At dinner, the whole family sat around to eat. Only at this time, everyone can sit happily together, chatting while eating, and everyone is willing to tell their family about their day's experience, whether it is good or not.

At the dining table, Xiaohong's father sat cross-legged next to his grandfather, and he said to Xiaohong's mother while picking up vegetables: "The vegetables in the field have been sold almost in the past few days, you go to the field tomorrow to help the five sons find odd jobs. Listening to the weather forecast just now, it seems that there is no rain in the past few days, and the horse grass in the shed is about to run out. Sun Guodong said, picked up the rice bowl and pulled a mouthful of rice into his mouth, and chewed it.

"Can you go alone? Why don't I go with you? Xiaohong's mother stared at him with a rice bowl, and when she turned around and saw that her grandfather's rice bowl was empty, she raised her hand to take the rice bowl, filled a bowl of rice for her grandfather, and put it in front of his eyes.

"No, no! No one has to go with me, and it's not too far, I'll just go by myself. By the way, look at how the crops outside the dam are growing, these days, I have patronized and sold vegetables, and since the ridge was sealed, I haven't been to see the land under the ridge for a long time. I heard that this year's crops are growing well, and I don't know if the corn knot in the northwest of our house has not picked up the stick! I'll wait until I'm done mowing tomorrow and then I'll go to the field. Sun Guodong said confidently. The farmer depends on the sky for food, and the harvest in the field is good, and the people in the family have enough to eat, can he not be happy?

Crop fields, thousands of years, this is the ancestral training of the family, Sun Guodong does not dare to slack off at all. Only those lazy people deliberately reverse black and white, confuse right and wrong, and confuse people's minds, saying nonsense that refers to not providing for the elderly, and referring to the land and not getting food. Their purpose is nothing more than that they don't want to work hard, so they go to the village and talk nonsense, and then get by like the cold birds, they deserve to be cold and cold, and it is not a pity to starve to death.

When I think of this year's smooth weather and full of particles, Sun Guodong's copper-colored face will overflow with a touch of unaware joy. It seems that he pins all his hopes on the land that is like a mother, and at the same time on the children who are shallow, as a son, a husband, and a father, his silence, with eternal temperature, like a river that cannot hear the sound, hurriedly flows away the edges and corners of time and quiet expectations.

After Sun Guodong finished speaking, he picked up a green onion with chopsticks, he quickly removed the green onion leaves, dipped the remaining green onion in a sauce bowl, put it in his mouth and chewed it. He chewed so deliciously that it was as sweet as eating a large piece of steamed meat, and it made people's mouths water. Rural people can't see the shadow of mountain and sea delicacies on the table all year round, and often a coarse tea and light rice that meets the taste will also make people feel satisfied with tears.

"How can you go alone? There is no grass in the barren grass, put the carriage under the dam to graze, and you go to the field to cut the grass, so far away, there is no human figure in the mountains, what if someone comes out of the cornfield and steals the big white horse away. No, if you go alone, I don't feel at ease at all. Or with a person, can't you work, can't you watch the car and the horse? ”

What Xiaohong's mother said also makes sense, although she looks at the wallet in her hand so tightly, she is not a greedy person. Living at home, you have to calculate everything. As the saying goes: you can't eat poorly, you can't wear poor, and you can't calculate to suffer from poverty. In the face of a family, if you don't make careful calculations, you won't have to live a messy life!

Besides, the big white horse is the tip of Sun Guodong's heart and the treasure of the whole family. If something goes wrong with it, if it is lost, Xiaohong's mother will have to go crazy, then it will be fine. In these years, knowing people face up to the heart and not knowing their hearts, usually talking and chattering, are all superficial phenomena, walking without humming are good people, who drills into whose heart to see. Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case.

This is not wearing colored glasses to see people, a person goes out, no matter how careful, there are times when the horse stumbles, especially in small households, life is not easy, in addition to the car is a horse is a valuable thing, and then a few people are valuable, in case there is any wind and grass, it can't hurt it, even if it is a trivial matter of going out to mow the grass, you have to be very careful, how can you be careless.

"You see, Si'er got up early and went to the city to work as a bricklayer, and he was as busy as a clay figure all day long, and he didn't even have time to breathe, so he couldn't go. The fifth son looked at the ground in the vegetable field, picked vegetables, and had to watch the water pump, and couldn't dodge at all, letting him go was equivalent to handing over the vegetable garden to the thief, and before the carriage left the tunzi, the vegetable field had to be stopped, and he couldn't leave the vegetable field. Actually, there's nothing to worry about, I'll just go alone. It's really not good, I'll cut a little less there, and it's a big deal to cut a few more times! You don't have to worry, I can take care of it alone. Sun Guodong said slowly. Father is father, he is the backer of the whole family, but also the backbone of the children, if he is not shocked, like a spring breeze, slowly drifting into the heart, so that the whole family can feel warm.

"Otherwise, I'll go with you! By the way, cut some yellow artemisia back, so that it is easy to load! Grandpa put down his chopsticks and squinted his eyes and said. He used to have a good pair of eyes, and when he was striking iron in the production team, he was roasted like this under the wind box. At that time, because his family was poor and had no money for treatment, he was delayed. He can see things now, and if he is more than five meters away, he can't make a canton clearly.

"You're so old, don't toss! Besides, there are a lot of poisonous mosquitoes there, a group of even this group, booming, you go to be bitten, come back is a bag, and it will not be swollen for several days. Don't go, don't go! I can't cut much when I go, just cut enough to eat it for a month, and if there is nothing, you don't have to worry about it, I can do it alone. Sun Guodong knew that his old father felt sorry for him, and he persuaded him like this, just not to let him worry about himself.

Besides, from home to outside the dam, such a long road, not to mention work, is the bumps in the road, he is so old, I'm afraid he can't stand it, let him follow him to cut the horse grass, it is better not to go to anyone.

"Dad, take me there! I'm going to show you the car and the horse, I haven't been outside the dam for several years, or when I was a child, my grandmother took me to pick mushrooms, I went there a few times, I haven't been there all these years, and now I don't know what has changed? I'd love to check it out with you. Sun Xiaohong's words surprised Sun Guodong. This child, who usually speaks little, can say such things today, as a father, he is deeply grateful. After hearing this, he was first surprised, then glanced at Xiaohong, nodded, and he agreed.

Anyway, Xiaohong was not knocked down by the pressure, she can come out of a closed world bravely, what she needs is courage and confidence, how difficult it is, he, as a father, should be happy for the child.

Xiaohong said, her face was much better than before. After experiencing so many secular prejudices, she can now step out of this hurdle, which can be regarded as the absence of books in these years. People will always mature one day, and Sun Xiaohong can always clearly realize this: the most difficult thing for people to face in life is often not others, but themselves.

"Okay, then let Xiaohong go with me!" Sun Guodong readily agreed. Xiaohong's mother didn't agree at first, she saw that Xiaohong insisted on going, so she didn't stop it, and several people at the table stared at each other for a long time, and finally nodded and acquiesced.

The morning sky was half-clear, like a breeze rippling in the blue water. Sun Xiaohong got up early, deliberately took out a denim suit from the box, and put it on her body. She walked out of the door and stood in the courtyard, silently looking at the sky, and a layer of loneliness suddenly appeared on her face. Autumn is coming, an autumn wind and a cold, probably people are willing to be sad about autumn, but they are also sensitive to the fact that life is easy to grow old and time is fleeting.

The morning breeze is cool and refreshing, with the smell of autumn. Sun Xiaohong couldn't help but shudder. Time flies so fast, the weather is cold and dewy, a busy year, seeing that it is about to pass, thinking about herself, she can't help but feel lonely again.

"Xiaohong, hurry up and eat in the house, I'll be in a hurry for a while!" When Grandma saw her like this, she hurriedly walked out of the door and beckoned her to come into the house for dinner. After breakfast, Sun Guodong set up the carriage in the courtyard, Xiaohong got into the carriage and sat down, the big white horse shook the mane on his body and raised his two front legs. The carriage left the courtyard gate, and the father and daughter set off in a hurry.

At night, Sun Guodong added fodder to the big white horse several times, and after the big white horse was full of food and drink, he was immediately full of energy and spirit. When it went out, it didn't need to shout, its four long legs, and it ran. The alleys, the villages, at its feet, all regressed rapidly.

The carriage left the village and went down the mountain to the north, and suddenly the golden rice fields were boundless, one after another, like bulging waves, floating in the wind, blowing clear and clear, and shaking the heart.

In Sun Xiaohong's memory, it was originally a large area of potholed saline-alkali land, and the puddles in it were overgrown with high and low artemisia grass and reeds. During the summer vacation, many boys in the village, a group of three and a group of five, always like to jump into the mud pond to bathe with the adults on their backs, and then hide all day long by the small ditch inside to catch fish, shrimp, and frogs. I didn't go home until the sun went down, so that the adults were at home, and I couldn't find them.

In addition to the mud puddles, there are endless meadows. There are also clusters of half-human-high horse lotuses growing on the meadow, wrapped in the call of a group of frogs, one pile after another, spread all over the grass pond, in summer, the sun shines warmly, the horse lotus in the grass pond has bloomed, a blue one, particularly good-looking, like a blue dream, running to the sky in the wilderness. At that time, the sky was so blue, the moon was so full, the dream was so long, and a little harvest would be satisfying to dance.