Steamed buns, go farming with your mother

Chapter 11 Smile
After a night of silence, the next day, amidst the first call of the early birds, Su Ho got up from her tattered bed and listened carefully, but there was no movement in Wang's room.

In the past, Mrs. Wang was the first person in the family to get up. Often when Su Ho and his wife got up, Mrs. Wang's breakfast was already ready. I got up late.

Su Ho opened the door, the sun had not yet risen, the eastern sky reflected the brilliance of the morning sun, and the distant mountains revealed a boundless expanse in the light and darkness, which was so thick that Su Ho felt incomparably at ease.Su Ho took a deep breath of fresh air, stretched her waist, and said to herself: "Good morning, Su Ho, today is a good weather, come on." Then she fetched hot water from the pot to wash, and then After feeding the sheep with grass, he left the yard with the only hog grass knife in the house with a basket in hand.

Yesterday, I saw that the grass that Mrs. Wang gave to the sheep was almost finished. This sheep was related to the stomach of leeks when it was a baby. Therefore, for the sake of his son's rations, Su Ho decided to get up early this morning and cut some grass when the sun was not high. return.

It was still early, and in the silent forest, apart from the sounds of birds and wind, there was only Su Ho's faint humming, floating in the forest, and gradually dispersed.

In the mountains, the grass is not easy to mow. In the dense forest, there are only some thatch and thick moss. These grasses are not eaten by sheep. Soho can only find those fresh grasses with soft branches and leaves to mow in sunny places. .

In the mountains, most people have land in their own homes, where the sun is shining brightly, without the obstruction of tall trees, and the grass in the land grows luxuriantly, so when they take care of the land, they will beat the grass back home. It is used to feed pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens, so that it can save a lot of effort to harvest grass and save food for the family.

There are tall forests near Su Ho's house. On weekdays, only Mrs. Wang would go in to pick up some dry firewood, and dare not go deep.Except for a bamboo forest, other places here are not suitable for growing fresh and tender grass, but bamboo is a kind of domineering plant with well-developed roots, and the spreading bamboo whips are intertwined into a network, domineeringly plundering the nutrition of an area, so the bamboo forest The grass in the bamboo grove didn't grow well, and there was nothing suitable for sheep to eat in the bamboo grove, so Suho could only choose to go a little further away.

There is a mountain on the north side of Tieshuibu, called Wangjialingshang. For some reason, a mountain fire broke out, and the tall trees were burned away, leaving only a bare hillside. Compared with the mountain of Tshuibu, it is more gentle. Some, this year, have also grown a lot of weeds.It's just a mountain away from the Youshui River, far away from the water source. Except for a family surnamed Wang, there is no family on the mountain. Soho's destination today is there.

The mountain road is not easy to walk. When Suho reached Wangjialing, the sky was brighter. Suho knew that if it was on the plain, the sun would have climbed up and hung high in the eastern sky. When people see the sun, it is already seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and it will be a little later in winter.

Looking at the sun in the sky in the east, Su Ho sighed helplessly, he is really too weak, he has gone so far, he has to work hard to adapt to life here.

She didn't have time to rest, so she started mowing the grass with a hog grass knife.After a while, a full basket was cut, and when he saw that there was no more room to fit in the basket, Suho stopped, sat on the ground full of green grass, and took a short rest, waiting to have enough physical strength Go home with a basket of green grass.

At this time, Su Ho was extremely eager to have a pannier at home, but Mrs. Wang couldn't make it herself, and the family didn't have the money to buy it, so she wanted someone to help me make one. Mrs. Wang was a widow with her son. To avoid the suspicion of Li Xia in the melon field, and because of this, except for a few families, the Wang family is not close to other families in the village.

The air in the mountains is really good!Su Ho sighed, sitting on the hillside, surrounded by mountains of different shapes and heights, big and small, under the rising sun, the flickering colors, like an ink painting, broad and Full of life.

Suddenly, Su Ho's gaze focused on a tree not far away. He saw that the trunk of the tree was cylindrical, straight and unbranched, surrounded by brown bark, and the crown was umbrella-shaped.Its leaves are shaped like palm-leaf fans, clustered on the top of the trunk, and spread out in all directions. The leaves have narrow and long wrinkles, and the middle part of the leaves is like a palm split. The petiole is long and thin, with thorns.This is a tree that Suho is no longer familiar with. In the countryside where Suho lived in his previous life, there were many trees like this. She also knew that this kind of tree was called a palm tree, which was in the same family as the coconut trees that grew by the sea.

Seeing this tree, Su Ho's eyes lit up, as if something flashed in front of his eyes, but it passed by in a flash, he didn't catch it, and thought about it carefully, but he didn't have a clue.

Su Ho shook her head, not thinking about these issues for the time being, she got up and tidied up the basket, put the pig grass knife, picked up the basket, and staggered down the mountain.

When she got home, Mrs. Wang had already woken up and was washing sheets in the yard, and the sheep was swaying leisurely in the corner of the yard. If you ignore the dilapidated and simple yard, this is really a harmonious and beautiful scene.

Su Ho put the basket in the chicken coop, washed his hands, and walked over to help Mrs. Wang. I have to say that although this family is poor and simple, under Mrs. Wang's management, it is still clean and tidy.

The two talked and laughed, and after a while, a large basin of bed sheets was washed. In ancient times, quilts were not like modern ones. There were stretched quilts, and it was enough to put on a quilt cover. At that time, there was no quilt cover. The quilts are all sewn out.The two quilts, one large and one small, are stitched together with thick needles and threads, so it is very troublesome to take them apart.

"Mother, the sun is good today, and the bedding will be dry soon." Su Ho said with a smile, "However, my blanket is torn, should I replace it with a new one?" , The bed sheet is called a single sheet.

Mrs. Wang thought that the things at home should indeed be changed. Also, the leeks are growing differently every day, and they have not prepared any clothes and pants. What they are wearing now is still begged from Aunt Pan's house.Besides, the money was earned by Soho. "Okay, when the leek is full moon, the three of us will go together!" Wang said.

After the two of them had lunch, they basically had nothing to do. Mrs. Wang took out her needle and thread, and it was a very nice Su brocade. It seemed that Mrs. Wang planned to embroider some handkerchiefs to sell, so as to subsidize the family.

Mrs. Wang had stayed in a rich family before and learned a little bit, and her craftsmanship is pretty good in this place called Tieshuibu.In Su Ho's room, Mrs. Wang was sitting by the window, and Su Ho was sitting on the bed, playing with leeks. Now, leeks can move their eyes due to the movement of the outside world, so Su Ho likes to play with leeks very much. Make sounds where the leeks can't reach to exercise the leeks' response.

Suddenly, under Su Ho's teasing, Leek put on a smile on the corner of his mouth, that smile was as pure as morning dewdrops.In an instant, Su Ho felt that all the sounds in the world disappeared, leaving only the smile at the corner of Leek's mouth. Su Ho said tremblingly: "Mother, mother, look!"

Mrs. Wang didn't react, and looked over intuitively, with a trace of uncertainty on her face: "He'er, leek, did leek just smile?"

"Yes, mother, the leeks in our family can laugh." Su Ho's voice was full of joy. As a mother, every change and every movement of the child would affect her heart. She was worried, sad, and happy for the child.

"Hehehe." Wang was so happy that she was speechless. In her memory, there were very few children who could laugh so early, even her own son Wang Zhi.

"Mother," Su Ho said looking at his son, "Our child is very smart! We should work hard, and send him to school when he is a little older!"

When Wang heard what Su Ho said, her eyes narrowed slightly: "He'er, the situation at home probably won't allow it!" Her tone was full of helplessness and misery.Wang is a strong woman. The death of her husband did not overwhelm her, and the disappearance of her son did not overwhelm her. The family conditions were not good, and she did not complain about giving up. Instead, she worked hard and maintained the family with her own strength.

However, the years of suffering have also made the Wang family very tired. The farmers do not have many means of getting money. Their annual income depends entirely on digging in the soil, and they can barely maintain food and clothing. , the day is the most difficult.Ordinary farm households still have their own land, no matter how poor they are, they can rent a few acres from the landlord's family to grow it themselves. However, the Suhe family has no mature labor force, and there is no way out for farming with only two women.

"Mother, don't worry, trust me, I will work hard to find a way to make money." Su Ho looked at his son with an extremely firm tone.Yes, Suho must work hard for his son and this family.

Wang looked at Su He in a daze, it was the first time that she saw her daughter-in-law was different.However, Mrs. Wang could only be relieved and did not do what he thought. For this strong and kind woman, no matter whether Su Ho has changed or not, as long as she is still Su Ho, she is his daughter-in-law.

What she didn't know was that Su Ho was still Su Ho, but the soul inside had been changed.Su Ho looked at Wang Shi staring at herself in a daze, and was very puzzled: "Mother, what's wrong?"

Mrs. Wang came back to her senses, she was too busy, she glanced at the sky, and found that the sun was not too harsh, so she asked Su Ho to feed the leeks first, and then went to work in the vegetable garden by herself.

Su Ho fed the leek, coaxed the leek to fall asleep again, and opened the door to prevent any accidents from rushing in, and then went to the vegetable garden.This vegetable garden is related to the family's food problem, so Wang's attaches great importance to it.

Mrs. Wang and Su Ho were busy working in their own home, but they didn't know that there was a big wave about Su Ho in Treading Port.

(End of this chapter)