Insects chirp one after another in midsummer, and the golden sunlight streams from the gaps in the broad leaves of the luxuriant magnolia, falling a little on the arm of the person by the window. , but the pen in his hand was pointing straight to the page without moving.

Pei Yu felt that his elbow had been lightly flicked. He regained his composure in an instant, turned his face to his deskmate and tried to force a smile, then hurriedly looked up at the blackboard, and wrote down the notes he had missed just now.

Pei Yu lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes seemed to cover all his thoughts, but Cheng Zexian could see clearly just now, the crouching silkworms in this guy's eyes became more obvious, his eyes are shining like crescent moons when he usually smiles There are also subtle red bloodshots, which can be seen from crying last night.

Guilty and uncomfortable, Pei Yu copied for a long time, wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, took a deep breath, and slowly adjusted himself.

After a physics class was over, the laughter and talking in the classroom instantly drowned out the cicadas outside the window.Many students came to Pei Yu's desk, asking him about the difficult points of the class just now.

"...Look, I fell asleep again." Someone looked at the back of Pei Yu's deskmate's head.

The seats were rotated last week, and Pei Yu and Cheng Zexian sat in the last row. One of them seemed to fall asleep in a second after lying down. They didn't care about everything around them, and no one dared to approach them; Nothing could be said, Pei Yu was patiently answering other people's questions.

The busy and fulfilling day passed quickly, but this afternoon Pei Yu was uncharacteristically, and said apologetically to a few classmates: "I have something to do these few days, so I have to go home first."

They were stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Go quickly, we'll think about it after we get home."

Although it is only the first year of senior high school, the students of Liangying Middle School have already started to work hard. They will soon usher in the third monthly exam of this semester.

The other person who was still packing his things paused for a moment, looked at the bulging gray and hazy blue schoolbag on the back of the handsome young man beside him, then turned around and whispered to himself: "Chengzi, let me go first." Go back." Then he quickly left the classroom.

Looking at Pei Yu's back, Cheng Zexian couldn't help but think of his slightly red, swollen and wet eyes, and his whole body instantly became gloomy and cold. He put down the schoolbag in his hand, and called to the few people who were about to ask questions just now: "You guys You can ask me, tomorrow too, or these few days.”

It was rare for Cheng Zexian to take the initiative to say such a thing. They were a little unbelievable, but they all understood the meaning of his words: don't disturb Pei Yu.

Pei Yu doesn't have a bicycle, and his family used to have a permanent brand Erba Dagang. It was rusted and damaged in the early years and sold to the recycling bin.He trotted across the crowded and lively school road, and after carefully avoiding the crowd and leaving the school, Pei Yu quickened his pace and ran home.

His home is two kilometers away from the school, passing through the busy streets and high-rise buildings, Pei Yu entered the increasingly narrow alleyway, stepping on the polished bluestone road, his voice was very crisp.

It is shady and humid here, and the narrow alleyways are lined with two or three-story houses, which are very close together. Most of them are old buildings of some age. The eaves are still wooden, and the bricks and tiles have been polished by the years. The moss also slowly climbed up.

Because he was thinking about his mother who was bedridden, Pei Yu ran very fast. The schoolbag containing six or seven textbooks made his thin shoulders hurt and his ears were buzzing.He shortened the usual 25-minute journey a lot. Pei Yu's house is at the deepest part of the alley, and after that is Dahe.Right now, every household is cooking and frying. Occasionally, there will be the sound of “sizzling” the oil pan. The rich aroma of fried eggs and fried rapeseed floats in the air. Because the houses are close together, the voices of several families can still be heard.

Finally at the door of the house, he opened the door with the key, and the damp breath mixed with the smell of wood gushed out.

Pei Yu locked the door, then walked through the front hall and corridor, and behind the kitchen was a two-meter-square yard. There was a small figure behind the threshold, and when he heard the voice, he turned around and shouted: "Brother!"

It was his brother Pei Kun, who was six years younger than him, with a neat cropped cut and a little baby fat on his cheeks. When he saw Pei Yu, his eyes lit up.

"Akun, is mom feeling better?" Pei Kun is already in the fifth grade, and every day when he comes home from school, he moves a small desk and chair to the well-lit backyard to do homework.

"Mom said that the pain in my waist is gone, let me come down and do my homework first..."

"I'll go upstairs and have a look." Pei Yu thought to himself, Mom must be worried that the two of them are in a hurry, so she said something to comfort them.His father left early, and his mother has always supported the family.In the past few years, my mother has been working two jobs. During the day, she helps cook in a small frying shop outside the university, and at night, she works at the Longsheng Canning Factory in the eastern suburbs.

The night before yesterday, before the canning factory got off work, his always warm-hearted and kind-hearted mother helped the workers move the boxes. She accidentally sprained her waist and couldn't stand upright, so she was sent to the hospital directly.Because the brothers did not have mobile phones, it was already noon when the aunt in the factory contacted the brothers.

Pei Yu rushed to the hospital and saw his mother lying on the hospital bed unable to move. Her nose was sore and her eyes were clouded with mist, but she was still holding Pei Kun's fleshy little hand. He tried to bite his lower lip. Cry in front of mom and brother.

Although it was still difficult to sit up and walk around, Ms. Song insisted on staying for two days before being discharged from the hospital. Although the hospital has nurses to take care of it, the cost of hospitalization for one day is high.According to her current state, she can't do both jobs.Cooking needs to stand all the time, and occasionally the pot must be turned over, and the work in the factory is even more tedious and tiring.

"Knock, knock." Pei Yu knocked on the door lightly. Hearing his mother's voice from inside, he opened the door and entered the bedroom.

"Mom, I'm back, does my waist still hurt?" Pei Yu stood beside the bed.

Ms. Song sat up slowly on her own, and responded to him with a smile: "Ayu, Mom is fine, don't worry." Pei Kun also ran upstairs at this time. He reached out and hugged his mother.

Pei Yu was also hugged, and he realized that his mother had lost a lot of weight.Ms. Song used to be in very good health. At their age, they had to do all kinds of farm work since they were young, which is why she can afford to work two jobs in black and white for a long time.

"Pei Kun, stay with mom, I'll go down and cook." Mom can no longer do heavy work, and the biggest man in the family has to stand up and support the family.

Pei Yu went into the kitchen to wash the rice and steam the rice, then squatted down and picked out a bottle from the bottles and jars on the ground, which contained sauerkraut.Their pickled cabbage is dried from the cheapest bitter mustard greens and then pickled in clean mineral water bottles and Pepsi bottles.The salty and sour smell rushed over. Pei Yu took a lot and began to cut into pieces after cleaning.

Grandma Huang next door knew that his mother hurt her waist, so she went to the street to buy vegetables today and brought back a large piece of lean meat for their family.In the past, he and Pei Kun would go to the place where their mother worked to have a "staff meal" after school at noon. The monthly lunch fee of [-] was deducted from Ms. Song's salary.In the evening, Pei Yu usually cooks dinner and breakfast together.

He cut the meat quickly and thinly, but the momentary trance made him unable to control the direction of the knife, and the sharp blade cut straight through the left index finger that was pressing the meat.

"Hiss—" The skin and flesh were cut, and there was a burning pain on the white and thin fingers, and bright red blood dripped out of it instantly.

Pei Yu put down the knife and quickly found iodophor to wipe and disinfect the wound. Once the black and purple solution touched the wound, it seemed that the burn was even worse. Enduring the pain, Pei Yu wrapped it with gauze three times before continuing to chop vegetables.

This time he didn't dare to be distracted, he slowed down and finished cutting the rest of the meat, peeled and shredded the potatoes, and immediately started cooking.The shredded potatoes were stir-fried in a pan dripped with a thin layer of oil, and then they were cooked with some water. Taking advantage of his spare time, Pei Yu thought for a while, beat two eggs into a large round bowl, beat them evenly, sprinkled some fine salt, Steam over water.Mom is recovering and needs to eat well.

In order to make it easier for Ms. Song to eat, Pei Yu put all the meals in her bedroom on the second floor, and he and Pei Kun sat next to them and ate together.

"Ayu also eat some water eggs."

"Mom, I don't like this. Fried meat with sauerkraut and rice." Pei Yu said, and put a chopstick of pickled sauerkraut into his mouth. It was crispy and sour, and the plump and sour juice overflowed his mouth.

"Mom, eat meat." Pei Kun brought her fried pork slices. The eldest brother learned his cooking skills from his mother. The sauerkraut slices are thin and tender, and they are especially delicious when dipped in sauerkraut juice.

Song Yingli saw Pei Kun licking off the rice grains from the corner of her mouth, and Pei Yu was holding a bowl of sauerkraut and rice, eating silently, but she really liked it on her face.She sighed silently in her heart, the two children in the family are too sensible.

There is not a grain of white rice left in the two brothers' rice bowls, only a faint greasy sheen.

Seeing that everyone was full, Pei Kun took the initiative to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, and went downstairs to wash them—he had sharp eyes and saw that the left hand of the elder brother holding the bowl was not natural when he just ate.

After removing the gauze and washing with povidone iodine, you can still vaguely see the traces of the cut, but the mother sat on the bed and didn't see it for a while.

Pei Yu took a large basin of hot water in the bathroom, put a towel on it, and sent it to Ms. Song's bedroom before coming down to pack her things.

In summer, Pei Yu always uses cold water for showering, and the water heater in their house is still connected to a gas stove, so he often bathes in hot water, and the gas consumption is fast.

Every time after Pei Kun took a shower, there was still heat in the narrow bathroom. While feeling the warm air, Pei Yu poured cold water on his skin and rinsed it off with soap. The wound on his hand was covered with soap. The water overflowed and the pain started again.When there was only cool air left in the room, he just finished washing and put on his pajamas.

"Brother, apply the medicine." As soon as he sat down, Pei Kun next to him handed over iodophor and cotton swabs.

Pei Yu paused, smiled and thanked for taking it.

After he rubbed the medicine on the wound of his index finger, the child leaned over and blew gently, saying, "The pain flies away."

The two brothers sleep in the same room. The bunk beds that were put up seven or eight years ago have not been changed. The bedroom is not big. As the two of them grow bigger, there is no room for their books to pile up in the room. The desk was moved out of the bedroom and placed in the only living room on the second floor.The two brothers stood side by side with two tables and chairs. The books on the table looked like a mountain on one side and a slope on the other, and they were all neatly arranged.

Pei Kun finished his homework in the afternoon, and he was already reviewing and previewing at this time. Unlike boys of the same age who couldn't sit still, he started to study after sitting quietly. Usually, Pei Yu had to urge him to sleep.

Hearing noises in the room during the period, Pei Yu immediately got up and went in, helped his mother up, and went to the bathroom. After returning, Ms. Song urged Pei Kun to go to bed earlier.The child rubbed his eyes and obediently brushed his teeth and went to bed. Pei Yu was busy with schoolwork and continued to read for more than an hour before returning to the room.

Quietly up the ladder to the upper bunk, Pei Yu closed his eyes, but the exercises he just wrote and the picture of the narrow and crowded home always appeared in his mind. He couldn't help thinking that he had to shoulder the burden of this family—— I no longer secretly wipe away my tears like last night.Ms. Song can't go to work during this time, even if she recovers later, Pei Yu doesn't want her to do heavy work anymore.

Hearing the steady breathing of his sleeping brother in the lower bunk in the dark, Pei Yu also slowly closed his eyelids...

Pei Yu turned around, suddenly felt that his body was hanging in the air, and fell to the ground lightly with a "slap", which made him suddenly open his eyes. Pei Yu found that he didn't accidentally fall from the upper bunk, but fell on the floor of the sprinkler. On the earth in the warm sun!

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