Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

 Chapter 10 This Hot Summer (1)

 The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it has entered the hot summer.

Dabao was in summer vacation, and there was no summer homework at that time. He was shirtless and wearing underpants and played wildly with a few boys of about the same age in the village every day. He took a few bites of rice at dawn in the morning and then disappeared. Wait until lunch time to go home and have lunch, and then it will be dark before you can see anyone.

Zhao Yuzhen couldn't control him and simply followed him, wondering which young man in his family didn't have this kind of virtue. Don't expect Dabao to do anything for you, but you are ordered to take Xiaobao out to play.

Dabao was reluctant and did not dare to disobey his mother's orders, so he had to go out with a follower. However, five times out of ten, Xiaobao came home by himself and said aggrievedly that his brother only cared about himself and ignored him.

 Zhao Yuzhen had no choice but to let Zhou Xiaoyun take Xiaobao.

Zhou Xiaoyun obediently agreed. She had performed very well in front of her parents recently and knew that her father went out to the countryside every day to find business to earn her tuition.

　　However, very few people kill pigs at this time of year. In summer, the meat is easy to spoil, so everyone waits until winter to fatten up the pigs before slaughtering them during the Chinese New Year. Unless something happens, such as a daughter marrying a daughter-in-law or an old man passing away, he would be willing to slaughter a pig that has been raised for more than half a year and is not yet fat.

 So Zhou’s father didn’t gain much, and he didn’t look very good when he got home. Wandering around all day on a hot day often comes home with nothing, which makes me even more upset.

Zhou Xiaoyun was very eye-catching. Before Zhou's father could sit down, a towel dipped in cold water was handed over to Zhou's father to wipe his sweat and relieve the heat.

Just after wiping away the sweat, a glass of cool boiled water was handed to Zhou's father's mouth. Father Zhou's anger had already dissipated by more than half, and when he drank a cup of cold tea, all his unhappiness disappeared, and he was happily planning where to visit the next day.

Zhou's father secretly said to Zhao Yuzhen: "Her mother, look at how sensible our Daya is. I think even Xiaoxia is not as good as her." Xiaoxia is the same age as Dabao and is the eldest daughter of his eldest brother Zhou Guofu's family.

Zhao Yuzhen nodded in agreement, but she didn’t doubt that her daughter was any different from before. I just thought that my daughter was not short in the first place, and she spoke and acted in an orderly manner and looked like she was seven or eight years old:

“Perhaps the child will start to understand as he grows up. Besides, girls become enchanted earlier than boys. Dabao is nine years old and still doesn’t understand anything. Daya is more like his sister.”

The couple chatted and laughed for a while, and they both came to the conclusion: Da Ya is a sensible and good child. Don’t worry too much about her. You should take good care of the other children, especially Dabao.

Zhou Xiaoyun naturally didn't know what her parents were thinking. She never thought that her good performance would make her parents pay less attention to her, and she would regret it when they realized what she was doing in the future.

Now she is immersed in the joy of going to school. After breakfast every day, she consciously takes her younger brother Xiaobao to herd ducks without waiting for Zhao Yuzhen's instructions.

She even brought Dabao’s first-grade textbook to the pond to read. After the duck entered the pond, she put the bamboo pole aside and found a shady place with the sun behind her, letting Xiao Bao play around casually. I picked up the textbook that I had not touched for a long time and started reading.

Fortunately, there were several children herding ducks, and Xiaobao soon found a partner, a boy named Xiao Shitou from the Liu family in the same village, and they had a great time playing.

 The textbook has been tattered by Dabao for a long time. There are drawings of cats and dogs everywhere. It is hard to see that Dabao is actually good at drawing and has some talent.

Zhou Xiaoyun had an idea in his mind, why not guide his brother’s hobbies upwards and let him have a certain temperament?

In my previous life, my older brother went to school for three days and spent two days fishing and working online. He loved to fight and skip school. He barely made it to the second grade of junior high school and then refused to go to school again.

 When he grew up, he hung out with three friends and four friends. When he was twenty-six, he found an old girl from a neighboring village and got married. After marriage, fights and quarrels are commonplace, which makes the whole family uneasy.

 Dabao has already shown signs of this. He can collect his personality while he is still young, but it will be too late in a few years. However, this must be done slowly and planned.

Having made up his mind, Zhou Xiaoyun focused his attention on the textbook. A mathematics textbook is nothing more than understanding numbers and simple addition and subtraction, which is naturally not a problem for me. However, I haven’t been exposed to the Chinese pinyin in Chinese textbooks for many years, so I am a little unfamiliar.

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She read it softly, thinking that no matter what, she should read the whole book carefully before school starts. In her previous life, she was only an average student and rarely received praise from the teacher. Now she has to study hard to get high scores to satisfy her own vanity. Heart.

“Daya, Daya,” someone slapped me hard behind me. When I looked back, it was my cousin Zhou Xiaoxia: “What are you looking at? I called you several times and you didn’t hear.”

Zhou Xiaoxia is also nine years old, two months older than Dabao, and in the same class. Zhou Xiaoxia is half a head taller than Zhou Xiaoyun. She wears a cotton floral skirt, two braids on her head, and a pair of new sandals on her feet. She looks delicate and cute.

Zhou Xiaoyun looked at the old short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts he was wearing and the worn-out sandals, and felt a little inferior.

The uncle's carpenter crafts often playing furniture for people and occasionally do some ready -to -sell. The family is much stronger than himself. In addition to Zhou Xiaoxia, there is a seven-year-old boy named Haizi whose nickname is Zhou Zhihai.

Zhou Xiaoyun has followed Zhou Xiaoxia and picked up her old clothes and shoes to wear since he was a child. It was not until he was fourteen years old that he was taller than his cousin that he had the right to buy new clothes.

Zhou Xiaoyun showed the book in his hand to Zhou Xiaoxia: "I am reading Dabao's textbook. I will go to the first grade when school starts. My parents have promised me."

"Really," Zhou Xiaoxia became interested and found a slightly cleaner place to sit down carefully: "You are three years younger than me, and one year younger than my brother Haizi. He doesn't want to go to school. My father, God I also told him to go to the first grade, but he refused to go after being troubled at home for a long time. My dad had no choice but to follow him. Why do you want to study at home for two more years? It’s so fun, school is the most boring thing.”

Zhou Xiaoxia pouted, feeling a little incredible.

 (End of this chapter)