Crossing the green wheat ears

On the night when Xiyuan took him home, Wei Chengcheng became ill. Ximingwen invited Dr. Li from the village overnight.Dr. Li prescribed the medicine, saying that the child had been badly injured, and he needed to be treated and raised so that he could recover slowly.

"Doctor Li, can you bring him here?" Seeing that Wei Cheng had taken the medicine and fell asleep, Xiyuan came over to inquire about Dr. Li's condition.

"It's not easy to say. We can only watch the situation while taking the medicine."

"I haven't heard of this child's illness or disaster before?" Xiyuan Niang asked.

"Before? Did you dare to get sick in that house before? Can his father and stepmother treat him when he got sick? This is your house. Only when he knows that someone loves him can he rest assured of getting sick." Dr. Li sighed.

"Then we need to treat it well, can it get rid of the root cause of the disease?" Xiyuan was more worried about whether the disease could be cured. The living conditions here are poor, and a cold or fever can easily kill him.

"Do your best and obey the destiny. You child, don't think too much." Dr. Li patted Xiyuan's head, "You are a good person, and you can't make mistakes when you grow up. No amount of adults are as good as you!" He pointed It was Xiyuan's righteous rescue of Wei Cheng.

"Hey!" Xi Yuan had nothing to say, but smirked.And Dr. Li, although we are children in body, we are adults in heart, okay, can you not touch my head!

From that day on, Xiyuan's family continued to make soups and medicines every day. Xiyuan bought, brewed and fed the medicines by himself without any help from others. Can't be a good person, he did it, and leave the trouble to others.If the family members show a little impatience because of this, he must feel uncomfortable.Xiyuan thought about his own psychology for a while—maybe no matter how hard he tries to integrate into this family, there is still a distance in his soul!

The family's money was spent like running water, grandparents and parents are kind-hearted people, besides, the money was earned by Xiyuan, now that Xiyuan is looking after Weicheng like this, they can't say anything.For this reason, Grandpa also held a special family meeting except for Xiyuan, where all members of the family (including Xiwei) must attend.

"Now that Xiaoyuan has brought Wei Cheng back, we can't treat this child differently, we have to treat him as one of our own." Grandpa said in an unquestionable tone.

"Father, the collar has been brought back. It's not good to treat other people's children." Wei Cheng's mother first stated that Xiyuan is her son. It's comfortable, now that the old man said so, she doesn't worry anymore.

"Father, we are not that cruel family. Since the child is here, let's treat it as an extra child in our family." Xi Mingwen also expressed his opinion. Judging by Xi Yuan's appearance, it is impossible not to keep Wei Cheng in this family. .

"I'm also Brother Wei Cheng." Xi Wei interjected, "My brother will cook delicious food for me, and I'll give him a half." Looking at the lord, he hesitated again, "Is it half of the score?" He really couldn't bear it, it was all his own before.

"It's fine to divide it into a half. Wei Cheng is an older brother, so we can be less important. Our children are the most sensible." Grandma patted the little grandson's head and said.

Xi Wei smiled happily, and his brother said, when Wei Cheng was ready, he would take them both to hunt pheasants in the wild and cook chicken thighs for him when he came back.

There are still four or five days before the Chinese New Year, and there are many things at home, cleaning up the house, making New Year's food and drink, preparing for the New Year's New Year's ceremony with relatives... Xiyuan didn't participate at all, and concentrated on taking care of Wei Cheng.

In the past few days, the number of guests at home has suddenly increased. People from the village who are acquainted and not acquainted all come to sit at his house for a while.Some people came and took something, saying it was for Wei Cheng, food and clothing, but grandma refused all of them.

"It's really unnecessary. My family has all these. My Xiaoyuan can call Chengzi Qu. I don't want any clothes for the New Year. I asked his mother to make it for Chengzi. The whole set is new! This is what his mother is doing. It's all new cotton, good cotton, new inside and out." Grandma showed Wei Cheng's new clothes to the villagers.

"Yes, this cloth is quite expensive, isn't it? It seems to cost more than 20 yuan a piece." An old woman answered.

"I can't buy more than 20 wen. I asked in an exhibition last time, and I was not willing to buy it for 38 wen." Another aunt looked at the fabric and said with certainty.

"I bought it for 38 coins a piece. My Xiaoyuan is very picky about buying things, and he can pick everything he buys." The grandma said with a smile. In fact, it cost 38 yuan to buy. Who made his Xiaoyuan dare to talk and can bargain Well, they asked for [-] Wen a horse, and Xiao Yuan was stunned to talk about [-] Wen, but she wouldn't tell these good friends, who like to listen to things.

"Yeah, your Xiaoyuan can't be wrong when he grows up. This kid is responsible and kind-hearted. No one in the village praises him now." Of course, he must speak kindly in front of the Xi family.Xiyuan also accidentally established a glorious image and gained a good reputation in the hearts of the villagers.

Of course, this is in the eyes of discerning people, and there are many other people who gossip and wait to see jokes: a mouth is added to the family, or someone with a foreign surname, a fool would do it, just wait, you can’t say that one day you won’t be able to eat It's time to react.A child in Xiyuan doesn't understand, and the adults of the Xi family don't understand either?There will be a day when they regret it!

Xiyuan didn't care what the villagers thought or said, he concentrated on taking care of Wei Cheng in the house, and didn't bother anyone who came.After a few days of treatment, Wei Cheng has recovered a lot. Every day, Xiyuan not only boils medicine for Wei Cheng, but also carefully prepares him with all kinds of food and drinks. He uses the limited materials at home to make delicious meals. Of course, Xi Wei's food is indispensable. , because Xi Yuan dotes on Xi Wei very much as his younger brother, and now that there is Wei Cheng, Xi Yuan is afraid that Xi Wei will have a gap in his heart, thinking that his brother doesn't love him anymore, and he will never forget Xi Wei's part in everything he does.For this reason, Wei Cheng hasn't been doing well these days, but Xi Wei's life is better than before. His brother always cooks delicious food, which he has never eaten before. Xi Wei opened his belly and started eating. In just a few days, his little face became round. It turned out that because Wei Cheng came to the house, the worry that his brother would not like him was gone. Instead, he felt that life with Wei Cheng was better.

Today, Xiyuan is in the back room, using a charcoal brazier to cook meat porridge for Wei Cheng and Xi Wei. There are white rice, millet, chopped diced meat, and meat residue left over from boiling suet. Xiyuan also puts diced green onion and Salt.Before the porridge was ready, the smell filled the room, and Xi Wei was anxiously walking around Xiyuan beside him.

"Brother, brother, how long will it be better?"

"Wait for a quarter of an hour. The longer the porridge is cooked, the better it will be." Xiyuan pressed some ash on the charcoal fire to keep the fire down. The charcoal was made by grandpa and father in autumn, and it was a little smoky, but the farmhouse also It doesn't matter that much.

"Brother, when will you take brother Chengzi and me to chase pheasants?" Xi Wei asked, lying on Xiyuan's back and putting his arms around Xiyuan's neck.Although Xi Wei didn't show any repulsion towards Wei Cheng, in front of Wei Cheng, he was more or less careful about competing for favor, and would play flirtatious with Xi Yuan when he had nothing to do.

"If you don't follow, I will go tomorrow when the weather is fine. If you want to follow, wait until next year." The snow that fell this winter was half a meter thick, and the five-year-old boy went to the field, Snow can drown him, let alone running in the snow and chasing pheasants.

"Oh, but I want to go too." Sivera raised her voice and pouted.

"You obediently stay at home and help brother take care of brother Cheng Zi. When brother comes back, I will cook you big chicken drumsticks, okay? The snow in the field is higher than you. If you don't (read Mo) go in, brother will not be able to find you." Xi Yuan Coax Xi Weidao.

"Okay, then when you catch the pheasant, come back and use the pheasant feathers to make me a shuttlecock." Xi Wei took the opportunity to raise another condition.

"Okay, brother, be a pretty one, you and Chengzi, you two play." Xiyuan looked at Wei Cheng who was sitting beside them and listening to them obediently.The shuttlecock was told by Xiyuan to coax Xi Wei, and Xi Wei remembered it, which was also an important reason why he wanted to catch pheasants with his brother.

"Brother, when are you going?"

"I'll go as soon as the sky clears. It's been snowing for three days. I guess it will be sunny tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Xi Yuan said while serving the porridge from the charcoal brazier.Stirred it a few times with a spoon, then took out two bowls and put them on the kang table, leaned over and carried Xi Wei and Wei Cheng onto the kang.Although Wei Cheng is two years older than Xi Wei, he is not as Shen as Xi Wei.

The two children drank the porridge slowly one mouthful at a time.Xiyuan believes that food supplements are not as good as medicine, so in order to maintain Wei Cheng's health, he tried to make him some digestible and nutritious food.The family conditions are limited, so we can only make some porridge and soup, but both children are very satisfied.

Of the five catties of meat I bought during the Chinese New Year, I used two catties for the cabbage wrap. In the past few days, Xiyuan chopped a small piece of meat that weighed about one catty into pieces, and put less of it every time I made porridge and vegetables, because It is finely made, and even though it has less meat, it tastes delicious.

There are still two catties of meat, which is not enough for the New Year, and there is the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month, so Xiyuan wants to go to the wild to catch pheasants, but the wild in winter is not easy to travel, the snow is too deep, and it is difficult to walk. I was sweating all over from exhaustion, and people in the village often went to the place close to the village. Pheasants basically would not come here, so they had to go a little farther to catch them.

Another day passed, and in the morning we came to open the door together, and the sun reflected on the snow and dazzled our eyes.When the weather cleared, Xiyuan decided to carry out the plan of catching pheasants.

After hearing Xiyuan's plan, his grandfather called Xi Mingwen to go with Xiyuan. Although Xiyuan said that he was 11 years old, but because of poor family conditions, he was thin and small. Grandpa loved his grandson, but Knowing what Xiyuan was thinking, it was not easy to stop him, so he asked his son to go with him.

Together with his father, Xiyuan took the rope and wooden sticks and walked for six or seven miles before turning from the main road to the wilderness. Thinking of Xi Wei and Wei Chengcheng, he persevered.

The father and I walked for two hours, and finally heard the cry of a pheasant in a bush. The two of them sneaked up and approached slowly. When they were three or five steps away from the pheasant, the pheasant fluttered. He flew up, landed ten meters away, and hid his head in the snowdrift. He really didn't care about his head!This pheasant is really cute and silly. It got its head into the snowdrift, thinking that it can't see you, and you can't see it, isn't it ridiculous?This is really a veritable carelessness.

Xiyuan usually does not exercise much, and his hands and feet move slowly. When he saw pheasants running around clucking and clucking, he followed his father to chase after him. When he reached the place, he and his father pulled out the pheasants like pulling a carrot, and then tied their legs with ropes. Up, this time a total of three were caught, and the others all ran away without a trace.

Xiyuan and his father followed the footprints of pheasants, and set up a dozen sets in places where pheasants are more common.Xiyuan felt that he had no strength anymore, so he went home with his father.

From a distance, Xiyuan saw Xi Wei and Wei Cheng waiting for them at the entrance of the village, and hurried over, "Why are you two out? It's so cold today, brother won't let you out?" Xiyuan touched the two of them Little face flushed from the cold.

Wei Cheng was wearing clothes made by Mrs. Xiyuan, and a cotton hat made by grandma on his head.When grandma was making it, Xiyuan was so excited that he sewed a red pompom on the hat with wool, and the red pompom on the hat bounced when Wei Cheng walked.Xi Wei also liked it, and asked his brother to put one on his hat, so the two little red pompoms were facing each other, looking very festive.

"Dad, dad, show me, I'll take it." Seeing the pheasant, Xi Wei couldn't care about anything else, and ran over to insist on carrying it by himself.The three pheasants weighed more than a dozen catties and were alive. He couldn't handle them as a child, so Xi Mingwen bent his waist to help him carry them.

"Hey, is this going to hunt pheasants?" I met villagers on the road, and everyone came to see them.

"That's right, it was for Chengzi and Xiaowei of my family. After walking for a whole day, this pheasant is not easy to chase." Xiyuan didn't want the things he worked so hard to be coveted by those people, so he opened his mouth to eat them first The idea was blocked back.

"Hey, this child Chengzi is enjoying a blessing when he comes to your house. See how kind your brother Xiyuan is to you, and even catch pheasants for you to eat." The villagers next to him echoed.

"That's right, my family's Chengzi is fine too." Xiyuan hugged Wei Cheng and turned him upside down again.Wei Cheng put one arm around Xiyuan's neck, with a smile in his eyes, shining like golden dandelion flowers in the spring field.

"Mother, you said Xiaoyuan is such a prodigal, he spent five liang of silver on someone who has nothing to do with him. You and father don't talk about big brother and sister-in-law. How can you spoil the child like this." Haven't entered the hospital yet door, Xiyuan heard an annoying voice.

This is Xiyuan's third aunt.Xi Mingwen has three brothers. He is the eldest, and the second is Xi Mingwu. After getting married, he moved to the village where his father-in-law's home is, and sold tofu with his uncle.The third and youngest is Xi Mingquan, but he lives in this village.

However, the relationship between the two families is not good, and they seldom come to the eldest brother's house, even this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, to give the old man some gifts.

The main reason is that Xi Mingquan is rather domineering. He always feels that the old man is partial to the eldest brother, and suspects that the old couple gave the money from their private house to the eldest family. Especially after the second eldest Xi Mingwu moved away, the family's five mu of land was originally intended to be rented to the eldest brother's family. , This can be regarded as doing my best to my parents. The young couple quit, had a big fight with the old man, found fault with Xi Mingwen, and fought with Xi Mingwen. In the end, Xi Mingwen and his wife took a step back and took the land It was given to them, but the two families have less and less communication since then.

Because of Wei Cheng's spending of five liang of silver, everyone in the village knew about Xiyuan, and Ximingquan and his wife also heard about it, so they thought it was impossible for the elders to have such money. How could his elder brother and sister-in-law, an honest person, have the ability to earn such money? Money, the old man must have taken out the money he had saved.

The sum of the couple is unbalanced. Although the father and mother lived with the boss, they should also have a share of the money of the parents, so why not spend it on the boss.The two of them often come to the old family's neighborhood for the past few days, seeing that the elder brother is not here today, and the elder sister has something to go to the neighbor's house, so they come in to talk sarcasticly to the old lady.

"Everyone's own money, how people like to spend it, no one can control it, and I am the same as a mother." There was no one around during the holidays, and now seeing Qian thinking of him and the old man, I really thought she was a fool.

"Mother, what you said, you don't care about the right things, and you don't stop what's wrong, and let them be so prodigal." Xi Mingquan said with a sullen face.

"Everyone's thoughts are different. It's not that you think it's wrong. It's okay, you two, don't mess with me. I have to make dinner. Your elder brother and sister-in-law should come back later, and you two should go home too. Go." The old lady began to shout.

"Mother, look at what you said, it's so crooked." The third aunt was still not happy.

"That's what I said, don't listen if you don't like it." The old lady lifted her legs and got off the kang.

"Mother..." Xi Mingquan wanted to talk to the old lady again.

"Grandma, grandma, we're back." Xiyuan said loudly in the courtyard. Before that, he had asked his father to take the pheasants to the barn. If these two people saw it, he would have to take one of them.

"Hey, my eldest grandson is back? It's cold outside, come in." Grandma ignored the couple, opened the door and came out to meet Xiyuan.Xiyuan went into the house as if he didn't know, went to his parents' room, put Wei Cheng on the edge of the kang, took off his shoes, rubbed his feet with his hands to keep warm, the weather outside was too cold, so he had to stay for a long time Easy to freeze feet.

"Mom, it's time to cook. Let's go back first." Hearing that Xiyuan was back, Xi Mingquan and his wife knew that there was no game today, so they hurriedly got up and went home.

"Got it." The old lady didn't even send it away.

After the youngest couple had left, Xiyuan went to the warehouse and called his father and Xi Wei in. They didn't even dare to show their faces just now.

"Grandma, grandma, look at the pheasant my brother caught." Xi Wei has an inexplicable admiration for his brother. Originally, his brother and father caught it together, and he attributed it all to his brother. Xi Mingwen didn't mind listening to it, and stood aside. Hey laugh.

"Hey, I haven't eaten pheasant for many years, and your grandfather caught it twice when he was young."

"You don't even look at who caught it. Your eldest grandson is the one who will take care of the two." Xi Yuan began to taunt again.

"Oh, it's not too windy outside, why are all the cows being blown into the sky?" Grandma also teased Xiyuan.

"Ah? Really?" Xi Wei hurriedly ran outside.

"You silly boy, you are teasing your brother." Xi Mingwen couldn't hold back his joy either.

"Grandma, let's stew one tonight." Xiyuan asked grandma for instructions.

"That's not okay, it's not Chinese New Year yet, life is not like this, eat whatever is delicious." Grandma thinks stewed chicken is too extravagant.

"Grandma, I promised Xiao Wei and the others that I would stew chicken legs for them." Xiyuan continued to bargain with grandma.

"Then stew two chicken legs?" Grandma knew that Xiyuan felt sorry for her two younger brothers.

"Also, when the chicken is killed, the chicken blood is also kept, as well as the chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken intestines, chicken gizzard..." The internal organs of the three chickens are quite a lot together, so you can have a good meal, Xi Yuan think.

"Okay. But let's forget about chicken intestines, can they be delicious?" Grandma still can't understand Xiyuan's obsession with intestines.

"Grandma, you keep it, I'll get it done, I'll make sure there's no smell at all." Xiyuan was full of confidence.

"Okay, I'll trust you once. I'll boil the water. Boss, kill all the chickens. Clean them up and put them outside to freeze." Grandma turned and went to the kitchen.