Xiao Hua's mother realized, "Han Xing, you've had a pretty good meal in the last six months! How great is that? You kids should definitely put on some weight!"
After hearing this, Yi Hanxing recalled his life of four meals a day plus desserts and sweet drinks after moving into He Mansion... It turned out that every pound of fat was not gained in vain!
After bidding farewell to Xiaohua's mother, Yi Hanxing said to Xiaohua with great sorrow, "I can't go on like this."
"What?" Xiaohua asked in confusion.
"Xiaohua, you don't know." Yi Hanxing said, "The body's fat cells only increase before the age of eighteen. After eighteen, they only grow larger and don't multiply. So if you don't control your weight during adolescence, it will not only be difficult to lose weight later, but it will also be easy to gain weight. If you control your weight well during adolescence, even if you gain weight later, it will be easy to lose weight."
"But Han Xing, aren't you afraid that you won't grow taller if you don't eat enough?" asked Xiaohua, who knew Han Xing's obsession with height.
"So I have to exercise more so I can grow taller and lose weight at the same time!"
"Shall we go into the mountains?" Xiaohua asked excitedly, "Shall we call everyone to come with us?"
Adult reason told Yi Hanxing that although the mountains had always been safe, they had just encountered a wild boar yesterday and were scolded by their family. Going back into the mountains today would be… well, Yi Hanxing's rationality snapped. Yi Hanxing, who was old enough to celebrate Children's Day, thought: Exercise to lose weight is so painful. I have to do fun exercise! Like going into the mountains!
"Then what are we waiting for!" Yi Hanxing said excitedly, "There are only two hours left until the afternoon class. If you don't call for help, we'll be back by the time we reach the foot of the mountain!"
The naughty kids hit it off immediately, took some biscuits or something for lunch, and went back into the mountains. They actually demonstrated what it means to forget the pain after the wound has healed. They were no longer like the ones who climbed trees because they were scared by the wild boar yesterday.
When the afternoon class started, the adults began to get anxious when they found that many of the children in the class were absent.
As the older brother of one of the children, Yi Hongxing was naturally promoted to be the leader of the search team. When he learned that the children had run to the mountains again, he divided the team into several teams and began to search for the children along the commonly used routes.
When they finally found the children hanging on the tree again, Yi Hongxing and his group unexpectedly saw a wild boar under the tree again.
"Did these kids poke a wild boar's den?" Hearing Yi Hongxing say this, it was hard for the people around him not to show an expression of agreement.
That's right! This forest is so close to the base! The civilians and soldiers in the base would go to the forest to see if there are any mushrooms, bamboo shoots, wild fruits or small animals. This wild boar is so close, it should have been discovered and killed for meat long ago, but no one else noticed it.
What kind of fate is it that a group of little kids were forced to climb trees twice by wild boars?
Because of the last experience of distress, the friends were busy running around, but at least they still remembered the scientific knowledge about trees taught by the adults. They chose trees that were relatively strong and had thick branches for people to sit on. They used their skilled tree-climbing skills to sit on them and watch the wild boars hit the trees.
Because the tree was chosen correctly this time, the children sat on the tree quite leisurely, waiting to see whether the wild boar would knock them out first or the adults would notice that someone had skipped class and come to find them.
Although the wild boar was in a clumsy state while climbing the tree and was leisurely sitting on the tree, Yi Hanxing actually didn't understand how this happened after being rescued again. Why was the wild boar tied up with his group of people?
Are wild boars so easy to come across? Why did our group just come across one?
And then I saw a second one right after that? Besides catnip, is there something called pignip these days? Why is it so attractive to wild boars?
Not only Yi Hanxing was puzzled, but everyone in the base was also puzzled: Why do these kids always encounter wild boars? They didn't go deep into the mountains?
"Could it be that Zhuzi's previous prayer for more meat actually worked?" This was so mysterious that Xiaohua began to secretly murmur to Yi Hanxing: "This doesn't make sense? We just wanted to go into the mountains to play during lunch break, but we got blocked by wild boars in the trees again? My mom said she's going to teach me a lesson when she gets home."
When everyone was puzzled, Yi Hongxing suddenly thought of something and whispered to the leader of the base who had come over to see the novelty.
"That's not right." Yi Hongxing said to the leader, "Think about it, if we encountered one wild boar, it might have gotten lost and fled to the outskirts. But if we encounter wild boars again and again, does that mean all wild boars are lost?"
"Hongxing, what do you mean?" The leader's eyes began to flicker.
"Leader, can you ask us to search for other wild boars nearby? The reason is that we suspect the wild boars have come down the mountain so we need to prevent them from digging up crops and also to add more meat and vegetables." Yi Hongxing said.
"That's no problem," the leader agreed immediately and then asked, "What if we find more than just these two wild boars?"
"Something must have happened in their habitat to cause the wild boars to migrate outwards," Yi Hongxing said, gazing deep into the Dabie Mountains.
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