When Ling Yao brought Ruan Xi home, Zhou Xueyun was wearing an apron and cooking on the stove. Ling Zhiyuan also came back and was sitting behind the stove lighting a fire. When the couple saw Ruan Xi, they smiled and greeted her, and asked Ling Yao to take her out to play first.
Ruan Xi could feel that the atmosphere in the Ling family was really good today.
Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun were both in a state of rare relaxation. They were gentle and polite to her, and their words were also very warm. Especially Zhou Xueyun, who looked a bit like two different people from the way she saw when she woke up.
After all, they were not very familiar with each other, and Ling Yao was afraid that Ruan Xi would feel uncomfortable staying with Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun, so he took her out after greeting them. The two walked around the hanging building, and then sat down on the windward stone to rest and chat.
Ling Yao was also very relaxed, and felt that the mountain wind was sweet today.
He looked at Ruan Xi and said with a smile: "I have been here for so long, and this is the first time I feel the enthusiasm of the villagers."
Just now, he ran to Ruan's house to find Ruan Xi, and met some familiar adults on the road. Those people smiled and greeted him, called his name affectionately, and asked him where he was going. This had never happened before.
Ruan Xi looked at him, and the evening wind blew up her hair. She smiled and said: "People are like this. If you are distant to me, then I will be distant to you. If you are good to me, then I will definitely be good to you. Sincerity for sincerity."
Although the country people are a bit crude, they are simple and honest, and there are many enthusiastic people.
Of course, everyone suddenly showed so much respect and enthusiasm for Zhou Xueyun and Ling Yao, not just because Zhou Xueyun kindly rescued Xiao Yanzi. There is another very important reason, that is, there has been no barefoot doctor in several nearby villages.
If Ruan Xi's prediction is correct, there will be many people who will bring things to Zhou Xueyun in the hanging building.
Illness is the most difficult to endure. If someone can cure it, who would be willing to endure it?
Especially when children are sick, adults are even more anxious.
Ruan Xi and Ling Yao were sitting on the stone, enjoying the evening breeze and talking. When they heard Zhou Xueyun calling them to eat, they got up and went to the hanging building. However, before they walked to the wooden stairs, they smelled the aroma of meat.
Ling Yao hadn't eaten meat for more than half a year, and he couldn't help swallowing silently.
Ruan Xi didn't laugh at him when he saw it. Nowadays, no matter if you beat up a child, who doesn't like meat?
Ruan Xi followed Ling Yao to the table in the house and sat down. The food, bowls and chopsticks were already on the table. Ruan Xi sat down and picked up the chopsticks. She smiled and said to Zhou Xueyun, "Thank you, ma'am."
Zhou Xueyun picked up a chicken leg with her first chopsticks and put it directly into Ruan Xi's bowl, saying, "Don't be polite, eat quickly."
Ruan Xi was a little embarrassed, but in order not to embarrass Zhou Xueyun, she happily accepted the chicken leg.
Not only was she very happy to accept it, she was also very happy to eat it.
Zhou Xueyun looked at her while eating and said, "Thank you for taking care of our Yaoyao during this time."
Ruan Xi couldn't stand this and said quickly, "Auntie, I'm not taking care of him, but I'm always bothering him."
She and Ruan Jie would find Ling Yao to study textbooks every afternoon, and they would study for half a day each time. Ling Yao spent a lot of time and patience on her and Ruan Jie, so how could she be taking care of him.
Zhou Xueyun didn't know these things, but she could feel that Ling Yao had become different since he made friends with Ruan Xi. At least he was obviously more cheerful and happy, and no longer as dull and dull as before.
And today, Ruan Xi helped her break the four years of depression, allowing her to feel the kindness and sincerity between people again. The enthusiasm and respect shown to her by the production team that day had a great impact on her mentality.
She even began to reflect on whether she had been overly sensitive and threw away food because of choking.
So she said, "I have to thank you anyway."
Ruan Xi thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Okay, I accept it."
Zhou Xueyun smiled easily, reached out to pick up the serving chopsticks, and picked up another piece of chicken leg for her.
A few words brought them closer together, and the atmosphere at the table became relaxed and comfortable.
Ling Yao finished gnawing on the chicken neck, ate a mouthful of rice and asked Zhou Xueyun: "Mom, I also want to go to the production team to help harvest rice tomorrow, pick rice ears with Xixi and the others, and then cut pig grass to feed the pigs. Is that okay?"
Zhou Xueyun didn't let him go among the crowd before, and always let him go out to herd pigs. Now her mentality has changed. She nodded at Ling Yao and said: "In the future, just do whatever you want to do. You don't have to ask me everything. Just be careful about your words and deeds and don't do bad things." After listening to her,
she Ruan Xi replied, "Of course not, the kid is so well behaved."
Zhou Xueyun smiled and thought it was fun for the kids to talk to each other. She asked, "You call him kid?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "I'm one year older than him, and he calls me sister."
Ling Yao immediately replied, "No sister, Xixi."
Zhou Xueyun looked at him and said with a smile, "Why? Calling me sister is unfair to you?"
Ling Yao buried his head in his meal and didn't say anything more.
Seeing him like this, Zhou Xueyun stopped talking about him and found another topic to chat with Ruan Xi. They talked about some irrelevant and light topics, just like making a child happy.
After dinner, it was dark outside. Zhou Xueyun didn't keep Ruan Xi for long and asked Ling Zhiyuan to send her home.
Ling Yao, however, came forward and said, "Let Dad rest, I'll take care of it."
Zhou Xueyun thought that he was a big boy, so she didn't say anything and asked him to take care of it.
Ling Yao and Ruan Xi walked forward side by side, his mood as clear as the moonlight tonight.
While talking to Ruan Xi, he thought to himself - being trapped here didn't seem to be a particularly bad thing.
After sending Ruan Xi to the door of his home, he watched Ruan Xi go into the house.
On the way back, he ran, letting the night mountain breeze fill his collar, and he felt like he was about to fly.
The crescent moon was curved, the silver light was fragmented, and the stones under his feet were singing.
When he woke up early the next morning, Ling Yao was more energetic than any previous morning.
Together with Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun, he fed the pigs and chickens, cooked and ate, then took his sickle and put on his straw hat, went to the production team's terraced fields to gather, listened to the team leader's instructions, and started a new day of rice harvesting.
He saw Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie in the fields, so he took his sickle and went to join them.
In the morning, he helped the production team harvest rice for half a day, and in the afternoon, he went to the mountains with Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie to cut wild vegetables, and then looked for a field that had just finished harvesting rice, and then ran to the field with a basket ahead of others to pick rice ears.
When picking rice ears, they saw Gao Haiyang and his gang. They stood on the ridge of the field and shouted at Ling Yao -
"Hey! Idiot! Don't you know whether you are a man or a woman?"
"Why do you play with girls all day? Don't you know you are a man?"
"Look at him, he looks like a woman. He must think he is a woman."
"Hahahaha..."
Ruan Xi picked up a mud ball from the ground and threw it at them, cursing: "Stupid boy! Climb farther!"
Because they were warned by Ruan Changsheng, Gao Haiyang and his gang didn't dare to come up to do anything. They only dared to tease him a few times. Seeing Ruan Xi getting angry and rushing towards them, they made a face, turned around, patted their butts, and ran away.
Ruan Xi threw the mud ball in his hand and yelled, "You are such a jerk!"
Then he yelled, "If you do that again, I will ask my uncle to beat you to death!"
Ruan Jie said, "They are so boring."
Ruan Xi said slowly, "Ignore these idiots, we just need to take care of ourselves."
Ling Yao didn't care how Gao Haiyang and the others laughed at him, and nodded to Ruan Xi, "Yeah."
So the three of them continued to pick rice ears, talking and laughing and playing.
After the busy farming season, the vegetation on the mountain and other crops slowly turned yellow, orange and red. From a distance, it was a colorful fairy tale world, and the scenery was as beautiful as an oil painting.
The rice was harvested, threshed and dried, and it was time to distribute the grain.
After the production teams had distributed the grain, Ruan Zhigao set a time and notified the cadres in the village to hold a commendation meeting in the courtyard of the brigade revolutionary committee to commend and reward the good people and representatives of the village who had made progress.
On the day of the meeting, the women's director and several women started working early.
In fact, there was nothing to do, just setting up a few tables and benches to make it look like something.
Ruan Xi resumed her life of learning crafts after the busy farming season. She spent most of the day at the old tailor's house, and the rest of the day studying with Ling Yao Ruan Jie on the hillside. The rest of the time was at home.
Because the village was going to hold a commendation meeting this afternoon, she came back after having lunch at the old tailor's house at noon.
When I got home, I found that the house was bustling with activity. It turned out that my fourth aunt Ruan Cuilan had come with her husband and two children.
The family had finished their meal. When Ruan Xi entered the house, she greeted with a smile: "Fourth aunt, fourth uncle."
Ruan Cuilan saw her and said to the fourth uncle: "Did you see? My two nieces have grown up, right? Look at our Ruan family's daughters, each one is more beautiful than the other."
The fourth uncle smiled and said: "It seems like I haven't been here for a long time."
It was not that they had just been here during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Ruan Xi smiled and found a bench to sit next to Ruan Jie, and listened to the elders chatting with her.
In the west room of the main house, Sun Xiaohui sat on the edge of the bed, threading a needle with a serious expression on her face. She talked to Ruan Changgui who was lying on the head of the bed, and asked him: "Are you going to the commendation meeting in the afternoon?"
Ruan Changgui said decisively: "No, I'd rather sleep at home than spend this time."
Because of the commendation meeting, Ruan Zhigao gave all the village members half a day off.
Sun Xiaohui put the thread end in her mouth and took a sip, then continued to thread it into the eye of the needle. "Then I won't go either. It has nothing to do with our family anyway. The main thing is to commend Zhou Xueyun for saving people. It's really worth it."
Ruan Changgui turned his head to look at her. "Saving people is such a big thing, how can it not be worth it?"
Sun Xiaohui snorted. "They held a commendation meeting to praise this and reward that, but they wrongly accused my Yuehua of pushing Xiaoyanzi, saying that our Yuehua wanted to harm people and smashed my pots and bowls. I don't think it's worth it."
Thinking of the losses his family had suffered because of this incident, Ruan Changgui said nothing.
The pots and bowls were bought for them by Ruan Zhigao when the family was divided. If the pots were broken, they had to be replaced. If the bowls were too broken, they could not be replaced at all, so they had to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy new ones. Because they didn't have much money, they went to the production team to pay off a lot of work points.
Paying off work points is equivalent to borrowing money, and these work points will be deducted at the end of the year.
Life after the separation can be said to be really miserable, and they are in debt everywhere.
Before, they owed eggs for Ruan Yue to learn a craft, and now they owe money for Ruan Yuehua.
After a long moment, Ruan Changgui said, "I shouldn't have listened to your division of the family."
If the family had not been divided, at least when encountering such an accident, they would not have to worry about having no money at home.
Liu Xinghua had saved the money and notes sent back by her eldest brother, Ruan Changfu, for half a year. She didn't have to save the notes, she could take them to the black market to exchange for money, as there were many people who wanted to buy them. She hadn't eaten the vegetables and eggs at home for nearly half a year, so she didn't lack money.
Life was easy at home before, because most of the money and notes sent back by Ruan Changfu were spent at home. Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other things were all enough to eat. Most of the vegetables and eggs laid by the hens grown at home were kept for themselves first, and the rest were exchanged for money, so that they could eat meat when they had nothing to do. Liu Xinghua was willing to spend money at that time, and he and Sun Xiaohui were also happy.
As for him and Sun Xiaohui, they still eat more fruits and vegetables themselves, and the rest they exchange for some spare change is not enough to buy some lamp oil and matches, let alone save up. When encountering problems, they naturally either use work points or borrow.
Although Liu Xinghua suddenly saved money to let Ruan Changsheng get married, she would still take out money first when other people in the family encountered problems, such as Ruan Xi going to learn a craft, and Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng would also help him when he encountered problems.
Before, they had split up the family because of Liu Xinghua's saving money, and they didn't want to share the pressure of Ruan Changsheng's marriage. Now that something happened and they had no food to eat, it was naturally impossible for Liu Xinghua to pay for them.
After all, when the family was divided, they were given all the food, and Liu Xinghua even spent money to help them get everything ready, including building stoves, buying pots, bowls, and tables and stools, without letting them find fault with anything.
Moreover, not only did they not give them money, but Ruan Zhigao and Ruan Changsheng, who were his biological father and brother before, even ignored him directly, comparing him to outsiders who were even worse than him. They would be polite and help outsiders.
Now he was all alone, and he had to take care of everything by himself, which was really tiring.
It would be fine if they were living a good life, but it was obvious that things were getting worse and worse, and he felt suffocated.
Sun Xiaohui knew that life had been hard lately, but she was the one who had been clamoring for a split in the first place, so she didn't say anything to slap herself in the face. She just said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Wait a little longer. Things will get better once you get paid."
Ruan Changgui said, "He's been learning for so long, but he hasn't received a penny in return. He ruined the old tailor's stuff before, and even took a lot of fruits and vegetables as compensation, right? How well has he learned? Can he succeed?"
Sun Xiaohui said, "Alas, isn't it this month that's neither good nor bad, so there are not many people making clothes. Wait another two months, and every household will be preparing to make new clothes for the New Year, and the tailor shops will be busy, so won't you get paid?"
Ruan Changgui held his breath, "Don't just stare at others while they get paid."
Sun Xiaohui laughed out loud, "This... Absolutely impossible, the stream can’t even be stepped on by machines, how is it possible? At least we, Yuejin, have learned how to use a sewing machine. If we go out to make clothes, we can still get more wages than Xiaoxi. She will only get less than Yuejin by doing odd jobs. It's even more impossible to stare. Xiaoxi must be jealous of our leap forward, and maybe she will just stare.
Ruan Changgui lay down with a sigh of relief and stood up to sleep, "I hope so. " "
Sun Xiaohui looked at him: "It's not hope! Yes for sure! "
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