Rebirth of the Powerful

Chapter 3 Mother

"Auntie, goodbye, come on Xia Xiaoluo, the exam is coming soon." He Shiyun picked up her schoolbag and left like a gust of wind.

Xia Xiaoluo stared blankly at her back, thinking, what a lively little loli.

"Silly son, why are you in a daze?" Xu Xiaoman handed Xia Xiaoluo something wrapped in a newspaper.

"Ah, baked sweet potatoes!"

Xia Xiaoluo let out a burst of exclamation. In the 90s of the previous life, things were still scarce. The only snacks I could remember were big bubble gum, Bubuxing, Mimi shrimp crackers, gold coin chocolate, and doll ice cream. Sweet potatoes are the best among them. Most of them are sold by roadside vendors, but they are delicious and nutritious, so I always like to eat them.

Xia Xiaoluo took the hot roasted sweet potato without peeling off the skin, and began to feast on it. Xu Xiaoman picked up Xia Xiaoluo's homework book and looked at it. Seeing that he was half right, he was overjoyed, and held his son's little face in his arms, "Baji "A kiss.

"Son, you are awesome!"

Xia Xiaoluo blushed for a while. Her mother's ways of expressing her feelings were mostly subtle, and there were very few physical contact methods such as hugging and kissing. Obviously, her mother was very pleased and happy, so she couldn't help kissing herself, and a burst of guilt surged in her heart. My mother laughed that it was so simple, but she didn't do it herself.

Xu Xiaoman stroked his son's little head, and said: "Mom will cook something delicious for you today, it's time for the exam, you need to supplement your nutrition."

She took out the vegetables and a piece of ribs, and went to the corridor to wash the vegetables and cook.

Xia Xiaoluo leisurely recalled that in the 90s, it was still the era of welfare housing distribution, and the housing commercialization reform was not launched until 98 under the impetus of the Prime Minister at that time. In 90, he and his parents lived in the Tongzilou allocated by the Health Bureau. inside.

The area of ​​the house is only about forty to fifty square meters, with two rooms inside and outside. The outside room is the living room and my bedroom, and the inside room is my parents' bedroom.

In order to save space, everyone moved the kitchen to the public corridor.

The conditions in the "Tongzilou" are very difficult. The aisles that have long become the kitchens of various households are narrow and dark. If you are not careful, you may touch the Zhang family's pot or the Xia family's stove.The first floor shares a water room, and there is a queue to take a shower in summer.

But there are also many good memories of Xia Xiaoluo here. At that time, the neighbors communicated a lot and were very harmonious. If the parents were not at home, they could eat hundreds of meals and make do with it.

Xia Xiaoluo asked, "Where's my dad?"

"Your dad went down to check the medicine market and pharmacy, and he won't be back until the weekend."

His father, Xia Jindong, works in the County Health Bureau. It is common for him to go on business trips to check the safety of medicines. Sometimes his mother is on night shift and his father is on a business trip. , the adults also get along well - except for the deputy director's wife, Huang Qinqin.

Smelling the aroma of the food cooked by his mother, Xia Xiaoluo couldn't help feeling sad again. In his previous life, he was a migrant worker like duckweed, and he rarely had the opportunity to accompany his parents. What he missed most was the food cooked by his mother.

Taking advantage of the time when his mother was cooking, he picked up the mirror in which his mother was dressing, and looked at himself: a childish face, with a simple and clean student hair, thin and pale, with a few hairy little hairs on his lips. Beard, eyes as clear as a pool of water - at this time, I was not short-sighted, I only became short-sighted when I was in college, not from reading, but from playing computer games day after day.

The upper body is wearing a large T-shirt, and the lower body is a pair of fat blue school uniform pants, made of chemical fiber, which is not comfortable to wear at all.

Although I was a down-and-out wage earner in my 30s before rebirth, most of my clothes were found on the Internet, but the materials were not bad, at least cotton and linen, environmentally friendly and comfortable, as can be seen from the matter of clothing, China 30 The achievements of reform and opening up in [-] are still huge.

After a while, my mother brought over the prepared meals, one was sweet and sour pork ribs, the other was roasted lentils, both of which were mother's specialties, Xia Xiaoluo did her part, and quickly ate them with chopsticks.

The mother smiled and said: "Silly boy, no one will grab it from you. It's all yours. Eat it slowly." She lovingly wiped a little oil stain from the corner of her son's mouth.

Only then did Xia Xiaoluo realize that his mother only ate green vegetables and did not touch the sweet and sour pork ribs. He quickly picked up a piece of ribs and put them in his mother's bowl, saying, "Mom, you eat, you eat."

"Mom ate it when she was cooking. You can eat it. You are about to take the senior high school entrance examination. You need to make up your body and go to the exam energetically to pass the exam."

In fact, where did she eat it? At that time, her salary was less than 21 yuan. She only ate sweet and sour pork ribs once a week. Vegetarianism has become popular in the [-]st century. She only cares about her son. , I just want my son to eat more, but I am reluctant to eat it.

Mothers all over the world are like this. Seeing their son eat something delicious is happier than eating it themselves.

The son seems to be more sensible, how could he know how to love himself in the past, thinking of this, Xu Xiaoman is very relieved, it is not in vain to love this child, how could she think that the son in front of her has 20 years of life experience, and her mind is much more mature.

Seeing her mother's reluctance to eat, Xia Xiaoluo thought of all the hardships her mother had suffered, even though she was already in her 30s, she couldn't help but grieve, her eyes were red, and she said angrily: "Mom, if you don't eat it, I won't eat it anymore. .”

Xu Xiaoman only ate a few pieces.

After the meal, Xu Xiaoman went to wash the dishes. Xia Xiaoluo felt refreshed thinking about the better life in the future, and happened to see a plate of Little Tigers' album - "Red Dragonfly" on the table. The year 2011 before his rebirth was already Jay Chou. It's the world with Eason Chan, but the early 90s was the time when the Little Tigers flourished.

Seeing this album that he loved most when he was a child, he felt a surge of excitement. He picked up the cassette, put it into the recorder, and pressed the play button, and the youthful and energetic voice of the Little Tigers floated out.

At this moment, the door opposite his house opened, and a thunder-like voice sounded: "It's so noisy! It's a ghost!"

A fat woman with colorful curly hair came over swaggeringly, her buttocks kept twisting like a penguin, she frowned and stared at a pair of big copper bell-like eyes, with a serious look on her face. Ferocity.

Followed by a young man with oily hair and pink face, his hair is parted and his stomach is sticking out, just like a little adult.

Xu Xiaoman quickly wiped his hands with his apron, walked in, and said, "Sister Huang, Jiannan, please sit down."

This woman is Huang Qinqin, the famous dominatrix in the compound of the County Health Bureau. She is the wife of the deputy director, Wang Junwei. Wang Jiannan, this kid is in the same class as Xia Xiaoluo, has good grades, and is also the monitor of the class. He often gives Xia Xiaoluo small reports.

Huang Qinqin crossed her legs and sat down on the rattan chair, saying: "Your son, you don't read and study, you make your voice so loud!"

"I'm sorry, Sister Huang, it's Xia Xiaoluo from our family who is arguing with you." Xu Xiaoman said in a gentle voice, and brought tea and candies.

Huang Qinqin didn't even look at it, and Wang Jiannan rolled his eyes just like her.

"It's not quarreling with me, it's quarreling with our family Jiannan. Now that the senior high school entrance examination is about to take place, my son will be affected. Can you bear it?" She said relentlessly.

Xu Xiaoman knew that she was making trouble out of no reason, the sound of the tape recorder was not loud, and it was separated by a wall, so why did it reach their home, but she is tolerant by nature and kind to others, and she is unwilling to compete with her.

Seeing that his mother had been wronged, Xia Xiaoluo gave up. He smiled and said harmlessly, "Aunt Huang, are you thirsty? Drink some water."

Huang Qinqin looked at the child in front of her, and couldn't help muttering, this kid used to be timid, he ran away when he saw an adult, he couldn't fart for a long time, but today he has learned to be polite.

"Not thirsty." She was not softened by Xia Xiaoluo's flattery.

"You are in good health. You are not thirsty after talking so much."

"You kid, do you mean I talk too much?"

Huang Qinqin raised her brows upside down and stared angrily.

"I didn't say that. You said it yourself. You have a good eloquence. You talk like a storytelling. You can't talk about it for half an hour." Xia Xiaoluo said carefully.

Huang Qinqin was so teased by him that she couldn't speak, she stared blankly at Xia Xiaoluo in front of her, this kid was originally a dull gourd, he couldn't fart for a long time, but he didn't see how he became so eloquent in a long time.

Xu Xiaoman was originally a responsible person and didn't like to cause trouble, so he pulled Xia Xiaoluo and said: "This child, why are you talking to your aunt?"

She was scolding her son on the surface, but she was extremely happy in her heart. The son knew how to protect himself. Which mother would be unhappy?

Seeing that there was a step down, Huang Qinqin thought, let's accept it when you see it, this little bastard's eyes are gloomy, unfathomable like still water, which makes her feel a little unsafe and creepy.

She said: "I'm too lazy to bicker with you, a brat. Don't make an example. Don't let others fail the exam if you fail to pass the exam." Pulled her son and left.

"Who says I can't pass the exam?"

The voice was resounding, with infinite confidence. When Xia Xiaoluo said these words, her eyes were infinitely firm.

Huang Qinqin was stunned for a moment, and then burst into exaggerated laughter, laughing so hard that tears were about to flow out.

"Xiaoman, what's wrong with your son? Has a fever? Take him to the hospital quickly."

Xia Xiaoluo is generally recognized as the worst in intelligence and grades among the children in the family hospital of the Health Bureau. She only learned to speak at the age of four, and her grades have always been at the bottom of the class. Er Fatty, a student of Xiangyang Middle School at the same age, often said: "Oh, there is We'll be safe without Xia Xiaoluo, at least we won't be the last one.

Now he said that he could be admitted to the county's No. [-] high school, and no one believed it.

You know, among the hundreds of students in Xiangyang Junior High School, only [-] students can be admitted to No. [-] High School every year.

Faced with such ridicule and contempt, Xia Xiaoluo still looked at her calmly, without any irritation.

Although Xu Xiaoman didn't believe that her son could improve so fast, and improve the top [-] in Xiangyang Junior High School in the remaining week, no mother in the world would blame her child's dream, no matter how unrealistic the dream was.