Chapter 042: [Brother Zheng is difficult to serve]
After taking the exam all day, Xu Ning felt weak all over when she returned home in the afternoon. The exam was really amazing, and it added more than all her fatigue before.
After the exam, the school gave them a holiday. Because this area had just left the big pot of rice, every household had its own fields. Now the wheat harvest is booming. Looking around, there is an endless yellow and orange scene, and anyone who sees it will be happy.
Moreover, children are also the labor force at home. In the era when they need to squat down and use a sickle to cut wheat, what they need is to harvest, otherwise the harvest will be greatly reduced when a rain comes.
Wheat cultivation is not a fixed day, some will be different from three to five days or ten to eight days, so naturally the harvest of wheat will not be placed on a unified day.
The Xu family’s wheat planting was a few days later, so they had to wait three or five days. Because the next door always farmed with them on the same day, they were all together, unlike some families who started to harvest a week ago.
"Ningning, how are you doing the exam?" Qin Xuejuan asked after seeing Xu Ning.
Xu Ning thought for a while, "I think my grades will definitely improve. I don't know how good it is. After dinner, I will go to Brother Zheng's place to ask him to estimate it for me. There are still a few questions I don't understand. I also want to ask Brother Zheng for advice."
"It's okay to go, but I'll come back to bed early tonight. Let's go to the city together tomorrow." Xu Jianjun is going to see Xu Chunmei in the city tomorrow, but she wants to take her daughter to buy some clothes.
Now that the family is just like this, and the conditions are pretty good, I don’t want Xu Ning to wear too old clothes all the time.
Besides, Xu Ning seems to be a little longer, and his old clothes had short legs and sleeves.
Previously, according to her mother-in-law's wishes, she had to buy clothes for her a little larger size, so that she could wear them for two more years. However, Qin Xuejuan felt that clothes could only fit and could wear them comfortably. She did not follow her mother-in-law's opinion. Although she had been chanting several times openly and secretly, she just said a few words, and she could just listen to them.
When 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 still envy the lives of people in the city now, but who would refuse to go out for a walk?
At Xie Zheng's house, the joy on Xu Ning's face was almost overflowing. He had never seen Xu Ning like this before. Whether there was such joy from the bottom of his heart in his memory gradually blurred, and in the end, only the dark and clear pupils in front of him were left.
"What's so happy?" Xie Zheng asked.
Xu Ning looked up at her and raised her lips, "My mother will take me to the city tomorrow. Does Brother Zheng have anything you want? I'll bring it back for you."
Xie Zheng felt a little deeper because of this sentence. He thought that what was going on? It turned out that he was going to the city.
Could it be that she is still yearning for life in the city?
“Nothing to want.”
"..." I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xu Ning noticed that he seemed a little unhappy.
Could it be that he was having a quarrel because he couldn't go together?
But that's true. In Xu Ning's idea, Xie Zheng is still a fifteen-year-old child after all.
Children like to play.
"Brother Zheng wants to go too? Why don't we go together tomorrow." After all, Xu Ning was helping her with tutoring for a few days, and Xu Ning was really grateful to him. He just brought one more person. When he was young, Xu Ning also troubled others a lot.
Xie Zheng's mind was spinning quickly, because he quickly understood Xu Ning's thoughts because of this sentence. He just felt that he was worried about it. His brain circuits were not on the same level at all.
"I don't go there any more things at home. If you go out, don't run around and follow my second aunt, so as not to accidentally get lost and worry about the family." Xie Zheng's tone became gentle because she was thinking about herself.
Xu Ning sighed in his heart. This young man is really hard to serve, and his face is faster than reading a book.
If you don’t go, don’t go. She just needs to go with her mother. At least when she comes back, she can buy some delicious food for Xie Zheng.
Thanks to Xie Zheng didn't know Xu Ning's idea, otherwise he would have really completely ignored this self-righteous little girl.
The next day, it was a little dark, so Xu Ning and his 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 you can leave later and arrive before noon, there will be no seats on the bus if you are later.
There are only two buses to the city passing by their village every day, at five o'clock and nine o'clock. Those who simply want to go to the city will catch the nine o'clock train, so this train is at 5 o'clock in the morning. If you are lucky, you can have a place to take the seat, otherwise this stop will last more than three hours, which is really tiring.
When I 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 here.
"Jianjun is going to take his wife and children to the city?" a middle-aged man asked happily.
"Yes, I'll take them for a walk when they're on holidays, and Brother Daguo will go to the city too?"
Xu Daguo shook his head and said, "I got off the bus in Qianliang Village. Xiuxiu has finished her confinement. Go and take your aunt back."
"I heard that Xiuxiu gave birth to a big fat boy, congratulations."
"Hey, the kid is not from our family either. Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a good match. She is a mother-in-law in the same village as your aunt. With this relationship, Xiuxiu lives comfortably there. This time she gave birth to another kid, so we can rest assured."
“What the big country brother said.”
Xu Ning held his mother's arm and listened to his parents chatting with the villagers waiting for the bus here. They were all family matters. Whose mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled again, whose kid climbed the tree and fell into the river again, and whose wheat harvest was not good, it seemed that there was endless topics to talk about.
The visibility at this time is not high, the temperature is a little cool, and there is a faint mist in the air, and the fragrance of green grass is mixed in the mist. If you take a breath, you will feel like you can clear and turbid air and turn into a fairy.
Not long after, a white ordinary bus drove over staggeringly because the road was covered with dirt roads and was bumpy. It seemed that the frequency of the car shaking was really uneasy.
The bus stopped beside them, and a ticket conductor with short hair with his ears opened the car door and walked down, calling everyone to get on the bus.
Xu Ning followed his mother in and found that there were already people in front of him, and there were not many things behind him. Fortunately, everyone in their village could occupy a place.
From Xiangshan Village to the city, everyone charges 42 cents. When Xu Ning heard the ticket seller's offer, he missed it very much.
It is almost rare to see one or two cents later, and instead of steel slags, the tickets are almost never seen except for some old people who have survived.
It seems that from their village to the city, there are only 42 cents, and they can't even buy a lollipop, but now the purchasing power is very high. The per capita net income in the countryside is probably less than 100 yuan. Xu Jianjun's salary is several yuan. According to this value, if their family goes to the city for a few more times, the money will be almost spent.
Chapter completed!