Chapter 3
It was a quiet morning, the sun had not fully risen, and the back mountain was still quiet with no other children pulling pigweed. Chen Aijiao collapsed and knelt on the ground, crying out of breath holding the bamboo basket with only a few pigweeds. Take a breath.

The piece on the back of her head was so numb that she was crying so hard, the first thing she did when she came back to her senses was to go back to the village to report to the adults, she walked a few steps, her eyes dimmed with tears, she seemed to see her younger sister appearing before her eyes.

Chen Aijiao's expression was in a trance, but she tensed her nerves. After wiping away the tears that kept rolling out with the back of her hand, she finally saw clearly that it was her second Jiao who was coming from a distance!

Ye Zhizhi was concentrating on fighting the grilled snake meat in his hand at this time, so he didn't notice that Chen Aijiao would come out to look for her.

"Chen Erjiao!" Chen Aijiao was twitching with anger. She had come to her senses at this moment, and her heart was full of anger. She looked around, picked up a stick and threw herself at Ye Zhizhi, crying and beating her, "My name is Ye Zhizhi." Don't worry! Don't worry!"

Who wants to be beaten for no reason, Ye Zhizhi didn't run away after being whipped a few times, and looked at the gap and grabbed the stick in Chen Aijiao's hand, refusing to back down.

"It's so early in the morning, why are you crazy?" Ye Zhizhi looked at the tears on Chen Aijiao's face, frowned, and softened his tone. "If you have something to say, don't do it."

"I'm going crazy...Okay, I'm going crazy!" Chen Aijiao was so angry that she was half dead, the tears she finally stopped poured out, fear and grievance came to her heart, she shook her hands and walked back.

"..." Ye Zhizhi was stunned for a few seconds, vaguely guessing something, hurriedly chased after her and grabbed her, explained it in a good voice, and stuffed the rest of the meat into her hand.

It was difficult to eat meat in rural areas at this time, and it was rare to eat a few meals of meat throughout the year, especially for girls who were not valued.

Chen Aijiao twisted and refused to answer.

It was quite awkward, Ye Zhizhi directly tore a piece and stuffed it into Zhao Aijiao's mouth, Chen Aijiao paused when she tasted the meat, savoring it carefully, reluctant to swallow it.

"Erjiao, this meat..." The meat of the half-sized cauliflower snake is fresh and tender, and it's so delicious when it's roasted until it's burnt. After taking such a bite, I feel guilty when I think of my parents and younger brothers. , Ye Zhizhi stuffed the meat into her mouth again, and for some reason she couldn't swallow it.

Looking at the small piece of meat left, and then at Ye Zhizhi who was eating with satisfaction, he felt entangled in his heart, Jianye didn't taste good, so he discussed it with Ye Zhizhi after thinking about it . "Erjiao, what a big snake, you eat enough to save some for Jianye."

"To whom?" Ye Zhizhi frowned. If it wasn't for the reason that Chen Aijiao was so worried about her, she would be reluctant to give up the meat. Chen Aijiao actually wanted to take it back as a 'tribute'.

Or keep Chen Jianye who has been against her all the time, who eats and drinks well?Absolutely not!
"Let's save this meat for Jianye. He's still young and the male of our family can't go hungry. I've tasted it anyway, and my parents haven't tasted it yet." Chen Aijiao couldn't bear it in her heart. I ate two thin slices of meat on the New Year's Eve dinner last year, and I don't remember the taste of meat for a long time.

"Well, cough cough..."

Those few at home are not worthy of their concern. They didn't think about them when they ate delicious food secretly. Ye Zhizhi tore open the meat and quickly ate most of it. Chen Aijiao almost choked, even if she choked, she couldn't bear to spit out the meat.

Chen Aijiao is eighteen this year, and the bone line is probably closed, but her height is no more than 1.5 meters five.

There were still a few shreds of pork sticking to the meat stick. It was impossible to take this stick home. Chen Aijiao couldn't bear it. She glanced at Ye Zhizhi who had already started to pull the pigweed, and carefully shaved the meat out and ate it. Only then did he quickly help with the work.

By the time the children from the village who came to pull pigweed were ready to go out, the Chen sisters had already returned with a full load.

In July, the early rice is ripe. After the harvest, the plowing and planting will start again. At this time, Chenjiawan still earns work points. Stealing, raping and playing tricks, no one would joke about the family's rations and a year's income.

Except for the youngest members of the Chen family, Chen Huahua and Chen Jinxin, who don’t get work points, even the eight-year-old Chen Xiaohua, who usually watches the sheep for the team, can get four work points. At this time, Ye Zhizhi has nothing to complain about. He and Chen Xiaohua led the two little ones to the sun-drying field.

In the sun, the rice was spread out evenly, and a big broom made of thin bamboo branches was used to sweep the rice lightly, and the broken leaves and thin rods inside were swept together and put into the dustpan. It was very difficult. When I have time, I have to go home and send the boiled water that has been dried in the morning to the fields.

Two days ago, Chen Xiaohua led her younger siblings to do it. Ye Zhizhi, who was relieved, took the initiative to take over. Admittedly cold and indifferent, but it hurts to see it, after all, he is only an eight-year-old child.

The air is filled with the fragrance of straw. Walking along the path beside the ditch, the fields are full of happy villagers who are cutting rice and threshing rice, and from time to time they carry a load full of golden grains to the drying field. People, everyone chatted with each other or laughed happily from time to time, the atmosphere was very warm, and Ye Zhizhi's mood became high.

Ever since she left her hometown in junior high school in her previous life, she hasn't seen such a bountiful harvest for many years.

Ye Zhizhi quickened his pace, and from a long distance, he saw two people standing on both sides of the ditch next to Chen's task field. When he approached, it was Zhao Xiuju and a middle-aged woman who looked familiar. Zhao Xiuju had a grateful face. The smile was obviously trying to curry favor with the woman in front of her, seeing Ye Zhizhi beckoning her to come over.

It's really familiar, the eyebrows and eyes look like... the Chen family!

"Damn girl, why is your mouth so dumb, call me aunt!" Seeing Ye Zhizhi's delay in calling for someone, Zhao Xiuju put her palm on the back of her head and said angrily.

"Auntie." Ye Zhizhi gasped, bared his teeth and called out to the woman, and quickly jumped to the other side of the ditch to stand on the same side as the strange auntie, staring at Zhao Xiuju, in case she would hit him again.

Zhao Xiuju gritted her teeth angrily, raised her hand as a gesture, but was stopped by Chen Xiuying.

Chen Xiuying didn't even look at Ye Zhizhi, she raised her chin and said to Zhao Xiuju. "Okay, you go back and discuss it with Zhijian, and give me a letter of approval. I'm taking this trip in my spare time. There are many things in the village."

"Okay, please trouble Jianye, Auntie. Then I will ask Aijiao to kowtow to you and treat you to a matchmaker wine." Zhao Xiuju smiled into a chrysanthemum with a face full of wind and frost, and sent Chen Xiuying away respectfully.

Thank you for the wine?
(End of this chapter)

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