Apart from being a little awkward at the beginning, Chen Nongmo quickly let go.
She even thought it would be a good idea for Fourth Brother to speak up, as it was better than her not knowing how to start the conversation herself.
"Sixth brother, you are so weird. You haven't made me angry these past two days." After receiving the melon fed by his sister again, Chen Jun always felt that the little girl was up to something bad.
Chen Nongmo was speechless and reached out to take the plate: "Give it back to me then."
Chen Jun dodged sideways, and stuffed a small piece of cut melon into his mouth with a grin: "No, no matter what bad things you have in mind, just eat it first."
This guy, if it weren’t for the fact that he would have to leave home to work tomorrow . "Yu Yu?" The voice of Zong's father outside the door interrupted Chen Nongmo's bickering with her fourth brother, and she turned around and trotted out.
As if remembering something, Chen Jun also hurriedly followed out with some fruit.
Sure enough, as soon as he walked out of the main room, he saw his father pushing a bicycle into the yard with two large packages tied to the back of the bicycle.
He turned around and put the cantaloupe back on the table. Worried about insects or something, he took a clean dustpan and covered it. Then he happily went forward to help unload the packages from the car, and asked, "Sixth Brother, these two were sent from J City, right?"
Chen Zong was mounting his bicycle. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at the two children: "Anything else? The one sent from City N hasn't arrived yet?"
Chen Nongmo and Chen Jun looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
Seeing the two children's guilty look, Chen Zong felt that they bought too much, but he didn't complain and just asked, "What did you buy?"
Chen Jun picked out the good ones and said in a flattering tone, "There are so many. Lao Liu bought three pairs of shoes for you and mom respectively."
As he said this, he wanted to slip away, and as he slipped away, he greedily picked up a parcel in each hand.
Helpless because the package was big and heavy, the boy didn't let his sister help him, his face turned red, and he staggered as he carried it.
Seeing this, Chen Zong shook his head and walked over to take one from his son.
When Cao Qiuhua came back with the vegetables and fruits she was going to eat today, she saw that the house looked like a grocery store.
In addition to buying clothes, shoes, socks, etc. for his family, Chen Nongmo also bought some soaps and lotions.
In fact, these daily necessities are also available in the supply and marketing cooperatives here, but they are in short supply and you need tickets.
Unlike J City, not only is it cheap, but you don’t need a ticket.
"Mr. Zong, these are cigarettes. When you go to the village, please bring them to the old secretary." Mr. Zong doesn't smoke or drink. Shao Zheng stuffed these few packs of special cigarettes into his pocket just for the old secretary.
When young people are in a relationship, they can't communicate all the time. They have to call once or twice a month, so they have to "bribe" the person first.
Chen Zong naturally understood Shao Zheng's meaning, but he still snorted in dissatisfaction: "You have quite a lot of tricks."
Cao Qiuhua was trying on the shoes her daughter had bought. Seeing her husband start to be sarcastic again, she glanced at him and said, "I just traded a big fish with that kid Sanzhu. It's at the well. Go clean it up and give the children some food. They've been in the car for most of the trip and have lost weight."
Why didn’t we notice that Chen Zong had lost weight?
= Qiuhua’s mother is a good cook.
The big fish we got weighed about five or six pounds. The fish head was stewed in tofu soup, and the rest was cut into small pieces and braised with vermicelli and chili peppers.
When Chen Yi got home in the evening, he drank the soup that was reserved for him first, and then he looked at the gifts that Lao Si and Yu Yu bought for him one by one.
"That's right!" Chen Jun slapped his forehead, turned around and went back to the room excitedly.
"What good things did fourth brother get?" Chen Yi looked at his sister.
Chen Nongmo guessed it, but kept it a secret: "Guess!"
Chen Yi glanced at his mysterious sister and raised his eyebrows: "Did your boyfriend give it to you?"
Chen Nongmo choked and thought that Fifth Brother must have become a spirit.
"Old Five, look at this tank model that Brother Shao Zheng gave me. It's made of bullet shells. He has more than a dozen of them, and even airplanes, but I like this one the best."
Boys were probably quite interested in these things. Even Chen Yi couldn't suppress his curiosity and took it to take a closer look.
He had never seen a real tank, but when he heard his fourth brother talking about how it was almost a scaled-down version of the Type 59 tank, he knew that this must be Brother Shao Zheng's favorite.
Chen Yi admired it for a while, returned the model to his fourth brother, and then raised his eyebrows to look at his well-behaved sister sitting next to him, and said in an ambiguous tone: "Our future brother-in-law is quite willing to give up..."
"Cough cough cough" Chen Jun was spitting out foam, and was caught off guard and choked by his brother's sudden words.
It took him a while to recover. He looked at his sister, whose expression remained unchanged, and then at the fourth brother, who showed no emotion. He scratched the back of his head helplessly and said, "What brother-in-law?"
Chen Yi pointed at his sister and said, "Given how much the little girl cares about this, she will probably only talk about this one. Isn't that our brother-in-law?"
At this point, he laughed again, with a hint of gloating: "Brother-in-law who is 8 years older than us. Fourth brother, we have called Brother Shao Zheng brother for so many years, but from now on he will call us brother. It's quite fresh."
Chen Jun didn't find it strange, he just felt that Lao Wu's smile made his hair stand on end. He instinctively put his sister behind him and rubbed his arms to change the subject: "I'm leaving for Uncle Bian's house tomorrow morning. Dad wanted to take me there, but I refused."
Chen Yi followed his meaning and said, "You don't need Dad to send you off. The autumn harvest is coming up in a few days and the fields are busy. Tomorrow is Saturday. I have already switched shifts with Teacher Wang. I will send you to the Bian family and you can come back on Sunday."
Chen Jun, who was planning to go alone, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "That's great. I was a little uncomfortable at first."
In fact, he had been feeling uneasy since last night. This heartless boy had insomnia for the first time in his life.
I feel uneasy about the unknown world, and I am also worried that I will bring shame to my family if I don’t do well.
Fourth brother is a sincere person. Once he decides to do something, he will do it seriously.
So he just had to accompany him and help him take the first step.
= The next day.
Early in the morning, the twins set out for the town.
Because he could only go home once a month or so, Chen Jun simply took a few sets of clothes with him and said goodbye to his family with red eyes.
When we grow up, we all go our separate ways.
Chen Nongmo understood, but he still couldn't bear to let his fourth brother go when he saw him leaving with a not-so-big bag on his back without looking back.
Although the fourth brother is a bit erratic, because he loves to play and has a cheerful personality, she has become a lot more lively as a result.
Among his brothers, he was the one who made him the most unruly and noisy.
It’s not that the other brothers were not kind to her, it’s just their personalities. The fourth brother has his own unique charm.
Sincere and passionate! Hmm. She seemed to see Fourth Brother raising his arm to wipe his eyes.
Maybe she’s crying again, Chen Nongmo thought with red eyes.
"Don't worry, the fourth child is actually very smart and can do it well." Cao Qiuhua put his arm around his daughter's shoulders to comfort her, but he didn't know that his own situation was not much better.
Another child leaves their side, and parents will still feel reluctant to let go even if they can only see them once a month.
Especially the one who left was the most lively person in the family. I was always worried that he would be too lively and do something wrong, and I was also worried that the young man was too naive and would be bullied.
= The impact of Chen Jun's departure was much greater than Chen Nongmo thought.
Not only her, but even Qiuhua's mother and Zong's father, who were often bullied by Chen Jun to the point of wanting to fight, were not used to the absence of the noisy guy.
I often think about it, but fortunately, the motivation is soon broken by the heavy and busy autumn harvest.
This year, apart from my fifth brother who came back from the busy farming season to harvest, the main labor force in the family is only Chen Zong's father.
Fortunately, we now have collective production. If the land were distributed to each household, and there were only two strong laborers in the family, they would have to work hard to harvest the crops in autumn.
However, even so, even though Chen Nongmo prepared delicious and nutritious food for everyone in different ways every day.
Half a month later, when the autumn harvest was over and it was mid-October, my family had become much darker and thinner.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Nongmo felt that Zong's father's iron tower-like figure had shrunk by one size.
Manual harvesting is simply fatal.
In fact, Chen Nongmo was also tired. She no longer let Qiuhua's mother and the other three get involved in all the matters at home and outside, and she took care of everything.
But she didn't dare stop. If she did more, everyone else would have to do less.
After the autumn harvest, the weather began to cool down significantly, but Chen Nongmo still cooked soup for his family every day.
They looked as if they would not stop until they made up for the fat they had lost.
With this supplement, another half a month passed.
The first snow of this year fell at the end of October, a little later than in previous years.
But after the first snowflake fell, it snowed for a week before stopping.
As a southerner, no matter how many times I see the white sky, I can't help but feel curious and amazed.
On the day when the snow stopped, Chen Nongmo, wearing a thick coat, stood under the clean eaves and looked into the distance, sighing: "Time flies so fast. It feels like just a blink of an eye and it's snowing again."
"That's right. The New Year will be here in a few days." Cao Qiuhua took food from the cellar and couldn't help but smiled as he passed by his daughter.
"Are you going to cook? I'll help."
"No need for you. There's still some food left from lunch. I can just cook another dish for dinner. There's no need for two people."
"Then I'll light the fire."
Thinking that his daughter was afraid of the cold, Cao Qiuhua did not refuse. Just as he was about to nod, he heard the loudspeaker in the village ringing: "Yuyu girl, answer the phone!"
Worried that she didn't hear it, the old secretary repeated it several times.
Chen Nongmo didn't know who was calling, but he mentioned her name alone. It could be his parents or the person who had disappeared for a month and a half.
Thinking of this, she felt something in her heart and ran into the house immediately.
Cao Qiuhua shouted from behind: "Bring my scarf and gloves, too. Mom will go with you."
"Oh! I know!"
(End of this chapter)
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