The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 9

My father stayed at home all day, and got up early the next morning to leave.

Time is like running water, passing by day after day, and soon, the harvest season is here.

The sorghum bowed heavily, the corn showed a golden smiling face, and of course, there were more sweet potatoes. The roots under each vine were bulging, and many grounds were cracked, showing a good harvest. joy.

Standing in the field and looking around, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the sweet potato leaves are continuous, undulating like waves, which is the labor of the wind.

The wind blows freely over the fields, bringing bursts of coolness, urging people that the autumn harvest is coming.

The entire elementary school was on holiday, and the children ran wildly in the fields like they were celebrating the New Year.There are grasshoppers, grasshoppers, and caterpillars on the leaves in the ground.Grasshoppers can be roasted and eaten, even if they don’t eat the chickens at home, they like the big caterpillar chickens even more;

The movement of groups of children in the field startled a group of little ones resting in the field. From time to time, a grasshopper was startled and jumped away.

The corn and peanuts are all cooked, and the children's favorite is also corn. When the adults are shaving peanuts, they can't help but peel off the skin and eat them greedily.Usually the adults will not be angry at this time. After half a year of hard work, isn't it just for the children to live a good life.There were also some impatient parents who slapped them down: "Go!

go!Eat less, don't make you suffer from diarrhea.This is called fragrant when it is shipped home for you to cook and eat. "

All this has nothing to do with Li Xiaohong.

She is still young, and a child as big as her can't even pull a sweet potato stalk, unlike Xia Harvest, who can still pick up a wheat ear or something.Or when planting sweet potato seedlings, you can put the seedlings in the ground for adults.

The autumn harvest work is much more arduous, and most children can't do it, they just run around and play.Or lay your hands down and pick up the sweet potatoes that have been dug out.

But the autumn harvest has nothing to do with her, Li Xiaohong also has serious business to do this autumn.

Because the adults are busy, they are so busy that they don't even have time to go shopping, and the workload is heavy, and they are willing to eat some good supplements when they have to work hard. This gives Li Xiaohong the opportunity to earn money.

Yes, Li Xiaohong's tofu business has already started.

At six o'clock in the morning, it was already daylight, and she had already got up, dressed, washed her face, brushed her teeth, and made her bed.

Looking at her daughter who was ready to go, Zhang Meiying put her arms around her and asked again: "Honghong, why don't you go, our family has no shortage of food and clothing, why would I ask you to earn money? Anyway, mother will also pay for your schooling , so that you will not suffer in the future. You are so young, and you have to earn money by yourself. Mom really hates it. Besides, what can you do with three walnuts and two dates?"

To put it bluntly, Zhang Meiying really didn't believe how much her daughter would earn.For many years, in her mind, farmers have come here like this, digging food from the soil. She doesn't feel that her life is hard, but she doesn't want her children to be as tired as herself.

Her idea is to live a good life, just like the second uncle of the child, she still has to work in the city as a worker and a cadre, so she has been urging her daughter to study hard so that she can go outside to live a good life in the future.

It turned out that when her daughter was young, she loved to run and play every day. She was still anxious, but thinking that her daughter was still young, she would always know how to study and make progress.Now my daughter wakes up early in the morning without calling her herself, practices calligraphy and studies every day, and knows to care about her again. Her heart is as sweet as honey.

But this child only thinks that she has been sensible for a few days, so why is she disobedient?Why are you still so stubborn?Why didn't the daughter's stubbornness decrease with her sensibility?

Speaking of Xiaohong's stubbornness, that's really rare.I still remember that when I was a child, because I didn't know why I said a few words to her, she didn't talk to me for two days.

Another time, for some reason, she stood in the sun and cried for two hours without stopping.You said that it was summer, and at noon the boss and the adults went to hide under the shade of the trees, and she was a little girl, standing there exposed to the sun, not even willing to change places.I felt sorry for her and pulled her to the shade of the tree, but as soon as I walked away to do my work, she went back to where she was standing.He came down again and again, until he forcibly took her away and didn't let her go back.

Once such a child becomes stubborn, he will never look back.Therefore, Zhang Meiying just did her best to obey the destiny, and finally asked her daughter, hoping she could change her mind.She didn't change, so I had no choice but to let her go.

Looking at Zhang Meiying's anxious and worried eyes, Li Xiaohong thought to herself, Mom, just because I know you love me, I will only work hard on myself, and I don't want you to work so hard, so I want to change the situation at home.

So, she just kept her mouth tight and said firmly to Zhang Meiying: "Mom, don't worry about me. You see, I am as tall as a seven or eight-year-old. This work is not too tiring, and there is no problem at all. "

Knowing that she could not convince her daughter, Zhang Meiying patted her head: "The first day of today, I will go with you, you can try it first, if you can't hold on, let's stop."

Li Xiaohong felt a little guilty that her mother had to go with her during such busy farming season.But if you don't go out this step, your life in the future will remain the same, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The two ate something hastily, and entrusted Li Xiaolu to a neighbor, asking her to take care of him if Li Xiaolu woke up, and the mother and daughter set off.

The autumn colors are continuous, the green stretches forward along the path, and the breeze moves gently, bringing a fresh breath of plants.

"It's a long way, Honghong, you get in the car, and I'll pull you."

My mother doesn't talk much, like most parents in China, she does a lot and expresses a little, but her love for her children is as deep.

"Mom, let me pull you, anyway, I will pull the cart in the future."

"You child, I am so heavy, how can you pull it? You are still young, so don't get tired."

In the end, Li Xiaohong still walked. In her words, she wanted to show her mother that it was okay for her to walk so far.

"When I was thirteen or fourteen, I pulled a cart with your second concubine to Xuzhou. It took us a whole day to get there after a journey of more than seventy miles."

"What are you doing in Xuzhou?"

"At that time, the family was poor, your grandpa passed away early, and your grandma dragged us all alone, and we couldn't get enough to eat. No way, your second concubine and I wanted to go there to sell sweet potatoes, hoping to earn some money to subsidize home use."

It turned out that Li Xiaohong really didn't know much about the affairs of her grandma's house. She only knew that only her second uncle was educated in her grandma's house.

"What about uncle?"

"Your uncle is married, each is a family, and will soon have a child of his own, how can he take care of us."

Li Xiaohong knew it. To put it bluntly, the uncle was not that filial. After he got married and had a concubine, it would probably be difficult to take care of his widowed mother, younger sister, and younger brother.

"Mom, I think you have the best relationship with your second concubine, why is that?"

"At that time, your second uncle was not at home, and your second concubine and I supported each other at home, and we got along like a family of sisters. When your second concubine gave birth to your brother Qi, I was the one who took care of her confinement and took care of the child for her. So among your two sister-in-laws, we have the best relationship."

"Of course, it's because your second concubine is a nice person. She was generous and didn't like to care about everything. We were really miserable at that time, and it was only in the past few years that life gradually got better. Compared with us at that time, you are really a heaven and a world. "

"Oh, no wonder."

"By the way, I think you didn't like to go to your second concubine's house before. Why did you take the initiative to find your second concubine this summer vacation?"

"It's not that he is small and ignorant."

Li Xiaohong shamelessly sold her original self.

"Then you are sensible now?" Zhang Meiying glanced at her, meaning what we do if we are sensible.

"Of course, now, from the teacher to the people in our village, whoever sees me won't praise me for being sensible." Li Xiaohong praised herself without any guilt.

"You're sensible, but you're not obedient at all. Are you going to sell tofu?"

"I'm not here to make money for our family!" Li Xiaohong quickly changed the subject, "I used to see Er Jin's serious look, so I was a little afraid to talk to her. Who knew Er Jin was so nice. Every time I went, I would supervise her I learn."

Li Xiaohong said in her heart, as a child, it is not a special situation, who would like to be nagged constantly to study when he has nothing to do.

"You child, talk as if you are how old you are now."

"Isn't it too old? I've already passed my sixth birthday, and I'm going to be seven years old."

"Hehe." Zhang Meiying smiled, and said, "You child doesn't understand. It's because your second sister-in-law treats you as a relative, so she is willing to talk about you. I hope you will go to a high place, or just let a passerby, who will care about you Is it good or bad?"

Li Xiaohong deeply thinks that when she was a child in the previous life, she always liked to go to Da Jin's house, because Da Jin didn't say anything about her and looked very kind, but when something happened, Da Jin only wanted to take advantage of her own family, only the second concubine could do it. When conditions permit, keep helping yourself.

"Mom, you're right."

Seeing that her daughter was willing to listen to what she said this time, Zhang Meiying also became interested: "Hong, your second concubine is a nice person, you have to treat her well in the future, and you can't just ignore your second concubine like before. People are mutual, If you are not good to others, why are they willing to pay for you?"

This is my mother's simple and correct concept of interpersonal communication. Li Xiaohong thinks about it. No matter how good a person's communication is, only sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity. A person's falsehood will always be obvious after a long time.

The two walked and talked, and when they reached Chenjia Village, the sun rose a little bit.The rising sun shone on her mother, bathing her whole body in a golden light, her expression was peaceful and relaxed, and her duck-egg face appeared red and shiny after driving for a long time, all of which made her look particularly beautiful.

"Mom, you look so pretty."

"You little mouth, what are you talking about? Well, you don't have to pour ecstasy soup on your mother, since you want to do it, you can do it. Cough, you are so stubborn, I don't know who you are like, neither your father nor I have such a personality. people."

(End of this chapter)