Liu Lanxiang was relieved and felt at ease.

Chen Xiaoying quickly packed six sesame cakes and asked Li Yutong to take them back by bicycle: "You, Hanhan, and Jiejie, each of you three should get two."

She doesn't care about the third son's wife, Zhao Xueyan.

"I see."

Li Yutong said.

Nowadays, the children in the village come and go on their bicycles.

Li Yutong rode her bicycle home happily.

Normally, when she saw so many delicious foods at the market, she would just stand by and watch. She had no money to buy them, and her parents didn't tolerate her wasteful spending habits and almost never bought anything for her.

Once, she came with her mother and wanted to eat leek pie. Her mother said, "I only have this dollar, and I want to cut my hair. So you eat it, but I won't cut my hair."

She didn't want her mother to have no money to cut her hair just because she ate the leek pie.

She just stopped eating.

Her mother went to get her hair cut.

This time, her grandmother set up a stall at the market, so she will be able to eat more delicious food in the future.

Li Yutong was just feeling happy. The bicycle had been used for a long time, and the front end of the bike became stiff. When turning, it turned slowly, and it fell to the ground with a crash.

Li Yutong's legs were still on the bicycle, with her upper body lying on the ground, and she didn't move for a long time.

A village woman who was working in the field nearby was startled and ran over to shout.

"You are Lanxiang's eldest daughter Xiaoyu, right? Did you fall? Wake up quickly, wake up!"

After pushing twice, Li Yutong opened her eyes blearily and recognized that it was a person from the village. She didn't know his name, but he lived next door to her grandmother.

But how come this person looks so much younger?

Before she could react, she stood up and was dumbfounded to find that she was much shorter than others. There was a wedding in the village some time ago, and during the banquet, there were people taller than her.

Li Yutong felt dizzy for a while. When she came to her senses and looked clearly at the person in front of her, she was horrified as she stared at him: How come this person is so young?

"Xiao Yu, are you okay?" the woman asked.

Li Yutong said quickly: "It's okay, it's okay, I just fell and got scared."

She knew that this person lived next door to her grandmother's house, and seemed to be some distant relative of her grandmother's. She didn't know whether to call her aunt or aunt, so she could only laugh dryly.

Her mother and father are both from this village. Some of them are relatives to her father, some are relatives to her mother, and some of them can be considered relatives to both families.

So, some people follow their mother's name and call her aunt, and follow their father's name and call her aunt.

"Oh, that's okay, you dropped all your things." The woman even helped pick up the sesame cakes.

Fortunately, it was tied with a rope, so the sesame seed cake inside was not dirty, but the paper wrapping was loose.

"Then I'll leave." She took the pancake.

"Ride slower."

Amid the enthusiastic greetings, Li Yutong looked at the huge bicycle in front of her, stretched out her hand to take a look, and then carefully based on her childhood memories, she successfully put her short legs in and rode astride it.

After the wheels rolled forward two or three times, she found the feeling.

Li Yutong rode her bicycle all the way back, observing the village she was familiar with as she walked.

I found myself going back to 20 years ago. The general appearance of the village had not changed, except that many of the houses that were originally two-story buildings were now brick bungalows and earthen houses with gray-black tiles.

The new house her uncle built for the second child at the entrance of the village is now still a farmland.

Following my memory, I returned to my home and saw that the broken wooden board was locked. In fact, the lock was useless. I could just lift the stick that let the door fall to the ground and crawl in through the gap.

You can't guard against thieves, you can only guard against gentlemen.

She looked at her own yard with a dozen peach trees and three small bungalows. Before she came back, a large bungalow had been built for her family. It followed the layout of those in the city, with tiles on the floor, white walls, a TV cabinet, and a suspended ceiling. It had everything she wanted.

The yard is also paved with cement floors, and there is a row of colorful flowers against the wall, which is particularly beautiful.

Now the yard is still made of dirt. When it rains, green moss will grow, making it easy to fall, and there will be many puddles and muddy areas.

Li Yutong turned around and rode her bicycle to her grandfather's house.

When she was a child, after school, she and Li Yuhan would go directly to their grandparents’ house for dinner when no one was at home.

The owner of her grandfather's house was still the mud house she remembered.

At the square table under the eaves, Li Yuhan and Li Yujie were lying on the table. Li Yuhan was doing her homework while Li Yujie was playing with an eraser, and it was obvious that she didn't want to do anything.

She suddenly felt a lump in her throat and almost cried.

"Sister, what's wrong with you? Where is our mother?" Li Yuhan asked her curiously.

"Still at the market." She said, and then put the pancake on the table: "My grandma asked me to come back and bring some food."

"Is it delicious?" A big hand suddenly stretched out, took one and started eating it with big mouthfuls.

Li Yutong looked over and saw a young and slightly plump face. It was her third aunt Zhao Xueyan.

When Zhao Xueyan died, she was as thin as a firewood stick.

"Mom, I want to eat too." Li Yujie said hurriedly.

"Then eat it. It's right on the table." Zhao Xueyan glanced at Li Yutong and her sister, and motioned Li Yujie to get it herself.

Li Yutong didn't say anything, but Li Yuhan took one and started eating.

"Sister, this is for you." Seeing that Li Yutong didn't move, Li Yuhan was afraid that Third Aunt and Li Yujie had finished the cake, so she quickly gave her one.

"Okay." Li Yutong said and took it.

She cried just now because she thought of the ending of her three sisters. Although she and her sister Li Yuhan suffered a lot in the middle, their lives were just like ordinary people. Although it was noisy and their living conditions were ordinary, they still managed to get by.

What I usually worry about is my children's academic performance and which interest classes they should sign up for.

But Li Yujie was different. When she was sixteen, her mother Zhao Xueyan died of illness. Her father went out to work and sent her to a technical school in another place, but she didn't study hard.

He wouldn't get up in the dormitory in the morning if he didn't get enough sleep, he didn't listen in class, and he talked to the gangsters around him. He didn't finish his studies, but he followed the gangsters he knew to work in other places.

Later on, nothing happened with this little gangster.

She first worked as a screwdriver in a factory, worked as a cashier in an Internet cafe, and served dishes in a small restaurant, but she didn't make much money.

She actually wanted to work in a better hotel where the salary was higher and the division of labor was clear, so it wouldn't be too tiring.

But there are also requirements, that is, one must have decent looks, at least graduate from high school, stand with a straight back, and represent the image of the hotel. Li Yujie's living environment has made her never dare to look people in the eye. She is timid and her brain is not flexible, so people just ignore her at first sight.

Later, I heard that she started dating someone from an unknown place and lived with him and had a child. Even if my uncle didn't agree to her getting married, it was useless.

She married far away and never came back.

Whenever Uncle San mentioned her, he would curse her, saying that it would be worse to raise a dog than to raise her.

Li Yutong listened and looked at her old, haggard, and resentful uncle and found it ridiculous: You ignored her since she was a child and let her grow up like a stray dog, and now that she has grown up, you want her to take care of you like a human being?