My father used to say, "People fight for a face, and trees live for a skin."

Lin Haimei understood the essence of her father's words today.

People compete for a face, and people must have a strong heart in order to strive for a brilliant face.

The tree has a bark, and the tree must have a hard bark in order to resist external impacts.

"Erya, this is the review material that your eldest brother bought for you, take a good look", the father turned around and left, and did not say much. The afterglow of the sun shone on the silhouette of his father, which was angular and angular. His forward steps scurried up and down with the afterglow.

The wind blew the pages of the book on the stool, and there was a loud noise.

Lin Haimei held the mule book and went to the room on the second floor.

"You listen to me, I will definitely read you one by one, all thoroughly", Lin Haimei pointed to the books on them with her fingers, as if taking an oath, like talking to herself, and like a challenge to the books.

"I not only have to review well, work, but also participate in housework", this time, Lin Haimei didn't want to be a nerd. Because she understands a sentence, "The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue".

"Virtue" means love, talent, character, character, etc.

"Things" means goods, money, success, etc.

Virtue, invisible. Things, tangible.

German catalytic substances, hidden in Germany.

"Nerd, if you lose your morality, it must have nothing to do with things", Lin Haimei smiled for her profound understanding. She felt as if she had found the golden key to success.

Lin Haimei didn't rush to read, because it was almost dusk, and she was going to prepare dinner for her family.

Lin Erhua and his mother went to the field and have not returned.

Lin Haimei walked to the stove, she wanted to cook the sweet potatoes in the big pot at the same time as the mung bean porridge. Then fry a large pot of sweet potato flour fat pot meat, a bowl of dried beans, a fried bowl of potato chips, and a stir-fried plate tip.

"Huh, go slowly", Lin Xian shouted at the big scalper, he thought the big scalper was going fast. Lin Xian's hair is getting gray, and he is getting old. Dry fields, usually people are fast and cattle are slow. If it is a paddy field buffalo, people usually can't keep up, and people are slow and fast.

Lin Xian misses the momentum of his youth, when he was a big village in agriculture, all of them were energetic, enthusiastic, and high-spirited.

Lin Xian, who is in his thirties, is in the prime of life.

"Accountant Lin, you are the first to go to the field every day, thanks to a good daughter-in-law", captain Ah Sheng said to Lin Xian, who had already led the cow to the field.

"Moo", the buffalo raised its head, ready to take the step of opening the pear.

Lin Xian smiled shyly, his lips were pulled apart, the corners of his eyes were raised, and his nose trembled slightly like an arrow.

His daughter-in-law, Yang Guihua, went up to the hall and down to the kitchen.

"Old eight, let's have a competition today to see whose cow runs faster", Lin Shu, the second eldest of the same grandfather, stood on the ridge under the ladder and wrote a battle book to Lin Xian, the eighth child.

"Good"! Hearing that someone challenged, Lin Xian's momentum immediately came up. He held the plow in his left hand and raised the whip in his right hand, and the thin blue bamboo strips made a crisp sound of "pop" on the back of the ox.

The buffalo's big front hooves paddled the water and spread it out, and the thick feet that followed it flowed back and landed in their own footprints.

Water diluted the mud. Lin Xian ploughed the field much more easily in the back.

Lin Xian stepped out of his long legs, and one step was more than thirty centimeters more than others. One back and forth, Lin Xian ploughed half a round more than Lin Shu.

"Dick, hurry up"! Lin Xian left Lin Shu behind again, and the powerful buffalo kept using "moo" to express his excitement.

"Old eight, it's still your buffalo that is right-handed. This ox of mine is always slow", Lin Shu shouted at the cow while talking loudly to Lin Xian.

The big buffalo was plowing vigorously, but Lin Xian didn't reply.

"Big brother", sixteen-year-old Lin Guang shouted to Lin Xian, who already had three children, "Come here and rest, the cows should also eat grass."

"Good mile"! Lin Xian shouted louder, and the buffalo also walked faster.

Lin Guang carried the freshly cut grass on his back and held a potato boiled for Lin Xian in his hand. This is still what he dug in the clearing.

When the buffalo reached the corner of the field, Lin Xian stepped out of the paddy field, took the grass from Lin Guang's hand, and put it in front of the buffalo. The buffalo munched on the grass and flicked its tail from side to side.

"Fourth, will you still learn to drive a tractor tomorrow"? Lin Xian was eating the slightly hot potatoes and turned his head to ask Lin Guang.

"Big brother, Mom has just been gone for four years, and Dad has left early. I won't study, go to the team to earn work", the tall and thin Lin Guang sat on the stone pier, his eyes looking at the busy figures in the field.

"No, learn the ability to support yourself", Lin Xian interrupted Lin Guang's words.

"I want to do that too. But the sister-in-law is too busy, and she has to go to the team to farm, do the big and small things at home, and feed the children", Lin Guang woke up several times in the early morning and saw the sister-in-law doing needlework under the kerosene lamp.

"You don't care about this, we will always get through it", Lin Xian said to the fourth brother.

"Accountant Lin, rest again", Ah Sheng, the captain in the field above, shouted to Lin Xian below when he turned the plow.

"Soon, soon, start now", everyone is a clockwork clock, pinching the dots!

In the spring ploughing season, men are busy with the fields and women are busy with the fields.

Ploughing the ground, sowing seeds, sowing seeds, planting vegetables, planting seedlings, planting seedlings.

Every woman, housework is the pillar, and farm work is half the sky.

"Osmanthus, how many babies are so small in your family, you and Accountant Lin are both working, who will take care of the children", the loud aunt of the same team shook her thin head.

"Look at the big ones and look at the small ones, and the small ones lie in the cradle", osmanthus threw corn seeds, and her white and tender arms looked smoother under the moisture of the rain. The short hair on the forehead, also wet, is put together.

"I passed by your house yesterday, and your Erhua was crying. Da Rong also filmed his younger brother, not crying or crying. Blame the pitiful", the garden girl sprinkled rapeseed in the empty row. When the seedlings grow a little bigger, the team will put them all away, one for each family.

After the vegetable patch was vacated, sweet potato seedlings were planted.

"I can't help it! The child doesn't have grandparents to hurt, so carry it", osmanthus is still her own set of ways. Because that's how she survived herself.

"Your children are good, they all have grandma pain", Osmanthus envied Aunt Gao and Sister Yuan. They both have a mother in her sixties.

"Osmanthus, pay attention to your body, especially in the confinement, don't go into cold water", Aunt Gao is already in her fifties, and some of the warnings are also experience.

In Osmanthus's heart, these admonitions are useless. The whole family is counting on her and Lin Xian's two hands.

"If you want to eat and drink, you have to get it. Even during confinement, I had to wash my clothes in cold water. And there is no confinement at all, at most more than ten days, and I have to work in the field", the past is deeply remembered, and the osmanthus is helpless. "My wrists and fingers often have a slightly cool feeling, especially in winter, which is more uncomfortable", these, osmanthus can only be stuffy in her heart, she knows, "the root of the disease in this life can not be shaken off"!

"You two are desperate Saburo", Aunt Gao watched how their home got up.

"People can't help it, Lin Guang, Lin Cui is so small, there is no mother. It's all osmanthus and a couple of people, pulling up their brothers and sisters. I also want to talk about the daughter-in-law, divide the room", the garden sister sympathized from the bottom of her heart, "My mother-in-law often says that you two are amazing, and you have a good heart!" ”

"It's all a family, pull each other", Osmanthus thinks that her efforts are worth it, "Now that they have grown up, they can also help us work and watch the baby when they have time."

Several aunts chatted energetically, but the work on their hands did not slow down. Rows and rows of seeds, neatly formed an orderly picture behind them.

No one complains. Although there is a shortage of materials, people are always motivated to work.

The big scalper screamed "moo", which woke up Lin Xian's memories. The golden glow faded. Lin Xian saw that it was getting late, his right hand pulled back, and the long sound of "hooting" fell on the water, and the big yellow cow immediately stopped walking forward.

"Mom, don't dig it, you don't see any big sweet potatoes", Erhua overlapped his palms on the hoe handle, and in front of him were rows of new soil that had been dug up.

"This year, there was a drought after the seedlings were planted, so they didn't grow," said the mother, bending over and picking up the small sweet potato.

"You can sow seeds directly on it", Erhua was a little lazy.

"So lazy, no wonder you can't finish your book", Mom's words had a tone of reprimand. Even if the money was paid, the child did not go to school, and the mother did not say a word of excess. Because she thinks that thirty-six lines are the champion. If you can't read books, farming is also a way out.

Mom stopped her hoe and sat down on the stone steps beside the ground. She picked the dirt in her nails with her hand, looked at Erhua who was still motionless in the ground, and expressed the bitterness of life.

"You are in the midst of blessings and do not know blessings. We were looking forward to entering the school gate, your grandmother left early, I haven't been in for a day", my mother said about the past, a little sad.

"I can't read or write, so I don't dare to go far away. When I was young, I had to walk forty or fifty miles to carry coal to the No. 4 Iron Factory. You can take a car, a dollar. Because I can't read, I can only walk hard, and I still carry more than 100 catties of coal", thinking about the difficulties at that time, my mother was sad, and her eyes were wet.

Erhua lowered his head and fell silent.

"Is it hard to read? It's not hard. That's because you haven't suffered hardship", Mom paused, "Is it bitter to make crops?" Bitter. But this suffering was borne by your uncle."

Erhua's eyes were full of the tall back of his uncle building grain, plowing fields, cutting trees, and planting seedlings. Uncle Mo is tall, strong, and strong.

"In order to let you brothers and sisters read more! In the busy farming season, it's your uncle who comes to help"! Mom was a little annoyed that she didn't reciprocate for her worries. Her tone of voice grew heavier and heavier.

"You're good! If you don't read it, you won't read it"! Mom choked up and couldn't talk anymore.

Erhua has always been a hanger. This time, Mom talked about the sore spots. He raised his hoe again.

This time, he dug more carefully than before. He thought, "My life is only a hoe." Good land, one is to turn over, two is fertilized, and three is diligent. ”

Lin Haimei decided to "use two minds" now, and she read the writing department while burning the fire.

Perhaps it was because he was too focused, and there was a "gurgling" sound of running water in the cauldron, and water flowed down the pot along the cracks of the stove.

Lin Haimei opened the lid of the cauldron, and the boiling water jumped out. The red sweet potatoes were steaming, and Lin Haimei took out the top two sweet potatoes that had not been soaked in water. I put half a bucket of sweet potatoes in a small bucket and came out, and the water in the pot was shallow. Because she knew that the water was sweet, and the pig liked to drink it the most, she was reluctant to throw it away.

Rhubarb smelled the sweet potato aroma and jumped into the house.

Lin Haimei gave Rhubarb a sweet potato and ate it herself. People and dogs are like a race, and at the same time, the sweet potatoes are rolling in their left hands and right hands, and they all want to eat early.

Rhubarb uses a "choking" sound from time to time to indicate that the sweet potato is too hot to eat.

Lin Haimei blew the wind with a "whirring", expecting the sweet potatoes to be cold soon.

In the end, it was the rhubarb that rolled the sweet potato cold with its feet, or the sweet potato was not cold, so it used its sharp teeth and couldn't wait to swallow it. And three or two bites are all down.

Rhubarb wagged his tail in satisfaction and jumped out of the door.

Lin Haimei felt that the sweet potato was too hot, so she simply put it in the bowl and read the book again.

The book has its own food, and it is full of self-satisfaction after reading it for a long time.

At some point, a big rooster flew onto the stove and enjoyed this delicious sweet potato delicacy with its pointed beak. It also flapped its wings from time to time, making a gentle "clucking" sound, and got carried away by the delicious food.

"It's over", Lin Haimei was a little anxious and didn't know what to do.

Hit the rooster, the bowl can't be saved. And next to the bowl is a pot of freshly cooked mung bean porridge with the lid obliquely closed.

Let it continue to eat, one is afraid that when it can't hold on, it will poop on the stove. Second, I am afraid that it will jump off the stove after eating, and there is still a possibility of bringing the bowl to the ground.

At this time, the rooster seems to have become the master, and he is a little complacent. Lin Haimei became a thief, she secretly walked around behind the rooster, from the side of the rooster, reached out and grabbed the bowl. The other hand grabbed the rooster's wings and threw it on the ground.

The rooster flapped his wings a few times, blushed, took a few quick steps, and flew out the door.

Lin Haimei's fluttering heart stopped. Because the bowl was saved.

Lin Haimei didn't dare to read anymore. I'm afraid that I will overdo it for a while and forget to stir-fry.

Today she sped up on her own cooking.

When boiling dried beans, peel the potatoes while the fire is boiling. Then cut the potato slices.

Scoop up the boiled beans and fry the flour. At the same time, cut the pork belly that has been cooked long ago.

Frying powder, cutting meat, stir-frying, a large pot of sweet potato flour fried fat pot meat, and served on the table.

Heat hard wood, stir-fry the tips and serve on a plate. It is also a few minutes to complete.

Stir-fried potato chips, this one should be slightly simmered. Taking advantage of this time, Lin Haimei went to the field behind the house and picked a few sharp peppers. Coming back, the potato chips were cooked. Put a few slices of garlic sprouts to increase the fragrance, remove from the pot and put in a bowl.

Lin Haimei washed and cut the peppers like a war, stir-fried, put the beans, put salt, and put the bowl.

Several dishes of effort, boiled, fried and fried together, took less than forty minutes. In normal times, it would take at least more than an hour to grind.

Lin Haimei simmered the fried vegetables in the pot and covered the pot. I read the book again in front of the stove.

Rhubarb may have smelled the smell of meat and curled up by the stove, refusing to go out. Perhaps, it also wants to accompany Lin Haimei to read.

Lin Haimei looks at politics, and China's rapid development in recent years has made her see the future.

The turmoil in the world and the stability of China made her feel that she was a happy generation.

Mandela's release from prison marked the beginning of a new era for South Africa.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait shows that the country must be strong in order to defend the country.

The 11th Asian Games were successfully held. It shows that China's comprehensive national strength has reached a new level.

The successful development of cesium clock indicates that China's time and frequency measurement has reached the international advanced level.

The re-approval of the 21 national high-tech industrial development zones indicates that China's economy has entered a new round of development.

"VIII. 19" incident, the "five horses split the corpse" of the Red Soviet Union. The crisis-ridden international environment has not only sounded the alarm for China's socialism, but also provided an opportunity for the development of China's socialism.

Tonight's current affairs and politics, Lin Haimei is the most fascinated by reading. She immersed herself in the events and felt the dynamics and development brought about by politics.

"Second sister, come and get it, this is the egg fungus I picked up", Shiqin stood at the entrance of the stairwell, with a basket of mulberry leaves on her back.

The basket pressed against her shoulders, and her shoulders slumped slightly.

"You rest, I'll carry it upstairs", Lin Haimei quickly took the basket and carried it on her shoulder.

When she walked up the stairs, the weight on her back made her pity her little sister's difficulty, and made her firm in her determination to be admitted to the night university.