vines and melons

Chapter 37

One summer rainy night, Fang Jie and Fang Qiong fell asleep, and Gui Zhi was sewing under the oil lamp, and the needle fell to the ground. She picked up the oil lamp to look for it, and unconsciously glanced at the back kiln, and found that the heel of the back kiln was wet a lot. Looking closer, the mouse hole is leaking water.It is raining heavily outside, if the source is not blocked, the hole will get bigger and bigger.

Guizhi put on a plastic sheet, put on a straw hat, took a flashlight, carried a shovel, locked the kiln door, ran to the top of the kiln, and disappeared in the rain.

The head-on wind toppled the straw hat, and the rope of the straw hat tightly strangled her neck, and the rain poured into her neck and into her rubber shoes, creaking as she walked.

When she came to the top of the kiln, she took a hand lamp and looked around, and found that three trees had been planted behind the "buttocks" of the kiln top. The tree is in the middle of the roof of her kiln.She understood that the rainwater was poured into the mouse hole from the pit of the tung tree.

A few days ago, she saw Aifen carrying a load of water towards the roof of the kiln instead of entering the house. She asked, why did she carry the water to the roof of the kiln?Aifen said, go to the top of the kiln to plant a few tung trees, and the top of the kiln is also idle.

Guizhi never thought that Aifen would plant her own tung tree on the roof of someone else's kiln!

She took off the plastic sheet on her body to cover the mouse hole, and found a stone to press on the plastic sheet.A flash of lightning flashed by, Gui Zhi washed his hands in the puddle, let out a long breath, wiped the sweat mixed with the rain on his face, took off his coat, wrung the water and put it on again.

When the rain subsided, Guizhi went home with a melancholy expression.

After Guizhi left, Fang Jie got up at night, called mother twice, but got no response, then called again, but still no reply.Usually she would respond when she called out to her mother, but today it was uncharacteristically, Fang Jie was scared, she threw off the quilt and ran to her mother's bed with bare feet, no one touched her mother, she touched her sister, she woke Fang Qiong and asked where her mother had gone , Fang Qiong was shaken to tears by her sister.

With bare feet, Fang Jie ran to the kiln door in the dark, and she wanted to rush out.

The death of her father, grandpa, and grandma lingered in Fang Jie's young heart. As soon as she entered the big kiln, she felt gloomy; Gui Zhi went to the production team for a meeting at night, and Fang Jie took her younger sister to follow. One on each side of the mother's lap, the aunt and the aunt said that Fang Jie didn't grow up, she didn't take it seriously at first, but later she realized that it was not a good word, so she was embarrassed to follow, and took Fang Qiong at home, sitting Terrified, she and her younger sister got into bed, tried their best to close their eyes and tried to fall asleep quickly, because mother said that she would not be afraid when she fell asleep, but she couldn't fall asleep.

She put Fang Qiong to sleep, hurried out of the kiln door, and sat on the stone under the eucalyptus tree to wait for her mother to come back.Hearing Zhiwei and Yanzi chatting and laughing in the kiln was very lively, she wanted to go, but she couldn't, she was afraid that Fang Qiong would cry when she woke up and couldn't find her sister.As soon as the door rang, she quickly ran into the kiln and got into bed and pretended to fall asleep.Sometimes, when the door rang, someone came to visit Fang Qiang's house. She put on her clothes and continued to come out, and continued to sit on the stone under the eucalyptus tree and wait.

After school, she put her schoolbag at the door of the kiln and went to the field to pick up her mother and sister.When the three of them arrived home, the adults and children of Fang Qiang's family brought bowls to eat.Why doesn't she want her mother and aunt to have hot meals when they get home!However, she dared not go to the kiln to cook.

One day she made an appointment with her mother to try it.

When Guizhi went down to the ground, he put the key on the eaves of the kiln door.

Fang Jie came back from school to get the keys. When she opened the damper and tiptoed to touch the keys on the eaves of the door, she accidentally knocked the kiln door open. Unconsciously, a skull appeared in the crack of the door. She was so frightened that her scalp went numb and her back felt cold. The key fell to the ground with a slap. She picked it up boldly and pointed the key at the keyhole trembling. With her movements, the gap in the kiln door became wider, and the shape of the skeleton also became larger. With a bang, the door opened, and the skeleton disappeared.

Tremblingly, she set up the fire, put the pot on, added water, ran to the yard and waited for the water to boil, and then put down the corn gills.The corn stalks were kept in the back kiln, she scooped them down and ran away, not daring to see how much she had scooped, turned her head and ran, the corn scorpions were poured into the pot, and found that the corn stalks had been scattered, picked up the broom and swept them from the outside to the inside, Sweeping from the outside to the inside again, put down the broom and rushed out of the kiln door, ran to the courtyard, went in to stir the pot, stirred a few times, and then ran out, back and forth several times, the soup was finally boiled.She didn't dare to cook, it was too troublesome.

If you don’t try it, it’s enough, and it’s even more scary if you try it!
Now, Fang Jie shook the kiln door vigorously, anxious and frightened, looked through the crack of the door, it was pitch black, only the sound of rain could be heard, she shook the door and shouted: "Oh my god, my god, you go What's wrong?" Like a three-year-old child.

Guizhi was full of anger, exhausted all over, her legs were muddy, she entered the door and saw the two daughters crying like tears, she really wanted to give them a hard time, but in the end, she didn't get angry and said: "Mom is back, sleep!"

The two sisters understood when they saw their mother, Fang Jie quickly apologized: "Mom, I was wrong."

(End of this chapter)