Chapter 18

The next day, the sun rose as usual. It didn't see the noise of last night, and it shone carefreely on the earth.

Wen Lan and Wang Shumei visited Lin Nianhe before going to work, seeing that her little face was still "pale", they didn't say anything, made her a cup of malted milk, and put the egg cake on the edge of the kang before leaving .

After they left, Lin Nianhe couldn't fall asleep either, so she simply got up and planned to tidy up the house within her ability.

Her place is really messy, almost everything is spread out on the ground, and there is not even a place to put things.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, she doesn't even have a cabinet, so it's too difficult to keep her mind in order.

Lin Nianhe was annoyed when Aunt Li's voice came from outside: "Educated youth Xiaolin, are you home?"

Lin Nianhe quickly responded, and opened the door to welcome him out.

The sun shone on her face, causing her to squint her eyes.

She had just washed, and her long hair was pulled to one side and braided, making her small face no bigger than a palm.The thick eyelashes are black and long, like butterfly wings.

Aunt Li clicked her tongue when she saw it, she had never seen such a beautiful doll, she looked like a fairy.

Immediately, her heart ached - look at Xiaolin Zhiqing's pale face, he was in poor health!
Aunt Li didn't know what kind of miraculous effect the top whitening essence had. She only thought that Lin Nianhe was whiter than yesterday, so she must have been scared by those horrible girls and hadn't recovered.

She subconsciously stretched out her hand to help Lin Nianhe, and her voice softened a lot: "Xiaolin educated youth, have you eaten yet? How about auntie cook for you?"

"Auntie, I've eaten." Lin Nianhe smiled cutely, "I'm much better."

"Just be tough!"

Aunt Li glared at her lightly, and got down to business: "My second uncle said you ordered furniture from him. That's right. He originally ordered some furniture for the boss of the He family in the Jiuli Brigade. It turned out that Zhang Luo married his wife. Useful, everything is top-notch.”

"The boss of the He family is a soldier. He originally said he would come back to get married last month, but he has a temporary mission leave that has not been approved. I'm afraid he won't be able to return until the end of the year. His family's old He broke his leg a few days ago, and the family's cash came one after another. I gave the two sons a betrothal gift..."

"Your second uncle is thinking, anyway, the furniture in his house is brand new and unused, and it's still in the backyard of his house. You don't have everything here. If you want it, he will move it first. , give the money to Lao He, let him see the leg injury first."

The more Lin Nianhe listened, the brighter his eyes became.

If you doze off, someone will give you a pillow!

She nodded again and again: "Yes, but the furniture for marriage should be more expensive, right?"

Aunt Li smiled and waved her hands: "It's all the same price, and the He family will be in trouble for these two months. Just buy it after the boss's allowance is sent home."

There is not so much attention to making furniture in rural areas, and carvings are not fashionable now, so there is naturally no difference in price.

Second Uncle Li is also kind. After all, after the money is returned to the He family, the He family may not order furniture anymore.

Lin Nianhe asked: "Aunt Li, what kind of furniture did the He family order? My room is small, so I might not be able to fit it in."

"His family added a kang cabinet and a large wardrobe with two doors. The daughter-in-law of the boss of the He family is a primary school teacher in the town, and the old He family specially built a desk for her." Aunt Li said, "You two Uncle said, you can use it in any size, but the table is a bit big, and it’s a bit cramped in your small room.”

Lin Nianhe nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes! I'm not afraid of squeezing a little bit, I'm not afraid of your jokes, my things are still scattered on the ground, I feel worried."

Aunt Li laughed, and said to her: "Then you wait at home, I will tell them when I go back, and I will bring the things to you."

"Okay, thank you, Aunt Li."

"Hey, it should be. It's not easy for the old He family. Help if you can."

Aunt Li walked away while talking.

Lin Nianhe hurried back to the house to fold up the bedding and move out a place to put the kang cabinet.

After a while, Uncle Li and Aunt Li came pushing the trolley, and Aunt Li followed, accompanied by her little lotus.

"Educated youth Xiaolin, go to the courtyard, you don't need to do it." Second Aunt Li waved her hand heartily, and followed Uncle Li to move the furniture.

This kind of solid wood furniture is very heavy, but the two of them didn't seem to be struggling at all. It was obvious that they were used to doing this kind of work and they had a lot of strength.

Lin Nianhe thought that he was still recovering from his illness, so he simply dragged Li Hehua to a small corner where he could not get in the way and squatted, and washed an apple for the little girl.

"Lotus, do you go to school?" Lin Nianhe asked casually, looking for something to say.

Li Hehua took small bites of the apple, and replied in a low voice, "Yes, I'm in the third grade...but mother won't let me go to school these days."

Lin Nianhe immediately thought of the gossip that Aunt Li had said, and asked, "Is it because the little brother of the Zhang family fell into the river?"

Li Hehua nodded: "Originally, I went to school in the Huashu Brigade with Brother Tie Zhu, but Brother Tie Zhu was ill, so mother wouldn't let me go by myself."

"How far is the Birch Brigade from us?"

"Bali Road... Actually, I can walk by myself, I am no longer a child."

Lin Nianhe was dumbfounded.

Bali Road, with Xiaodouding's short legs, why can't he walk for three or four hours?

Lin Nianhe thought of when he was in school.

Since she was in kindergarten, she has been picked up by car and dropped off by car. Even if the school is only a few hundred meters away from home, she has never measured the distance with her legs.

She has also heard that some children in poor areas have difficulty in going to school, but she has never seen it with her own eyes, so she didn't really take it seriously. She just thought that everything would be fine if she donated stationery.

Now, looking at Li Hehua's eyes shining with the expectation of going to school, she felt inexplicably sad.

She asked softly, "Why doesn't our brigade have a primary school?"

Li Hehua obviously didn't know about this question. She held the apple in her hand, shook her head ignorantly, and looked at Lin Nianhe blankly.

Lin Nianhe rubbed her head and pushed the apple to her mouth: "Eat it."

Li Hehua blushed, took another bite, and asked, "Sister Lin, can I feed it to my parents?"

"Yes." Xiao Hehua is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed, Lin Nianhe's tone is more gentle, "I'll give it to you, you can give it to anyone you want."

Li Hehua smiled brightly, held up the big apple and went to look for Aunt Li, insisting on giving her the apple with only a small bite.

How could Aunt Li be willing to eat?I really couldn't resist, so I bit a little bit, and pushed Li Hehua away to let her play, while I found out twenty cents, and wanted to give it to Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe hurriedly dodged and uttered a lot of words to refuse. In the end, Aunt Li couldn't laugh or cry, so she had to take the money back.

"Aunt Li, doesn't our brigade have a primary school?"

Aunt Li curled her lips: "No, the commune said two years ago that they were going to build a primary school, but I didn't believe it after that... I couldn't even afford to eat. Where did I get the money to build so many schools!"

"My old man said that the commune said that some educated youths would go to the countryside for a few months, and they don't know where to arrange them. Not to mention borrowing food, it is estimated that the village will have to subsidize money to build houses."

Lin Nianhe didn't answer these words, she looked silently at Li Hehua who was writing on the ground with a tree branch, and frowned slightly.

(End of this chapter)

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