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"Then it's fine for my brother to marry whoever he likes. I'll marry my brother." The little girl said innocently.

"You don't have to marry whoever you like." Ye Shu smiled and said to the little girl, "Do you like brother Gu, sister Xiaolin?"

"I like it." The little girl thought for a while and replied.

"So, none of us can marry."

"Then who am I going to marry?"

"That person is waiting for you in the future, and you will know when you grow up."

Ye Shu chatted with the little girl for a while, and found out that her name was Tian Jiamiao. She was ten years old and just entered the fourth grade. Both her parents went out to work. There was an older brother who was in the sixth grade. The two brothers and sisters lived with their grandma.

"That's my brother, who's an eagle." Ye Shu followed the direction Jia Miao pointed, and saw Haoqi playing eagle with a group of children to catch chicks. Haoqi was the mother chicken, and a boy with short hair was an eagle.

"What's your brother's name?" Ye Shu asked.

"Tian Jiahe."

Ye Shu remembered the name when he heard it. He was one of the first children who raised his hand to write his name this morning. He memorized all three names.

"My brother is broken. He's not good at all. He keeps stealing my things." Jia Miao muttered, "He just took away the jelly in the morning. I left it for grandma."

"When I was in school, he asked me to carry his schoolbag. He ran and played by himself, and often called me ugly and stupid."

"Then do you like brother?" Ye Shu asked her.

Jia Miao immediately shook his head, "I don't like it, I hate him the most."

Ye Shu smiled. Children's likes and dislikes are very simple and straightforward. If you treat him well, you like him, and if you treat him badly, you hate him.

"Let's go, we're going to gather for get out of class." Ye Shu patted her head, then pulled Gu Nianchen to stand up.

"I don't want to finish class, I want to stay here and play with you." Tian Jiamiao said in a low voice.

"Grandma is waiting for you at home, don't let her worry, we'll play tomorrow." Ye Shu replied after hearing her words.

Tian Jiamiao didn't speak, but nodded reluctantly.

"Ergou, go home by yourself, I'll go play by the river first." Tian Jiahe said, before Tian Jiamiao could answer, he ran away.

"Big dog, remember to go back before you eat." Tian Jiamiao shouted to his back.

Ye Shu couldn't help laughing when he heard their conversation, Tian Jiamiao blushed in embarrassment.

"My brother always goes to play in the water in summer, and he doesn't let me follow him." Tian Jiamiao explained, "Often he doesn't come back after eating, so grandma asks me to find him."

"However, he is very good at touching fish. We can't finish eating after one touch. Brother Xiaoye, come to my house to eat fish when you have time."

Ye Shu heard her words, thought of something, and asked, "Is the river he went deep, and is it dangerous?"

"Go deep, I heard from the adults in the village that people have drowned, but it doesn't matter to my brother, he has been rolling in the river since he was a child."

"And many people went to play in the river, not himself. Are you going to play? I can take you there." Tian Jiamiao looked at Ye Shu excitedly after speaking.

Ye Shu looked at Gu Nianchen, Gu Nianchen smiled at him, meaning you decide for yourself.

"Is it far from here?" Ye Shu asked, he was really moved, maybe because he grew up in the village, so he had an instinctive feeling for the village here, and wanted to take a look around.

"Not far, we will be there soon."

"Let's go then, you take us there first, and then we'll take you home."

After Ye Shu finished speaking, he saw Tian Jiamiao jumping on the spot, smiling happily.

He told Zhang Haoqi that he wanted to go for a walk with Gu Nianchen, Haoqi winked at him, then waved his hand, signaling him to leave quickly.

They followed Tian Jiamiao for more than half an hour to arrive. She was talking all the way, and she had to stop for a while when she saw a wild flower, but she didn't feel how far it was.

This is a small river, not very wide. There is a row of willow trees on both sides of the river, and some branches and leaves hang down to the water.On one side of the river is a field, and Ye Shu doesn't know what it is growing, but Tian Jiamiao tells him it is watermelon.The side they are on is the grass, all kinds of weeds, most of them reach the ankles, mixed with some unknown flowers.

Ye Shu glanced along the river bank, but saw no one.They walked forward, but still did not see Tian Jiahe.

"Big dog..." Tian Jiamiao yelled several times, but there was no response.

"Your brother may have gone home, or gone to play elsewhere, we will take you home first." Ye Shu said to Tian Jiamiao.

Tian Jiamiao puffed his mouth, then nodded.

Along the way, Ye Shu saw that some fields were empty, and suddenly remembered that the four of them said that they would look at the wheat together. After calculating the time, the wheat had already matured for two months and had been harvested early.It seems that this agreement can only wait until next year, but it is not certain whether it can be fulfilled. After all, they are all adults, and they will forget a lot of things.

Tian Jiamiao's house is very close to Xiaohe, and it takes only ten minutes to walk there.From a distance, Ye Shu saw an old lady sitting at the door of a small courtyard, looking in the direction they were coming from.

When they approached, Tian Jiamiao ran up to her, and the old man smiled and said, "I'm back."

"I'm back, grandma. These are the two teachers who came to our school today. They sent me back."

The old lady has gray hair and looks like she is five or sixty years old. She stands up straight and looks very energetic.Hearing what the granddaughter said, he smiled and said to them, "Thank you teacher, come in and have a drink."

"Then trouble you." Ye Shu didn't refuse, and pulled Gu Nianchen into the house. For some reason, he just saw the old man looking around from a distance, and he suddenly thought of his grandfather.

"Grandma, isn't my brother back?"

"No, that brat may have gone crazy somewhere, and he'll come back when he's hungry."

The room is very simple, there is a table in the middle, there is a small TV set on it, a wire hangs from the top of the room, and the end of the wire is connected to a light bulb, and there are no other electrical appliances.

Tian Jiamiao moved two small mats for them to sit on.

After sitting down for about two or three minutes, Grandma Tian came in with a watermelon in her arms.

"Come on, eat melon, just fished from the well water." Grandma Tian picked up the knife and cut the melon with a smile.

Tian Jiamiao actively held the biggest piece to Ye Shu, and after Ye Shu took it, he gave Gu Nianchen another big one.

"It's so sweet." Gu Nianchen took a bite and said, it was really cold and sweet, better than most of the melons he had eaten before.

"This is grown by my own family." Ye Shu said while gnawing on the melon.

"Yes, we farmers don't know anything, we know how to farm." Grandma Tian said with a smile, "You two stay here for dinner later, and you grow the vegetables yourself."

"No, no, that's too much trouble for you." Ye Shu quickly refused.

"What's the trouble? It's just a matter of two more pairs of chopsticks. We have always been an old lady and two little kids in this room. It hasn't been this lively for a long time."

"That's right, stay here, my grandma's cooking is delicious." Tian Jiamiao looked at them expectantly.

"Her parents come back once a year, so you should just accompany her, I beg you as an old woman." Grandma Tian said kindly, "I'm going to cook now, it's time."

Ye Shu and Gu Nianchen knew that Grandma Tian was really warm, not out of politeness, and really wanted them to stay, so they didn't refuse.

Ye Shu looked at the ground pot in the kitchen and missed it very much, so he said he lit the fire by himself.Gu Nianchen helped Grandma Tian choose and wash vegetables.

I don't know if it's because I haven't touched it for many years. Ye Shu failed to light it several times, and the match went out when it was almost successful.

Tian Jiamiao on the side couldn't stand it any longer, snatched the matchbox from Ye Shu, struck it with a bang, then quickly grabbed a handful of straw to ignite, and stuffed it into it.

"Teacher, you are so stupid, you can't even light a fire." Mr. Tian Jiamiao said with a sigh.

"Why did you talk to the teacher, you kid." Grandma Tian scolded her.

"It's okay, it's okay, the teacher won't, you taught me just now, so I can do it now." Ye Shu said while filling the pot with firewood.

"You filled too much, the fire is too big, and this time too little, it's easy to extinguish, look, extinguish it." Tian Jiamiao watched Ye Shu's movements from the side, "Forget it, let me do it, Teacher, you can't."

"Let her come. She has cooked pots for me since she was very young. If you haven't cooked them before, they can't cook well for a while." Grandma Tian said with a smile.

Ye Shu looked at the sparks that were still alive, smiled wryly, and then stood up to give up his seat.

"The young man from your big city is Jun, he is different from us country folks." Grandma Tian chatted with Gu Nianchen while cooking, "College students are promising, our village only has a college student in several years."

"It's not easy to go to school. Miao and her brother can't go to school, and I don't expect them to be successful. They don't make trouble, grow up healthy, and start a family."

"It is difficult for people in our village to go out, and those who go out will not come back, but there are small places that are good in small places. I heard people say that big cities are very big, and people will be beaten on the road."

"People nowadays are very capable. They can hear voices no matter how far away they are. A few days ago, Miao's father called the village chief and asked me and his baby to pick it up. There was no such thing as this before."

"Yeah." Gu Nianchen listened to Grandma Tian most of the time, and it would be good to listen to each other once in a while.

When the meal was almost ready, Tian Jiahe came back with two fish.

He wasn't too surprised to see Ye Shu and Gu Nianchen, but he didn't say hello either.Ye Shu smiled and waved to him, and he snorted and turned his head.

"Don't pay attention to him, this brat doesn't know good or bad." Grandma Tian put the vegetables into a bowl, "Miao Er, let's go to the hall."

Ye Shu and Gu Nianchen helped carry the bowl, Tian Jiahe only spoke at this time: "Why did they leave our house for dinner?"

"No reason, you did it, why are there so many things?" Grandma Tian slapped him angrily, "Hurry up and wash your hands, you look like a bear."

Tian Jiahe made a face at Grandma Tian, ​​then turned around and washed his hands.

"Big dog, I went to the river this afternoon, but I didn't see you." Tian Jiamiao said during the meal.

"Oh."

"Then where did your fish come from?"

"You don't care, anyway, it's not stolen or robbed."

"I can't just ask?" Tian Jiamiao seemed a little aggrieved, and bowed his head to eat after saying this.

"Speak well, your sister is asking you." Grandma Tian directly gave Tian Jiahe a chopstick.

"It hurts—" Tian Jiahe yelled, and said after a while, "I caught it from the river. I went to play with Brother Daqiang first, and then went to the river."

"Oh." Tian Jiamiao nodded and said in a low voice, "Brother Daqiang is not a good person, don't learn from them."

"What do you know, little girl, eat your food." Tian Jiahe threw an egg in her bowl, and then continued to pick up the rice.

Ye Shu and Gu Nianchen ate quietly the whole time without interjecting. Ye Shu felt that Tian Jiahe was like a hedgehog, but it's normal for a 12-year-old boy to have thorns, but he didn't know if it would hurt others or himself.

"I made you two laugh. This brat is like this. His parents don't care about him, and he doesn't listen to me. He just messes around all day and doesn't know what he can do in the future." Grandma Tian said to them with a smile.

Before Ye Shu could speak, Tian Jiahe snorted, "I can do a lot."

"Well, indeed, Jiahe is capable of many things, and his future is full of infinite hope." Ye Shu replied with a smile.

"Human potential is unlimited, and there are many possibilities." Gu Nianchen also said.

Grandma Tian smiled happily, and Tian Jiamiao hurriedly asked, "What about me?"

"You, too, can do a lot of things and be who you want to be."

"Then I'll be a snack seller, and there will be endless delicious food every day." Tian Jiamiao said happily.

The author has something to say: what is this writing... I don't even know what is going on in my mind...

So, let’s enjoy the rural scenery together... (top the instant noodles and escape)