Chapter 19: The Yard
Wake up early the next day.
My mother put breakfast on the table early, and when I came to the table, my father was reading the newspaper and drinking tea. "Murphy has a holiday today." Dad looked at me with a smile, and I suddenly shivered for no reason.
"Then stay with me at home today." Sure enough, he said.
"Why? I don't want it. "I don't want to struggle.
"Your brother is just sick, so it's not appropriate to work too hard. Besides, you're also a big kid, and you have to learn to share the burden for the family. I don't think you want to be indiligent, right? ”
"I'd like to." I said cheekily.
"That's going to have to work at home, too."
Wow, the struggle ended in failure.
"Okay." I nodded reluctantly.
"This is Daddy's good daughter!" My father came over and put his arm around my shoulders and said, "Then we will take care of everything today, our father and daughter are of the same heart, and the profits will be golden." ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I could only vent my displeasure with the poached eggs on the plate.
After the meal, I changed into my old jeans and covered the floor with newspaper so that the paint would not stick to the walls. I poured the paint into a small bucket so that it was easy for my father to pick it up.
"What else do you want me to do?" When I was done, I tilted my head and asked my father, who was standing on the wooden frame and was painting.
"Well......" he thought for a moment, "why don't you clean up the yard." He said, looking out the window.
I dug through a pair of old gloves in the chest of drawers and found a trowel behind the porch. I continued to work hard, first collecting bricks and tiles and other things with my bare hands and stacking them in a corner, and then I began to deal with the plants that were constantly broken with my bare hands with a trowel, and I had already conquered most of the yard in a few moments. When you are very tired, you will stop to take a breath, and take advantage of this effort, spiders and beetles crawl around quickly in the soil, and there are many earthworms and some insects that don't know what to call in and out of the clods. I don't know why, but I always feel like they're a bit too much.
Dad walked out and threw me a can of drink. We squatted down together in the middle of the yard and drank drinks. Occasionally, a few grey magpies would bounce between the planed plants and clods of soil, pecking at the panicked bugs.
"Good job." Dad smacked me on the shoulder.
"Later, after the pond is dug up, let's make a rockery, and there should be a meadow next to the pond, on which you can lie on for sunbathing in the summer, and the grass should be planted with flowers. When the time comes, invite your little ones over for a picnic, and you can proudly say that you have contributed to this beautiful garden. ”
Dad smiled and told me about the future of this courtyard in his mind, and he said the truth. But I didn't pay much attention to it, because it was really tiring.
After a short break, we got back to our unfinished business.
To be honest, my arm was really sore and my shoulder was a little swollen. But I don't know why, when I didn't start working, I was obviously lazy and didn't want to do anything. But once I started to do it, I didn't think about anything anymore, I just felt that the unfinished work was an eyesore, and I just wanted to finish it, and I couldn't take care of it anymore.
"Is this a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder?" I think.
I didn't wear the mask my dad gave me because I was holding my breath. And the price was that dust or something wantonly broke into my nose and throat, and my throat, which was already dry from exertion, was now more like smoke.
All of this reminds me of when I first entered the storeroom, when the dust in the room choked me almost as much as I do now. I don't know how Xue Fei is now, will she look at me quietly through the small window of the warehouse. Xue Fei is the name that Xuan Xuan had to give to the Snow Girl last night. Taken from "Cai Wei", "Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling". I didn't expect Xuan Xuan to be crazy at that time, but the name was so meaningful. Because of this, the Snow Girl readily agreed.
"When the yard project is over, Dad should clean up the warehouse, right? Although I know that my father can't see Xuefei them, I'm still a little worried, and I hope that there won't be any extraneous branches at that time! ”
With a bang, I sat down on the ground, "oops", and immediately got up with gold stars, and when I looked up, it turned out that I had already arrived in front of the warehouse when I was thinking nonsense. But because I was busy with the work in my hands with my head down, I couldn't concentrate, so I slammed into the warehouse wall.
I got up and leaned down on the small window and looked inside, but I couldn't see anything, and I pricked up my ears to listen carefully, but there was no sound.
"This damn Xuefei, she will definitely know that I hit me so badly just now, but she doesn't care about me at all, this one who has no conscience, she will never bring her a pot of meat next time." I sneered.
"You wouldn't be like that, I can bet you." A voice sounded in my head, it was Xue Fei.
I looked back and forth, but there was no sign of her. "Where are you?"
"It's just a transmission of ideas, do you want me to show up in broad daylight? Silly sister! Xue Fei's voice still sounded in his head.
Younger sister! Xue Fei, she called it really smooth. And that Xuan Xuan, she can think of such a thing as a sworn sister, just to be able to eat pot meat! These two guys really don't have anyone anymore. I must have run away from home when I met them, right?
"Are you stupid?" Even so, I still scolded Xue Fei, which is also what I am most proud of, because apart from me, there is no one in this world who can scare a demon god as he wants.
There was no response, I stayed there, full of expectations for her to reply, the two of you come and go, that's where the fun of scolding each other lies. But after waiting for a long time, there was no sound at all.
Alas! That's not interesting.
I'm not worried about her getting angry, and from what I know about her, it's only right that she's too lazy to speak. I had no choice but to target innocent plants again.
It didn't take long for me to find Xuan Xuan sitting on the courtyard wall of her house. She had a sketchpad and a pen in her hand, burying her head in it, not knowing what to draw on it. When she saw me, she waved desperately at me, but she didn't smile or shout hello.
"That kid is weird." Dad came behind me at some point, looked at Xuan Xuan and said.
"Not really." I agree with Dad's words 200%, Xuan Xuan is an elf and eccentric, you will never know what is going on in her head.
"Mom was preparing dinner and asked me what you were eating. What's that, good girl, let's not eat pot meat today, okay? I'm tired of eating. Dad said with a bitter face.
"Not good!" I vetoed my father's request without even thinking about it.
"Alas! What about the little padded jacket that was said to be good? What about the little lover in the previous life? I must have asked for a fake girl. Dad muttered with a sad face.
"Then it's okay, I'll go find Xuan Xuan." I ignored his fake sadness.
"Well, that's it for today. You go find her. Dad nodded.
Just as I turned around, Xue Fei's voice sounded in my head again.
"Look, I'll just say you won't be willing to give up on your sister."
"Cut, who said that the pot wrapped meat made by my mother will definitely have your share." I retorted insincerely, and then ran out of the courtyard......