On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, chong glutinous rice cakes.

Chong glutinous rice is a very important thing for us here before the Chinese New Year, every household will do, first use a large pot to steam the glutinous rice, and then put it in a stone mortar, and then two big men, one person takes a pestle, first use the pestle, the glutinous rice is broken, and then two people one by one, the glutinous rice seems simple, in fact, there is also a technique, each time the glutinous rice on the other party's pestle is knocked down, and when you pick up the pestle, you should twist it slightly to avoid the glutinous rice sticking to the pestle. If the technique is not good, the glutinous rice will stick to the pestle, and both of them will have to struggle.

Li Shiyu's family has no stone mortar, and the labor force is not enough, so he will work with this uncle's family and other families.

After Li's father got married, he and Li's mother made their own adobe bricks, and then asked someone to build a new house on the edge of the village.

The men chatted and rubbed together, and the women burned the fire to steam glutinous rice and made glutinous rice, each with its own division of labor.

When Li Shiyu was young, he followed the women to make glutinous rice cakes and listened to his mother's bragging.

Li's mother said: "There are too many people over there, and when I come back, the train can't be crowded, and many of them climb the windows." ”

The women around replied cooperatively: "Oh, why are there so many people?" ”

Mother Li said again: "That is, if I hadn't been clever, I got in the car first, and then asked Xiangsheng to hand things at the window, where would so many things get in the car." "Xiangsheng is Li's father's name, but few people are generally called it, everyone calls Brother Xiang, or Teacher Li.

These women have never been far away, and they can't imagine what it will be like when they crowd the train during the Spring Festival, but they still replied cooperatively: "That's, that's, look at so many things, you have made a lot of money this year, right?"

Although it is a matter of picking up rags in Shenzhen, not everyone has the courage to go to this remote mountain village, and Mother Li is very proud: "It's not much, more than 10,000 yuan." Let me tell you, I am a little, just next door to their Tangjia Village, those people are bold, go to the construction site to steal those steel bars, there are dozens at a time, that is, they are honest, they dare not go, otherwise there is only so much. ”

In fact, the more than 10,000 yuan was earned by Li's mother alone, and Li's father still had a share, but Li's mother still kept a few points, so as not to make people blush if there was too much money. In the 80s, it was popular outside the 10,000 households, and in the 90s, this name was not popular in our country for a few years.

I heard that they could earn hundreds of dollars at a time, and these women's eyes were red, so they didn't care whether the money was stolen or robbed.

"Sister-in-law Gui, it's really so profitable!" asked directly if he had a good relationship: "Take me next year." ”

Mother Li also bragged, and she was a little stunned when she really took someone there, this is not a trivial matter, and hurriedly said: "It's not that simple, one person was caught, beaten half to death, sent to Zhangmutou, and is still locked up." ”

He added: "In fact, we have to be careful every time we go out, and we have to hide when we encounter Gong'an, and they will check the temporary residence permit and border guard card when they see someone picking up waste, and if they don't have it, they will also be arrested." He also used to sweep in the grass where we lived. ”

In the 90s, to Shenzhen to get a border permit, in Shenzhen to live in the temporary residence permit, to do a temporary residence permit is not a simple thing, to have a factory to accept, that is, you have to find a job first, before you can do a temporary residence permit, and here is a problem, everyone to Shenzhen to start looking for a job, the middle time is every day to worry, at night do not dare to go out, and even in the rental house is not safe, from time to time will check, as long as you find that there is no temporary residence permit, will be sent to Zhangmutou, not called prison, called labor reform. People who have experienced it generally do not dare to go to the deep test, but you can imagine the horror in it.

Mother Li paused, and then said: "Let me tell you, the grass there is really deep, at least a few people are so deep, the villages around us live in those grasses, directly cut out a small piece of land, and use the cut grass to put on it, and it is not cold at night, but there are too many mosquitoes, and they are big, if you don't light mosquito coils, it will be all packed in one night。。。。。。。。。。 ”

Li Shiyu heard such a thing for the first time, he didn't expect his parents to be so miserable over there, he didn't even have a place to live, and he had been in Shenzhen for a few years, knowing that the winter over there was fine, but if it was summer, it would be really hot. They lived in the grass like this, and they didn't even dare to build a larger shed for fear of being discovered.

Mother Li successfully changed the topic and began to talk about interesting stories when picking up waste, once picking up many things, I couldn't take them, and I was reluctant to throw them away, so I had to take a part of it and walk a short section at a time, and then go to get the other part, so I walked repeatedly, and walked for several hours before returning home. Once, a kind person gave a rice cooker, but there was no electricity in the grass shed, so he took out the gall in it and cooked it directly, and the rice cooked in the rice cooker was delicious。。。。。。。

Mother Li spoke energetically, and everyone listened to it with relish.

Li Shiyu was so close to him that tears were about to fall when he heard it, what kind of bitterness had come of this.

didn't dare to listen to it anymore, Li Shiyu took the gap to go to the stone mortar where the glutinous rice was made, and he was really afraid that he would cry.

Li Shiyu had a very depressed life this year, he never knew that his parents were so miserable, they never said their suffering, they were ignorant before, they never understood their parents, and they always felt that they were not by their side, they did not fulfill their responsibilities as parents, and they did not manage themselves well, so their grades were not good and their personalities were not good. Now that I'm going through it again, I realize how wrong I was.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li's mother woke up Li Shiyu and Li Shihua early in the morning, the custom of the first meal of the new year is to eat early, open the door after eating, but also set off firecrackers, the door is open, and some children in the village come to pay New Year's greetings, generally give sugar, and melon seeds, there are also some children who are more rebellious, will take the initiative to ask for cigarettes, this day everyone will not say anything, they will give.

When the day dawned, Father Li took Li Shihua and Li Shiyu to the uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, this is the rule, every year, after the New Year's greetings to the uncle's family, the children can move freely, and Father Li and some other adults went to the old man's house who died last year to pay respects.

Li Shiyu sat at his uncle's house for a while, and then came back, and instead of coveting those sweets as before, he walked the whole village.

It stands to reason that Li's father's popularity in the village is not bad, but the real New Year's greetings (children are not counted) is the uncle's son, that is, Li Shiyu's cousin Li Jianglin, Li Jianglin's relationship with Li's mother is actually not good, Li Jianglin got married five years ago, no house to live, and asked Li's mother to borrow a house to live, because some of the older generation of parents are short, Li's mother did not agree, at that time Li Jianglin pointed to Li's father's nose and scolded, and occupied the room strongly, and later Li's mother did not care about this matter under the persuasion of Li's father, but the relationship has been bad, and then in two thousand and more years, it was simply sold to the uncle for 2,000 yuan, anyway, I have lived for so long, and I can recover a little is a little。

This morning, Father Li was out to pay New Year's greetings, brushing up on his sense of existence, Li Shiyu felt that Father Li was not really popular in the village, and everyone would think of him when they had something, it was because he was fair and had no crooked intentions, and it was precisely like this that everyone would not regard Father Li as a real friend.