Chapter 2 Hometown
I jumped off the bed one by one, and couldn't help laughing after jumping out of bed, even this slapping sound is so familiar, it must be my mother on the first floor slapping the wooden partition in the middle hall, the solid wood partition is five or six meters high, and the beating sound is very loud. When I was a child www.biquge.info I loved to sleep lazy, every time my mother couldn't wake up, she would clatter the wooden partition, the sound was dull and loud, usually I would hurry downstairs when I heard this sound, and then I didn't go down, and soon after, my dad had to carry a stick up.
Thinking of this, I smiled again. When I was a child, I was beaten by my parents a lot, and I was the kind of bear child who didn't hit the roof for three days.
My house is a three-story white-walled cement tile house, in order to dig out the bird's nest in the crack of the eaves, I climbed on the roof and lifted the black tiles of my house, my dad didn't know until it rained heavily.
So, mixed doubles or something...... Hey, it's all tears.
But since I was 10 years old, my dad stopped beating me. That day, he said to me earnestly: You will be a big girl in the future, and when you grow up, I will not beat you again. You have to be careful and don't go crazy.
Sure enough, he never hit me again. Every time I made a mistake, he and my mother glared at me with a sharp look, and then combined with the gloomy you wait for me!
You wait for me! This sentence has shadowed my entire adolescence, and I always feel that one day, he and my mother are holding back, accumulating to make a big move, and when the time comes, it is estimated that I will have no place to die.
I straightened my clothes and walked downstairs, where Yeri and my sister lived on the third floor, and the second floor was where my parents lived, with a wooden staircase in between. I went down the stairs, and the staircase was still very new, not as damaged as it was in reality.
Between the first and second floors is a concrete staircase, which is very steep, and the top one is wider than the others, about 40 centimeters. The deepest impression is that when I was a child, I took my father's coat and spread it on it to take a nap, although my sister Ye Lu rolled down the stairs many times, but this did not affect Ye Li to sleep comfortably here. Where did that green coat go? Yeri couldn't remember it anymore.
"Hurry up and go down to feed the pigs, and then go see if Ye Lu's clothes have been washed? The two coats were washed all afternoon, and they must have been playing in the water again, telling her to go home quickly. At the staircase on the first floor, my mother stuck her head in, whispered a few words to me, who was still standing at the top of the stairs in a daze, and walked out quickly, about to cook dinner.
I was a little stunned, my mother is so young, and my impression of my mother is always coming and going, working in the mountains and down the fields more ruthlessly than men. When I was about young, I was too tired, and when I was fifty or sixty years old, all kinds of ailments came out, and it was not a big problem, but I loved to run to the hospital twice in three days, and I was uncomfortable without taking some medicine. Of course, there are more psychological factors, she always feels that she has a lot of problems, and she feels sad if she doesn't go to the hospital, unless the doctor tells her that it's okay, she will be quiet for a while. My dad saw her like that, and let her run to the hospital, peace of mind.
I went downstairs to the living room, and the furnishings of the house were just as I remembered. Looking through the glass window in the middle of the living room, my mother was cooking in the kitchen, and the sound of chopping vegetables and meat kept coming, while chatting with my grandmother who was burning the fire.
I walked to the kitchen, took two steps with the barrel and paused. Oops, I forgot where the corn flour was for the pig food. I said a little embarrassedly: "Mom, where is the pig powder?" ”
"Let you sleep and sleep, sleep stupidly." He snatched the wooden barrel one by one, walked to the porcelain jar on the side, scooped a few spoons with the missing wooden spoon, and handed the wooden bucket to me: "Go and mix the water, you know where the pigs are?" ”
My mom just casually sarcastic, she didn't expect that I really don't remember where the pigs were. I remember my family raising pigs in three places, two in the east and one in the west. But where is it now, I can't remember it well.
Standing at the door with pig food, I didn't know which way to go. I couldn't help but sigh deeply in my heart, this dream was really helpless.
"Ye Qiao, are you feeding the pigs? I'll carry it for you. After saying that, I didn't care whether I agreed or not, picked up the pig food bucket, and went east.
Hey, do you want to carry it? What does it mean that you just take it away by yourself?
"Ye Xiaomeng?"
"What? Let's go. "Ye Xiaomeng is a year younger than me, the daughter of the neighbor behind my house, she has been following my ass since she was a child, and she is the only female ally in the combat army when I was a child.
Oh forgot to say, I was the king of children when I was a child, and the children who were about the same age as me around the family, regardless of men and women, were all under my command. Especially every time I was instructed by my mother to do housework, these allies were more diligent than me, such as feeding the pigs, if it was the noon meal, there would definitely be two children who would carry me there, and I didn't even need to show the way on the side, they were more familiar than me with where my pigs were raised.
When I had nothing to do, I took them up to the mountains to hunt finches and pick wild vegetables, and went down to the stream to catch fish and crabs, etc. Life is so uncomfortable. Unexpectedly, when I grew up, everyone went to the big city, and it was rare to go home once a year, and I didn't necessarily meet them, and the friendship when I was a child gradually faded.
Thinking of this, I felt a little sad, and looked at Ye Xiaomeng, who was stumbling in front of me, and I was a little moved.
After feeding the pigs, I urged Ye Xiaomeng: "You go home quickly, I still have to go to the east to call my sister home, she is still washing clothes there." ”
"It's definitely playing in the water, and I'm going to play too."
"It's getting dark, what are you playing, you go home for dinner, and come to my house to watch TV after eating."
Ye Xiaomeng has always listened to me, and her mother said to my mother: "I asked Xiaomeng to do some work and grind for a long time, your Ye Qiao said a word, she didn't let go of a fart and did it." ”
My mom was so proud when she heard it, and she didn't know what she was proud of.
I put the bucket down and headed east. I have had countless dreams since I was a child, and the sky in my dreams is always gray and cloudy. But today is very exceptional, on the other side of the mountain, I actually saw the afterglow of the sunset, and the sunset reflected half the sky.
In the evening, it is a time of magic.
I heard the laughter of children from afar, and walked to the bluestone bridge, the stone bridge is about three meters long, and under the bridge is a stream pit of about three meters. Further up, there are stone steps, and after about twenty steps, there is a very deep col, and the light is a little dim.
I saw Ye Lu and another child playing in the water, the two of them splashed water on the edge of the puddle, laughing very happily, there seemed to be a child on the edge of the pit, I couldn't see clearly, only to see a gray squatting on the bluestone slab.
"You're not going home yet? Mom is going to come over and fight. ”
The laughter stopped abruptly, and I heard a plop, only to see a black shadow pounce in front of me, and a black shadow pounced into the puddle, and there was a sound of water. I was startled, and rushed to the edge of the puddle in three or two steps, and the creek pit was about four or five square meters. For as long as I can remember, the villagers in the eastern village have been drinking water from this puddle.
Above the puddle is a stone canopy built with bluestone slabs, the clear mountain spring flows down from the stone wall, the water ripples in the pit, but I still can't stop the surprise in my heart, I obviously saw a black shadow jump into the pit, but why nothing?
"Hurry up, go home, go home." On the side, Ye Lu put the two pieces of clothes into the basin twice, urging the little friend. When I saw it, it was Ye Hong, a girl from my cousin's family in the same village, who was one year younger than me and could be regarded as a cousin. is Ye Lu's loyal partner, and the relationship between the two has been very good since childhood.
"Just the two of you?"
"yes. I'll be back right away. Ye Lu threw the laundry detergent, board brush, mallet and water spoon into the bucket, and then stuffed them all into me, pulling Ye Hong and the two of them away with a grin.
Although it was summer, the evening breeze was blowing, I didn't know why it was a little cold, I was about to go back with the wooden barrel, I caught a glimpse of what was inserted in the stone crevice, squatted down to see, it was the incense that had been burned, only the last bamboo skewer was left, dyed with red incense powder, and a large handful of bamboo skewers were quietly inserted in the stone crevice.
I know that every year during the Spring Festival, the first person who comes to use water has to bring incense, paper and candles to worship, and only after the worship can they use water. Qingming Festival and the seventh half, people go to the grave to worship their ancestors and come back, passing by the puddle, they will also insert a pillar of incense.
As for what to worship, I still haven't figured it out. When I asked my mother, my mother didn't know, saying that it was handed down from my ancestors.
Looking at the quiet water again, it was already dark, and only the sound of running water could be heard in the puddle, and the water surface could no longer be seen clearly. My heart tightened, and I carried the wooden barrel and followed Ye Lu who was far away, and quickly returned home.