Chapter 5 Returning Home for the Weekend
As the sun sets, the breeze blows by, and a fresh, fragrant scent greets you.
Mucha sat by the window in the last row of the bus, looking at the swaying sea of flowers in the distance, feeling uneasy.
Sorting out his belongings in the dormitory at noon, Mucha found that he had really spent all the money, only the eight yuan fare left.
Now Mucha is not sure if it has reached the month stipulated by her mother, after all, for her now, these things have passed more than ten years.
Speaking of which, she had only met her parents two days ago.
After being polished by society, she and her mother are not very happy.
What's more, she was just sixteen years old in her mother's eyes, Mucha remembered that after high school, her relationship with her mother became more and more strained.
At that time, rebellion, low self-esteem, and strong and sensitive self-esteem all made the relationship between mother and daughter bad.
Every time she came home, her mother scolded her for being a debt collector.
Based on her mother's words and rebellious psychology caused by scolding her as a debt collector, Mucha went home more diligently and wanted to confirm the crime.
The state between mother and daughter at that time also made her miserable and had no intention of studying.
Returning to this period again, Mucha can only guarantee that she will no longer contradict her mother.
She is thirty years old at heart, but she is actually sixteen years old, if she reasoned with her mother, she would definitely receive a meal of fried pork on a bamboo board.
"Toot ......"
The sound of the car's horn brought Mucha back to her senses, and she began to nervous as she looked out the window at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment.
"Master, stop." After Mucha gave the driver the only eight yuan left, she got out of the car ten meters away from home, looking at her hometown, which was only two days short but the environment was much different, she suddenly relaxed.
In fact, the tense relationship with her mother at that time was caused by the family's financial difficulties on the one hand, and her desire to get her parents' attention on the other hand.
Mucha walked to the door of the house with her schoolbag on her back, looking at the locked gate, haven't your parents come back from the field yet? What about the eldest sister and younger brother?
She took the key out of her bag, opened the lock, and entered the house.
Oh, my God! What's going on?
I saw that the yard was in a mess, wood and tools were scattered everywhere, did Dad want to repair the house again? Mucha put her bag in the room, looked at the same messy room, and quickly put it away.
After a while, Mucha heard a "bang", and she ran out to see that it was her younger brother Mu Jin who came back on a bicycle.
"What are you doing on your bike?" Mucha asked, puzzled.
Mu Jin smiled and said, "After school, I went to play with our classmates in the first class of junior high school, and I came back at this time."
Only then did Mucha remember that his younger brother was now in junior high school in the town, and he lived in school during the week and rode his bicycle home to school on the weekend.
"Second sister, why did you come back today!" Mu Jin's thick eyebrows and big eyes were full of surprise.
Mucha "chuckled" in her heart, and said with sincerity on her face, "It's not that I haven't seen Xiao Jin for a month, and the second sister wants to come back to see you soon."
"Don't coax me, although we haven't seen each other for a long time, but you didn't come back until noon on Saturday before, how can you rush back after school on Friday afternoon? Besides, the last time you went home, it was only three weeks now, not a month. ”
The younger brother's words succeeded in shattering Mucha's disillusionment.
Looking at the thin but lively and clever younger brother in front of him, Mucha suppressed the sadness in his heart and changed the topic: "You put the schoolbag first, I'll cook, my parents may still be busy on the ground, if you are hungry, look for steamed buns in the refrigerator to eat."
In the kitchen, Mucha covered her mouth tightly to keep herself from crying.
It turned out that his younger brother was so cheerful and lively when he was thirteen years old, and when he thought of his younger brother's inferiority complex and silence at the age of twenty-five or sixteen in his previous life, Mucha's heart ached.
What is the reason why their siblings are becoming more and more inferior and do not want to socialize with others?
Is it the mother's strength or the family's financial difficulties?
Or is the knowledge learned in school too one-sided to deal with personality problems?
Probably both.
It seems that she is going to pay more attention to this aspect, go back to the school and go to the county library to see if there are any books on psychology.
Mucha thought that in her previous life, she had changed her inferiority complex, and now that they are still young, they will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the past, and if there are any difficulties, they will find a way to solve them, and she will never shrink up like an ostrich again.
If you flapp the wings of this butterfly, there will be some changes in the future.
Wiping away her tears, Mucha quickly put the noodles to life, but she couldn't find any vegetables.
"Xiao Jin, let's go buy some food." Mucha shouted from the kitchen.
"Second sister, why do I always feel that you are weird, this time I came back on a very abnormal Friday, what are you talking about buying vegetables at this time, how can there be vegetables sold in the summer in the countryside?"
Only then did Mucha react, now she is back in 2007, there are no vegetable and fruit stores in the countryside at all, and the vegetables are usually grown by the farmers themselves, which is not as convenient as the countryside in 2022.
"Hehe, you heard me wrong, I mean, let's go pick some vegetables, I'm afraid of the ram topping people, you go with me." She said without changing her face.
Mucha secretly pondered in her heart, "The younger brother is also too keen, if she changes too obviously, will her parents ask." You have to think about how to answer your parents, so that your parents can see that they are getting better as soon as possible, so that they can do other things conveniently. ”
When he came to the vegetable garden, Mucha was dumbfounded when he looked at the thumb-sized eggplant pepper, and he couldn't eat his favorite eggplant spicy west.
She walked around the vegetable garden and stopped in front of an earthen wall, "Xiao Jin, come on, I've found something delicious."
"What is delicious in our vegetable garden, why don't I know?" Mu Jin walked quickly.
"Look, mulberry, it's so sweet." Mucha plucked a few mulberries from a hanging branch and stuffed them into her mouth.
Mu Jin looked at her second sister's mouth bulging, and couldn't help laughing, "It turned out to be mulberries, they were ripe last week, and they made a fuss about you, the ones on the trees are delicious, you climb the trees to eat."
"I can't climb up." Mucha looked at the slick trunk and said regretfully.
This tree seems to have been sawed off by her father after she graduated from high school, because it was blocking the second uncle's family from repairing the house.
Mu Jin saw the second sister looking at the mulberry tree, "Didn't you be able to climb it before?" Wait, I'll go find a bag and go up and pick some for you. ”
"Okay, I'll wait for you." Mucha picked a few more mulberries that he could touch, and complained while eating, "Maybe I could climb a tree when I was sixteen years old, but now Muxia, who is thirty years old, is really powerless."
"Mulberries that grow on high places are sweeter," Mucha ate some of the mulberries that his brother had picked, "We keep these and come back and eat them together." ”
Mucha took the mulberries and picked some beans, and came out of the vegetable garden.
"Second sister, look, I found three eggs in the chicken coop, let's scramble eggs at night to eat, okay?" Mu Jin said happily.
Mucha smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go pick some shallots."
When night fell, Mucha returned to the kitchen, washed and chopped vegetables neatly, and in a moment, a cold bean salad was ready.
When she was about to scramble eggs, the sound of a tractor sounded outside the door, Mucha's heart beat faster in an instant, her hands kept stirring the eggs, and she heard her brother's voice when she hesitated.
"Mom, why did you come back on someone else's tractor? Where's my dad? ”
"Your dad went to do carpentry work for other people, and he hasn't been home lately. I'm pulling weeds on the ground, thinking that if you come back today, you'll come back on someone's tractor, and I can come back quickly to cook for you. The kitchen light, did you turn it on? Li Xiangxiang patted the soil on her body.
Li Xiangxiang walked into the kitchen as she spoke, and when she saw Mucha standing next to the stove, she became angry, "Why did you come back today, did you come back until Saturday with all the ink before, and besides, it's not been a month, why did you come back again?"
Mucha looked at Li Xiangxiang who was reprimanding her distractedly, and now Li Xiangxiang was just in her early forties, with short black hair and a tough body, walking step by step.
She remembered that in her previous life, when Li Xiangxiang was in her fifties, as long as she walked too much on the first day, she couldn't walk with back pain and leg pain the next day, and she couldn't sleep all night because of the pain at night.
"What are you doing, what are you doing there, the oil is smoking."
Mucha hurriedly poured the egg liquid into the pot, quickly stir-fried a few times, added chopped green onions, stir-fried a few times, and a plate of golden and tender scrambled eggs with shallots came out of the pot.
Li Xiangxiang, who was angry, quickly added water to the pot, "Why are you back this week?" Did you run out of money again? So saying, he took a corn stalk from the firewood beside the stove and struck it at Mucha's leg.
After more than ten years, Mucha once again received her mother's unique love, and she had mixed feelings in her heart.
Seeing that the corn stalks in Li Xiangxiang's hands were about to fall again, Mucha shouted while hiding, "Mom, Mom, don't fight, the money hasn't been spent, and there are still twenty yuan on the meal card, I came back this week to get the textbooks for the first semester of high school, and I have a final exam next month, and I need to use it for review now."
"It's really fake, don't lie to me." Li Xiangxiang raised the pole in her hand.
Mucha looked at her mother who didn't believe her, "You can ask Xiao Jin if they have exams left in a month."
Li Xiangxiang went out of the kitchen, and after a while, she came in again.
"In the future, all the books I will use will be put in school, and I will have to memorize them, which will cost money and labor." Li Xiangxiang said in a softened tone at this time, "What kind of food did you cook?"
"I made a cold bean salad and scrambled eggs, ready to eat noodles." Mucha secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said flatteringly.
If she had been rebellious when she was sixteen years old in her previous life, not talking much and not explaining, she would definitely not have been beaten today.
It turns out that communication is really important, and the results of communicating in a different way are completely different.
In my previous life, I always felt that my parents didn't care about my studies, but now that I think about it, my parents have to pay for the tuition and living expenses of their three siblings, and they don't have any more energy to care about other things.
Today, when my mother heard that she was here to get a book, her tone softened suddenly, and my mother must also be concerned about her own learning.
After dinner, Mucha came to the room where she and her eldest sister slept, and looked at the familiar bookshelf in front of her, and burst into tears.
"In fact, our parents have been silently caring for us in their way, but not in the way we want, so we feel that our parents don't care about us."
Taking out the textbooks from the shelves to be brought to school, Mucha put them aside, took out the language books from his bag, and continued to memorize, and before he knew it, a book had turned to the last page.
Mucha was pleasantly surprised to find that her memory and comprehension skills had really improved, which also made her more confident in her future studies.