I drove past the front of the school and saw Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui standing on the side of the road talking, I stopped the car and asked them where they were going, Cheng Jiahui said that he wanted to go home, I "oh"

Remembering that today is Zhou Wei, I politely said to Cheng Jiahui: "Then I'll send you back?" ”

I thought Cheng Jiahui would politely say that there was no need to send it, so I wouldn't send it away, just send him to the bus station, after all, Linshui Village is nearly ten kilometers away from here.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Jiahui was very happy to hear me say that he was going to send him, and pulled Li Haoyu to get into the car, Li Haoyu also happily followed and got into the car, I turned my head to look at the two children and smiled, in the end, the children have little mind to fake.

Linshui Village is located on the east bank of the Yuxi River in the west of Qingbei County, less than 10 kilometers away from the county seat, and is the only place to enter Nanshan.

It takes less than half an hour to arrive at Linshui Village, and the whole village is hidden in the green trees in Linshui Village, especially the trees on both sides of a main road in the middle of the village are tall and lush, due to the new rural construction carried out in the early years, the road surface in the village has been hardened, and every household is arranged in an orderly manner, and the villagers in front of the house and behind the house plant trees and flowers according to their own preferences, so they feel that the village hidden in the green trees is clean and tidy.

At this time, there is already smoke rising from the small courtyard of the farmhouse, and from time to time the roar of agricultural machinery and the cries of cattle and sheep come into the ears, making the whole village have an indescribable warmth and peace.

Walking west along the main road in the middle of the village, Cheng Jiahui kept directing my car to stop in front of a courtyard in the southwesternmost corner of the village, because it was in the southwesternmost corner of the village, and the terrain here was slightly higher than the east, and there was a gentle slope in the middle that separated his yard from the rest of the house.

There are six brick houses in the courtyard in the south and north, there is a carbon house in the east, and there is a big straw shed in the west, although it is a brick house, but the house is old, obviously this house has been built for at least ten years and is obviously different from the newly built house in the village.

As soon as we entered the courtyard, we smelled the sweet smell of freshly steamed steamed buns, and the housewife of the family had already begun to prepare dinner.

Cheng Jiahui shouted loudly when he entered the hospital: "Grandma, grandma"

I saw a 60-year-old, slightly dark-skinned, lean and neat old woman walking out with a smile on her face.

Seeing me and Li Haoyu stunned for a moment, Cheng Jiahui hurriedly introduced: "This is Li Haoyu and his mother"

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The old woman immediately had a brighter smile on her face, and said enthusiastically: "Welcome, welcome, I have heard Cheng Jiahui talk about you for a long time, and he often comes to your house to trouble you, your family is so good to us Cheng Jiahui, we should have gone and thanked you a long time ago."

She let us into the house as she spoke.

We entered the house, as soon as we entered the door was a living room, there was a bedroom on each side, the back half of the living room was the kitchen, at this time the pot was steaming steamed buns, and the whole room was filled with a sweet smell of steamed buns.

The room was very clean and tidy, which showed that the hostess was a diligent and neat person.

As soon as I sat down, Cheng Jiahui's grandmother said to Cheng Jiahui, "Go catch a chicken"

Then he said to me, "I'll go to the yard and pick up some vegetables, and you'll eat here today."

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As soon as I heard this, I quickly stood up again and stopped: "Don't bother, we are sending Cheng Jiahui back, sit for a while and go back, don't be busy."

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"Then how can it work, we Cheng Jiahui often come to your house to trouble you, you all come to the house, how can you leave without eating, today you have to eat everything before leaving"

The old woman pulled me and said stubbornly.

Cheng Jiahui also took my arm and stared at me with his eyes and said seriously: "Auntie, you must stay for dinner today before leaving, otherwise I will be embarrassed to go to your house in the future."

Hearing Cheng Jiahui say this, I smiled and said, "Are you bargaining with me?" You're only a big person, so come to this set."

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Cheng Jiahui's eyes showed a look of longing, and he said a little coquettishly: "Auntie, are you staying?" Good no good? ”

His eyes suddenly made my heart move, I had been seeing pride and stubbornness in his eyes, and the longing in his eyes at this moment made me feel an indescribable pity from the bottom of my heart.

At this time, Li Haoyu heard that he was going to catch chickens, and immediately stood next to him eagerly and said: "Mom, let's stay and eat before leaving, Cheng Jiahui and I will go to catch chickens."

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Looking at my heartless son, I smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, let's stay, you go and catch the **"

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Li Haoyu happily turned around and ran out of the door first, standing at the door and shouting, "Which chicken to catch?" ”

"Whoever you can catch counts, catch the rooster"

Cheng Jiahui's grandmother shouted from behind.

Seeing the two young men flying and jumping the chickens in the yard, Cheng Jiahui's grandmother and I went to the vegetable field in front of the yard to pick vegetables.

Li Haoyu and they chased and caught a half-sized rooster, and Grandma Cheng Jiahui said that this was this year's rooster, and it happened to be fried and eaten.

We stood aside and watched Grandma Cheng Jiahui's hands and feet pluck the hot chicken, and I asked Grandma Cheng Jiahui: "What about Cheng Jiahui's father?" ”

"He and his dad went out to get grass"

The old woman said as she plucked her hair.

"What about Cheng Jiahui's mother? She also went to grass? ”

I asked.

Cheng Jiahui's grandmother glanced at Cheng Jiahui quickly, and immediately shut up, under the pretext that she wanted to take another basin and turned around and entered the house, while Cheng Jiahui kept a calm face and said nothing, I realized that I had inadvertently touched the sore spot of the family, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, and even Li Haoyu felt that the atmosphere was not right, and just looked at me silently.

Seeing Grandma Cheng Jiahui come out of the house with a basin and wash the plucked chickens in the water, I asked, "Why is your house built on this corner of the village, so far away from other people's homes?" ”

Cheng Jiahui's grandmother said proudly: "When the homestead was first drawn, Cheng Jiahui's father wanted this place, saying that it was far away from anyone's house, and the front and back of the house were spacious, and it was convenient to put agricultural machinery.

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Looking at the proud demeanor of this old woman when she talked about her son, I thought that Cheng Jiahui's father must have been spoiled by this woman when he was a child, and when I first met Cheng Jiahui's father, I felt strange about the arrogance in his eyes from time to time, how could a peasant who had the most no status in the eyes of the world in the wind and sun in the field have this kind of arrogance, and now there is an answer: being praised and pampered since childhood must be one of the reasons.

So he followed her words and said, "Your son is indeed prescient"

"Cheng Jiahui and his father were smart when he was a child, but unfortunately he didn't like to learn to be naughty, he was stubborn, no one could care, and everything else would be learned. Don't you look at the beautiful houses in the village now, when our family lived in a brick house, they all still lived in a clod house, and now they have only a few dollars and they are burning very much? It was not practical to build the house so fancy"

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Listening to the old man's disdainful but slightly jealous words, I thought to myself that this old lady was also a high-minded and arrogant character when she was young, and she was definitely the master of the house at home.

The old man was busy in the kitchen with his hands and feet, I couldn't help and came to the yard, I heard the sound of a tractor driving to the yard, I looked at the gate, the tractor stopped at the door, Cheng Jiahui's father Cheng Shaojie walked in, saw me standing in the yard, stunned for a moment, patted the soil on my body, and said very enthusiastically: "You came, Cheng Jiahui didn't tell us that you were coming"

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"I met Cheng Jiahui on the road and sent him back by the way, you went to grass?"

I didn't say it.

I looked at the large haystack outside the courtyard wall, which was much higher than the courtyard wall, and asked, "How many livestock do you have in your family, and how much grass do you have to threw?" ”

"We don't have many livestock, we have two cows, and more than a dozen sheep are let other people's families put it on their behalf, I beat these grasses to be sold in winter, don't look at the grass is worthless now, and a stack of grass will be sold for more than a dozen yuan in winter."

Cheng Shaojie hung a coat on his body under the grape trellis in the courtyard and said.

"Really? How much grass do you have to beat every day? ”

I asked curiously.

"Oh, that's not necessarily, anyway, now that the work in the field is done, there's nothing to do, drive the car and go out, the corn fields that others have harvested, the grass in the fields can be beaten, and you will come back after a car."

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"Do you bundle all the grass yourself, and pack it yourself? That's hard enough."

I looked at him and said.

Cheng Shaojie said with a smile: "I use a grass mower, the machine beats the grass into stacks, I just load it in the car and pull it back, I don't have to bundle it myself."

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Cheng Shaojie's complexion is already slightly dark, his face is even rougher, and his smile and white teeth are very conspicuous, which makes people feel that this person is very straightforward and laughs very happily.

When I walked out of the yard, I saw that there was indeed a cart of grass on the tractor body, and an old man in his sixties was moving the grass under the car.

I said to Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui who came out with me, "You still don't want to go over to help?" ”

The old man hurriedly stopped and said, "They haven't done these jobs, they don't need their help, we'll finish unloading them in a while, let them play."

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"Let them do it, both of them are half-sized boys, they should work hard to exercise"

I insisted.

Cheng Shaojie saw that I was resolute and felt that I was telling the truth, so he said very happily: "Okay, let them do it, throw the grass on the car to the haystack and build it, and do it well if you want to."

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Watching the four men unloading the grass in front of the haystack, stacking the grass, although Li Haoyu has never done farm work, he spares no effort when he works, and he has a kind of manly spirit and Cheng Jiahui, who has a calm demeanor, and feels that his son has really grown up.

At this time, the twilight has quietly fallen, I stand in the twilight and look out at the Nanshan Mountain, the smoke of the cooking in the village is rising, and I can quietly hear the sound of the murmuring of the Yuxi River not far away, along the Qingnan Highway that winds south along the Yuxi River to the mountain.

There was one day, there, I stood on the top of the mountain with him and watched the sun set in the mountains, sitting in front of the door of the small farm yard and watching the mountain villages shrouded in twilight.

At this moment, how I miss him here, such a good time, such a good view, why is he not here?

Why can't anyone share it with me?

I felt tears welling up in my eyes, he was like that, he was always inadvertently remembered like this, which made my heart ache faintly.

I clenched my fists and looked into the distance, the mountains in the vast expanse seemed to be shrouded in a faint mist, and the mountains seemed to be another world, and I could only stand outside the mountains and look at it from afar.