Chapter 19 1928 Honest Man - Snow

——In Shuyuan's countryside, a story about you, Shuyuan, and Shuyuan's mother The weather turned unexpectedly.When we parted ways with Shuyuan in the evening, we made an appointment tomorrow morning to see the trap for catching wild raccoons in the oak forest. The straw sandals we used, and the weapons for hunting badgers with short spears, were all made the night before. It's all set up.Drilled into the new mountain tidbits and fell asleep.I also dreamed that the raccoon and rabbit bowed to me, and I was very happy.Because it is the latest habit, the head is covered by a quilt, I don't know how long it has been until dawn, and when I wake up with a person shaking it, I lift it up to be seen, and the room is already full of light.

Shuyuan stood in front of me and smiled. He hung up the curtain for me again and sat down by the bed. "Still awake!" "I pretended." "Pretending?" "That's only because your quilt is too warm. Because I come here to sleep with Kazumo, I often have to guard against his sudden kick in the middle of the night. And I have to take care of the quilt for him so that he doesn't catch a cold. It's never better than last night. So the first time a person came to this comfortable place to sleep, he naturally forgot to wake up." "My mother was afraid that you would be cold at night, and there is still a blanket on the head of the bed, don't you see that?"

"Then after I slept, you came here!" "You are already snoring when you come here, mother won't let me disturb you, I put the blanket on your feet, and then I went to sleep." Because it was a paper window, I didn't know what was going on outside. I thought it was the big yellow sun, and the time was too late to see if the raccoon could not go. I regretted that I woke up too late, and blamed my uncle for not urging me to wake up earlier. "Why, how long has it been snowing! I just came from the old house, and there is always five or six inches of snow in the yard, and the tiles are all white, don't you know?"

"Luoxue?" "Open the window for you to see." Shuyuan went to the window and opened the two windows~+, "It's still a big fall, it will be a foot, it's really interesting." Shuyuan thought I was afraid of the cold, so he closed the window again.I said no, it was snowing, but it wasn't very cold.So just leave it open. The snow fell very lively, like butterfly moths of different sizes flying and swirling. The charcoal fire in the low-legged brazier in the room was blazing with sparks, Shu Yuan hooked himself down by the side of the pot and stirred it all up with the fire chopsticks.

"I think I've got to get up." "No, it's very early. Today our organs must have been buried in the snow and are useless, so we won't go to see them. Stay for a while, let's go outside for a walk in the snow." It was funny when I saw the two arms leaning against the bed.I fully thought that with this weapon this morning, I could go to the oak forest in Shuyuan to fight that wild beast with a mechanism! I asked Shuyuan, "If it's snowing, isn't it just in the snow when we see Mr. Magar hunting foxes?" "That's in the books, and it's Russia. My God, you may have dreamed that poor Makar catching a fox last night in order to catch a fox!"

I felt a little shy when I heard Shuyuan's words.I have never seen a live raccoon struggling under a tree.It’s just from that book that I clearly have dreamed many times of the fox’s bright eyes shining in the forest. Shuyuan simmered a large handful of chestnuts in the hot ashes of the charcoal basin, and I said I had to rinse my mouth before eating. "He's really from the city." Shuyuan teased me because I was used to eating after washing my face, just as I teased him in many places with the words "what a countryman." Because if you don't let me get up, I won't get up. It was delivered to the bed in a bamboo tube, and I leaned on the pillow to grab and peel chestnuts to eat. Shu Yuan still sat on the bed.

"Let me tell you, country bumpkins are also very useful in some places. If my mother didn't say that I would fry quail for you today, we could still roast pig intestines on the fire at this time of year." "I couldn't make fun of country folks after that. It's such a blessing here." "It's really fun if you can live until spring! We can go to the fields with Changnian to plow the fields and eat cold rice with sauerkraut. (It's more fun to eat wild firewood and roast birds than you in the city.) We went fishing for a while. Don’t look down on our creek, the fish on the dam in front of my water mill, one weighs three catties, don’t you believe it.”

I said, "It's much better even in winter. It goes without saying that it's better than the city and school." "But I don't understand that my elder brother always prefers to live in the city. My mother said that this is probably because of my sister-in-law's interest. I thought my brother missed the city more than my sister-in-law." As for Shuyuan's elder brother's fun, I don't understand more than Shuyuan, so I won't talk about it. I leave it to myself to explain the reasons for my interest in both urban and rural areas.I was afraid to come here before.I always thought that almost every day I had to go to the noodle restaurant with a few friends to drink baijiu, and then came back to the camp to play poker at Shilunzhuang. Once I arrived in the countryside, I would get sick even if I could barely stay!Besides, it is four hundred miles away from here to where I live, and in this ten winter and twelfth lunar month weather, I have to wrap my feet in brown clothes and walk the road for five or six days, and it will not take two months at most to leave the camp on leave. Not very cost-effective!However, I couldn't stand the two brothers Shuyuan's procrastination, and because of Shuyuan, he encouraged me with many good things in the countryside that I wanted, so I came to this place.After arriving in this country, I have gnawed on the beauty of a country, and everything can surprise me in a strange situation.And I am able to appreciate in detail the things that are in my interest that I have never thought of before. From a simple organization, I find this simple beauty.I just felt that although I grew up in the countryside, I have been away for too long. All my impressions of the countryside have already melted into the impression of the city.When I came here, the mother of the two brothers, Shuyuan, treated me as a son who came back from afar. The motherly care that came from the heart of a rich and kind country old lady only made me feel like I could come here. A tendency to live forever.I think I have had a really lucky year this winter.

Seeing what I was thinking, Uncle Yuan laughed to himself, so he asked me why I was laughing. "I think I've had a very comfortable year this year. To come here, your mother must be lucky enough to treat me. If I'm so lucky, I'll laugh." "Mother was afraid that you would feel lonely because Yimao went to the city, so she secretly taught me to sue my elder brother, and sent someone to bring Yimao here as soon as I was in my teens." one Mao is the son of Brother Shuyuan.A sweet, sturdy nine-year-old.So smart that people just want to pinch his face lightly.Because brother Shuyuan lives in a county town forty-five miles away, I left him to play with me.Before Yimao came to the city, I slept in the same bed as Mao.During the day, Uncle Mao and I ran around like wild cats.As usual, Yimao lived in the countryside soon and had to go to the city to live with his mother and father for a while, so he was taken into the city yesterday.Now when I hear Shuyuan say that it's his mother and still ask Yimao to come sooner, I think I'm very disturbed because I come here and separate mother and child.

I said, "Please write a letter to your elder brother for me, so that Yimao can stay in the city for a long time, and don't let the sister-in-law complain about your elder brother, saying that a visitor came from a long way to separate their mother and child!" Shuyuan smiled and shook his head, saying that would not work.Yimao didn't want to go to the city because of you.You still have to study "Liao Zhai" for him this year! I think because of this good boy Kazushige, even if I feel uneasy, I have to stay in this village for one more month. one We ate up the chestnuts in bamboo tubes before we knew it.Looking at the window, there is still more snow.Shuyuan was afraid that I would be cold when I woke up, so I added two pieces of charcoal.

After eating the chestnuts, of course I have to get up, get up and grab my cotton-padded jacket. "That won't work." Shu Yuan turned around and took my clothes hanging on the bed frame far away, "It's very early, don't you listen to the sound of someone selling cakes with clappers? If the cake seller doesn't come, I won't let you get up.The charcoal is added, let it burn well and then get up. " "We can go outside to play." Seeing the snow, I really panicked. "That's a lot of time. Let me get some more guys to eat. I'll come, you are not allowed to get up, or I won't agree." So Shuyuan walked out.The sound of his footsteps rustling in the snow faded away.First, I followed his instructions and slept on my side, watching the snowflakes fluttering outside the window.Wait a while, Shuyuan hasn't come yet.The snow is like falling even bigger.Hearing the sound of the woman next door opening the door to the surprise of the snow, the sound of the snow falling from the branches behind the house, and the crowing of the rooster in the distance, asking me to sleep peacefully and enjoy the blessings of the quilt like this, is it true? Impossible. The newly added white charcoal in the brazier was scorched by other hot charcoal, peeling and popping, as if urging me, I decided to get up. However, when I heard the sound of skateboards treading snow on the far side of the yard, and it was closer to the house where I lived, I was afraid that Shu Yuan would shake his temper, so he would still sleep on the bed in a normal manner.The sound stopped outside the curtain.After a while, I didn't make a sound, only my breathing was slightly heavy due to the invasion of cold air. I said, "Shuyuan, I heard your footsteps, why did it take you so long?" However, when the curtain was lifted, it was a woman, Shu Yuan's mother.I laughed, and got up in a hurry, the old lady stopped me with her hands, and as soon as the old man entered the room, she used her hands to flick the snow on the blue cloth head. "I thought you hadn't woken up. I'm afraid they forgot to add charcoal to the pot for you, and you would catch cold when you got up. Let's take a look. Did you sleep well last night?" "Thank you, aunt, I slept very well that night. Before I woke up, I didn't know it was snowing." "I didn't think so either." Seeing that the window wasn't closed, the old lady thought she had forgotten it last night, "How come Shu Yuan also forgot to close the window at night!" "No, it was opened just now, and the snow fell, so it's not cold." "It's really not cold at all. Look at me, an elderly person, I can't bear the big fur coat. It's because of aging, and it's also the change of the weather, ha." By the time the old aunt came to the side of the charcoal basin to pinch and bake the chestnuts, the old lady had already seen the chestnuts we ate, and the chestnut shells peeled to the side of the underground basin.The old lady laughed.I remembered what Shuyuan said, mother is not allowed to take something to eat until morning, I was worried that Shuyuan would not know his mother was here at this time, just happened to come in happily with a bunch of fruits at this time, and there was no way to get up and stop Uncle Yuan, I'm in a hurry. Shuyuan's mother seemed to see my expression.He smiled and said as if explaining: "I have seen Shuyuan, and I am holding a lot of Batong bacon. I know he brought it here. When the kid sees me, I leave. I told him that we will cook for breakfast today." Spicy quail, you are not allowed to eat other snacks, this kid lied to me again! It doesn’t matter if the chestnuts are cooked, but it’s not good if you eat too much like us old people. Are you hungry at this time and want to eat cakes? I can help you Burn a few and bring them." When the old lady said this with a smile, I was so embarrassed and terrified!Obviously Shuyuan told me that there were quails for breakfast, and my mother told us not to eat anything else, but I tried my best to go to Shuyuan to eat roasted chestnuts.And if Shuyuan brought the cake at this time, even if he put the cake on the fire and roasted it until it turned yellow, and wrapped it with pork, I would never refuse, and I would have to eat at least three more.Wait a while, and I can't eat any more for breakfast. Isn't this deliberately arguing with the old man?However, the stolen evidence of chestnuts that the two of them secretly ate were all on the floor, and they argued that they had never eaten them, but just peeled them and burned them for fun. Of course, this is not the truth.Although fortunately I only ate a few chestnuts, and I didn’t even eat the cake, but even if I didn’t eat it, it was still known to the old people. At this time, I really hated my uncle for being unfilial.We thought that the ghost was clever and recited what the old aunt did, but she knew it all.I can see from her eyes that she believes that I at least sympathize with Shuyuan's bacon, and comforts me, if you want to eat, you can burn some for me, and I'm ashamed to say that it's okay to eat? I promised her: "No, I don't want to eat it." I was calculating in my mind, "If I don't eat two extra bowls of chestnuts for breakfast today to show that I don't eat much chestnuts, I really don't deserve to be treated here. gone." Seeing my coy look, she was afraid that I would feel bad because of it, so she moved the conversation to another matter, talking about the situation of beating white cotton in the snow. "You don't know that Baimian thing, it's very cunning. After climbing up the tree, seeing a dog at the root of the tree, you can't get down from the tree. At this time, there are always many chances to get this thing. I want Liao Qi to go to the village to ask , if someone beats you evenly, I will make white steamed meat for you and Shuyuan, and you can mix it with millet if you like. Can't get it!" If I have white steamed pork for dinner today, I think I will have to eat a little less after lunch, so as to atone for all my sins in terms of appetite. Hearing the sound of someone kicking the snow in the yard, I concluded that it was really Shuyuan, and the old lady heard it too, so she looked out the window. "I'm not afraid of the cold. You can see that your hands are red from the cold, why don't you come to bake them!" Shuyuan immediately entered the room with a snowflake all over his body.Because his mother was looking away, I raised my eyes and told him that the old man had found out about the chestnut. Shuyuan pretended not to care, walked closer to the stove, and said, "Mother, I thought the chestnuts in the brown bags hanging under the eaves were not dry, but they are so sweet." "If you forget your mother again, you will eat roasted chestnuts with Congwen." "Not many, just a few." Mother looked at the empty shells on the ground, and when she heard the words of "a few", she pursed her lips and smiled in disbelief.I also had to laugh. Shuyuan sat by the fire and repeatedly roasted those swollen fingers that looked like small carrots, and Mother felt sorry for them and pinched them in his warm palms.As soon as Shuyuan came in front of his mother, he was at least five years younger, so innocent that he was not much different from Yimao. I must get up.Shuyuan said that he was going to the East Courtyard to ask someone to bring washing water, so his mother said to let her go and call, and mother left. I stood on the bed, buttoned my clothes and said, "Let me ask you, what cakes and bacon did you take?" Shuyuan shook his head, knowing that my mother had already sued me.Yet a sly smile. "Why? What else is there?" I saw that there must be stolen goods on Shuyuan's body. "Look," as expected, Shu Yuan grabbed seven or eight snow-jujube blanks from his pocket, "I've got something small, sir, it's still possible!" Then Shuyuan said that it was just because she was too kind, so some places were really naughty that shouldn't be. "Also! You are so unfilial!" Before the wash water came, the two of us shared the things we had scooped up in the ashes and ate them equally. Made in October 1927