"She is fair and tender, with big round eyes. She is a very pretty little girl. Is there one in your team?" Zhao Rongsheng asked, thinking about the appearance of Baoya that Jiang Qiuli described to him.
When Yuanbao heard this, he felt that he was talking about his little sister Xiaobao. He puffed out his chest and said, "My little sister Xiaobao is the prettiest. Why are you asking about her?"
Yun Duo beside her nodded affirmatively. Their sister Xiaobao was the prettiest in the team.
Zhao Rongsheng frowned upon hearing this, unsure if Yuanbao was telling the truth or if he was just saying it out of love for his family. After all, children have simple thoughts; if he likes his sister, he'll naturally think she's perfect in every way.
He wasn't sure, so he asked again, "Aside from your sister, are there any other girls like this in the team?"
Yuanbao scratched his head and thought for a while, but he still couldn't think of anyone else. It was mainly because she was so fair and tender, there really wasn't anyone else like her in the team.
The kids in the brigade run outside every day. I can’t say they are very dark, but they are definitely not very white, especially under the sun like now. Unless they stay at home all the time, it’s good if they don’t get tanned, but they definitely can’t get white.
Of course, Baoya is an exception. I don’t know why, but they all went out together. They all got a little darker, but Baoya was still fair and tender, and could be seen at a glance among them.
"No, my sister Xiaobao is the whitest and the prettiest!" Yuanbao shook his head and said affirmatively.
Zhao Rongsheng was amused by his little appearance and asked him, "Can you tell me your name?"
Yuanbao frowned and looked at him strangely: "Why do you ask my name? I don't know you."
"I might know your little sister, Xiaobao, and I'm looking for her. So I want to know your name so I can go visit you and thank you, because she and your family did me a huge favor."
"What help do you need?" Yuanbao looked at him puzzledly.
"If the person I'm looking for is really your little sister Xiaobao, I'll tell you then." Zhao Rongsheng asked him with a smile: "Can you tell me your name now, and your father's name?"
Yuanbao blinked, feeling a little hesitant, and didn't tell him immediately. Then he rolled his eyes and said, "My name is Jinbao, and my father's name is Song Tiedan."
The cloud next to him stared at Yuanbao with eyes wide open, not knowing why he said that, Fourth Uncle, when did Fourth Uncle call Song
Tiedan? Is it a nickname she doesn't know?
Yun Duo opened her mouth, but seeing Zhao Rongsheng was there, she didn't ask.
Zhao Rongsheng was a bit surprised when he heard the name, but then he thought, it wasn't unusual to have such a name in this brigade. There's a saying that humble names make it easier to raise children, and even in the Yuejin Production Brigade, there were quite a few people named Goudan or Gousheng. Most of them were children, though, and this was the first time he'd heard an adult call him by such a name.
Although the name wasn't strange, Zhao Rongsheng had lived for decades. Seeing Yuanbao's expression, he knew it was a fabricated name. He didn't get angry, but laughed instead.
It's a good thing for such a young child to have this kind of vigilance. After all, he knows he's a good person, but others don't. This time, he was the one who got in trouble, but what if he actually got in trouble?
Afraid of scaring them by asking too many questions, Zhao Rongsheng stopped asking.
"Okay, I understand. I'll visit your home later." Zhao Rongsheng said with a smile, "I won't keep you any longer. Go ahead."
Yuanbao pulled Yunduo and walked away. After walking for a while, Yuanbao looked back and saw that Zhao Rongsheng went in another direction and did not follow him. Only then did he feel relieved.
Seeing him like this, Yun Duo asked him curiously, "Yuan Bao, what are you looking at? Also, why did you just say that Fourth Uncle's name is Song Tiedan? Is that Fourth Uncle's nickname?"
As Yun Duo spoke, she remembered something: "Oh, you said your name was Jinbao, why did you lie?"
Yuanbao frowned and looked at Yunduo: "Sixth sister, I wasn't lying. I was telling... a white lie with good intentions! What if that person just now is a bad guy? So we can't tell him our names, and my father's name."
Yun Duo felt that Yuan Bao was right. Her eyes lit up immediately and she praised him sincerely: "Yuan Bao, you are so smart. Sixth Sister didn't even think of this just now."
Yuanbao smiled foolishly when he was praised, and immediately lost all his cleverness.
"Let's walk faster. After delivering the water, we still have to go to the mountain. We're also going to pick wild dates today."
"Okay, let's run faster."
Seeing Zhao Rongsheng coming back, Jiang Qiuli took two steps forward and asked anxiously, "How is it going? Did you find out?"
Zhao Rongsheng repeated everything Yuanbao had said to Jiang Qiuli. "He said his sister was the only one in the brigade who met the requirements... When I asked her her name, she said it was Jinbao and her father was Song Tiedan. I have a feeling that this name is fake."
“However, there is always a name
It's better than knowing nothing. Whether it's true or not, we'll ask more later."
Jiang Qiuli listened and nodded.
After the little ones came back from delivering water, they packed up and prepared to go up the mountain.
Because Shen Yibei also had to help out, he usually didn't go up the mountain to meet them until four or five o'clock. So, now there were only a few little ones, picking up cicada shells with their heads down.
"Brother, can we still go up there to pick dates to eat today?" Yuanbao asked eagerly.
Baoya also looked at Song Bowen expectantly, remembering the particularly sweet dates she had eaten yesterday.
Song Bowen thought for a moment and said, "After we finish picking them, if we have time, we can go over and pick some more."
"Okay!" Yuanbao was happy when he heard this.
"Let's work harder and pick up more stuff faster so we can get through this sooner."
The little ones remembered the dates they had eaten yesterday, and they all sped up and worked very hard.
After searching for a while, a few of the younger ones slowly walked to the side, and from a distance they could hear children's voices coming from there.
"Hey, I heard that Tianen's father's leg was broken again. Is this true?"
"Really! I heard from my mother that she was trying to find Song Tianen and ended up falling. Otherwise, her leg would be fine."
"Yes, I heard that too."
"How pitiful! No wonder my mother said the Song family is unlucky..."
Not far away, a few children were talking. Like Yuanbao Tianen, they were all from the Red Flag Production Brigade.
Tian'en was happily looking for cicada shells, but when he heard these words, he lowered his head, clutching the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands, feeling extremely guilty.
"Tian En, don't listen to their nonsense." Song Bowen was ten years old after all, so he probably knew everything about his family and knew that what they said was true. However, he also knew how hurtful these words were.
The people over there had slowly walked away. The younger ones in the Song family looked at Tian'en worriedly, opening their mouths to say something but not knowing how to say it.
Baoya didn't quite understand what he said, and seeing that Tianen seemed unhappy, she frowned.
After a long while, Song Tianen finally raised his head and looked at Song Bowen and asked, "Dad, Dad's leg... is it really... can't be healed?"
His voice was soft and sounded particularly distressing.
Song Bowen didn't know whether Song Jianye's leg could be healed or not, but everyone said that he
My uncle's leg cannot be cured.
Song Bowen pursed his lips. Now that Tian'en asked him this, he couldn't say it out loud.
After Shen Yibei finished his work, he washed his hands carefully by the river.
He was actually a very clean person, but this place couldn't let him be as clean as he was in Kyoto. Every day he had to help Zhao Rongsheng and Jiang Qiuli with their chores, and he had to run to the back hills to find cicada shells, wild vegetables, and herbs. And, after all, they lived in the cowshed, so being too clean would attract attention. So, the best he could do was to at least keep his hands clean.
"Why do you think Song Tianen's family is so unlucky? He's a stutterer, and his father broke his leg. He's going to be crippled. How pitiful."
"Who knows? Doesn't their family have a new sister? She seems to be mute and can't speak."
"Isn't this Ma Yuzhu and the others' fault? They took Song Tianen deep into the mountains. Otherwise, his father's leg wouldn't have been broken, right?"
"But why did he go out to look for it when his leg was broken? Now the bones are dislocated, who is to blame?"
"Yeah, I definitely wouldn't go out anyway. I don't want to become a cripple."
"I don't want to either, and I won't go out..."
Not far away, the little ones who had just washed their hands went somewhere else, and their voices gradually weakened, leaving Shen Yibei standing there with a frown.
Song Tianen's father's leg is broken? That means Baoya's father's leg is broken, the bones are dislocated, and he won't be able to walk anymore...
This was the first time he heard about the Song family's situation, and he didn't expect it to be so serious. He suddenly remembered the last time he went to Baoya to exchange cicada shells, Baoya didn't want to exchange things with him, but only wanted money. Was that money going to be used to treat her father's leg?
She is so young, no wonder she only knows how to make money. Shen Yibei felt a little sorry for Baoya, and thought that it would be great if he could go to the county town. At that time, he could bring some matsutake mushrooms and herbs, which should be able to sell for a lot of money. Maybe he could help Baoya's father heal his leg. Even if he couldn't, at least he had contributed.
Think about it, Baoya and Tianen are still so young, and their father broke his leg. They will definitely be talked about by other children in the team, and they must feel bad.
Shen Yibei frowned and rushed all the way to the back mountain and found the people from the old Song family.
Song Bowen hesitated for a while before saying, "Tian En, I don't know if it can be cured, but I think Uncle San's leg will definitely be cured. You don't
Be sad, maybe one day you can really be cured."
When Baoya heard this, she remembered what Song Jianye said and said seriously, "Great, doctor, cure it."
Her father said that if she met a good doctor, she could be cured.
When Shen Yibei came over, he heard Bowen's words and probably guessed that they had just heard what the children said. And now when he heard what Baoya said, an idea suddenly popped up in his mind, a great doctor...
Shen Yibei opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, fearing that if it didn't work out, it would disappoint them. Or, he could find a chance to go and have a look first, maybe...
“Brother Yibei.” Seeing Shen Yibei coming, Song Bowen called out.
Shen Yibei suppressed the thoughts in his heart, pretending not to know, and said as usual: "You found quite a lot today, how about this, you give me some and I will exchange things with you, okay?"
Thinking that Shen Yibei had taken them to pick wild dates yesterday, and they also knew that Shen Yibei used this to treat Jiang Qiuli, Song Bowen shook his head and said, “We’ll give it to you, no need to change.”
Shen Yibei didn’t say much, “Okay, let’s go, let’s pick some wild fruits.”
"Okay." The younger ones didn't know how to comfort Tian'en, and thought that maybe distracting him would be enough.
On the way, Song Tianen still felt a little guilty and his mood was low. Baoya seemed to feel his emotions and stayed by his side, holding his little hand, as if silently comforting him.
Then he repeated what he had just said seriously: "Great, doctor, cure it."
Song Tianen looked at Baoya and remembered what Song Jianye had said before. He slowly came to his senses. He wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand and responded affirmatively:
"Um!"
Seeing that Song Tianen had returned to normal, the younger ones were relieved and happily started picking wild dates to eat.
......
When he returned home in the evening, Yuanbao ran to tell Feng Guizhi about Zhao Rongsheng's questioning.
"Grandma, today a stranger stopped me and asked me my name. He also said he wanted to come to our house?!"
Feng Guizhi frowned: "What's going on?"
The author has something to say: Yuanbao: My father’s name is Song Tiedan!
Song Jianshe smiled: Thank you so much, my dear son. I have decided to change your name. Don’t call you Yuanbao anymore, let’s call you Gousheng.
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Wangxi 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 20 bottles of ahhhhhhh; working hard on the paper 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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