Cheng Changqing and Cheng Zhao'er knew what everyone was thinking, but they didn't ask, they couldn't rush to talk about peace and departure, and it was not a glorious thing! So both of them pretended not to know, but just quickened the pace of going home.

Cheng Zhaoer followed Cheng Changqing's pace, to be honest, if she didn't follow, she wouldn't know where her home was?

As Cheng Changqing's footsteps kept moving forward, they had already bypassed most of the villages. After turning around, they also arrived in front of Cheng's house.

Cheng Zhao'er looked around, this was probably a relatively backward place in Heping Village, and she saw that most of the houses were still in front of their house. Only a few households are close to their own homes.

Now, it was 10 o'clock in the afternoon, and the surrounding people were basically quiet, and bursts of white smoke were coming out of the chimneys. The big guys must be cooking!

Cheng Changqing shouted into the door: "Son, mother, we're back." Actually, he was originally called Li Rongrui's mother, but Rongrui went, and he didn't want to mention this matter again to increase his grief.

Their small family is in tatters, and Cheng Changqing's inner trauma is no less than that of the Li family, but he still has the task of supporting this family. Because this is his home! Poor, even sadness is a luxury.

He shouted as he and Cheng Zhao'er pushed open the half-covered door and walked in.

Cheng Zhao'er saw the smoke rising from the chimney of the Cheng family from a distance, but she didn't expect that what came out of the kitchen was a woman with a pale face and almost colorless lips, wearing a gray burlap dress and an apron. Cheng Zhaoer's face looks very similar to her, but there is more sadness and sallow on her face. Even the hair at the back of the head has a slight silver strand in it!

This woman Cheng Zhaoer knew that it must be the Li family. Because, the moment she appeared, Cheng Zhaoer's eyes involuntarily shed two lines of tears, and she couldn't stop it.

Cheng Zhao'er didn't really realize until now how naïve she was when she just crossed over, she didn't have any responsibility for what she couldn't control her original parents, what she wanted to pursue a free life, and what her original parents were...... It's all! Just like her love for Yuanyuan and her regret for Geng Yiyuan, as well as the excitement, distress and grievances she felt when she saw her parents, it was not something she could control at all, and the emotions were overwhelming, annihilating her in an instant! Even if there is no memory, the sincerity is like being seared in the bone marrow. Difficult to erase.

She didn't think about it anymore, was this the emotional reaction of the original body, or what? In short, she is Cheng Zhaoer, and after the initial struggle and rejection, she is now able to accept it without pressure. There is nothing wrong with having more relatives who love themselves.

Perhaps, the original Cheng Zhao'er is her previous life. They are perfectly compatible. In modern times, she has never had parents, and now God has returned her family affection!

She wiped her tears, hugged Li, who was a little staggering when she walked, and said, "Mother, you are like this, why are you still cooking!" ”

Li Shi held Cheng Zhao'er's hand back, didn't answer the question, and said anxiously: "Son, why are you back?" His hands were clenched tightly, although Li didn't know what was going on, but subconsciously he must have known that it was not a good thing for his daughter to come back at such an inappropriate time.

Cheng Zhao'er stroked Li's back and soothed: "Mother, I'll talk about it later, you sit down and rest first, it's noon now, I'll cook, let's talk while doing things." ”

Seeing Cheng Zhao'er's undoubted appearance, Li had to swallow the doubts in his mouth, and even his husband didn't greet him, and followed his daughter with his temperament.

Just now, there were two identical little beans who had been running out with Li's, with round heads and round eyes, and wearing the same small gray clothes, but their bodies were small and thin. Malnutrition is evident at a glance. But these two dolls are very cute, maybe because they heard their father's voice, as Li rushed out, they rushed to Geng Changqing's side with two small cannonballs, twisting candy as if they had to twist their father, and their mouths kept calling their fathers and fathers. It seems that they haven't seen each other for half a day, and they want to kill their father!

It's just that while they were twisting, they also looked at Cheng Zhao'er, who was talking to the Li family, and seemed to be very curious.

Cheng Changqing squatted down, snorted the little heads of his two sons and said, "What's the matter, Rong Feng and Rong Nian don't know your second sister?" It's not called my sister yet. ”

The two babies glanced at their father and mother, and then timidly called at Cheng Zhao'er: "Sister~"

Cheng Zhaoer only felt that her heart was melting, and the children were the most fun when they were three or four years old, cute and dull, not to mention Cheng Zhaoer's original emotions, and she had just given birth to a child, and her mother's love was overflowing. She hurriedly let go of Li's hand, stepped forward and hugged the two little guys in her arms and said, "Good brother, my sister will buy you candy to eat in the future." As soon as the two little ones heard that there was candy to eat, their eyes lit up and they nodded their heads again and again.

Cheng Rongfeng saw Cheng Zhao'er's eyes brightening when he saw Yuanyuan on his back, and while reaching it with his small hand, he pointed to Yuanyuan and said to Cheng Zhao'er: "Sister~Sister~"

Cheng Zhao'er laughed all of a sudden, not only Cheng Zhao'er, but also Cheng Changqing and Li, and the childish words of the child suddenly diluted the sadness, pain and hidden worries about the future. Cheng Zhao'er picked him up, kissed him fiercely, and said, "This is not your sister, it's your niece!" ”

Cheng Rongfeng's little guy half-understood, obviously he didn't understand such a complex language, but he was very quiet in Cheng Zhao'er's arms, and he didn't mean to go down at all. He was like this, Cheng Rongnian's child quit, he saw that his brother was hugged, and no one hugged him, first he opened his arms and looked at Cheng Zhao'er, and then cried with his mouth wide open in grievance.

Cheng Zhao'er was dumbfounded, is she jealous? He didn't stop crying, the little brother in Cheng Zhao'er's hand also cried, and then there was a thin cry in the house.

Li was distracted again, slapped his face, and ran to the inner room, saying, "Alas, my eldest grandson is awake!" Cheng Zhao'er was stunned, it seemed that it was her eldest brother Cheng Rongrui's son.

Cheng Changqing picked up his youngest son, who was still crying, and also went to the house......

Finally put the three little ancestors to sleep, Cheng Zhao'er exhaled, looked back at Yuanyuan, good guy, this little girl didn't cry when her uncle and cousin sang the duet together just now, she just frowned, looking dissatisfied.

Cheng Zhao'er kissed her, asked Zhang and Cheng Changqing to help lay out the quilt, and brought Yuanyuan to sleep. She went into the kitchen herself.

Of course, the kitchen here is not so elegantly called, just called the stove room. I looked at the big porridge that had been boiled in the pot and was stuffy, and looked at the strength of the clear soup with little water, it was not thick at all, and it must not be enough. And the dishes, except for the bowl of pickles on the table, I didn't see anything else.

Cheng Zhaoer was very helpless, she didn't know that her family was already so poor! Also, her eldest brother is gone, and when she came back, the white cloth at home had not been completely removed, and even the tables, chairs, various dishes, chopsticks and plates were placed aside, presumably borrowed from the neighbor's house, and the funeral was over, and it was to be returned! Her mother's eyes were still red and swollen.

Cheng Zhao'er has no doubt that if it weren't for a little grandson to support her, her mother might be able to go like this. And her father's health looked very poor, and when they came back from Yehe Village, they were reluctant to take the ox cart, and her father's lips turned white all the way over. I heard that my grandmother only gave three acres of thin land to her father, and it was because of the lack of land that his father embarked on the road of hunting. Now, it's the body that has been damaged. I can't even plant three acres of thin fields, and I can't give them to others, and the income in this field is already small, and I can't collect much grain every year when I give them to others.

Thinking about it this way, the family's financial constraints are really an inevitable result.

Cheng Zhaoer still doesn't know which similar place of the Chinese nation she is in, saying that it is the Tang and Song dynasties in the northeast, the last time she went to the town, she actually saw chili peppers and sweet potatoes being sold, but the prices of chili peppers and sweet potatoes are not cheap. I heard that the price of sweet potatoes was originally quite low, and this thing is so long that every family doesn't want to eat it. However, in recent years, there have been more wars in the surrounding areas, and sweet potatoes have basically been transported to the battlefield to feed the soldiers.

This thing is a lot more expensive all of a sudden. And chili peppers, I heard that they came from Fanbang, were monopolized by some big families and wealthy businessmen. The people have no seeds, they can't plant them, and they love to eat this spicy taste, so they can only endure this unfair price.

Also, there is no kang bed unique to the north. Let's say it's not the Northeast, then this daily food is either big ballast porridge or bud flour cakes, which are the staple foods that northerners love to eat!

After thinking about it, I still don't know what dynasty or place this is, and Cheng Zhaoer doesn't bother to make this effort. It is still important to think about the current situation and how to improve the situation at home and the physical condition of the parents.

Cheng Zhao'er entered the yard just now, and took a hasty glance, this Cheng family originally seemed to be relatively well-off, and the blue brick house was still relatively new. Although it is not very large, there are three main rooms and two side rooms. This house must have been built a few years ago when the family still had some money. There is a big yard in front, and the dirt in the yard has also been cleaned up into a vegetable patch by the Li family! Tender cucumbers grow on the cucumber vines. Behind the house is a bamboo forest, and behind the bamboo forest is a river. Walk through the path in the bamboo forest and walk directly to the river at the back, where it is convenient to wash clothes or use water.

Cheng Zhao'er saw that there was really no food, so he went to the yard to pick three cucumbers, cut them into shreds, found some chili peels from the cupboard, and was ruthless, dug up a piece of lard the size of a fingernail, burned a fire behind the stove, mixed the chili peppers in the pot and fried them into chili oil, and put a small piece of sauce, and the whole house was filled with the smell of fresh fragrance in an instant, and then poured all these as toppings on the shredded cucumbers.

Suddenly, a voice came, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”