Autumn has been known as an eventful autumn since ancient times, and it can be described as prestigious.

Autumn in Sichuan is indeed not in vain.

Autumn has arrived, which means that the time for farming is also busy.

I remember that when I was very young, the busiest days were dominated by autumn.

There is a hundred-year-old tree behind my house, a ginkgo tree.

It is an antique tree that my family and even my fellow villagers are proud of.

Our village is also named after this, called Baiguo Village.

"Mother-in-law, why do you call it an antique tree?" When I was a child, I always had a fascinated attachment and curiosity about all new things and new words.

"Because it's like an antique!" My mother-in-law always satisfies my curiosity.

"Like an antique? Oh, does it mean valuable? Mother-in-law? "My mother-in-law's words made me even more curious.

"Well, but it's worth more than an antique!" My mother-in-law stood under the ginkgo tree with her head up, staring at it, and answered my question in a very light tone.

"Worth more than an antique? Then it's really expensive!" I thought I had realized the truth, and I sighed.

There was no word for a while.

Just when I thought that my mother-in-law was going to stop this topic, my mother-in-law touched the roots of the ginkgo tree and said, "Yan Yan, you are too young to understand." Mother-in-law told you, this white fruit tree! The reason why it can be comparable to antiques, or even better, is that its role is higher than that of antiques! In other words, it's worth more than an antique! But this high is not measurable by money! Got it? Yan Yan. ”

"Oh!" Looking at the intertwined roots of the ginkgo tree in front of me, I nodded as if I didn't understand.

My mother-in-law doesn't care about me, whether she really understands it.

She picked up the fallen white fruit leaves on the ground and continued, "Yan Yan, look at this white fruit leaf, how beautiful it is, the umbrella-like appearance looks like God's protection for us!"

"Mom, you're talking to Yan Yan again!" My mother suddenly appeared from the side, and I was so frightened that I tightened my mother-in-law's full of vicissitudes of life.

"Oh, what can you say! Yingzi, you are really rare and weird. My mother-in-law took me in her arms and patted me on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, not forgetting to ridicule and contradict my mother.

"No, Mom, you don't have to tell your children about what you have or don't in the future!" Mom was a little annoyed, but she didn't have a problem with her mother-in-law, so she said helplessly.

"Okay, okay, Yingzi, Mom will try not to talk about it in the future! Let's go, let's go, go back to cooking, Yan Yan is hungry! Isn't it Yanyan? When my mother-in-law saw that my mother was annoyed and didn't want to quarrel with my mother, she changed the topic and asked me while winking at me behind my mother's back.

I was not stupid when I saw this, I nodded to my mother-in-law very quickly, and returned in a loud voice, "Mmmm, Yan Yan is hungry!" I want to go home. ”

"Look! Yan Yan said she was hungry! Yingzi, let's go back now. My mother-in-law smiled, pulled me, and walked in front.

Mom wanted to say something, but she had to go home first.

Later, I learned from my mother that the value of the ginkgo tree is not only that the ginkgo fruit of the ginkgo tree is nutritious and can be eaten, but also that its roots and leaves can be used to heal diseases.

Because the fruit of the ginkgo tree only ripens and falls in autumn.

Therefore, whenever autumn comes, there will always be many people who come to the ginkgo tree and pick up ginkgo seeds while looking at it.

Coincidentally, often at this time, the millet has just been beaten, which is the time when people are most idle.

Some people also take advantage of this hard-won and busy moment to make money and earn food.

This person is the eater who fried popcorn and corn cones.

When the eater came, it was still afternoon.

It was a scorching sun, and the sky was cloudless.

He is a little old, and the crane hair on his head and his long beard complement each other, and he is not in good spirits.

In the shade of the ginkgo trees, he chose a vacant lot and settled it.

He didn't come empty-handed, but he was ready for everything!

He brought a lot of things with him, and I watched him take out his treasures, the old-fashioned stove, the gourd-shaped pressure cooker, and the sack out of his backpack one by one.

At that time, in the countryside, popcorn was not as fast as it is now, and it was a convenient machine with a light appearance and simple operation.

Some are just traditional, clumsy popcorn machines and their virtuosity.

I watched him set up a black cannon-like popcorn machine on the stove, he shook it while pulling the bellows, and with a loud "bang", a cloud of white smoke rose up, and the hot, fragrant popcorn filled my pockets, and the enticing aroma made me and the crowd of onlookers swallow hard.

Seeing this, I knew I couldn't sit still anymore.

I squeezed away the people around me, left the crowd around "Delicious", and ran home.

"Mom! Mom! Mom!" Before I even entered the house, my high-pitched, eager voice attracted the attention of my mother, who was concentrating on her work.

"What's wrong, Yan Yan?" My mother looked at me inexplicably.

"Mom, I want it! I also wanted to ...... "popcorn," but I was so eager that I stammered.

"What do you want? Yan Yan said slowly! There is no hurry. Seeing that I was so anxious that I couldn't speak, my mother comforted me.

"Mom, sister, she wants to eat popcorn." Just when I was so anxious that tears were about to fall, my sister who was traveling with me helped me out.

"Yan Yan, do you want to eat this?" Mom smiled and took a bag from the side, which was filled with freshly baked popcorn and cereal cones.

"Mmmm~" I still had tears in my eyes, and nodded desperately in agreement.

Well? Forehead? My sister and I looked at each other, and we both saw a hint of surprise and a hint of joy in each other's eyes.

My sister reacted first, "Mom, when did you ...... it?"

Before I finished speaking, I picked it up, "yes, when did mom make popcorn?" Why didn't we see Mom coming".

You know, as soon as the master eater arrived, we were surrounded by a group of boy soldiers.

During this period, he stared at it without blinking, and he was busy for a while.

"I knew that the two of you, especially Yan Yan, your little gluttonous cat, would definitely be making trouble eating this thing! So when I heard the news that Mr. Eater was coming over today, I asked Aunt Zhao next door early to help me with some ......" Mom said proudly, she didn't know what the prophet was about, while pulling me over, wiping my face, I don't know when the tears that slipped down, and took me and my sister a cereal bubble cone.

Finally, she also instructed my sister to take me and bring a big bag of popcorn and food for my mother-in-law and cousins.

By the time my sister and I got home, my mother had already prepared dinner.

Under the guidance of my mother, we washed our hands, ate in the hall, and then, after washing up properly, we left my mother alone in the stove house (that is, the kitchen), fighting alone.

During this period, although the sensible sister followed up with the stove house, Mao recommended herself to tell her mother that she would come to wash the dishes!

However, my mother did not agree.

Instead, he kicked my sister out.

But my sister didn't come into the back room to watch TV with me, but into the hall with the door closed.

My sister took the schoolbag she hung on the wall, pulled out a book from it, and read it tirelessly under the bright yellow light.

Occasionally, when I see a word I like, I read it aloud in a whisper.

But I was happy, alone in the back room, watching cartoons, so unpleasant and leisurely.

But soon, a cacophony of sounds, mixed with the sound of chaotic footsteps, came at me through the door.

Before you see him, you hear his voice first.

"Yo, Yingzi. What are you up to? So early, it's closing? His second sister-in-law, let's be unlucky! "As soon as I heard this unique high voice, I knew that it was Aunt Zhang from the backyard, who came to visit the door.

Sure enough, in the next second, I heard my mother greet someone who came: "Oh, Sister Zhang, look at what you said, my sister-in-law is also here." Come on, come in and sit down! ”。

"Well, it's hard to be free, so naturally I'm going to walk around." The second mother (that is, my mother's second sister-in-law) said in a quiet voice.

Hearing the voice of the second mother, I slipped out of the back room happily.

"Oh, what are you going to sit on! Yingzi, let's be honest with you, we're not here to chat! Aunt Zhang, with an ulterior motive, took the second mother through the ear door of the stove house and stepped in.

"That's ......," Mom looked puzzled.

Before my mother could figure it out, I pushed open the wooden door of the inner room, smiled at the person who came, and shouted, "Second mother, good evening, aunt!" ”。

It just so happened that the sister in the hall, hearing the sound, also opened the ear door leading to the stove house in the hall, and politely greeted, "Second mother, good evening, aunt!" ”

"Good evening! Yan Yan, Yan Feng. The second mother smiled kindly and beckoned to my sister and me.

My sister and I walked up to the second mother, who picked me up and didn't forget to touch my sister's head.

"Yingzi, your two dolls are really getting cuter!" My aunt looked at my sister and me and praised my mother.

Mom, laugh and don't say anything.

I felt like I could see a hint of pride in my mother's smile.

I don't really understand that feeling, but I really want my mother to keep this smile all the time.

"Yingzi, look, I've brought something!" Seeing that her mother was smiling and silent, the aunt hurriedly took out something from the bag of her jacket as if offering a treasure.

The thing was wrapped in a few pieces of black cloth by the aunt, it seemed to be square but not square, round and not round, and it was impossible to see what it was.

"Sister Zhang, ...... are you?" Mom's voice didn't fall yet.

"Poof. Sister Zhang, you are wrapped in things on the three outer floors here, what do you think of Yingzi! The second mother's joking voice sounded.

The aunt suddenly looked like a girl's mind had been exposed, and she smiled shyly, "Hehe, I didn't think it through!" Hey, I'm not afraid of things scratching! But soon, she confidently refuted the second mother.

"Alright, let's open things quickly, it's getting late." The second mother urged helplessly.

"Ah, yes, okay." Auntie opened the thing with both hands.