At the dinner table, Wei Ci looked at her elder brother who remained calm and composed, and then at her second brother who was as calm as the breeze and bright moon. Her little face was filled with hesitation.
"Anything you want to say?"
Wei Ci nodded vigorously, her eyes full of curiosity.
Wei Qingfeng smiled calmly, then said expressionlessly, "Hold it in."
Wei Ci pouted. She couldn't eat properly if her curiosity wasn't satisfied.
After dinner, Wei Ci went from street to street to wish everyone a happy new year, and finally got to know all the relatives in the family.
Wei Ci was dizzy with recognition of her second grandmother's family, her third grandmother's family, her cousins, etc. The only thing that made her happy was that the small bag she was carrying was filled with her New Year's money.
"Aci, Aci, do you know what happened to that damn girl Wei Qingmiao?"
Wei Ci nodded. This morning she met ten people and six of them were talking about Uncle Wei's family. Her ears were almost callused from all the nagging.
Wei Yang curled his lips and muttered the news he had heard while roasting chestnuts.
"Luckily it was cold and the manure was frozen, otherwise she would have been in trouble."
In fact, she didn't dislike Wei Qingmiao before. Although she was a bit serious, she was still nice to her younger brothers and sisters.
I don't know why, but she suddenly became like a different person. Not only did she look down on her family, but she was also not at all kind to her younger brothers and sisters.
In addition to the incident of Aci being sold, she had seen more than once the way Wei Qingmiao looked at his two younger sisters, which was condescending, disgusted, and sympathetic.
Sometimes she looked at herself with a kind of sympathy that made her inexplicably feel, as if she herself was very miserable.
Wei Ci also nodded in a similar manner, refusing to admit that she was actually so happy that she was about to set off fireworks. She didn't like Wei Qingmiao. She and her elder sister were the same kind of people, both equally disgusting.
"Is that Gu Zhan in your family interested in you?"
Speaking of this, Wei Yang lowered his voice unconsciously, fearing that others would hear him.
Wei Ci was caught off guard by her sudden change of topic and nodded without reacting. After she understood what she meant, her face immediately blushed.
"Don't talk nonsense!"
"Come on, I'm not talking nonsense. The way he looks at you is different from the way he looks at others. That's how a man looks at a woman."
Wei Ci's cheeks were burning hot and she lowered her head uncomfortably.
"How old are you to know how men look at women?"
"Of course I know. Even though I'm only sixteen, I know everything I need to know, okay?"
Many girls of her age in the village have already married, some even when they were only fifteen years old. If her family had not loved her and were reluctant to let her get married early, she would probably have given birth to a child.
Wei Ci is only two months younger than her. It's normal for someone to like her. There's nothing to be shy about.
The topic ended with Wei Ci getting angry and embarrassed. Even when she returned home, her face was still rosy and her heart was beating like thunder. When she saw Gu Zhan waiting in the house, she glared at him directly.
Gu Zhan was confused by the stare, thinking that someone had made her angry. Her aura unconsciously dropped, her eyes narrowed, and a dangerous signal flashed in her dark green pupils.
"What's wrong? Are you being bullied?"
Gu Zhan, who had already started wondering where the sack was, was glared at again. With a puzzled look on his face, the little girl ran back to her room.
"What happened to her? Who bullied her?"
Wei Qingshan had an unfathomable look on his face. He looked at him and walked away silently.
Wei Qingfeng patted his shoulder with a half-smile, leaving him with a meaningful smile.
Gu Zhan understood that it was related to him.
Until the end of the holiday, Gu Zhan still couldn't understand what he had done wrong. He couldn't coax the little girl at the last second before leaving. In the end, he was dragged onto the train by Wei Qingshan with a heart full of question marks.
The sudden loss of two people in the house made it all the sudden quiet, which made the brother and sister a little uncomfortable. Sometimes they even cooked for four people without realizing it, and only realized that she and Wei Qingfeng were the only ones at home when they called for dinner.
"Brother, should we feed two pigs?"
Wei Ci lay on the table, watching her second brother repair the lame little stool at home.
This was made by Dad Wei bit by bit. Even if it was broken, the brother and sister were reluctant to throw it away. They could only repair it and continue to use it.
Wei Qingfeng was surprised: "Why did you think of raising pigs?"
"I met Aunt Xiu Li today. She told me that the village's pig-raising quota this year is 20 pigs, but the village collective is only raising four. The remaining 16 can be adopted by eligible members of the cooperative, with no limit on the number."
"Raising pigs is very dirty, and pigs are big eaters. You have to cut grass for them, cook their food, and clean the pigsty every day. It's very dirty and smelly. Can you stand it?"
Wei Ci hesitated and thought carefully. She had space, so she could grow pig grass in the space and cut as much as she wanted. Cooking pig food was also simple. She just needed to know how to make a fire. As for cleaning the pigpen, the worst that could happen was to plug her nose with a cloth.
"Brother, I will work hard, let's raise two!"
Wei Qingfeng felt helpless about his sister's constant thoughts. She had never raised a pig before, but she wanted to raise two at once.
"How about one? Two is too much and will tire you out."
"One? How lonely would that be? It would be great to have two, so they can keep each other company!"
Wei Qingfeng laughed. Little girl, is this like raising pigs is playing house? She can't play alone, so she needs someone to keep her company. It's just a pig. All it does all day is eat and sleep. Does it know what loneliness feels like?
Helplessly, he, as the brother, could not be more stubborn than Wei Ci, the sister, so he could only agree to let her raise the two pigs.
A few days later, before the snow melted, Wei Qingfeng took a few of his childhood friends and pulled a few carts of stones back home from the foot of the mountain.
"Goudan, are you really planning to let our sister raise pigs?"
Wei Qingfeng sighed: "Others can raise a child, why can't she?"
This girl has been pestering him for several days, and he is afraid that he will not be able to sleep well at night if he doesn't agree.
"How can our beautiful sister do such rough work?"
"That's right, Sister Aci is so weak, how can she go up the mountain to cut grass for pigs every day? What if she encounters a big insect? How dangerous would that be?"
Peng!
He was hit on the back of the head and fell forward, almost falling flat on his face.
"Fuck! Who hit me?"
Wei Qingfeng was annoyed: "Your grandfather!"
That's right. According to seniority, he is indeed this kid's grandfather. There's nothing he can do about it. Who lets his family have a high seniority in this village? He hasn't even gotten married yet, but he already has a ton of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The good thing is that there is a group of men older than him who reluctantly call him grandpa when they meet him, and they have to behave themselves even if they dislike him.
The downside is that he needs to give out a lot of red envelopes when others get married or during the Chinese New Year, and he spends money like water. Whenever he thinks of this, he feels heartbroken.
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