After dinner at home in the evening, Yao Xiuli looked at Chu Tian sitting alone on the kang playing with his nephew Pingping. After thinking for a moment, she walked up and whispered, "Brother-in-law, I have been here for more than three months. Now my eldest sister has also finished her confinement, and little Pingping is already more than a month old, almost two months old. I, I want to go home..."
Chu Tian paused, looked up at Yao Xiuli, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy living here?"
Yao Xiuli hurriedly shook her head, "No, no, it's just that I've been out for too long. In fact, when my mother came earlier, I should have gone back..."
Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "The crops have grown recently, and it hasn't rained much. The cornfield is seriously short of water. I have to go to work every day to water it. It will only take a few days, right? After I finish watering this field, I will take a leave to take you back."
Yao Xiuli was about to say that she could walk to the regiment to catch a bus, but she said, "I, I can..."
Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Chu Tian, "You are a girl, not a boy. Since I brought you here, I can't let you go back alone!"
"Okay, it's settled."
As he spoke, Chu Tian took a thin blanket and wrapped his son in it, picked him up and walked out.
Yao Xiuli, "..."
"Brother Xiaoshi, did Sister Xiuli say she wanted to go home?"
Chu Tian, who had just walked out of the cave with his son in his arms, was pulled aside by Chu Lifang for questioning.
Chu Tian was stunned, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
Chu Lifang hesitated for a moment before speaking, "I, I think I know why Sister Xiu Li wants to go back..."
Chu Tian frowned, "What's going on?"
Chu Lifang looked around and saw some educated youth fetching water not far away, and her grandmother had also taken Wu Ya out for a walk. She then pulled Chu Tian out of the educated youth site and found a place where no one was around before she spoke.
"I noticed a few days ago that something was wrong with Sister Xiu Li. Every time she sat at the door, she would stare blankly at the houses of the educated youth across the street... And when the educated youth came home from work, she would blush every time she saw someone..."
Chu Tian was shocked, and his voice couldn't help but rise a few notches, "What? When?"
The originally well-behaved son in his arms suddenly became unhappy and started to hum repeatedly. Chu Tian hurriedly patted him gently until he calmed down again, then he asked in a low voice.
"What happened? Who took the initiative?"
Chu Lifang thought for a moment and continued, "I don't think it was that educated youth named Li Jianmin who took the initiative. He never took the initiative to look for Xiu Li. It was just that there were two times when Xiu Li slipped while drawing water from the well, and Li Jianmin saw it and helped her twice..."
After a pause, he continued, "But I can be sure that neither of them took the initiative. That educated youth Li Jianmin didn't just help her. There were two times when grandma needed something, and he helped her when he saw it. He would also help the educated youth who came with her with anything they needed help with. I think, but, it might be just Sister Xiuli, she..."
Chu Lifang didn't know what to say to the rest, but Chu Tian already understood. It was nothing more than the girl's first love. But thinking of her elder sister's repeated warnings not to have too much contact with the educated youth and not to have any thoughts about them, because everything might end in vain, the girl was entangled in her heart and wanted to avoid...
Chu Tian placed his son in Chu Lifang's arms, one hand on his waist, and rubbed his temple with the other hand, "Hey, then, then it's better for her to go back..."
Although he didn't know whether Li Jianmin had any ideas, Yao Xiuli already had an idea, so he didn't dare to let Yao Xiuli stay any longer, at least not before moving to the new house...
"But, Brother Xiaoshi, don't you have to water the fields every day recently?"
Chu Lifang thought that Chu Tian has been so busy lately. He goes to work during the day and then goes to the residential area to build a house before it gets dark at night. He just finished building the walls today. Will he have time to deliver it?
Chu Tian said indifferently, "It's not spring plowing. Although you are required to water the crops, you are not required to go 100%. I'll take a day off and ride my bike to send Xiuli back early. I can still make it back the same day! It won't delay my work the next day..."
Before dawn the next day, Chu Tian took Yao Xiuli and headed towards the Changsheng Corps. Along the way, Chu Tian did not ask Yao Xiuli about the male educated youth, and Yao Xiuli remained silent all the way. The two arrived at the gate of Yao's house before twelve o'clock. Chu Tian got off the bicycle, stretched his limbs, and stretched.
"Oh, it turns out that riding a bike is faster than taking the bus. Why would I take the bus in the future?"
Yao Xiuli, "But if I ride a bike, my brother-in-law will be tired!"
Chu Tian curled his lips and said, "That's more comfortable than the bumpy ride in the bus, right?"
Yao Xiuli just smiled when she heard that, then walked forward and pushed open the door. Seeing that the main house in the courtyard was locked, she walked straight into the kitchen, took out a key from the kitchen and opened the door. "Brother-in-law, take a rest for a while, I'm going to the fields to look for my parents..."
Chu Tian waved his hand, "Don't look for it anymore. It's already past twelve o'clock. I guess it won't be long before my parents get off work at noon."
Yao Xiuli thought about it and nodded, "Then I'll go cook. This way, when the meal is ready, my parents will be back."
Chu Tian parked his bicycle next to the wall and said, "Okay, I'll cook for you."
Yao's father and mother saw smoke coming out of their chimney from afar. They looked at each other and hurried back home. As soon as they stepped into the yard, they happened to see Yao Xiuli carrying out a bowl of porridge.
"Dad, Mom, you're back..."
Father Yao exclaimed "Ah" and saw Chu Tian also coming out of the kitchen with a plate of food.
"Chu Tian?"
Chu Tian looked at Father Yao and Mother Yao smiled, "Dad and Mom, you guys are off work now."
Father Yao nodded and stepped forward to ask, "Well, Chu Tian, have you sent Xiu Li back?"
Chu Tian nodded, "Well, Xiuli said she missed home, so I sent her back this morning."
Upon hearing this, Yao's mother said, "She should have come back a long time ago. Xiu Li should have come back with me the last time I went there."
Yao Xiuli smiled embarrassedly, "Big sister's house is more fun than ours!"
Chu Tian just smiled when he heard this and didn't say anything else.
The four of them had their meal. Father and Mother Yao, who had worked all morning, couldn't sit still and went back to the inner room to take a nap. Yao Xiuli started to clean the house. Chu Tian couldn't sleep either. It wasn't a good idea to go back directly. Standing in the yard, he saw a lot of unchopped firewood piled up. He found an axe and went to chop the wood.
After Yao Xiuli finished cleaning the kitchen, she saw Chu Tian chopping wood beside her and hurriedly walked over. "Brother-in-law, you've been riding your bike for several hours. Why don't you take a break?"
Chu Tian stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead and shook his head, "No..."
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