With such a big place at home, it's not so easy to hide things.

Cao Yun hid the pamphlet in the wooden box where the outhouse was kept, and the gap between the wall and the wall, and blocked it with an old newspaper outside, thinking that he had hidden it very tightly.

Before dinner that day, Guo Zhien quietly stole the booklet, and took advantage of Cao Yun and Cao Peiyu to take care of them while they were cooking, and they pulled Chunyang and Zhili to hide in the backyard and secretly look at it.

"It turned out to teach people how to have children, it's not interesting", Chunyang said uninterested after flipping through a few pages.

"Do you want to see what you know?" Guo Zhien disagreed with her words a little, and said while flipping through the book: "My father used to tell us that books are the most precious thing in the world, because they can answer all kinds of questions. Although we now know that it is useless to have children, we will definitely be able to use it in the future, and it will not be a loss to take a look. ”

Chunyang pondered and pondered, and actually felt that what Zhien said was very reasonable, and lowered his head and looked at it.

After reading it, Guo Zhien stuffed the booklet back, and the adults in the family didn't find it.

Books are the most precious thing in the world, and Chunyang agrees. She was very precious to the old books that Guo Zhien brought back, and she also wrapped them with old newspapers, and she was careful when she read them for fear of breaking the pages.

However, the things she was a treasure were burned by Cao Yun.

That day, Guo Zhien went to the town to pick up the rags again, Chunyang and Zhili both came over to see what he picked up, and after making sure that he only picked up a sack of plastic bottles this time, Chunyang went to the outhouse to help Cao Yun cook, who knew that as soon as he entered the house, he saw Cao Yun pulling a book and filling it in the stove pit.

Chunyang rushed directly over to grab the half of the book that hadn't been burned yet, and wanted to reach into the stove pit to pick up the burning half.

Thanks to Cao Yun's quick reaction, she grabbed her in time, threw her to the ground with a flick of her hand, and asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

"Books, my books!" Chunyang said angrily: "Why are you burning my books? If you want to light a fire, you can burn the newspaper, and if you can't do it, don't you have birch bark and pine resin outside, why do you want to burn my books!"

The movement of the two of them was a bit big, attracting Cao Peiyu and Guo Zhien over.

Cao Peiyu helped Chunyang up and asked her if she had something, but Chunyang didn't answer and only looked at Cao Yun stubbornly.

Without waiting for Cao Yun to answer, Zhien spoke first: "This is the rule of our family, except for those books that cross the bright road, other books must be burned after reading, and they cannot be kept." ”

How can normal people have such rules? Also, what is a book that crosses the Ming Road? What is it like to be a book on the Ming Road?

Just when Chunyang was still thinking about the question mark, Zhien pulled her out, and the two of them squatted outside the courtyard to talk about it.

"Do you know why my dad came to us?" asked her.

Chunyang heard from the people in the village that it seemed that Guo Houze hid things that should not be hidden at home when he was in the city, and after being turned out, his daughter-in-law took the child to divorce him and draw a line, and he was sent here for reform. Later, he said that he could go back to the city if he made no mistake, and he had already been with Cao Peiyu and had children, so he gave up the opportunity to return to the city and stayed in Dongshan Village.

"My dad didn't hide anything extraordinary, just a few books, a few foreign books that they couldn't understand and thought they were hiding a shocking secret. Those people accused my dad of guilt, and my dad didn't even have a chance to defend himself. Later, my father set a rule for the family, you can read books, but you can't read them in front of people, and you can't keep the books you have finished reading. My dad said that it is not safe to hide books anywhere, and it is safest to memorize the contents of the books in your head. Guo Zhien sighed and explained.

After listening, Chunyang didn't speak for a long time.

She seems to understand why the children of the Guo family secretly study at home and don't go to school, they just want outsiders to think that they can't read a single word.

Chunyang didn't know if it was right for them to do this, but she was now in the Guo family, and if she ate a bite of food from the Guo family, she naturally had to abide by the rules of the Guo family.

After a long time, she said sullenly: "I was wrong, I will compensate the eldest sister in a while." I'll read the rest of the books quickly, and I'll burn them myself after I'm done. ”

Guo Zhien, who had a big brother-like nonsense, stroked her hair, withdrew his hand before she glared at her, and said with a smile: "The little girl has a really good temper. Next week, the eldest sister is going to your house, stay at your house for a day or two and then go into the mountain with your eldest brother, she feels very uncomfortable, and when you apologize to her again, say more good things to make her happy. ”

Chunyang nodded and responded, and Zhien said again: "It's not easy to go out when the snow is closed, I have to go out to pick up more things before the heavy snowfall, my mother can do it if she cooks or something, you just need to take care of Zhili, don't let him run out." ”

Chunyang should come down again, Zhien stretched out his hand to hook her, but Chunyang still hooked him with disgust.

Before Cao Yun went to Li's house, Zhienke prepared a lot of things for her, many of which were new things that Chunyang had never seen.

First of all, it was a big red cloth octagonal box with anti-wear steel corners, only the lining and zipper inside were broken, and it could be used by changing the lining and repairing the zipper, and Cao Yun used this big red box for marriage.

"This box is so beautiful, I have never seen such a box in our village", Chunyang sighed when he saw the box for the first time.

Everyone is quite satisfied, but Guo Zhien himself is not satisfied.

"Marriage has to be done in pairs, and it would be nice to have two boxes. I'll check it out tomorrow and maybe I'll be lucky enough to pick up another one. Guo Zhien said.

I don't know if he was lucky or bad, he didn't pick up the big red box when he came back from another trip, and picked up a radio!

It's a big radio, with two slots on it for tapes, a button to change the channel in the middle, and a piano at the bottom that can be pulled out and pushed back.

"This thing needs to be powered to use it, right? We don't have electricity at home, and we don't know if it can still ring, so it's useless for you to pick it up." While being excited and happy, Cao Peiyu said very regretfully.

Obviously, Guo Zhien thought about this problem when he picked up the radio, and said happily: "I will go into the village to find Erbao in a while and borrow electricity from him." He has a strict mouth, I don't let him say it, he definitely won't say it, and when the eldest sister brings the radio to Li's house, they don't know where they came from. ”

Erbao is a big name, and his nickname is Erhan, and people are a little silly and simple as his name, and the people in the village love to make fun of him.

Erbao is many years older than Chunyang, and he can't play together, so he is not familiar.

It is quite surprising that Guo Zhien has a good relationship with Erbao, and the top priority is to test whether the radio is good or not, so Chunyang didn't ask much.

Not surprisingly, the radio was broken, and plugging in the power didn't respond at all.

Cao Peiyu and Cao Yun mean that they can't use it, forget it, anyway, it's okay to change relatives, Cao Yun doesn't bring large items, only brings bedding or something, and it's nothing.

Chunyang and Guo Zhien both felt that it was a pity to forget it, and they could probably make it up after tinkering.

The two of them, together with Guo Zhili, went to Erbao's house to borrow electricity to repair the radio.

It is said to be repaired, but in fact, it is just tinkering. After dismantling, blow the ash, move this and that, plug in and try again.

Chunyang, who was a little annoyed that he couldn't fix it, slapped the radio in a fit of anger, and he didn't want to shoot the sound directly, so the two looked at each other and laughed heartily.

"The blind cat has run into a dead mouse, and this is a trouble. I'm going to put the back lid on now, I'm going to be hungry after coming out for so long..."

Zhien was still chattering, and Chunyang exclaimed, "Where is Zhili, where did Zhili go?"