Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

When Yu Shui knew that Wu Juan and He Lai had returned, he immediately ran back to the backyard.

Sha Zhu also came with Qin Huairu. It's almost 9 months, the baby is about to be born.

"Brother, you're back. Is it fun in the countryside?" Yu Shui asked curiously.

"It's fun. There are rabbits everywhere in the countryside. We can eat them every day. I can't finish them all. I'm tired of them. I want to eat some cabbage recently." He said and picked between his teeth with his fingernails.

"Look what you can do. Put your hands down, aren't they dirty? Yu Shui, don't listen to him. Life in the countryside is hard, working in the fields every day. Yu Shui, you must study hard and become a high official in the future." Wu Juan quickly hugged Yu Shui and persuaded him.

"Hey, Yushui, what Aunt He said is right. I went to your sister-in-law's place before, and there was really nothing there, just a bunch of adobe houses." Sha Zhu said as he supported Qin Huairu in.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qin Huairu hit Sha Zhu. Although it was true, she couldn't say that.

"Guangtian, come in quickly. Give me your homework book, and Yushui, help me get the stick I used to use." He Lai saw Liu Guangtian outside the yard and quickly changed the subject.

Just leave the luggage to mom and the others to pack.

……

"Guangtian, you're no good. There are so many mistakes. You can't just write it casually." He Lai tapped Liu Guangtian's back and asked him to rewrite.

"Come on brother, do you want to check mine?"

"No checking."

"why?"

“It’s tiring to check the correctness of homework!”

Liu Guangtian: Can't you just ignore me? There are so many people in the yard, why are you staring at me alone?

"Guangtian, keep writing. I have marked all the mistakes. You can correct them slowly. I have time to help you improve. Yushui, let me give you this meat. It's the jerky badger meat my grandpa specially made for you! It smells so good." He Lai fed Yushui a stick of meat and then he bit one himself while looking at Liu Guangtian.

"Don't cry, I'll give you a candy."

"Give me another one."

"Okay, change it quickly."

……

"Happy New Year, Liu Shiya."

"Humph!"

"Don't be like that. I've finished reading that Russian book. Can you give me another one?" He Lai handed over the Russian book respectfully.

"No!" Liu Shiya took the book and blurted out two words without any hesitation.

"Thank you...ah...no!" He Lai fell down weakly again.

After a while it didn't seem to work anymore.

"What can I do? Oh, let her read Russian. I don't think she can stand it!"

He Lai decisively took out the Russian book for the third year of junior high school and started reading.

Soon Liu Shiya couldn't stand it anymore.

"Can you please stop reading Russian?"

“That’s my freedom.”

"Then why can't you study in the sixth grade?"

"no!"

"I'll change it for you, I'll change it for you, okay?"

"Row!"

He Lai immediately changed to a Chinese language book and started studying traditional Chinese characters.

...

"Rainwater, how do you feel about your first day at school?"

"The teacher asked me to be the study committee member."

"Ah, it's not good to be a study committee member. My deskmate is a study committee member. He has a bad temper and gets angry easily. Rainwater can't lose its temper. It will make you ugly."

"Okay, I won't lose my temper."

"Chun'er, Xiaohuzi, you two should hurry up next time, or I won't wait for you next time. You are not active after school, and you have a problem with your thinking, do you know that?"

"Okay. Got it."

"Dad, look at him, he talks about your daughter like that!" Liu Shiya almost broke the borrowed Russian book.

"I'm just a joke, kid. Don't mind it..." The principal laughed: If you are not active after school, there must be something wrong with your thinking!

……

In the small courtyard of the He family, the five children gathered together again and began to do their homework and read books. After all, spring has arrived and the weather is gradually getting warmer. But for Liu Guangtian, his hard days have just begun.

"Guangtian, don't blame Brother Lai! It's really because you are too lazy! Unlike other people, like Xiaohu, who realized that not doing homework is a shameful thing after being beaten once, but what about you? You always refuse to change despite repeated warnings! Brother Lai, I am also very sad!"

"But if you can answer all the questions correctly, I promise I won't hit you!"

Then there was a series of crisp sounds: snap, snap, snap...

……

"Okay, Guangtian, you've finished your homework today. Go play, your dad will definitely praise you when he comes back." He Lai also found Liu Guangtian funny. It's just homework, right? Why did he have to type it out before he could finish it?

Liu Guangtian quickly packed up his books and ran back. That speed was enough to participate in the competition!

Xiaohuzi and Chun'er had finished writing long ago and were reading the picture book on the swing with Yushui.

He Lai took some long and short wooden sticks from Li Dawa's house, and asked three people to help him build a chicken coop. He first inserted a few short wooden sticks, then tied the long wooden sticks horizontally to the short wooden sticks, and finally took a piece of wood to cover half of it. A simple chicken coop was built.

He Lai put the four old hens in the cage into the cage.

"Starting today, we should take good care of these four hens and eat the eggs they lay together. Is that okay?" He Lai suggested.

"But this is a chicken from my brother's house. My brother and I can't take it." Chun'er said timidly.

"Wrong, this is our youth group's chicken, and you are not allowed to eat it for free. Didn't I ask you to take care of it?"

"Taking care of hens is very troublesome. You have to deal with chicken manure every day, clean up, feed them, and pick up eggs. The hens may not lay eggs. Yushui, Chun'er, you have to take better care of them."

"Got it, come on, brother." Yushui, Chun'er responded.

"If you want a hen to lay eggs, you have to feed it good food and water, and you have to catch insects to feed it."

"Xiaohu, go catch more bugs. Chickens love to eat them. But don't let it affect your studies!"

"Got it, Brother Lai. I will definitely complete the task."

"Little Tiger is obedient."

"Then what are you doing here brother?" Yu Shui asked.

"I have to study how hens lay eggs. Brother Lai, this is mental work. You are still young and don't understand." He Lai could only talk nonsense.

"I came here just to be lazy."

"Rainwater, I still like you when you were a child."

"Humph!"

"Yushui, go get two bowls, one for water, and one for cornmeal mixed with water. Feed the chickens, now you're in charge."

……

"Mom, my brother asked me to feed the chickens today." Yu Shui once again threw herself into Wu Juan's arms and said coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, let's not feed it. Mom will kill a chicken for Yu Shui today." Wu Juan touched Yu Shui's head lovingly and prepared to catch a chicken to kill.

"Can you not kill me?" Yu Shui blinked his big eyes and looked at Wu Juan pitifully.

"Don't kill them? Then if we don't feed them, they will starve to death, right?" Wu Juan smiled helplessly.

"Then let Brother Lai feed it." Yu Shui said with a smile.

"Okay, let him feed it!" Wu Juan nodded and agreed to Yu Shui's request.

He Lai was also speechless. Fortunately, I didn't ask you to pick up chicken manure!