The little girl said, I went to the whole world
From Pod Literature
Author: Pod
Go to the countryside to attend the wedding of the son of a classmate, go to the first day, to arrange accommodation, there are many people, and they are assigned to the neighbors' houses.
The family I stayed in was a small couple, the wife was called Xiao Feng, the child was three years old, the girl, the little face of the hard bangbang, running up like a bullet shot out. A small chai dog and a little girl are in and out of pairs, a yard of chickens, dogs bite chickens and fly.
Xiao Feng washed and cooked, and her husband was not idle in front of the house and behind the house. Xiao Feng arranged me and another female classmate to the brightest and cleanest room in her house. The good of the countryside is that the house is big, whoever goes to the house, pay more attention to the decoration, the kang is to have, and a big pit, shoulder to shoulder ten people do not feel crowded.
In the autumn weather, it is cold in the morning and evening, and the door is kang. Kang is hot, and looking at the autumn scenery outside the window is not autumn Xiaosuo. The small phoenix comes with round dates, ripe, and melts in the mouth. There is also cooked autumn green, that is, tender corn that has not grown, and after eating, you can still eat two sticks.
Xiao Feng didn't say much, didn't do anything, came in a while, asked what was needed, and said again and again, if there was anything to say, don't be polite. We told her to sit, she sat too, and left in less than three minutes, not talking about a complete topic.
Xiao Feng is in his twenties, very good-looking, compared to other townspeople, there are some books. She and her lover, classmates, fell in love in high school, dropped out of school in their sophomore year of high school, married early, and had children, which is rare in the township. Nowadays, children who do not run to the city are rare.
I asked Xiao Feng if he was willing to live in the countryside. Xiao Feng said, peace of mind. Don't think the city is good. It's the same where you live. Xiao Feng was young, and his words were a little old and decaying, and he was a little surprised. However, Xiao Feng's expression was determined, and he smiled and said, I like to live like this.
Late at night, Xiao Feng went out and slept next to her daughter, her husband had not yet returned, and the room where the lights were turned off occasionally came from the humming of the little chai dog. Because of the change of environment, I listened for a long time.
The next morning, the autumn sun filled the courtyard. Xiao Feng got up early and was pressing the water in the middle of the courtyard, and the white rushing water gushed out and fell into the basin. Greeting each other, Xiao Feng said, sleep well. I had just come down from the hot kang, and it was so cold outside that I couldn't help but shrink my shoulders. Xiao Feng said, come into the house quickly, it is still cold. I said, just walk around, don't want this country air.
At this time, Xiao Feng's husband came out and brought a pot of hot water. Say, isn't it hair washing, just hot. Xiao Feng found another basin, scooped in cold water, and mixed with hot water. The man turned back and brought shampoo and towels. Xiao Feng's husband did not leave.
I said, is it okay to wash your hair like this, early in the morning. At this time, Xiao Feng had already stuck his head into the water. It's okay, get used to it. Xiao Feng's husband tugged at his wife's clothes in the back, and he did not leave as if for this. Xiao Feng kept washing, and her husband never let go. Changing the water in the middle, Xiao Feng only stood in place and waited until her husband got the water temperature and stuck his head into the water again.
Xiao Feng's hair was flushed, and her husband immediately put a towel on his wife's head. My wife rubbed her wet hair and faced me. That's the condition. I said, your conditions are good enough, there are people to serve, five-star treatment. The hostess laughed. He wasn't home, and I didn't even wash my head. Finish laughing. His husband smiled and said she couldn't live without me. Xiao Feng said, go to yours.
At this time, the sound of a child calling his mother came out of the room, and before Xiao Feng could open his mouth, the child's father jumped in three steps and two steps. After a while, the child ran out, followed by the dog. Xiao Feng wrapped her head, dragged her daughter, the child earned outside, the mother took two of the three, the child's face was washed, wiped clean and let go, the daughter immediately flew out with the puppy.
Xiao Feng said, you eat here in the morning, and there are many people over there who can't eat well. I said, are you relatives? No, it doesn't matter, it's just a meal. We're not welcome. I followed the hostess into the kitchen. The kitchen is clean, green and white tiles, and the small spinach in the autumn is washed and placed on the stove, and the green is itchy.
Xiao Feng said that he had prepared his family early in the morning. I asked, is he doing all this work. I do it too, that is, he does more. He has a handle on everything, and I'm more idle. You have a lot of work in the land. Yes, big work hires people to do it, and now the farm work is all done by machines, even if it is busy, it is not tired.
The water at the bottom of the pot bubbles, Xiao Feng beats the egg, the poached egg is formed into the noodles, before the pot is put into the cut spinach, the soup noodles are out of the pot, a large bowl, and the appetite is greatly increased. The little girl and her classmates were called back together, and the little girl's face was flushed. Xiao Feng asked her where she had gone. The little girl shouted loudly, I went to the whole world.
We laugh. Xiao Feng said, my baby is just out of the way. After eating, the child's father cleaned up the dining table, and Xiao Feng took us back to the living room and took out her cosmetics, which were quite complete. We said no, we brought our own. Xiao Feng said that I don't use these things very often, I'm afraid that some of them have expired. Here, those who come out and go in, just those who are not afraid of their own families, are not hated, and who to show.
I said, you don't have to be beautiful, your family he looks at your eyes is cosmetics, painting the happiness of your face. Xiao Feng was embarrassed. If he hadn't, how could I have gone into this ravine with him. My mom said I let him cheat. Let's not talk about it now. I won't say it for a long time, it's better for him than for me.
At this time, Xiao Feng's husband changed his clothes and left first. Xiao Feng looked at her lover through the window and said back, Let's go later, there is no place to sit there. Xiao Feng began to dress up the child. This little girl who claimed to have gone all over the world was transformed by her mother in a moment, beautiful like an elf bean, well-behaved and foreign.
The hostess's figure is also exquisite, but the clothes are loose, not showing the mountains and dew, the color is not dazzling, the makeup is only painted with lipstick, and the face is not smeared layer by layer. Xiao Feng has self-knowledge. The skin of the people in the mountains, if you can't wipe it well, you will follow the frost, but it is natural and good, and the red flutters.
The time was almost up, and we came out of the spacious compound of the Xiaofeng family together. The road in the countryside is flat, and the corn to be harvested on both sides of the road has been ambushed, which is the busy season of farming, because there are happy events in the village, and everyone has work at hand and rushes to the homes of the happy people. Xiao Feng said that there are happy events in the village, which are more lively than the New Year.
I asked her. Now there are not fewer people in the village. be. However, there are many people in the land, and there are young people like us. Many people who work outside have returned, or they are safe at home and safe in small places. Those who stay outside are all less landed, and they can't support themselves when they come back. My family also rented some.
Haven't you thought about leaving? I thought that when the child went to school, he had to go out. I laughed. You are not afraid that your children will be like you and eventually marry back into the countryside. Xiao Feng smiled. If she could find someone like her dad, I wouldn't object.
At this time, the child called out to Grandma and rushed out like an arrow. I watched a middle-aged couple with strong strength come to me, Xiao Fengmei smiled, called her parents, and her granddaughter wrapped around grandpa's neck.
It was almost time for the wedding scene and we were separated. Xiao Feng plunged into the middle of the townspeople, until the wedding was over, and when we left, we saw Xiao Feng's happy family of three. They talked to the townspeople, and the children shuttled between the two. The family of three was laughing.
I looked at them from a distance, and that smile was not adulterated, and happiness was not adulterated. I suddenly felt that what it was to go out of the house, what does it matter where to live, a pair of people who love each other, as long as they have food, have to live, and then have a child who goes around the village and feels that they have gone to the whole world, such a life is enviable enough.
About the Author:
Dou Xianjun (Dou Pod), female, currently living in Heilongjiang, engaged in prose and poetry creation, since the 1990s began to publish poetry and prose works. His works have appeared in many publications such as Shilin, Novel Forest, Petroleum Literature, Years, Guangxi Literature, Tokyo Literature, Taihang Literature, Juvenile Literature, Chinese Prose, and Presence. Some works have been selected for multiple prose anthologies. The masterpiece "No Heart Grass" won the "PresenceIst Prose Award" of the 2012 Chinese Folk First Prose Award. The collection of essays on "No Heart Grass" won the Harbin Swan Literary and Art Award in 2016.
Editor: Ma Xuemin
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