*Splendid Future (3) continued

It was already dark, and when it was time for dinner, Tong Yiren returned from outside. He washed his hands and face slowly in the courtyard, and when he was finished, he slapped his pants again, picked up the broom on the window sill outside the house, swept his pants, shoes, and stomped his feet a few times, which was the soil of the soles of his shoes. Only then did they walk to the West House where Tong Yezhang and their five sisters were sleeping, and saw the two girls on the kang lying on the ground. He couldn't help but have a sour nose. Clearing his throat, he had a cold face, but his tone was surprisingly relaxed: "According to you, if you don't go up, don't go up." It's your own decision, and when you're out of luck later, don't complain that you can do whatever you want." Tong Yezhang listened to her father lift the curtain and go out, and slowly let out a breath from her heart, but she still couldn't get up, and was thinking about when to open her eyes. At this time, the mother came over and called her three or four times to get up to eat, she responded, slowly opened her eyes, and struggled to get up. The other four sisters exhaled, pulled their arms and legs, and tossed her up. The little sister took a wet towel and wiped her face and hands, and they pushed and pulled her to the kitchen and sat down at the dining table. Millet porridge, sautéed pot of lentils, and cold mixed potato shreds, the mother also boiled two eggs for her. She sat motionless, and Tong Fangfang handed the chopsticks to her right hand, and Tong Coco pulled an egg for her and stuffed it in her left hand. She took a sip of porridge, took a bite of an egg, clipped a lentil, and chewed slowly. There was a strong pull in her throat that made her want to swallow every bite of food so quickly that she had to struggle with that pull to show that she was reluctant to eat the meal. At this time, the little sister Tong Aizhen picked up another egg, after peeling the skin, he did not give it to her, Wu filled it into his mouth, others stopped it was too late, Tong Yezhang himself was even more anxious. She had just done something so dignified in the past three days, and she couldn't lose the image she had built up so hard because of this egg.

After drinking a bowl of porridge and about to drink the second bowl, the mother told her, "Eat these today, and eat them tomorrow morning." Tong Yezhang suddenly found that after doing such a dignified thing as a hunger strike, there was no freedom to die! At the moment when the tears were about to flow, she got up and went back to the house and continued to lie down.

When I got up the next day and finished breakfast, the five sisters each divided their work to clean up the housework, brush the dishes, sweep the floor, and wipe the table. The father was grinding a hoe in the yard, and the mother was crouching beside him, and the two were obviously talking, but neither could hear what was being said. Tong Fangfang approached the second sister who was sweeping the floor and asked curiously, "Sister, are you really not going to school?" "Tong Ye Zhangbai glanced at her." So you're willing to hoe the ground? She continued to ask. The second sister did not have her eyes white this time, but she raised her small fist to hit her. Tong Fangfang was so frightened that she hugged her head and fled to the side of the lady in the courtyard, looking at her defiantly, if in the past, Tong Yezhang had to catch up with her and hit her. But this time, her father looked up at her, and she was like being made by Sun Wukong and couldn't move! I have to say that this time when she dropped out of school, her childhood and adolescence were all over! She had to face the rest of her social life like an adult.