Chapter 57 Clean water and dust (2)

Grandma was the first to finish the bath.Tianzao's mother helped her out when she was trembling.Tianzao saw grandma's thin white hair hanging wetly on her shoulders, and the drooping bags under the eyes made her protruding cheekbones feel like they were about to fall off.Moreover, the brown age spots on her face were thickened by the heat, like dark clouds floating in the sky before a thunderstorm.Tianzao felt that after taking a bath, grandma looked extraordinarily bloated, like a rotten mushroom, which made people look unsightly.He didn't know if people were always like this when they were old.Grandma walked past the stove and went back to her room panting heavily. When she saw the stove, she said: "The water you boiled is really hot. It makes grandma feel comfortable after washing. The fatigue of a year is completely relieved. You just go to bed." Wash it with grandma's water."

My mother also said: "Grandma hasn't gone out for a year, she doesn't have a lot of dust on her body, and the water is still clean." Tianzao didn't talk to him, he just refilled the firewood, and then went into his room with a dirty bucket.The hot, humid air swam around the room like a mad dog, and there was indeed a layer of water droplets like fish eggs floating on the light bulb.Tianzao struggled to lift the big bathtub, poured the water into the dirty bucket, then wiped the sweat from his forehead, and lifted the bucket to pour water.When passing by the stove, he found that grandma hadn't returned to the house yet. When she saw the stove coming out with a bucket full of water, she opened her mouth wide and her eyes showed a particularly desolate expression.

"You hate grandma—" she said absently. Tianzao didn't say anything, he opened the door and went out.It was dark and cold outside, and he carried the water unsteadily to the gutter outside the gate.In winter, a big dirty ice lake rises there, and many boys like to play spinning tops under the ice lake, they call it "Bingga".They smoke so hard that they often get all the snot out of their noses.Not only did they play during the day, but at night sometimes the moon was so bright that people could not stay in the house, so they put on thick padded jackets and came out to spin tops, and the sound of "pa-pa-" came from time to time in the deep winter night.

Tianzao saw a short figure in the snow under the icy lake. He bowed his body, as if he was looking for something, and the cigarette butt in his hand flickered on and off. "Tianzao—" the man straightened up and said, "Come out to pour water?" Tianzao heard that it was Xiao Dawei, a classmate who went to the room before, and while struggling to lift the dirty water bucket onto the frozen lake, he asked, "What are you doing here?" "When it was getting dark, I smoked Bingga, and it flew away, but I couldn't find it anywhere," Xiao Dawei said. "How can you find it without a flashlight?" Tianzao said, pouring dirty water from the spire of the frozen lake.

"The smell of this bath water is really bad." Xiao Dawei said loudly, "Your grandma must have washed it!" "So what?" Tianzao said, "The smell from your grandfather's washing may not be as good as this!" Xiao Dawei's grandfather has been paralyzed for many years, and he has to be picked up by someone who has to poop. Xiao Dawei's mother has turned her black hair into white hair. She claims that she no longer wants to be a filial daughter-in-law. If she wants to leave the Xiao family, Xiao Dawei's father uses Xiao Dawei to spin a spinning top. The whip beat his wife until bloodstains criss-crossed her body, making everyone in Quanli Town know about it.

"Whose water are you bathing in this year?" Xiao Dawei was really irritated, he said provocatively, "I am the first to wash my house every year, and I use a basin of clean water every time!" "I also use a basin of clean water myself!" Tianzao said confidently. "Stop bragging!" Xiao Dawei said, "You have to boil water in your house every year. You always wash in other people's dirty water. Who doesn't know?" "I told your father that you smoked!" Tianzao didn't know how to fight back. "I used the cigarette butt Liang'er to find Bingga, and I didn't want to imitate bad people. Even if you tell him, it's useless!"

Tianzao was extremely annoyed and walked back with the dirty water bucket. When he walked a long way, he turned back and shouted at Xiao Dawei: "I will wash it with clean water this year!" After Tianzao finished speaking, he looked up at the sky, and felt that the clear Milky Way was "brush" brighter, as if the clear river water was about to pour down, to wash away the pent-up resentment in his heart. There was a cry from grandma's house, the old cry was stagnant like the dripping water from a cave. The Tianzao opened the lid of the pot and poured hot water into the big bathtub in one scoop.At this time, Tianzao's father came over and said, "Look at you, you made grandma sad."

Tianzao didn't say anything, he poured some cold water into the hot water.He tested the water temperature with his fingers, and felt that if his father washed it just right, he would be surprised; if Tianyun or his mother washed it, he would have to add more hot water. "Who is it?" Tianzao asked. "I'll go wash it," said the father. "Your mother has to spend time with grandma." At this moment, Tian Yun suddenly rushed out of her room. She was only wearing a blue flower vest, showing two round arms, and her hair was loose, like a little siren.She said with bright eyes: "I'm going to wash!" My father said: "I wash quickly."

"I untied all the braids." Tian Yun shook her head from side to side, her hair was undulating like a dove's wings, she said to her father quite seriously, "I will wash it before you in the future, if you do it first After washing, I will use the noise basin you used again, what if I get pregnant with a child? Whose is it?" Father laughed so hard that he spit out a mouthful of phlegm, while Tianzao laughed so hard that he dropped the water ladle.Tian Yun pouted her plump mouth, her face was as red as fire in a furnace. "Who told you that you will conceive a child if you use the basin your father washed in?" The father still asked with a "ho ho" smile.

"Others told me, so don't ask." Tian Yun began to gesticulate and instructed Tian Zao, "I want to wash my hair first, scoop up a basin of warm water for me, and I also use the scented blue shampoo my mother made!" Tian Yun Wuji's words had brightened Tianzao's previously dull mood, so he was happy to serve his sister.He brought the washbasin, and just about to scoop water into it, Tian Yun stomped his feet and said loudly, "No, no, no! I have to clean up such an old basin before I can wash my hair!" "It's pretty clean." Father teased Tian Yun.

"Look at it? The greasy mud around the edge of the basin is as obvious as the big black eye circles of the snake widow, and it's clean!" Tian Yun poked his neck and said disdainfully. The snake widow's surname is Cheng, because she likes to flirt with the men in the town, and the woman tells her behind her back that she was transformed from a poisonous snake, and over time they call her the snake widow.The snake widow has no children, she is very at ease, she wakes up late every day, her eyes are always blue, people don't know where she sleeps.She used to beat her waist with her hands when she walked.She liked the little girls in the town, and the girls used to come to the Snake Widow's house to rummage through the bottom of her box and soak up some of the tiaras she had worn in her youth with sweet words.