It rained the night before, and the ground was still a little wet when I woke up in the morning.
Wei Jianguo went up the mountain before dawn and broke half a sack of green bamboo shoots. After breakfast, He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue peeled the bamboo shoots in the yard.
In the morning, only the two of them were at home, and the three men were called by the team to repair the canal. Wang Chunhua took Wei Yuanhang to the commune for dinner and dinner.
"Xiaohang has always been attached to you, so I'm not used to being not around all of a sudden."
But He Xiaoyun said: "Without his chattering, I feel pure."
"I see you, that is, you have a hard mouth. I really haven't seen you for a while, and I have to read it again." Feng Qiuyue laughed at her.
"Sister-in-law, don't rush to laugh at me. When you become a mother, I will laugh at you sometime." He Xiaoyun countered.
Feng Qiuyue said happily: "Then I can wait."
The two chatted and laughed, and quickly finished the work. The bamboo shoots were stripped and blanched in the pot, leaving a bowl of fried pickles at noon, and most of the rest were spread out on the stone wall .
"Xiaoyun."
He Xiaoyun was standing by a half-person-high stone wall when she suddenly heard someone calling her. When she looked up, it was her elder sister He Xiaofen and her little niece.
"Elder Sister? Why are you here? Come in quickly." She hurried to the door and welcomed the two of them in.
He Xiaofen walked in with her daughter in her arms, and looked into the main room, "Is your mother-in-law not at home?"
He Xiaoyun stretched out her hand to pick up her little niece, and said, "Someone got married today, and she took Hanghang to drink." Then she lowered her head to tease Xiaotuanzi in her arms, "Huihui, I'm auntie, do you remember?" I?"
The little girl doll was only a few months old, and she looked at her with her dark eyes, and at her own mother, neither crying nor fussing, very cute.
She teased for a while before remembering and said, "Sister, come sit with me in the room."
Feng Qiuyue came out of her room when she heard the voice, "Xiaoyun, has your eldest sister had breakfast?"
He Xiaofen hurriedly said: "I've eaten, I'll go out after eating, don't be so busy."
He Xiaoyun also said: "Sister-in-law, please rest, my eldest sister is not an outsider, so don't be so polite."
Feng Qiuyue smiled and said, "Okay, you sisters talk well, and I won't bother you."
He Xiaoyun took her sister back to the room and let the little niece sit on the Qiqi bed to play, and the two of them sat beside the bed.
"Your room is really clean." He Xiaofen looked around the room, "It's not like my room, it's like a pigsty."
"Who would say that about yourself? Your room is a pigsty, so what have you become?" He Xiaoyun laughed.
He Xiaofen shot her a look and said, "I'll just say that, you just listen to it, don't think about it."
He Xiaoyun shook her head with a smile, and teased the little doll with a building block, "How is your family doing recently? Are brother-in-law and two children all right?"
"What's wrong with them, but you, my brother-in-law has been back for a while, didn't you quarrel this time?"
"Nope."
"It's fine if you don't have one, by the way, where's my sister-in-law?"
He Xiaoyun said: "I went to the field to build a canal."
He Xiaofen nodded, and said, "The last time I went home, I wanted to stop by to find you, but I was in a hurry, so I didn't make it. Isn't it our mother's birthday next month? Although it's not like every other year, this year is fifty years old. For the whole life, I want to make her lively, what do you think?"
"Yes." He Xiaoyun nodded in response.
"Don't make it too early. What I mean is, it's better to celebrate mom's birthday in advance while my brother-in-law is at home. Then there will be three members of your family and four here, and we will make an appointment to go back together."
After hearing this, He Xiaoyun couldn't help calculating in her mind that Wei Jianwei's vacation, excluding travel time, lasted a month. He came back in mid-April, and now it's almost mid-May, and there are only five or six days left.
It turned out that he was leaving. She suddenly realized this problem.
"Will you discuss it with your brother-in-law tonight?" He Xiaofen said.
He Xiaoyun came back to her senses and nodded, "Okay."
The two sisters agreed on the specific time and what to do that day. He Xiaofen came directly from her husband's house and had to go back to her mother's house, so she left soon.
Near noon, He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue went into the kitchen to make lunch.
Feng Qiuyue asked her: "Why don't you keep your eldest sister for dinner?"
"My sister is always in a hurry. If she doesn't want to stay, no one can keep her."
"Seeing that she looks gentle and beautiful like you, I can't tell that she has such a temperament."
"Sister-in-law's words, I take it as a compliment." He Xiaoyun said with a smile.
Feng Qiuyue also laughed: "Isn't that just a compliment to you?"
When the lunch is ready, He Xiaoyun will still deliver it.
The canal on the brigade draws water from the Qingshui River and is used to irrigate crops far from the river. The entire canal runs across the field and is more than two kilometers long.
The three of Wei Jianwei and his son were not together, so He Xiaoyun delivered Wei Zhenxing and Wei Jianguo first, and then went to his place.
The two found a willow tree, sat down in the shade, and brought out the food.
"Have you eaten?" Wei Jianwei asked her.
"Eat it, dad and elder brother also gave it away, and the rest is yours."
Only then did Wei Jianwei pick up the bowl and slurp up the rice.
He Xiaoyun sat aside, boredly picked up a branch, and shook it back and forth in her hand. She told about He Xiaofen's visit to the house in the morning, "My sister wants to go back to my mother's place the day after tomorrow, is it convenient for you?"
Wei Jianwei nodded, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said, "The canal will be repaired for another day tomorrow, and it will be fine the day after tomorrow."
"Then it's settled." She made a final decision.
The noon sun was dazzlingly bright, and the cicadas were trying their best to sing on some tree, but it was quite refreshing under the shade.
The breeze blew, and a few leaves fell. He Xiaoyun picked one up and played with it in her hand, and suddenly muttered: "I wonder if the little fat man had a good lunch."
It took Wei Jianwei a few seconds to understand that the little fat man she was talking about was their son, and he was dumbfounded for a long time before saying, "His body is fairly normal."
He Xiaoyun glanced at him, "You have to be honest, you can't blindly ignore the facts in front of you just because you are his real father."
He didn't think he was his own father's eye, and said: "I can hug it with one hand."
He Xiaoyun didn't even glance at him now, "Then you can still carry a bag of rice with one hand."
Wei Jianwei was a little helpless, "There is no comparison."
"I said if you can compare, you can compare." He Xiaoyun waved her hand, "Hurry up and eat, the leaves will all fall into the rice in a while."
After finishing speaking, she lowered her head and seemed to seriously study the leaf in her hand, not giving him a chance to argue.
I remember when I watched TV before, I often saw the protagonist sitting under a tree and blowing out a tune with leaves. Although she is not the protagonist, she is the protagonist's mother, so she should have this skill, right
Thinking so, with a bit of self-confidence, she put the leaf in her mouth and blew hard.
"puff-"
He Xiaoyun immediately put down her hands, and looked at Wei Jianwei as if nothing had happened. Seeing that he was eating with his head down, he seemed not paying attention to her movements, so he was relieved and quietly threw the leaf away.
Wei Jianwei finished eating quickly. She put away the bowls and chopsticks and put them back in the basket. She was about to stand up when a melodious saxophone-like tune suddenly sounded in her ears.
He Xiaoyun raised her head and saw him holding the leaves by his mouth with both hands, blowing out the tune easily.
His eyes were still looking at her, and the flickering in those eyes was clearly ridicule!