Wei Jianwei left before dawn, without disturbing the two sleeping in the room.
He was washing in the courtyard, and found that there was a little light in the kitchen. When he walked in, he found that Wang Chunhua was sitting under the stove, lost in thought. The fire in the stove was about to go out, and the orange-red shimmer shone on her face.
"mom."
Wang Chunhua came back to her senses, "Are you up? There is noodles in the pot, eat before leaving."
Wei Jianwei nodded, "Go back to your room and sleep for a while."
"Hey, let's go."
What I have to explain is already finished yesterday. Wang Chunhua got up at three or four o'clock to make a bowl of noodles for her son. At this time, she went back to her room and couldn't sleep anymore. Wipe away the tears and make the child miss you.
After walking outside the kitchen, she wiped her eyes.
When He Xiaoyun woke up, the room was quiet except for Wei Yuanhang's small snoring sound. She turned her head and looked at the floor. Wei Jianwei's bed had been put away, and he couldn't see any of his personal belongings on the surface. It's like this person never came back.
The child didn't know that his father had already left, so he played with himself for a long time in the morning before he remembered to ask his mother, "Where's father?"
"Dad is back in the army, we talked about it yesterday."
"But..." Wei Yuanhang pouted, "He didn't tell me today."
He Xiaoyun touched his head and said, "Dad left very early in the morning. Seeing that you slept so soundly, I couldn't bear to call you."
"When will dad come back?"
"Soon, when the plum tree in my aunt's house grows plums again, he will come back."
After coaxing for a while, the child was still a little unhappy, so He Xiaoyun had no choice but to let him lie in her arms.
After lunch, Wei Yuanhang went to play again. Not long after, he ran to He Xiaoyun with a wooden box in his arms, "Mom, mom, how did Xiaochongji become like this?"
The wooden box was used to hold the larvae of the cabbage butterfly. Ten days ago, the worms turned into pupae. He Xiaoyun asked him to put them in the side utility room and look at them later.
It's just that there have been many things recently, and they all forgot. When the child remembered it again, the bug had already turned into a cabbage butterfly and flew away, leaving only a few gray pupal shells.
After Wei Yuanhang listened, his eyes quickly filled with tears. He closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and big tears rolled down, "Dad is gone, and Butterfly is gone too, wow—"
Crying so hard that it alarmed the rest of the family, Wang Chunhua ran out in a hurry, "What's wrong? Did you fall?"
He Xiaoyun helplessly explained: "Those vegetable bugs turned into butterflies and flew away."
Wang Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing her little grandson crying with tears and snot in her nose, she was both funny and distressed, "It's okay, grandma will catch a few more bugs for you."
"A lot, a lot." The child let out a snot bubble.
"Okay, a lot." His trouble made Wang Chunhua's melancholy dissipate a lot.
When the lotus blossoms were in full bloom, Li Yuegui told He Xiaoyun that her uncle's cousin was engaged to the girl he met before and would get married at the end of the year.
At that time, He Xiaoyun was helping her mother pull weeds in the vegetable garden, and asked, "At first, I told my cousin to get in touch with people first, have you already met?"
"See you, your cousin didn't say yes or no. He is the eldest this year, and your aunt simply decided that the girl is good in all aspects except for the higher gift at home. Take the lead."
He Xiaoyun nodded. Although it is not like the old days when marriage and marriage are decided by parents, it is still a little far away from free love, especially in rural areas like this, where young men and women usually meet once or twice accompanied by an introducer. It's a deal if it doesn't work.
"By the way, your sister-in-law has been pregnant for several months. When did she give birth?"
"Should it be September?" He Xiaoyun thought for a while, then nodded to confirm, "It's September."
Li Yuegui swept the pulled grass out of the courtyard and said, "Happy September. During the confinement period, it's not too cold or hot, and you don't have to worry about the child being cold. Two days ago, Aunt Wang said that she saw your sister-in-law on the road. Look, her stomach is a little bit." Bian, probably a girl."
He Xiaoyun said helplessly: "That's all nonsense, she's not clairvoyant, she can still see boys and girls through her belly?"
"These old people have experience and are very accurate. When I was pregnant with you, she said that I had a sharp stomach, so I must be careful. Who would have thought that I would be born a girl again, and I would be happy for nothing."
"Then it was a mistake for me to be reborn in your womb?" He Xiaoyun pretended to be angry.
Li Yuegui smiled and said: "I have been raised to such a large size, what can I do if I make a wrong investment, why don't I just talk about it."
After pulling the weeds, He Xiaoyun went to the water tank to wash her hands and splashed some water on her face. Even though she was wearing a bamboo hat, her face was still red with heat.
Li Yuegui poured her a bowl of tea and asked, "Jianwei has been gone for half a month, right?"
He Xiaoyun was pouring tea and had no time to talk, so she just nodded.
"Did Xiaohang say he missed him?"
"When I first left, I talked a lot, and I read it several times a day, but now I don't read it very much." He Xiaoyun put the tea bowl on the table, sat down and picked up a cattail fan to fan the wind.
Li Yuegui said, "Children are very forgetful. When Jianwei comes back next year, he will have to live for a while."
As she spoke, she sighed again, "It's not a solution for you to separate from Mr. Jianwei like this. When will it be the first time?"
He Xiaoyun looked at a fly on the ground and said nothing. She had never mentioned to Li Yuegui that the Wei family wanted her to join the army, after all, there was no news about it for the time being. Although her mother is now worried that her daughter and son-in-law cannot be together, when she finds out that her daughter is really going to the army, she may be very reluctant.
She sat for a while before going back. When he went out, Wei Yuanhang followed his grandmother, and now he was playing with Yanyan at Aunt Zhang's house. He Xiaoyun didn't call him, but greeted Feng Qiuyue who was sitting at the door of the main room.
"Are you back? Xiaohang and Mom are next door." Feng Qiuyue said.
"I heard the sound, let him play, so as not to come back and disturb us." He Xiaoyun picked up a baby shoe she had just made. It was small, no bigger than a palm, not exquisite, but very cute, "Sister-in-law The craftsmanship is so good that it can be sold.”
Feng Qiuyue said with a smile: "No one wants money if you don't give it away for free. If you really like it, I will make another one in the future and I will make it for you."
While talking, someone suddenly shouted outside the door: "Is Wei Zhenxing here? I have a letter from you!"
He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue turned their heads, and saw a postman wearing a military green postman bag, standing at the door dripping with sweat.
"We are his daughter-in-law, come in and have a cup of tea, comrade." Feng Qiuyue hurriedly stood up and said.
The postman rummaged through the bag again and said, "Is there still He Xiaoyun? There is also a letter from her."
He Xiaoyun was pouring tea, and when she heard it, she subconsciously said, "I am He Xiaoyun."
The two letters were put on the table, and the postman drank his tea and hurried away, and had to go to the next one.
Without looking at the sender, Feng Qiuyue smiled and said, "It must be from Jianwei."
"Comrade postman delivered the letter?" Wang Chunhua led Wei Yuanhang into the door, and probably heard the voice from the next door.
Aunt Zhang also followed to see the excitement, "Is it Jianwei's letter?"
"Mom! Mom, mom..." Wei Yuanhang ran over, stalking He Xiaoyun.
He Xiaoyun rubbed his head.
"I told Xiaoyun just now that it must have been sent by Jianwei. I also wrote two letters, one for my family and one for Xiaoyun only. I don't know what to whisper." Feng Qiuyue joked.
Aunt Zhang also jokingly said, "Let me just say, before Jianwei sent a letter, he only sent one letter in a month or two. When did he work so diligently? This time he only left for half a month, right?"
"Seventeen days count today." Wang Chunhua said.
"Maybe he wrote to Xiaoyun as soon as he arrived in the army. After all, they are young couples. It's like mixing oil in a honeypot."
Wang Chunhua saw that He Xiaoyun was not comfortable being told, so she asked her to go back to her room to read the letter, and there was one left, which she would open when Wei Zhenxing came back in the evening.
He Xiaoyun took Wei Yuanhang back to her room, and the child walked around her back and forth, very curious, "Mom, is it a letter? What is a letter?"
She simply explained: "It was what Dad wanted to say to us, because we were too far away and we couldn't hear it, so he had to write it down and ask the postman to deliver it to us."
The child tilted his head to think about it, and said, "Then we should thank the postman uncle."
"Yes." He Xiaoyun smiled and pinched his face.
Looking at the thin envelope in her hand, it is undeniable that she has little expectations and joy in her heart.
She hugged Wei Yuanhang in her arms, and then opened the envelope.
Wei Jianwei's handwriting is the same as others', calm but with a bit of sharpness, making it unforgettable.
"Dad, what did you say?" The little illiterate was dazzled by the handwriting on the paper, twisting and twisting restlessly on his mother's lap.
"Don't move around." He Xiaoyun held him down and started to look at him from the beginning.
Earlier, Feng Qiuyue said that Wei Jianwei wrote a private message, but in fact it was nothing. He roughly wrote about the scenery he saw on the road, how he settled down after arriving, and asked how she and the child are doing, all of which can be seen by outsiders.
It was only written in the second half. The Lin Yuefei who came back home last time publicized it after returning to the army, saying that he married a very beautiful and virtuous daughter-in-law, and kept it hidden from others. Now those people, Ask him every day to see He Xiaoyun's photo.
When He Xiaoyun saw this, she thought that Wei Jianwei would ask her for a photo, but when the subject changed, it seemed that He Xiaoyun didn't have a photo of him, so she sent one back with the letter.
Is there a photo in the envelope? Why didn't she find out just now
He Xiaoyun shook the two pieces of letter paper to make sure there was no confusion, then picked up the envelope and poured it out, only to find a small one-inch photo.
It should be used on various documents and documents. In the photo, Wei Jianwei is wearing a military uniform, and the brim of the military hat is a little low, which makes his eyes deep and his face resolute. In the words of the young girls of later generations, he is so handsome that he has to hand it in. Brother soldier of the country.
"Wow, Dad looks so good!" Wei Yuanhang's flattery was never absent.
He Xiaoyun honestly admits that she is indeed handsome, but that is not the point. The point is that she has never seen such a cheeky operation. Look at what was written at the end of the letter, asking her to put the photo under the pillow!
Why doesn't he go to heaven