"Youchen, go back to your room." Shumei said to little Youchen in a serious tone.
"Mother……"
Xiao Youchen seemed to want to say something, but Shumei yelled, "What? Don't you even listen to me?"
Xiao Youchen had never seen Shumei so fierce before, and didn't dare to say anything. He looked at Shumei, then at Xiao Shuangning, stood up from the ground, and walked towards his room.
"Since you don't study hard, from today on, you should do what you should do. Now go to the chicken coop and shovel the chicken manure."
“…”
"Why are you still standing there? Go now." Shumei saw Xiao Shuangning looking at her with pitiful eyes and had no intention of going, so she shouted.
Xiao Shuangning stood up from the ground helplessly and walked towards the chicken coop. Wearing rubber gloves, she held her breath and shoveled the chicken manure under the chicken coop one shovel at a time.
She had originally thought that Shumei would beat her up to vent her anger after causing such a big trouble, but she didn't expect that she would not be allowed to go to school and was forced to do these tiring and dirty chores.
She complained to herself, "It stinks! I'd rather get beaten up than be beaten."
At this moment, Shumei suddenly appeared behind her. "How do you feel? Is studying better? Or is doing these dirty and tiring jobs better?"
"Mom, I've already told you that I'm wrong. Why don't you believe me?"
"Hehe! You realize your mistake so quickly? You can't stand these dirty and tiring jobs so soon? This is just the beginning."
Shumei paused and continued, "We are poor. Our only hope is to study hard. If you don't study hard, this will be the norm for the rest of your life. Your hope in life will no longer be in studying, but in the fields, facing the loess and back to the sky every day. Okay, I won't disturb you while you work, so you can finish your work earlier and rest earlier. Remember to get up early tomorrow morning, the weeds in the fields are waiting for you to pull."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and went back home and locked the gate to the yard.
Xiao Shuangning watched her leave and the lights in the house go out.
She looked at the piles of chicken manure in pain, smelled the stench that kept drilling into her nose, and had an expression as if she wanted to cry but had no tears.
She was not good at this and didn't finish shoveling the chicken manure until midnight.
"Finally finished shoveling, time to go to sleep." She twisted her sore neck, stretched, lay down on the simple bed in the chicken coop, and soon fell asleep.
Although she was cold and hungry at the moment, these could not conquer her strong sleepiness.
In a daze, she seemed to hear some movement in the chicken coop. She had never been a deep sleeper, so she opened her eyes, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and walked towards the direction of the sound.
Someone was actually stealing her chickens. She suddenly lost all her sleepiness and shouted, "What are you doing?"
Hearing the sound, the man looked back at her, stuffed the chicken in his arms, and climbed onto the roof and ran away like a monkey climbing a tree.
This thief is really bold. Even after being discovered, he still didn't forget to drop the chicken in his hand.
Although it was night and Xiao Shuangning was sleepy, she seemed to recognize the thief, who was no match for Niu Erwa from the village.
Xiao Shuangning yelled, "Catch the thief! Catch the thief! He stole the chicken! Catch the chicken thief! Don't run away..."
Her earth-shattering scream quickly woke up Shumei and Xiao Youchen.
Shumei followed out with a broom, and Xiao Youchen also found a stick in the yard, and the two of them chased out of the yard together.
Just then, she bumped into Ningning who had caught up with her. Shumei asked Xiao Shuangning, "Where is she?"
"Over there." Xiao Shuangning pointed at a dark figure running quickly in the dark night. "Oh, Mom, brother, I vaguely thought I saw that the man was Uncle Niu Wa from the village, and he was holding our family's chicken in his arms."
"You stay at home, Youchen, come on, let's go chase him." Shumei said neatly and followed the black shadow.
There is no pillar in the family. When something like this happens, Shumei has to be as brave as a man to protect the family.
She and Xiao Youchen chased the thief to the vicinity of Niu Erwa's house, and the thief suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
The two stood at the door of Niu Wa's house and lost the direction of the chase.
Little Youchen panted and said, "Mom, since Ningning said it was Uncle Niu Wa, and he was holding the chicken he stole from our house, let's just knock on the door and go in. I guess he won't have time to deal with the evidence."
"I noticed that the number of chickens in the chicken coop has been wrong recently. I thought that our protective measures were not enough, and that snakes and rats had come in to steal the chickens. I didn't expect it was a human. Okay, knock on the door. Even if we can't catch him, it's good to give him a warning." Shumei panted and agreed with Xiao Youchen's statement.
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