Chapter 4: The Father's Back

The rare afternoon entertainment of selling popsicles finally ended with the departure of the bicycles, and the children's addictions also flowed through the popsicle bites and the saliva of a group of friends......!"

The time in the game is always slipping away like water, and before you know it, the sun has formed a line with the mountains in the distance, which also means that another beautiful time for the summer vacation is coming, and the cartoon starts at half past five in the afternoon!"

92 years in the countryside, TV is an absolute luxury, the fourteen-inch black and white TV, once a lot of family dreams, Wu Neng this village was only connected to electricity in 1988, last year there was the first black and white TV in the village, the first TV is Wu Neng's cousin's family, this cousin is Wu Neng's grandfather's brother's children who bought it, anyway, Wu Neng in this village, in addition to the seven Tang surnames at the head of the village, basically other elders and children, over thirty years old, basically called uncle, over sixty years old is basically called grandpa, other children older than themselves are called brothers and sisters, and the younger ones are called younger brothers and sisters, but in fact, the children are basically called by their names, and they are rarely called brothers and sisters. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Before being reborn, Wu Neng must have gone to his cousin Wu Jun's house to watch cartoons at this time in the afternoon, and he had to see the graduation of junior high school.

All afternoon, Wu Neng was a bystander, watching this group of children play, during which some friends asked him to play marbles together, he said no, and the others didn't scream, lost all the marbles, and only watched more than Wu Neng, there were several little friends, but looking at their expressions of jumping up and down, they were very reluctant to play by themselves, and Wu Neng shook his head.

At six o'clock, most of the children in this group of children have basically dispersed, and they basically went to the two little friends who have TVs to watch cartoons, Wu Neng has long lost that passion and leisure, and the nostalgic mentality after rebirth has also gone for the most part, he saw that the sun was about to set, and he couldn't help but want to see what his parents were doing.

Walking along the country road all the way to the field, in the far dry field, Wu Neng saw his parents bending over to pick something in the field, Wu Neng trotted over, the golden early rice in the paddy field in July had already ripened, the fruit was heavy and bent, and someone had already begun to harvest rice in the distance, and the sound of stepping on the threshing machine was clicking... From time to time, frightened frogs jumped over the rice fields, and Wu Neng jumped happily in the crooked fields against the golden sunset, like a child!"

Time is like water, more than 20 years later, Wu Neng also went to the field to pick vegetables at sunset, but Wu Neng's mood at that time was like the sunset that was about to set, when did the sunset come back, how beautiful the sunset was, but it was ...... near dusk!"

The golden sunset refracted on his father's young and tanned face, Wu Neng felt strange for a while, he could see his father's resolute face, and the familiar feeling in Wu Neng's heart instantly came to his heart, this is an honest man, an honest man for a lifetime!

Wu Neng's father Wu Jianwen was only thirty-six years old at this time, and his mother He Xiulan was only thirty-four years old, but the faces of the two were like forty-six years old.

Hearing his father's young and powerful voice, Wu Neng felt that his eyes seemed to be a little wet, now this young body is too easy to move, Wu Neng's forty-year-old mentality is also the son of the thirty-six-year-old man in front of him at this time!"

Mother He Xiulan didn't say anything, both parents are silent and quiet, and this kind of character was eventually inherited to Wu Neng, in fact, this is also a manifestation of helplessness, if you don't have the ability, don't speak, this is the truth everywhere!"

There are two big baskets next to the parents, and the flat shoulder is also placed on the ground, and the basket has been filled with a whole basket of chili peppers, this is a chili field, about two acres, it was originally a field, because the terrain is relatively high, it is not easy to store water, and then it is changed to dry land to plant chili peppers, of course, two baskets of chili peppers are not for the family to eat, but to jump to the county seat tomorrow morning to sell, two baskets of chili peppers are about one hundred and thirty or forty catties, Wu Neng does not know what the price of chili peppers in 92 is, but he can also imagine that the price will not be too high, and the money will eventually be spent on himself, such as paying tuition!”

In this era, the tuition fee for school is a big burden for a family, the junior high school tuition fee is 1670 yuan a semester, plus various miscellaneous fees are estimated to be about 300 yuan a semester, 300 yuan for a rural family in 92 years, it can be said that it is the largest expenditure of the whole family in a year, the annual tuition fee of five or six hundred is overwhelming many families, Wu Neng remembers that there are students dropping out of junior high school every year, especially more girls dropping out, basically most of the reasons are family poverty.

Wu Neng silently went to the chili field for a while, found three small melons, put them on the basket that was already full of chili peppers, and bent down to help his parents pick up the chili peppers.

When it was almost seven o'clock, two baskets full of chili peppers were finally picked, my father's naked/naked/upper body, shirtless and bent down to lift the flat burden to his shoulder, my father gritted his teeth and stood up, maybe the reason for bending over too long in the afternoon, his steps were suddenly a little unsteady, he took two steps back to stand firm, shook his body to meet the last fiery red sunset and walked home, his mother picked up the straw hat left by his father, and a pot of tea that had been drunk, and followed his father!"

Wu Neng looked at his father's back, as well as the wide and dark back, and couldn't help clenching his fists, he secretly swore that he would definitely let his parents live a good life in this life!"

Wu Neng's father's back has been seen thousands of times before he was reborn, but there has never been an impact on his heart this time, life can only grow after experience, if you don't experience something, even if you reach the age of forty, you won't understand some real truth!"

Back in the village, the farmers who were working outside the village one after another went home, the kitchens of the families in the village also started fires, the cooking smoke was gone, the wind blew the starry sky, the little ghosts took advantage of the last bit of light, played everywhere, the laughter made this small village a little more joyful, in the last dusk in the sky, the swallows also began to go home, and another animal with a mouse's head began to fly in the sky with dark shadows, that is, bats!"

Wu Neng's surrounding several households are all uncle's family, the only uncle's family to himself to build a three-room tile house in the east of the village, did not live with a few brothers, although several uncle's houses are next to each other, but the family has been separated for more than ten years, food and accommodation have long been separated, grandma lives in the uncle's house, food and accommodation are in the uncle's house, but every year the other brothers have to take rice and vegetables, and because they are the eldest brother, the uncle's family has also divided two more tile houses, the uncle is fifty-five years old at this time, his son Wu Cheng is also thirty-two, and his grandson Wu Bin is about the same age as Wu Neng, only two years younger than Wu Neng!”

Although the brothers live together, it is intimate, but in fact, all kinds of small contradictions often occur, and several brothers and men are noisy and noisy because of various problems, not to mention a few aunts, aunts, women, etc., fortunately, Wu Neng's parents are honest people, and An An does his own thing, and he doesn't say much, but the more honest he is, the more he will be bullied.

Father will be going to jump the county tomorrow to sell the chili pepper with water, cover it with a cloth, Wu Neng took out the three melons on the pepper, and washed it with the pressurized water well on the side of the yard, and his father Wu Jianwen said on the side: Wash one and send it to grandma.

Wu Neng agreed, at this time, the second aunt Zhang Cuiying also picked the vegetables to wash, saw Wu Neng washing the melons, and picked up a word: Nengneng, I washed one for just eat, and did not wait for Wu Neng to agree, so I picked up the largest one and washed it and put it aside, Wu Neng's forty-year-old mentality will not be angry for this little thing, but the second aunt Zhang Cuiying said to her father Wu Jianwen while picking vegetables: Jianwen, the tomatoes in your field grow well, I picked a few to eat!"

Hearing this, his father Wu Jianwen didn't say much, only agreed, and Wu Neng heard this, and remembered this matter in his memory, several of his aunts were notoriously greedy and cheap, and this time picking tomatoes was nothing, but Wu Jianwen only planted five or six tomatoes together, and at this time the fruit was only a dozen or so ripe tomatoes, originally greedy and cheap, it doesn't matter if you pick a few to eat yourself, but this time the second aunt Zhang Cuiying actually picked more than a dozen ripe tomatoes in the field, and the next day she jumped to the county with other vegetables to sell, and this matter was seen by her mother He Xiulan tomorrow。

Mother He Xiulan was angry, and quarreled with the second aunt, the consequence of this incident was that the second aunt said bad things about her parents behind her back for more than ten years, and many years later, Wu Neng could still hear the second aunt and others say that she only picked a few tomatoes from Jianwen's family back then, and was scolded by He Xiulan in front of the whole county......!"

Originally, in the eyes of Wu Neng in later generations, this was just a very small matter, but in this era, in the era of spiritual and material emptiness, a little little thing will make some narrow-minded people remember it for a lifetime, and this kind of thing is not reasonable.

Wu Neng really didn't want that kind of thing to happen tomorrow, and he couldn't think of a good way, so he suddenly thought of a reason and said: Second aunt, I saw you picking more than a dozen tomatoes this afternoon, and I want to eat tomatoes too, I'll go to your house and get a few!"

The second aunt Zhang Cuiying couldn't imagine that she secretly put the picked tomatoes under the basket, but Wu Neng saw it, and Wu Neng was also a child who was not yet fourteen years old, and it was not easy to quarrel with Wu Neng, so she could only say expressionlessly: I am also going to give the tomatoes that I just fried at night, and I don't think the tomatoes are big, so it is estimated that there is only one bowl.

Wu Neng didn't listen to her nonsense, washed the two melons, took the larger one to the kitchen and cut it into three pieces, asked the parents to eat one piece, then picked up the last melon and went to the grandmother's room, and by the way, he also went to the second uncle's house and took out seven red tomatoes from the basket full of bitter melons and peppers, ran to the grandmother's house, and put down the melons and three tomatoes.

Neng Neng came, Wu Neng's grandmother Zeng Xiuchun is seventy-three years old this year, after giving birth to an uncle at the age of eighteen, she gave birth to ten children one after another in the next few decades, and finally survived nine, at that time it was normal for the older generation to give birth to ten or eight in the countryside, but those who could survive nine of them, and they have not been given away, which already shows that grandpa and grandma have spent all their efforts on their children in this life.

Although the old man has many children, but he has never enjoyed happiness in his life, he was tired and tired for the family when he was young, he was old, he was sick, he was sick for more than ten years, three years later, he died in the pain, in order to cure his grandmother's illness, several children can say that all the surplus money is basically on it, and there is no filial piety for a long time, which also makes several aunts have a lot of resentment against grandma, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is extremely bad, fortunately, the Wu family still takes filial piety as the first, although the face is shown to grandma from time to time, but food, housing and clothing still dare not slack off, and from time to time in the grandmother's room can find a few pieces of sugar to the juniors!”