Crossing the green wheat ears

A trip to Fucheng made Xiyuan very tired. In the few days after he came back, he just played with the four little radish heads for a while every day, and then made them some delicious food, and then fell asleep on the kang with his head covered. Sleep, sleep in the dark.

Looking at Xiyuan like this, it made grandma feel bad. Seeing how tired his eldest grandson was, grandma secretly wiped the corners of his eyes with her cuffs, and started nagging grandpa, knocking grandpa on the cigarette pot angrily. .

Originally, grandpa loved his eldest grandson very much, but every time grandma finished wiping the corners of her eyes, she began to scold him, saying that you are a dead old man, and you accompanied the child to Fucheng, and it must be because you are not careful and did not take good care of the child. Or, you must be a stingy old man, reluctant to spend money, not letting the child take a car, and walking to Fucheng; it must be you, an old man, reluctant to part with the money, so that the child can't eat well, can't live well, look at him How thin is the eldest grandson... In short, all kinds of reasons, all kinds of wrongs, all kinds of framing, there are only things you can't think of, nothing she can't talk about.

Grandpa doesn't dare to look at grandma's face now that he has nothing to do. During the day, he takes a saw and goes to the field to find dry trees to vent his anger, making the sound of the saw sawing wood loudly.Xiaoyuan said that this winter will cost firewood, so it is best to prepare more firewood. From spring to summer, he and his eldest son will accumulate wood when they have nothing to do.

Grandpa can hide during the day, but when he comes back at night, grandma keeps nagging, saying, you old man is really careless, the eldest grandson is too tired to get up on the kang, and you still have the heart to go for a walk in the wild...... He didn’t dare to say anything, the key is that before he finished a sentence, there were countless sentences waiting for his grandma. Grandpa was also a stubborn old man. When he got angry, he would run to the field at night with a sledge to cut the wood he had sawn during the day. Pulled back.

When the two old people made a fuss, Xiyuan, who originally wanted to be lazy, didn't dare to lie on the top of the kang anymore, so he hurriedly got up from the kang, got off the ground, jumped a few times in front of grandma, and whispered in grandma's ear , told grandma that he was fine, just wanted to sleep late, coquettish with grandma for a while, coaxed grandma to smile, and then ran to the yard to help grandpa code the wooden paragraphs, and giggled with grandpa again Yes, grandpa was also coaxed away, and the family sat on the hot kang and chatted.

The next day, Xiyuan obediently got up early, had breakfast, led four little boys, two sheep, two dogs, drove a flock of ducks, and a flock of geese, and marched in all directions Heading towards the pond outside the road, look around, look around, Xiyuan looks at the sky speechlessly, what kind of life is this!

The Mid-Autumn Festival will arrive in a few days, and the Mid-Autumn Festival here is not particularly important, because it is about to be busy with the autumn harvest, and every family has no time to spare. Those with better conditions can cook delicious food, while those with poor conditions, What should I do in normal times, how about Mid-Autumn Festival, put more oil in the dishes at night.

Because Xiyuan's family has four children, they couldn't bear to let the children's hopes for the festival come to nothing. Xiyuan decided to slaughter a big rooster during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Xiyuan used chicken feathers to make a chicken feather shuttlecock for each of the other two little radish heads, and the ones of Xi Wei and Wei Cheng were also repaired and strengthened.Grandma and mother went to the neighboring village to make five catties of mooncakes. The materials were all brought from their own homes, and they only needed to give them hand money.Except for the holidays, the adults each ate half a piece of mooncakes to meet the solar terms, and the remaining mooncakes were divided into four equal parts, and the amount of each person was agreed, and they were all stored with grandma. Remember how much you eat, Don't ask others if you run out of food.Xiao Maotou nodded to show that he understood, and the children were harmonious. Every time they wanted to eat, they would ask grandma together, so the mooncakes would go down at the same speed. No adults would worry about who would eat the mooncakes first. Think about other people's mooncakes , This makes the adults in the family very relieved, thinking that their children are sensible.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn harvest begins. The original green fields are now golden in color. The crops in the field have matured, and the ears of corn are covered with red tassels like old men with red beards; the ears of corn are also heavy. The millet is bent down; the sorghum stands upright like a sentinel, with a red helmet on top... This year is a bumper harvest year!Looking at such a wilderness, there will be no feeling of bleakness, but a kind of joy of the upcoming harvest. I have been busy for a year, as if it is only for these few days.Although the farmer is tired at this time, he is happy in his heart. Who doesn't have a good yearning for life!Who doesn't look forward to the days getting more and more prosperous!

Xiyuan's family doesn't have much land. The three-acre field that used to be planted with wheat is now planted with Chinese cabbage and radishes. These are relatively easy to harvest. The remaining two-acre field is planted with corn, which is a bit more troublesome. First cut the corn stalks with a sickle and put them down, then dig out the corn cobs, put them in bags, and use the sledge at home to pull them home. You can’t throw away the corn stalks either, you have to save them for firewood in winter, and Bundle by bundle and pull them home.Everything else is easy to say, but it is more laborious to transport these things back. There are no animals, and it is all by manpower, just like ants moving house.

Xiyuan didn't take much part in the family's field work, but his main focus was on the chickens, ducks and geese that he had raised for more than half a year.Now the work in the field is about to be finished, and the weather is getting colder and colder. When it freezes, the ducks and geese will have no place to find food and have to be slaughtered. Otherwise, no one can afford to feed so many, so Xi Yuan's money-making plan is about to be implemented. Xiyuan is now thinking about what preparations he has not done well, and what he didn't expect to need to supplement.

During this period, Xi Mingquan and his wife came to the house and brought two pieces of mooncakes for their grandparents. They asked what the father and Xiyuan were doing in Yansui a few days ago, and they bought them. What did you come back with?No one in the family likes to talk to them, only the old lady listened patiently, and from time to time they stabbed a few words, but the two of them pretended not to understand.In the end, they didn't find out who Ziwu Yinmao was. Both of them looked a bit sad. They felt that their parents were not generally eccentric, and the second child was eccentric when they were far away from each other. Still so protective!

The children in the family have already been told, Wei Cheng and Xi Wei needless to say, they all remember what the elder brother said, and if the elder brother doesn't let them tell others, they will definitely not tell others.Xiyang and Xiyong didn't tell them the truth at all. The two children are still young and don't understand the twists and turns of their hometown.

The couple really can't make up their minds, the old lady is shrewd, it doesn't matter what others say if she doesn't want to tell.Xi Mingquan's daughter-in-law mentioned again in a roundabout way, saying that the festival was coming, and the family had no money to buy things for the festival, and they didn't have the money to buy a piece of meat for the children, so the two young children cried.Xi Mingquan also has two sons, the older one is called Hutou and the younger one is called Goudan. The older one is already seven years old, one year older than Xi Wei, and the younger one is four years old, two years younger than Xi Wei.The two children are usually under the supervision of Xi Mingquan and his wife, and they are not called to play with the children of the elder brother's family. They used to see that the conditions of the elder brother's house were not good, and they were afraid that the children would play together and steal good things from their own children.Because they don't have much contact, the two children are not close to the two of the elder brother's family.Sometimes he would bully Xi Wei or the former Xi Yuan with other children in the village.However, since Xiyuan changed his inner lining, Xiwei and Weicheng have gradually become the envy and pursuit of the children in the village. The children in the village try to find ways to play with the two children, because Brother Xiyuan always makes them strange things. Toys, and some delicious food, they can have fun after playing along.

The two members of Ximingwen's family originally looked down on the cousins ​​of the uncle's family because of the adults' admonitions, but now they want to play with them, but they are unable to get close.

Xi Mingquan and his wife went around talking for a long time, and finally said their meaning, the eldest brother's family has so many chickens, ducks and geese, can you give them two to satisfy the child's hunger for the holidays?Grandma got annoyed when she heard that, she pointed at the two of them and scolded them, shameless, his eldest grandson was tired all spring, summer and half autumn, and the two adults were shy and asked for ready-made ones if they couldn't help at all!The old lady was so angry that she wanted to greet the husband and wife with a fire stick.

"Mother, what are you doing? Tell me about you. You're covering up my elder brother's stuff so hard, what can you do if you give us some?" Xi Mingquan said with seven dissatisfied and eight angrily.

"That's right, mother, you can't just point at the elder brother's family to take care of the elderly, can you?" Xi Mingquan's wife also interjected.

"I don't need you to teach me who I'm pointing at, but I can't point at you anyway. Don't think about my grandson's things, or I'll fight him for the rest of my life!" Grandma said angrily.

"Okay, mother, you can be biased, everything is biased towards the eldest brother, and now even the grandson belongs to the elder brother's family." Xi Mingquan was also very angry. People in the same village told him that they saw the old man and Xiyuan hiring him two days ago. It must be worth a lot of money to send things back in the carriage. It seems that his eldest brother's family has really made a lot of money this year.When he came to ask what it was, the old lady didn't even talk about it, let alone told him to look at it, or gave him some, of course the last thing was his goal.

"Of course I want the child to be good, and you don't want to be jealous. Your two boys haven't seen his grandparents for a year, and you blame me for not being warm." The two children of the whole family are not close to the old man and the old lady. They usually just call grandpa and grandma when they see it, and the old lady sighs with the old man when she comes back.

"Okay, okay, I'll send them both here tomorrow, take a look at you, take care of my elder brother's children, and take care of my second brother's children, we don't want to see them! Seeing that there was no hope, Ximing Quan led his daughter-in-law away angrily, and left the old lady at the threshold of the main room, feeling out of breath.

When Xiyuan came back in the evening and heard about it, he coaxed the old lady for a while. Grandma was getting old, so he was afraid that he would get angry.

The next day, Xi Mingquan sent his two sons to the eldest brother's house early in the morning, and he had long since watched them in displeasure. Why did the old lady put his children aside when she put the children of the eldest brother and second brother's family in front of her? .But he heard that the four little Maotou are being treated well now. The Hutou of the family went back and said that he saw Xi Wei and the others eating small dried fish.The greedy two of them kept fighting with his couple, crying and making noise.When he came today, he told him that there is dried fish at grandma's house, and grandma can ask for it if he wants to eat it.

Xiyuan didn't even pay attention to the father and son, and led the four little ones to drive the geese and ducks away first, and Ximing stared angrily.Huzi and Goudan followed two steps, then remembered Xiaoyugan again, ran to grandma and raised her face to ask grandma for it.The old lady was angry, but she was also her grandson, and she didn't want to treat the two little ones poorly. After Ximing had left, she led the two children to sit in the main room and took a small plate of steamed rice from Xiyuan. Dried fish and snacks bought by Xiyuan for the two of them.I was afraid that the two children would want more after eating, so I told them again and again that there were only these left at home, and they would be gone after eating.When the two children were eating, they nodded their heads after listening to grandma's words, and began to ask for it again after they finished eating.

At this time, the grandfather entered the yard, and the two children were still a little afraid of the stubborn old man, so the noise of the noise subsided, and the grandfather didn't break it, and took two sweet stalks that Xiyuan cut from the vegetable garden yesterday , sitting in the yard for the two of them to eat.

The old lady sighed in the room. It wasn't that she was stingy and eccentric, but these things were brought by his grandson, and he had no reason to give the things the child worked so hard to get to people he didn't want to see.

Xiyuan also understood the old man's thoughts, and kept silent. Sometimes he made something delicious and put it in the main room, saying that it was for grandma to eat, and it entered someone's stomach like a mirror in his heart. Just pretending to be confused.

Fortunately, such days didn't last long. After the autumn harvest, Xi Mingwu came to take away his two little ones. He knew that his elder brother's house would be very busy afterwards, so he didn't want to cause trouble for them. Xiyang and Xiyong didn't want to leave. Well, they haven't had enough kisses with Big Brother, Wei Cheng, and Xi Wei yet!But this time looking at holding the door doesn't work anymore, and Xi Mingwu told them to go with him obediently this time, and let them come after the new year, otherwise they won't be called again in the future, so pay it back Okay, so the two little boys followed their father back to their home with one step at a time.

Before leaving, Xi Mingwu said to Xi Mingquan that the child should not be kept with the mother all the time, for fear that some people would say that the old lady was partial.Xi Mingquan blushed, but didn't say a word. He was planting the second brother's land now, and he didn't know who could provoke him and who could not. Moreover, the second brother was not as honest as the eldest brother.

Xi Mingwu took the child away, so the children of Xi Ming's family don't come here all the time. They come twice occasionally. The fire was turned on, and he survived for two days, but he still fell on the kang. Xiyuan didn't pay attention at first, but now seeing the old lady's appearance, he hurriedly invited Dr. Li, and Dr. Li gave him a diagnosis and treatment. Said that he was angry, so he prescribed the medicine, Xiyuan went to get the medicine back, there is not much money left at home, the medicines for Wei Cheng in the last month were all on credit from Dr. Li, Xiyuan hoped With the busy farming season coming to an end, he was in a hurry to make money!