So, I started a year of alone with the crazy old man.

In addition to doing morning classes, going to school, thinking, leaving school, writing homework, reading the Bible, being scared, and making fragrant soup, I also have two extra things in my daily life, that is, cooking and doing laundry.

That's because my parents had a problem on the first day they left.

The crazy old man didn't do morning class with me that day, I was playing Baduan Jin and Tai Chi in the yard, and the crazy old man was busy with breakfast in the kitchen.

The problem was that breakfast that day, which could not be described as unpalatable, because I didn't eat a bite at all!

He cooked the porridge half-baked, as if a handful of raw rice had water in it.

If the porridge is not good, then I will eat the steamed buns.

Steamed buns are easy, right? Let's not talk about the shape of the steamed buns, the point is that the crazy old man can steam the steamed buns into bricks!

Don't laugh, it's true! Knock on the table with steamed buns, and it can make a "bang bang" sound!

So I complained: "Crazy old man, how can I eat this breakfast?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the crazy old man was not happy, and replied: "You will cook breakfast and dinner in the future." ”

Children in the countryside can cook since childhood, not to mention a table full of Han people, simple home-cooked dishes are still not a problem.

Well, I do, I'm a child under the age of ten, I have a lot of schoolwork every day, and I have to be tortured by you, and now I want to cook the food!

Of course I wasn't happy, but I couldn't help it, the crazy old man always said yes, he said let me do it, and from that day on, he picked me up from school and came home, sat leisurely in the yard and smoked with his cigarette pipe, and then urged me to cook.

As for washing clothes, the crazy old man has something to say: "Do your own laundry!" ”

Well, I'll bear with it!

But that night, when I had finished taking a shower and was washing my change of clothes in the yard, the crazy old man came up to me silently and threw his dirty clothes into the basin. ”

"I protest!" I wiped the water that had splashed on my face, and then said angrily, "Crazy old man, you said it yourself!" Do your own laundry! ”

The figure of the crazy old man who had originally returned to the room stopped, turned around and walked in front of me and squatted, put the cigarette holder in his arms, stretched out his two hands with a smile, opened the bow left and right and pinched my cheeks, and said: "I have been reading the Tao Te Ching for so many years, do you understand the respect for teachers?" Call me crazy old man again, and I won't give you food! ”

With that, he got up and walked to the room, his head held high, like a winning rooster.

I rubbed my cheeks and muttered, "I made all the rice, hum!" ”

Strange to say, my parents have a lot of respect for the crazy old man. It's just that the crazy old man and I are like "enemies", and we have to live in the past every day.

But no one is really angry with anyone. Sometimes when I miss my parents, he will take me to the rural community team to call my parents and let me relieve the pain of missing.

Days like this are ordinary, and the crazy old man gradually tells me who he is, and what I'm going to learn.

After listening to it at first, I responded with disdain: "Feudal superstition is unacceptable, crazy old man, be careful that I go to the Red Army uncle to denounce you!" ”

In our primary school at that time, what we heard most was the story of the Red Army defying hardships and dangers. And being in the Red Army has also become a dream that often appears in children's essays of that era!

But I regretted it. Because that day I was beaten hard.

The crazy old man beat me while muttering in the Jiangxi dialect: "The treasures left by the ancestors have been dug up (said) by you into feudal superstition!" See if I don't kill you little brute! ”

Actually, I've been beaten so many times, I've learned to be well-behaved, I will run away when I see that the situation is not right, generally my dad and the crazy old man can't react, and when they react and chase me, I will run away long ago.

This time it was the same, I saw the mad old man's expression grow angry, and he raised his feet and ran to the door.

But I don't know why, running and running, my eyes lit up, and the crazy old man came to me, and then he carried me into the room......

Later, I learned that real Taoist priests would practice a few kung fu exercises to strengthen their bodies. And what the crazy old man used that day was nothing more than basic light body kung fu.

It was also that night that after the crazy old man beat me, he said to me in a serious tone: "Zhengyi, you grow up quickly." ”

Anyway, I don't understand why he suddenly wants me to grow up, but that night, the crazy old man never said a word to me again, just sat in the yard, not knowing what he was thinking.

The days go by quickly. In the blink of an eye, I will be graduating from elementary school.

With the summer vacation approaching, I am in a very happy mood. Because after graduation, I can go to the city to meet my parents.

Just after the graduation ceremony, the crazy old man picked me up at the school gate.

Every day, the crazy old man waited for me at the school gate to get out of school, and when he saw me, he would happily take off my schoolbag and hang it on the handlebars.

But today, the crazy old man didn't have the usual happy appearance, and his sad face made his face look so powerful.

Originally, I was very excited, because not long ago, the crazy old man promised me to take me to the city to find my parents as soon as I graduated.

But seeing the appearance of the crazy old man, I had to sit quietly in the back seat, and I didn't dare to come out.

Wordless all the way home, I put down my bag and prepared to go to the kitchen to make dinner.

The crazy old man grabbed me at this time and said to me very seriously: "Zhengyi, I want to go out, you can eat dinner by yourself, and you are not allowed to be lazy in evening class!" You...... When I get back, there are some things that I can tell you. ”

After saying that, the crazy old man went back to the room, took the cloth bag and straddled it, touched my head, and went out......