249: Walking 30 miles to bring wild apricots to my younger sister
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I was so happy that I bought Yu Xiaoye a pound of fruit candy as a reward!
He kept telling her:
"Xiao Ye, you must perform well. This is your chance. I think after this performance, you can strive to stay on the farm. Maybe you can even go to the main farm."
Yu Xiaoye, however, was not interested in staying on the farm. She tearfully said to Jia Song:
"I just want the show to end soon. I want to go home. I miss my parents and my second brother."
"You're useless," Jia Song cursed. After he finished, he realized that Yu Xiaoye was really about to cry, so he immediately softened his heart and coaxed her like a child, "Okay, okay, just hold on a little longer, don't cry, and go back after the performance, okay?"
"Um!"
The day after Yu Xiaoye told Jia Song that she missed home, Xu Ying, Sai Jinhua, and Yu Erye followed Lao Pu's carriage to the field office to see her.
Yu Xiaoye was rehearsing in the hall at the time and waited until the rehearsal was over before coming out to meet us.
Seeing the relatives he had been thinking about day and night, Yu Xiaoye finally couldn't hold it in anymore and his eyes suddenly turned red.
When Xu Ying saw her daughter's red eyes, she also wiped away her tears. Sai Jinhua and Yu Erye also started crying.
Xu Ying thought her daughter was bullied at the field office, so she rolled up her sleeves to help her vent her anger. Yu Xiaoye shook her head vigorously and said that she was not bullied, no one bullied her here, she just missed home and wanted to return to the company.
Although she had only been in this place for a few months, she had already completely regarded the small fenced courtyard and mud house of the Eighth Company as her home.
Communication in this era was not as convenient as in later generations. We couldn't make phone calls and there were no cars. A distance of dozens of miles seemed like hundreds or thousands of miles. Yu Xiaoye was not able to adapt at once. Moreover, she had hardly ever left her parents since she was a child.
It is difficult to adjust to the new situation when you suddenly leave your parents and move to a new place.
Xu Ying knew that her daughter missed home so much that she cried, so she wanted to take her daughter back and stop acting!
The child is crying, what’s the point of acting?
Hurry up and pack up your things and go home!
Sai Jinhua, Lao Pu and Yu Erye also told her to go home and let others perform, and they would not join in the fun.
Yu Xiaoye struggled and refused to leave.
Although she missed home, she knew she couldn't let go of this burden.
If I wanted to give up, I would have done it long ago. Since I have chosen to come here, I have to stick with it and not give up halfway just because I miss home.
You will encounter difficulties of one kind or another when doing anything. If you avoid difficulties every time you encounter them, you will never accomplish anything in your life.
So Yu Xiaoye quickly wiped away her tears and continued to stay in the propaganda team.
Another day passed, and Yu Erye came alone.
Carrying half a basket of wild apricots he picked, he walked thirty miles to visit his younger sister.
These are the early-ripening wild apricots that I picked from the woods near the company. They were green when I picked them, and so sour that I couldn't eat them. I kept them in a quilt for several days, and they turned yellow and soft. They taste sweet and sour, and are very delicious.
Yu Erye was worried that his younger sister had not yet tasted such delicious wild apricots, and he didn't know when his younger sister would be back. He was afraid that the apricots would go bad before his younger sister came back.
Yu Erye didn't think much about it, nor did he say hello to anyone. He carried half a basket by himself and walked thirty miles to the field headquarters.
Yu Xiaoye saw the half basket of golden apricots outside the hall, and when he heard that his second brother had walked here, his eyes turned red again.
Yu Erye hurriedly asked her:
"Are you homesick again?"
Yu Xiaoye wiped her tears and shook her head, blaming:
"If you want to come, can't you take Uncle Pu's carriage? Even if Uncle Pu doesn't come to the site, there will be other carriages coming. Can't you ask Uncle Pu to find you a carriage that's going the same way? Why did you walk here!"
Yu Erye's face was filled with sorrow:
"I'm afraid Uncle Pu won't pull me."
Yu Xiaoye was so angry that he jumped up and down:
"If you say you're here to see me, then he definitely is!"
"It's okay, it's not far anyway. I'll be there by foot. There's a main road that leads directly to the site. It's easy to find. By the way ()..
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Look, I'm wearing new shoes!"
As he spoke, Yu Erye bent his knees and raised his feet high to show Yu Xiaoye his new shoes, smiling like a gorilla.
After showing off his new shoes, he put his feet down and said:
"My mother even sewed me new pants, look!"
Yu Erye pulled out a corner of his pants from his waist and showed it to Yu Xiaoye.
Yu Xiaoye quickly turned his head away, his face full of disgust:
"Who wants to see your pants? Hide it!"
Yu Erye smiled and hid the corner of his pants back.
Yu Xiaoye and Shao Xia took the dormitory key and took his second brother back to the dormitory. They poured half a basket of wild apricots into the washbasin, filling it up completely, which was estimated to be at least five or six pounds.
Yu Xiaoye took out half a pound of fruit candy that Jia Song had bought for her two days ago, stuffed it into her second brother's pocket, and asked her to take it back and eat it.
She then said to her second brother:
"Next time you come, you can come at noon. I'll have time then and can even take you out for lunch or something. We've been rehearsing basically all morning and afternoon, and haven't even had time to talk. If you come out like this, you'll probably get scolded when you get back."
Yu Erye nodded in agreement and said that next time he would come during lunch.
Yu Xiaoye wanted to find a ride for his second brother so that he could take the bus back, but Yu Erye thought it was too much trouble and insisted on walking back by himself. No one could stop him.
Yu Xiaoye could only let him do as he pleased.
Looking at his second brother's back as he walked alone on the road, Yu Xiaoye felt very distressed.
In fact, if you think about it, the second brother also had a hard life. Although he had always been mean to this girl, that was all influenced by the feudal and backward concept of favoring boys over girls, and mainly by his parents.
Now that he has escaped from that feudal and backward environment and is being disciplined by Yu Jiahui and Xu Ying every day, his distorted values have been quickly straightened out.
It can be seen that the second brother is still easily affected by the environment.
Just give him a good environment and follow the three
If he learns how to behave and do things from people with the right outlook on life, my second brother will be a very good young man.
Even if you can't talk about a bright future or a successful career, there is absolutely no problem in living your own life.
Therefore, she had to find a way to support her second brother and help him live the life he wanted. The life he wanted was very simple:
Eat and drink your fill and marry Cuihua!
After the afternoon rehearsal, Yu Xiaoye distributed the wild apricots sent by his second brother to everyone. There were not many fresh fruits at that time, so it was good to be able to eat a few wild apricots.
Yu Xiaoye gave some more to Section Chief Cui.
He wanted to send a few to Xiao Bao and Xiao Zhao from the publicity department, but they were in the boys' dormitory, and Yu Xiaoye was afraid of gossip, so he didn't go.
More than twenty more were wrapped in cloth and sent to Liang Qin's dormitory.
Liang Qin lived with several female cadres from the field office. Yu Xiaoye went to their dormitory and poured the wild apricots in the cloth bag directly onto the table.
Liang Qin saw a bunch of tempting apricots and asked with a smile:
"Where did it come from? Did you pick it yourself?"
"No, my second brother sent them to me from the company. Give some to Sister Liang to try."
Liang Qin's smile deepened:
"Then I won't be polite to you. I'll take them all."
"You're welcome, Sister Liang."
Yu Xiaoye smiled innocently.
After delivering the apricots, Yu Xiaoye took the cloth bag and turned to leave when Liang Qin suddenly called her:
"Yu Xiaoye."
"Hmm?"
Yu Xiaoye turned back, Liang Qin came over and said to her in a very kind tone:
"You've been performing well recently, working very hard, and making great progress. Keep it up."
"Don't worry, Sister Liang. I will rehearse seriously."
"I heard you've been learning to play the accordion with Shao Xia these days?"
"Yes, many skills are always a burden. I want to take this opportunity to learn a few more."
Liang Qin nodded with appreciation:
"That's great, very motivated. You should do well this time. The General Promotion Department ()..."
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We might be short of staff. If you perform well, I'll try to get you a transfer to the Propaganda Department at the headquarters.
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