Seeing that his younger brother was having fun with his friends, Zhang Shuguang stopped paying attention to him and focused on taking care of his younger sister.
The little girl rarely goes out to play, but today she had a lot of fun and couldn't stay idle for a moment.
Chasing butterflies and picking wild flowers, her silvery laughter echoed throughout the forest.
Zhang Shuguang followed behind his sister, and when they came across thorns, he would pick her up.
"Brother, here, Huahua is beautiful."
Whenever the little girl saw wild flowers that she thought were beautiful, she would pick them and hand them to Zhang Shuguang.
When the little girl was tired of playing, Zhang Shuguang held her and sat her on the tricycle with a beautiful wreath on her head.
"Brother Shuguang, there are fewer and fewer bird eggs in the forest farm."
Seven or eight children swept around the area and took out less than twenty bird eggs in total.
I agreed to treat Zhang Shuguang to bird eggs, but after spending the entire afternoon, I only found a few.
"It's already a lot to be able to get so many bird eggs, so just be content.
You guys would search this forest farm eight hundred times a day, but how could you possibly keep up with the speed at which the birds lay eggs?"
Seeing them all sweating profusely, Zhang Shuguang expressed doubts as to whether these dozen bird eggs could replenish their wasted energy.
"I was thinking of treating Brother Shuguang to some bird eggs, so let's share them and try them out!"
The children's faces showed a maturity that was extremely inconsistent with their age.
I have to rely on cold water again tonight.
"How about this, I'll give you some sweet potatoes in exchange, or one piece for each of you, and you can give me the bird eggs you took out."
My sister said she wanted to eat bird eggs, but how could one egg be enough for each of us?
"Brother Shuguang, are you serious?"
Yesterday, Zhang Jianguo brought home a big sweet potato. His mother Tian Sulan cooked a pot of sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge, and even saved the steamed corn bread.
"Of course it's true. You guys discuss it, and if you agree, line up and I'll give you sweet potatoes."
"agree."
"We all agree."
I brought home some sweet potatoes yesterday and my parents praised them so much that anyone who didn’t trade them would be a fool!
Zhang Shuguang distributed sweet potatoes to the children, put bird eggs into their schoolbags, and took his younger brothers and sisters back home.
The rice porridge we had at home in the evening was so delicious that the three brothers and sisters could smell the fragrance from the kitchen before they even entered the house.
"Grandma, what are you cooking? Panpan can smell the delicious food."
As soon as Zhang Shuguang took his sister down from the tricycle, the little girl ran to the kitchen door.
"You are such a greedy little cat with a sharp nose. Today we will have rice porridge and pig's head."
The old lady, who had been frugal all her life, didn't want to eat like this, but all her eldest grandson brought back was meat and fine grains, not a single grain of coarse grain.
"Grandma, is it time to finish the braised meat?"
After eating braised meat and bone soup for two consecutive days, Zhang Shuguang was really fed up with it, even though he might get beaten for saying it.
"We've finished eating, except for the last braised pig's head. I'll cut it up tonight."
The old lady also wanted to eat slowly, but the weather was too bad to keep it.
"Okay, then we'll have fish for lunch tomorrow."
Zhang Shuguang took a look at the wooden basin, his eyes full of excitement. He could finally change his taste.
"Kid, I wish I could never finish the braised meat so I don't have to worry about food in the future. Why do I feel like you're actually a little happy?"
In other words, the eldest grandson has a high enough status in the old lady's heart, and if it were someone else, the old lady would definitely be furious.
"Grandma, didn't I tell you that our family will never lack food in the future? You and Grandpa can just wait and enjoy the good life."
Zhang Shuguang said confidently.
"The eldest grandson is very capable. Now grandparents are enjoying the blessing of having him."
Liu Guixiang looked at her three grandchildren in the yard and felt extremely satisfied.
"Grandma, I just found some bird eggs at the forest farm. My sister wants to eat some. Could you please fry them for her?"
Zhang Shuguang carried his schoolbag into the kitchen and took out a dozen bird eggs and placed them on the stove.
He didn't dare say that the bird eggs were exchanged for sweet potatoes, eight or nine big sweet potatoes, no more, no less than five pounds.
If grandma knew that he exchanged five pounds of sweet potatoes for a dozen bird eggs, she would be heartbroken.
"We already have pig's head meat today, how about we eat the bird's eggs tomorrow?"
Years of living habits do not allow Liu Genxiang to be so extravagant.
Even in the past, when food was not so scarce, my family would only eat until they were 60% full, just barely avoiding hunger.
"Grandma, let's just fry it. If we can't finish it tonight, we can save it so we don't have to cook tomorrow morning."
"Okay, just spoil your sister."
These past few days, Liu Guixiang felt like she was in a dream. She had gone without food for the past two days, but now she has even had breakfast.
Liu Guixiang has lived for more than 60 years, and except for the autumn harvest, she has never eaten breakfast.
During dinner in the evening, Zhang Shuguang talked about sending his younger brother to school again.
"Shengli is eight years old this year. It's time for him to go to school and learn to read."
In fact, Zhang Shengli was old enough to go to school last year, but because his family had no money and there was no one to take care of the young girl, he was not sent to school.
"Mom still has to go to work, so why don't I take care of my sister for another year and then she can go to school next year."
The whole family was working hard, and he and his sister were the only two children who were just eating and working. Although the sensible little Shengli wanted to go to school very much, he still refused against his will.
"Don't worry about this. After you go to school, I won't let Grandpa and Mom go to work. My salary is enough to support our family.
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