At around five o'clock, Grandma Chen drove the three sheep toward the sheepfold, and Su Ruanruan followed behind, carrying a basket of grass on her back.
The sheepfold is not far from the Su family. It is just southeast of the Su family. It passes through a small road and only takes ten minutes to walk.
Drive the sheep into the sheepfold and pour the grass into the trough. Today's business is over.
However, the two of them could not go back immediately. Grandma Chen had to go to the Xiao family to talk to the team leader Xiao Dashan about temporary workers and arranging work types for Su Ruanruan.
"Ruanruan, are you going?" Grandma Chen asked Su Ruanruan.
In Grandma Chen's opinion, it doesn't matter if Su Ruanruan goes or not.
Just as Su Ruanruan was about to answer, she heard a suppressed cough.
As soon as my heart moved, my words turned around and said, "I'm not going, but you can go!"
"That's fine. If you don't want to go, just go home early."
After Grandma Chen gave Su Ruanruan instructions, she hurried towards Xiao's house. Su Ruanruan stood there, watching Grandma Chen go away, and then walked towards the back of the sheepfold.
Next to the sheep pen is the cattle shed, but the third production brigade does not raise cattle now. There is a pig pen on the other side of the sheep pen, where four pigs are raised. There is another person responsible for the pigs, grass and pig food.
Although there are no cows in the cowshed, it is not empty either.
Now there are two old people living there.
In the previous life, the two old men also lived in the cowshed at this time.
It's just that at that time, Su Ruanruan was preoccupied with giving temporary workers to Wang Aijuan, and rarely came to the sheepfold.
After the temporary worker matter was resolved, she often came over to help Grandma Chen feed her, and then she gradually became familiar with the old man living in the cowshed.
But at that time, there was only one old man who gradually became familiar with her. It was only later that she heard from the old man that his wife fell ill when she first lived in the cowshed. Because there was no medicine, she could not survive. People in the past are gone.
The old man has lost his wife and has to clean the pig pens and sheep pens. He does the dirtiest and most tiring work, but he doesn't have enough to eat or wear or keep warm. He has to be beaten from time to time. He is obviously about the same age as Grandma Chen. Even though she is young, she looks ten years older than Grandma Chen.
Later, I learned that she was going to take the college entrance examination, and the old man helped her with her homework. It was also thanks to the old man's help that she was able to get into college.
Unfortunately, the old man passed away before she received the admission notice.
Now she is back again, hoping to change the fate of the old man and his wife.
Su Ruanruan had already reached the door of the cowshed as she was thinking about all the things in her past life.
This place is relatively remote, and few people come here on weekdays. It's not yet time to get off work, so Su Ruanruan is not afraid of being seen.
She stood outside the cowshed and watched for a while, then slowly walked in.
The cowshed originally had three walls and one open side. Perhaps to accommodate people, an additional wall was temporarily added, and a small door and a small window were installed.
But in this way, the light inside is somewhat insufficient.
Standing at the door of the cowshed, Su Ruanruan could see a person lying on the bed against the wall inside, and the suppressed coughing sound came from her mouth.
She seemed to hear footsteps, and looked towards the door. She was stunned for a moment when she saw Su Ruanruan, "Little girl, are you okay?"
This stopped Su Ruanruan from asking. After holding it in for a long time, Su Ruanruan stammered, "I heard someone coughing, so I came over to take a look."
(End of chapter)