Chapter 5

How could the child understand these words? He was just heartless and ate like a pig.

Wang Yaopo was talkative and didn't stop talking during the meal.

After the meal, Tang Yanhua brought Cheng Cheng to play in Wang Yaopo's yard.

Wang Yaopo brought a bamboo pea pod and a small bowl over to let the child help peel the peas.

"Your father is good at everything. He's hardworking.

He always washes his own clothes, never hits his wife, and never flirts outside. He's a good man. Your mother is lucky.

It's just that his personality is a little dull and he doesn't speak.

Fortunately, the two children are obedient. She has both a son and a daughter. She's lucky. "Wang Yaopo said lucky several times in a row.

"You don't know. Our family was poor in the past.

When your father was a child, he went out to herd cows every day. When he came home, he was beaten and didn't have enough to eat.

Poor child. He didn't have parents since he was young and had to be raised by his uncle and aunt.

His uncle and aunt were cruel. They didn't treat children who weren't their own as humans.

It was tough. "

She said a few words in a row.

"Your mother's life was tough too. Like your father, she didn't have parents since she was young and lived with her brother and sister-in-law.

She didn't study when she was young. She herded cows in the mountains with your father.

Your father was 16 years old and was about to get married. He couldn't afford a betrothal gift, and your mother's family couldn't afford a dowry. The two of them made a pair.

When they first got married, they didn't have a place to live. They moved out and lived in that cave. They didn't have any clothes to wear or a quilt to cover themselves.

Who did they rely on? It was all thanks to the Communist Party.

They beat the rich and gave the poor farmers their land. Only then did their lives get better.

Your father works for the Communist Party, and he owes the Communist Party a debt of gratitude.

Others didn't understand and said that he was blindly loyal.

Two years ago, quite a few people died because of it.

You children don't understand these things. "

The old woman didn't stop nagging. She talked about what it was like before the founding of the country. She talked about how people died when they were given land and who was wronged.

One moment, she said that the Communist Party was good. The next moment, she said that the Communist Party was bad.

Tang Yanhua was annoyed by her nagging, so she dragged Cheng Cheng to the field to pick chili peppers.

Wang Yaopo planted a lot of chili peppers in front of the door. They had just turned red recently. Tang Yanhua picked a small pointed red pepper and put it in Cheng Cheng's hair. "Wow, you look like a little devil."

Cheng Cheng was overjoyed. "I want to be a demon!"

"Child," Wang Yopao said, "Don't pick the chili peppers, those are Chaotian peppers, be careful that they are poisonous."

Tang Yanhua was so mischievous that she dragged Cheng Cheng to pick Chinese wisteria flowers.

He picked a bunch of wisteria flowers and weaved them into a beautiful garland to coax Cheng Cheng.

Cheng Cheng was a little girl. She tiptoed and asked for it.

Tang Yanhua held the garland over her head and said, "I can give it to you, but you have to promise to sleep with me at night, and you're not allowed to cry."

Cheng Cheng's eyes narrowed into peas as he smiled. He nodded his little head and said, "Yes, yes."

"Didn't we agree not to cry?"

"Okay."

Cheng Cheng jumped up and wanted to grab the bunch of flowers in his hand. "Give it to me, brother. Give it to me."

Tang Yanhua said, "Kiss me first."

Tang Yanhua leaned over. Cheng Cheng giggled and kissed him on the cheek.

Tang Yanhua was overjoyed. He put the garland on her head and said, "I'll take you somewhere else to play."

Cheng Cheng said coquettishly, "Brother, I want to carry you."

Tang Yanhua refused and said, "You're too heavy. I can't carry you.

I'll hold you. Let's walk slowly. "

Wang Yopao's house was not fun, so Tang Yanhua took Cheng Cheng to the field.

There were wild flowers and weeds in the field, dragonflies and butterflies, and wild fruits on the trees.

Tang Yanhua picked a bunch of small red berries that grew on the ground and put them in his singlet. He found a grassy slope and pulled Cheng Cheng to sit down and eat the berries.

"Can this be eaten?" Cheng Cheng had never seen it before and did not dare to eat it.

"Yes." Tang Yanhua took the lead and stuffed one into his mouth. "This is very sweet. Eat it."

Cheng Cheng saw that he ate it and felt relieved. She also ate it.

Tang Yanhua stuck out his tongue. "Look."

The coating on his tongue was red, dyed red by the berries. "After eating this, your tongue will turn red, and your mouth will turn red as well, just like a vampire.

Isn't it scary? "

Cheng Cheng also stuck out her tongue. Her small tongue was also red. "Do I look like a vampire?"

Tang Yanhua said, "Yes."

Tang Yanhua stuck out his tongue and raised his hand to show two claws. "Vampires are like this. They also have fangs."

Cheng Cheng also followed his example. He stuck out his tongue, showed his claws, and opened his mouth wide. "I also have fangs. Mom said that they will grow out soon."

Tang Yanhua said, "Those are baby teeth, not fangs."

Cheng Cheng pointed to a small tooth that had just sprouted on his right gums. "Isn't this a fangs?

This one is sharp. "

Tang Yanhua reached out and touched it. There was a sharp little bump on his soft gums. "It's not a fangs. People don't have fangs."

When Tang Huaijin's wife returned home in the afternoon, she saw the two children chasing each other in the courtyard. They were laughing like old hens laying eggs.

Cheng Cheng saw her and rushed up to her. He stuck out his tongue and showed his fangs. "Mom, look at me. Don't I look like a vampire?"

Children were easy to coax. Tang Huaijin's wife saw that the two children were playing much better than yesterday. "What's that on your tongue?

It's so red.

Yanhua, don't take your sister out to pick wild fruits to eat. Don't touch poisonous ones. "

Tang Yanhua ran over and made a face. "I know."

At night, Cheng Cheng stopped crying and took the initiative to say that he wanted to sleep with his brother.

She was not big, but she was full of energy. She jumped on Tang Yanhua's body all night and pulled his nose and ears. "Brother, tell me a story."

Tang Yanhua randomly made up a story for her. It was not until midnight that she became sleepy. She hugged Tang Yanhua's neck and fell asleep.

She clung to Tang Yanhua like a centipede when she slept. Tang Yanhua was strangled by her as if there was a lifebuoy around his neck. He could not breathe for the whole night.

Early the next morning.

Tang Yanhua sat on the bed and repeated yesterday's experience. "Don't cry. Mom is going to work."

Cheng Cheng only cried this time. She did not say that she wanted to go to her mother.

She cried for more than half an hour. Only when Tang Yanhua said that he would take her to the hillside to pick wild fruits after breakfast did she stop crying with red eyes.

Tang Yanhua dressed her, put on her shoes, and took her to the latrine to pee and poop. After that, he took breakfast from the kitchen and ran up the hill.

On the morning of the third day, Cheng Cheng did not cry much. When she woke up, she said, "Brother, I want to go and play with Da Zhuang. He said that he would give me chestnuts yesterday.

Take me there. "

Da Zhuang was the boy who coaxed Cheng Cheng to play the day before yesterday at the entrance of the village.

Cheng Cheng could not tell the difference between yesterday and the day before, so she said it was yesterday.

Tang Yanhua was very reluctant to let her play with those children, but he was afraid that she would cry, so he could only take her to the neighbor's house to find Da Zhuang.

Da Zhuang was indeed in high spirits. He promised that he would take Cheng Cheng to play after breakfast.

Tang Yanhua saw Cheng Cheng throwing sandbags with those children and felt very uncomfortable. He secretly ran home and closed the door to play poker.

He was thin-skinned and had strong self-esteem. If someone did not want him, he would not be thick-skinned and pester them.

Da Zhuang took Cheng Cheng to throw sandbags with those children.

Cheng Cheng was young, but her hands were accurate and ruthless. She was a werewolf. She hit the target one after another and beat the other children to a pulp.

After playing for a while, those people kept losing and did not like her. "Who is she? How did she come here when we don't even know her? Let's not play with her.

She doesn't know how to play and just throws!

Annoying! "

Those few children usually played together and had a good relationship. They formed a small circle.

One of them said, "Da Zhuang brought her here." Those few people scolded Da Zhuang for bringing her here.

Da Zhuang's face turned red.

In the end, everyone agreed to go somewhere else. Hence, they took their sandbags, rubber bands, and all kinds of toys and ran away like a gust of wind.

Cheng Cheng saw that everyone had scattered like birds and beasts. No one paid attention to her.

She was left alone and was confused. She did not know what had happened and instinctively chased after them. The group of children were older than her and ran faster than her. They deliberately avoided her and disappeared in a short while.

Cheng Cheng could not find them in the entire village. She could only resentfully walk home alone. When she saw Tang Yanhua lying on the bed and learning to read, she walked up to him and tugged at his clothes. "Brother, I want to pick some wild fruits. Can you bring me to the mountain to pick some wild fruits?"

Tang Yanhua was jealous. "Aren't you going to play with Da Zhuang and the others?"

Cheng Cheng said, "I don't want to play anymore. I want to pick some wild fruits."

Tang Yanhua did not know that she had been abandoned. He thought that she really did not want to play anymore and happily brought her to the mountain.

Since then, Tang Huaijin's wife focused her energy on doing housework, going to work, and doing farm work.

Tang Yanhua took care of his younger sister at home.

They played around on the slopes of Bai Tian Village and went to Wang Yaopo's house for lunch.

There was a primary school in the village that taught first and second grade students. In the autumn of that year, Tang Huaijin and his wife paid for Yanhua to study there.

Cheng Cheng was still young. It was not the time for her to go to school yet, but she also played with her brother in the school.

When the students went to class, she squatted by the flower bed alone to catch ants and bugs. Sometimes, she would sneak under Tang Yanhua's desk to make mud.

When class was over, she would run to the field to play with the children.

There was a mountain behind the Tang family. It turned out that when the Great Leap Forward opened up the land to plant sweet potatoes, the mountain was dug bare. Later on, the Great Leap Forward stopped. The red stone land was abandoned because the soil quality was too poor and the team did not want to plant it.

The barren land was full of wild herbs and dandelions. There was also a large patch of purple alfalfa that the team planted to raise pigs.

After school in the afternoon, Tang Yanhua carried a basket and took Cheng Cheng to the mountain to cut the alfalfa so that his mother could carry it back to feed the pigs after dark.

The alfalfa grew very tall. Cheng Cheng sat under the cool grass to play.

Her mother gave her a steamed bun in the morning so that she could eat it when she was hungry.

Tang Yanhua used a string to string the steamed bun around her neck so that she would not lose it. He also filled a kettle with water and asked her to carry it with her so that she could drink it when she was thirsty.

Cheng Cheng pointed to the sky. "Brother, what's that?"

"That's the sun."

Cheng Cheng tried to find a topic. "No, that's an egg."

She pointed to a tree in the distance. "What about that?

What's that? "

"That's a tree."

"No, that's a cauliflower."

Tang Yanhua said, "Can't you tell the difference between a tree and a cauliflower?

That's a tree, and that's alfalfa. "

Cheng Cheng said, "What's the sun for?"

"The sun is for illumination."

"What's the tree for?"

"The tree stands there."

"What's the alfalfa for?"

"The alfalfa is for feeding pigs."

Cheng Cheng sat in the basket. "Brother, it's so boring to harvest pigweed."