Chapter 54: Wang He's Family
Wang He's home is a two-story tiled house, and the entrance is a thin layer of cement in the sun-grain flat, and outside the sun-grain flat is a loess slope, which was dug down from the back mountain and pushed to the front to fill in when the house was being built.
There are several large tung oil trees on the edge of one end and one end of the loess slope, and there are many tung oil trees as big as little fingers hanging on the trees, and occasionally a few white tung oil flowers can be seen.
In the middle of the loess slope, there are only a few rows of small fir trees, which seem to be a little empty, these fir trees are still the saplings that Wang Xiangyu took home last year, and Wang He and his sister planted them. Twenty years later, these small cedar trees are tall and stout, and they can provide shelter from the wind and rain for their homes.
On the side of the two-storey house is a row of three adobe houses with only one floor, which are toilets, pigsty and utility rooms. There is a path between the big pine trees behind this row of houses, and when Wang Xiangyu's figure appeared, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who was washing vegetables on the edge of the sunning valley looked up and said happily:
"Abba is back! Mom, Mom, it's Abba and Er'er who are back!"
This skinny girl with two braids is none other than Wang He's sister Wang Yan.
Li Feifeng heard her daughter's shout in the kitchen, put down her work, walked out of the door, and saw that her husband and son were back, happy and with a smile on her face.
After Wang He shouted "sister", he saw his "young" mother who came out and said loudly:
"Mom, I'm back. Look, I've brought back a lot of pork. β
Wang He said, while raising the net bag in his hand as if offering a treasure:
"We can eat meat tonight. β
Li Feifeng saw her son lifting the big bag of meat, and complained to her husband in distress while being happy:
"You don't need money for pork, how can you buy so much?"
Wang Xiangyu was about to explain, but Wang He hurriedly said:
"Mom, Mom, this is not bought, it was given by someone else......"
Wang He told the story of sending pork essence to meat, and thought that he would be praised, but unexpectedly, the splitting head ushered in a burst of declines:
"Okay, if you don't say it, I'm about to forget! I heard the people who went to the ruins come back to talk about this some time ago, and I still can't believe it's you, and I thought it was the same name and surname, but I didn't expect it to be you! Crazy guy two, you don't study hard, what kind of murderer are going to be arrested? That kind of decapitator and target death, all of them are deadly, how dare you arrest them? You have already reported to the police, why do you have to ......?"
Wang He looked at his mother who was only in her thirties, her hair was black, although her skin was tanned, she was healthy and shiny, and her original teeth were neat, in the future in 2020, her mother was 62 years old, and her wife would help her dye her gray hair back to black every two months......
Seeing his son looking at him in a daze, Li Feifeng's heart softened, and in an instant he became hard again and continued to say:
"Why don't you pretend to be pitiful in front of the murderer and let him surrender to the police......"
In the face of his mother's growing anger, his father and sister did not dare to persuade each other, and when Wang He was embarrassed, two children came out of the tung tree, and when he saw Wang He, he said loudly:
"Second brother, are you back?"
Wang He turned his head and saw that it was the two children of the second uncle's family, Da Mao and Er Mao, the two boys were wearing coarse cloth clothes, and their faces were black and there was not much meat, Da Mao was one year younger than Wang He, in the third grade, and Ermao was two years younger than his brother and was in the first grade.
"You two came just in time!"
Wang He was secretly happy in his heart, stuffed the net pocket into his mother's hand, and walked towards the two cousins:
"Da Mao Ermao, what are you doing? Huh? Da Mao, what's wrong with your mouth?"
When Wang He got closer, he found that Da Mao's lips were a bit like a pig's mouth, and the upper lip was bulging!
"Stung by a wasp!"
As soon as Da Mao spoke, his upper lip remained still, but his lower lip moved, which made Wang He feel a little funny.
Ermao rolled up his sleeves and explained:
"My brother and I went to play with my uncle, and when we went to pick prickly bubbles, we didn't expect that there was a wasp nest in it, and we turned around and ran away, and the uncle ran fast, and the wasps chased after us both, and I was stung twice on my hands!
Da Mao also rolled up his sleeves, and Wang He saw that the two brothers had a few big bubbles on their hands, and hurriedly said:
"Wait a minute, I'll get you toothpaste. β
When Wang He came back with toothpaste and applied it to the arms of his two cousins, Ermao said:
"We've already applied it with tooth shaved yellow before. β
Wang He said while painting:
"The tooth yellow is applied and then the toothpaste is applied, which is called double insurance. β
Children are usually used to being wild, adults have taught that if they are stung by insects or bitten by ants, scrape off the yellow (tartar) on the teeth and apply it to the wound, it will have a therapeutic effect, the elders say so, children also learn in this way, as for whether it is effective, no one knows.
Wang He heard that it had an effect when he applied it with toothpaste, so he did it, but he didn't know what the effect was.
Ermao's prickly bubble is a kind of wild fruit that grows on the thorny vine, only the size of a small thumb, it is yellow at first, and it will turn red when it is ripe, and the shape is a bit like a strawberry, the taste is sweet and sour, and children especially like to eat it.
After the three of them chatted for a while, they heard the voice of the second aunt:
"Da Mao, Er Mao, where did you go again?
When the two boys heard this, Da Mao hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Second brother, let's go back. β
Wang He knew that Da Mao was worried that his second aunt would see that his mouth was stung by a bee and he would be scolded after he went back, so he nodded:
"Let's go back. Wait a minute. β
Wang He thought for a while, ran back to the house, grabbed a handful of the candy he bought, and gave it to his two younger brothers before letting them go back. This candy was secretly bought by Wang He behind his father's back, and it was put on the bag just now.
The second uncle's house is not far away, the straight-line distance is not more than 50 meters, the rural people's transportation basically depends on walking, and the communication basically depends on roaring, and the voices are amazing.
After eating a reunion dinner, the family watched TV and chatted in Wang He's room, the TV is a Feiyue brand14-inch black and white TV, this is the first TV in the maple table group in Sha Tin Village, when I first bought it back a few years ago, the whole group of more than a dozen families, almost all of them came to Wang He's house, to see this rare thing.
On the afternoon of the day I bought it, Wang Xiangyu had already set up a wooden pole tied with an antenna on the edge of the sun-grain flat, and turned the wooden pole to debug the platform, at that time, I could only receive the central one of this channel, when everyone came to see the excitement, at the beginning it was an advertisement, and after waiting for a flashlight or torch to arrive one after another, it was a news broadcast, and the men, women and children at that time were talking about it, Wang Xiangyu and Li Feifeng were busy making tea and serving water, and at first they also let their children move stools for the elders to sit on, and then there were really not enough stools, so they could only let people stand, and in the end they couldn't stand in the house, and the last people who came could only glance outside the window and listen to a soundγ
Now the black-and-white TV of this size is a little outdated, and many people have bought a larger-size, even a color TV, but rural people work very hard during the day, and they basically sleep after eating at night, and they don't usually watch much TV, like Wang He's family of four, usually only Li Feifeng is at home, she runs the house inside and out, and she doesn't have much mind to watch TV at all, only when the children come back, TV is useful.
Although the TV is on today, the family's mind is not on the TV, Wang He is being interrogated by his mother and sister, which makes him have to repeat what he said N times before, the process of catching the murderer again.