After my stepmother was shot, I took my brothers to the countryside

Shen Nian parked the car in the yard and walked into the house. A cold and desolate atmosphere hit him in the face.

Obviously, Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle have already gone out to school.

After eating two buns, Shen Nian went back to his room and took a nap. When he woke up again, it was already lunchtime.

After winter comes, the school requires students to pay firewood fees. Of course, you can also choose to pay firewood, it depends on personal choice.

In order to save money for their sister, Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle chose to hand over the firewood on their own initiative.

At first, the two of them picked up firewood on the way to school. After it snowed, they could no longer pick up firewood on the road, so they took it from home. Coincidentally, there was plenty of firewood at home, so Shen Nian went with them.

In winter, it was too cold to travel back and forth, so Shen Nian asked the Shen Nian'an brothers to bring their own lunch to school so they could heat it up and eat it at noon without having to go home for lunch.

Shen Nian was eating alone at noon. He was too lazy to light a fire, so he simply heated up two buns he brought back in the morning, and that was how he solved his lunch problem.

After dinner, Shen Nian wrapped himself in a thick cotton jacket and trousers, put on cotton shoes, picked up a piece of meat, and prepared to take it to the cowshed before going to Aunt Zhang's house to chat.

"Xiao Nian, are you going out?"

Shen Nian had just closed the door of her yard when Su Dingyi from the cowshed opposite called her from the yard.

"Yeah! I'm going to the brigade to chat with Auntie San. Auntie Su, what are you doing in the yard?"

"As for me, I'm just going to stretch my legs in the yard. It's cold out, and it's no use staying indoors all the time."

As Su Dingyi spoke, she stretched her arms and bent her legs.

Shen Nian walked to Su Dingyi and handed over the meat.

"Auntie Su, after today, tomorrow will be New Year's Day. Let's all have a good meal tonight!"

"Why are you giving us more meat? We still have plenty!"

Su Dingyi looked at the large piece of meat that Shen Nian was holding and asked in confusion.

"Auntie Su, this is fresh meat. It tastes different from bacon. Come on, take it. I'm in a hurry to chat with Auntie San!"

As Shen Nian said this, he was about to stuff the meat into Su Dingyi's hand.

"Hey, you kid."

Su Dingyi said with a smile, and without refusing any more, she took the meat and carried it.

"Aunt Su, I'll be leaving first. I'll talk to you when I come back." Shen Nian said, turning around and leaving the cowshed.

Shen Yulan came out of the toilet in the corner of the yard: "Ding Yi, I heard Xiao Nian's voice, is she here?"

"Yes, they're sending us meat again!"

Su Dingyi smiled and picked up the meat in her hand and shook it.

"We still have some, the ones she gave us last time!"

When talking about the meat that Shen Nian sent last time, Su Dingyi and Shen Yulan looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

It was a hazy night. The gate of the cowshed was opened before the few people could get up to check.

Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground. Several people thought it was a cattle thief. The three women in the cowshed slept in the same room, so they didn't dare to come out to check.

It was Shen Nian who said this after Gu Jianhua and others from next door opened the door and went out.

"Here, uncle, this is the pig I killed for you!"

Only then did they realize that it was Shen Nian who brought them meat.

Shen Nian had hunted the pig in the mountains. She said that if she delivered it during the day it would be too conspicuous and she was afraid of being seen, so she sent it at night.

As it was too dark at the time, she was afraid of scaring the people in the cowshed, so she didn't say anything in advance and just came over with a pig.

In the end, they were still surprised and thought that it was a cattle thief who came to visit their cowshed!

"Ding Yi, how come Xiao Nian is such a good kid? He thinks of everything for us so thoughtfully!"

As Shen Yulan spoke, her eyes became moist.

"Yes, Xiao Nian is a good kid!"

As Su Dingyi spoke, her gaze became more profound. She wondered if her soldier was worthy of such a good girl!

No! The key point should be whether Xiao Nian likes her big-headed soldier?

"Sister Nian! Where are you going?"

As soon as Shen Nian arrived at the Youth League Home, he met Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan.

"I'm going to Third Aunt's house to chat. Where are you two going, Jiaojiao?"

"Go to Third Aunt's house to chat?"

"Sister Nian, I'll go with you!"

When Ye Jiaojiao heard about going to chat, she instantly became interested and wanted to go too.

"Zhao Gaoxuan, let's not go skating yet! We can go later after Xiaoan and Xiaole come back! Sister Nian and I are going to the village to chat for a while!"

Ye Jiaojiao quickly explained to Zhao Gaoxuan, and then took Shen Nian's arm.

"Okay, you go with Shen Zhiqing, I'm going back." Zhao Gaoxuan said and went back to the Zhiqing compound.

"Are you two going to go sliding?"

Shen Nian heard the word "slippery" from the Shen Nian'an brothers. When he heard it for the first time, Shen Nian thought the word sounded very interesting.

Shen Nian looked at Zhao Gaoxuan's departing back, then turned to look at Ye Jiaojiao, curiosity flashing in his eyes.

"Yeah, didn't I go there with Xiaole and the others a couple of days ago? Sister Nian, you know what! This slippery place is really fun!"

Ye Jiaojiao explained, her face filled with youthful energy.

"Sister Nian! Why don't you come play with us someday? It's so boring for you to stay at home reading books all day!"

Ye Jiaojiao held Shen Nian's hand, her eyes gleaming with anticipation.

Shen Nian smiled slightly and nodded. She often forgot that she was just an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl now, not the strong woman in her early thirties in her previous life.

The two walked towards Aunt Zhang's house arm in arm, chatting.

When they arrived at Third Aunt's house, she happened to be in the yard. When she saw the two of them come in, she immediately came to greet them with a smile.

"Xiao Nian, Jiao Jiao, why are you two here together?"

Aunt San held their hands and asked affectionately.

"Aunt San, we came here to chat with you!"

"Oh, that's great! Come on! Let's go inside and chat on the kang!"

Aunt San said happily and pulled the two of them into the house.

After getting on the kang, Shen Nian took out a few small bags of melon seeds from his pocket. These melon seeds were looted from Boss Long, and there were still a lot in Shen Nian's space.

"Hey! Xiao Nian, where are the melon seeds you brought with you?"

Third Aunt looked at the melon seeds Shen Nian took out and joked.

"Of course, I'm just waiting for Auntie San to start talking."

Shen Nian responded with a smile and handed the melon seeds to Third Aunt and Ye Jiaojiao.

The three of them sat on the kang and started chatting about family matters.

There are endless topics to talk about, from the latest news in the village, to the interesting anecdotes of the educated youth, to the daily life of each household.

"Jiaojiao, those new educated youths in your Youth Farm are really making trouble. I see that every few days, someone comes to the team leader's house to look for him."

Aunt Zhang asked Ye Jiaojiao while cracking melon seeds. The reason why Aunt Zhang could get first-hand gossip in the team was because her family lived diagonally across from the team leader's house.

There was a road between the two houses, and the courtyard walls in the countryside were not high. In fact, the courtyard wall of Shen Nian's house was the tallest in their village.

The wall of the courtyard is not high, which makes it convenient for the intelligence officer Aunt Zhang San. As long as someone comes to the captain's house, Aunt Zhang San can see them at a glance.

Occasionally, there would be someone with a loud voice, and Aunt Zhang could hear what he was saying in her own yard.

"Yes, Auntie San, you don't know, those newly arrived educated youth are really noisy."

Ye Jiaojiao sighed and shook her head. "A few days ago, that educated youth surnamed Lin threw the bowl because Zhang Qiang's cooking was not to his liking."

"Oh, this is such a waste of food!"

Third Aunt widened her eyes in surprise. These days, food is a scarce commodity, and she despised people who wasted food the most.