In order to keep their ears clean and their lives peaceful, Mei Zhijun and Mei Zhizhong coincidentally chose not to put these things on the surface.

"It's thanks to the two of you, otherwise your brother and I would have to walk to the car again and again." Zheng Juan wrapped the rabbit skin jacket prepared for them by She Yufen, and said to Mei Zhijun with emotion.

From Taizi Village to Heigang Township, you need to walk about fifteen or sixteen miles of mountain roads, along the way, there are several places that need to climb the slope and go up the beam, not to mention, the weather in Layue is so cold.

If they really wanted to carry the little things that Zhao Huiying "rewarded" them over, Mei Zhizhong's hands and feet had to be frozen.

Although they all wore thick cotton clothes, cotton gloves and cotton hats on their hands and heads, but in their place, they could turn water into ice and frost on nine cold days, and no matter how thick their clothes were, they could not withstand the long cold wind.

Although Mei Zhizhong is not good at speaking ill of his wife, looking at his expression, he is obviously very glad that Mei Zhijun can pick him up every time.

The carriage ran all the way to Heigang Township, and Mei Zhijun helped Mei Zhizhong and his wife get the big bags and small bags they were going to take on the shuttle.

It wasn't until about eleven o'clock in the morning that Mei Zhijun, who was cold, drove the carriage back to Taizi Village.

She Yufen had already prepared hot brown sugar ginger water for him, poured it into two large bowls, and Mei Zhijun put his cold hands and feet on the kang to slowly warm up.

"The eldest brother told me that Yali's grandmother scolded them yesterday for an afternoon and a night." Mei Zhijun looked at Mei Hongwen who was crawling around on the kang, and whispered to She Yufen.

She Yufen shook her head helplessly, "What about the things I originally promised to bring to them?" Did you bring it? ”

Commander Mei Zhijun let out a long sigh, "No." Thanks to you, I moved an extra bag of millet and cut ten pounds of pork for them. ”

After a pause, Mei Zhijun added with a sullen face, "There is one more thing." ”

She Yufen was aroused by his curiosity when he wanted to speak and stopped, "What did you say!" ”

Mei Zhijun coughed dryly, "I heard my sister-in-law say that Yali and her milk, from last night to now, they haven't given them a mouthful of food." ”

She Yufen opened her mouth slightly and looked at Mei Zhijun dumbfounded.

Mei Zhijun felt very ashamed.

Although he didn't do this, the person who did it was his mother after all.

She Yufen saw that his face was red and swollen, and she looked like she couldn't find a crack in the ground to get into, so she hurriedly put away the shock on her face.

She asked Mei Zhijun, "Then did you take your eldest brother and them to the restaurant to eat noodles and drink a bowl of hot soup or something?" ”

Mei Zhijun looked depressed, "I want to take them here, but the two small restaurants in our township have all been closed since yesterday." ”

She Yufen then remembered that at this time, eight out of ten of the ten people who were doing small businesses in their Heigang Township were afraid that they had already closed their stalls and gone back for the New Year.

After a moment of silence, she said, "Then what did you do later?" ”

"I went to Uncle Zhang's house to buy a bag of white flour steamed buns, and when there were few people buying things, Aunt Zhang helped me heat it up on the stove."

There are five bags of white-flour steamed buns in Mei Zhijun's mouth, all of which are the size of an adult man's fist, Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan eat them, and it is no problem to have a full stomach.

"This is really ......" She Yufen shook her head again and again, not knowing what to say about it.

Mei Zhijun sighed one after another, "I'm completely dead to her." In her eyes, our brothers are not as good as the third child's toenails. ”

She Yufen was amused by his words, and she comforted Mei Zhijun unwillingly, "Okay, don't sigh for a long time, when we have the money and move away from her, there will naturally be less trouble." ”

Mei Zhijun pressed his temple with his hand, "How can it be as easy as you say?" Look at the eldest brother, it's been a few years, and you have to ask our family to borrow money to buy a house. If we move down, there will be less land and more people, and I am afraid that we will have to live like him. ”

She Yufen was silent for a moment before she said again: "Even if that's the case, then we can always survive until the day when she gets old, right?" I don't believe that when she can't move, she can continue to do this. ”

Mei Yali blinked her big black eyes and secretly scolded - her milk is really capable!

In her previous life, her milk was as good as ever until she died.

When she was twenty-eight years old, her uncle was almost killed indirectly by her milk.

Thinking of that, Mei Yali, who was holding her small chin and listening to Mei Zhijun and She Yufen, couldn't help but sigh secretly.

If their family wants to get rid of her milk, they only need to wait a few more years.

At that time, they will be one in the south and the other in the north with Zhao Huiying, and Zhao Huiying will naturally be beyond their reach.

But her uncle is not so lucky, for him, how to live his life well under Zhao Huiying's toss is really a long way to go.

If the trajectory of things is still similar to the one in her previous life, then her uncle is afraid that he can only hope that her grandmother will close her eyes sooner.

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In the fall of 1995, six-year-old Mei Yali went to the first grade of primary school under someone else's name - in their place, the minimum age of the first grade is seven years old, and those below the age of seven can only be like Mei Yali, temporarily becoming a "black household" without school status.

Of course, teachers don't open this back door to all children who have reached the age of six, and the reason why Mei Yali can have this honor is because she, like her previous life, showed her talent in learning early.

When she was four and a half years old, her eldest aunt (She Yuguo's daughter-in-law) was transferred to Fangjiadian Primary School to teach the first and second grades.

In return, she took the initiative to take Mei Yali to the school to help take care of her.

It is said to be a school, but in fact there is only one adobe house with a red brick on the door.

The furnishings in the room were also very basic.

Directly facing the door is a small space that serves as a teacher's office area, with a large table and a three-seater bench chair resembling a wooden sofa on the compacted earthen floor.

In the innermost part of the room, far from the teacher's office area, hung a rudimentary blackboard that took up half of the wall.

The blackboard is shared between the first and second graders, because the second graders are placed by the window and the first graders are placed on the inner side against the wall, so the blackboard is artificially divided into two parts.

Between the blackboard and the doorway, there are about 20 desks and 20 benches that are roughly divided into two areas according to different grades.