There are two silkworms raised in the 40-square-meter house of the Rong family, and they can only be raised four times in three seasons each time. The production is not too much, so each time they wait for someone to come to the village to collect them, and the price is not high. However, on the outside, whether it is ancient or modern, silk is a luxury in the 21st century.
Although Rong Yu was born again, he spent most of the forty years in a deep sleep. He watched the times change rapidly, but failed to grasp the important information, so even if he was born again, Rong Yu felt that the only thing that could change was , only his own death.
The scorching sun was in the sky, and from a distance, the sun was burning, and the breath he exhaled was hot. His whole body was drenched, and his clothes stuck to his body, as if countless insects were gnawing.
If it was Rong Yu from the previous life, he might feel scared, but the current Rong Yu is the Rong Yu who has moved bricks, no matter how uncomfortable it is, he can bear it.
"Xiaoyu, Yaoyao, you guys go find a cool place to rest, Yunyun, you go too." Father Rong wiped his sweat and saw his youngest son's fair face flushed as if bleeding, and blinked sore eyes.
Before long, the child will be as dark as Xiao Xun.
"I'm not tired, Xiaoyu, Yaoyao, go rest and drink some water." Rong's mother also picked mulberry leaves one by one, and wanted to pick more, and more.
I don't know if it's because Yaoyao and Xiao Xun have been doing farm work by her side since they were young. Although she feels sorry for the two children who suffer with her, she is happy. Only Xiao and this child, every time he saw his tanned face, his heart was sour.
Rong Yu felt that the top of his head was about to smoke, his head was dizzy, and his lips were very hot, but he just wanted to finish it in one go, and hurried back. He kept his head buried in pulling out the mulberry leaves, and when he heard someone calling his name, he turned around in a daze: "ah?"
"Pfft, you're so hot!" Rong Yao was separated from Rong Yu by a row of mulberry trees, seeing him looking like a fool, he stretched out his hand to poke his rouged face, only to find that his nails and fingers were green and black, She took it back and said with a smile, "Go and drink some water!"
"Hmm!" Rong Yu licked his lips and followed Rong Yao out.
A silkworm eats a total of about six kilograms of silkworm leaves from birth to spinning. It needs a lot of silkworm leaves. There are silkworm trees planted on the side of Rongjia Mountain, and the silkworm trees do not grow very high, only reaching the waist, so They wanted to hide in a cool place to drink water, so they could only sit in the back of the sun.
"When I'm free, I'll take you to the school to see the way." Rong Yao drank his saliva and chatted with Rong Yu: "When you go to high school, we will go to school."
In Linshui Village, there is an elementary school nearby, junior high school and high school are all in the town. It takes two hours to walk, and it takes four hours to go back and forth. In addition, self-study is required, and it is very unsafe to come back late, so Rongyao lived in school in his first year of high school. Ying Xun was a day student in junior high school, riding his father's bicycle, in the wind and rain, wearing the stars and the moon, but it was faster than walking, and he could get home in two hours.
Now the two of them are in high school, plus the cost of living in school, the family can't afford it at all, so before Rong Yu came, she and Ying Xun had agreed to go to school together, at worst, they wouldn't come back for dinner, and they could take some steamed stuffed buns in the morning. past.
"What do you think?" Seeing that he didn't speak, Rong Yao thought he didn't want to work so hard, and after thinking about it, he said, "Of course, if you want to live on campus..."
"Sure." Rong Yu interrupted Rong Yao's words, suppressing the thought in his heart, he was going to wait until school started soon.
"Don't be afraid, don't worry, my sister is here!" Rong Yao rubbed Rong Yu's head vigorously, and then touched his face. Feeling that the heat had gone down a bit, he stood up and said, "I will bring water to Dad, and you will bring water to Mom. Come on, let's see who wins."
After the words fell, he picked up the water glass and quickly rushed to Dad. Rong Yu was stunned for a moment, then quickly poured a glass of water, and quickly walked towards Rong's mother. When he approached, his footsteps paused. Seeing the woman wearing a gauze hat and quickly picking silkworm leaves, she felt a little dazed.
Many things flashed through my mind, the Ying family in Beijing, the Rong family in Linshui Village, and the bridge hole on a typhoon night...
Rong Yu blinked vigorously, sniffed, and walked over: "Mom, mom, drink some water first!"
Rong Yu's voice was very low, and the hand holding the handle of the cup was a little painful. He wanted to relax a little, but the water cup was too full, and the water spilled out.
Mother Rong held it up and took it. She was surprised and excited by the sound of mother. It had been more than a week since the child came back, and this was the first time she had called her that.
"Hey, good," Rong Ma nodded in response, turned her face away slightly, crying welled up, she quickly lowered her head, let the veil cover her face, and took a sip cautiously: "It's so sweet, it quenches your thirst."
Rong Yao and Father Rong kept looking at the two of them, seeing Mother Rong take out a handkerchief to wipe Rong Yu's sweat after drinking the water, smiled and shook his head, and was hit by Father Rong.
After drinking the water, I don't know if the barrier was broken, the atmosphere became a lot lighter, and Rong Yao made jokes from time to time, and laughed from time to time.
The family of four didn't finish picking until noon, and they picked up some sprouts and went back to salad.
This time I came to pick the silkworm leaves, I borrowed the tricycle from Uncle Chen’s house, put the silkworm leaves on it and pushed them back, it was easier than yesterday. The Rong family used to have one, but the wheel was broken when they dragged the rice back the day before yesterday.
"The first thing I need to do when I get back is to take a shower." Rong Yao raised his head to the sky and howled, pulling Rong Yu to rush home quickly.
"Yaoyao, don't drop your brother." Mother Rong shouted in fright as she saw that Rongyu was being dragged staggeringly, stepped on stones several times and almost fell down.
Rong Yuan responded from afar without looking back.
"Don't worry, Yaoyao is here!" Dad Rong was pulling the tricycle, his swarthy face was full of smiles.
"Yes, fortunately there is Yaoyao here." Mother Rong supported the silkworm leaf on the car, smiled and replied, thought for a while, and said, "I don't know what happened to Xiao Xun."
"Better there than here."
"Um!"
Mother Rong responded, thinking of Rong Yu, she couldn't help wiping her tears.
When Rong's parents came back, the two little ones had already taken a bath, their clothes were soaked in water, and the large basin they took out was also filled with water. This is used to wash silkworm leaves. Silkworms are delicate and cannot eat silkworm leaves with dust, and they must be dry, so every time the silkworm leaves are picked, they have to be washed and dried before spreading them.
"Have you eaten yet?" Father Rong unloaded the silkworm leaves, saw the two children shaking their heads, and said, "Hurry up and eat, you don't have to wait for me and your mother."
"Okay!" Rong Yao responded, walked two steps, saw that Rong Yu was still standing, then came back and dragged him away: "Mom and Dad still need to take a bath, let's eat first, and wash the silkworm leaves after eating."
Rural people are actually not particular about it. Many people don’t take a bath even if they don’t have work in the afternoon after finishing their farm work. But the Rong family is different. They always take care of themselves, which is unique. When I was young, the cleanest people in the village were their children. Sometimes people in the village would even speak ill of Rong's mother, saying that a rural person pretended to be a city person. Ying Xun heard it and beat his children every day.
Ying Xun was so tall that he could easily beat children two or three years older than him.
Today's meal is still plain porridge with sweet potatoes, Rong Yao picked up a chopstick and stirred pickled vegetables into the porridge, made two bowls without touching the sweet potatoes, but Rong Yu killed three and added two bowls of porridge.
The two of them went to wash the silkworm leaves after eating, this thing is very troublesome to wash, it is very annoying to rub the two pieces together, and it still can't be broken, Rongyao is a little impatient, every time she rubs the silkworm leaves, she wants to explode, On the contrary, Rong and washed calmly, washed two sheets by two, washed them in water, then put them on the dustpan, and continued to wash the next two sheets.
Not arrogant or impetuous, the movements are gentle, and it looks pleasing to the eye.
After two days in the sun, Rong Yu's skin was still white and transparent, because of the hot weather, his cheeks were flushed, his lips were also flushed, and his pointed chin was exposed, looking very handsome.
For a moment, Rong Yao wanted to hide Rong Yu like this, so as not to let him bask in the sun, what a pity to get tanned!
She didn't want to see another piece of black carbon!
I didn't wash all the silkworm leaves, only washed the ones for tonight and tomorrow, and put the rest back in the house to be washed again.
There is no meat for dinner today, but there are poached eggs, two for each of the two children, and one for each of Rong's parents, Rong Yu has never encountered such a situation, and was a little at a loss for a while, not knowing how to use chopsticks.
Seeing this, Rong Yao took half of it for Dad, no, for Mom, and said with a smile: "Fair and fair, our family must follow the principle of fairness."
"I don't like it, you eat it." Rong's mother quickly refused, wanting to take the egg back, Rong Yao had already picked up the bowl and shook her head.
Seeing this, Rong Yu cut off half of an egg and gave it to Father Rong. Father Rong liked to eat it, so he took a bite with a smile, and was blindsided by Rong's mother, and then he ate the poached egg that Rong Yao picked up.
After dinner, the sun was about to set, and the millet drying in the yard had to be packed into sacks and brought back into the house. No matter whether you are used to this thing or not, your body will still itch if it is covered with millet hairs. Yesterday, Rong Yu was not allowed to participate, but today he helped carry the sack. His skin turned red immediately, and everyone rushed him to take a bath.
I was still scratching my arm after taking a shower, it was shockingly red, and some places were bleeding a bit, it would be better if it was smeared with cooling oil.
In 1990, television was still a rarity. There were only three televisions in Rongjia Village, one belonged to the village chief, and two belonged to better-off families, but they were a little far away from their home. In the past, Rong Yao and Ying Xun often went to watch TV after dinner with Ying Xun, but Rong and...
Rong Yao sighed softly, forget it, this kid has a thin skin.
The family of four sat in the yard to enjoy the shade until after eight o'clock in the evening before going back to the room.
"When the weather gets hotter, I'm going to sleep in the yard." Rong Yao muttered, then asked Rong Yu: "Have you ever slept outside?"
The matter of going to the American summer camp during the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school flashed through Rong Yu's mind, but he quickly shook his head and shook his head at Rong Yao.
"I'll take you outside to sleep in two days. It's cooler and you can still watch the stars, but there are too many mosquitoes." Rong Yao said angrily.
"Dad will get you a mosquito net in two days." Father Rong's smile hasn't faded since dinner.
"Thank you dad!"
"Thank you dad!"
"Hey, good, good."
Father Rong laughed happily, but was pushed by Mother Rong, and then drove the two children to sleep.
The two adults returned to the house, thinking about today's events, they couldn't fall asleep for a while, and started chatting, chatting, and mother Rong cried again, always feeling that the child's life was miserable, and she was sorry for the child.
Father Rong hugged him and comforted him a few times, finally coaxed him well, and then fell asleep.
At this time, a slender young man with a backpack on his back walked into the yard wearing stars and wearing a moon. Looking at the familiar place, he tried his best to keep himself from collapsing, but he gritted his teeth and his eyes were red.
He is finally back.