Chapter 61 Clean water and dust (6)

The mother snorted, and the father quickly blushed and added, "It's the tub's leak that's well blocked." "Didn't she give you a basin of water to wash your face?" Mother still sneered. Father wiped his face with his hands, unexpectedly, there was more black dust on his hands than on his face, which made his face even more gaudy.He said very aggrieved: "I only helped her with the work, I didn't drink her water, I didn't smoke her a cigarette, and I didn't even dare to wash my face at her house." "Hey, enough for the Gu family." Mother said, "How did you get the ashes on your face? Did you drill into the kang hole in her house?"

The father is still standing there like a child who has done something wrong. He is respectful, as if he is not facing his wife, but an elder.He said: "As soon as I entered her house, I was choked by the smoke and burst into tears. She is pitiful enough, and she hasn't broken the fire wall for three years. The fire must burn every day, and you don't think all the ashes hang on the smoke." In the hole? As soon as the stove is lit, the smoke comes out, who can stand it? No wonder she has dark circles every day. I helped her repair the bathtub, and thought that it was too pitiful for her as a widow to spend the New Year like this, so I helped her dig out the fire wall."

"Do you dare to dig out when the fire wall is hot?" Mother asked in disbelief. "Therefore, only three bricks and a little ashes were removed, and the flue was smooth. Let her pass the new year first, and then help her dig it out completely in the spring." The father told the truth in a foolish manner. . "She is really blessed." Mother said with a fake smile, "You can hire small workers without spending money." After the mother finished speaking, she called the Tianzao to pour out the water, and her clothes were washed.Tianzao carried the bucket of dirty water and bypassed the still anxious father to pour out the dirty water.When he came back, his father had washed off the black ash on his face.The water in the washbasin seemed to have been disturbed by squid to its fullest, and it was black.The mother glanced at it and said, "Let Tianzao bring this water to the school to paint the blackboard."

Father said, "Look at you, can't you just say that? I just helped her with some work." "I didn't say you couldn't help her with work." The mother was obviously jealous, "I don't mind if you live there." Father said no more, because it was useless to say anything.Tianzao hurriedly prepared bath water for him.Tianzao thought that once his father entered the house to take a bath, his mother's complaints would stop and his father's embarrassment would be relieved.Sure enough, when a basin of warm and refreshing bath water was placed in Tianzao's room, my mother came out with two washed clothes.The moment the father closed the door, he asked the woman in a low voice, "Will you rub my back for a while?"

"Rub it yourself." My mother still said resentfully. Tianzao couldn't help laughing to himself, he thought his father was really pitiful, but he did one extra job for the snake widow, and when he came back, he looked downcast and pleasing to the eye.In previous years, my mother would go in for a moment while my father was taking a bath, and help him rub his back. It seems that this year, this enjoyment will leave my father like a sunny day. The Tianzao filled the pot with water again, and then added firewood to the stove kang with great interest.At this time, his mother came over and asked him, "What are you still boiling water for?"

"For my own use." "You don't use your father's water?" "I want to use clean water." Tianzao emphasized. Mother didn't say anything, she went into Tianyun's room.Tianzao didn't hear Tianyun's voice. In the past, when her mother entered her room, she would scream like a frog by the water in midsummer.The light in Tianyun's room was suddenly turned off. Tianzao was surprised when his mother came out, and she said, "Tianyun is real. She fell asleep with a veil in her hand. The quilt was only covering her legs, and her belly button was exposed. What should I do if I catch a cold and have diarrhea at night? I forgot to turn off the lights, and she was too excited about the New Year, and she was exhausted

Tianzao laughed, and he poked the firewood to relive the glorious scene of golden sparks flying again.In his view, Stove Kang is a night sky that never has day, and Mars is a sky full of stars.This starry sky will always bring people a warm feeling. The water in the pot began to sing enthusiastically.The firewood was also burning and peeling.Mother returned to the house where she lived with Tianzao's father, and she washed and dried the clothes on the day before the meal.However, she seemed restless, poking her head out of the door every few minutes and asking Tianzao, "What's the noise?"

"No sound." Tianzao said. "But I heard something," said the mother. "Isn't your father calling me?" "No." Tianzao said truthfully. The mother looked back a little discouraged.But not long after, she poked her head out again and asked, "What's the noise?" and she was holding the clothes she had folded when she probed last time in her hand. Tianzao understood what his mother was thinking, and said, "It's Daddy who is calling you." "He called me?" Mother's eyes lit up, then she shook her head and said, "I'm not going."

"He can't rub his back by himself." Tianzao knew that his mother was waiting for his encouragement. "Then he will wear the new vest in one day and get dirty." The mother muttered, "I really owe him in the previous life", then sighed sweetly, dropped her clothes and went into the "bathroom".Tianzao first heard a burst of complaints from his mother, followed by reproaches that turned from cold to warm, and finally soft words in a low voice.Later, the soft words disappeared, and only the crisp sound of splashing water could be heard. This sound was so pleasant that Tianzao felt an itchy feeling in his heart, so he put a wooden board under his buttocks, and fell asleep with his head in his arms. .When he was about to fall asleep, he heard his clear water singing in the pot, and the pink cloud appeared in his mind.Tianzao fell asleep unconsciously.In his dream he saw a golden dragon bathing by the Milky Way.This dragon is very naughty. It often uses its tail to pat the water of the Milky Way, making a brilliant splash.Later, the dragon probably slapped Tianzao's head with its tail, and he felt a headache. When he opened his eyes, he found himself knocked on the stovetop.The water in the pot has already boiled, and the water vapor is curling up.The parents haven't come out yet, Tianzao doesn't understand why it takes so long to rub his back.He was just about to get up to urge him, when he suddenly found a very thin stream of water snake-like swimming toward him silently.He searched for it upstream and found that its source was in the "bathroom".There was a gentle murmur faintly like drizzle.Parents must be in the tub together for the water to swell and overflow.The water was still bubbling and flowing peacefully along the crack of the door. Tianzao heard the sound of grabbing the water, and at the same time heard the occasional tremor of the iron bathtub after being bumped. Tianzao blushed and hurriedly put on a cotton jacket and pushed away Go outside to look at the sky.

It was deep at night.The stars above his head seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him.Tianzao breathed in the cold air heavily, because he was afraid that the rising heat in his body would burn him.He really wanted to hum a nursery rhyme, but he couldn't recall any lyrics, and he didn't have Tianyun's talent to compose lyrics at will.Tianzao hummed the melody of a nursery rhyme and spun around in the yard while humming. The silent night made the melody extraordinarily moving, as if the sound of nature surrounded him.Tianzao was suddenly moved by him, he had never realized that his voice was so beautiful.He was almost on the verge of tears.At this time, the door creaked, followed by the mother's joyful voice: "Tianzao, it's your turn to wash it!"

Tianzao noticed that his parents' complexions were ruddy, and their eyes were both happy and shy, as if a cat just ate delicious food and was a little ashamed of its owner.They didn't dare to look at Tianzao, but they graciously helped Tianzao pour out the dirty water, and then cleaned the tub, pouring clean water into the tub. Tianzao closed the door, and after he took off his clothes, he turned off the light.He tiptoed barefoot to the window, gently opened the curtains, then turned back and slowly entered the bathtub.He entered his feet first, and the hot water made him feel refreshed, but he quickly got used to it, and then slowly sat down with his legs bent, feeling the gentle taste of the clear water sliding softly between his chest and abdomen.Tianzao's head was resting on the bathtub, he could see the rumbling night outside the window, and he could see the endless stars in the night.He felt that the star had flown into his window through the vast darkness and fell into the bathtub, exuding a fragrance like the light yellow saponins that he had learned in the text, ready to cleanse him of a year's dust.Tianzao felt that this basin of clear water was really wonderful, and he felt more relaxed and refreshed than ever before.He no longer hates the year that is coming to him. He thinks that on New Year's Eve, he must wear brand new clothes and light the pair of red lanterns with his own hands.Also, when I see Xiao Dawei again, he will tell him that my Tianzao is bathed in clean water, and that the starlight has also turned into saponins and sprinkled it in my basin of clean water.