When the regulations were first put in place, Sanwang felt very uncomfortable. He always felt like something was not right and he had to go check from time to time.

But he didn't dare to tear it off.

Mai Sui even deliberately placed his test papers and homework on their kang to see if he would dare to scribble on them.

Sanwang couldn't help it. The whip hadn't hit him yet, but the test paper was right in front of him, which seemed to be provoking him: You don't dare to draw it.

He took the pen and wanted to draw a big zero, but Xiaowang stopped him, "Little San brother, no."

Sanwang took a breath and couldn't help himself.

Xiao Wang: "Dad will beat me!"

Sanwang: “…” It hurts.

Never mind! I'll let you go!

He took a hard look at the bright red 100 and put his pencil away.

Xiao Wang immediately collected Mai Sui's test paper and put it on the north kang, "Little Third Brother is really good."

Sanwang: “…” Do you think I’m a duck or a dog?

In school, with Dawang watching over him, he couldn't do anything out of the ordinary. Sanwang couldn't sit still in class, but Han Qingping was sympathetic and let him go out to help out for half a class, so that he could move around. It wasn't a big deal.

After school, go home, do homework, eat, sleep. How can such a dull, boring, and stereotyped life be possible for Brother Sanwang!

If the whip doesn't hit my body, then it's not my body! He couldn't help it.

"Mom, I see a lot of wild vegetables. I'll go pick some to feed the ducks." Sanwang thought of a way to relieve his boredom. Anyway, as long as he wasn't confined at home, he felt like he had put a cage on himself.

Lin Lan had no choice but to warn him, "Don't do anything dangerous."

This kid has a problem. He may not do the items listed by his father, but he may try everything that is not listed.

Xiao Wang carried his harmonica on his back and also took a small shovel, "Mom, my third brother and I are going to dig vegetables."

Lin Lan's heart softened when she saw her little son. She kissed him and said, "Xiao Wang, be good. Watch over little brother Xiao San and don't let him make mistakes. Otherwise, he will be whipped like big brother."

Xiao Wang's face sank, and he nodded solemnly, "Mom, I'll remember it!"

With Xiaowang watching over him, Sanwang never made any mistakes.

Lin Lan was delighted. This was good. It looked like she would start to feel relieved.

A few days have passed in the blink of an eye, and tomorrow is Qingming Festival. Although it is busy with farming, the festival still needs to be celebrated. During the Cold Food Festival, people eat cold food, and the local custom is to roll out cakes.

After getting home from work in the evening, Lin Lan would knead the dough. She would mash the young mugwort that she had cut from Da Wang to extract the juice, then add the juice to the flour to make a few green dough balls, which she would roll out specifically for green cakes to appease the children.

The dough is soft. Grab a handful of dough and roll it into a thin large round cake. It can be baked on a griddle or steamed in a large pot.

The pancakes are quite chewy, and the rolls are soft and chewy. Whether you roll vegetables or eggs, they are both very delicious. Eating them gives you a special sense of satisfaction, and both adults and children like them.

Rolling the pancakes and baking them on the griddle are both technical jobs. A skilled person can use a rolling pin and a ball of dough to roll them thin and evenly. An unskilled person will make the dough sticky, broken, or uneven, and will be laughed at.

The same goes for the griddle. If you don't use it well, the pancake will be terrible.

Lin Lan was very good at rolling out the pancakes. Erwang was also very quick at learning how to use the griddle. After listening to his mother's instructions and following her instructions a few times, he basically mastered the technique.

The best cakes are those that have small burn marks but are not burnt and are cooked evenly.

Lin Lan praised him vigorously. She never hesitated to praise this handsome and polite second son, and always found ways to praise him. This made Erwang happy every day, and he never felt that his mother neglected him because she loved her younger brother.

She also rolled out a pot of steamed cakes and asked Wheat Ear to help light the fire. She cooked a dozen eggs in the pot so that she could roll up the cakes and eat them later.

Sanwang and Xiaowang stood beside the pot holding hands and drooling. Lin Lan pushed them aside with a rolling pin, "You two have dirt on your bodies, don't let it fall into the noodles and make your teeth look ugly."

The two brothers are now considered a golden pair. Xiaowang keeps an eye on Sanwang to make sure he doesn't act naughty, and Sanwang makes Xiaowang so that he doesn't have any trace of autism. But the two of them play around with dirt every day, their clothes don't stack properly, and the soap is wasted, which makes Erwang's housekeeper feel miserable.

Seeing that his mother was disgusted, Sanwang sighed, and dragged Xiaowang to the duck pen in the courtyard, where they sat on a tree stump and watched the sunset.

"Xiao Wang, I have a secret that I have not told you."

Xiaowang stared with his big eyes, which were clearly black and white, and looked like he was listening attentively.

Sanwang: "Actually, you were given to me by my mother in exchange for two pieces of cake. You are not my biological child."

Xiaowang's face suddenly changed, and he pouted as if he was about to cry.

At that time, there was no popular science about the origin of babies, but children were curious about how they came to be, and they always liked to ask. Adults were annoyed by the questions and didn't know how to answer, so they would just perfunctorily answer them with words like "you picked it up", "I exchanged it for a big cake", "I caught it from the river", etc.

Their own children fool around like this, and they also make fun of other people's children. This leads to the seven or eight-year-old children in the village all thinking that they were picked up or exchanged for it.

Generally, younger children don’t pay attention to it, and older ones don’t believe it at all. Only those who are seven or eight years old are stubborn and firmly believe in it.

Many people make fun of Sanwang, saying that Mai Sui and Erwang are good at studying, but he is not, and that must be unlucky.

After saying this several times, he also felt that he had gotten what he wanted. Now that Xiaowang was being disliked, it was probably because of what he got.

Anyway, in his opinion, only his elder sister and second brother were his biological children. They were never scolded or beaten, and his eldest brother might have been his biological child or adopted.

Other children find it fun and are happy to say so, thinking that if others find it fun by themselves, then of course I must find it too. If you encounter a sensitive and delicate child, he may pack up his small baggage and go to his own parents, but most of them just want to have fun.

But Xiaowang was a not very funny kid, and he especially believed in Sanwang, so he took it seriously once he heard it.

Sanwang saw that he was about to cry, so he quickly held him in his arms and patted his head to comfort him, "Don't cry, I'm here, Xiao San Ge. I will love you like my own son."

He heard other adults coaxing children in this way, so he learned it. Xiaowang leaned in his arms and felt comforted.

"Little Third Brother, will mother stop loving me?"

Sanwang: "Of course mom loves you. She doesn't scold you or hit you. She loves you the most."

Xiaowang thought about it and decided that even though she was not his biological child, as long as his mother loved him, that was enough.

Sanwang continued to fool him: "Don't ask your mother. Adults don't like children to know. If the child knows that he was picked up, the adults will be angry and take the child back. Do you want to be taken away?"

Xiaowang shook his head vigorously, indicating that he would not let anyone take him back unless he told them he knew.

Sanwang touched the puppy's head with satisfaction and smiled proudly.

When Han Qingsong came back from work, he saw Sanwang holding Xiaowang, showing a loving brotherly attitude. He thought that although this boy was naughty, he was still very good to his younger brother.

It seems that the intensive training recently has been very effective.

Han Qingsong came into the house and Lin Lan asked him to cut some leeks and crack a few eggs so that he could make some pancakes as a reward for the children.

Sanwang likes to eat leeks and eggs. He has been enduring a lot of hard work these days and deserves a reward.

Spread the chives and eggs on a large pancake, then fold it in half. Use a bowl to roll the edge of the pancake, tear off the irregular edges, and you will have a regular semicircle, which is fragrant and fresh.

As a result, the children all ate until their bellies were full, especially Sanwang, whose stomach was full but his mouth was not. In the end, he could only watch his father and brothers eat and satisfy himself.

Lin Lan found it funny to see him like that. If this happened in modern times, he would definitely be a loyal fan of the big-eating internet celebrity.

After dinner, the team leader held a loudspeaker and shouted in the street, "Tomorrow is Qingming Festival. Men should worship their ancestors and sweep the graves early in the morning, and then go to work. Women will have a day off and can go to the front and back villages to play on the swings. Women who don't have a day off will have their work points doubled!"

This is the welfare provided by the brigade to women and children.

It is said that New Year's Eve is a man's festival, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is a woman's festival, when women play on swings, go outings, and play in groups.

Han Yongfang didn't support playing with swings or anything like that, not only was it dangerous, it would also delay work. But the captain persuaded him to give the women a day off, let them have some fun, those who wanted to work could work, and those who wanted to play could play, it wasn't a big deal.

Han Yongfang was not happy to hear that they were given a day off. Wouldn't it delay their work if they were allowed to play? He told the team leader, "Then we will double the work points for those who work." In this way, most of the women would not rest.

Captain: You are so cunning!

After being persuaded by Han Yongfang, most women chose to go to work, some chose to work half a day, and the favored girls or newly married young wives could rest for a whole day and go to other villages to play on the swings.

Han Qingsong asked Lin Lan to take the girls and the little boy out to play, while he took Da Wang and Er Wang to earn work points.

“Only once a year,” he said.

Lin Lan thought about it and decided to just take her daughter out for some fun and celebrate Girls' Day.

Mai Sui was delighted when he heard this, and he hugged Lin Lan's neck and turned around, "Mom, you are so kind."

She turned her head and saw Sanwang and Xiaowang standing side by side, looking up at her with eyes full of envy.

Mai Sui was surprised and asked, "Ah, what are you two looking at me with?"

Sanwang sighed, touched Xiaowang's head, and said "ah" in a tone that only Xiaowang could understand.

Xiaowang pursed his lips, lowered his head, and walked out holding Sanwang's hand.

Lin Lan: “…” What’s going on?

When she washes her face and feet in the evening, she would wash Xiaowang as usual.

Xiaowang: "Mom, I can wash them myself." If he washes his feet by himself and tries his best to show his performance so that his mother likes him, he will not be sent away.

Lin Lan was surprised: "Xiao Wang has grown up and can even wash his feet by himself."

Sanwang ran over immediately and said, "Xiaowang, let me wash you." After all, he was his biological son and he had to show off.

Seeing him so sensible, Lin Lan was even happier. She patted the heads of the two children and said, "Little Third Brother is awesome. He knows how to take care of his younger brother."

Sanwang laughed, washed Xiaowang's feet, wiped them with a cloth, and carried Xiaowang to the kang.

Xiaowang took off his clothes obediently, glancing at Lin Lan from time to time. If Lin Lan didn't look at him, he would feel disappointed. If Lin Lan looked at him, his eyes would light up, and then he would try hard to show how he was taking off his clothes.

Seeing Xiao Wang taking off his clothes and getting naked under the covers, Lin Lan went over and kissed him, "What a great kid, you can sleep by yourself now."

Xiaowang hesitated for a moment and did not hug Lin Lan's neck. Instead, he held her face with his little hands and rubbed his face against hers.

The third brother said that holding the neck would strangle people.

Seeing him like this, Lin Lan's heart melted and she rubbed back, "Mom really likes Xiaowang. Go to sleep quickly."

Xiaowang smiled sweetly because of this sentence, and lay obediently in the quilt waiting for his second brother.

After kissing Xiaowang, Lin Lan went over to touch Sanwang's head and praised him for being sensible. However, he has always been a shrew, and Lin Lan has never kissed him like she kissed Xiaowang. After all, he is a big boy, and she thinks it is too corny.

Lin Lan urged Da Wang and the others to go to bed quickly.

Da Wang was either at school or at work these days. When he had some free time, he would practice his slingshot and talk even less. Er Wang and Mai Sui would read books and talk about things that other children were not interested in when they had free time.

After all the children had gotten into bed, Lin Lan went to wash herself, tidied herself up, and then got into bed.

Han Qingsong came in from the main room, drying his hair, with a white homespun bath towel wrapped around him, which Lin Lan had made herself using a sewing machine.

Lin Lan pretended to read a book while secretly glancing at him. His neat short hair, long neck, beautiful clavicle extending to powerful shoulders, and his arms bulging with beautiful muscular lines as he moved, were a delight to the eyes no matter how you looked at them.

The most eye-catching thing is that he has perfect abdominal muscles and mermaid line.

She chuckled to herself.

Han Qingsong saw her holding a book of military songs in her hand, and she was reading something with a red face and a dull smile.

He closed the door, stepped onto the kang with his long legs, and moved closer to her. "What are you looking at?"

Lin Lan: ………Look at you!

How did she get such long and straight legs?

She moved her leg closer and compared it.

In his eyes, her legs were slender and white, and the visual effect was very tempting, especially when he thought about the feel and strength...

His throat felt dry.

Lin Lan was surprised: "Do you think I have gained weight?"

She ate well during the Chinese New Year and didn't do much work, so she seemed to have gained weight.

Han Qingsong put his big hand on it and felt it. It felt great. "It feels just right." He then put his other hand on it and touched it as well.

Lin Lan: "I can't do that when I'm older. Look at the fat on my waist. I need to exercise. How about I exercise with you guys in the morning?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was pressed down on the quilt.

"Start exercising now." His voice was hoarse, his black eyes were burning.

Lin Lan: “…” I think I’m quite thin!

The next day was Qingming Festival. Han Qingsong got up early and took the children to train first. Then Erwang and Mai Sui cooked. Dawang took the two children out to pick willow branches, pine branches, cypress branches and peach branches.

They first beat the doors of each house, saying that they beat lizards and poisonous insects to drive away evil spirits, and then cut pine and cypress branches and put them on their hair, saying that this can prevent centipedes and other insects from drilling into the ears, and ensure a year of peace. After cleaning up, they inserted willow and peach branches on the door and made a loop for Wangwang to wear.

Sanwang looked serious and spoke in an old man's voice, "Humph, if you don't plant willows during the Qingming Festival, you will turn into a yellow dog when you die."

Lin Lan: “…” She doesn’t understand idealism, so she can’t teach her.

Xiao Wang immediately shouted: "I don't want to die and turn into a yellow dog."

Mai Sui hurriedly coaxed him, "You are only this young, you still have another hundred years to live."

Children, however, do not understand the significance of a hundred years. They only think that people will die, and that there is no difference between a few decades or hundreds of years and a few days or a moment. This is very scary.

He hugged Lin Lan's legs and said, "Mom, I don't want you to die."

Lin Lan squatted down and pinched his chubby face, "Mom won't die. I have to wait until you grow up to be as tall as dad..."

"But I don't want my mother to die." Xiaowang frowned.

"That won't happen. Mom is just like that pomegranate tree. She will never die." Lin Lan coaxed him.

Xiaowang looked at the thriving pomegranate tree at home. Although it had not produced pomegranates yet, the trees were growing well, and he felt relieved.

Lin Lan made a few egg rolls, tied them with white string, wrapped them in a clean bag and put them in her schoolbag, and took them with her to eat at noon when she went to play on the swing.

Outside, Sanwang led Xiaowang to the foot of the gate and, hiding from the adults, wanted to talk to him about the impermanence of life and death.

Sanwang was lively and active, running around everywhere. He knew a lot of things. There was nothing he didn't know about the village. Whose child was born, who's child died a few days after birth, who's child died at the age of three or four, who's...

He pulled Xiaowang aside, thought for a moment and was about to speak, but Dawang, who had followed him, grabbed his ear.

Sanwang: "Brother, if I don't pull your ears, you are still my brother."

Da Wang sneered: "What are you mumbling about?"

Xiao Wang smiled and said, "Brother, don't pull my ears, they will turn into donkey ears."

After a winter of growth, Sanwang's skin has turned darker. If his ears grow longer, he will look like a black donkey.

Da Wang let go of his hand, but grabbed San Wang's shoulder and said, "If you talk nonsense to Xiao Wang, I will beat you."

If he were to tell Xiaowang about such and such deaths, the child would probably get stuck in it and not be able to get out.

Xiao Wang was still curious, "What do you want to say, Xiao San? I'm listening."

Seeing how well behaved he was, Sanwang felt that he was so easy to deceive. It would be so uncomfortable if he didn't deceive him. He couldn't help it!

But under the tyranny of his elder brother, he had to change his mind, "I said that playing on the swing is not fun, let's go dig wild vegetables, pick flowers, and find insects to feed the chickens to lay eggs."

It's so uncomfortable to be watched by my mother and sister while playing on the swing.

Xiaowang wants to follow his mother.

Sanwang: "We can tie a rope to the tree over there and play on the swing."

He went to find a rope and tied it to the poplar tree outside the door.

Da Wang saw that he was tying it carelessly so he went over to help. After he tied it up, it turned out to be a swing.

Xiao Wang was very happy, "Let's play on the swing."

Sanwang: "Don't go to other villages. There are hundreds of people competing for a swing. You can't get a turn even if you wait in line until midnight. It's stupid. Besides, they are all women. Let's go and play with them, you rotten-footed bastard."

Xiao Wang had no idea how many hundreds of people were queuing, but he couldn't let his legs get rotten, so he was a little hesitant.

Sanwang continued, "Mom is with her daughter, how can she take care of us? Let them have fun so they don't have to take care of us."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wang nodded: "I won't hold mother back."

Sanwang patted his head and said, "Be good, I'll take you flying."

After dinner, the men went to worship their ancestors and go to work. Lin Lan wanted to take Mai Sui and the two children to play on the swings, but Sanwang said he wanted to take his brother to dig wild vegetables instead of playing on the swings.

Sanwang: "That swing is so big. Xiaowang and I are scared and don't dare to play with it."

Lin Lan: "Mom is holding me, don't be afraid."

Xiao Wang: “Afraid.”

Lin Lan: "Then mother won't go either. Let your sister and other sisters-in-law go together."

At this time, Caihua, Yanyan and another girl came over and saw Lin Lan and Mai Sui. They said happily, "Teacher Lin, Mai Sui, let's go play on the swings together."

Qiantun was not far from them, only about two miles away, and it would take about ten minutes to get there.

Seeing them, Lin Lan felt a little worried again, and she subconsciously wanted Mai Sui to stay away from Yan Yan. After all, the original heroine was Mai Sui's nemesis, what if the plot could not be changed?

Sanwang said, "Mom, you and sister go play on the swing. We can play on the swing at home and not run around."

In the past, Xiaowang also played on the street by himself. Recently, Sanwang took him out to dig wild vegetables and play. Nothing happened, so Lin Lan was not worried.

"Okay then, let's go play on the swings." Lin Lan put some food down for the two children, letting them solve their own problems if they were hungry or thirsty.

Sanwang: "Mom, I'm not a child. I can take care of my brother." He is my biological brother!

Lin Lan smiled, patted his head, and kissed Xiao Wang, "Have fun at home."

She took the little girls away.

As soon as they left, Sanwang felt liberated. He always felt like he was the head of the family because his parents, brothers and sisters were not at home. He wanted to climb up the roof, lift the tiles, put his hands on his hips and shout a few times.

Xiaowang watched him running happily in the yard, somewhat puzzled as to why he was so crazy.

After running a few laps, Sanwang finally vented his excitement and did not go to the bathroom to make trouble.

The two of them played with the swings and frogs for an hour or so - the car was broken and finally broke down.

Sanwang led him to eat a piece of pancake and egg roll, wiped his face considerately, then picked up the basket and shovel, "Let's go and pick some vegetables. I tell you, this family needs men like us to support it, and women can just eat, drink, play and show off."

………………

They picked a basket of wild vegetables. Seeing that the sun was still high, Sanwang said they could take them to the river to wash them, take them home to dry, and then chop them up for the ducks. There was no need to take them home to wash them like his sister did and waste water.

In early March, although the ice in the river had melted, the water was still freezing cold, and only the naughty boys were willing to play in the water despite the cold.

Xiao Wang: "Little Third Brother, Mom won't let me play in the water. It's cold and I have cramps."

Sanwang: "Wait up there, I'll wash the wild vegetables."

Xiaowang still shook his head and refused to let him go down.

Sanwang: "I just took off my shoes and washed the vegetables, I didn't go into the water. My father dared to swim in winter, how could I be his son and not dare to wash vegetables?"

Xiao Wang thought about it, and it seemed so? He nodded again, "Just wash the vegetables."

Sanwang washed the wild vegetables and stared at the water. The spring water looked especially soft and clear, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds. There were also flocks of white geese and ducks swimming in the water. Everything looked so beautiful.

He wondered what it would feel like to go swimming. After more than half a year without going into the water, he felt itchy all over, as if something in the water was tempting him.

He heard someone talking about winter swimming on the radio, and his father also said that they organized a winter swimming competition for warriors in winter.

Aren't they cold?

Dad said that the water is actually warm in winter. Is that true?

He couldn't help but take off his socks and dip his feet into the water, "Ah!!! It feels so good, let's do three more tubs!"

My feet are really frozen.

Xiao Wang chuckled at his grinning face, "Are you cold?"

Sanwang patted his chest and imitated Yang Zirong's posture, "Your little brother is a man from the forest and snow, how can he be cold!"

At this time, several kids came over to pick some vegetables. Seeing that Sanwang dared to put his feet into the river, one of the kids laughed and said, "You are really not afraid of the cold."

Although Sanwang's teeth were chattering from the cold, he insisted, "The water is warm, it's not cold at all."

He kicked the water deliberately.

Hammer had a big snotty nose and sniffed it, "I dare too."

He also took off his shoes and ran down, putting his feet in the water. "Oh - it's so hot!" He was shivering from the cold and his big nose got longer.

In addition, some guys dared to do it and some didn't. Even if it was freezing cold, they would insist that it was not cold and even shout that it was warm.

At this time, the second son of Zhao Guilian's family Xingfu ran over and sneered: "What's so great about your feet? I bet none of you dare to go swimming!"