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Chapter 229 Falling into the Starry Sky
"Old man, do you live a long life this year?"

Li Zheyu thought of his grandma who lived in a small town, and he hadn't visited her for a long time.

"Seventy-six." The old man said while drawing with his pen.

"Are you this old? Looks like you're in your early 60s!"

After Qin Mengyao finished drinking the brown sugar water, her words were also sweet.

Grandma smiled and waved her hands: "I'm old, I'm old, I'm useless."

"We came in a hurry, and we didn't prepare any gifts. You take the 200 yuan."

Li Zheyu took out two hundred-yuan bills from his bag and handed them to the old man.

The old man pushed Li Zheyu's hand away suddenly, with considerable strength.

"Oh, I can't do this. How can I accept the teacher's money? You are ruining my life!"

Hearing this, Li Zheyu was terrified immediately, and quickly took the money back.

"Yingzi, go and kill that big rooster, and treat your teacher to dinner."

The two quickly waved their hands: "No, old man, we're just here to take a look, and we'll be leaving in a while!"

Qin Mengyao yelled at Yingzi again: "Yingzi, you are not allowed to kill chickens, do you hear that! We don't eat here."

Yingzi stood still and scratched her hair, obviously not knowing who to listen to.

Li Zheyu quickly got up and came to Yingzi's side, and patted her on the shoulder.

"Go and cook, let's take a look, how do you cook?"

Yingzi took the two teachers to the kitchen, where it was very dark and it was almost impossible to see anything.

Yingzi turned on the light bulb. It was an incandescent lamp that was as yellow as orange and covered with spider silk. It was hung on the beam above the head by two wires.

Yingzi put a dozen sweet potatoes into the pot, added some water, covered the pot, and went to the stove to light a fire.

"Do you eat sweet potatoes at night?"

Yingzi nodded.

"Can you two eat so much?"

"I can't eat it, I will feed the excess to the pigs."

"Feed it to pigs?!"

Li Zheyu and Qin Mengyao looked at each other in surprise.

"These baked sweet potatoes are not cheap in the city. It seems to cost five or six yuan a piece."

Yingzi's eyes flashed immediately: "Really? Can I sell it for so much money?! Then if I go to the city to sell roasted sweet potatoes, wouldn't I be rich?!"

"The baked sweet potatoes are sold by grandpas and aunts. How can children sell them? It's important that you study hard!"

Yingzi nodded and continued to stuff firewood into the stove hole.

"Do you usually cook?"

"Well, grandma is not in good health and forgets things easily. She often forgets to turn on the fire when the rice is in the pot."

Qin Mengyao sighed unknowingly, she has never touched the spring water with her fingers, and the girl in front of her, who is only 10 years old this year, has already learned to cook on a stove that is almost as tall as her.

She couldn't help but began to hate Yingzi's parents a little bit.

Leaving such a young child at home so cruelly cast too much weight on her supposedly relaxed and happy childhood.

Li Zheyu walked to Yingzi's side and pushed her arm: "Teacher, let's stuff the firewood for you."

Yingzi twisted her body, refusing to move.

"Teacher, this job is not tiring at all. I really don't need help."

Li Zheyu had no choice but to stand up and return to his original position.

"What about your parents? Where are they now?"

"They are in Luyang City."

"What are you doing?"

"They all work at the express station. My dad is a courier and my mother is a sorter."

"That's not bad. Do you miss them?"

Yingzi bit her lip and nodded slightly.

Li Zheyu saw that the time was almost up, so he took out the two hundred yuan just now and put it on the stove.

"You can use this money to buy something to eat."

Yingzi was so anxious that she was about to cry, and waved her hands repeatedly to say "no".

Li Zheyu went over and grabbed her by the shoulder: "Yingzi, listen to me, this amount of money is nothing to the teacher. If the teacher has more than two hundred yuan or less than two hundred yuan, it really has no effect."

"But for you, it can improve your food for a week. If you can eat better, the teacher will be very happy!"

"If you refuse, the teacher will be very sad!"

Yingzi didn't say a word.

Li Zheyu nodded approvingly, then glanced at Qin Mengyao.

"Then let's go."

"Wait." Yingzi hurriedly pulled out the tongs and leaned against the stove wall.

"There are a lot of dogs in the village, and you are strangers. I'm afraid the dogs will bite you, so I'd better send you to the entrance of the village."

Both of them sighed unconsciously, a child who is only 10 years old is so sensible!

When the three of them left the kitchen, the grandma was already sitting in the room watching TV, and while watching, she was still babbling about something.

Li Zheyu and Qin Mengyao said goodbye to the grandmother, and then went out of the house with Yingzi.

A round of bright moon is rising from a mountain depression in front, it looks extraordinarily big and round.

"The moon in this mountain seems to be closer to us."

Yingzi raised her childish face: "We children all feel that the moon in the city is rounder."

"Next time, I'll take you to the city to see and see."

It was Fan Boran who spoke, and he and Tang Yimo were already waiting outside the door.

At the entrance of the village, the four got into the car.

Yingzi stood on the small slope and waved at them, and the little flower dog at his feet also wagged his tail and looked at them quietly.

Fan Boran turned the car around and drove on the road back to school.

Li Zheyu sighed: "I don't know when the spring breeze of reform will blow here?"

Qin Mengyao: "I'll ask my dad to donate some money here when I go back."

Fan Boran shook his head disdainfully: "Come on, if your dad knows that you are here to support teaching, it will be good if your legs are not interrupted, and donate money here?!"

"It's better to wait for me to sit in the position of the head of the Fan family, and then come here to build roads and build schools!"

Qin Mengyao: "Just blow it!"

"Whether you want to brag or not, you will know when the time comes. I'm hungry, do you still have something to eat when you go back to school?"

"I guess it's gone, even if there is, it's already completely cold."

Fan Boran rubbed his chin: "Then let's go to a nearby market town to eat."

Following the navigation, I finally came to the market town.

The market town was very deserted, and most of the stores were closed. The four of them were lucky enough to find a local restaurant.

The portion of the dish was huge, and the taste was not bad. All four of them finished their meal happily.

When I came out, it was completely dark outside.

Tang Yimo poked Li Zheyu's arm: "Look at the sky."

Li Zheyu raised his neck.

The starry sky is as bright as a huge ocean, and there are countless luminous small fish resting quietly.

And he himself seemed to be floating on this vast ocean.

"I feel like I'm about to fall into the stars."

"I feel the same way, it's really... amazing!"

(End of this chapter)