Cui Ju followed behind Bai An. Da Zhuang wanted to go up and hold Bai An's hand, but was stopped by Cui Ju.
"Da Zhuang, what are you doing?"
Da Zhuang scratched his head and said naively, "I want to hold Bai An's hand. I haven't seen anyone as white as Bai An, so I want to touch her."
When Bai An heard what Da Zhuang said, he raised his hand and looked at it in confusion.
"Hey~ You have no shame, no shame. You are such a grown-up, but you still want to touch a girl's hand. You have no shame."
Cui Ju surrounded Da Zhuang and teased him mischievously. Bai An saw that Da Zhuang's face was red, so he walked up to him, took his hand and explained, "Da Zhuang, our hands are the same, there is no difference."
When Aster saw this, she also shouted, "I want to hold the hand, too. I want to hold the hand, too."
It's like they are playing a game, you hold my hand and I hold yours.
"I feel that Bai An's hands are still the softest."
"I think so too."
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Bai An looked at the two of them, his eyes sparkling.
"Should we go dig some wild vegetables?" Bai An counted on his fingers and said, "We can dig some wild leeks, spring sprouts, water celery, and water spinach. When we dig these vegetables, we can ask mom to stir-fry them for us. They are very delicious."
Da Zhuang opened his eyes wide, raised his hand and said proudly: "I know, my mother took me to dig wild vegetables before, and my favorite is Malantou."
Cui Ju, who was standing by, looked at Bai An in confusion, "But I have never followed my mother to dig wild vegetables, so I don't know which ones are edible."
Bai An raised his hand like Da Zhuang and volunteered, “I can teach you how to look at wild vegetables, and Da Zhuang can help too.”
Da Zhuang nodded quickly.
"Then let's go." Bai An pointed to the woods not far ahead, "Everyone be careful and follow me."
"Let's go." The children were full of energy and followed Bai An while playing and fighting with each other.
Bai An stepped on the soft soil, the smell of soil lingering at her nose. She looked down at the ground, afraid of missing a wild vegetable.
"Bai An Bai An." Aster came over, grabbing something that looked like a weed, "Can I eat this? I think I saw my mom giving it to me before."
The wavy leaves are connected together one by one.
Bai An took it and smelled it. It had been more than ten years since the last time he picked wild vegetables, and Bai An was not sure whether it was edible.
"It's edible." Da Zhuang took the wild vegetable and said excitedly: "My mother told me that this is the horse mountain head that Bai An just mentioned."
"Really? I just found it there, there are still a lot more." Aster pointed to an open space not far away.
Looking around, there were indeed many horse hills on that piece of land.
They ran over excitedly one by one, happily grabbing the horsehair on the ground.
Bai An looked at the wild vegetables all over the ground and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The environment without industrial pollution is good. Even the wild vegetables grow so well."
Da Zhuang held a basket full of wild vegetables and smiled innocently, "My mother will definitely praise me when I go back."
Chomping the wild vegetables on the ground, Cui Ju happily said, "My mother will definitely praise me, too."
Bai An looked up at Cui Ju and said softly, "Cui Ju, you can also eat the things that look like flowers on the tree behind you."
Aster turned her head and looked back, then looked down at her basket, which was almost full.
"I probably can't fit any more."
"Cui Ju, don't you have a brother at home? Why don't you ask him to come along?"
Cui Ju's grandfather was a landlord here before, and he had been oppressed and had a bad background. Originally, the children in the village didn't want to play with her. Her family was also the poorest family except Bai An's. Bai An couldn't stand it, so he forced her to come along every time he went out to play.
Bai An had met his brother before. He was a few years older than them and about the same age as Lu Jinan. But for some reason, he always stared at Bai An and no one knew what he was thinking.
Cui Ju was not called Cui Ju before, but Lin Baiwei.
When she was a child, she was in poor health. Her mother heard from someone that a humble name would make her easier to raise, but she was reluctant to give her a name like Goudan, so after much thought, she gave her a name related to nature.
"My brother." Cui Ju thought for a while, "He stays at home all the time. Except when he finishes his work, he reads some books."
Cui Ju's voice became increasingly quiet. "All the books in the house were burned, and only those few books were left. He kept reading them over and over again, and I don't know what he was reading."
Bai An frowned and asked in confusion: "If you like reading so much, why do you want to burn books?"
When Bai An asked this question, Da Zhuang beside him became strangely quiet.
Almost everyone in their village participated in the book burning.
As for why, he couldn't explain.
Bai An looked at him and roughly understood.
"Cui Ju, my father has a lot of books. Next time I'll ask my father if I can lend them to your brother." Bai An took Cui Ju's hand and said softly, "It's a good thing to like reading."
Aster knew that reading was a good thing, so she nodded and said, "Brother will definitely be very happy."
Da Zhuang also came over and said, "Read a book. Our school doesn't teach us to read anymore."
Bai An frowned, "If you don't teach people to read, then what are you doing in school?"
"Work." Da Zhuang held up the wild vegetables in his hand. "That's what adults call labor."
"Oh, right." Da Zhuang squatted beside Bai An and asked in confusion, "Why don't you go to school?"
Bai An didn’t know why his brother suggested that he not go to school before, but now after hearing what Da Zhuang said, he understood that there was no point in going.
But I can’t say that to Da Zhuang now.
"My health is not very good, so I have to go to school a few years later." Bai An said this with a guilty conscience.
Da Zhuang patted Bai An on the shoulder and said, "Since you are not feeling well, it doesn't matter if you go to school a little later. I will carry your basket for you."
Cui Ju jumped closer to Da Zhuang and said, "Help me get it too."
Da Zhuang turned his back to her and said angrily, "I helped Bai An get it because she was not feeling well. Why should I help you get it?"
Cui Ju didn't care about his expression and put the basket in his arms.
He grabbed Bai An's hand and ran to the front, shouting to Da Zhuang as he ran, "We'll wait for you in front."
Da Zhuang, who was left behind, looked at the backs of the two of them, his nose still lingering with the smell of wild vegetables in the basket.
"Aster! You do this again!"
Bai An couldn't run any longer, so he grabbed Cui Ju's hand and said weakly, "Let's wait for Da Zhuang here."
Cui Ju, who was still in high spirits, looked at Bai An, who was leaning against a tree, hunched over and panting.
"Hey, Bai An, you need to move more. We've only been running for a short time and you're already so tired."
Cui Ju directly took Bai An's hand and walked slowly among the woods.
"You're tired from running around like this, how are you going to do the farm work at home?"
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