Before Apricot finished speaking, Erzhu laughed a few times first, indicating that her joke was funny, and said: "Good, good, make me laugh." ”
Apricot said, "I haven't finished talking, when the two of them finished cutting the wheat, on the way back, the mother didn't see her son holding a sickle in his hand, so she asked him, what about your sickle?"
The son said, I am in the middle. When the mother heard this, she hurried to the field again, looking for the sickle everywhere in the middle of the ground, but finally did not find it, and angrily caught up with her son and said, There is no sickle in the middle of the ground, where did you put the sickle?
The son pointed to his waist and said, The sickle is here, his mother is very angry, saying that the sickle is pinned to your waist, how can you say that it is in the middle?
The son said, don't you mean that children have no waist? Erzhu waited for the apricot to finish, then he laughed exaggeratedly and said, "It's really funny, I didn't expect you to tell stories?" What's more. ”
Apricot actually had several stories that Dazhu had told him, but she couldn't tell them to Erzhu and said, "No, do you have a story?" ”
Erzhu thought for a moment and said, "I have one here, I don't know if it's a joke or a story, in the past, people in the countryside were very poor, a family only had one pair of pants, who went out and who wore..."
Apricot smiled and said, "I don't believe it, even if you are poor, you can't only wear one pair of pants as a family, so what do you usually do at home?" ”
Erzhu said, "What is this, what is a family afraid of not wearing pants?" ”
Apricot heard from Erzhu's words that he was trying to tease himself, and Zhengse said, "Erzhu, don't you say it, I don't listen to this story." ”
Erzhu had no choice but to say, "If you don't say it, you won't say it, you just want to hear what I won't tell you in the future." ”
Apricot saw that Erzhu was not happy, and her tone softened and said, "Then you can say one again, don't go too far." ”
Erzhu was interested again, and after a little contemplation, he thought of one, laughed a few times himself, and said: "A cadre of the township government in charge of family planning went to the countryside to do research, and when he met a peasant, he wanted to ask him how much family planning he knew, and asked, Uncle, do you know why close relatives can't get married?"
The farmer said, I know this, and then he smiled, and haned before he was embarrassed to say, that is too familiar with people, embarrassed to start. ”
When Apricot finished speaking, he smiled and closed his mouth, and said, "This farmer is also true, how can he say this?" ”
Juan Li heard the laughter of Erzhu and Apricot over there, and interjected, "Apricot, what did you and Erzhu say, and make you happy like this?" ”
Apricot shouted, "We're telling a story, you take a break, let's talk." ”
Juan Li smiled and said, "I'm not going, you two are talking hotly, didn't I use it as a light bulb for you when I passed?" ”
Apricot smiled and said, "Juan Li, if you want to make peace with Erzhu Hot, why don't you let him accompany you?" ”
Juan Li said, "Then I don't dare, if I snatch the second pillar over, can you still take care of it?" ”
Apricot said, "If you like Erzhu, take Erzhu to your house, and at night you have a man on your side, how beautiful." ”
Erzhu listened to the two of them joking with each other, one did not let the other, and pulled himself into it, rejoicing in his heart, and did not talk, only caring about cutting wheat.
Juan Li smiled and said, "Apricot, you see how pitiful the Erzhu brothers are, they don't know that when they are so old, you are a sister-in-law, and you don't take care of Erzhu yet." ”
The apricot blushed, and when Erzhu saw this situation, he didn't want the apricot to fall into the wind, so he said loudly: "Sister-in-law Juanli, then you pity the brother, let the brother know and know." ”
Juan Li heard Erzhu interject, and this time he was even more energetic, and said: "Erzhu, my sister-in-law just has this heart, and she doesn't have this capital, if I have apricots so good-looking, I don't invite you to come." ”
Apricot and Erzhu looked at each other, and both felt embarrassed, and Apricot began to cut wheat, and Erzhu stopped talking, just starting to work.
Juan Li saw that Apricot and Erzhu did not answer the call, and she was very proud in her heart, smiled a little, and began to work.
When it was time for lunch, Apricot and Dazhu returned home, and Jia Cailan had already made a meal and waited for the two to come back to eat.
Jia Cailan saw Erzhu's finger and hurriedly said, "Erzhu, what are you doing?" I haven't seen you cut your hands before, see what you can do, it's not as good as apricots. ”
Erzhu smiled and said, "Mother, you didn't hear what people say, those who drown are all watery, just because I cut the wheat well, I will cut my hands." ”
Jia Cailan said, "Be careful in the future, how did the wheat in the field cut?" ”
Erzhu said, "Oh, one more shot will be cut." ”
Jia Cailan said: "We don't have a radio at home, we can't hear the weather forecast, wait a while I'll go to your uncle's house to ask and see what the weather looks like these days." ”
Erzhu said, "Mother, you didn't see the sun outside, you can dry out the human oil, where will it rain?" Don't scare yourself. ”
Jia Cailan said: "Still be careful, our family will count on this bit of wheat, if it rains a little, we will eat malt and wheat that year." ”
Erzhu finished eating, he went into his room and lay down for a while, he was not lying honestly, he heard that the apricot had also entered his room, he got up from the kang, got down to the small hole in the wooden wall, took off the small cork, and looked at the apricot's room.
After the apricot covered the door, he went to take the towel and put it in the water basin a few times, wrung out the towel, and began to scrub it himself, the washbasin shelf was far from the wooden wall, the apricot was also back to the wooden wall, and the second pillar was not very enjoyable.
Erzhu was lamenting, and the apricot turned around, while rubbing, and slowly went to the side of the plank wall, facing the plank wall, as if looking at something, and then the apricot left there, and took a dress to put on at the hanger on the plank wall.
The apricot lay on the kang, her head resting on the quilt, her eyes looking out the window, and erzhu could only see the back of the apricot.
Erzhu looked at it for a while, his eyes were astringent, and he felt that there was nothing to look at, so he put the small cork back in place and returned to the kang.
Erzhu smiled bitterly, lay down for a while, heard a noise in the apricot room, knew that she was down the kang, the door rang, knew that she was out of the room.
Apricot went to the door of the second pillar room and said, "Second pillar, I have gone to the field, you rest for a while and then come again." ”
Erzhu rolled over and got out of the room and said, "Oh, I'll go with you." ”
Erzhu saw the bright red sun outside the house, so he found a straw hat, gave it to the apricot and said, "Sister-in-law, put this on, you can still block some of the sun." ”
Apricot smiled and said, "You put it on." ”
Erzhu put the straw hat on the apricot's head and said, "I'm a man, it doesn't matter if I tann, I can't tan you." ”
Apricot smiled gratefully at Erzhu and said, "Then thank you, let's go." ”
Erzhu noticed the apricot, and she changed into a very narrow shirt, which she had probably worn two years ago, tightly tied to her body, and the curves were complete, so she couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
Apricot smiled and said, "What? It's weird to see me dressed, right? This is the clothes I wore before I got married, I threw away the strange pity, I brought it over, the labor can just wear, I used to wear it just right, I didn't expect that now I am fat like this. ”
Erzhu said, "Okay, fat is good." ”
Apricot said, "It's okay, they're all fat into pigs, who would like fat women?" ”
Erzhu said in his heart, I like you fat, the fatter and more flavorful, but I dare not say it.
Erzhu and Apricot left the house, they walked toward the field outside the village, and on the way they saw Zhang Hu and the people in the village carrying wheat bales to their homes, and Erzhu greeted them and went to the field with apricots.
When they got to the field, in the morning, juanli was working in the field next to it, and at noon, juanli did not come, and this huge ravine only had apricots and erzhu, and erzhu was a little excited in his heart.
Erzhu and Apricot began to work, and neither of them spoke, and soon cut down a large piece of wheat. Apricot stood up and straightened her waist and wiped the sweat from her face.
Erzhu said, "Sister-in-law, do you think the peasants are bitter?" ”
Apricot smiled and said, "So what's the solution?" We are farmers, what is the point of suffering from this? No one wants to be a cadre. ”
Erzhu said tentatively, "In the future, if you go to the county town to find my brother, you will not have to come back, and you will not have to be a farmer." ”
Apricot smiled and said, "The last time I went to the county seat, Zhao Dashan's daughter-in-law didn't want me to come back, but I still came back, I like us here, I don't want to be a city person." ”
Erzhu was very happy in his heart and said, "That is, I also think that we are good here, and I love us here." ”
At this time, there were several grasshopper cries coming from the grass next to it, which was particularly good, and the apricot did not speak, calmly listened to it, and said with surprise: "Erzhu, did you hear it?" It's the grasshoppers calling. ”
Erzhu said, "Sister-in-law, do you like grasshoppers very much?" If you like it, I'll catch you. ”
Apricot said happily, "Well, I like it, but grasshoppers are not easy to catch, and I'm afraid you won't be able to catch them." ”
Erzhu said triumphantly: "As long as it is something I want to catch, there is nothing that I can't catch, you wait, I will go and grab it." ”
Erzhu went to the grass on the edge of the ground, carefully looking for grasshoppers, and apricots also tiptoed over gently, looking very nervous.
Apricot whispered, "Erzhu, be careful when you grab it, don't break the grasshopper's leg." ”
Erzhu nodded and did not speak, and began to look carefully in the grass, just now the grasshopper was still screaming quite cheerfully, at this time there was no word, it was really not easy to find it, but the patience of the grasshopper was still not good, and when the second pillar was about to reach its side, it could not hold its breath and jumped to the side.
This time Erzhu found the target, pounced forward, did not catch, continued to chase the grasshopper, the grasshopper jumped up this time, just landed on the ground, Erzhu fell to the ground, his hands tightly covered the grasshopper, but his knee touched a stone, and he grinned in pain.
(To be continued)