Ruan Xi didn't want to talk about physics with him. She took a deep breath, closed the book in her hand, and returned it to him. Then she pulled out a small bunch of grapes from her schoolbag, put it on his book, and said, "I'll treat you to some grapes today."
This was not something common. Ling Yao didn't touch it, but just said, "Eat it yourself."
Ruan Xi reached out and pulled one, smiled and said to him, "Let's eat together."
Ling Yao met her eyes that were shining with broken light, lowered his head after a moment, and reached out to pull one.
The two of them sat on the hillside, sharing a small bunch of grapes, watching the sun in the sky slowly fall to the top of the mountain.
Ruan Xi asked, "Is it sweet?"
Ling Yao said, "Yeah, it's very sweet."
Because of knowing her, he had tasted sweetness twice recently. The last time was milk candy, and this time it was grapes.
Ruan Xi said, "I am older than you. You can call me sister from now on. I will accept you as my younger brother."
Ling Yao smiled happily, turned his head to look at the sky which was slightly stained with red clouds, and did not respond.
Ruan Xi went home with her schoolbag on her back. When she arrived at the door of her house, she ran into Sun Xiaohui who had just returned home with a basket of pig grass outside.
Sun Xiaohui held a muddy sickle in one hand and supported her waist with the other hand. She walked with a limp
. Ruan Xi had nothing to say to Sun Xiaohui. She glanced at her and went straight into the house.
Sun Xiaohui was so angry at her attitude that she sneered, "Don't you know to call your elders when you see them?"
Ruan Xi perfunctorily called out, "Hello, second mother." After
calling out, she went into her room, put down her schoolbag, sat down and took a breath to rest.
Sun Xiaohui entered the house and put down the backpack. She saw Ruan Jie chopping wild vegetables. She was furious. Her eyes were like a knife, and she glared at Ruan Jie fiercely.
Ruan Jie greeted Ruan Xi, lowered her head without looking at Sun Xiaohui, quickly chopped the chicken food, mixed it with rice bran, and went to the chicken coop to feed the chickens. She had just cooked pig food to feed the pig left by Liu Xinghua when she separated from the family. She did not
pick wild vegetables to feed the pigs and hens that were distributed to Ruan Zhigao and Sun Xiaohui, so Sun Xiaohui glared at her.
Sun Xiaohui followed the group to do farm work for a day, and went to the hillside fields to pick wild vegetables. Now she had to cook pig food and mix chicken food by herself. After feeding the pigs and chickens in the pen, they had to cook, so they had no time to rest.
Before the family split up, Liu Xinghua, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie did all the laundry, sweeping, cooking, washing dishes, feeding the pigs and chickens. After the family split up, Sun Xiaohui had to do it herself.
Ruan Changgui did the hard work when he was working, digging copper in the mines, carrying the copper down the mountain in a backpack, or carrying feces up and down the mountain to the dry land. He was exhausted at the end of the day and needed more rest after work.
Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua were old enough to help her share the burden, but she was used to asking Ruan Jie to do things instead of her two precious sons, and her two precious sons didn't know how to do these things, so she had to do it herself.
So she was gritting her teeth while chopping pig food, hating herself for giving birth to an ungrateful daughter who didn't know how to help her share the burden.
She had no place to vent her anger, so after chopping pig food for a while, she suddenly asked, "Xiaoxi, what have you been doing these two days?"
Ruan Xi was sitting in the room resting, and she knew Sun Xiaohui was angry when she heard her chopping pig food. She didn't want to pay any more attention to Sun Xiaohui, so she just said perfunctorily to her: "Learn a craft."
Sun Xiaohui smiled, "Really? Will the old tailor be willing to teach you?"
Ruan Xi: "Go ask the old tailor."
Sun Xiaohui - Ha, it would be a miracle if the old tailor could teach you.
She said, "You are probably lazy and don't want to do anything, so you leave all the housework to our Xiaojie. You go out and have some free time, but she's busy from morning to night. Xiaojie is a stupid kid. She didn't even know she was cheated, and she's still rushing to count money for others."
Ruan Xi sneered speechlessly, "I didn't expect that you love Xiaojie so much."
Sun Xiaohui was choked for a moment, and after a moment she said, "She is my daughter, if I don't love her, who will?"
Ruan Xi sneered, "Your face is thicker than a city wall."
Sun Xiaohui got angry again after being humiliated so mercilessly by a younger generation. She chopped the knife in her hand on the wooden chopping board fiercely, not wanting to look embarrassed, and took advantage of her status to say: "Ruan Xi, how do you talk to your elders?"
Ruan Xi: "What did you say? Didn't you hear it all?"
This dead girl who disrespects her elders!!!
Sun Xiaohui was so angry that her hands trembled, her chest rose and fell, and she wanted to go into the house and tear Ruan Xi to pieces.
But Ruan Xi was not her own child, the old man and the old lady in the family all protected Ruan Xi, and Ruan Xi's biological father was a military officer. She had the heart but not the courage, so she could only swallow her anger and picked up the knife to chop the pig food.
Ruan Jie was standing outside the chicken coop feeding the chickens. She heard Ruan Xi and Sun Xiaohui quarreling in the house. She was a little scared and worried. When she was about to go into the house with the worn-out enamel basin, Liu Xinghua came back.
Seeing Liu Xinghua was like seeing a big backer. Ruan Jie was relieved. Before she could say anything, she went into the house with Liu Xinghua. She saw Sun Xiaohui taking out her anger with pig grass. Every time the blade fell, it was full of strong emotions.
Liu Xinghua didn't pay much attention to Sun Xiaohui and turned to Ruan Xi's room.
Ruan Xi saw her come in and smiled and said to her with her mouth: "I made you angry."
Liu Xinghua also smiled and mouthed: "You deserve to be angry!"
After that, the two laughed out loud.
Ruan Xi was not affected by Sun Xiaohui. She chatted and laughed with Liu Xinghua and Ruan Jie while making dinner. When Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng finished their work and came back from outside, they served the rice to the table in the main room and ate with laughter.
When Ruan Xi didn't come back for lunch, Ruan Jie said, "Sister, I know what you had for lunch. A fried egg with loofah and a tiger skin green pepper. It smelled so good that I could smell it outside the gate, right?"
Ruan Xi responded quickly, "You went to look for me?"
Ruan Jie nodded at her, "Grandma saw that you didn't come back, so she asked me to go to the old tailor's house to check. I saw that you had already eaten at the old tailor's house, so I didn't go in to disturb you. . Everyone says that the old tailor is hard to get along with, but I think he's pretty good."
Ruan Xi lowered his voice slightly, "He's really nice. When he came back in the evening, he gave me a bunch of grapes."
Hearing this, Ruan Changsheng suddenly became energetic and a little unconvinced: "Grapes?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and nodded, "They're grown in his yard."
Ruan Changsheng slurped a mouthful of porridge, "I, your fifth uncle, have never eaten grapes since I was a child. Are they sour?"
Ruan Xi shook her head, "Sweet ones, let's eat together after dinner."
Ruan Xi and his family of five finished dinner, and Sun Xiaohui had just finished preparing dinner.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie collected the dishes and returned to the side room. When Ruan Zhigao, Ruan Changsheng and Liu Xinghua came in, Ruan Xi went to the room to take out the bunch of grapes in her schoolbag, put them in the basin, washed them, and brought them to them.
Seeing the grapes, the four of them believed it now - the old tailor was really good to Ruan Xi.
Seeing that there were enough grapes to share, Ruan Changsheng was not polite and took the lead in pinching one and putting it in his mouth. After tasting the sweetness of the grapes, his whole face lit up, and he nodded and said, "Well, it's very sweet and delicious."
As he said that, he picked two more, one for Ruan Zhigao and one for Liu Xinghua.
Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua each tasted one and nodded that it was delicious.
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui took Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua to eat in the main room. They ate the small green vegetables with oil, salt and garlic, which were full of freshness and fragrance. Sun Xiaohui's anger that had been suppressed for a day disappeared.
She spoke calmly, no longer emotional, and said to Ruan Changgui: "This won't work, you still have to let Xiaojie live with us. If this goes on, I gave birth to a daughter in vain? She will work for outsiders all day long."
Ruan Changgui was a weak man, and he said perfunctorily while eating: "Let's talk about it later."
Sun Xiaohui looked at him, "Are you so afraid of your parents?"
Ruan Changgui was a little impatient, "Why are you talking about this while eating? Let's talk about it later."
Seeing him like this, Sun Xiaohui took a deep breath and didn't say anything for the time being. After all, the daughter was born by her, and she couldn't escape no matter how the bones were broken, so she would talk about it later.
The brothers Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua didn't care about these things at home. Anyway, no matter how hard it was, they would not go without a bite of food. Now that the family was divided, the food was better, and they didn't have any worries.
The brothers ate quickly and ran outside to play after eating.
As a result, after playing for a while, the two suddenly ran back. Ruan Yuejin was older and more stable, while Ruan Yuehua went straight in front of Sun Xiaohui and stared at her with an exaggerated expression and said, "Mom, grandpa and grandma brought fifth uncle and Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, five people were eating grapes there!"
Hearing this, Sun Xiaohui subconsciously didn't believe it, "Nonsense, where did they get the grapes to eat?"
Ruan Yuehua's eyes were as bright as copper bells, "My eldest brother and I lay on the door and saw it with our own eyes. They were really grapes."
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui looked at Ruan Yuejin, and Ruan Yuejin nodded and said, "I heard that the old tailor gave them to Ruan Xi."
The old tailor gave them to Ruan Xi?
Sun Xiaohui was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "Impossible! How is this possible?"
Everyone in Fengming Mountain knew the old tailor's character. If he could give Ruan Xi grapes, the sun would rise from the west, and ten of them would rise at once!
Ruan Yuehua was very anxious, "Wouldn't you know if you go and take a look?"
That's right, seeing is believing. Sun Xiaohui put down her chopsticks, followed Ruan Yuehua out the door, walked lightly to the door of the side room, stopped, and stretched her head to look inside.
Seeing that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were eating grapes, she frowned like a dried grape.
She didn't say anything to embarrass herself, and quietly retreated back to the main room.
Seeing her come in, Ruan Changgui looked up and asked her: "Really?"
Sun Xiaohui sat down with greed in her eyes, picked up the chopsticks, looked at Ruan Changgui and nodded: "I am eating grapes."
Ruan Yuehua said beside him: "Mom, I want to eat grapes too."
Ruan Changgui ignored him and continued to ask Sun Xiaohui: "Did the old tailor give it to Xiaoxi?"
Sun Xiaohui held the chopsticks and thought about it, with doubt in her eyes: "Do you think the old tailor could give it to her? Otherwise..."
She lowered her voice, "She must have stolen it..."
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