The crowing of a rooster awakened the sleeping village, and a thin mist swirled around, filling the fields and wild lands.
Sun Ye opened the door and saw his mother feeding the chickens, so he quickly washed up and prepared to eat.
After the embarrassing incident last time, Sun's parents allowed Sun Ye to sleep in his own room and lie on his own bed.
"Xuejun, go wake up Senzi and Linzi. Don't you even know what time it is? They can't sleep as well as pigs."
"Ye Zi, wash up and set the table for dinner."
"You all act like big shots, never getting up before the appointed time, and need someone to call you when it's time to eat. You've been spoiled."
After feeding the chickens, Sun's mother picked up the broom to sweep the yard and clean the chicken manure from the chicken coop. She had no free time at all.
Sun Ye blinked innocently. I bet Sun's mother wouldn't include her in what she said. God has pity on her. The little kid sleeps a lot, and it's already early for her.
Let’s take a look at the food: corn and sweet potato porridge. Well, it’s not like the last two days where I couldn’t even hold my chopsticks up. I could barely get by. A bowl of pickled radish, that’s it.
Frankly speaking, she had forgotten what oil tasted like.
"Huh? We're having corn and sweet potato porridge again today, and there's no vegetables."
As soon as Sun Lin walked in and saw the food on the table, his face turned green and he began to miss the days at his grandmother's house.
"If you want to eat it, eat it. If you don't want to eat it, forget it."
Mother Sun drank the porridge and picked up a piece of pickled radish. It made a crunchy sound and looked delicious.
Seeing this, Sun Lin said nothing and started eating in silence.
It’s so terrible. Why are life getting harder and harder? Sun Ye couldn’t taste the food he was eating.
"Eat quickly. We have to go sow seeds today. If you want to eat well, it depends on your performance."
Seeing that her son and daughter had poor appetites, Sun's mother promised to cheer them up. Their listless appearance was really heartbreaking.
Sun Sen and Sun Lin's eyes lit up and they asked, "What are we having for dinner tonight?"
"Your dad will go catch some birds after work today, and we'll eat the meat!"
Dad Sun looked up with a puzzled look on his face. When had he said he was going to catch birds? But when Mom Sun stepped on him calmly, he nodded with a grin:
"Today I'll let you see how powerful Dad is. I'll keep all the food in my stomach. I guarantee you'll be so full that you can't walk. There's plenty of meat!"
These bold words made Sun Sen and Sun Lin look at their father Sun's stars, but Sun's mother lowered her head and counted ants, as if she didn't hear anything.
Sun Ye looked at his mother deliberately and said, "Okay, I get it. Dad is bragging and fooling people again."
You can catch birds, but if you eat them enough, they will be full because they contain a lot of water.
Sun Ye saw through it but didn't say anything. He just ate the food and forced it down his throat. No wonder people often say: It's easy to go from simple to luxurious, but it's hard to go from luxurious to simple. After the family split up, the food was so sore that I couldn't eat it.
If Sun's mother knew what Sun Ye was thinking, she would definitely say: If I starve you for a few meals, even the pigs would scramble to eat your food.
Sun Ye put on a straw hat, which was woven by Grandpa Sun. Although the appearance did not quite conform to Sun Ye's aesthetic taste, it was very sturdy.
Sun Ye followed his mother to sow potatoes. They used a winnowing basket to fill half the basket with potato seeds, which were in pieces and had been peeled by someone.
Just place a piece of soil every centimeter along the path dug by Sun's mother. The work is easy and not tiring at the beginning.
As time went by, his steps became heavier. He looked up at Grandma Sun and saw that there were three or four ridges of the dug ditch without potatoes.
Some children were already sitting on the ground, moving their buttocks and dragging the winnowing basket forward. Sun Ye was unable to do such movements and could only watch with envy as others sowed seeds effortlessly.
If only she were a really innocent child, who could be lazy and act like a spoiled brat.
But the problem is that she is not. Everyone is working so hard to earn work points, and she can't slack off and hold them back.
With this belief, although the speed was slow, I never stopped and put them in place piece by piece.
When she looked back after finishing a row of crops, she felt a great sense of accomplishment, which was even more satisfying than when she broke through the bottleneck when she was the high priestess.
After Sun Ma dug the ditch, she turned back to cover it with soil. She didn't seem tired at all, but her wet clothes clearly showed otherwise.
On the way home at noon, an aunt brought her little girl with Sun Ye and her mother.
"Xiuzhen, your daughter is very capable. I've seen her never rest. This one at home..."
"Ye Zi, call me Third Aunt."
"Third Aunt."
"Hey, this is my peach blossom, about the same size as you. My aunt's house is right next to yours. Come over to my house and play."
Sun Taohua tugged at her third aunt's sleeve tightly. She felt a little awkward when she heard her third aunt say that, as if she couldn't find a playmate.
It’s so pitiful how loving parents are. Aunt San said this because she saw Taohua was always alone and no one wanted to play with her.
"Okay, auntie." Sun Ye agreed with a smile. Whether to go or not was still a matter of debate.
Lunch was also simple, corn and sweet potato rice, dry food, and the dishes were fried horsetail and pickled radish, plus some stewed cabbage.
This time, Sun Ye saw how stingy his mother was. She would just put a drop of oil on an oil towel and wipe the bottom of the pot once, and that would be considered oil. She could stir-fry two dishes with just one drop of oil, absolutely perfect.
Is your family so poor?
Sun Ye had a big question mark in his mind, his eyes turned to the potatoes he had just planted, his fingers curled up, and then he relaxed and ate with a frustrated look.
During the lunch break, Sun Ye tossed and turned in bed but couldn't fall asleep. A handkerchief stained with a drop of oil kept appearing in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.
Sun Ye lay there, looking at her palms. Why did she only have the useless ability of listening to her heart? In the past, she could solve the problem by just raising her hand, but now she couldn't find a way to do it no matter how hard she thought.
It's a headache. What's the use of having great strength? Considering her age, the team leader will not assign her any strenuous work.
It’s really difficult!
After working all morning, Sun Ye was still tired and fell asleep in a daze. She even had a dream. In the dream, she waved her hand and a large field of potatoes grew in groups. The oil pot at home was piled high and could not hold it. She added cooking oil spoon by spoon. She was so satisfied that her mouth turned up with a look of delight.
When Sun Ye was dreaming, a blue teardrop-shaped mark appeared on her forehead. The mark reflected a light blue light that enveloped the potatoes in Sun Ye's family's private plot, close to the soil.
Everyone was having lunch at the moment and no one was hanging around, so no one knew about this magical phenomenon.
When Sun Ye woke up from a nap, his head felt dizzy, as if he had overdrawn his body. Sun Ye didn't take it seriously, thinking that he was tired from working too hard in the morning.
But as soon as she walked out of the room, she felt as if something was wrong, very inconsistent. It was a kind of weird aura or magnetism. She looked around the house, but there was nothing different. Was she too sleepy?
I rubbed my eyes again and fetched a basin of water to wake myself up. The scene was still there. I walked around and looked around. Suddenly, my eyes stopped at the field on the left.
Sun Ye slowly approached the ground, grabbed some soil with his hand, smelled it with the tip of his nose, and then put it into his mouth to taste it.
Her whole body froze, as if struck by lightning. It was the scent of the Fountain of Life, very faint. If it weren't for her sensitive tongue and the memory so clearly imprinted in her mind, she probably wouldn't have been able to distinguish it.
What's going on? Sun Ye stood up, looked up at the vast and high sky, and shouted silently: "Mother Tree, is that you? Did you come to see me?"
Her mouth opened and closed, and tears as big as a dollar dripped down her face to the ground, but the sky did not respond to her, and it was as calm as before.
Sun Ye bent down, hugged her knees, and buried her head. She allowed herself to be weak for a while.
She was alone in a strange world with nothing. She always reminded herself not to panic. She was strong, but the loneliness that no one understood entangled her every day, like a floating duckweed with no place to go.
Fortunately, she was born into a good family and did not live in fear all day long. She carefully integrated into the current environment and performed perfectly, and no one discovered any flaws.
She gets tired, she's human after all. She has a not-so-bright brother, an overly narcissistic father, and a mother who's tough on the outside but soft on the inside, but she's actually living a pretty good life.
"Ye Zi, what are you doing squatting there? It's time to leave."
Sun Ye wiped away his tears, composed himself, and when he stood up, he was the calm high priest again.
"What's wrong? Your eyes are red. Did you have a nightmare?"
"No, the wind blew sand into my eyes just now. I rubbed them. Now they're red?"
Sun Ye asked back, look, her family is doing well, she should let go of the past, no need to linger on it, no need to be reluctant to leave.
"Yeah, it's red."
Wait! Dream? Dream!
A light flashed through Sun Ye's mind, and she seemed to understand something. She suddenly turned her head to look at the ground. She had a dream during her lunch break, in which she dreamed that she had recovered her abilities.
Sun Ye covered his mouth, feeling a little excited and confused, unable to tell what he was feeling.
She needs to check her body thoroughly to see what secrets it is hiding that she doesn't know about.
"Are you still sleepy? Why don't you just not go out this afternoon, Ye Zi, and rest at home."
Mother Sun suggested that as for Ye Zi's red eyes, don't tell her that there was sand in her eyes. She just cried and she knew what her child had done by looking at which way his butt was facing. However, the child had a strong sense of self-esteem, so she didn't expose her.
Sun Ye quickly shook her head. She was not sleepy, but she was tired. Yes, tired.
Besides, everyone in the family was working, so she couldn't afford to be lazy. She couldn't be worse than a nine or ten-year-old child.
"I'm not sleepy. I'm just bored at home. It would be better to go to the fields."
"Well, it's up to you. If you're tired, just rest. You're still young."
"Uh-huh."
"Aunt San, let's go!"
"Okay, I'll be right there."
We agreed to go to work together at noon, so it was just a matter of calling her and Sun's mother agreed.
Sun Ye yawned and cried all the way. She was indeed a little sleepy.
"Ye Zi, didn't you sleep well?" asked Aunt San.
Sun Ye didn't say anything, so his mother continued, "You can go back, Ye Zi. Your few work points are not worth it."
Sun Ye also felt something was wrong. She had never been sick since she was a child and had always been full of energy. Why did she seem to be so aggressive now and was no longer trying to be brave?
"Mom, I'm going back to sleep."
"Okay, you're still young, it's okay if you get more sleep."
Sun Ye watched her mother and the others walk away, and vaguely heard her mother say something about how she was just asked to take a break but she was still stubbornly going to work, and the child was making a lot of noise in her sleep.
Third Aunt praised her once and then Sun Ye could no longer hear what she said. She turned around and went home.
The first thing she did when she got home was to lie down on the bed and take a nap. Her intuition told her that this was the best thing to do and there would be no harm. What she needed most was rest.
Take your time in examining the body, don't be in a hurry, she will figure out the reasons for everything.
Sun Ye lay quietly, breathing steadily. The mark on his forehead was faintly visible, wrapping around Sun Ye's body.
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