When the two sisters and brothers in the yard looked at the sun in the sky and gnawed on the sweet corn stalks, Wu Huihong, who went into the kitchen to boil hot water, finally walked out.

"You two, who goes to the shower first."

The corn stalk in Shu Zheming's hand hadn't finished gnawing, so he replied directly: "Eldest sister will go ...... first"

"Okay, I'll go first."

Shu Nuan put down the remaining corn stalks in his hand, patted the dregs on his hands, got up and walked to the kitchen.

Wu Huihong nodded: "That's okay." I've already found a bucket for you, mix it with warm water myself. ”

"Okay."

Shu Nuan replied and got up to wash.

She found a change of clothes, put on warm water, and went to the bathroom.

In fact, it is said that it is a bathing room, but it is just a hidden backlit shed, and it is okay to take a bath in summer, but not in winter.

In winter, the temperature is already low, so if you stand like this and blow a cold wind, you will catch a cold after only a while.

After pulling her hair on the top of her head, she quickly washed and changed her clothes, and then lifted the bamboo curtain to cover her.

"I'm all right."

Shu Nuan carried a plastic basin with dirty clothes in one hand and an empty bucket in the other.

"Me!"

Shu Zheming shouted and trotted to her side.

Shu Nuan glanced at her younger brother and bowed her head slightly: "Okay, go to the room to find clothes by yourself, and I'll help you mix water." ”

The younger brother is twelve years old this year, and he looks thin, not tall and has little strength.

However, Shu Nuan is not ready to let her younger brother stay in the mountains to farm in the future, so as long as the other party is healthy, she will not say anything, after all, the other party is still young, and when it is time to grow up, she should be able to go up.

The people of the Shu family are all tall, even if the third brother Shu He is not good looking, his height is still not short, and he looks like he is more than seven meters.

Shu Nuan was thinking about things in a mess, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all.

After putting away the basin for her dirty clothes, she went into the kitchen again with the bucket.

"Okay, wash it yourself."

After bringing the water to the bathroom, she nodded to her younger brother who was holding her clothes, turned and left to take a cool look in the courtyard.

After about ten minutes, Shu Zheming ran out with his dirty clothes.

Shu Nuan saw the appearance of her younger brother, and stretched out her finger and pointed to the basin that she had put down before: "Throw the clothes in the basin and wash them tomorrow." ”

There is no well at home, let alone running water, and every time I use water, I go to the village public well to fetch water, and if I wash clothes at home, it will be too wastewater.

In the summer, they wash their clothes by the river outside the village, and in the winter when the weather is cold, they wash on the large stone slab next to the communal well.

Shu Zheming threw the dirty clothes into the basin and shook his wet hair, and the water droplets dripped everywhere with the shaking motion.

Seeing this, Shu Nuan sighed lightly and beckoned and shouted, "Come here, I'll help you wipe the water from your hair." ”

"Hmm."

Shu Zheming ran over and bowed his head in front of her obediently.

Shu Nuan pulled the handkerchief hanging on the rope, and pressed the younger brother's head to rub it.

"Big sister, light, my ears hurt."

Shu Zheming muttered in protest, but did not make any other moves.

At this time, Shu Nuan was staring at the blackened beige handkerchief in his hand: "Didn't you wash the back of your ear?" ”

"Washed."

Shu Zheming hurriedly replied.

However, the words he said were somewhat unconfident.

Shu Nuan didn't look at the younger brother's expression, but directly reached out and touched the other party's wet hair.

After looking at the stains on her hands, she reached out and patted her younger brother's head.

"If you haven't washed it, go fetch water, and I'll wash it again for you."

Wu Huihong was about to go to wash up when she heard a voice poking her head out of the house: "What's not clean?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm going to help Ming Ming wash his hair."

After Shu Nuan explained, Wu Huihong nodded, and then reminded aloud: "There is still hot water in the pot, I'll go take a bath first, and if something calls me, it's done." ”

"Okay, got it."

Shu Nuan answered, and then took his younger brother to fetch water again.

Soon, the two stood still in the courtyard, and Shu Nuan motioned for the younger brother to sit on the small bench and buried his head in the basin placed on the high bench.

When Shu Zheming heard this, he naturally did so.

Shu Nuan rolled up her sleeves, wet her younger brother's hair with water in the basin, and grabbed a handful of laundry detergent and put it in the palm of her hand.

Here, they use soap for bathing and laundry detergent for washing their hair.

The main reason is that soap is not good for rubbing bubbles, and the effect of washing hair is not good, so I use laundry detergent.

As a person who has come over, Shu Nuan naturally knows that it is not good to wash his hair with laundry detergent, but now the conditions are like this, and he can only settle for it.

When Shu Nuan used a little warm water to wet the laundry detergent in his palm, he directly pressed it on his younger brother's head and began to rub it.

"Whew......"

Shu Zheming shrunk his neck suddenly.

Shu Nuan looked at his neatly trimmed fingers without extra nails, and asked with some doubts: "What's wrong?" Hurt you? ”

"Hot ......"

After Shu Zheming said this word, Shu Nuan couldn't help but chuckle.

Laundry detergent does get hot after being wet, and the skin on the head is particularly sensitive, and the combination of the two is indeed a little uncomfortable.

"Okay, I'll drizzle you with a little water, and it won't be hot soon."

Shu Nuan said softly, speeding up the movements of his hands.

After a while, she patted her younger brother on the shoulder and said, "All right, get up." ”

Shu Zheming wiped his hair with a handkerchief, while Shu Nuan bent down to pick up the sewage and often drain the ditch.

That night, after dinner, the three of them turned off the lights early to rest.

Next.

As soon as the sun climbed up the hillside, the family got up again and began to collect the wheat they had picked up yesterday.

The ears of wheat that grow on the straw have to be threshed.

It was a time-consuming job, and several people were so busy that they barely had time to speak, but fortunately the weather was cool in the morning, and I didn't feel too uncomfortable to get to work.

It wasn't until noon that the three finally stopped for a while.

"Eat first, rest for a while, and then get it."

After Shu Nuan greeted the family, he went directly into the kitchen.

It's already noon, and she has to prepare lunch for her family.

Today is still sunny weather, and the bright sunshine is drying the wheat that I brought back yesterday.

On the dinner table.

Wu Huihong put down the dishes and chopsticks, took a sip of water from the cup, and said to Shu Nuan: "In the afternoon, we must hurry up and strive to clean up today, and we will go to bring rapeseed tomorrow." ”

"Hmm."

Shu Nuan's jaw replied.

In the past few days, the weather has been good, and we must hurry up to finish the work in the field, otherwise there will be a heavy rain, and the rapeseed in the field will germinate if it is not harvested, and the harvest of this season will be all lost.