Chen Jinnian turned around and walked back, but the corner of his eyes kept staring at the entrance of the alley.
A 28-foot-weighted bicycle carrying a crying woman quickly turned around the intersection.
Chen Jinnian only had one idea now, which was to pull down the guy who was riding the car so fast and beat him up.
Even if this guy has been calling him "brother" since he was a kid, even if this guy comes in and turns his upper lip and smiles proudly and stuffs himself a red envelope, even if this guy is wearing a white police uniform.
"Brother, Bangge said that eldest sister doesn't want us anymore, and she also said that I'm a drag."
A little girl who was just above Chen Jingnian's waist ran out of the yard, grabbed Chen Jingnian's lapel and cried.
"Don't be the same as him. Today, the eldest sister is getting married, and we are very happy!"
Chen Jingnian knelt down and wiped away his sister's tears first, wiped off the snot from her nose, and licked it on the roots of a jujube tree, grinning with an expression of disgust.
Nannan's red eyes were filled with shyness, and she lowered her head in embarrassment, "Young Douzi can't wipe your nose."
"Nanny, this is your own snot."
Chen Jingnian rubbed his sister's little head with his other hand. As he stood up, he whispered: "Go get a ladle of water for me. After I finish washing my hands, we will go find what my sister has hidden."
The little girl's attention was diverted, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened, and her little hand that was previously covering her pocket also dropped. In the pocket was a little mouse that her sister had folded into a handkerchief for her.
After stepping through the hanging flower door and looking at his sister's two braids blowing up and down, Chen Jingnian's face, which he had just spread out to coax his sister, darkened again.
In the corner, a little head with a watermelon head shrank back immediately after seeing Chen Jingnian.
"Little white-eyed wolf."
Chen Jinnian was still thinking about his sister and had no intention of dealing with Banggan, a boy who cared not only about food but also about beatings.
"Brother, water."
Nannan struggled to carry a ladle of water and walked out of the east wing.
"Hey, you want your brother to take a bath!"
Chen Jingnian reached out and took the full gourd of water, shouted exaggeratedly, and simply rinsed his fingers.
Nannan's smile was very low, and she was covering her leaky little mouth and giggling like "luck, cluck, cluck".
Chen Jinnian looked at his sister's chapped little hands and sighed secretly in his heart.
I took the little girl's hand and washed it carefully.
Nannan breathed in gently, and the cracked area hurt a little after getting wet.
Chen Jinnian led his sister into the house, wiped off the water on her hands, took out the clam oil from the chest of drawers that was stamped "Serve the People", dipped some with his fingertips, and applied it little by little on his sister's hands.
superior.
"Brother, sister took me to bed yesterday. She got up early today. She has time to hide things."
Nannan folded her little hands obediently, and because of her replacement of teeth, she spoke with an inexplicable sense of joy.
"Our sister must have hidden the bride price given by her godmother."
Chen Jinnian finished applying it to his sister and rubbed his hands.
Put the clam oil back into place and close the drawer gently.
His fingers are long and slender, and the joints are well-proportioned. The tendons and blood vessels on the back of his hands are clearly visible with the movements of his hands.
"Money? My sister paid off all the money. I saw my sister give the third aunt a handful of cents. The third aunt counted it back and forth several times, and then a steel pier fell to the ground. When she went to chase it, she almost knocked down the food shelf...
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The little girl squinted her eyes and smelled the smell of Vaseline on her hands. The oily smell was the most rare thing in this era of extreme material scarcity.
"If it had been the third uncle, he would have swooped out and even leveled the ground."
Chen Jinnian's hands were not idle, and he was complaining secretly in his heart.
I didn't say this to my sister, mainly because I didn't want my daughter to learn a venomous tongue.
The targets of his complaints were the Yanbu Gui couple who were well-known in the courtyard for their ability to live a good life and fight over every detail.
Looking through the drawers of the chest of drawers layer by layer, everything in the drawers was placed in its original position, just as it was when my mother, Li Yulan, was alive.
Even if Chen Jinnian closes his eyes, he can find what he is looking for.
It has been almost four years since he inexplicably traveled to this courtyard house. When he was reborn, the original owner was critically ill. The doctor had already notified his mother of her critical illness. Chen Jingnian took advantage of his reincarnation and was quickly out of danger.
However, my father, who had been lying on the hospital bed for a long time, passed away within a few days. My mother, who had worked hard to send my father to his death, fell to the workplace again not long after.
With the help of his father and other comrades in arms, Chen Jingnian finished high school with time off, and did not choose to go to college. Instead, he chose to drop out of school to take his mother's place and prepare to work in the No. 3 Steel Rolling Plant.
In the past four years, Chen Jingnian has experienced the loss of his father, mother, and now his sister has gotten married again. From the perspective of outsiders, his situation is simply miserable.
But as a time traveler, he doesn't think so.
First of all, Chen Jingnian is very grateful that the original owner helped him survive the most difficult period in his life. Whenever he recalls the memory of this young man with the same name as himself, he gnaws potatoes and sweet potatoes for a long time, and his stomach acid is so overflowing that it is about to burn his esophagus.
He was so hungry that as his successor, he would still sweat all over his body and have acid reflux in his throat.
Secondly, due to the short time they got together, there was no accumulation between Chen Jingnian and his father, who had relapsed from an old injury and had been in bed for several years before passing away, and his mother, who worked hard to manage the lives of a large family, and whose mental state had been in a trance after his father's death.
He has a very deep relationship, but he has a deep relationship with his sister Chen Huiling who has been taking care of him for the past three years.
At that time, Chen Jingnian's body was very weak, and he was still confused physically and mentally after time travel. Due to lack of material, his body recovered very slowly, and the burden of life suddenly fell on his sister Chen Huiling, who was in high school.
At that time, Chen Huiling got up in the dark every day to carry water, chop firewood, wash clothes, and cook. Not only did she have to take care of her mother and young sister who had no time to spare, as well as the thin and weak Chen Jingnian, she also took all the time to study hard and study.
The only thing Chen Jingnian can do is to do some small things within his power with a relaxed expression, so as to comfort his crying sister and not cause any more trouble to his eldest sister Chen Huiling.
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"Brother, I'm hungry."
Nannan was thinking about the fruit box in the drawer and hurriedly got off the stool.
Chen Jingnian shook off his divergent thoughts and turned around to scratch his sister's little nose. Although this little girl was not tall and had a sallow complexion, she was very thoughtful and had an idea as soon as she turned her eyes.
He took out Zhao Jianjun's door-to-door gift from the drawer, opened the box of fruits on it, and said, "Don't eat it everywhere, and don't eat it."
"I'll take it and hold it in the box. I can still pick it up after it falls into the box."
Nannan slapped her eyes twice, and another idea came into her mind.
"Take the lid, take the box, you must not eat the whole box!",
Chen Jingnian took the lid of the box and put two pieces of bean paste cakes on the table. He then took out a clean towel, fanned the box, and said, "As promised, we can only eat two pieces. We have to eat at noon."
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It’s not that Chen Jingnian is reluctant to part with it, but that pastry fruits like bean paste cakes are filled with meat oil. My sister’s spleen and stomach are weak and it’s not easy to digest them if she eats too much.
"Brother, I'll give you the stuffing inside."
Nannan sat on the bench solemnly, and ceremonially broke off a corner of the bean paste flower cake, picked out the most delicious fillings, and held it in front of Chen Jingnian with her little hands.
"Brother won't eat. Zhao Jianjun treated me to a drink yesterday. Dog..."
Chen Jingnian swallowed the dirty words that followed, held his sister's hand, and fed the stuffing into the drooling little mouth.
He has never eaten bean paste cakes in this life. It can even be said that since time traveling, apart from daily foods such as cabbage, potatoes and stick noodles, he has never eaten anything like pastries.
However, as the only boy in the family, Chen Jingnian has much more food and clothing than his eldest sister and younger sister.
Especially during the period of recovery after the serious illness, almost everything at home was available to him.
"Brother, did my brother-in-law treat you to some dog meat?"
Nannan covered her mouth, fearing that a little bit of dough would fall out of her mouth, but she could still hear surprise and envy in her voice.
"Bai Pi'er, there's also a plate of pork slices."
Chen Jinnian laughed, and at the same time, his hand finally touched a small cloth bag on the bottom wooden beam of the chest of drawers.
Amidst the sound of his sister slobbering, he opened the small cloth bag, and a few pieces of money, cloth stamps, food stamps and other colorful pieces of paper emerged from it. Chen Jinnian's eyes immediately became wet.
"Brother, what's wrong with you...ah!"
One small hand wiped the corner of Chen Jingnian's eyes, and the other small hand held the lid of the box astray.
"Eat it and don't drop any more."
Chen Jingnian reached out to hold the lid of the box that almost fell to the ground, and put it back on the dining table.
My sister's lean little face turned pale and red. She pushed the lid of the box in and peeked over.
"My sister didn't bring anything with her. She only left money and food stamps."
Chen Jingnian tied the cloth bag and put it back to its original place.
Nannan blinked, not sure what this meant.
Seeing that his brother's expression had returned to normal, he lowered his head and launched an attack on Guozi with confidence.
Chen Jinnian closed the drawer tightly, picked up a glass cup from the enamel plate on the counter and poured a glass of water for his daughter. This chapter has been completed!