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When he slowly woke up, he saw the lower bunk bed on the double bed. Qi Yuan suddenly sat up and touched his lower abdomen. It was smooth and tight, and he didn't look like he had been pregnant for more than two months. There was a small mirror on the bedside table.

He was lying on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, and opposite him was also a double bunk bed. There were two desks by the window, very old, with three drawers and two cupboards.

Qi Xiang stood up, pulling on his slippers and stroking the bed and the table. On the table was his eldest sister Qi Shuang's high school textbook, and his younger sister Qi Jian's junior high school textbook. This was a scene that often appeared in his dreams.

A few giggles came from the other side of the room and Qi Zheng walked out of the room. Separated by a small living room was a bedroom of his little brother, Qi Yuan. It was slightly smaller than the other three sisters' bedroom and also a double decked wooden bed.

Since there were many children in the family, his grandma often came to stay for a while, so Papa Qi had someone make three identical sets of desks and a bed, which was very stylish furniture in the countryside at that time.

Two of them were wearing the same clothes, and he instantly recognized that the two pieces of clothing were the same ones that he had bought in the biggest shopping mall in the city two days before his College Entrance Test. When he came back, his little brother and sister were wearing the same dragon and phoenix calves, and after he earned his money, he would buy beautiful clothes for his little sister.

She always said that she thought the clothes were pretty and that she had saved a lot of money to buy them. She always said that she was sensible and had beautiful clothes, but her sister's friendship was the most important thing to her.

Qi Yuan and the other two were playing checkers, which were brought back from the shopping mall before the college entrance exam. As the three of them walked, they whispered to each other, tears rolling down their faces. What a real dream, this must have happened over ten years ago.

Qi Yinfeng looked at his sister who was crying and asked, "Elder sister, what's wrong?" Qi Zheng could no longer hold it in, he leaned against the door frame and wailed. The three of them were so scared that they walked over together to support Qi Jing's arms, and they sat down on Qi Yuan's bed, crying for a long time. Qi Yuan thought that once he woke up, this dream would be over, and he started sobbing as he wiped away his tears.

Qi Yinfeng said, "Elder sister, don't be sad. Let's go downstairs to wash our faces." The three children looked at him worriedly. God pity them, they had returned to thirteen years ago. Qi Zhengyuan nodded his head, both crying and laughing at the same time as he mumbled, "Ok."

Qi Yuan did not wash his face in the washroom downstairs. Instead, he went to the taps in the courtyard and filled them with a basin of cold water. The bright sunlight of the summer afternoon cooled his face and his heart with the cold water, bringing the memories of thirteen years back to the second day of university entrance examination to fill out the matriculation paper. It was already a foregone conclusion that he would go to a university.

In order to have an abnormal performance in the college entrance examination, in order to be able to fill in the new school in that year, the major was a transfer, and in the end, he had to go to F City University, which had just been upgraded to a university, which was a merger of F City Polytechnic Academy and F City Normal School. In the first year, he was afraid that the number of students he had to recruit was too small, and he had to take a lot of courses in the city, because Qi Yuan's major stayed in the old school district for three years, and in the last year, he went to the new school district.

After washing his face, Qi Yinfeng took a towel and handed it over, saying, "Elder sister, let's go to the garden later to pick some dishes. We'll make some dumplings tonight to eat." He wiped his face and followed him to the garden outside the yard to cut the leeks.

Qi Ma opened the small garden by herself, the courtyard was at the very edge of the village, and there were no households on the west side of the wall. Qi Ma opened a few plots of land and planted a bunch of leeks, beans, eggplants, and tomatoes, which were all common vegetables in the countryside.

Now that the summer vacation was over, the task of watering the plants was handed over to the children. They all used their scythes to cut the leeks while asking Qi Jian, "Where did our mother go?" Qi said, "In a few days, Second Grandpa will be celebrating his birthday. Our mother wants to send some eggs to the village's revived chicken house and tell them to save one hundred eggs for us."

He had three children, two daughters and a son, the youngest son, who had just gotten married last year and still had no children. Qi Yuan's two cousins had been married for several years, and married for a short distance, and it was a rural custom that the old man had to have a birthday every year when he was sixty, and his grandparents had never come back for a few birthdays after he graduated. The excuse was that he was far away from home and had no time at all, and had only bought some gifts to send back.

While cleaning up the leeks, Qi Yinfeng glanced at Qi Jing and asked, "What about it, Yanzhuo?" Qi Yinfeng said, "Sis, why don't I take a break from school for a year?"

Qi Xiang asked in surprise, "Why?" Qi Yinfeng said, "I think it's better for you to repeat your studies for another year. Your usual grades are pretty good. If you don't do well in college entrance examinations, you'll just end up in a normal school."

This was his own sister, a considerate sister. He smiled and said, "Luoshui, it's not just a coincidence that I'm taking the exam like this. Although I was suffering from heatstroke at the time, if I had a strong mind, I would have gotten a good score on the exam, but the reason is because I'm not as strong myself. You should study well, and take the college entrance exam the following year."

What a joke. If he went back to high school, he might not be able to get a grade next year with his messy state of mind. Qi Jian didn't say anything else. She lowered her head to clean up the leek in her hand. Her movements were much more nimble. It seemed like she had been thinking about this matter for a long time.

He quickly cut a bunch of leek and brought it home with Qi Yinfeng to wash. He fried two eggs in the kitchen and mixed them with the chopped leek, adding some peanut oil and adding some salt. The leek taste heavy, so he didn't need to put the other seasonings in.

Qi Hu and Qi Yuan were in the living room downstairs watching TV. Qi Hu and Qi Yuan went to the washroom to prepare the dumplings, washed their hands, and took Maza to the table. They helped her with the medicine, one of them helped her with the bag, the other helped her roll the bag, and after a while, a piece of white and fat dumplings like Yuanbao appeared on the curtain. The thin skin had a hint of green, and the fragrance of leek lingered in the living room.

When Mama Qi returned at 6: 00 am, she was very excited to see her much younger mother. When she saw that the children had wrapped the dumplings, she went to the big kitchen in the yard to cook the big pot at home. The pot of water was filled with more than 100 dumplings, but it was enough for them to cook the dumplings in the big pot once, unlike cooking them in the small pot with natural gas, she could only cook 20 or 30 dumplings at a time.

It had been a tradition in the family for so many years, whatever was good to eat should be sent to grandpa and grandma first. In the past, it was only a few steps away from home before the Qi family moved to the edge of the village and sent things to grandpa and grandma in the village on bicycles for about 10 minutes.

Qi Yuan came back before he sat down at the table to pour vinegar and dumpling soup into his mouth. Mama Qi was eating with her children.

Mama Qi asked while eating, "How come you didn't go to your father's place yesterday? Your father called this morning and said he wanted you to bring some clothes back for me to wash."

Qi Xiang said, "I stayed with my classmates."

The television was broadcasting news from the province. Yesterday, someone won millions in the lottery. Qi Yuan said, "So many! How great would it be if I won!"

"What are you doing with all that money?"

Qi Yuan said, "Aren't we studying so hard just to get into a good school? Isn't the reason I went to a good school so that I could get a good job in the future? Wasn't finding a good job so that he could earn more money to improve his life? If we had that much money, we wouldn't have to work so hard.

Qi Yuan had gone to a medical university, and was also one of the most important universities in the country. After graduation, he returned to his hometown and became a doctor in the People's Hospital, and the reason for that was because the pace of the city was too fast, or his hometown was too good. Anything was good, and it was easy for him to get close to his mother.

He ate a dumpling and said, "If you want to buy it, you can buy it. Choose 7 out of 30. How many times do you have to choose?"

Qi Yuan said, "I'm just going to try out our family's birthdays, maybe we can get it right."

Qi said, "Dream on."

Qi Yuan said, "Let's talk properly, we can't carry out personal attacks."

Mama Qi knocked on the plate in front of her and said, "Eat well, don't quarrel."

He made a face at Qi Yuan and lowered his head to eat his dumplings.