This dialogue completely solved Jiang Fanyue's confusion.

She has never been loved by others before, so when she suddenly gets the love of the children, she always suffers from some gains and losses, worrying that their love will not last long, and she is worried that she will disappoint them after long-term contact.

Now she still has the same worries, but she no longer suffers from gains and losses, but will redouble her efforts because of this worry.

Jiang Fanyue picked up the last few peanuts in the bowl, peeled them off and poured them into Yao Rong's palm: "Mom, can you teach me how to make bamboo dragonflies." ”

"Why do you suddenly want to learn this?"

"I want to give it to Rui Rui."

Yao Rong hopes that Jiang Fanyue will be more likeable, but she can't overdo it and make her a pleasing personality: "I can teach you." But you have to remember that when you learn a skill, the first thing you think about is whether it will work for you and whether it will make you happy, and then you should think about other people. On the premise of not harming the interests of others, you should put yourself first in thinking about the problem. ”

Jiang Fanyue scratched her head: "Learning to be a bamboo dragonfly has no practical effect on me, but seeing Rui Rui and them happy, I will also be infected." ”

Yao Rong turned sideways, took out some materials suitable for making bamboo dragonflies from the cabinet, and began to demonstrate to Jiang Fanyue step by step, as if he had no intention of saying: "If there is a skill that can be useful to you, make you happy, and make others happy, it is killing three birds with one stone." ”

Jiang Fanyue stared at Yao Rong's movements with a good mistake, but her thoughts began to drift away with Yao Rong's words.

It wasn't until she thought of the fairy tale books that she shook her head violently and threw herself into her studies.

Three days later.

Jiang Fanyue sat in front of the stall, with a cloth bag containing fairy tale books beside her, and two bamboo dragonflies in her hands, looking left and right from time to time.

This look was until three o'clock in the afternoon.

The toys on the stalls are almost sold.

Jiang Fanyue couldn't sit still, got up and wandered around, and looked over the crowd at both sides of the street: "Mom, can we stay in the town for a while?" Taotao's grandmother said that she would come to get the fairy tale book today, but she and Taotao never came, and I don't know if there was something that delayed the time. ”

Yao Rong helped Jiang Fanyue tighten his scarf: "No wonder you couldn't sit still just now." Of course, there are still two toys that have not been sold, so let's continue to sit and wait. ”

After waiting for another half an hour, the last toy was also bought, and Jiang Fanyue couldn't help but look at Yao Rong.

Yao Rong gave Jiang Fanyue a piece of money and pointed to the sugar water shop opposite: "Let's not wait here, you go buy two bowls of sugar water." ”

Jiang Fanyue put her mind at ease and quickly brought back two bowls of sugar water.

When the sugar water bottomed out, Yao Rong asked Jiang Fanyue to stay here and watch the cart, and she went to buy some vegetables.

Jiang Fanyue rubbed his hands and shrunk into a ball.

In autumn and winter, it gets dark quickly, and the sun goes down completely before six o'clock. It would take half an hour for Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue to return to the village from the town, so the two of them had to leave at half past five at the latest.

Seeing that five o'clock was approaching, Jiang Fanyue pinched the cloth bag belt, and just wanted to say something to Yao Rong, who came back from grocery shopping, when she saw Sun Taotao's running figure appear at the end of the road.

"Slow down, slow down, be careful not to fall." A woman in a long camel-colored trench coat chased after Sun Taotao.

Sun Taotao didn't stop, running and looking, when he really saw Jiang Fanyue, he screamed and said excitedly: "Look, I just said that I was there, I said that I was there, fortunately you brought me here." ”

With a sudden acceleration of his feet, Sun Taotao rushed to Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue in front of him, supporting his knees with both hands, and panting.

The little face is not known whether it is blown by the wind or shy, revealing a healthy flush.

"Sister Yueyue, I'm ...... I didn't mean to be late...... My grandfather ...... him."

"Don't worry, take a breath before you speak." Yao Rong patted Sun Taotao on the back.

Sun Taotao swallowed his saliva and looked at Jiang Fanyue cautiously, worried that Jiang Fanyue would be angry with him. yhugu

What he saw, however, was a smiling face.

There is no yelling blame, no noisy complaining, only heartfelt joy and complete understanding.

She said, "If only you didn't miss your appointment." ”

The woman chasing Sun Taotao also came closer.

She had a big brown-colored wavy hair, a camel-colored windbreaker and black boots, and a smile with an apologetic smile, explaining for her son: "I'm sorry, Taotao said a few days ago that he was going to come to you today, but last night his grandfather's condition suddenly worsened, and he didn't come out of the operating room until noon." ”

The adults in the family waited outside the operating room all night, both mentally and physically exhausted, and just wanted to go back to catch up on sleep.

And among all the adults, the one who suffers the most is undoubtedly Grandma Sun.

Sun Taotao didn't want to disturb his grandmother's rest, so he started the idea of his twelve-year-old cousin, wanting his cousin to take him to Jiang Fanyue.

Before the two sneaked out of the door, they were caught by Mu Shulan.

asked the reason, Mu Shulan hurriedly took Sun Taotao over.

"Is your grandfather feeling better?"

Jiang Fanyue's first reaction was to care about Grandpa Sun's body.

Knowing that Grandpa Sun was fine for the time being, she said, "You have an urgent matter at home, you can come to me on the next market day." ”

Sun Taotao said embarrassedly: "You can't easily break the appointment with someone else." And if I don't come, Sister Yueyue and Aunt Yao will have been waiting for so long in vain. ”

Yao Rong said: "We are not in a hurry, and it is okay to wait a little." ”

Jiang Fanyue followed and said, "Yes, we didn't have to wait long. ”

Sun Taotao shook his head: "As a gentleman, you can't let girls wait for you." ”

He lowered his head and touched his connected pockets, and took out a small box of toffee: "This is an apology, you must accept it." ”

Mu Shulan also said on the side: "You haven't eaten yet, it's just right, I'll invite you to the restaurant for dinner." ”

"No need." Without waiting for Mu Shulan's persuasion, Yao Rong said softly, "I'm not polite, I'm just thinking that you probably have a lot of things to do at home, even if you want to eat, you are not in a hurry on this day." Besides, didn't Tao Tao already send a box of toffee as an apology, and we accepted this box of candy. ”

It was obviously a refusal to speak, but it was completely considered from Mu Shulan's point of view. Mu Shulan's heart warmed, knowing why her son and mother liked the mother and daughter very much.

Jiang Fanyue took out the fairy tale books from the cloth bag and handed them to Sun Taotao one by one.

Sun Taotao touched the wrapped book cover and said in surprise: "Sister Yueyue, are you still wrapping it?" ”

Jiang Fanyue: "I'm worried about soiling your book. ”

Her own books, she will take care of them.

The books lent to her by others should be carefully protected.

Sun Taotao hugged them and squinted with a smile.

Before he took the fairy tale book to the kindergarten, there were also kindergarten children who borrowed his books, and when he came back, the book cover was stained with oil in the east and dirt in the west, and he was angry, but the teacher asked the child to apologize to him, and he was angry.

But since then, he doesn't like to play with that kid.

Don't think he doesn't know, that kid is scolding him for being a stingy ghost behind his back.

He's not stingy.

"Sister Yueyue, do you still want to read fairy tale books, I still have a lot of fairy tale books, all of which can be shared with you." Sun Taotao looked at Jiang Fanyue expectantly, as if he wished that she would borrow more books from him.

Hearing Jiang Fanyue's response, Sun Taotao said happily: "Then I'll bring it to you in a few days." ”

Jiang Fanyue thought for a while and emphasized: "We still don't agree on a specific time, anyway, I will come to town with my mother every market day, if you have time, come to me, if it's inconvenient, you don't have to rush to bring the book to me." Do you think it's good? ”

The two communicated and agreed in a similar way.

Before waving goodbye, Jiang Fanyue stuffed the two bamboo dragonflies to Sun Taotao as a return gift.

"I did it myself, I wish your grandfather a speedy recovery."

The autumn harvest in the village is coming to an end, and many people spread the harvested crops on various open fields to dry.

Yao Rong carried half a catty of candy and came to the village chief's house, asking Rui Rui's father and Rui Rui's mother to help her renovate the house together.

When she has more money, she will definitely go to the city to buy a property. But that will be next summer, and she and Jiang Fanyue will have to live in the village for a few months, and the house will be renovated simply, and it will not cost much money, and it will be more comfortable to live in.

Yao Rong said: "I will pay you according to the wages of the decoration workers." ”

The village chief has a total of three sons, and the last two sons went out early to work hard, Rui Rui's father and Rui Rui's mother stayed in their hometown to take care of the elderly and children, and the people in the village like to find two people to help them with anything.

However, because of the identity of the village chief, the two basically helped for free.

Hearing Yao Rong say that the day was going to end, Rui Rui's mother was happy.

After the farm work, she was idle, and she had odd jobs to earn some spare money, of course she was happy.

Rui Rui's father shook his head: "Then where is it?" For you orphans and widows, the people in the village should take more care of them. When did you finish the tiles, I and Rui Rui's mother just went over to help. ”

Rui Rui's mother's joy sank suddenly, and it was not good to dismantle Rui Rui's father's stage in person, so she could only try to keep her expression unchanged.

Yao Rong's tone was sincere: "If it was difficult financially before, I must have nodded cheekily." But at this time, I made a little money in business, and this salary should be paid for everything. Third brother, your family has helped me too much before, if it weren't for your care, relying on me as a woman alone, it would be really not easy to raise Yueyue so big, and I can't let you suffer all the time. "Everyone in the village knows about her business, and they've heard that she's making a lot of money — if she hadn't made a lot of money, she wouldn't have been able to buy so many things every time she went to the city.

Rui Rui's father was still hesitating, but Rui Rui's mother had already agreed: "Don't worry, sister, me and your third brother promise to do our best to help you repair the house." ”

Yao Rong got up to say goodbye, and before he went out, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao, who were pulling on the side of the door frame, jumped out, saying that they were going to follow Yao Rong to find Jiang Fanyue to play.

"Well, wait—" Mother Rui stopped them, trying to fill them with some boiled peanuts.

Yao Ruirui shook the small bag of boiled peanuts in her hand, and didn't look back: "Bring it." ”

The two children couldn't stop their mouths, either chattering or bickering, Yao Rong listened all the way, and suddenly smiled: "Rui Rui, Miao Miao, Aunt Rong wants to ask you two some questions, can you tell me." ”

The two children nodded their heads.

"In the past, were there many children in the village who were speaking ill of Sister Yueyue?"

Yao Ruirui's eyes widened, not knowing how to answer.

Yao Miaomiao said quickly: "That's right, I've heard it several times before. But since they used what Sister Yueyue sent, their words have been short. ”

Yao Ruirui convinced her: "That's called eating people with a short mouth." ”

"Okay, okay, cannibalism has a short mouth." Yao Miaomiao had a helpless expression that you were right, and turned her head to look at Yao Rong, "Aunt Rong, do you want to know who is saying bad things about Sister Yueyue, I'll tell you all their names, you go and teach them a lesson." ”

Yao Rong bent down so that Yao Miaomiao could look up at her: "I don't want to know." But in the future, if someone still says something bad about Sister Yueyue, you will tell me as soon as possible, okay. ”

Yao Miaomiao patted her chest: "I'm so fierce, if I hear someone say bad things about Sister Yueyue, I will definitely scold them for Sister Yueyue." ”

Yao Ruirui also nodded, feeling that Yao Miaomiao finally said something good: "That's right, we will protect Sister Yueyue." ”

Yao couldn't help but laugh, and said softly: "You should protect yourself first. ”

When they arrived at the door, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao went into the house to find Jiang Fanyue to play, and Yao Rong rode a bicycle to the town to buy decoration materials.

asked for a lot of money, Yao Rong simply added some money and asked the boss to send it directly to her home.

When all the decoration materials were in place, Yao Rong, Rui Rui's father, and Rui Rui's mother were busy.

There was too much smoke and dust in the house, so Jiang Fanyue took her two children to play in the valley at the entrance of the village.

The drying valley is very large, and there is a clear dividing line between the crops that each household dries.

Jiang Fanyue and her two children sat in the middle of the dividing line.

The two children learned many catchy nursery rhymes, and began to teach Jiang Fanyue how to sing them sentence by sentence.

Jiang Fanyue happily cooperated, humming lowly.

When the two children were tired of singing, Jiang Fanyue took them to play with toys.

While they were having fun, not far away, several children between the ages of eight and twelve came over.

Seeing the delicate toy in Yao Ruirui's hand, the very sturdy boy at the head of the group had a bright eye, and shouted: "Yao Ruirui, who bought the toy in your hand for you, bring it to me to play with." ”

Before Yao Ruirui could speak, Yao Miaomiao had already choked like a little pepper: "Who are you, why are you playing." ”

"I'm your cousin, why don't I ask you for a toy?"

Yao Ruirui stretched her little face and stood up: "This is Sister Yueyue's thing, not ours." ”

The little boy was a little embarrassed by what they said: "You actually think that the garbage king is a sister?" Why, do you want to follow her to pick up garbage? ”

He twitched his nose hard, fanned his hand in front of his nose, and exaggerated, "Who knows where she picked up this toy." ”

Jiang Fanyue's face was a little ugly, and she stood up with Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao.

She recognized the little boy in front of her.

His name is Yao Liangcai, and he is as old as her.

The two were in the same class for six years in elementary school, and they went to the same junior high school together.

The first person to call Erniu "ugly" was him.

The first person to shout the nickname "Trash King" was him.

spread her family background as a joke throughout the junior high school, and he was the one who tore up the copy of "Dancing Little Elephant" she wrote.

Last year, Yao Liangcai's family moved to the town to live, but they didn't expect him to return to the village today.

Jiang Fanyue clenched her fists, looking at the person she hated the most in front of her, her shoulders trembled slightly due to the violent emotional fluctuations.

The voice swirled between her lips and tongue a few times before squeezing it out.

"Apologize."

"What did you say?" Yao Liangcai seemed to have heard some joke.

Those pent-up words in the bottom of my heart finally found an outlet, Jiang Fanyue's body was still trembling, but her voice was unexpectedly steady: "Shouldn't you apologize to me." Doesn't it feel like it's too much to give me a nickname, leak my privacy, and tear up my homework. ”

"I haven't touched a finger of yours, I'm just saying a few facts, and that's okay?" Yao Liangcai didn't feel that he had done something wrong at all, and he was very confident.

Jiang Fanyue's heart fluctuated, and her anger rose, but she suddenly resisted when she had always been submissive, which had exhausted all her strength and courage, and she had no other way to deal with it except to reason with the facts.

But for a person like Yao Liangcai who has no empathy, if he can't listen to the reason, then no matter what she says, he will not be able to regret and be moved.

At this moment, Yao Ruirui shouted at Yao Liangcai: "If this fact will hurt others, then what you are doing is wrong!" Didn't grandpa and teacher teach you this? ”

Yao Miaomiao snorted, crossed her waist, and held her chest: "I heard that he only scored more than a dozen points in Chinese and mathematics combined, and he definitely didn't understand what his grandfather and teacher taught him." ”

Yao Ruirui covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Really, I can score more than 160 points in any exam." ”

"That's right. He was still wetting the bed when he was ten years old, and he was stealing money from his grandparents—"

Several companions who followed Yao Liangcai laughed wildly, Yao Liangcai couldn't hold back his face, and gritted his teeth: "Yao! Seedling! Seedling! ”

Yao Miaomiao had a provocative expression on her face: "What I said is the truth, this is not okay?" ”

Yao Liangcai clenched his fists.

Jiang Fanyue was both moved and ashamed.

Moved by the two children who stood up to her, this is also the shame.

She was so much older than them, she should have protected her two little sisters, and she became the one who was guarded behind her.

"You're angry right now, aren't you? I've been able to feel this sentiment a lot over the years......"

"No, I didn't even dare to be angry at that time."

Jiang Fanyue stood in front of Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao, looking directly at Yao Liangcai, her eyes, which were originally a little cowardly and evasive, seemed to be burning with flames in an instant, forcing people to dare not look at her.

"You can not apologize today, and I will never forgive you anyway. But you will definitely pay the corresponding price for your mistakes later. Gritting his teeth and putting down this cruel sentence, Jiang Fanyue took Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao's hands and left past a group of them.

Yao Liangcai put his hands together, dizzy, squatted down and picked up a palm-sized stone used to hold the fabric, and without looking at it, he smashed it towards the front.

The sound of breaking the air and the exclamation came together, and when Jiang Fanyue turned around, the round stone had already smashed on Yao Miaomiao's shoulder.

Yao Miaomiao's mouth opened wide in pain.

She clutched her left shoulder, tears pouring out of her eyes, but she couldn't make a sound in pain.

Jiang Fanyue's mind was stunned.

There was only one thought in my heart - Yao Miaomiao was injured because of her.

New hatred and old hatred were churning in his mind at the same time, Jiang Fanyue screamed, let go of Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao's hands, and pounced on Yao Liangcai, slamming him to the ground, using both hands and feet, kicking and hammering at Yao Liangcai.

It wasn't until the strong fist landed on him that Yao Liangcai realized what was happening.

The sturdy man subconsciously wanted to overturn Jiang Fanyue.

An astonishing force erupted from Jiang Fanyue's thin body, she gritted her teeth, but was not pushed away by Yao Liangcai, and seized the opportunity to continue to move.

Yao Liangcai was also a nest, and he didn't push Jiang Fanyue a few times in a row, and he cried.

Yao Ruirui was stunned, Yao Miaomiao couldn't care about crying, and the children who followed Yao Liangcai reacted and ran over to try their best to pull away Jiang Fanyue.

Yao Ruirui patted Yao Miaomiao's head, and took Yao Miaomiao to quietly approach Yao Liangcai, who was still lying on the ground.

The two of them used all their strength, taking advantage of the chaos, to hit Yao Liangcai several times in a row.

Call you a bully.

If you say you can't do it, you will hit people with stones.

Seeing that Yao Liangcai wanted to kick Jiang Fanyue, Yao Ruirui and Yao Miaomiao did not forget to press his thighs left and right, secretly protecting Jiang Fanyue from injury.