Double Life: My whole world is you

Cheng Qiao held her arm and replied with a smile, "Yes, I want to hug her."

"I was wondering why I kept sneezing today!" Weiwei pulled her, "It's a good thing you're here today, we can cut the horseshoe quickly today, especially since the pillars are worth two."

Water chestnuts are a common fruit in their area. Their scientific name is water chestnut. After peeling, they can be eaten raw, cooked in soup or made into dumplings. But most people buy peeled water chestnuts because it is too troublesome to peel them. After the two of them greeted their aunt, they were pulled aside by Weiwei, and each of them handed over a magical tool for peeling water chestnuts, a peeling knife made by Lu.

After greeting her aunt, Cheng's mother took their bags and said, "I'm going to go back and cook. You guys can come back and eat at 11:30."

Auntie's fruit beach is on the left side of the farmer's market exit. They are more than a meter away from the store next to them. The four of them sit around a square area with a cement bag of horseshoes and two baskets in the middle. Both baskets are empty. Fangfang looks up and smiles at the two of them before continuing with her work. There are only two small plastic chairs. Weiwei handed hers to Chengqiao. She and Chengzhu each carried a plastic jar filled with sugar oranges and tore two pieces of paper shells to cushion them before continuing.

They usually start cutting horseshoes in September or October and finish in March or April of the following year. They spend most of the past six months cutting horseshoes. Whenever they have a holiday, they will help my aunt cut horseshoes. Especially during festivals, the business of horseshoes is very good and the demand can’t keep up with the supply. My aunt just finished her work and poured more than ten horseshoes she had just cut into a stainless steel basin and placed it on the top of the cart. After handing them the small basket, she smiled and said, “Keep working hard! The mahjong room just called to reserve five pounds.”

"Mom! We came here at around 8 o'clock, and we've been whittling for more than an hour." Weiwei complained, "He hasn't stopped working."

"Your sister is working without moving, but you're doing this and that after sitting for a while." He smiled and glared at her and said, "You should work hard for a few days during the New Year. I will give you more living expenses when you go to school."

"Mom, we agreed on twenty dollars a day, and there will be extra subsidies later." Weiwei asked with a blink.

"Work hard and I won't treat you unfairly." Auntie said, "I'll buy you roast duck at noon."

"Yeah, great!" Chengzhu shouted happily.

"Qiaoqiao, do you want to eat roast duck?" Weiwei pushed Chengqiao and asked.

Cheng Qiao smiled helplessly. Here it comes again. This joke has tortured Weiwei for ten years in her previous life. Cheng Qiao was born in 1993, a rooster, and Weiwei was born in 1994, a dog. Since she could remember, Weiwei would always tease her by saying that chickens, ducks, and geese were her kind, and eating them was like eating herself. Moreover, she was not easily teased since she was a child, so she never liked poultry meat. She wanted to refute her many times, but Weiwei's mouth was so good that Cheng Qiao was no match for her.

Seeing that she remained silent, Weiwei continued to tease her, "Qiaoqiao, why aren't you talking? Are you afraid to eat? That's your own kind."

She really knew how to thank him. For more than ten years, she had gotten used to not eating poultry meat. "Yes! I don't eat my own kind. Weiwei, please don't eat dog meat in the future."

"I definitely won't eat it! Dogs are so cute, they are our friends." Weiwei replied.

"Okay, work harder and talk less. We have to finish peeling this bag in the morning." Fangfang, who was sitting opposite Weiwei, said.

"Cousin, will there be nothing left after we finish peeling this bag?" Cheng Zhu asked weakly.

"You wish. This is the amount for the morning. There is one more bag for the afternoon." Weiwei said, "There is another bag for the evening. Originally, the two of us were supposed to finish two bags a day, but the four of us have to finish at least three bags a day."

"Ah? Doesn't that mean I don't have time to do my homework?" Cheng Zhu said, "I haven't finished my winter vacation homework yet."

"It's just these few days. After the tenth day, you won't need so much. At most, you can finish one or two bags a day." Fangfang said.

Weiwei ignored Fangfang. She pulled Chengqiao on her right and said, "Qiaoqiao, it's just right that you're here. You're a good student. Have you finished your winter vacation homework?"

"The only thing left is English." Cheng Qiao said as he cut the paper.

"Qiaoqiao, you are really my savior. I can finish my homework overnight." Weiwei put down the peeler in his hand and grabbed Cheng Qiao and said excitedly.

Cheng Qiao held her hand and said calmly, "Um, Weiwei, I'm sorry, I didn't bring the rest of my winter vacation homework."

"What?" Weiwei was petrified. "Qiaoqiao, you wouldn't be so mean, would you? Have you forgotten that I always have to copy your homework?"

Cheng Qiao was a little embarrassed. Those were things from the past life. How could she remember so much? Besides, it would be so tiring to memorize so much homework. "You do it yourself first. I'll teach you if you don't know how."

Weiwei shook his head. "I can't do 80 percent of them, especially math and physics. I can't even guess!"

Auntie came to them again with a smile on her face and poured the freshly shaved grapes into the empty stainless steel basin in front of them and said, "Come on! Add another three pounds to the mahjong room."

"Mom, we've worked so hard. You took it away just after we peeled ten." Weiwei said weakly.

"Keep working hard!" Auntie patted Weiwei and Chengqiao, "You and Qiao should work hard. Look, Zhu shaved three, and you only shaved one."

Cheng Qiao shook her head helplessly. Although Cheng Zhu was three or four years younger than her, in terms of work speed, even though they were born of the same mother, Cheng Qiao could never compare to Cheng Zhu.

As soon as Weiwei finished peeling one and threw it into the basket, he said to Cheng Qiao, "Qiaoqiao, since you have finished your homework, you must remember it. I don't care, you have to help me finish math and physics."

"No way?" Cheng Qiao frowned. "I don't have time to do homework these days. I need to work on my English for a few days. I still have two essays and one reflection."

"You don't have to do it so carefully. It's enough to complete 80% of it." Weiwei pulled her and acted coquettishly, "Please help me! I only did a dozen pages of Chinese and history, and there are still so many books that need to be handed in for school."

"Okay! Keep whittling!" Cheng Qiao shook his head helplessly, but looking at the half of the horseshoe left, several people were full of confidence.

Cheng Qiao looked at the time and it was already 11:40. They had already peeled half of the second bag, and finally decided to divide the rest into two red bags and take them back to peel. Auntie handed them the roast duck and asked them to send the peeled duck over as soon as possible. As soon as she finished speaking, she was busy weighing the fruit.

My aunt's house is only about a thousand meters away from the farmer's market. After going down an alley, passing two small communities and two low-rise houses, and finally crossing a railway line, you will reach the yard where they live. There are only two units of three-story staircase houses in their yard, and two households in each unit. Their house is an old house from the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally the family building of the old detention center. In recent years, this side has developed into the city center, and the old detention center has moved to the west of the city, leaving only a small number of light prisoners here. The third floor of the unit on the right side of the entrance to my aunt's house is a small two-bedroom apartment of only 60 or 70 square meters. My aunt simply built a half-story on the roof without decoration. Cheng Ma, Cheng Zhu, Fang Fang and Wei Wei live on the roof together.