Chapter 9: Laughter
The brother and sister played a game of pointing things for a while, and after pointing out everything in the house, Zhou Chen remembered a new trick. He mysteriously whispered to Zhou Yang to cooperate, "We know that we are distressed!" She also knows to let me drink water! If you don't believe it, I'll take a bowl of water and watch it to see who she gives it to drink. "Zhou Wanwan rolled his eyes in Zhou Yang's arms, second brother! I'm just holding it in my eldest brother's arms, don't treat the child as inappropriate, I can hear everything you say, okay?
Zhou Chen went to bring half a bowl of water and put it on the kang to let Zhou Wanwan admit it, Zhou Wanwan really reached over and touched her little hand, and Zhou Chen cooperated with her to touch it. Zhou Wanwan took advantage of the darkness to see clearly, replaced the water in the bowl with spiritual spring water, added another drop of spiritual liquid, and then put Zhou Yang's medicine and energy supplements today, and then pulled Zhou Yang over: "Big brother, drink water." ”
Zhou Yang was so surprised that he couldn't do it, hugging his sister and kissing him thoughtlessly, "Oops! Why are we so sensible! Why are you so smart! ”
Zhou Chen was not at all unhappy because his sister gave the water to his eldest brother, and laughed with honor.
"Big brother, drink water!" Zhou Wanwan easily rescued herself from Zhou Yang's clutches and urged him to do his business.
Zhou Yang took the bowl, and just like Zhou Chen at noon today, he drained most of the bowl of water at once. wiped his mouth, and said the same as Zhou Chen: "The water my sister gives me is sweet!" ”
"I think so too!" Zhou Chen took the bowl where Zhou Yang drank the water and answered with a smile.
"Second brother, drink water!" Zhou Wanwan seized the opportunity and hurriedly asked Zhou Chen to drink some more spiritual spring water.
Zhou Chen really went to pour himself half a bowl of water, let Zhou Wanwan stretch out his little finger and touch it, and drank it. Zhou Wanwan smiled like a little fox, today the two brothers drank the spiritual spring water, took the medicine, and also took energy supplements, her task today was successfully completed!
Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen then played a game of pointing things with Zhou Wanwan, and finally the things at home were no longer fingers, Zhou Chen took out his stinky socks from Zhou Yang's shoes and pointed them out to Zhou Wanwan. These socks are really stinky, no matter how capable Zhou Chen is, he is only a ten-year-old boy, it is very rare to be able to take care of his little sister cleanly, he really can't take care of Zhou Yang's socks. Moreover, he didn't have any other socks to show Zhou Wanwan to recognize, because this was the only pair of socks in the family. or mother Li Xiuhua dismantled one of her own velvet jackets when she was alive, and planned to knit a pair of socks for each of the four brothers and sisters, and then knit a small dress for Zhou Wanwan, but only one pair of Zhou Yang's socks were knitted, and Li Xiuhua died......
Zhou Chen shook his head and shook off his sad emotions. Straightened his arm and took Zhou Yang's stinky socks to Xiao Zhou Wanwan and shook them, "Nan, what is this?" ”
Zhou Wanwan couldn't stand the smell either, so she threw herself into Zhou Yang's arms and hid her little face, "Stink!" ”
Zhou Chen and Zhou Yang laughed at the same time, the little sister's appearance is so funny! It's so rare!
Zhou Wanwan was lying in Zhou Yang's arms, listening to the laughter of her brothers, her eldest brother's chest shook and shook, which made her heart sore and painful, it turned out that her eldest brother could laugh so happily...... Since Zhou Wanwan has a memory, Zhou Yang has basically never smiled sincerely, heavy labor, vicious and indifferent family members and increasingly serious illness make his face only sad and numb, only when he looks at her, there will be warmth in his eyes, but with that warmth, there is also full of heartache. The eldest brother who has worked hard for her all his life has never had such pure happiness......
"Big brother, it stinks!" If you can make your brothers so happy, Zhou Wanwan doesn't mind being a child in front of them, and there is no obstacle to using the advantages of children to be cute and cute.
"Oops! Dare to dislike big brother! Zhou Yang laughed and squeaked his sister in the quilt.
"Second brother! Second brother! Zhou Wanwan laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, and she hurriedly asked Zhou Chen for help.
"Second brother is here to save you!"
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The fourteenth moon shone brightly on the small mountain village between the white mountains and black waters, under the heavy snow, the land that had been ravaged by drought for three years was pregnant with new vitality, and the children's cheerful laughter sounded for the first time after the death of the mother in the small and poor small house of the Zhou family......
Early the next morning, Zhou Wanwan was still woken up by Zhou Chen wiping his face like yesterday, and today Zhou Chen should have gone to work too early, and the dogskin hat on his head had not had time to be taken off, and there were wisps of frost hanging on it.
"Second brother." As soon as Zhou Wanwan opened her eyes, she smiled at Zhou Chen and called her brother sweetly. Zhou Chen, as a ten-year-old boy, has to do such heavy work every day, and has to squeeze in time to take care of his sister, as a person who can't take care of himself, what Zhou Wanwan can do is to coax him to be happy and let him be happier every day.
"That's good!" Zhou Chen quickly washed his sister's face and dressed, took the cold malt milk essence next to him and fed it spoonful by spoonful, and cleaned up the house after feeding, before wrapping her up and carrying her to the east house.
It wasn't until they waited in the east house for a while, and the meal was about to start, that Zhou Jun dragged two yellow snots out of the east room. At first glance, Zhou Jun looked like he had just woken up, yawning and picking at the numb paste (eye droppings) on his eyes. Only then did Zhou Wanwan find out that Zhou Jun was also earning third-class work in the production team, and Zhou Jun did not go to work in the morning. Excluding the three sons of the Zhou family of the Shanghai Water Conservancy Infrastructure Construction Team and Zhou Yang of the Farmland Infrastructure Construction Team, among all the Zhou family members who are now working in the production team, only Zhou Fu and Zhou Chen went to work in the morning. Zhou Fu earns first-class work in the production team, and according to the regulations of the production team, he must go to early work, while women who get second-class work and children who get third-class work are not forced to work early in the production team, and whether they go or not is entirely voluntary.
Zhou Jun, who is five years older than Zhou Chen, does not have to go to morning work, and no one in the family feels that it is wrong, only ten-year-old Zhou Chen is reprimanded for one less morning job, and the whole family also feels that it is right. Zhou Wanwan sneered in her heart, she was really shameless that she didn't go offline.
The breakfast of the Zhou family on this day was still the same vegetable leaf paste with old pickle gnocchi. At the dinner table, Zhou Juan was treated favorably because of her contribution to the family, and she got most of the bowl of mush. Li Guizhi and Zhou Ping's eyes were red and swollen, and their spirits were a little dazed, and they looked like they had cried last night. And Zhou Ling's attention was always on the pocket of her blouse, and she couldn't show any interest in the paste in front of her, Wang Fengying knocked her with chopsticks several times, and she started drinking it all at once.
Zhou Wanwan guessed that Zhou Ling must have the content of the sisters biting their ears yesterday in her pocket, looking at the shape, it is very likely to be a few pieces of sugar.
After eating, Zhou Chen did not leave immediately as he did every day, but like yesterday, he lay on the kang and talked to his sister for a while: "...... The second brother came back to see you at noon, you lie down obediently, don't pee your pants...... Give the second brother a smile......"
Mrs. Zhou watched from the kang, her face was long, and she urged Zhou Chen to hurry up and go to work, "Hurry up!" You tell her she can understand something! ”
Zhou Chen didn't refute either, and teased Zhou Wan for a while, until the production team rang the bell and went to work.
"How can you still feed it! Throw the South Mountain goods in the morning and evening! Mrs. Zhou glared at Zhou Wanwan fiercely with her eyes while taking the soles of her shoes.
This vicious glance can be regarded as all the attention that Mrs. Zhou gave to Zhou Wanwan all the day, and all the other times, Mrs. Zhou and everyone in the Zhou family threw her on the kang and left her to fend for herself.
This complete disregard gave Zhou Wanwan room to do her own thing, except for the time when Zhou Chen came back at noon and asked Zhou Chen to pee and feed her malt cream, and then secretly accompanied Zhou Chen to talk for a while, Zhou Wanwan exercised her little arms and legs all day long, slept for a while when she was tired, and secretly ate something for herself when she was hungry.
Yes, Zhou Wanwan not only has to eat secretly, but even talks secretly to his brothers in his own room. The two older brothers are teenage boys, and they don't understand the laws of baby growth and development, so they can speak so clearly to her suddenly, and they are only happy with such a large vocabulary, and there is no surprise at all. The rest of the family is different, if they find out, it is likely to cause her unnecessary trouble, so Zhou Wanwan thinks it is better to keep a low profile first, and wait for her to be older, and then it is safer to speak. Moreover, she and the rest of the family have nothing to say, and whether she can open her mouth or not has no effect on Zhou Wanwan.
Zhou Wanwan was so comfortably ignored, doing her own thing during the day, the only thing to worry about was the occasional harassment of Zhou Ling and Zhou Xia. They would pinch her or slap her coldly, and Zhou Lan, who was also lying on the kang, couldn't escape such a sudden attack. These two people randomly chose between Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Lan, and they bullied which one was easy, and sometimes the two of them were beaten together. Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Hongying didn't care at all when they saw it, but fortunately, these two children had a lot to do every day, and they didn't have much energy to bully people.
In her previous life, Zhou Wanwan knew that Zhou Xia didn't like her since she was a child, and when she grew up, because Zhou Xia bullied her eldest brother, the two of them had a lot of dirty, and finally came to the point where they didn't greet each other. But Zhou Wanwan didn't expect that Zhou Xia's dislike for her began when she was a baby. As a sibling, these days, Zhou Xia has never taken any care of Zhou Wanwan, and she is ruthless in pinching her.
Since Zhou Wanwan came back, she has only had a sense of revenge against the Zhou family, including Zhou Xia, and the severity is different. It is impossible to repay grievances with virtue. Therefore, after being pinched by Zhou Xia again, Zhou Wanwan took some scar potion from the space and wiped it on her little arms, calves, and buttocks. When Zhou Chen dressed her the next morning, he found bruises and purple marks on her body. In addition, she sued with tears in her eyes, and that morning, Zhou Xia was grabbed by Zhou Chen and beaten her buttocks, and warned her that if she dared to move her sister's finger again, she would chop off her hand!
Now it's okay, not only Zhou Xia saw Zhou Wanwan taking a detour, but even Zhou Ling didn't dare to approach her. also rescued Zhou Lan. Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Hongying ignored Zhou Wanwan even more, and they didn't have this child at all, except for cursing viciously in private, they didn't pay any other attention.