Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

The sunshine at noon gradually became hot again.

Looking through the window, you can see smoke rising from the chimneys of villagers' houses across the dirt road.

After my mother entered the house, she opened the blue cloth covering the vegetable basket and saw steaming sticky bean buns, vegetable pancakes, etc.

"You haven't eaten yet? Then I came just in time."

"I ate late in the morning and didn't even want to eat at noon." Xu Dahai said with a smile.

"If you want to eat, you still need to eat. You can't do it without eating."

Mom sat for a while longer, then left with the empty basket.

After all, I had breakfast too late and wasn't very hungry at all, so I didn't eat much for lunch.

After lunch, Xu Dahai and Wang Xiuxiu went to the back garden to pick some beans and prepare to dry them.

"Let's dry more beans this year. They will grow a lot anyway, and there won't be enough to eat in winter."

"Okay, let's dry it."

Xu Dahai put the beans on the plastic sheet, looked up, and immediately smiled: "Xiuxiu, look, the big orange cat went to lie on the eaves again."

"Yeah, she just likes to bask in the sun."

Wang Xiuxiu looked up and looked in the direction of Xu Dahai's finger, and couldn't help but smile.

I saw the big fat orange cat lying lazily and comfortably on the eaves, with its fluffy tail lifting and falling, not to mention how comfortable and enjoying it was.

After saying a few words, the two of them continued working.

I made five or six trips in a row, and by the time the plastic sheet was covered with beans, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

The heat is in full swing, the cicadas are chirping, and the hot wind is blowing the leaves of the cherry trees.

After finishing the work, Xu Dahai was about to go back to the house to rest. Suddenly, he heard shouts coming from the southeast.

"Possicles~Possicles~Possicles~"

soon.

As the sound got closer and closer, an old man riding a [-]-meter pole came from the east.

"Uncle! Stop it!"

Xiao Shitou and several children who had just returned from bathing in the river were running and shouting behind them. The weather was hot and the road was filled with dust.

After the old man stopped, Xiao Shitou and others bought a few popsicles, and ran away quickly with faces full of joy.

They made some money by catching toads and have completely achieved popsicle freedom!

Children, if you can have a popsicle to eat on a hot afternoon, you will be so happy~

The old man was about to leave again, but Xu Dahai stopped him: "Uncle, get me a few too."

"Well, there are three kinds, two cents, five cents, and ten cents."

"I want a dime. I want five."

Yimao popsicles are larger, more delicate, and use a lot of glutinous rice, and they taste much better - but they are too expensive and not easy to buy.

"I made a total of ten sticks of this kind of glutinous rice. I sold one stick in the countryside, but it was not easy to sell. I don't plan to make anything like this in the future."

The old man was very happy and chatted with Xu Dahai while taking the ice cream.

Xu Dahai knew the old man. They met at the gate of the lumber factory and was deeply impressed by this optimistic old man.

In Xu Dahai's view, the old man's family situation is quite poor. There are patients in the family who take medicine all year round. At such an old age, he often comes out to sell popsicles, candied haws and the like.

However, the old man was very optimistic and kept saying, "Life is so much better now. It's not as hard as before liberation. When bandits broke out, not only did they not have enough to eat... too many people died..." "some type of.

Xu Dahai nodded in agreement.

After handing over a dollar and giving [-] cents in change, the uncle smiled and rode on the [-] big bar and left slowly.

"Possicle~Possicle~"

The shouts and cicadas mixed together and gradually faded away.

"Whether your life is good or bad depends on who you compare with."

Xu Dahai had some understanding in his heart. He shook his head with a smile and entered the house with a few popsicles.

Call out to the three little girls who were taking a nap, and give them one popsicle each, and the remaining two belong to Xu Dahai and Wang Xiuxiu.

The days go by so fast.

It was the end of August 1987 in a flash.

After a day of farm work, Xu Dahai didn't want to move while lying on the kang when he returned home and drank a lot of cold water.

It's so tiring!

"Get up quickly and take off your dirty clothes." Wang Xiuxiu said with a smile: "Soak in the big basin and wash them tomorrow when you have time."

"alright."

Xu Dahai put the cat on his chest aside, changed his clothes, stood up and threw the dirty laundry into the big basin outside.

There is already water in the big basin. Put the clothes into the water, sprinkle some washing powder, and you're done!

I went back to the house and rested for a while. After I regained some strength, I brought the big watermelon soaked in the water vat in the yard into the house, put it on the table and cut it open.

Xiao Tingzi came over like a little puppy and asked repeatedly:

"Have you washed the kitchen knife? Don't let it smell like garlic again."

"I've washed it. There's no garlic smell anymore. Eat it quickly."

Xu Dahai was also happy and touched the little girl's head. The latter also helped with a lot of farm work today.

The big watermelon was grown in the back garden and put in a water vat when I went to work in the fields in the morning.

The big watermelon that has been chilled for a day tastes quite good, it is ice cold and very happy.

Sudden.

The dogs rushed into the yard, barking as they ran.

It turned out that my mother and second sister Xu Mei came over with a basket filled with about ten meat buns.

"Eat the watermelon, this watermelon is so sweet."

"Yeah, it's really sweet."

While eating watermelon, we chatted. Someone got married recently in the village and they talked about the wedding ceremony.

The relationship is not close, just a 5 cent gift is enough.

The topic changed and Xu Dahai asked his second sister Xu Mei about registering for the adult college entrance examination.

"I have already signed up. I still have to go to the city to take the exam on October 10th this year." The second sister Xu Mei said worriedly while eating watermelon:

"If I still can't pass the exam this year, I won't take the exam and just teach in the countryside.

The registration fee is 6 yuan and 8 cents, plus food and accommodation...if you fail to pass the exam year after year, all the money is wasted. "

The second sister Xu Mei's salary is very low. The registration fee is nearly 7 yuan, and she also has to spend a few yuan on food and accommodation during the exam. She feels very distressed that she is wasting nothing.

She has lived a hard life. It was so difficult to spend a penny in eight pieces, but now she is even more unwilling to spend money randomly.

Xu Dahai quickly smiled and comforted: "Second sister, don't be too stressed, just relax.

You should eat and drink, but you have worked hard anyway. Let’s talk about everything after the exam is over.

Even if you fail the exam, the sky won't fall, so it'll be okay. "

"Yeah, I see."

The nervousness and anxiety in the second sister Xu Mei's heart could not help but dissipate for the most part, and she also started laughing.

The fourth brother is a man of great ability, and she agrees with Xu Dahai's words.

In fact, she understands all these principles, but sometimes she still inevitably gets into trouble, especially when she can't stand reading.