In the evening, the rosy clouds dyed half the sky red, and the villagers returned home together with their farm tools.
This is the most relaxing time of the day in the countryside.
Yao Qiyue was chopping the pork belly into fine pieces in the kitchen, while Jiang Mei was helping to knead the dough on the other side.
Xiaobao and Xiaowu squatted on the threshold of the kitchen, watching Yao Qiyue chopping the meat.
After more than half a month in the countryside, Yao Qiyue's food quality has plummeted, and there is no state-owned restaurant here that can improve the food.
Fortunately, none of the children at home complained. Even the steamed corn bread that was a little irritating to the throat was eaten with relish by Xiaobao.
Thinking of this, Yao Qiyue couldn't help but sigh.
poverty.
It’s really too poor.
Life in the countryside is self-sufficient, and now families even have quotas for raising chickens and ducks.
Yao Qiuyue was planning to raise a few chickens and ducks at home.
When Jiang Ye entered the room with a courier, he saw Yao Qiyue chopping stuffing with a distracted look, and was so scared that he snatched the kitchen knife from Yao Qiyue's hand.
"What are you thinking about?"
Seeing that someone was helping with the work, Yao Qiyue simply stepped aside and sat in a row with Xiaobao: "I'm thinking, should we raise some chickens and geese in the yard?"
"Aunt Li said a family can only keep two at most."
Jiang Ye chopped the stuffing much faster than Yao Qiyue. While he was talking, he had already cut the meat and put it in the bowl.
"If you want to raise some, you can. I have a chicken coop in the front yard."
When Xiaobao heard that he could raise chickens, his eyes sparkled and he pulled Yao Qiyue's sleeve: "Mom, can you let me raise chickens?"
"I'll catch bugs for the chickens."
When Yao Qiyue heard the word "insects", she felt very disgusted. There was nothing she could do. When she thought of the various insects crawling on chicken wings, she couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body.
"We can raise chickens, but we don't need to catch these bugs."
Xiaobao lowered his head dejectedly: "Mom, don't you like Xiaobao anymore?"
As he spoke, tears welled up in his big eyes.
Yao Qiyue picked up Xiaobao and said, "I just don't like bugs."
Everyone has weaknesses, and what Yao Qiyue fears most is soft and frail bugs.
When Yao Qiyue thought of its boneless and wriggling appearance, she felt sticky and uncomfortable all over.
Jiang Ye finished his work and came over to pick up Xiao Bao: "Don't scare your mother. Come on, I'll take you to see my wife's bicycle."
The express delivery that Jiang Ye just picked up from the post office was Chen Qingyun’s bicycle in Beijing.
Bicycles were hard to buy at that time. Even when going to the countryside, Chen Qingyun was reluctant to sell his bicycle. He would rather spend some postage and have the post office send it to him.
Xiaowu saw the bicycle following Jiangye obediently. Jiangye left the kitchen with the two children.
He placed the bicycle in the corner, which was wrapped in a woven bag. Jiang Ye carefully cut it open, fearing that the paint on the bicycle would be scratched.
Xiaobao and Xiaowu squatted on the ground and exclaimed: "Wow."
"It's my wife's bicycle."
Chen Qingyun is never idle. Today he took Damao to collect firewood and has not returned home yet.
Yao Qiyue went out to look at the yard, but she still didn't see the two people. "You rode your bike to the outskirts of the village to meet Grandpa and Damao, why haven't you come back yet?"
Jiang Ye nodded, and when he looked up and saw that Yao Qiyue didn't pay attention to him, he had to respond: "I know, I'll go right away."
Xiaobao and Damao looked at the bicycles reluctantly, looking a bit pitiful. Jiang Ye couldn't bear it, so he had to put Xiaobao on the beam in front of the car, and Xiaowu sat on the back seat.
"You two sit down, let's go find great grandfather."
The three of them walked out of the hospital.
Unexpectedly, he was caught by the people who were leaving work. Many people gathered around Jiang Ye's bicycle and looked at it: "Oh, this is a bicycle, it's really beautiful."
"Don't scratch the bike with your rough hands."
There were no bicycles in the village, and the best means of transportation was an oxcart. If anyone had a bicycle, they would be envied to death.
Jiang Ye obviously knew that not everyone in Beijing had a bicycle.
"Everyone, let's wait and see. I'm looking for my grandfather. He hasn't come back from collecting firewood today."
Ji Ping's son, Ji Weiguo, carrying a pickaxe on his shoulder, said, "You mean Grandpa Chen? He's at the tree stand at the east end of the village. I saw them heading back."
"Go over there and greet them."
Jiang Ye quickly rode his bicycle away from the crowd: "I'll go now, we can talk another day."
Everyone looked at Jiang Ye's back and felt as if he was about to flee.
Ji Weiguo said with emotion: "Is our teacher Jiang too shy? How can he run so fast?"
Everyone sighed a few words and then dispersed. Everyone was anxious to go home for dinner. They were starving after working on the farm all day.
If they hadn't seen the unusual bicycle, everyone would have gone home long ago.
Jiang Ye rode for five minutes and finally saw Chen Qingyun and Damao, each of them carrying a bundle of firewood.
He stopped his bicycle and put the two children down: "Grandpa, give me the firewood, you ride back first."
Chen Qingyun patted his beloved car and said, "Our post office is quite fast. It took less than 20 days for it to be mailed to me."
Jiang Ye: "It's quite fast."
Chen Qingyun did not refuse. He put Xiaowu and Xiaobao, who were standing aside, into the car, and the three of them went back first.
Jiang Ye was carrying a bundle of firewood on his back, and he took the firewood from Damao in his hand and said, "Let's go back."
Damao felt a little embarrassed. There was nothing she and Xiaowu could do after they came here. Yao Qiyue was even more powerful than she had imagined.
Even in the countryside, her life was good. The village captain's family liked her very much, so her life would not be difficult in the future.
She and Xiaowu seemed to have become a burden.
Damao felt a little ashamed.
"Brother-in-law, have Xiaowu and I caused you any trouble?"
Jiang Ye was stunned when he heard this, not understanding why Damao suddenly thought of this: "No. You help the family collect so much firewood every day, you are more capable than me, how could you cause trouble to the family?"
Da Mao lowered his head and said after a long while, "I don't collect as much firewood as Grandpa Chen, and Xiaowu can't work yet, so he eats for free at home."
"I thought my sister couldn't stand the work in the countryside, but Xiaowu and I could help. We're not afraid of hardship."
"But......."
"But that's not the case at all."
Jiang Ye noticed Damao's disappointment and comforted him, "Although your sister doesn't say it, I can see that she likes you and Xiaowu very much. She doesn't have many relatives in this world. If she allows you to call her sister, it means she recognizes you."
"You and Xiaowu are already very capable. Xiaowu can also look after Xiaobao at home. Otherwise, it would be inconvenient for us to take Xiaobao with us when we go to work."
"So, don't feel burdened. When elementary school starts, you and Xiaowu should go to school and learn knowledge well. If you feel you owe July, then learn skills well. When you grow up and have the ability, you can help more people in need."
"What do you think?"
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