Taoao was 5 kilometers away from the town. Shen Yaqin pulled Xu Yingjie on a cart while Xu Zishan walked. His feet hurt so much that when he got home, he threw off his shoes. Sure enough, three blisters appeared on his feet.
Shen Yaqin felt very distressed. She burned it on the fire with a sewing needle, picked out the bubbles for her, and said, "Don't let your feet get wet, it will be fine in two or three days."
Xu Zishan looked at the deflated blisters and lay there obediently like a patient. He was thinking about getting a bicycle. He couldn't rely on No. 11 tools all the time. It was too much.
"There is a movie at 7:40 in the evening. You and Xiaoxuan Xiaoshu should go watch it together." Shen Yaqin said, "The conditions here are not as good as those in Baodu City, and the cinema is very backward."
Xu Zishan walked 10 kilometers in one day and climbed a mountain. He was so tired that he just wanted to lie down. He didn't want to go to the movies. Shen Yaqin said that it seemed like she would not like this place if she didn't go.
Well, she really wanted to see the movies and cinemas of the 1970s.
There is a movie theater in Xipu town. District theater troupes come to the countryside to perform from time to time, and movie projectionists show new movies every half month.
Tickets are not cheap, only 1 cent each.
But Shen Yaqin felt that her daughter had just come back and the money should be spent.
Xu Mingxuan went to the brick and tile factory to pull some tiles after school. Summer is here, there are many thunderstorms, and the leakage on the roof from last time has not been fixed yet.
Xu Mingxuan is not at home.
"Where is your brother?" Shen Yaqin asked Xu Mingxuan.
"I don't know, he hasn't come back after school yet." Xu Mingxuan said, "We had dinner at Uncle Hao's house at noon. Uncle Hao said he wanted to teach him arithmetic, so I went back to school first."
It was almost 7 o'clock and Xu Mingxuan hadn't come back yet. Xu Zishan felt a little anxious and said to Xu Mingxuan: "Let's go find our little brother together!"
In her previous life, when she was 10 years old, her mother had to pick her up from school every day. Even if her father was out flirting with women and ended up having a bloody first love drama, her mother would still pick her up from school rain or shine.
Nowadays, there are many children in each family, and adults often don't care about them. They let the eldest take care of the younger ones and go to and from school by themselves. But it's not okay if you don't come back so late. There is a station in the town. What if you are kidnapped.
"Shan Shan, you have blisters on your feet, ask your eldest brother to find him!" Shen Yaqin scolded while clearing the table, "You don't know how to go home after having fun. I have been tired for a long day and have to go find him."
Xu Zishan insisted on searching with Xu Mingxuan, and when he found Xu Mingxuan, he went straight to the movie.
The two went to school. The gate of Xipu Town Primary School was as dark as a monster's mouth. All the teachers and students had gone home, and no one stayed at all at night.
"Do you know his classroom?"
"I know." Xu Mingxuan found the third-grade classroom by a familiar route.
Several windows in the classroom were broken. Through the faint moonlight outside, Xu Zishan and Xu Mingxuan saw a cluster of red fires in the dark classroom, one bright and one dark.
"Xiao Sheng?" Xu Mingxuan called tentatively.
The red fire fell to the ground and was stepped on and extinguished.
Xu Zishan knew that this must be Xu Mingshe.
The two of them went to push the classroom door, but it was locked.
"Xiao Sheng? Is that you?" Xu Mingxuan couldn't hide his anxiety and anger.
The door opened with a bang, and Xu Mingxuan stood at the door and asked gloomily: "What are you doing here?"
"Why don't you go home so late? What are you doing alone in a dark classroom?" Xu Mingxuan scolded, "We are all anxious, do you know?"
Xu Mingxuan said nonchalantly: "Are you anxious? Why didn't I know?"
"You don't know? Our sister went to grandpa's house today and ran 20 miles back and forth. She got blisters on her feet and even came out to look for you. Who do you think is not in a hurry?"
Xu Mingxuan glanced at Xu Zishan and said coldly: "Who knows what purpose she came to our house for? Xu Xiaoli went back. She might have come back because she had no place to stay!"
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll beat you up." His younger brother has a weird temper, and Xu Mingxuan doesn't want to offend his new sister.
"Hit me!" Xu Mingxuan stretched out his head nonchalantly, "Hit me as hard as you can to kill me!"
Xu Mingxuan sniffed twice and said angrily: "If you don't learn well..."
Smoking! There was a very obvious smell of tobacco in Xu Mingxuan's mouth. Xu Mingxuan was so angry that his little universe was about to explode.
As a student, smoking, playing games and falling in love are the three sins that make parents and teachers most angry.
Xu Zishan also keenly smelled Xu Mingxuan smoking, and the red sparks she just saw were the fire from the cigarette butt. Before Xu Mingxuan could say anything, she quickly stopped Xu Mingxuan from getting angry.
Wen Sheng said to Xu Mingsheng, "You haven't eaten yet? Let's go to the street bun shop to buy some buns, and then we can go watch a movie together."
Xu Mingxuan didn't say anything, closed the classroom door, and walked quickly ahead with his schoolbag on his back.
The three of them went to the movie theater in the town. There was a snack shop outside. They had steaming wheat cakes, fried buns, and radish dumplings. They also bought sweet mung bean soup.
The three of them sat down at the open-air table outside the store and bought 5 fried buns, 3 wheat cakes, and 3 radish balls for Xu Mingxuan. They also ordered two bowls of mung bean soup, one for Xu Mingxuan and one for Xu Mingxuan.
Xu Mingxu glanced at Xu Zishan a few times, but his tone was still bad: "Have you spent all the money? This is your voluntary treat. If you have no money, don't ask me for it."
"Don't worry, I won't ask you for money until you grow up. Feel free to eat. If it's not enough, we'll take a portion to the cinema to eat later. The time is almost up, so eat quickly."
The system wanted her to flatter him, but Xu Zishan felt that for a rebellious child like Xu Mingxuan, what they wanted was "respect" and "equality."
Sure enough, Xu Mingxuan ate very quickly. He was probably starving. After finishing the meal, Feng Juan Canyun wiped his mouth and said, "Let's go!"
Xu Mingxuan had been holding back his anger, but Xu Zishan pinched the back of his hand quietly in the dark. He knew he had to be patient and not get angry and beat his little brother.
At the ticket office, Xu Mingxuan said to the conductor: "Three tickets."
"Three cents." The conductor tore up the ticket quickly.
Xu Zishan didn't ask Xu Mingxuan to pay. She took out thirty cents and was about to hand it to the conductor when she heard a motorcycle suddenly stop nearby and someone shouted: "Brother!"
Song Haiyang stopped his motorcycle, ran to the window, stopped Xu Zishan, smiled with dazzling white teeth, and said, "Let me do it."
"Thank you, no need, we have money." Xu Zishan refused.
Xu Mingxu squeezed over, stood in front of Song Haiyang, stuffed thirty cents into the window, and said to the conductor: "It's our ticket price."
Song Haiyang worked hard all day and finally found out that Xu Zishan was Xu Yingjie's biological daughter.
He was so excited that he scratched his head and scratched his head: "This is the wife prepared for me. If it were the original Xu Xiaoli, I would not like her!"
He was just passing by the cinema after get off work and accidentally took a look and happened to see Xu Zishan buying tickets.
Is this fate? Tell me, is this fate?
Thinking of this, he patted Xu Mingshe on the shoulder and said happily: "Xu Mingshe, please be my brother-in-law!"
Without saying a word, Xu Mingxuan suddenly lowered his head and bumped Song Haiyang's stomach: "Fuck you, brother-in-law, you stinking hooligan."