Chapter 106 Mom, I'll raise you by picking up trash 8
This conversation completely solved Jiang Fanyue's confusion.
She had never been loved by others before, so when she suddenly gained the love of children, she was always a little worried, worried that their love would not last long, and worried that she would disappoint them after a long period of contact.
Now she still has the same worry, but she is no longer worried about gains and losses. Instead, she will work harder because of this worry.
Jiang Fanyue picked up the last few peanuts in the bowl, peeled them and poured them into Yao Rong's palm: "Mom, can you teach me how to make a bamboo dragonfly?"
"Why do you suddenly want to learn this?" "
I want to give it to Ruirui and the others."
Yao Rong hoped that Jiang Fanyue would be more popular, but she couldn't go too far and make her a people-pleasing person: "I can teach you. But you have to remember that when you learn a skill, the first thing you should consider is whether it is useful to you and whether it can make you happy, and then consider other people. Under the premise of not harming the interests of others, you should put yourself first when thinking about the problem."
Jiang Fanyue shook her head: "Learning to make a bamboo dragonfly has no practical effect on me, but seeing Ruirui and the others happy, I will be infected."
Yao Rong leaned aside, She took out some materials suitable for making bamboo helicopters from the cabinet and began to demonstrate to Jiang Fanyue step by step. She said casually, "If there is a skill that can be useful to you, make you happy, and make others happy, then it is killing three birds with one stone."
Jiang Fanyue stared at Yao Rong's movements, but her thoughts began to drift away with Yao Rong's words. It was not
until she thought of those fairy tales that she shook her head suddenly and devoted her full attention to studying.
Three days later.
Jiang Fanyue sat in front of the stall, with a cloth bag containing fairy tales beside her, holding two bamboo helicopters in her hands, and looking around from time to time.
This look lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon.
The toys on the stall were almost sold out.
Jiang Fanyue couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up and walked around, looking at both sides of the street over the crowd: "Mom, can we stay in town for a while longer? Taotao's grandmother said she would come to get the fairy tale book today, but she and Taotao haven't come yet. I wonder if something has delayed them."
Yao Rong helped Jiang Fanyue tighten her scarf: "No wonder you couldn't sit still just now. Of course you can, there are still two toys that haven't been sold, let's continue to sit and wait."
After waiting for another half an hour, the last toy was also sold, and Jiang Fanyue couldn't help but look at Yao Rong.
Yao Rong gave Jiang Fanyue a dollar and pointed to the sweet soup shop across the street: "Let's not wait here, go buy two bowls of sweet soup."
Jiang Fanyue felt relieved and quickly brought back two bowls of sweet soup.
When the sweet soup was finished, Yao Rong asked Jiang Fanyue to stay here and watch the cart while she went to buy some vegetables.
Jiang Fanyue rubbed her hands and curled up.
In autumn and winter, it gets dark very quickly, and the sun sets completely before six o'clock. It will take Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue another half an hour to get back to the village from the town, so the two of them have to leave at half past five at the latest.
Seeing that five o'clock was approaching, Jiang Fanyue pinched the cloth bag straps and was about to say something to Yao Rong who was coming back from buying vegetables, when she saw Sun Taotao's running figure appear at the end of the road.
"Slow down, slow down, be careful not to fall." A woman in a camel-colored trench coat chased after Sun Taotao.
Sun Taotao kept running, looking around while running. When he really saw Jiang Fanyue, he screamed and said excitedly: "Look, I said I was here, I said I was here, luckily you brought me here." His
feet suddenly accelerated, and Sun Taotao rushed in front of Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue, holding his knees with his hands, panting.
The little face was not sure whether it was caused by the wind or shyness, but it was flushed with health.
"Sister Yueyue, I... I didn't mean to be late... My grandpa..."
"Don't be impatient, wait until you calm down before talking." Yao Rong patted Sun Taotao on the back.
Sun Taotao swallowed his saliva and looked at Jiang Fanyue carefully, worried that Jiang Fanyue would be angry with him.
However, what he saw was a smiling face.
There was no hasty blame, no noisy complaints, only sincere joy and complete understanding.
She said, "I'm glad you didn't break your promise."
The woman who was chasing Sun Taotao also came closer.
She had big brown wavy hair, a camel windbreaker with black boots, and an apologetic smile. She explained for her son, "I'm sorry, Taotao said a few days ago that he would come to see you today, but his grandfather's condition suddenly worsened last night, and he didn't come out of the operating room until noon."
The adults in the family waited outside the operating room all night, and they were extremely tired both mentally and physically, and just wanted to go back to catch up on their sleep.
Among all the adults, the one who suffered the most was undoubtedly Grandma Sun.
Sun Taotao didn't want to disturb Grandma Sun's rest, so he thought of his 12-year-old cousin and wanted him to bring him to Jiang Fanyue.
Before the two sneaked out of the door, they were caught by Mu Shulan.
After asking the reason, Mu Shulan hurriedly brought Sun Taotao over.
"Is your grandpa feeling better?"
Jiang Fanyue's first reaction was to care about Grandpa Sun's health.
After learning that Grandpa Sun was not in any serious trouble for the time being, she said, "If your family has an emergency, you can come to see me on the next market day."
Sun Taotao said embarrassedly, "I can't easily break an appointment with others. And if I don't come, Sister Yueyue and Aunt Yao will have waited for so long in vain."
Yao Rong said, "We are not in a hurry, so it's okay to wait a little longer."
Jiang Fanyue followed up and said, "Yes, we didn't wait long."
Sun Taotao shook his head, "As a gentleman, I can't let a girl wait for me."
He lowered his head and touched his pockets, and took out a small box of candy, "This is a gift, you must accept it."
Mu Shulan also said, "You haven't eaten yet, right? I'll treat you to dinner at the hotel."
"No need." Without waiting for Mu Shulan to persuade him, Yao Rong said gently, "I'm not being polite, I just thought that you probably have a lot of things to do at home. Even if you want to eat, there's no rush on this day. Besides, Tao Tao has already sent a box of candy as a compensation gift, we'll accept it."
Although it was a rejection, it was completely from Mu Shulan's perspective. Mu Shulan felt warm in her heart, knowing why her son and mother liked this mother and daughter so much.
Jiang Fanyue took out the fairy tale books from the cloth bag and handed them to Sun Taotao one by one.
Sun Taotao touched the wrapped book cover and said in surprise: "Sister Yueyue, you still wrapped it?"
Jiang Fanyue: "I'm worried about dirtying your book."
She would take good care of her own books.
Books lent to her by others should be carefully protected.
Sun Taotao hugged them and smiled with narrowed eyes.
Before, he took fairy tale books to kindergarten, and a kid from kindergarten borrowed his books. When he returned the books, the covers were stained with oil and dirt. He was furious, but the teacher asked the kid to apologize to him, and he calmed down.
But since then, he didn't like to play with that kid anymore.
Don't think he doesn't know that the kid secretly scolded him for being stingy.
He is not stingy.
"Sister Yueyue, do you still want to read fairy tale books? I have a lot of fairy tale books, all of which can be shared with you." Sun Taotao looked at Jiang Fanyue expectantly, as if he was eager for her to borrow more books from him.
Hearing Jiang Fanyue's response, Sun Taotao said happily: "Then I'll bring it to you in a few days."
Jiang Fanyue thought about it and emphasized: "Let's not make a specific time. Anyway, I will come to the town with my mother every market day. If you are free, come to see me. If it is not convenient, you don't have to rush to bring the book to me. What do you think?"
The two of them communicated and agreed.
Before waving goodbye, Jiang Fanyue stuffed both bamboo dragonflies into Sun Taotao's hands as a return gift.
"I made this myself. I wish your grandfather a speedy recovery." The autumn harvest in
***
Village has come to an end, and many people have spread the harvested crops on various open spaces to dry.
Yao Rong came to the village chief's house with half a pound of candy and asked Ruirui's father and mother to help her renovate the house.
When she has more money, she will definitely go to the city to buy a property. But that will be next summer. She and Jiang Fanyue will still live in the village for a few months. It won't cost much to do a simple renovation of the house, and it will be more comfortable to live in.
Yao Rong said, "I will pay you on a daily basis according to the wages of decorators."
The village chief has three sons in total. The last two sons went out to work early. Ruirui's father and mother stayed in their hometown to take care of the elderly and children. People in the village like to ask them for help when they have anything.
However, because of their status as village chiefs, the two basically help for free.
Ruirui's mother was happy to hear Yao Rong say that she would pay on a daily basis.
After the busy farming season, she had some free time. She was happy to do odd jobs to earn some spare money.
But Ruirui's father shook his head and said, "That won't work. You are an orphan and a widow, and the villagers should take better care of you. When you have bought the tiles, Ruirui's mother and I will go over to help you."
Ruirui's mother's joy suddenly sank, but she couldn't embarrass Ruirui's father in front of her, so she could only try to keep her expression unchanged.
Yao Rong said sincerely: "If it were financially difficult before, I would have nodded shamelessly. But now I have made a little money from my business, and this salary should be paid no matter what. Third brother, your family has helped me so much in the past. If it weren't for your care, it would not have been easy for a woman like me to raise Yueyue to this age. I can't let you suffer losses all the time."
Everyone in the village knew about her business, and they also heard that she made a lot of money - if she didn't make a lot of money, she wouldn't have to buy so many things every time she went to the city.
Ruirui's father was still hesitating, but Ruirui's mother had already agreed: "Don't worry, sister, your third brother and I will do our best to help you repair the house."
Yao Rong stood up and said goodbye. Before she left, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao, who were leaning against the door frame, jumped out and said they would follow Yao Rong to find Jiang Fanyue to play.
"Hey, wait a minute--" Ruirui's mother called them and wanted to pack some boiled peanuts for them.
Yao Ruirui shook the small bag of boiled peanuts in her hand and said without looking back: "Take it."
The two children couldn't keep their mouths idle, either chatting or bickering. Yao Rong listened all the way and suddenly smiled and said: "Ruirui, Miaomiao, Aunt Rong wants to ask you two some questions, can you tell me?"
The two children nodded repeatedly.
"Didn't there used to be a lot of kids in the village saying bad things about Sister Yueyue?"
Yao Ruirui's eyes widened, not knowing how to answer. Yao
Miaomiao said quickly, "Yes, I've heard it several times before. But ever since they used the things Sister Yueyue gave them, they've stopped saying anything."
Yao Ruirui was impressed, "That's called being grateful for what you've done."
"Okay, okay, being grateful for what you've done." Yao Miaomiao had a helpless expression as if you were right, and turned to look at Yao Rong, "Aunt Rong, do you want to know who's saying bad things about Sister Yueyue? I'll tell you their names, and you go and teach them a lesson."
Yao Rong bent down to make it easier for Yao Miaomiao to look up at her, "I don't want to know. But if anyone else says bad things about Sister Yueyue in the future, tell me the first time, okay." Yao
Miaomiao patted her chest. "I'm so fierce. If I hear someone say bad things about Sister Yueyue, I will definitely scold them on behalf of Sister Yueyue."
Yao Ruirui also nodded, thinking that Yao Miaomiao finally said something good: "Yes, we will protect Sister Yueyue."
Yao Rong couldn't help but be gentle, saying: "You should protect yourself first."
When they arrived at the door of the house, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao went into the house to play with Jiang Fanyue. Yao Rong rode a bicycle to the town to buy decoration materials.
The quantity required was not small, so Yao Rong simply added a little money and asked the boss to deliver it directly to her house.
When all the decoration materials were in place, Yao Rong, Ruirui's father, and Ruirui's mother started to work. There
was too much smoke and dust in the house, so Jiang Fanyue took the two children to play in the sun valley at the entrance of the village.
The drying valley was very large, and each household had a clear dividing line between the crops they were drying.
Jiang Fanyue and the two children sat in the middle of the dividing line.
The two children had learned many catchy nursery rhymes, and they began to teach Jiang Fanyue how to sing them one by one.
Jiang Fanyue was happy to cooperate, humming softly.
When the two children got tired of singing, Jiang Fanyue took them to play with toys.
As they were having fun, several children aged between eight and twelve came over.
Seeing the exquisite toy in Yao Ruirui's hand, the sturdy boy in the lead was delighted and shouted, "Yao Ruirui, who bought you the toy in your hand? Give it to me to play with."
Before Yao Ruirui could say anything, Yao Miaomiao was already choking like a little pepper, "Who are you? Why should I give you the toy?"
"I'm your cousin, how can I ask you for a toy?"
Yao Ruirui stretched her face and stood up: "This belongs to sister Yueyue, not to us."
The little boy was embarrassed by what they said: "You actually recognize the garbage king as your sister? What, do you also want to pick up garbage with her?"
He sniffed hard, fanned his nose with his hands, and exaggerated: "Who knows where she picked up this toy from."
Jiang Fanyue's face was a little ugly, and she stood up with Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao.
She recognized the little boy in front of her.
His name is Yao Liangcai, and he is the same age as her.
The two were in the same class for six years in elementary school, and went to the same junior high school together.
He was the first person to call Erniu "ugly".
He was the first person to call out the nickname "garbage king".
He was the one who spread her family background as a joke throughout the middle school and tore up the copy of "The Dancing Elephant" she wrote.
Last year, Yao Liangcai's family moved to the town, but he came back to the village today.
Jiang Fanyue clenched her fists and looked at the person she hated the most. Her shoulders trembled slightly due to the intense emotional ups and downs.
The sound turned between her lips and tongue for several times before it came out.
"Apologize."
"What did you say?" Yao Liangcai seemed to have heard a joke.
The words that had been pent up in her heart finally found an outlet. Jiang Fanyue's body was still shaking, but her voice was surprisingly steady: "Shouldn't you apologize to me? You called me a nickname, leaked my privacy, and tore up my homework. Don't you think you were too much?"
"I didn't touch you at all. I just said a few facts. Is that not okay?" Yao Liangcai didn't think he had done anything wrong and was very justified.
Jiang Fanyue's heart was heaving and her anger was rising. However, she, who had always been submissive, suddenly spoke out in resistance. This had already exhausted all her strength and courage. She had no other way to deal with it except to put the facts and reason.
But for someone like Yao Liangcai who has no empathy, if he doesn't listen to reason, then no matter what she says, he won't feel remorse or be moved.
At this moment, Yao Ruirui shouted at Yao Liangcai: "If this fact will hurt others, then your behavior is wrong! Didn't your grandfather and teacher teach you this truth?"
Yao Miaomiao snorted, put her hands on her waist, and puffed out her chest: "I heard that he only got a dozen points in Chinese and math combined. He definitely didn't understand what his grandfather and teacher taught him."
Yao Ruirui covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Really? I can get more than 160 points in any test."
"Yes. He wet the bed when he was ten years old, and he also stole money from his grandparents--"
The companions who followed Yao Liangcai were laughing crazily. Yao Liangcai couldn't hold back his laughter and gritted his teeth: "Yao! Miao! Miao!"
Yao Miaomiao had a provocative expression on her face: "What I said is true, this is not okay?"
Yao Liangcai clenched his fists.
Jiang Fanyue was moved and ashamed. She
was moved that the two children stood up to protect her, but she was also ashamed of this.
She was so much older than them, and she should have been the one protecting the two little sisters, but she became the one being protected behind.
"You feel very angry now, right? I have often felt this emotion in the past many years..."
"No, I didn't even dare to be angry at that time."
Jiang Fanyue stood in front of Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao, staring directly at Yao Liangcai. Her eyes, which were originally timid and evasive, seemed to ignite a raging flame in an instant, forcing people not to look at her.
"You don't have to apologize today, and I will never forgive you anyway. But you will definitely pay the corresponding price for your mistakes in the future." Gritting her teeth and saying this harsh word, Jiang Fanyue held Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao's hands and walked past them and left.
Yao Liangcai opened and closed his hands, and was so angry that he squatted down and picked up a palm-sized stone used to hold down the cloth. Without even looking at it, he smashed it hard in front of him.
The sound of breaking air and screaming came together. When Jiang Fanyue turned around, the round stone had hit Yao Miaomiao's shoulder hard.
Yao Miaomiao opened her mouth in pain.
She covered her left shoulder, tears kept flowing from her eyes, but she couldn't make a sound because of the pain.
Jiang Fanyue's mind was confused.
There was only one thought in her mind - Yao Miaomiao was injured because of her.
New and old hatreds surged in her mind at the same time. Jiang Fanyue screamed, let go of Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao's hands, rushed towards Yao Liangcai, and suddenly pushed him to the ground. She used her hands and feet to kick and hammer Yao Liangcai. It
was not until a solid fist landed on him that Yao Liangcai realized what had happened.
He was strong and subconsciously wanted to overturn Jiang Fanyue.
Jiang Fanyue's frail body erupted with amazing strength. She gritted her teeth and was not pushed away by Yao Liangcai. She seized the opportunity to continue.
Yao Liangcai was just a coward. He pushed Jiang Fanyue several times but failed to move her. He burst into tears.
Yao Ruirui was stunned. Yao Miaomiao couldn't care less and cried. The children who came with Yao Liangcai finally reacted and ran over to try their best to pull Jiang Fanyue away.
Yao Ruirui patted Yao Miaomiao on the head and took Yao Miaomiao to quietly approach Yao Liangcai who was still lying on the ground.
The two used all their strength and took advantage of the chaos to hit Yao Liangcai several times.
I told you not to bully me.
If you can't win, I'll throw stones at you.
Seeing Yao Liangcai trying to kick Jiang Fanyue, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao did not forget to hold down his thighs on the left and right, secretly protecting Jiang Fanyue from getting hurt.