Returning home with the packed meals, Zhao Qingyu glanced at the younger brother who pretended to be calm in the room, if she hadn't deliberately slowed down and heard the music of the game console in the house, she was afraid that she would have been fooled by the latter's well-behaved and lovely appearance.

"It's time to eat."

Zhao Qingyu put the food on the table in the living room, went to the toilet and took half a basin of cold water to wash his face and wash his hands.

"Ah, sister, you're back!"

Zhao Qingfeng seemed to have just heard the movement in the house, hurriedly dropped the mechanical pencil in his hand, got up like a fly, and walked out of the room in a hurry.

Zhao Qingyu didn't know about this child's trick, wrung out the towel after washing his face, hung it on the nail at the door, and smiled at Zhao Qingfeng who was about to open the lid to eat when he came out: "Wash your hands first, and after eating, we will sit together and do our homework." ”

"Oh......"

Zhao Qingfeng's little face seemed to stiffen, but he quickly walked past Zhao Qingyu with his head bowed and went to the toilet to wash his hands.

Zhao Qingyu glanced at the electric fan next to the TV, sighed, and walked over to move the fan to the table.

"Sister is so nice!" Zhao Qingfeng came out and said casually.

"Hurry up and eat you." Zhao Qingyu smiled helplessly, then turned around and went back to his room, and found two useless old newspapers to put on the table in the living room.

Zhao Qingfeng just lowered his head to eat, and when he looked up again, he found that his sister had already done her summer vacation homework opposite him.

After eating slowly, he had to obediently take out his Chinese summer vacation homework and sit next to Zhao Qingyu to write it together.

In the next few days, Zhao Qingyu made up his mind to keep an eye on his younger brother, and every morning at five o'clock when the sun just came out, he would get up and go out to bring food back, and after eating, he would call Zhao Qingfeng to write homework together.

It was a little stronger at noon, and you could rest for an hour after eating.

Zhao Qingyu himself will take a nap, as for Zhao Qingfeng, he will turn the TV sound to silent to play games.

Zhao Qingyu knows this, she knows that nothing can be eaten fat at once, so she just turns a blind eye, as long as she is not lazy when she writes her homework on weekdays.

Of course, with her, Zhao Qingfeng can't be lazy.

In the afternoon, the two of them were writing homework on a table again, although Zhao Qingfeng was not very happy at first, he pouted and coquettishly as soon as he wrote his homework, drinking water for a while, and going to the toilet for a while.

But within a few days, his summer vacation homework was decreasing day by day at a visible rate, and Zhao Qingyu said that as long as he finished his homework, he would be relieved to let him play happily in the following days.

Thinking about it, it's only been a few days, almost two months of summer vacation, and he didn't spend a week writing more than half of it this time, can you not be excited.

Even every time Zhao Qingyu takes out his homework, he doesn't need her to remind him, he will put his homework out in advance, and occasionally he can ask if he can't, not to mention saving more trouble.

Zhao Qingyu writes Chinese in the morning and English in the afternoon, and at night he can study math problems without disturbing him, and then listen to English listening later.

Even during the summer vacation, she studied almost according to the school schedule.

Late at night, occasionally looking at the starry sky, she will also sigh that this is probably the most disciplined student period she remembers.

Sometimes Zhao's father and Zhao's mother will persuade her not to work so hard and work so hard, but Zhao Qingyu always laughs away.

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The weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, every morning in the Xinglong noodle tube, it is a few degrees hotter than outside, especially standing next to the big stove for a while, it will be so hot that you sweat, if you stand all day, you feel that the water in the human body can be roasted dry.

Zhao's father and Zhao's mother both said that their business was also more idle during this time, so they asked him to go home early to rest, and by the way, he would spend more time with his elderly grandfather.

As for Wang Lei's unpopular mother, seeing that she couldn't help her son, she simply went to another province with her new lover to make a living.

But Wang Lei didn't leave, and he made up for a month in the third year of high school, and he also stayed here for an extra month.

On the day he went back, Zhao's father and Zhao's mother not only bought him two sets of new summer clothes, but also bought two sets of seasonal clothes for his grandfather, and by the way, he paid an extra month's salary.

Wang Lei was embarrassed to ask for it, but Zhao's mother insisted on giving it, saying that she used to come to help in her free time, not to mention the hot weather of the month, and she stayed in the store all day and night, so she must have to add money, so he put it away.

When sending Wang Lei to the car, Zhao Qingyu and Zhao Qingfeng also came.

At this time, the summer vacation homework of the two siblings has already been completed, except for Zhao Qingyu, who is still studying independently every day, Zhao Qingfeng is either playing games or watching TV at home, and he is about to go crazy.

In order to enrich Zhao Qingfeng's summer vacation life, Zhao Qingyu also asked Wang Lei to take him to play in his spare time on weekdays, after all, boys get along more harmoniously.

Sure enough, don't look at Wang Lei is now a quiet boy, when he was ignorant when he was a child, he was also a master who often went up the mountain with his friends to dig birds' nests and went down to the river to touch crabs.

When there was no business in the afternoon, Wang Lei would take Zhao Qingfeng to fish in the river at the back gate of the town high school.

Roughly the river flows from west to east, but this river flows from east to west, and as for the reason, ordinary people have not studied it.

The river is not wide, even in the summer rainy season it is at most about ten meters wide, and not deeper, no more than a meter in the deepest place in the middle, and most of the time the water level is only knee-high.

The idea of fishing was proposed by Wang Lei, who went to the back of someone else's old house and folded two slender bamboos to make fishing rods, dug earthworms next to other people's vegetable fields, and then started a wild fishing trip in the summer vacation.

In the first two days, Zhao Qingfeng had no experience and couldn't catch fish, seeing that Wang Lei could catch some small fish from time to time, he had nothing, and his strong interest was inevitably hit a little.

When I came back in the evening, my face was flushed, and on the first day, I happily shared the fun of fishing with the people in the house, and the next day I returned empty-handed, and my mood became low.

On the third day, I stayed at home and waited for lunch to watch TV and play games, and never mentioned going out fishing.

Zhao Qingyu, who got up from a nap, saw that his brother was still at home, and probably understood something, and his heart moved, so he went over and claimed that he also wanted to fish and wanted to go out with them.

In fact, she didn't want to go out at all on this hot day, but in order to prevent her younger brother from indulging in games every day, she could only "sacrifice her life to accompany the gentleman".

Before going out, she not only changed into a long-sleeved thin shirt, wore a sunhat, but also made an umbrella.

Originally, Zhao Qingfeng refused to wear a hat, but she was also forced to wear a straw hat with a large brim.

In this way, the sister and brother went out.

However, they did not go directly to the field to dig earthworms as usual, but under Zhao Qingyu's instructions, Wang Lei and her worked with her to scoop up the red worms in the sewage channel next to them with discarded screen nets.

"It's disgusting, sister, isn't this a bloodsucking worm? Why are we fishing for this thing? ”

Zhao Qingfeng frowned and bared his teeth on the side, staring at the wriggling red insects, eager to hide away.

Zhao Qingyu laughed and told him that this was not a bloodsucking worm, but an extremely rare bait, which carp especially liked to eat, and it was much more efficient to fish with it than with earthworms.

"This thing can be fished?!" Zhao Qingfeng's eyes widened, his face was incredulous, and even Wang Lei, who was helping next to him, was surprised.

Zhao Qingyu didn't say a word, just brought an iron box that had been filled with tea before, and asked Wang Lei to put the cleaned red worms in it.

That afternoon, as she expected, the "bald commander", who had not caught a fish for two days, finally caught the first fish in his wild fishing career!

With the harvest comes the motivation.

Every day after that, as soon as Zhao Qingfeng finished eating, he put on a straw hat and went to the store to find Wang Lei with great interest.

There are a lot of red worms next to the canal, but Zhao Qingyu said that this thing can't be directly exposed to strong light, so don't fish it out all at once, just fish a little every day and wash it, just enough to use it.

Later, Zhao Qingfeng didn't need Wang Lei to help wash the insects, so he directly started with two gloves and a plastic bag.

Although it was only more than half a month, the friendship that could be established during the fishing process had already made Zhao Qingfeng rely on this big brother who was silent.

On this day, his only "fishing friend" is going home, how can Zhao Qingfeng not be sad.

Looking at Wang Lei's figure carrying large and small things into the car, Zhao Qingfeng's eyes instantly turned red.

Zhao Qingyu patted him on the shoulder with emotion to show comfort.

There were no more people in the car, no less, Wang Lei sat down in the last window position, the sun shining directly on his face, making the sorrow on his face seem to fade.

"Pay attention to safety, be careful in the car, don't sit in the place." Zhao's mother told outside the car.

Wang Lei nodded, his eyes swept to the young sister and brother on the side, the sister pursed her lips slightly and smiled at him, and the younger brother's eyes were red, as if he was about to cry at any time.

He couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth: "Xiao Feng, don't cry, I'll come a few days earlier." ”

"Then you must count when you speak, the one who doesn't count is the puppy!"

The adults couldn't cry or laugh, but Wang Lei agreed very solemnly.

Without the company of the eldest child, Zhao Qingyu did not let Zhao Qingfeng go out fishing alone, plus the summer heat is coming, the weather is too hot, and it is good to blow the wind and watch TV at home.

Zhao Qingyu's summer vacation homework was finished early, so she began to make the materials she bought, and sometimes when she saw some hot-blooded comic books in the bookstore, she would also rent one or two copies back for Zhao Qingfeng.

Not to mention, with comic books, Zhao Qingfeng's time for playing games has been greatly reduced, and occasionally he will even copy his favorite comic characters on scratch paper in his free time, which makes Zhao Qingyu deeply gratified.

In order to enrich Zhao Qingfeng's summer vacation life while not being infected by bad information, Zhao Qingyu can be said to have worked hard, and every rented comic book will be roughly read in person, and there will be no bloody violence and so on before renting it back to his younger brother.

On weekdays, when she studies by herself, no one bothers her anymore.

In the first few days of the summer vacation, Ruan Ling would occasionally contact her on the phone to talk about that person by the way, but then there was no news at all.

Zhao Qingyu felt that it was probably because he was very cold about Xia Zimo's topic, which made Ruan Ling feel that he had nothing to talk about.

But she doesn't care, now she really doesn't have much energy to break the ambiguous relationship between the two, in addition to studying every day and supervising Zhao Qingfeng, she has other things to do.

After the holiday in the third year of high school, the business in Xinglong Noodle Restaurant has really become idle, and Zhao's father and Zhao's mother, who have to get up at three or two o'clock in the morning on weekdays, now only need to get up at four o'clock.

The amount of Shan noodles in the morning has also been greatly reduced, and you can collect the stall and go home at 10 o'clock every morning, after all, there are no students, and there is no need to stay in the shop all day.

Just two days later, L Town also notified Zhao Qingyu's family that the land transfer procedures had been completed, and he only needed to go over and get the certificate.

After temporarily solving this important matter, Zhao Qingyu relaxed a little, but the next things are not simple, and they still need to be discussed with their families.

The land bought is quite large, Zhao Qingyu has also seen it, although it is a deserted earthen house, but the large open space in front and back is also theirs, adding up to nearly 600 square meters.

The mud house also occupies a large area, and there are abandoned kitchens, firewood houses, pigsties, and toilets next to them.

As for whether the house was kept or rebuilt, the family was divided into two major factions.

Zhao's mother thinks that they are not going to live in L Town, the children are going to school in W Town and then going to university to the provincial capital, the two of them are doing well in business now, if there is no accident, they will always live here.

But Zhao's father doesn't think so, he thinks that when he finally buys his own land and house, he should make the best use of it and not waste it.

Of course, he has always thought in his bones that when he is old, he should retire in a place with a big yard, grow flowers and vegetables, and raise some cats and dogs, which is comfortable.

"The ancestor asked us to buy a house in L Town, and he didn't say that we should move there, why should we build a new house, no money."

"Then why do you want to buy a house if you don't live there, that's what the ancestors must mean!"

Zhao's father and Zhao's mother had a war of words, arguing for nearly an hour, and finally Zhao's mother proposed whether to build a house or not, and asked the little adult who had the most right to speak in the family - Zhao Qingyu.

Zhao Qingyu, who was reading a book in the bedroom, actually didn't look like it at all, next to it was her parents' room, and the voices of the two talking inside were not hidden at all, she listened to it word for word.

Hearing her parents say that they were going to come over to ask her opinion, she sighed, rubbed her head that was dizzy from the noise, and then turned her head to look at Zhao's father and mother who pushed the door in, and sat upright.

"Xiaoyu, you heard me talking to your dad just now, right?"

"Hmm."

"What do you think you should do? To build this house or not? Zhao's mother walked to Zhao Qingyu and sat on the edge of the bed.

Father Zhao stood directly aside, with a somewhat condescending appearance: "Xiaoyu, you just said that your father and I are not right, the house can't be bought, so what's the use of buying it." ”

Zhao Qingyu coughed lightly, his expression was very serious: "You are all right, but before I express my opinion, I have a question to ask my mother." ”

"You say." Mother Zhao sat up straight unconsciously.

"Mom, you know that it's unlikely that we will live in L Town in the future, why do you still listen to me and let Dad buy that piece of land."

This is what Zhao Qingyu is most interested in, she has always known that Zhao's mother wants to buy a house of her own in W Town, although L Town is a town, but there are only primary schools and junior high schools there, and children have to go to other towns when they go to high school, which is not the location that Zhao's mother considers to buy a house at all.

It is not surprising that Zhao's mother agreed to buy that piece of land in L Town, after all, she Zhao Qingyu moved out of the tried and tested "ancestor", but she bought the land but still did not plan to live there, which really surprised Zhao Qingyu.

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