"Thank you, Auntie."
"You're welcome." Lin Jingshu touched the little guy's head and put a hat on him.
There was no suitable hat for the little guy at home. With the hat on his head, Gu Jingqi couldn’t see the road ahead, so he felt around with his little hands.
"Xiao Qi can't see anymore."
Lin Jingshu helped him adjust the angle and tied a rope around his chin to prevent him from falling.
Gu Chengze: "Mom, do you want to come with us and take a look?"
Before Zeng Lingshu could say anything, Gu Chengli said, "Mom definitely won't go. There are snakes in the water."
Zeng Lingshu waved her hand and said, "You guys go ahead. Jing Shuniang and I have an appointment to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables."
Gu Chengli shrugged at his second brother. See, he was right. His mother definitely didn't go because she was afraid of snakes. Otherwise, according to her personality, she would definitely follow them to join in the fun.
"Okay, let's go then."
Gu Jingqi waved goodbye to his grandmother and said, "Grandma, wait for me to come back after catching some fish."
Zeng Lingshu smiled and agreed: "Okay, grandma will wait."
At this point, the sun is slowly setting and the temperature is not as hot as at noon. Many children are playing games at the entrance of the village.
Children have few things to play with, and they can play with a glass ball for half a day.
Gu Jingqi had never seen so many children before. There were few children of his age in the compound, and those older than him were all sent to school.
So when passing by, the little guy looked over there with his curious big eyes.
"Sister Jingshu, are you going to the river?"
The speaker was the accountant's grandson, Xiaohu, a chubby little fellow just like his name.
"Yeah, what game is Xiaohu playing?"
Lin Jingshu noticed that Gu Jingqi was looking over there, and thought that the little guy liked it. She was going to ask Xiaohu what game he was playing and play it with him when she got home.
Gu Jingqi is a lively guy at home, who can do whatever he wants to be naughty, but when he comes out, he acts like a good boy and holds her hand tightly.
It is not realistic to ask him to go play with the children by himself without asking. Lin Jingshu also does not want to force the child to do something he does not like, so she always asks before making a decision.
"It's a glass ball."
Xiaohu held up a transparent glass ball and took out three or four balls of other colors from his pocket.
The glass ball sparkles with colorful light under the sunlight.
"Brother, do you want to play too?"
A fair and tender city kid came to the team. When Xiaohu heard about it from his friends, he sneered. How could he be as white as tofu?
Now I see that it is indeed whiter than tofu.
Moreover, he was wearing clean clothes and his hair was not sticky like some of his friends.
When speaking in front of him, Xiaohu didn't dare to speak loudly for fear of scaring him.
Lin Jingshu: "Xiao Qi, do you want to play glass balls with your brother?"
Gu Jingqi shook his head. He thought they were playing some new game, but it turned out to be glass balls. He had a lot of them at home.
But looking at Xiaohu's expectant eyes, it seemed impossible to say no.
The flesh on the little guy's face was all wrinkled and he looked confused.
Just when Xiaohu was about to lose his patience, he heard the little guy's voice.
"Sure, but I want to go play by the river with my aunt first."
Xiaohu said almost without thinking: "I'll join you guys. Let's play glass balls again when we come back."
Lin Jingshu asked him to go home and tell the adults, otherwise if he followed them to the river, the adults would be worried if they couldn't find him.
Xiao Hu nodded and ran away. He came back in less than two minutes and said to Lin Jingshu, "My mother agreed."
So, their snail-digging team had one more person.
The children who stayed there were very envious when they saw Xiaohu following away. They wished they had glass balls too.
Gu Jingqi held Lin Jingshu with one hand and Xiaohu with the other.
Xiaohu was very outgoing and he kept chatting with Gu Jingqi during the short journey. It didn't take much effort to start a conversation.
Looking at his white and tender little hands, Xiaohu thought, fortunately he washed his hands specially when he went back and carefully picked out the dirt from his nails, so as not to be disliked by his brother from the city.
This approach is indeed correct!
The other side.
"Xiangzhi, this is really good. I've never seen such big wild vegetables before."
Zeng Lingshu picked one up and compared it with her palm. It was a full circle bigger than her palm.
Before her husband was transferred to Beijing, he worked in the Southwest Military Region. The soil and water there were good, and there were endless wild vegetables to eat. Since she left there, she hadn't seen such good wild vegetables for many years.
The conditions in the Beijing compound are good, but the relationships between families are not so harmonious. In her opinion, it is not as good as the simple folk customs in the local military region.
"This is still small. The one Jingshu found last time was bigger."
Ding Xiangzhi smiled and carried the basket, "Let's go back and make dumplings."
The two of them walked home talking and laughing, and when they passed by the river, they didn't see the children.
Ding Xiangzhi pointed downstream and said, "It's probably over there. The water is shallow over there, so it's safe to catch snails there."
Zeng Lingshu nodded in understanding.
Before reaching home, Ding Xiangzhi heard a familiar voice.
"My niece has been smart since she was little. Now that she's hooked up with a city guy, we can enjoy the good life too."
Ding Xiangzhi frowned, wondering why she was here.
"Lin Yongmei, what are you doing here?"
Ever since Lin Yongmei introduced her husband Zhao Hongjun's nephew to Jingshu, Ding Xiangzhi has developed a dislike for this second aunt.
Everyone knows that the man has had tuberculosis since childhood. He coughs for a long time every time he walks, and looks particularly scary.
Not only can he not lift his hands or carry anything, he also has to take medicine all year round, which is a huge burden on his family.
As her aunt, Lin Yongmei pushed her niece into the fire pit, which is simply not something a human being can do.
The way he addressed her also changed from calling her "Second Sister" to calling her by her full name, which was a complete break between them.
It is definitely not a good thing that they are coming to me now.
"My sister-in-law is back."
Lin Yongmei seemed not to notice her ugly expression. She turned her gaze to Zeng Lingshu beside her and walked forward to shake hands with her affectionately.
"This must be your mother-in-law, I am Jingshu's second aunt."
Zeng Lingshu saw that something was wrong and just nodded slightly. She did not shake hands with her as she wished. Instead, she said to Ding Xiangzhi, "I'll go give Aunt Wu some wild vegetables."
Ding Xiangzhi understood that this was to give them space to speak, and gave her a look of gratitude.
"What are you doing here?"
After Zeng Lingshu disappeared, Ding Xiangzhi looked at Lin Yongmei with cold eyes, thinking that the weasel was paying a New Year's visit to the chicken with ulterior motives.
"Jingshu doesn't like the pickles I make, but I happened to make some a couple of days ago and sent them over for you to try."
This was a cover-up. In reality, she heard from her mother that her niece was engaged to someone else, so she ran over anxiously.
She had disagreed with introducing her nephew to her at the beginning, and she wanted to see what kind of family he would find.
Secretly, she hoped that the other party was not as good as her nephew, so that she could reduce Ding Xiangzhi's prestige and make her arrogant in front of her.
The last time she was beaten back by her, there were several bloody marks on her face, which made her afraid to go out and see people.
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