Quick Wear: True and False Life

The years were peaceful and quiet. Fang Nan took the flowers picked by Haozi, which were very wild. She also picked a nice flower to put in the end of her braid.

The chicken was roasted until golden brown, with fat dripping from the bottom. A little salt was sprinkled on it, and the aroma filled the air. Haozi was so greedy that he didn't even run around.

"Sister, I want to eat chicken."

"Wait a minute"

Fang Nan picked a few larger leaves from the tree, washed them with water and spread them on the stones. He looked at the golden and crispy roasted chicken, selected a chicken leg, broke it off, and then tore it into small pieces and placed it on the leaves to dry.

"Eat it! Don't burn yourself."

"good to eat"

Haozi immediately took a piece and put it in his mouth regardless of the heat, breathing heavily on it.

“My sister eats too”

"You eat first, there are still a lot."

The two of them ate half of the chicken and wrapped up the rest. The sun was about to set, so Fang Nan carried the firewood on his back and asked Haozi to carry the wild vegetables and mushrooms back home.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Fang Nan gave half a chicken to Haozi and told him to come play with her tomorrow. She took the basket and watched him return to the village.

The following days were the official harvest season, and the fields were bustling with activity. Fang Nan bent over every day to harvest crops, and he deeply felt the difficulties of being a farmer. He was so tired that he couldn't even straighten his back.

This is because she has a lot of work experience. Haven't you seen that the educated youth only get four or five work points a day? This is just because they are afraid that there will not be enough food, so they have to work even if they are full!

Lian Haozi has been carrying a basket and following her and Aunt Cui to pick up wheat ears since the harvest began, and he has become tanned recently.

"Haozi, go home and get some water first. You're very thirsty in this hot weather." Aunt Cui felt sorry for her son and coaxed him to go home and rest.

Fang Nan felt that he might go home to fetch some water and then come back, like a stubborn child who only does what he thinks.

"Haozi, boil some more water at home. I'm thirsty too. But you have to let the water cool down and then cool it down in the well before bringing it back! Otherwise it won't quench my thirst."

"Sister, I will wait until it cools down before taking it with me." Haozi was coaxed into saying happily, then he carried the basket and went home.

"Comrade Fang, you still have a solution." Aunt Cui sighed. She didn't know why her son loved to follow Fang Zhiqing. It was okay now that Fang Zhiqing was still young, but it would be difficult to deal with when he grew up. Perhaps in a few years Fang Zhiqing would leave or get married, and Haozi would forget about him if they were farther away.

"Children are just like that. Just tell them what they like. They will understand."

In fact, Fang Nan knew that she loved her son after hearing Aunt Cui's sigh. Haozi was four years older than Fang Nan. He was seventeen this year and had not grown up mentally. Marriage was a big problem for him. In the future, his second brother would get married in the army and would not be able to take care of the family. Although the eldest son's family was kind, they had to support their own family after all, so they were worried.

"Yes, let's work harder and finish the job early. We still have to dig the vegetable patch behind the house."

More than an hour later, when Haozi came back, they had completed two-thirds of the task assigned to them, so they went to the shade of a tree to drink water and take a rest.

After more than half a month of hard work, the harvest was finally over. Fang Nan received a letter and a package from home, which reminded her that she had been too busy during this period and forgot to ask her adoptive mother to exchange the child.

In the evening, Fang Nan wrote a reply letter, in which she mentioned that she met a girl who looked like her mother in the village. What's more, they were born on the same day of the same month of the same year, and also worked in Fengqiao Town Health Center. She felt that the two of them were really destined to meet again after thirteen years.

The next afternoon, Fang Nan took a half-day break and went to the town to mail something. As she was about to walk out of the hospital with the package on her back, she saw Haozi walking towards her.

She tried to coax him back home but failed, and finally Aunt Cui gave him a dollar, and he went out happily with Fang Nan.

At the entrance of the village, they met Guo Jiawei and Bai Wenjing, a childhood sweetheart, and Yang Yue, and they took a ox cart together. On the way, they heard a lot of bad things about the educated youth compound. Yang Yue said that he had suffered a great loss at the hands of Li Qin, and now they had a falling out and didn't talk to each other at all.

Haozi is quite quiet and very obedient when he is around Fang Nan. Almost everyone in the village is used to him playing with Fang Nan.

When they arrived in the town, Fang Nan took Haozi straight to the post office, sent out the prepared letter, the packed mountain specialties, and smoked and dried chicken and rabbit meat, and then took Haozi to see the old man. She learned from the letter that the old man's grandson had been beaten and the injury was quite serious. Although she had given him medicine, she still wanted to see it in person.

"Sister, where are we going?" Haozi had never been to the town before, and he felt a little uneasy as he was suddenly in a strange environment.

"I'm taking you to see a grandfather. He has a sick younger brother."

"Does he need to take very bitter medicine to get better? My brother is so pitiful."

These words made Fang Nan laugh?

When they arrived, Fang Nan knocked on the door, but no one answered. She knocked loudly a few more times before she heard someone hurried out to open the door.

The door was only open on one side. The old man stuck his head out to see who it was. He found it was Fang Nan and said, "Comrade Fang, how did you find time to come here? Didn't you say you were harvesting?"

He opened the door and let the two men in. The old man quickly closed the door and locked it before leading them into the house.

"Didn't you say Shi Tou was injured? I have medical skills and I'll come over to take a look." Fang Nan said as he walked.

"Sister, sister." Haozi nervously pulled Fang Nan's sleeve and called out anxiously.

"It's okay, I'm here, call me grandpa." Fang Nan took the initiative to squeeze his hand and comforted him.

After calling "Grandpa," Haozi shrank behind Fang Nan.

"Hey! Grandpa will give you some sugar water to drink."

The old man is a shrewd man. From the way they talk to each other, he can tell that the boy is mentally retarded.

"Haozi, I'm going to see my brother. You sit here and drink some water. You can see it from this room."

"My little brother is shy in the room. Wait for me here and I'll take you to eat meat later."

"Really? I want to eat meat." When Haozi heard that he could eat meat, he happily sat down and drank the water in small sips.

"Grandpa, let's go in and take a look."

The two of them went into the house. The old man stood beside them looking sad. Fang Nan checked Shitou and found that there was no serious problem. She was just worried that the child would feel inferior because there would be a scar on his face after healed.

Fang Nan then fed him a blood-replenishing pill and left him a box of scar-removing ointment.

After hearing Fang Nan's diagnosis, the old man knew that his grandson would recover soon and the scar would be removed. He was relieved of his worries and said in high spirits, "What happened to the child you brought?"

"Haozi was born with a defective soul, which cannot be cured. With me by his side, he will be fine."

"I know you have your own ideas and your own rules. If you accept them, you will have to take responsibility."

"The old man is very insightful."

The two chatted in the yard, and Fang Nan took Haozi, who was restless, out of the old man's house.

After staying at the old man's place, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon. After a walk outside, Fang Nan bought some date cakes and cloth, and Haozi bought some shortbread with one dollar.

Fang Nan took Haozi to the People's Hotel for dinner. He ordered Haozi's favorite braised pork, stewed pork, two pounds of rice and fifteen meat buns.

I also met Zhang Cheng and Xie Yan in the restaurant. It was dinner time, so there were many people, so I shared a table with them.

After eating, Fang Nan packed up the remaining food, put the buns in it and left. When the four of them arrived at the town gate, they just caught up with a bullock cart returning to the village and got a ride.