In the morning, Li Jun was woken up by the sound of the washing machine, and his mother got up early to wash Li Jun's clothes, so that he could dry them and take them away before he returned to school in the afternoon. Li Jun also thought about washing his own clothes, but after washing them a few times, his mother said that he couldn't wash them clean, and his clothes couldn't be washed, so he had to give up. Since junior high school, I have been going home once a time, bringing home a week's dirty laundry, and my mother washing them before bringing them to school.

In the past, in elementary school and junior high school, a lot of clothes were made by his mother for Li Jun, although his mother's hand was injured, but it did not stop her ingenuity, and it was also to save more, the mother saw that other people's children's clothes looked good, so she would cut them with scissors according to other people's clothes, and make the same style for Li Jun and his younger brother, because they were tailored to his and his younger brother's figures, so they were more suitable for wearing on the body. Before high school, Li Jun was also used to his mother's making and washing clothes, and his mother always washed the clothes cleanly and folded them neatly.

The younger brother is still sleeping, and the child who has just entered the first year of junior high school has nothing to worry about, and he eats and sleeps every day. Li Jun got up and walked outside to help his mother wash clothes, and when he walked out of the room, the weather outside was already feeling hot, the weather that had just rained was exceptionally good, the clear sky was cloudless, and the sun rising from the east had begun to exert his firepower, it seemed that it was another hot day today.

Mother is cooking in the east side of the room, from time to time bursts of aroma, should be in the brand Li Jun's favorite scallion pancake, father is fiddling with some vegetables in the yard, because the yard is relatively large, the father has reclaimed half of the land for living in some vegetables and fruits, and these vegetables are not pesticides, are the father and mother in the vegetable field to find insects, to eliminate the insects, can be said to be authentic pollution-free vegetables. Now that some of the tomatoes in the yard have begun to turn red, my father saw that Li Jun got up and picked a whole red tomato and shouted: "Xiao Jun, give you a tomato, our family has not used a little pesticide, you can eat it by rubbing it." ”

Li Jun looked at the green scenery of the yard, and his mood was also very comfortable, there was no place as good as his own home, and there were parents at home who loved him. "Thank you, Daddy!" Li Jun walked to the vegetable patch in the courtyard, took the tomatoes from his father's hand and rubbed the surface of the tomatoes with his hands, then stuffed them directly into his mouth and took a bite. ”

The mother came out of the east room and shouted: "Xiaojun, you really listen to your father, you don't wash and eat, it's dirty or not." And the child's father, you are really, why don't you let the child wash it with water before eating. Then he shook his head and walked back into the east room, and went to bake her bread.

Li Jun stuck out his tongue, and then ate the tomatoes in a few bites, and wanted to find another red one to eat, Dad saw Li Jun's appearance and picked a tomato seedling full of tomato leaves and fruits from under it, picked a tomato that was not completely red and handed it to Li Jun, and said: "Of course the ones we grow ourselves are delicious, one does not use chemical fertilizers, and the other does not use pesticides, all after getting up early every day, your mother and I turn around to find if there are maggots, and if we find them, we will step on them directly, which is really environmentally friendly; And our family is naturally cooked, unlike the medicine that is sold outside, or how can it be sold, our family is cooked and eats one, you go to school and live in school, and your brother comes home from school every day to find the red one to eat, and he is almost unable to eat. After speaking, he straightened up proudly, although his father was uneducated, but he was a good hand in farming, and the crops in the field were longer and better than those in the adjacent plots, and the vegetables at home were also very vigorous.

"Okay, don't talk about your vegetable patch, Xiaojun, go wash your hands and call your brother up to eat." As she spoke, her mother came out of the east room with a dozen thick pancakes and walked towards the main house.

"Dad, where's my grandma?" Grandma has always lived with them, but sometimes she will go to a few aunts' houses to live for a few days, Li Jun was so preoccupied yesterday that he forgot to ask grandma, and today he saw that the easternmost house was still locked and wanted to ask his father.

The father came out of the vegetable field and said as he walked: "You just remembered your grandmother, yesterday your mother and I saw that you were a little abnormal, and we were worried about you, but today it seems to be normal." Your sister-in-law is sick, and your grandmother goes to see her at your sister-in-law and stays with her for a few days. ”

It seems that the slightest psychological change of their children will be seen in the eyes of their parents, but sometimes they will only worry in their hearts and are unwilling to express it.

"Oh, then what is my sister-in-law's illness, is it serious?" When I was a child, my uncle worked in the orchard in their village, and often took him and his younger brother to their forest farm to climb trees and pick apples when the apples were ripe.

Speaking of my sister-in-law's illness, my originally smiling face was immediately filled with sadness, "The situation is not very good, it may be cancer." ”

Li Jun's heart was shocked, how could it be cancer, my sister-in-law is such a good person, and she is only in her 30s, how can she get the incurable disease of cancer at such a young age. "Dad, is it true, how could my sister-in-law get cancer?"

"Your brother-in-law took your sister-in-law to Shijiazhuang to investigate, it should be liver cancer, but he didn't tell your sister-in-law, now he said that he had hepatitis, and your grandmother didn't know about it, you must not talk nonsense." Dad was afraid that grandma would find out and couldn't bear it.

Li Jun's mood also became heavy all of a sudden, his sister-in-law is so young, and his cousin has just entered elementary school, how will he live in the future? Grandma has heart disease, can she withstand the blow of this white-haired man sending a black-haired man? But all this is unavoidable, and if it is really cancer, there is no cure for it with science now.

"But my grandmother will always know one day, right?" Li Jun really didn't know how to deal with this problem.

"I can only take one step at a time, anyway, I can't let her know now, your sister-in-law will sometimes be in pain now, and she can only rely on morphine to stop the pain, I think maybe she will understand that day, I'm afraid that she will be more difficult to accept! After all, your cousin is still too young, is she? The father's tone was both helpless and pity for his cousin, "Don't talk about this, you go and tell your brother to get up and eat, you don't study hard all day long to know how to play and sleep." ”

Li Jun didn't want to make his father more sad in this matter, so he stopped talking and went directly into the room to tell his younger brother to get up, listening to Li Jun's voice, his younger brother put the towel on his head and said in a daze: "Brother, you go to eat first, I'll sleep again, finally there is a week, every day I get up early and ride a bicycle to school, I have a headache." ”

Li Jun also understands his younger brother, because he can only go to school early every day and then read early, and then start a day's class, he plans to let him sleep again, but at this time, his mother came into the house and lifted his brother's towel and said: "Li Xiang, hurry up and eat, after eating, I will go to the field with your father to water corn, and it will be cooler to go early." ”

The younger brother snatched the towel and put it on his head again, "It's watering the ground again, now the corn is growing so tall, it's hot in the ground, and the whole body is scratched by the leaves, and it hurts to death when I sweat, why don't you let my brother go?" ”

"Your brother, you have to go back to school in the afternoon, he has to clean up at home, who made you not study hard and be admitted to the key junior high school that your brother used to attend, only admitted to this township middle school, you don't have to go to school today, who will you go to water the ground with your father?" My mother was also very angry that my brother didn't study hard.

"Li Xiang get up quickly, after dinner, let's go to water the ground with my dad together, you watch the water outside, I go inside to change the ditch, I have been living in school all these years, you are helping my dad to work, since I have caught up, I should also do it together." His parents never let him and his younger brother do the work they could do on their own, but since they were young, the two of them also took the initiative to help their parents do some work within their ability.

Hearing what his brother said, Li Xiang had no choice but to lift the towel and get up from the bed, and reluctantly said: "Finally, I didn't let me sleep for a long time." ”

"You know how to sleep", his mother patted him on the head and ignored him and walked directly to the middle room.

Li Jun and his younger brother also walked to the middle room, and his father had finished eating, sat on the chair next to him, and said when he saw them coming: "You two eat quickly, your mother's baked cake is the best when it comes out of the pot, let's go and pour the ground early after eating, while it's cool." ”

Li Jun sat next to the round table and picked up a corner of cake and stuffed it into his mouth, the cake baked by his mother was really delicious, the outer layer was very crispy and the inside was very soft, and it was extremely soft in the mouth, several times better than the one in the school cafeteria. Li Jun ate the three horns in one breath and then drank a bowl of millet mung bean porridge, he really couldn't eat it anymore, so he stood up with his swollen stomach, and every time he returned home, he would eat like this, and his mother was also very happy to look at the way he ate, and asked him to eat more, eat more, as if he couldn't eat enough outside.

The younger brother was not like Li Jun, he just ate two corners of bread and drank half a bowl of porridge and ran back to the room to lie down, and his mother was too lazy to take care of his younger brother, and he cleaned up the tableware on the table after eating, and Li Jun was also helping to clean up to the east room on the side. Here, the father was ready to go to the field, drank his younger brother out, and two people loaded fertilizer on the tractor, Li Jun also went over to help, and asked while loading fertilizer: "Dad, didn't it rain a little yesterday, do you still need to water it?" ”

Dad locked the tractor's body baffle and said: "Yesterday's rain was too light, this year's rain is less overall, and the corn is about to spit ears. After speaking, he walked to the front of the tractor and used the crank to shake the tractor, Li Jun also wanted to go over to help, his father said: "The summer is warm, this diesel engine is easy to shake, I don't need you, I can do it myself", just as he said that his father had already rocked the tractor, "the sound of sudden, sudden, sudden resounded throughout the yard." ”

His mother took out two long-sleeved clothes and two hats for him and his younger brother, and said to Li Jun: "The leaves in the field are too high and too long, and those who wear short sleeves will make a lot of cuts on their arms. ”

Li Jun and his younger brother took their long-sleeved clothes and climbed into the back bucket of the tola, and his father took two shovels and put them in the back bucket together, and then drove the tractor to the cornfield north of the village. The tractor drove on both sides of the road with corn more than a person tall, and now the sun was not too strong, and all the corn was stretching its green leaves. Standing in the tractor bucket and holding the railing in front of him, facing the morning breeze, Li Jun felt really refreshed, but his younger brother was sitting in the car with his head down, without Li Jun's spirit.

When he got to his own land, his father parked the tractor to the side of the road where it was not in the way, opened the fertilizer and put it in a washbasin, and then began to lift the fertilizer into it little by little from the ground, and Li Jun followed his father to change the ditch one by one, and when a furrow was full, he blocked the mouth of the furrow, and then put water into the next furrow. It was okay at first, but after a while, the weather became hot, although Li Jun was wearing long-sleeved clothes, but the corn leaves kept drawing small openings on his face and neck, plus the sweat continued to flow through those small openings, it was really a pain, Li Jun only then knew the reason why his younger brother was reluctant to come to water the ground, but how could a man's sweat be knocked down by this little pain, Li Jun still endured and poured it one by one. A few times in the middle, I ran to the side of the road to see if it was about to pour my head, but I felt that it was far away a few times.

When Li Jun was about to despair, he heard his mother's voice from behind, turned his head and saw that his mother was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a flower towel wrapped around her head, and walked over with a lunch box in her hand, and said to Li Jun: "Xiaojun, it's almost noon, the clothes are washed and dried, and the meal is ready, I also helped your father and younger brother bring the food, you go back to eat and take a shower first, and prepare to return to school in the afternoon." ”

Hearing this, Li Jun felt a sense of amnesty, but said in his mouth: "Mom, I'll help you finish watering it and then go back." ”

"No, you haven't done any work before, and watering the ground today is enough to suffer, the reason why you come to water this land is also to hope that you can know the hardships of doing farm work, and you can cherish the current study time, so that it will be possible to go out of the countryside in the future, and you don't have to suffer this every day." The father's voice came from the front, but after a while the father came over, took the mother's food, and began to eat. "There's one more thing I haven't told you, I'm afraid that you know that you have to rely on it and be even more lawless, the lover of a comrade-in-arms of mine works in the academic affairs office of your school, and you can go to her for help if you have anything in the school, and of course you don't want to go to her because of any fight or being punished by the school."