Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Little Pei went from house to house to apologize to everyone.

He obediently called his parents and listened to Liu Renben and Pei Zhu, and even gave them back massages and brought them water for washing their feet.

No matter who gives her earnest advice, she will always smile and say, "I know you are doing this for my own good. I will definitely be good. I didn't understand much before, but now I understand everything. Yes, I know it's hard out there. I can't even get food. Home is still the best place."

Pei Zhu and Liu Renben were very happy and said that she had repented and become sensible.

She acted as if she had been wrong all along.

Pei Xiaohai didn't refute anything, but just lowered his eyes and blushed as if he was embarrassed.

Speaking of pigs.

She also said, "There's no point in raising those things. We don't need that little money at home. Grandma has said that we should eat more vegetarian food to accumulate merit. If Mom doesn't like them, we can just sell them."

Pei Zhu teased her, "You can sell everything, so why not sell your cat too?"

Pei Xiaohai smiled and said, "If Mom is happy, she can even sell me."

Pei Zhu laughed: "This child, when did he become so good at coaxing people?"

Pei Xiaohai not only knows how to coax people, she can also coax children. Even if Baifu doesn't really want to play with her, she will still pull her out for a walk.

Pei Zhu was happy to see this happen and would not stop them as long as they did all the work they were supposed to do.

Because of Baifu, Pei Xiaohai got to know many children in the village and heard a lot of gossip, some true and some false.

The autumn harvest is here in the blink of an eye.

The Liu family hired a lot of people to harvest the wheat.

Pei Xiaohai was busy every day. Her family had to take care of their meals and hired a few cooks. She helped to light the fire, add water, and deliver meals to Liu Renben. Her only entertainment was to sit on the haystack and see if the people working in the fields were slacking off.

The Liu family’s haystacks are tall and solid, and you can see far away when standing on them.

Seeing that the land was almost harvested, she asked Pei Zhu how long it would take.

"Just a day or two, what's wrong? Are you tired?" Pei Zhu stroked her longer hair, "Good girl, don't be lazy. When we sell grain, ask your father to take you with him. Then he'll buy you a pearl flower to tie your hair with."

Pei Zhu handed her the lunch box and asked her to carry it to Liu Renben.

Pei Xiaohai looked at her and smiled, saying yes with anticipation.

She asked her if she could go cut cattails in the afternoon as she wanted to weave a few baskets and sell them together.

Pei Zhu said, "Why bother? There are cattails at home. Just go get them."

Pei Xiaohai said unhappily: "It belongs to our family. Even if I sell it, it will still belong to our family. I want my own."

Perhaps because he thought she was too playful, Pei Zhu agreed: "Okay, you can take Baifu with you."

Pei Xiaohai said hurriedly, "I'll go by myself. She's not even as tall as the grass. I can't help her if I go. I still have to watch her."

In fact, Pei Xiaohai was not that tall, but what she said sounded very serious, as if she was going to do something serious.

"Okay, then you should go early and come back early, but don't be too late."

This was the first time that Pei Xiaohai was allowed to go out by himself since he ran away once.

She walked out carrying the lunch box, her heart pounding in her chest and she was trembling a little, not because of tiredness, but because of what she was about to do.

She talked to Liu Renben again when she handed the lunch box to him.

Liu Renben laughed at her for being a money-grubber, patted her head, and patted her on the back, saying, "Go ahead."

So Pei went to collect the dishes and chopsticks he had used to eat, and sent them back home, then ran out with a sickle.

It’s harvest time, and people are everywhere, men and women, young and old, all going to the fields.

She didn't expect to be able to hide from everyone. Anyway, as long as she hid in the cattails by the water, no one would see her. She took off all her jewelry and threw it on the ground.

Then he sneaked back to the village.

Opened the pigsty door.

Pig Belly was lying in the dirty and smelly pigsty, covered in flesh, wagging its tail, not knowing what it was thinking. Pei Xiaohai waved at it, and it came over with bright eyes.

Humming.

It sounds ugly. All pigs make such ugly noises when they grow up.

"Shh! Don't shout, run!"

Pei Xiaohai knew that the family was working in the fields, but she was not sure if they would come back suddenly.

She grabbed the pig's ears and pulled it through the gap in the fence, telling it to run up the hill.

Pig Dumpling didn't quite understand, and stupidly came over with his fat body swaying, rubbing his ears against her hand.

Pei Xiaohai kicked it and said, "Don't follow me, run! If you don't run, you'll be eaten!"

These words touched it somehow, and it ran up the mountain.

Pei Xiaohai released the pig lung in the same way. It looked a little stupid at first, but it ran much faster than the pig stomach. She just pointed in a direction, and before she could feel sad, it disappeared.

Next is the pig's liver, which is a bit difficult because this family has more than one pig in the pen.

As soon as she placed her hand on the gate, they all came over as if they had sensed something.

Do you want to do this?

Pei Xiaohai thought for a moment and opened the door. They all rushed out, banging on the door and the wall, or leisurely eating the vegetables drying in the yard.

She couldn't quite recognize which was the pig liver, and it was beyond her control. She ran out, and not long after, she heard someone shout, "Pig! Dad, your pig ran away!"

She quickened her pace to look for the pig's heart. There were people at home, and several children were cooking.

However, since there was a commotion outside, they went to the door to watch the excitement. Pei Xiaohai slipped in from the back and saw Zhu Xin huddled together with an unfamiliar pig, and no one knew what they were doing. This family didn't originally have this pig, so it must have been borrowed.

A few days ago she heard that they were going to breed the pigs so that they could give birth to many piglets.

She tried to pull the pig's heart, but it didn't want to leave. When it heard they were coming back, Pei Xiaohai had no choice but to leave the pen door open and retreat.

Finally, he returned to Liu's house, drained the pig's blood, went back to the house, picked up Pei Nangua and was about to leave.

Shuanzi stood in front of the pigpen, holding a bucket of pig food and looking at her.

Pig Blood slowly walked into the circle, and Pumpkin closed his eyes, pretending that he didn't exist.

Pei Xiaohai: ...

Shuanzi poured the pig feed into the trough without saying a word, and ignored the wide-open gates. "If you take them away now, everyone will think it's you. You'll be caught wherever you go. Pigs are not cheap, they won't let you go, and you won't be able to survive. Seriously, miss, you should stay. You've done what you can, and leave the rest to fate. Don't worry about them. Go do whatever you want. No one knows about this, and I won't tell anyone."

He didn't try to persuade her any further and just left.

Little Pei looked at the pig blood sitting obediently in the pigsty.

Just leave it to fate?

Little Pei closed the door, took Pumpkin around in a big circle, and returned to the cattail bush. She finally found her lost jewelry. She washed them in water to remove the mud and sand stuck on them, and put them on again.

She cut a large pile of cattails and lay on them for a long time, until the sun was about to set, before she tied them up and carried them on her back.

She walked towards Liu's house with a sickle in her hand and a few purple irises in her hand.

Bae Joo likes to wear flowers in her hair.

Pumpkin followed at her feet.

Someone was crying out, "God damn it, I can't survive, my pig!"

It was the eldest lady from the Dou family. She had been crying for a long time.

Someone pulled a squealing pig over and said, "Make way, make way, let's see whose pig this is."

It looked familiar. Aunt Dou and the other two families who had lost the pig started arguing, and both claimed the pig was theirs.

Pei Xiaohai walked over without looking around.

Just leave it to fate?

Little Pei patted a bystander and asked, "What happened?"