Zhenzhen ran into the house excitedly and shouted happily, "Second brother!" She rushed over and hugged Mingxi, "Second brother, if you don't come back, I will forget what you look like."
Mingxi pulled Zhenzhen's pigtails and smiled dotingly, "It's only been a few years and you're forgetting about your brother. I loved you in vain." Zhenzhen laughed and held Mingxi's arm tightly.
Seeing how close the siblings were, Mrs. Li was naturally overjoyed. But when she saw Zhenzhen didn't notice the others, she quickly reminded her, "Don't just bother your second brother. Didn't you see there were guests?"
Zhenzhen looked back and saw a girl standing in front of the kang, looking at her with a smile. She had short hair, big eyes, and looked very energetic.
Zhenzhen smiled back, then tugged at Mingxi's hand and asked teasingly, "Should I call you sister or second sister-in-law?"
Mingxi bent his fingers and tapped Zhenzhen on the forehead, then said with a smile, "Call me Sister Yanan."
Zhenzhen let go of Mingxi and walked over: "Hello, Sister Yanan, I'm Li Mingxi's sister, my name is Li Mingzhen, you can just call me Zhenzhen."
The short-haired girl smiled generously and said, "Hello, my name is Xie Yanan, and I'm your future sister-in-law."
Zhenzhen laughed immediately: "I know, this is the first time my second brother brought a girl home. Look at my grandma's smile, only her teeth are visible and not her eyes. You can tell how much our family welcomes you."
This is true. Old Mrs. Li was originally thinking that her grandson had been in the army for so long and had not come back, and she didn't know when he would be able to solve his personal problems. But this guy actually brought a girl back quietly. Most of the worries in Old Mrs. Li's heart were immediately gone, and she immediately regretted not building Mingxi's house together, otherwise she could have held the wedding there.
Seeing that the girl was quite generous and directly told Mingxi about her relationship, Mrs. Li finally dared to ask, "Yanan, when are you and Mingxi going to get married? Can you go home for the wedding?"
Yanan smiled and glanced at Mingxi, who immediately replied, "I was just about to discuss this with you. Before the New Year, my family sent a few letters to the army, which were reviewed and forwarded to my place in May. Yanan and I discussed it and wrote a request report. After review, the organization agreed to my marriage. We discussed that our work had reached a critical juncture, and we probably wouldn't be able to come back for a year or so, so we might as well take advantage of this opportunity to arrange Mingnan's wedding and arrange ours together."
Old Mrs. Li was so shocked that she almost fell off the kang. She immediately grabbed Xie Yanan's hand and laughed and said in embarrassment: "You two children, why didn't you tell me such a big thing earlier? Oh, if you knew, I would have built a new house for you. What should I do now? I haven't even built you a wardrobe, kang, or piano, and I haven't prepared any wedding clothes or bedding for you. What should I do now?"
Xie Yanan smiled and patted Old Lady Li on the shoulder and said, "Grandma, it's okay. Mingxi and I don't care about the formality. We can just clean up a room."
Mingxi also quickly said, "Grandma, there's really no need to go through so much trouble. We each brought a new military uniform before we came. As for bedding, we don't need to cover ourselves with quilts or anything like that in the summer."
"But it can't be too shabby." Old Mrs. Li began to think: "It's too late today. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow to see if there are any red sheets, red towels, or blankets. If you can't find them, Mingnan has two and you can each get one. You also have to buy washbasins, jars, and other things. Buy the ones you can use in the next few days first. If you can't find the others, I can help you buy them later."
Zhenzhen used her consciousness to look inside the supply and marketing cooperative. There were only two dark blue towel blankets on the counter, and they looked ugly with some darker and some lighter. She immediately said, "Grandma, I can take care of this little thing. You and mom can prepare other things at home tomorrow."
Old Lady Li nodded: "Okay, you have a good eye and know how to pick things. Go buy them tomorrow, and let your brother and Yanan have a good rest at home. We'll get married the day after tomorrow." Speaking of marriage, Old Lady Li couldn't help but grin again, afraid that others wouldn't see her happy look: "This is too fast, hahahahaha."
Mingxi and Xie Yanan couldn't help laughing when they saw Old Lady Li's expression. Zhenzhen washed a basin of wild fruits and placed them on a plate for Yanan to eat. "Brother, how did you know Sister Yanan? We thought you were all men in the army and would be a monk for the rest of your life."
"Don't talk nonsense." Old Lady Li stuffed a sand apple into Zhenzhen's mouth and said, "Your brother has found a wife."
Mingxi smiled and sat next to Xie Yanan: "I just returned to the army with a different identity, but I am no longer in the army. Well, Xie Yanan and I are in the same scientific research project team, and we are colleagues."
"Oh, you work together." Mrs. Li didn't quite understand what he said. "Then can I write to you more often in the future? I miss you so much when I can't get your letters."
"I'm afraid not yet." Mingxi's face was a little apologetic and guilty. "This project needs to be kept confidential, and the location is very remote, but I estimate that this kind of life will last no more than three to five years."
"Three to five years." Old Lady Li sighed in disappointment, but when she saw the guilty look on her grandson's face, she immediately smiled: "Actually, three to five years is not a long time. If you hadn't brought Yanan back, I would have always been worried about your marriage. Now that I see that you have a family, I feel relieved."
Old Lady Li got off the kang, opened the box, took out an envelope with Mingxi's name written on it and handed it to Yanan: "This is the salary Mingxi sent back in the past two years. I took out the money for the family according to the standard of 20 yuan per month, and the rest is considered as a savings for Mingxi. It's just right that you two are back, so put it away quickly, you two will need a lot of money in the future."
Xie Yanan quickly refused when she heard this: "Grandma, this is Mingxi's gift to his family, I can't take it."
"It's not just you. I did the same for their other brothers." Old Lady Li pulled Xie Yanan's hand and put the envelope in her hand: "Just send 20 yuan home every month from now on. This is what he should bear."
Xie Yanan looked at Mingxi helplessly. Mingxi smiled, picked up the envelope and returned it to Mrs. Li: "My family doesn't need money to build a house for me. I can save a little from my father's salary. I can think of the money after I get married. Before I get married, I will give all the money to my family."
Xie Yanan also nodded repeatedly: "Grandma, just take it. You see, we are out here and can't take care of our family or you. We will feel even worse if you don't want the money. Besides, Mingnan and I have food, accommodation and clothing provided by the government. We don't spend much money a year. You really don't have to worry about us." Seeing that her grandson and his granddaughter-in-law were so filial, Grandma Li felt sweeter than eating honey.
The next morning, Zhenzhen took the money and tickets given by Old Lady Li and did not go to the supply and marketing cooperative, but went to Yidong. She bought all the things for the wedding as Old Lady Li had asked, and after hurriedly leaving them at home, she went back up the mountain.
Seeing her sweating from running, Mingxi quickly grabbed her and handed her a jar of water: "Look at you, you're in such a hurry. Where are you going now?"
"Let's go up the mountain to catch some wild animals." Zhenzhen went into the house and got a slingshot, which was made of a sturdy redwood "Y"-shaped branch and tied with a cow tendon.
"Going up the mountain to hunt?" Xie Yanan looked at Mingxi and Zhenzhen curiously. "My hometown is in the plains and I've never been to the mountains. Can you take me with you to have a look? I heard Mingxi say before that he once slapped a wild boar to death."
Zhenzhen burst out laughing, and nodded immediately when she saw Mingxi's embarrassed expression: "That's right, the wild boar pounced on my brother, and my brother smashed the wild boar's head with a slap. We were all shocked at the time, and people came to praise him every day. But my brother is too modest, and he hides in the house when people praise him."
Mingxi's face was filled with black lines. His legs went weak every time he thought of that incident. He was forced to recall it every time he heard it. If it wasn't for the fact that he wanted to show off his bravery in front of his girlfriend, he would never have mentioned this heroic deed that almost made him pee his pants.
Seeing Zhenzhen confirmed this, Xie Yanan looked at Mingxi with admiration and said, "Then why don't you hunt a wild boar today? I haven't eaten wild boar meat yet."
Mingxi's legs went limp, but luckily he grabbed the cabinet in time and didn't fall. Having been a soldier for so many years, it wasn't that he was timid. It was really the wild boar that year that left him with a psychological trauma. Even when he closed his eyes, he could still remember the wild boar with fangs pouncing in front of him. It was really too scary.
Zhenzhen smiled and pressed Mingxi's arm: "Second brother, this time you bring the hunting rifle and I'll take the slingshot. Let's hunt more game and serve more meat dishes tomorrow."
When they heard that Zhenzhen and the other two were going to the mountain to hunt, Mingnan and Mingbei, who had just returned from the youth center, both wanted to go. They both went to the warehouse to get hunting knives and put them on their waists. Zhenzhen saw that Xie Yanan was very interested in the slingshot in her hand, so she took the extra tendons and an axe from home and said, "I'll make one for you when we get to the mountain."
A group of people went out in a mighty procession. Before leaving, Zhenzhen asked Wang Sufen for a pack of freshly made pancakes and put them in the basket: "Mom, you don't have to prepare our lunch at noon. We'll roast wild rabbits in the mountains."
Xie Yanan looked at Zhen Zhen's confident look, turned around and asked Ming Xi: "Is it good to hunt on our mountain?"
"It's not easy to hunt." Mingxi has been away from home since high school, and his memories of hunting are from junior high school: "Experienced hunters like my dad can easily hunt rabbits and pheasants. Sometimes a few people can team up to hunt wild boars. Most people often go for nothing and can't even catch a pheasant feather."
Mingbei fiddled with the hunting knife in his hand and said with a smile: "Second brother, you don't know that the best hunter in our family is not our father."
"Who is that? It's you!" Mingxi looked at Mingbei, thinking he was going to brag, but Mingbei just smiled and said, "I'm not that good. The best person in my family is my sister. Whenever I follow her up the mountain, I never come back empty-handed. I really thought I was good at hunting, but I only caught one rabbit at the youth center, and that was with a few educated youths."
Mingxi looked at Zhenzhen, who had just reached his chest, in surprise, and couldn't believe it: "Your fourth brother is bragging, what can you hit at such a small age? Is it a coincidence?"
Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at him, slowly took out a round stone from her schoolbag, and casually shot it out with the slingshot. Mingxi smiled and said, "You look pretty impressive, but you have to aim, you can't..."
"Bang!" A pheasant fell from a tree twenty meters away, startling a flock of flying birds.
Mingxi ran over and picked up the pheasant from the ground. He saw that there was a hole in the pheasant's head and traces of stone could be seen on it.
He looked at Zhenzhen's smug expression, his face full of admiration: "Sister, your hands are so beautiful. If you were in the army, you would definitely be a sharpshooter."
Zhenzhen put her hands behind her back, raised her chin and pouted proudly at Mingxi: "Are you dumbfounded? I'll see you look down on me again in the future."
"I dare not look down on you." Mingxi smiled and threw the pheasant into the basket on Mingbei's back. "Second brother, you haven't been home for a few years, so you don't know how powerful our Zhenzhen is. Second brother apologizes to you. Second brother will roast a pheasant and a rabbit for you at noon."
Zhen Zhen nodded in satisfaction: "You said it, I won't be happy if it doesn't taste good when it's baked."
Mingxi laughed and rubbed Zhenzhen's head: "You little girl, you are becoming more and more eccentric."
After walking for half an hour, they came to the most densely populated area of hares and pheasants. Zhenzhen took off her shoes and climbed up the tree in a few steps, picked a suitable branch, pulled out the axe from her waist, and chopped the branch off in a few strokes. Mingnan's eyelids twitched, and before Zhenzhen could get down from the tree, he couldn't help but say to her: "Your second brother, third brother, and fourth brother are all standing here. Can't you just order us around? Why do you have to climb up the tree and chop branches yourself?"
Zhenzhen held the axe and laughed twice: "I'm not used to this." Mingbei stepped forward and took the axe from Zhenzhen, and asked: "What do you want this branch for?"
Zhenzhen quickly took out the beef tendon from her bag and said, "I don't want to make a slingshot or something for my second sister-in-law."
Mingbei smiled and handed the axe to Mingxi: "Then Second Brother has to do this himself. We can't interfere."
Mingxi made this a lot when he was a child, and he finished it in no time. He tested the elasticity himself, and then held Yanan's hand to try to hit a stone.
They walked up the mountain, shooting pheasants and rabbits along the way. Mingxi carried a hunting rifle and Zhenzhen held a slingshot. They were like competing to see who could shoot more. Because they wanted to eat roasted rabbit, Zhenzhen took them to a place with a mountain spring to make it easier to wash the prey.
When they arrived at the place, Mingxi, Mingnan and Mingbei started to pack up the prey. Zhenzhen looked around and disappeared after a while. When the firewood was piled up, Mingxi was shocked to see Zhenzhen missing and hurried to look for her.
Mingnan said as he flipped the grill: "Brother, Zhenzhen lives in the mountains in winter and summer. You don't have to worry about her. She will come back when the rabbits are ready."
Mingbei nodded in agreement, skewered the pheasant on red pine branches, and put it on the fire: "Second brother, do you know who is the king of our red pine forest?" Before Mingxi could answer, Mingbei said, "It's Zhenzhen. Even tigers are not as powerful as her."
Mingxi laughed and scolded, "How can you say that about your sister? Even tigers are not as strong as her, so she is just a tigress."
As soon as he finished speaking, a tiger roared. Mingxi's face turned pale and he quickly blocked Xie Yanan behind him: "Damn, there really is a tiger on this mountain? Mingbei, quickly pick up the gun, let's retreat together and go find Zhenzhen."
Just as they took a few steps back, a tiger jumped down from a height. Suddenly, no one dared to move. Mingnan stiffened his body and cursed in a low voice: "We didn't walk very far, how could we encounter a tiger? Mingbei, quickly give the gun to the second brother, he has a good aim."
"Wait, don't hit him yet." Mingbei swallowed, looking at the tiger in front of him whom he hadn't seen for many years but still often dreamed of, and tried to force a smile: "Da... Dahuang, do you still remember me... I am Zhenzhen's brother... I also rode you... Do you remember?"
Mingxi and Mingnan turned around and looked at Mingbei at the same time, with expressions that looked like he was an idiot, as if they were just about to write: Are you sick
Mingbei didn't have time to argue with Mingxi and Mingnan at this moment. He was somewhat relieved when he saw Dahuang yawning. It didn't look like he was going to hunt. "Dahuang, are you looking for Zhenzhen? Why don't you lie down and rest for a while? Zhenzhen will be back soon."
Mingxi's expression suddenly changed. He stared at the tiger warily while trying to grab the gun from Mingbei's hand: "Are you crazy? Do you want Zhenzhen to help you block the tiger?"
Mingbei was afraid that Mingxi's shooting would anger the tiger, so he quickly took it back: "Brother, don't shoot yet. This tiger was raised by Zhenzhen."
Mingxi was immediately furious: "Nonsense, who the hell is going to support me in my old age... Tiger..."
"Da Huang, who told you to go down the mountain?" Before Ming Xi finished speaking, he heard a familiar voice coming from behind him. Zhen Zhen was holding a beehive and threw it to Ming Bei: "Watch the pheasant, don't burn it. This is a wild beehive I just found. Hurry up and spread some honey on the chicken and rabbit. It will taste good."
Mingxi watched Zhenzhen walk past him and sit on the tiger's back carelessly. He touched the tiger's head and asked, "Didn't I tell you not to come where there are people? Who told you to go down the mountain?" Dahuang cried out in grievance, as if blaming Zhenzhen for not visiting her for too long.
Because of Zhenzhen's special ability, she has a kind of aura that makes animals feel comfortable. Da Huang likes to let Zhenzhen sit on his back to help him smooth his fur, but Zhenzhen has been busy recently. Usually, she goes up the mountain to catch a few pheasants and leave. She doesn't stay for more than ten minutes. It's been almost a year since Da Huang saw Zhenzhen. Today, Da Huang was sensitive to the comfortable aura emanating from Zhenzhen getting closer and closer to him, so he went down the mountain to find her bravely regardless of what Zhenzhen had said before.
Seeing the familiar look between the man and the tiger, Mingxi turned and glared at Mingbei: "How dare you bring Zhenzhen to raise a tiger in the mountains."
Mingbei was so frustrated that he almost knelt down to his second brother: "Look at Dahuang, is he willing to look at me more? This tiger was saved by Zhenzhen when he was a child, and he has nothing to do with me at all. I was scared to death when I saw it for the first time." Seeing Mingxi's face getting darker and darker, Mingbei silently retreated to the grill: "Well, I have to grill the pheasant. Zhenzhen will not be happy if it is burnt."
Mingxi ignored Mingbei and tried to take two steps towards Zhenzhen. Dahuang immediately turned his head and looked at Mingxi fiercely, and let out a threatening howl.
"Pa!" Zhenzhen raised her head and slapped Dahuang on the head: "Why are you howling all the time? It's because you howl all the time that Li Mingzhong doesn't want to go up the mountain with me to play with you. Look at how scared you were by its brother last time. You peed for two days after you got home."
Da Huang lay on the ground aggrieved, covering his head with his paws. Zhen Zhen rubbed his head vigorously before standing up from the tiger's back: "See? They are all my family. Don't scare them in the future."
Dahuang immediately turned around and rubbed Zhenzhen's hand, looking reluctant to leave. Zhenzhen couldn't help laughing: "You're such a big tiger and you're still acting like a spoiled child. Come on, go back quickly, we still have to go hunting later." Dahuang rubbed Zhenzhen twice and then ran into the mountains.
Zhenzhen squatted beside the spring and washed her hands. She found that except Mingbei, who was still calmly smearing honey on the roast chicken and roast rabbit, the others seemed to be in a daze.
Seeing the tiger gone, Xie Yanan poked her head out from behind Mingxi and looked at Zhenzhen with admiration: "Zhenzhen, you even tamed a tiger, that's amazing."
"What do you mean tamed?" Zhenzhen smiled and pulled her braids: "I've known it since childhood. In my eyes, it's almost the same as my Li Mingzhong."
Mingxi looked at the tiger's footprints on the ground, then looked at his sister's silly and bold smile, and immediately shook his head helplessly: "What a silly and bold girl."
Mingnan gave Zhenzhen a thumbs up in admiration: "Mingbei is right, you are the king of our forest."
Anyway, encountering a tiger and watching it behave like a kitten in the hands of his sister was still a very shocking thing, so much so that Mingxi, who was always careful and meticulous in his work, was distracted frequently and did not catch any prey in the subsequent hunting.
What made Mingxi most disappointed was not that he lost the hunting competition to his sister, but that Xie Yanan's eyes sparkled when she saw Zhenzhen dared to be friends with the tiger. On the way back, Xie Yanan held Zhenzhen's hand all the time. No matter what Zhenzhen said, Xie Yanan nodded with admiration, and then added: "Zhenzhen, you are really amazing."
Mingxi felt that if Zhenzhen was a boy, she would have nothing to do with the wedding tomorrow.
In this era, weddings were held at night, but on the wedding day, the family still got up early. Wang Sufen cleaned the house again and began to prepare several dishes for the evening banquet. Mingnan stared at the alarm clock absentmindedly for the whole morning, and finally after lunch, he couldn't wait to go pick up the bride.
They took down the shiny 28-inch bicycle from the wall, and Mingdong, Mingbei, Mingrong and Mingguang from Li Musen's family, and Mingshu and Mingxin from Li Mulin's family went to the hydrolysis plant in a mighty procession.
In that era, it was an honorable thing to use a 28-meter-long sedan chair to pick up the bride, not to mention that Li Mingnan was also good-looking. The neighbors kept praising the two of them for being a good match.
Meng Xiaoxi sat on the back of the bicycle, and Mingnan happily pushed it back. There were no entertainment programs at that time. When they heard that the bride-picking ceremony would not have firecrackers or sedan chairs like before, there were still many people watching. Mingbei was happily singing revolutionary songs at the top of his voice. He turned around and saw Yu Wanqiu holding her brother's hand and standing near the family building to watch the fun.
Ming Bei's voice paused for a moment, and his singing was obviously off-tune. Ming Shu, Ming Xin and others tried their best to pull him back into tune but failed.
Realizing that Mingbei was looking at him, Yu Wanqiu smiled and nodded at him. Mingbei was stunned for a moment, then quickly returned a polite smile, then turned his head, looked straight ahead, and continued singing at the top of his voice.
Mingbei walked further and further away, but his absurd and out-of-tune singing could still be heard faintly, and Yu Wanqiu felt something indescribable in her heart. Yu Wanqiu had always known that Li Mingbei liked her, but to be honest, Yu Wanqiu did not have much affection for this carefree boy at the beginning. He was stupid, ignorant, and impractical, all of which were what she hated the most. She had secretly vowed that she would never find someone like her father in the future, and Mingbei's problems were exactly the same as her father's.
But at the same time, Yu Wanqiu was unconsciously attracted by his enthusiasm, innocence and simplicity. She always felt that Mingbei was like a fire that could burn her and dispel the gloom hidden in her heart, and release the enthusiasm that she had suppressed for many years.
She was at a loss in her hesitation. From school to youth center, she avoided Mingbei's confession again and again, but at the same time she followed Mingbei unconsciously. But as time went by, Mingbei went from being at a loss when he first met her to now smiling indifferently and leaving without any regrets. Yu Wanqiu didn't know whether she should be relieved or regretful. After all, Li Mingbei, who was becoming more and more like a real man, was getting farther and farther away from her.
Mingnan pushed Meng Xiaoxi home. Mingxi and Xie Yanan were already prepared with the Little Red Book in hand. The union chairmen of the hydrolysis plant and the grain warehouse led them in taking the oath. The neighbors, who had never seen the two brothers get married together, crowded the house inside and outside.
The two couples sang "The East is Red" together, recited two passages of the Chairman's latest instructions, and then bowed to the Chairman's portrait together and to Li Muwu and Wang Sufen.
Grabbing handfuls of fruit candies and distributing them to the neighbors and colleagues who came to watch the ceremony, the tables in the courtyard of Lao Li's house were also set up. Vegetables and fruits were fresh in this season, and there were also plenty of wild vegetables from the mountains. Stewed rabbit with potatoes, stewed pheasant with mushrooms, stewed river fish with tofu, and a plate of pickled vegetables, and each table was placed with loose white wine. This was a very good feast.
When her two children got married at the same time, Old Lady Li never closed her mouth while sitting at the banquet. When she heard people praising her two granddaughters-in-law, she kept picking up food for them. When it was completely dark and the people at the banquet had left, Old Lady Li got drunk for the first time in many years.
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Time flies, and the revolution that lasted for ten years finally came to an end. Zhenzhen, now a young lady, delivered the latest newspaper to the mountain. Ten years did not make these people old. On the contrary, the natural and beautiful environment, like-minded friends, and professional improvement over the years have allowed them to maintain a young mentality.
After they packed up their things, they looked back at the place where they had lived for nearly ten years with reluctance. It seemed that once they passed through the cave, they would never see anything here again.
"Teachers, let's go quickly. Mr. Wangwo is waiting outside." The graceful Zhenzhen urged with a smile. Su Weiran and the others then withdrew their gazes, passed through the narrow cave, and returned to the secular world again.
In the second year after he received the Nobel Prize, China sent someone to Sweden to bring Wangwo back to China. Although Wangwo was worried that the nightmare would happen again, he was more concerned about his close friends in China. He was also worried that he would not be able to return to his hometown after a hundred years, so he resolutely boarded the plane.
Fortunately, things were not as bad as he had imagined. China reassigned him a place to live and he was received by the leader. Although he wanted to go back to the mountain cave to see his friends day and night, he was worried that he would expose their residence and bring them misfortune. Finally, when he thought he would never see them again in this life, he finally waited for the dawn of victory.
Wangwo stood outside the cave with a crutch and waited for a long time. Finally, Su Weiran was the first to come out of the cave. Wangwo went forward and hugged him, and while laughing, he suddenly burst into tears.
Xie Shurang said sullenly in the cave: "Can you please move out of here? You're blocking my way."
Wangwo wiped his tears and laughed again, dragging Su Weiran out of the cave entrance, watching the people inside come out one by one, and Wangwo quickly called them to get in the car. This time Wangwo specially applied for two cars to pick them up. After several people got in the car, Wangwo waved to Zhenzhen: "Hurry up and get in, there is a seat reserved for you."
Zhen Zhen waved her hand and said with a smile: "You guys go first, we are not going in the same direction."
Wang knew that Zhenzhen had been alone all these years, and guessed that she might have other things to do, so he took everyone and left first.
Zhenzhen stood in front of the cave and waited for a long time, until she saw with her consciousness that Wangwo and the others had returned to the imperial capital. Then she went into the cave and came to where they had lived before. She checked the western-style building and saw some messy books and paintings in the study that seemed to be unwanted, so she put them all into the space.
Zhenzhen left the place in a flash, and then the ground in the mountain stream shook slightly, the western-style buildings collapsed and huge rocks fell. The secluded place where Su Weiran and others had lived for ten years became a ruin in the blink of an eye, and the former scene could no longer be seen.
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"Zhenzhen, stop reading." Old Mrs. Li came over and said as she turned off the light bulb in the room: "It's dark, aren't you afraid of damaging your eyes?"
Zhenzhen stood up with a smile. At the age of seventeen, she was more than a head taller than Old Lady Li. Her originally chubby little face had become an oval face. Only her pair of big and lively eyes remained exactly the same as when she was a child.
After stretching, Zhen Zhen glanced at the calendar on the cabinet: "Oh, it's already the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. My uncle and my second brother should be back by now."
"It should be these two days." Old Lady Li said with a smile: "Your grandfather was so busy when he was transferred back to the capital last year that he didn't even get to go home for the New Year. Now it's good, without all those messy things, we can have a good reunion year."
"That's right." Zhenzhen smiled and helped Old Lady Li massage her shoulders. "My second brother and his family have finally been transferred back to the capital from the Northwest. When my second brother comes home, I'll have to ask him if he has bought the book I asked him to buy."
"What books do you want to buy? You are about to graduate from high school, and you are not going to take the college entrance examination. It's a waste of time." Old Mrs. Li picked up her pipe, but put it back silently under Zhenzhen's gaze: "Oh, you smoke three times a day, and I haven't smoked tonight yet."
Zhen Zhen pulled the corner of her mouth and snorted: "What were you doing squatting behind the room with your pipe in your hand this afternoon? Did you think I didn't see it?"
Old Mrs. Li could only put her pipe aside and couldn't help muttering, "You are the only one in our family who has sharp eyes. Nothing can be hidden from you."
Zhenzhen smiled and helped her up from the kang: "Now that you know you can't hide it from me, don't do it next time. I asked you to smoke less for your own good. Do you still want to help me look after the children in the future?"
"You are such a grown-up girl, yet you are not ashamed to talk about children's affairs. Let me see how thick your skin is." Old Lady Li reached out to pinch Zhenzhen's face. The two of them were laughing and joking when suddenly the door was pushed open. Zhenzhen looked up and smiled: "Fourth brother, fourth sister-in-law, you are back!"
The author has something to say: Haha, I saw that everyone told me not to let my uncle know my pen name. I think my pen name cannot be known to my grandfather, my big brother Roubao, my younger uncle and my mother. I remember I said that my mother cried every day just to eat candy.
Jump, skip ten years, and the new map will open soon. So, who do you hope the fourth sister-in-law will be
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