It's annoying enough for a boy to be ostracized by his peers.
Jiang Baige wanted to laugh when she heard what they said, but what they said made sense. A child of this age who couldn't read and couldn't do farm work would be doomed when he grew up.
After crossing the back mountain, they arrived at the place where they had dug wild vegetables a few days ago.
Jiang Baige was the largest and took the lead in cutting grass for the pigs.
Several girls gathered around her and started talking to her, "Sister Zhiqing, what's your name?"
A girl wearing a flowered shirt and two pigtails asked Jiang Baige's name while cutting grass for the pigs.
Jiang Baige looked at her and said, "Just call me Sister Jiang."
The three little girls rushed to shout, "Sister Jiang."
Jiang Baige asked, "What are your names?"
The little girl in the flowered shirt answered first, "I'm Wang Yaya, and Doctor Wang from the village is my father."
"oh!"
The child's father is a doctor. Jiang Baige smiled and said, "I will call you Yaya from now on."
The other two also introduced their names, Xiaohua and Niuniu.
This name was chosen very casually, but in this era, most parents are illiterate, so they just call their children whatever sounds good.
In Chenjia Village, she knew two people named Zhaodi, and the names Chunhua and Guihua were even more common.
Er Laizi watched Li's little treasure walk back angrily and asked nonchalantly, "Hey, little treasure! What's wrong with you? Who made you so unhappy?"
Li Xiaobao looked up at him and said, "Uncle Lai Zi, these girls in the village don't play with me. They are so annoying."
Chen Erlaizi glanced behind him and said, "Where did they go? Tell Uncle Laizi, I will teach them a lesson and ask them to play with you next time."
Li Xiaobao pointed to the back mountain and said, "They went over there. I'll take you there."
Chen Erlaizi laughed and said, "Uncle Laizi has something to do right now, you should go back first!"
Li Xiaobao muttered: "You still want to help me, but..."
He walked away with a look of disgust.
"Hit me, you kid."
Chen Erlaizi had no idea what to do. These kids had no respect for him at all.
He wanted to teach Li Xiaobao a lesson, but saw that the child had already run away.
Watching the children jumping away, Chen Erlaizi carried his hoe and walked towards the back mountain.
Jiang Baige had never done the job of cutting grass for pigs, so she didn't know what pigs could eat and what they couldn't eat.
I just followed them and cut whatever they were cutting.
Of course, what humans can eat, pigs can also eat, and she even recognizes some of them.
For example, dandelions, shepherd's purse, wild radishes, bitter herbs, etc., she knows all of these, but now is the season for digging wild vegetables. Even if there are some in the fields, they cannot be dug up and no one wants them.
While cutting grass for the pigs, the children also put wild vegetables into their pockets, which they were going to take back to eat.
Jiang Baige was carrying a backpack and bending over to cut grass for pigs, but after a while she felt she could not carry it anymore.
The backpack was very heavy and it made her back ache. It was not as easy as she had imagined.
In a short while, she was left behind and felt deeply ashamed when looking at the children who were younger than her.
Other people's backpacks were bigger than hers, and were almost full.
Hers looked loose and baggy, but they had not been pressed firmly.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, "If this continues, how long will it take to fill a basket?"
Jiang Baige was a little worried. After all, she was an adult, but her work efficiency was not as good as that of the children.
Seeing how far away he was from them, he shouted, "Wait for me."
She chased after them with a backpack on her back. After the little girls had harvested enough, they came back to help her and reluctantly handed over two backpacks.
In order not to take advantage of others, she gave each person five White Rabbit milk candies when she left.
This is a hot commodity nowadays, and one costs three cents.
Five pieces per person, that’s 1.5 cents, more expensive than what they spend in a day cutting grass for pigs.
Yaya and the others were very happy after getting the candies, and agreed to get another one in the afternoon.
When she returned home, Jiang Baige realized that her hands, which had been used to cut grass for pigs, could not be washed clean.
My originally white and tender hands are now green and black. Even after washing them with soap several times, my hands still look a little yellow.
Grandma Meng had already cooked the meal and was waiting for her to wash her hands so that she could eat.
After lunch, Grandma Meng let her go to rest.
She ran too far today and was really tired. She lay on the bed and fell asleep in a short while.
When she woke up, Chen Jiaojiao came to ask her out again. They didn't have to gather in the afternoon, so they went out to cut grass for the pigs on their own.
Yaya and the others were already waiting on the small road behind the village.
There were so many of them, so naturally they had to go to a place with plenty of pig grass.
The riverbank has been mowed, so there won’t be any there if you go there now.
The adults were watching the fields closely, and they were driven away before they even arrived.
I was afraid that they would crush the corn seedlings while carrying a basket.
Chen Jiaojiao said, "Sister, let's go to the woods and cut some grass! There's plenty of pig grass there, and we're in large numbers today, so we're not afraid."
"Aren't there trees in the woods? This is the first time I've heard of pigweed."
Half believing and half doubting.
"Let's go! You'll find out when you get there."
I have passed by here several times, but I have never been into the woods.
Chen Jiaojiao led the way in front, and Jiang Baige walked at the end.
It didn't take long before we arrived at an open space. It shouldn't be called an open space, it should be a cemetery.
There are no big trees here, and the trees around the cemetery have been cut down.
There are really a lot of pig grass around the grave, and it grows very well.
"This is it."
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