"You hit my mother, right? Don't you have eyes? I'll teach you a lesson!" Xiao Yutang roared fiercely at the child, picked up a handful of sea buckthorn berries from the ground, and hit the child one by one with a slingshot.

He hit the fruit with great force, and made each of the small, soft fruits feel like pebbles. Each one hit the child, making a "pa pa pa" sound on the child's body.

The rest of the boys were stunned.

It wasn’t because they just said that Xiao Yutang didn’t dare to play with them, but in the end Xiao Yutang hit harder and more accurately than them.

But it was because Xiao Yutang's current angry look was really scary.

They were just playing slingshots for fun just now. They all knew that they were just playing a game, but Xiao Yutang acted like he was serious.

The child who was beaten was named Li Xiaojie. He was so scared that he shrank into the corner and cried loudly, but Xiao Yutang did not let him go.

"You, why are you crying? Apologize to my mother. Who asked you to hit my mother? Didn't you see that my mother's clothes were clean?" Xiao Yutang yelled at Li Xiaojie again.

Li Xiaojie's mother was nearby. When she heard her son crying, she rushed over. As soon as she arrived, she saw her son being trapped in the corner by Xiao Yutang.

When Li Xiaojie saw his mother coming, he also ran over and hid behind her and continued crying.

Xiaojie's mother was furious.

"Xiao Yutang, what's wrong with you? You are two years older than our Xiaojie, so you bully Xiaojie like this?" After saying that, she noticed Shen Huanxi again.

"Xiao Shen, you don't care about your son. You are bullying the young. This is too uneducated. Did your family teach him? How could you raise such a naughty child?"

When Xiao Yutang heard Xiao Jie's mother scolding him like that, he angrily threw the slingshot aside and tried to run away.

He was also scolded like this in Guixiang Village. He used to have a bad relationship with other children in Guixiang Village. When other children excluded him and had conflicts with him, the parents of those children scolded him like this.

He was insulted and bullied outside. After returning home, Lan Linxiang would scold him a second time, asking him why he had to conflict with people of a lower level and why he let others pull him to the same level.

Now that Xiao Jie's mother scolded him again, it reminded him of the past. He was afraid that Shen Huanxi would scold him like Lan Linxiang.

When Xiaojie's mother saw that he was about to run away, she picked up Li Xiaojie and tried to chase him, scolding him as she went along.

"Xiao Yutang, you uneducated child, what's wrong with you? Do you still want to run away? Are you going to run away after getting into trouble? Xiao Shen, look at your son, do you really not care about him? Such a naughty child, if you don't take care of him, you can't say for sure if he will commit a crime in the future!"

Shen Huanxi also ran over and grabbed Xiao Yutang.

Xiao Yutang still wanted to struggle and escape, but he couldn't get rid of Shen Huanxi. He felt Shen Huanxi grabbing his shoulders very hard, and his brows were twisted into knots.

As expected, the new mother was just like the previous mother and started to scold him again.

"Oh, all women are the same." Xiao Yutang snorted.

Shen Huanxi didn't hear clearly and didn't intend to figure out what he said. She grabbed him and looked at Xiao Jie's mother.

"Mother Xiaojie, the children were playing with sea buckthorn berries here just now. Your child was hit by my child, but your child also hit other children. Why didn't other children cry? Only your child cried. They were just playing, so why can't they play anymore?" Shen Huanxi said.

"You!" Xiaojie's mother looked at Shen Huanxi, then at Li Xiaojie, and was speechless for a moment.

Looking at the other children's faces, bodies and hands, there were indeed traces of sea buckthorn pulp.

After hearing what Shen Huanxi said, Xiao Yutang stopped moving, with a look of surprise on his face.

Xiaojie's mother didn't know how to refute, and she became anxious when she saw Li Xiaojie crying.

"But my child is crying, that's different! Xiao Shen, it's just a matter between children, why would you, as an adult, interfere?"

"Mother Xiaojie, I didn't mix it just now. Didn't you come here first? And you called me first." Shen Huanxi said, and pulled Xiao Yutang behind him, looking like he was going to protect Xiao Yutang.

"You!" Little Jie's mother couldn't answer.

Xiao Yutang was completely stunned.

Shen Huanxi ignored Xiao Jie's mother and looked at Xiao Yutang.

"Tangtang, brother Xiaojie did hit my clothes, but he didn't mean it. We shouldn't be so fierce to him. Please apologize to him now, okay?" After Shen Huanxi had made it clear that she would protect Xiao Yutang, she began to reason with Xiao Yutang.

Xiao Yutang hesitated for a moment, but was still reluctant.

"I know he didn't mean it, but he soiled my mother's clothes. All of my mother's beautiful clothes were soiled. Even if he didn't mean to do it, he should apologize. Li Xiaojie, you have to apologize to my mother." Xiao Yutang looked at Li Xiaojie with a firm face.

This child's temperament is a bit like his father's. They both have an inexplicable aura of authority without even getting angry. Even though his tone is calm now, there's also an indescribable sense of oppression.

Li Xiaojie had been scared by Xiao Yutang just now. Now after hearing what Xiao Yutang said, he was still afraid that he would be beaten by Xiao Yutang again, so he looked at Shen Huanxi.

"Auntie, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

"Well, good boy, auntie knows you didn't mean it, so it doesn't matter, auntie doesn't blame you." Shen Huanxi smiled gently at Li Xiaojie, then looked at Xiao Yutang.

"Okay Tangtang, my brother has apologized, is it your turn now?"

Li Xiaojie had already apologized, and Xiao Yutang didn't want to be aggressive anymore, so he looked at Li Xiaojie:

"Li Xiaojie, I'm sorry."

Li Xiaojie nodded and said it was okay.

"Li Xiaojie, right? Do you want to watch Huo Yuanjia? If you want to watch it, you can come to our house on Wednesday night and watch it with Xiao Yutang." Shen Huanxi suddenly said to Li Xiaojie.

Li Xiaojie had a gloomy face at first, but when he heard Shen Huanxi say this, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Many children from Guixiang Village like to go to the Xiao family's house to watch "Huo Yuanjia". After watching the movie, they come back to talk about the plot and learn Huo Yuanjia's kung fu. They have never seen it before and are very curious.

"Okay, thank you Auntie, I want to go to your house to watch Huo Yuanjia too."

"Okay, then you can come and find your brother Xiao Yutang. You two are good friends." Shen Huanxi said with a smile.

Xiaojie's mother was stunned when she saw this turn of events. How did things turn out like this?

Don't hit someone who smiles at you. Xiao Yutang has apologized, and Shen Huanxi even invited his son to watch TV at their house. Why would she still bother with Xiao Yutang?

Shen Huanxi also looked at her.

"It's normal for children to fight with each other, and we adults really shouldn't get involved. But now that the two children have reconciled, let's forget about it. Let little Jie come to play with us more often in the future."

"Okay, okay, good, Xiaojie, you should play with Tangtang more in the future." Xiaojie's mother also said.

Shen Huanxi didn't say much. He said goodbye to Xiao Jie's mother and Aunt Jiang, then took the pot helmet and went home with Xiao Yutang.

"Mom, why didn't you scold me just now?" Xiao Yutang suddenly asked when they were almost home.

He didn't understand. If it were his ex-mother, she would probably beat him up, not to mention scolding him. He had already prepared himself to be scolded and beaten.

Shen Huanxi touched his head.

"Why should I scold you?"

"I beat Li Xiaojie because I bullied other kids."

"Why did you hit Li Xiaojie?"

"Because he soiled Mom's clothes."

"That's right, you hit him because he soiled my clothes first. You are a little hero who can protect your mother. Your mother is proud of you, so why would she scold you? Our Tangtang is great."

"Yeah!" Xiao Yutang raised his chest, looking very proud.

"But Tangtang, you must not be so impulsive in the future. You must think twice before you act. Oftentimes, force is the worst way to solve a problem. If you are willing to protect your family, you are a little hero, but you must ensure that you are right. Otherwise, if you use force first and are arrested by the police, the person you are protecting will feel guilty, and you will not feel good either, right? Let's be calm in everything from now on, okay?"

"Okay." Xiao Yutang nodded.

Shen Huanxi is also educating this child with all his heart.

In his previous life, Xiao Yutang was sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter caused by impulse. Now she wondered if he had done such an act on impulse in order to protect someone.

Only Lan Linxiang knew whether this was true or not. But no matter whether it was true or not, Shen Huanxi had to teach this child a lesson and not let him do anything impulsive.

When the two returned home, they saw Chang'an, Changning and Zhengzheng in the yard. Chang'an was memorizing words, Changning and Zhengzheng were sitting at the stone table, and there was a plastic jar of sea buckthorn fruit on the drawing table.

"Children, go wash your hands. Tangtang, you come too. Mommy bought some delicious food for you. Mother, Shanhe, you come out too. I bought some hot pot helmets. Come and try them together." Shen Huanxi greeted everyone with just one sentence.

When the four children heard that there was a hot pot helmet, they ran to wash their hands. Xiao Shanhe came out of the study and Zhang Guifen came out of the kitchen and they also went to wash their hands.

Shen Huanxi first gave each of the children a piece of steamed bread, and then gave some to Xiao Shanhe and Zhang Guifen.

"I was just about to cook when you bought some pot-wrapped bread. I was almost full." Zhang Guifen said this, but she was still very happy when she got the pot-wrapped bread.

"Eat first. If one piece of steamed bread can fill you up, then we won't have to cook tonight." Shen Huanxi said with a smile.

The pot cakes Yue Danqing made were much bigger than those he made for others, and contained much more meat. It was not uncommon for one pot cake to fill one's stomach.

The child held the pot helmet and chewed it with a crunching sound. The pot helmet was so crispy that it almost fell into pieces.

"Mom, this is delicious! Thank you, Mom!"

"Mom is so nice, I love her the most!" Xiao Yuzheng said behind Changning, not caring that his biological father was beside him.

"Where did you buy this pot helmet? I've bought pot helmets before, but they weren't this big, and they didn't have so much meat on them. It must have cost quite a bit of money," Zhang Guifen asked.

Shen Huanxi shook his head.

"I bought it from a new stall on Nanjing Road. It was my former colleague. When he saw it was me, he put so much meat in it.

If you think it tastes good, you can buy it next time. If he doesn’t know you, he wouldn’t take care of you and make it so big.”

"Okay, then I'll buy it for the kids when they want to eat it. I can't always take advantage of others."

…

The steamed buns made by Yue Danqing were really big. Shen Huanxi and the four children couldn't finish one, so they shared the rest with Xiao Shanhe and Zhang Guifen. In this way, the whole family was full and didn't have to cook anymore.

Chang'an and Changning took Shen Huanxi to see the paintings they painted today.

"Mom, look, this is the picture I drew of our whole family. This is grandma, this is mom and dad, and these are the four of us." Chang Ning handed her drawing to Shen Huanxi.

Xiao Yutang picked up his painting.

"This is Mom and Dad. I can't draw as fast as my sister... so I only drew two people."

Shen Huanxi looked at the two children's paintings, nodded with a smile, and praised them for their great progress.

Children's paintings, to a certain extent, also represent their wishes.

For example, Chang Ning hopes for a happy family, and Xiao Yuzheng hopes that his father and mother will love and live in harmony.

The colors used by the boys in their paintings were warm and bright, which to some extent represented that the two children were sunny at heart. However, Huanxi discovered that the color of her skirt did not look like it was painted with a child's crayon.

"Mom, we painted this with this kind of fruit. We think the color of this jam is really beautiful. Mom will definitely look good in clothes of this color. But I don't know why, the color turned out a lot lighter after painting." Seeing Shen Huanxi looking at the skirt she had painted, Changning pointed to the plastic bottle of sea buckthorn fruit on the stone table.

"This fruit looks dark in color, but the pulp is not very dark. In a few days, Mom will take you two to the stationery store to buy watercolors for you. Don't use the fruit to paint anymore, as it will attract ants on the painting." Shen Hexi said as she took the whole plastic bottle of sea buckthorn fruit, smelled it, and picked up one to taste. She frowned because of the sourness.

Zhang Guifen laughed aside.

"When the weather gets cold, these fruits are everywhere in the mountains and fields. Children like to play with them in this season. I saw the children in the village playing with them, so I picked some for our children. I didn't expect Chang'an and Changning would use them to paint. Our children are different from other children. Oh, how did you eat it? This fruit is not poisonous, but it is very sour. It hurts my teeth."

"It's quite sour, but this fruit is not only non-toxic, it's also a good thing. Changning Zhengzheng, you don't want this fruit anymore, right?" Shen Huanxi asked the two children who were drawing.

"Mom, take it if you want it. We'll give it all to her."

"We don't want it. The fruit is too light in color to be used as a pigment."

"Okay, then give them to me."

Shen Huanxi took the sea buckthorn berries and went into the kitchen.

People of this era do not know the benefits of sea buckthorn fruit. They only think it is sour and do not regard it as a good thing. It will take several more decades for it to enter the commodity market and be recognized.

However, Shen Huanxi knew that this was a good thing. It was a treasure trove of vitamin C.

There was a lot of sugar in the kitchen, so I took the sea buckthorn berries into the kitchen, found a mortar, added a lot of white sugar and crushed the sea buckthorn berries together to make sea buckthorn juice. The white sugar could neutralize the sour taste of the sea buckthorn berries, and the juice tasted sour and sweet and very fragrant.

Shen Huanxi used a large iron spoon to scoop the juice into cups and brought them out to the children, Xiao Shanhe and Zhang Guifen.

Chang'an and Xiao Yuzheng shook their heads at first.

"Mom, this fruit is very sour and not delicious." Xiao Yu was pulling at the corner of Shen Huanxi's clothes and shaking his head aggrievedly. Looking at his wrinkled little face, one could tell that the child must have tasted the sea buckthorn fruit today and was disgusted by its sourness.

Zhang Guifen also spoke.

"Huanxi, I just picked this fruit when I was free from the sand. It didn't cost me anything, so it's not a waste if I don't eat it. It's better not to eat something so sour."

"Mom, let's not eat it." Xiao Yuzheng said again. This child is most afraid of sour food.

Xiao Yutang took a glass of sea buckthorn juice.

"We eat when mom tells us to. Why bother saying so much? It must be something good. I'll drink it first." After Xiao Yutang finished speaking, he brought the seabuckthorn juice to his lips, with a heroic expression on his face, and took a sip with frowned brows.

"Huh?" Xiao Yutang was stunned. He had put on the mask of pain and was mentally prepared that this was something very sour and hard to drink, but he didn't expect that after just one sip, he could taste the sour, sweet, and fragrant taste.

"How is it?" Shen Huanxi asked with a smile.

"It's delicious, really delicious, sour and sweet, with a nice fruity aroma. I've never tasted anything so delicious before." Xiao Yutang said, and took another big sip.

"Ah?" The other three children looked at their brother with disbelief.

"Why are you looking at me? Drink it, it's really delicious."

"It tastes quite good." Xiao Shanhe also took a glass of juice, took a sip and said.

Seeing that the two people said so, the others believed it. Zhang Guifen and the other three children also took a glass of sea buckthorn juice and each took a sip.

"Oh, it's really delicious."

"Why is it so delicious? My brother, sister and I have all tried it just now. It tastes like sour fruit." Chang'an looked puzzled.

"Because I added white sugar. It tastes good when I add a lot of white sugar." Shen Huanxi explained.

"So that's how it is! Mom is so smart!" Changning admired her very much.

"If you like to drink it, drink more. It's very nutritious and good for your body. It can improve your immunity, strengthen your spleen and stimulate your appetite. It has many benefits."

"Wow, this thing is so magical. When I have time, I will pick more fruits and make this juice for the children to drink." Zhang Guifen said after listening to Shen Huanxi's words.

Shen Huanxi nodded without saying anything more. If Zhang Guifen had time to pick them, she could go ahead.

The diet of people in Northwest China mainly consists of beef, mutton and pasta, with fewer vegetables than in the south. She is also worried that her children will lack vitamins, and sea buckthorn fruit is a good ingredient for supplementing vitamins.

After eating the hotpot, Shen Huanxi didn't need to eat dinner tonight. He went to the study to count the money he had spent recently.

She thought again of what Zhao Mingyue had said to her.

Zhao Mingyue didn't want her to easily spend her hard-earned money to treat Xiao Shanhe. Firstly, she was afraid that Xiao Shanhe and Feng Shenghui were the same person, and that Shen Huanxi was not worth it.

Secondly, she was afraid that taking out this money would affect her quality of life, and then affect her life and the lives of Chang'an and Changning.

Shen Huanxi knew that Zhao Mingyue meant well, but she was not worried about these things at all.

She saved a lot of money in her previous life, but in the end, that money was just a number to her because she couldn't spend that much.

If she could still earn a lot of money in this life, even if she used part of it to treat Xiao Shanhe's illness, it would not affect her and Chang'an Changning's lives at all.

If one day she and Xiao Shanhe really couldn't get along and wanted to divorce, there would be no regrets. She would just give some money that she couldn't spend to Xiao Shanhe, who made great contributions to the history of railway transportation in the motherland. She could also consider it as a contribution to the motherland.

In her previous life, she started to get rich in 1984, which is now. She was engaged in raw coal processing. Yunnan City and its surrounding areas are rich in coal resources, which gave rise to a large number of coal bosses and people who made their fortunes from coal. Shen Huanxi is one of them.

Shen Huanxi doesn't plan to do raw coal processing anymore in this life. It's too tiring and he doesn't have time to accompany Chang'an and Changning. The loss outweighs the gain.

After all, he was reborn and knew so much information. If he wanted to make money, why did he have to sacrifice time with his family?

On the weekend, Shen Huanxi took the special tickets for the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Trade Union that she had stockpiled last time and went to Hanlin Street to set up a stall to sell them.

There were many people coming and going, and many passed by her stall, but she didn't sell many this time. She heard that stamps were now sold on Xinxing Street next to the Post Office. So Shen Huanxi carried her stamps and rode her bicycle to Xinxing Street.

When she arrived at Xinxing Street, she saw quite a few people setting up stalls to sell stamps. Many of them were familiar faces she had seen when she queued up to buy stamps at the post office.

As expected, it was inevitable that the stamp collecting trend would form a market. Stamp stalls appeared one after another on Xinxing Street. Shen Huanxi counted them and found that there were at least 20 to 30 stalls. It seemed that the stamp market in Yunnan City had already reached a considerable scale.

Shen Huanxi set up her stall, and the young man in his twenties next to her greeted her.

"Girl, you still remember me, right? One time, I bought stamps from you at the post office. I bought you dozens of stamps from the West Box, and I sold quite a few today. You really sold them too early. You sold me that West Box stamp for one dollar, right? I sold it for three dollars."

After the young man finished speaking, several people recognized Shen Huanxi. Just like last time at the post office gate, everyone said that Shen Huanxi was losing his temper.

Shen Huanxi smiled and said nothing.

She put it out there, and soon someone came over to ask the price.

"Girl, why do you only have one type of stamps in your stall? How do you sell your stamps?"

"Forty cents a piece."

"Ouch!" Shen Huanxi mentioned the price. Before the person who came to ask for the price said anything, the young man next to him started shouting. Shen Huanxi felt puzzled.

She ignored the young man. The person who bought the stamp only asked her for one, paid the money and left.

After the man who bought the stamps walked away, the young man walked up to Shen Huanxi.

"Girl, you don't understand the price. This special ticket of the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Trade Unions is out of print and will never be available again. We are selling it for one yuan each now, so why are you only selling it for four cents? Aren't you lowering the price of the stamp? How can you expect us to sell it at a high price?" The young man complained dissatisfiedly.

He spoke very loudly, and several stamp stall owners nearby who were also selling stamps looked at Shen Huanxi with displeasure on their faces.

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