Back home, Mrs. Li was used to seeing the pheasant in Zhen Zhen's hand, but she circled around the shirtless Ming Bei twice. Ming Bei was carrying a vest of mushrooms left and right, his dirty pants in his right hand, and shivered under the gaze of Mrs. Li: "Mother, your eyes are a bit scary?"

Mrs. Li took a puff of cigarettes and looked at Mingbei with meaningful eyes: "Why did you change your pants?"

Ming Bei frowned and quickly said with a smile: "I fell on the mountain and fell into a puddle. Fortunately, I picked up a pair of trousers along the way, but I was wearing a bit too big."

Mrs. Li glanced at Mingbei's trousers and fixed her eyes on the dirty trousers: "Why do I smell cowardly, are you sure you didn't pee your pants?"

Ming Bei's face immediately turned red, that is, he was black, and it was not obvious to see, but Mrs. Li, who knew everything about her grandson's words and deeds, saw his expression and knew that she had guessed right, and suddenly laughed out loud. . Mingbei threw the mushrooms on the ground, dragged Mrs. Li and walked into the corner: "Milk! Milk! Milk! My own milk! We don't bring such a pitiful grandson!"

Mrs. Li walked a few steps along her grandson, and when she stood firm, she looked at Ming Bei with a playful look: "I didn't cheat on you, I'll tell the truth. But you're not too young, and you will marry in a few years. Daughter-in-law, why are you still peeing your pants?"

Ming Bei was so anxious that he almost jumped. He stretched his neck to see that no one in his family came out. Then he lowered his voice and pleaded, "Honey, let's keep your voice down."

"Okay!" Mrs. Li took a cigarette, and looked at Ming Bei happily: "Then why did you and Nian talk about peeing?"

Mingbei didn't dare to go out and talk about the tiger, he just said hesitantly: "I was soaking in the urine, and when I was looking for a place, I almost stepped on the trap and was startled, so I wet my pants."

When Mrs. Li heard it, she laughed and patted Mingbei's head: "I washed your shy pants by myself, and are you still waiting for the whole family to know?"

Mingbei grinned and touched the back of his head, went back to the house to find a washing basin, soaked his trousers in water, and asked Wang Sufen for half a bar of soap, then sat in the yard and washed his trousers.

Zhen Zhen sat next to him and took a pot to pick mushrooms, Ming Bei couldn't help but lower his voice and said to Zhen Zhen when he saw no one beside him, "If you go to see rhubarb next time, remember to call me." Ming Bei looked back and saw that no one came out , and asked Zhen Zhen softly: "Does Da Huang have a little tiger cub? I also imagine you can tame a tiger."

Breeding wild animals is the best way to tame wild animals. In the early years, there were daring hunters who domesticated tigers or wild animals, but most people did not dare to risk their lives. Nowadays, Beicha has no specialized hunters for a long time. Usually, in order to improve their lives, men go for a walk in the mountains with hunting guns and hunting knives. A girl as big as Zhen Zhen has domesticated a tiger. haven’t heard much about it. said.

Zhen Zhen threw the picked mushroom roots on the ground and tucked the hair behind her ears: "Rhubarb doesn't have a tiger cub, it's a male."

Ming Bei sighed regretfully, and couldn't help but ask Zhen Zhen again: "Then how did you save it in the first place? Do you really think of it as a cat?"

Zhen Zhen blinked, then lowered her head and continued busy with her work: "I saw it was bound by the rope net in the trap, so I let it go, and I gave it to eat the pheasant I picked up, Later, when I went up the mountain, it often came to play with me."

"Why are you so lucky!" Mingbei believed it without any doubt: "I heard people say that rescued beasts will repay their gratitude. Your life is so good, this can also let you meet."

Zhen Zhen washed the picked mushrooms several times and sent them to the kitchen, where Ming Bei washed his trousers and his own vest, dangled a persimmon from the vegetable garden and washed it with water, just now. When she was about to bring the persimmon to her mouth, Zhen Zhen came out: "Brother, you are quite busy."

"Ah?" Mingbei took down the persimmon that was raised to his mouth again, looked at Zhen Zhen for unknown reasons, and tentatively handed the persimmon over: "How about I give it to you?"

Zhen Zhen glanced at him, turned around and got into the barn, and within a few minutes took out a summer homework full of dirt and threw it in Li Mingbei's arms: "I asked you to go to school to change the summer homework for the second year of junior high school, Didn't you say no? What is this?"

Mingbei touched his nose with a guilty conscience, his eyes wandering a bit: "Then what, didn't I do the second year of junior high last year?"

"Then you can do the questions for the third year of junior high." Zhen Zhen washed her hands, snatched the persimmon from Ming Bei's hand that had not yet been eaten, washed it carefully, put it in her mouth and bit it, Sweet and sour, not to mention delicious.

Mingbei held his summer homework with a look of disgust: "I can't do it in the third year of junior high, can't I write it again next year?"

"No." Zhen Zhen glanced at him, after eating the persimmons in her hand, she dragged Ming Bei to the house: "Hurry back to the house to do your homework, if you don't get into high school next year, I want rhubarb to bite you. "

Ming Bei was about to struggle when he suddenly heard this sentence and almost fell to the ground: "Zhen Zhen, my sister, that rhubarb is not Li Mingzhong, it will kill you if you bite it?"

"Then do you write?" Zhen Zhen smiled sweetly towards Ming Bei.

Mingbei shivered, and bowed his head and entered the room in an appointed manner: "Well, brother, listen to you, you have the final say."

Now that the weather is hot, and the mountains and fields are full of fresh vegetables, Wang Sufen is also impatient to cook too many hot dishes. Except for the pheasant and mushroom soup stewed in the pot, the others are all kinds of dipping pickles, and the cucumbers and persimmons have also been washed. a plate.

After the food was set, Wang Sufen called people to eat one by one. When she entered the East Room, Wang Sufen was shocked to find that Mingbei was actually sitting on the table under the window and doing her homework.

"Yo, Mingbei actually knows how to do homework." Wang Sufen looked at him with joy: "Did you do something wrong and get scolded by your milk?"

"My grandma didn't scold me, but now my sister is more fierce than my grandma." Mingbei raised his head and looked at Wang Sufen expectantly: "Mom, is the meal ready? Let's go eat."

"It's ready, let's go eat." Wang Sufen replied, and called Zhen Zhen again: "You've already eaten two tomatoes by now, so you can't eat at night? Hurry up to Westinghouse, don't you want to make mushroom chicken soup? It's all stewed, and you and Roubao will have a chicken drumstick each in a while."

"I don't want to eat chicken legs for my milk, just give me two wings." Zhen Zhen said as she got off the kang, over there Ming Bei threw a pen and was about to run out, but Zhen Zhen quickly grabbed her: "Where are you going?"

"Eat?" Ming Bei looked at Zhen Zhen in confusion: "Isn't this mother telling us to eat?"

"How many pages have you written for your homework?" Zhen Zhen turned over to the desk with a look of disgust: "It took so long to write half a page? Don't go to dinner if you can't finish these two pages."

"Why?" Mingbei quit, rubbing his stomach with a look of grievance: "I've already climbed the mountain for so long in the afternoon to wash my clothes and do my homework. I've already starved to death."

Zhen Zhen rubbed her little white teeth: "I haven't been doing business for a day, so why don't you hurry up and write something while it's dark, or else..." Zhen Zhen glanced at Wang Sufen who was beside her and said, "Otherwise we and I Mom, tell me about your pants?"

Ming Bei suddenly slumped, sitting on the stool and looking straight out: "That pheasant, you have to save me some meat, don't just leave the soup, I can't drink enough."

Zhen Zhen put her feet up and patted Ming Bei's shoulder: "Don't worry, as long as you do your homework well, the meat will not be without you." After speaking, she turned around and pulled Wang Sufen away: "Mom, let's go to dinner, I can smell the aroma of chicken soup. already."

Ming Bei stretched his neck and looked at the disappearing backs of Zhen Zhen and Wang Sufen, and rubbed his stomach in frustration: "This is a little sister, she is an ancestor."

"What are you talking about?" Zhen Zhen's voice came from the next room, Ming Bei shuddered for a while, and immediately replied sweetly: "Said my sister is getting old, I must listen carefully to my sister and do my homework quickly."

The Westinghouse suddenly burst into laughter. Wang Sufen poured out a bowl of soup and handed it to Mrs. Li: "This Mingbei is skinny like a monkey, so his sister can treat him."

"It's not that bad." Mrs. Li took a sip of the soup and gave Zhen Zhen a chicken wing: "Bo'er watch him do his homework from the beginning of the day, and watch him copy books when he finishes his summer homework. I don’t believe that this score will not go up. This hydrolysis factory is such a good factory, it recruits so many people in a year, does he think it is so good to get in?”

"That's right." Wang Sufen agreed and said to Zhen Zhen, "When you watch your brother finish your summer homework, Mom will give you money to go to the hydrolysis factory to watch a movie."

"Really." Zhen Zhen's eyes lit up and she nodded again and again: "Don't worry, Mom, I promise that my brother will be able to finish his homework in three days."

Although most of the movies at this time are old movies in black and white, for Zhen Zhen, who has not watched TV for five or six years, it is good to be able to watch movies, even if she is asked to watch a mime now, she can watch it of relish. With motivation, Zhen Zhen felt that she urged Ming Bei to do her homework more energetically.

When Ming Bei was in the second year of junior high school, Ming Nan looked at his homework and his grades were okay. Although he had forgotten half of it after playing for a year, he could still remember it when he flipped through the book. Finish your homework before dark. Carrying the homework book and putting it in Zhen Zhen's hand, Ming Bei didn't even want to wash his hands, so he picked up the cold chicken soup and drank half a bowl.

Zhen Zhen sat next to him with a smile and kept filling Ming Bei with meat: "Brother, eat more." Ming Bei was flattered and hurriedly followed with a bowl: "You don't need to feed me, you can eat it yourself."

"You eat more, doing homework is a waste of your brain." Zhen Zhen also put the chicken head in Ming Bei's bowl: "Eat the brain to make up the brain, eat the chicken head."

"..." Mingbei stared at the meatless chicken head for a long time, and really didn't want to eat it: "Actually, I think I'm pretty smart, why don't you make it up?"

"Alright, you can write two more pages of homework after dinner, and I'll see if you're smart or not." As soon as Zhen Zhen finished speaking, Ming Bei bit the cockscomb down in one bite: "Well, I think it's time to make up for it. make up."

Squatting at the window and the braised chicken nuggets below with a look of contempt:  …

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With the promise of watching the movie and Zhen Zhen staring next to him, Ming Bei honestly finished all his summer homework, and read the textbook from beginning to end, and finally asked for fifty cents from Wang Sufen. Qian, happily took Zhen Zhen to the hydrolysis factory to watch a movie.

Zhen Zhen also went to the hydrolysis factory before, but she followed Wang Sufen and Osmanthus to the bathhouse to take a bath or something, this was the first time to watch a movie. Based on the experience of watching movies in her previous life, Zhen Zhen fry the Mao Ni (melon seeds) that she kept at home, and also found a cloth bag to put some washed foreign persimmons and cucumbers in, and finally poured a pot of honey water, this is the preparation is complete.

Ming Bei squatted at the door and watched what Zhen Zhen was preparing, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously: "Old girl, do you think you can't eat enough at home? Why are you still thinking about eating after watching a movie?"

"You don't understand, watching a movie is fun when you eat and watch it." After packing up her things, Zhen Zhen put it together and handed it to Ming Bei: "Okay, let's go."

Ming Bei hurriedly jumped up from the ground, happily took the key of the bicycle, and pushed out the shiny "two-eighth-bar" bicycle that Li Muwu rubbed out.

At the beginning, Li Muwen took the gold bars. Over the years, he sent home about 200 yuan. This bicycle ticket was sent back during the Chinese New Year last year. Li Muwu took the ticket and the money and went to see a lot. The ever-popular "permanent" manganese steel bikes are back. At that time, the neighbors and colleagues were all fried, and they all came to watch and touch it.

Usually, Li Muwu only rides this bicycle when he is visiting relatives, and usually hangs on the wall. Today, it is because he is reluctant to walk too far, so Li Muwu agreed to let Mingbei ride it once. He repeatedly instructed him that he was not allowed to ride in mud pits, or on rocks. When he came back, he had to clean the car and hang it on the wall. Mingbei promised him several times before Li Muwu gave him the car keys.

The launch of the long-favored big bicycle, Mingbei felt that it was more enjoyable than watching a movie, and hung Zhen Zhen's cloth bag on the handlebar, Mingbei turned around and asked Zhen Zhen: "Mother, come and sit in front."

Looking at the slender stick in front of her, Zhen Zhen felt that she would slap her butt: "I'd better sit in the back, I'm afraid of jumping off when I sit in the front."

"No." Mingbei said, "The children are sitting in the front. Besides, how do you get up when you sit in the back?"

"I can even go up a tree, but I'm afraid of this bicycle." Mingbei remembered that Zhen Zhen was walking through the trees like a monkey on the mountain, as if it was more difficult than this: "Well, I'll ride slower, you jump Be careful when you go up."

Ming Bei swayed the pedals a few times, and stepped up from the back seat as soon as his long legs were stretched out, Zhen Zhen ran a few steps behind, holding Ming Bei's waist and jumping firmly on the back seat. Seeing that no one came out, Ming Bei deliberately shouted loudly: "Zhen Zhen, you are really amazing, you can jump up from the back of a bicycle so high."

At this time, every household had their doors open, and they heard that bicycles were all coming out to take a look. This made Mingbei proud. He walked around these two rows of houses several times to make sure that all his classmates saw them. to the hydrolysis plant.

The plant area of ​​the hydrolysis plant is too large, so there is no gate. Only the four-story office building in the center of the plant area has a beautiful yard. Ming Bei took Zhen Zhen on a bicycle to take a look. There is also a wooden corridor inside. It looks majestic.

"This Dahuang Building is the tallest building in Beicha." Mingbei didn't dare to enter the yard, he just rode his bike around the door, Zhen Zhen patted him on the back: "You like the hydrolysis plant so much, then you go to school well. , come back and take the test. At that time, movie tickets will be issued, and there will be movies to watch every month."

"I just feel that the exam is a bit of a headache." Ming Bei rode his bicycle towards the cinema after turning around enough. "You don't need to take the exam if you go to the forest management office, and you earn a lot."

"Can it be the same?" Zhen Zhen hated and slapped Ming Bei on the back: "Is it a good job to carry wood? Every day from morning to night, a few people carry such thick wood down the mountain, Look at the people who have earned money from the business, who are not hunchbacks and slumped shoulders, you are ugly, if you go to the appointment, there will be no beautiful girls with you."

Mingbei was so big when he secretly liked beautiful girls but was too stubborn to admit it. He hesitated when he heard it would turn ugly: "How about I take a high school test?"

"Let's take the test. My mother said that it's not a bad thing to study more. Besides, it's okay if you didn't study before. It's just that my third brother didn't care about you this year and let you let go of yourself. You can take it back and work hard for another year, and so on. It would be great to go directly to the factory after graduating from high school." Zhen Zhen looked at a girl wearing red flowers on the side of the road and secretly poked Mingbei's waist: "Look at how good-looking the girls here are."

Mingbei secretly turned his head and glanced at the girl. She was about fifteen or sixteen years old. The two braids were thick and long, and the skin looked white.

Ming Bei looked at him and forgot to look at the road, he rode on a big boulder on the road, he rarely rides a bicycle and twisted the handlebars twice in a panic, Zhen Zhen jumped out of the car in a hurry , Just as he was about to help his bicycle, Mingbei had already fallen to the ground with the person and the car.

"Bang!" Seeing the dust rising from the ground, Zhen Zhen quickly took two steps back, and watched her cloth bag fall to the ground, the fur inside was scattered all over the ground, Zhen Zhen helped the car up, He lifted Ming Bei from the ground again.

Not caring about the pain of falling on his butt, Ming Bei first carefully inspected the car and saw that the handlebars were not twisted and the paint was not knocked off, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it didn't break, but it scared me to death. , if I break it, my father can beat me to death."