A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, He Xiaoyun went to the mountains, but did not pick many wild vegetables, but found a bayberry tree that had no owner.
The wild bayberry is not big, only the size of a thumb finger. It is red and bright hanging on the branches, making people salivate when they look at it.
The shorter ones had already been picked off. She climbed up the tree and spotted the big, red one. She took it off and put it near her mouth after a few breaths, then impatiently put it in her mouth. The next second, Her face was pulled into a ball.
It was so sour.
No wonder there are still many fruits hanging on the tree, but if they taste better, it's not her turn to pick them up.
But anyway, it was the only fruit I had eaten these days. He Xiaoyun frowned and swallowed it whole. The red bayberry pit was not spit out. According to the old man, red bayberry is a hot fruit, and only when eaten together with the pit, will it not get angry.
She ate one and didn't dare to try again, but looking at the red fruit on the top of the tree, she couldn't bear to give up, and finally picked a bag and took it home.
Wang Chunhua was making zongzi. Although the Dragon Boat Festival was still a few days away, the high school in the commune was not closed that day. She was afraid that her younger son would not be able to eat zongzi, so she made them in advance. When Wei Jianhua came back in the afternoon, she brought some to school for him.
When He Xiaoyun stepped into the courtyard with bayberries in her hands, Wei Yuanhang was playing with mud by the small vegetable garden, Wei Yuanhang was pouting, and Wei Jianwei was chopping firewood in the yard and cooking rice dumplings for a while.
She rolled her eyes, walked towards Wei Jianwei with a smile, picked out a red bayberry from her pocket, and handed it to him, "Here."
Wei Jianwei stopped what he was doing, looked at Yangmei in front of him, and then at her smiling face, without moving for a moment.
Seeing this scene, Wei Yuanhang hurried over and asked curiously, "What is it? Mom, I want to eat too!"
He tugged at He Xiaoyun's sleeve, and stood on tiptoe to look.
Fearing that the little fat man would make things slip up, He Xiaoyun couldn't care less about anything else, and hurriedly stuffed the red bayberry into Wei Jianwei's mouth. She thought that the other party would not let her succeed, but he actually opened his mouth to take it.
She was surprised for a moment, but soon immersed in the anticipation of seeing him make a fool of himself. When he grinned sourly, see how he can still play tricks with an upright face all day long!
But she watched him chew a few mouthfuls and swallowed the bayberry, her expression didn't change at all.
"Eh?" He Xiaoyun frowned in confusion, looked at him, then at the red bayberry in her pocket, what's going on? Isn't his one sour? Could it be that she was unlucky and got sour
Wei Yuanhang shouted anxiously: "Mom is biased, I only give it to my father!"
He Xiaoyun was puzzled. Hearing this, she glanced at him, and said to herself that it was time to use him as an experiment again. This is what you asked for, little fat man. She cried sourly for a while, so don't blame her mother for being partial.
She picked the most popular one for Wei Yuanhang.
The child took it, quickly put it into his mouth, chewed it, the smile on his face disappeared, chewed it again, the little brows were tightly frowned, he didn't give up, chewed it again, his whole face was twisted, and finally he was willing Spit out the red bayberry, so sour that he yelled, "It's so unpalatable, so unpalatable!"
He Xiaoyun originally wanted to see Wei Jianwei's jokes, but she didn't expect to see his. Thinking of the child's dramatic expression changes just now, she couldn't stop laughing.
Wei Yuanhang's cry alarmed Wang Chunhua. She came out of the kitchen and saw her little grandson screaming and jumping with a blushing face, while the second daughter-in-law was laughing beside her, even the second son was smiling. .
She can't talk about her daughter-in-law, but she is not polite to her son at all, and immediately scolded: "How old are you, and you still lie to children, hurry up and finish chopping the firewood, I will use it soon!"
After speaking, he took Wei Yuanhang to the kitchen and stuffed him with a candied date.
He Xiaoyun suppressed a smile, and heard Wei Yuanhang pitifully complaining to his grandma, saying that his father was really bad, and it would be bitter not to tell him. She couldn't hold back her laughter, and she was afraid of being heard by Wang Chunhua, so she lowered her voice and said to Wei Jianwei: "Do you hear me, you are the worst, you can even lie to children."
Wei Jianwei can only bow down to this kind of backlash.
The remaining bayberries were washed by He Xiaoyun and placed on Wei Jianwei's table. The red fruit in the snow-white porcelain bowl is so beautiful, can't he eat it without changing his face? Then eat more.
Wei Yuanhang's young heart was traumatized, and he stayed by Wang Chunhua's side until after lunch, when he came to He Xiaoyun again.
"Mom, why is the little bug not moving?" He held the box of cabbage butterfly larvae.
He Xiaoyun observed carefully, and found that the worms in the box had grown a lot, and the color had also turned green. They were plump and fleshy. They looked a little creepy at first, but after a long time, they turned out to be weirdly cute.
"It's about to form a chrysalis, which is to build a small house to wrap itself up, and the bug will transform secretly inside, and it will fly out as a butterfly in a few days." She explained to the child.
Wei Yuanhang said: "Why did you secretly transform, can't we watch?"
"You can't look at it, it will make you shy and you won't be able to turn into a butterfly."
"Oh..." The child nodded half-understanding.
He Xiaoyun asked him to put the wooden box away and not to touch it for the next few days, just wait for the butterfly to fly out.
Today is Saturday, Wei Jianhua arrived home in the afternoon, Wei Yuanhang is very close to this little uncle, and will hang around him as soon as he comes back.
Wei Jianhua is also a child at heart. Sometimes he puts the child on his shoulders and walks around, and sometimes throws him to play. Wei Yuanhang's giggles can be heard all over the yard.
"Be careful, don't fall!" Wang Chunhua was not at ease.
Feng Qiuyue said with a smile: "Jianhua has a sense of propriety."
"It's strange for him to have it." Wang Chunhua said, thinking of the incident that the second son cheated on the grandson in the morning, he still couldn't help talking, "Jianwei is the same, he usually looks calm, but in fact he is childish. .”
He Xiaoyun stuck out her tongue quietly.
A few of them are picking soybeans, picking out the bad ones and those that have been eaten by moths, and soaking them overnight. Wang Chunhua plans to grind some tofu tomorrow.
After picking the beans, there was no other work for a while, so He Xiaoyun went back to her room to read a book.
No one except Wei Jianwei and Wei Yuanhang knew about the fact that she picked up the book again. Wei Jianwei is not a talkative person, and children don't understand at all. It is still a long time before the introduction of the policy of resuming the college entrance examination. He Xiaoyun doesn't want people to know her plan. Even if someone asks about it later, she can just say that she suddenly became interested in reading.
After a while, Wei Yuanhang ran in sweating profusely from playing, and leaned against He Xiaoyun, "Mom..."
He just called her and didn't say what he was going to do, he was tired and crooked.
She knew it was sleepiness, the child already slept a lot, he got up early in the morning, played around every day, and consumed a lot of energy, almost every afternoon he had to sleep for a while.
Finding a towel to wipe off the sweat on Wei Yuanhang's body, He Xiaoyun carried him to the bed, covered him with the quilt, and patted the quilt lightly with one hand.
Wei Yuanhang soon became sleepy and fell asleep in a daze.
He Xiaoyun was sitting by the bed flipping a book, Wei Jianwei was a little further away, sitting at the table, the early summer wind blowing in from the door, comfortable and peaceful.
The child suddenly uttered a few ravings in his sleep, He Xiaoyun listened attentively, and found that what he said was "so sour..."
She couldn't help turning her head to look at Wei Jianwei, and he happened to look over too, and the two looked at each other for a while, "Puff hahaha..."
He Xiaoyun couldn't help laughing again.
Wei Jianwei hooked the corners of his mouth, and there was a smile in his eyes.
"What's the second sister-in-law laughing at?" A head poked out from outside the door, and Wei Jianhua walked in, "Where's Xiaohang?"
"He just fell asleep." He Xiaoyun said with a smile.
Wei Jianhua said silently, and lowered his voice, "I just heard my second sister-in-law laughing, what's so funny?"
If only the second sister-in-law was smiling, he wouldn't be so curious, but the point is that the second elder brother was also laughing, so it would be strange.
It's okay if he didn't say anything, but when he mentioned it, He Xiaoyun wanted to laugh again, but she just said, "Ask your brother."
Wei Jianhua was secretly surprised, when did the second sister-in-law mention the second brother in such a pleasant manner? The last time he came back, he found that the atmosphere between the second brother and the second sister-in-law had changed a lot. He didn't expect that after a few days of absence, there would be progress again.
He had noticed it just now when he walked in. It seemed that once he came in, he became the most redundant person in the room. The second sister-in-law laughed, and the second brother also laughed, but he scratched his head curiously.
He couldn't help leaning towards Wei Jianwei and said, "Second brother, just tell me."
Wei Jianwei didn't look at him directly, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Wei Jianhua couldn't help curling his lips secretly, look at his ruthless second brother, look at the attitude of this pair of enemies, the autumn wind sweeps the fallen leaves, the difference in treatment is fine, the most hateful thing is that they don't hide it at all!
But he didn't dare to complain, and said honestly, "I'm here to borrow a book from you."
Wei Jianwei opened the drawer and asked him to find it by himself.
The book was quickly found, but Wei Jianhua was still reluctant to go out, dawdling, looking for something to say, "Second sister-in-law, what book are you reading?"
"Just take a look," He Xiaoyun said with a smile, "Last time I read a few books at your second brother's place. It's a good way to pass the time when you're bored."
Wei Jianhua didn't want to continue to express his surprise. The second sister-in-law, who was always very aggressive, actually read books like an educated youth, and the second brother who regarded that drawer of books as a treasure, even if he came to borrow one, could only borrow one at most. But let the second sister-in-law read the book casually, what's wrong with this world
He was cursing, when he looked up and saw the bowl of red bayberry on the table, his eyes lit up, "Where did the bayberry come from?"
"I just picked it from the mountain this morning." He Xiaoyun said.
"Shall I eat one?" Wei Jianhua's paws were ready to move.
He Xiaoyun was about to remind him that it was very sour, but Wei Jianwei nodded and said, "It tastes good."
After hearing this, Wei Jianhua didn't doubt it at all. He picked one up and threw it into his mouth. In an instant, his face wrinkled into dried pickles.
He Xiaoyun endured the smile very hard.
"Second brother, we are blood brothers, how could you be like this—" Wei Jianhua complained.
Wei Jianwei said mercilessly: "Keep your voice down."
Wei Jianhua felt particularly wronged.