Chapter 58 Clean water and dust (3)

"I understand—" Tian Yun's father said, "It was the snake widow who told you about being pregnant with a child, you bastard!" "Why are you swearing at people when you open your mouth?" Tian Yun said, "Really!" Tianzao planned to use soap to remove the dirt, but Tianyun said it was more suitable to use alkaline flour, so Tianzao had to go to the cupboard to get alkaline flour.He couldn't help saying to his sister: "It's still so wordy to wash your hair, isn't it just a few yellow hairs?" Tian Yun picked up a few soybeans and threw them at the stove, saying: "You are the yellow hair." Then he said: "There is only one Chinese New Year every year. If I don't wash my hair clean and shiny, how can I get a new one? Ayako?"

While they were joking and laughing in the kitchen, the sound of crying still came from grandma's house like a breeze. Tian Yun said, "Why is grandma crying?" Father glanced at Tianzao and said, "It's your brother who made her sad by not using grandma's bath water. I'm afraid she won't be in a good mood this year." "Then will she still give me the New Year's money?" Tian Yun said, "If there is no New Year's money, I will tear up Tianzao's textbooks, so that he can't do his winter homework, and the teacher will punish him when the school starts!"

Tianyun and Tianzao called him "brother" when they were in harmony, but when Tianzao made her unhappy a little bit, she just called him by his first name. Tianzao cleaned the washbasin, and he said, "If you tear up my textbooks, I'll smash your new braids to pieces, so you can't do your braids!" Tian Yun gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you!" Tianzao scooped water into the washbasin and said, "Do you think I dare?" Tian Yun could only say to his father with tears in his eyes, "Dad, look at Tianzao—" "He dares!" Father raised a slap, gestured in front of Tianzao, and said, "I'll beat his fart then!"

Tianzao moved the washbasin and bathtub into his hut one by one.Tian Yun also claimed that he would rinse his head twice, and asked Tian Zao to prepare two more basins of clean water.She also felt that the curtains were not drawn tightly, what if others saw it?Tianzao had no choice but to draw the curtains tighter and more opaque, and respectfully brought her towels, wooden combs, slippers, shampoo and soap like a servant.Only then did Tian Yun step into the bathroom like a queen, and she bolted the door.After about three minutes, there was the sound of splashing water from inside. My father went to the barn to look for the pair of plastic red palace lanterns. They had been idle for a year, so they must have been full of dust. The family members liked to wipe the palace lanterns with Tianyun’s bath water, as if Tianyun had a close relationship with bright colors and light. Like an inseparable connection.

The Tianzao filled the pot with water, then added another handful of firewood, then quietly left the stove to go to the door of grandma's house to eavesdrop on her ramblings. Grandma cried and said: "I was the cleanest person in the whole village back then. Who didn't know that? If I went into the river to take a bath, the fish would hide far away. The fish would stay in the water every day, and they would know that I was not on my body." Bai, not clean without me..." Tianzao couldn't help covering his mouth and secretly laughing. The mother pushed the boat along and said: "The kid Tianzao is not sensible, Mom, don't be as knowledgeable as him. Who in our town doesn't know how clean he is? Everyone in the neighborhood likes to eat the big sauce from Mom, except The smell is different from other people's, isn't it because of the cleanliness?"

Grandma smiled subtly, and then said, still crying: "I have never had lice in my hair, and there is no smell in my armpits. There is no mud in my toe caps, and the water I have bathed in has no smell." It can be used to grow peonies!" Grandma's reasoning was a little too bold, so my mother couldn't help but burst out laughing.Tianzao couldn't help laughing, hurried back to the stove, squatted down and laughed loudly facing the raging flames.At this time, my father came in with a cold body and carried two old palace lanterns. His face was covered with dust, and two pieces of snot were frozen out, which did not match his age, which made him look like a scavenger.Seeing Tianzao smiling, he asked, "What are you secretly having fun with?"

Tianzao then whispered what he heard to his father. Father put down the palace lantern and smiled, "This old boy!" The water in the pot was scorched by the flames, as if the stove was hot in summer, and a group of cicadas were stuffy in the pot, and they kept shouting "it's too hot, it's so hot".The flames scorched the stove until his cheeks were hot, so he ran to the window of the stove room and pressed his cheeks against the hoarfrost-covered glass.At first, Tianzao felt a cold stabbed him deeply like a needle, and then he felt half of his face numb. When he moved his cheek away, the true color of a half-moon-shaped glass was revealed.Tianzao wiped his wet cheeks, and looked out through the frosted glass.It was so dark in the courtyard that we couldn't see anything clearly except for the faint light of the stars in the sky.Tianzao sighed, looked away in disappointment, and turned to look at the fire in the stove pit.He had just squatted down when the door of the stove room opened suddenly, and behind a gust of cold stood a woman in a green soft satin padded jacket, with dark circles under her eyes, she asked Tianzao loudly:

"Where is the water?" Seeing that it was a snake widow, Tianzao let out an indifferent "hum". "Where's your father?" The snake widow pulled her hands out of her coat sleeves, and wiped a wisp of snot on the upper of her shoe, which made Tianzao nauseous. Tianzao's father had already heard the sound. The snake widow said, "Brother, do me a favor. You see, I have boiled the bath water, but the tub is broken, and the water is splashing and leaking." "Why is the tub leaking?" asked the father. "It's not harvested rice beans in autumn. I dried the beans and put them in a big bathtub to peel them. The skins were dry and brittle, and my hands were bleeding. I used a pine stick to beat the beans. It didn't work out. I didn’t know it when I beat the pot and it leaked.”

Tianzao's mother also came over. When she saw the snake widow, she said "Oh" in surprise, and then said hello lightly: "Are you here?" The snake widow also responded faintly, and then pulled out a pink satin headband from her cuff: "For Tianyun!" Seeing that his parents didn't pick up the rope, Tianzao couldn't do it himself.The snake widow put the hair rope on the lid of the water tank, making the water tank look like a dowry, beaming with joy. "Where's Tianyun?" the snake widow asked. "It's being washed," said the mother.

"Do you have tin at home?" asked the father. Before the snake widow could answer, Tianzao's mother asked vigilantly, "What do you want tin for?" "My bathtub is leaking, I beg Tianzao's father to make it up." The snake widow first answered the hostess's words, and then said to the hostess: "No tin." "Then there is no way to mend it." Father said smoothly. "Just use the washbasin to wash." Tianzao's mother said. The snake widow's eyes widened, she shook her shoulders and said: "That's not okay, the new year only comes once a year, so you can't let it go." Her words were exactly the same as Tian Yun's.

"I can't do anything without tin." Tianyun's father frowned, and then said, "Try without using linoleum paper. You go home and tear a piece of linoleum paper, set it on fire, and drain the dripping oil Put it on the leaking place, spread it evenly, and maybe it will be able to cover the leaking place after it cools down." "It's better for you to help me." The snake widow always has an innocent expression in front of men, "I can't even understand Tianzao's father took a look at his woman, but he didn't need to look at her, because no matter whether she agreed or disagreed on her face, there was definitely ten thousand disapproval in her heart.But when everyone focused on her and needed her to make a decision, she still pretended to be generous and said: "Then you go."