Dongmei came to Guojia Village.

Before she walked to the door of Guo Lijun's house, her sister-in-law Xiaoying greeted her.

Dongmei saw Xiaoying and said in surprise: "It seems that you have been waiting for me at the entrance of the village?"

Xiaoying is Wei Guo's younger sister, and like Wei Guo, she is not tall and has her front teeth raised.

She smiled and said, "When you came back, my brother called me and asked me to pack up my things for Guo Peng, so that I could follow you to Changqing Bridge." ”

Hearing this, Dong Meixin said, this Weiguo, in the end, is doing something for his own sister, this call is really fast.

Dongmei said: "I went to my brother's house in Yinjia Village first, and then I came to you." ”

Xiaoying walked into the house with Dongmei and said, "Thanks to your brother's child Yongyong who graduated from high school and has nowhere to go, otherwise my Guo Peng would not have had the opportunity to go up to Changqing Bridge." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei felt that there was something in Xiaoying's words, and she said: "What is a chance, I came here this time specifically to take my brother's child Yongyong, and your child Guo Peng, to Changqing Bridge." ”

The sister-in-law smiled, but she knew in her heart that because Brother Dongmei's children were not recruited, and the victory factory was not successful, so Dongmei would come back and take her brother's children to Changqing Bridge.

So, she took Guo Peng with her by the way.

Xiaoying smiled and said: "No matter what, anyway, I thank your sister-in-law, if you don't have this heart, my child's fate in this life may be the same as his father, every day to carry a brick knife, go out to work on the construction site." ”

Dongmei walked into Xiaoying's house, looked at her newly built yard and said: "The country is developing, the economy is also developing, and there will definitely be more and more job opportunities. ”

Hearing this, Xiaoying suddenly laughed.

She finished laughing, but was silent again.

"How hard it is for a person to succeed in society," she said.

Guo Lijun has been working since he was young, and now he has worked all his life, and he has not seen him succeed. ”

Dongmei disagreed and said: "There are many successful people, you see those who open restaurants and clothing stores, they are all bosses, and they are all successful." ”

Xiaoying shook her head and said: "The bosses are all southerners, we from the northwest, it is the life of a part-time worker, if you are lucky, you will enter an enterprise unit with an establishment and become a worker, but if you are unlucky, just like Guo Lijun, you have been working all your life, and you have been a migrant worker all your life, and it is impossible to become a boss and change your fate." ”

Xiaoying believes in fate, she feels that everything in this world is predetermined, heaven has destiny, people have destiny, a person's success or failure, happiness or pain in life, are all fate, all destined by God.

Compared with Xiaoying, Dongmei does not believe in fate, she always believes that people will win the sky, as long as they are willing to work hard, have dreams, and persist in perseverance, they will be able to change their lives against the sky, realize their dreams, and live the kind of life they want.

Dongmei retorted to Xiaoying and said: "Who said that the southerners are in our northwest, and after all, they are only a minority, and most of the people who are bosses are still our northwesterners." ”

Xiaoying is a very stubborn person, and in normal times, she will definitely reason with Dongmei to the death.

But today, she knew that she asked Dongmei to do something for the child, so she put up with it.

She smiled and said, "Dongmei, what did you say...... In fact...... Also to ......"

After Dongmei sat down in the courtyard, Xiaoying began to hang watermelons from the well.

She said while hanging: "Dongmei, I heard that you are coming, I went out to buy watermelons and came back, the weather is hot, but there is no refrigerator in the village, so I hung the watermelon in the well, absolutely cold." ”

As she spoke, Xiaoying hung a big watermelon out of the well.

Dongmei saw the watermelon hanging out by Xiaoying, she said: "Xiaoying, thank you for your kindness, your love, I understand it, but I have diabetes, and the watermelon is high in sugar, so I don't dare to eat it at all, so you can leave it to your three children to eat." ”

Xiaoying took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen, and while killing the watermelon, she said: "My children, they are born poor, what watermelon to eat, this watermelon is specially reserved." ”

With that, Xiaoying killed the watermelon.

I saw that the watermelon picked by Xiaoying was big and red, not only the seeds were small, but also the melon was tender, which was very delicious.

Dongmei really couldn't resist Xiaoying, so she ate a tooth and put it down.

Seeing that Dongmei didn't eat it, Xiaoying picked up a tooth of watermelon from the table again, handed it to Dongmei and said, "I just ate a tooth, how can I do it, this melon is all prepared for you, you can eat it." ”

Dongmei excused herself and said, "Guo Lijun, let me come back from the field and eat." ”

Xiaoying was reluctant to eat by herself, and even more reluctant to let Guo Lijun eat, she said: "Guo Lijun works in the provincial capital, you don't care about him." ”

Dongmei asked again: "What about your three children, they are all called back and let them eat melons." ”

Xiaoying said: "The youngest son Yaoyao went to herd the cattle, and the second daughter Feili went to cut the pigweed. ”

Xiaoying talked about the two children, but she didn't say Guo Peng, who Dongmei cared about the most.

Dongmei asked curiously: "What about Guo Peng, what did he do?"

Hearing Dongmei ask Guo Peng, Xiaoying said embarrassedly: "This kid, who graduated from junior high school this year, was not admitted to high school, stayed at home all day, was idle, and went out with a rope sleeve." ”

Hearing the rope noose, Dongmei asked curiously, "What are you doing with the rope noose?"

Xiaoying scratched the back of her head and said, "This kid likes to catch rabbits, take ropes, and lay harnesses everywhere in the ground." ”

Dongmei calculated Guo Peng's age, although he was only in the third year of junior high school, his age was only one year younger than Taotao.

Tao Tao is eighteen this year, and Guo Peng is exactly seventeen.

A seventeen-year-old child, who doesn't do something serious, actually goes out to set rabbits all day long, Dongmei can't understand it.

She smiled and said, "The children are seventeen years old, so it's not a problem for you to let him help you go to the fields, do some farm work, and set rabbits all day long?"

Xiaoying, like Wei Guo, belongs to the type of parents who particularly dote on their children.

She said: "The work in the field is hard, and the child is growing up now, so he can do as little as he can, so he will do less work......

Hearing this, Dongmei looked at Xiaoying's height of one meter five and five, less than seventy pounds in weight, and said, "Could it be that all these lands, in the end, are all you alone?"

Xiaoying frustrated the mud on her neck and said, "Guo Lijun is working outside, so I can't plant it alone." ”

Dongmei frowned and said, "Did you grow it alone?"

Dongmei is also a person from the countryside, she knows that farming is a manual work, not only to plow the land, sow seeds, fertilize, water, harvest, but also pull weeds, spray pesticides and so on is very tedious.

It's hard for Dongmei to imagine that Xiaoying's thin body can be planted so much land by one person?

couldn't help but see the shadow of Weiguo educating children from Xiaoying's way of educating children.

Like Xiaoying, Wei Guo is also doting on children.

Tao Tao and Nana, one is eighteen and the other is fifteen, not only have they never cooked, washed the dishes, even if they do housework, Wei Guo does not let the children do it, what children are small, they are growing their bodies, and it is best for adults to do a good .......

Dongmei couldn't help but shake her head and said: "Xiaoying, your way of educating your children is exactly the same as that of Weiguo, your brothers and sisters, in the end, grew up in the same family, even this education method is the same." ”

Xiaoying said with a smile: "When we were young, we were at home, and my mother was like this, she didn't let us do anything, and the adults basically did all the work." ”

Dongmei has never understood the way Wei Guo's mother educates her children.

You say that she dotes on her children and spoils them, but in the whole village, she trained her sons, one is a college student, the other is a secondary school student, and he successfully walked out of the countryside, one became a doctor, and the other became a petroleum engineer.

You say that her way of raising is good, the children she has raised are selfish, and they have an eccentric temper, and they are not sociable and naturally timid.

At this moment, Guo Peng walked in from the door with a few rabbits in his hand.

When Dongmei saw Guo Peng, she asked, "Guo Peng, where did you hit the rabbit from?" ”

Guo Peng is a very introverted child who is not good at words.

He only glanced at Dongmei, didn't speak, and walked into the kitchen.

Seeing that Guo Peng ignored herself, Dongmei was embarrassed.

Xiaoying saw that Guo Peng didn't ask anyone again, and she was not polite at all, she didn't criticize Guo Peng, but protected Guo Peng, and said: "Dongmei, Guo Peng, this child, has been like this since he was a child, not only does he not like to talk, but he doesn't ask when he sees people, he just keeps his head down all day long, no one knows, what is he thinking in his heart?"

Dongmei didn't say anything, after all, Guo Peng was still a child.

She said: "If you don't go to work now, your child can do this, and when she goes to work in the future, you can't do this, otherwise after work, you will buy a bottle of beer and drink it by yourself, regardless of the workers around you, he will be beaten to death." ”

Hearing this, Xiaoying smiled awkwardly and said, "This kid is introverted, but he is very clear in his heart and does things in a measured manner." ”

After a while, Guo Peng walked out of the kitchen with a few rabbits that had been skinned, disemboweled, and cleaned, and said, "Mom, I want to eat rabbit meat, you make rabbit meat for me." ”

Dongmei looked at Guo Peng, who was sweating profusely, and said with concern: "Child, when you are hot, take off your clothes, and then come over and eat some chilled watermelon to cool down." ”

Hearing this, Guo Peng secretly glanced at Dongmei like a thief, and then took off his short sleeves, revealing his body full of dirt.

Guo Peng's skin follows his mother, and it is very fair, so once there is dirt on his body that has not been washed off, it will be very clear.

Dongmei looked at Guo Peng and said: "It's just hot, you can take a basin of water and take a bath, otherwise you will go to school, and if you don't pay attention to hygiene, it won't be good." ”

Guo Peng devoured the watermelon and did not answer Dongmei's words.

And Dongmei looked at Guo Peng's body and guessed that he hadn't taken a shower for at least three months.

Although the child is not hygienic, Dongmei can also understand, after all, it is in the countryside, and there is no place for everyone to take a bath.

There is no bathhouse in the village, only a public bathhouse in the nearby town, but everyone is reluctant to pay two yuan to take a bath.

Dongmei saw that Guo Peng had finished eating the watermelon on the table, so she reminded him: "Yaoyao and Phiri haven't come back yet, you can leave some for them." ”

Hearing this, Guo Peng suddenly stopped, then wiped his mouth, and walked towards his house.

Dongmei looked at Guo Peng's back and estimated that his height had not exceeded one meter six or five.

She jokingly asked Xiaoying: "Xiaoying, your Guo Lijun, one meter seven or eight tall, why hasn't Guo Peng grown taller?"

Before Xiaoying could speak, Guo Peng suddenly turned around.

He lowered his head, looked at the watermelon peel on the ground, and said, "What are you doing when you are so tall, just waste cloth." ”

After speaking, Guo Peng disappeared in front of Dongmei's eyes.

And Dongmei was even more stunned, she had been here for a while, Guo Peng didn't say a word, the only thing he said was still like this, so profound that it made Dongmei doubt life.