when she became "he"

He made up his mind to honor Zhao Wenwen's promise to his parents. Seeing Zhao Dazhu and his wife get up, it was difficult for him to sleep again, and he was not used to sleeping on this hard bed.

Turning on the incandescent lamp in the room, Xu Nuo got up straight from the bed. As I said before, the place where Zhao House is located is under the jurisdiction of Southwest R City, and it happens to be the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the temperature in this place is as low as [-]%. More than ten degrees, even if it is not covered with a quilt at night, it is still too hot, so I promised to sleep without covering anything last night. Fortunately, Zhao Wenwen's body can withstand the toss. there is a problem.Moreover, the people in this place don't have the habit of sleeping in pajamas. They wear whatever they wear during the day and what they wear at night. The promise is to go to sleep directly in the clothes they changed last night.

Xu Nuo got up to wash up, and Zhang Xiujuan was getting bran to feed the chickens. Seeing him, Zhang Xiujuan was a little surprised: "Why did Dawen wake up so early?"

Although Zhao Wenwen is a rural child, he is different from ordinary children. Zhao Dazhu and his wife seldom ask him to do anything. In their eyes, reading is a very sacred thing. The children in the village follow their parents to the fields, and only help the leader when they are busy. The rest of the time is spent reading or doing homework. It is no wonder that the villagers say that he is stupid in reading and studying. Which child in the village really does not need to work like him? What is alive is that the parents said no need, so is it true that they really feel at ease not to help?

But Xu Nuo obviously didn't think of this. He looked at Zhang Xiujuan and called "Em" awkwardly. Unlike the previous few times, yesterday it was a subconscious reaction, not his original intention, but now he accepted Zhao The identity of the article was first exported after calling this mother.

"I couldn't fall asleep in bed, so I got up."

Zhang Xiujuan didn't know what was going on in his mind, she just said: "Then you sit down first, and you can eat after E-Mum cooks the rice."

Xu Nuo rinsed his mouth, watched Zhang Xiujuan wash rice, busy, did not see Zhao Dazhu, a little curious: "Mum, where is Dad?"

Without raising her head, Zhang Xiujuan said, "Your father has gone to the field to cut the grain first." To cut the grain is the way people here harvest rice.

"So early?" Xu Nuo couldn't help exclaiming. He looked at the sky, it was a little brighter than what he saw in the room just now, and he could probably see people. Is it four o'clock now?

"Cut more while the weather is cooler in the morning, and it will be uncomfortable when the sun rises." Zhang Xiujuan's tone was very normal, and she didn't think there was anything wrong at all.

Xu Nuo was speechless, and, moreover, he remembered that Zhang Xiujuan came back to get food yesterday, and Zhao Dazhu didn't come back at noon, that is to say, Zhao Dazhu went out before dawn, didn't come back at noon, and didn't come back until dark at night , working more than 12 hours a day.

In just one day, he saw the hard side of farmers. When he was in the hospital, he often heard doctors and nurses complaining about the difficulty of going to work, the difficulty of taking care of patients, less rest time, and low wages. Come on, what is that.

Watching Zhang Xiujuan put the washed rice into the pot, Xu Nuo rushed to sit in front of the stove: "Mum, I'll light the fire for you."

"Okay, you're burning, I'm going to wash the clothes I changed yesterday."

Zhao Wu still uses an earthen stove here, and the pot is also a large-mouthed iron pot. Xu Xu has never used the natural gas stove in the city, let alone this earthen stove. He grabbed a handful of pine needles and ignited it with a match, but every time The first time he put the firewood on it, he put out the fire again. After striking more than a dozen matches back and forth, he still couldn't start the fire. If this continues, he will probably have to finish the box of matches.

Xu Nuo felt a little frustrated. From the kitchen, he saw Zhang Xiujuan washing clothes by the well, and he didn't seem to notice it. He was relieved. It should be said that the original owner of this body, Zhao Wenzhang, would make a fire, but although Xu Nuo had him However, the dominant personality is himself. Although there are some memories, there is still a gap in the actual operation.

In the end, Xu Nuo found a few thin dead branches, grabbed a large handful of pine needles, lit the pine needles, and slowly put the dead branches on. Keeping enough space in the middle, there is a "fire blower" next to the stove, which is a bamboo pole with two ends. He promises to take it over and blow on the fire. Tears came out from the smoke from the bamboo tube. I wiped away my tears and continued to blow slowly into the stove, so that the fire was kindled slowly. Looking at the burning flame in the stove, I promised to put it down. I picked up the "torch blower" and finally laughed. It's really not easy to light a fire!

About half an hour later, the water in the pot boiled for a while. Zhang Xiujuan came back and scooped up the porridge in the pot and put it into a basin. People here usually only cook once a day, that is, in the morning. Put it in a big pot, eat it directly in the pot at noon and night, and put it in the water tank when it is hot, so as not to get too hot and make the porridge go bad, and the vegetables are only fried once at night. Eat pickles in the morning and at noon.

"Em, where are you cutting the harvest today?"

Xu Nuo learned from Zhao Wenwen's memory that several fields in their family were planted with rice, but these fields were not in the same place. Unlike the plains in the north that Xu Nuo saw on TV, the fields here were all small. The larger ones are hundreds of square meters, and the smaller ones are only a dozen or twenty square meters, or a field is originally quite large, but when the brothers separated, they divided the field into several small pieces.

Not only is it small, but the terrain is also uneven. The previous field may be tens of centimeters higher than the next field. When heavy rains arrive in summer, the water in the upper field will be completely poured into the lower field.

Zhang Xiujuan replied: "In the field in Qishan."

Xu Nuo remembered that this field was quite far away from home: "Then do you come back for lunch?"

"Your father hasn't eaten the morning food yet, and he will bring something to him later. I'll come back at noon. Your father probably won't be back."

so hard?

"Mum, I'll take you and Dad there, don't run back and forth!"

Zhang Xiujuan glanced at him unexpectedly, probably because Zhao Wenwen had never mentioned this matter before, but she still refused.

"The sun is so poisonous at noon now, you don't need to go."

Xu Nuo was really a little ashamed this time: "It's okay, Ah Mu, I can wear a hat, and it's just a little time, you and Dad have worked so hard, I can't do nothing."

Girls and boys are different after all. Zhao Wenwen has never said these words to Zhang Xiujuan before. Every time she sees her son reading in her room, she doesn’t care about anything. , but life is too busy, she doesn't have much time to think about it.Now hearing her son's thoughtful words, Zhang Xiujuan's eyes couldn't help turning slightly red. With her son's words, no matter how hard it was, it was worth it.

"There is only this one rice cup at home, and it will be gone after E-Mu takes it."

Seeing Zhang Xiujuan let go, Xu Nuo hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter, I'll get it back when Dad finishes eating."

After thinking about it, Zhang Xiujuan agreed to her son's request. It was also good to let Dawen do something for her, so that the people in the village would not gossip about Dawen all the time.

After the rice was cooked, Zhang Xiujuan fed the pigs and dogs again. After drinking two bowls of porridge, she went out with the porridge prepared for Zhao Dazhu. Yes, he remembers that there is a cow at home, and the job of herding cattle is relatively simple, and he can take over immediately. He is now a part of the family, so he will naturally help with things within his capacity, but not yet. In order not to show flaws like burning a fire today.For these, Xu Nuo is still very interested. All the things in this village are new to him. In fact, he is now a child who has just encountered new things, and everything feels new.

Zhang Xiujuan left and promised to start eating breakfast. In this weather, overnight food is basically unusable because it has gone rotten, so the morning dish is a little pickle. Xu Nuo looked at the long strip of pickle and took several mouthfuls before he recognized it was white radish. Sun-dried radish, but this is called "caitoupi" here, and radish is called "caitou", and there is another kind called "melon skin". It was made of dried meat and was so tough that she couldn't break it even after several bites.

Breakfast is this, and lunch is probably the same. No wonder Zhao Wenwen and Zhao Dazhu are so thin, they cook too much, eat poorly, and suffer from severe malnutrition. Xu Nuo guessed that Zhao Wenwen's height is estimated to be about the same, and his weight is unknown. 110, you can imagine how thin you are.In fact, Xu Nuo doesn't know that Zhao Wenwen's height is considered short in this place. People in city r are generally not tall. Women are considered tall if they are 1.6 meters, and men are considered good if they are 1.7 meters. As for being thin, they are indeed thinner.

After eating, the sky was already bright. Xu Nuo remembered that there was a wall clock next to the calendar. He went to look at it, and was surprised to see that the hour hand had already pointed to the number "6". I thought it was only 5 o'clock now.

After pondering for a while, he realized that this is not the city he was in before. At the same time, the city before him was already dawn, but it was still dark here. This is the time gap between east and west, but all parts of their country are connected with the capital. At the same time, this results in that at the same time, the easternmost city is already dawn, and the westernmost city is still at night.And there is almost an hour's time gap between the city he was in and here.