Xiu Xiu lowered her eyes and sipped the cold sour plum soup.
Upon hearing Yang Ruoqing's question, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and a bitter smile appeared on her face.
She raised her eyes and looked at Yang Ruoqing, and said softly: "Auntie, can you agree to my request?"
Such a polite way of speaking... To be honest, Yang Ruoqing has really not heard it for a long time.
In the year and a half before he left, Xiu Xiu fell into a state of madness and irritability.
After the reconciliation, I had an epiphany, but my whole body seemed to have been drained of energy...
When people around her talked to her, they were just teasing Yongxiao.
When teasing Yongxiao, will Xiuxiu accompany you with a smile, and then simply say a few words to you? Have you drank? Conversations like this.
But serious conversations like this one are really rare.
"Xiuxiu, tell me." Yang Ruoqing said quickly.
After all, she is her cousin who she has watched grow up, a little girl who grew up playing with Baby Luo when she was a child...
Xiuxiu held sour plum soup in both hands, her eyes were gloomy, but her tone was calm and firm as she said: "Auntie, please don't ask me 'Are you okay?' in the future. I promise you that I will work hard to make myself better." To get better, I want to work hard to be the person I was before, without embarrassing Lao Yang’s family and without worrying my parents, is that okay?”
Yang Ruoqing stared at Xiuxiu blankly.
After a while, Yang Ruoqing raised her hand and gently rubbed the top of Xiu Xiu's hair, leaned over and gave her a gentle hug.
"Everything is over, aunt believes in you."
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"It's so hot, it's so hot that I have nowhere to hide. I want to peel off my skin!"
The white sun shines on the bluestone slabs in the yard, reflecting dazzling white light.
Cicadas were shouting hoarsely from the big tree. Yang Ruoqing was holding a bucket in her hand, scooping out the cool well water from the gourd and pouring it evenly on the stone floor of the front yard to cool down the yard.
Otherwise, the white light reflected into the main room is enough to be worth the heat of a heater.
At this moment, Mrs. Liu held a cattail leaf fan on her head and walked into the Luo family's yard while shouting.
"Oh my god, Qing'er, aren't you afraid of the heat? Can't you just sit for a while? You'll be sweating so much that you'll get heat stroke!"
"I'm fine. If I don't splash it to cool down, I can't bear it even if I sit there without moving. If I splash it, I can get a moment of coolness later."
"Oh, I don't care about you anymore. I have to go into the house and ask your aunt for some sour plum soup!"
Yang Ruoqing curled her lips but did not stop him.
This year's summer can be said to be the hottest summer that Yang Ruoqing has encountered since she traveled to this time and space.
Even if the summer days in previous years were hot, they would not be this hot.
There is a kind of abnormal craze this year. Whether it was Yang Huazhong's letter a few days ago or Luo Fengtang's letter home, they all mentioned a common phenomenon.
That is the north. Many places are experiencing severe drought this year, and large areas of land are cracked. There is a large river from the north to the west, irrigating the vast fields on both sides. This year, the water level of the river has dropped to a record low.
It is said that the silt wherever the water level recedes in some river sections has been evaporated by the sun, revealing large areas of dried fish-scale soil.
The fields along the rivers that were not irrigated were destroyed on a large scale, and there was no harvest. In many villages, men, women, old and young took their children and girls out to beg...
Fortunately, the several rivers and lakes that Changhuaizhou relies on for survival were not damaged, and the rain was just right, so the crops here were not affected.
However, it is much hotter here this year than in previous years. Especially after mid-May, what Yang Ruoqing hears the most is so-and-so in the village, or so-and-so in the next village. It gets too hot while working and foams at the mouth. The mouth is crooked, almost gone...
Or maybe someone’s old man or woman is so hot that their old disease relapses, and they may not be able to survive the summer and eat this season’s new rice...
Or someone's little baby couldn't sleep due to the heat at night, and kept pulling at his hair. When the adults woke up at dawn, they found that the baby had pulled himself out of the "Mediterranean Sea"...
Yang Ruoqing poured out the last two ladles of well water in the bucket, and clearly felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped a bit, and it was not as hot as before.
Hey, humans, in front of the natural climate, they are just like little Karami.
Regardless of whether it is in later generations or today, human struggle is actually not very effective, even if future generations have heating in winter and air conditioning in summer.
But doesn’t the energy that drives those devices also come from nature?
In the final analysis, heaven and earth are not benevolent and treat all things as stupid dogs!
"Qing'er, you are such a hard-working person. Look, you gave us all this shade, hehe!"
In the main room, Mrs. Liu was sitting comfortably in the passage, holding a bowl of sour plum soup in her hand and drinking it very nourishingly.
Even the cattail leaf fan was temporarily put aside and not used.
Yang Ruoqing did not respond to her words, because Wang Cuilian had already stepped forward to help take the barrel from Yang Ruoqing's hand.
"Sit down for a while and look, the clothes on my back are all wet..."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll go to the backyard again, wash my face and change into a top."
Wang Cuilian said: "That's okay."
Yang Ruoqing glanced at the two reunited brothers in the room again, and told Wang Cuilian: "The sour plum soup should be in moderation. If the children drink too much, they may cause gastrointestinal burden."
Wang Cuilian said: "If you don't give them more to drink, they don't seem to like drinking very much. Tuantuan was asking when to cut the iced watermelon!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled, "This guy just wants to eat."
Mrs. Liu next to her immediately jumped out to defend Tuan Tuan: "Children, why are you greedy? Even adults have to eat. Food is the most important thing for the people. Who doesn't like to eat in this world?"
Among them, she herself is the representative...
Yang Ruoqing shook her head and turned to the backyard.
You can eat what you like, but Yang Ruoqing will still strictly control the weight of the food you eat.
It is not good for children to be too obese, as it affects their health.
Furthermore, in two or three years, when the two children are five years old, they will begin to learn and practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies.
By then, whether it is the consumption of brains or the consumption of martial arts, as a descendant of the Luo family, unless you lay down flat, there should be no big fat man or greasy man.
When Yang Ruoqing changed into dry clothes from the backyard and returned to the front yard, she found that the people in the main room were not here.
When they turned around, where did they go?
She had just come from the backyard and didn't bump into them.
And it was so early in the morning, did they go to the wind and rain veranda in the front yard to play? That's so hot!
At this moment, there was a sudden noise on the road outside the yard.
The loud voice occupying position C is Mrs. Liu, who seems to be yelling and cursing someone, mixed with the woman's pleading and the child's frightened cry...
