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"Remember?"

As the two kids were running out hand in hand, Xie Zhuo grabbed them and repeated it again.

"Remember," Dabao nodded.

"I remember that, too," said Xiaobao.

"Okay, go ahead. Don't run, walk slowly," Xie Zhuo reminded them, fearing that they would fall again if they ran too fast.

Xie Dabao and Xie Xiaobao have gone out less frequently in the past two years, but after all, they are children who grew up in the village and they know how to get around Qingshan Brigade very well.

They even knew who the little Xu Zhiqing was, even though Xie Zhuo didn't explain.

A woman was surprised to see the two of them walking side by side on the road and asked, "Is your Third Uncle not home yet?"

"Yes," Dabao replied.

"Xie Laosan has gone home, why are you two still running outside? Don't run around in the hot sun," said the old woman.

After that, she took out two apricots that were a little green and not fully ripe from her pocket and said, "Here, grandma will give you something good."

Xiaobao came over.

The old woman stuffed the apricots into his pocket, then touched his head and said, "Go home quickly. Your uncle will be out looking for you soon."

This era was not like the later generations, where people could eat whatever fruit they wanted. In this era of material scarcity, especially in economically backward rural areas, no one would spend money to buy fruit.

Apples cost 48 cents a pound, and eggs only cost 50 cents a pound. People of this era can't even afford to eat eggs.

That is, some families in the village plant an apricot tree or a pear tree at home.

Not only that, we also have to be careful of some children who stay up late at night and come to steal unripe apricots.

"It was Uncle San who let us out," Xiaobao took someone else's things and told her when she asked.

"Your uncle gave you up here?" The old woman was a little surprised. "What did he let you do?"

"Go and invite Third Aunt," Dabao saw that Xiaobao had not left yet, and was afraid that Xie Zhuo would be anxious waiting at home, so he reached out and pulled Xiaobao as they walked away while speaking.

It was not until the two kids ran away that the old woman suddenly realized that the third aunt she was talking about was the educated youth Xiao Xu at the educated youth point.

Then he stopped cooking and just squatted at the door waiting to watch the fun.

Dabao and Xiaobao walked and ran for a while, and arrived at the educated youth point in about ten minutes.

The gate of the educated youth camp was wide open, and it was quiet inside. The two of them stood at the gate for a while, and when they saw no one coming out, they asked, "Is anyone there?"

Xu Yan was still boiling water in the kitchen.

I don't know what's wrong with the stove today. The thick smoke doesn't come in, but comes out. The whole kitchen is almost uninhabitable.

Hot and choking.

She had just finished washing up and had been in there for less than ten minutes, and was sweating all over again.

Not only that, her hands were also washed in vain. She didn't know where she touched, but there was a black ash mark on the back of her hand, which contrasted sharply with her fair skin.

Just when she was about to add another handful of firewood to try, a baby's voice suddenly came from outside.

She looked outside.

Then I met two pairs of big eyes like black grapes.

"Hello," Xu Yan saw two children standing outside the gate looking at her, their heads and faces covered in sweat, and waved at them.

Dabao and Xiaobao looked at her, then slowly walked into the yard of the educated youth site.

"Hello, sister," Dabao said sweetly.

"Hello, sister," Xiaobao repeated.

"Hello," Xu Yan was afraid that they would be choked if they entered the kitchen, so he threw the firewood in his hand to where it was and walked out, "Are you here to look for someone?"

Dabao nodded.

"Let's go find Third Aunt," Xiao Bao remembered what Da Bao had just said, so he said it right away.

Third aunt?

Xu Yan didn't react at once.

"There is no three..."

"We are looking for the young educated youth Xu," Dabao added before Xu Yan finished speaking, "Uncle San asked us to come and look for him."

Little Xu, the educated youth, my third uncle.

Putting these two names together, there was nothing that Xu Yan didn't understand. The two cute little kids in front of him were Xie Zhuo's two nephews!

Although she had told Xie Zhuo before that he was handsome and his two nephews would definitely be cute, she didn't expect that they would be even better looking than she had imagined.

He has big eyes and double eyelids. Although he is young, you can tell that his nose bridge will definitely be high. His skin is tanned and his clothes are clean.

Looking at him at this moment.

"Is she not here? Beautiful sister," Dabao asked softly after waiting for Xu Yan to speak for a long time.

"Yes, yes, yes." Xu Yan felt a little better after being praised for her beauty.

The sweet-mouthed children get candy. She took out the candy she had prepared for herself from her pocket and gave them two each. "I am the little educated youth Xu."

Dabao paused while holding the candy.

"Did your third uncle tell you to find... your third aunt?" Xu Yan asked again.

Xiaobao looked at Dabao.

Dabao looked at Xu Yan, then nodded slowly, "He said please."

On the other side, Xie Zhuo, who was kneading dough to make noodles, suddenly felt a chill on his back and turned his head and sneezed.

By the time Xu Yan turned off the fire in the kitchen, washed his hands, and brought the two kids back to Xie's house, Xie Zhuo was already ready to cook noodles.

"Uncle San," Xiaobao called out before he even entered the door.

"Hey," Xie Zhuo responded.

The Xie family’s kitchen was located in a different location from the educated youth center. It was not facing the main gate, so people at the main gate could not be seen.

"Aunt San is here!" Xiaobao continued to shout.

Xie Zhuo's hand slipped when he was called, and he almost threw the chopsticks he was using to pick up noodles into the pot.

Third aunt?

Did the young educated youth teach them how to shout?

Xie Zhuo scooped the noodles into a bowl and then went to the yard to set up a table.

There is a big pear tree in the Xie family's yard. It has been growing for nearly ten years. In the early spring, he cut off all the branches that blocked the road on one side, and only trimmed the lower part on the other side.

Put a table and a few stools, all right under the shade of the tree.

As soon as Xu Yan entered the door, he saw the strangely shaped tree in the yard.

If this happened to a gardener with a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would stay up all night to find a way to make the tree symmetrical!

"Here you are," Xie Zhuo looked up at Xu Yan, then pointed at the small square wooden stool he brought over, "Sit down, dinner will be served soon."

In fact, Xu Yan asked Dabao on the way what his third uncle wanted to see her for.

When Dabao said in a baby voice, "Uncle San is cooking," she had a vague guess in her heart. Now, when she heard Xie Zhuo asking her to wait for dinner, she couldn't sit still.

I followed him directly to the kitchen.

The Xie family’s kitchen is much larger than the one the educated youth had.

There is a single door with two large windows inside. The windows are open and covered with screens. Although it is hot inside, it is much better than the educated youth point.

There was also a square table in the kitchen, with four dishes on it, one dish of scrambled eggs, one dish of fried eggplant with peppers, one dish of cold shredded radish, and one dish that was probably the wild vegetables he had dug up from the field this morning.

"Why are you here too?" Xie Zhuo was about to serve the dishes, when he turned around and saw Xu Yan, he called out to Dabao outside.

"Dabao, take... take Aunt San out to wash hands and eat!"