◎Second update◎
Liang Baoling is seventeen years old this year and has grown into a pretty young lady. She looks a bit like her father Liang Zhigao when he was young, with a hint of heroism in her distinctive facial features. Her elder sisters Liang Baoying and Liang Baozhen look more like Song Chunhua.
Miss Pi, who was full of energy when she was little and climbed mountains and went swimming in rivers in Damian Village, has grown up in the blink of an eye.
"Sister, I'm doing a good job feeding the pigs now." Liang Baoling was arranged by her parents to feed the four pigs carefully. She started feeding them when they were piglets. Every day she would cut grass for pigs and chop up pig food for them. She watched them grow from four small fat piglets to four big fat pigs weighing nearly 200 kilograms.
In the pigpen, several fat pigs were grunting as they ate their feed.
"I can see that." Liang Baozhen felt that her younger sister seemed to have grown up a lot and could calmly help her parents with things. "Do you feed the pigs every day?"
"Not only that, I also feed the chickens and water the vegetables in the field..." Liang Baoling looked lively, as if she was very good at everything she did. "Sister, these pigs and thirteen chickens at home all listen to me and don't recognize their father and mother."
This is Liang Baoling, Liang Baozhen burst out laughing and flicked her head, "What do you want to be? The king of poultry and livestock?"
"There's nothing I can do about it. I'm awesome!" She stuck out her tongue at her third sister and smiled mischievously.
However, Liang Baozhen always felt that it was a waste of time for a young girl like Baoling to feed pigs and chickens in the village every day. Now is different from the past, there are so many opportunities outside, so she wanted Baoling to go to the city.
But Song Chunhua thinks it is unreliable.
"How can Baoling come to the city? She doesn't have a hukou and she doesn't have a husband's family in the city."
You can't ask the captain to issue a letter of introduction for one or two years.
"Besides, the inspection has become more stringent recently. They say that jobs in the city are tight, so people from the countryside are not allowed to come into the city casually to avoid causing unrest."
Liang Baozhen and Liang Baoying both married into urban areas, and Liang Baojun was arranged to work in the city by his father-in-law. This was all legitimate, but also not easy.
A few days ago, some villagers were saying that the Liang family was lucky because three of their four children moved to the city. It was like smoke coming out of their ancestral graves.
Xu Shengjie thought this was easy to do. "Otherwise, we can buy Baoling a job, and then she can transfer her household registration here."
Now buying a job costs more than a thousand yuan, which they can still afford.
When Song Chunhua and Liang Zhigao heard their son-in-law say this, they reacted strongly and were shocked.
Song Chunhua took Liang Baozhen aside to talk, while Liang Zhigao chatted with his son-in-law.
"How can you let your husband's family buy a job for your daughter from your natal family?" If you say this to others, you will be laughed at.
Liang Baozhen patted her mother's hand soothingly, "Then I will use my own money to buy Baoling a job."
"That won't work! You're married, what's your own money? Xiao Xu's money? You spent over a thousand to buy a job for your daughter. In everyone's eyes, you're stealing money from your husband's family to help your own family. That's not okay!"
"Mom." When Xu Shengjie heard his mother-in-law's words, he thought of his work at the National Cotton Mill. "How about this, when I left the mill to do business, I still had a job at the National Cotton Mill, and I let a relative take over the job. Now I want Baoling to go?"
Liang Zhigao took two sips of the Daqianmen that his son-in-law had just given him and said, "We won't get involved in your family's work, Xiao Xu, you have brothers and sisters, leave the work to them. I know you have good intentions and are planning for Baoling, but you can't do this. Our family can at least raise a little lady."
Liang Baozhen knew that her parents still felt it was not good to have too much financial dealings with her in-laws.
Just as she was about to persuade him again, she heard Baoling, who had just emerged from the chicken coop, speak.
"Sister, brother-in-law, I know you are doing this for my own good. But I am doing a good job for my parents now. Look at these pigs and chickens. I have taken good care of them, right? If I leave, my parents will be too busy to take care of them. These pigs and more than ten chickens cannot leave me alone!"
Liang Baoling spoke with a smile on her face, sounding relaxed and at ease. She was used to living in the mountains, and if she was suddenly asked to go to the city, she felt that she would not be able to adapt.
When her third sister married and moved to the city, she went there with her parents. The city was indeed a good place. There were houses three or four stories high, cinemas, many 28-bar restaurants, and state-owned hotels...
But there are no mountains, no streams, and no endless wheat fields.
Liang Baozhen looked at her younger sister, who seemed to be enjoying herself.
On the way back, Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen carried another big bag, which was full of things. They were all vegetables grown by Song Chunhua, and the rice left over from their family after paying the public grain tax last year. This time they were allowed to carry back 80 kilograms.
"Baoling, think it over carefully. There are many opportunities in the city and I have money. I hope you can make it out. If you have thought it through, ask the captain to borrow his phone and call me." Liang Baozhen was worried and talked to her younger sister again.
Liang Baoling sent her third sister and brother-in-law to the car and nodded seriously, "I understand, sister, I will think about it again. Sister, brother-in-law, take care."
Sitting on the bus back to the city, Liang Baozhen turned around and looked at her younger sister who was gradually falling behind and becoming a dark spot, without saying a word.
"Wait for Baoling to think about it. She may not know what to do in the future."
Liang Baozhen nodded, thinking back to when she was seventeen and still studying, there was indeed only this one direction.
When they returned to the city, it was already dark. Xu Shengjie came home carrying a large bag of vegetables and rice, which scared Zhou Yun.
"You guys really ate and took a lot during your trip back home. Why do you have so much rice and vegetables?"
Liang Baozhen and her grandmother took the rice and vegetables out of the bags and put them in the cellar in the yard. "My parents grew them. Now the land has been divided among households. The more you plant, the more you get. We can get a lot."
Zhou Yun looked at dozens of kilograms of white rice, plump eggplants, plump potatoes, emerald green amaranth, golden corn... and half a bag of loquats.
"Why are there loquats? Are they also grown by your mother?" Zhou Yun's mouth was watering over the bag of orange-yellow loquats.
"There are not many wild loquats on the mountain, just a few loquat trees. We tasted some in the village and they were quite sweet."
After peeling the loquat skin, the orange-yellow flesh was exposed. Liang Baozhen broke the loquat open and took out the core, and then fed the remaining flesh to her daughter.
"Mom, does it taste sour?" Shanshan was eager to try it, but she was a little worried.
"It's not sour. Mom has tried it."
Only then did Shanshan open her mouth with confidence and eat the loquat pulp that her mother fed her.
"Not sour, right?"
"Not sour, but sweet." Shanshan likes to eat it.
Next, she wanted to eat it herself, and Liang Baozhen only reminded her not to swallow the core.
Shanshan peeled the loquats by herself. After she finished peeling one, she gave one to her great-grandmother first, then to her mother, and then to her father. Her uncle and aunt were not at home, so she saved herself the trouble and could finally peel one for herself.
"The loquats peeled by our Shanshan are sweeter." Zhou Yun ate one and let Shanshan eat it herself.
Shanshan ate more than ten loquats that day, and only stopped reluctantly when her mother asked her to stop.
After eating each loquat, she would spit the core into the soil in the yard, one at a time. After she had spit out more than ten, she would be satisfied when she looked at the cores lying on the soil.
"Why did Shanshan vomit there? Throw it here. Your dad will take out the trash tonight." Zhou Yun watched from a distance. His great-granddaughter was spitting out fruit cores.
"Grandma, I'm planting trees." Shanshan's eyelashes fluttered and her eyes were shining, as if she had already seen the loquat seeds she spit out grow up and become tall loquat trees.
"Can this be used to plant trees?" Zhou Yun looked at the fruit core lying in the soil, somewhat puzzled.
There is a piece of dirt land in the lower left corner of the courtyard. It was opened up by Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie. They dug a square piece of land, added soil into it, and prepared to plant some flowers. There is also a piece of land in the corresponding upper left corner, where they planned to plant some simple vegetables.
The first thing to be arranged is a row of green onions.
The flower seeds were bought by Liang Baojun. I don’t know if they can survive, but I’ll give it a try anyway.
However, Shanshan also set her sights on the land where her mother grew flowers and planned to plant loquat trees.
She pouted and spit out loquat seeds into the ground one by one. She knew that the seeds would germinate, bloom and bear fruit in the ground.
Shanshan, who felt very good, showed off to her parents, "Dad, Mom, and Grandma, Shanshan will treat you to loquats in the future!"
Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen saw the fruit cores on the ground and thought it might be a bit difficult?
"Okay, let's wait for Shanshan's loquats."
However, the lady's scene still needs to be supported.
Xu Shengjie originally thought that Shanshan was just joking, but he didn't expect that she was serious.
Liang Baozhen has been busy with graduation matters recently. Every day when she comes home, she can see her daughter wandering around the field, watering the small trees she planted. She now saves the water she uses to brush her teeth every morning and spits it out in the field.
Liang Baozhen had prepared a toothbrush with toothpaste on it for her at the sink. She brushed with her small toothbrush and ran over with the mouthwash cup, pouring water to clean her mouth and spitting the water onto the ground.
biubiubiu, the loquat core needs to be watered, only by watering can it grow taller.
"This kid, why does he run so far just to brush his teeth?" Zhou Yun wondered as he looked at his great-granddaughter who was more than ten meters away from him.
Liang Baozhen looked at the silly girl's back in the distance and said with a smile, "She grows trees. She thinks about planting a loquat tree every day."
Xu Shengjie gurgled and spit out the mouthwash, then glanced at the lady, "I think the loquat tree didn't grow, but your flowers were spitted with a lot of water."
"That's a good relationship, let's see if it can blossom."
Shanshan has been concentrating on planting trees recently. She squatted on the ground and looked at the black soil, wondering, "Why haven't there been any young trees yet?"
Isn't it true that if you just put the seeds in the soil and water them, a small tree will grow?
She bent her fingers and dug them into the soil as if knocking on a door, imitating the sound of knocking on the door. "Knock, knock, open the door, let the little tree out."
Xu Shengjie passed by and took a look, and felt that it was all over, the silly girl was beyond help.
At night, when Shanshan was carried by her mother to her crib, she kept looking outside, but it was pitch black and she could not see anything.
"Mom, why hasn't the little tree grown up yet?"
She was clearly trying hard to water it.
Liang Baozhen covered her with a blanket and looked at Shanshan, whose serious face was trying hard to think about the problem that was troubling her.
"It has to grow slowly. It took your mother ten months to give birth to you. A small tree also has to grow slowly."
"Ten months?" Shanshan half straightened up and counted on her fingers. It would take a long, long time. It's only three months now.
Shanshan feels uncomfortable and wants to cry.
"Go to sleep quickly." Xu Shengjie pinched the lady's cheek and tucked the corner of the quilt for her. "Maybe the little tree will grow when you wake up."
Shanshan didn't believe it, but she was a little sad now, with the corners of her lips pressed down and her mouth pouting. Being a mother is so difficult!
Two days later.
When she woke up, it was already bright outside. Shanshan, still half asleep, asked her mother to help her get dressed and go to the sink to brush her teeth. Although her mother said it would take ten months, she still had to water the baby every day and could not forget.
With a mouthful of mouthwash in her mouth, Shanshan went to the ground in a daze.
Oh! What is this tall and thin tree? How did it suddenly grow here?
Xu Shengjie leaned against the wall and watched, patting the soil with his hands, smiling as he watched the young lady jump up and down on the spot excitedly.
She looked at the small tree that suddenly appeared in disbelief, circled the loquat tree three times, and carefully reached out to touch it. The curve of the corners of her mouth became bigger and bigger, and her eyes were shining.
"Mom, look, I've grown a loquat tree!"
The little girl's sweet voice echoed in the courtyard. She ran over to find her mother, holding her hand and leading them to the loquat tree.
I was so excited that my tongue was almost tied.
"Mom, I'm so shy! This is my little tree! It's really grown and it's so tall!"
Xu Shengjie felt a little jealous. His old father had gone out early in the morning to move a loquat tree sapling for her, and now the young lady was still dragging her mother to see it.
You really don't care about your old father!
"Dad, look! These are the little trees I planted."
Shanshan jumped towards her father's hand on the wall, her two pigtails swinging in the air.
"Here she comes! Our Shanshan is so amazing!" Xu Shengjie jumped down the stairs in two steps and walked over eagerly.
The author has something to say:
Shanshan: Pea Shooter, oh, no, it’s Loquat Shooter^O^
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 6 bottles of Shuti; 5 bottles of Good Luck; 2 bottles of Gardenia;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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