Chapter 68: Gloves
After speaking, Mr. Tang looked at them with expectation and encouraged them to answer the questions positively.
Under Mr. Tang's expectant gaze, Xiaoxi took a deep breath and decided to give them a sample first.
"I'll come first, I know one, Ruixue Zhaofeng year. "Ahem...... Xiaoxi glared at Zhao Juan next to her, she was ready, she was so robbed that she choked on saliva. However, Zhao Juan, who was waiting for the teacher's praise, didn't see her best friend's angry eyes.
Because he opened his mouth for a while, no one opened his mouth, Zhao Juan was the first to stand up and answer the question, so to live up to Zhao Juan's expectations, Teacher Tang cleared his throat and said softly: "Hmm~ Zhao Juan said this well." Seeing her smile with satisfaction, Teacher Tang looked around with a smile and continued to ask, "Is there anything else?"
This time the creek was no longer prepared, and said directly: "Yangchun and white snow, the antonym of the Riba people." ”
Although it is not related to snow, this word is not something that should be learned at this stage, and it is not something that can be heard normally, so he asked with interest: "Oh~ Chen Yuxi, where did you know this." ”
Xiaoxi replied respectfully: "Mr. Tang, I bought a dictionary of idioms, and I thought it was interesting when I accidentally turned it over, so I remembered it." ”
At this time, Mr. Tang's interest came, and he said with great interest: "Then tell me the meaning of these two idioms." ”
This Yangchun Baixue refers to a kind of higher song of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, which is a metaphor for profound and unpopular literature and art, and now it is also extended to some elegant things. The Xia Riba people originally referred to a popular song among the people of Chu during the Warring States Period, which was a metaphor for popular literature and art, and now it has also been extended to popular and popular things. The brook explained generously.
Hmm~ Teacher Tang nodded with satisfaction, "That's true, you remember it well, and you ......" said and pointed to the classmates around him, "You have to learn more from Chen Yuxi, these two idioms were only learned in high school, and you can usually flip through the books more, and you can also flip through the dictionary or something if you have nothing to do." Okay, let's ......."
Since someone has started, everyone will be bold and rack their brains to search for their own "inventory". "Individuals sweep the snow in front of the door, who cares about the frost on the tiles of others", "send charcoal in the snow", "make the snow worse", "dogs fight people, snowball fights wind"......
Zhao Juan always felt as if she had forgotten something, but she really couldn't remember, eh~ That's right, "That's right, Mr. Tang, "Plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses plum and a piece of fragrance", yes, that's it, hehe......"
"Oh, that's good, where did you know. "I really gained a lot today, and I was full of surprises.
"Hee-hee......" Zhao Juan touched her head embarrassedly, "This is what my brother wrote on my door, and I will remember it." ”
Seeing that this child was really good, Teacher Tang encouraged: "Well, yes, although it was written by your brother, you remember it and master it, this is your knowledge." ”
Oh, Xiaoxi remembered that the two doors of Zhao Juan's house were the kind of bulky wooden doors with high thresholds. On the door of her bedroom, she used brushes, pens, pencils, chalk or something, scribbling and scribbling a lot of things, but the most eye-catching thing was the sentence "Plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses a piece of plum fragrance" written with a brush, Xiaoxi also remembered deeply, but I didn't think about it just now.
"Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river snow" ...... "snow", the first snow in 2002, came later than in the past......" "poof...... Hahaha", I don't know who suddenly sang two sentences, and suddenly everyone burst into laughter, and Mr. Tang couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.
I finally stopped laughing, cleared my throat, and pretended to be calm: "Well, there are no poems or anything, it's okay to have two lyrics, and the singing is quite good......" After speaking, he couldn't hold back his laughter again.
After playing around for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, it was almost time to finish eating, and Teacher Tang took the children back.
Although this class was not in the classroom, it was said that it was out to play, but everyone gained a lot.
Many students in the class had chilblains, especially the two female students, and the situation was particularly serious.
Filled with pus, her hands are swollen like foaming steamed buns, and the girl with a lighter plot can still do it herself and slowly deduct a word. Another girl's hands are completely unable to write, and others help her with her homework and help wash the lunch box and steam rice.
After this snow, I really couldn't hold on, and my hands hurt badly every day, so I had to go home to rest. Seeing someone specially approved to go home, it caused some classmates in the class to howl wolf, hoping that I could be like that girl, go home and stay, this winter, it's too cold to sit in the classroom.
In winter, every household has an important thing to do, that is, to prepare the firewood for the pot, the most important of which is to stir the match, that is, the flammable firewood that is placed at the beginning of the pot.
No, as soon as the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers went to the yard dam, they saw a pile of cypress branches bundled into bundles of dams, which was to provoke matches.
Every household in the village has its own firewood mountain, and these branches are all Grandpa Chen and Granny Chen went to Chaishan, climbed the cypress tree with a sickle, leaving only one top of the tree one by one, and the rest of the branches were all down. This year, the matches come out every year, and the second is that the tree has been trimmed, and there are no branches to divide the nutrients, so it grows faster.
The meaning of the woodcutter tree in their case is to cut off the excess branches on the trunk of the tree, which means pruning.
The branches of the trees were cut into seventy or eighty centimeters with a sickle, tied into bundles with bamboo strips that had been made at home, carried home, and stacked in the yard. When they are free, they are cut into twenty or thirty centimeters long and tied with straw into handfuls.
Every year, the family has to carry dozens of bundles of cypress branches home, because there are only two laborers in the family (Xiaoxi's sister and brother are studying), and Xiaoxi's grandmother's eyes are not good, and the family does not plant land to raise chickens and pigs, so every year at this time, Chen Youde will go to Luojiawan to help his in-laws for the next two days, and come to play for two days by the way.
"Grandma, you're down. "Grandma...... "As soon as they saw the cypress branches in the courtyard, the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers knew that their grandmother must be at their home. Sure enough, behind the bundle of firewood, my grandmother was setting up a chair with straw and sickles at her feet.
Hearing the voices of the two grandchildren, I heard my in-laws say in the morning that today and Friday, the two children will come back from vacation, but no, this is not coming back. Quickly threw away the branch in her hand, turned around, and could see that she was very excited.
Zhan Zhan wiped his tears with his sleeve, and then said with joy: "Binbin, Xiaoxi, you are back." After several years of restoration of the spiritual spring water, the eyes of Mrs. Wang (Xiaoxi's grandmother) can already see the figure vaguely, and at this time she is staring wide-eyed, looking at the two grandsons greedily, and her eyes are reluctant to blink.
"Well, Grandma, we're back. "I remember that I haven't been to see my grandmother for a long time, and my mother and uncle are not at home, so I should care more about the elderly. Thinking of this, a sense of guilt welled up in my heart again.
Two steps to the front, squatted down, put his hand on his grandmother's lap, "Grandma, when did you come?"
Seeing her granddaughter close to her, Mrs. Wang was very happy, she couldn't close her smile and looked at the stream lovingly, "I came yesterday afternoon, and your grandfather said that he was going to mess with matches, so I came down to help for two days." ”
"Oh...... "This provokes matches can not be delayed, just under the tree, the branches and leaves still have moisture, this time is the best time to tie up the firewood, if it is left for two days, the water is less, the branches are the hand, at that time to get it, it is more difficult. So most of them are tied up with firewood on the side of the woodwood.
"Xiaoxi, Binbin, you two are hungry, so I have left you food. Thinking that it had been half an afternoon, and that she had walked so far to come back, for fear of starving her two grandsons, Mrs. Wang asked, saying that she would get up and go to hot food for the two children.
Xiaoxi hurriedly stopped, "Grandma, we are not hungry, you can sit down quickly, you don't have to worry about it, we will find food ourselves when we are hungry." "Yes, Grandma, we are not hungry, so you don't have to go to work. Chen Yubin also persuaded on the side.
Seeing that she was still a little uneasy, and wanted to get up to have a hot meal, Xiaoxi quickly changed the topic, "By the way, grandma, what about my grandfather?"
Seeing that her granddaughter was still squatting on the ground, Mrs. Wang hurriedly dragged her arm up, and said distressedly: "You get up quickly, squat on the ground, this leg should be numb in a while." Seeing that Xiaoxi stood up, the old lady continued: "Your grandfather and they have gone to the back mountain to bundle firewood again, and it is estimated that it will be over after two more turns." ”
"Oh......" Thinking that it was not a problem for the two of them to stand here all the time, "Grandma, let's put the schoolbag back first, and then come out to talk to you." After speaking, without waiting for the old lady to say anything, she pulled Chen Yubin and ran to the sleeping house.
I went back to the house and put down my schoolbag and found two sickles, Xiaoxi's family had five or six sickles, all of which were sharpened by Grandpa Chen. I rummaged through the cabinets and found Grandpa Chen's two pairs of old gloves, and one of them took a chair and went out.
The old lady was idle, and when the sister and brother entered the house, this work started again.
Sit down next to Mrs. Wang, it is impossible for an old lady to help with the work, and the two of them are still standing on the side. Putting on his gloves and taking a handful of straw from behind his back and placing it at his feet, Brook picked up the scythe and began to work.
I took a branch, and accidentally caught a glimpse of a pair of gloves on the firewood stack, and at first glance, it was prepared by Grandpa Chen for the old lady, Xiaoxi took it and handed it to her, "Grandma, why don't you put the gloves that my grandfather prepared for you?"
The old lady took it and cherished it, "I'm used to rough work with these hands, I'm not afraid of this asphalt, just wash it with soap when I'm done." I wasted it with this glove, you see how good this thing is, leave it to your grandfather to use. Reluctantly, he carefully put the gloves back on the stack.
Thinking of what Grandma just said, and looking at Grandma's black spots on her hands - these are the traces left by the asphalt sticking to her hands, Xiaoxi is very distressed. Now everyone is very frugal, like Grandpa Chen, Xiaoxi remembers that he has several pairs of gloves, which are scratched, sewn with cloth, and continue to use them. Also, Grandpa Chen's socks had a hole in the heel, so he turned it over and wore it with the hole facing up, which was very uncomfortable for his feet, but he was reluctant to throw it away even if it was a pair of broken socks.