Chapter 6 The leaves on the tree are my home - Section 1

The hairy-bearded captain said, these girls are newcomers and they are not familiar with the place where they live. Those who are happy and rejoicing are all fresh energy. After this energy is passed, they should be crying. Is the work in the field also done by these delicate-skinned and tender girls? With the help of Ximi's mother and son, Mei Wen had cleaned up a simple, bright and comfortable room early on, and everything was in order.Now that she is free, Meiwen helps Ximi's mother with work.What surprised Daoxiangdu's teachers was that Meiwen seemed to belong to the principal Du Zijian's family, and she was Ximi's older sister, but this older sister had been away for a long time, and now she came back, she was a little shy and unfamiliar.They ate at a table of four, talking and laughing. Although they couldn't fully understand each other's words because of their accents, this didn't hinder their conversation too much. On the contrary, some words or sentences that they didn't understand After careful analysis and sudden understanding, it became a great joy for this family.

Ximi's mother cooks for the teachers of Daoxiangdu Middle School in addition to cooking her own food.When eating, they are all in a big room with no partition between the kitchen and the dining room.Sometimes the meals are the same, sometimes they are different.When it is different, maybe one or two teachers will take a few chopsticks from their table and come to Ximi's table, put the dishes in Ximi's bowl, and then look at Ximi's dining table, see When he picked up the dish he wanted to eat, he put a few chopsticks in his own bowl, tasted it, and said, "It's delicious." When other teachers heard this sentence, they might come over at the same time to pick up the dishes on Ximi's table. In the blink of an eye, there were only empty plates and bowls left on Xi Mi's table.

Mei Wen thought it was very interesting and smiled.At this time, she felt as if she was from Du Zijian's family. Meiwen helps Ximi's mother choose vegetables, wash vegetables, wash rice, light the fire, clean the yard, and is willing to do anything.She knew she wasn't doing a good job, but she was willing to.Ximi's mother is also willing to take her to work, but if she can't, Ximi's mother will teach her.Sometimes, she did a wrong job, such as cooking dry rice into a thick porridge, and Ximi's mother would laugh, as if it was something that made her very happy.When Ximi's mother was busy on the stove and saw Mei Wen's face was flushed by the fire in the stove, for some reason, she would stop what she was doing and look at Mei Wen from the sidelines.At this time, her expression was a little dazed, and her thoughts seemed to be wandering.Ximi's mother also likes to take Mei Wen out of the house, to the village, to the town.

When they walked on the field ridge, river embankment or threshing field, some people would turn their heads and watch silently. When Ximi's mother was called Mei Wen, she was "Wen Wen", and when Mei Wen called Xi Mi's mother, she was "Shi Niang"—this is what the teachers and students of Daoxiangdu Middle School called. One day, my mother and Mei Wen were sitting under the gardenia tree in the yard peeling edamame. My mother said, Mei Wen listened, and they were all talking about fine rice. "I don't know what kind of child this child is. When I was pregnant with him, he was so inconspicuous. Few people around here could tell that I was pregnant with him. When it was almost full term, I would go to the field as usual. While working, my body didn’t feel a little heavy, and I often wondered: Am I pregnant? There was no big movement in my stomach. That spring, when I picked broad beans in the broad bean field, I picked half of the basket, and my stomach felt Pain, I thought to myself, I was afraid that I caught a cold at night, so I didn’t think about this dead child, he became anxious, punched and kicked in your stomach, the pain made you sweat, and you hurried home, before you got out of the area. In the broad bean field, he came out. I was too embarrassed to call people in broad daylight. I was afraid that a lot of people would come, so I had to lie down in the broad bean bushes, and he was born in the broad bean field..."

Mei Wen couldn't help but let out a small "wow", and kept patting her chest lightly with her hands, looking surprised and worried. Mom smiled: "It's okay. I pushed the broad bean sprouts away with my hands, and I saw him lying there stretching his arms and kicking his legs, like a cat." "and after?" "Later, Mrs. Lin and the others came over. I hugged him, and they helped me back home. Nothing happened. For the first three days, this little thing was not noisy, and fell asleep after drinking milk. It just woke up. He came here, and he was not noisy. His father said that this child is a quiet type, very well-behaved, and easy to take care of in the future. I never thought that after three days, he would not be him, crying and making noise all day long. During the day It’s better, when you hug him and keep shaking and shaking, he can still be quiet for a while, but at night, even if you hug him and shake and shake all over the room, he still cries, with his eyes closed, crying, crying Immortal! Not only is the disturbance unbearable for the two of us, but Teacher Lin and the others cannot sleep well. It is annoying. I told his father, let’s make a name for himself. His father is a scholar and doesn’t really believe in these things. But The trouble made him unable to sleep all night, and he couldn’t think of a good way to look at it, so he wrote more than a dozen pieces of paper in one go, pasted them at the village head, on the trees by the roadside and on the wall beside the road... "

"What was written on that paper?" "Emperor of Heaven, Emperor of Earth, there is a night cry in my house, a passing gentleman reads it once, and sleeps until dawn..." Mei Wen thought this was really interesting, so she giggled. "Don't tell me, after two days, this little thing stopped crying. Breastfeed once at night, and sleep until dawn." Xi Mi came back, but he threw his schoolbag into the courtyard gate, and the figure flashed by the door, and it disappeared. Mom said: "In a few days, you will know that this child is too naughty. I really don't know what kind of child it is. At the age of six, he took an umbrella and climbed up a tree, then opened the umbrella and jumped down. He thought the umbrella would take him down slowly, but he fell to the ground with a "plop" and broke an arm. In the summer when he was eight years old, he and Zhu Jingen were catching fish in the pond on the ground. The water was too deep to catch fish. When the fish was found, he asked Zhu Jingen to go home and get a shovel, and dug the gap leading to the small river. As a result, the water in a large rice field was drained. The field was just watered, and the rice was about to When it was water, the bearded captain found the school and found his father... In three days and two days, someone came to the door. Just like this, to the death. There is no choice but to beat, and the feather duster has been discounted several times. .”

Mei Wen said: "You can't hit him." My mother said: "No? If you don't fight for three days, you will go to the house to expose the tiles. If you just fight like this, he doesn't have a long memory." Xi Mi came back dripping with sweat. Mei Wen thought about what her mother said just now, and couldn't help laughing at Ximi. Ximi was a little embarrassed, and turned around.At this time, he saw the fence—the fence was painted white at some point. Mom said: "Your sister Wenwen painted it. Your dad's school is being renovated, and there is a bucket of paint left over."

Ximi thinks this white fence looks good.It brightened everything up, made the vegetables in the vegetable garden look greener, and the colorful flowers that grew under the fence looked brighter.He even felt that the sky was bluer because of the white fence.An unknown fence, with two coats of white paint with plum patterns, seemed to have a life suddenly, and it was noticed like this.Ximi stood there motionless, the only thing in her eyes was the white fence. "Take your schoolbag back to the house!" Ximi didn't look away from the white fence until her mother said loudly.He picked up his schoolbag, and when he stepped through the door, he turned his head and looked at the white fence again.

Here, Mom and Mei Wen continue to peel edamame and talk about fine rice.When the peeling was almost done, my mother suddenly remembered something and said, "Go into the house and watch him for me. He is probably carving with a knife again. If you continue to carve, there will be no good place in the house." .His hands are cheap." Mei Wen went into the house.