The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Chapter 135 Peaceful Beauty

After May Day, the weather in Yutian has become completely warmer. The sun shines through the clouds and falls on the ground, illuminating the entire city and warming people's hearts.

Darong rode her bike, and Zhong Yunxing took Xiao Ruyi and the family of three to the morning market early.

In 1994, the market economy in the southern suburbs was already very active. In addition to the existing department stores, various small carts selling goods began to appear on both sides of the small streets.

As farmers in the surrounding areas started to sell their own products and small vendors gathered together spontaneously, a free market gradually took shape.

"Hey hey hey...what are you doing?"

Darong originally wanted to drive the car closer to a roadside stall to take a look at the vegetables placed on the ground by the vendors, but she failed to brake and the front wheel of the car rushed into the crotch of a man.

The big brother was quite tall, standing on the side of the road with his legs apart, bending over to pick up something on the ground. He was startled by the sudden arrival of the wheel, and subconsciously clamped his legs together, clamping the front wheel of Darong's bicycle tightly between his legs.

Darong fell off the car. Looking at her brother's funny appearance, she sat on the ground, buried her face in her knees and started laughing non-stop.

"Brother! Brother! Don't be anxious...don't be anxious...the woman is riding a bicycle and not following you, don't follow her."

Xiao Ruyi was sitting in Zhong Yunxing's car. He held the car with one hand and took out a cigarette with the other hand and kept apologizing and making peace with others.

"Okay, stop being happy, get up and help the car!"

After taking the cigarette, the man smiled speechlessly, sucking his teeth. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise he would have lost his life.

Darong got up from the ground with a red face and trying not to laugh, pushed out her car, apologized to her eldest brother, and walked away as if escaping without even looking at the food.

"You are really great, my wife!" After walking a long way away, Zhong Yunxing was still teasing Darong with a smirk on his face.

"I didn't mean to do that. I just didn't brake."

"Fortunately you didn't do it on purpose. If you did, that buddy would be in trouble, hahahaha..."

The two of them chatted and laughed all the way back to Erdaohezi. Today was a rare day off for both of them, so they took Xiao Ruyi back to grandma's house.

"At this time, Mom should be in the field. You take the child to the yard and wait for a while. I'll go look for her in the field."

Seeing that the door was locked, Zhong Yunxing made arrangements for Darong and Xiao Ruyi and planned to go to the field to find Zhong's mother himself.

"I want to go with daddy, I want to go with daddy!" Little Ruyi was very clever and hugged Zhong Yunxing's thigh as soon as she got out of the car.

For adults, the fields are places for hard work, but for children, they are simply a natural playground.

The time around Grain Full is when the rice seedlings start to grow, and the location where the Zhong family was located at that time was a famous rice farm in Yutian.

The rice grains are oval in shape, crystal clear like white jade, soft but not sticky, and not hard when cold. It is fragrant and tasty, and is still famous today.

"Okay, can you stop running around?" Zhong Yunxing picked up Xiao Ruyi and asked, tapping her nose.

"I can do it!" Although Xiao Ruyi answered quickly and clearly, he ran at lightning speed.

As soon as they reached the end of the field, Zhong Yunxing started chasing his precious daughter back and forth. If it weren't for the fact that her long legs limited little Ruyi's ability to jump over the ridges, Zhong Yunxing would not have been able to catch her.

When he came back from the field, Zhong Yunxing had his trouser legs rolled up to his knees, his feet were covered in mud, and he was holding his shoes in one hand and the little Ruyi that he had fished out of the mud in the other.

"Zhong! Ruo! Tong!"

Darong was speechless when she saw the innocent-looking Xiao Ruyi.

The little girl was covered in mud from head to toe, and one of her shoes was missing. Her originally beautiful gauze skirt was completely soaked and its original appearance could not be seen. There was a big hole in her white tights.

"What do you think of the child?" Darong turned to look at Zhong Yunxing, who was also in a state of embarrassment, and asked unhappily.

"Don't blame me, I promised you that, but when you got down to the field you ran faster than a rabbit and ran straight into the ditch. Luckily I grabbed your arm."

Zhong Yunxing looked at his precious daughter with a look of despair, like an old defeated soldier.

"Mom, the water is too cold. I'm so cold... I'm so cold... Hug me!"

Ruyi was very shrewd. When she saw that Darong was a little angry, she acted pitifully and begged Darong for a hug.

Darong didn't have time to be angry with her. Afraid that she would catch a cold, she quickly opened the door and went into the house to change her clothes. She then took a basin to the small ditch behind the house to wash the mud off her skirt.

Zhong Yunxing and Ruyi were sitting on the kang, teasing each other back and forth until Darong came into the room. Then they both quickly restrained their expressions, lowered their heads and sat on the kang, stealing glances at Darong, neither of them daring to make a sound to provoke her.

Darong ignored the two of them. After hanging up the clothes, she started busying herself with picking vegetables and cooking.

By the time Mrs. Zhong came back, Darong had almost prepared lunch.

"Mom, please take a break. I see the rice seedlings have sprouted. I'll come over after my break from work and plant them." Zhong Yunxing said after taking the rubber shoes that Zhong's mother had taken off to the door of the outer room.

"Well, it happens that your father is at home those two days, so you two can work together." Mother Zhong wiped the sweat from her forehead, sat on the edge of the kang and hugged Ruyi.

"Don't run away like that next time. If your dad doesn't catch you, you'll be washed away by the water. If you run away, you won't be able to return home. How scary."

Mother Zhong loves Xiao Ruyi the most, but this time she couldn't help but criticize her. Although the ridges were not deep, it was the spring planting season and the water flow was very fast.

"Stop talking, stop talking now." Little Ruyi stretched out her little hand and covered her grandmother's mouth to stop Mother Zhong from speaking any more.

Mother Zhong looked at Da Rong who came in with the dishes, laughed and hugged the little devil in her arms.

Darong glanced at Xiao Ruyi and chuckled.

Without the noisy quarrels and petty calculations, life seems to have become beautiful and peaceful. Xiao Ruyi grows up day by day, and Darong and Zhong Yunxing live a sweet and warm life.

Zhong Yunhong and Wu Meifeng unexpectedly deepened their relationship because of the last incident. For the first time, Zhong Yunhong defended Wu Meifeng in front of Zhong's mother, which made Wu Meifeng, who had always felt aggrieved, feel his love.

After Zhong Yunsheng and Wenying got married, their relationship was quite harmonious. Soon Wenying became pregnant with her baby. However, neither of them had a formal job. Wenying stopped working after she became pregnant, and their life became a little difficult.

This is how old people are, they are always partial to the one who is not doing well. Mother Zhong knew that Zhong Yunsheng and his wife were not doing well financially, so she always helped her old son in both open and covert ways.

Darong actually knew it all along, but she was not too jealous. For Darong, she and Zhong Yunxing had a good income, and her family now had some conditions, so there was no need for her to care about things that would make her unhappy.

Since Wu Meifeng doesn't go back often, she naturally doesn't know about these little things.