"Dad, chop off a piece and send it to Ling Ran's house tomorrow. Cut a small piece for me to taste and see if it's tasty."
Father Zhou found it funny to see his daughter drooling over the goose. "Okay, I'll chop it up."
He chopped off a quarter of the hind leg, then cut off another small piece and handed it to Zhou Xiang.
In his past and present lives, Zhou tried the dish for the first time. He took a bite of the goose meat, but couldn't hold back his tears. He said hurriedly, "It's delicious. It tastes just right. I'll go out for a while."
After saying that, he ran out of the yard, letting his tears flow freely as he ran.
Zhou's father was puzzled. What happened? He was fine just now!
Mother Zhou turned silently, facing the red flames under the stove, tears rolling down her eyes.
The girl must have remembered her past life, and Zhou Quan has become a nicer person recently because of her coaxing. The previous Zhou Quan and the Zhou Quan in the girl's past life would never let the girl taste meat like he did just now.
Only if Zhou Quan gives it to his daughter can she eat it. If he doesn't give it to her, she won't dare to ask for it. If she dares to ask for it, he will glare at her as if he is going to beat her up at the next moment.
Zhou Xiang ran for a while before the tears that were flowing wildly stopped. He wiped his tears with his hands and walked along the river with his head down.
"Zhou Xiang? Zhou Xiang, why don't you come to play with me recently?"
Zhou Xiang looked up and saw a girl about ten years old with an oval face, short hair and round eyes, walking along the north bank of the river with a dung basket on her back.
At first glance, Zhou Xiang knew who she was. Looking at the straw pile not far away, he knew that she was here to pick straw with a dung basket on her back.
Yang Ji is the same age as Zhou Xiang, but a few months older than him. They are in the same grade but not the same class.
As the sixth child at home, she has three older sisters, two older brothers, and a younger sister. She has to help with housework every day and has almost no time to go out.
Every time Zhou Xiang came to her house to play with her, she would still be doing housework while playing with her, and sometimes Zhou Xiang would help her.
The person who impressed me most about her family was her little girl Yang Juan. When Zhou Xiang was in the third grade and Yang Juan was in the fifth grade, she didn't know how Zhou Xiang's handkerchief ended up in Yang Juan's hands.
In this era, there are both double and single rubber bands for skipping rubber bands. The double rubber band is a long elastic band tied at both ends. Two people stand at the two ends and put the rubber bands on their bodies, making it look like two rubber bands.
A single rubber band is an elastic band. Two people pull it at both ends, but a handkerchief or cloth is used to wrap a stone in the middle and tie it in the middle to make the elastic band hang down.
One day, during break, Zhou Xiang discovered that the handkerchief with a stone wrapped in the middle of Yang Juan's rubber band looked very similar to the one he couldn't find. Because it was given to him by his aunt, it had a unique pattern and color, so it was easy to recognize.
Zhou Xiang went up to Yang Juan and asked her where she got the handkerchief. Yang Juan said she picked it up. Zhou Xiang said it was his and he couldn't find it for a long time.
Yang Juan said, "You said it's yours, I'll give it to you after we finish jumping rubber band."
When the bell rang, Zhou Xiang was still waiting for his handkerchief, but Yang Juan put away the rubber band and ran to the classroom.
Every day during recess, Yang Juan would take the initiative to say to Zhou Xiang: "Zhou Xiang, you said this handkerchief is yours. We will return it to you after we finish jumping rubber rope."
Zhou Xiang believed it every time and waited for his handkerchief. After countless times, Zhou Xiang felt that he could not get it back, so he stopped waiting for his handkerchief.
However, every time the bell rang at the end of each class, Yang Juan would run to the classroom door and shout, "Zhou Xiang, you said this handkerchief is yours, I will return it to you next time."
Until the handkerchief was worn into two large holes by the stones inside, Yang Juan finally stopped standing at the classroom door and ran to Zhou Xiang's desk and slapped the handkerchief on the desk, "Zhou Xiang, you said this handkerchief was yours, I'm giving it back to you."
Haha, it's been three months. Is Yang Juan making a fool of herself? She doesn't return it, and she keeps hanging on to it. She even has to run to the classroom door once or twice a day to make sure others don't think she found something and didn't return it. Finally, it's rotten and can't be used anymore, but she still returns it.
The handkerchief must have fallen at Yang Ji's house. She didn't return it to herself, and she pretended not to know what her sister did.
I once asked her if she had seen her handkerchief, and she just shook her head.
After Yang Juan had been doing that for a semester, she even asked Yang Ji what her sister was doing. She would pay it back if she wanted to, and she wouldn't pay it back if she didn't. Why did she keep saying the same thing every day? Yang Ji just shook his head.
Thinking of this, Zhou wanted to look at the unsightly smile on Yang Ji's face again.
Zhou Xiang said calmly, "Oh, I've been busy at home lately, so I stay at home every day."
"Did you drop out of school and stay at home?" Yang Ji stared at Zhou Xiang's slightly red and swollen eyes.
Zhou Xiang looked at the smiling Yang Ji and sighed inwardly, wondering if he was really that unpopular? No one considered him a friend.
She only knew that Zhong Lingchuan would not be attending classes. Didn’t she know who would be the top student in the grade at the end of the semester this year?
"I'm homeschooling. I'm going back to school for the final exams. Don't you know? I have to go home and do some work, otherwise my mom will call me."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Yang Ji looked at her back, feeling puzzled. He put down the dung basket and started pulling grass.
Recently, Zhou Xiang doesn't want to come to play with me, and there is no one to help me with my work. The person who used to come to my house at least once a day hasn't come for almost two months.
She carried the dung bucket with great effort and put it on the kitchen stove when she got home. When she saw the young lady, she thought of the time when she had played tricks on her. Was she angry?
This shouldn't be the case. It's been half a year. If I wanted to be angry, I should have been angry then. Why did it drag on until now?
Oh! My daughter is in junior high school now and doesn’t need to do housework anymore. I still have another year and a half to go to junior high school, and I don’t know if I can pass the exam!
The family rule is that girls start doing housework at the age of six, and they can be exempted from the rigid rule of doing housework after entering junior high school, unless their parents assign them to do so.
Sighing, he continued to light the fire and cook dinner.
Zhou Xiang returned home calmly. The meal was already prepared and was waiting for her to come back and eat.
"I'm back, let's eat!" Zhou Xiang said in a light-hearted tone.
"You're back, let's eat." Zhou's mother hurriedly served the rice.
Father Zhou didn't ask her where she was going. He picked up the bottle and poured himself a small glass of wine.
After dinner, Zhou Xiang watched his mother wash the dishes and suddenly said, "Mom, I finally know why you didn't let me go play with Yang Ji."
Mother Zhou turned to look at her daughter, "Did you see her when you went out just now?"
"Yeah! When I saw her again this time, I realized how fake she was. She even asked me if I had dropped out of school."
Mother Zhou took the opportunity to sit down on the second stool beside her and sighed, "Your father and I were transferred from the county town. We have no roots here. Everyone here has the same surname and lives in the same village. They all stick together. It's not easy for us outsiders to get along here.
"About that handkerchief incident last semester, Yang Juan was clearly teasing you. Every time Yang Ji asked you to play, she would ask you to go to her house. She could do things and play at the same time, and you could help her."
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