cannon fodder love

Chapter 154 The Dream of Dwelling 16
A month later, a man delivered the TV to An Yanbing's home.

"Who bought this TV set? Did you send it by mistake?" the mother asked after chasing the man.

"Is your name Li Yuting?" the man asked after looking at the address on the note.

"Yes, but I didn't buy it." Mother still didn't believe it.

"Someone paid for you, sign for it quickly." The man handed the receipt to his mother.

"I..." Mother was about to speak again.

An Yanbing on the side said, "Mom, I bought the TV." After speaking, she signed the receipt.

After the man left, the mother looked at An Yanbing in disbelief, and said sharply, "Tell me the truth, where did the money come from?"

"I earned this by selling vegetables with my fourth father. If you don't believe me, you can ask my fourth father?" An Yanbing's eyes flashed slyly.

"Can you earn so much money a month? This is a color TV." Looking at the TV in front of her, my mother still couldn't believe it.

At that time, a black-and-white TV set cost dozens of yuan, which was equivalent to a worker's monthly salary. As for the color TV set, it was even more expensive, at least more than [-] yuan.

"Mom, I really earned the money." An Yanbing said a little aggrieved.

"Kneel down at home for me, and think about what you did wrong." Mother said and walked out of the house.

"Yan Bing, mom is gone, get up quickly." My sister came over to help her up.

"Yan Bing, did you really earn so much in a month?" My sister said regretfully, when Yan Bing asked her to sell vegetables with her, she didn't believe it and gave up.

"En." An Yanbing nodded with a smile.

"Second sister, I want to watch TV." Looking at the TV still on the ground, my sister said excitedly.

"Okay" the elder sister nodded, and lifted the TV with An Yanbing, and put it on the mother's closet.

"How do you drive this? Yan Bing, can you do it?" My sister looked at the manual but didn't understand it.

"Let me try..." An Yanbing stepped forward, without looking at the instructions, she moved her fingers quickly, and turned on the TV in a few clicks.

Several children moved stools and sat there watching excitedly.

"Meow" Xiaobai ran in and said in a voice that only An Yanbing could understand: "Sister, your mother is back."

An Yanbing hurriedly stood up, returned to the hall and continued to kneel.

"Why are you kneeling again?" My sister asked puzzledly as she walked out of the room.

"Our mother is coming back, I'd better kneel." An Yanbing said calmly.

The elder sister hurried into the room and turned off the TV. The younger sister and younger brother were enjoying watching it, but when they saw that the TV was turned off, they pouted in displeasure.

"I wronged you, get up quickly." There was an unconcealable smile on the mother's face, it seemed that the fourth father persuaded her, and even praised An Yanbing in front of her.

"Mom, I want to watch TV." Seeing that her mother forgave An Yanbing, the younger brother said hastily.

"Okay, I'll play it for you." Mother picked up the instruction manual, looked at it and turned on the TV.

My mother's education level is not high, she only went to elementary school, but she still knows the basic characters.

"Come on, it's a holiday now, you can watch it for a while." Mother said with a smile.

A few people sat down and continued to watch TV. Seeing the happy place, the younger brother clapped his hands excitedly.

"Hey, your family bought a TV, why don't you set off firecrackers to celebrate?" The aunt next door came to visit and saw a family watching TV around, so she came to congratulate.

"Hey, it's just a TV, nothing to celebrate." Mother smiled softly.

"Your family has already had bicycles and sewing machines, and now you have a TV, which is really enviable." The neighbor showed a hint of envy on his face.

In the countryside at that time, the three things that men and women needed to get married were sewing machines, televisions and bicycles.

Now that these three things have been seen in An's family, how can the neighbors not be envious.

The mother stood up and chatted with the neighbor, and the leader smiled and left.

A few people continued to watch TV, the happy time always passed by, and it was noon in a blink of an eye.

"Mom, you can rest, Yan Bing and I will cook." Seeing her mother standing up, her elder sister hurriedly said thoughtfully.

On weekdays, the children go to school, and the mother has to cook, but now, the children are on vacation, and the mother should also rest.

An Yanbing followed her sister to the kitchen and started to boil water. With her sister here, she only needed to help her out and mainly work on her sister.

At noon, it's either rice or noodles, and occasionally I eat dumplings and other things.

My sister fried the leeks and bean sprouts, and then started rolling out the dough. The dough was kneaded by my mother a long time ago.

An Yanbing is in charge of lighting the fire, and most people in the countryside make noodles by themselves.

Noodles are also very particular about rolling out noodles. Shaanxi people love to eat noodles. They roll out the noodles by themselves, and sometimes put some alkali in the noodles for chewiness.

Put some alkali and knead the dough. This kind of dough is a bit hard, so it has to be kneaded repeatedly and vigorously. My sister is only ten years old and doesn't have that much strength. Fortunately, the dough has been kneaded by the mother, and the dough just needs to be rolled out.

Even so, it was very strenuous. Seeing her sister sweating profusely, An Yanbing couldn't bear it, so she used some spiritual power quietly.

With the cooperation of the two, the noodles finally came out of the pan. They carried the noodles and continued to watch TV.

After lunch, An Yanbing went to take a nap, while her sister stayed up and sat at the desk to study.

"I see... I see..." The sound of cicadas woke An Yanbing up, she opened her eyes, saw that her sister was not in the room, and walked out of the room.

When I came to the courtyard, I saw my elder sister and younger siblings were catching cicadas, and the younger sister already had two cicadas in her hand.

My sister is holding a long wooden stick in her hand, with a plastic bag tied to the other end of the stick.

The older sister waved a stick in the branches, and the younger siblings watched excitedly from under the tree.

"What are you doing?" An Yanbing asked in confusion.

"I got it, third sister, didn't you see it?" My sister said with a smile.

"What are you doing?" An Yanbing still didn't understand.

"Eat, you can burn it to eat." My sister said.

Burning cicadas to eat, An Yanbing became interested and wanted to taste the taste of cicada meat.

She quickly joined the team of catching cicadas, and with the joint efforts of the four of them, they caught more than a dozen cicadas in a short while.

The elder sister took out a candle, lit it, roasted the cicada on the fire, and handed it to the younger sister when it was presumably cooked.

It turned out to be eating the lean meat of the cicada. When her sister handed An Yanbing a cooked cicada, An Yanbing frowned, but couldn't help being curious, and took a bite.

I can't tell what it tastes like, but it's not unpalatable. The children ate and laughed.

This was a simple joy, An Yanbing looked at her sisters and felt that kind of beautiful family affection for the first time.

"Yan Bing, I'm fine this afternoon. Let's go pick up grass." My sister said with a smile.

"Okay." An Yanbing nodded. Anyway, if you are idle at home, you are idle. Why not gather grass and feed the pigs.

They each carried a basket and went out of the house. At this time, the corn seedlings had just grown in the field, and there was not much grass. There was a river not far from the ground, and there was a lot of grass beside the river.

The two came to the river, and in order to pull more grass, the sister put her feet into the water.

An Yanbing didn't go into the water, but was just scraping grass by the river, when suddenly her sister yelled "Ah".

"Second Sister, what's the matter?" An Yanbing asked with concern as she pulled her sister ashore.

"It hurts, my feet hurt." My sister bit her lip and rolled up her trouser legs.

An Yanbing looked at her sister's feet, and it turned out that it was a flesh-drilling worm that had burrowed into her calf, leaving only the lower half of her body outside.

Don't be impatient to deal with this kind of meat worm, An Yanbing pinched the meat worm with her hand, carefully pulled it out, and then still trampled to death on the ground.

After such a thing happened, the two were no longer in the mood to pick up grass, so they returned home.

"Why are you back?" Seeing that the basket was not full, the mother asked in puzzlement.

"The leg hurts, and the meat worm got into the leg." My sister said a little aggrieved.

"Sit down quickly, I'll get the medicine." The mother went back to the room, took the medicine, and wiped it for her sister distressedly.

　The incident of eating cicadas and meat worms getting into my sister's legs is a memory that I can't get rid of. Now that I think about it, the days when I was a child were really hard, but fortunately these are all in the past...

　　
　
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