No matter how others laughed at it, it was impossible to shake the weight of Huijuan's "goddess" in Zhao Rukun's heart. Whenever the farm work is busy and full of food, he likes to lie on his back on his own straw stack and blow the wind, rest and rest, and recall and imagine the beauty in his heart.
I saw that he would casually put his left hand under his head, and his right hand would play with the straw he was chewing in his mouth a few times, and his feet would cross each other, and he would still tremble freely over there. It was as if he had suddenly traveled back to the time when the two of them were studying together in the Zhao Family Village Academy when they were young.
Zhao Rukun knew from a young age that he was not the material for reading at all, because every day when he opened the textbook in class, he would inexplicably sleep, snooze and want to sleep, and only after school was his world. Every time after school, he hurried back, first tucked his bag through the outside window, and he was so busy in order to grab time, he never entered first.
Because he went late, he might not be able to find a good place to go to the pond to plant bamboo curtains to catch fish and shrimp. He also had to jump into the West Yokogawa River with people to see who would be able to grab the big old clam and touch more snails back. Before dark, I have to dig up earthworms to wear on bamboo sticks, and put them in bamboo cages at night to put yellow eels, fishing for chickens... These are the doorways for rural children to earn money, and the truth that time is money is all groped out in practice.
Eel catcher cage
He only insists on reading books to be able to recognize some Chinese characters and numbers, and will not be pit because he is illiterate when selling goods in the market, and it is good for him to have a high and small graduation diploma. However, it may be because of malnutrition since childhood, Ru kun is thinner than the average classmate and is not too tall, and this condition is also arranged by the teacher to sit in the front row of Huijuan. The girl she loves stares at herself on the back of her head every day, and this seat is very awkward!
Because Huijuan is a good student who loves to read, she must pretend to be a student in front of her, otherwise she will be looked down upon, and I will not think that I can copy her homework in the future! So under the "encouragement" suggestion of his companion Zhao Xiaolang, he secretly sent three pounds of wild yellow eels to Teacher Zhou's wife, and he did not expect that the next day the teacher would directly arrange to the last row of seats in the classroom according to his request "snoring for class without affecting other students". I don't know if Teacher Zhou really has to eat people's mouths short, or to punish him for taking the back door carefully, anyway, this transfer is the most satisfactory to him!
Braised eel
In fact, Zhao Rukun always remembered what happened that winter. In the morning, as soon as the door was opened, the wind was hula and blew inside, his small body was almost unstoppable, the outside was white, how it had not yet fallen before the winter vacation of the Waxing Moon, it snowed heavily, the cold wind blew his face painfully, and after eating a few pieces of rice cake baked on the fire tongs, he carried his school bag to school.
On the way to school, other students wore hats and scarves, and also wore warm thick cotton shoes with glue on the bottom of the waterproof and non-slip. But when he went out, he only wrapped a torn sheep jacket that his eldest brother Changkun threw to him last year, and there was a bad smell of sheep, but if he didn't wear it, he would freeze to death. When his classmates saw him coming, they pinched their noses and avoided him.
At Ru Kun's feet, she was still wearing the old cloth shoes that the fourth sister Juying had brought from Shanghai during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which her eldest son could not wear. Because it didn't fit well, he needed to pedal a few times to put it on. This long-worn white single-layer cloth shoe is not waterproof at all, and most of the side has been wet all the way through the snow. He had to keep stomping hard at the back of the classroom to get hot, in case his shoes froze and froze.
At this time, HuiJuanniang just came to give Huijuan reed boots (a kind of grass shoes made of reed flowers and straw on the Yangtze River), and it was too pitiful and painful to see Xiao Rukun's frozen red face and small body with a shiver. She directly put on the reed boots for her daughter, and helped him take off the wet torn socks, saying that she would take them back to help him dry on the fire when cooking. Because there is also a pair of wool felt insoles in the reed boots, which can be worn directly, and those that do not tie the feet can be warmed.
Reed boots
Hui Juanniang said that when she went back later, she would let her father send another pair to change Hui Juan's clothes, and said that she would let her father bring two lunch boxes at the same time to ask the two of them to have lunch together. Today is the plum vegetable roast meat and watercress scrambled eggs, with rice to eat delicious, so that you don't have to rush to the snow at noon.
Then, Hui Juanniang reached out and wrapped herself tightly around her large scarf, which was a red wool scarf she had knitted by hand, and the plush looked warm, and she wrapped herself tightly, almost revealing only two eyes. Hui Juanniang awkwardly turned and left the classroom, still cursing and grinning as she walked:
"This damn school is so big and snowy, and let the little children come to school, what do you do if you don't take the holiday early?" Where there are so many people who can be admitted to the yuan, those who can be admitted to the yuan are all going to have green smoke drops on the ancestral grave, and they also have to send shoes and food, which is really annoying to individuals..."
Zhao Changkun, Zhao Dingkun, you two are really dog mothers raising drops, no conscience at all, how cold god, just a little brother of his own family, not necessarily which has a conscience to let him wear hot, even if you shout back to eat a hot dish hot meal is not beaten by the sky, it is really a sin, people have a conscience Dog does not eat, alas! Where is the worthy of your bright (i.e., dead) grandmother..."
Borrow stills
In any case, Hui Juanniang's inadvertent "sending carbon in the snow" warmth made Xiao Rukun at that time very moved and has always been remembered, especially the plum roast meat she made, and she could not forget the taste for many years.
Zhao Rukun firmly believed that with such a kind mother, the character of the daughter who was born and raised would be the best. Later, when he grew up, he could go into the city to do odd jobs, and occasionally Huijuanniang would ask him to help bring some colorful needlework from the Datong cloth shop or the scallion oil cakes at the head of the banqiao from the city, he was very willing to serve, even if it was for her to take a special detour to buy, Ru Kun was happy to feel that he was also an adult who could help people.
Sometimes he would walk on the street with a scooter and see a peach crisp that Huijuan niang liked to sell, and he would buy a dozen to take home and give it to her. In Ru Kun's heart, it is definitely a very proud thing to be liked and trusted by the mother of his beloved girl.
(To be continued...)