"You can really blow. Wu Cuimei felt that her son was completely superfluous.

Since I agreed, I definitely won't regret it easily, why do I want to say such big things to coax people.

"I'm not bragging, what I'm saying is true. ”

Back at home, as soon as Liu Qingshan parked the car, he immediately took out his mobile phone, and then found some videos of bloggers modifying the old house on the Internet.

He handed the phone to his mother and said, "Mom, look, that's it, look at this house, does it look worse than ours?" But you can look inside later, the one that people have renovated is really beautiful." ”

Wu Cuimei held her mobile phone suspiciously, staring at the picture in the mobile phone.

The old house in the picture does look much more dilapidated than the mud-brick house they live in now, and it looks a little older.

However, when the picture slowly switched to the inside, Wu Cuimei was completely stunned: "This, this is the same house?"

"Yes, definitely. Liu Qingshan smiled, "Mom, I said I didn't brag, you still don't believe it, look at how beautiful the house is." ”

"Ouch, how much does it cost to change it like this. Speaking of which, Wu Cuimei is still distressed about money.

Liu Qingshan said happily: "Mom, I won't talk about it, let's do it ourselves, it won't cost a few dollars." ”

Although Wu Cuimei didn't believe her son's words, she was really tempted to look at the old house renovated by others on her mobile phone.

Although this house does not look good from the outside, but when you look inside, it is really a heaven and an earth.

Just like what his son said, it is estimated that the houses where the landlords lived in the past are nothing more than that.

Besides, the landlord did not have a TV refrigerator before.

"Then, then change. It's really changed, and I'll do it tomorrow. Wu Cuimei said firmly.

Liu Qingshan immediately hugged his mother's shoulders and said with a smile: "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely transform our house into a more beautiful house than the house on my mobile phone." ”

"You're bragging again. ”

"I'm not bragging. ”

"Bragging or not, you'll know when you change the house. ”

Liu Qingshan: .......

The house is not something that can be changed.

Before changing the house, remove all kinds of garbage from the house.

The so-called garbage is nothing more than some broken dishes, benches with broken feet, moldy cutting boards, woodcutters with broken tails, mirrors with paint off, blackened mosquito nets, tattered clothes, shoes and socks, broken quilts invaded by wasps, etc.

When Liu Qingshan opened the cabinet in his parents' room, he still couldn't help shouting: "This is not my childhood clothes, why do you still have them." ”

"Oops, that can't be thrown, that can't be thrown. Wu Cuimei hurriedly ran from the kitchen, snatched the child's clothes from her son's hand, and said nervously and lovingly, "This dress is still fifty percent new, and it can't be thrown away." ”

"Mom, I've grown so big, why do you keep these clothes?"

"You know what. Wu Cuimei carefully protected the smiling clothes in her arms and said, "This is what I left for my grandson, and when you have children in the future, you don't need to buy too many clothes, just wear what you used to be a child." ”

Liu Qingshan rolled his eyes, and he was really dizzy: "Mom, even if our family is poor, it won't be so poor that it will take two generations to wear a pair of open crotch pants." ”

"It's not a question of being poor. Wu Cuimei folded the clothes, found a clean snakeskin bag, and put the clothes into the bag one by one.

She said: "You haven't been a parent yet, you don't understand, when you have children in the future, you will understand." The clothes worn by their children, even if they are broken and torn, are also children's things, for mothers, that is a baby, a baby who witnesses the growth of a child, you look at this one. ”

As she spoke, she picked up one of the open crotch pants and said with a look of reminiscence: "Qingshan, look at these pants, this is what you wore when you were two years old." At that time, my family was poor and had no money to buy new clothes, but you grew up fast, one day at a time, and when you were two years old, you couldn't wear the clothes you wore when you were one year old. So, in order to let you have clothes to wear, my mother cut her own clothes, and then sewed them up stitch by stitch, and there are these little clothes. ”

"You don't know how naughty you were at that time, although I don't go to work in the mountains, but you were still young at that time, pestering me all day long, and I had to carry you to the last pit. Sometimes, you just sit on the grass next to the pit and play, and in short, you pestered me all the time, so I can only use your sleep at night to help you sew clothes.

But at that time, there were no electric lights in the village, they all burned diesel lamps, and after sewing a piece of clothing, my eyes hurt so much that I couldn't open them. However, when I saw you wearing these clothes, I was still very happy, and I thought that I should sew you another blouse, or knit a sweater for you.

So, Qingshan, although these clothes are very old and not pretty, but these clothes were sewn by my mother when you were very young, and when you went to junior high school, you were not at home, so I often turned over these clothes and looked at them, and when I saw these clothes, it was as if I could see you lying next to me again. For Mom, these are not only clothes, but also your shadow, Mom's thoughts and memories. ”

"Mom. Liu Qingshan hugged his mother's shoulders and said movingly, "Then let's leave these clothes behind, and when I have a child in the future, I will give him these clothes to wear." When the time comes, I'll buy some more beautiful fabrics and come back, and you can sew some more clothes for him. ”

"You want to be beautiful. Wu Cuimei patted her son's arm and said with a smile, "You don't even have a partner now, and when you have a child, I will be seventy or eighty years old, and where will I still have the spirit to engage in these things at that time." If you feel sorry for your mother, you should get married early and have children early. ”

Liu Qingshan: ......

Sure enough, moving is a momentary thing.

After he helped his mother put away the clothes, he looked at the old cabinet with red paint and said, "Mom, if you don't throw away the clothes, then this broken cabinet can always be thrown away." ”

"How can this cabinet be thrown away?" Wu Cuimei was surprised, "This is the cabinet that my relatives pooled money to make when I got married to your father, you see that although this cabinet is a little ugly, but its wood is not broken, how can it be thrown away?"

Liu Qingshan looked at the table on the side again and said, "If you don't throw away the cabinet, then this broken table can always be thrown away." ”

"This table is the same as this cabinet, and you can't throw it away. ”

Liu Qingshan held his forehead: "Mom, then this can't be thrown, that can't be thrown, how can the renovation of our house be carried out?"

"Then you have to work harder, and by the way, help these cabinets and tables to be painted and renovated, isn't it new? ”

Liu Qingshan: ......

I knew that I shouldn't have shown my mother my phone, but now that she looks at her phone, she knows that furniture can also be transformed.

This is clearly not happy for yourself.

Remodeling a house is boring enough, and I have to renovate the furniture?

However, things have developed to this point, and even if there is bitter water, you can only swallow it in your stomach. Who asked you to come up with a big plan for the transformation on your own?

If the cabinets and tables with paint off can't be thrown away, the moire clay jars with cracks, the gossip clock with glass dropped, and the mirrors with dragons and phoenixes painted on them can't be thrown away.

In addition to these, there are also Phoenix sewing machines, black and white TVs with big butts.

Although no one uses these items, they still have a unique flavor when they are placed in the house after they are cleaned and refurbished.

However, those notched pots and pans, as well as wooden benches with rotten broken feet, must not be left behind.

After packing up the things that should be thrown away at home, they were piled up in the yard into a hill.

There is a pile of firewood that can be burned, a pile of broken firewood that can be sold, and a pile of firewood that cannot be sold or burned.

Three piles of garbage are piled up in the yard, like three hills.

Looking at these three piles of garbage, the old couple still looked incredulous.

"Why is there so much garbage at home?" Wu Cuimei said in surprise, "I usually don't feel it, but I didn't expect it to be a lot of it." ”

Liu Qingshan put the garbage that could not be sold or burned into a pickup truck, and then pulled it to the garbage pond in another village to dump it.

Although Xishan Village is a small mountain village, the villagers do not throw garbage anywhere, but throw garbage into the garbage pond, and when the garbage pond is full, the town will send garbage trucks to clean up the garbage.

After cleaning up the garbage, I cleaned up all corners of the house.

You know, this is a house for decades, so the floor of the house is all mud. Except for the kitchen and bathroom, which have been remodeled and have been paved with concrete, all the other corners of the house are made of black dirt.

At that time, the poor people in the mountains were basically in this configuration: red mud bricks, blue-brown tiles, black mud.

It only takes a little effort to get this dirt back home, and it doesn't cost money, which is a good thing for the mountain people.

However, these soils have a big disadvantage, that is, once the ground is a little wet, no matter how non-slip shoes you wear, if you don't have enough foot strength, it will still slip, and the degree of lubrication is like the mud in the field.

In fact, the predecessor of these black mud floors was also the black mud in the field.

Because the walls are made of mud bricks, and the floor is made of mud, there are basically all kinds of small insects hidden in every corner of the house, such as cockroaches, tide insects, horses, millipedes, etc., all kinds of common insects in old houses.

"I didn't expect that there is still this little bug. When Liu Qingshan was sweeping the house with a broom, he not only saw annoying cockroaches, but also saw a small insect that he often picked up to play with when he was a child.

Wu Cuimei glanced at it, and said nonchalantly: "It's always there, it's everywhere, and you can't eat it, no matter what you do with it, you can sweep it out." ”

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Liu Qingshan found a small stick, and while using the small stick to pull the mud foam that fell from the mud bricks in the corner of the wall, he said: "Mom, why are you so ruthless, although it is said that this little insect can't be eaten, but it is very useful for people." ”

As he spoke, the little stick had already dug down the small whirlpool in the hollow in the dirt, and before he could pull it twice, he pulled out a worm about the size of a peanut bean.

This bug is ugly, very ugly.

Its body is nearly spindle-shaped, with a small head and prothorax, a long neck, a well-developed mid-hind thorax, and an enlarged abdomen. That is, its body is very round and its belly is large, but it has a long neck and a small head, and it looks not symmetrical at all.

Also, there are hair nodules on the surface of its body, which makes it look a little more ugly.

In addition to these, on its flat head, there is also a pair of powerful elbows shaped like pincers at the front end, which are a pair of jaw tubes formed by the upper and lower jaws respectively, called double-piercing suction mouthparts. Its long, sharp pincers are not only a weapon for capturing prey, but also a tool for building nests.

Their color is similar to that of the surrounding soil, so even if they are exposed to the surface of the earth, it is difficult to spot them at a glance without looking closely.

Although these little bugs are ugly and not big, they are natural conspirators and killers.

The funnel-shaped pits they dig are carefully arranged traps. Once the wandering ants or other small insects strayed into it, they would notice even the slightest movement when they climbed upward, and then quickly burrow their heads out of the soil, wave the two iron pincer-like mouths on the top of their heads, and lift the sand upwards, knocking down the ants that crawled to the entrance of the hole, and captured them in one fell swoop.

Their movements of lifting sand upwards and catching insects are violent and vigorous, and they seem to make a popping sound. Once the mouth reaches the ant or insect, it will be bitten in one bite, bite tightly, and then drag it into the soil little by little, calmly suck the body fluids, and feast on it.

Around the small round pit where they lived, fragments of ants' black shells could be seen, recording the repeated success of their plots and their ruthless killings.

When he was young, when Liu Qingshan didn't know about this kind of small insect, he would always be curious when he saw this kind of small pit in the corner of the wall. Later, after discovering that there were still small insects living in these small pits, he would always use his little fingers to buckle the small pits in the dirt regardless of whether these insects were ugly or not.

Later, when he realized that these ugly bugs were very fond of ants and other small insects, he became playful, first caught the ants, and then put them in the hollow pit. The ants that fell into the pit thought they had escaped from the clutches of humans, so they immediately fled in panic.

It's good that it doesn't run away, but as soon as it moves, the ugly bug that hides in the trap immediately probes out to catch its prey.

However, the ugly insect doesn't know the reason why the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch behind. As soon as it caught the ant, Xiao Qingshan would immediately use the small stick in his hand to point it at the place where it was hiding, and then pick it out of the soil and then capture it.

If you don't use this method, you can use a small stick to move around the pit and pick around, and it will be difficult to find it. When it senses danger, it will swim backwards in the dirt, hiding deeply. Even if you pull it out of the dirt, it will shrink up and play dead without moving, making you mistake it for a tiny piece of dirt and be easily fooled by it.