Many years have passed, and Dad has been silent, and he must have had many little-known experiences when he is like this, but he has not told the children one by one, and their sisters must not know anything. There are also good people in the village who once asked him about his past, and he just shook his head and replied with a smile: Time has passed, and the good man does not mention the courage of the year, and the good horse does not mention the good of the year.

Now I pat my chest and think about it, my father and mother are indeed not easy for this family, in order to raise her as an adult, no matter how hard and tired they are, they are reluctant to let themselves go to the field to do farm work for a day. However, he still failed their hard work.

Before dawn in the morning, my father and mother drove the carriage out to walk through the villages. By this time of the day, they have returned. I guess today's food must not be very good, so let's go to a few more villages, right? Maybe they're on their way back.

They work so hard and have to do a whole lot of things every day. As soon as she thought of this, Sun Xiaohong's heart became even more flustered. She suddenly felt that she couldn't face them anymore.

Seeing the sun slowly turning west, Sun Xiaohong's heart became more and more uneasy. She rolled over and lay her face under the pillow, wanting to cry loudly, but she choked a few times, but she couldn't cry.

It was almost dark, and the elderly grandfather did not come back, and in the morning after the father and mother left, the grandfather also went out to cut the yellow artemisia. Grandpa usually had a habit, every year when the green and yellow were not in season, he would carry a thick brown hemp rope, with a knife and sickle, and carry a polished elm flat pole, under the dew of the sky, to cut artemisia and wormwood on the wild dianzi near the river bay at the foot of the West Mountain.

Every time he cut the wormwood, he would open the bales, and after they had wilted in the shade at the foot of the wall, he would sit in the courtyard at night, and by the campfire he would slowly twist them into a rope of straw, and then form a strong ball of grass, which he would lay in the corner of the barn, and leave it for the incense to be lit on the autumn night to ward off the bite of the mosquitoes.

Sun Xiaohong closed her eyes tightly, as if she was asleep in the house, she was thinking wildly, suddenly heard the sound of the door opening at the gate of the courtyard, knowing that it was grandpa who came back from the canxia, so she squinted and walked out of the house, she saw that grandpa had put those bales of straw piled up like a hill, all vertically placed under the root of the east wall. So he hurriedly went into the house and brought a basin of water, put it on the basin stand under the window, and stood there expressionlessly, waiting for his grandfather to come and wash his face.

After Grandpa finished arranging the bales by the wall, he turned around and walked to the basin stand to wash his face, and he skillfully rolled up his sleeve first, revealing a purple arm. He raised his hand to take off the straw hat on his head, shook the grass foam on it, and put it on the windowsill, and then took a handful of water from the basin with his wide palms, and slowly washed his face.

After he washed off the sweat stains on his face, he tore off the white towel on the clothes pole and wiped the water droplets on his forehead. Tell grandpa, did you get it back? ”

"Grandpa, I've got it back!" After listening to her grandfather's questioning, her face suddenly turned gray and difficult to see. Maybe she was in a bad mood, Sun Xiaohong bit her lip, drooped her head, muttered a few words in a low voice, and then shut up and didn't go on. Faced with this sensitive topic, she felt like a child who had made a big mistake, and she lowered her head and was speechless.

When she said this, her voice was very low, as if squeezed out between her teeth, with this kind of unwillingness and helplessness. Grandpa's hand stopped, and he glanced at Sun Xiaohong suspiciously, very puzzled. He didn't trust his granddaughter at all, and he was easily crushed by pressure.

After Sun Xiaohong finished speaking, her eyes stared at the low corner of the wall in a daze, and the whole person looked so helpless. She was particularly upset at the thought of the scores that made her laugh, and she stood in the courtyard blankly, clenching her hands helplessly, as if she was desperately competing with herself, which made people look worried.

Seeing her depressed appearance, grandpa smiled slightly, and said distressedly, "Didn't you just fail the exam?" What's so difficult about this, after the start of school, I will study for another year, and then take the exam again next year, maybe I can get into a better university? Facing her grandfather's comfort, Sun Xiaohong smiled bitterly, she shook her head and didn't speak, her face became even more ugly.

"Grandpa, I don't want to go to school to review anymore. I don't know how, but as soon as I walked through the school gate, I felt very stressed. My mind was confused all day long, and I had a headache when I touched the book, and I had a complete collapse. If you can't pass the exam next year, this year's time will be wasted, it is better to go out and find some work to do, more or less to earn some money back, and reduce the burden on the family. After Sun Xiaohong finished speaking, she glanced back at the gate of the courtyard, and turned her head back slightly.

"This kid thinks a lot. Do you think money is so easy to earn? It's as easy as you say, who still goes to school to study and take exams. Your dad and your mom are still able to do it, and they don't expect you to earn money to support the family, you don't have to think about anything now, you should go to school, you should review and review, you don't have to think about anything! Grandpa said, put the towel in his hand on the basin stand, picked up the fan on the windowsill, sat on the wooden bench at the door, and fanned it gently.

"Anyway, I've thought about it now, in a few days, Sihuan and them will go to the construction site to work, and I want to go with them. I don't know how to do other work, the work of moving bricks and serving the bricklayers, they can do it, I can do it, it's not like I haven't done this kind of work, what's so great! Sun Xiaohong whispered with a sullen face.

Sun Xiaohong said it as easily as she spoke, but she was very conflicted in her heart. She knows that the family has a large population, both old and young, and her younger sister is in junior high school, and she is about to take the high school entrance examination. The burden of her parents is already heavy, and if she goes to school to review again, it will undoubtedly bring a greater burden to the family, and she doesn't want to be a burden to the family, so she makes her own decisions.

"You kid, you always like to think about one play. You have been studying for so many years, and you actually went to work on the construction site with Sihuan and them, and Sihuan is like a tauger, you mix with her every day, isn't this nonsense? If you don't believe it, when your mother comes back in the evening, you tell her, do you think your mother can let you go? ”

Grandpa listened to Xiaohong's words, held the pu fan in his hand in the air and stopped, he frowned and asked incomprehensibly.

"Grandpa, don't worry about it! I think it's good for Sihuan and them to go out to work, although they haven't studied for a few days, they are quite capable of working, and they earn a lot of money for the family every year, and my mother is not allowed to go. Besides, when we go out to work, we earn money by labor, we don't steal or rob, and it's not a shameful thing, Sihuan and they can do it, what can't I do? I'm so old, I stay at home all day, I open my mouth when I eat, I wash my hands with water, and I can hold back my problems! After that, I went out to work with them every day, and I could earn some money and relax......"

"Grandpa is old, and he doesn't have much ability in this life. If you want to go out to work, I think you still have to think about it. It's better that you have to discuss it with your mother! ”