The Strongest Dad in the 1980s: Fu Bao is the daughter of Heaven

Seeing Tangtang squat down, Mother Chen quickly stepped forward and asked, "Tangtang, what are you looking for?"

I saw Tangtang picking up something from a pile of rubble.

"Grandma, look!"

Mother Chen looked at her hand and saw a round piece of jade with a safety clasp threaded through the center.

"what is this?"

Tangtang held it in her hand and said seriously: "This is Tangtang's."

She also pointed to her neck, "This is Tangtang's."

Mother Chen probably understood what she meant.

This is her pendant, with a red rope on it that has been stained by mud and changed color.

She nodded, "Grandma knows, this is our Tangtang's pendant."

She reached out to take it and said, "Come, grandma will wash it for you before you put it on."

"Okay, thank you grandma."

Mother Chen nodded.

While Chen's mother was looking for a ditch to wash the rope, Tangtang was looking for something in the ruins again.

Zhang Cuilian followed her and asked, "Tangtang, what are you looking for?"

Tangtang shook her head.

Then, a squirrel suddenly jumped down from the nearby pine tree.

"Wow, it's Xiao Tiao Tiao!"

She picked it up with both hands, but before Zhang Cuilian could remind her, the little squirrel had landed firmly on Tangtang's hands.

I saw the little squirrel on Tangtang's hand, very well-behaved, and gently brushed her hand with its fluffy tail, saying something like "squeaking" in its mouth?

Zhang Cuilian was surprised, "Hey, you can still play with this little squirrel."

Tangtang nodded, "This is Tangtang's good friend. It's called Xiaotiao Tiao, named after Tangtang."

She touched the little squirrel's head with her hand and asked, "Do you miss me?"

"Squeak..."

The little squirrel squeaked, as if in reply, "I miss you too."

After hearing this, Tangtang grinned and said, "Tangtang misses you too."

"Zhizhizhi..." You won't come back to see me even if you don't think so.

Tangtang looked back at the ruins before speaking, "Tangtang's house collapsed. Tangtang is looking for her father. Tangtang hasn't come back here. Little Tiao Tiao, do you know?"

What Tangtang wanted to tell it was that because the nunnery collapsed, she went to find a home elsewhere, so she could not come back to see it.

The little squirrel seemed to understand and nodded.

When Mother Chen came back from washing the rope, she saw the little squirrel on Tangtang's hand.

"Hey, this little squirrel isn't afraid of you."

"Grandma, this is Tangtang's." Tangtang pointed to the little squirrel, "This is Tangtang's good friend."

After Tangtang's patient explanation, Chen's mother realized that this was her friend from the nunnery.

Tangtang didn't like to be gregarious with children since she was a child. As soon as she could walk, she ran into the mountains. Her sister-in-law chased her out several times and found her in the mountains.

And every time, she was either surrounded by pine trees, or rabbits and pheasants were there, and sometimes there were even other aggressive animals brought back with her.

So the children hated her for bringing things back even though she couldn't speak, and then bullied her into not speaking and liking to laugh.

Little Squirrel was a child that Tangtang had known for a relatively long time. However, after she left the nunnery, she did not expect that Little Squirrel would still remember her.

Tangtang touched Xiao Tiao Tiao's head and asked again: "Xiao Tiao Tiao, where's the chestnut? Tangtang wants chestnut."

When the little squirrel heard this, he immediately jumped up the tree, then jumped down again, signaling to humans the direction in which he was going.

The two adults only found it strange.

"Is it going to lead the way?" Zhang Cuilian asked.

"It seems so." Mother Chen also said.

Tangtang pointed in that direction and said, "Little Tiaotiao said, the chestnut is over there."

The two adults believed the child's words without thinking, and then followed the jumping squirrel in one direction.

Soon, they discovered a chestnut tree that no one had ever picked in the mountains behind Baiying Temple.

"Hey, I really found it." Zhang Cuilian was a little surprised.

This chestnut tree used to be managed by the nunnery's sister-in-law every year. Although the nunnery collapsed this year, this chestnut tree is not like other wild chestnuts. It grows tall and large, and its fruits are sparse.

"There are still so many." Zhang Cuilian was surprised.

Mother Chen didn't expect it either, "It seems like this place was well managed before."

Tangtang pointed at the chestnut tree and shouted, "Grandma planted it, grandma planted it."

Tangtang remembered her grandma saying that she planted this.

When the two adults heard this, they immediately understood.

"It seems that the master of the nunnery grew this one himself. No wonder it looks different from our wild chestnuts in the mountains."

Then the two adults didn't waste any time. After climbing up the tree, they got sticks and started beating on the chestnut tree.

Some of the chestnuts in August have fallen off on the ground.

Tangtang was in a safe place nearby and started to pick up the chestnuts scattered everywhere.

The little squirrel jumped next to her and squeaked when he found chestnuts. After a while, Tangtang had picked up a basket full of chestnuts.

The two adults continued to beat the chestnut balls, and the chestnut balls covered with burrs fell around.

After working for a while, the two of them came down from the tree and started picking up chestnut balls on the ground.

"That's a lot." Zhang Cuilian said, "It's much better than in the mountains, but the road is longer."

Mother Chen nodded, "Yes, it's a pity that this chestnut piece has fallen to the ground and rotted if no one came."

Although there are small animals in the mountains, there are so many chestnuts that they cannot store many for the winter, and most of them can only rot in the ground.

Because there were a lot of chestnuts on the tree, the two were reluctant to go back with a basket of chestnut balls wrapped with thorns, so they placed the chestnuts in front of Bai Ying'an and used tools to take out the chestnuts from the thorn balls.

Tangtang didn't dare to do it, so she just followed the little squirrel and played beside it.

When adults come here, they don’t want to leave empty-handed, so they are naturally very motivated.

The peeled chestnuts were all put into the baskets, and then they continued to crack chestnuts.

In the end, the two of them filled a basket that was nearly full before they were willing to go back.

Many of the remaining chestnut balls that they could not fit were left to dry in front of the nunnery. After being exposed to the sun for several days, many of them would crack.

"We can just come and pick it up when the time comes." Mother Chen said to Zhang Cuilian.

Zhang Cuilian smiled and nodded, "I think so too."

In order to thank the squirrel Xiao Tiao Tiao for helping to lead the way, Chen's mother also grabbed a handful of chestnuts and put them on the ground, planning to store them for the winter.

"Come on, little Tiaotiao, this is for you."

But the little squirrel shook his head when he saw it.

Tangtang explained, "Little Tiaotiao said it didn't want it, but it does. It has a lot of them."

Mother Chen was stunned for a moment, then took the chestnuts back, "Okay, then if you need the rest, you can pick them up when the time comes. We'll pick them again next time we come."

The little squirrel stood up on its hind legs, then bowed with its front legs to the two adults, as if thanking the humans.