Wang Jinbao let out a long sigh and got up from the corn stalk very reluctantly

"Oops! My good old mother! Now I don't support the wall, I'll serve you! Forget it! It's better to pack two people faster than one! By the way, quickly pull these up, and this account will be settled! ”

Zhao Xiu'e was tidying up, Wang Jinbao was on the shelf car, putting the messy corn stalks, and looked at it with great distress, and her son said, extremely embarrassed

"Jinbao, you don't care! You're gone to school, and you're not doing any more work at home! Sit next to me and rest, I have no problem loading and unloading these, and when the meeting is ready, as long as you help me pull it home, it will help me a lot! ”

Wang Jinbao pretended not to hear, hugged a big bundle of corn stalks, and said as he walked towards the rack cart

"Oops! Mom! What are you talking about, the corn stalk is not for you to burn the kang alone, but for our whole family, so there is no such thing as helping at all, but what I should and must do! Besides, I used to go to school and wasn't at home, and you worked alone, which was something that couldn't be helped, but now I'm not here, sitting in the field like what's going on? And I wondered, Mom, isn't it uncomfortable to scratch your face if the corn leaves don't prick you?"

Zhao Xiu'e smiled bitterly, and then happily hugged a large bundle of corn stalks and said with a smile

"I, a peasant who eats in the loess, how can I compare with you students who shake the pen all day long! After doing farm work for so many years, with thorns in my fingers, I don't need to look for a needle to find a pointed thing, and I can tolerate it when I dig it out, and we have already developed antibodies when we scratch and hurt corn leaves! I'm used to it! ”

When Wang Jinbao heard this, his heart ached, and then his scalp was numb, because once when he used the bamboo on the broom to make a bow and arrow, he accidentally pierced a small section of bamboo burr into the middle finger of his left hand, and he saw it when he touched it, but he couldn't pull it out with his nails, and the more he squeezed it with his nails, the deeper it was pierced

"Mom, haven't you heard of ten fingers connecting hearts, you just find a sharp thing, and it doesn't hurt when you stab it?"

Zhao Xiu'e first smiled faintly when she heard this, then walked over slowly, touched Wang Jinbao's wet head, wiped the sweat beads on his face and said with a smile

"Silly son! Your mother is not a fairy, how can she not feel pain! But no matter how painful it is, who will say it! Even if you tell someone, who will feel distressed! This rack car is pulled back, we don't pull it, in case it will pull my baby tired, these broken corn stalks, wouldn't it be a complete loss! ”

Zhao Xiu'e's palms covered with calluses and scars that have been doing farm work for a long time are like a piece of apricot bark that has been dried for many years, and when he glides over Wang Jinbao's face that he washes with facial cleanser three times a day, although his face feels uncomfortable, what is extremely uncomfortable is that heart that does not eat fireworks in the world.

Then he grabbed Zhao Xiu'e's hand, looked at the thick calluses on the tiger's mouth, and remembered that the original soft and kind heart, the reason why it will become hard and cold-blooded, is because every time he is injured and healed, he will leave scars, and if he is injured too many times, the whole heart will be wrapped in scars, and the new injuries in the future will continue to produce scabs and heal, and new scars will be produced, until the whole heart is scarred, wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, so as to become cold-blooded and indestructible.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xiu'e, who is accustomed to these three words, flashed in his mind over and over again like a movie, like a red-hot steel needle, inserted from the temple, and dried up little by little, the water that he has been raising fish in his brain for many years, because the layers of calluses on his mother's hands that have been baptized and worked hard over the years are not formed overnight, but new calluses cover the calluses, and they are formed layer by layer, but the formation of each layer of calluses is not a simple soft skin, but a hard skin. But she tasted the ups and downs of the world, endured the heat and coldness of the world, and became numb to all the injuries and pains to produce antibodies, but the palm of her hand is just the tip of the iceberg of her life status, is this what people often say, women are weak, and mothers are strong! His eyes were red, and he endured the emotions in his heart, and said extremely distressed

"Oops! Mom, don't bury me anymore! More than seven meters tall, more than 100 pounds of fat, not to mention, I am not a lady, doing such a little work is not worth mentioning at all! I piggyback on it in a day, and I do more than you do in a day! Besides, the holiday is only a few days, don't you hurry up, make good use of this strong labor, and raise your son to really wait for the New Year! ”

Zhao Xiu'e just smiled faintly, and said unusually calmly while walking towards the corn stalk not far away

"It's okay! As you said, the corn stalk can't run away if you put it in the ground! I've been piggybacking on a little bit of it all day! You will take these few days off in total, go out and have fun, and when you get to school, you can't go out with semi-military management, and you have nowhere to play if you want to! ”

Wang Jinbao smiled, thinking that his mother endured the scratches of the blade-like corn leaves for the sake of doing less for herself, and worked hard for this family for decades

"Oops! Mom! I've been playing for three years in high school, and I've had enough! Besides, it's not the age to play anymore! You're right, but now I know that the corn stalk can't be thrown away in the ground, but it doesn't have long legs, and it can't run on our corn stalk stack! So don't say anything, hurry up! ”

When Zhao Xiu'e heard this, she looked at Wang Jinbao with great relief, and then pretended to be angry

"Don't worry, we are working for our own family, not on the assembly line of working in Guangdong, and the task is the same! When you hold the cornstalk, don't rush to get started, kick the place where you start with your feet, don't stick it to your face when you pick it up, and turn your head so that you don't scratch your face and hands! Otherwise, your school will be full of wounds on your face, and your classmates will think that migrant workers are laughing at you! ”

Wang Jinbao smiled when he heard this, picked up a bundle of corn stalks in front of him, and said as he walked towards the rack cart

"Mom! You're so funny! Kick the leaves off the corn stalk and pull it back like that, what are we going to burn! It seems that you are really smart and confused for a while! Rest assured! Most of our dormitories are rural, and no one laughs at them, haven't you heard that labor is the most beautiful, there is no distinction between high and low labor, and besides, I am originally rural, and migrant workers are farmers! You're tired and take a break, I'll go to school and take a break! ”