Crossing the green wheat ears

After the Dragon Boat Festival, summer will begin, and when Maizi grows as tall as a calf, Xiyuan's mother will return to her natal home to celebrate her father's [-]th birthday.

"Far away," Xiyuan didn't want to go at first, but seeing his mother looking at him eagerly, hesitating to speak, Xiyuan still agreed.

Niang Xiyuan would go back to her natal home every first lunar month, and Xi Mingwen would accompany her, because it was winter, and Xiyuan had no substantive contact with her grandfather's family, so she didn't bother to move. Every time during Chinese New Year, his father and his mother lead Xi Wei back home.

Xiyuan's feelings for his mother are a bit complicated, because counting the age at which Xiyuan crossed over, his mother is not as old as Xiyuan, and calling a woman younger than him, Xiyuan has overcome it for a while. , Let Xiyuan treat his mother like other children again, Xiyuan feels that he can't do it anyway.

The relationship with Xi Mingwen, Xiyuan has been treated as father and son as brothers, father and brother for many years, his mother... can not be regarded as a younger sister, but at this time people generally look older than modern times, so Xiyuan more often treats her as a younger sister. His mother is positioned as a big sister, and she has been together for many years, so it is natural, similar to mother and child who have been like siblings for many years.

Seeing Xiyuan nodding and agreeing to go back to her natal home with her, Xiyuan's mother, Zhang Dongzhi, smiled brightly.She was very afraid that Xiyuan would not get in touch with his grandpa's family all the time, and his relationship would gradually fade.When Xi Wei heard that his elder brother was going too, he happily jumped up and down with Wei Cheng. Of course, since Xi Yuan was gone, he would definitely bring Wei Cheng with him.

The same seniority, but grandpa is much older than grandpa. Xiyuan asked grandma, and grandma told him that grandpa and grandma came together later, and grandpa left a daughter in the front room, who is now 40 years old and also It is the second sister that Xiyuan's mother said, why is she called the second sister, not the eldest sister, Xiyuan guessed that the grandfather may have had a child before the second aunt, and it is estimated that he died.

Grandmother is more than ten years younger than grandpa, and she is less than sixty now. She also has a child with the front room, who is Xiyuan's current uncle. At this time, Xiyuan realized why the surnames of uncle and uncle are different. My uncle's name is Guo Yan, and my younger uncle's name is Zhang Bin.What a fool!Xiyuan secretly tapped his head.

Xiyuan Niang and Xiaojiu were born after grandpa and grandma lived together, and to grandpa, they belonged to old sons.There is a downside to having children when you are old, because when you are old, you will be a little bit coddled with your children. Even if you don't want to be coddled, you will feel powerless if you want to control them.In addition, grandpa and grandma are not people who know how to live, so Xiyuan's uncles and uncles, including Xiyuan's mother, are capable, but they are not good at living. This is why grandma refuses to let Xi Mingwen and his wife live alone. s reason.

The life of grandpa's house is not good, and Xiyuan can feel it even if he has never been there.Every time Xiyuan settles the bill at Jude Building, he divides the money into several categories. One category is an integer. When I go home, I give it to my grandma and ask the old man to put it away. Grandma never forgets to put things away. Xiyuan was amazed at how much he knew.

Part of the remaining scattered silver and copper coins is used for the daily expenses of the family, and part of Xiyuan is distributed to the family members in proportion as private money. Grandparents, parents, including Xi Wei and Wei Cheng have them, so I want to buy them. You don’t need to open your mouth to ask for something small and small.

It's just that there are more parents and grandparents, and less Xi Wei and Wei Cheng.As for Xiyuan, of course he will not treat himself badly, and the dividends of Jude Building, because he borrowed money from Sun Ye before and did not tell his family, Xiyuan paid it off slowly, and now that he has no debts, he can't pay it off all at once. There is so much more, and the correction is so revealing, so Xiyuan decided to gradually increase the amount of dividends from Judelou.

Another point is that when Wei Cheng grows up, he has no right to share the property of the Xi family. If there is less, the family members can't say anything now. However, Xi Wei and Xi Yuan's generation have deep feelings for Wei Cheng. After all, who can guarantee that future generations will dig out these old bottoms?

However, it was impossible for Xiyuan to let his younger brother grow up naked and set up a new family, so he planned to secretly buy some property for Wei Cheng, and then give it to Wei Cheng after he established his own family, so as to ensure that Wei Cheng will have no worries about food and clothing in the future.

In Xiyuan's heart, his younger brother, whether it be Wei Cheng or Xi Wei, should be able to live a free and high-spirited life, without having to bend over for five buckets of rice, without having to wrong himself because of money, and become rich and powerful. Maybe not, but for a well-off family, Xiyuan is confident that it can still provide them.

As for Xiyuan himself, he is the eldest in the family and must live with his parents, grandparents in the future.Xiyuan sometimes feels that he looks like a teenager on the outside, but looks like an old man on the inside. He has to consider not only the elders' pension, but also the future of his younger brothers, as well as the family's livelihood.

Perhaps it was the natural dependence of Xi Wei and Wei Cheng, as well as the trust of his family, that inspired Xi Yuan's sense of responsibility, which made him have to think so much.

Think far!The reason why Xiyuan felt that his grandfather’s life was not good was because his uncle was in his 30s and hadn’t married yet, and his uncle was 21 years old and he still hadn’t settled for a marriage; the other reason was that his mother and father The private money in his hand can't be saved, and he didn't see how they spent it, so Xiyuan guessed that it was all taken by his grandma.Every time his mother came back from her mother's house, his father was not very happy, no one with money could afford such a helping hand, no matter how good-tempered Xi Mingwen was, he would complain.

"Grandma, why is my grandpa's life so tight?" Xiyuan asked grandma. It stands to reason that both uncle and uncle are strong laborers, and there are six acres of land at home, so they shouldn't live like this.

"Why?" Grandma narrowed her eyes and picked out soybeans. Ximing Wu's family makes tofu, and they have to pick out bad beans before cooking. Grandma took a curtain made of sorghum stalks and put the curtain on her lap. Use a pot at the bottom, grab a handful of beans and put them on the curtain, and pull them with your hands, the good beans will roll down the stalks into the pot, and the rest will pick out the bad beans, grandma will be fine Sometimes I help to pick some, and sometimes a few younger ones also help to get started.

"It's not that you don't know how to plan your life. Your grandfather used to work for a big family. Later, when the family moved away, he didn't go with him. He doesn't know how to live the lives of ordinary people." Grandma finished her selection, and then Grabbing a handful of beans and putting them on the curtain, Xiyuan also reached out to pick them up.

"Your grandma, she used to be a girl from a rich family. Later, the family lost, and the one in front disappeared. You married your grandpa. If the two of you deal with each other, you won't live a poor life like ours." It turns out that grandpa and grandma There is such a history.

"To live, you can't eat all the delicious things at once; if you have food, you can eat dry rice every day. You have to calculate how much food you harvest in autumn and how much is left? This is a year's food. Calculate and see. See how much you can share in a month, how much you can share in a day, which meal you eat dry rice, which meal you eat porridge, you have to add it up, so that you don’t go hungry from the beginning to the end of the year. You can’t eat Mao Nian in Yinnian If you don’t have enough food, you won’t have to tie your neck in Mao’s year.” This is the so-called living within one’s means, Xi Yuan thought.

"But you can't have food. You eat dry rice every day. There is not much left. You drink porridge every day. If you don't have any, you will tie your neck. How can you live like that? Isn't that what your grandma's family is like? Otherwise, they don't have enough food every year. Eat, you won’t be able to eat old autumn!” It turns out that my grandma’s family lived a life of “three days of small landlords, seven days of small rich peasants, and 20 days of small beggars”. This sentence was used by the moonlight people around Xiyuan in the previous life when they laughed Said.

"Your grandma, you used to live a good life, and you don't know how to live. Her natal family used to be a well-known rich man in ten miles and eight towns. People say that their family used pearls as pinballs and eggs as goat crutches." Throw it in your pocket. So, you can’t teach your daughter and son, your mother and your two uncles can’t live.”

After hearing what grandma said, Xiyuan nodded in his heart. The poor also have the logic of the poor and the way of life of the poor. There is a philosophy of life in it.

"Your grandma's family are not bad, they have a good heart, and they can do work. You go, their family has a catty of meat, and they won't give you eight taels of meat. When you were young, our family was sometimes busy and couldn't take care of it. You I used to stay at my grandma’s house, and I kept saying I missed my grandma’s house when I came back, don’t you remember? You were still young at that time.” Grandma might feel that what she said would make Xiyuan dislike her grandma’s family, so hurry up added again.

"Hey, I just don't know how to live. Like your mother, she has a good workmanship, but she doesn't know how to find jobs by herself. Only when you put the jobs in front of her eyes, can she know what to do." Huang Dou When the selection was finished, grandma patted the clothes, picked up the curtain and put it aside, poured the beans picked in the pot into the bag, and Xiyuan supported the bag.

"Brother, when I go to grandpa's house tomorrow, I will ask my uncle to take me to catch grasshoppers, and ask my uncle to tie me a grasshopper cage. No, there are two of them, and the second brother's." Xi Wei ran over and told Xiyuan plans for tomorrow.

"You don't know how to catch grasshoppers yourself. Your second brother knows how to tie grasshopper cages by himself. Why do you have to ask your uncle to get them? Well, before you go, you have assigned work for both uncles." Xiyuan asked Xi Weidao.

"But the grasshoppers caught by my uncle have all beards and tails, are pea-green, and they make a loud cry!" Xi Wei told his brother his reason with wide eyes, "The grasshopper cages made by uncle are made of Made of straw, ours is made of sorghum stalks. The straw is strong and beautiful!"

"Okay, when the time comes, you can go and tell your uncle and uncle, if they agree with you, I have no objection, and I will also take a look at what kind of grasshopper and grasshopper cage can be praised by your Lord Xi Wei, I don't believe it, a grasshopper Can you make patterns out of cages?" Xiyuan joked with Xi Wei when he saw Xi Wei's arrogant appearance.

"Hmph, don't believe me, you'll know when the time comes, I'll let my uncle and my uncle just mess with each other, my second brother and I have one, no part for you!" Seeing his brother's disbelief, Xi Wei felt that his self-esteem was hurt. , so the way to fight back is not to play grasshoppers and grasshopper cages for my brother.

"Okay, okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." Xiyuan said perfunctorily.

"Brother, if you haven't seen it, you don't believe it. You are not seeking truth from facts at all!" Xi Wei was a little anxious.

"Hey, do you still know how to seek truth from facts? Not bad!" Xiyuan was amused by him. This is a word he told several children when he told stories before.

"I still know what is romantic and suave!" Xi Wei raised his neck.

"Hey? Don't say it, you still know this word, so tell me, what does it mean to be romantic and suave?" Xi Yuan asked.

"It's just a windy and runny nose, and the snot is dripping down." Xi Wei rolled his eyes arrogantly.

"Hahaha, whoops, cough, cough, ha, haha..." Xiyuan couldn't help it anymore, and he didn't take care of Xi Wei's little self-esteem anymore, he coughed until he laughed, feeling depressed because of listening to grandma talking about grandma's house It suddenly became clear.

"Brother, you are too bad, I won't be with you! I won't be with you again!" Xi Wei was so angry that he ran into the house and couldn't come out. Xi Yuan laughed for a while, then ran over to coax his brother, and told him what It's suave.