At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had reluctantly descended to the west of the whole sky, but its residual heat still exuded the heat of the roasting people, and along a potholed path to the north, the latest thing that appeared was a huge acacia tree that had been split (said to have been struck by lightning), and to the north of this giant tree was a sea of poplar locust trees, and there was a bungalow in front of this sea of trees. The wooden door of the bungalow was closed, the thin wooden door looked old, and the lowest part of the door was tattered with many small holes, and a black and white spotted cat slowly slipped through the bottom of the wooden door, yawned, and swaggered into the house.

Because grandma's house was in disrepair, the house was damaged everywhere, and it was even more rainy outside the house when it rained, so when Gu Xinyuan was in the third grade, grandma and grandfather moved to Gu Xinyuan's parents' house.

"Yo, Mimi, you're back!" Gu Xinyuan, who was cleaning, saw his kitten coming back, straightened up and greeted warmly. The cat is a black and white spotted cat that was brought back from J City when Mom and Dad came back.

"You've been here for two years, haven't you?" Gu Xinyuan squatted down and brushed the hair on Mimi's head, "Speaking of which, Mom and Dad were shocked that they haven't come back for more than two years!" Ay! ”

To be honest, Gu Xinyuan doesn't have many memories of his parents, and he can't remember to miss them at ordinary times, but he always looks forward to it inexplicably every time he comes back for the New Year, maybe because he buys new clothes every time they come back, or maybe because he is afraid that he is different from others - after all, everyone else has their parents by their side.

"Who knows?" Gu Xinyuan frowned and shook his head slightly, and asked softly to Mimi with some sadness: "Do you know why?" After saying that, he sighed again and continued to work on his own.

Spotted Mimi glanced at her master, twisted herself and rubbed at her feet, then went to the door of the hall and lay down, squinting her eyes like a patron saint, and looking lazily and tenderly at the girl who was working.

"It's hot!" Gu Xinyuan straightened his waist and pretended to hammer a few times, and laughed happily: "Haha, in fact, my waist doesn't hurt either!" Oops, great, it will be cleaned in a little while! After cleaning the yard, the whole house is equivalent to three-quarters of the cleaned, which is great! Although she was tired, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise when she thought of her grandmother's surprised face.

Actually, it was quite unexpected for Gu Xinyuan to win the second place this time, after all, the two mountains in the class - Yin Chong and Yin Hongmei - have always been difficult to shake, so at the beginning, she only aimed at the third place and worked hard.

"I really didn't expect it! I was able to pass Yin Hongmei's exam, I was so surprised! Gu Xinyuan stuck the shovel into the garbage heap, concentrated all the strength of his body on his feet and stepped on it hard, and then moved the garbage to the wooden dung truck with great strength with his waist, this action was repeated back and forth four or five times, stopped, one leg stood upright and the other leg slanted and relaxed to rest, the back of his hand gently wiped the sweat dripping from his forehead, and muttered with feeling: "Hey, Yin Chong's kid is really amazing, he has been the first place since he turned around in the fourth grade, and he is the first in every random test. I really don't know how he learns, I have to learn from him when I have time! ”

"Oh, it's so late, why is the sun still so dazzling?" She looked up at the sun, "Hurry up, it's going to get dark soon!" When grandma comes back and sees me cleaning up so messy, let alone complimenting me, maybe she will scold me! Ha ha! Go for it! ”

Imagining the smiling face when grandma came back later, the corners of Gu Xinyuan's mouth couldn't help but bloom with a bright smile, and he said to himself with a small abacus in his heart: "If grandma sees the yard cleaned so clean, she will definitely praise me, and I will take out the certificate and bonus together when she is happy, and when grandma is happy, she may even praise me fiercely!" ”

At this time, Gu Xinyuan only felt as if she had added another handful of firewood to her heart, and she was so excited that her face was flushed, and she didn't feel a trace of tiredness, so she became more and more energetic, and even happily hummed one of the few songs that she could sing: "You are the wind, I am the sand ......"

When the work in the field was almost done, Li Feicui hurried back because she was worried about her granddaughter and grandson at home. The eldest son's two children are living in school, and now only her granddaughter and younger grandson are left at home, which naturally reassures her. Speaking of this granddaughter, Li Feicui felt a burst of pride in her heart: she is very competitive and has good academic performance, she can always be drawn in every school random exam, and she can always get good results.

As soon as she opened the door, Li Feicui saw her granddaughter who was cleaning the yard, and she was immediately a little moved, but she was afraid that her granddaughter would affect her academic performance because of housework, so she would never dare to praise her granddaughter.

"Grandma, you're back?! Hehe, I've cleaned up ......" Gu Xinyuan scratched his hair embarrassedly, his eyes shining with anticipation, waiting for grandma's praise.

"Oh! Is the homework done? Li Feicui pretended to respond coldly, and reminded her with a serious expression not to forget her duty.

"I-hmm!" Gu Xinyuan's expression froze on his face, and he rubbed his hands a little overwhelmed, not knowing whether to continue cleaning or go back to reading.

"Alright, I'm going to cook!" Li Feicui turned around and showed a smile of relief and walked towards the kitchen.

Gu Xinyuan, who was standing in place, lowered her head and was silent for a while, suddenly remembered something, the expression on her face was instantly lit up and shining, and she trotted into her room, she carefully took out the test paper from her schoolbag and wrapped several layers of bonuses with homework paper, and ran quickly to the kitchen.

"Grandma!" Gu Xinyuan tried his best to suppress his overly excited emotions, and said with a smile on his face: "Give, this is my bonus!" I won the prize, the money from the teacher! ”

"Oh! Very good! ”

"Is that all?" Gu Xinyuan was not very satisfied with her grandmother's overly cold reaction, and it could be said that she was hit.

"That's it! What should I do, don't delay me cooking here! Li Feicui was afraid that she couldn't help but praise her granddaughter, so she just wanted her granddaughter to leave the kitchen quickly.

"I'm number two!" Gu Xinyuan did not give up, and reminded her grandmother as if begging.

"Okay! Stop chattering, got it! Don't bother me! Go write your homework and go! The triumphant smile on her granddaughter's face struck the alarm bell in her heart like a giant bell, forcing her to feign anger. It's a bit strange and it may make the child sad, but it's all for her good, and she'll always understand it when she grows up. Percussive education is Li Feicui's concept from the beginning, for her sons and daughters, and naturally for her granddaughters and grandchildren.

Gu Xinyuan pursed her lips, tears swirled in her eyes, neither dared to cry, nor dared to speak more, awkwardly clubbed in place for a while, and reluctantly went back to her room, she thought about it desperately and thought about the reason why she was blamed by her grandmother, but she kept thinking that her head hurt and couldn't figure it out, and the grievances came like sea water, she secretly cried out aggrievedly, until she was tired and tired of crying, and then slowly fell asleep.

After cooking the meal, when Li Feicui went to call her granddaughter to eat, she found that she had fallen asleep crying. Looking at the little face that was still full of grievances with tears, Li Feicui's heart hurt, and she couldn't help but blame herself for being too serious, sighing "hey", she called her granddaughter's name softly: "Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yuan, get up and eat!" ”

"Grandma, why don't you knock when you enter the house?" As soon as Gu Xinyuan opened his eyes, he remembered that he was crying before he fell asleep, and hurriedly covered his eyes with his hand and rubbed it a few times, "You should knock on the door next time you come in!" ”

"I'm your grandmother, what's there to knock on? I haven't knocked on the door before! Li Feicui glanced at her granddaughter with some amusement, was silent for a while, and said earnestly: "You did well in the exam today, grandma praised you." But ah, you don't need to do this kind of labor, and you don't have the ability to die, and you won't be productive. Look at your parents who don't go to school well, but now they have to farm in other places, and they are so tired that they can't even go home for several years! What you should do is study hard, and you don't have to focus on anything other than studying, you know? ”

"But, I just want to help with the housework, I see you're working hard—" Gu Xinyuan tried to explain his thoughts to his grandmother.

"No, you don't!" Li Feicui shook her head, "As a student, your task is to study hard, although you did well in the exam this time, you didn't get the first place in the class, you should be on par with the first place, you know?" ”

"Then I don't have to do any housework in the future, just study hard?" Gu Xinyuan looked at her grandmother suspiciously, and frowned tightly, "But, I don't think it's good to stay at home and do nothing-"

"What's so bad? If you are really asked to do it, you should be tired of it, can you really clean it? Li Feicui's tone was full of doubts, "Every time you ask you to brush the dishes and chopsticks, how many times have you cleaned them?" What's more, you have such good grades, so why waste time on housework? ”

"That's because you don't let me practice, so I can't brush it clean!" Gu Xinyuan pouted unconvinced, and his face was a little red from anger.

"It's going to be a tough mouth!" Li Feicui tapped her granddaughter's forehead twice with her index finger, and said hatefully, "Why do you want to work?" You see that Gu Xiaoyan next door was reluctant to continue going to school before, but he only went out for half a year and came back crying, right? ”

"But she told me that it's good to work part-time, you can buy whatever you want, and you can eat whatever you want!" Gu Xinyuan's words were full of unconvincing.

"Humph!" Li Feicui snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Didn't you see that she had lost a lot of weight?" ”

"But she still looks happy!"

"Happy, happy, happy? If you dare not go to school, I will have to tell your parents and let them beat you up!" ”

"I didn't say I didn't go to school! It was Gu Xiaoyan herself who told me that she could eat delicious snacks casually when she was working-"

"Alright, alright! All day long you know to think about snacking! Li Feicui interrupted her granddaughter's words impatiently, and said pitifully and pitifully in her tone, "Then if Gu Xiaoyan hadn't eaten those non-nutritious things, she wouldn't have lost weight like she is now, how rich she was before she went out to work!" After speaking, while taking off his apron, he urged: "Let's go out to eat!" I'll go to the field and call your grandfather to eat, and you go and prepare the dishes and chopsticks! ”

"Oh-" Gu Xinyuan pouted unconvincedly, promised his grandmother perfunctorily, and walked slowly to the kitchen.