Chapter Twenty-Four: A Female Man Tops Several Men
During the busy vacation, the little uncle who went to school in the provincial capital returned home. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, it is the season of wheat harvesting, and the family is too busy to open the glue, and the return of the little uncle undoubtedly gives the working population more hope.
In the morning, when it was just dawn, while Taotao and Nana were still sleeping, the family went out early to cut wheat.
Because I was in a hurry, I forgot to lock the door.
In the middle of the morning, Taotao fell asleep first, and he saw that next to him, except for his sister Nana, who was still sleeping, everyone else was gone.
Although Tao Tao was naughty and naughty, he was a very timid child, he thought that his mother and grandmother didn't want them anymore, so as usual, the four-year-old Tao Tao got up from the kang, stood in front of the window, looked at the courtyard outside and cried.
And Nana next to her, after hearing her brother's crying, also woke up, she pulled the corner of her brother's clothes and cried, looking for her mother.
Taotao took his sister's hand, stood on the kang, lay on the window of the kang, and looked at the yard, and because of her small size, her sister couldn't reach the window at all, so she could only lie on the wall and cry.
Tao Tao saw that her sister was crying more sadly than herself, so she said to her, "Nana, don't cry, my brother will take you to your mother." ”
Hearing that her brother was going to take her to find her mother, Nana really stopped crying.
Tao Tao jumped down from the kang first, and then hugged his sister off the kang.
The two came to the door, and as soon as Tao Tao pulled the door, the door was open, so Tao Tao took his sister's hand and went out of the house.
The sun outside was very red, and it was shining hotly on the two brothers and sisters, and at this time, Taotao realized that he and his sister had forgotten to put on their clothes and were standing in the yard with bare butts.
So Tao Tao let go of his sister and said to her, "Nana, you are obedient, wait for my brother here at the door, my brother will go in and get us some clothes to wear, and we will go to find my mother." ”
Nana wiped the tears from her eyes, pursed her lips and looked at her brother and said, "Well, I'm obedient." ”
Tao Tao returned to the house and searched on the kang for a long time, only looking for his short sleeves and shorts, but not his sister's clothes.
So, he took his clothes and walked out.
He put on his short sleeves and gave his sister his shorts.
In this way, Tao Tao was wearing a top and a bare buttocks, and Nana was wearing Tao Tao's shorts and was shirtless, and the two walked out of the door hand in hand.
Tao Tao had been to his own field with his mother and grandmother, and knew that he had to go out from the west end of the village, then go up a big slope, and then go straight ahead to get there.
So, he took his sister's hand, and the two took small steps and walked towards the west entrance of the village little by little.
The children playing at the west entrance of the village saw Tao Tao and Nana, and they all laughed at them and said: "My brother doesn't wear pants and shows a calf cow, and my sister doesn't wear clothes and shows a big belly ?????."
After saying that, the surrounding children ran over laughing, slapped Taotao's buttocks, and slapped his sister's head to play.
Tao Tao saw that the children around him were older and taller than him, so he pulled his sister and said to her, "Let's run." ”
My sister was very obedient, and after hearing my brother say to run, she rushed out.
The children in the back were coaxing while chasing after the brother and sister.
But the child had a long body and short legs, and just a few steps after running out, he tripped over a small stone under his feet, and fell to the ground on his heels, because Nana was only wearing her brother's shorts and no shirt, and after falling to the ground, her upper body was scratched.
The children in the back chased after him and began to play Taotao, Nana saw that her brother was beaten by everyone, and the skin on his body was scratched, and she cried out, and the children around saw that Nana was crying, and they all scattered and ran away.
Taotao helped Nana, who fell to the ground, up, and took her little hand to continue walking.
Walking out of the west entrance of the village and walking uphill, Nana couldn't walk anymore and asked her brother to carry her.
Taotao carried Nana on her back for a while, but she couldn't walk, but before she could find her mother, the two children sat on the big stone on the side of the road and cried sadly.
Nana sat in Tao Tao's arms, crying and crying and falling asleep.
Tao Tao hugged his sister and looked into the distance, waiting for his mother to come back from the field after finishing the farm work.
But he waited and waited, and waited, and waited, and he couldn't wait for his mother to come back from work.
When it was dark, Nana woke up, clutched her stomach and told her brother, "I'm hungry and want to eat." ”
Tao Tao remembered that yesterday, he filled half a steamed bun into his shorts pocket, so he reached out to touch the shorts worn on his sister's body, but the steamed bun didn't know when it had been taken out by his grandmother.
There is nothing to eat, but my sister is hungry, what should I do? Tao Tao remembered that when he was in the field, when he watched his mother and grandmother work, he picked the dandelion pole on the ground and ate it, which was quite delicious, so he asked his sister to sit on the edge of the stone and went around to find dandelions.
After looking for a long time, she finally found a dandelion, she took off the dandelion, blew off the white hair on the top of the dandelion, and then put the dandelion pole on her clothes and wiped it, then handed it to her sister and said, "Nana, you eat this." ”
Nana took the dandelion pole and ate it happily. (Dandelion poles are brittle, and they also have a sweet taste, which is not harmful to the body)
After a busy day's work, the family took the sickle and walked home exhausted after putting the cut wheat in the field (a special place used to dry wheat in rural Guanzhong).
Dongmei walked in front, and the mother-in-law who followed her asked her, "It's been a day today, do you have enough food for the child to put in the house?" ”
After a day's work, very tired, Dongmei walked quickly, the only thought at this time was to hurry back to wash and sleep, she replied to her mother-in-law: "I have enough preparations." They are all placed on the stand-up cabinet, a plate of soft steamed buns, and a porcelain bowl of cold boiled water, enough to eat and drink. ”
Wei Guo's mother nodded and said, "That's good." ”
But when they went downhill, Wei Guo's mother suddenly saw two children sitting in the dark on the stones on the side of the road in the distance, and he said curiously to everyone: "Which adult doesn't care about the baby, it's so dark, and he doesn't go home to collect the doll, it's really a crime." ”
Dongmei looked along the side of the road and also saw two children, she responded: "That's it, which parents without conscience, how to take children." ”|
After speaking, she suddenly found that the two children's every move was unusually familiar, so she asked Wei Guo's mother: "Mom, when you came out, did you lock the door?" ”
Wei Guo's mother said confidently: "Of course the door is locked, and you have to lock the door every day when you come out to work, otherwise the doll will run around and run away." ”
Hearing that her mother-in-law locked them, Dongmei was relieved.
Because it was too dark, Dongmei didn't recognize it even when she approached.
On the contrary, after Taotao saw his mother and grandmother coming, he cried with Nanawa, crying while calling his mother.
Dongmei was shocked, how could her child run to the side of the road, and hurriedly rushed over, seeing Nana lying naked in Taotao's arms.
When she saw her child's pitiful appearance, she felt distressed and angry.
I feel sorry for my child, like a wild child without a father or mother, sitting pitifully on the side of the road with no one and no one to care.
Angry, how Taotao ran out of the locked house with Nana.
In a fit of anger, Dong Mei pulled up the bare-bottomed Tao Tao and slapped him on the ass, scolding in his mouth: "Whoever let you turn out of the window, and take your sister to turn it over together, is not afraid of falling, making you disobedient, making you disobedient." ”
As she spoke, Dongmei made a red finger mark on Taotao's buttocks.
And Tao Tao is crying and hiding at the same time.
When she got home and saw that the door of the house was wide open, Dongmei knew that she was wrong and blamed Taotao, but it was too late.
At night, after Taotao fell asleep, Dongmei turned over Taotao, who was lying flat, and looked at the red marks on the back of his buttocks, and felt a sour feeling in her heart, leaving tears of self-blame.
Sleeping until midnight, a muffled thunder in the sky woke up the sleeping Zhengxiang Dongmei, she turned over and was about to continue sleeping, when she suddenly heard Wei Guo's mother whispering her name outside the door: "Dongmei, Dongmei, hurry up, it's about to rain in the sky (Guanzhong dialect, thunderstorm means)." ”
When Dongmei heard this, she was shocked, and quickly got up from the kang, and while dressing, she carefully moved to the edge of the kang, for fear of accidentally waking up her two children.
Dongmei is very anxious, they have to use the canvas at home to cover the wheat drying in the field before the rain, otherwise the wheat will sprout into tooth wheat when it rains, and even mold and spoil, then the fruits of their hard work for a year will be in vain.
Dongmei got dressed and when she walked into the yard, she saw that her mother-in-law and brother-in-law had already loaded a large piece of canvas onto the rack car.
The little uncle pulls the cart in front, and Dongmei pushes in the back.
The two old men followed behind, looking up from time to time, looking at the changes in the sky, Wei Guo's mother walked with her hands together, and muttered Bodhisattva blessing, Bodhisattva blessing, don't rain.
However, when we walked uphill, the rain of beans fell mercilessly and hit everyone's clothes.
Everyone was even more anxious, and the little uncle used his strength to eat milk, and desperately pulled the frame car uphill, but due to the rain and slippery, and the little uncle himself had no strength, he couldn't pull the canvas of a car uphill at all.
Dongmei saw that the situation was urgent, so she stepped forward and saw that the little uncle was already tired and grinned, so she decisively told the little uncle: "Baoguo, you push it behind, and I will pull it." ”
The little uncle gasped tiredly and said, "Sister-in-law, can you do it, I can't pull a man's house, can you do it as a woman?"
Dongmei didn't talk much nonsense, took the wheel and pull rope of the frame car, put it on herself, leaned forward, took small steps, and climbed up step by step, the little uncle was surprised to see that Dongmei actually pulled the frame car and started to go uphill, so he rushed to the back to push, and after a while, the frame car was pulled uphill.
When they arrived, they spread out the canvas and covered it with all the wheat that had just been cut today.
As soon as she finished covering all the wheat, it was too late, it was fast, and a rainstorm fell heartily, Dongmei asked her brother-in-law and mother-in-law to go back first, and then pressed the unpressed canvas a little tighter.
When Dongmei finished her work and returned home, she was wet from head to foot, her hair was dripping with water, and the pair of black cloth shoes she was wearing on her feet were filled with water, and there was a pop and pop sound when she walked.
It goes without saying that because the little brother-in-law is not in good health, the mother-in-law and father-in-law are old, and Weiguo is not at home all the year round, the whole farm is busy and the autumn harvest, and Dongmei has become the absolute main force, not only with children, but also busy with farm work, from inside to outside, from morning to dark.
The people in the neighborhood next door were embarrassed, and they all said that Dongmei was simply an iron man, although the man was not around, but a woman did several men's farm work, and the crops in the field were also planted very well.