When the car passed by Zhangjia Village, Zhang Hechen couldn't help but look at the village.
"Rongya, did the people in the village often bully you in the past?"
When he and his father were around, the people of Zhangjia Village often fawned over their family. But then his father died, and he joined the army, leaving him with no idea how his younger siblings were faring. At the time, he only cared about sending money back home, believing it would ensure a better life for them. But he never expected so much to happen.
He always thought that everything would be fine as long as his grandfather was around. After all, his grandparents had been nice to them before.
Zhang Xingrong, however, felt that it had been so long since the incident, and she was living well in Lugou Village. There was no need to cause her eldest brother more trouble, so she said, "Brother, do you think I'm someone who can be bullied? If I am, then wouldn't everything Dad taught me be in vain?"
Zhang Hechen looked at his sister's proud expression, shook his head and smiled.
My sister has been like this since she was a child. She has been spoiled by him and my father. After all, she is the only girl in the family, how can they not spoil her?
Since the car couldn't enter the mountain road, it stopped at the mountain pass.
The group got off the bus at Yamaguchi and went home with their belongings.
Zhang Hechen had never been to Lugou Village before. Although it was close, he didn't know what to do there, so he rarely went there. Now walking all the way in, it was quite a novelty.
Arriving at the village entrance, I saw rice ripening in the fields. Even the hills behind the village were a vibrant yellow. In another fortnight, the rice harvest would be ready. At this point, the rice was ripe, but not fully cooked, so we had to wait another fortnight.
The mountains and fields are green, the rice is golden yellow, and the scenery around is so beautiful.
When the group saw this scenery, their mood became better.
Zhang Hechen saw a patch of yellow on the hills not far behind the village and wondered, "Are there rice fields on those hills too? Am I seeing things?"
"It's rice, you're not seeing things!" Zhang Xingrong laughed. "There's a spring on the mountain over there, so they made terraces to grow rice."
Zhang Hechen was filled with amazement: "Then Lugou Village won't have to worry about food anymore!"
There will be oranges in the future!
She specifically looked towards the mountain where oranges were planted, but the mountain was all green and she couldn't see clearly. It seemed that she could only see it clearly by walking up.
"Let's go, it's time for lunch, let's go back quickly!" Zhang Xingrong was faintly excited. If the second brother and Shitou saw the eldest brother coming back, they would definitely be very happy!
If they had returned early in the morning, they would have arrived around 9 or 10 a.m. However, they went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy meat and to pick up Zhang Hechen and Xu Danhua, so they returned a little late.
But noon time is just right.
Sure enough, when I got outside the house, I heard voices coming from inside.
"Shi Tou, second brother, we are back!" Zhang Xingrong glanced around and saw that there were many flowers growing on the fence around the yard. These were wild roses that she had found in the mountains before. Now they covered the entire fence and looked very beautiful.
She felt strangely proud, yet at ease.
"Shi Tou, second brother!" she shouted again.
There was a sound of "thump, thump, thump" coming from the kitchen, and then Shi Tou appeared at the door. He was the first one to see Zhang Xingrong among the group of people.
"Sister!" he shouted as he ran over.
Zhang Hewu came out shortly after, a smile on his face, but his eyes caught sight of Zhang Hechen standing behind Zhang Xingrong. He froze, spatula in hand. Mei Ya and Taozi also scurried out from behind.
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