After returning home, he was unexpectedly reprimanded by Zhao Yuzhen, and was ordered to feed the chickens and ducks.

Zhou Xiaoyun hatefully glanced at the second girl who was held in Zhao Yuzhen's arms, and felt that at least half of the darkness in her childhood was brought by her.

The young Erya didn't know what her sister was thinking, so she lay in Zhao Yuzhen's arms contentedly, and giggled. Zhao Yuzhen felt very sorry for the youngest child, and coaxed like a baby.

Free-range chickens and ducks have been locked up in makeshift sheds. Everyone lives in a straw house, and the shed is not very particular. It's a low thatched hut. One had more than a dozen chickens, one had more than 20 ducks, and the largest one had two pigs that weren't fat.

The eggs laid by these chickens and ducks are taken to the market and sold for some money for the family's firewood, rice, oil, salt, and daily groceries. The annual crop of pigs is an important source of income for the family. Therefore, in the Zhou family, feeding these animals has always been more important than feeding the children.

Zhou Xiaoyun naturally knew how important it was to feed the chickens and ducks, and sprinkled the chicken food prepared by Zhao Yuzhen into the shed.

More than a dozen hens rushed up to grab the chicken food made from corn flour and grass with some wheat grains.

Since the family's pocket money mainly depends on these dozen hens, in order to let these chickens lay more eggs, Zhao Yuzhen is very willing to feed the chickens some good ones. In addition to catching insects and pecking stones in front of and behind the house every day, he regularly feeds three meals a day in the morning, noon and evening, and is more punctual than Zhou Xiaoyun's brothers and sisters.

The ducks at home have grown from more than 40 to 20 now, and the ducks are not as expensive as the chicken essence, because the duck eggs have a fishy smell, and the price is cheap, so the feeding is poor. They are fed only once a day and then rushed to a nearby pond to stock.

And releasing ducks from childhood to adulthood is Zhou Xiaoyun's job, Dabao will accompany her to the pond at most and slip away without a trace, Xiaobao's health is not very good, and the second girl is too small, so this heavy responsibility falls on Zhou Xiaoyun.

After feeding the chickens, without waiting for Zhao Yuzhen to speak, Zhou Xiaoyun automatically and consciously took a long bamboo pole to drive the ducks out of the circle. For a time, the duck flew and the duck jumped and the duck called the duck, and it was very lively.

Zhao Yuzhen looked at Zhou Xiaoyun with admiration, thinking that she was finally sensible, and she would have to train the eldest girl to do housework in the future.

If Zhou Xiaoyun knew what Zhao Yuzhen was thinking, she would vomit blood angrily, and now she is walking towards the pond of that age with a nostalgic attitude.

There was a bunch of live ducks jumping in front, Zhou Xiaoyun followed leisurely behind, occasionally ducks running around, and naturally walked forward with a bamboo pole. Fortunately, the ducks are used to stocking, and they are somewhat familiar with the road, but it is not a heavy job.

After walking for about eight or nine minutes, I arrived at the pond at the west end of the village. The duck doesn't need to rush, it automatically flutters crookedly into the water, sticking its head into the water to look for small fish and shrimp.

The pond is huge, probably covering several acres. There are a lot of small fish and shrimp in the pond, and occasionally someone has caught more than three catties of fish from the pond. There are many families who have been stocking ducks in this pond for a long time.

Surrounded by a large forest, Zhou Xiaoyun still remembers that he loved to play in the woods since he was a child, and there were many unknown wild fruits in the woods that made the greedy children linger.

Naughty and timid boys like to climb trees to dig birds' eggs, shoot birds with homemade slingshots, and occasionally shoot a small sparrow to make children ecstatic, both a good meal and a hero in the eyes of other children.

In the distance is a field of crops, and at this time the rice is already growing tall and dense, and when the wind blows, it undulates like waves.

Looking at the clear water, turquoise aquatic plants, red, blue, and blue unknown wildflowers, clear skies, and lush bushes, Zhou Xiaoyun couldn't help but sigh: What a beautiful era without pollution!

More than 20 years later, it has been replaced by a factory building, and the turquoise pond has been filled in without a trace.

Accustomed to living in the air, full of car exhaust, the ground full of domestic garbage, no flowers and plants, and only small trees the thickness of his fingers, Zhou Xiaoyun was moved to feel as if he had arrived in heaven.

Zhou Xiaoyun sat by the pond, enjoying the freehand and comfort that he had never had in his life. She spent the first half of her life cooking, washing dishes, mopping the floor, and washing clothes with her children, and how long has it been since she sat down and rested like this.

At this moment, there is no toil, no heavy burden, only herself.

Now that this was the case, she decided not to think about anything she could do.

I'm sorry, Niuniu, Mom didn't want to leave you. Mom doesn't want to forget about you. Mom will never forget you in her heart, and she will never love you and miss you.

It's just that crying all day long doesn't help reality, and regretting all day long can't change the fact of rebirth.

People can't always live in self-pity and self-pity, people can't just live in memories and pain, no matter what, they have to face the current life.

I don't know why I have a chance to live again, so let myself bravely face a new life.

Zhou Xiaoyun secretly swore to himself: to live a different and wonderful life, and never repeat the old mistakes! And the new life will start with the start of the new semester in two months!

She has to go to school early, and her previous self took her younger siblings to herd ducks at home until she was eight years old, and if she could have advanced by two years, she would have been able to catch up with the good years of work assignment!

After careful analysis, the first thing she has to solve is her parents, and only with their permission can she take the first step in a better life!

I decided that when I went home today, I had to mention going to school, and no matter how my parents objected, I must try my best to fulfill my wish.