Just as Zhao Xiaoyu had predicted, the main force stopped less than half an hour after leaving the city, and little Zhao Qixi wanted to change carriages.
Zhao Dashu held his granddaughter, his expression resentful.
She said she was closest to him, but then she turned around and started demanding to find her own parents, which hurt him!
"Here you go, this girl said she misses her brother."
Zhao Xiaoyu took it, laughing uncontrollably, missing her brother?
The little girl runs away whenever she sees Da Bao lately, complaining that he's too talkative.
"Seven Up, I heard you miss your brother. It's a good opportunity for you two to have a good chat on the way."
Zhao Qixi paused in her embrace of her mother. "Mother, actually I miss you and Father. I was just afraid that Grandpa would be sad, so I pretended to be with my older brother. I want to be with you both more."
"Yeah?"
"Yes, yes, I love Dad and Mom the most."
Xiao Lei took his daughter from him. "Dad will play with you. Your mother got up too early this morning and needs to rest for a while."
"good!"
Zhao Qixi got her wish and stayed in her parents' carriage.
As we walked, the weather grew colder and colder.
When they arrived at Old Sow Village, it was already snowing.
"It snowed when I got home, but the journey was relatively smooth."
"Yes, the journey wasn't too arduous this time."
Although it was cold, the road was easy to walk on.
The two children looked around at their parents' home in the village.
"So small? Grandpa had a really hard life back then."
She didn't even need to walk; she could see the whole thing at a glance. It was so small, much smaller than her home in the prefectural city.
This was the girl's first time home, while her son had been in her arms the last time she came home, so neither of them had any memory of the place.
“This is still small? It’s already quite big, okay? This house was bought by my grandparents after they earned money. It was the best house in the whole village at the time.”
"Really?" The girl looked around again. "Grandpa, your village is really poor."
Zhao Dashu was speechless. Compared to his home in the prefectural city, this place was indeed very shabby, even less spacious than the servants' quarters.
Zhao Xiaoyu squatted down and said, “So you should know how happy and lucky you are. When your father and I were young, we didn’t even have such a nice house to live in, we didn’t have enough to eat, and we didn’t even have a cotton-padded coat in the winter. We still had to work.”
The little girl's eyes widened. "Grandpa, you're abusing my mother!"
"How could that be? Your grandfather himself has nothing to eat, and the whole family goes hungry together, okay?"
"Were you this poor before?"
“Of course, do you think you’re living such a comfortable life?” Zhao Xiaoyu thought for a moment. She had indeed let them live too comfortably before. “Recently, you will eat the food that your mother ate when she was a child for three days. You can also do some of the chores that your mother used to do in the winter.”
"Huh!?" The little girl was dumbfounded.
"Don't say I'm mistreating you. If you don't agree, that's fine. It's all voluntary. No complaining. I'll dress you in thick clothes. You won't wear my old ones."
It's good for kids to get more exercise; they don't appreciate good things when they come too easily.
The little girl wanted to refuse; she didn't want to suffer even the slightest bit.
"Mother, I want to try."
Zhao Qixi: Has Big Brother lost his mind?
It must have been incredibly difficult, so why did he agree?
"Little sister, don't you want to experience what our parents used to do? Aren't you curious about what they ate and did when they were little?"
The little girl pursed her lips; it wasn't that she wasn't curious, but her intuition told her she was dying of curiosity. She didn't believe in anything else, only in her own feelings.
"Mother, I..."
"My little sister is with me. It's only been three days. We can't really make it through."
"Alright, then three days it is. I believe you can hold on."
"Yes, Mother has endured so many years, we'll be fine in just three days."
Zhao Qixi wanted to cry. She had a premonition that she had been ruined by her older brother.
Xiao Lei stood aside without saying a word. His son should experience their old life, but as for his daughter... well, whatever his wife said goes.
If his daughter couldn't bear it, he would secretly bring her some food.
After packing his things, Zhao Dashu didn't go to see his mother. "Go to sleep, get some rest. Tomorrow, Grandpa will take you for a walk around the village."
Hahaha!
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