Chapter 31: Pastoral Life
In mid-April, the weather was warm.
Early in the morning, I was picked up by my mother to act as a driver. It is said that my dad rented a yard in the countryside, and recently he was busy growing all kinds of potatoes and eggplants in the small vegetable garden in the yard. My dad hadn't been home for days, and he invited me and my mom to grow vegetables and experience the rural life. My mom said she wanted to grow vegetables, but I actually thought she was more like she was going to check the post.
According to the address given by my father, I drove my mother and drove my second-hand Bora all the way to the yard rented by my father.
When I first arrived in that village, I felt like a paradise. The neatly arranged houses, painted in simple black and white, look like an ink painting from a distance. In the village, there were children chasing each other, and the adults were busy in the fields and didn't care whether the children's homework was done, and the three or two old people sat around and talked about their sons and grandchildren.
When I got out of the car, I saw that the door of the yard was open, my father was wearing a straw hat on his head, a pair of fat camouflage pants under the gray tracksuit, and a pair of yellow rubber shoes on his feet, which were covered with mud. He was hunched over and landed on the ground with a hoe in his hand.
"Dad," I called him, "I've brought your wife!" ”
Dad put down his hoe and looked at us and smiled.
My mom said, "This girl loves to talk nonsense!" He walked over to his father.
I pouted, "You were originally my father's wife!" ”
My mom walked up to my dad and looked at the ground beneath his feet, then turned back to me and said, "I'll just say, your dad will have to move the house sooner or later." ”
Dad grinned and said, "If you're willing to come to this village school as a teacher, I'll move my family here!" ”
Mom said, "That's not to leave Xiao Lu alone!" You're ruthless, but I'm not ruthless. ”
Dad said, "Xiao Lu is so old, we should live for the rest of our lives." ”
My mother looked at me and said, "When will she get married and have children, so that I can live for the rest of my life." ”
Looking at my mother's posture, I guess I'm going to start nagging again. I hurriedly ran over to change the subject, "Dad, your yard looks good, I don't know how the house is, take us into the house to have a look!" ”
Dad said as he looked for a place to put down his hoe, "Let's go, I'll take you two into the house to have a look!" ”
My mother's attention was successfully diverted, and she became interested in the house, and walked towards the door. My dad and I followed. At that moment, I suddenly realized that my father was old, and he looked like a little old man in such a dress.
After unloading the armor and returning to the field, I suddenly thought of these four words. When he came to the countryside, he found a kind of peace and detachment in the countryside. And the little old man is getting more and more cute.
My mom started to wander around, babbling about the decoration of the house, the hygiene of the bathroom and kitchen, and so on. I sat on the couch with my dad and drank tea, and when we were almost drunk, we ran out into the yard, and he taught me how to hoe and farm. The loess I had hoeed out was soft and soft, and I carefully sprinkled the seeds into it. Dad said that he would be able to eat the fruits of his labor this summer.
In the evening, after dinner, my mother clamored to walk around the village. My dad and I both knew in our hearts that she was actually going to find a vast army of square dancers. When she returned, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and she had a smug smile on her face. When she entered the door, she was clamoring for me and my dad to guess what she was doing.
"It's time to square dance!" I don't have to think about such an undoubted question.
"Wrong!" Mom was full of energy, took a dance pose and said, "I'm going to teach dance!" ”
When my mother was young, she was the backbone of literature and art in the unit, and she was proficient in singing and dancing. She has always felt that she is extremely condescending to the vast army of square dancers. Now here, the aunts in those villages are vying to learn to dance with her when they see how good she dances.
"I tell you, they all compete to learn to dance with me, I dance and sing at the same time, and they watch me dance like they watch celebrities. It's true! ”
My mother danced and said to herself impassionedly in front of me and my father, "I tell you, Lao Lu, Xiao Lu, I have already decided, and when I go back tomorrow, I will tell the school leaders to let me transfer to the primary school in this township." I'm here to pass on my dancing spirit! ”
"Huh?" My mom changed her mind too quickly! "Mom, didn't you abandon me ruthlessly?"
"You're so old! Besides, you don't live at home now. ”
I glanced at my father, and my mother's decision was exactly what he wanted, and he must be happy now. So, it is conceivable that in the near future, my mother accompanied my father to take off his armor and return to the field to recuperate, and then there was only one person left.