Chapter 6 six

When the rooster crowed, Xiaoyue's land was finished watering.Monk Wang and Cai Cainiang were too tired to stand upright, while Xiaoyue dozed off lying on a ridge along the canal, her feet still soaked in the water.Only then did he not wake her up. He went to help the two old people manage the water in the bed, and then ran over to look at the canal. Dozed off, squatting by the side of the ditch, watching her sleeping state quietly for a while, then hurriedly walked away.After all, his calf is also very sore. Anyone who pokes his leg lightly will fall down and doze off with a "puff".He said in his heart: "The mouths of these two families are on your shoulders, and you have to be the leader!" Only when the whole land was filled with water did he turn off the machine.Xiaoyue woke up with a whimper, and complained so much that she didn't wake her up.Caicai looked at Monk Wang, too ashamed to say anything, and hurriedly cleaned up the leather water pipe, but accidentally fell into the muddy puddle with the water pipe.Monk Wang hurriedly pulled him up and asked if he had touched it? Then he just smiled and said it was all right, Monk Wang put the cigarette in the pouch and handed it to him, while asking Xiaoyue to go back and fetch some wooden sticks. Lift the water pump to Cai Cai's field to water.Satsuki said:

"Father really wants to die, everyone is so tired that he has no strength, let's water it tomorrow." Cai Cainiang also agreed, telling everyone to go home and rest.At this time, a few people came, they were the men from the same family, and they wanted to take the machine away and water their fields in the middle of the night.Only then did they say hello to the door, and they clapped their mouths, saying that the door is their own family, can he not allow watering, let alone watering, can they still ask for money for watering? ? After thinking about it, they asked them to carry the water pump away. '

He had just returned home, grabbed a few cold buns in the cage and gnawed them, and while his mother was asleep, he took the shovel and went out again.Because the land of his house is far away from the river, and the leather hose of the water pump is short, the water must be pumped up, and another canal must be built to irrigate the field.I kept working like this until dawn, and when I went to ask for the machine, the family members of the door changed their minds, saying that they still had a few plots of land that hadn't been watered.Cai Cai mumbled that it was he who let them have free time, so they couldn't be so unreasonable, but they said that they were all juniors in their clan, so it was only natural that they were from Henan.The two sides quarreled, and it was a lively scene.Menmen was washing clothes at home, and immediately ran over with a stick, insisting that Caicai should be watered first, and the reason was: Caicai's family had already paid the money.

"Menmen, you recognize money but don't recognize people?" The men of the same family oppressed. door said: "I rented this machine with money, of course I want money." "Okay, okay, we'll pay you!" "There is a first-come-first-served way to pay, and everyone in the village has lined up." "Menmen, you have done such a great job! Your grandfather still calls my grandfather!" "I know, Grandpa!" The men in my family were furious and wanted to water it first, the door was so angry that they turned off the machine without saying a word, and only then did they carry it to water it.Those people just wanted to come and knock on the door. They spit out the smoke from the corner of their mouths at the door, and swung the sticks in their hands into the air, hitting a persimmon tree beside them, and three or four green persimmons fell down.He caught the stick and shouted:

"I can't control my mobile phone? Come on, if you want to fight, don't think that I am not recognized by my relatives!" The opponent knew that he was short-sighted, so he was frightened first, patted his buttocks with his hands, and continued to curse as he walked: "Menmen, you little bastard! Your man doesn't need your machine anymore!" "No need, huh, you don't have any shortage of firewood!" "You don't recognize us, and we don't recognize you anymore, so make your fortune!" "That's natural!" The door slapped the pocket, and the coins in it rattled.

Only then was he dumbfounded, and said embarrassedly: "Menmen, is this okay?" The door didn't answer, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. When he lit the lighter, his hands trembled several times and he didn't light it.Seeing that Caicai was still there in a daze, he said angrily: "What are you still doing here? It's none of your business!" After watering for a whole morning and half noon, the land at home was finished.Then he breathed a sigh of relief, hugged the pillow and slept at home until dark, snoring like thunder.During dinner, Monk Wang came and asked the mother and son to eat at his house, saying that they had made some Liangpizi.Cai Cai Niang said she wanted to feed the pigs, so she declined, but sent Cai Cai away with a bottle of aged vinegar.

After eating, Monk Wang pulled out the light bulb and hung it under the eaves, and He Caicai took turns to eat "a mouthful of incense", and Xiaoyue closed the door and wiped her body with water in the room.The moon was shining brightly, so I went to pick a few leaves from the vine below the gate, patted them in the palm of my hand and pasted them on my forehead, Monk Wang asked Xiaoyue to wash her body and warm some hot water.It is said that I have been anxious and tired these few days, and I have gotten angry, and now my heart is relaxed, and it is time to shave my head.Let Cai Cai shave himself first, and the shaved skin shines brightly under the lamp.Then, he was about to shave again, but Xiaoyue picked up the shampoo and splashed it in the yard.

"Who still shaves their heads among young people nowadays? It's ugly, isn't it?" "We are farmers." Cai Cai said. "Peasants can't keep their hairstyles? They're still a part of the family!" Monk Wang said: "On a hot day, the hair on the door makes people sweat. Just look like what you are, don't pretend that a wolf is not like a wolf, pretend that a dog has a long tail!" Satsuki said: "Yeah, it's not like a farmer does it with a pump, it's a farmer with a bucket load Only like miles. " Monk Wang was so choked that he could not speak, so he said to Cai Cai:

"Okay, okay, what kind of hair you keep is your young people's business. If you don't shave it, don't shave it. Let the door trim it for you tomorrow." Only then said: "I'll kill him and I won't keep his little parting!" Satsuki said: "You just won't be able to attend the banquet—" She didn't say the word "dog meat" because she saw Cai Cai Niang came in from the courtyard in a hurry. Cai Cai Niang's face was very ugly, she closed the courtyard door as soon as she came in, and said in a whisper: "Uncle, it's amazing!"

Everyone was startled, and hurriedly asked what happened? Caicai Niang talked about it for a long time, and finally explained the matter from beginning to end: It turned out that a cadre from the commune in Henan Province came and said that he had received A report material, suing the door for illegal activities, using water pumps to make "drought relief money", specifically to investigate this matter, the machine has been ordered to temporarily stop.The cadres visited many homes. Just now, they went to find Cai Cai, but Cai Cai was not there. They asked Cai Cai Niang about the situation, but Cai Cai Niang was so frightened that she didn’t know anything.

"Oh my god," Monk Wang cried out immediately, "How did this happen! Is it possible that the higher-ups are going to catch capitalist tendencies again?" Satsuki called out: "What kind of capitalist tendencies is that?! When is the time, come on!" Monk Wang immediately went up to cover Xiaoyue's mouth, and roared in a low voice: "Did you eat explosives, and you yelled so loudly, do you think outsiders can't hear you?" "So what if I hear it?" Xiaoyue was still angrily saying, "Isn't this water pump coming from door to door, and the crops can still be saved? This must be the complaint of those from their own family. The hearts of these people have been ripped out by wolves." ! Why did the cadre stop the machine, delay the crops, and eat him?!" Monk Wang couldn't say a word anymore, and began to eat his "one bite of incense". "One mouthful of incense" because each time it is just one bite, it would cost a lot of matches to eat, so he lightly flicks the fire egg in the eye of the cigarette bag into the shoe shell, puts a new cigarette, and presses the fire egg on the shoe shell ; In this way, a match can be eaten dozens of times with "one bite of incense".Everyone was speechless. Seeing that he had eaten fifteen times, he suddenly blew away the fire eggs in the eyes of the cigarette bag, and threw the cigarette bag on the steps with his hands. "Oh, that's how things are in the world. It's hard to be good to one person in the neighborhood, but it's easy to offend someone! No one can see that there's a layer of skin in someone's rice soup bowl. I've long guessed that there must be something wrong with them. What's the matter? Having said that, the drought resistance this time is also thanks to this boy, but people don't dare to be too heroic, and they are honest and stable. As the saying goes: Watch the thief eat and watch the thief be beaten time." Caicai Niang said: "Uncle, how should I write it when he comes to pick up the materials tomorrow morning? Let's just say we don't know anything." Satsuki said: "Menmen really did something illegal, we're afraid of this? Didn't they offend those family members because of us watering the ground? If we don't speak for him now, can we get over it in conscience?" Only then said: "The door is too insolent. He speaks boldly and takes up space, which makes people hate him. Look at his mouth, whenever you meet him, he always has a cigarette in his mouth..." Satsuki said: "Come on, it was earned by others, not stolen. If you think about it, You don't have the skills! In terms of materials, you don't have to mention a single word of what you just said. " Only then did he stop talking. Monk Wang said: "Caicai, if you are asked to write materials, you should write them as they are. It's better for us to do what we do, and not to be conspicuous. If we talk about making 'drought relief money', let's not talk about it out of conscience. " It was not until early the next morning that the materials were handed over to the commune cadre.The cadres of the commune looked at it and talked to him again. Naturally, he said as little as he could.After sending off the commune cadres, he felt sorry for the door, and wanted to say something reassuring to the door, but thinking about his clumsy tongue, he picked up a hoe and went to the field to see the corn. Baogu got the water, and his spirit was gratifying.There was a jointing sound, and then I unconsciously talked about the benefits of the door again.When I came back and passed by the edge of the gate, I saw a lot of grass on the edge of the field, and said in my heart: the woman's pot edge, the man's weir, the grass on the edge of the gate grows like this, no wonder people say he is not doing his job properly.So I helped to pick it up, tidied it up until I could see it, and then walked back slowly.On the stone-paved street, I didn't think about it but bumped into the door again. "Caicai, I went to work in the field again. Is it your field or your old man's field?" He started teasing him again after he was playing the door all the way, with a bottle of wine in his hand, and when he walked over, he breathed heavily of alcohol.Caicai didn't hate him, and didn't answer his words. Seeing his unsteady gait, he knew that he was upset and used wine to drown his sorrows, so he drank so much that he took it with him.At this moment, Cai Cai was pulled back again, and Cai Cai insisted on going to his house for a few more drinks.Caicai couldn't help it, when he arrived at Menmen's house, Menmen offered him a cup, and he drank three cups in a row, drinking very happily.It was only then that I was very puzzled. "Menmen, what happened to that?" "What's up?" "Hey, are you still hiding it from me? Who has such a bad conscience..." "It's okay, just now." Menmen smiled, "The trumpet is copper pot or iron, who can do anything to me? It's okay, the cadre of the commune has left too, didn't you go to the river to see it? The machine is on again!" Only then suddenly came to his senses and cried out; "So you've been drinking happy wine!" "No, a bad case cost me two bottles of wine. Last night, I drank that bottle. Come on, just now, some people said that I made a 'drought-resistance fortune' and we just made it." , I really didn’t pay for this wine! Have another cup!” Caicai also got a little dizzy from drinking, and said: "Menmen, it's good that the matter is over, but listen to me, no matter how rich you are in the future, you can eat and drink whatever you want at home, but you have to be careful when you go out. Praising blessings in front of people will attract people's hatred. Woolen cloth!" Menmen burst out laughing: "Good talent, you are really He Shangbo's son-in-law, do you want me to pretend to be poor?" Only then did he get a big red face. The valley land was fully watered, and the faded mountain nest quickly returned to green.After half a month, the sky was beautiful again, and it rained, and within a few days, the corn in the field had been cut off, hung red tassels, and the hillside looked rich and bloated, with small ditches in the ditches. The river is getting thinner and thinner.The hearts of the people are relaxed, and it is time to clean up the big place. The cow drags the scorpion to grind a lotus wheel inside, and the coat is a splayed ring; every family starts to walk around to "send autumn", daughters and sons-in-law carry four-color gifts The cage is here, the wine is white wine, the sugar is brown sugar, all the dried noodles are hand-hanging, twenty-four white steamed buns It is fried on all sides, and a little bit of magenta water is used in the middle.The guests are about to leave, and Taishan Taishui will send a pot helmet, which is called "Hu Lian", and put all the means on it: draw patterns of fish, insects, flowers and birds, paint red, green, blue and yellow colors, and send them all the way from the stone street Go up, bang, bang, and walk into the small road in the corn field, covered with fluttering corn pollen.There are also those children who weave all kinds of bamboo skin cages, put the grasshoppers in them, hang them under the eaves, and hang them on the window lattices. When the sun shines at noon, a dog rushes to hit the bamboo skin cages. When the grasshoppers in one family croaked, the grasshoppers in one street and two rows croaked endlessly.