Chapter 3 three

When Xiaoyue came back, her father was still asleep; squatting on the Chubu stone to inhale "a breath of incense".Xiaoyue just called out "Father" and went into her small house. This small room was tidied up by Xiaoyue pestering her father a month ago.The people in the mountain nest all have a big kang under the window of the main house, and children of seven to eight children, who are not married, always keep the kang of this paradise, and sleep with their parents.When Xiaoyue was fourteen years old, she started menstruating, and since then she was shy and unwilling to sleep with her father.But since ancient times, there has been no book-written habit of parents and children sleeping in separate beds in Shanwozi. She hated the smell of sweat and the smell of tobacco and alcohol on her father's body, especially when he stretched out his feet to resist it. For her pillow, she needs to cover it tightly with a quilt or clothes.She kept asking for the utility room on the west side to be vacated, and she lived alone, and Dad finally agreed.She tidied up the house meticulously, treating it as a nest to raise her daughter's heart: as soon as she came back, she went in and closed the door; as soon as she went out, she locked it.No one can go in, and no one can know the secrets of the daughter's house.

Dad called her in the yard. "Xiaoyue, the pot in the pot is warm and there is leftover rice!" "I'm not hungry." Xiaoyue said. "Come out, I have something to tell you." "What are you talking about, go to sleep.", Xiaoyue untied the clip on her hair, threw it on the table in a "whistling" manner, and sat on the edge of the bed.She didn't fall asleep, and she didn't move again, she was prepared to get under the covers as soon as Dad got angry. Dad didn't say anything in the yard, smoking his pipe loudly.After a long while, he said in a strong nasal voice:

"Go to sleep. You are laughing and joking when you go out, and you don't have a word to say when you get home. I know you are annoying your father. I wiped out the mosquitoes in the main room. You always lock the door of the small room, and the mosquitoes can't be smoked." If you want to sleep, fume the mosquitoes, and the mosquito grass is placed in the corner, so you can order it yourself." Xiaoyue suddenly softened, feeling sorry for her old father.Looking through the window, the courtyard was empty under the moonlight, and my father squatted there alone, looking very pitiful.She had no reason to be angry with her father, she walked out of the small room, sat on the steps, and handed over a box of cooling oil in her pocket.

"Father, I have cooling oil. Mosquitoes can't bite it. You wipe it too, keep it away from your eyelids, so you won't be so sour that you cry." Dad wiped some on his forehead, rubbed it, and asked: "You were on board the whole time?" "Ok." "It's so late, if you don't take the boat, don't you worry about it?" "It's okay, Dad, who dares to..." She said half a sentence, but stopped. Thinking of what happened at the door in the river just now, her ears couldn't help but feel hot again. "There are a lot of people on the ferry, there are all kinds of people. You are so old, it will be inconvenient. We really shouldn't have bought this boat. If the three acres of land are to be planted, it is enough for our father and daughter to work hard. "

What Xiaoyue is most afraid of is that her father said this, this is the third time her father has said this.When the land was divided, Dad wanted the old cow, and Xiaoyue wanted the boat. The father and daughter struggled for many days, but in the end no one convinced the other, and both the cow and the boat were bought.But being a father has always been a bumpy mind, especially every day when he sees Xiaoyue dressed up to go to the ferry, he gets a bump on his forehead. "You don't need anything at home, but you can't live without this boat." Xiaoyue responded to her father in a low voice, her tone was very firm.

"I'm afraid Cai Cai's family has an opinion on us." "Can he take care of our family's affairs? Now that the land is divided, the captain is useless. I'm going to heaven and earth, what's in the way of his family's affairs?!" "Don't talk nonsense!" Dad was angry, "Anyone can be forgotten, we don't dare to lose our conscience because of the benefits of being with his mother. If the cow is sick like this, you won't let it go, thanks to someone helping me predict it." Zhi, today Hei Laoqin came to show the cow again, and only got a big white rooster after ruining it."

"You let Lao Qin mess around again!" Dad was about to scold, when the courtyard door rang, he quickly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked: "Who is it?" There was a heavy sound outside the door, and then he answered: "Uncle, it's me." Then he pushed the door open Come in. Caicai stood under the door in a naive manner, and a tree of young grapes coiled around the gatehouse did not bear fruit this year, and the branches and leaves screened the moonlight into flowers.Xiaoyue first saw the luminous leaf shadows all over his body, and thought he was wearing some kind of clothes, but later realized that he was shirtless, the sleeves of the shirt were tied at the waist, and a skirt seemed to be dragging behind his buttocks. .He just glanced at her, his eyelids lowered, and he hurriedly put on his clothes in the shadow of the grape leaves.

"Xiaoyue, pour some water for Brother Caicai." She didn't move. Caicai turned back and went out again, and with a loud noise, he dragged back a large bundle of grass. "Uncle, is the cow better today? I cut some grass and need to feed it a few times at night." Monk Wang was very grateful, and walked over to help Caicai put the grass at the door of the cowshed, calling Xiaoyue: "Why don't you pour water?"come out and say: "Are you busy in the fields?" "I've hoeed corn, uncle. I've been to all the fields to see. This year, the corn that grows the best is our two families. I applied urea again, and there's still half a bag left. I'll give it to you tomorrow." You bring it."

Monk Wang said: "You young people always use urea to plant urea. I don't care about spending money to buy it. It has not rained for a long time. If it is red for ten and a half months, the grain will suffer. I want to put the cowshed dung When it is out, the soil is blocked by the valley, which can preserve the moisture." "Then I'll come out tomorrow morning to excrete." Xiaoyue brought the washing water, went into the room to get her own soap and towel, stood aside and looked at Cai Cai—Cai Cai was naked, wearing a white coarse cloth shirt, the back of the shirt was full Drenched in sweat and smelling hot and sour.On the arms and face, there were red marks from being pulled by Baoguye——I felt distressed and said:

"It's such a hot day, I really don't want my life! For those few acres of land, as long as there is enough food to eat, if you soak in the ground all day long, you will be charged an extra one hundred and eighty. The corn in the market is so cheap that you can get enough food. What kind of money is it?" Monk Wang was standing under the grape arbor, picking a few leaves, patting them with his hands, and pinching them under the waist of his trousers to keep cool; after hearing Xiaoyue's words, he rolled his eyes and said: "Is this what you said? A farmer is the life of the soil. If he doesn't talk about farming, he will be a second-rater? It's good because of this point. Do you want him to be like everyone else?"

"What's wrong with the door?" "Look at the crops he planted! It's on the same side as our field, but the corn is so short that it doesn't even have a lump of dung on it. He coaxes the ground, he coaxes him, it's going to grow sweet stalks!" Xiaoyue has never been to the field, and she doesn't know how the crops of Menmen's family are growing.But she saw that the doormen were dressed strangely, and every time Jingziguan met, they were full of food and drink, and his family was the first to buy a radio. A few days ago, they seemed to see a flicker on their wrists. Yes, I'm afraid I'll wear my watch again. "But," Xiaoyue said, "the whole village is prosperous." Only then said: "People in Henan love to tinker." Satsuki said: "People often say: there are nine-headed birds in the sky, and there are Hubei guys in the earth. You are from Hubei, and you just stay at home all day? Brother Caicai, tell me, can this cow be fed? How sick is it? I sold it early, so I don’t have to worry about it.” Only then said: "I have the same idea. I have told my uncle several times, but he doesn't agree." Monk Wang said: "If a farmer doesn't have a cow, what kind of farmer is he?" Only then said: "Uncle, there is only so much land. It only takes a few days to feed the cattle for a year. The plowed land is neither deep nor fine. It is better to dig deep with a pickaxe!" Monk Wang said: "You young people are too fussy about doing crops. The cattle plowing the land is not deep. It can grind and pull the mill, and it can step on dung. Can't grow sweet land without dung? From now on, no one is allowed to criticize me as a cow! " "Father is always brainless!" Xiaoyue muttered something, and hinted at Caicai with her eyes.Caicai has no more words.She got angry and sat down on a wooden pier in the distance.Give Dad and Caicai a back. The courtyard was silent for a while.A few crickets jumped out from under the waterway of the courtyard gate, making a voiceless sound of "Yao Yao".Xiaoyue became annoyed, and she was covered in sweat again. Monk Wang smoked for a while in silence, then handed the bamboo pipe pipe to Caicai, and stood under the moon bored by himself, then went to the cowshed to see the sick cow again. Xiaoyue said to Caicai: "What about your mouth? When you speak, your words are so precious?!" "He's an old man after all." Monk Wang called Caicai in the cowshed, asking him to help cut some grass for the cow.Only then did she look at Xiaoyue, "嗤啦" with a smile on her face, she got up and went. Xiaoyue turned around and went into her small room, closed the door with a "bang" and fell asleep.