First Trial (Revised)
The heavy rain gradually subsided in the afternoon and finally stopped around 1:00.
After lunch, Xu Laoer and his wife Ding Hui carried their hoes and went to the production team.
As soon as Xu Tianyi saw the sky clear up, he immediately pushed his bicycle to the village entrance to practice riding. As soon as he pushed the bicycle out of the door, many young men and women in the village came up to chat with him.
Old Mrs. Xu went to the brigade to make hemp ropes with the old woman who came to her house.
Xu Wanrong was later responsible for washing and cleaning up the dishes for the whole family.
Xu Roujun put her bowl into Xu Wanrong's dishwashing basin.
Xu Wanrong glanced at Xu Roujun and was filled with anger. Before Xu Roujun became stupid, she did all the housework and she could go out and play with her sisters.
Xu Wanrong said unhappily, "I really envy you, big sister. You eat so much every day and don't do any work!"
Xu Roujun was also stunned. You, a normal person, are comparing yourself to a fool? Is there something wrong with your brain?
Xu Roujun leaned on a cane and followed Xu Wanrong, who was busy at home. "Then I'll help you." Xu Roujun said to Xu Wanrong in the tone that the original owner used to dote on her younger sister.
Xu Wanrong refused: "What else can you do besides causing trouble for me?"
Xu Wanrong still remembered that last time Xu Roujun said she wanted to help with the housework, but ended up breaking more than a dozen ceramic bowls in the house.
Afterwards, Xu Wanrong received more than twenty slaps from Old Xu, and from then on the Xu family never allowed Xu Roujun to enter the kitchen again.
When Xu Roujun talked to people, she would only respond if you talked to her, and her conversations were all about things that happened when she was studying a year ago. Most of her memories were stuck in that time.
Xu Roujun raised the corner of her mouth and smiled foolishly at Xu Wanrong: "Wanrong, you have worked hard." She used crutches to avoid the main road so as not to make Xu Wanrong feel that she was in the way.
Xu Roujun knew clearly that she had to build momentum for herself in order to survive.
Xu Roujun lowered her voice and leaned close to Xu Wanrong's ear and said, "Wanrong, I had a dream about getting rich yesterday."
Xu Wanrong paused while washing dishes. Ever since her sister was beaten by her mother Ding Hui, she rarely spoke to others.
Most of the time, she would only respond after someone said something to her, and the things she said were all things that happened in the past. She was always immersed in the past and rarely felt the present.
"Sister! How are you!" She put down the bowl and happily threw herself into Xu Roujun's arms.
Xu Wanrong rushed over with such force that Xu Roujun staggered back a few steps and hit her back directly on the door frame. Fortunately, she did not hit her head.
Xu Roujun held onto the door frame behind her to steady herself. "I'm talking to you about getting rich!"
Xu Wanrong stared at Xu Roujun with sparkling eyes and said, "Sister! Are you okay?"
Xu Roujun was puzzled: "What do you mean fine? I've been fine all along!" This is what the Xu family talked to her before. She insisted that she was fine. After all, the original owner could still do the questions from high school.
Xu Wanrong's originally happy smile disappeared immediately.
Relying on some interesting rural stories her grandmother had told her in her previous life, Xu Roujun pointed to the hillside to the east of her home and said to Xu Wanrong, "There is a big Polygonum multiflorum behind the old dead tree on the east hillside. Let's dig it up and sell it." Xu Roujun looked towards the east.
It is daytime now, and even standing in the yard, you can see the huge dead tree on the eastern hillside. Although it is dead, the wood is still standing there.
The smile on Xu Wanrong's lips disappeared immediately. She thought she was fine, but she turned out to be completely stupid.
"You didn't remember anything before, but now you're talking nonsense." She waved at Xu Roujun and said, "You'd better get out and stop messing with me here!"
Seeing that Xu Roujun refused to go out, Xu Wanrong started pushing her.
Xu Roujun was pushed out of the door by Xu Wanrong. "No, I'm serious! We can definitely make a fortune if we go digging."
Xu Wanrong was annoyed: "If you keep talking nonsense to me here, I won't give you dinner!"
Xu Roujun immediately shut up. With a frustrated look on her face, she leaned on her crutches and walked to the eaves, where she sat on a small stool and shook off her wet clothes. A gust of wind blew over, passing through her clothes and touching her skin, and a hint of coolness ran into her body through her pores.
Xu Roujun saw that the muddy road in the yard was covered with many tree branches left on the ground by chickens.
Xu Wanrong, who had finished washing the dishes in the house, came out of the kitchen and muttered softly: "Can't she just marry and go to the Wang family to recuperate? She doesn't do any work at all, and still wants me to watch over her at home." If she wasn't worried that her silly sister would run away from the marriage, why would she stay at home to watch over her.
The original owner was mentally retarded, but Xu Roujun was not stupid. She glanced at Xu Wanrong, who glared at her and said, "What are you looking at?"
Just don’t look. Xu Roujun set her eyes on the door. When will she be able to escape?
There was a knock on the door.
Xu Wanrong quickly walked to the door and opened it. It was her neighbor Yu Shulan.
Xu Roujun quickly searched through the original owner's mind and found scattered memories about Yu Shulan on time.
Yu Shulan, wearing a floral daisy dress, said to Xu Wanrong, "Wanrong, do you want to come out and play?"
Xu Wanrong nodded: "No, my parents asked me to stay at home to look after my sister. Didn't you go to your aunt's house in the county town to play during the summer vacation?"
Yu Shulan, having been reborn, naturally knew that Xu Wanrong had a lame, mentally retarded sister. She had heard from her father that Xu Roujun had her leg broken after defying her parents' arrangements and running away from marriage. When she returned from the city in her previous life, she went back to school. She remembered that Xu Roujun in her previous life had married in October, and she had spent National Day at her aunt's house, not even getting to eat Xu Roujun's wedding candy. All in all, she knew very little about Xu Roujun.
Yu Shulan was not interested in the lame and mentally retarded man, but was more interested in Xu Tianyi, the future university professor of the Xu family.
Yu Shulan glanced around the Xu family's house. "Oh, so where's your brother?"
Xu Wanrong said, "My brother went to the village to ride his bicycle."
This reminded Yu Shulan that the Xu family had indeed bought Xu Tianyi a bicycle to go to and from school, to celebrate Xu Tianyi's admission to high school.
Although she didn't see Xu Tianyi this time, she could first establish a good relationship with Xu Wanrong, which would make it easier for her to contact Xu Tianyi in the future. Then, it would be natural for her to marry Xu Tianyi, become the professor's wife, and go to the city to enjoy a peaceful life.
"Then Dad is really willing to do it." Yu Shulan's tone was full of envy.
This sentence greatly satisfied Xu Wanrong's vanity. She said to Yu Shulan, "He already calls me dad. We are family from now on!"
Yu Shulan continued to flatter him: "Then Uncle Xu can be considered a man with a son. He will have someone to take care of him in his old age."
"That's right!" If Xu Wanrong had a tail, she would definitely be wagging it now.
Xu Wanrong changed the subject and looked at the pretty Yu Shulan, her tone full of resentment: "I can't come out, why don't you come to my house and play? I'm telling you, ever since the holiday, I've been stuck at home watching over my sister and can't go anywhere."
Yu Shulan said, "It's so miserable. When will your sister get married?" She glanced at Xu Roujun who was habitually daydreaming under the eaves.
Xu Wanrong complained to a neighbor girl: "She's not getting married until October. By the time my sister gets married, I'll already be in school."
Yu Shulan sighed: "I was bored staying home alone, so I came to ask you to go out and play. How about I ask someone to come over to your house to play?"
Xu Wanrong said, "Okay!"
Yu Shulan said, "How about we play rope skipping?"
"OK!"
After a while, Yu Shulan called over three girls who were the same age as Xu Wanrong. From their conversation, Xu Roujun knew that these girls were classmates.
When school started in September and the third year of junior high school began, someone suggested that Xu Wanrong, the top student, should help them with their homework when she had nothing to do.
Xu Wanrong glanced at her sister who was sitting on the eaves in a daze and said, "My sister can't even recognize everyone. Last time, I asked her to finish the test paper so quickly, she finished it so quickly that I didn't understand it. The quality of her teaching is not as good as before. She can't help us with our homework."
Xu Roujun: Isn’t it because you are too stupid?
Another little girl glanced at Xu Roujun who was sitting in the yard and said, "I see your sister sitting there. Actually, she's not much different from us."
As he spoke, he ran to Xu Roujun and called out to her, "Sister Roujun, I'm Chen Lian."
Xu Roujun had no impression of this little girl. Firstly, the original owner was hit on the head, and the only memories in her mind were from the past year. Before that, she only had memories of important events in her life.
She had no impression of this little girl at all. She said "yes" perfunctorily.
Chen Lian: "Sister Roujun, when I was a child, you took me to Dongshan to pick loquats!"
Xu Roujun knew it was time for her to shine again: "Alian, there's a large Polygonum multiflorum behind the old dead tree on the hillside east of us. You can definitely sell it for money if you dig it up."
Xu Wanrong walked over to Chen Lian and said, "Look, I told you my sister's brain isn't working. She stays in the house all day, and how could she know about the He Shou Wu (Shou Wu) plant in the east?"
The other girls also nodded and believed that Xu Roujun was a moron.
Yu Shulan, who was present, stood there in a daze.
In the past, the brigade did dig out a thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum at the dead tree in Dongpo. This matter was widely reported in the local newspaper, and the village government also awarded Dayu Village the honorary title of advanced collective.
Yu Shulan concealed her shock and asked Xu Wanrong with a smile, "Does your sister always talk so illogically?
Xu Roujun responded, "Yes, last time he said he saw a big hole in our roof. Look, our roof is still in good condition now."
In her previous life, Yu Shulan didn't know whether there was a hole in the roof of the Xu family, but the thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum was real. Now that other people around her don't believe Xu Roujun's words, can she think that Xu Roujun, who has a mental problem, has certain predictive abilities?
Yu Shulan took out the rubber band from her pocket and gave it to Xu Wanrong, then walked out of the main room and came to Xu Roujun's side.
In the main room, Xu Wanrong and two other girls had already stretched their rubber bands. Xu Wanrong shouted at Yu Shulan, "Shulan, what are you doing standing next to that idiot?"
Yu Shulan replied: "You guys jump first, I'll talk to your sister."
Xu Roujun tilted her head and looked at Yu Shulan who was standing beside her.
Yu Shulan took out a large White Rabbit from her pocket and stuffed it into Xu Roujun's hand. "Sister Roujun, I'm Shulan from your next door. Do you remember me?"
Xu Roujun looked at the White Rabbit candy in her hand. Candy was a good thing these days. How could this girl be so generous to give it to her?
Xu Roujun tried hard to search her mind for Yu Shulan's memories, but unfortunately, there were too few, only fragments of her tutoring her. "Remember, I taught you math."
Yu Shulan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. Fortunately, it wasn't a complete idiot. "Sister Roujun, how did you know there was Polygonum multiflorum in Dongshan?"
Xu Roujun replied: "I dreamt about it last night." She couldn't tell anyone that her grandmother in her previous life told her, right?
Yu Shulan found this answer outrageous. She smiled and said, "Sister Roujun, can you tell me about my future fortune tonight?"
Xu Roujun: “…” I knew this candy wouldn’t be so easy to get.
As soon as she put the candy into her pocket, Xu Roujun was stunned. Yu Shulan believed what she said about there being Polygonum multiflorum in Dongshan!
Why did she believe what a moron like her said?
Unless she also knew that Dongshan would really produce Polygonum multiflorum, she came here specifically to give candy and ask about her future fortune.
She herself has a mentally retarded appearance, but Yu Shulan doesn't. Is she a time traveler or a reincarnation? Is there any necessary connection between her traveling back to the 1970s and her own?
Xu Roujun looked at Yu Shulan's face carefully.
Yu Shulan touched her face: "What's wrong?"
Xu Roujun explained, "Let me take a closer look at you. I'll dream about what the future will be like tonight."
Yu Shulan was amused by Xu Roujun's words. "Okay!" She also wanted to know whether Xu Roujun's dream was true or not. It was just a piece of candy.
Yu Shulan wanted to say something to Xu Roujun, but Xu Wanrong called her over there: "Shulan, it's your turn."
"Here I come."
Several little girls were jumping rubber rope in the main room and chatting about gossip. Xu Roujun's eyes also fell on the girls jumping rubber rope in the main room.
Xu Roujun thought to herself: Can she assume that the other party has already experienced the future events once? But she came over and asked herself again.
For Xu Roujun, it is both an adventure and an opportunity.
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