Chapter 146 Little Flower Girl
Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun looked at each other...
Xiao Feibai saw this scene.
During dinner, Xiao Feibai asked his mother, "Mom, who is your girlfriend?"
Taotao was stunned.
For a moment, she didn't understand what her son meant by "object".
The main reason is that Xiao Feibai is still learning to speak. Sometimes his pronunciation is very standard, and sometimes he learns the dialect from the local villagers. Sometimes he is anxious to express himself, which makes him speak unclearly and he even speaks nonsense...
Tao Tao stared at her son and asked, "What object?"
Xiao Feibai pointed at Shi Yuxi, then at Deng Gaoyun, and repeated, "Object!"
Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun's faces turned red instantly.
Taotao frowned, "Xiao Feifei, don't say that. They are your uncles and aunts, you can't call them your partner." After saying that, she rubbed her son's head.
Xiao Feibai tilted his big head to look at Shi Yuxi, then at Deng Gaoyun, with a strange look in his eyes.
Why can’t you say it? It was clearly my uncle who said that! The adult world is so hard to understand!
The little guy nodded obediently and continued to eat his noodles.
Tao Tao apologized to her senior brothers and sisters, "I'm sorry, senior brothers and sisters, I'm a very outspoken kid, please don't mind it."
Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun lowered their heads and ate noodles from their bowls, not even daring to raise their heads.
It's Shi Yuxi's turn to cook today.
She made dry noodles with pork liver paste and salted pork and vegetable soup.
Shi Yuxi has excellent craftsmanship and is very clever.
For this meal, she used a dozen cabbage leaves, a potato, three soaked dried mushrooms, about half a pound of pork liver and four ounces of flour.
Roll the flour into noodles, put them into the pot and cook them. When it is almost time to take the pot off the heat, cut the soaked cabbage stalks into thin strips and throw them into the pot. In this way, the not-so-large amount of noodles was mixed with the white cabbage stems, filling up the entire bowl.
When you actually start eating it, the soft and chewy noodles paired with the refreshing and juicy cabbage stalks are both refreshing and filling.
Shi Yuxi is also very good at processing ingredients - the pork liver is not fishy at all and is quite tender. It is chopped together with the soaked mushrooms, fried in a pan with a little lard, poured on the hot noodles without soup, and mixed well to make a bowl of fragrant pork liver sauce dry noodles.
Needless to say, there are a few slices of bacon floating in the cabbage leaf soup for flavoring, and a few bright red wolfberries are sprinkled in it, which is delicious, mellow and beautiful.
Tao Tao praised: "Senior sister, your cooking skills are amazing! The pig liver had been frozen for almost a week. When I cooked it that day, it felt a bit fishy... How did you manage to remove the fishy smell? It's still so tender!"
Shi Yuxi smiled and said, "There is ready-made potato starch available!"
At this point, Shi Yuxi slapped his forehead and said, "Look at me, I forgot about this!"
She put down her bowl and chopsticks, hurriedly opened the lid of the pot on the stove, and took out a bowl from it.
There was a small bowl of mashed potatoes in the bowl.
Shi Yuxi smiled and said, "You don't have starch here, but you need starch when processing pig liver. I picked the smallest potato, cut a little to soak out the starch, and steamed the rest... I also used a little bit of Xiao Feibai's milk powder and white sugar. Let's give it to Xiao Feibai!"
Taotao picked up some with chopsticks and ate it, and it was unexpectedly delicious.
"Senior brothers and sisters, you guys should eat a little too." As she said that, Taotao used a spoon to scoop a spoonful of milky mashed potatoes for Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun respectively, and then she placed the remaining half along with the bowl in front of her son.
"Auntie made this specially for Xiao Feifei. What would Xiao Feifei say?" Taotao asked her son.
Xiao Feibai said in a baby voice: "Thank you Aunt Xixi!"
"You're welcome," Shi Yuxi smiled and touched the little guy's head, "This is sweet. You can only eat it after you finish your meal."
Xiao Feibai nodded, and while eating the noodles he stared at the milky mashed potatoes, his eyes sparkling.
Since we take turns cooking, whoever cooks also washes the dishes.
Taotao finished her meal first, then put on her cotton-padded jacket, took an iron scoop and fire tongs and went to the warehouse inside. She picked up a few pieces of charcoal and put them in the iron scoop, then went to the greenhouse with a flashlight.
——Charcoal is more valuable than firewood. During the day, Taotao would place two charcoal braziers in the greenhouse and burn firewood. The fire would not be burned very strongly, and she would add a piece of firewood every two or three hours.
At night, you can no longer burn firewood.
Because there are always people watching during the day, at night, for safety reasons, only charcoal is burned, and it is considered over when it burns out... and then a new fire is lit after dawn.
The weather in early November means winter has already arrived in the northwest.
Just after seven in the evening, it was pitch dark.
Although it was too dark to see, the lights of the candles in the oasis were lit up everywhere, and the air was still filled with the smell of cooking, the sound of adults scolding their children, the sound of children crying, the sound of sisters laughing, and the sound of the watchdog barking...
Taotao hurried into the greenhouse with a flashlight, walked along the path to the charcoal basin, checked the charcoal fire first, put the almost extinguished charcoal residue into the iron dustpan, and added a new piece of charcoal to the charcoal basin...
Then she returned to the office carrying the burning charcoal.
Taotao dragged the fire box out, put the charcoal that was about to burn out into the charcoal basin, added two new pieces of charcoal, then put the charcoal basin into the fire box, took out a small quilt and covered the fire box with it.
Next, she lit two candles, placed them on candlesticks, and covered them with glass covers...
At this time, Xiao Feibai finished his meal in the kitchen and greeted Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun obediently, "Dudu (uncle), auntie, I am full. Thank you, Auntie Xixi. Auntie Xixi, please turn off the fire after cooking (hard work)..."
After saying that, the little guy carefully wiped the corners of his mouth with a towel, washed his hands, and ran out to find his mother.
Shi Yuxi looked at Deng Gaoyun.
Deng Gaoyun held the bowl with his head down. Although his expression could not be seen, the back of his neck was burning red...
I think he was probably feeling embarrassed about what he said in front of Aunt Conezi at the greenhouse door that afternoon, "Shi Yuxi is my girlfriend."
Shi Yuxi felt that it was necessary to explain it to him clearly, "Gao Yun, how could you..."
Deng Gaoyun, "If I didn't say that, Aunt Cone...she would eat me alive! Even if I rejected her, there are other women in the village who are like her, and have strange thoughts about the educated youth from outside! Also, when you were in class...aren't there a bunch of men surrounding you? Do you think they looked at you in a friendly way? Did they make you feel comfortable? At ease?"
Shi Yuxi: ...
That is indeed uncomfortable.
But that’s not right.
Shi Yuxi said: "I am married..."
Deng Gaoyun interrupted her, "But your husband is not here! Those who want to harass you will not let you go just because you say you are married and your husband is out of town."
Shi Yuxi originally wanted to say, isn’t Taotao also married, but her lover is not around?
But on second thought, she really can't compare with Taotao.
After all, the production team leader Jiang Hongzhi and Taotao have an old relationship, and Jiang Hongzhi's wife and Taotao are sisters who grew up in the same village!
With Jiang Hongzhi's care, the people in the production team were really nice to Taotao. When the men looked at Taotao, there was no expression in their eyes; when the women looked at Taotao, they mostly showed envy in their eyes.
Deng Gaoyun said: "Yuxi, we don't belong to Lingxi Base. It's just a coincidence that we're spending the New Year here. When the spring comes next year, I'll go to Langping and you'll go to Hezhou. Who will know us? In a few years, they won't even remember this!"
Shi Yuxi: ...
Deng Gaoyun, "Yuxi, I am sorry for this. But I...I promise you that I will never tell anyone about this again, but please don't deny it in front of others, okay? I am really afraid of those women."
Shi Yuxi was about to say something...
Tao Tao shouted from outside: "Brother, sister! Come out and warm yourself by the fire!"
"Coming soon!" Deng Gaoyun said loudly, and then he quickly finished the last two noodles in the bowl, picked up the soup bowl and asked Shi Yuxi, "Would you like some more soup?"
Shi Yuxi shook his head in frustration.
Deng Gaoyun poured the half-cold soup from the soup bowl into his own bowl, drank it in two gulps, then put down the bowl and nodded to Shi Yuxi, "Yuxi, you've worked hard."
After saying that, he hurried out.
When Shi Yuxi finished washing the dishes and walked to the department outside with a half-burnt candle, she saw Taotao, Xiao Feibai and Deng Gaoyun all sitting at the same desk.
There was a firebox under the rectangular table. Taotao and Xiao Feibai sat on one side, and Deng Gaoyun sat on the other side. Everyone took off their shoes, put their feet in the firebox, and covered themselves with a small quilt that reached up to their waists.
"Sister, come here quickly, let's squeeze in together... It's seven o'clock now, and the two pieces of charcoal inside should burn for two or three hours at most. We can read books or do whatever we want!" Taotao called Shi Yuxi.
Shi Yuxi hesitated for a while.
——Taotao and Xiao Feibai were sitting over there, so it would definitely be difficult for her to squeeze over.
So she could only sit next to Deng Gaoyun.
After what happened in the afternoon, she didn't want to get too close to him.
Deng Gaoyun ordered her very naturally, "Yuxi, you haven't come up yet... Go and get some water! It's quite dry when we roast by the fire."
After Senior Brother said this, Tao Tao remembered, "Senior Sister, there is tea in the kitchen. I weighed two kilograms last time in the city. Why don't you just bring all the cups, tea leaves and boiled water over here!"
Shi Yuxi had no choice but to go get some boiled water, tea leaves and cups.
Then--
She had no choice but to sit in the empty seat next to Deng Gaoyun.
Taotao is reading a book.
Xiao Feibai was playing with classification toys.
This is an educational toy made for him by his father Song Zhi: a wooden plate as big as a chessboard, divided into three layers, and each layer has many grids of varying sizes. Then Song Zhi also used wood to make many building blocks of different sizes, such as triangles, circles, squares, rectangles, columns, etc.
There are many ways to play with this set of building blocks.
There are stacking games, ball hitting forest, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division... But the weather is cold now, so it’s not appropriate to play those games, so Taotao lets her son play induction. That is, pour out all the building blocks, and then put them back into the wooden grid one by one.
Taotao also made things more difficult for her son - he had to use an alarm clock to keep time.
So Xiao Feibai also quickly took the building blocks and put them into the wooden grid.
Deng Gaoyun was also reading a book.
Shi Yuxi took out her handicrafts - knitting needles and wool, and started knitting clothes.
The junior sister took good care of her, but she was poor and could not help the junior sister much in academics... The only thing she could do was to knit a beautiful sweater for Xiao Feibai during her break time!
Shi Yuxi is very deft with her hands. She can wrap the wool around her hands and poke with the knitting needles. After her hands got used to the movements of winding the yarn and the frequency of poking the needles, she could type neatly with her eyes closed without looking.
The room was quiet, with only the slight "clacking" sound coming from Xiao Feibai from time to time as he picked up blocks and put them into the wooden grids.
As Shi Yuxi knitted a sweater, her mind gradually became empty...
Deng Gaoyun, who was sitting next to her, turned his head to look at her from time to time.
Shi Yuxi has a gentle and amiable personality, delicate features, and under the warm orange candlelight, her face looks particularly elegant and beautiful.
Deng Gaoyun's thoughts couldn't help but return to the past:
Zuo Tianhua was the first student the teacher taught. Shi Yuxi went there in the same year, one month later than Zuo Tianhua. In the second year, Deng Gaoyun was selected by the teacher... At that time, he witnessed the whole process of how Zuo Tianhua pursued Shi Yuxi passionately.
From then on, Deng Gaoyun began to hate Zuo Tianhua, it was simply a physical aversion.
He became a thorn in the flesh.
Although even Deng Gaoyun himself didn't understand...what this was all for.
It was obvious that at that time, Zuo Tianhua was still very serious and down-to-earth in his academic work and his teacher's projects. But Deng Gaoyun just felt very depressed. Later, when Zuo Tianhua and Shi Yuxi got married, Deng Gaoyun didn't even attend their wedding. He just gave 20 yuan as a gift and asked the teacher to bring it over.
Deng Gaoyun always thought that it was because he hated Zuo Tianhua.
Later on, Zuo Tianhua's true nature gradually revealed itself - he was greedy, vain, lazy, utilitarian, and loved to take advantage of others... Logically, Deng Gaoyun, who had seen through Zuo Tianhua's true face long ago, should have been happy.
But Deng Gaoyun was still very unhappy.
Before this, Deng Gaoyun didn't have the energy to think too much.
All he wanted was to become the most outstanding student under his teacher, strive to successfully complete the project at hand, and surpass Zuo Tianhua.
Later, he far surpassed Zuo Tianhua, but he was not happy.
The teacher later recruited another student, Bai Taotao, who was even better than him...
Deng Gaoyun thought he would be jealous of Bai Taotao, just like he was jealous of Zuo Tianhua for being his teacher's favorite student. In fact, several of my fellow students, including the teacher, are all well aware of this realization, and are all a little nervous.
But what surprised Deng Gaoyun was that he was not jealous of his junior sister.
——Yes, the little junior sister became a disciple of the teacher when she was very young. She is smarter than Zuo Tianhua and him. She established a project at a young age. Her family background seems to be more powerful...
But Deng Gaoyun didn't hate the junior sister at all. On the contrary, he admired her very much - it was great that such a beautiful, cute and lively young girl could focus all her attention on studying and serving the country and the people!
In the past, Deng Gaoyun never thought about why.
He felt that maybe he was too narrow-minded and simply hated Zuo Tianhua.
Until now…
Shi Yuxi sat beside him. He could feel her warm body and smell her light fragrance. The slight rhythm she brought from the needle insertion made him feel extremely comfortable...
A vague thought that shouldn't have occurred to him arose in his mind.
As if by some strange coincidence, Deng Gaoyun and Shi Yuxi suddenly spoke at the same time -
Deng Gaoyun: "Do you regret marrying him?"
Shi Yuxi: "Taotao, is it possible that the saline-alkaline symbiotic ecosystem you are studying can be promoted by animals, insects, and pests?"
As soon as Deng Gaoyun said this, he realized that something was wrong.
He shut up immediately and hoped that Shi Yuxi and his junior sister didn't hear it.
However, he clearly saw the surprised expression and clear eyes on the junior sister's face.
Looking at Shi Yuxi again...
Shi Yuxi was completely stunned.
Deng Gaoyun lowered his head.
Tao Tao looked at Deng Gaoyun and answered Shi Yuxi first, "I think... it's quite possible. It's an ecosystem! But we study plants. Are you going off track and focusing on small animals and insects?"
Shi Yuxi glanced at Deng Gaoyun first, then said to Tao Tao, "Let me think about it."
Taotao nodded.
Shi Yuxi looked at Deng Gaoyun and said, "I do regret it, but there is no regret medicine in this world. Besides, Zuo Tianhua did not agree to divorce... I chose this path myself, I can't blame others, no matter how painful or difficult it is, I have to go on."
Deng Gaoyun's face turned pale.
Taotao looked at Shi Yuxi and then at Deng Gaoyun, not knowing what was going on.
In the end, she lowered her head and continued reading, while occasionally taking care of her son.
Around 9:30 at night, the charcoal in the firebox burned out and the temperature dropped little by little. Xiao Feibai also kept yawning, so Tao Tao greeted them, "Brother and sister, it's getting late, go to bed early. Brother, please help me check the charcoal basin in the greenhouse, and close the doors and windows of the research station when you come back."
Deng Gaoyun nodded.
Taotao took her son back to the room.
In order to save firewood, Taotao set a rule for Deng Gaoyun and Shi Yuxi: boil water when cooking breakfast and dinner every day. If you want to take a bath, you should also boil water for bathing during these two time periods.
However, in such cold weather, there is no need to wash it every day.
So Taotao would boil water while cooking dinner every day and fill all the water bottles. Before going to bed, I use the water in the kettle to wash my face, brush my teeth, soak my feet, etc...
After taking care of her son while he washed up, Taotao also went to bed and held her son in her arms while he slept.
Xiao Feibai was like a furnace, plump and tender with meat all over his body. It was very comfortable to hug him, and after a while... Taotao also felt warm all over.
Before going to bed, she was still thinking: It seems that Senior Brother Deng and Senior Sister Shi are a little weird?
Deng Gaoyun took a flashlight and went to the greenhouse for a tour. When he came back, the research station was already pitch dark.
Without saying a word, he checked all the doors and windows and made sure they were all closed tightly. He then checked the charcoal basin in the firebox to make sure that all the fires were out. Finally, he walked towards his bedroom with a flashlight.
When passing by Shi Yuxi's bedroom door, Deng Gaoyun stopped.
——Because of his recklessness, he asked such a question without thinking, which made Shi Yuxi feel embarrassed and made her say such words... which should have made her feel very painful.
Deng Gaoyun felt like a bastard.
He felt a little flustered and wanted to apologize to her.
But standing at the door of her room, he backed off again.
Deng Gaoyun stood there in a daze for who knows how long. Finally, he let out a long sigh and returned to his room.
There are only two bedrooms in the research station that can accommodate people.
One room was for Taotao's family of three, and there was a temporary guest room for Shi Yuxi to sleep in. Deng Gaoyun slept in the warehouse.
There was a lot of firewood in the warehouse. Deng Gaoyun piled the firewood as high as a bed, placed a door panel on top, and then put bedding on top... Fortunately, before the first snow fell, the junior sister went to the city to buy two new beddings because she was afraid of the cold. In addition, she had packed and sent two old beddings from Kyoto...
Even though there were two new people in the research station, he and Shi Yuxi, the little sister still made sure he slept soundly.
I guess Shi Yuxi is feeling the same in the next room.
Not only was Deng Gaoyun's bedding thickly padded, but the little sister was also afraid that he would be cold, so she hung up the mosquito net that she had prepared for use in summer for him in advance to block the wind. After all, this warehouse is too big and it is the coldest room in the entire research station.
Deng Gaoyun was quite grateful to his junior sister. The junior sister looks very young. She is a girl of twenty-four or twenty-five years old who is already married and has children, but she still looks like a student who has not graduated from college. It's easy for people to think that she is just an ignorant, spoiled little girl.
In fact, she is smart and insightful, considerate and meticulous.
I don’t know either…
Did she realize something just now?
Deng Gaoyun was a little embarrassed.
He stood in the warehouse, looked at his "bed", hesitated for a moment, began to dismantle the bed and the mosquito net, and then moved his "bed" to the wall.
After all this trouble, it was almost eleven o'clock when he finally lay down on the bed.
After a tiring whole day, Deng Gaoyun was embraced by a soft quilt and should have fallen asleep tiredly.
But he just couldn't sleep.
He was in a state of confusion and tossed and turned. He didn't know when he finally fell into a drowsy sleep. As a result, while he was sleeping, he suddenly stretched out his arms and grabbed...
Didn't catch anything.
Deng Gaoyun was inexplicably shocked!
He opened his arms again and reached out again...
Still didn’t catch it?
He was startled awake and sat up, hugging the quilt. Because he was half asleep and half awake, he didn't realize that he had moved the bed, so he opened his eyes and saw -
After my eyes adapted to the extremely dark environment, I could still barely see what was going on in the room.
But, it's very unfamiliar.
Deng Gaoyun covered his chest and shouted inexplicably, "...Yuxi?"
No one answered.
However, Deng Gaoyun was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.
——Why did he suddenly call out Shi Yuxi’s name?
He fished out a flashlight from under his pillow, turned it on, and shone it into the room…suddenly he remembered that he seemed to have moved the bed here himself?
Deng Gaoyun breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the flashlight, stuffed it back under his pillow, and lay back down on the bed.
He felt ashamed that he actually... called out Shi Yuxi's name while he was not in a conscious state.
Then he reached out his hand again and grabbed——
I got it this time.
It's... a wall.
At this moment, Deng Gaoyun suddenly understood.
He kept reaching out and fishing... and finally reached a wall. This was because this warehouse and Shi Yuxi's bedroom shared the same wall!
He even moved the bed here on purpose and put it against the wall because - Shi Yuxi was sleeping on the other side of the wall!
Deng Gaoyun cursed himself in a low voice: Deng Gaoyun, you beast!
He felt so hot with shame that his whole body shuddered, and then... it seemed as if he had some fanatical reaction that he couldn't control.
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Early in the morning, Taotao woke up, but Xiaofeibai was still sleeping.
She got up and washed, then used her spiritual power to ask the little grape vines she planted in the greenhouse, "Good morning, little grape!" 】
[Good morning, Taotao! 】A tender voice that only Taotao could hear rang out.
Taotao brought grape seeds and planted one in the greenhouse and one in Song Zhi's dormitory.
However, the pot that Song Zhi had was planted in an enamel cup with a broken bottom, so it was estimated that it would not grow big.
It's good to be able to communicate.
After Taotao and Xiaopuo said good morning to each other, Taotao asked Xiaopuo, […Did Song Zhi have three meals a day normally yesterday? Is the break time normal? 】
Little Grape, [I don’t know, he didn’t come back to his room yesterday. Peach peach peach, little grape is so thirsty. He wants to drink some water and bask in the sun. 】
Taotao, [Okay, I'll talk to Song Zhi. The climate here is bad, please be understanding! 】
Little Grape, [Yeah, don't worry Taotao, I will try my best to adapt. 】
So Taotao returned to the research station and wrote a note to Song Zhi - Didn’t you get enough rest? Have you eaten three meals a day on time? Do you go to bed on time? When you have time, water my grape vines and you can catch up on some sleep. Then take it to the ground to bask in the sun, and you can also take a walk to bask in the sun.
Song Zhi asked me to write him a note every day.
Taotao was originally worried about what to write...
Now, isn’t it ready-made?
After writing the note, Taotao returned to the room and called Xiao Feibai. Dress him, put on his shoes, brush his teeth and wash his face.
After packing up, Taotao clutched the written note and prepared to go to Oasis to find the water truck from the satellite city.
When she looked down and saw her son, she asked him, "Xiao Feifei, do you have anything you want to say to Dad?"
Xiao Feibai thought about it and felt that when he and his mother went to his father's place, his father was always not there, and it was always just him and his mother in the room. He also thought about how noisy his father's workplace was...
Xiao Feibai said childishly and clumsily: "Dad sleeps! Go to work, go to work, go to work!"
Taotao smiled.
She took the paper to the desk again, found a pen, and added a sentence on the note: Feibai also asked you to rest more, saying that the noise level where you work is too high.
Taotao put away the pen and tore through the note, then she held her son's hand in one hand and held the note in the other, preparing to go to the oasis.
At this time——
Shi Yuxi just happened to come out of the bedroom. Seeing Taotao and her son were about to leave, he asked, "Taotao, where are you two going so early in the morning?"
Tao Tao said, "I wrote a note to Song Zhi and asked the water truck in Satellite City to take it there... We'll be back soon!"
Shi Yuxi agreed, then looked at the time: Oh my god, it’s already seven o’clock?
It’s Deng Gaoyun’s turn to cook today, why hasn’t he gotten up yet? We have to hurry! After making breakfast, I have to take care of the log first. All the data needs to be recorded, and there is a lot of practical work to be done. In addition, all the practical work must be completed before 9:30, otherwise it will be delayed until 10 o'clock in the greenhouse class!
Shi Yuxi hurriedly knocked on Deng Gaoyun's door, "Gaoyun! Gaoyun, get up quickly..."
…
Taotao took Xiao Feibai to the oasis and found the water delivery team in the satellite city.
These teams that come to fetch water usually arrive very early.
Taotao found the driver and took the note that Song Zhi brought her. She gave the note to the driver and then stood aside to read it.
There were many, many words densely written on a small piece of paper. Judging from the ink used to write these words, they were probably written by Song Zhi at different times of the day.
He said the task was arduous, but he also said he was not afraid of any hardships. He complained that the food was not to his taste, and said that when he first arrived in Ruyi Village, he couldn't even get enough to eat... Thinking of this, he felt that he was not grateful for what he had. He said that he was careless and kept all the photos of her and her son with her, so he couldn't look at the photos even if he wanted to... He also complained that there were too few words in her note yesterday, so he only took a second to read it...
Her tone was nagging, like a resentful old lady.
Taotao burst out laughing.
Once she had taken a moment to read the note...
Suddenly you hear the noise of children quarreling and fighting nearby?
Turning around, I saw that a lot of children had gathered on the shallow slope without me noticing. And the center of the commotion was none other than Xiao Feibai.
Taotao quickly put the note into her pocket and walked over there.
She was a little angry.
The children present were as old as eleven or twelve years old, and most of them were around six or seven years old. Why did these older kids bully little Feibai, who was only a little over one year old?
However, just as she walked up to the children, Taotao suddenly realized——
Those kids didn't bully Xiao Feibai.
The one they bullied was Hua Niu.
But it seemed that Xiao Feibai took the initiative to stand in front of Hua Niu.
——Hua Niu is the three-year-old girl who was almost choked to death by stones on the first day Taotao arrived in Lanxi.
The other boys seemed to want to take Xiao Feibai aside.
So the few who were still patiently coaxing Xiao Feibai——
"Xiao Feibai, go play over there!"
"Shall we take you to build a snowman?"
"Be good, get out of the way!"
"Little kid, please move away, or I might accidentally hurt you later..."
Most of the children were cursing at Hua Niu angrily. Some of them even had snow in their hands, and it looked like they wanted to hit her hard.
"You shameless beggar woman! Get out of here! You are not welcome here!"
"A jinx from the sky! Whoever encounters it will be unlucky!"
"Beggar woman, who are you going to harm today?"
"Your mother is a disaster star, and you are a disaster star too! Lululu..."
Hua Niu bit her lip, her eyes filled with tears. She looked like she wanted to cry but was too stubborn to do so.
Little Feibai stood in front of her and tried his best to explain to the older kids, "Fa Fa, okay! No hitting! No hitting, no hitting! Hitting... is not good!"
It was a pity that no one had the patience to listen to a one-year-old boy like him.
I didn't understand either.
Tao Tao stopped and shouted: "...Hua Niu?!"
The noisy scene suddenly became quiet.
Because Jiang Hongzhi valued Taotao, everyone in the production team knew it, so every household restrained their children and taught them not to cause trouble in the greenhouse or to mess with Aunt Bai who worked in the greenhouse.
So all the children looked at Taotao blankly, and no one spoke for a while.
Only Hua Niu was sobbing.
Tao Tao said, "Hua Niu, can you do Auntie a favor?"
Hua Niu was crying so sadly that she couldn't speak, so she just nodded.
Taotao, "Help Auntie hold Xiao Feifei's hand and take him back to the research station, okay? You two should walk slowly and don't fall." Then she told her son, "Xiao Feifei, go back and tell Auntie Xixi that Mommy will be back soon. Ask Auntie Xixi to sign the book on the windowsill first, okay?"
Xiao Feibai nodded hard and took the initiative to hold Hua Niu's hand.
Taotao didn't care about that. After giving the instructions, she went to chat with the driver of the water delivery truck in the satellite city.
Of course, she was still a little worried, so she looked back at her son and Hua Niu from time to time, and then looked at those naughty kids...
——Xiao Feibai and Hua Niu held hands and stumbled towards the research station, as if there was a dog chasing them.
——The naughty kids who were so angry just now stood there stupidly for a while and then dispersed.
Taotao finally breathed a sigh of relief. While chatting with the driver, she watched her son and Huaniu run into the research station... Then she said goodbye to the driver with a smile and returned to the research station.
Shi Yuxi was sitting at her desk looking through her diary, while Deng Gaoyun was cooking in the kitchen.
When Hua Niu saw Tao Tao coming back, she said, "Aunt Bai, I brought my brother back. Goodbye, Aunt Bai! Goodbye, Aunt Shi!"
Having said that, the little girl was about to leave.
Just at this moment, Deng Gaoyun opened the kitchen door and shouted, "Junior sister, Yuxi... Xiao Feifei, come over for breakfast!"
A strong aroma of food suddenly hit my nose!
Xiao Feibai was hungry, so he held Hua Niu's hand and took her straight to the kitchen.
Deng Gaoyun made noodle dumpling soup for breakfast. A big pot of noodle dumplings with soup, a handful of fat scraps and two or three chopped cabbage leaves in the soup...
Looks a bit ugly.
Taotao followed the children into the kitchen.
She had been observing Hua Niu and found that the little girl only took a look at the noodle dumpling soup in the pot, turned her head away and didn't look at it anymore, but... the little girl kept licking her lips.
Taotao felt distressed when she saw the three-year-old girl, who was so thin and looked no different from her one-year-old son.
Then I saw Hua Niu trying to break free from Xiao Feibai's hand——
Tao Tao said, "Hua Niu, please stay and have breakfast with us!"
When Hua Niu heard this, she panicked, "No, no, no! I can't... Thank you, Aunt Bai! I, I'm leaving!"
Tao Tao blocked her way and said, "Wash your hands first... Xiao Feifei, take Hua Niu to wash her hands. Remember, don't get your cuffs wet."
Xiao Feibai really took Hua Niu to wash her hands.
Shi Gaoyun had already started to distribute the noodle dumpling soup. He had originally only taken four bowls, three large and one small. After listening to Taotao's words, he took out another small bowl and divided the large pot of noodle dumpling soup.
At this time, Xiao Feibai brought Hua Niu over and sat down at the dining table.
Tao Tao gave Xiao Feibai and Hua Niu a bowl of noodle dumpling soup each, and then asked the little ones, "Who cooked today? Who worked the hardest? What do you want to say?"
Hua Niu was stunned.
Xiao Feibai said in a baby voice: "Dudu, you've worked hard! Thank you, Dudu!"
Hua Niu suddenly realized what was going on and quickly imitated him, "Du... No, Uncle Deng, you've worked hard. Thank you, Uncle Deng!"
Deng Gaoyun smiled awkwardly and said to himself, "Uncle Deng's cooking skills are not that good, you guys just have to make do with it!"
Hua Niu still didn't dare to eat it. She just looked at Taotao with some anticipation in her eyes.
Tao Tao said softly, "Eat it! It's okay. I'll tell your mother later."
Hua Niu then whispered, "Thank you, Aunt Bai." She picked up the spoon, observed Xiao Feibai's eating habits for a while, and then imitated Xiao Feibai, scooping up the noodles one spoonful at a time, putting them into her mouth, and chewing with her mouth closed.
Shi Yuxi finished recording the data in the log before coming over to have breakfast.
As soon as she came over, she found that although Taotao was holding the bowl and eating noodles, she was looking at Hua Niu?
Shi Yuxi also looked at Hua Niu.
——The three-year-old girl is yellow and thin, with a big head but a small body, and thin hands and feet. Sitting together with the chubby and cute Xiao Feibai, she didn't feel that she was older than Xiao Feibai.
But Xiao Feibai is only one and a half years old.
Take another look...
Except for Hua Niu's face which was intact, the little girl's hands, wrists, neck, and even the top of her head covered with sparse yellow hair were covered with purple and blue pains or blood scabs?
Especially the little finger of the child’s left hand. The posture of it being held up is not right, a bit like... it’s broken?
Thinking that Hua Niu was only three years old, Shi Yuxi couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Hua Niu, your hand...what's wrong with it?"
Hearing this, Hua Niu shrank her neck and a look of fear appeared in her eyes.
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