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Published at 25th of January 2023 10:29:50 AM


Chapter 42: [Brother Zheng is hard to serve]

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After a whole day of exams, Xu Ning, who returned home in the afternoon, felt exhausted. This exam was really amazing, and it was more exhausting than all her previous fatigue.

After the exam, the school gave them a vacation. Because this area has just left the big pot of rice, every household has their own fields. Nowadays, there is a big harvest of wheat. When you look at it, you can’t see the edge of the yellow orange. Anyone who reads it will feel happy.

Moreover, the children nowadays are also the labor of the family. In the age when you need to squat down and cut the wheat with a sickle, what you need is to grab the harvest, otherwise the harvest will be greatly reduced if it rains.

The planting of wheat is not fixed on a certain day, and some will differ by three to five days or ten days to eight days. Naturally, the wheat harvest will not be placed on a unified day.

The Xu family’s wheat was planted a few days later, so I had to wait for another three to five days. Also, because the neighbors used to work with them on the same day to grow the land, they were all together, unlike some other families, in one week. The harvest has started before.

"Ningning, how did the exam go?" Qin Xuejuan asked after seeing Xu Ning.

Xu Ning thought for a while, "I think the grades must have improved. I don't know how good it is. After dinner, I go to Brother Zheng and ask him to estimate for me. There are still some questions I don’t understand. Brother Zheng."

"You can go, but we have to come back to bed early tonight, and tomorrow we will go to the city together." Tomorrow Xu Jianjun is going to see Xu Chunmei in the city, and she wants to take her daughter to buy some clothes.

There is only one child in the family now, and the conditions are fair, and I don't want Xu Ning to wear too old clothes all the time.

Besides, Xu Ning seems to be a bit longer, and the trouser legs and sleeves of the old clothes are a bit short.

Previously, according to her mother-in-law's intention, when buying her clothes, they should be slightly bigger, so that they could wear for two more years. However, Qin Xuejuan felt that the clothes were comfortable to wear only when they fitted, and did not follow her mother-in-law's opinion. He has been chanting several times, just chanting a few words, she just listened to it.

Xu Ning heard that he could go to the city to play, his eyes became excited, and he nodded in a hurry.

It's not that I am still envious of the lives of the people in the city. It's just that if you can go for a walk, who will refuse.

In Xie Zheng’s house, the joy on Xu Ning’s face almost overflowed. He had never seen Xu Ning like this before. Whether there was such a joy from the bottom of his heart in his memory, it gradually became blurred, and only his eyes were left in the end. These dark and clear pupils.

"What is so happy?" Xie Zheng asked.

Xu Ning looked up at her and raised her lips, "Tomorrow my mother will take me to the city. Does Brother Zheng have something I want? I'll bring it back for you."

Xie Zheng's heart was sinking because of these words. He thought it was something. It turned out to be going to the city.

Could it be that she is still yearning to live in the city?

"Nothing I want."

"..." Not sure if it was an illusion, Xu Ning realized that he seemed a little unhappy.

Is it because he can't go together and feels awkward?

But also, in Xu Ning's mind, Xie Zheng is still a 15-year-old child after all.

Kids, they all like to play.

"Brother Zheng wants to go too? Why don't we go together tomorrow." After helping her with tuition for several days, Xu Ning is also really grateful to him, but left is to bring one more person. When he was young, Xu Ning didn't bother others. .

Xie Zheng's mind turned quickly, because this sentence quickly understood Xu Ning's thoughts, and only felt that he was worrying about it, and the brain circuits of the two were not on the same level.

"There's still something at home, I won't go. Don't run around when you're out, stay with your second aunt, lest you lose your family and worry about it." Xie Zheng became gentle because she was thinking of herself. stand up.

Xu Ning sighed inwardly, this young man was really hard to serve, and he changed his face faster than flipping a book.

If you don't go, don't go. She and her mother will go, at least when they come back, they can buy Xie Zheng something delicious.

It's also because Xie Zheng didn't know Xu Ning's thoughts, otherwise he would really have to completely ignore this self-righteous little girl.

It was still dim the next day, and Xu Ning's family said goodbye to the old lady and stepped out of the house under the looming starlight.

It takes more than three hours to get from their village to the city. Although they leave late, they can arrive before noon, but there will be no seats in the car at a later date.

There are only two buses going to the city that pass through their village every day, at five o'clock and nine o'clock. Those who simply want to go to the city will catch the bus at nine o'clock, so at five o'clock in the morning, If you are lucky, you can have a place to sit, otherwise this station will last more than three hours, which is really tiring.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, it was less than five o'clock, but there were already people from the same village waiting for the bus.

"Jianjun is going to take his wife and children to the city?" a middle-aged man asked cheerfully.

"Yeah, take their wives around when they are on holiday, Daguo will go to the city too?"

Xu Daguo shook his head and said, "I got off at Qianliang Village. Xiuxiu has finished her confinement, so go and get your auntie back."

"I heard that Xiuxiu gave birth to a big fat boy, congratulations."

"Hey, the kid is not our family, and fortunately, her mother-in-law is a good person, and your aunt is the maiden of the same village. With this relationship, Xiuxiu has a comfortable life over there. This time she gave birth to another kid. , We can rest assured here."

"That's what Daguo said."

Xu Ning took her mother's arm and listened to her parents chatting with people in the village waiting for the bus here. They were all short-term parents, whose mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had quarreled again, and whose kid had climbed the tree down the river again, who My family’s wheat harvest is not good, and there seems to be endless conversation.

Visibility at this time is not high, the temperature is a little bit cooler, the air is faintly misty, and the fragrance of grass is mixed in the mist. After a sip, it feels as if it can clear the air and become a fairy.

Not long after, a white ordinary passenger car swayed over, because the roads were all dirt roads, bumpy, and it seemed that the frequency of the car's shaking was really unsettling.

The bus stopped next to them, and a short-haired conductor opened the car door and walked down, beckoning everyone to get on the bus.

Xu Ning followed her mother in and found that the front was already full of people, and there was not much work in the back. Fortunately, everyone in their village could occupy a place.

From Xiangshan Village to the city, everyone charges 40 cents. Hearing the offer from the conductor, Xu Ning feels very nostalgic.

After a dime and two cents, it is almost rare to see it, replaced by a steel pebble, and the divided votes are almost invisible except for some old people saved.

It seems that from their village to the city, there is only a mere four cents. You can’t even buy a lollipop. But now the purchasing power is very high. The per capita net income in the countryside is estimated to be less than 100 yuan. Xu Jianjun’s The salary is a few hundred and a few yuan. According to this value, if the family goes to the city a few more toss, the money will be almost spent.




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