Chapter 13 12

When they got home, Jing Qiu took over the cooking and asked her younger sister to play with Hong Qin and the others.She cooked mung bean porridge and lay on the bed thinking.She was very worried about the wound on the third child's hand. It must be a deep cut, otherwise why would he need two stitches?As for the poor blood clotting mechanism, she is not particularly worried, because the doctor has always said that her mother's blood clotting mechanism is not good, and they say it is "thrombocytopenia". , one piece of purple, she also has this phenomenon, but it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

She recalled the scene of the third child cutting off his hands, and she still had lingering fears. She didn't know where the third child got his hands and feet so fast. She only saw him take out the knife, and before he had time to ask what happened, he raised the knife and dropped it. Cut himself a knife.She felt that his behavior was a bit fanatical, but she was willing to interpret it as he was in a hurry and couldn't think of other ways to persuade her to go to the hospital. She didn't dare to tell her mother about the third child's money last night, because she had already felt that the more her mother knew about the third child, the more bad things she would analyze.If mother knew about the money left by the third child, she would definitely say that he was sugar-coated, a small favor.

Jingqiu only stayed at home for one day, and from the next day, she and her mother went to the river to paste envelopes.Mom started to disagree with her going, saying that her feet should rest more.But somehow, my mother figured it out again and took her to the place where the envelopes were pasted.Mom taught her a bit, and she learned it quickly, and it was very fast.But the neighborhood committee has regulations on delivery. People like her mother who have a pension can only make up for the difference. That is, you can only do so much if your salary is discounted, so her mother can only make 17 yuan a month. money or so.

Jingqiu knew how to paste envelopes and where to pick up and deliver the goods, so she asked her mother to rest at home instead of going to the neighborhood committee.She secretly had a wishful thinking, if her mother didn't follow, then she would be free.When the third child comes, she can go swimming in the river with the third child, and when the time comes, she will paste envelopes at the neighborhood committee. But my mother seemed to have figured out her mind, and she must follow, and she also brought her sister with her.Every day, the mother and daughter got up early, and before the sun was too high, they went across the river to paste envelopes. After the materials received that day were finished, the three of them went home together.

Mom didn't tell Jingqiu any more important reasons, but she was very strict, and it was a man-to-man tactic.Jingqiu and her younger sister went swimming in the river, and her mother followed her, sitting on the bank of the river to watch the two sisters swim.Enjoying the shade at night is even more step-by-step. The three of them sat on the river slope, and the mother sat in the middle, holding a fan in her hand to fan the two daughters to drive away mosquitoes.Jingqiu sometimes has a strange feeling, as if the third child has turned into a mosquito like Monkey King, and wants to fly to her ear to say a few words, but when her mother slaps her like this, she just slaps her. Ran.

Jingqiu still likes to look around while walking on the road, wanting to see if the third child is here.She knew that there was no chance to sneak out to meet the third child now, but she still hoped that he would come to K City, first to show that he hadn't forgotten her, and second, to let her take a look at him, at least to know that he was fine. Twice on the road, she thought she saw the third child, who seemed to be following them.But when she found a chance and turned around to take a closer look, she couldn't find him again. I don't know if it was because she was dazzled just now, or because he was afraid that his mother would see him and hid.

Later, Director Wang of the school came to ask Jingqiu to work in the corrugated factory, saying that as soon as his son mentioned the matter of recruiting odd jobs, he immediately recommended Jingqiu.When Jingqiu heard the news, she was very excited, thinking that the opportunity came and she could get rid of her mother's supervision.Unexpectedly, her mother no longer follows her like a shadow, but Jingqiu still can't go alone, because Li Hong, the daughter of Mr. Li from No. 8 Middle School, is one year younger than Jingqiu. This is the first time she goes out For work, Teacher Li asked Jing Qiu to take her to and from get off work every day. Jing Qiu's mother agreed to do it for Jing Qiu as if she had found a treasure.

Jingqiu was entrusted by Teacher Li to take Li Hong to and from get off work every day. The two had a companion when they walked, and it was very lively talking.But she was always worried in her heart, afraid that the third child would come to K City and see her with Li Hong, so she would not dare to come up and call her.She wanted to get rid of Li Hong several times, but couldn't find a reason.Moreover, my mother has gained experience in pasting envelopes now, and she finishes pasting every day before Jingqiu gets off work, and often stands at the ferry or the school gate waiting for her.

Gradually, Jingqiu also despaired. Knowing that during the summer vacation, there was no need to rely on unrestrained ideas, she wholeheartedly looked forward to the start of school. Maybe she would have the opportunity to go out alone if she got a job.In September, the school started, and the Education Bureau delayed for more than half a month before approving Jing Qiu's appointment. Jing Qiu immediately took up the post and became the cook of the No. 8 Middle School in K City. It was in the cafeteria opposite her home. Go to work, just lift your feet up. Jingqiu works in the cafeteria during the day, so she can't go anywhere.In the evening she gets off work, and so does her mother.Now my mother doesn't go to work on Sundays, because the envelope quota is not even enough to be blurred, so there is no need to go to work on Sundays.Most of Jingqiu's classmates and friends left the countryside, and they couldn't even find an excuse to sneak out.

Apart from not being able to meet the third child, Jingqiu's life can be said to be like sesame seeds blooming steadily.The first happy thing is that she started to receive wages.That day, Director Zhao from the General Affairs Office personally came to ask her to collect her salary, and said with a smile, "Jingqiu, you start work after the 15th, and you can only receive half a month's salary in September." Listening to Director Zhao's tone, Jingqiu seemed sorry, but she was already overjoyed. She didn't go to work until the end of the month, and the school gave her half a month's salary. Isn't this a waste of money for several days?

In the past, Jingqiu helped her mother get her salary, and every time she went there, she joked with Director Zhao, asking, "Director Zhao, haven't you transferred my salary relationship yet?" Director Zhao has a very good temper, always smiling and saying: "Just go, just go." This time, Director Zhao said: "You always ask if your salary relationship has been transferred, and now it has finally been transferred." He gave her an envelope, which contained her salary, which was nearly 15 yuan, and another A small note half an inch wide and seven or eight inches long is her pay slip.She took it out and looked at it again and again, and it really had her name written on it.She thought that she would receive such a small note every month from now on, and she was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep. She gave all her salary to her mother, let her do the housework, and also helped her brother save some money to get married, at least let him have money to buy gifts for Zhongmin's family during the holidays.Now it is Zhongmin who buys the gift every time and asks his brother to carry it to her house, but Zhongmin's father throws the gift outside the door every time.Zhongmin comforted his brother and said that it doesn't matter, many girls' families are like this, at first they disagreed with the partner their daughter was looking for, but in the end, they all agreed. Zhongmin's prophecy came true soon, because his brother was recruited and returned to K City.Jingqiu's mother said that her brother's recruitment was thanks to the help of Yi Gang, the daughter of Teacher Chen from the No. 8 Middle School Attached Elementary School.Yi Gang is a few years older than Jingqiu's brother, and he is considered to be a member of the "new third class". When he went to the countryside, he worked in a production team under D County, and was later recruited to work in a factory in D County. The educated youths in City K are unwilling to be recruited to work in County D. Once recruited, they will not be able to return to City K. County D is just a small county, how can it be compared with City K?But the captain of Yi Gang's production team said to her, "If you don't go this time, it won't be your turn next time." Yi Gang had no choice but to go to the factory in D county.After working for a period of time, I don't know how she was transferred to work in the Material Bureau of County D, and then temporarily transferred from the Material Bureau of County D to work in the Recruitment Office of County D. Yi Gang's mother, Teacher Chen, and Jing Qiu's mother are good friends. This time Yi Gang went to D county to recruit, so he naturally wanted to help his brother.But the county recruitment office can only send the recruitment form to my brother's brigade. Whether I can be recommended depends on the production team where my brother is.When the recruitment form came to the county recruitment office, Yi Gang could help recommend his brother to the factory that came to recruit workers, but he could not force others.Therefore, the matter of recruiting workers is at least three-headed: the production team, the county recruitment office, and the recruiting factory. I don't know how to get all three of them right this time. My brother was called back to City K and joined an enterprise directly under the central government.Now Zhongmin was overjoyed, his brother hadn't gone to work yet, and it wasn't the holidays, but Zhongmin bought a gift and asked his brother to bring it to visit his future parents-in-law. Zhongmin's parents saw that his brother had been recruited back, and that he had entered such a large factory, so they had no objections. Not only did they not throw the presents out of the house that time, they even kept him for a meal.The elder brother finally passed the preliminary examination of the son-in-law, and was honored to become the "coolie" of Zhongmin's family, and the heavy work of buying coal, rice, and firewood was entrusted to the elder brother. My brother had a hard time getting this drudgery, so he had a lot of fun doing it.Sometimes Zhongmin called over while eating: "Xin'er, my mother told you to buy coal." After hearing this, my brother put down his chopsticks and left without saying a word.My mother always made fun of my brother: "I asked you to do something, but you procrastinated; when Zhongmin's parents told you to do something, you ran very fast." The elder brother smiled and said, "Then what can I do? This is the trend now. Xiaoqiu, hurry up and find someone to help our family haul coal." Mom quickly said: "Don't be joking, Jingqiu hasn't become a regular yet, don't mess up her work just to find someone to drag coal." The elder brother successfully passed the test at Zhongmin's house, which made Jingqiu feel itchy, and began to draw a blueprint for the success of the third child.Maybe when she becomes a full-time employee, her mother won't have to worry about it anymore. At that time, she and the third child can communicate openly like Zhongmin and his brother. At that time, the third child will come to drag coal for her family. up.When she thought of that scene, she thought it was very funny. Her brother went to help Zhongmin's family haul coal, and the third child came to haul coal for her family, so who would haul coal for the third child's family? During that time, I was so lucky that even the door panels couldn't stop it. Director Wang revealed some inside information to Jing Qiu's mother, saying that he had mentioned it to the school and asked the school to let Jing Qiu come out to teach at an appropriate time.In places like No. 8 Middle School, few people are willing to transfer from the city across the river. It has always been used by the Bureau of Culture and Education to hand out teachers who have made mistakes. , I also tried to transfer it as soon as I got familiar with it.Therefore, No. 8 Middle School is short of teachers. The school can use this reason to apply to the Education Bureau for Jing Qiu to teach. Director Wang said: "I told you Jingqiu to do a good job, and you should also find other leadership activities in the school." Although Jingqiu got the job, the school still treats her like a child, discussing everything with her mother.Her mother also said that it was better to do things like asking for reputation, status, and care from the party, and let her do it, so as not to leave a bad impression on Jingqiu from the school leaders.Mom is retired anyway, and she is doing something for her daughter, so no one else can do anything to her.My mother talked to this leader and that leader, and begged them to let Jingqiu come out to teach at the right time. Several leaders gave guarantees, saying that we all know that you, Jingqiu, have good grades and are good at teaching, and we will let her teach sooner or later, so you don't have to worry.But now that she has just started working, and she is not the only one who holds the top position in the cultural and educational unit, we let her teach now, fearing that other people will have opinions, and we must wait until there is no trouble before we let her teach. When Jingqiu heard the news, she was so happy that she wanted to let the third child know and share it.But since he left, there has been no news.She was getting more and more anxious every day, wondering why he didn't come to see her. There are mainly three reasons she can think of: one is that he got tetanus, she didn't dare to go down this path, so she comforted herself and said that if the third child really got tetanus and died, Changfang would definitely come Tell me, since Changfang didn't come to tell me the bad news, it means that the third child didn't have tetanus. Another possibility is that he is sticking to his promise to his mother and will not come to see her until she becomes a regular.But she had already brazenly begged him not to wait so long, and he himself had promised to come to see her, saying that he was "something to be a traitor anyway."Had he decided not to be a traitor later on? Another possibility is that the third child was interrogated by his mother that time, and he was angry with his mother, so he stopped coming.She knew many stories like this, where the girl's parents were too picky about her future son-in-law, and as a result, the son-in-law ran away. In the end, the daughter or the daughter's parents had to come forward to make peace. It's hard to say whether it will be successful up. This is the case with Youquan, the eldest daughter of teacher You at the school. Youquan is from Yi Gang's class. After going to the countryside, she was recruited back to City K and worked in a restaurant.Later, I talked about a boyfriend, surnamed Li, who was from the shipyard, an educated youth who was sent to the countryside in City L, and was recruited to City K. L city is the provincial capital, a big city, it is very enviable in K city that a girl from K city can marry a man from L city.At that time, it was not easy for people from City K to go to City L for a visit. If they found someone from City L to be their boyfriend, then of course they could go to City L to have fun. However, the mother-in-laws in K city don't care which province or city you are from, even if you are from the capital Beijing, they will try you as much as they want, otherwise it is tantamount to selling their daughter at a low price.You Quan's boyfriend, Xiao Li, is good in everything else, except that there is something wrong with his eyes. He should be regarded as "anti-cross-eyed". Flying in the direction of both ears, he looks beaming, but you can't tell where he is looking. You Quan's parents didn't like this future son-in-law, saying how ugly it would be to have a child in the future?Every time Xiao Li went to visit the whole family, her parents always rolled their eyes.At first, Xiao Li held back his anger and sent gifts to the door, but later he got annoyed and wanted to brag to You Quan.This made You Quan anxious, so he had no choice but to ask Xiao Li not to be angry, saying that if my parents disagreed, we would not go to their place and we would get married right away. Xiao Li quickly got a marriage certificate with You Quan, took her back to L City for a visit, and held a wedding in L City.After You Quan came back, he kept talking about City L and bragging about it for a month, after which he seldom interacted with his parents. Teacher Xiang's daughter Xiangqianfang was not so lucky. Her boyfriend Xiao Liu ran away after being interrogated a little harshly by his future father-in-law. Who can stand such picky parents-in-law?Anyway, Xiangqianfang and I were both dozed off, and if her parents don't marry her to me, she will suffer, but I won't. Xiangqianfang's parents knew that their daughter had done that kind of thing, and regretted that they should not have censored Xiao Liu so severely. Waiting for the word boudoir. Jingqiu didn't know if the third child was angry and ran away.When she thought that the third child ran away in anger, she became angry with the third child: What did my mother say about you?They are all very gentle and reasonable words, if you run away because of these few words, it can only be said that you are too weak to stand the test. But when she thought that the third child was still waiting for her, and often came to K City, but had no chance to meet her, she was angry with her mother again: Brother also started talking about friends at this age, why did you only put Why am I watching so closely? 38 Jingqiu worked in the cafeteria for a period of time, and the school told her to go to the school-run farm to exercise for half a year, saying that you had never been to the countryside, and would ask you to teach in the future, fearing that others would have opinions. If you went to the farm to exercise for half a year, others would have nothing to say. The school has just set up a farm in a mountain village called Fujiachong under the Yanjia River, and plans to let the students take turns to exercise there.Fu Jiachong was chosen to run the farm because the home of director Zheng of the school was in Fujiachong. Based on this relationship, Fu Jiachong allocated a little land to the school and helped the school build a few houses for the farm. It is about forty miles from K city to Yanjiahe, and there is a long-distance bus.There are only two buses going directly from City K to Yanjiahe every day. If you take a bus from County K to Yanjiahe, there are four buses every day.From Yanjiahe to Fujiachong, and more than eight miles, there are valleys and valleys. There are many places where you can't even ride a bicycle, you can only walk by foot. The school sent several teachers to the farm. The women were in charge of feeding the students, and the men were in charge of leading the students to work.The first batch to arrive at the farm also has the task of standing in front of the farm. They must make preparations to welcome the students. Jingqiu was the first batch to be sent to the farm. She was inexplicably excited when she heard the news, because it meant that she could get rid of her mother's monitoring, and Xicunping was only a few miles away from Yanjiahe, so she went to the farm , which means that the third child is close. Although my mother was a little worried, she was not as worried as she was when she went to the countryside. Now that Jingqiu has a job, she will be able to come back to teach in half a year. All the teachers who go with her are school teachers, and her mother is more trustworthy.The most important thing is that my mother doesn't know the geographical relationship between Yanjiahe and Xicunping. If my mother knows, I'm afraid she still has to worry. Several people who went to the farm this time were led by Director Zheng, and there was also a female teacher in her twenties, that is, Teacher Zhao who gave birth to her son after seven months of marriage.The other is a male teacher in his forties, surnamed Jane, who taught Jing Qiu physics, and used to practice ball with Jing Qiu and the others.Teacher Jian is not very tall, but she used to be a gymnast and has strong arms. She often used the chance of saving a ball to perform a forward roll, which won applause. The school chose the site of the farm on a mountain, because there is a road not far behind the mountain, and you can take a walking tractor to a small town called Huanghuachang, from where there is a road leading to Yanjiahe.The school has a walk-behind tractor, the kind people call a "little tug," which can be used to carry goods for the farm. The driver was a young man in his early twenties named Wei Jianxin, whose father was the principal of No. 12 Middle School in K City.After graduating from high school, Xiao Wei didn't go to the countryside because of a heart attack. He didn't know who he learned to drive a small tractor from. Maybe he also took advantage of his father's face, so he came to No. 8 Middle School as a temporary worker, but he hasn't become a regular yet. Jingqiu had met Xiaowei before, because when she was studying and working in the school-run factory, she often saw him hauling goods there.Later, when I was a cook, I often saw him tinkering with the walking tractor in front of the cafeteria with his face full of motor oil, surrounded by a group of children, watching him use a crank handle to start the tractor fiercely.When it couldn't start, everyone was disappointed and sighed; when it started, the crowd was boiling with joy and laughter, and one by one climbed into his car like little monkeys, and followed him to the school playground to test the car. Xiao Wei not only has "Jianxin" in his name, but also looks a bit like the third child, about the same height as the third child, thinner and darker than the third child, and his back is not as straight as the third child.But the two of them have a common feature, that is, when they laugh, their entire faces are actively involved.When the eyes are squinted, the eyelashes appear to be particularly thick and black.There are two laugh lines beside the nose, making the smile particularly contagious. Jingqiu and his four teachers first took a bus through K County and got off at Yanjiahe, and then walked into Fujiachong.Xiao Wei drove a small tractor into the mountains, from No. 8 Middle School of K City to K County, then to Yanjiahe, then to Huanghuachang, and finally to the farm, about six to seventy miles away.When the two armies met behind the mountain, several people even sang the tunes in <<Long March Group Songs>>. Anyway, there was no one on the mountain, and those who dared to sing or dare not sing can now let go of their voices and shout a few times. Because there is still a section of the road that has not been repaired, Xiao Tuo can only park at the kiln on the team. Several people ran back and forth several times before transporting the things on the car to the farm. The few houses on the farm are still rough in scale, and the houses are filled with dirt, which has not been leveled yet, and is full of lumps.There was no glass on the window, and there was nothing to cover it, so I had to use a bamboo hat to cover it.The bed was a mound of earth on which several boards were placed.There was no door bolt either. Jingqiu and Mr. Zhao lived in a room, and the two used a big tree stick to lean against the door at night. The first thing a few people did was to build a toilet, that is, dig a hole, put two boards on it, and then use some sorghum poles to tie them into rows and place them around.It is said that there is an animal on the mountain in this area, called "Balangzi" by the locals, who likes to attack people who come out at night. When it comes up, it licks people's buttocks with its thorny tongue, and then digs out its intestines and eats them.Because they were afraid of "Balangzi", everyone carried an ax when they went to the bathroom. In the evening, everyone tried not to go to the toilet. If they really had to, the man ran to the back of the house to solve the problem.Jingqiu always had to go to the toilet once or twice at night, and she was too embarrassed to go behind the house, so she had to carry the ax to the toilet one or two hundred meters away. Xiao Wei lived on the same side of the house near the front door. If the door was not closed, he would be able to see Jing Qiu when she went out.Jingqiu soon discovered that every time she came out of the toilet and walked back, she could always see Xiao Wei standing on the side of the road smoking a cigarette. Helping place.She walked past him, the two greeted each other, and went back to their respective rooms one after the other. In the days when we first went there, there was nothing to eat on the mountain, so everyone took out the private vegetables they brought and ate them together.When the weather is fine, everyone goes out to dig wild onions and garlic and come back to eat.When it rains, I go to the mountains to pick up the "ground skin", wash it and fry it, which is a bit like black fungus.Every time I went out to dig green onions and pick up "ground skins", and as we walked, Teacher Zhao and Teacher Jian would get together, and Jingqiu would drop the order, but after a while, Xiao Wei would come and come with him. She picked up "ground skin" together. Although Director Zheng's home is at the foot of the mountain, he still insists on living on the mountain like everyone else. He only goes back once a week, and sometimes he brings some vegetables from home for everyone to eat.Jingqiu was in charge of the food, and wanted to pay him, so she asked him how much it was per catty. Director Zheng said that it was "vegetables for two cents and eight per catty", and then spread his feet apart in a posture of pulling vegetables. Life on the farm is hard, but the teachers are very funny and active, so Jingqiu doesn't feel sad at all.After working all day during the day, we gather together to tell stories before going to bed at night.Jingqiu found that Mrs. Jian was especially good at telling historical stories, Director Zheng and Mrs. Zhao were good at telling folktales, and Xiao Wei was very good at telling stories about Sherlock Holmes' investigation. Almost ready, the farm ushered in the first batch of students.The first thing the students do after they come is to clear the road behind the mountain, so that the moped can drive all the way to the front of the L-shaped house on the farm.So Xiaowei and his little tug became a big sight on the farm. Xiao Wei likes to wear an old military uniform, as if he remembers stuffing it into a pickle jar every night, it is wrinkled like pickles.The old military cap he was wearing was also the kind with a soft visor, like a defeated Kuomintang soldier.But when he drives a small tractor, he looks like a desperate Saburo, running fast, jumping up and down, unstoppable, and has to rush to the kitchen every time before stopping abruptly. When the students heard the "tuk-tuk" sound of Xiaotuo, just like the folks in Jiapigou heard the sound of a small train, they all rushed out of their dormitories to see the only movable bridge between this farm and the outside world. As usual, there is some engine oil on Xiao Wei's face, which has almost become his professional ethics and technical indicators.Sometimes Jingqiu told him that there was oil on his face, and he would pull up his sleeves and wipe it off, most of the time he wiped more and more.Jing Qiu bent over with a smile, and he stretched out his face, asking Jing Qiu to wipe it for him. Jing Qiu was so frightened that she turned around and ran away, and he also had an expression of "you are responsible if you don't wipe it", and he was very contented. busy with his work. Jingqiu and Teacher Zhao are responsible for carrying water, washing vegetables and cooking, Teacher Jian and Director Zheng are responsible for leading the students to work, and Xiao Wei is responsible for transportation. The five of them both divide and cooperate.Every now and then, Jingqiu or Teacher Zhao would follow Xiaowei's Xiaotuo out to buy vegetables and rice.Mr. Zhao went there twice, but he was reluctant to go, saying that he could not smell the diesel smell, and after running for dozens of miles on a small mop, his buttocks were blistered. Jingqiu is not afraid of the smell of diesel oil. She has liked the smell of gasoline since she was a child, so she always goes shopping with Xiao Wei.Every time I open the breakfast before going out, I try to come back in the afternoon, so that I can make dinner for the students, because I am afraid that Teacher Zhao will be too busy alone. Getting to know Xiao Wei quite well, Jing Qiu wanted to ask him for a favor and take her to Xicunping.She wanted to see what the third child was doing and why he didn't come to see her. So the next time she went shopping, Jingqiu asked Xiaowei if she could go from Yanjiahe Bend to Xicunping. She said that she had a friend there and she would return the book. Xiao Wei asked: "Boyfriend girlfriend?" Jing Qiu asked back: "How about boyfriend, what about girlfriend?" Xiao Wei always spoke with a smiley face and a glib tongue: "If you are a girlfriend, I will take you there, if you are a boyfriend, I won't take you there." Jing Qiu said, "If you find it inconvenient, forget it." Xiao Wei didn't say whether it was convenient or inconvenient, but when she finished buying rice and drove back, Jingqiu saw him stop the car several times to talk to people she met on the road, she didn't know what he was doing.After driving for a while, he said to her, "It's Xicunping, where are you going?" Jingqiu had never come to Xicunping from this road before, and suddenly she was a little confused. After standing for a long time, she finally figured out the direction, pointed to the direction of the exploration team's shed, and said, "It should be over there." Xiao Wei drove Xiao Tuo all the way to the work shed, stopped the machine, and said, "I'll wait for you here, but if it takes too long to get out, I'll rush in to save you." Jingqiu said "No, I'll be right back", and walked towards the row of work sheds, feeling that her heart was about to jump out of her throat. Usually, she never felt her heart beating, but now it was real. I can feel my heart pounding, very close to my throat.Now she kind of believed in the sayings in the book, and when she was excited, her heart would come up and beat near her throat.When the mind is at ease, the mind will run down, the so-called "put the mind back into the stomach". She held a book as a cover, and planned that if the third child was not around later, or if the third child was not enthusiastic, she would say that she was here to return the book.She took a deep breath before knocking on the third child's door, but no one answered after knocking for a long time.She remembered that it was afternoon, maybe the third child was at work.She was very disappointed, but unwilling, so she walked along those rooms, one by one, to see if she could catch someone and ask about the situation of the third child.I walked around and didn't see anyone, maybe they were all at work. She turned back to the third child's room, and knocked a few times without any hope, but unexpectedly knocked the door open.It was a man who opened the door, and Jingqiu recognized it as the middle-aged man she had seen the last time she came to ask the third child to eat at the aunt's house.She glanced into the room and saw a woman combing her hair, as if she had just gotten out of bed. The middle-aged man also recognized her and said, "Hey, isn't this 'Mung Bean Soup'?" The woman followed to the door and asked, "Is it your 'mung bean soup'?" The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Where can I have 'mung bean soup'? It's from my grandson. Come to think of it, the word 'mung bean soup' was invented by her. We said we ate venison The fire is high, so she said to drink some 'mung bean soup' to clear the fire." After speaking, she smiled meaningfully. Jingqiu wanted to ask about the news of the third child, so she didn't care what they were talking about, she just asked, "Do you know——when does he get off work?" "He? Who is it?" The middle-aged man asked jokingly. The woman pointed to the middle-aged man and asked Jingqiu: "Do you know Lao Cai? He is my lover. I came to visit relatives. I just arrived today. You must have been here for a long time, do you know?" Does our Lao Cai have 'mung bean soup' in this village? They make it in the wild, and there is no good thing, and every village has it - 'mung bean soup'." Lao Cai ignored his wife and said to Jing Qiu, "Little Sun has been transferred, don't you know?" Jing Qiu was startled, and asked, "Where did he go?" "He transferred to the second team." Jing Qiu stood there in a daze, not knowing what the third child was transferred there for, and he didn't tell her.She stood at a loss for a while, and summoned up the courage to ask, "Do you—do you know—where is the second team?" Just as Lao Cai was about to tell her, his wife pulled her sleeves and said, "Don't cause trouble in there. If someone else's grandson wants her to know, will he not tell her? Be careful to make others fight." Jingqiu didn't know what this "mung bean soup" meant, but she could still understand what the woman said, and she said awkwardly: "You guys misunderstood, I just came to return him a book , Excuse you—" Turned around and ran away. Seeing that her expression was not right, Xiao Wei asked several times worriedly, but she didn't answer.When she returned to the farm, she was having dinner, so she hurried to help.But after the students' meals were finished, when the teachers sat down to eat, she felt a headache and no appetite at all, so she reasoned that she had a headache and ran back to her room to sleep. A few teachers came to ask her what was going on today with concern, and she said nothing was wrong except that she had a headache and wanted to sleep for a while.After sleeping for a while, Xiao Wei brought her a bowl of thinly cooked vegetable rice, and put some mustard greens he brought on a small plate.As soon as she saw these two things, she felt hungry, said "thank you", and ate them all in one sitting. The next day, when she went to Yantang to carry water, Xiao Wei followed and said he would help her carry it.She refused: "Forget it, you have heart disease, how can you carry water?" Xiao Wei said: "My heart disease is caused by the fear of going to the countryside. Let me pick it for you. I think you are the one who carries the water every time. Why doesn't Teacher Zhao not carry the water?" Jingqiu never thought about it, anyway, she picked it up when she ran out of water.She was afraid that others would see that Xiao Wei was not good at carrying water for her, so she shirked and said, "Let me carry water---" Xiao Wei smiled and said, "Are you afraid of other people's gossip? If you were really afraid, you shouldn't have been lying in bed without eating dinner yesterday. No matter what gossip you say now, it won't be as good as yesterday's gossip--" Jing Qiu asked puzzledly, "What gossip was yesterday?" "It's not about what I did to you on the road yesterday.