Chapter 60 Su Yuanzheng's Sister
Just then, Xu Lei was roasting sweet potatoes by the stove with a few kids. They were about to finish when Su Yuanzheng grabbed a large package and stuffed it into the stove.
The fire, which was supposed to be extinguished, suddenly burst into flames.
It's burnt!
Xu Lei said, "It was almost done grilling, who cares about your fire?"
Su Yuanzheng could roughly guess what these things were, but he didn't open them to take a look; one glance was enough for these kinds of things.
"Brother Expedition, have some roasted sweet potato."
"You eat."
Su Yuanzheng casually took a pack of cigarettes that Xu Lei had left by the stove and turned to leave.
"What are these things? They're burning quite brightly."
"It's all paper, how could it not be prosperous?"
Xu Lei lectured, "Learn from your brother Yuanzheng. He's a scholar, he makes lots of drafts, and he has no shortage of these things. Look at you two, you don't study. If you don't study, you'll only be able to do hard labor in the future."
"Didn't Brother Expedition also do hard labor?"
"Can you compare? He's the boss, and what I do is just manual labor. You guys are also doing manual labor, but the boss... the boss enjoys a life of luxury."
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old frowned. "Brother Yuanzheng is much more tired than us."
Xu Lei couldn't find a rebuttal. "Su Yuanzheng, if you don't do well, you'll set a bad example for these brats. You have to make money, you have to! You have to be a boss with your legs crossed."
Su Yuanzheng lit a cigarette. He hadn't smoked in a long time, and the taste was surprisingly bitter. "Nonsense."
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Su Yuanzheng took out his phone. In the video, Xia Yutong was making handicrafts at double speed. She was beautiful, and it was easy to be attracted by her appearance.
When they first met, she was five years old. Su Yuanzheng saw from afar his father leading a little girl in a white princess dress home.
The village is not as developed as the city, but every now and then, people will bring a screen on a large truck and find a spacious place to show a movie.
In the days when communication was not well-developed, messages were often relayed by people.
"They're showing a movie tonight!"
"Where is it?"
“On that open space in the compound.”
The news spread like wildfire, and everyone knew that a movie was going to be shown in the village. When evening came, the village was packed with people, with no seats available. It was so crowded and noisy that people were jostling each other.
In this way, Su Yuanzheng watched many movies when he was a child.
He has forgotten most of the movies, but he remembers two of them.
One of them is "cotton fluffing..."
Another thing is that I forgot the plot of the movie, but I remember that the little girl in the movie was wearing the same white princess dress that Xia Yutong wore when she was a child.
In the movie, when the little girl was riding the slide, the little boy messed with her by tying her skirt to the slide, preventing her from sliding down.
So when Su Yuanzheng first saw Xia Yutong, he thought a movie star had arrived.
He stared at her, unresponsive for a long time, and even took a step back as she moved forward.
As a child, Xia Yutong was beautiful without any aggression, yet she remained unattainable to him.
The little boy was covered in mud, with black under his fingernails. He was a head taller than her. His face wasn't covered in snot, but there were faint cracks on both sides of his cheeks, and his mouth looked like it was split in two, with a crack in the middle. It would bleed if he moved too much.
Su Jianguo held Xia Yutong's hand and remained standing in front of him.
Su Yuanzheng could hear his own heartbeat and frantically called out to Su Jianguo, "Dad..."
"Expedition, call me sister."
She was holding a teddy bear when she saw him and burst into tears.
"He...he's bleeding..."
"You'll die if you bleed."
"He's bleeding..."
Su Yuanzheng touched the blood on his lips, looked at her and smiled, but the more he smiled, the more blood flowed...
"It's okay, you won't die, don't be afraid..."
He liked her because she was timid.
For a while at first, he thought it was fun and teased her.
Knowing she was afraid of blood and would cry if she saw it, he searched all over his body for any scars he had, even those that were almost healed, wanting to pry them open to show her.
"Blood, blood, blood, I'm bleeding again!"
He playfully jumped around in front of her, "Look, there's blood! There's blood!"
The little girl cried every time she saw it, her face covered in tears, her dark eyes gleaming with a blue light.
He kept doing it, picking at his scars and lips, just wanting to bleed her to see, until finally he was completely healed and there was no more blood to be found.
He deliberately touched her skirt with his dirty hands, leaving a large black handprint with each touch.
But if you touch her, she won't scream; she'll just stare at you blankly, looking pitiful.
He later discovered that she was particularly afraid of insects.
He got excited, "The giant queen worm is here!"
"The bamboo worm is here! Look at this bamboo worm, it's green and so cute!"
"The beetles are here..."
"Caterpillar, caterpillar hairs are brown, do you prefer black or brown...?"
Xia Yutong was terrified of him and would run away whenever she saw him, terrified of him.
But since they were all under the same roof, how could she escape? The more afraid she was, the more excited he became.
Su Jianguo and Luo Caixia chased after him, yelling, "Yuanzheng, you're not allowed to bully your sister!"
He ran out of the house barefoot, giggling as he ran.
The mud on the ground was wet and even slipperier than glutinous rice flour. When he stepped on the ground, mud would seep out from between his toes. It was dirty, but it felt especially comfortable to him.
My shorts were covered in mud, and my calves were covered in mud with every step I took.
Not only did they disobey the adults, but they also went looking for all sorts of strange-looking insects.
He didn't have any particular thoughts in his mind; he simply felt that his little sister was so cute, that she looked beautiful when she smiled, and that she looked beautiful when she cried. He wanted to play with his little sister.
What's so scary about insects?
It's so cute how it twists and turns; it's so soft and squishy.
One day, Su Yuanzheng discovered a super old female insect. Xu Lei found it while digging in their peanut field. The insect was black with yellow spots, and it was fat and big, as thick as an adult's thumb.
He was overjoyed and even fought with Xu Lei for the old female insect, getting bruised and battered, before taking the insect back to show Xia Yutong.
He was moved by his own words at the time.
Xia Yutong was sitting at the table. When she saw him, her tears hadn't dried yet, and her eyelashes were still wet.
She called out to him softly, "Brother..."
Her pink lips were incredibly cute.
In the countryside, most of Su Yuanzheng's friends had white lips, or cracked lips, which were not pretty. He had only ever seen such pink lips on her.
"I have a gift for you."
He reached out his hand, and she visibly trembled.
He gently comforted her, "Don't be afraid, this time is different from before."
Her eyelashes were wet, and she trembled slightly as she nodded, "Brother..."
"Hey, here's a gift for you, open your hands!"
Xia Yutong opened her hand, and a large female insect rolled into her palm. After a full two seconds of silence, she let out a deafening scream, fell off the stool, and scrambled out of the room.
She cried and sobbed, "Mommy, Mommy, I want to go home..."
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