The lime was sprinkled around the thatched pit where the maggots roamed, scorching the delicate skin of the maggots, and the destruction was far more intense than caustic soda burning the skin of animals. The white color of the lime elevates the grade of the pit; The pungent smell of lime mixed with the rotten sour smell of the thatched pit became a deceptive smell; The adsorption of lime sucks away the rotten molecules of the wooden planks that have begun to rot on the pit.

Wang Xinghai pouted and shook the lime in his hand back and forth around the pit, and the lime made a dull faint sound around it. Wang En leaned outside the door to oversee the "new" toilet that his father was about to build for Shen Bing. Wang En saw the scattered lime and thought: Yu Qian, the cowman who turned the tide in the Tumu Fort during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem praising lime: "Thousands of hammers are chiseled out of the deep mountains, and the fire burns like idleness." I am not afraid of broken bones, and I want to leave my innocence in the world. What Yu Shaobao borrowed from Yongzhi expressed was strong and unyielding, clean and self-righteous and different feelings. Although this poem insults the noble sentiments of a generation of famous ministers, if the spirit of lime represents a person's quality and feelings, the environment that tests people's qualities and feelings is often not in good times, but in adversity, disasters, and troubled times. White lime sprinkled on the edge of the dirty pit is not a test of quality and feelings.

"Sprinkle it! This time, Shen Bing can go to the toilet with peace of mind," Wang Xinghai turned out of the toilet proudly as if he had captured a city.

"Sprinkled with lime, it looks cleaner!" Wang En subconsciously praised his father's merits.

"Hurry up and light me a cigarette," Wang Xinghai fiddled with his hands that were covered with white ash nowhere.

"Oh!" Wang En touched a cigarette and lit one, took a puff, and handed it to his father to put in his mouth.

"Didn't Wang Ping come over?" The mouth holding the cigarette is very thin, and there is a kind of cunning look.

"No! What is he doing here? ”

"Didn't I tell him to come to your house, boy?"

"Why did you ask him to come to me?"

"I went to look for Maud just now, and that kid was fighting with his dad! After finally persuading him, I asked him to come to you first, and then go home after his father was angry. Where did he go? Wang Xinghai shook his head lightly and said.

"Ahh It's been so many years, and his father and son are still fighting! Wang En had a somewhat surprised expression.

"You don't know if you're not at home, these two enemies have a big battle in ten days and a small battle in three days. It's almost time for the war between the United States and Iraq. ”

"Nothing happened!"

"Nope! I'm used to it, it's all about going through the motions. ”

"I don't even know if he's at home, otherwise I'll take Shen Bing to play with him."

"I didn't come here, this kid didn't listen. A donkey who is alive and well, just say the meaning of the last two sentences, and offend people if he says too much. ”

"Isn't he teaching at the village primary school? Why do you always fight with your second uncle! ”

"That's the work that gets the hell! The father and son were already incompatible, and Wang Ping's work was not well chosen, which made the trouble even more fierce. ”

"Isn't it nice to teach in the village? How to say that the work is not good! ”

"After that kid read it, he thought of going to work at the Transportation Bureau, but he didn't get his wish, doesn't this blame your second uncle for all the complaints!"

"Huh! Brother Wang Ping is also yes, how good it is in the village! The teaching tasks are easy, the communication is simple, and the door is close, so you can get together with your family every day, how good it is! I want to come back, but I don't have the chance."

"Child, don't think nonsense, how good the city is, how convenient it is to do anything, and how good the living conditions are. A lot of people can't go if they want to. We can't think like that. Wang Xinghai felt more that he had a bright face in front of the villagers.

"There's nothing good in the city, it's noisy, noisy, nervous, in short, it's just a word 'tired'"

"Who is not tired! We face the loess all day long with our backs to the sky, go down to the ground before dawn, and only go home when it is dark. Fortunately, I am as tired as an ox, and I am less than a month's salary in a year."

"I'll just say that if I want to go back, I can come back. It's just a mouthful. ”

"It's good that you know, it's not easy to have a job. Cherish it. ”

"I know!"

"When are you going to get married?"

"Oh! I'm going to discuss this with you when I come back this time. His parents were pushing hard. ”

"If you are in a hurry, tell your mother, do it early! After your marriage, it's our greatest wish. ”

"I'm not going to have dinner at night and discuss it with you!"

"Guarding the pit and saying what to eat, go, go. Go to the yard. ”

Wang Xinghai washed his hands at the faucet in the yard, and saw Ni Fengxia coiling dinner in the kitchen, and the faint blue smoke from the burning straw suddenly rushed to the black chimney and hung like a net of ash for a long time. Shen Bing was still in the west wing and didn't go out.

"And when are you going to do it? Have you two discussed it? Wang Xinghai shook his wet hands and said.

"Haven't discussed it yet! It's not up to you! ”

"Then tomorrow, I'll go find a gentleman, count the eight characters of the birthday, turn over the yellow calendar, and look at the days."

"What age do you still believe in these! According to me, the old men on both sides set a time to meet, and we just have to get things done when we have time."

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, what do you know about children! Now although it is said that the new society does not engage in the feudal ideology of parents' orders and matchmakers' words, it is still necessary to look at the eight characters of birth and the auspicious day of the zodiac. ”

"Then take some time to meet her parents."

"This is okay, but you have to discuss it with your mother, and she has to take it." Wang Xinghai continued. "This Shen Bing has been staying in the house and not going out, and will take her to the village for a while, don't hold back her illness in the house"

"How?"

"Why not! Wang Ping's kid just stayed in the house all day and didn't go out, I heard that he was playing a game, so it didn't cause a problem. As soon as I got home, I quarreled with your second uncle. ”

"How can this be confused!"

"It's all the same thing, listen to me"

"Good! Good! I know. ”

"When I go back, I take her to our field to pick a few small pumpkins to fry and eat at night."

"Hmmm! Good! ”

"Go call now, go out for a walk"

Wang En followed Wang Xinghai's instructions and walked into the west wing room and came to Shen Bing, who leaned on the bed and closed his eyes to recuperate.