Ke Meiyu used soap to wash her face. In order to remove the makeup, she rubbed it a little harder, which gave her pale face a rosy glow.
After a reluctant farewell to Grandma Ke, Ke Meiyu, sitting on the tractor, smiled and waved goodbye to them with tears in her eyes.
As soon as the person left, Ke's mother couldn't help but cover her mouth, "Sigh, this girl has never been away from me for this long since she was little."
“When she was in junior high school, her older brothers would take turns picking her up and dropping her off at the commune.”
"After the New Year, she's going to study in the provincial capital. Whenever I suddenly think about her leaving for three or four months, my heart starts to clench!"
Grandma Ke sighed, "The fledglings have grown their feathers and are already thinking about the outside world. They'll fly away sooner or later. You two are still young. When the younger generation becomes successful, they'll be able to take you to enjoy your retirement."
"Unlike your father and me, we're old and have trouble walking. That's how our lives will be."
"Mother, what are you saying?" Upon hearing the old lady's words, Madam Ke was no longer sad and quickly comforted her, "You and Father are in good health, especially since that girl caused us so much trouble. Your health is getting better every day. Look at me, don't I look at least twenty years younger?"
"Your and Dad's wrinkles and age spots have decreased a lot, you look like you're in your early forties, which is the best age for you."
Ke Laosi also laughed and said, "Yes, Dad, Mom, in our village, the youngest is the one who takes care of the elderly. When we go to the city, how can we leave you behind?"
Ke Yuansui couldn't help but speak up: "Father and Mother, we're all going to study in the provincial capital, but you only care about your sister. Have you ever thought about your five precious sons leaving home too?"
"Pah!" Ke's mother glared at him. "You're a grown man. Did someone sell you or cheat you? What do I have to worry about? You're the one who bullies others. I'm the one who's afraid the parents will come looking for you."
"No one is as considerate and sensible as your sister. Apart from loving to eat and not liking to do chores, in every way is she better than you guys?"
The disliked Daxia Hua Wansui couldn't help but pout in grievance. Besides being sweet-talking and pretty, what did the girl have that was better than them?
But their affection for the girl was no less than that for anyone else.
However, the antics of the boys helped to alleviate the sadness that had suddenly arisen at home.
Aunt Ke was quite excited to be able to bring her niece home, and she whispered to Ke Meiyu about her family's situation.
Even though family planning has not been implemented yet, people have experienced natural disasters and man-made calamities. Whether in the city or the countryside, every household has a large population and many children!
Ke Meiyu felt dizzy just hearing these names; having a good memory isn't something to be used like that.
After talking all the way, Ke Meiyu, who was exhausted, couldn't help but fall asleep little by little as the tractor drove onto the provincial highway and stopped bumping violently. She could only listen to the sputtering sound and her aunt's enthusiastic words.
Qin Yuanjiu seemed to sense something and turned around to look.
The old aunt had an expression that said, "Young people have good stamina, but they also need to take care of their health. Our Yu Bao'er has been delicate since she was little, so Xiao Qin, you can't bully her too much!"
Qin Yuanjiu smiled and nodded, but offered no explanation.
The Ji family had a ancestor who was a Grand Tutor and one of the Three Dukes, and his reputation was renowned throughout Xia Hua. However, his ancestors knew the importance of retiring at the height of their power, and the Ji family gradually withdrew from the ranks of the powerful and returned to their ancestral land. They worked as landlords, collecting rent, and began to recruit students to teach and enlighten them.
The Ji family, through the efforts of the entire clan, produced many famous figures and patriots during the Xia Hua Empire. There was even a stone archway erected at the intersection of He'an Commune to commemorate their numerous successors.
Even though the Ji family gradually declined due to reasons such as squandering wealth and the decline of offspring, the legend of their family still flows in this land.
Moreover, during times of severe natural disasters, they opened granaries to distribute grain, gave away clothes, reduced or waived rent, and distributed medicine, saving the lives of many villagers.
It's an exaggeration to say that the ancestors of everyone in Shuliang Town had received kindness from the Ji family to varying degrees.
Like other villagers, they put on patched coarse cloth clothes, lived in mud-brick and thatched-roof houses, ate simple meals, and had to roll up their sleeves and trousers to work in the fields.
These days were somewhat poor and difficult, but the family got through them together, and they remained positive, optimistic and happy!
The Ji family lived at the entrance of the village. Hearing the commotion, they knew that Ke Qingqiu had returned and went out to greet him.
Since the Ji family abandoned their studies and turned to farming, the family members' health improved, and their offspring suddenly multiplied, especially after Ke Qingqiu joined the family, with children popping up one after another.
Ke Meiyu has eleven brothers and five sisters of the same generation.
However, for some reason, something was wrong with the Ji family again. The younger generation began to die off rapidly. There were only two little girls and one boy left. They were all very weak. Even though the Ji family used all their connections and money, they could only save the life of one boy!
This also requires them to rely on expensive ginseng and lingzhi to keep them alive.
So when they arrived, all they saw were young adults; there wasn't a single child among them!
Aunt Ke wanted to bring Ke Meiyu over, but she also had some ulterior motives.
She was able to give birth to her first set of twins, a boy and a girl, after a difficult labor that lasted two days, right after the news of Ke Meiyu's birth arrived. Moreover, she had secretly calculated that the younger members of the family were able to conceive around the time Ke Meiyu came to visit.
Of course, this was just her guess. Fortune is a mysterious and wonderful thing. Over the years, the Ji family has silently accepted reality and no longer insists on the continuation of the family line. Instead, they have begun to select intelligent and virtuous children from the neighborhood to inherit the Ji family's heritage.
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