"This vegetable garden is very good," I looked inside, and there were all kinds of vegetables, including baby cabbage and the like.

"Your father and I planted it, and when we came, the yard was deserted, and there was nothing in it," said my mother, walking into the house.

I followed, and it was very simple, with two rooms, a kitchen, and a large iron pot on the stove in the kitchen, and below it was a pile of firewood, a hand-cranked windmill, and a water tank more than half a man high, in which lay a gourd scoop.

The cupboard looks to be a little old, the patent leather on it has long since peeled off, and there is a layer of black greasy, a strip of white yellowing, and some torn rags next to the cupboard.

My mother and I went into the rented house, which was quite clean, with a few cabinets on the ground, and a few bags of grain piled up in a corner, an old-fashioned TV of about fifteen inches, the antennas were all folded, there was only one kang in the house, which was touched with cement, a new plastic mat was spread on it, it seemed that my parents bought it themselves, and there was a small window nailed with gauze on the wall behind the kang, and a cool wind blew in from the outside, and a kang table was also placed on one side of the kang.

"Why was the yard deserted before, didn't everyone in the countryside grow their own yards and eat vegetables?" I asked my mother as I put my luggage down.

"The owner is not in good health, such a big yard can't turn over the ground, what else can you plant, your father and I used a rotary tiller to spin the land at the beginning of the year, and then bought the seeds to grow vegetables" Mom sat on the edge of the kang and sighed.

"Her children don't help her," I wondered.

"There are two sons, both married and gone out, what can you help her, her house is broken, or your father uses thatch to help eat, none of her sons came, the landlord is grateful to us" The mother mentioned the landlord's two daughters, pursed her mouth, and looked disdainful.

"Then it's very difficult for her to live by herself!" I listened to my mother, and when I looked at the house, I could also think of the difficulties of a lonely old man.

"Son, you're hungry! I'm going to cook for you, I know you're coming, and your father went to the town market to buy you meat, and I've stewed a piece for you, and now it's hot for you," my mother looked at me lovingly, and walked towards the kitchen.

At dinner, my parents cut a plate of pork belly with garlic sauce, fried a green pepper egg, and rice, and I was hungry for a long time, and I slept on the cement kang with my parents at night.

Listening to the snoring of my parents, I couldn't fall asleep over and over, I slept in a bed by myself since the beginning of junior high school, and today I slept with my parents and parents, I felt weird, I always couldn't sleep, and when I thought of the day before yesterday I was still enjoying a comfortable life in the ivory tower of the school, but today I was living in a tattered little tunzi full of cow dung smell, this feeling of disparity, let me feel like falling from heaven to hell,

I seemed to have a few strange dreams, and when I woke up from the dream, I didn't remember the bizarre scene in the dream, the sky outside the window was already twilight, and the chickens were all crowing and screaming, I got up from the bed, felt the urge to urinate, and went down to the door to find a place to release it.

He lifted his pants and took a deep breath, looking around and his eyes were full of tatters.

A few old cows suddenly passed by on the road, leaving a few bubbles of residue between the flicking of their tails, and a little boy in a dirty camouflage uniform with a whip in his hand followed behind this group of old cows, as if he felt that I was looking at him, the little boy raised his whip and pulled out a crackling sound, and his mouth made a crisp shout, and for a moment I had a feeling of returning to the Republic of China period.

Mom and Dad also got up, and made rice and soybean curd (called water tofu in the south) for breakfast.

"I'll go to the ground with you today!" I said as I ate.

"You're resting for two days, and you're not in a hurry to go to the ground, and there's not much work in the field. In two days, our long-term worker will come back," my mother filled another bowl of rice.

"It's okay, don't rest, I'm uncomfortable here, it's better to help you work, Mom, don't you often say, when you were eighteen years old, you cut the queue at my uncle's place, and it's okay to go up the mountain to cut wood every day." I'm in my twenties, so there's nothing I can't do," I laughed.

"You're in time, I'm better than you are now, if you really want to go, let your dad find you a pair of boots," the old mother sighed, as if remembering those miserable years.

After eating, my mother found a few pots, filled them with food, and prepared to eat them at noon.

It's like this when I do farm work, I work for a day, and I deal with it in the field at noon.

I found out the school uniform I wore in high school, not to mention how ugly the school uniform issued by our country was, how many kickbacks the relevant people took, the material is still very strong, this dress is not only what I wear to school, but also the work clothes I usually wear when I work at home.

Looking at this school uniform that made me wash white and sewn with dense needlework at the cuffs, I felt a sigh in my heart, the student days have passed, don't think about it anymore, now I am a complete social person.

My dad found me a pair of black boots, which were a little small, and I took off my boots and put two band-aids on my hamstrings.

"Dad, don't you have to hang up all the windows" I watched my dad just lock the door, but the window just closed casually, and didn't hang it with a hook from the inside.

"It's okay, this tun is all in the tun, who steals things! Besides, we don't have anything, what can they steal!" Dad put on his gloves and shook the grasshopper.

When I thought about it, they were all relatives, and if they were caught stealing something, they wouldn't be able to live in the tunzi.

With the spitting sound of the grasshoppers, our family of three drove into the field.

"The smell of cow dung is so strong, and when I got up in the morning, I saw a man driving seven or eight cows along the road in front of our yard," I tightened my nose.

"Except for a Han family, this tunzi is inhabited by people of the Da ethnic group, otherwise it would be called Meristunna, and the relevant departments will give them money to raise cattle and sheep" The old mother showed a look of envy in her eyes.

"Ethnic minorities are given preferential treatment, when I was in high school, I had a classmate whose father was Han and his mother was an ethnic minority, so he was with his mother's nationality, and he was admitted to the Shijiazhuang Ordnance Engineering Institute, and now he was hired by an arsenal, and I heard that he went to build tanks."

"Mom, there's a wasteland here," and as the grasshopper passed the dirt road again, I noticed a wasteland overgrown with weeds on my right.

"That's a pasture, it's not allowed to grow food, in fact, the land we have contracted is also a pasture, a black land secretly opened by others," the old mother pointed to the wasteland.

"And the black ground?" I've only heard of black workers, black processing points, and the first time I've heard of such a thing.

"It's the land that the relevant departments don't allow to grow food has been reclaimed," my mother explained.

"It's so blatant, are the village cadres blind," I frowned.

"They all drove it, who would dare to open it for ordinary people," the mother laughed.

"It's because it's a black land, the price of this land is cheaper, more than 600 yuan per day cheaper than the land our family contracted last year," my mother didn't care if this was a black land, she only cared about the whole family being able to have a good income all year round.

"Can you tell the difference between seedlings and grass, don't pull them out like grass," said my father jokingly.

"The grass and the seedlings can still be distinguished," I smiled and turned to the rice pond, my feet were muddy, and I struggled to walk, and when I bent down to pull the weeds, I found that there was a black insect everywhere in the water, jumping around on the surface of the water, like a flea.

I struggled to pull my feet out of the muddy water, while hunching over to uproot the weeds that grew in the water, I felt that there was not so much grass outside the pool, but when it really dried, I found that this grass is so dense, especially a kind of aquatic weed, growing in the water, the bamboo-like branches took root there when they arrived, I followed those branches to its roots, pulled hard, and did not move, I didn't move as soon as I came up, regardless of the disregard of the water to pull out a mess, the grass roots seemed to have claws, just grasping the underground soil is not down, I tossed for a long time and finally pulled out。

I felt a little tired from my waist, straightened up and wanted to relax, a dazzling light hit my face, my eyes were black, my head was a little dizzy, and my feet fell down a few points, in short, how to move and stand was uncomfortable.

I looked up at the paddy fields that were not far away, and a sense of despair rose in my heart, how my parents had pulled out all the weeds in this field.

I bent down and gritted my teeth, and continued to pull weeds, one pool was pulled, and the other was pulled, and I walked two pools in one morning, and when I heard the sound of my mother calling me to eat, I almost fainted in the pool, and it was difficult to get out of the pool, and I gritted my teeth and walked to the ground shack.

"I'm tired, sit and rest, drink some water" My mother poured me a bowl of hot water, I took the bowl, and in the hot porcelain bowl was a layer of boiled water with oil foam, because it was boiled in a pot of stir-frying, so the water was a little greasy.

I was so thirsty that I choked a few mouthfuls of water, and the warm feeling in my stomach made me feel much better, and my mother opened the food wrapped in a cloth bag and put it on the kang, it was already cold, and my mother used hot water to warm it up and share it with my father.

I picked up the rice bowl and ate a few bites with difficulty, the first few bites felt unbearable, but the more I ate, the more hungry I felt, and I put down my chopsticks after eating five bowls of rice, although the food had reached my throat, but I still felt a little hungry.

"I'm tired, I know how hard my parents have worked this time," my mother said as she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.

"I'm very tired, why don't I use pesticides" I lay on the cold kang and didn't want to move.

"Used, can you not use pesticides, sprinkled twice, and hired someone to pull out the grass for a day, but this can't be suppressed, this grass pesticide can't be killed at all, now the agricultural materials are too expensive, the two times the medicine is still taken on credit, and wait until the autumn to give" the mother with a bitter face.

"How long will this take to pull out," I sighed a little discouraged.

"The eyes are lazy, the hands are good, how can you pull it out," the mother asked rhetorically.

"It's not easy to farm! If it weren't for your college education, would our family have been able to run here for eight thousand miles to suffer this great sin? Look at your mother's tiredness," my father taught me at the right time.

"It's finally time to get through, and when you have a stable job, we're trying to find a way to buy you a house, marry your daughter-in-law, and have a grandchild," the mother's eyes were full of longing, as if all these things had been realized.

"Why didn't you get along with a partner when you went to college, you look at the old Wang family in front of our family, and his family has five babies," my mother said to me jokingly.

"No one thinks of me, and I'm saying that the university is not stable, and I may be separated after graduation," I said in a somewhat perfunctory manner, leaning on my side, unwilling to discuss the topic.

"It's good to be one, I was innocent when I was a student, and I could save a lot of bride price money," my mother said that there was obviously some pain in her tone, as if I didn't find a partner in college and wasted money on her.

"I remember that the fifth child of my Uncle Wang's family didn't just graduate from junior high school this year, why does he have a baby?" I was afraid that my mother would be nagging, so I changed the topic.

"I don't know exactly what happened, but that kid is quite capable," Mom put the dishes and chopsticks back in the cloth bag.

"Then he spent a lot of money on getting married!" I asked casually, and I also wanted to know the market for marrying a daughter-in-law now (marrying a daughter-in-law is about to sell goods, buying a house appreciates every year, and marrying a daughter-in-law loses money every year).

I heard that the money to buy a house and the bride price were all made by his sisters, otherwise would the old Wang family be able to get a daughter-in-law? I remember that when his family gave birth to the third child, he had no money to pay the fine, and he quarreled with the family planning cadres in the street, and the family was beaten so hard that his legs were almost discounted." The old mother's tone was full of sighs.

"You might as well have a girl, now it's more worry-free, people have said, now my daughter is a treasure collector, and my son is a ghost," I sat up and laughed.

"It's better to be a son, how can this work be better than a girl, you will also give birth to a grandson for your mother in the future," the mother laughed and looked doting.

After resting for more than forty minutes, dragging the tired body into the rice pond again, I don't know how long it took, the sky finally darkened, as if the sun hanging in the sky forever, also gradually disappeared into the clouds, the faint sunset on the horizon flew a flock of birds returning to the nest, I dragged the numb body, sluggishly climbed on the grasshopper and sat in the car body, straightened my legs, and remained motionless.