Chapter 42: A Vacation in the Countryside
On the day of Wu Tian's death, my mother-in-law invited the Buddha statue for me when she invited the mage to come to my house to exorcise evil spirits, and I have been left out in the cold on the windowsill by me, and I can't kowtow to a clay figure for a day and burn incense, I think this behavior is very funny. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ After my brother-in-law's wedding, I did not hesitate to pick up the Buddha statue and return it to my mother-in-law, and said to her:
"I can't take care of the Buddha Master, and it's not a matter of always making the Buddha Lord hungry, so please take care of it yourself." β
When my mother-in-law saw that I had sent back the Buddha she worshipped without covering, she was so frightened that she kept chanting words like Amitabha Buddha and asking for forgiveness until she took the Buddha statue from my hand, placed it in the middle of the table, and then bowed to the Buddha statue three times, and then felt more at ease. When it was over, my mother-in-law turned back to me, a stubborn outlier, and said:
"You really don't know what to do, I invite the Buddha for you completely for your good, I want the Buddha to bless the three of you, I don't want you to ignore the Buddha like this, it's really a sin, I won't care if you have anything in the future!"
"Mom, you can't force others to believe in Buddhism if you believe in Buddhism, everyone's beliefs are different. I explained.
"Forced, who forced you, do whatever you like!" the mother-in-law got angry again, shook her hand at me, and motioned for me to disappear in front of her eyes immediately.
Seeing my mother-in-law's inability to communicate, I pushed my bicycle and turned to leave.
Of course, I usually follow Lu Tao back to my mother-in-law's house, but I just want to fulfill my daughter-in-law's filial piety and not be rude in some things, and besides, I know Lu Tao very well, you can disrespect him, but you must not disrespect his mother, if you ignore his mother, it means that you will lose him completely. To be honest, I'm not afraid of losing Lu Tao, but I just don't want Yangyang to leave my father. Leaving Lu Tao, if I want, I can soon find another man, but Yangyang's father is only Lu Tao, no one can replace him, I can't point to a man who has no blood relationship with Yangyang and ask him to call Dad, I can't do it! I have thought many times that if I divorce Lu Tao, I will never marry again!
In order to distract myself and let Yangyang go to the countryside for a change of air, one Saturday, I was going to take Yangyang back to my mother's house in the countryside. Usually I take Yangyang back to my grandmother's house, but this time I want him to stay at her grandmother's house for a few more days.
Before leaving, I said to Lu Tao: "It's summer vacation, let Yangyang go back to the countryside to play." β
I don't want Lu Tao to say: "What is the summer vacation? Primary and secondary schools only have summer vacation, kindergartens do not have winter and summer vacations, who will take care of the children during the holidays? Adults don't have to go to work?"
"Kindergarten doesn't have a holiday, I can't just let it go, I have to let the children get in touch with nature, right?
"What should I do if I miss class?"
"There is a class in the kindergarten, which is to do games, sing nursery rhymes or something. β
"Since there is no class, why can the stars of the opposite door and Liu Jia's Kaikai English and pinyin memorize a lot, where can they learn?"
"Those things were learned in the second class. β
"Can't you let Yang Yang also take a second lesson? Don't always make him stupid in front of others and make people laugh. β
"He is still young, and when he learns later, people will either be able to count at the age of three and grow up to be a mathematician, nor can they play the piano at the age of five, but they will be musicians when they grow up, this is not the case. β
"You mean you don't have to learn when you're a child, but you will be able to grow up all of a sudden?"
"I didn't say you don't need to study, I said you don't need to be in a hurry, it's not too late to start learning in elementary school. β
"Wait until you go to elementary school, when your son is left behind, and he will be at the bottom of every exam!"
I argued with Lu Tao for half an hour before leaving the house, I don't think what he said is completely wrong, but I also don't agree with the education of pulling seedlings to help grow, I think kindergarten children, their main task is to play! They have the right to have a happy childhood, no one should deprive them of this right, if a child looks back on their childhood, the picture only has a variety of classrooms and various competition scenes, it will be a regret in their life.
When I came to the countryside, it was the wheat ripening season, my father took a sickle early in the morning to cut the wheat, and I helped my mother feed the black pig behind my house and then brought Yangyang to the field, as well as my brother's family of three.
Standing between the golden wheat field and the blue sky, our family immediately entered a pastoral picture: the heavy ears of wheat swept towards the distance with the breeze wave by wave, there were green willows on the edge of the field, there were gray hills in the distance, birds and butterflies flew over or around us from time to time in the air, the sky was clean, only a few wisps of clouds were left in the distance, and the sun gradually moved over our heads, although it made people feel a little hot, but it did not affect our mood at all, and after a while, our laughter was thrown everywhere with the Han waterγ
Yang Yang and my brother's hybrid dog were running happily in the fields, my brother's one-and-a-half-year-old daughter was also waddling and laughing, and I was more like a prisoner who was allowed to go out and let off steam, greedily admiring the beauty of nature and enjoying this freedom. I took a deep breath and let the scorching sun of July shine on my face, not caring about ultraviolet rays, melanin or anything, I just knew that under the sun, everything would grow, life would stir, everything would be full of vitality.
At first, my brother and daughter-in-law were in charge of taking care of our two children in the rear, and my brother and parents were fighting on the front line, but then I saw my elderly parents working under the scorching sun, and I couldn't bear it, so I entrusted my two children to my brother and daughter-in-law, and took the sickle to join the harvesting team.
I wanted to go side by side with my parents, but within a few minutes I fell behind, and the young me was far from being able to keep up with the old parents' harvest, and within half an hour, my waist was so sleepy that I couldn't stand up. My parents, who have been working in the fields for more than 30 years, are like two small harvesters, and in a short time they will spread out a large field of wheat. Just when I was hot and tired, and I was in a dilemma, I suddenly saw a large harvester driving by the road at the edge of the field, and I shouted to my mother as if I had seen a savior:
"Mom, let's hire a harvester, it's too slow to cut by hand!"
"You still need to hire a harvester for two acres of land in total, I see that you don't know how to worry about money when you enter the city!" Before my mother could reply, I was given a lecture by my father.
I continued to cut for a while, and before ten o'clock I felt that I had no strength and was defeated.
When I returned to the ridge, I saw Yang Yang's red face, just like seeing my own face, and I thought my face must be the same as Guan Gong at this moment. Red or black, whatever you want, when you come to the field, of course, you have to dye a little bit of the color of the earth and the sun.
Yang Yang, who was always in a state of high excitement, took me by the hand and took me to see a frog in the grass, and then took me to chase a grasshopper, everything in the wild was so new and interesting for him that he didn't care about the sand in his shoes.
When I got home at noon, I ate half a full watermelon, and then I went to bed with Yang Yang exhausted, and slept until 5 p.m. When I came, I kept saying that I would help my parents harvest wheat, but now it seems that his words are more than true.
The next day, I left Yangyang behind and returned home with a large bag of corn, edamame, beans, tomatoes and other trophies. I ate these home-grown vegetables without pesticides for a whole week.
When I looked in the mirror before work on Monday, my complexion completely changed to wheat, and when I arrived at the unit, my colleagues looked at me a few more times, and I hurriedly explained that I was exposed to the sun when I went back to the countryside to harvest wheat. In the past, I didn't wear foundation, I didn't dare to go out without lipstick, since I gave birth to Yangyang, it seems that I don't care more and more about other people's eyes, often show people without makeup, I know that this kind of self-confidence is given by my son, I think that after becoming a mother, there is enough reason to stand in front of the world, and you can despise everything.
Two weeks later, when Yang Yang was picked up from the countryside, he had almost turned into a little monkey, black and thin.
"This kid just came back from an African refugee camp?" Lu Tao joked when he saw his son.
"It's hot, and he loves to toss, can he not be dark or thin?" I said.
After coming back from the countryside, Yangyang always wanted to run out, unlike before he could watch TV in the house for hours, but now he is playing downstairs with a group of children all day long, and he has obviously become wild compared to before. Until one time, after Yang Yang broke the toy car of a child downstairs, Lu Tao began to warn me:
"In the future, let Yangyang go to the countryside less, and when he comes back, he will become a wild boy, he has no education at all, and those who don't know think that the two of us are not educated, and teach the child to be like this!"
"Children are already naughty, just correct him if he does something wrong, you can't stop him from going out, right? Isn't it good to run and jump more and watch less TV?" I said to Lu Tao.
"Other people's children study more and watch less TV, do you know what to do if you let your children play and can't get into college in the future?"
"For a child who is less than three years old, it is too far to think about his college education, right?"
"What is far away? If you don't lay a good foundation since you were a child, can you learn well when you grow up? I think it's better to enroll him in an interest class. β
"What class?"
"What do you want him to learn?"
"I don't know, I don't know that a kid at such a young age can't see that he's interested in that. β
"Sign up for an English class, English is very important now, and everyone is learning English. β
"Okay, listen to you, just sign up for an English class and see how much he can learn in a year. β
Since Lu Tao is so anxious about Yangyang's study, I agreed to give Yangyang an interest class to try, if Yangyang is interested, of course it is a good thing, if Yangyang is not interested, just change it. (To be continued.) )