When Roubao was little, Mingdong was not often at home, and Guihua was busy every day. When Roubao just learned to walk, he followed Zhenzhen all day long, calling out with his unclear tongue: "Dudu... Dudu... Little Dudu..."
In the Li family, besides Old Lady Li, Li Muwu, and Wang Sufen, who knew that Zhenzhen had supernatural powers, Roubao was the one who knew her abilities best. Although Zhenzhen was careful not to show her supernatural powers when she took Roubao out, her abilities were jaw-dropping enough: when she was seven or eight years old, she could climb a tree more than ten meters high to pick pine cones with her bare hands, and she could run through the red pine forest with a slingshot and hit the target with every stone she threw. She could dive into the river to catch fish for a long time without coming up, and when others were scared and panicked, she would emerge from the water holding a big fish and laugh.
With such an awesome aunt, young Roubao thought he would naturally have his aunt's abilities when he grew up, but when he grew up, he was slapped in the face. When he was seven years old, Roubao hugged a tree and climbed two meters and fell one meter. After a long time, he was still hanging on Zhenzhen's head. Zhenzhen kept sighing beside him, wishing she could kick him up.
When learning how to use the slingshot, Zhenzhen taught him step by step, how to aim and how to use force. But Roubao realized after learning it that this small rubber band is not meant to hit wherever you point it. It turns out that the slingshot that his aunt used so gracefully and never missed was the result of untold hardships (big mistake).
As for going down to the river, any child who grew up near the river would know how to do it. At the age of seven or eight, they would be thrown into the river, and after a few splashes and a few mouthfuls of water, they would naturally float up. But when Roubao learned to splash in the river, she realized that it was not something that ordinary people could do, such as her aunt's seven or eight-minute dive. So how did her seemingly delicate aunt learn to be so capable? None of the men in Beicha could compare to her.
Thinking of aunt's abilities, she could actually be attracted to a man. How powerful must that man be? Roubao looked at Zhenzhen sitting on the chair and was puzzled: "Aunt, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but what kind of man can a girl like you who is more capable than men from hair to toes like?"
Zhen Zhen raised her chin proudly: "He has gotten better. You will know when you see him."
Roubao was aroused by Zhenzhen's words, and his heart was itchy as if it was scratched by a kitten: "Tell me, I want to see if I am worthy of you."
"My classmate." Zhenzhen said first, and Roubao nodded immediately: "Imperial Capital University, it seems that he is a good student."
"They majored in French. Last semester, he got first place in French and I got second place." Zhenzhen added.
"This kid actually managed to get a better score than you. He must be quite smart." Roubao was in awe. His capable aunt had always been the top-ranked one since she was little, and he had never heard of a second-place finisher.
In order to maintain her position of respect in Roubao's heart, Zhenzhen added very forcefully: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I studied three majors at the same time. I was first in journalism, second in French, and in the top five in another major. Because my grades in all three majors were very good, I received a special scholarship."
Roubao knelt down immediately: "Aunt, we haven't seen each other for a year, and you are still such a jerk!"
"Hehe, otherwise how can I be your aunt." Zhenzhen grabbed a handful of pine nuts and cracked them open with her bare hands. Roubao shuddered when he heard it and asked cautiously, "Aunt, what about my uncle's physique? Can he take a beating?"
Zhenzhen followed Roubao's gaze to her hand pinching the pine nuts. She threw the pine nut kernel into her mouth and picked up another one. "It's pretty good. It doesn't look fat but feels firm. I get up every morning to run, play basketball, swim, etc. and I'm pretty good at that."
"You've touched them all?" Roubao's voice was trembling and he was a little dizzy: "Auntie, you have to be careful, you haven't gotten married yet, right
Zhenzhen threw a pine nut and hit Roubao on the forehead accurately: "What are you thinking? Dirty!" Thinking of the passionate kiss in the kitchen that day, Zhenzhen's heart was also a little rippled, but she couldn't tell the truth in front of her nephew, so Zhenzhen found an excuse for herself: "I accidentally fell and hit it."
"Come on." Roubao couldn't help but complain: "You haven't fallen since you were one year old and could walk. I think you fell into someone's arms on purpose, didn't you?"
Zhenzhen immediately picked up another pine nut, and Roubao covered his forehead and shouted, "Hey! Hey! Hey! A gentleman should use his mouth instead of his hands! Are you angry because of what I said?"
"Don't you know I'm a woman?" A pine nut was shot out, hit the wall and bounced onto the back of Meat Bun's head, with more force than a hit on the head.
Roubao covered his front with one hand and his back with the other, almost kneeling down to Zhenzhen: "You threw a pine nut with a twist, you are not the one who bullies others like that."
"I told you not to tell the truth." Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at him and continued to peel and eat pine nuts.
Roubao rubbed the back of his head, and then moved closer to Zhenzhen with a big heart: "What's so good about my uncle-in-law?"
"He's good in every way." Zhen Zhen concluded with a sweet smile on her face: "I like him just by looking at him."
Rubbing the goose bumps on his body, Roubao looked at Zhenzhen with horror: "Aunt, I didn't expect you to laugh like you were in love. Oh, I thought you would be alone for the rest of your life."
Zhenzhen looked at him unconvinced: "Why should I, who is so beautiful, live alone until the end of my life?" Smoothing her hair on her shoulders, Zhenzhen smiled as she thought of Xi Junjie: "A girl with such ability as me can naturally find the best man." Her eyes swept over Roubao, and immediately the sweetness disappeared, leaving only a sneer: "With a wooden head like you, be careful not to find a wife for the rest of your life."
Meat bun shivering...
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Zhenzhen returned to the house. Tangbao had already finished her bath and was scooping water out of the tub. Zhenzhen took a towel to help her wrap her wet hair and touched her niece's soft face. "It's windy outside. You can't go out with your hair wet. Go to bed and cover yourself with the quilt to warm up. I'll clean up here."
Tangbao has lived in Anbei with his parents since he can remember, and only goes back to his hometown in Beicha with his parents during summer and winter vacations. Although Tangbao is quite familiar with his aunt Zhenzhen, they don't feel close because they see each other very rarely and there is an age difference between them. The little girl feels a little embarrassed to sleep in the same room with her out of the blue.
Zhenzhen was carrying water outside when Guihua heard the noise in the main room and hurried over: "Zhenzhen, put it down quickly. I'll clean it up for her."
After so many years, Guihua is still as quick and agile as before she got married. She pushed Zhenzhen into the house and carried out a bucket of dirty water in each hand. When Zhenzhen dried Tangbao's hair, Guihua even cleaned the bathtub.
"Tangbao, you live in the same room with your aunt so you have to be obedient, okay? At night when your aunt wants to read something you have to be quiet and don't make noises, and don't disturb your aunt's studies." Guihua washed her hands and came over to remind Tangbao.
"Mom, I know." Tang Bao agreed obediently, and then looked at Zhen Zhen shyly: "If my aunt is reading, I will do my homework and not disturb her."
A ten-year-old girl is at her best, and she still has some admiration for her aunt who is pretty and has been admitted to a good university. When Zhenzhen saw her little appearance, she couldn't help but pinch her chubby little face: "Tangbao is so well-behaved."
"You are much more obedient than when you were a child." Guihua used a comb to comb Tangbao's hair while smiling and saying to Zhenzhen: "When Tangbao was just born, you had a chubby face. At that time, your eldest brother said that it was okay for you to look like your aunt, but you should not be as naughty as her aunt."
Zhenzhen lay on the chair and watched Guihua skillfully braiding Tangbao's loose pigtails: "How can you be like this? You braid me right in front of my niece. I was so skillful when I was a child."
Guihua smiled and glanced at her: "Yes, you are quite clever. You won't find a child more clever than you."
After finishing braiding Tang Bao's hair, Guihua came over and took down Zhen Zhen's ponytail: "You are an adult now, and it is so simple to comb your hair. I will give you a nice comb."
When Zhenzhen was a child, Guihua really combed her hair. Guihua was very skillful and clever, and she could comb different hairstyles for half a month. Zhenzhen immediately found a half-high stool to sit on. Guihua first helped her to comb her hair, and then helped her to braid her hair.
Zhenzhen's hair is black, smooth and glossy. Guihua turned around and asked Tangbao to touch it a few times: "Look at how beautiful your aunt's hair is. She is pretty too, right? That's because she has never been picky about food since she was a child. She eats whatever is given to her. If you don't eat vegetables well, you won't be as beautiful as your aunt."
Tang Bao came over and touched Zhen Zhen's hair, with an envious look on his face. Gui Hua immediately added fuel to the fire and said, "Isn't it very slippery? Mom didn't lie to you, did she?"
Zhenzhen covered her mouth and laughed: "Sister-in-law, are you praising me?"
"Well, I'm praising you." Guihua nodded her head, signaling her not to sabotage her. Zhenzhen nodded happily, "Tangbao, your mother is right. But you don't have to worry about your picky food when you come to your aunt's house. Your aunt's cooking skills have improved a lot recently, and the meals she cooks are delicious. I guarantee that I can feed you until you are plump and white in one winter."
The little girl smiled when she heard it: "I'll listen to my aunt."
Zhenzhen's hair was long and smooth, so she braided it quickly. Zhenzhen looked in the mirror and smiled as she hugged Guihua's arm: "My sister-in-law's braids are still the best looking."
"You're still so sweet." Guihua pinched Zhenzhen's little face and said, "You've been coaxing me to braid your hair since you were little."
Zhenzhen chuckled and turned to Tangbao and said, "Tangbao, go to bed and take a nap. We'll go to your grandma's room to talk and wake you up for dinner in the evening."
From Beicha to Bingcheng and then to the imperial capital, the little girl was exhausted. She was a little tired after taking a bath, and she couldn't help yawning when she was told to go to bed. She crawled into the warm quilt and fell asleep almost as soon as her head touched the pillow.
Zhenzhen let down the curtains, drew the screen, and she and Guihua gently closed the door and went to the main room.
Doubao is only two years younger than Roubao, and has a more outgoing personality. He took the sesame cakes and dumplings to the garden to play after not talking for long. The flowers have withered and the leaves have fallen in the winter, and there is basically no scenery to speak of. Only the pond in the garden can be considered relatively fun. Although the pond is connected to the Beiyang outside, the weather is too cold, even the Beiyang is frozen, let alone the small pond in the garden. As soon as a few boys arrived in the garden, they jumped on the ice and slid. Zhenzhen had already used her consciousness to check the thickness of the ice, and seeing that it could withstand the tossing of these boys, she ignored them.
When Old Lady Li saw Guihua coming back, she asked, "Where's the sugar bag?"
Guihua smiled and sat on a stool at the side: "I fell asleep. I haven't had a good sleep these past few days. I fell asleep right after taking a shower and my pillow was wet."
"Girls are just well-behaved." Old Lady Li nodded with a smile, and then asked Guihua: "How are your father and mother? Are they healthy?"
Guihua shook her head: "My mom is in good health, but my dad is not so strong. He has been exhausted over the years. He finally relaxed, but he can't stand it all of a sudden."
Mrs. Li shook her head and said, "It's not easy to live in the mountains. The wind is too strong in the winter and it's too cold in the summer. It's better to let them move down the mountain as soon as possible."
"They have already moved down. They are also in Anbei now, living with us." Guihua said, "My two brothers disappeared as soon as they left."
When Mrs. Li heard this, she was shocked and immediately asked, "What's going on?"
Guihua sighed: "This all started when my mother hid the gold bars."
Many years ago, when Mingdong and Guihua were getting married, they asked Guihua's mother to paint a kangqin. At that time, Guihua mentioned that when her parents were first arrested and sent to the forest farm in Beicha for forced labor, her mother Liu Chunhua once risked her life and went to the dark in the middle of the night to find the villa where her family used to rest when they went hunting in the Beicha forest farm. She secretly moved some thick bedding back and even patched up the outside with rags and stuffed some Ula grass to make it look like a fake.
When Liu Chunhua said this, everyone thought she only took the quilt and her painting box, and no one thought about it. But the Wu family was also a well-known capitalist family with a lot of money. Even a small villa would have some gold bars, silver dollars, banknotes and the like for emergency use.
Although Liu Chunhua had only been to Wu's villa a few times, she still knew where the money was hidden. She took down the oil painting on the wall, revealing a safe. After opening it, she found three small yellow croakers and some banknotes.
Because she had not been to the villa for a long time, the banknotes were still from before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the exchange time had long been missed, Liu Chunhua did not want them, and only put the three small yellow croakers in her arms. When she returned home, while everyone in the family was asleep, she secretly took two bricks from the stove and hid them in it without telling anyone. Guihua's father used to be a lazy young master, never worried about money, and didn't care where there was money, so he never thought that Liu Chunhua could find gold in the villa.
When the movement just ended two years ago, Old Lady Li asked Wang Sufen to go to the forest farm and bring Guihua's parents to live at the foot of the mountain. Anyway, Mingdong's family was in Anbei and their house was empty, so Guihua felt at ease letting them move in.
But Liu Chunhua had experienced such a big change in her life and had been in the forest farm for decades, so she had developed a cautious personality. She was worried that the movement would be repeated, so she refused to go down the mountain. It was not until two or three years later that she saw the new policy being broadcast on the forest farm radio every day, and that people with bad backgrounds could also take the college entrance examination. Only then did she gradually believe that those days were really over.
But at this time, Old Lady Li and Li Muwu had already arrived in the imperial capital. Liu Chunhua found Mingdong's mailing address left by Wang Sufen and wrote a letter directly to Mingdong.
After so many years of marriage, this was the first time that his mother-in-law asked him for help. Mingdong immediately took a leave and took the train back to Beicha Forest Farm. Although Liu Chunhua had a son and a daughter, she felt that she could rely on no one else except the Li family, who were honest from the inside out.
"Mingdong, I would like you to help me buy a small yard in Anbei, which will be big enough for our family to live in." Liu Chunhua put forward her request calmly at that time.
"Where can we get the money to buy a house?" Guihua's father snorted twice on the bed, turned around and sighed listlessly: "The money we earn is not even enough for food."
Mingdong also understood the situation of his mother-in-law's family. He was worried that they were arguing about money, so he quickly advised: "There is no rush to buy it. My brothers and I are not in Beicha. Why don't you stay at our house first?"
Liu Chunhua didn't say a word. He stood up and used a stove hook to dig out the bricks from the stove pit. He took out three small yellow croakers from them, which shocked the whole family.
Taking out a small yellow croaker and handing it to Mingdong, Liu Chunhua said, "This is all my property. Please help me exchange this small yellow croaker for money and buy three houses, preferably closer to home. Guihua's father and I will live in one house, and Guihua's elder brother and second brother will each live in one house. With the remaining money, help me buy some land and divide it between the two brothers. I will have done my best for them."
Putting the remaining two small yellow croakers in her arms, Guihua glanced at her two sons and said, "These two are the retirement money for me and your father. We have worked hard all our lives. We will use these to go out for a visit or to see a doctor and take medicine. Don't worry about it. You have no share."
Guihua's two older brothers both fell into poverty when they were in their teens. Over the years, whenever they couldn't hold on any longer, they would recall the good days they had in their childhood and reminisce about them, always hoping that one day they would have the chance to live the days they had as children again.
Therefore, when the brothers saw the yellow croaker, their first thought was to use it as capital to venture out. Liu Chunhua only raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "You two brothers only have this one yellow croaker. It's up to you whether you buy a house or land or venture out. Your father and I have money for retirement and coffins, so we won't count on you in the future. If you have a conscience, come back and visit us later. If you don't want to come back, it doesn't matter. When the time comes, Guihua and Dongzi can help us find a place to bury it."
Although they knew their parents had suffered all their lives and they should take good care of them when they were old, the two brothers were unwilling to guard their one-third acre of land and work hard. They always felt that such a life would never end and there was no hope at all. After discussing it for a few days, the two brothers kowtowed to their parents, took their wives and children and left.
Because there were only two of them, Mingdong did not let her buy a house. Mingdong had worked diligently in school for more than ten years, and the house he was allocated was big enough, so the couple took the old couple back home. If they didn't want to move around, they could eat in the cafeteria or cook for themselves. There were many farms in Anbei, so it was convenient to eat anything.
Old Mrs. Li was stunned when she heard this: "So, only your father-in-law and mother-in-law are in Anbei?"
"Yeah." Mingdong nodded.
"Oh, you two kids, what are you doing?" Old Lady Li slapped her thigh in anger, "Why don't you bring them here? How can these two people celebrate the New Year alone? How can you two be so careless?"
Mingdong was scolded so much that he couldn't even lift his head. Guihua quickly explained, "Grandma, we persuaded her several times, but my mom just didn't want to come. She said that it was so easy to relax and she wanted to go anywhere. It would be more peaceful and comfortable for her and my dad to spend the New Year alone. She can buy whatever she wants to eat and sleep as long as she wants without worrying about anything." Guihua paused and smiled bitterly, "You know my mom, she has a very stubborn temper and she doesn't change her mind. We can't do anything about her. Before we left, Mingdong bought a TV ticket and a TV and installed it in their room. When we left, the TV was already set up. This time, the two of them had more fun. They watched TV without even lifting their eyelids."
Old Mrs. Li breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, as long as they live well, I'll bring them here next summer vacation."
Seeing that it was getting dark, Doubao came back with dumplings and sesame cakes, Roubao turned off the desk lamp and went to the front yard to talk, Tangbao rubbed his eyes and got up, Wang Sufen, Zhenzhen and Guihua were preparing to go to the kitchen to cook, when suddenly Xi Junjie came in with a lot of things.
Roubao was sitting facing the window. When he saw a figure coming in, he quickly shouted, "Grandma, it looks like someone is coming." Then he stood up and opened the door. Standing at the door was a handsome boy, about twenty years old, with the youthfulness of a teenager, but also the steadiness of an adult man.
Roubao grew up in either the small town of Lincheng or a large farm. People from these two places, whether teenagers or adult men, are a bit rough and wild. This is the first time Roubao has seen someone as handsome and delicate as Xi Junjie, and he was stunned.
Zhenzhen went over and took the meat bun aside, then sweetly squeezed next to Xi Junjie: "Why are you here so late?"
"I heard that someone was coming to your house, so I specially sent some fruits over." Xi Junjie put down the earthenware pot in his hand again: "This is the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall that I have been stewing for a whole day and night. It's just right to eat it hot to relieve fatigue."
"Buddha Jumps Over the Wall..." Even though the jar was tightly covered, Zhenzhen could still smell the fragrance coming out from the tiny crack: "It smells so good."
Xi Junjie looked at her with a smile: "Wait for you to taste it and see if it tastes good. If you like it, I will make it for you next time."
Zhenzhen nodded quickly. Xi Junjie smiled at her. When he looked up and saw everyone in the room staring at him with their mouths wide open, he coughed lightly and winked at Zhenzhen: "Zhenzhen, won't you introduce yourself?"
Zhen Zhen held Xi Junjie's hand and smiled generously: "This is my boyfriend, Xi Junjie."
Roubao suddenly realized that this was the legendary uncle-in-law. Thinking back to the afternoon, his aunt had praised him for a lot of good qualities but didn't hit the point. It turned out that he was attracted by his beauty.
The author has something to say: Many readers have been concerned about what happened to Guihua Niang later, so this is an opportunity to mention it.
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"you're so beautiful."
He lowered his head, staring at her face with a hooked look in his eyes.
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Shao Yuan smiled.
"How can I let you know that I still have feelings for you if I don't flirt with you, my little sister."
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