In the temporary village, three meals in the morning and noon in the summer are eaten under the grape trellis in the yard, especially in the afternoon, the family basically chats while eating. From time to time, you can hear the barking of cattle and sheep and the barking of dogs, the sudden sound of tractors and the sound of people greeting each other. The sunlight is slanting, and the light is getting softer and softer, and there is always a soft and tranquil feeling in my heart at this time. A lot of the time, I like to sit here quietly and watch Li Haoyu and them walk around. Just like when he was a child, in the big yard of my house, the gate was closed, and he and Chen Yuexin, Ke'er, and Jingyi ran around in the yard at random, and the apples on the fruit trees in the backyard were not ripe, and they picked and ate half of them, spitting and throwing them while eating, and the ground was full of small fruits thrown down after their little teeth had bitten. Once I chatted with Jiang Xinya and Gan Xin in the front yard, Li Haoyu and Chen Yuexin and Ke'er were sprinkled with soil when they were playing in the backyard, and there was no soil on only two eyeballs on the whole body, I laughed when I saw Li Haoyu's gray face, and my mother saw it and reprimanded me, I have never seen you like this, and the child is still laughing here, while talking, Li Haoyu took off his essence and pressed it into a large basin in the yard to take a bath, and then took a bath for Yuexin and Ke'er, Then he threw the three wet children on the mats spread out in the courtyard and let the sun and wind dry them. Li Haoyu grew up in that big yard until he went to preschool and moved to a building near the kindergarten.

During the meal, I said to Cheng Jiahui: "Teacher Li has found a good teacher for you to make up the class, the learning task in the second year of high school is very important to catch up with the class, and most of the time in the third year of high school is reviewing, you and Li Haoyu pack up your things and go back to make up for the class."

Cheng Jiahui hesitated for a moment and said, "I have already reviewed most of the class in the second year of high school."

Li Haoyu said: "My brother has already tutored me in mathematics and physics, we don't want to go to tutorial classes, we can study here by ourselves, and besides, the brick factory is very busy now, we don't want to go."

I touched his arm that was getting harder and harder, and said with a smile: "If there are not enough people, we can hire some more people, your labor class is over, and the cultural class begins."

Li Haoyu shouted dissatisfiedly: "There is still more than half a month to leave school, you and I let me work when I want to study, and now I want to work and you let me study, why do you always work against me!" ”

I touched his head and said, "Let you work now is to let you study better, labor and study are what you have to do all your life, you will have time to work in the future, your main task now is to learn whether you know or not!" ”。

Li Haoyu twisted his head vigorously and avoided my hand and said angrily: "Okay, you are my mother, I can't control you if I say it, you can do whatever you want, and I won't listen to you anymore when I grow up!" ”

The mother-in-law pouted on the side and said with a smile, "You will only listen to your daughter-in-law in the future, and will you listen to your mother?" While speaking, he also glanced at Cheng Shaojie on the side with his eyes.

Cheng Shaojie frowned slightly, and said with a flat face: "Mom, don't say this in front of the child."

My father-in-law saw that Cheng Shaojie was unhappy, glanced at me, and said to my mother-in-law: "What do you think you are saying this in front of the children?" ”

The mother-in-law listened to her son's cold words and hurt her self-esteem a little, her eyes swept over my face and said unhappily to Cheng Shaojie: "I'm not wrong, when did you listen to me when you grew up?"

Li Haoyu watched the war between me and him move elsewhere, and looked at me and stopped talking. Cheng Jiahui put the chopsticks in his hand on the table with a calm face, stood up and said to Li Haoyu: "Let's go, let's do our homework", then turned around and entered the house, Li Haoyu looked at me and quickly followed into the house.

Cheng Jiahui's behavior was very rude, looking at Cheng Jiahui's cold back, I wanted to stop him and say a few words to him, but in a blink of an eye, I saw Cheng Shaojie and his parents all lowering their eyes and avoiding my eyes, as if they had done something wrong, I endured it and swallowed back what I was going to say. The four adults outside the house were silent and ate silently. I just don't understand how Cheng Jiahui's words and deeds have such a pivotal role in this family. Cheng Jiahui's grandfather is a gentle person, he has always been taciturn in front of his wife and son with a strong personality, and it is understandable that Cheng Jiahui's pet has no principles, but Cheng Jiahui's grandmother and Cheng Shaojie are very temperamental people, their forbearance is definitely not just as simple as spoiling Cheng Jiahui, I think there is also a factor of Cheng Jiahui, Cheng Jiahui's grandmother is a little petted, and Cheng Shaojie's is a little afraid, which is very inconsistent with Cheng Shaojie's character, I know it's not your average pampering, there must be something else going on, and the whole family tacitly avoids it.

On the way home, I saw a man working in the vegetable field in front of the Wang family yard on the side of the road, and I asked Cheng Shaojie: "Is this family back?" It's time to fix the courtyard wall this time, right? The collapse of the courtyard wall like this affects the appearance of the village too much."

Cheng Shaojie said: "I didn't come back, they rented the house to others, the old couple of the Wang family followed their son in Northwest City for so many years, and they won't come back, their three children are all in other places, and there is no one to take care of them here."

"Leased to whom? I see that the new family is very diligent, you don't find that the yard is clean and tidy, and it looks brand new."

"It's a family from Gansu, the two brought a daughter, they are very diligent, and they have been here for less than half a month, and they have cleaned up the yard."

Li Haoyu stretched out his head from the back seat and said, "Mom, the sister of that family is very beautiful" and then turned to Cheng Jiahui and said, "Is it not, brother"

Cheng Jiahui pushed Li Haoyu with a smile and said, "Pretty is what you said, I didn't say it."

I turned my head to look at the two and a half young men, smiled and asked, "Have you seen it?" Have you spoken to her? ”。

Li Haoyu said: "Yes, we met when we went to the store to buy something, but she didn't talk to us."

"Then go talk to her! You're so handsome, she'll be happy to be friends with you," I joked.

"Is it true? The next time I see her, I will definitely talk to her," Li Haoyu said eagerly.

Cheng Shaojie turned his head to look at me and sneered: "You still need to teach them like this?" I'm afraid you won't be able to stop it in the future! The school does not allow puppy love".

"Make a friend, do you know each other? Where is early love, the difference is 108,000 miles! I laughed.

Li Haoyu immediately responded: "That's it, we just know this sister, there is nothing else, she is more beautiful than the girls in our school."

Seeing Li Qiutong coming out of the school gate, I beckoned to her, and the family building where her family lived was on campus. Li Qiutong said with a smile when he saw me: "You have gained a lot from this leave, I haven't seen you for more than a month, Li Haoyu has become a little man, his arms and legs are a lot stronger, and he seems to be a lot more mature."

I laughed and said, "Labor is the best way to train people, endure some hardships yourself, and then look at those who work hard to survive, it should have some influence on him." I don't have high requirements for him, to be a knowledgeable, educated, hardworking and brave Chinese."

Li Qiutong stretched out his hand and patted me and said, "Your requirements are not high?" I remember a party and state leader who said the same thing when he saw the meeting with outstanding children."

I smiled and said, "This only shows that my consciousness is high, my knowledge is high, and my ideological realm is beyond the reach of a small bureaucrat like Hu Yali." Hey, I don't think it's been a long time since I've seen her, so she's not going to improve again, right? ”

"Who knows, I haven't seen her for a long time, you can ask her at dinner today!"

"I called her and she said she couldn't come today because of something."

"It seems that she is really busy, this is not once or twice," Li Qiutong said in an unhappy tone.

I smiled and said, "Let her go, let's get in the car."

Li Qiutong got into the car and asked, "Jiang Xinya didn't say anything, right?" I haven't seen her for a long time, Jiang Xinya is preparing to study abroad for Ke'er, do you know? Maybe I'm busy doing this right now! ”

I sighed and said, "She will do this for her child now, does the child still have the heart to learn?" It's not the most important thing, her biggest wish is to let her daughter leave this environment and have a life that is different from ours, and I don't know if she is for herself or for her children? ”

Li Qiutong was silent for a while and looked at me and said: "We are not all for the children, it's just that everyone pays in different ways, for example, you, is it worth it for your children?" ”

I looked at the passers-by in the distance and smiled, "Not just for my son, but also for myself." If you want to get it, you have to pay, and the good future of these two children is guaranteed, I am the guarantee, and the rest is earned, do you think I am a rash person? ”

Li Qiutong smiled lightly: "No, a lot of things you do seem to be casual but have other meanings, but I can't see through this matter, Cheng Shaojie looks good and not stupid, it's not that I look down on farmers, but in the end, he is a big boss, just thinking that you really want to live with a person like him who is full of sorghum flowers, I really can't accept it, Lin Yi, what an arrogant person you are, how could you take this step and lose your move, it's really incomprehensible."

"You know that I don't like officialdom, I don't like shopping malls, and I don't have the opportunity to meet a good teacher like you, but now I meet a peasant, then I can be at peace with the encounter, aren't all the literati and rioters all over the world yearning for an idyllic life? I'm there right now," I scoffed.

"Still, don't talk to me about it, what are your words true?" Li Qiutong said unmoved.

"How do you know that there's no sincerity in what I'm saying?"

"Is there one?"

I laughed and said nothing, I don't know what the result will be in the future, for me, there is no can only be clearly explained by the result, now I can't say, I can't say it, I can't say it