Chapter 48: The Terrible Snake
"Ouch, Yunfeng, are you ready?"
An old man, with silver hair in a bun on the back of his head, panted and followed behind a lively six-year-old boy into the door.
"Well, grandma, Yun Yuan, come and eat."
Li Yunfeng hurriedly got up and helped the old man sit down, took an empty bowl to his little cousin Yun Yuan who was running at the dinner table, and then picked up the bowl in front of his grandmother and went to the kitchen to serve rice.
"Junsheng, Yunqin, go wash your hands and get ready to eat."
Cao'er also helped to greet them, and the two children stopped. Yunqin pulled Junsheng to wash his hands in the basin next to the well at the door, Junsheng ran to the well platform mischievously, grabbed his hand and shook it violently, and the water fell into the basin with a bang, splashing Yunqin's body.
"Junsheng, stop playing, wash your hands and eat."
Seeing this, Cao'er hurriedly ran out, pulled Jun Sheng and dipped his small meat hands into the basin.
Cao'er took her younger brother back to the dinner table, only to see that Yunqin was already sitting next to her obediently. was sandwiching vegetables to an empty bowl next to her, and said immaturely as she could:
"Brother, I'll keep some for my mother first, or she won't have anything to eat when she comes back. Second brother, you are not allowed to steal food. ”
Cao'er was stunned. Li Yunfeng is taking Yunhe to serve a meal to everyone.
"You are a good girl who helps our family Yunfeng pull weeds together, right?"
Li Yunfeng's grandmother looked at the grass with a loving face.
"These children in our family are miserable, and they don't have their parents by their side......"
The old man couldn't help but lift his shirt and wipe away his tears.
"Yunqin kept clamoring for her mother, so we told her that her mother went out to work every day, and when we all went out, she would come back to rest. So I can't see it. This child is worried that her mother has no food when she comes back, so she has to keep some for her every time she eats, and we will leave her alone, don't be surprised. ”
"Well, grandma, don't be sad, Yunqin is still young. It would be nice to wait for her to be older. “
The grass also seems to have aged a lot in an instant. She didn't feel sad like an old man in her heart, but secretly thought about how to better help Li Yunfeng's family.
"Alas, speaking of which, Yun Feng is a sensible baby, and bringing a group of younger brothers and sisters in the family also saves me a lot of worry."
"Yunfeng's father had stomach cancer, and when he found it, it was already in an advanced stage, and it hurt at the beginning, and he was a rural person, and he couldn't stand it, and he didn't think about going to the hospital to see it, and when he couldn't stand it, the doctor said that it couldn't be cured."
"His mother was bitten by a snake in the field last year, because the field was surrounded by grass, and the snakes came out of their holes in the spring, who knew that she bumped into her, and was bitten several times, and when she found it, there were no people, and the person who went to carry her back said, and the people in the team said, looking at the situation, it may have been struggling for a long time, and then she passed out. At that time, there were few people in the mountains, and his mother wanted to open up the land to grow beans, and now no one dares to go there. “
Li Yunfeng's grandmother chatted with Cao'er, and finally a little girl who could listen to her finally came, and the sad words in her heart also flowed out by herself. The people in the village know these things, but they are also very busy, although they will take care of Yunfeng and their family, but they really don't have time to listen to Yunfeng's grandmother say these words over and over again, that is, some old men and old ladies who are idle and sitting in the village chatting listen to them and wipe their tears, and then go home and tell the young and strong children at home to take care of the old lady's family more.
But the snake is powerful, and the grass has heard of it. There is a kind of snake in the mountain that is green all over the body, the local name is the bamboo green snake, which is not poisonous, but other snakes, rural people do not all know, some seem to be poisonous, but the poison is different.
In this southern countryside, not to mention the mountains, it is common for people to slip in and snakes often sneak in. Cao'er saw a snake hanging on the iron fence in the kitchen window of her grandmother's house, which scared everyone enough at that time, but the eldest uncle took it away, and Cao'er was so frightened that she covered her eyes and didn't dare to look at it. The snake that Li Yunfeng's mother touched should be poisonous, and the poison should not be light.
Cao'er didn't dare to imagine the scene when Yun Feng's mother was bitten at that time, and quickly diverted her attention to the dinner table. Fortunately, Li Yunfeng also came out of the kitchen.
"Grandma, don't talk about it, the dishes are cold, you eat quickly."
Yun Feng and Yun He, who served everyone a good meal, sat down. As soon as I looked at my grandmother's appearance, I knew that my grandmother had told her all about the family again. He didn't see any look on his face, at a young age, he started a family, not only deserving of a good look, but also becoming a teenager after experiencing these things.
Cao'er didn't want the atmosphere to be too dull, and she didn't want Yun Feng to finally greet him and his younger brother to eat, so he began to praise Yun Feng's delicious dishes, and his grandmother was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, Yun Feng was also embarrassed to be praised, and Yun He secretly raised his eyes while eating, followed the music, and occasionally squeezed his eyebrows at Jun Sheng. As for Yun Yuan, he couldn't be idle with a bowl, holding a small bench as a dining table, eating a bite of food and playing with the small wooden toys in his hand for a while.
Yunqin was obedient, and sat at the table with her brothers and finished the meal.
Cao'er habitually put away the dishes and chopsticks, and Grandma Li Yunfeng looked at it and praised that this was a good girl, but Li Yunfeng quickly snatched the dishes and chopsticks from Cao'er's hand and rushed to wash them himself.
In the kitchen, there is a large rural stove, connected to a small stove for cooking rice, next to a round pine cutting board, and on the opposite wall of the stove is embedded a window-sized cabinet with doors and chopsticks, and the washed dishes and chopsticks are placed in the cabinet, and then there is nothing.
In the living room was an old couch, a log table for eating, six knee-high square wooden stools, three old bamboo-made low-legged chairs, and two small wooden benches for children to sit on. There was a half-man-high locker against the wall next to the door, which was also very old, at least five or six years old.
Grandma Li Yunfeng originally wanted to invite Cao'er and Junsheng into her room to eat the peanuts harvested in the summer, but when she pushed the door open, Cao'er saw that it was also dark inside, so she didn't take her younger brother in. Li Yunfeng's cousin's family is also similar to Li Yunfeng's family.
"You guys play for a while, don't go out now, the sun is too big."
Grandma Yunfeng said to Li Yunfeng and Cao'er while looking at Yun Yuan and not letting him go out.
"Well, when we go out in a while, we will also wear hats for Cao'er and Junsheng."
Although Li Yunfeng knew that Cao'er's name was the same as his own, he was still used to calling Cao'er's nickname, which was cordial.
Jun Sheng had already been playing with Yunqin around the well and shaking water.
Cao'er knew that Li Yunfeng was in the same grade as herself, but in a different class, no wonder she didn't know her.
Li Yunfeng's second brother Li Yunhe is two years younger than Cao'er, two grades lower, because he was too thin since he was a child, his parents always take more care of him when they are there, after his parents left, his brother Li Yunfeng did not let him work in the field, worried that he could not stand the heat of July and August, so he left him at home with his grandmother to take care of his little sister and little cousin.
I heard grandma say that Yunhe's grades are very good, and he scores more than ninety-five points in every exam, as for Yunfeng, grandma didn't say it, Cao'er glanced at Li Yunfeng, who was already sitting next to the bamboo dustpan peeling bean shells, and she didn't want to ask.
"I heard that Lin Hantu in your class is very capable of fighting?"
Cao'er couldn't help but gossip. Lin Hantu is a well-known fighting king in the whole school.
"Hahaha, everyone calls him 'sweat drops and soil', and his sweat comes out of fighting......"
Yun He couldn't help but reply first.
Li Yunfeng glared at the second brother who was taking the notebook out and preparing to do his homework, Yunhe stuck out his tongue, and quickly lowered his head and continued to flip the book.
"Yes, but he's actually a very righteous man. Those who are beaten deserve to be beaten. “
Cao'er was very surprised when she heard this sentence spit out of Yun Feng's mouth, it seems that classmate Li Yunfeng is not so easy to provoke as he seems? But Cao'er had never heard of him on the list of fights.
Yun Feng stopped talking, just peeled the pods in his hands, and didn't pay attention to the grass that was helping beside him.