Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

"Wenxuan, you will be my best brothers from now on. I only eat such good food during the Chinese New Year." Ma Jianfang felt that this was specially made by Wenxuan and his friends to entertain them.

"Brother Jianfang, you're welcome. Eat more. Auntie made a lot. It will definitely be enough." Wen Yuan smiled with his mouth full of food, and he could hardly speak clearly.

"Then I won't be polite, hehehe."

Several people ate up everything Yang Qingqing had prepared, and Wen Jing took Wen Qian and Yin Ping to wash the plums.

Because Yang Qingqing said she would make plum jam for them when she got back, they washed it carefully several times.

"Sister Yinping, how is the person we rescued now? Is he awake? Why did he appear on the mountain in our village?" Wen Jing was very curious about the situation of the person we rescued today, so she wanted to ask Yinping.

"I don't know either. My dad hadn't come home when we went out! Actually, I really want to know." Yin Ping was actually anxiously waiting for Ma Changhui to come home so that she could ask about the situation, but his father didn't come home for a long time. Wen Jing came to find her again, so she followed Wen Jing out.

"Yes, sister Yinping, you go home and ask uncle. If possible, I want to go see him! My father was also a soldier before, and this is the first time I save someone!" When Wen Jing saw that person, she recalled whether her biological father and adoptive parents were also killed because they were not found in time. She felt that she was not saving a stranger, but saving her own father.

"Okay! I'll go back and ask my dad first. By the way, you guys will be going to school soon. Which school are you going to?" Ma Yinping thought that school would start soon, so she wanted to ask them which school they were going to. Maybe they could go to school together.

"I don't know. How many schools are there here? Where does Sister Yinping go to school?"

"I am in the second grade of junior high school this year and will graduate from junior high school next year! I go to school not far from our village, because the school in our town is not far from our village and very close to the primary school in our village. We are in the town after all. So there is a junior high school, but no high school. If I can get into high school, I will have to go to school in the county! I don't know if I can go to high school!" Yin Ping thought that there were not many girls going to school with her now. Many families would not let girls go to school. Even if they went to school, they had to take care of a lot of housework at home, so there were even fewer girls who could get into high school. She was the envy of many girls in the village because her family always let her study and did not require her to work.

"Really? Sister Yinping will definitely be admitted to high school. My aunt graduated from high school. Now she has found a job and can support herself and us. I must study hard and become a worker. It is both respectable and easy." Wen Jing couldn't help thinking about how she would find a job and earn money in the future. "Then Sister Yinping, does the village primary school only accept people from our village?"

"Of course not! People from nearby villages go to school in our village, both for primary and junior high school. There is one primary school in our village, one in Wangjiatun, and one in Wushimudi, all of which are villages not far from our village. But there is only one junior high school in our village. Otherwise, we have to go to the county town." Yinping thought about the impressions of the surrounding schools that she had heard from her classmates and the elderly at home.

"Then we should go to the village primary school. We used to go to the military school, but that's probably not possible now. But, what are the surnames of the people in our village? Is there anyone with the surname Liu?"

"No! Why are you asking about people with the surname Liu? There should be no one with the surname Liu in our village. I don't know about the nearby villages, but none of the people I went to school with were named Liu. What's wrong?" Yinping was very curious why Wenjing cared about people with the surname Liu. Shouldn't she care about people with the surname Yang?

"It's okay, just asking casually. Are there many people with the last name Yang?" The reason why Wen Jing asked about last names was actually related to her previous experience.

Her classmates knew that she was adopted, so they would often tease her and make fun of her background, which led to her not making any friends. Until a female classmate named Huo transferred to the class. Because of her special surname, no one in the class had the same surname as her, so her classmates excluded her. They also heard from somewhere that she was also adopted, so they completely isolated her. In this way, the two of them became good friends. Wen Jing asked her if she was adopted. She denied it. It turned out that her surname was different from that of her younger siblings because she took her mother's surname. Her mother was an only child. Before her grandfather died, her father promised that their first child, regardless of gender, would have her mother's surname, which led to her having a different surname from her younger siblings.

Even though her misunderstanding was later resolved, she did not become good friends with other people in the class, but instead had a better relationship with Wen Jing.

"Oh, let's stop talking. Let's go help Wenxuan and the others tidy up the vegetable garden." Wen Jing happened to see Ma Jianfang, Wenxuan and Wenyuan weeding and tidying up the abandoned vegetable garden, so she brought Yinping out to help.

Wen Yuan took Wen Yuan and Ma Jianfang to the yard to cultivate a vegetable garden. There was originally a vegetable garden in the yard, but because no one lived there, it was abandoned. It was necessary to weed and turn the soil before planting vegetables. Yang Qingqing said she wanted to plant vegetables before, but she never had the time to do it. It happened that the children were at home today and had nothing to do, so they helped.

It was around seven in the afternoon, and every household in the village was about to start eating. The Ma siblings were afraid that their family would call them, so they went back.

After that, they studied for a while, and when it got dark, Wen Jing started to boil water, so that Yang Qingqing wouldn't have to cook and boil water when she came back.

As soon as Yang Qingqing entered the door, she saw that the vegetable garden in the yard had been tidied. There were no weeds. The land was not turned over much, but there were two plots of land.

Wenxuan ran over and hugged Yang Qingqing and said, "Aunt, guess what we did today? We were super awesome today." He kept chattering and kept Yang Qingqing guessing.

"What good things did you do today? You look so happy, could it be..." Yang Qingqing teased him with a smile, "You got into trouble, didn't you? Haha"

"Aunt, why are you like this? I didn't get into trouble. We really did something big, really! Can you guess what it is? Hurry up!" Wen Yuan acted coquettishly, and the others also looked at Yang Qingqing expectantly.

Yang Qingqing thought it must be about helping to tidy up the vegetable garden, so she teased them deliberately, "Oh! I can't guess, but I brought some meat back today. If anyone tells me, I'll let him eat two more pieces of meat, how about that?"

"I'll tell you. We rescued a PLA soldier today. Isn't that great?" Wen Yuan couldn't wait to tell Yang Qingqing that he could eat more meat.

"What? You saved people today? Didn't you help with the vegetable garden?" Yang Qingqing was confused. This was totally different from what she thought. These little kids could save the PLA uncle. This must be a lie.

"Wen Jing, how did you save people?"

"Okay, actually, didn't we agree to go pick plums? And... in the end, Uncle Ma took him to the village clinic." Wen Jing recounted in detail how they rescued people today, wanting to see if Yang Qingqing would criticize them like Zhao Xiaohua and Li Weiling did, for being too impulsive.

"Is that so? Saving lives is worthy of praise, but don't do the same thing as today in the future. We should save people, but we should ask adults to do it instead of you kids standing there waiting. Jianfang is going to find people, so you guys should hide too, okay? What if he is a bad guy and suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night, wouldn't you be in danger?" Yang Qingqing felt that the act of saving lives needed to be affirmed, but they also had to be told about the dangerous places, so that they wouldn't rush forward without caring about anything if they encountered such a situation in the future.

"Aunt, we know that we didn't get close to him. We just watched him from a distance. Dad taught me that when encountering something, I should observe first and then act. This is called planning before acting, right?" Wenxuan explained that their behavior today was not entirely based on feelings.

"Yes, Wenxuan is right. Since you performed so well today, you will each be rewarded with two pieces of meat. Well! The rest will be mine! Hahahaha." Yang Qingqing couldn't help but tease the children.

"Aunt, why are you like this? I want to eat a lot of meat, two pieces are not enough!" Wen Yuan pouted to express his dissatisfaction

"Auntie, I can give you all the food even if I don't have any," Wen Qian said cutely

"Me too, Auntie has worked hard all day, I'll give all the meat to you."

"Me too, give it to you, Auntie."

Wenxuan and Wenjing also said that they don't have to eat meat.

Wen Yuan was so angry that he turned around and didn't want to pay attention to them. "Humph, I won't pay attention to you. If you don't eat, then I will. Auntie is the only one who can't bear to let us eat meat, right, auntie?"

"Okay, I'm just teasing you! You guys are all so well behaved that I feel embarrassed. But Wenyuan likes Rourou so much? Does he like me more or Rourou?" Yang Qingqing just wanted to see what Wenyuan would say

"Of course I like my aunt. Meat is for eating. How can it be compared with my aunt?"

"Okay, you know how to talk. I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to go make braised pork for us."