Chapter 69: Mars
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I went back to my parents' home. A chicken in his left hand, a duck in his right hand, and a fat doll on his back. Lin Meiru asked Sheng Aiguo to send her back to her parents' house early in the morning. It's just such a big belly, Sheng Aiguo doesn't worry about her running around. But it's still stubborn. So as long as I accompanied Lin Meiru to take the bus back to the village.
Although Liu Xiaoying's mother's family is gone, the elders of her mother's family are still there. So I also took Lin Shuang back to take a look. Lin Zhihong did not follow because of his legs. Nothing happened on this day. The red envelopes that were mixed at a relative's house during the day, and when they arrived home at night, Lin Shuang took the initiative to hand them in.
"Mom, give you a red envelope." Lin Shuang was still a little reluctant to give it out. But Liu Xiaoying communicated with him. The red envelopes Lin Shuang received were all given by relatives. But when the children of relatives came to Lin Shuang's house, Liu Xiaoying also wanted to give it, and she had to give a little more. At present, the family's financial situation is difficult, so Lin Shuang can only let Liu Xiaoying keep all the red envelopes he received.
Liu Xiaoying touched Lin Shuang's little head, and she was also sad in her heart. However, the situation at home is definitely a little tense now, and it will be good to wait for a few years. "Thank you for both of us. When school starts, Mom will buy you a new school bag! ”
"I want the flower fairy." The schoolbag that Lin Shuang is carrying now was sewn by Liu Xiaoying with a piece of cloth herself. The little girls in the city are mostly carrying schoolbags printed with characters from cartoons. Lin Shuang's schoolbag looked dirty and ugly.
"yes, I see. I'll buy you some notebooks and pens then. Liu Xiaoying felt a little sorry for Lin Shuang. Lin Shuang helps watch the store every day after school. It's rare to have a day off, and I have to be caught by Liu Xiaoying to buy goods. It is often the little Lin Shuang who holds the handlebar in front and steps hard, and Liu Xiaoying pushes the tricycle behind. In fact, it is not easy for both mother and daughter.
After putting away the red envelopes handed over by Lin Shuang, Liu Xiaoying went to get a lot of rice candy and peanut candy for Lin Shuang to eat. Because Lin Shuang has reached the age of changing teeth, Liu Xiaoying has a strict control over sweets. took advantage of today's soft-hearted heart and took two more pieces for the little girl. There is a popcorn machine in Gangnam. After throwing the rice and saccharin into it, after another three to five minutes, the expanded rice will be fried. The rice is poured into the boiled oil sugar, stirred, put into a mold, and cut into pieces, it becomes rice candy. In the process of making, fried peanuts are added, which is peanut candy.
Lin Shuang didn't like to eat these things very much, but Liu Xiaoying gave it, and Lin Shuang would not refuse. Look at those few pieces of rice candy. Lin Shuang suddenly thought of something. Turn around and run outside. But Liu Xiaoying shouted: "It's going to be dark, what else are you going to run outside?" ”
Lin Zhihong didn't object: "Xiaoying, let her go." Anyway, it's in the village, and you can hear any movement as soon as you shout. You let her play for a while. As soon as Lin Shuang heard his father's words, he ran away quickly.
After coming out of the Lin family, Lin Shuang didn't run around, and slowly grinded a piece of rice candy in his mouth. All the way slowly walked to the vicinity of Wang Xiao's house. From a distance, I saw that the door of Wang Xiao's house was open, and the lights in the house were also on. After Wang Shufeng found a door that day, Wang Xiao's house did not open the door for two consecutive days. I don't know if I really went to visit my relatives, or if I was avoiding Wang Shufeng.
Lin Shuang slowly approached Wang Xiao's house. I heard Wang Xiaomu's mother shouting: "Xiaoxiao, you go and pull some soft grass back." "Soft grass and hard firewood is a saying in the south of the Yangtze River. Soft grass refers to the wheat and rice straw left over after the wheat and rice are harvested. These soft grasses are not burned, but are mostly used as tools for making fires after drying.
Hard firewood refers to cotton stalks, soybean shelfs, sesame shelfs and the like. And then there's some twigs and stuff like that. These soft grass and hard firewood are generally piled up in front of the house and behind the house, so that they can be taken when they need to be used.
Wang Xiao answered and was about to go outside the house, Lin Shuang subconsciously didn't want Wang Xiao to see him, so he hid in the dark. With the help of the light in the house, Lin Shuang saw Wang Xiao carrying two bundles of straw from the haystack to the house. However, I don't know if it was because the haystack was not stacked properly, or if the straw rope that tied the straw was not tied tightly in the first place. The straw that Wang Xiao moved fell all the way from the haystack to the stove in their house.
"It's such a big person, you can't make a living. You look at the grass on the ground, and it mops the ground. Can you do things with snacks? Wang Xiaomu's mother looked at the grass in this place, and her heart was congested. In the past few days, I have been thinking about Doudou in my heart, and Wang Xiaomu's mother is irritable.
Wang Xiaomu's mother couldn't think about it, so she pulled up a cotton pole and pumped it. "It's not a matter of telling you to do things. I can fight with others so much that I can fight hard. I'm not raising a son, I'm raising a debt collector. If you think about it, your heart will be on fire. "The cotton pole also hurts when it is pumped on people. Wang Xiao naturally didn't want to stand and be beaten. After hiding twice, he ran out of the house.
Wang Xiaomu's mother chased after her: "If you have the ability to run, then don't come back!" After scolding, he threw the cotton pole in his hand to the ground.
Lin Shuang stood in the dark and watched a scene of the Wang family's mother and son. I feel a little dark in my heart, and I told you to beat Doudou, and now you yourself are being beaten! Deserve!
After Wang Xiao ran out of the house, he didn't run around, and ran to his haystack. I dug a hole the size of a man in the haystack and nested in it. Wang Xiao is a leather child, and it is a common thing to be beaten at home since he was a child. I am also used to the days when my mother runs by herself as soon as she waves the stick.
Wang Xiao groped in the haystack for a while, and finally found a cold steamed bun. The cold steamed buns are too hard, Wang Xiao suddenly thought, if you use fire to roast them, the cold steamed buns will become roasted steamed buns, and they must be delicious! So Wang Xiao smoked some soft grass on the side of his haystack and piled it up in a pile, took out a match from his pocket and lit it carefully.
The fire is lit, but how do you put the steamed buns on it and roast it? Hold it in your hands? That hand will be roasted too. Wang Xiao remembered that there were a few short bamboo poles at the back of his house. If you bake the steamed buns on a bamboo stalk, you will definitely be able to bake them well. So Wang Xiao turned around and ran to the back of his house to get a bamboo pole.
After Lin Shuang saw Wang Xiao leave, he walked out of the shadows. Lin Shuang hated Wang Xiao beating Doudou, so he broke up the fire that Wang Xiao had lit, and the fire was extinguished at once without firewood. Lin Shuang felt that he was still angry like this, and deliberately went up and stepped on two feet. Now there is no Mars anymore. Lin Shuang, who Wang Xiao put aside the steamed buns, was about to take them, but when he heard Wang Xiao's footsteps, Lin Shuang ran back to the dark before he could save the steamed buns.
Wang Xiao took the bamboo pole and came back to take a look, and found that the fire he had lit had been extinguished. Simply lit a bigger fire. After the fire was lit, Wang Xiao lowered his head and inserted the steamed buns on the bamboo poles, when suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the sparks were blown onto the Wang family's haystacks. Dotted with stars, bright and dark sparks attached to the haystack, it looks like a beautiful painting.