There is a mountain behind the house, and the mountain is lush and green, and there is a field in front of the door, and the field is verdant. Walking through the paddy fields where the seedlings are thriving, a few towering camphor trees cast a large area of shade in the scorching sun, and not far away is a large river that meanders by.

After eating a meal of shredded potato rice and egg custard, Li Jiaming, who had a little strength, cleaned up the house again, and soaked the changed sheets and dirty clothes with inferior laundry detergent.

The little sister, who had her brother's consent, pulled up her trouser legs and bare her little feet, turned over the stones on the shallows by the river to find crabs, caught small shrimps, and was busy and happy, laughing happily from time to time.

Li Jiaming stood in the cool river water, washing the sheets and clothes, staring at the little sister, not letting her go deeper, and showing a satisfied smile from time to time. Zhuang Sheng dreams of butterflies or butterflies Dream Zhuang Sheng, since he tricked his little sister into eating egg custard, Li Jiaming has no entanglement, only gratitude to God for his generosity.

People, only when they lose do they know the preciousness of their loved ones. To be able to see the well-behaved little sister and healthy father again, this is the greatest gift that God has given him.

"Mingya, how are you, why are you here with your sister?"

The gentle words came, Li Jiaming looked back, and the slightly dark and beautiful fourth aunt was standing behind him with a bucket of dirty clothes, and hurriedly said: "Fourth aunt, laundry? Oh, the bed cover (quilt sheets) is too pickled, I'll take it off and wash it." ”

Li Jiaming, who used to be naughty and mischievous, suddenly became sensible, which made the gentle fourth aunt stunned, and hurriedly put down his barrel and blasted him aside.

"Put it down, put it down, I'll wash it for you, how can you wash it clean? You go to see your good sister, don't let her go into the deep water." ”

Li Jiaming, who had small arms and legs, couldn't scrub the sheets, and the help of the fourth aunt made him hurriedly thank: "Thank you, fourth aunt."

"Guanyin Bodhisattva blesses, Ming Yan is finally sensible", Li Jiaming's thanks made the fourth aunt happy, and gave his sudden sensibility to the compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Li Jiaming, who didn't have to wash the sheets and clothes, took out a piece of inferior soap after saying thank you, called the little sister who was having a good time, asked her to squat by the river and bow her head, and helped her wash her unkempt short yellow hair.

"Close your eyes and don't let soapy water get in your eyes. ”

"Oh", the well-behaved little sister immediately closed her eyes, lowered her head and asked her brother to help her wash her hair.

The actions of the two brothers and sisters shocked and relieved the fourth aunt not far away.

After washing her hair first and then taking a bath, Li Jiaming washed her little sister, dressed her in patched floral clothes, and then used a wooden comb with toothless teeth to comb her pot lid. Although because of malnutrition, Xiaomei's face is a little yellow, and she is too thin, but she looks refreshing.

After helping the little sister wash it, Li Jiaming took off his clothes again, revealing his washboard-like chest, jumped into the river and fluttered for a while, washed his body, and took his clothes to wear behind the thatch on the river beach, which caused a burst of laughter and scolding from the fourth aunt.

"Si Yan, you know that you are ashamed? Hey, when you grow up, you have to be sensible, take your sister well, don't let you (Dad) worry about it. ”

Li Jiaming, who had changed his clothes, laughed at himself and washed his shorts that were so white that they were fast and shiny, and said with a smile: "Fourth aunt, don't laugh at me." ”

"What are you laughing at? Hey, Mingya?

There was no need to look back this time, Li Jiaming knew that the second aunt had also come to wash the clothes, and hurriedly smiled: "Second aunt, you are here." ”

"Yo, my mouth has become sweeter, it seems that the third aunt has a spirit underground, bless you!"

The fast-talking second aunt asked the fourth aunt to pull off her trouser legs, and hurriedly remedied: "Mingya, you're really sensible, you can even help your sister take a bath." Tut, look at our Manchu (the youngest one in the countryside is called Man) sister, a six-year-old person who shits, and she has to ask her aunt to help her rub her ass, it's really more popular than people. ”

"Hey, hey, hey", Li Jiaming, who was faintly in pain, laughed a few times, wrung out his shorts and put them in his own barrel, and came to help the second and fourth aunts rinse again. Time is too 'long', Li Jiaming's impression of his mother is blurred, I only remember that she never scolded herself, never quarreled with her father, never blushed with her aunt and second aunt, and spoke softly.

After all, children are children, and no matter how sensible a child is, in the eyes of adults, he is only a slightly sensible child. After the second aunt praised Li Jiaming for being sensible, she whispered happily: "The sister-in-law has become a bitter gourd face again, the eldest and second concubines will make up classes and sign up for more than 600 yuan, and the third aunt will need more than 200 yuan to study the first year of high school in the second half of the year, and this time I am afraid that there will be no place to borrow it."

If you want me to say, you can't get a few college students in a year in key high schools, so what do you have to study in ordinary high schools? It is better to come back early to help the house and farm, and save money to provide for the three men and the family. ”

"It's always good to read more books, and it's good to wait for the eldest and second to graduate. ”

The second aunt, who gave birth to four daughters in one go, is very jealous of the aunt who gave birth to four sons, and the aunt is not easy to mess with.

The fourth aunt's words of persuasion aroused the second aunt's contempt: "Fourth sister-in-law, that is, you are a good person! Chuanmin and Uncle Man (Xiao) helped the uncle raise their four sons, and when we have a baby girl for life, we will soon split up, for fear of touching them a little light." It's okay now, you need money to study, you should regret it this time, right?

If you want me to say, Uncle Man is still smart, and he will split up as soon as he gets married. The people are not smart, and they give birth to cubs and then divide the family, and help them raise more young cubs in vain. ”

The two aunts were gossiping, and Li Jiaming, who didn't interject, helped them dry the washed clothes on the clean pebbles, pressed them with the washed stones, and put half of their minds on the little sister who was playing in the water.

After the two aunts finished washing the last piece of clothing, they found that their clothes were all dried, and the second aunt just wanted to say something, but the fourth aunt hurriedly grabbed her. The clothes at home are dried with bamboo poles, only the third uncle wants to save trouble, every time they are dried in the river sandbar, and when they bring two men (sisters) to bathe in the river in the evening, they change into clean ones and then wash the dirty ones and dry them again. Ming Yan has a bit of a strange temperament, and it's hard to help, if you don't appreciate it, you won't help with things in the future.

Li Jiaming, who had just helped his little sister put on her shoes, saw that the second aunt wanted to speak like this, so she reacted and hurriedly said, "Second aunt, fourth aunt, I'll help you take it back." ”

"It's okay, just come and collect it at night. Ming Yan, take my sister back quickly, the sun is so poisonous, don't get sick. ”

After saying it loudly, the second aunt 'tsk' twice more, looked at Li Jiaming, who was carefully helping the little sister put down her trouser leg not far away, and whispered to the fourth aunt: "Ming Ling is really sensible, hey, if the third sister-in-law hadn't died early, hey." ”

Li Jiaming couldn't hear the words of the second aunt clearly, but he could guess what she was talking about, smiled silently and bitterly, and struggled to carry the wooden barrel and call the little sister home.

"I'll mention it", the hearty second aunt came over to lift the barrel, looked at the clothes drying in the sandbar, and praised: "You are a child, you know how to do things when you are so old, unlike the four of them, who are not afraid of grinding me to death." ”

"Hey, hey, hey", Li Jiaming really didn't dare to accept this, and the matter of inheritance in the countryside was bigger than the sky. In recent years, family planning has been tightened, since the fourth aunt who had just given birth to a full sister was forcibly arrested and sterilized by the villagers, and there was no son to support the elderly, which has become a heart disease of the fourth uncle (aunt), and others can't touch it.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Hear no, don't let me shout!"

"Oh, thank you Auntie"

The second aunt touched Li Jiaming's head and sighed secretly in her heart.