Chapter 82 Coming Down the Mountain with a Protruding Belly
Shen Yin looked at the two bundles of ramie tied tightly on the ground and was dumbfounded: "Third brother, what are you talking about? I can't carry two bundles."
Although it is the third crop of autumn hemp, it is not very tall, but it is taller than him. Third brother has tied so many bundles that they are bigger than him when standing up. He can barely drag one bundle over, but how can he carry two bundles?
Shen Jin: "I'll help you get to the mountain, and then I'll go back and call Xiao Tie to you."
As Shen Jin said this, he picked up a large bundle of ramie and walked back.
Shen Yin: ???
Shen Yin followed with difficulty, carrying, no, half carrying, half dragging his bundle of hemp. As he followed, he asked Shen Jin to wait for him. After finally catching up, he asked curiously, "Third brother, what's wrong with you? Aren't you going to second brother's house to exchange for some sugar water to drink?"
Third brother has been acting weird all day today.
I usually run there early, faster than anyone else.
"No, you and Xiaotie go."
Shen Yin looked at him suspiciously: "Are you talking nonsense again?"
He remembered that his elder sister had quarreled with his third brother because of his bad mouth.
Shen Jin glared at him: "I didn't!"
It's not that I have a bad mouth.
He muttered to himself, and thought of the day when he went to pull his mother and asked her to stop talking, and was hit on the hand by his mother.
Thinking about it this way, I feel a little aggrieved.
Shen Ning must not have seen that he was also beaten, otherwise why didn't he call him? It was agreed last time.
He carried Ma to the edge of the mountain with great effort and asked Shen Yin to wait for him while he went back to replace Chen Tie.
Chen Tie was watching Tian Ya at home for so long that he almost passed out. Suddenly he was woken up and told to go to the mountainside with Shen Yin to find his second brother to exchange some sugar water for him to drink. He suddenly became energetic.
He got out of bed, put on his slippers and ran, took two steps and turned around: "Third brother, you're not going?"
"No."
"Okay." Chen Tie responded and disappeared in a flash.
Shen Jin: “…”
On the mountain, Sang Luo had just finished preparing lunch and turned around to go out and call the brother and sister Shen An and Shen Ning who were peeling hemp outside the yard to come and have dinner.
As soon as she walked out of the courtyard, the first thing she saw was not the siblings Chen An and Chen Ning peeling hemp on one side of the courtyard, but two tiny little kids at the foot of the mountain from her perspective, dragging two bundles of firewood that were taller than them?
firewood?
But upon closer inspection, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Sang Luo reminded the little brother and sister: "Xiaoyin and Xiaotie are coming over. Look what they are dragging?"
Chen An and Shen Ning stood up and looked down the mountain, only to see Shen Yin and Shen Tie dragging two large bundles of something. The brother and sister hurried down the mountain.
Shen Yin looked up from the bottom of the mountain and saw Shen An and Shen Ning coming down to pick them up. He happily waved his hand and called them "Second Brother" and "A Sister".
Shen Yin offered his treasure from a distance: "Second brother, let's cut some hemp!"
Chen Tie: "Third brother said that I can drink sugar water instead."
Sang Luo burst out laughing.
This is really kid.
Speaking of which, where is Shen Jinren?
Sang Luo looked at the mountain road behind the two little ones. Could it be that they had hidden themselves again, just like they did the time when she sent them the pebbles?
She just scolded the little bear kid once, so there's no need to be so afraid of her, right?
When my thoughts turned to this, I suddenly remembered that the candy-drinking team in front didn’t seem to see the three Shen Jin brothers?
Sang Luo raised her eyebrows. Didn't they share the oil residue as good friends a few days ago and promised not to forget his when there was something delicious? So, they were having a conflict?
Sang Luo thought of looking behind Shen Yin and Shen Tie. Shen An and Shen Ning had the same reaction, especially Shen Ning. He glanced at the end of the mountain road and didn't see anyone, so he looked at Shen Yin and Shen Tie: "Where is Shen Jin?"
Shen Yin blinked, but before he could speak, Shen Tie said, "Third brother said he won't come."
Shen Yin looked at his younger brother. Why did he feel that his younger brother had betrayed him?
Sure enough, I heard Shen Ning say, “If you don’t want to come, then don’t come.”
Although Shen Yin didn't understand, he hurriedly said, "At the beginning, he said he would come. It was Third Brother who cut the hemp. But after cutting the hemp, I don't know why he stopped coming. It was Xiao Tie and I who took over."
After hearing this, Shen Ning looked at the two bundles of hemp. The brother and sister helped carry one bundle each, and called the two younger ones: "Come up with us. Who told you that we have sugar water to drink here?"
Shen Yin didn't feel embarrassed at all: "I'll go ask Shi Tou."
So how long did you squat?
Shen Ning laughed when he heard it.
When Shen Yin saw Shen Ning smile, she felt relaxed. When she felt relaxed, she started to talk freely: "Sister, is my brother talking nonsense again? Did you have a fight?"
Shen Ning smiled: “No quarrel.”
Shen Yin: "Then he doesn't dare to come up?"
Shen Tie nodded wildly on the side: "Don't let us come up either."
Chen Ning's eyes curved, and he thought that it was right not to dare to come up. Thinking of this, the anger in his heart was slightly relieved.
But hating Uncle and Auntie is one thing, and taking anger out on Shen Jin is also possible, but Shen Ning's attitude towards Shen Yin and Shen Tie, the two cousins she had helped teach since they were just learning to walk, was obviously much better. She didn't bring up their mother's troubles, but just smiled and said, "If he doesn't let you come up, you don't dare to come up?"
Shen Tie didn't understand much, so he just watched his two brothers act. Shen Yin looked at Shen Ning, and after turning the words around for several times, he whispered, "Sister didn't call us."
I called many people around me, but I didn't call them.
Shen Yin lowered his head when he said this. Although he was only six years old, he could actually read people's expressions. He vaguely knew that his parents didn't like his second brother and elder sister.
So even though she is their sister, she gets along better with other kids than with them.
Thinking of this, Shen Yin lowered his head dejectedly.
Shen Ning rarely felt a little uncomfortable, but this discomfort only lasted for a moment. She didn't think there was anything wrong with her at all. Her third uncle and aunt were just not good.
She said, "Next time I don't call you, just come by yourselves. I don't like going to your courtyard."
Shen Yin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he vaguely understood why his third brother didn't come over here. He was a little at a loss for a moment.
Seeing him like that, Shen An asked at the right time: "These two bundles of hemp are quite heavy, how did you get them here?"
Shen Yinsi was led there, and he told the truth: "Third brother carried him not far from here, and Xiaotie and I just dragged him a short distance."
Oh, so Shen Jindu came nearby and then turned back.
Shen An and Shen Ning looked at each other, and Shen Ning was silent and said nothing.
Sang Luo stood upstairs and listened to the whole thing. She probably guessed what had happened, but she didn't know what to say for a moment.
She has no relatives or siblings, and the situation in the orphanage... well, is very different, so Sang Luo doesn't quite know what the relationship between brothers and sisters is like.
But she saw that Chen An and Shen Ning were actually quite nice to their cousins, and there was no resentment or hatred between the children. Even Chen An, who was always sensitive and thoughtful, might have forgotten that the reason he initially let Shen Jin help him dig the land to exchange for lard residue was because he was afraid that Shen Jin would sneak into their house out of greed and discover the matter of the magic tofu.
Children will often fall out with each other after a quarrel, but if one of them can swallow his pride and play together, their friendship will be restored.
Just like Shen San and his wife, it is inevitable that the relationship between Shen An and his sister and Shen Jin's children will be affected from time to time.
Sang Luo did not interfere. She let the children work out their own affairs. She only responded with a smile when Shen Yin and Shen Tie reached halfway up the mountain and looked up to call her "sister-in-law".
Looking at the two solid bundles of ramie that Shen An and Shen Ning helped to carry up, Sang Luo asked Shen An and Shen Ning to take the two children to wash their hands, then turned and went into the house to get a bowl, scooped out three spoonfuls of steamed eggs from the plate that had just come out of the pot, handed it to Shen Yin and said, "It's not much, you and Xiao Tie can share some."
He called Shen An and Shen Ning to have lunch again.
Shen Yin and Shen Tie were drooling. The two brothers had starry eyes and said, "Egg cake."
They all said to Sang Luo, "Thank you, Auntie."
Then we got together and started eating, taking small bites each.
Chen An and Shen Ning went into the house to get some food, but did not bring their little cousin in. Chen An picked up some dishes and brought out a bowl, ready to stand outside the yard to eat.
Just as I reached the gate of the courtyard, I heard Shen Yin outside the courtyard say, "If Third Brother knew that the eldest cousin's wife gave us egg cakes to eat, would he cry with envy?"
Chen Tie scooped a mouthful of steamed egg into his mouth and nodded: "I definitely will."
"What should we do then?"
"Don't tell him."
Shen An wanted to laugh.
I didn’t make much of the steamed egg with mulberry, and it was a dish for lunch, so I couldn’t give too much. I only gave three small spoonfuls for the children to taste. The two little brothers took small bites, so a little bit would be gone.
He smacked his lips and scraped off the last bits of crumbs at the bottom of the bowl. When there was really nothing left, Shen Yin ran to wash the bowl and spoon.
He didn't go in, but just handed the washed dishes to Shen An, who was standing outside the yard eating with them.
Except for the three brothers Shen Jin, all the other children who came here were taught by the adults at home not to enter the Shen family's yard. Although Shen Jin, Shen Yin and Shen Tie were not taught so by the adults at home, they followed the other children and knew not to enter the yard.
Shen An took the bowl and turned to take it in. Shen Yin poked his head out to look into the yard and whispered to Shen Tie, "You say, we're so late, will the sugar water be gone? There were so many people here in the morning."
Chen Tie, who was still savoring the delicious egg cake, was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered the sweet soup he had been longing for.
But what did his fourth brother say? No more?
Chen Tie was like being struck by lightning, and he was numb: "No, no way?"
I felt that there was nothing I couldn’t do. Who would save some candy for them?
The two brothers looked at each other, and the egg cake that had smelled so good just now no longer smelled good at that moment.
Little did she know that when Shen An brought back the two small clean bowls, Shen Ning had already dissolved the sugar water. Seeing her second brother coming back with a clean empty bowl, she smiled and took it and scooped a large bowl of sugar water. She took another bowl from the wooden table and scooped a large bowl as well, then stuffed it into Shen An's pocket: "Second brother, take the sugar water out for them, otherwise they will think they don't have a share."
Chen An looked at the sugar water in the bowl, which was obviously darker in color than the one they drank together before, and asked, "Is it newly mixed?"
Shen Ning: “There’s not much left in the jar, not enough for two bowls.”
Shen An laughed, put down his bowl, and brought out the sugar water to his two little cousins.
…
While Shen Yin and Shen Tie were happily drinking sugar water in the mountains, Shen Jin was sitting on the wooden threshold of his yard with his head hung down, hugging his knees and playing with ants.
From time to time, he would use the small branch in his hand to brush away ants. After brushing a few times, he would look up at the mountain path in the distance. After brushing a few more times, he would look up again.
No one.
He’s been up there for so long and hasn’t come down yet. Xiaoyin and Xiaotie must have eaten it, right?
Shen Jin began to regret it. Why did he just give in? He was the one who cut the hemp, but now he could only sit here and do nothing.
Shen Jin reflected, how can you be thin-skinned if you want to eat? How can you eat if you are thin-skinned?
Obviously, it wasn’t like this before, and I wasn’t afraid of Shen Ning.
He glanced at the mountain path and sighed.
But there is no point in worrying. Should I cut another bundle of ramie and go up there now?
It would have been better if you had gone up just now.
He was so depressed that even ants were not fun to play with. He threw away the twig, rested his hands on his knees, supporting his cheek, and stared at the mountain path with a pair of eyes that were squeezed by his hands.
Look, look, look again, and look again!
He looked so much that his eyes were sore, and then he finally saw his two younger brothers coming down the mountain with bulging bellies.
Shen Jin stood up suddenly, his belly was bulging, and he couldn't even walk fast. How much did he eat?
He strode over there, and when he was still a few steps away, he asked, "Are you drinking sugar water?"
Shen Yin and Shen Tie smiled brightly and nodded in unison: "I have it! It's so sweet."
Chen Tie also hugged his little belly. He drank too much and couldn't walk fast.
Shen Jin looked at his two brothers' empty hands and was dumbfounded: "Didn't Shen An tell me to bring some for me? Didn't you two tell me that I cut the hemp?"
After asking this question and seeing his two younger brothers looking at each other without replying, Shen Jin felt very disappointed.
"No, that's not right. We clearly agreed on this. I even saved some crumbs for them to eat last time."
Seeing that he was about to howl, Shen Yin and Shen Tie started to laugh.
Shen Yin picked up a thin hemp rope from his shoulder. It was so thin and the same color as the clothes that you couldn't see it at all unless you looked closely.
The hemp rope was pulled up and wrapped around his head, and a bamboo tube that was originally slung across his back was lifted out.
"Here, my elder sister and second brother asked you to bring it."
Chen Tie smiled and added: "Sister said that I will wait until you howl before taking it out."
When Shen Jin saw the bamboo tube, he was about to scream out, but he retracted it with a click.
"Give it here, give it here." It must be sugar water in the bamboo tube.
Knowing that he had sugar water to drink, Shen Jin didn't care whether Shen Ning laughed at him or not. He took the bamboo tube from Shen Yin and felt its heavy weight, and his eyes lit up.
I lifted the bamboo lid and saw a large bamboo tube that was about eight-tenths full. I could smell a special sweet fragrance before I even got close to it, so I picked it up and brought it to my mouth.
He gulped it down, and it was so delicious that he almost burst into bubbles: "So sweet!"
The sweetest sugar water he had ever tasted.
Shen Ning must have put a large piece of maltose in it.
Shen Jin smiled happily, took another sip, and covered it with his cap: "I'll keep it for later."
This time it was Shen Yin and Shen Tie's turn to be jealous. If the second brother hadn't asked them if they wanted more on the mountain just now and given them more, they would have been too full to drink and would have really wanted to ask the third brother for another sip right then and there.
The syrup made by my sister is very sweet, fragrant and sweet. Anyway, it tastes better than the one made by my mother during the Chinese New Year.
Shen Yin came over to discuss with Shen Jin: "Third brother, I brought this back for you. Can you share some with me later?"
"You drank a lot, didn't you?" Shen Jin glanced at his stomach. "You drank a lot, didn't you?"
Shen Yin chuckled: "I still want to drink, Third Brother, I don't want to drink now, you can give me some later, just a little."
Chen Tie joined in the fun: "Give me a little too."
Shen Jin held the bamboo tube in his arms and said, "No, you two have already drunk, so stop staring at me."
He cut two large bundles of hemp and even smiled at Chen Ning. He had to drink enough.
Shen Jin held the small bamboo tube in her arms, her face was extremely happy, and her heart was even happier.
Shen An and Shen Ning still paid attention to him, and did not leave him out of the sweet soup. It was such a big bamboo tube, hehe, it was worthy of the oil residue he saved from his mouth.
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