It rained the night before, and when I got up in the morning, the ground was still a little wet.
Wei Jianguo went up the mountain before dawn and broke half a sack of green bamboo shoots. After breakfast, He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue peeled the bamboo shoots in the yard.
Only the two of them were at home in the morning, and the three men were called by the team to repair the canal. Wang Chunhua took Wei Yuanhang to the commune to have a drink and be a guest. Without that little talk, the house was quite deserted.
"Xiao Hang always sticks to you, but suddenly she is not by her side, which is a bit uncomfortable."
He Xiaoyun said, "I feel pure without him twittering."
"Look at you, that is, it is hard to see. I haven't seen it for a while, and I have to read it again in my heart." Feng Qiuyue laughed at her.
"Sister-in-law, don't laugh at me in a hurry. You will become a mother in the future, when I laugh at you." He Xiaoyun countered.
Feng Qiuyue said happily, "Then I can wait."
The two talked and laughed, and they finished the work quickly. The stripped bamboo shoots were cut into strips, and they were blanched in a pot, leaving a bowl of minced pickles for noon stir-fry, and most of the rest was spread out and dried on the stone wall. .
"Xiaoyun."
He Xiaoyun was standing next to a half-person high stone wall, and suddenly heard someone calling her. When she looked up, it was her eldest sister He Xiaofen and her little niece.
"Sister? Why are you here? Come in quickly." She hurriedly walked around the door and greeted them both.
He Xiaofen walked in with her daughter, and glanced at the hall, "Your mother-in-law is not at home?"
He Xiaoyun stretched out her hand to take her little niece and said, "Someone got married today, and she took Hanghang to have a drink." She lowered her head and teased the little dumpling in her arms again, "Huihui, I am auntie, don't you remember? I?"
The little girl is only a few months old. She looked at her with her eyes open and her mother again. She didn't cry or make trouble, she was very cute.
She teased for a while, then remembered, and said, "Sister, you come to sit in the house with me."
Feng Qiuyue heard the voice and walked out of her room, "Xiaoyun, has your eldest sister eat breakfast?"
He Xiaofen said hurriedly: "You have eaten, and you won't go out until you finish. Don't be busy."
He Xiaoyun also said: "Sister-in-law, please rest, my eldest sister is not an outsider, so don't be so polite."
Feng Qiuyue smiled and said, "Well, your sisters speak well, and I won't bother."
He Xiaoyun took her sister back to the room and let her little niece sit on Qiqi bed to play, and the two of them sat on the edge of the bed.
"Your house is really clean," He Xiaofen surveyed the house. "It's not like my house, which is like a pigsty."
"Where does anyone say that your own, your room is a pigsty, what have you become?" He Xiaoyun laughed.
He Xiaofen scoffed at her and said, "I'll just talk like that, you can just listen to it, don't think about it."
He Xiaoyun smiled and shook her head, and took a building block to tease the little doll, "How's the family going? How are the brother-in-law and the two children?"
"What can be wrong with them, it's you, brother-in-law has been back for a while, haven't you quarreled this time?"
"Nope."
"It's fine if you don't have it, right, where's the lady?"
He Xiaoyun said: "I went to the ground to build a canal."
He Xiaofen nodded, and said: "Last time I went home, I wanted to come and find you by the way, but the time was a bit rushed, but it didn't happen. Next month is not our mother's birthday. Although it is not in previous years, but this year is fifty years old. For the whole life, I want to make her lively, what do you think?"
"Yes." He Xiaoyun nodded in response.
"Don't deserve it too early, I mean, it's better to take advantage of my brother-in-law's home and give mom a birthday in advance. When that happens, you will have three in your family, and I will have four here. I've made an appointment to go back together."
After hearing this, He Xiaoyun couldn't help but calculate it in her heart. Wei Jianwei's vacation, excluding the time on the road, was a month. He returned in mid-April, and now it is almost mid-May. There are only five or six days left when it is full.
It turned out that he was leaving. She suddenly realized this problem.
"Do you discuss it with your brother-in-law in the evening?" He Xiaofen said.
He Xiaoyun came back to her senses and nodded, "Okay."
The two sisters also agreed on a specific time and what to do that day. He Xiaofen came directly from her husband's house, and had to return to her family's house, and left soon.
Near noon, He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue went into the kitchen to cook lunch.
Feng Qiuyue asked her: "Why don't you keep your eldest sister for dinner?"
"My sister's person is always up and running. If she doesn't want to stay, no one can keep it."
"Looking at her gentle and gentle, she is as beautiful as you, but you can't see that she has such a temperament."
"Sister-in-law's words, I take it as a compliment to me." He Xiaoyun smiled.
Feng Qiuyue also laughed: "Isn't it just complimenting you."
The lunch is ready, still delivered by He Xiaoyun.
The canal on the team is drawn from the Qingshui River to irrigate crops far away from the river. The entire canal runs across the field and is more than two kilometers long.
The three of Wei Jianwei and his son were not in the same place. He Xiaoyun sent Wei Zhenxing and Wei Jianguo first before arriving at him.
The two looked for a willow tree, sat down in the shade, and brought out the food.
"Have you eaten?" Wei Jianwei asked her.
"After eating, Dad and Big Brother also gave it away, and the rest is yours."
Only then did Wei Jianwei picked up the bowl and ate the rice.
He Xiaoyun sat aside, picked up a branch boredly, and tossed it in her hand. She told about He Xiaofen's coming home in the morning, "My sister wants to go back to my mother together the day after tomorrow. Is it convenient for you?"
Wei Jianwei nodded, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said, "The canal will be repaired one day tomorrow, and it will be fine the day after tomorrow."
"Then it's settled." She gave a final word.
The noon sun was bright and dazzling, and the cicadas tried their best to scream on the tree, but the shade was quite refreshing.
The breeze blew, and a few leaves fell. He Xiaoyun picked up one and played with it, and suddenly muttered, "I don't know if the little fat guy has a good meal at noon."
It took a few seconds for Wei Jianwei to understand that the little fat man in her mouth, talking about their son, was dumb for a while, and then said, "His body shape is normal."
He Xiaoyun glanced at him, "Be honest. You can't blindly ignore the facts before you just because you are his own father."
He didn't think he was his own father, and said: "I can hold it with one hand."
He Xiaoyun didn't even glance at him now, "Then you can still carry a bag of rice with one hand."
Wei Jianwei was a little helpless, "This is not comparable."
"I said if you can compare, you can compare." He Xiaoyun waved her hand, "You eat quickly, the leaves will fall into the rice in a while."
After speaking, she lowered her head as if earnestly studying the leaves in her hand, and no longer gave him a chance to wrestle.
I remember that when I was watching TV, I often saw the protagonist sitting under a tree and playing music with leaves. Although she is not the protagonist, she is the protagonist's mother. She should have this skill too?
Thinking like this, with a bit of self-confidence, she put the leaf in her mouth and blew it hard.
"puff-"
He Xiaoyun immediately put down her hand and glanced at Wei Jianwei nonchalantly. Seeing that he lowered her head to eat, he seemed to have not paid attention to her movement, so she was relieved and quietly threw the leaves away.
Wei Jianwei finished eating quickly. She put the dishes and chopsticks away and put them in the basket again. Just about to stand up, a melodious tune like a saxophone suddenly sounded in her ears.
He Xiaoyun raised her head and saw that he pinched the leaf with both hands and placed it beside his mouth, blowing out the tune easily.
His eyes were still looking at her, and the twinkling in those eyes was obviously mocking!