At four or five o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the sound of the wind outside the window woke Liu Yuanhe from his sleep.

He looked at the dark house, listened to his wife's slight snoring on the side, was stunned for a moment, then sat up and quietly rolled out of bed.

When he arrived at the door, he had just opened the big wooden door, and the cold mountain wind immediately puffed up his thin clothes, making him shiver.

The courtyard was pitch black, and there was no light.

Except for the border between the mountains and the sky in the distance, I could no longer see anything in the dark night in my eyes.

It's said that the sky is the darkest before dawn, and that's true.

Although he couldn't see the sky, the mountains and trees, or the river, Liu Yuanhe still smelled a trace of rain with his sensitivity for decades.

The smell melted into the mountain breeze and poured into the nose, cool and a little moist.

It seems that today or tomorrow, there is a good chance that there will be a rain.

As soon as it rains, the weather will definitely get colder and colder. When the time comes, the animals in the mountains will surely come to the edge of the village in search of food. In that way, the fruit-bearing orange trees will become their target.

Yesterday my son had a good saying, there are so many orange trees in the village, why do those animals eat your oranges alone?

As soon as he thought of these childish words, Liu Yuanhe couldn't help but laugh.

The orange trees in the village are plentiful.

However, he doesn't use potions, and he doesn't have an orange grove with iron clips in the field.

So, he knew very well how luring his orange trees were to clever animals.

Alas, it seems that the rabbit cub cannot be expected to help him go into the mountains to pick oranges. It's still up to you.

Thinking of this, Liu Yuanhe hurriedly turned around and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast.

I made breakfast, ate breakfast, and the sky was cloudy.

He packed up his things, went back to the room and pushed the old woman: "I've made breakfast, you don't have to make breakfast today." ”

"Huh?" the old mother woke up in a daze, heard the old man's words, and wondered, "What are you doing so early today?"

Liu Yuanhe hung his head and said, "I'm going to go into the mountains to pick oranges." ”

"Picking oranges?" the old mother immediately sat up, "your waist is not yet complete, and now you have to go into the mountains to pick oranges, you are looking for death." ”

"Be quiet. Liu Yuanhe stood in the dim light, looked at his thin wife and said, "My waist is almost better, and I may not be able to do heavy work, but it's no problem to pick some oranges." ”

"That's not going to work. My mother said, "Why don't I wake up Qingshan and let him go, or let him go with you." ”

"Oops, forget it. Liu Yuanhe waved his hand and said, "Don't delay him." ”

Liu Yuanhe's expression darkened a little: "Actually, what he said last night was also very right, he can sell bamboo shoots for more than 2,000 yuan by digging a day." Even if I pick and sell all those oranges, I guess it won't be that much money, so don't delay him. ”

"Is this okay?" said my mother, frowning, "or you wait a minute, I'll go with you, even if I can't do any heavy work, but it's still okay to help you pick up oranges." ”

As she spoke, Mom was about to roll over and get out of bed.

Liu Yuanhe pressed her shoulder: "Come on, you, just your body, I didn't pick up many oranges for me at that time, and my body was tired first, so I have to take time to take care of you." Just stay at home. ”

With that, Liu Yuanhe turned around and left.

The old mother sat in the dim light, listening to the sound of the old man going out and closing the door, and heard him cough in the courtyard, and then his footsteps faded away until he could no longer be heard.

She couldn't help but sigh and blame herself a little.

If she hadn't married Liu Yuanhe back then, then according to Liu Yuanhe's physique and strength, she would definitely be able to live a better life.

It was her body that affected him.

Her real name is Wu Cuimei, she is the youngest daughter in the family, and she has two older brothers.

At that time, patriarchy was a common problem in the country. In that context, as a daughter, she is naturally inferior to her two older brothers who are boys.

Therefore, since she can remember, she has never felt the love of her parents.

Everything that is delicious in the family belongs to her brother, but any rough work in the family is all pressed on her small shoulders.

At that time, in order to let her work more, her parents didn't finish the second grade of primary school, and her parents didn't allow her to go to school, saying that a girl like her who wanted to be good-looking and not good-looking, clever and not smart, would not be productive when she grew up, and it would be good to find a man who was willing to have her, so it was useless to study.

Under the persecution of her parents, Wu Cuimei dropped out of school before finishing the second grade of primary school, and then continued to help the family.

It is because of this background that her body will collapse.

In Wu Cuimei's memory, when she was only three or four years old, she had to be scolded by her parents and picked up rice stalks and took them home to be used as firewood.

Later, when she was in her teens, her body collapsed and she almost met Lord Yama. Since then, she can no longer do heavy and menial work, and she is more and more unpopular in the eyes of her parents.

So, before the age of seventeen, he began to arrange a partner for her. But as soon as the man saw that she was as thin as a dried corpse, he was reluctant to deal with her.

Later, Wu Cuimei met Liu Yuanhe.

Liu Yuanhe is a warm-hearted person, he does not dislike Wu Cuimei's body, and after witnessing Wu Cuimei's parents dislike her in every way, he is even more determined to marry her.

Later, the two got together.

Since the two got married, Wu Cuimei has never done any heavy work. Even if she wanted to plant crops in the field, she just followed her husband to do it.

Sometimes she hasn't worked for two minutes, and Liu Yuanhe scolds and asks her to rest.

Although the husband and wife quarrel every day and have a very difficult time, Wu Cuimei knows very well that the luckiest thing in her life is to marry Liu Yuanhe.

Liu Qingshan didn't see his father when he got up, so he asked his mother who was having breakfast very suspiciously: "Mom, hasn't my dad gotten up yet?"

Could it be that yesterday's pigtail soup was not effective?

It shouldn't be.

"Your dad got up before dawn. Wu Cuimei sat at the small table, poured a bowl of oil tea for her son, and said, "Even this oil tea was knocked by your father." ”

"Huh?" Liu Qingshan was confused, "What about others?"

Wu Cuimei didn't answer her son's question directly, but just said earnestly: "Qingshan, you sit down, Mom will talk to you." ”

Liu Qingshan felt weird, but he still listened to his mother's words and sat down at the small table.

"What about your father, although he is not very capable, but for our family, he has also worked hard all his life, Qingshan, you know. Right. Wu Cuimei asked.

Liu Qingshan nodded: "Well, Mom, I know." ”

"So, usually when I scold your dad or quarrel with your dad, it's all a small fight between husband and wife, after the quarrel, after scolding, within two minutes, we reconciled again. This is the habit of my life with your dad, and it has not changed for decades. But, Aoyama, as your father's only son, you have to try to understand your father. ”

"Huh?" Liu Qingshan didn't know why his mother suddenly said such a thing.

He was full of doubts, but he didn't know how to ask.

Wu Cuimei continued: "Your father's mouth is sometimes broken, but he always has you in his heart and our family. ”

"Mom, what do you want to say? ”

"Qingshan, Mom wants to tell you, you have the ability to make money now, but you can't look down on your dad, you know?"

"I don't look down on my dad. Liu Qingshan didn't know what his words and deeds made his mother have this idea.

"Didn't you say yesterday that your father's orange trees are worthless or something, don't you just look down on your father? Although your father's orange trees are not valuable, your father gave you extra living expenses every winter, but you can only give them to you when the orange trees bear fruit and sell them for money, otherwise, how can the family have spare money to add vegetables to you?"

Mother's words shocked Liu Qingshan.

He never knew that in the first three years of junior high school, his father would give him extra living expenses every winter, which turned out to be the money from the orange trees planted by his father and sold them to bear fruit.

"At that time, as long as the weather became cold, your father was very worried, afraid that the oranges would be spoiled by the animals in the mountains and would not be able to sell them to you for money, afraid that you would starve your body if you had no money to add vegetables, afraid that you would not grow tall, afraid that you would be malnourished, so he often braved the rain to go into the mountains to pick the oranges to feel at ease. His current insecurities and anxieties were cultivated in those three years. Qingshan, although your father's orange tree is not valuable, it is also his hard work and his pride. It was because of those orange trees that he could pay for you with a proud face. He came back to me and said, "When I gave you money and asked you to add vegetables, I felt that I finally had what a father should be, and I could finally stop my son from starving, and finally let my son eat meat like other people's sons." Qingshan, your dad doesn't care about the money from selling oranges. He had never gotten out of the anxiety and anxiety of those three years. ”

Liu Qingshan's eyes seemed to have changed back to the way he was when he received a thick pile of change from his father in the first year of junior high school.

He nodded, didn't say a word, ate his meal, and quickly grabbed the snakeskin bag and walked into the mountains.