Chapter II: Rational Distribution (2)
"Jona, get up and eat, tomorrow will be (been) assigned, go, follow me to the town to buy a nice dress, hurry!" It was only 7 o'clock, Qiao Na rubbed her eyes, and she could feel her mother's busy figure with her eyes closed: she quickly took out the pigweed chopped last night with a dustpan and poured it into a large iron pot on the clay stove made of concrete outside, filled a full pot, and then sprinkled a scoop of corn flour (crushed corn) on the pigweed, mixed it with water, covered with a layer of plastic film, and then covered the pot with a lid, and cooked it over a fire; Open the coop, pour food into the trough and fill the sink with water; Wash and dry the dirty clothes that your family changed last night; Make breakfast and wake up the whole family to eat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Joe has grown so big, the "four steps" of my mother getting up have not changed, only the order of the "four steps" and my mother's gradually rickety back and stumbling steps. Qiao Na looked at her mother by the door, her nose was sore, she wanted to cry but she had to endure it, and her throat was uncomfortable for a while.
"Mom, I'm going to earn money after graduating now, and I'll pay you every month in the future, so don't work so hard."
"What's not hard, watching your brothers and sisters grow up one by one, Mom is happy, this bit of hardship is not counted, you are already very sensible, you go to college and pay for tuition with an award scholarship, which really saves me and your dad a lot, Mom sees it in her eyes, alas, don't say it, by the way, go see if your dad is back, tell him to finish eating first and then go to work."
"Where did my dad go so early, I mean I didn't see him."
"The grain is about to be harvested, so he is not busy fertilizing the grain for the last time, but fortunately, we have dug a manure pit in each of our crops, and we usually fill it up when we are free, and now it is easier." My hard-working and poor parents, Qiao Na finally couldn't help it, cried, and quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeve, for fear that her mother would see her and be worried, so she hurriedly ran to the small slope next to the house and called her father to eat.
Parents gave birth to Qiao's three brothers and sisters, Qiao Na is the eldest, the second is a younger sister, named Qiao Jia (home), now the county is a sophomore in high school, the youngest is a younger brother, named Qiao Ren (person), in the town to study the third year of junior high school, the names of the three brothers and sisters are connected together: that family. Don't think that Qiao's father is a well-educated person, an honest farmer, Qiaona asked his mother why he gave this name, and his mother told him an earth-shattering story:
Qiao was born in September of the lunar calendar, but since he was born, he has not been named, one day in the lunar month, the family saw a good day, and killed one of the most representative big fat pigs raised at home. After eating the "pig killing rice", everyone else went "interestingly", but the two uncles couldn't pull and couldn't go away (of course, Qiao Na estimated that this behavior was completed by two aunts), and had to pull to see his father's "fight the landlord", the legend is that the town bought home-brewed soju caused the trouble, that era was poor, not to lose money and cigarettes, seeing that his father lost a box of cigarettes and only one left, the goddess of luck came, a card by one touched actually touched the "two kings eight four two", but it is such a good deck of cards, played to the end not only even a "bomb" did not explode, There were signs of losing cards, at that time his mother was watching them play cards, while looking at Qiao Na in her arms, it is said that Qiao Na suddenly laughed at his mother stupidly, he was happy, so he dragged his father's arm, "His father, look at this, look at this, our son knows how to laugh," it is estimated that his father was completely engaged in the "battlefield" and could not extricate himself, and replied with a sentence "Look at that, oh look at this, don't (don't) be busy, don't be busy, wait for Ha (will)". His mother didn't care what his dad was doing to her, but she kept repeating it: "Look, Jona? Also, why don't you just give our son this name, the meaning is to take a long-term view, don't just stare at the landlord, do you think it's okay? After she finished her own fun, she found that his father and the three of them looked at my mother stupidly together, and Uncle Qiao Na was so wooden that he actually made a joke for the first time: "I think I want it, and I take it very well, but I didn't expect my sister to read one more book (semester) than me, and I really want to be more literate (some)", but I don't know that Qiao's mother also studied private school for a year. Later, with Qiaona's sister and younger brother, his father also had a whim, so he had such a funny name as your three brothers and sisters.
Qiao Na often recalls what his mother said about a rare scene when he was born, at that time, the countryside couldn't even eat enough, and there was not much oil and meat in the diet at all, so Qiao Na was born even less than three catties, and it was only as long as a chopstick, at that time, there was no need to go to the hospital to give birth, and the delivery was done by Qiao Na's grandmother, and I saw the skin but didn't see the meat when I was born, and the most important thing is that Qiao Na's face was green when he was born, and he didn't cry or make trouble, Qiao Na's mother recalled that his grandmother was honest all her life, But he did the most amazing thing: he used a cloth to pass Qiao Na's small mouth, and inhaled a few breaths from mouth to mouth (now this action is estimated to be called "artificial respiration"), and a miracle happened, Qiao Na began to cry, and this is normal.
In this life, I owe my parents, Qiao Na clenched his fists, but, I will make you happy, Qiao Na thought, and finally saw his father in the tall and low cornfield constantly getting up and bending over-up and bending over and repeating the action. Qiao Na let go of her voice, "Dad, it's time to eat, and you have the strength to work after eating." Originally, he wanted to say something, but found that he couldn't do it anymore.
After breakfast, Qiao Na followed his mother to the town to buy clothes, and his mother also carried two old hens to the town to sell, saying that it was for his younger brother to change some pocket money, Qiao Na was going to rush to the back, but his mother refused to let him, saying that it was to save the face of the young man. From the village to the town, you have to climb over a mountain, walk over a dilapidated "throwing bridge" without railings, pass through a few cemeteries, and then walk two kilometers of cement road to get to the town.
The mother, who is usually thrifty, ruthlessly bought Qiao Na two sets of new clothes and a pair of new leather shoes, when asking the price, Qiao Na could obviously feel a trace of twitching from her mother's face, but Qiao's repeated refusal gave her mother the determination to buy it. After that, Qiao Na went to school, gave all the money from his mother's hen sale to his younger brother, and encouraged his younger brother to study hard and be admitted to the county No. 1 middle school, and he didn't have to worry about the rest, and told his younger brother to take care of himself, and call him if he was short of money in the future. Later, I told my mother that Qiao Na used the only ten yuan left in her pocket to invite her mother to eat a bowl of shredded pork noodles, and also invited herself to eat a bread of noodles (copying hands), but I didn't expect that there would be 1 yuan left.
The day is July 10, 2008.