Chen's mother took Xiaoxi to help her mother-in-law clean up a table of good dishes. Xiaoxi went back and called his father and brother, and then, the meal began.

Grandpa Chen has probably not seen his son for more than a year, but now he is in front of him, and he is very happy, so he said to his wife: "Old woman, go and bring the liquor, I will drink two glasses with the article." ”

Because of the family reunion, they were very happy, and Chen's father and Grandpa Chen drank a few more drinks.

The mother-in-law boiled hot water, and Chen's mother called, washed Chen's father's face and feet, helped him back to the bedroom, and then came back to help the mother-in-law clean up the stove.

"The article has been out for more than a year, although the amount of alcohol has risen, but it still can't work, I can't drink his old man, and I knocked him down in two cups......" Grandpa Chen also drank a lot, his face was red at this time, and he was still muttering in his mouth while soaking his feet.

When the mother-in-law saw her wife like that, she became powerful and said, "Oh, you are done, drink two sips of cat urine, and mutter, and say that you are not drunk, so quickly wash your feet and go back to bed." ”

In front of his daughter-in-law, when his wife said this, Grandpa Chen even turned red at the root of his ears, looking at the two little cubs who were covering his mouth and snickering next to him, he couldn't help but stare at him, and he didn't want to say more, so he quickly took his feet out of the basin, wiped them clean, splashed the water, and went back to the room with his shoes on.

By the time Xiaoxi returned to the bedroom, Chen's father was already asleep, and he was snoring, and the noise was extremely loud.

Lying on the bed, Xiaoxi thought that he would definitely not be able to sleep in this earth-shattering snoring, but he didn't expect that with this familiar snoring, he would fall asleep after a while.

In the middle of the night, Xiaoxi was woken up, the whole bed was moving, accompanied by a suppressed wheezing sound, Xiaoxi understood at once, didn't dare to move, quickly closed his eyes, ah, I didn't hear anything, hurry up and sleep.

A month is a long time is actually very short, half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, every day Xiaoxi was sent to school by his parents in the morning, and was picked up by his parents at night, so happy not to want it.

On this day, the sky was clear and clear, and it was almost time for school to end, but suddenly there were dark clouds, the sky was dark and gloomy, and I was panicking. Sure enough, before the school bell was over, it began to rain heavily.

I packed my schoolbag and walked out of the classroom, but my mother hadn't come yet, and I was a little bored waiting. The school's teaching building is a brick house, with a water collection tank on the roof, and a drainage pipe is installed at a distance to dredge the rainwater. Because of the heavy rain, the water collection tank was full of rainwater after a while, and it fell from a height of six or seven meters, the momentum of the rain was relatively large, and the handle shook left and right, a little numb, and the small pebbles in the small puddle formed on the ground for a long time were also staggered, and after a while, the small puddle also turned up waves.

"Xiaoxi, Binbin, Xiaojuan. Chen's mother walked from the school gate with a big black umbrella and water shoes.

Seeing that her mother had finally arrived, Xiaoxi happily called, "Mom." ”

Half of the aisle was wet by the rain, but they were standing in the aisle playing with the rain, Chen's mother said with a tiger face: "Why are you playing with the rain, why don't you hurry up and stand back, get your clothes wet, look at what you are doing, and Xiaojuan is the same, you are not allowed to play." With that, he went up the steps.

"Xiaojuan, your grandfathers are busy at the house, so they asked me to bring you an umbrella, and they won't come to pick you up. After speaking, he put away the umbrella, leaned against the wall, took out the water shoes in the plastic bag, changed them for Xiaoxi, Binbin and Zhao Juan, and then put the changed shoes back into the bag and put them in the school bag.

Chen's mother took out a red and blue checkered umbrella in her hand and opened it, handed it to Zhao Juan to hold, and the other blue and white checkered one for Xiaoxi, pulled up Binbin to play an umbrella together, and the four of them walked towards the outside of the school.

The rain was very heavy, and after a while, water collected on the road, and small canals were washed along the slope (in the creek, because of the surrounding mountains, the road is basically not flat), and there was a beauty of ravines.

Because of this piece of soil, there are people on both sides, they are always stepped on, and they are exposed to the sun every day, and they are all compacted, and there is no big problem for the three children to walk. But when they got down, the place that was covered by the trees, it was full of mud when it rained, and the three children couldn't get out when they stepped in, and they couldn't walk at all.

There was no way, they couldn't go, so Chen's mother could only carry them back.

"Xiaoxi Xiaojuan, you are waiting for me here, I will carry Binbin to the front first, and then I will carry you. When they agreed, Chen's mother handed the big black umbrella in her hand to Binbin, and then carried Binbin on her back.

Chen's mother, who had walked two steps, looked back at the two of them obediently staying in place, and said with great relief: "Really good, you two are obedient, stay here and wait for me, put the umbrella well, don't get drenched in the rain." ”

Zhao Juan nodded and said obediently: "I know, cousin, I'm waiting for you here." ”

After seven or eight minutes, Chen's mother reappeared.

Xiaoxi held an umbrella with one hand, wrapped one arm around Chen's mother's neck, and leaned on her mother's back with her whole body.

Although Chen's mother is an adult and walks relatively steadily, the muddy dirt road also makes her slippery.

Putting his chin on his mother's shoulder, Xiaoxi asked slowly, "Mom, why didn't Dad come?"

Because of carrying it, Xiaoxi couldn't see Chen's mother's expression, and only heard a slight pant in reply: "When I just went out today, the sky was gloomy, and there were still quilts and food at home, so I left your father at home to clean up with your grandfather." ”

"Oh. The head resting on Chen's mother's shoulder nodded.

"Xiaoxi, what did you learn at school today?" asked Chen's mother as usual.

Hearing her mother ask about this, Xiaoxi came to her senses, tightened her arm around Chen's mother's neck, raised her buttocks, and said excitedly: "Mom, my painting today has been praised by Mr. Jiang, and I have given me a hundred points, go back and show it to you." ”

Hearing her daughter's joy, Chen's mother was also infected, and said with a smile: "Okay, our creek is awesome." ”

Chen's mother put the creek on a stone and stayed with Chen Yubin, gasping and instructing, "You are waiting for your mother here." With that, he turned around and walked back.

Xiaoxi hurriedly shouted, "Mom, umbrella." He raised the big black umbrella in his hand.

Chen's mother didn't twist her head, she didn't stop, and her voice came from afar through the rain, "It's okay, the rain is not heavy, Mom doesn't need it, you can use it." Then the figure was gone.

Looking at the deep and shallow footprints on the road, Xiaoxi remembered that Zhao Bo didn't come to class today because he had some fever, and couldn't help but be a little glad that if Zhao Bo was here today, his mother would have to carry four people back and forth four times.

After a while, Chen's mother carried Zhao Juan on her back, replaced Bin Bin on her back, put down the stream on a stone by the river, and went back to carry Zhao Juan non-stop.

By this time the rain had stopped, and the creek had taken its umbrella. By the river is a rice field, at this time the rice leaves are yellowish, and the filling is finished. The ears of grain are heavy and bent the branches, the washed rice is golden, the grains are plump, and there are water droplets hanging on it, and the color of the lining is more and more pleasing, and in two days, the rice can be harvested.

Chen's mother carried Zhao Juan over and put it down, and replaced Chen Yubin with Chen Yubin's back, and after two or three more times, she arrived home.

When I got home and put down the three children, Chen's mother was already tired and sweaty, sitting on a chair panting, Xiaoxi quickly poured a cup of boiling water and put it in her hand, pulled her younger brother back to the room to change her shoes first, and then also took the shoes to change for her mother.

On this day, it happened to be the weekend, and it was Xiaoxi's turn to thresh. Because Chen's father, a young laborer, came back, his grandfather handed over the work of carrying the mixing bucket and carrying the millet to him.

This year, as this year, he left Xiaoxi to watch the grain at home, and Chen Yubin was also left. Due to the large number of people, Chen's mother and mother-in-law did not go out in the morning, and after breakfast, they cleaned up the house and began to prepare lunch.

After a lively lunch and a half-hour rest, everyone went to work again, and the mother-in-law left the work at home and followed them to get busy.

After they left, Chen's mother quickly washed the dishes, boiled the pot again, and planned to boil the pot for hot water, and then went to feed the pigs. When she came back from feeding the pigs, the water in the pot was boiled.

"Creek, bring a bench. Chen's mother made a basin of water, put a towel on her shoulder, picked up the shampoo and walked to the edge of the yard dam, and beckoned to the stream after putting down the basin.

When the brook came, he sat down on the small bench, untied the stream's hairband, and pressed her down on his knees, "Come, close your eyes." "I started washing.

Xiaoxi, whether in his previous life or when he was a child now, didn't like to wash his hair, because if he hung his head like this, the blood would flow backwards, and the nose would be very uncomfortable, and the water would easily stay in his nostrils, which would be very uncomfortable. But you can't go without washing your hair, it's greasy.

Finally liberated, Chen's mother helped the creek up, let her go to the side to wipe her hair, splashed dirty water at will, changed the basin of water, and caught Chen Yubin to wash it.

Seeing his brother's uncomfortable appearance, Xiaoxi wiped his hair and smiled unkindly. Hmph, little example, there are blessings for yourself, and there are difficulties together, who let you laugh at me next to me just now, ha.

After washing the two children, Chen's mother also went to scoop a basin of water to wash. When he had washed his hair, he made a fire again, made a bowl of paste, dried his hair in the yard, and pasted the soles of his shoes to make cloth shoes.

After pasting the soles of the shoes, there was still some paste left in the bowl, and Chen's mother thought that she couldn't waste it, so she found a piece of fabric to make the upper of the shoe and cut it into two circles with scissors. This kind of fabric is a bit hard and easy to shape, so Chen's mother folded it into a one-centimeter-wide fold and pressed it with a clean stone. I found a bamboo board, made a piece of bamboo that was slightly wider than the fold, cut it into four pieces that were longer than the radius of the round piece of cloth, and then cut the piece of cloth towards the center of the circle, and pasted the cut of the piece of cloth on the bamboo piece with paste, compacted and put it in the sun to dry for a while. After getting it, open the fan, close the two bamboo pieces, and it becomes a fan-shaped, put away, a bit like a folding fan, it is very convenient to carry, and give Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin one each.

After finishing it, the soles of the pasted shoes were almost dry, so Chen's mother took out the needle and thread and began to collect the shoes.