Zhou Lanhua cut her hair shorter and neater as she was about to join the army.
When the conscription notice came out, she was digging for loaches in the fields, her hands and feet covered in mud. Wang Erhu ran over, hissing and shouting from a distance: "Boss, boss, we're recruiting soldiers, we're recruiting soldiers!"
She straightened up, listened carefully, and swung her hands in joy, getting all covered in mud. This moment was finally coming. She had never liked studying, but she had pushed herself through junior high school to be able to join the army and get a diploma.
With her physical fitness and decent family situation, and with a little help from Bai Yang, she successfully passed the conscription.
Everyone was happy for him, except Thirteen.
In order to follow the boss, he also signed up for the army and passed it successfully, but he didn't expect that what the boss said was true, and they were assigned to different places.
Shisan was so angry that he kept crying and insisted that he would not go and would stay near the army where the boss was.
When Zhou Lanhua heard his crazy talk, she hit him twice on the forehead, making him dizzy.
"You want to die, don't you? You can be a soldier if you want to, and you can quit if you don't want to. Do you have any organizational discipline? Are you still a man?
I'm telling you, Thirteen, don't be such a psychopath. I don't like men like you. What bullshit are you talking about!"
After being scolded, Thirteen huddled in the corner with a look of grievance, as if he was about to cry, his dark and broad body curled up like a small mound of earth.
Seeing his cowardly look, Zhou Lanhua felt a little sorry for him, so she squatted over and said, "Hey, what are you doing? You're acting like we're parting ways. I'm telling you, if you were a real man and my little brother, then you should go to the army and do your job well. Be a decent man, and when you retire, I'll respect you as a real man!"
Thirteen finally raised his head from where he had buried it, and with two lines of snot hanging from his mouth, he said, "Really?"
Zhou Lanhua patted him on the back of the head and said, "Really? When have I ever lied to you?"
Wang Erhu watched Zhou Lanhua hitting him left and right, and touched his head, feeling a little pain. He suddenly thought that maybe Thirteen was not so stupid after all.
Thinking that she was about to leave home, Zhou Lanhua suddenly became much more sensible. She still walked around outside during the day to see if the pumpkins and winter melons in her own fields had grown well. If they had grown well, she would pick them and carry them home. If they had not grown well, she would help to remove the weeds around them.
After dinner, Zhou Lanhua strolled in the yard and saw that there were many fruits on the persimmon tree. She counted them carefully and found that there were more than eighty of them.
Under the moonlight, each persimmon grows plump and bright, making people drool at the sight of it.
Zhou Lanhua immediately went back to the house and got a basket. She climbed up the tree holding onto the branches with both hands. In two or three steps, she reached the top of the tree and picked the persimmons one by one, filling a large basket.
Freshly picked persimmons are hard and astringent and cannot be eaten. They need to be stored for ten days or half a month, then they will become soft, sweet and fragrant.
She carried them into the house and said to Qiuhua happily, "Sister, look, persimmons!"
Qiuhua took the basket with surprise. As expected of Zhou Lanhua, she had already filled the basket with the fruits. It was so heavy that it was difficult to carry.
Zhou Lanhua sat on a stool to rest for a while, holding her chin as if thinking about something.
"Sister." She stood up, fetched a smaller basket, and filled it with persimmons. "I don't think we can finish all these persimmons," she said. "So, I'll give some to Thirteen, silly boy, to take with you on the road."
"Lanhua is quite thoughtful. You two have a good relationship, so you should give him some to try." Qiuhua replied, "How about giving some to Wang Erhu as well?"
"Him?" Zhou Lanhua looked confused. It turned out that she had not expected this little brother at all.
She scratched her head and said, "Forget it, he's not going far away. I'm too lazy to go to his house. Next time he comes, you can give it to him."
"So it's not that you're reluctant to part with a few persimmons, it's that you find them annoying! Why don't you dislike Thirteen?"
Zhou Lanhua took the basket and said, "How can these two be the same? Thirteen has been with me since he was a child... Well, I won't say anymore. Sister, I'm going now."
"Hey, are you really not going to Wang Erhu's house? How do you know he'll come later? Your eldest brother has already gone to the army, why would he come?"
Zhou Lanhua waved her hand and walked out the door, saying, "Look at him, he'll have to come to you to show his affection again in the future!"
After saying that, she carried the basket and walked quickly to the door of Thirteen's house. The lights in the house were on brightly.
The courtyard gate was open, and Zhou Lanhua walked in familiarly. As soon as she reached the door, she heard her elder sister scolding Thirteen.
"Why are you so honest?"
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"If you don't tell me now, when will you tell me? Are you going to wait until you two have joined your respective armies? Oh, my brother, hurry up and tell Zhou Lanhua!"
When she heard her own name outside, she couldn't help but wonder what Thirteen was going to say to her, so she simply hid aside and listened.
She took a quick look and thought, it was a dark night with strong winds, the enemy was in the open while I was in the dark, it was really a bit unfair. Forget it, what was the point of talking about morality when it came to herself.
"Sister, the boss won't meet anyone else when he goes to the army, so I'm relieved." Thirteen spoke much more fluently to his sister than to Zhou Lanhua.
"Oh, my dear brother, look at you. You've been with her for more than ten years, but you just can't say it. Just tell her directly..."
"That won't do!" Thirteen raised his voice and scared Zhou Lanhua outside.
"Once I tell her that, she'll definitely ignore me from now on. She doesn't have that kind of interest in me!"
What does it mean? What does it mean? Zhou Lanhua was confused, but her face felt inexplicably hot.
"How will you know if you don't try? If you don't tell me now, don't cry under the covers when she gets married. I won't pay any attention to you then!"
Zhou Lanhua looked inside and then at the dark sky. She seemed to understand what she had heard. She quietly left the yard and hurried home quickly.
"You're back so soon? Why don't you play a little longer?" Qiuhua looked at her panting and still carrying the persimmons, and suddenly felt strange. She asked, "Why did you bring these persimmons back? Is there no one home?"
Zhou Lanhua made some mumbling sounds but didn't answer properly. She seemed a little distraught. She dropped the basket and hid in the house.
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