Hao Jiali and Cao Juying returned home.

Cao Juying spoke with Chen Feng, who had been anxious at home for a day.

Hao Jiali went to the vegetable field to pull pigweed.

Hao Jiali wants to cook the pig in the evening for tomorrow's pig food.

Hao Jiali has to go to school tomorrow morning.

After delaying classes for a few days and not going to school again, Hao Jiali felt that she was really sorry for the head teacher, and she was really afraid that the principal would expel her.

As for tomorrow afternoon, Hao Jiali still has to find a way to get money as always, so that Hao Jiali will have no time to do these housework tomorrow.

Therefore, after returning home from Xiti, without a moment's delay, Hao Jiali took a sickle and went to her vegetable field.

In the vegetable field, Hao Jiali first used a sickle to cut a bunch of sweet potato vines that had grown and crawled on the ground in the vegetable field, and chose the longest sweet potato rattan to tie up the piles of sweet potato vines.

Then, Hao Jiali pulled clumps of grass growing wantonly between each ridge in the vegetable planting field.

When Hao Jiali fertilized the vegetables, she also fertilized the grass by the way, and the grass grew tender and lush.

After a while, Hao Jiali pulled out a high basket of grass.

After Hao Jiali did these two things, it was completely dark.

Hao Jiali returned home in the dark with a basket of grass on her back and potato rattan on her shoulder.

After returning home, the back basket and sweet potato vine were still on Hao Jiali's shoulders, and Hao Jiali saw her grandmother go back to her house, and her mother Chen Feng was lying on the bed and cursing herself.

Chen Feng scolded Hao Jiali for being a conscienceless seed like her husband Hao Guang, saying that Hao Jiali also wanted to be irresponsible to this family like her father.

After Chen Feng scolded Hao Jiali, he got out of bed with difficulty, and then angrily dragged his aching legs and strode along the edge of the bed without even needing a wooden stool. It's unreliable! I'll work by myself, and I won't need you in this family in the future, I, Chen Feng, will have this life, the big ones will be like this, and the small ones will be like this. ”

Seeing her mother like this, Hao Jiali hurriedly dropped the things on her shoulders to stop Chen Feng, Hao Jiali asked her mother: "Mom! What are you doing here? Don't get out of bed, you lie down and rest. ”

Chen Feng smashed Hao Jiali's hand away and said angrily: "Don't worry about it!" You don't want to live anyway, what do you care about me doing so much! ”

Hao Jiali was confused when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Mom!" What are you talking about? Why can't I understand? ”

Chen Fengyi snorted coldly: "I don't understand!" You won't understand! Don't talk about it, I don't know you yet, you are like your unconscionable father, you also want to leave me and your brother, your grandmother said that you want to die, said you want to jump into the fish pond and jump the stream, you go! You drowned this family, you are blind and have no crutches, and your brother and I will drink the northwest wind! ”

Hao Jiali heard Chen Feng say this before she realized that her mother was losing her temper, Hao Jiali hurriedly clarified herself: "Mom! I didn't look for a short-term view, grandma herself was afraid that I would do this to think so, in fact, I really didn't even think about it, what grandma told you was not the truth, I was just panicked, and then I felt uncomfortable and sat on the embankment and cried, I didn't think about looking for a short-term view, I don't believe you asked my uncle, the location of the embankment I was sitting on was not connected to the river behind the commune, the water in my position was so shallow that I sat in the water and there was nothing to do, where would I drown people. ”

When Chen Feng heard this, he stopped walking, and sat down on the edge of the bed, as soon as Chen Feng sat down, he suddenly felt that his leg hurt unbearably, Chen Feng rubbed the sore spot on his leg while urging Hao Jiali and said, "Lili! Hurry up, hurry up! Go and get my Tian Qi wine, ouch! It hurts me to death! It hurts me to death! ”

Hao Jiali immediately ran to the drawer of the desk to get Tian Qijiu, and then immediately lifted Chen Feng's trousers, dipped her little hands in the wine in the sore spot of Chen Feng's legs, and skillfully rubbed them back and forth again and again.

After rubbing for a while, Chen Feng felt a little better, and Hao Jiali stopped and said to Chen Feng seriously: "Mom! Can you please don't think about me like that with your grandmother in the future, I tell you, the last time I told you to pull my brother to jump into the reservoir, I was angry, I never thought about going that way, I wanted to live, I wanted to study, I wanted to go to the city, I want to wait until I grow up a little less courageous, I want to go to the city to find my father, I haven't seen my father with my brother for so many years, I want to see my father. ”

Chen Feng didn't listen to Hao Jiali's words, so he interrupted Hao Jiali indifferently and said, "What else are you looking for!" Your dead ghost father won't find him for you, so die before you do it! ”

Hao Jiali disagreed with Chen Feng's opinion, she said stubbornly: "Mom! This is what you think, I don't think so, no matter how stiff the relationship between my father and you has been over the years, my brother and I are innocent, even if my father has a woman outside and has a child, my father and that woman's child are my father's children, and my brother and I are also my father's children, is it true that my father sees that the children he has with other women are rich and happy, and my father doesn't want his other two children to live or die at all? ”

After thinking for a while, Hao Jiali said again: "Besides, when we were in Chinese class, our homeroom teacher taught us to be filial to our parents, saying that sheep have the grace of kneeling and breastfeeding, and crows have the righteousness of feeding, even if my father has no impression of me and my younger brother, he can do it and ignore him, but he is the son of his grandmother, can he never look back and ignore his grandmother?" ”

Chen Feng immediately refuted Hao Jiali: "So what? Your father's conscience has long been eaten by dogs, when has he taken care of your grandmother over the years, you, you and your grandmother are better when your father is dead, if you two are still thinking about your father's life in this world, thinking that his little salary can be taken back for you to use, you two are daydreaming! ”

Hao Jiali had already finished rubbing the sore spot of Chen Feng's leg at this time, Hao Jiali stood up and said to Chen Feng in a firm tone: "Mom! I believe that as long as our family of three finds a way to live and has a way to live, my father will be my father after all, and my father will definitely turn back and return to this home. ”

Chen Feng wanted to take Hao Jiali's words immediately, but her legs hanging on the edge of the bed and the straightening of the hamstrings also caused pain, she put down the trousers that were rolled up by Hao Jiali, and then asked Hao Jiali to help her lift her legs and move them to the bed.

Hao Jiali carefully did what Chen Feng said, and after Chen Feng arrived on the bed, he snorted coldly for no reason and said: "Go back to this home, I will listen to your words first, if your father is willing to go back to this home, I will write the words upside down!" ”

Hao Jiali didn't answer Chen Feng's words, no matter what Hao Jiali said, Hao Jiali knew that her mother would not believe it, after Hao Jiali got Chen Feng's leg on the bed, she took a wooden board and a kitchen knife and walked to a large wooden basin in the corner of the house.

Hao Jiali put the wooden plank in the wooden basin, moved a small bench and sat down by the wooden basin, then grabbed a handful of pigweed that had just been pulled out of the ground in the back basket with her left hand and rolled it into a cylinder, picked up the kitchen knife with her right hand and chopped the pigweed with her hand.

After chopping for a while, the sound of broken grass couldn't hide Chen Feng's voice, Chen Feng leaned on the head of the bed and said to himself: "I killed a lot of people in my previous life, and I changed the way in this life to let me suffer this crime to pay for it, this leg hurt me and hurt this family." ”

Hao Jiali didn't want to reply to her mother's words, Hao Jiali knew that her mother had endless complaints, and Hao Jiali continued to chop pigweed.

Chen Feng saw that Hao Jiali didn't speak, and she was boring and boring to speak, and then sighed leisurely and said, "Don't make any noise with you, it's so noisy that you will be in trouble if you are distracted and chop your fingers." ”

When Hao Jiali heard her mother say this, she couldn't bear it anymore.

Hao Jiali stopped the knife in her hand to chop pigweed, opened the conversation with Chen Feng again, and said, "Mom! Do you want to do everything on the good side? Don't think so gloomy all day long, if you think so gloomy, I will have no confidence, I will not be able to think of a way to get money to support this family. ”

Chen Feng pondered the meaning of Hao Jiali's words for a moment, and then nodded.

Hao Jiali originally stopped working to chat with her mother and wanted to comfort her mother, but she didn't expect these words to make Chen Feng silent all of a sudden, Hao Jiali couldn't wait for Chen Feng's answer and stopped stirring up the topic, so she did her job meticulously.

Hao Jiali's work is to continue chopping pigweed, after chopping pigweed, Hao Jiali went to the well in the dark to take a load of well water back, and then put the well water into a large iron pot on the firewood stove, and then poured the chopped pigweed in the wooden basin into the pot and turned the pigweed several times with a spatula, so that the pigweed was all wet and sunk and covered by the well water in the pot, and finally covered the pot again.

After putting the lid on the pot, Hao Jiali stuffed a handful of sun-dried cedar leaves into the wood stove to light the flames, and then put a large stick in the air.

After a while, the sticks of the wood stove were burning, and seeing that the fire was burning, Hao Jiali walked into the front room and took a low bench and a math book, and after that, Hao Jiali sat not far from the stove while adding firewood to the stove and reading the book.