Chapter 4: The Loneliness of Reproduction.
Early in the morning, I woke up to the crisp call of the birds.
Mom is still sleeping. I didn't wake her up.
I climbed out of bed gently, tiptoed open the deadbolt of the room, and went to the hall, and then through the ear door of the hall, and crept into the kitchen.
The kitchen is simple. In addition to the large stove and firewood, there is also a small stove.
The small stove is improvised and not tall. And the materials for building are also very simple, just a few bricks.
The small stove is not even reliable because it is not pasted with a fixed protective film such as cement.
In front of the small stove, my sister, who is not yet 5 years old, is cooking on the fire.
She didn't cook on my stove. Because the stove was too high, she couldn't reach it.
The fire was blazing, and my sister, who was sitting in front of the small stove, was roasted by the fire with a thin layer of sweat.
She just wiped it with her hands casually, but she didn't know that all the soot was wiped on her face.
I couldn't help it, and I laughed out loud, my sister's appearance was so funny.
My sister was stunned, turned her head to look at me, and saw that I was wearing a nightdress, and frowned and asked, "Sister, why don't you sleep?" Did my sister quarrel with you? ”。
"No, sister! You're up early!" It's not 6 or 7 a.m. now.
"Hmm" my sister responded perfunctorily, and then concentrated on lighting the fire.
I don't care. After looking left and right for a while, he also moved a small bench and sat next to his sister.
My sister didn't care about me, she just moved to the side.
"Sister, what are you cooking?"
"Porridge" sister didn't turn her head back to me.
"Oh!" I nodded vigorously. I also learned from my sister to sit on the small bench.
There was silence.
After a while, there was a fluttering sound in the iron pot, and the lid of the pot was constantly floating up and down with water vapor.
"Sister! The pot is going to fry! I'm going to blow up" I was frightened by the scene in front of me, and my hands tightly grabbed the small bench under me.
"It's fine. No, it won't. I saw my sister quickly open the lid of the pot with one hand, and stirred the pot twice with a soup spoon with the other hand, and then closed the lid again, but it was not as tight as before.
"That's it. Sister, you don't have to be so nervous. Seeing my frightened look, my sister said with a little crying and laughing.
"Ah, well, good!" I nodded, indicating that I understood. It's just that the hand is still picking at the bench.
My sister didn't comfort me anymore. She went to wash some greens again.
Soon, Mom woke up.
She took the vegetables that her sister had washed, cut the meat again, and made the next meal in three or two clicks.
After breakfast, my sister went to school alone.
I'll follow my mother, and I'll go wherever my mother goes.
Mom went to work in the fields as usual. She put me in the back basket.
She put a small bench in the back basket. She always told me to sit tight and call her if I didn't think I could. And the hand must be firmly grasped on her clothes.
I also work well together. Very well-behaved. Whatever she says, I'll do.
Mom loves to talk to me. She kept asking me questions.
"Yan Yan, are you seated?"
"Okay"
"Yan Yan, how about we go to the field under the small road today?"
"Okay"
"Yan Yan, what do you want to do when you grow up?"
"I don't know"
"That Yan Yan, do you want your father?"
"Actually, I haven't seen my dad yet.
But I often heard from my mother that my father was not only handsome, smart, but also hardworking.
He's working outside now, earning money to support us.
We're always in a one-and-one Q&A, moving between home and destination.
The sun was a little big today, and when my mother came to my destination, she put me under the shade tree and went digging and planting the land under the sun.
I'm often bored. At this time, I was the most bored.
At first, I would play with the mud, tease the insects with the leaves, and occasionally stare at my mother for a while, and then sit on my little bench and slowly drift away.
Often, I was carried home by my mother while I was sleeping.
But today is different.
Since the sun was too strong today, my mother decided to go home and rest first.
She said that the body is the capital of the revolution, and if the body is not good, nothing can be done.
Of course, I'm happy. I hugged the little straw hat my mother had prepared for me and took the lead.
Behind me, my mother quickly packed up her things, carried them on her back, picked me up in a few steps, and led me onto the small road.
Coincidentally, as soon as she got on the small highway, her mother met her hair Xiao-Li Lanyu.
"Oops, Yingzi! It's such a coincidence, this is your second baby, it's so cute!" Aunt Li Lanyu smiled and said hello to my mother, and then leaned over and touched my head.
"yes, what a coincidence! Yan Yan, call you Aunt Lanyu! Sapphire! Have you just finished hitting the streets, have you gone back? My mother looked elated, shook my hand, and commanded. Suddenly, the conversation changed again and asked Aunt Lanyu.
“… Aunt Lanyu" I shouted a little shyly.
"Hey! Ay! Good! Isn't it, I wanted to go shopping more, but the weather is too hot to stand it! No, I'm going back!" Aunt Lanyu responded to me kindly, and did not forget to complain and complain about this hot weather.
Speaking of which, Aunt Lan Yu suddenly winked at me and seduced, "Second baby, go, go to my aunt's house to have fun, okay?" ”
I subconsciously looked at my mother, thinking about what to say, in fact, I have a good impression of this aunt, and I am not very disgusted by her proposal, and even quite curious.
When my mother saw me looking at her, she also asked, "Yan Yan, do you want to go to your Aunt Lanyu's house to play?" ”。
I looked my mom in the eye and had the illusion that she was encouraging me to go, wasn't it? I asked myself, and then I stared at Aunt Lan Yu again, and when I saw her stretching out her hands and making a gesture to hug me, I nodded.
I was no longer interested in listening to what my mother and Aunt Lan Yu said, and I was thinking about going to Aunt Lan Yu's house to play for a while.
Soon, Aunt Lan Yu and her mother proposed to go back first.
When we parted, my mother asked me to listen to Aunt Lanyu, and I nodded obediently. She turned around and walked away.
I watched her back as she left, and there was no crying reaction at all, just my eyes followed her until I couldn't see her again.
In this way, Aunt Lanyu hugged me and walked in the opposite direction to my house.
Along the way, Aunt Lan Yu kept talking to me, but I didn't say much, my eyes kept looking ahead, and every fork in the road had to be watched for a while.
Until, Aunt Lan Yu took me to a river, pointed to a canoe, and asked me, "Erwa, are you seasick?" ”。
"Don't faint!" I replied instinctively. Actually, I've never been on a boat at all.
"Okay, come, Erwa, I'll take you up." With that, Aunt Lan Yu carried me onto the boat first, put me down, and after I sat down, she sat side by side with me.
The wooden boat soon opened, and it was driven by an old man, who was holding two wooden pulps, rowing crosswise.
Aunt Lan Yu has been chatting with an old man, but I haven't listened to a word, I have been focusing on the appearance of wood pulp paddling through the water.
It was a sunny and active afternoon when I was separated from my mother, but when I arrived at Aunt Lanyu's house, it was already close to evening.
It wasn't until I saw Aunt Lanyu's house that I realized that I couldn't go home today.
A feeling of trepidation and uneasiness inexplicably occupied my heart.
This depressed mood did not intensify again until she finished eating at Aunt Lan Yu's house and was ready to go to bed.
I forgot to mention that Aunt Lanyu also has three children, a girl and two boys. And it's all at home.
None of them are very old. They are 8 years old, 6 years old, and 4 years old.
I don't like them very much, because they only play with themselves, they don't talk to me, they don't pay much attention to me.
The most important reason is that I feel that they are hostile to me. Maybe it's because I've taken over their mom! I thought so.
After falling asleep, I was more sure of my thoughts. Because Aunt Lanyu slept with me at night.
But I was supposed to be proud, but I wasn't happy, I missed my mother and sister.
I thought I wouldn't be able to sleep, but I quickly fell asleep.
On the second day, after another day of playing at Aunt Lanyu's house, I begged her to send me home.
Actually, when it comes to playing, I haven't had much fun, and Aunt Lanyu doesn't have time to stay with me all the time, she has to send those brothers and sisters to school while working, and she can't spare time to take care of me.
Most of the time, I was alone at home watching the cartoons that Aunt Lan Yu played for me.
At that time, TV was still black and white, and cartoons were only in black and white. In the cartoon, my only love is Cui Niao and the silly big cat.
The days passed.
It's been a few days since I went to Aunt Lanyu's house to play.
On this day, I shuttled alone on the dirt road between my fourth father's house and my house, which is actually the distance between the front and back yards.
Along the way, anything can catch my attention, whether it's hemp grass that stings, ants and centipedes walking in corners, or dead leaves and branches falling on dirt roads, they are all my little toys on the road.
Approaching the door, suddenly, a figure walking on the Tiankan path in the distance broke into my eyes.
It was a young woman in a long white dress with long hair and a shawl.
Her outstanding figure is particularly charming on the Tiankan Road with green sandwiches on both sides of the strait.
I stared at her, fascinated.
Little did I know that behind me, there was a man who was also blinded.
That person is my sister. She was sitting in the open hall, setting up a long bench, writing her homework, and just an occasional glance made her see a person she didn't expect, her homeroom teacher, Liu Tingting.
She came over. I stared at her, silently.
At this time, my mother came to the hall from the back room, and was about to check my sister's homework, how was it done, but I saw my sister staring at the distance in a daze, and was about to scold, but she heard a gentle voice, "You are Yan Feng's parent, right?" ”。
"Ah, yes, I am! Who are you? Mom was stunned for a moment, and then asked, this woman with thin willows supporting the wind.
Before the woman could report herself, she was surprised, and her sister who reacted stopped her, "Teacher Liu, why are you here?" ”。
When my mother heard this, she reacted quickly, and she reproached her sister, "The children can't be so rude, how can they ask other teachers like this!".
The woman probably didn't expect my mother to suddenly get angry with her child, and hurriedly persuaded her, "It's okay, it's okay, child!" The main purpose of my home visit is to communicate with the parents about ......".
"Oh, oh, so to speak, it wasn't Yan Feng's poor performance that made you come...... "Mom looked suddenly enlightened.
"Of course! Yan Feng, this child studies hard, knows how to be motivated, and has good academic performance...... "The woman known as Teacher Liu has an expression of pride as my student. Full of praise for my sister.
When my mother heard this, she was overjoyed, and she talked with the teacher for a while, and at the end, she had to leave the teacher at home for lunch.
However, the teacher excused himself and said that there were still many people to visit at home, and he needed to spend some time talking, so he would not stay.
When my mother heard it, she thought it made sense, so she said that if she didn't eat, forget it, then take some salted duck eggs or something, and go back and taste it! What else do you say that this is home-raised, self-soaked, and has high nutritional value.
But the teacher still sternly refused. She said, "...... I, Liu Tingting, will not ask for a penny from all parents, I just make routine home visits and do my part......".
A trace of shame flashed on my mother's face, but in the end, she also forced other teachers to stuff something.
So in the end, the beautiful teacher left without taking a trace of clouds with a breeze on his sleeves, waving his hand.
I think this may be a reason why I want to be a kindergarten teacher when I grow up.