happy looking back

Tired of it.

In the end, I went to You Dan's house to cook the broad beans in circles, one bunch per person, and casually took Li Xiqing's share with me.

20

20. Track...

As the sun goes down, people who have worked in the fields for a day spontaneously line up in long queues, singing the song of marching forward and going home.Grandpa and Dad returned home with tiredness and sweat on their faces, while Grandma and Mother hurried to the kitchen to get to work, regardless of the itching of the wheat awns on their bodies.

The woolen factory on the team is short of manpower, and cannot complete the target tasks assigned by the superior within the specified time.The uncle and aunt had been transferred to work in the factory a week ago. They worked sixteen hours a day and returned home late at night.The little uncle and two little cousins ​​go to the school in Xiaohe Village every day, and all the farm work in the family is done by the father and the grandfather.

"Grandpa, wash your face!" I held the washbasin upside down and put it on the stone table in the yard, and picked up the thermos bottle and wanted to pour water into it.The father on the side was so scared that he quickly grabbed the thermos bottle, which was not much shorter than me.

"This is boiling water, don't take it next time!" My father bluffed me with bully eyes.

"Don't scare the child." Grandpa glared at his father with bully eyes, and his father nodded sullenly, feeling really wronged in his heart: the father's rules are not right!

"Grandpa, wash your face!" Dad poured hot water into the washbasin and added some well water, and I immediately handed the washcloth to Grandpa in a jerk.Grandpa smiled until his eyes narrowed, while Dad pouted his mouth in jealousy.

"Look at your cat face." Grandpa washed his muddy arms with cold well water, picked up a small towel on the clothes rack, put it in hot water and rubbed it, wrung it dry, put the towel over my head and wiped it all over my head .Until I wiped off the dust and sweat on my face, neck and hands, the clean hot water in the washbasin also turned into gray-black sewage.

Grandpa soaked his washcloth in the sewage without hesitation, and the wrinkled and rough thread ends on the clean washcloth.Seeing the hard bulge, Grandpa rubbed the skin covered in red bumps punctured by wheat awns fiercely.There was a comfortable "hum" sound from his mouth, but there were shocking red bruises on the skin that was rubbed vigorously, even a little bloody.

"Grandpa——" Looking up at the bloodstains on Grandpa's strong arm, tears could not help rolling in his eyes: It would be great if there was a bottle of toilet water.

"Baby loves grandpa very much, grandpa didn't love our bitter roots for nothing." Grandpa squatted down, and stretched out his big rough hands full of calluses to wipe away the tears from my eyelids.

"It hurts?" Stretched out a pink little finger to poke Grandpa's red arm, looking at the cheerful old man in front of him with distress.

"It won't hurt if the baby touches it like this." Grandpa laughed loudly.

"His father! Don't get the thorns on the child." Grandma came out of the kitchen with the porridge, and she was a little annoyed when she saw grandpa pinching my face.

The last ray of light of the sun submerged below the horizon, and the vast land fell into darkness.The dog days have not yet come, but the scorching high temperature envelopes the earth like a steamer.People went out of their homes to hide in the dense bamboo forest to enjoy the cool air, gathered in twos and threes, chatting without saying a word, killing the long night.

"Be careful on the road." Mother said

The package in his hand was stuffed into his father's hand, and he asked in a low voice worriedly.I was lying on a hammock between two bamboo trees, and vaguely heard two people whispering to each other.

There are always four or five times every year that my father rushes out like an underground party without telling everyone, and only sneaks back home until midnight. I have always wondered where my father went during these few hours?

My strong curiosity dispelled the last bit of drowsiness. I pretended to be asleep and squinted my eyes to watch my mother send my father out of the bamboo forest.I got up from the hammock and ran to my grandma who was weaving bamboo baskets not far away, coquettishly yelling to play with You Dan.Grandma was so entangled that she had no choice but to agree, but Qian reminded her: Don't go to the river, don't go to the fire, don't play in dark places.

Worried that my father would be too far away to keep up, I nodded and agreed, and ran out of the bamboo forest with my two short, fat legs.Faintly saw my father rushing into a dark alley, I sneaked behind him.Passing through the long alleyway, there is a desolate valley at the end. This is the abandoned quarry left over from the Great Leap Forward and steelmaking two years ago.

Tall weeds were as tall as two of me, blocking the front view.There are large bare/exposed boulders everywhere under my feet, and the potholed road tripped me to the ground several times.Seeing my father's rapidly shaking back getting farther and farther away from me, I was secretly anxious.

"You don't sleep at night, you are really a bad baby." Shi Shi ran out of a black figure from behind a large rock rising from the ground, with a low voice with a hint of interest, I immediately recognized that the person was Li Xiqing .

"You follow me!" No matter where I go, I meet this guy.

"You can't wrong me, baby. I came here earlier than you and your father." The dark light and shadow blurred his tall and vigorous figure, and Li Xiqing walked slowly from the darkness, with a look of prey that terrified me. .Trying his best to suppress the chill in his heart, he was secretly annoyed: why is he so passive every time he sees him!

"Come here?" Here, nothing but weeds and rocks, nothing but the sound of wind.Coupled with the inaccessibility of people and the silence around it, it makes people shudder to think about it.And why is Li Xiqing here?enjoy the cool air? !

"Are you going to discuss this with me here? It seems that you can't see your father now." I stood on tiptoe and looked into the darkness in the distance. Sure enough, I couldn't see my father anymore, feeling a little disappointed.

"What are you doing?!" Just as I was dazed, my body lightened suddenly, and I saw Li Xiqing's face that was close at hand but full of mischief.I struggled desperately, trying to break free from the restraint of the two steel and iron bones, but found that the arms around my waist were getting tighter and tighter.

"Baby, are you curious about what your father is going to do?" Li Xiqing's magnetic voice revealed an irresistible temptation, and I looked at the slightly cruel thin lips in front of me with a sexy arc: it was at 21 Such superb men in the century are rare.

After being fooled by the charming nod, he suddenly remembered that this man was not a big domestic wolf dog, and his nervous little hands tightly grabbed the collar of Li Xiqing's chest.

"Be obedient, and I'll take the baby to find Dad." Li Xiqing saw my panic, her brows were furrowed, and a slight displeasure appeared on her indifferent face.Gently patted my slightly stiff back, comforted me softly, and the fragrance lingering at the tip of my nose made me feel inexplicably at ease.

Lying quietly on Li Xiqing's shoulders, she looked at the rapidly retreating rocky cliffs around her, the silvery moonlight scattered over the quiet valley, and dots of fluorescent light danced in the dark green grass.The cool mountain breeze is refreshing with the fragrance of green grass. Listening to the even breathing sound in the ears, there is a sense of fantasy that blends into the quiet moonlight.

A flickering fluorescent light playfully lingered in front of Li Xiqing, and suddenly a black light and shadow "swished" past, setting off a strong cyclone that made me close my eyes nervously.

"What is this?" Li Xiqing's cheerful and uplifting tone actually carried a coaxing tone that he didn't even notice, as if he regarded me as a child who was having a temper tantrum and needed to be teased by his parents.

"Ah! Firefly." Although Li Xiqing's tone surprised me for a moment, when I opened my eyes, I saw a bright green bug dragging its glowing buttocks around in panic. .

In the 21st century, I can only recall this magical little bug in my memory. Although I can see it often now, it always makes me feel very romantic and innocent.

"I don't see such insects anymore in my hometown." I stretched out my hand to gently touch the glowing underbelly of the firefly, and suddenly heard Li Xiqing sigh in a low voice.I couldn't see Li Xiqing's face, but I could vaguely feel the melancholy of being alone in a foreign land.

"Then your hometown must be very developed." Seeing that the atmosphere was at a low ebb, I quickly praised Li Xiqing's hometown.However, what I blurted out turned into a fire, and Li Xiqing's sharp eyes scanned my huge brain with a CT scan.

"Uh——the TV said that the environment in places with developed industries is seriously polluted, so some insects are facing extinction." I hurriedly explained, but found that the more I said, the more outrageous it seemed.

"Environmental pollution?" Li Xiqing looked at me burningly.

"Insects are extinct?" Li Xiqing's approaching gaze was extremely aggressive, which made my cold body start to sweat again.Instinctively hugging my head: I can't slice my head and soak it in formalin!

"Television?" Li Xiqing saw my panic, her strong sense of oppression was restrained, and she looked at me with narrow teasing eyes.

"It's in Secretary Gao's office in Changzheng Village!" My grandfather and I saw it several times when we went there for meetings. It was black and white, with an antenna, and only three or four channels. The sound quality and picture were quite unclear. I am used to LCD screens in the 21st century, which is quite boring.

"Long March Village?" Li Xiqing asked doubtfully.

"Hmm! Mmm! It's the wealthiest village in our village." I nodded repeatedly.

"En!" Li Xiqing responded lightly.

I feel like being scratched by a kitten in my heart, feeling uneasy: Is this believed?

"Father?!" A big hand covered my mouth, suppressing my sudden high-pitched exclamation.

Behind the inaccessible quarry is a large area of ​​ruins, broken stones and rubble, and vines and thorns everywhere.in this barren