Back to the era with space materials

Chapter 160 The Flower Planter’s Rabbit

Patting Sanae on the back, he asked her and Hegu to go play in the shade over the pig pen. Huo Lang nodded to Si Ningning, and the two went to the side to talk.

"What do you want from me?" Si Ningning asked in a calm tone.

Huo Lang never thought that Hegu would send messages randomly in the meantime. He only thought that Si Ningning asked this question because he came to see her.

There is no ink at the moment, so I simply summarized the situation after He Gu returned home at noon.

After a while, Huo Lang's scorching peach blossom eyes reflected Si Ningning's flushed face, and his voice was low and serious: "Maybe you are right? You can help him."

Si Ningning actually had no idea, but Huo Lang had helped her many times, and now that she saw signs of improving Hegu's situation, she was willing to try her best.

"The situation in Hegu may not be as serious as we thought."

Recalling his interactions with He Gu in the morning, Si Ningning pondered for a moment and said: "This is not a 'disease', it is just a psychological inducement that makes him resist certain things."

"I will try to help him break free from his psychological constraints, and you should not treat him as a patient or a special being."

"You have to treat him as a normal child, patiently guide him where he resists, and don't put pressure on him."

"Okay." Huo Lang was silent, nodded in agreement, and then put his big hand into his pocket to fumble, "There is one more thing..."

"What?" Si Ningning asked curiously.

However, what she received in response was a handful of colorful notes.

One cent, two cents, five cents, both plots of land. In addition, there are food stamps and meat stamps mixed in.

A large handful of bills had not been folded in the first place, but now they were taken out of the pocket with great force, and some of the crumpled bills fell to the ground.

The wind in the alley blew so hard that it almost blew into the ditch where excrement was cleaned. Fortunately, Si Ningning was fast and even bent over to pick it up.

"This is?"

Si Ningning held the six cents she had picked up in her hand, her face blank.

"...I told them that they will be busy during this period, and asked you to help cook, and let them eat at the educated youth restaurant at noon."

After a pause, Huo Lang added: "Sanae will go with you."

He decided to deal with this matter first and later, without discussing it with Si Ningning at all, so it was inevitable that he would be a little embarrassed when he said it out loud.

Huo Lang twisted his neck twice uncomfortably, and inadvertently looked into those shiny black eyes, and his ears began to heat up.

He avoided Si Ningning's gaze, nodded, coughed slightly, and shook his hand forward, which held a large amount of money, and motioned to Si Ningning to hold it.

"How can we use so much?" Si Ningning muttered in protest, but she was also afraid that Huo Lang would let go and the money bills would be blown into the ditch by the wind, so she could only reach out to catch them. "I don't have much work recently.

, when I’m helping the educated youths cook, I can easily cook their portions, and it doesn’t take much effort.”

As he spoke, Si Ningning knelt down, gathered the bills into his arms, and quickly stretched them out one by one and folded them up.

His eyes flicked over and he clicked quickly. There were three yuan and fifty cents in total, three 2-tael meat stamps, and food stamps in bits and pieces, totaling two kilograms.

Si Ningning took out fifty cents, a meat stamp and half a catty of food stamps. The rest, neatly rolled up and handed back to Huo Lang, "I'll take this much and keep an eye on it for you for ten days."

The outermost edge of the folded money notes was one dollar. The notes were dark red and old, which made her little hands look particularly white and clean.

Huo Lang looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "Public is public, private is private. They eat as much as they want, and the rest is your reward."

In fact, he wanted to say that if Si Ningning needed help in any way, he could just ask. As long as he could help, he would be willing to contribute.

But if you think about it carefully, the friendship between the two people does not seem to be that deep. This does not sound like a promise, but more like a bluff.

With this thought, Huo Lang changed the subject.

He was so insistent that Si Ningning couldn't say anything else.

Although there was no shortage of these two cents, considering that doing "free work" could easily lead to trouble, Si Ningning thought for a moment, stretched out the rolled up money note, took out another two cents from it, and then rolled it up again.

Pass it back to Huo Lang.

"These two cents are my wages for these ten days. It's just a casual thing anyway. Two cents a day is enough on average." As he spoke, Si Ningning looked serious and his attitude became businesslike, "Comrade Huo Lang, please do the same.

Stop telling me everything. Otherwise, I will have to suspect that you are not asking me for help, but you are trying to trick me, try to catch my loopholes, and report me to the commune!"

"..."

Huo Lang put his hand on his forehead and rubbed his hair back, speechless.

Si Ningning has a small mouth and a quick mind. He really can't defeat her.

But Si Ningning is willing to take part of it.

Although two cents is not much, it is enough to help cook for a few days.

Huo Lang took the stack of rolled banknotes and stuffed them into his pocket. Si Ningning turned around with a smile on her face and headed towards Hegu and the others.

"Wait."

Huo Lang shook his hand and grabbed Si Ningning's braid again, successfully earning an angry and coquettish glare from Si Ningning.

"I have something for you." Huo Lang teased with his thin lips, loosened Si Ningning's braid, pulled the bamboo basket that reached his waist and groped around in it, and after a while he took out a brown stone.

come out.

"Yeah." Huo Lang raised his chin and handed the stone to Si Ningning.

"This is?" Si Ningning held the stone and looked at it. He said it was a brownish-yellow stone, but in fact it was more like a stony crystal.

Si Ningning raised the tip of her nose and sniffed. The smell of stone was a bit pungent, well... it also had a faint smell of alcohol.

Somehow, some fragmentary fragments suddenly flashed through my mind.

That day, Huo Lang sent her back to the Educated Youth Point. At that time, under the shadow of the trees beside the well of the Educated Youth Point, he looked down at her. There was one sentence that he repeated seriously several times:

"I remember this."

Si Ningning raised his head blankly, a trace of surprise flashed through his moist eyes.

"Is this a realgar stone?" She looked at Huo Lang and asked hesitantly.

Huo Lang nodded and confirmed Si Ningning's guess, "Realgar stone soaked in wine."

Realgar is a type of traditional Chinese medicine. When the Four Olds were destroyed, the old things were basically put away, and traditional Chinese medicine is one of them.

Without traditional Chinese medicine, realgar is really hard to find these days.

The thing in front of me was what Huo Lang heard from a young comrade who was driving in the county before, saying that the county magistrate had a hobby of making wine, and that every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there would be realgar wine on the table at home.

It was just a casual chat, but Huo Lang's left ear went in and the right ear came out. A few days ago, when Si Ningning cried when he encountered a snake, he remembered.

I went to the county early this morning, and Huo Lang brought over the realgar that the county magistrate had prepared for brewing wine next year.

This was not a big deal, and it could not be considered as accepting a favor from the county magistrate, but Huo Lang still agreed to the other party's request, and promised to go to the county to help with some matters after the busy farming season.

He said it easily, but Si Ningning still noticed some clues, "You went to the county today just for this stone?"

Huo Lang nodded, but belatedly realized that there was something wrong with what he said. He rubbed his shaved head and added, "I brought it back by the way."

Alone in a foreign world, Si Ningning had no worries and knew that no one would care about her in this world either. Therefore, she had long been prepared to fight alone.

However, at this moment, she really felt the warmth transmitted from Huo Lang.

Unknown emotions flashed through her heart, including loss, melancholy, and emotion, but all of them did not affect Si Ningning's ability to express her gratitude to Huo Lang.

Si Ningning looked at Huo Lang in silence, nodded for a while and sighed. After just a moment, she raised her head and smiled sincerely, "Thank you, Huo Lang."

Huo Lang couldn't help but be slightly startled.

He has seen the sharp-tongued side of Si Ningning, the tearful and delicate side of Si Ningning, and he also knows how smart and naive Si Ningning is at ordinary times...

But at this moment, Si Ningning's whole body seemed to be coated with a layer of soft light, gentle and sincere, and her whole figure was like a warm breeze blowing on her face under the spring sunshine...

Inexplicably, Huo Lang's hot and uncomfortable heart gradually calmed down at this moment.

He calmly looked at Si Ningning's face with a gentle smile, and uttered two words in a deep and hoarse voice, "No need."

"The team still has something to do, so I'll leave first. I'll leave them to you."

"I'll keep an eye on them." Si Ningning put her fist to her lips and laughed softly, waved her palms inward and outward for a while, winked and said playfully: "You go ahead."

Huo Lang took another look at He Gu and Sanae who were squatting in the shadows, holding their chins in their hands and staring at them. He nodded and left.

It wasn't until his back disappeared at the end of the alley that Si Ningning looked away and walked towards Hegu and Sanae with a smile: "Your eldest brother entrusted you to me, do you know this?"

"I know." He Gu said loudly.

Sanae, on the other hand, was standing next to Hegu. She was wearing the same used clothes as Hegu, and her expression was always a bit restrained. When Hegu spoke, she just nodded obediently.

Si Ningning could tell the difference between Sanae and Sanya at a glance.

Sanya and Zhou Xiaocui belong to the type who will restrain their behavior when facing strangers, so the first impression given to others is that this child is shy.

But in fact, once you get used to it, you will know what "liveliness" means.

As for Sanae, she has a shyness that emanates from her bones, and you can feel that aura no matter in her expression or in her stance.

Of course, "shy" does not mean timid or shy, it is also a different kind of "property" expression.

Si Ningning bent down and rubbed the hair on Sanmiao's head, "You can call me sister, or you can call me by my name like Hegu. Your eldest brother and I are friends, so you don't have to be restrained in front of me, okay?"

Although Sanae has met Si Ningning many times, she has never interacted with him directly, so she is still a semi-stranger.

However, Si Ningning was particularly patient in front of her children. Under her gentle words, Sanao quickly relaxed and smiled at Si Ningning with her small lips pursed: "Sister, an educated youth!"

"Be good~"

He Gu pouted on the side and said nothing.

Si Ningning grasped the child's psychology and chose some simple and interesting topics to interact with Sanae. With Hegu's help, he quickly became familiar with Sanae.

As soon as light laughter came from the pig pen, Zhou Xiaocui and Sanya rushed over at the right moment.

The two little girls looked like they had just come home from a nap, with mat marks on their faces.

"Xiaocui, Sanya!" Sanae greeted happily.

When Zhou Xiaocui and Sanya heard the sound, they were both excited and suddenly woke up from their laziness after taking a nap.

"Ah! Sanae, why did you come out to play today!?"

"Ah? Hehe... The second brother came out to play, so I came out too." Sanae said.

Huo Lang usually either works in the production team or is busy in the county. It is difficult to take care of some delicate things at home.

He Gu's situation was unstable. Before he joined his boss Ning Ning, he spent most of his time at home. Sanao was responsible for keeping an eye on him, feeding the chickens, doing housework, etc., and rarely went out to play.

Children's friendship is very pure, and the games are simple and a pair of pockmarked poles are brought out, and Sanae quickly gets involved.

Although Hegu didn't get involved in the game, he didn't hide as far away as before. He squatted aside and twirled his little hands to watch the girls play. He occasionally complained about who was clumsy, and he could touch the small wooden stick next to him.

Yes, you will soon receive an angry rebuke from Zhou Xiaocui.

Usually at this time, Sanya would try to persuade her to make peace, while Sanae would coax her second brother not to talk like that, while apologizing to Zhou Xiaocui.

The pig pen was lively with children's chatter. Si Ningning came back from delivering water and saw that they were still playing, so she joined in and played a few games.

How to say something?

Fragrant in the distance and smelly in the near.

The same goes for playing games. Once or twice, it feels fresh, but after playing too much, it becomes boring.

Especially during the busy farming season, Si Ningning always felt a little bit embarrassed about playing games like this all the time. She thought about it for a moment, put her hand over the scattered pockmarked poles on the ground, and interrupted everyone's game: "Okay, we've played long enough today.

It’s time to take a break.”

In an instant, four pairs of dark eyes looked at Si Ningning, "Sister, educated youth, what are we going to do now?"

"Um……"

Si Ningning said with a long "hmm" and said with a smile: "Let me tell you a story."

"Tell a story?" The four little ones looked at each other, and Sanya raised her hand first and asked: "Sister, my eldest brother told me that the weasel paid New Year greetings to the chicken. Is it that kind of story?"

"No." Si Ningning shook her head, her eyes bent and her smile friendly, "This story is very long, you have to listen to me tell it slowly."

Three of the four little ones sat in a row obediently, with only He Gu squatting on the outside with his chin in his hand. However, they all looked at Si Ningning seriously and curiously, looking forward to the next story.

"Many years ago, there was a place called Huazhuajia, where Emperor Yan and Huangdi first unified that area, so the people of Huazhuajia would call themselves descendants of Yan and Huang."

Digression:

Ah Yao hasn’t been seen recently. Does anyone miss Ah Yao~~~

I don’t know if you have seen the domestic animation "Those Things That Rabbit That Year". It is a very meaningful animation. Various animal images are used to represent various countries. It mainly tells the modern history of our country. It is very interesting.

educational significance.

Finally, I wish you all a happy reading~~

(End of chapter)