Finally they arrived at Que Ma Village. Although Yin Xiaochuan had heard from Ma Duoshuai that his family was very poor, when he saw the patched-up adobe house, he still felt an indescribable feeling.
This house...can be turned into a museum.
Ma Duoshuai said to Yin Xiaochuan embarrassedly: "My house was left to my father by my grandfather, so it looks a bit shabby, but it's quite comfortable to live in!"
As soon as he entered the house, three children ran out and surrounded Ma Duoshuai, happily shouting "Brother!" and "Brother, brother!"
"Brother has brought you some delicious food! And this time, there's one for each of you!"
"Wow!"
There seemed to be stars lighting up in the children's eyes.
Yin Xiaochuan looked at the bare house and didn't understand why Ma Duoshuai's family was so poor. However, after listening to Ma Duoshuai's detailed explanation, Yin Xiaochuan understood the reason.
——It’s because of Ma Duoshuai’s younger brothers and sisters.
As we all know, there are no entertainment activities in the countryside. In the poor villages here, there are no family planning products and the ancestral ideas are very strong, so sterilization is basically impossible to implement in this place.
Moreover, since this is a poor mountain valley...people in the town who have given birth to a second child will hide here. If the locals decide to have a child, basically no one can find them.
But the monk can run away but the temple cannot.
The child is born, but the excess birth fee is not a small amount. It is two to six times the total annual income of the couple. For each additional child, the fee will be tripled.
So everything that could be sold in this house was sold out, and even poor thieves had to leave two kilograms of rice before leaving.
Even so, the debt was not paid off. Ma Duoshuai's father went out to work, leaving Aunt Ma alone at home to take care of four children.
Aunt Ma just came back. She was stunned for a moment when she saw Yin Xiaochuan. She wiped her hands on her apron and said angrily, "Marshal, why did you bring your classmates home? Our family is in such a bad situation..."
"It's the principal's request! And we came back with a mission. We have to write an investigation report on agricultural technicians!"
"this……"
When Aunt Ma heard that it was the principal's request, she was speechless. After all, the current Principal Xu and Chairman Xu were simply gods in the hearts of the folks.
Whatever the principal says is what it is!
"Um, what's your name, classmate?"
"Yin Xiaochuan!"
"Mr. Ogawa, my house is in this state, so I don't have anything to offer you. Please sit down and take a rest. You must be tired after walking such a long way."
Aunt Ma turned around and saw three children, each holding a large chicken drumstick in red oil, with their faces red from eating, like greedy little piglets. She scolded her eldest son again:
"You're spoiling them again! One chicken leg this big is enough for them, why are there three today... Let Xiaochuan have a taste too!"
"Mom, these are all brought back from school! Brother Chuan eats them every day!"
"Auntie! I've already eaten!" Yin Xiaochuan also said quickly.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Aunt Ma rubbed her hands again, glanced at her eldest son, and then said to Yin Xiaochuan: "You play here for a while, I'll ask Dashuai to help me with some work!"
"Auntie, let me come too!"
"No, no, no, you are a guest, you sit down! You sit down! How can you let a guest work?"
…
So, Yin Xiaochuan found himself abandoned once again, and had to watch Ma Duoshuai go to help his mother with work. However, it cannot be said that he was completely abandoned, as there were three other children beside them.
The oldest of the three children was eight years old and should be able to enter the first grade, but due to various reasons, their schooling time was delayed. They were greedily licking every strand of meat off the chicken legs, then biting the bones and sucking out the marrow inside, and then licking their fingers with satisfaction.
Aunt Ma rushed out from outside, grabbed the three little ones and washed their faces.
Then, they surrounded Yin Xiaochuan, blinking their eyes and staring at Yin Xiaochuan's headphones curiously.
"Brother, what is that on your ear?"
"Listening to music! Do you want to try it?"
Yin Xiaochuan took off his headphones and put them into Ma Ershuai's ears. Ershuai's eyes suddenly flickered and he shouted excitedly: "There's a sound! There's a sound, it's a song!"
"Brother, I want to listen too!"
"I want one too!"
Yin Xiaochuan sighed. He thought he was going to the countryside to enjoy the pastoral life, but he never expected... he was actually here to take care of the kids!
However, these kids seemed to be easy to take care of. Not long after, with Yin Xiaochuan contributing his MP3, the three little guys huddled in bed, listening devoutly to the music in their headphones.
There was another person who didn't listen and was counting on his fingers. After a while, he shouted "It's my turn!"
Then it was the turn of the little ones to count with their fingers, but the youngest one, Si Shuai, could only count from one to ten. After counting for a long time, he still couldn't count to three hundred. He cried out in panic.
Yin Xiaochuan had no choice but to give them a rule: change the song after each song!
The liberated Yin Xiaochuan went to find Ma Duoshuai and saw that Duoshuai was feeding chickens. An old hen with colorful feathers was clucking, which looked very smart.
"This chicken's name is Hua Gugu, and it's an important member of our family!" Ma Duoshuai gently touched the old hen's feathers. The old hen did not hide, but quietly pecked at the grass seeds in Ma Duoshuai's hand.
"aunt?"
"It's not the aunt in uncle's aunt, nor is it the gugu in gugu. I took one character from each and came up with this name. How nice is it? Huagugu is very diligent in laying eggs."
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