Chapter 9: Decentralization
He Yang touched the warm kang, went behind the wall without a sound, tied the corn stalks into a long bundle with wheat straw and put them into the kang hole, and then lit the wheat straw with a foreign fire, so that the kang would be hot after a while. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The kang plates in the countryside are very large, and basically the whole family sleeps on this kang.
But since He Yang and He Xing grew up, He Guoquan gave the two boys a kang opposite their kang in the east house, so that the girl and their husband and wife slept on the original kang, and the two boys slept on the kang opposite.
But in this way, the space in the house is even smaller.
After Yao Zhutao cleaned up the kang, the old lady He outside had already howled, "You don't cook when you come back, do you want to wait for the old lady to serve you?" Stinky, just owe a beating. ”
"You lie down obediently, Mom will make you something to eat in a while." Yao Zhutao settled He Yue and left in a hurry.
The delicious thing in Yao Zhutao's mouth is nothing more than wrapping a little bit of rice in gauze and cooking it in a pot when cooking, and when the rice is cooked, open the gauze and give the rice inside to He Yue to eat.
But He Yue knew that Yao Zhutao secretly got this bit of rice behind Mrs. He's back, if they knew about it, the family didn't know how to make a fuss.
"Big, I don't want my mother to be scolded, I don't want to eat the delicious food my mother makes." He Yue shrank his head in the quilt, "I'll be fine tomorrow, you see I don't have a fever now." ”
I don't know why, He Guoquan felt his eyes sour at this moment, "Okay, I'll go tell your mother." ”
He concealed his strange appearance and hurriedly walked out, for fear that He Yue would see his embarrassed appearance. While he lamented that his daughter had grown up, he was sad that his daughter was sensible and well-behaved.
Yao Zhutao was lighting a fire, and when he raised his head, he saw He Guoquan looking at him stunned, "He's big, what's wrong?" ”
"No, why did you lose weight like this?" He Guoquan realized that Yao Zhutao, who was still a little fleshy, didn't know when he had lost a lot of weight, "You...... Don't grieve yourself, I'll think of something to get food back. ”
After He Guoquan finished speaking, he strode out, and his steps were not as firm and calm as before.
In the past few days, there have been too many feelings for He Guoquan.
What made him even more sad was that he thought that he could give this family, his wife and children a decent life, but now he found that everything was not the same thing at all.
In the evening of this day, He Guoquan sat alone by the small river in Beishui Village, smoking his own cigarettes, one after another, until it was already dark, and the village remembered the sound of women calling their children home for dinner, and He Guoquan woke up from his contemplation.
Life shouldn't be like this.
He Guoquan, who returned home, was still the same as in the past, sitting cross-legged on the kang and drinking corn paste without saying a word.
He Guoquan doesn't like to be like other families in the village, squatting at the door of his yard with a big old bowl and having a short relationship with the east and west families of those old men and aunts, so the He family eats in the house, but there are exceptions, that is, the uncle of the He family.
"Big brother, have you heard?" He Guoqiang walked in excitedly with the old bowl, "I heard that there are a few bad elements going to be released in the village?" What kind of professor is that man? ”
He Guoquan naturally knows about this matter, but he rarely talks about the affairs of the team at home, let alone decentralizing this kind of thing.
The point is that one of the people who was delegated was a professor at a certain university. That's a cultural person, He Guoquan himself would have gone to college if it weren't for his family, so he has always admired knowledgeable people.
"Don't spread the word." He Guoquan put down the old bowl and lectured this frizzy younger brother, "This matter can be big or small, don't listen to the wind and rain all day, be careful of misfortune coming out of your mouth." ”
Although the countryside is not as strict as the city in grasping these things, the cautious He Guoquan still has to warn this ignorant younger brother again and again.
Bad molecules?
He Yue's eyes lit up, in his previous life, Professor Qian and Granny Qian seemed to have come to their Beishui Village at about this time, but at that time He Yue was sick, and he has been with He Juan since he got better, and he hated bad elements like Professor Qian under the influence of He Juan, so he didn't pay attention to his affairs at all.
Later, after she returned to the city with her young husband, Professor Qian was also rehabilitated, and I heard that she was rehired and returned to the university.
He Yue remembered that when she was working in a garment factory, she listened to the technical consultant of their factory regret: this lady died too early, otherwise her unique double-sided embroidery would have been inherited.
He Yue lowered his head and thought for a long time, but he didn't notice the excitement in the eyes of his second brother He Xing.
After dinner, He Yue helped Yao Zhutao wash the dishes, but Yao Zhutao drove him back to the East House, "Just these few bowls, I'll wash them in a while, and I'll help my mother when you're so good." ”
Yao Zhutao was very sure at this time that her daughter was a blessing in disguise, and she also felt sorry for her daughter in the past, but she didn't like her to go too closely with He Juan, especially when she was deceived by He Juan.
Yao Zhutao said to He Yue vaguely a few times, every time he just raised this topic, He Yue lost his temper, and once he was heard by Mrs. He, she taught Yao Zhutao a lesson.
Now seeing that her daughter is sensible and obedient, Yao Zhutao is happy in her heart.
No, I almost forgot to ask, what the hell was going on with that bowl of water that day?
"What's going on?" He Yue quietly pulled Yao Zhutao's sleeve, "Mom, be quiet, I can tell you, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, including me." ”
"What's going on, even you can't know it, you kid, you can't learn badly after only a few days." Yao Zhutao said nervously.
"I promise I didn't learn badly." He Yue raised his hand and swore and said.
"This kid," Yao Zhutao hurriedly held He Yue's hand, "Let's say, let's talk about our mother's little secret, don't tell you a lot." ”
"A few days ago, I was playing in the rotten grass hut next to our house and found a gadget," He Yue pondered for a while and continued, "Later, I met a PLA uncle who was driving on the road, and he took a fancy to my gadget and gave me a jar of malt milk essence to change things. ”
The He family lived in the westernmost part of the village, next to a dilapidated grass hut.
"Mom, that uncle told me not to tell anyone, and said that if there is anything like this in the future, let me not throw it to him, and he continues to give me good food, and I have several good things here." He Yueshen said mysteriously.
The reason why He Yue said this is also to pave the way for the future, didn't the voice say that she still had to give her mother food, and she could use this as an excuse in the future.
It's not that she doesn't want to tell He Mu the truth, it's just that this kind of thing is too weird, He Yue is afraid of scaring He Mu, and even more afraid that if outsiders know, she will not be killed as a monster, especially in such an era.
"Besides, if my grandmother and them know about this, I'm afraid we won't even be able to drink a sip of this malt cream." He Yue lowered his head sadly.
Seeing this, Yao Zhutao hurriedly pulled her into her arms, "Good boy, let's not talk quietly." ”
Quietly, He Yue coaxed Yao Zhutao to drink a bowl of malt milk essence again.