In the book, the female supporting role dreams of being an idle fish

"Come back home and tell our Huainan how to exchange them. These fruits are precious. We only exchanged 10 in total. We've already eaten them all."

"Don't worry, the fruits are still hanging on the trees in the village. You can't run away, just continue playing. If our family returns, we will let Huainan call you. It will only take one shout." Jiang Xiu made a promise, and the group of children looked at each other.

I'm wondering whether my family will agree.

After hearing what Aunt Jiang Xiu said, I knew that this fruit was not cheap.

If we have to exchange it, we must exchange it for food.

Then I have to go back home and ask grandma and mom for help.

Since the fruit is on Sunday, let’s play with it first.

It's only the afternoon of the 27th, Thursday.

There are still several days until Sunday.

Jiang Xiu was really speechless about Aunt Wu. In the past, whenever she had something delicious to eat at home, she would bring her granddaughter over and then leave.

The child was looking at it eagerly, so of course I had to give him some food, otherwise it would add to the rumors that my family was stingy.

Now look what happened, directly inciting so many children.

Where can I get so many apples this week? There are none in Jiangjia Village anyway.

It’s true. Since Aunt Wu came back, the two families next door have had no peace anymore.

If he is not climbing on his own wall, he is climbing on the wall of Wang's house next to Wu's.

The Wang family’s kitchen is a little further away, so it’s better than my own home.

Jiang Xiu felt that if she couldn't afford to provoke him, she could at least avoid him, so she went back to the house and put down her woolen pants and ball of yarn.

I took Jiang Huaixi's temperature and it was 37.1, no fever.

Pick up Jiang Huaixi, put on his clothes and shoes.

Come out and lock the door, especially the main room door.

To the restroom.

The goose hasn't gone into the water yet today.

Open the door of the goose house and let the geese out.

The little geese now know that they will go into the water once they come out, so they line up and walk out of the Jiang family yard.

As soon as the goose came out of the yard, Jiang Huaibei saw it. "Brother, the goose is out."

Jiang Huainan had his back to the yard. When he turned around, he saw his aunt carrying Huaixi out.

Although Aunt Wu had heard an animal calling today, she didn't expect it to be a goose.

When Aunt Wu was young, her family had two big geese.

The memory of it is the appearance of a big goose.

These two geese are very majestic. Anyone who passes by their house will be caught in their arms.

Sometimes they even chase passers-by and pick them up.

There were even cases where adults came specifically to ask for an egg to eat after a child was taken away.

Later, when my grandmother passed away, she killed the two geese and made meat dishes.

This is already a distant memory.

Memories before the age of 10.

A goose egg, at least as big as two chicken eggs.

It’s different if you marry a woman who knows how to manage a life.

The Jiang family couldn’t even grow vegetables before, but now they have started feeding geese.

Food is scarce in the city, and there is little food to feed animals.

Some people raised chickens in those years, but later they found it was not cost-effective.

If you feed them too little, they won’t have eggs to eat.

There are too many and the food supply cannot be delivered.

Especially when the first group of people moved into the family compound.

It has been more than 20 years since the country was founded on October 3, 1945.

It’s August 27th this year.

25 years.

The person who has moved into the family compound the longest has been there for 24 years.

The houses with 5 and 4 rooms in one yard were the first batch to move in.

Aunt Wu knew that this thing had to go into the water, so she stood up and left the Jiang family's yard.

"Xiu'er, where did these goslings come from? How many days have you raised them? Can you give me a couple? I want to raise them, too. I've seen your eldest and second granddaughters, and they can run and jump now."

"Although I'm old, I'm from the countryside. I'm used to doing these kinds of work. I also feed a couple of geese. It can help ease the burden on my family. How about you tell me a place? I'll go find it myself."

Jiang Xiu knew nothing about the geese. "We haven't had them for long. Only about half a month. They're still young, and we don't even know which one is male and which is female. We'll chop up the ones that don't when they're ready to lay eggs next year. Even though they're only six small, they can eat three or four bowls of corn kernels a day."

"When they were first feeding it, I told them not to. It was the brothers Huainan and Huaibei who insisted on feeding it. My sister-in-law also insisted on feeding it. It's a complete waste of food. When they first came home, they ate cornmeal. Later, they could eat some vegetable leaves. But they mainly ate corn kernels."

"I saw a live hen at the grocery store for 7 yuan. It weighed 5 kilograms, and ours is already over 2 kilograms. Auntie, if you want one, wait until my sister-in-law gets off work and then discuss it with her. We definitely won't share the six we raise with anyone. We're going to Hewanwan now, so let's talk later."

Jiang Xiu came out and locked the door.

Follow the goose and set off.

Jiang Xiu went to Hewanwan, and Jiang Huainan and Jiang Huaibei naturally followed.

Jiang Huainan followed behind with the ball in his arms, and the group of children followed him.

When passing by other family compounds.

There were also people sitting at the gate of the yard, working, knitting sweaters, making shoes, and sewing clothes.

Seeing Jiang Xiu leading a group of children, he asked if there were any from his family.

I feel relieved knowing that I can go to Hewan Bay.

After all, the family compound is very safe.

Children also run around without adults accompanying them.

Some children thought of the fruit mentioned earlier, so they stopped and talked to their mother or grandmother.

Some looked embarrassed.

In fact, it’s not that everyone hasn’t seen people selling fruits.

But this thing is really precious.

Whatever you find on your own trees you have to exchange for money.

It would be better to exchange that money for food.

Some simply refused.

Some said we’ll see when the time comes.

Jiang Xiu took Jiang Huaixi to kill time.

Jiang Huainan continued to kick the ball with Jiang Huaibei and the group of children.

When Gu Lixia came back from get off work, she saw Suozi guarding the door.

I just knew that the whole family went out.

But there's nowhere to go.

Jiang Xiu is not a person who likes to visit others, so he can only look for it in Hewanwan.

After waiting for Jiang Wen to come back, Jiang Wen said he would not go.

Jiang Wen went home to cook porridge.

Gu Lixia went to the toilet and went straight to Hewanwan.

Sure enough, a large group of children.

When Jiang Huaixi saw Gu Lixia, he walked up to Jiang Xiu and poked Jiang Xiu's arm.

Pointed in the direction Gu Lixia came from.

"Second sister-in-law, it's time to get off work. I came here to get some quiet time. Aunt Wu next door has taken a fancy to our geese again. She's always thinking about other people's things." When Jiang Xiu saw Gu Lixia, the anger that had been stuck in her heart for the whole afternoon instantly found a source.

Gu Lixia was speechless about such a shameless neighbor.

But there's a cure. "Go back and chase the geese until she comes to me. Come, Huaixi, let Second Aunt hug you. How are you? Are you feeling better? Did you still have a fever this afternoon? Did you drink more apple soup this afternoon? How's your throat?"