As the weather gets colder and autumn is about to pass, the adults are either weeding in the fields, or busily peeling and braiding the corn and hanging it on the wall of their yards. The students gradually put away their crazy hearts during the eleventh hour vacation and devoted themselves to normal study.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Li Feicui and Gu Dade, who had been busy all day, found that their youngest grandson Gu Pan had fallen asleep on the wooden sofa in the hall as soon as they entered the door, but they didn't see their granddaughter Gu Xinyuan after looking around.

Li Feicui woke up her little grandson Gu Pan and asked softly, "Why are you sleeping here?" What about your sister? ”

"Huh?" Gu Pan rubbed his eyes and said sleepily: "I didn't see her, she seems to be doing her homework!" ”

Gu Dade walked to the kitchen and wanted to pour some tea, but found that the teapot was empty, and suddenly became angry, and yelled angrily: "Why don't you even have tea?" Ay! Die of thirst! ”

When Li Feicui heard his wife's words, her face was flushed with anger, and she came to the kitchen like a gust of wind, lifted the lid of the pot and saw that although there was nothing in it as she expected - no steamed buns, no soup, and no vegetables, she still couldn't help but feel a little lost in her heart.

Hearing his grandfather's angry voice, Gu Xinyuan hurriedly ran out of the house. As soon as she left the room, she saw her grandfather's face full of unhappiness, and she was a little overwhelmed for a moment, so she secretly moved to her brother's side as if nothing happened, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Gu Pan glanced at her sister and said a little nervously: "There is no tea in the teapot, grandpa is angry!" Grandma seems to be angry because we didn't cook. Then he lowered his head and said complainingly, "What should I do, sister?" Look, it's all your fault, I said I want to cook, but you won't let me. ”

"But," Gu Xinyuan said with some grievances: "Last time I cooked, our grandmother said that it was better not to cook it, and blamed me for not cooking the red beans!" ”

"Why don't we go to the kitchen?" Gu Pan whispered, "Let's see if I can help." ”

Gu Xinyuan pursed his lips, nodded aggrievedly, and followed his younger brother to the kitchen door.

"What are you doing in the kitchen, a boy?" Gu Dade was already angry, but when he saw Gu Pan running to the kitchen, he became even more angry, "Can you have a little bit of fun, is the kitchen a place where boys should come?" Go to the hall and wait! ”

Gu Pan was kind-hearted, but he was reprimanded by his grandfather, and a wave of grievances hit his heart, making his eyes red and almost crying. In order not to be seen by his grandfather, and in order to relieve his embarrassing emotions, he immediately ran back to the hall and sat down.

Li Feicui sat in front of the stove with a snort, pulled the bellows vigorously, faced the kitchen door, and said loudly with mockery: "Hey! I don't even have a meal for raising a granddaughter! When she thought that she and her wife had worked hard all afternoon without drinking a sip of water, and the grandchildren who stayed at home didn't know how to bring water, they didn't even make dinner, and they couldn't help but feel sad, and even felt that their granddaughter had been raised by herself.

Gu Xinyuan frowned and stood in front of the kitchen door, speechless with guilt. She wanted to apologize to her grandmother, but when the words came to her lips, she felt that this matter was not her fault, if her grandmother hadn't criticized her cooking so much before, maybe she would have done it this time? However, now grandma treats everything as her fault, which is naturally unacceptable.

In fact, before Li Feicui came back, Gu Xinyuan hesitated for a while, going to cook for fear that her grandmother would say that she didn't know how to study, and she was worried that her grandmother would be hungry if she didn't cook, but because she had been taught by her grandmother to focus on learning, she naturally didn't dare to disobey her grandmother's intentions casually. Although grandma never hit her, grandma looked angry like her aunt, and no one could guarantee that grandma would not hit anyone. In the end, she decided to wait for her grandmother to come back and ask, who knew that she fell asleep after waiting, and when she woke up, she saw her grandmother cooking in a hurry.

Hey, it's all my fault! Gu Xinyuan thought to himself. However, she couldn't say anything to apologize, and from a very young age she knew that if a child did something wrong, whether it was intentional or not, she would always be beaten or scolded. Because of this, holding on to not speaking became her only choice.

"Why don't you speak?" Li Feicui looked at her granddaughter's aggrieved face, her heart felt as if she was caught, she was very distressed, and her tone eased up.

"You said, let me study hard, I don't know how to cook!"

"Hey!" Li Feicui sighed and said with a smile: "Then you should also see what the actual situation is!" For example, today, if I come home so late, you should be cooking! Ay! Well, in the afternoon, you can go home and make your meal, okay? ”

"Hmmm! Good! Then can you talk so fiercely in the future, I don't even know what to do! ”

"Good, good! You go and bring the steamed bun basket, and I'll warm it up! ”

Li Cui's mother gave birth to thirteen children, only six survived, and she was the second child in the family. Because of the patriarchal nature of the family, she was forced to take care of her younger siblings at home after only entering the second grade, and her mother demanded a lot from her when she was less than ten years old at that time, but she never said a word of praise. After getting married, she raised three children by herself, but people who lived in 1970 just ate to eat, and it was already a luxury to be able to eat. What's more, a child is a child, how many things can he know, and most of the temper tantrums are because he is too willful.

"But after all, the times are different, and the way of educating children must also keep pace with the times!" Li Feicui pondered her granddaughter's words just now, and she gradually realized that she was a little excessive, but this could not shake her educational philosophy - children must not be praised too much, otherwise they will be proud and complacent, and even go down the wrong path.

Since then, although at Gu Xinyuan's request, the way Gu Dade and Li Feicui speak has slowly changed, but every time she helps with housework, they always say "Yo, it's not raining again, why do you remember to cook?" "It becomes every time" Oh, our eldest granddaughter is so diligent that she will sweep the floor for her grandparents! That's it, for the listener Gu Xinyuan, just the tone of his voice changed from a question to an ironic exclamation, and nothing else.

"Gu Xinyuan, is Gu Xinyuan at home? Gu Xinyuan came out! ”

Just when Gu Xinyuan was helping to cook, she suddenly heard someone calling her name, and hurriedly ran out, only to find out that it was her cousin Shi Xing - Shi Yuan's younger brother who was one year younger, because he went to school a year earlier, the two brothers became classmates.

"You, what's wrong with me?" Gu Xinyuan frowned suspiciously, and looked at the fattest boy in the class - the classmates in the class were all in their forties to sixty pounds, and this guy was actually more than eighty pounds. Her cousin basically doesn't take the initiative to take care of her in school, except when she is copying homework, I really don't know what kind of wind is blowing today, and it is so strange that this heavyweight is blown here!

"Hey, hey!" Shi Xing first laughed a few times, then cleared his throat with a 'uh-huh', and then suddenly became serious and serious. I saw that the corners of his left mouth were upturned, his left eye was half-squinted, and he was holding an envelope between his right index and middle fingers—it should be just a letter in that thickness, and there was probably nothing strange about it—and he handed it to his cousin with a slurp, and then pretended to be deep and said, "What a sinful woman, take it!" When you accept this letter, I will have to leave! ”

"Letter? What are you doing? Gu Xinyuan looked at his cousin's performance with some amusement, took the letter casually, and saw that the miserable white envelope did not have any hints written on it, so he looked down carefully in confusion, but he didn't see anything special. She wanted to ask her cousin what the hell this was again, but when she looked up again, she found that her cousin had already run out more than ten meters. She sighed helplessly, and shouted at her cousin with a slightly louder voice, "Who gave it to me?"

"That's Yin Hanghang's love letter to you, haha!" After Shi Xing replied to his cousin loudly, he laughed exaggeratedly. He's always been naughty, and his favorite thing is these pranks, so naturally he won't miss such a funny thing.

When Gu Xinyuan heard that it was a love letter, she was taken aback, and hurriedly ran to chase her cousin, wanting to return the love letter to him, but with her speed, where could she catch up with the strong Shi Xing. Panting, she had to stop, and in a fit of rage, she tore up the love letter that had not even opened the envelope and slammed it to the ground.

"Huh?!" Shi Xing saw that his cousin actually tore up the letter and ran back, and said regretfully: "Why did you tear it?" ”

"Can't I tear it?" Gu Xinyuan saw that Shi Xing seemed to be very dissatisfied, so he deliberately stepped on the letter on the ground.

"You don't know, this is Yin Hang's bloody writing with a needle piercing his finger!" Yin Xing sighed and looked at the wreckage of the letter on the ground, and silently sympathized with Yin Hang who plucked up the courage to prick his fingers in his heart.

"What?!" Gu Xinyuan trembled and quickly withdrew his foot on the torn letter, looked at his cousin with a stiff expression, and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "So many words?" ”

"Of course not," Shi Xing looked at his cousin solemnly, and said in a solemn tone, "Only your name is written in his blood." Use your brain to think about it, if it's all written in blood, that person's hand is not pierced into a bloody hole, and he doesn't have a brain problem! ”

"And those reddish-brown words are—"

"Oh, that's written in soy sauce! Their family sells soy sauce, and you don't know it! ”

"What?!" Gu Xinyuan glanced at the remains of the letter on the ground with disgust, and said speechlessly: "Okay! Hum! You are a dead fellow, you dare to come over and send me a love letter, you are bold enough! ”

"I didn't write it, so what's not to send?" Shi Xing said indifferently.

"You-" Gu Xinyuan wanted to say something more, but was suddenly interrupted by Shi Xing.

"I'll go first-" Shi Xing said in a somewhat hurried tone, as if he had seen a ghost, and slipped away as fast as he could.

"Go home!"

Just when Gu Xinyuan looked at his cousin who had fled inexplicably and was stunned, a stern voice sounded behind Gu Xinyuan, which scared her out of a hurry, and she didn't have to look back to know that it was her grandfather, and after responding with an "oh", she couldn't help shouting "Oops" in her heart, and followed Gu Dade home with her head down and heavy steps.