As soon as the sky was bright, there was the sound of gently sweeping the floor in the yard, and there was also a movement in the kitchen to gently pull the bellows to cook the fire, Dalin knew that it was the prelude to a day's work of his parents. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cui Changxing is not too old, only in his early sixties, but his waist has already begun to bend, and many elderly rural people are like him, and their waists are a little bent, which is the result of long-term hard work. Their waists are like a bow, and their children are like arrows, and after the arrows are shot out one by one by the bow, the bow cannot be put into storage, but it must continue to play a role and contribute to the children or grandchildren.

Cui Changxing has only been in primary school for a few years, has little education, and can't read a few words, but he is very concerned about his sons' academic performance. Dalin remembers that when he and Erlin had good academic performance, his father was happy, but he was silent on the surface and did not have a word of encouragement; When he regressed in his studies with Erlin, or when he didn't do well in a certain exam, his father knew about it, and he was secretly anxious in his heart, and he didn't have a word of reproach, just squatting in a corner of the yard and smoking a cigarette. When Dalin was in the second year of high school, his academic performance in the class was still not slippery, and his brain at that time was enough, but he was obsessed with reading novels, and reading Chinese and foreign classics one by one. One morning, the fourth class was self-study, and while the teacher was away, Dalin slipped out of the classroom to read a novel in the woods on the bank of the small river behind the campus, and he just walked to the embankment of the river, and found his father kneeling by the river and drinking the water from the river with his palm, with two gnawed boiled corn cobs beside him.

In order to allow his son to have more time to study, Cui Changxing has to send living expenses and some food to Dalin, who goes to school in the county seat, every 20 days or half a month, and in order to save 12 yuan for the bus fare, he has to spend most of the day riding a bicycle to walk nearly 40 kilometers round trip.

He came a little earlier on this day, the students of the school had not yet finished class, and the guard guarding the school gate did not let him in, he wanted to finish the boiled corn for lunch by the river, and then go to deliver something to Da Lin, he didn't want to be bumped into by Da Lin.

That is, from that day on, Dalin studied much more carefully than before, and his academic performance also improved a lot.

Old people always have too much worry about their children, the older they get, the heavier their worries, their crutches are like detectors, alert to the subtle changes that occur in their children, as well as the various information revealed in their words, and find all kinds of problems that may arise at any time, but they are always powerless, lack the ability to deal with problems, and can only follow their own thoughts, with their mouths to remind and repeatedly admonish, telling them to do this or that, these reminders and admonitions, by young people called" verbose" and "nagging".

Dalin's parents didn't sleep in the middle of the night yesterday, and the most heartbreaking thing for the couple was that the object of their two sons had not yet been settled. I heard that young people living in big cities talk about friends and get married late, and they don't have much to worry about Dalin. Erlin already belongs to the older unmarried young people in the countryside, and the further back he drags, the more difficult it is to find the object, although Tie Dan told them that the girl Erlin saw the day before yesterday is not very good-looking, her chest is not bulging and her back is bulging, her waist is fat, her feet are big, her neck is thick, and she is lazy and unreasonable, and she is only worthy of some stinky men as mattresses, and the husband and wife still feel a little sorry in their hearts.

Dalin had already woken up, and he wouldn't get up to help his parents do some housework, because that would make them uneasy, and it would be a pleasure for them to endure hardships for their son.

Da Lin lay quietly on the bed, thinking a lot, he remembered a sentence that someone said: Man, when he loves you when he has everything, he really loves you; A woman, when she loves you when she has nothing, is really loving you.

Dalin knows that rural youth, especially their parents are like rural youth at his own age, can't sum up such a truth, let alone say such philosophical words, many of them, get married and start a family, it seems that it doesn't matter whether they love or not, they can make do with life together, "just ask what love is, and be confused all your life." However, the mother who has nothing is married to the father who has nothing, she should really love her father, and her father's honesty and hard-working are the pride and pride of her life. Some elderly people in the countryside have a very solid foundation for their marriages, and some of them are even solid, the wind cannot be broken, the rain cannot be dispersed, and they will be accompanied by hardships for a lifetime. Many marriages are like a pair of shoes that don't fit well sewn with thousands of stitches, even if they wear a little squeezed feet, they will not easily change another pair, let alone throw it away. Therefore, it would be too romantic to say that a strong marriage in the countryside is the power of love, in front of others, including their own families, they may not have a sweet talk in their lives, and they may not have a skin-to-skin blind date in their lives; If this is a traditional concept, it is a bit far-fetched, when the parents' generation was young, they also knew the freedom of marriage, and they all had the right to pursue a new life, and they were not willing to be bound by some traditional ideas, but even if it was an unsatisfactory marriage, they also felt that it was sacred.

In the words of the city people, in the kingdom of love, there are generally only two people, one is the king and the other is the slave. The people of the countryside did not know much about the distinction between love and affection, and if they had their own kingdom, the composition would have been different from what the people in the city thought would be, either kings and queens, or slaves and beggars.

Dalin thought to himself that his own home was also different from other people's homes, his father and mother seemed to be slaves all his life, and the king was the old man and child in the family.

Dalin's mother's parents both died early, and she regarded her in-laws as her own father and mother. For a long time, in addition to her and Cui Changxing, there are four other people in the family, two old people, one is her intestine, the other is her belly, and she is always worried about her stomach; Two sons, one is her heart and the other is her liver, and she likes heart and liver baby. She usually speaks little, does not cause trouble, at home and outside, it seems to be a working machine, except for limited eating and sleeping time, her hands and feet will not be idle at other times. Married to the Cui family for more than 30 years, the physical health of the disabled is getting worse and worse, she suffers from arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine and other diseases, and the ruddy face that once made Cui Changxing's heart move has now been dried by the years and has become a pickle pimple with little moisture.

"If your parents don't grow old, you'd rather not grow up."

Dalin remembered what someone had said.

Of course, this is impossible, it is just some desire to be filial to the child. (To be continued.) )