"Does there any other adults in your family be at home?" Ye Lingtian asked again when he confirmed that there was no one else in the family.

"Yes, my mom, my fourth brother and my fifth sister are working in the field. They should be coming back to have dinner. Why don't I go to the field to ask them back," the little girl said.

"No, we'll just wait here."

"Girl, how many brothers and sisters are there in your family?" Li Yuxin asked with her fourth and fifth sisters widened her eyes when she heard the little girl talking.

"We have six brothers and sisters in our family, and I am the youngest. There are elder brothers, second sisters, third sisters, fourth brothers, fifth sisters, and fifth sisters. I am the sixth brother," the little girl said with a smile, and she looked very good.

"Six? Oh my god." Li Yuxin looked at the little girl in disbelief.

"How old are you this year?"

“I’m 15th this year”

“Are you going to school?”

“I’m in junior high school”

"Is your school far away? It's here"

"It's not too far, just in our town, I can walk there in a few hours," the little girl said with a smile.

"A few hours... It really takes so long to get to your town here, it will take approximately five hours." Li Yuxin couldn't help but sigh when she heard the school was in the town.

"No, it takes only three hours to get there," the little girl said, shaking her head.

"What's your name?" Ye Lingtian asked again.

"My name is Wang Xue"

Ye Lingtian sat there chatting with the little girl. Although Wang Xue was not old, she was very mature. She spoke like an adult. Not long after, she saw someone coming from outside.

"My mother and my brother are back," Wang Xue said and walked out, shouting: "Mom, my brother's comrades are here, saying that my brother asked him to come back to see us."

Ye Lingtian also stood up and walked out. As soon as he went out, he saw a woman in her sixties (actually in her early fifties, she looked much older than her actual age because of years of working). He brought a young man and a girl each carrying farm tools.

The three of them looked at Ye Lingtian and Li Yuxin in surprise.

"Are you A Yong's comrade?" The woman came over and asked Ye Lingtian.

"Yes, I am Wang Yong's comrade-in-arms. I'm retired, so he asked me to bring him back to see you. Because he has a heavy task, he can't come back." Ye Lingtian nodded and said.

"Hurry into the house and sit in the house. Xiaoxue, is the rice ready? Go, take the bacon on the roof and cook it. Ali, go to your third uncle's house to make a pot of wine." The woman smiled quickly when she heard this, then arranged a few children to do things, and finally said to another daughter: "Xiaoyu, go and take out the new tea we have collected this year and make it for the guests."

"Auntie, you really don't have to be so polite." Ye Lingtian felt a little embarrassed.

"My fellow villagers, there is nothing good to greet you, don't mind, sit down." Wang Yong's mother also seemed a little nervous.

"Auntie, please be polite. Wang Yong and I are comrades-in-arms and brothers. His family is my family. I am not an outsider. You don't have to be polite."

"You and Ayong are comrades-in-arms. This child, when he asked his third uncle to help him join the army, he went there for more than ten years and never came back. It was rare to write a letter back a year. Yes, you look as old as him. Is this your wife? She looks so beautiful, so beautiful," Wang Yong's mother said with a smile at Li Yuxin.

The word "Woman" does sound bad, and it seems to be a bit derogatory, but in some places, this is the meaning of a wife and a wife, and there is absolutely no meaning of derogatoryness. Ye Lingtian and Li Yuxin both knew this. However, when Wang Yong's mother said this, Li Yuxin and Ye Lingtian were embarrassed.

"Aunt, our unit is a very special unit. We do not allow too much contact with the outside world. Even if we write a letter and go home, someone will have to review it. We basically haven't returned home much, so don't blame Wang Yong," Ye Lingtian said with a smile.

"I didn't blame him, but he missed him a lot after not seeing him for so many years. He said he had lived well in the army, so we were relieved. He had walked out of the mountains. He just hoped that he could marry a woman and have a baby, so that his father would feel at ease in the spirit of heaven." Wang Yong's mother said as she talked about Wang Yong's father, not only wiping her tears.

"Uncle?" Ye Lingtian asked.

"I've left, I've gone sick, I've been six or seven years."

"I'm sorry" Ye Lingtian nodded, his eyes dimmed a little.

"Aunt, how is the situation at home?" Ye Lingtian asked after looking at the dilapidated house.

"You also saw that the eldest son has six children in the family and the eldest son went to the army. The most obedient one is able to send a lot of money to the family every month. The second son and the third son are married. The fourth son got sick two years ago, and the treatment has emptied the family's family's wealth. Now the fourth son and the fifth son are helping with their work at home. The sixth son is still in school and spend a lot of money every year. I didn't want her to go to school. What's the use of a girl's family going to school? She'll have to get married sooner or later, but the eldest son doesn't do it. He wrote a letter and said that he must let the sixth son go to school, and he said he would go to college. Hey, the eldest son and the fourth son have not married a wife yet, and the family has no money, so they even let the sixth son go to school. I really don't know what to do." Wang Yong's mother sighed.

"Wang Yong is right. She should be allowed to go to school. Only by going to school can she get out of the mountains and have a better life in the future. The fourth and fifth brothers have been working at home all the time. How much does the family earn about a year?" Ye Lingtian nodded. The idea of ​​favoring boys over girls in the countryside is still deeply rooted, so Wang Yong's mother cannot be blamed for her feudal thoughts.

"In addition to the food in one's own, you can get six or seven thousand yuan a year. The eldest brother can send more than 10,000 yuan to his home every year, which is 20,000 yuan in total. But if you have to wear it at home, the sixth has to go to school, so you can't save much money every year. Last year, I told the fourth brother a wife, but the dowry is 30,000 yuan. How much money is our family? What a good woman, it ended up being worn out and later married someone else." Wang Yong's mother said with annoyance.

"Why do you only earn so much in a year? You have several laborers at home?" Ye Lingtian was very surprised. He only earned six or seven thousand yuan a year except for what he had eaten, and he was working for three people. This was a bit unimaginable.
Chapter completed!