Chapter 36 Farewell
"Okay, let's have a meal." After the dishes were fried and the rice was ready, Chen's mother called him to have a meal.
I saw Chen Yubin, who had been talking for a long time, walked to the stove in one step and watched his mother scooping rice for him.
The whole family sat on the table and started to have dinner lively. Xiaoxi looked at Chen Yubin who was eating voraciously, and admired his eloquence! Moreover, after talking for so long, he didn't drink any water. It was so amazing!
After dinner, we continued chatting.
"Mom, how old am I now?" After dinner, the family of five sat around the dining table and ate loquats, setting up a dragon gate formation for a while.
"Six years old." Chen's mother gestured six times.
"Ah... I asked you last time, and you also said I was six years old." Chen Yubin felt something was wrong.
"Oh, then you're seven years old." Seeing that his son was very serious, Chen's mother couldn't help but joke with him.
Seeing that my mother was so uncertain, Chen Yubin was angry, "Mom, how old am I?"
Poor child! Xiaoxi remembered that he was like this when he was a child, and always asked adults stupidly how old they were. I remember when I was in kindergarten, I asked my mother how old they were. Chen's mother said she was five years old.
In the first grade, one day when she came home from school, Xiaoxi asked how old she was. Chen's mother lied to her for eight years. Xiaoxi repeatedly confirmed that she was five, six, and eight years old, and she was playing around with Xiaoxi.
At night, when my mother and Chen Yubin were asleep, Xiaoxi went into the space to clean up the fruits he bought yesterday.
Apples and lemons are very simple. Take seeds directly and raise seedlings in the field. I saw a sharing on the WeChat official account. After eating, the pineapple stems will be buried in the soil, and it will directly grow a pineapple tree. The stream directly cuts the ground, cuts the pineapple stems, bury them into the soil, and waters some spiritual spring water to improve survival rate.
The same is true for small tomatoes. The seeds are too difficult to clean up, so they are sliced directly, buried in the soil to raise seedlings, and then watered some lake water. Over time, the space is full of spiritual energy, and a lot of spiritual energy has been integrated into the lake water.
When the tomato seedlings grew, Xiaoxi specially laid a piece of land to grow small tomatoes because the taste was amazing and delicious. After eating it for Grandpa Chen, he also said it was delicious. Since he had eaten cherries, Grandpa Chen asked Xiaoxi to eat fruit every now and then. Now there is a small tomato. Seeing that he likes it very much, Xiaoxi plans to add more tomatoes.
I planted the apple and lemon trees onto the mountain again, and the pineapple was alive again, and it was growing happily now.
Another thing is that the road on the mountain has been completed. It is just a simple repair, because it is made into a winding mountain road, so the time has been longer.
One-fifth of the mountain peaks are covered with fruit trees, and other places are bare. At this time, fruits are hung on the fruit trees. The forest is dotted with stumps, either thick or thin, like birds or animals, like standing or sitting, with strange shapes and all manners. A path one meter wide is circling in the middle like a silk belt, and the stream plans to lay some stones on it in the future, which will definitely look good.
When the stream made the road, it was July and the summer vacation was almost over. Chen’s father’s work in the county was only waiting for the payment.
In this final exam, Chen Yubin did a good job, ranked fifth in the class and first in Xiaoxi, and Chen’s mother was rewarded with two yuan each. Xiaoxi happily put away this unexpected fortune.
There is also summer vacation life (don’t think this is really life, this is homework), dozens of pages, mathematics and Chinese are all in the same book.
"Tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows are tomorrow?" In the past, Chen Yuxi was playing crazy as soon as he had to take a holiday. He worked overtime two days before he had to finish his vacation. Every time he was rushing for homework, he secretly told himself that he had to finish his homework next time before playing. But next time he committed, he made up his mind to commit it again, and it continued over and over again, forming a vicious cycle. However, now he must get rid of his bad habit, mainly because he is bored. He can still play with his mobile phone, but what if he doesn't have a mobile phone? When he goes out to play, the sun can't stand it; dazing is not a long-term solution.
It’s better to do your homework. It just so happened that Chen Yubin was fidgeting like a needle on the stool. Xiaoxi felt that he was ravaged. Who made him bored? If I’m bored, you have to accompany me, so let’s do your homework together.
After a few days of summer vacation, Chen's father's salary was settled. He had two children at home and could not stay at home like this. So Chen's father took Chen's mother out to work again. However, this time they no longer left quietly, and said goodbye to their two children when they left.
The day before leaving, Chen's mother went to the county town and bought them toothbrushes, toothpaste and a small umbrella. The two children were happy to receive the gift.
In the evening, everyone told me a goodbye. Xiaoxi remembered that he had dried a lot of dried fruits. Although the fruits were dried, there was still a lot of spiritual energy. He secretly stuffed a lot of dried red dates and dried cherries into the package. He was afraid that they would not know where they came from then on, so he wrote a note to stuff them inside.
Chen Yubin also grew up a lot. When he heard that his parents were leaving, he just cried reluctantly, and did not say anything to his mother, nor did he act extremely.
Xiaoxi knew that during this summer vacation, separation was about to take place.
Xiaoxi’s pear trees this year started with a lot of fruit, but they were blown away by the wind, and only a few were hung on the fruit trees in scattered fields. But what’s abnormal is that the pear tree leaning against the stone beside the road in front of the old house was covered with green pears, bent the branches.
August is the season when pears are ripe and sad.
It rained all night last night, which made the hot summer day a little warm. The stream got up and found that water droplets hung on the moss in the yard outside, washed by the rain, making it look even more green.
The yard in front of Xiaoxi's house is full of crisp stone slabs, and a thin layer of soil is covered with it, so it is easy to grow moss. It is difficult to remove moss. Grandpa Chen used a hoe to remove it, and even scalded it with boiling water. It is very efficient. It will turn yellow and die in two days, but a few days later, new ones will grow. Alas, people say that "the wildfire cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze will grow again", which is "the boiling water cannot be burned out, and the death will be repeated after another."
However, moss is still beneficial. For example, chickens prefer to peck at the tender leaves, and the moss is softer, like covering a layer of blanket, especially after rain, sucking enough rain and stepping on it barefoot, it is very soft and comfortable than the blanket.
After breakfast, I saw that except for Chen Yubin, the house was alone, but it sounded like the old yard was very lively, so grandpa and the others might have gone there.
"Hurry up and have a meal. After we have sex, we will go to the yard to play with Zhao Juan and others." Under the encouragement of the stream, Chen Yubin had already finished his summer homework and can now play with peace of mind.
After Chen Yubin finished his meal, Xiaoxi quickly washed the dishes and went to the yard with him.
"Xiaoxi, my mother-in-law is dead." As soon as I entered the yard, Xiaoxi and the sisters were pulled together by Zhao Juan, and then they said the news casually. In fact, it is normal. Children of this age do not understand what death is, what separation is, what sadness is, and what pain is.
"Ah? What is death?" Chen Yubin asked Zhao Juan curiously.
Zhao Juan thought she knew something, so she explained to Chen Yubin, "I just lie there, and my mother-in-law is lying on the bed and falling asleep now."
"Oh, can we go and have a look?" Chen Yubin hadn't seen a dead person yet, so he was very curious about how to sleep with a dead person.
When Zhao Juan heard this, her eyes lit up, as if it was her novelty, which could be displayed in front of the young man. She pulled him and said excitedly: "Yes, let's go, I'll take you to see."
Xiaoxi hurriedly grabbed them, and Zhao Juan asked in surprise: "Xiaoxi, what's wrong?" Chen Yubin also looked at his sister in confusion.
Seeing their innocent faces, there was no sadness at all. They were curiosity and excitement when they discovered new things. Xiaoxi almost couldn't control his emotions and was calm. "Oh, my uncle is asleep, so let's not bother her. Binbin, don't you hate others disturbing you when you sleep."
Chen Yubin thought about it, so he nodded in agreement, "Yes, I hate others disturbing me when I sleep. Then Xiaojuan, let's not go."
Whether or not Zhao Juan felt it was indifferent, and she said indifferently: "It's okay, just forget it if you don't go."
When Xiaoxi saw that they started chatting again, she was speechless.
"Xiaojuan, how did your mother-in-law die?" Chen Yubin still couldn't help but ask.
"My mother-in-law is so full." She also gestured with her hands, "I ate such two bowls of noodles last night and didn't get up this morning."
"Ah... Then I can't do this in the future. When I encounter delicious food, I'd better eat a little less. What if I'm too "suffered" to death?" Chen Yubin said worriedly.
Seeing that the two of them were getting more and more outrageous, Xiaoxi quickly stopped them and pulled Chen Yubin, "Binbin, let's go and see what grandpa and the others are doing. When they get up in the morning, they didn't see them."
The child's attention is easily diverted, "Yes, I didn't see my grandparents when I got up in the morning. What did they do?"
"I know, I know." Zhao Juan, who was beside him, saw that they didn't know where their grandparents were, but she knew it. She pointed at the bottom, "It's at the entrance of our kitchen."
Xiaoxi took Chen Yubin to the kitchen. At the door, he heard them talking about shrouds and coffin inside. If he didn't want to hear these, he said to Chen Yubin and Zhao Juan, let's go play, it's too boring to listen to them.
Zhao Juan doesn’t care, Chen Yubin listens to his sister, so he comes out effortlessly, and his destination is a big stone on the roadside.
The three of them climbed up carefully. When the stream saw that the green-skinned pears on the pear tree next to them were ripe and ready to eat them, they carefully climbed the branches and picked three that looked more ripe, one for each person, rubbed them twice on their clothes, and nibbled off the skin outside, and then ate the flesh inside.
This green-skinned pear has a lot of juice, is sweet and delicious, and is the best way to quench thirst.
In the morning, everyone nearby learned the news and came to pay their respects. They said it was a condolence, but in fact they came to see if they had anything to help, and they were gathered together to talk.
The adults were busy discussing trivial matters, wearing shrouds near the nearest, and asking for funerals far away. The children were not idle, and when someone came, they went to pick pears and then served them with them.
People come one after another. After sitting for a while, they will say, "It's time for that day, I'll help you again", and then leave.
Chapter completed!