One weekend in April, Li Jianbo brought back good news. He passed the provincial physics competition and won first place.
Li Minghua and his wife didn't show any special behavior when they found out about this, as if it was a common occurrence for their son to take the exam early and they were not surprised. Only Li Wei thought her second brother was very powerful, and she clamored to celebrate Li Jianbo.
Her cooking skills were not as good as Liu Chunzhi's, so she had to make a bowl of omelette noodles for Li Jianbo.
Li Jianbo ate the steaming noodles brought by his sister with a satisfied smile on his face.
Li Minghua always cared about his eldest son, and he inquired about Li Jianping through Li Jianbo.
Jian Bo said: "Dad, brother, he is fine. Don't worry. He came to school to see me on Wednesday morning and gave me living expenses."
Liu Chunzhi said in surprise: "Is he really making money?"
Li Jianbo smiled and said: "Of course there will be no lies. Brother, he is older and more sensible, so you can rest assured. Maybe he can save some money in another year and a half."
Liu Chunzhi said: "That's all, I don't expect him to do his job properly with this little money, but don't let us worry about it anymore."
In Li Jianbo's opinion, his eldest brother finally took the right path, and his only sister did not take the wrong path. Everything was going according to his plan.
May Day soon arrived. There was originally going to be a day off on May Day, but the students in the town were all from the countryside, and it was the busy farming season. With a stroke of a pen, the school gave them three more days off during the busy farming season. , plus weekends, a total of five days off.
Although it is a rare holiday, it is more difficult for Li Wei than going to school. Just when the wheat is ripe, we have to take it back home in a hurry, because after harvesting the wheat, we have to open the gate and release water to irrigate the wheat field and prepare to transplant rice seedlings. It only takes half a month.
Li Jianbo only has one day off from school. It is said that something happened and he will not be able to come back. Li Jianping is not at home this year, so all the farm work at home falls on the three members of the family.
It gets early these days, and before Li Wei fully wakes up, Liu Chunzhi knocks on the door to ask her to get up. She put on her clothes in a daze. Her short hair, which was originally ear-length, had now grown to the length of her neck. She casually grabbed a monkey rubber band and tied it into a small hairdo.
I rinsed my mouth, took a few bites of the big steamed buns that Liu Chunzhi had made last night, and spent my breakfast with porridge and pickles. Then he poured a pot of boiling water, took a sickle and followed Liu Chunzhi and the others to the wheat field.
Li Wei used to be a wealthy person and had never been to the ground before. How could he have suffered like this? But it was only one morning, and my hands were pricked with barbs from the wheat stubble, and I was so tired that I couldn't straighten my waist.
As the sun got higher and higher, she lowered the straw hat on her head, still not daring to relax for a moment and continue to cut the wheat.
Li Ming's land was separated from their home by two field ridges. Li Wei looked around and saw Li Xia sitting on the field ridge, shaking a cattail fan and fanning the wind. Zhang Weihong was nowhere to be seen. The person busy with Li Mingguo was a young man. Judging from his tall figure, he was definitely not Guo Qiang. In just a few days, someone else had changed around Li Xia.
"You're lazy again. We won't be able to finish the work today until we finish cutting this land." Liu Chunzhi urged from the side.
In fact, they only had two mothers and daughters in charge of harvesting wheat. Li Minghua was sweating profusely as he carried the harvested wheat stalks home.
Li Wei gritted his teeth and persisted for a day, feeling that his bones were about to fall apart. However, this was still the first day. It's like four more days in purgatory.
When I returned home, exhausted and sore, I couldn't just go to bed right away. I had to cook with Liu Chunzhi and take care of the livestock at home.
After dinner, she could still take out the homework in her schoolbag and write it. It was obviously a busy farm break, but the teachers seemed to be in a competition, with each one doing more homework than the other.
Li Wei copied the words for a while and had to do two English test papers. However, she got up too early in the morning and didn't get a nap at noon. She was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes.
After Liu Chunzhi finished her work, she walked into the room and saw that Li Wei had fallen asleep on the table at some point. Liu Chunzhi stepped forward and patted her daughter on the back. Li Wei then rubbed his eyes, still yawning.
"Why did I just fall asleep?"
"It's almost 11 o'clock and you're still not sleeping?"
Li Wei stretched and said, "No, there's still a lot of homework. I'll write for a while."
Liu Chunzhi said, "Then keep writing. Don't be too late. I'll have to call you again tomorrow morning." Liu Chunzhi dropped these words and left.
In order to avoid falling asleep again, Li Wei went to Li Jianping's room and moved the radio over. There was a battery installed in it, and she could listen by just turning on the button.
She dialed the antenna and tuned a music station, listening to the music while doing her homework.
The singing was melodious, and she wrote rustlingly in her pen. After about twenty minutes, she finally finished copying the words. All that was left was the test paper. She unfolded the paper and tried hard to read the words on it clearly, but the handwriting was blurred and her physical strength had reached its limit.
Li Wei gave up and turned off the radio. He didn't have time to put away the books and climbed into bed to get ready for sleep.
In her sleep, she returned to the time when she was in Shangshu Mansion, sitting by the lotus pond at home, surrounded by her former sisters. It’s fun to enjoy the flowers and eat snacks together, but sweet dreams are always interrupted.
She was still woken up by Liu Chunzhi. It was still dark and she had to repeat yesterday's hard work. Li Wei didn't know if she would be able to get up after five days. She was afraid that she would have to shed a layer of skin even if she didn't die.
After another day, at noon on the third day, Li Wei was working in the fields when he suddenly felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen and something hot gushes out from between his legs.
Such a familiar feeling made her immediately understand that something bad had happened to her. This was the first time she had encountered such a thing in this era.
Li Wei clutched her belly and groaned twice in pain. Liu Chunzhi just thought her daughter was pretending to be sick, but when she turned around and saw that Li Wei's pants were also stained red, she immediately came over to support her and said with concern: "You Are you ok?"
"Mom, I don't feel well."
"It's okay." Liu Chunzhi showed rare tenderness to her daughter. She brought a coat to wrap around Li Wei and told her: "If you feel uncomfortable, go back and rest first. Don't touch the cold water. I taught you before. Yes, you can use paper pads, right?”
Li Wei nodded with a pale face.
Because her menstruation came unexpectedly, she finally got some rest.
Although it was a break, the work in the fields was all done by Li Minghua and his wife, and she couldn't do nothing at home. All the housework fell on her, and she had to do her homework after finishing the housework.
The menarche lasted on and off for three days and then ended. To her, this body is really that of a big girl. Because of her previous experience and knowledge from biology books, she is no longer so panicked and afraid.
(End of chapter)