Shen Mingxi looked at the back of his eldest brother, clasped his hands, and followed quickly.

The Shen family is not separated, and the work earned by working in the fields is all together, but the meals are divided into two places.

It was like that ten years ago.

Mrs. Shen and Old Man Shen and their second son and third son ate in the main house.

The Shen family's family ate in the firewood room on the east side of the courtyard.

Shen Mingxi entered the firewood room.

It is a house made of wheat straw and yellow mud.

It was too old to look dilapidated compared to the five large houses of clay and stone in the main house.

There is no kitchen, just three rooms separated by straw curtains woven from wheat straw.

In the middle are dad Shen Yu and mom Chen Li, on the left are her and her sister, and on the right are two older brothers and a younger brother.

The house is not high.

The eldest brother, the second brother and the father walked back and forth, and they all had to be cat-waisted.

The walls are dusty, the windows are glassless, and the yellowed window paper is pasted, so even when the sun is shining outside, it looks gray and gloomy.

The dilapidated door is left open, so that it will look a little brighter.

As soon as she entered the room, she heard Shen Yu's suppressed cough.

Her eyes were wet, she hurriedly turned her head, poured a bowl of water for Shen Yu neatly with her hands and feet, and waited until he calmed down and stopped coughing before handing over the water.

Shen Yu took the water, probed her daughter's forehead with the back of her hand, Qingjun's eyebrows were dyed with surprise, and she turned her head to Chen Li and said, "The creek is not burning, this is good." ”

Chen Li's eyes lit up for a moment, but they dimmed again, and while setting the table, she whispered, "Okay, I have to work in the field again......

At this time, Shen Yu found Chen Li's cheeks, he walked over, brushed the broken hair on his daughter-in-law's cheeks, his eyes were gray, and it seemed that the inquiry seemed to have been confirmed, "Was it my mother's beating?" ”

Several of the children in the family looked over.

Chen Li was flustered for a moment, but she forced a smile, "No, I accidentally touched it, let's eat, I'm going to work in the field in a while......"

Shen Yu glanced at Chen Li fixedly, and sat down at the table in silence.

A basin of rice water with a clear bottom and three nests is the breakfast of this family of seven.

Shen Mingxi bit his lip, but still helped Chen Li fill everyone with a bowl of thin rice water, and the rice grains in it could be counted.

There are two nests divided into four pieces, Shen Yu, Shen Jiawen, Shen Qingshan and Shen Mingxi are half each, because they are all laborers who earn full work, Chen Li is not in good health, and can only weed or do some easier farm work, so she is only half a laborer.

Eight-year-old Shen Linfeng, six-year-old Shen Mingxue and Chen Li can only share one nest head equally.

And this one nest head is divided into three parts.

They've always been assigned that way.

Of course, this is in the case of a nest head.

Shen Mingxi looked at the clear rice water in a daze, she knew that in the main house these days, because of the summer harvest, the big stew of rice noodles and cakes in Wowotou was delicious, and the sticky rice porridge was also a big bowl per person, as well as pickled pickle strips made by Chen Li.

But they can only earn full work grandpa alone.

The third uncle cheated and played tricks, and his income was not as good as Chen Li's.

The second aunt and the third aunt together are only one point more than the full work points.

The children of the second and third uncle's families did not pick up as many ears of wheat as her younger brother and sister.

And the frail and sickly little brother and sister, after picking up the ears of wheat, have to cut the pig to eat vegetables.

And Shen Baozhi, not to mention, the white-flour steamed buns and eggs have never been broken, she is neither envious nor jealous, she says that she deserves it.

But what about the others?

Shen Mingxi tightened his brows, and his heart was very blocked.

She reluctantly drank a bowl of rice water, gave the nest head to Chen Li, and said in a low voice, "Mom, you can eat, my throat is not very comfortable, and I can't eat ......."

Chen Li was startled, and hurriedly put down the bowl in her hand, asking Shen Mingxi to open her mouth, she wanted to look at her throat, "Xiaoxi, let Mom see, is the tonsil inflamed?" ”

Everyone else put down the bowl in their hands and looked at her in unison, their eyes full of concern and concern.

This is her relative, even if she was scolded by her grandmother and those people as a mourning star since she was a child, but they never took these things into their eyes, they only regarded her as the dearest relative.

A touch of pain flashed in Shen Yu's eyes, and he felt depressed, but he didn't know why he felt like this.

Because he was always coughing, his voice was always a little hoarse, "Xiaoxi, don't go to work today, rest at home, I'll go and tell your grandma to go." ”

The people in the room were silent.

Chen Li was so frightened that she hurriedly shook her head at him, "Don't go, if you go to Xiaoxi, you will not only have to work, but you will also be scolded." ”

Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head with a gloomy face.

The youngest Shen Mingxue, because of her poor health, took a nickname Yaya, she felt that the third sister was reluctant to eat so she said this, because the third sister had done this before, and saved half of her share for her to eat.

Yaya handed over a small piece of nest head in her hand, "Third sister, eat me, I'm not hungry......"

Before the words fell, the shriveled little belly grunted a few times uncooperatively.

Shen Mingxi touched her little sister's head, there was a warm smile in her eyes, Yaya was only six years old, but she was the most sensible, she was very thin, small, and her head was a little big, a bit like the little radish head in the text her father read to her.

Shen Qingshan ate quickly, a bowl of rice water and half of the nest were long gone, he looked at Shen Mingxi embarrassedly, scratched his head, and said humbly, "Xiaoxi, wait for the afternoon second brother to catch grasshoppers and grasshoppers for you, roast and eat fragrant......"

Shen Mingxi stood up and looked at everything in front of him in a daze.

The mud and straw house in disrepair is dusty, and the family is wearing patched clothes and pants, which are not wanted by the second and third uncles' families.

They were sallow-faced, emaciated, and worked from morning till night.

But their eyes are bright, and there is a spirit that is suppressed but desperately wants to fight against fate.

It's like a weed crushed by a slate.

Life is difficult, but I never give up hope!

"My throat is really uncomfortable, it may have something to do with the fever, but my illness is cured, don't worry, I'll drink some water, Dad, let's go to work together in a while."

After speaking, without waiting for everyone's reaction, Shen Mingxi had already left the dilapidated and crowded mud and straw house quickly.

Her heart was very uncomfortable, but she didn't have time to think, the pig food in the stove was almost warm, and she had to feed the pigs.

If she doesn't go, her mother goes.

Shen Mingxi works fast, and always makes the fastest and best use of the time in his hands.

After a while, she brushed the cauldron, cleaned up the stove, and poured the pig food into the pig trough.

The two pigs were received from the brigade at the beginning of the year, one was paid back, and the other was kept for food.

Mrs. Shen looked at it strictly, and she wanted to feed a big fat pig of more than 100 catties, so from the beginning when the wild grass and wild vegetables sprouted, she drove her younger brother Dog Dan and Yaya to cut the pigweed and dig wild vegetables.