"Sister, have you thought about what you want to do in the future?" Huo Ran tilted his head sideways and asked Zhang Niandi, who was sitting on the edge of his bed with the soles of his shoes.

Zhang Niandi twisted the needle and scraped twice on his scalp, holding the sole of the shoe with his left hand, and with a force with his right hand, the tip of the needle passed through the thick sole, and pulled it hard, pulling out a long line.

"What for?" Zhang Niandi bit off the thread with his teeth: "Take care of our family, let my mother have a good rest, and don't be so tired Dad, wait for you to come back from the field and have a hot mouth." ”

"Sister-" Huo Ran stretched out a hand and quietly held Zhang Niandi's rough palm: "For example, I want to take the university entrance examination, what about you, sister?" What do you think? Readers are called ideals, what ideals do you have. It's just the two of us, you tell me. ”

Zhang Niandi was stunned.

She thought that her dream was to marry like everyone else—she was nineteen years old, and she was about to become an old girl in the village who could not get married, and she did not want her father and mother to be pointed at and ridiculed behind her back.

"I want to go out and have a look," Zhang Niandi said as he heard his voice tremble, "The educated youth say that there are high-rise buildings in the capital, but I haven't seen them yet." ”

"Sister, I'll take you there!" Huo Ran squeezed Zhang Niandi's hand and whispered.

Zhang Niandi withdrew his hand, and also withdrew his erratic heart, lowered his head and continued to accept the soles of his shoes: "Wait until you have a chance." ”

This conversation passed quietly and remained in the hearts of those who cared.

"Hongwei, go to sleep, I'll talk to your father." Xiufen saw that the rain would not stop for a while, and drove her youngest son back to the house.

"Dad, what do you say we three girls do?" Xiufen thought that her capable and well-behaved brother was said to be a paper lantern that fell down as soon as the wind blew, and she didn't know if it was because of that cruel heart, so that no one would marry her daughter when she was nineteen, or some old bachelors.

Zhang Shi lowered his head silently: "Wait." ”

"Wait? In the blink of an eye, she will be twenty, and she will be an old girl. Dad, you've got to figure it out! Xiufen became angry: "What kind of donkey temper are you all your life, stubborn to death, but we girls can't wait!" ”

"It's better to have less than to have more." Zhang Shi held back a sentence.

"What's the? This second child is not good at recuperation, and he is messing around! Still want to study, what to study? I didn't stop him when he had that ability, he was a kid, although he wasn't in a hurry, but he didn't look at it, the village was as big as him, how many were fathers, he was good, he actually drove out the people who said the matchmaker! "When it comes to this, Xiufen's anger won't come out.

Finally, after the wheat harvest and the corn was planted, the old rice family in the east of the village came to pass the word, saying that the eldest girl in the family valued the aid to the DPRK and was honest and willing to work, and wanted the two of them to be everywhere.

Although Lao Mi's family is a foreign surname, Lao Mi's mind is lively, and the family is living a prosperous life, and Xiufen is about to come down at the moment, who knows that she was stopped by her son.

"A manly man, how can you start a family without a career? I, Zhang Yuanchao, are here today, I will never have a family if I can't win the Nobel Prize in my life! ”

If it weren't for the fact that this unlucky kid was not in good health, Xiufen would have wanted to whip him with a broom at that time!

"Children are messing around, you are messing around!" Xiufen muttered.

Zhang Shi lowered his head and said nothing, years of experience told him that women should not interject when they complain, and just wait for her to say that she is tired.

Sure enough, when it got dark, Xiufen had forgotten what she was complaining about and began to prepare dinner.

"Uncle, aunt—" came the voice of a young girl in the courtyard.

"Yo, Mi Li'er, why are you here for such a heavy rain? Come in, come in, come in. Xiufen enthusiastically welcomed the eldest girl of the Mi family, Mi Li, who was holding an umbrella.

Xiufen picked up a towel behind the door: "Wipe it quickly, wipe it quickly, it's not easy to go out today." ”

"Auntie, don't be busy, I'll come and see Brother Yuanchao, is he better?" Mi Li's face turned red.

Xiufen's eyes lit up: "Brother You, he, he's still serious, you wait a minute, Hongwei-Hongwei-"

"It's coming-" Zhang Hongwei was bored and lying on a bed with Huo Ran looking at the soles of his disson's shoes, and when he heard his mother's shout, he hurriedly jumped down.

"What's the matter? Ah, the future second sister-in-law. Zhang Hongwei smiled evilly and stared at the rice grains, looking at it again and again.

"What's the second sister-in-law? Call sister. Is your brother sleeping? Xiufen looked at Mi Li's blushing neck with satisfaction, and asked her youngest son, whose eyes were rolling.

Zhang Hongwei laughed: "My brother has already woken up, and he has nothing to do, Sister Mi Li, what a coincidence that you came, I'll take you over." ”

"Go ahead! Go ahead! Xiu Fen happily grabbed her youngest son's arm and whispered, "Send it over, hurry up and come out with your sister!" ”

"Understood!" Zhang Hongwei's face turned red with excitement.

"Second brother, who do you see coming to see you?" Zhang Hongwei didn't arrive, and the words arrived first.

Huo Ran turned his head with a hint of curiosity - it's broken.

"Are you happy, second brother?" Zhang Hongwei saw the rare words of his brother who had recently become more and more majestic and began to put on a brother's shelf, and his heart was happy.

Huo Ran glanced at Zhang Hongwei, and Zhang Hongwei reflexively shrank his neck.

"Sister Mi Li, you do it." Zhang Hongwei hurriedly pointed to Huo Ran's bedside, and pulled Zhang Niandi, who stood up: "Sister, our mother called you!" ”

Zhang Niandi was dragged by the younger brother, but after a few steps, he opened the curtain with a smile on the corner of his mouth and went out, it seems that the good things of the second brother are not far away.

"Brother Aid." Mi Li shyly pinched the corners of his clothes, and his voice was expecting Ai Ai.

Huo Ran closed his eyes and said coldly: "Don't call me brother, it's okay for the two of us." ”

Mi Li was a little anxious: "But you helped me that day, that day." ”

"I'm not helping you, I'm idle and bored." Huo Ran didn't expect that his kindness at that time would attract such a "Yanfu".

A few days ago, when he came back from the field at night, he happened to see Mi Li surrounded by a few gangsters from neighboring villages, Huo Ran drove people away with a shovel, he just did it easily, completely forgetting the story of "heroes save beauty, beauties promise each other".

"But, I'm the one you're helping." Mi Li said stubbornly. She has quietly observed the second child of the Zhang family for a while.

Zhang Yuanchao's appearance is no different from other peers in the village, but his eyes are calm and resolute, which makes him look extraordinarily attractive.

Not to mention this wheat harvest, at least half of the Zhang family's work is done by Zhang Yuanchao.

Such a capable, reliable, and filial man has been targeted by many big girls in the village.

Mi Li looked at Huo Ran's indifferent appearance with his eyes closed, and stomped his feet: "Brother Yuanchao, I like you!" ”

As soon as the words came out, Mi Li's face turned red, she didn't expect that she could say such a "shameless" thing, and she turned around and was about to run.

"Stop." Huo Ran opened his eyes.

Mi Li's heart was beating wildly - was he moved by me?

Huo Ran looked at Mi Li's back lightly: "I'm sorry to say, I won't like you and won't marry you." ”

"Why? What's wrong with me? Mi Li turned around and looked sadly at the ruthless man on the bed.

"What do you have to do with me?" Huo Ran's words were as cold as a knife inserted into Mi Li's heart.