"What's your name?"

"Yunfeng, Li Yunfeng."

"Huh? It's the same name as my sister, and my sister is also called Yun Feng. But we don't have the surname Li, we have the surname Yun. My name is Yun Junsheng. ”

"Your name is Yun Feng too?"

"Well, sharp edge, which edge are you?"

"I am the peak of the mountain."

Cao'er didn't expect that the boy's name would be so similar to herself, if she just called it like that, she couldn't tell who called whom. She couldn't help but chuckle.

There is less than half a month left in the summer vacation. Cao'er and her younger brother run to the peanut field almost every day. The younger brother played with the snail and had a lot of fun. As for the grass, he helped Li Yunfeng pull the grass in the peanut field and loosen the soil with a small shovel.

Every day is happy for Cao'er and her younger brother Junsheng. For Li Yunfeng, it is also an unprecedented joy to see this sister and brother as his companion every day. He didn't wear a straw hat, his face was so tanned that he couldn't be darker, and Cao'er and his younger brother had also been dark more than once in the past half a month.

Cao'er proposed more than once that he wanted to take his younger brother to Li Yunfeng's house to play, but he seemed to be secretive and unwilling to take them there. And every day he came by himself, and he didn't see the other adults in their family. Cao'er thought it was strange.

"Are these acres of land yours?"

Cao'er asked curiously.

"Well, it's from our family."

"Then why are you the only one here?"

"I'm alone, and I can pull out all these acres of land and loosen the soil this summer."

The little boy always answered quietly.

"Do you have a well in front of your house?"

"Yes, there's a rocking well."

"Oh, that well in front of our house is a hanging well. The water is so sweet that on days like this, we go home and hang it up and drink it. It's sweet, it's sweet. ”

At 12 noon, the sun was as hot as a fireball falling in mid-air, and the soil in the field could cook an egg.

"Sister is so hot, let's go back."

Brother Cao'er was so hot that he couldn't stand it on the side, and he looked bitter.

"Would you like to go to your house? Today my parents are not at home, and then there is no one to cook, and my brother and I have nothing to eat. ”

Cao'er begged the little boy.

Cao'er mentioned many times that she wanted to go to the little boy's house to play, but the little boy was always silent.

"Yes, brother, we don't have anything to eat at home today, can we go to your house to cook and eat?"

Li Yunfeng finally couldn't stand his brother's request, stood up and said:

"Let's go home."

"Oh, I can go to my brother's house for dinner today!"

Cao'er and her younger brother happily followed the little boy.

Ten minutes later, Li Yunfeng took them to the door of a house in the village.

There was a big black dog squatting beside the door, and when he saw them coming, he shook his head and waged his tail.

The door was open, and there was a little girl in the living room, about four or five years old. He was very skinny and wore two pigtails. When he saw the little boy and the others stepping in, he raised his eyes and called out to his brother, then lowered his head again, and played with the matchstick in his hand.

"You guys just have fun here. Qin'er, you take your brother to play together. ”

Cao'er followed Li Yunfeng into the kitchen, where a boy was squatting around the stove to make a fire.

The little boy, who was cooking rice, must have been eight or nine years old, saw them come into the kitchen, grinned at them with a smiling face that was fluttering with pot ashes, and then lowered his head to blow the wind on the stove. Cao'er saw his open teeth, and also saw the same implicit shyness in his smile.

"This is my second brother Li Yunhe, and outside is my little sister Li Yunqin."

"Are you Yunjuniors?"

As soon as Cao'er heard that there was a word "cloud" in the middle of this name, she asked in passing.

"Well, I also have a cousin who went out to sell vegetables with the adults in the morning, named Li Yuntu. Diagram of the drawing. ”

Li Yunfeng introduced Cao'er like a little adult.

"What about your mom and dad? Don't they come back for lunch at noon? ”

"They, well, my dad died of illness the year before last, and my mom collapsed in the field last year when she was also doing farm work in the field, and when she found out, she couldn't save her."

Li Yunfeng's face flashed with a hint of sadness, but he quickly regained his usual calm.

Cao'er's heart shattered when she heard this, a trace of sadness flashed on her face, and she quickly regained her composure. She looked at him, and finally understood why he was reluctant to bring himself into the house, for he did not want too much mercy, and he did not want to spread the word everywhere, even though perhaps everyone in their village knew about it.

"I ......"

Cao'er, who suddenly knew this, still seemed a little overwhelmed, not knowing what to say and what to do for him.

"It's okay, it's okay. Now the people in the village are very helpful. When the village chief Uncle Li Gen is busy, he will organize the village to help our family harvest and plant rice, and they also help us plant our two acres of peanut land, but I can do the work of weeding and loosening the soil, so I don't want to trouble everyone. “

Li Yunfeng picked up a few loofahs from the ground and shoeed them, and then said:

"Since my father died, my younger brother and I have been exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees by the school, eating and drinking, and the village committee will give us 30 yuan a month for each of us every month, plus more food for the village committee to help sell, we can have more than 300 yuan a year, which is enough for us."

"However, since my mother left, my sister has always asked where my mother has gone, and I don't know how to tell her."

Li Yunfeng was cutting vegetables in his hand, and when he talked about his sister looking for her mother, he couldn't help but pause.

Cao'er looked at the boy in front of her, and talked about things at home like an adult, compared to her, she was too far behind, and she was very ashamed.

"My cousin too, his parents are divorced, his father went to Guangzhou to work, his mother doesn't know where he went, there is no news, and he is left with a younger brother, at home, with grandma."

"His family lives next door to mine."

Li Yunfeng didn't wait for the grass to speak, he talked about these things in his family like telling other people's stories. These are big things, enough to overturn a family, but when he speaks, he speaks in a light tone. Maybe the pain when it happened was buried, and what was left was only the rationality of life. Cao'er was silently crying in her heart, for the first time, not for herself, but for another family.

"Yunfeng, did Yunqin go to school?"

"No, I don't. In the second half of the year, Uncle Gen said that she would go to the preschool in the village to follow, and she would go to the first grade after two years to 7 years old. After my mother left, she was with my grandmother, who usually took care of us and our two cousins. ”

"Oh, what about Grandma?"

"The little cousin is 6 years old, naughty, and loves to run outside, so I guess I went looking for him."

Lunch is very simple, a pot of loofah egg soup, a plate of fried eggplant with green chilies, a plate of stir-fried gourd, a plate of sweet potato leaves, and a plate of fried bitter gourd with black beans and green peppers. Then there is the white rice cooked by Li Yunhe.

The dishes were all fried by Li Yunfeng, and after Li Yunhe completed his rice task, he was sent by Yunfeng to find his grandmother and little cousin back for lunch. Cao'er's younger brother Junsheng and Yunqin played with matchsticks and Xiaoshi'er and had a lot of fun. Li Yunfeng said that his lobby brother followed the adults to sell vegetables and did not come back at noon, and could only return in the afternoon.

They all waited for Yunhe to call their grandmother and little cousin back to eat with chopsticks.