The autumn wind and autumn rain are sad

Before the sun could show its smiling face over the horizon, the shrill whistling sound had pierced the silence of the morning.

"Woo-ah-hehe-hea-woo!"

"Big eyes! Take control of Dashun in your house, the ghost cries and the wolf howls early in the morning, and my cub will still sleep! Nan Qiu's mother stood on the side of the road and shouted in the direction of the ancestral hall.

Except for the crowing rooster's "oh oh" cry, there was no sound to reply to her. After waiting for a while, Nanqiu's mother saw that no one was talking, so she tied up her uncombed hair on her forehead and went back to the house by herself. After a while, smoke rose from the half-built new house of Nanqiu's family.

"Woo-ah-hehe-hea-woo!" The chaotic screams continued, but they were far away from the village and could not disturb the children's dreams. Dashun waved the bamboo branch in his hand, his whole body was like twisting a clockwork, dancing mechanically and wildly, watching his own cattle on the field be frightened left and right, Dashun's face showed a happy and satisfied smile. There were still last night's rice grains hanging on the corners of his dirty eyebrows, but Dashun didn't care, I don't know when he found a cigarette butt that had attracted all his attention. Da Shun learned from Uncle Xian Meng, and put the cigarette butt obliquely at the corner of his mouth, which made Da Shun smile again. Laughing without a city. It's just that such an expression appears on Dashun, which will make normal people feel wasteful.

As the morning light gradually intensifies, the pond lying quietly in the middle of the village gradually becomes lively.

"Dad—it's time to eat! Dad—it's time to eat......" Chenchen, the youngest son of Shen Hua's family, was standing on the edge of the pond in the middle of the village, shouting loudly to his father to come home for dinner. The crisp and immature children's voice floated out of the morning light for a long time, and the cliff in the distance was like a giant curtain in the south of the village. The cliff blocked Chenchen's voice back, and the whole village could hear Chenchen's voice.

After a while, a few more people called like Chenchen and a few who called their families home for dinner like Chenchen, and they were also standing on the edge of the pond and shouting loudly at the cliff.

"Dad—it's time to eat! Dad - it's time to eat......"

"Mom—it's time to eat! Second Uncle - Eat......"

The sun at the end of summer also came to join in the excitement, and it was very lively for a while. The morning sun that had just jumped out of the horizon shone softly on the faces of this group of people, and everyone seemed to be coated with a faint golden glow. The expectant eyes were particularly dazzling under the golden light.

Even at the end of the season, the heat of the temperature still did not subside much, and they could only work while the sun was still lazy. Except for the houses where there was really no labor or the problem of eating was solved, all the people in the village who could go out to work early in the morning went out.

"Ahh Wait for the family to come, regardless of each family, listen attentively to the sound of the reply, and feel that the people in the house will go home to set the dishes and chopsticks.

Chenchen also returned home, and the dilapidated old house was given to his father by his grandfather when he got married. Although it has now reached the point of heavy rain and small rain, Chenchen still feels that this home is very warm.

The dark and low dining table has a thick smoky smell, and it is a bit difficult to make it feel greasy. Except for the fact that this small table will be a little small during the New Year, it is very spacious at other times. A bowl of pickles in the center and a bowl of seasonal vegetables in the center of the country stabilized the family's financial system. As a result, this small dining table has been passed on.

The dim room was filled with a heavy damp smell, the traces of the previous rainstorm had not disappeared, the ashes in the hearth were still wet, and the fire in the morning filled the house with thick smoke. Chenchen stood next to the cauldron with a bowl in his hand, waiting for his mother to lift the lid.

"Let's see if your father and brother are back, and the rice will be steamed for a while, don't you like to eat pots! Steam the pot for a while and you're done. Shen Hua's daughter-in-law took off the wet rag that was covering the edge of the pot, and sniffed the steam with her nose.

Chenchen happily put down the bowl when he heard this, and as soon as he walked to the door, his father and brother came back.

"How much peanut grass is left? The valley is also going to dig a ditch, and if the water in the field is not released, I am afraid that it will be too late to cut the grain, and I saw that the grain is growing very well this year. There should be quite a few fights. ”

"I really don't know where so many things come from, I can't win if I'm busy! Busy not killing! Shen Hua angrily threw the hoe on the edge of the chicken coop, startling a black hen that had just entered the cage to lay eggs flew out, leaving a series of "cooing ......and clucking" and rushing away.

"Are you mad early in the morning? What year do these things not be done! If the chicken lays eggs well, you have to scare it, and the chickens lay eggs on these chickens, and scare the embryos. Shen Hua's daughter-in-law counted Chen Hua and took the bowl to the stove to give Chen Hua a meal.

The rice was yellow like an enamel bowl, Shen Hua held the big enamel bowl, sandwiched a chopstick pickle and put it in the bowl, took a bite and stopped, "Peng Peng, hurry up and eat, take your brother to school after eating." ”

"Tuition Matters......

"Let them go to school first, read a little is a little!" Shen Hua interrupted his daughter-in-law.

How can the matter of tuition fees be easily solved. One is four hundred and two, the other is three hundred and three, and the tuition fees of two people are almost as much as the money earned in a year in this house. It's just the beginning of school, and the valley hasn't yet reached the time of cutting, and in previous years, it was all up to the family to go out to contract the fields and cut the land to solve the problem of tuition. There is no way to do this, you can only delay, this depends on the face of the sky and the face of the person.

Except for the sound of eating, the whole family remained silent. The elder brother Shen Xiaopeng is five years older than the younger brother Chenchen. This big five-year-old may be sensible, and behind the sensible may be bitterness, no teenager is willing to lose his innocence early and turn to precocious understanding of adult responsibility!

Shen Xiaopeng lowered his head and ate, but his head was buried too low, and his head was about to be buried in the bowl.

"Peng Peng, hurry up and eat, it's half past six!" Mother urged, Shen Xiaopeng seemed to have rice soup sticking to his face, he looked up and said yes, and wiped his face inadvertently with both hands. The mother put the two schoolbags she had made on the threshold, and then wrapped the browned pots from the bottom of the pot in paper and stuffed them into the brothers' school bags.

Shen Xiaopeng put down the bowl that had bottomed out, picked up his schoolbag and ran to the door, and then shouted Chenchen's name. Six-year-old Chenchen only started preschool. For him, going to school means having a lot of children to play with, which makes him happy. happily answered my brother, took the schoolbag and ran out. Didn't notice the silence of Mom and Dad in the house. There is such a path in the world, one end is the past memories, the other end points to the future node, and the present stands in the middle. No one could see the road, but everyone knew about it, and some tried to escape, but in the end he found that no matter how far he fled, he had traveled as far as he went!

Chenchen and his brother also walked on a mountain path, the path was undulating and tortuous, for the brothers who were used to shuttling in the mountains and jungles, such a path was nothing, even if it was a sheep intestine trail, Chenchen and his brother had no problem.

The browned pan has not yet softened with moisture, and it is crispy and chewy to bite. In this era of scarcity of various materials, this small pot is really a great snack, and the only thing that can be compared with it is peanuts and fried beans after the autumn harvest. It is best to use pumpkin seeds, which are not only durable but also extraordinarily fragrant. But these three things are generally left to be used as seeds for the second year, so they are more precious and rare to eat often, but this small pot is often not tired of eating.

The elder brother walked with his head down, and Chenchen couldn't catch up with him, so he could only sit on the ground and shout loudly. Shen Xiaopeng didn't want to pay attention to his younger brother, but he couldn't stand his brother's commotion, so he could only walk back slowly. "Hurry up. I'm going to be late, and if I'm late, Mr. Guo is going to play with a hand. ”

Hearing "Mr. Guo" Chenchen sat up from the ground, accidentally the pot fell to the ground, and then picked it up, "Mom said that the pot can still be eaten when it falls to the ground and rubbed it, and so is the flour tuo, just wash it with water outside." Shen Xiaopeng handed the pot in his schoolbag to Chenchen, but Chenchen didn't answer. You eat, I still have this, and I can't eat it anymore. Chenchen picked up his clothes and patted his stomach.

Chen Xiaopeng stared at Chenchen for a while.

"Chenchen, you go to school first! I...... Something is not going! ”

Chenchen didn't understand his brother's words, but he knew that his parents knew that he had to kneel on the washboard if he skipped class. Kneeling on the washboard hurts. "No! Dad will make us kneel on the washboard when he knows, the washboard is so scary! ”

Shen Xiaopeng looked in the direction of the school and muttered, "Do you know how terrible the eyes of the classmates in the classroom are!" "Chenchen didn't hear his brother's words, and even if he did, he couldn't understand it!

Shen Xiaopeng's former brother's hand, chewing the pot in his mouth, lowered his head and walked towards the school. At this time, he was thinking about his sister Shen Hong. She has already gone to work, and she doesn't have to see the strange eyes of her classmates anymore! Even now he wants to go to work. Even though he was only twelve years old, and even though he looked like a normal ten-year-old, he really wanted to leave the classroom and go to a strange place where he would no longer laugh at him. However, he didn't dare to leave school, if it weren't for him, his sister and younger brother wouldn't have taken a year off from school, and then my sister would have to go to work before graduating from the sixth grade!

He didn't dare to think about Shen Hong's eyes when he left the house, when he thought of this, he wanted to cry! Two of the morning's classes have passed, and there are still two classes to go. Shen Xiaopeng became more and more nervous, and his heart beat faster than the class bell. The next two classes were all by the head teacher Han Xianhua, and Shen Xiaopeng was not afraid of him, but afraid of him by name.

The reality is often like this, what you are afraid of is not only unavoidable, but also must be faced directly.

Han Xianhua has a long ring ruler under his armpit, saying that it is a ring ruler, but it is actually an arm-long, index finger-wide, palm-thick wooden strip. According to his own words, this ruler was cut from a cypress branch that he carefully selected, and he has been with him for five or six years, and basically none of the students who have gone out of this elementary school have missed its taste.

The classroom was very quiet, and everyone's eyes were a little wandering, some were afraid, some were ashamed, and some were evasive like Shen Xiaopeng.

Han Xianhua glanced at everyone and silently opened the book. "Continuing yesterday's lecture, turning the math book to page 27, everyone listened to my roll call while reading it." Shen Xiaopeng's flipping through the book stopped, he was waiting for his name to come out of Mr. Han's mouth.

Han Xianhua shook his head, and then read calmly: "Zhang Shen, Zhang Zhu, Han Yue, Xie Dongping, Shen Miao...... The students who didn't get the name went home to urge their parents to pay the tuition fees quickly, this has been a month since the start of school, and if the tuition can't be made up by the school, they can only arrange to drop out! ”

Shen Xiaopeng was very grateful to Mr. Han, he silently took out his schoolbag from the table, and quietly walked out of the back door with several other classmates.

The autumn tiger is really fierce, the cicadas chirp in the playground staged a chaotic symphony, and the landscape trees planted in front of the school building drooped their heads under the scorching sun.

Shen Xiaopeng looked up at the cool sun, "Can you fucking be a little hotter?" Shen Xiaopeng's head was full of sweat, but his limbs were all cold, and he really wanted the sun to be a little hotter to warm his limbs.

One of the advantages of the old house is that it is cool in summer, Shen Xiaopeng pushed open the dilapidated door, found that there was no one inside, the sweat on his forehead disappeared quickly, he leaned against the door frame, and sat on the threshold weakly.

He knew where everyone in the family had gone at this time, but he didn't want to be distracted anymore, what if he couldn't stand crying? So just wait!

An hour later, Chenchen would also come, and he saw his brother running over happily at the door.

"Let's play!"

Chenchen stood still, looked at his brother's dark face, and tiptoed into the house.

Another hour passed, and Chen Chen said timidly, "Brother! Hungry! ”

Shen Xiaopeng got angry and pulled Chenchen to the hall, but before he entered the hall, he heard Shen Hua's voice in the corridor.

"You shouldn't have spades! The pair of blocks is definitely big! Shen Hua's voice was very excited, as if he was about to throw his throat out. If you look at two cards, don't talk anymore, otherwise the deck won't count."

Shen Xiaopeng heard that it was Uncle Xianmeng's voice, and when he thought that his family's Huahua had already paid the tuition, his heart was a little blocked.

"Xianmeng, it's time for you to play your cards!" Uncle Libao urged Uncle Xianmeng to play his cards.

Chenchen saw a lot of people playing cards, his eyes were rolling, staring at the cards in their hands very curiously. Shen Xiaopeng walked in front of his mother, Shen Hua's daughter-in-law was in Xianmeng's hand, and it was her turn to play her cards. She also saw Shen Xiaopeng. So she said while playing her cards: "Peng Peng, Chenchen is out of school, yes!" Wait until this dish is finished and go back to the house to cook...... Out of what? ”

Shen Hua, who was looking at the card next to "Square 8", replied.

"Cubes! I don't think I have it! Shen Hua's daughter-in-law muttered, Uncle Libao on the opposite side fell fiercely, and Uncle Xianmeng played the main card and killed.

"Aren't you too good to get a block, you can kill it too, it's a little bigger than Xianmeng, and the points are just enough to break." "Wow!" Shen Hua's daughter-in-law took a closer look at the cards, and a square was sandwiched in hearts, "There is a square that I don't see!" Can't be killed! ”

"You can see clearly when you play cards, where is it the same as you, a pair of big-eyed dragons are not like this." Uncle Li Bao was very angry when he saw that this ten points were stopped like this.

Shen Hua's daughter-in-law listened to Uncle Libao's words, and stood up suddenly, "You are only a pair of big-eyed dragons, so I said that you will be stupid to give points." Do you have any brains? ”

"You ......" Uncle Li Bao wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xianmeng.

"I'm going to quarrel with you two after playing, now it's time to make sure you play your cards!"

Uncle Li Bao looked at Xian Meng, and then glanced at Shen Hua's daughter-in-law fiercely, and responded to the next card indiscriminately. Shen Hua stood behind his daughter-in-law squinting and smoking, as if he didn't care about what had just happened.

The game quickly dispersed, and on the way home, Shen Hua's daughter-in-law said vigorously how to play cards, "If he didn't play blindly in the end, my hand of cards would definitely be able to break them, just the last ten." I was supposed to win, but in the end, I lost a dollar and a half cent. ”

Speaking of this piece of five cents, Shen Hua's daughter-in-law spoke a little heavier, you must know that the pork was only two yuan a pound at that time. The family hadn't weighed meat for almost a month.

Shen Hua listened to his daughter-in-law's nagging and kept smoking his cigarette. Shen Xiaopeng was disgusted when he saw Shen Hua smoking. A pack of "Double Happiness" is two yuan five, he has to draw two packs a day, and if he has no money, he goes on credit, I don't know how much money he owes in Shen Lin's house secretly.

Shen Hua's three meals a day are basically the same, today I don't know if it's because the money lost is relatively small, I added a plate of winter melon to lunch, and the dark golden soy sauce was poured on the crispy winter melon, which looked like braised pork.

Shen Xiaopeng stared at Shen Hua after lunch, Shen Hua glanced at him, and asked him with food in his mouth, "Is Teacher Han urging tuition again?" What did Mr. Guo say? Shen Xiaopeng didn't speak, he didn't know how to say.

"Mr. Guo told us about "Spring Dawn" today. I can still memorize it. I don't know when I sleep in spring, and I smell birds everywhere......"

The sound of wind and rain at night, how many flowers fall!

After Shen Xiaopeng finished eating, he put the bowl in the rice pot, and the water in the rice pot was already heated by the embers in the hearth. "Let's go and get rid of all the peanut grass in the back mountain in the afternoon."

Shen Hua's daughter-in-law wanted to say something, but her mouth muttered twice and stopped. What could she say? It's not a matter of five cents, and it won't solve the problem by saying it.

Shen Hua re-lit the half of the extinguished smoke, and layers of smoke rose, like clouds floating outside the window.

It's going to rain!