The little girl next door was not at home, so Wei Yuanhang ran back quickly.
Wei Jianwei ate noodles with his back to the door, and the child leaned against the door to watch him. He was a little curious about Wei Jianwei. Although Dad and Dad called him cheerfully just now, he didn't know what the name meant. The last time Wei Jianwei left, he was only two years old. One year later, the memory of getting along with him has long been I don't know where to throw it.
After watching for a while, he moved slowly and walked to the opposite side of the table. He was just a little taller than the table, so he put his chin on the table and tilted his head to look at his father.
Wei Jianwei paused with the chopsticks in his hands, and glanced at the chubby guy across the way. The chubby guy blinked his eyes and looked back, with orange candy in his mouth, his cheeks were bulging, and he didn't know that he was shy at all. The big eyes, on the contrary, can make adults feel uncomfortable.
"Hang Hang, come here." He Xiaoyun had just returned to her room, changed the shoes that got wet on the road, and was about to wash them. When she looked up, she saw Wei Yuanhang staring at someone eating, so she called him over.
"Oh!" Wei Yuanhang ran out of the house, squatting by the gutter in the yard, watching He Xiaoyun brush his shoes, "Mom, what did you ask me to do?"
He Xiaoyun glanced at him and said deliberately: "I can't call you if I have nothing to do? Can't you just stay with me?"
Wei Yuanhang frowned and thought for a while, then nodded seriously: "Okay."
He Xiaoyun was amused, and thought of the scene she saw just now, and asked, "Did you eat breakfast?"
When she got up, the child was still sleeping, and when she came back from washing, he had already been running around, and he didn't know how much he had eaten for breakfast.
"Eat, I'll send you some porridge!" Wei Yuanhang proudly puffed out his small chest.
The three-year-old guy already speaks fluently, and talks a lot. He often pours out baskets of baskets, like a little chatterbox, but sometimes his tongue is not flexible enough, and some words don’t flow smoothly, such as saying that he is sending a few words. , The little cat is called Little Mimi, I can't change it, but it sounds cute.
"Are you hungry now?"
"I'm not hungry, I have orange candy." He opened his mouth to show his mother.
He Xiaoyun said: "Then don't stare at others eating, they will be embarrassed, you know?"
Wei Yuanhang tilted his head, wondering: "What is embarrassment?"
He Xiaoyun was stopped by his question. She wanted to say that she was embarrassed because she was shy, but she was worried that the little kid would continue to ask what shyness was, and then it would be endless. She didn't know how to explain it, so she simply turned her eyes and pointed to the small vegetable patch in the yard. A cabbage butterfly said: "No, drive the butterfly away, it will give birth to small insects to eat our vegetables."
As expected, Wei Yuanhang's attention was diverted, and he immediately stood up and rushed over, yelling: "Bad Butterfly, go away, don't eat my food!"
Looking at his back, He Xiaoyun gave herself a thumbs up in her heart.
After washing the shoes, Wei Jianwei was no longer in the main room. She was probably tidying up in the room. She didn't want to go back to the room, so she went to the kitchen to find a basket. Recently, the vegetables in the private plot at home were a little out of date. She planned to go to the mountains to have a look. If she could find wild bracken, it would be considered A delicious dish.
Although she lived in the countryside from the 21st century to the 1970s, He Xiaoyun adapted well, probably because she was used to these things in her previous life.
In the kitchen, Wang Chunhua was holding a bowl in his hand. When she saw her come in, she said, "Jianwei took half of the noodles out, and the poached eggs didn't move. You can feed Xiaohang."
He Xiaoyun was a little surprised, probably because Wei Yuanhang stared at him just now, making Wei Jianwei think that the child was hungry, otherwise the bowl of noodles was not big, and he wouldn't be able to finish it.
The Wei family's family background is considered good in the brigade. The family has enough labor force and Wei Jianwei's salary subsidy, but even so, they can't eat rice and white noodles every day.
There is not much fine flour in the house, and that is what I get every year. Wang Chunhua puts it away carefully, and has a plan for where it will be used. Making dumplings during Chinese New Year can’t be saved; someone’s birthday in the family can eat a bowl of noodles in the morning; Wei Jianwei has to eat noodles every time he leaves and comes back, which means peace and prosperity; recently his sister-in-law is pregnant, so Xixi can’t eat, so I give it to her alone I made noodle soup a few times; in normal times, it was only Wei Yuanhang who occasionally made his grandma make him noodle soup.
Wang Chunhua put the bowl on the table, walked out and said, "I'll go to the pond to see if anyone catches fish today, and make fish soup for lunch. You can take a look at home."
He Xiaoyun agreed, and temporarily gave up the idea of going to the mountain. Called Wei Yuanhang over to eat noodles, and was about to send him out to continue playing, but the child asked, "Mom, why did Di Di give birth to worms?"
"It lays eggs, and the eggs will turn into small bugs." He Xiaoyun answered casually after washing the bowl.
Wei Yuanhang was even more puzzled: "What is Nuan? Why does it produce Nuan? Why doesn't it give birth to Little Butterfly?"
"Uh… "
He Xiaoyun has a big head, and there are no mobile phones or popular science books to show him these days. In order to solve the problem of the little kid, she decided to find something for him to do.
She dug out a wooden box from the corner, pulled her son out, and said, "Let's catch a few eggs, and observe how they turn into bugs, and tell mom about it when the time comes, okay?"
"Okay!" The child found it amusing as soon as he heard it, and was full of interest. "Get warm!"
There is a small piece of private land in the Wei family’s yard, where some cabbage, Chinese cabbage, shallots, etc. were planted. He Xiaoyun searched for each vegetable and found many yellow-white eggs on the back of the vegetable leaves. If these eggs are allowed to grow , It is estimated that this small vegetable garden is not enough for them to eat. She trampled most of the eggs to death, leaving only a few and putting them in a box for Wei Yuanhang to play with.
"Here's more, here's more! Mom, here's one!"
Children's immature voices sounded from time to time. Wei Jianwei packed his luggage and walked out of the room. He saw their mother and son meeting each other, squatting in the vegetable garden, looking for insect eggs with great concentration.
He has a prominent figure, and Wei Yuanhang quickly noticed it, and hurriedly showed off his new toy to him: "Dad, Mom grabbed me a lot of warmth!"
As he said that, he ran over to show him the eggs, but he didn't run very quickly, holding a wooden box in both hands, and didn't look at his feet. After running a few steps, his legs stumbled, and he fell with a plop and gnawed on the mud , The wooden box was also thrown out, falling to the ground and falling apart.
Originally, He Xiaoyun squatted there to pack mushrooms when she heard Wei Jianwei’s voice, but now she didn’t care, and hurried over, “Where did you fall? Stand up and have a look.”
She pulled the child up from the ground and checked his knees and hands. Fortunately, the ground in the yard was flat and there were no broken stones, but the skin on the palm was a little scratched, which was not serious.
Wei Yuanhang fell into a daze, stood there trembling his lips, trembling again, and then cried out: "Wow—"
He Xiaoyun coaxed: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a little bit of skin, and it's not bleeding yet, I'll blow it off for you."
As a result, the child cried and said, "My box! My warmer!"
Wei Jianwei came over and picked up the wooden box. The box was completely broken, and the wood had been left for too long, so it was rotten and fell to bits, and it couldn't be put together again.
"My warmth—" Seeing this, Wei Yuanhang cried even louder.
He Xiaoyun, one head and two older, was about to tell her not to cry, but Wei Jianwei took a step ahead of her, "I'll make you another box."
The crying stopped abruptly, Wei Yuanhang sniffed loudly, "I want a big box."
Wei Jianwei nodded, and the little boy said again, "I want mom to keep warm."
"Okay, I'll catch you again." He Xiaoyun responded immediately, seeing that he still had a tendency to continue bargaining, she hurriedly said: "Go and wash away your snot and tears, and Yanyan will say you are ashamed when he sees you later." .”
Yanyan is the little girl next door, about the same age as Wei Yuanhang, the two little guys always love to play together.
These words were very useful, Wei Yuanhang obediently followed her into the house and cleaned himself up.
When he came out again, the broken wood and vegetable leaves on the ground had been swept away. Wei Jianwei held a board and a saw in his hand, and it seemed that he was going to make a box now.
Wei Yuanhang ran over to watch, and asked his father what it was, and then asked his father what it was. His father was longer than his father, and he was obviously bought by the wooden box.
Usually he surrounds He Xiaoyun, she thinks the little kid talks too much, but now that he doesn't surround her, she feels sour again, and reads a little fat man who has no conscience.
She watched for a while and looked up at the sky. It is too early to make lunch, but the weather is good today, you can take out the quilt and winter clothes to dry, otherwise, when the rainy season enters after a while, the clothes in the cabinet will be ready To be moldy.
After entering the room, the quilt was flattened and not folded so that it could be carried out to dry in the sun. Wei Jianwei also walked in.
He Xiaoyun pretended not to know, and sneaked a glance out of the corner of her eye, and saw that he took out a pencil from his luggage bag, probably for marking on the wooden board.
She waited for him to go out first, but he put the pencil in his pocket and continued to search. This time he found an envelope and walked towards her.
He Xiaoyun quickly looked away, pretending to be folding the quilt seriously, and hurriedly went to get clothes from the cabinet.
As soon as he turned around, the envelope was handed to him.
She took a step back subconsciously, and sat on the edge of the bed without standing still, "What, what?"
"Living expenses." Wei Jianwei's tone was very calm. In the past, as soon as he got home, the other party would ask him for money, and he had to take it out on the spot. After one experience, he allocated it in advance, except for the family's household, and prepared another one, lest she come to drag and pester her again. Surprisingly, she didn't seem to be in a hurry this time.
The Wei family has three brothers who have not yet separated. Wang Chunhua is in charge of the family's finances. The family has food, lodging, and expenses together. Usually, there is no need for money. He Xiaoyun didn't expect to have extra living expenses.
She took it with some hesitation, and as soon as the envelope fell into her hand, her face felt a little hot, as if the money was hot, she didn't return it, she didn't return it, and she didn't know what to say, after hesitating for a long time, she said: "That, um … thanks?"