The next day was Monday, and the little ones officially started their school life. Only Baoya and Yuanbao were left at home.
Feng Guizhi thought that the two younger ones were bored at home, especially since they had been with their older brothers before, and now they were suddenly the only two left. They might feel a little lonely.
It just so happened that it was time to harvest sweet potatoes these two days, and since the work was not hard, Feng Guizhi called her two younger children to go with her.
Feng Guizhi didn't go to work today because Tiantian, perhaps missing her mother, was crying loudly and fussing. No matter how Song Jianye tried to soothe her, it didn't work, so she stayed home and held Tiantian for a long time. She had just fed her a bowl of malted milk, and she had stopped crying.
Feng Guizhi thought that the sweet potatoes in the field could be harvested, so she simply stopped going to work. She left Tiantian in the care of Song Jianye for a while, and took Baoya and Yuanbao to the private plot at the back.
The sweet potatoes are planted behind the cornfield, clustered together, with a large patch of sweet potato leaves already growing on them. These sweet potatoes are easy to grow and produce a lot. The best part is that you don't have to worry about them going bad. You can dig a cellar and store them there so you can eat them even in the winter.
Feng Guizhi, carrying her hoe and seeing no one around, headed for her private plot. Baoya and Tianen followed behind, each carrying a basket. Although they were working, the two children didn't feel tired at all. Instead, they felt happy that they were helping out.
Moreover, they would not feel bored when working with grandma, and would praise them when their brothers came back.
Yuanbao thought happily, and then thought about the delicious sweet potatoes, and became very happy.
"Sister Xiaobao, let me tell you that sweet potato leaves are delicious and especially sweet. When winter comes, you can put them under the pot and roast them. They smell so good when roasted." Yuanbao almost drooled just thinking about it.
Especially the sweet potatoes at home are very sweet, sweeter than brown sugar.
Hearing Yuanbao say this, Baoya first thought of corn. The last time Yuanbao said corn was delicious, and now hearing Yuanbao talk about sweet potatoes, Baoya also began to look forward to it.
After passing the cornfield and reaching the back, Feng Guizhi stood next to the sweet potato field and started hoeing. The soil here was softer, so it was not too tiring to work.
Feng Guizhi first dug out a sweet potato, picked up the roots, shook off the dirt, and examined its appearance. The one in her hand was quite large, about the size of a bowl, and quite heavy to carry.
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Feng Guizhi put the one she had just made aside and continued working while saying, "Smash off the dirt on top and put it in the basket."
Feng Guizhi was in charge of digging, Tianen was in charge of carrying, and Baoya squatted beside the basket and was responsible for brushing off the dirt on it. The three of them were busy with their own work and worked quite quickly.
"Yuanbao, stay away when your mother is hoeing the ground. Don't get too close." Feng Guizhi reminded him.
"Okay." Yuanbao nodded in agreement.
After digging two piles, Feng Guizhi rested for a while while leaning on the hoe. She wasn't too tired, after all, farmers had done all kinds of hard work, but the pain from being bent over all the time was a little unbearable.
The weather in September was cooler than before, but Feng Guizhi still had a circle of sweat on her forehead. She held her waist and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand.
"Grandma, are you tired?" Yuanbao asked Feng Guizhi after picking up another sweet potato.
Baoya was also looking at Feng Guizhi from the side, with a look of worry on her little face.
"You're fine, just rest for a while." Feng Guizhi said.
Seeing how hard Feng Guizhi worked, Yuanbao and Baoya worked even harder, hoping to let Feng Guizhi do less. Yuanbao picked the sweet potatoes one by one, sweating on his face.
Baoya squatted there, not feeling tired, but doing it very carefully. She wiped off the mud on the sweet potatoes in the basket and put them into the basket cleanly.
Before lunch, Feng Guizhi dug several bunches of sweet potatoes and filled half a basket. She put something on top to cover them, and then took Yuanbao and Baoya home.
After arriving home, Feng Guizhi went to the main room to rest for a while, while Baoya and Tianen went to the west room to see Tiantian.
At this moment, Song Jianye was sitting by the bed, letting Tiantian stand in the bed and teaching her to learn to walk.
Tiantian will soon be one year old and has already learned to crawl. Song Jianye supports her and lets her practice walking slowly.
"Tiantian, brother is back." Yuanbao lay on the edge of the bed and said to Tiantian with a smile.
Tiantian seemed to understand what he said. She turned her head and blinked her big grape-like eyes at Yuanbao, then smiled happily and clapped her two little hands.
Baoya also lay on the bed and looked at Tiantian. All the children in Lao Song's family were older than her, but Tiantian was younger than her and should call her sister. However, Tiantian didn't know how to call her sister yet.
Baoya looked at Tiantian who was smiling with two small teeth, and frowned worriedly. When will Tiantian
Only then can I learn to call her sister~
I don’t know if it was because she saw Yuanbao and Baoya coming back, but Tiantian, who was walking so hard just now, didn’t want to walk anymore. She just sat on the bed like a spoiled child and played with her little feet.
"Tiantian, why don't you walk?" Yuanbao said, wanting Tiantian to get up and practice walking. Once she could walk, he could take her out to play.
"We've been walking for a while. Tiantian might be tired. Let her rest for a while. It's a good opportunity for you to play with her." Song Jianye reached out and hugged Tiantian, waving her little hand and said to Yuanbao.
Baoya reached out and held Tiantian's little hand. She felt that her hand was small and there was a small dimple on the back of her hand.
Seeing that Tiantian didn't want to walk anymore, Yuanbao started to teach her to talk: "Tiantian, call me brother, brother, brother~"
Tiantian can now pronounce words, but she can only call her "mom" and occasionally "dad." Therefore, the family's favorite thing to do now is to teach her how to speak.
Baoya looked at Tiantian and said, "Sister, call me, sister, sister~"
Song Jianye couldn't help but smile as he watched the two children teaching Tiantian to speak.
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After lunch, Feng Guizhi coaxed Tiantian to sleep. There was no rush to harvest the sweet potatoes in the field, so seeing Tiantian fall asleep, she went to work in the afternoon.
Baoya and Yuanbao also slept in bed for a while, about an hour, and when they woke up, they went to the brigade to play with other children who didn't go to school. At around four or five o'clock, they went to the back mountain to dig some wild vegetables with Shen Yibei.
"Brother Yibei, have you ever eaten snails? Snails are delicious, especially the ones made by my grandma are the best!" Yuanbao couldn't help but say as he followed Shen Yibei.
Shen Yibei had eaten snails before, but the taste was not very good. But now he heard Yuanbao say that it was made by his grandmother. Although he didn't eat it, he knew it must be delicious.
He looked at Baoya. When Baoya heard Yuanbao talking about snails, she couldn't help licking her lips, as if she was savoring the delicious meal yesterday, and then nodded her head in agreement.
Looking at Baoya's dazed look, Shen Yibei couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, losing some of his usual calmness and indifference.
After Yuanbao finished talking about the snails, he thought about the preserved eggs. "And, Brother Yibei, the preserved eggs you make are delicious too. Grandma made us... chopped pepper preserved eggs. Yes, chopped pepper preserved eggs, they're super delicious. Brother Yibei, you're amazing."
As he said this, Yuanbao's eyes lit up.
The eggs were made by Brother Shen Yibei and Grandpa Zhao together. I felt that Shen Yibei was so amazing, as if he could do everything.
When Baoya heard this, she nodded her head again in agreement: "Delicious~"
The process of making preserved eggs was actually quite troublesome, because he could only do it secretly and had to control it so that it wouldn't turn out badly. After all, he had never done this before, so he encountered a lot of trouble when operating it. But now that he saw that they all liked to eat it, Shen Yibei felt happy when he heard it.
"Then I'll make it for you next time."
"Okay!" Yuanbao responded and almost jumped up with joy.
Baoya thought that there would be delicious preserved eggs to eat, and she smiled happily at Shen Yibei with her eyes curved.
Before dark, Baoya and Yuanbao arrived home. Soon, the children who went to school also came back. The children gathered together again and started playing happily.
During dinner time, Song Jianye leaned on his hand and walked into the main room, where the whole family had dinner together.
.......
On the other hand, Wang Mengjiao went to her mother's house today. After all, they were from the same production brigade and it was not far away. So after having dinner at her mother's house, she went home with two pounds of pork and some melon seeds and peanuts.
It was getting a little dark at this time, but the road was still visible. Wang Mengjiao walked home with her head lowered, still thinking about what her mother had just said.
At this moment, a basin of water was suddenly poured out, and it just splashed on Wang Mengjiao, which scared her a lot.
"ah!"
Wang Mengjiao never thought that she would be in trouble while walking peacefully. Especially the feeling of the water was greasy, like the water used to wash pots, which made her feel uncomfortable.
The man didn't expect that he would spill water on someone when he came out to pour it out, and was also shocked: "I...I didn't mean to..."
The voice belonged to a child. Wang Mengjiao raised her hand to wipe her face, feeling all sticky and irritated. She was holding some pork, and when she looked at it, it was also splashed with water.
She turned around and couldn't help cursing, not caring if the other person was a child or not: "Do you have eyes? Didn't you see there was someone there? Huh? What the hell are you splashing? You're going to ruin all my stuff!"
Wang Mengjiao was furious. She felt wet all over, and she couldn't help but feel mad. She couldn't suppress her anger. Especially since she was going back to her parents' home today and had specially worn new clothes.
"I have two pounds of pork, two pounds of pork! I'll give it all to you.
It's ruined, tell me what to do? Pay me!
"I...I didn't mean it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The child knew he had done something wrong, and after being scolded, he couldn't help but cry in fear.
Even though he was a child, he knew pork was expensive and his family could only afford it during the Chinese New Year. But now that he had stained it, he couldn't afford to pay for it.
The woman who was cooking in the house heard the noise outside and ran out immediately. She found her child crying and asked:
"What's wrong, Binzi? Why are you crying? Tell me what happened?"
"What happened? I was walking here peacefully, and he poured a basin of water on me, dirtying all my clothes, and there were two kilograms of pork. What are you going to do for me?" Wang Mengjiao said angrily.
The woman looked up at Wang Mengjiao and recognized her, knowing that she was the daughter-in-law of the neighboring old Yang family and the daughter of the team leader. She didn't dare to offend her, so she apologized quickly, but didn't mention the pork. After all, her family couldn't afford to compensate for two pounds of pork.
"I'm sorry, it's just a child who doesn't understand. Please forgive him this time. It was too dark and he didn't see clearly. I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
Wang Mengjiao was still unhappy. She felt a surge of anger stuck in her chest, making her feel so uncomfortable that she couldn't help but want to get angry:
"What's the point of just saying you're sorry? Does that mean the water won't be spilled? I have a new set of clothes and two pounds of pork, and you're telling me what to do with them. Do you think I deserve this bad luck?"
When the woman heard that Wang Mengjiao wanted her to pay for the clothes and pork, she was so scared that her voice trembled and she couldn't help crying.
Wang Mengjiao was even more annoyed by her crying. She was the unlucky one, so why were they the first to feel wronged? It was as if she was bullying them. But two pounds of pork was rare for them, so was it worthless to her?
Pork, who can eat pork every day these days?
"Stop crying. Don't act like I'm bullying you. Just understand, I'm the unlucky one who got splashed with water." Wang Mengjiao said irritably with a frown.
Mother Yang saw that it was getting dark outside, and seeing that Wang Mengjiao had not returned, she went outside to look. Then she heard sounds of quarreling not far away. The voice sounded like Wang Mengjiao's, so she hurried over.
"What's wrong? Why are you arguing? Let's talk it out."
Wang Mengjiao was about to speak when she heard Yang's mother talking about the quarrel. She suddenly remembered what Baoya had said before and was stunned.
At this moment, a man approached and found several people standing at his door. He also found that his wife and child were still crying. He immediately frowned and looked at Wang Mengjiao and Yang's mother with a sullen face and said:
"What did you do?"
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