Although she thought the term "dating" was awkward, He Xiaoyun was kicked out of the house after dinner that day.
The sun has just set, and half of the sky is covered with crimson clouds. Although the weather is hot during the day, it is cool in the morning and evening. The evening wind blows through the paddy fields, and the seedlings in the fields gargle.
Wei Yuanhang skipped and walked ahead. He couldn't bear it at home just now and kept urging him. He Xiaoyun had to take him and Wei Jianwei to go first. Feng Qiuyue hadn't finished packing and fell behind.
Wei Jianwei was holding a long bench in his hand, and his family of three could sit on one bench. Those who went to the movies had to bring their own chairs.
"Mom, Dad, hurry up!" The child ran for a while, and when he turned around and saw that his parents were still slow, he couldn't help urging.
He Xiaoyun took two quick steps and said, "Don't run around, you'll be sweating again later, come here and I'll hold you."
Wei Yuanhang snorted, ran over to hold her, and within a few steps, held Wei Jianwei with the other hand and said, "Mom, I want Feifei!"
"No Feifei." He Xiaoyun refused without thinking. She just took a shower and didn't want to sweat profusely.
The little boy was not discouraged, let go of her hand, turned around and hugged Wei Jianwei's leg, raised his head and said, "Hug, Dad."
He was very shrewd, knowing that his mother said no, it was no good, and he didn't bother him, so he went directly to torture his father.
Wei Jianwei held the stool with one hand, and was about to reach out to hug him with the other, but He Xiaoyun said, "I didn't hug him either."
Wei Jianwei stopped and looked up at her.
He Xiaoyun looked back and asked: "He said he wanted to hug him now, so you should hug him and make it a habit. Next time you are not here, who will hug him?"
Regarding the education of children, Wei Jianwei naturally lost the right to speak because he was not at home all year round. He could only obediently obey He Xiaoyun's words.
Seeing that his father was unreliable, Wei Yuanhang pouted his mouth high.
He Xiaoyun held him again, pointed at the other children on the road, and said in a slow tone: "Look, other people walk by themselves. Is Hanghang lazier than them?"
Children don't want to listen to this aggressive method, and immediately say: "I'm not a slob!"
"That's right, Hanghang will walk by itself, not a slob, right?"
Wei Yuanhang nodded vigorously, with his small chest puffed out, and he walked with arrogance.
When we arrived at the threshing floor, the movie screen had already been set up, and there were already four or five rows of people near the screen. They arrived neither too early nor too late, and sat in the middle.
There are more and more people, almost half of the brigade is here, and there are also people from other teams. He Xiaoyun took a few glances, and found that most of the people from other teams were young people, and they seemed to be on a blind date. Several young girls gathered together, pointing at the boys on the other side, whispering something, from time to time Let out a few laughs.
In the row in front of them, there were two women sitting. After she sat down, she turned around and took a few glances.
She thought about it, and found out that she had some quarrel with the original owner in the past. The original owner has a bad personality and doesn't get along with many people. It's just that during this time, apart from working and going back to her mother's house, she didn't go out much, and she didn't meet. Today, a movie, no matter who you want to see or don't want to see, will gather together. One piece.
"Yo, isn't that Teacher Zhang?" One of the two women said suddenly, with a loud voice, as if she was speaking to someone deliberately.
He Xiaoyun looked up and found that several educated youths in the team were not far away. The teacher Zhang they were talking about, Wei Jianhua mentioned earlier, was the Zhang Yurong who had a blind date with Wei Jianwei. The behavior of the original owner forcibly relying on the Wei family made the whole brigade know that even Zhang Yurong was in trouble, and became the target of gossip for no reason, saying that she was robbed of her man by the original owner.
Another woman echoed: "It's Teacher Zhang. If you ask me, Teacher Zhang is a good-looking person with a kind heart. It's a pity that he hasn't married yet."
"Isn't that right? At first I thought she could succeed, but who would have thought that she would be robbed by others." The two said, looking at He Xiaoyun from the corners of their eyes.
He Xiaoyun pretended not to hear, she glanced at Wei Jianwei, he was giving candy to Wei Yuanhang, when he noticed her gaze, he also handed her one, "Do you want to eat?"
She didn't want it at first, but when she thought that someone was staring at it, she took it on purpose, peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into her mouth, her cheeks puffed up.
"Mom also eats sweets." Sitting between the two of them, Wei Yuanhang looked at her in surprise. In his impression, adults do not eat sugar, only children eat it.
"Yes, I also eat candy." He Xiaoyun lowered her head and scratched his cheeks, "After eating this one, don't eat any more at night, or you will lose all your teeth."
Hearing this, the child quickly covered his mouth and mumbled, "I don't want all my teeth to fall out!"
He thought that there was still candy in Wei Jianwei's pocket, so he quickly turned his head and said to him generously: "Dad eats candy, I won't eat it."
"You are the only one who is clever." He Xiaoyun couldn't help laughing. The few gossips she heard just now were forgotten by her in a blink of an eye.
Wei Yuanhang was still teasing Wei Jianwei to eat candy, "Dad, eat one, one for dad, one for mom, and one for me."
He stretched out a fleshy palm, counting on his fingers while talking, and somehow became happy, clapping his hands and saying happily: "Let's eat candy together!"
He Xiaoyun wanted to see Wei Jianwei's funny face with sugar in his mouth, his cheeks puffed out, so he followed the child's words: "Just eat it, and make your son happy."
"To make him happy, or to make you happy?" Wei Jianwei looked at her with slightly raised eyebrows.
He Xiaoyun cut it, pretending to be indifferent, "You eat candy, why am I happy?"
"Father, eat quickly..." Wei Yuanhang urged repeatedly.
Wei Jianwei looked at the two of them, and finally ate it. He peeled off the candy wrapper, stuffed the candy into his mouth, and pressed it on his tongue, so the funny scene that He Xiaoyun expected did not appear.
Unwilling to give up, she lowered her head to coax Wei Yuanhang, "Have you seen Dad's candy, Hanghang? Why didn't you see it?"
The child stared at his father's mouth, but he didn't find any trace of the candy, so he let out a cry, "Did Dad swallow the candy?"
"I don't know, go and touch his face to see."
Whatever mother said, Wei Yuanhang stretched out a chubby finger obediently, and poked on one side of his father's face, poking on that side, curiously said: "Dad, where's Tangtang? You can't swallow it, Dad hurry up!" Spit it out."
As he spoke, he was about to open his father's mouth with his hands.
Wei Jianwei didn't bother him much, so he had to show the sugar to him for a look.
The little fat man saw that his father was not moving with sugar in his mouth, and thought he didn't know how to eat, so he taught him like an adult, "You can't be like that, you have to be like this..."
As he spoke, he opened his mouth, revealing the sticky ball of sugar in his mouth, and pushed it with his little tongue, making his cheeks more prominent.
Wei Jianwei looked at him, and then at He Xiaoyun. The mother and son looked at him with puffy cheeks and round eyes, like two frogs, one big and one small.
Finally, he also moved his tongue, pushed the candy to the side of his mouth, and puffed up his cheeks.
"That's it, Dad is so smart!" Little Pang Duner clapped his hands to encourage him.
He Xiaoyun held back her laughter, turned her eyes quickly, and turned back after a few seconds, staring at his rare and funny appearance, regretting that she didn't have a camera at hand, otherwise she could have photographed it and hung it on the wall for later appreciation.
The three of them enjoyed themselves happily, and the two who had been gossiping earlier stopped talking in spite of themselves.
This scene also fell into the eyes of Zhang Yurong and others farther away. A little girl beside her said, "Sister Yurong, look over there."
Zhang Yurong looked over, the expression on his face didn't change, and he turned back again.
The little girl was a bit annoyed, and said: "What are you looking for, you didn't snatch it from someone else."
"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Yurong stopped her.
The little girl pouted reluctantly.
As the sky gradually darkened, He Xiaoyun saw that Feng Qiuyue and Wei Jianguo had also arrived at the threshing ground, but because they arrived late, they were in the back row, some distance away from them.
Everyone was buzzing and talking, and after waiting for a while, the movie finally started. Tonight, it was an old military-themed movie. Many people had already watched it, but they still enjoyed it. They turned their heads from time to time to reveal to others The plot of the.
Wei Yuanhang sat on the chair, because he was short, stretched his neck, but was still blocked by the person in front of him. He could only hear the sound but not see the picture. He was so anxious that he said, "Mom, I can't see."
He wanted to get up and stand on the bench, but He Xiaoyun was afraid that he would not be able to stand stably and that he would block others, so she carried him and sat on her lap. The child settled down and focused on watching for a while.
Not long after watching, someone came over and asked her, "Xiaoyun, can you sit on another stool?"
She turned her head and saw that it was someone she knew from the team. She probably came to watch a movie on a temporary basis and didn't bring a chair. Seeing that there was an empty space between her and Wei Jianwei, that's why she came to ask.
Someone wanted to borrow a seat, and she happened to have it, so He Xiaoyun had to hold Wei Yuanhang and moved to the middle.
"Thank you." The man sat down, greeted her a few times, and then turned to watch the movie.
The other party was a bit fat, and it was fine for their family of three to sit on this bench. After all, Wei Yuanhang didn't take up much space, and it was a bit cramped when there were three adults sitting on it.
He Xiaoyun felt the side of her leg pressed tightly against Wei Jianwei's thigh. The clothes she was wearing were thin, and his body temperature was continuously transmitted from the place where the two of them touched, which made her uncomfortable for a while.
She couldn't help muttering in her heart, saying that a normal person's body temperature is about thirty-seven degrees Celsius, why is he like a stove, so people can't ignore it even if they want to
The content of the movie wasn't really interesting, and Wei Yuanhang soon couldn't sit still, twisting and turning on her lap.
He Xiaoyun was very lucky to have him here, otherwise she would feel even more embarrassed. Seeing that the child wanted to slip down to play, she coaxed: "I can't go to play, it's dark everywhere you see, if you fall down, mother can't find you what to do?"
It was completely dark, and a small area in front of the movie screen was lit up, making the surroundings even darker. The child looked around, and it was really as dark as his mother said. He didn't dare to go alone, so he had to say: " okay then… "
"Sit for a while, and we'll go home, okay?" He Xiaoyun coaxed.
Wei Yuanhang nodded, playing with her hands boredly, and soon thought of a new way to play, climbing from her lap to Wei Jianwei's lap, before sitting still, crawling back from him, using parents' legs as a cushion , had a great time.
He Xiaoyun got a little impatient at being tormented by him, patted her butt and butt lightly, and said, "Be quiet."
The child pouted, and stretched out his hand to Wei Jianwei to hug, "Daddy hug."
Wei Jianwei didn't move, but first glanced at He Xiaoyun.
She snorted softly, "Look what I'm doing, your son wants you to hug him, why don't you hug him quickly?"
That's not what she said when the child asked him to hug her and he was about to reach out.
Wei Jianwei thought a little helplessly, and carried the child over.
The little fat man got into his father's arms and turned his head to the other side as if angry with his mother.
He Xiaoyun ignored him, raised her head and concentrated on watching the movie, and got used to the heat next to her.
After a while, she realized that Wei Yuanhang hadn't moved for a long time, so she turned her head to look.
"Asleep." Wei Jianwei said.
He Xiaoyun touched the child's head and said, "Little troublemaker."
She said to Wei Jianwei again: "Shall we go back?"
He nodded.
He Xiaoyun said to the people next to her: "Auntie, we have to go back first, the child is asleep, I leave this stool to you."
The other party looked at it and said, "That's fine, I'll return it to you tomorrow."
Wei Jianwei hugged the child, and the two got up and left. He Xiaoyun also gestured to Feng Qiuyue, signaling them to go first, and then left.
Before going out, she brought a flashlight, and a small piece of light fell in front of them.
The night was quiet, only the little bugs in the grass were screaming happily. He Xiaoyun turned her head and saw two long shadows behind her, following them all the way.
The next day, when Wei Yuanhang woke up, he had already forgotten about being angry with his mother the night before. He walked up and down beside He Xiaoyun, and his mother kept yelling.
Naturally, He Xiaoyun would not argue with him. After breakfast, she went back to her room and changed her clothes, ready to go up the mountain.
"Going to the mountain?" Wei Jianwei walked in from the outside.
"Well, go pick some tea."
She packed it up, went to the kitchen to get a pannier, and made an agreement with Wei Yuanhang to let him follow grandma obediently and not be naughty before going out.
As soon as he walked to the yard, he saw Wei Jianwei wearing a bamboo hat and waiting there with a hatchet.
"Are you going to chop wood?" He Xiaoyun asked him.
He nodded.
The two went along the way and went up the mountain together.
There are not many tea trees on the mountain, but if you find them, you can drink them for half a year if you dry them once.
After walking for half an hour, I found a plant halfway up the mountain. He Xiaoyun stopped, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said to Wei Jianwei, "You go ahead first, and I'll finish picking the ones here."
A lot of land at the foot of the mountain and on the side of the mountain has been reclaimed into terraced fields with few trees. What Wei Jianwei is looking for is dead trees, which can only be found at the top of the mountain.
He raised his eyes, pointed to a small forest near the top of the mountain, and said, "I'm in that forest."
"Well, you go." He Xiaoyun said, although there are no people on the mountain now, but there are no wild animals either. She stays alone and doesn't feel afraid.
Wei Jianwei looked around before heading to the top of the mountain.
The wild tea tree was not repaired, and it grew as tall as a person. He Xiaoyun stood on tiptoe, pulled the tea tree branch down with one hand, and quickly picked off the young leaves with the other hand, accumulated a small handful in the palm of her hand, and threw it into the basket behind her inside.
After picking a tea plant, it only filled a few centimeters of the bottom of the basket. She searched around while continuing to walk, and found some wild vegetables such as purslane and fungus.
Wei Jianwei was almost at the grove. When she looked over, she could only see a small figure. Seeing that the other party seemed to be looking over, He Xiaoyun waved at him, and then buried herself in looking for tea trees and wild vegetables.
They climbed the mountain early in the morning, and He Xiaoyun's back basket was only filled when the sun was almost overhead, and she also picked from the mountainside all the way to the top of the mountain.
She found a shade and stopped, put down the basket, sat on the tree stump, took out the kettle and took two sips of water, half of the heat was gone, and the mountain wind was blowing head-on, cool and pleasant, dispelling the remaining heat I also took it away, leaving only Shu Shuang.
Wei Jianwei was not far away. He had already cut down two dead fir trees, trimmed and cut off the branches, and then cut them into sections.
"It's almost noon, shall we go back?" He Xiaoyun asked him after resting enough.
Wei Jianwei responded, and tied several pieces of wood with rattan.
Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something, and said to He Xiaoyun, "Come and see."
"What?" She walked over curiously.
He kept his back to her, and when someone approached, he suddenly turned around, holding a snake in his hand.
"Ah!" He Xiaoyun backed away in fright, and stepped into the puddle formed by the mountain spring, her shoes and trousers were soaked.
With a smile in his eyes, Wei Jianwei slowly revealed the whole picture of the "snake". It turned out to be a cane, but one end resembled a snake's head.
He Xiaoyun's face was pale, and her chest heaved violently.
Unexpectedly, she had such a big reaction, Wei Jianwei held back his smile, and was about to step forward, when she stood up, turned around and returned to the place where she was resting just now, picked up the basket and left.
All the way down the mountain, she walked quickly and hurriedly without saying a word. When she got home, she saw Wang Chunhua sitting at the door, called her mother, put down the basket and went back to the room.
Seeing that her expression was not quite right, Wang Chunhua said to Feng Qiuyue, "What's the matter?"
Feng Qiuyue shook her head, "Are you hungry?"
Wang Chunhua shouted into the room: "Xiaoyun, pack up and go out to eat!"
"Mom, you eat first." He Xiaoyun replied in the room.
Wang Chunhua and Feng Qiuyue carefully identified her voice, and lowered their voices to discuss: "Did you cry?"
"Probably not, but it sounds a bit muffled nasal."
"It's fine to go out in the morning."
"Why hasn't Jianwei come back yet?" Feng Qiuyue said.
Wang Chunhua immediately said: "Could it be that he made people angry?"
Just as he was talking, Wei Jianwei came in carrying a bundle of wood, and before he put it down, Wang Chunhua asked, "What's wrong with Xiaoyun? Did you quarrel with her?"
"boom-"
Wei Jianwei unloaded the firewood on the ground, glanced in the direction of the room, and frowned slightly.
"You said it." Wang Chunhua pressed.
Wei Jianwei bent down to untie the cane from the wood, and handed it to Wang Chunhua, "She was scared."
The rattan really looked like a snake. Wang Chunhua was startled when she saw it, and asked her son with wide eyes, "Are you scaring Xiaoyun with this?"
Seeing him tacitly acquiescing, she was angry and funny.
Her son has been a good boy since he was a child, so he doesn't need others to worry about him. He didn't touch any of the boys in his teens who sneaked around, didn't do their job properly, and teased girls all day long. As a result, when he was 28 years old, he was almost 30 years old, and even the children were running around, so he started to tease him The daughter-in-law played and made people angry, really promising!
Feng Qiuyue also thought it was funny, she really didn't expect her second brother to do such a thing in private while looking serious, she said with a smile: "Xiaoyun is probably angry for a while, just wait, mom don't worry .”
Wang Chunhua probably did the same, but she still said to Wei Jianwei: "Go and coax your daughter-in-law out to eat, if she doesn't eat, then don't eat."
He Xiaoyun had already taken a shower in the room, changed into clean clothes, and was combing her hair in front of the mirror. When Wei Jianwei came in, she didn't even give him the corner of her eyes.
She was really scared before. She grew up in the mountains and was used to seeing all kinds of small insects and animals. He Xiaoyun is not afraid of anything else, except snakes. Because she was bitten when she was a child, her family did not pay attention to it and did not take any measures. Measures, her ankle was swollen for more than a month. During that time, she was afraid that she would become crippled in the future. Even if she gradually recovered, the shadow left by the snake has continued to this day.
Others don't know about this matter, maybe Wei Jianwei didn't want to scare her too much, it wasn't his intention, but she just doesn't want to talk to him now.
Between the two of them, she has always been the one who talks a lot. Now that she doesn't speak, the atmosphere is a little stagnant.
"Mom, it's time to eat!" Wei Yuanhang ran in thumping.
He Xiaoyun just finished brushing her hair, washed her hands in the basin, and led him outside, "Let's go."
The child passed by his father, raised his head and said, "Don't you eat, Daddy?"
Before Wei Jianwei could answer, he was led out of the room by his mother.
In the main room, the food had already been served, Wang Chunhua saw that He Xiaoyun's face was normal, and thought the matter was over, so she didn't mention it again.
At the dinner table, He Xiaoyun served Wei Yuanhang with food as usual, listened to the children muttering while eating, mentioned to Wang Chunhua what they had harvested on the mountain today, and talked with Feng Qiuyue about last night's movie, but did not take a look at Wei Jianwei.
After eating, she spread out the picked tea leaves to dry in the sun, sorted several kinds of wild vegetables and put them away, chatted with her family for a while, and then went back to her room.
Wei Yuanhang was going to take a nap as usual, and He Xiaoyun leaned on the bedside and read a book for a while, then also yawned.
"I was wrong in the morning."
Wei Jianwei had been on the other side of the room, and there was no movement for a long time, when he suddenly said this.
He probably rarely apologized to others, and his tone was always stiff.
He Xiaoyun let out a cry, a little bit unable to resist the drowsiness, so she simply lay down and fell asleep.
Looking at the back of her lying on her side, Wei Jianwei's "Chuan" in the center of his brow deepened again.
Oh what do you mean
She is still angry? Still not angry
He held the book, and for the first time, he didn't read a single word.
Last time, the three of He Xiaoyun went to the county town and bought some fabrics for the children. In the afternoon, Feng Qiuyue was about to start making clothes, and He Xiaoyun helped them measure the fabrics and discuss styles. Wang Chunhua was their adviser.
"The small lapel I saw in the store last time, I think it looks pretty." Feng Qiuyue said.
He Xiaoyun joked: "Anyway, I'm clumsy, so I can only rely on my sister-in-law. I think whatever my sister-in-law makes looks good."
"Look at this sycophant," Wang Chunhua said with a smile, "Qiuyue, make her an old man's dress, and see if she can still praise her with her eyes closed."
"As long as my sister-in-law does it, I will still praise it."
Feng Qiuyue smiled and waved her hands, "I don't dare, when Xiaohang sees that the clothes don't like or are unhappy, Mom will feel distressed again."
"That's right," He Xiaoyun teased, "Mom loves me more than I do."
Wang Chunhua nodded to the two of them and shook her head with a smile.
In the evening, He Xiaoyun took back the clothes that were drying outside to her room. The cloth shoes she wore on the mountain today found that the soles of the shoes were open when she was washing them. The soles are sewn stitch by stitch.
Wei Yuanhang played with Wei Jianwei for a while, then ran to her side, He Xiaoyun told him not to get too close, "I have a needle here, you go to bed and play."
The younger one walked away, and the older one came over again, "Still angry?"
Without raising her head, He Xiaoyun said, "Angry? Why am I angry? I'm not angry at all, I'm very happy."
He didn't even look at him, and said he wasn't angry.
Wei Jianwei had a bit of a headache. He had no experience in coaxing people, but he was good at scaring her to tears.
Wei Yuanhang played alone for a while, and when he looked up and saw his father standing beside his mother, he immediately said, "Mom has a needle, so father can't be there."
The child is also domineering. He himself is not allowed to play with his mother, and naturally he refuses to let his father stand there. He has to get out of the way. Seeing that Wei Jianwei didn't move, he kept saying, "Go away, daddy!" drive away!"
Only then did He Xiaoyun raise her head, and said, "Do you hear me, go away, or I'll stab you with a needle."
She raised the needle and performed the classic movements of Rongmao.
Looking at the big and the young, Wei Jianwei felt that he had become a class enemy and would be overthrown by the two of them in the next second.
He was depressed, but He Xiaoyun was secretly happy.
She has calmed down about what happened at noon, but it's rare to see Wei Jianwei suffocated, so she naturally wants to clean up the bad things he did during this time, and let him also feel aggrieved, hmph.
That night, she slept very soundly. When Wei Jianwei was not in the room in the morning, He Xiaoyun didn't notice. Later, no one was seen at the dinner table, so she heard Wang Chunhua say that he had gone to the county to do business.
The tea leaves picked yesterday were left to dry for an afternoon and then for another night. Today, Wang Chunhua kneaded them to extract the juice and continued to dry them.
The yard was filled with the smell of tea, He Xiaoyun was sitting at the door, tidying up the cloth strips left over from making clothes, and Aunt Zhang next door came to visit, chatting with Wang Chunhua about the recent team affairs.
"Jianming's wife gave birth in the middle of the night last night, a girl."
"Is the production going well?"
"It went smoothly, and it came down within an hour or two. Her first child was a son. The family was happy regardless of whether the child was male or female."
Wang Chunhua said: "I should be happy."
Aunt Zhang glanced at Feng Qiuyue's stomach, and said with a smile, "Do you think everyone looks like you? I said Qiuyue and Xiaoyun are very lucky. How many people can't envy you to meet such a good mother-in-law."
He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue both smiled.
In the afternoon, He Xiaoyun still went back to her room to read a book for a while, looked at it, leaned against the head of the bed and fell asleep, when she woke up again, Wei Yuanhang was still sleeping, she got up and stretched, and found a box on the bedside cabinet, Wasn't here before.
Usually, other people in the family rarely come into their room, and this box is placed next to her bed. Except for Wei Jianwei, no one else made it.
She opened it curiously, and inside was a pair of women's leather shoes, which are rarely seen nowadays, and a book.
He Xiaoyun stared at it for a while before realizing that this was a gift from Wei Jianwei to apologize to her