Chapter 118: Sweet and Sour Windfall
In the early morning, the mountains and forests are filled with mist, and the unknown birds are accustomed to getting up early, squatting on the branches of the trees and combing their feathers while singing, and the whole world is extremely peaceful and beautiful.
Old Man Tai woke up from his sleep because of the noise, shook his sore shoulders and neck, looked up and glared at the still noisy birds, and the birds immediately spread their wings and flew away.
He looked up and looked around, but saw his eldest son sleeping by the campfire with a firewood knife, he frowned, and wanted to see the children in the shack, but heard Yang Lihua suddenly shout.
"Where's Zhuzhu!"
The old man jumped up suddenly and asked, "Didn't Zhuzhu sleep in it?" ”
Yang Lihua shook her head desperately, her face was pale with fright, she was sleeping in a daze just now, and she was not by her side when she reached out and touched her daughter!
At this moment, Tai Jizu was also awakened.
As soon as the three of them were about to go their separate ways, the big black horse carried a sesame ball and walked out of the woods next to him, followed by a little girl, isn't it Zhuzhu?
"Zhuzhu!" The three old men immediately rushed over.
Yang Lihua got angry with her daughter for the first time, slapped her on the buttocks, and scolded, "Where did you go!" This is the forest, what if a tiger takes you away! ”
Zhu Zhu held a large number of small white flowers in her arms, and when she was beaten like this, they all fell to the ground.
She ran directly into her grandfather's arms and skillfully hugged her grandfather's neck, like a golden monkey hanging on a tree.
"Grandpa, help, mother!"
The old man was also worried, and he wanted to count his granddaughter for two sentences but was reluctant, so he could only sigh in the end.
"Next time you want to play, you must wake up grandpa."
Zhuzhu shrunk her neck and nodded vigorously, then pointed to those little flowers and said, "The flowers are so fragrant, Zhuzhu picked a lot, I want to sew it into the pillow for my mother, and my mother can smell the fragrance and sleep." ”
Yang Lihua already regretted beating the child, and she felt even more guilty when she heard this.
Parents may be disappointed or angry that their children do not meet their expectations, but in their children's hearts, their love for their parents will not be compromised by anything.
She reached out and rubbed her daughter's little head, choked up, "Zhuzhu, don't let the flowers come." Don't run around next time, you're good, my mother will be happy. ”
Zhuzhu didn't seem to understand, so she leaned out after a moment of hesitation and took a sip on her mother's face, "Mother is not angry, Zhuzhu is obedient." ”
The old man and the others were also sour in their hearts, the last time Zhuzhu was abducted, it has become a shadow that the family can't erase, and no one can bear it if it happens again.
Tai Jizu was happy that his daughter had recovered, and thought that his daughter liked to be in the mountains and forests, so he proposed, "Dad, I've come here, let's go to my mother's grave to have a look?" ”
"Okay, there's no need to pick up here, let's walk around and then go home." Old Man Tai naturally responded in one bite.
The family ate a few things and then carried a basket to the top of the mountain.
Of course, the sesame balls had to follow, but the big black horse was left to watch the "home" and eat more tender grass by the way.
There was no road in the mountains and forests, but the Tai family walked a lot, and gradually stepped on a small mountain road.
Zhuzhu didn't want the family to carry it, bouncing behind the two elder brothers, occasionally picking a small flower and laughing crisply, and the whole family was in a good mood when they heard it.
Soon, everyone climbed to the top of the mountain, Tai Jizu and Yang Lihua personally pulled out the weeds on the grave, and offered a few pieces of dim sum that Zhuzhu ate.
Tai Yonglu and Tai Yongyue ran around, dug up some colorful wildflowers, and planted them around the grave.
Zhuzhu sat in her grandfather's arms, and the grandparents and grandchildren sat in front of the grave as usual, looking into the distance and watching the scenery for a long time......
Mrs. Tai is a typical peasant woman, who fled from the south and married into the Tai family in order to survive.
But her husband is out in the army, and occasionally comes back once and then leaves in a day or two, and she pulls her children to farm and live, which is very difficult, and she has to develop a pungent and bold temperament in order to support the door.
Therefore, after marrying a daughter-in-law in the family, she scolded when she should scold and teach when she should teach, but she never let her daughter-in-law suffer from grievances.
Yang Lihua misses her mother-in-law very much, especially after her mother-in-law passed away and she began to be in charge.
She thinks she is literate and well-mannered, but when she walks around the village on weekdays and deals with outsiders, sometimes there is no reason to talk about it, so she can only fight with a loud voice and be pungent enough.
Therefore, she also understands better that it is not easy for her mother-in-law to be so many years.
At this time, she was busy talking to her mother-in-law about the changes in her family.
Zhuzhu has become smarter, there is no shortage of food and drink at home, the little uncle is out of luck, and the concubine has broken off her relationship with her mother's family and built a new yard.
First, I came to report the good news to my mother-in-law under Jiuquan, and secondly, I also asked my mother-in-law to continue to bless the safety and health of the family, especially Tai Jiye and Tai Yongan, who are still outside.
I don't know if the old lady under Jiuquan really heard it, but before leaving, Sesame Ball screamed at the grave several times......
It's not difficult to go up the mountain, but it's hard to go down.
The old man was afraid of falling his granddaughter, so when he went down the mountain, he stuffed the fat girl into a wicker basket and carried it on his back.
Tai Yonglu and Tai Yongyue, the two stinky boys, never knew what danger was, and they were still walking fast ahead.
Yang Lihua was worried and shouted twice.
As a result, Tai Yonglu and Tai Yongyue did not respond, but ran into the woods next to them with the sesame ball.
Tai Jizu was afraid of insects and snakes, so he hurriedly followed, and as a result, he heard the two boys cheering loudly.
"Mother, there are wild berries here, they are all red!"
"Grandpa, sister, come quickly!"
The family hurried over, it turned out that there was a hole in the woods, hiding a small sunny hillside, there were no trees, but the ground was full of wild berry seedlings with roots, and the small fruits were ripe, red and bright sandwiched between the leaves, like rubies inlaid on the green blanket.
"Oh, that's a rarity, so many cranberries!"
Yang Lihua was also overjoyed, and shouted one after another, "There are so many, we can't finish picking them back, we can boil jam." I just want to give Steward Min a gift in return! ”
Tai Jizu walked around the hillside, and saw no footprints of wild beasts, so he asked the old man to put down the beads.
Zhuzhu was in a hurry, and when she landed, she ran to pick a cranberry with her little fat legs, and then sent it directly into her grandfather's mouth.
The old man smiled, he couldn't eat the five points of sourness of berries at all, in his heart this berry was sweeter than honey!
As if they had discovered a treasure, the family picked it while eating, and soon fell into its teeth, and when it was closed, it was so sour that I couldn't describe it at all.
But in this field of wild berries, almost all the red fruits are put into baskets and filled to the brim......
When he was able to return to the makeshift camp in the small valley, the big black horse immediately met him, sneezing, flicking his tail, and digging his hooves, as if he was very angry.
Tai Yonglu and Tai Yongyue thought that the big black horse was angry because they couldn't go up the mountain together, so they hurriedly took the cranberries and fed them.
The big dark horse is greedy, but it slowly loses its anger.
The old man saw that something was wrong, and gave Tai Jizu a look.