"Fifth Brother, let's tie ourselves together so that we don't get separated when we go down."
Ye Xingxian reached out his hand, and Ren Xiaoxi tied a red ribbon around his neck.
After Xiaoxi linked everyone together, she flicked her hand, and the ribbons disappeared.
Ye Xingxian released the boy from his grasp, "Lead the way!"
Without saying a word, the boy jumped into the passage first.
Xiao Xi and her friends, along with the mouse, jumped into the passage.
The large pot in the kitchen flew back to the stove on its own, and everything remained as before, as if no one had ever been in the kitchen.
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In the southern suburbs of Youdu City, there is a small village.
In early winter, the soil in the fields is hardened by the lack of water, like a cracked tortoise shell, yearning for the nourishment of dew.
A little girl dressed in tattered and thin clothes is trying hard to break the embankment of the field and divert water into the field.
The little girl was starving, but she couldn't stop hoeing. After a whole morning of hard work, she finally managed to dig a canal from the stream to the field.
Without bringing water into the fields, the land is too dry to grow wheat. Driving water little by little to wet the land makes the process even slower.
The little girl didn't know why her family hadn't planted wheat even though it was almost winter, and why the fields had dried up like this.
Her family said she had to clear the land by today.
She finally managed to break the embankment and bring the water in.
The fields for growing wheat cannot be treated like the paddy fields for transplanting rice seedlings.
The little girl has to keep watch to prevent too much water from being let in.
She was cold and hungry. She had only eaten a coarse steamed bun in the morning and hadn't had a single sip of hot porridge.
The water in the field had been drained almost completely. The little girl cut off the water source, built up the field embankment, and hurriedly ran towards the stream.
Grandma was very strict this morning, telling her she had to catch two fish to take home at noon because her mother was pregnant and needed fish soup.
The little girl came to the riverbank, where three large grass carp were already jumping around in the bamboo sieve she had placed in the water that morning.
The little girl was overjoyed. She was so lucky; maybe she could eat some fish and drink some soup today.
Ignoring the lively grass carp that soaked her clothes, she put the three fish into her newly woven fish basket and ran home.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw her grandmother squatting under the eaves eating, holding a bowl.
When Grandma saw her, her expression changed, and she put down her bowl and came over.
A slap landed on the little girl's face.
"You slut, where have you been gallivanting for so long? I thought you'd been kidnapped by some random guy!"
The young girl felt humiliated: She was still a young girl, what kind of wild man was she?
"Grandma, didn't you tell me to catch fish?" She showed the fish basket in her arms to her grandma.
"Okay, go and clean the fish, then get back to the fields!"
"Grandma, I haven't eaten yet."
Grandma slapped the little girl on the other side of her face.
"You worthless good-for-nothing! You still want to eat? Don't you know that the whole village only eats two meals a day, breakfast and dinner?"
But just now, she clearly saw her grandmother eating from a bowl.
The little girl, looking aggrieved, took the fish basket into the kitchen, followed by her younger brothers, who were carrying bowls and laughing.
"Yam Girl, you glutton, lazy and shameless! Pui pui pui!"
The two younger brothers' curses were quite rhythmic, and they deliberately added cured pork to the brown rice in their bowls, chewing it noisily.
Yam Girl was so angry that she threw the fish basket on the ground.
Unexpectedly, a grass carp sprang up, slapping the younger brother's face red and causing the bowl to fall to the ground and break.
Rice was spilled all over the floor.
"Father, Mother, Yam Girl hit someone."
In an instant, a burly man and a heavily pregnant woman rushed into the kitchen, looking fierce and ready to fight.
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