Crossing the green wheat ears

In mid-March, just before spring plowing, Xi Mingwen delivered goods from Yansui City and brought back a lot of fruit saplings, which Xiyuan asked Sun Ye to pick up in Fucheng.

The family moved the saplings from the car together, and started digging holes to plant fruit trees before it was dark.The fruit trees were mainly planted in the back garden. Xiyuan took a cherry sapling and planned to plant it in front of the room in the west wing where he led his children to study.When Xi Wei and Wei Cheng saw each other, they each took one and joined in the fun with their brother. Xi Yuan had no choice but to move his position. The three brothers planted three fruit trees side by side. Xi Yuan's cherry tree was planted in the middle, and Wei Cheng was on the left. The small apple tree on the right, and the crabapple fruit tree in Xiwei on the right.

"These two kids, they will do whatever his brother does." Niang Xiyuan murmured to Xi Mingwen as she saw the three younger brothers who were planting trees in full swing.

"Isn't it good for the children to be harmonious? Look at the old man's house in that courtyard. A few children earn this and that all day long, and they are from one parent. They are still *your mother* your father's* when they scold them. The adults don't take it seriously. " Xi Mingwen said with a smile.

"I'm not saying it's bad. Can our children be like theirs? If that's the case, I'll be ashamed. It's not embarrassing enough." Xiyuan Niang gave her husband a look.

"You, you're the one who said that because the children have long faces. If they are put up, you have to bear it. What can you do to them?" Xi Mingwen put down the shovel and went to get the fruit tree.

"But it's true. I didn't think that the people in that courtyard were too bad. They praised their children to the villagers when they were fine. They compared with our children when they were fine. They said that Xiaoyuan was lazy and that they were fine in the winter." I saw how hardworking the children were when I helped the family hold the firewood." Niang Xiyuan glanced at the east courtyard, but she could see it clearly across the old house.

"Let him compare, no one is blind, our children don't need to boast, everyone is good. Their children are hardworking, did they earn a penny for their parents? They are so big that they can fight for food and fight Ascension to heaven, I have the nerve to say that."

"Isn't it..." The couple whispered, without stopping their hands.In the nearby courtyard, the second aunt saw that the elder brother's house was busy planting trees, and kept urging Xi Mingwu to hurry up, calling Yang Yang to go over and help first, because they still had some work to do.

His elder brother went back two days ago, and the family had to plant the land, so the couple are now more tired than usual. Moreover, they moved back this year, and the land they planted for Ximing will also come back to plant at their own home. Haw for a long time, but didn't dare to say no, the fat beating in the first month still had an effect.

"Grandma," a little head poked out from the gate of the courtyard, it was the dog egg of Ximing's family.After Xi Mingquan was beaten, he stopped being angry with his elder brother's family and forbade others from coming over.Although the old lady was worried about the little girl, she couldn't bear to look at it.

Adults can refrain from contacting each other, but children don't have the perseverance.The big tiger is fine, he didn't get close to grandma at first, he used to come here often because of the delicious food, but now his father won't let him come, he is so happy that he doesn't have to study, so he doesn't see each other at all.

It’s not good for a small dog egg. He likes to play with his brothers, especially Xiyong who is about the same age as him. In addition, every time he goes there, his grandma or aunt will give him delicious food, unlike his own parents who will beat people. Swearing, so he often sneaks over to play for a while, and if Huzi sees him and goes home to complain, his father will scold him.

But he still can't make him not come to grandma's house.

"Little one, come in quickly." No matter how conflicted the adults are, the children should not be involved. Every time Goudan comes, Xiyuan's family will not show any signs of embarrassment.

"Goudan, come and help my brother hold some fruit saplings, and I'll give you candy after I'm done." Xiyuan teased Goudan.

"Hey, big brother, I'm here." Goudan was a little afraid of Xiyuan, now seeing his big brother calling him, and running over in a hurry, grandma felt very relieved when she saw it, no old man would like to see their children not getting along.

"Goudan, how is the little one?" Wei Cheng teased Goudan.

"Little Dot is so smart now, when I call her, she knows to turn her head to look for it." Goudan is now an important source for everyone to know about Little Dot.

"Are you crying that night?" Grandma asked.

"Sometimes I cry too. My mother didn't know she was asleep, so my father would kick my mother and wake her up." Goudan supported the sapling, and turned to tell grandma.

"Oh!" Grandma sighed, but said nothing, Xiyuan looked at the old lady, and didn't ask any more questions.

Several people planted three fruit trees, and planted two rows of grape seedlings on both sides of the path leading from the main entrance of the hall to the courtyard gate. The grapes will not bear fruit this year, but the grape trellises can be set up in summer to provide shade.Xiyuan planted two gourds near the grape seedlings, the kind of round-bellied gourds that can be used as ladles and rice, and two pumpkins, so that even if the grapes do not bear fruit, there will be pumpkins and gourds to decorate the grapes frame it.

After finishing all this work, Niang Xiyuan had already cooked the meal. Xi Mingwu and the others came to help, and she went to the kitchen to cook.The family, including Xi Mingwu's family and Goudan, sat at the table to eat.

After eating, Goudan didn't dare to stay longer. If he didn't go back for a long time, the family would guess that he had come to grandma's house, making it like a thief for a child to visit grandma's house.Grandma didn't say anything, it was Niang Xiyuan who packed Goudan with the snacks that Xi Wei and the others often ate, she still understood what the old lady was thinking.

Goudan clutched his pocket and sneaked back to his home.At home, Xi Mingquan and the others were about to eat.

"Goudan, where did you go? I don't know how to help mother look after my sister." The old aunt said angrily when she saw Goudan.Now there is a child in the family, who can't live without people, and the field work has to be busy again. Huzi ran away early in the morning, and she has to cook and take care of the little girl.

"I'm going to play at the east end of the village." Goudan lied to his mother.

"Didn't go to your grandma's house?" the old aunt asked.In fact, in her heart, she hoped that Goudan would visit the old lady's place more often. The old lady didn't give it to her in the past, and the family didn't miss the delicious food from her elder brother's house. She didn't care about her son or her grandson.

After giving birth to the little girl, I couldn't put it down seeing the old lady's appearance. She thought she could get some sweetness by relying on the girl, but who knew that her mother would make a fuss. The old lady didn't come to her house for almost two months, and she didn't usually say Let the child bring something back.

She has been very greedy lately, and that day because of this, she had a fight with Xi Mingquan, blaming Xi Mingquan for not letting her family members walk around with her elder brother's house, and Xi Mingquan gave her two fists in anger.

"Didn't go, my grandma's busy." Goudan is still young, and he can't lie easily.

"How do you know that your nanny's house is busy?" Xi Mingquan asked next to him.

"Ah?" Goudan was dumbfounded, and subconsciously covered his pocket with his hand.

"You must have gone to my grandma's house, Dad, Goudan lied again." Hu Zi jumped over, lifted Goudan's hand away, and grabbed a handful of food from his pocket.

"Give it to me, auntie gave it to me." Goudan chased after Huzi, and Huzi ran into the yard in no time, delivering food to his mouth as he ran.

"You bastard!" Goudan was very angry. Uncle and second cousins ​​didn't grab food from him, and returned something delicious to him, but his brother asked him every time, and robbed him if he didn't give it.Goudan chased the tiger twice around the yard but failed to catch up with the tiger. He was so angry that he threw dirt at the tiger.

"You two who are out of fire, stop making trouble, and come in for dinner." The old aunt yelled in the kitchen.

"What to eat, don't eat dog eggs, you don't want to go to your uncle's house, you can go to his house tomorrow, don't come back for dinner." Xi Mingquan cursed angrily.

Huzi listened to his father scolding Goudan, squeezed his nose at Goudan, and walked into the house.Goudan stood in the yard, not knowing whether he should enter the house or not. He was not hungry, he came back from his aunt's house full, but if he didn't enter the house...

"You said you, you got into a temper tantrum with others and used the child to spread evil fire. Goudan, come, come in and eat." The old aunt called the younger son, Goudan entered the room slowly, Xi Mingquan gave him a glare , did not say anything.

After working on the land at home, the weather has completely warmed up, and the cotton clothes can no longer be worn, and even grandma has changed into jackets.In spring, the earth is warm and everything is recovering, and the fruit trees planted in the West House have slowly recovered and started to sprout green shoots. Although a few died, most of them seemed to be fine.

Grandma also superstitiously tied a red cloth strip to each tree, saying that such a small tree would be easy to live.After Xiyuan taught the children, he walked around the tree a few times to see how many new leaves had grown, and where the leaf buds appeared.

On this day, Xiyuan was observing carefully in front of the small apple tree planted by Wei Cheng. Xi Mingwen walked behind Xiyuan and paused for a long time, hesitant to speak, until Xiyuan turned his head and saw his father.

"Father, what are you doing? You scared me."

"Xiao Yuan, Dad has something to tell you." Xi Mingwen hesitated.

"Ah, okay, Dad, tell me." Xi Yuan thought it was another family business matter, so he didn't pay too much attention.

"That's right, that..." Xi Mingwen groaned for a long time, but still didn't say it.

"Father, what's the matter, why can't you tell me about it?" Xi Yuan became nervous when he saw his father like this.It's probably not a good thing for Xi Mingwen to hesitate like this.

"Yuan, don't be angry if Dad says so." Xi Mingwen looked at Xi Yuan's expression.

"Father! If you don't talk about it, I'll be really angry!" It's uncomfortable to be tempted.

"It's the food made by our family. Recently, I found that there are always less and not many. I found..."

"Who came to our house to steal it?" This was Xiyuan's first reaction.

"Father secretly watched it twice, it seems that, yes, Cheng Zi took it." Xi Mingwen hesitated for a long time before saying, still looking at Xi Yuan nervously.

If it was taken by Xi Wei, or Xiyang Xiyong, he wouldn't be so embarrassed, the key is Wei Cheng!After all, Wei Cheng was not their own, and they usually paid attention to treating the child well, even if they did something wrong, they didn't dare to say it deeply, for fear of hurting the child.However, apart from being naughty, Wei Cheng basically didn't make any big mistakes, and Xiyuan corrected the small mistakes in time, so it really didn't matter what they bothered about.

This time it's different, taking out the food that makes money from my family secretly, to put it bluntly, isn't this an act of eating inside and out.However, after several days of observation, Xi Mingwen was sure that Wei Cheng did this. He didn't even dare to tell his wife, for fear that everyone would have a bad impression of Wei Cheng.

The family never treats a few children badly, even if it is food used to make money, as long as they want to eat, there will be no shortage on the dinner table. Now Wei Cheng and Xi Wei, including Yang Yang and Xiaoyong, are used to these foods, Therefore, when Wei Cheng takes something, he will definitely not eat it by himself.

If you don't eat it yourself, you must give it to others!This child, what's going on, how could he do this!Xi Mingwen was in a dilemma for a long time before he made up his mind to tell Xi Yuan.It can be said that Wei Cheng was raised by Xi Yuan alone, Xi Yuan was wary of Wei Cheng, better than Xi Wei, maybe because Wei Cheng had no other support besides his elder brother.

Many things Xiaoyuan did were for the sake of becoming a son!If there is no Wei Cheng, Xi Mingwen doubts whether the family will build a good house so soon. According to Xiao Yuan's personality, he will slowly make money and save money leisurely, and slowly save enough house money to build a house; Isn't it because Chengzi spent a lot of money on medical treatment after he came to his house, and Xiaoyuan felt sorry for his family, so he wanted to make money quickly to build a house so as to compensate everyone.

If it wasn't for Cheng Zi, Xiao Yuan wouldn't teach these children homework every day. He taught Xiao Wei so that Xiao Wei could read and write. Now that Cheng Nan and the others are added, it's not because Cheng Zi and these children get along well. , Xiaoyuan thought that in the future, Chengzi would have help when he grows up.

When Xiao Yuan taught homework to a few children before, he was laughing and falling (not paying attention). Xiao Yuan taught in the house, and he often worked outside, and he could hear it. Sometimes Xiao Yuan asked, so who are you? Will the back of the book be there?No, then go back and recite the meeting.So who, do you remember those words from last time, can you write them?Not yet, then go back and write more.In short, I will teach ten, and you can memorize five.

But ever since Wei Cheng learned boxing from Cheng Yi, Xiao Yuan felt that he owed Cheng Yi a lot of love. Seeing that the Cheng family attached great importance to Cheng Nan's homework, and the class was much stricter, now he often asked: "Will so-and-so recite the homework yesterday?"Will it?Then carry it.No, you're not reciting it right here, tell me, how long will it take you to recite it?A quarter of an hour?Okay, you can stay an extra fifteen minutes after school to memorize it by heart, if you can't memorize it well, don't go back today.

So now that Cheng Yi and the others don't use it, they know what their kid is learning. If they don't go back by the time, they will be left behind for homework.The children didn't dare to study and play like they used to, they were very hardworking, and he often saw Xiao Yuan reading with a book in his hands, probably for the children to use for their homework.

Also, as long as Xiaoyuan realizes what Chengzi cares about, he will find a way to get it.For example, Wei Cheng never leaves his hands now, and sometimes he hugs the small bows and arrows under the quilt when sleeping, such as the grape seedlings and cherry trees in the yard. Isn’t that Cheng Zi once heard another child say that he went to a relative’s house to eat, It's delicious.When Wei Cheng came back to eat, he learned from his family. Xiao Yuan didn't say anything when he heard it. After a few days, he went to Yansui City, and Sun Ye helped him buy some.

Xiaoyuan loves Chengzi so much, if Chengzi does something wrong, Xiaoyuan must be the most angry!But otherwise, going on like this is not an option, so Xi Mingwen struggled for several days before telling Xi Yuan hesitantly. He thought Xi Yuan would get angry, but judging by Xiao Yuan's expression, he seemed to be fine. Mingwen secretly let out a long sigh of relief.