Daily Life in the 70s-Chapter 51 - Accidental Encounter

However, Jiang Erni herself felt that since she had given birth to two daughters, she had let down the Yang Family.

She rushed to do all the household chores as if only that could put her mind at ease.

Yang Peimin also went over to help her with the shoes.

Jiang Erni was startled and hurriedly stopped her, “Minmin, leave it be, be careful with your hands, I can do it.”

Her hands were mostly healed, and there wasn’t much of a problem as long as she didn’t soak them in water, “Elder sister-in-law, you haven’t stopped since you came back.

Is there anything else you need to do?

I can’t help with anything else, but I can manage the shoes.”

Jiang Erni was still very reserved, taking the shoes from her hands and smiled at her, “Really Minmin, you don’t have to, if you’re bored, why not, why not go to the gate and look for Da Niu and Xiao Niu, see if their clothes got wet while playing.”

Yang Peimin saw her insistence and let it be.

In fact, she was probably worried Zhang Minghua would be displeased when she saw it later, right?

Thinking that she was ordering her sister-in-law around.

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Herself having such a reputation was not undeserved at all, she was even more delicate than the landlord’s daughter.

“Alright, I’ll go take a look.”

The only ones in the family who could run around were the two children, Da Xiaoniu.

Sometimes they’d have arguments while playing or grow tired of each other, so they often went out to play with other kids from the village.

Since Yang Peimin crossed over, apart from those few trips she took, she almost never stepped out of the courtyard.

The houses of the three Yang brothers were in a straight line, next to one another, arranged from left to right according to age.

Being close to each other, they were taught to help and look out for one another, and the fence around the courtyard was low, making it easy to call out to each other if anything happened.

The children were playing in the open space outside the courtyard, chasing each other around a large banyan tree, laughing and giggling, innocence personified.

During the New Year period, adults didn’t have to work and kids didn’t have to go to school.

It wasn’t dinner time yet and the sun hadn’t set, a rare moment when the adults weren’t particularly strict.

The older kids played in one group, the younger ones in another.

There were also groups divided by gender, with the girls playing jump rope or playing house, and the boys with slingshots or other games.

Yang Peimin watched with interest.

Da Niu was playing ‘eagle catches chicks’ with the older children, and Xiao Niu also wanted to join the fun, but she was too young, and the older children didn’t want her to join in.

She didn’t realize she was being shunned by the older children and instead giggled as she chased after her sister, enjoying her own game.

The older kids admonished, “Da Niu, watch your sister, if she falls down, we won’t take care of her.”

Da Niu shouted at her, “Xiao Niu, go play with Erya!”

Yang Peimin didn’t interfere with them and found a stone bench to sit down.

Children have their own world, their manner of growing up, and sometimes it’s best for adults not to interfere too much.

Her aunt in her previous life was the principal of a public kindergarten, and from that abundant early childhood education experience, she learned many ways to interact with children.

In her previous life, Yang Peimin also raised a child herself, so she greatly liked and agreed with her own educational methods.

Xiao Niu was eventually knocked down by the ‘chicks’ running back and forth and burst into tears.

Yang Peimin, afraid that other children might accidentally step on her due to momentum, hurriedly ran over and picked up Xiao Niu.

The children stopped for two seconds and then continued to play.

Xiao Niu was fine; the thick winter clothes had protected her.

She cried for a few moments and then stopped, but she still wanted to play.

Yang Peimin dared not let her go back, fearing she might cling and be hit by other children.

“Xiao Niu, do you want to go with auntie over there to look around?

Let’s see if we can find some flowers, so pretty.

If we find any, do you want to clip one to your hair?” Yang Peimin was talking nonsense with her eyes wide open, as in this season it was good enough to see some greenery.

Xiao Niu looked at her, half understanding, and the next second she took Yang Peimin’s hand and started walking in the direction she had pointed.

Yang Peimin told Da Niu to watch out before letting Xiao Niu lead her away.

Not far on her left was a grain field.

No grains were being dried there at that moment; it was empty, with only a few heaps of straw that apparently were kept for burning into ash as fertilizer to improve the soil come springtime, or so she knew from the original owner’s memory.

Yang Peimin planned to take a short walk around with Xiao Niu and then return, as it should be almost time to start cooking dinner, and she wanted to see if help was needed.

But Xiao Niu pulled her toward the closest heap of straw, having forgotten all about looking for flowers.

She wanted to play in the straw pile.

Yang Peimin saw that she was about to dive into it and quickly grabbed her hand, fearing the straw would scratch her face, and quickly said, “Xiao Niu, let’s do it another way.”

“We can do it like this, okay?

Use your back, and don’t run too fast.” Yang Peimin demonstrated how to fall back into the straw pile.

Xiao Niu understood and giggled as she plopped onto the straw pile with her back.

Yang Peimin stepped out a bit to watch her play but then saw a figure moving behind the straw.

“Who?”

She called out while her body quickly moved to the other side of the pile, and there was Xu Min hiding imperfectly, along with Yang Peiqiong!