Qi Zhoushi followed to the kitchen to work, she steamed three pots of steamed buns today, she had to put the frozen steamed buns into the big vat outside, then cover the lid and press the stones, and she had to take the lid back and clean it.

Lu Xiuzhi also cleaned up the table, there are too few women in this family, and the work in the house is always unfinished.

She wiped the tabletop, and the third son, Baoping, had already set up the stool, put the tabletop down for her, stood by the kitchen wall, snatched the broom from her hand, and began to sweep the floor. The other boys had already climbed to the kang in the north house on the east side to play, and the third child knew that he was distressed, but his father-in-law had never liked boys doing housework, so she reached out and took back the broom, "Go play!" ”

Shen Mengxi had eaten a full meal, and he kept sitting on the hot kang again, sweating on his nose. Qi Youheng took out his handkerchief, wiped Shen Mengxi's sweat, and reached out to help her take off her little padded jacket.

"Don't sweat!" Old Man Qi said.

"I can't." Qi Youheng put the padded jacket back on his daughter's shoulder.

Shen Mengxi can see that in this family, there are too many boys and too few girls, so that in the patriarchal region and era, the girls of the Qi family are more popular than the boys.

"Zhuzhu, Mom and Dad are too busy at the end of the year, and now that you are sick, I can only send you to Grandpa's house to recuperate, you have to listen to Grandpa, eat well, you know?" Qi Youheng touched his daughter's hair and said.

Shen Mengxi was a little uncomfortable being touched, and he was embarrassed to pull his hand directly, so he only shrugged his shoulders, "The braids are all open." ”

"You're a big man, what are you doing with your child's hair?" Old Man Qi beckoned to Shen Mengxi, "Zhuzhu, Master is here!" ”

Qi Weixing also climbed onto the kang and leaned over, "Master! "No one in the north house wants to take him to play, so he has to come to my aunt.

"Hey!" Old Man Qi sat cross-legged, leaned against the wall, and carried the two children to his lap and sat down. Shen Mengxi thought to himself, yes, it's better to let Qi Youheng touch his hair.

"Dad, let them sit on the kang, it's quite old."

"Unsinkable. The orb is light, and the satellite has not yet sunk! ”

Shen Mengxi leaned against the old man's thin chest, stroked his dry calloused hands, and involuntarily put his hands on his veins.

Although this old man Qi is thin, his eyes are shining, and his pulse is calm and powerful. This shows that he has a good congenital foundation and good maintenance.

Old Man Qi found that his granddaughter was taking the pulse, and laughed, "Ah, where is Zhuzhu treating Ye?" Doctor Xiao Qi, you show your master, how many years can you live? ”

Shen Mengxi sat on the kang and stretched out two fingers to the old man, the old man Qi was stunned for a moment, and laughed again, "Two years!" Two years is not a lot! ”

Qi Youheng hurriedly grabbed his daughter's hand, "Zhuzhu!" ”

Shen Mengxi dodged and said word by word: "Twenty years!" ”

Old Man Qi burst out into even louder laughter, "That's not going to live to be more than a hundred, it's so annoying to live so long!" ”

"There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure! Daddy's longevity is the blessing of the old Qi family! Qi Youde hurriedly said, and everyone echoed.

"There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't force it! I don't force it, I live until one day! Old Man Qi stroked his beard and said with a smile.

Shen Mengxi looked at the old man who dropped his bookbag at every turn, and nodded seriously, "I really can!" Satellite also nodded, "Really!" ”

"Dad, children see things so brightly, you can really live to more than a hundred!" Qi Youheng leaned in and said.

"Fuck off!" Old Man Qi scolded, laughing with a wrinkled face.

After chatting for a while after dinner, it was dark, and Qi Youheng and his wife took their two sons back to the county seat, and they had to go to work tomorrow. There were only two bicycles, Qi Baoping stayed, and Lu Xiuzhi asked him to take care of his sister more.

Among the things Lu Xiuzhi brought, there was a piece of frozen hairtail fish, and two bottles of canned hawthorn, which had been stared at by all the children all afternoon. That night, Qi Zhoushi opened a bottle, and Shen Mengxi was speechless as she watched her pry the metal lid of the can with a screwdriver.

"Auntie, I'll come!" Qi Baoping took over and continued to pry.

The young man was quick and pried it open in a few clicks. Qi Zhou put a spoon in Shen Mengxi's hand, and put the can on the kang table, "Eat, you will be cured if you eat it." ”

- In the Northeast, canned fruit and egg water cure all diseases.

"Auntie, I can't eat."

"I can't eat it tomorrow." Qi Zhou's body blocked the eyes of other children, the wolf has more meat and less meat, this small bottle of canned food, the treasure bead will definitely not be eaten, but if you give the grandchildren a point, it will be gone in a blink of an eye.

Shen Mengxi scooped a spoonful, ate a hawthorn, because it was placed by the window, it was cold and sour, and he drank a spoonful of canned soup, which was thick and sweet and sour, and tasted very good.

She pushed the can away, "Give them a break." ”

The tone subconsciously carries the habits of the previous life, and it is difficult to change it for a while. Satellite didn't care, climbed onto the kang, "I'll help my aunt eat!" ”

"Well, thank you satellites. You give everyone a share. ”

"Hmm!" Satellite hugged the canned bottle.

"Don't fight, big will hold it for you." Qi Zhou looked at Shen Mengxi, "This kid, I don't like to eat such a good thing!" ”

Satellite followed the eldest grandmother Qi Zhou to the North House, muttering, "I'll share, I'll share!" ”

Old Man Qi looked at Shen Mengxi and smiled, "I'll just say, a good boy is not bad!" ”

******

That night, Shen Mengxi and Qi Weixing lived in the South House with the old man Qi, and the old man smoked a lot less cigarettes for his granddaughter this day.

"Master tells stories!" At half past eight, Qi Weixing's eyes couldn't be opened, but he muttered to let Old Man Qi tell a story.

"Okay, the master will tell you the story of fighting devils!" Old Man Qi pulled the lamp rope and began to tell the story in the dark.

Shen Mengxi burst into tears when he heard it, and finally cried so much that he couldn't cry.

"What's wrong with Zhuzhu? Missed your mother? Old Man Qi was talking about the devil entering the village to sweep, and when he heard his granddaughter crying, he hurriedly turned on the electric light and sat up.

Shen Mengxi covered the quilt on his head and still cried.

Old Man Qi was a little flustered and a little anxious, "Why don't you tell me about a monkey?" ”

Over there, Qi Weixing was sleeping soundly, kicked open the quilt, and Shen Mengxi, who was in the same quilt with him, also lost the quilt. Old Man Qi wiped his granddaughter's face distressedly, and only asked repeatedly: "What's wrong Zhuzhu?" ”

Over there, Qi Zhou's clan also heard the movement and came to the door, "Dad, Zhuzhu is crying?" ”

"yes, I miss her mother, what's going on?"

"Why don't you bring me and sleep with me?"

Qi Baoping also came over, went into the house and picked up Shen Mengxi, "Zhuzhu doesn't cry, my brother didn't leave, he was in the north house just now." ”

Shen Mengxi was immersed in his own world at the moment, and he didn't know anything about his family's anxieties. She heard Old Man Qi talk about "fighting devils", which proved that the devils in this world still exist, and Dongying, who she and several children went through hardships and did not hesitate to destroy with blood on their hands, still exists today! Still invaded her country!

How does she not cry? How does it not hurt?

What's going on in the world?

Does everything she does leave no trace?

So, how is she going to live next?