The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 2

"Hong, how are you? Where does it hurt? Come and tell Mom!"

As soon as Li Xiaohong opened her eyes again, she saw her mother scolding her anxiously: "Why are you so naughty as a child? I told you that the adults are not at home, so you can't go to the bungalow by yourself. See See if you fell."

Listening to her mother's familiar nagging voice, and seeing that she was not much taller than her squatting mother when she was standing, Li Xiaohong burst into tears. It turned out that the gods and Buddhas in the sky heard her prayers, and she was really reborn as a child.

"Mom!" She cried and threw herself into Zhang Meiying's arms.

"Woooooo!"

My daughter has been used to rough raising since she was a child, and it is not a big deal for rural children to bump into each other.

My daughter has always been very stubborn, she will get up by herself when she falls down, she has never cried like this, let alone throw herself into her arms, this is why my daughter never said she wanted to hug herself after she was three or four years old, How much pain my daughter has this time.

Who can imagine that Li Xiaohong at this time is no longer the original Li Xiaohong.

Zhang Meiying was so distressed that she said repeatedly: "Good boy, don't cry, tell mom exactly where it hurts."

While talking, she took off Li Xiaohong's clothes and checked them one by one.

Then he pressed his hands one by one on his body and asked Li Xiaohong, "Does it hurt here?" "No!" "What about the arm?" Li Xiaohong shook her head. "

"Then go and let me see."

Li Xiaohong walked down and walked freely, with tears still on her face: "Mom, I'm fine, don't worry."

Seeing her daughter moving freely, Zhang Meiying felt relieved, and gently wiped away the tears from Li Xiaohong's face with her hands.

Zhang Meiying's hands were covered with thick calluses from long-term hard work. Although the strength of her hand was very light, it still made Li Xiaohong's face ache from rubbing.

Li Xiaohong's tears couldn't be stopped, and just after wiping off a string, several strings have already flowed out, as if she wanted to shed all the tears of these decades.

"You child, why are you so naughty? Mom is scared to death! Are you really okay?"

"Stomach hurts. But I'm fine." Li Xiaohong said twitching.

Zhang Meiying reached out to hug her up again, children can't tell lies, it seems that this time it's really all right.

Li Xiaohong put her two small arms around her mother's neck, sniffing her mother's familiar scent, she remembered that this happened when she was almost six years old.

At that time, her mother was not at home, and she was bored at home alone, so she wanted to play on the roof of the bungalow, which was her paradise.

Unexpectedly, one of the nails on the crossbar of the ladder I made at home fell off, and I almost climbed to the roof of the bungalow, but I stepped on the air and fell from the top.Fortunately, when I fell, I was stopped by the other rails of the ladder, so although I was hurt by the fall and had a lot of scratches on my body, it didn't hinder me.

But at that time, she remembered that there was no one in her house, so she stood up by herself after crying for a while.Without adults around, crying is useless, and no one will hurt.

But this time my mother is at home, which is different from the previous life. Has history really changed?

"Come on, dear, eat tomatoes, don't cry, if you cry again, I won't eat them for you, but give them to your sister."

Only then did Li Xiaohong let go of her mother's embrace, and saw her younger sister Li Xiaolu's clothes were black and white, and she was looking at her with dark eyes.She was holding one finger in her mouth, and the snot was about to flow into her mouth.

Seeing her sister looking at her, she sucked her nose, the snot was sucked back, and then slowly flowed out again.

She might feel uncomfortable, so she pulled up the corner of her clothes and rubbed it. The snot became shorter, but her face was covered with rubbing.

Ha, it turned out that my sister was like this when she was young. Li Xiaohong wished she had a camera now, and could take pictures of her silly appearance. When she grows up, let her see her childhood photos. I don't know what she would look like.However, the face must be very exciting.

Seeing Li Xiaohong looking at her, Li Xiaolu showed a smiling face, walked in front of Li Xiaohong, held Li Xiaohong's clothes with his small hands, leaned forward and exhaled: "Huhu, it doesn't hurt anymore."

Li Xiaohong looked at the snot on her body and felt as uncomfortable as ants crawling on her body.This stinky boy must have done it on purpose.

At the same time, there is a tinge of warmth, childish care is the most sincere, it is better to be your own relatives.

"Mom, let my sister eat tomatoes, I won't eat them." Li Xiaohong blurted out.

When I was young, compared to other families, the Li family lived a good life.

One is that his father, Li Zhijun, worked in the grain station after retiring from the army. Although the salary was low at that time, it was definitely better than other farmers who only lived on the land.Moreover, the welfare of the grain office unit is good, and there are food stamps, cloth stamps and so on every month; secondly, her mother Zhang Meiying is hardworking and strong, she is willing to work hard, and she has a lot of food. Li Xiaohong never had food for food when she was young. I have suffered.

But that's all there is, there will be no snacks or anything at that time.So what they usually eat, both of them are watching eagerly, and each of them divides it up, and no one can eat more.At that time, Li Xiaohong, who was an older sister, never thought of giving way to her younger sister.

Therefore, Zhang Meiying was greatly surprised by Li Xiaohong's actions. She reached out and touched her eldest daughter's head: "What's wrong? I don't want to eat it for you. Didn't I hurt my head?"

Li Xiaohong suddenly felt that her actions were a bit inappropriate. This is not the time for future generations to eat anything that doesn't taste good.

He pretended to be generous and said, "Give it to Lulu. Not only is her saliva dripping out, but her nose is also coming down along with it."

"Okay, Honghong is so good, she finally looks like a big sister."

Hearing Zhang Meiying's reassuring tone, Li Xiaohong secretly grimaced in her heart.

"Then I'll go get busy. You stay home and take care of your younger sister." It was the time when she was busy in the field, to see if her daughter was okay, Zhang Meiying was about to go out again in a hurry.

"Mom, I'll go with you. I'll be six soon, and I can work."

"You take care of your younger sister at home, and Mom can do it by herself."

"Just put my sister on the ground, I'll catch grasshoppers for her to play with."

Zhang Meiying thought about it, Xiaohong had just fallen, and she felt a little uneasy about leaving the two children at home, mainly because the eldest daughter never seemed willing to play with her younger sister.Let's talk about it now, who knows what will happen after a while?

"Okay, then you come with me!"

Zhang Meiying took the tobacco leaves from the rack cart and put them under the shade of a tree. After the rack cart was emptied, she picked up Li Xiaolu and put it in front of the cart.

Li Xiaolu giggled happily, and yelled: "Take the car, take the car!" After a while, he pretended to wave his whip and said, "Fight! Fight! Run faster!" Urging Zhang Meiying to pull the cart away.

This little guy thought he was riding a horse, Li Xiaohong smiled slightly.

Great, I really went back to the past!My mother is still so young and healthy, and my sister is still a little girl, so there is still time for everything.

To live a new life, I must make a plan, make up for the regrets of the past, and stop letting my parents live so hard.

Some things have changed, the mood has changed.Even the scorching sun in July has become so lovely, it is not unacceptable.

"Honghong, you also sit in the car and help my sister."

"Okay Mom, you see that you have brought towels, and I want one too. By the way, don't call me Honghong in the future. I have grown up, just call me Xiaohong."

"Okay, okay, my sweetie, I'll listen to you." Zhang Meiying came out with another towel.

After walking not far, I ran into my neighbor Li Li.

"Sister-in-law, go smoke your cigarettes."

"Yeah, it's time to go to the pit tomorrow, so I have to get the cigarette back quickly."

"Hey, this is our Xiaohong. Why, you can help your mother to work."

Li Xiaohong glanced at her lightly, but said nothing.

This is Li Li, who is about the same age as Zhang Meiying.

Seeing Li Xiaohong staring at her silently, Li Li turned to Zhang Meiying again: "Auntie, you are still a daughter, or people say that your daughter is mother's caring little padded jacket, you see such a little Xiaohong knows to work for you. Look at that monkey in my family, it’s older than Xiaohong, it knows how to run and play every day, and it doesn’t know how to feel sorry for his wife. Speaking of which, brother Zhijun has a job, and if Sheng Xiaolu belongs to the second child, he will be punished It’s a lot of money, you can’t ask for more, can you?”

Listening to this tone of complaining and sympathy but showing off, and looking at the back of her mother's hands with all the veins exposed, Li Xiaohong became angry.

She knew that some people in the village could not see her family living better than them, and always borrowed money and things from her family, thirty or fifty cents, and would not pay back what was borrowed, and her own mother couldn't bear to ask for it.

There are also people who will say some yin and yang behind their backs, and this Li Li is one of them.No wonder the mother had to adopt a son in the previous life. It turned out that there were already such rumors in the village face to face.

"The other day I heard people say that if you don't hit for three days, you will go to the house to expose the roof tiles. If you beat a naughty child more, you will be honest. Auntie, don't be reluctant."

Li Xiaohong said while thinking, I am doing it for your own good. I didn’t take good care of you when I was a child. Now your son is "not at all distressed and distressed". I feel "distressed" because I was so angry.

Hearing Li Xiaohong's childish words, people said that they heard it, how could he care about with a child, Li Li smiled and walked away.

Here, Li Xiaohong didn't know how to comfort her mother. In the countryside, men are labor-intensive, and they are also related to the heavy responsibility of sacrifice. Without a son, people will look down on them.The importance of sons can be seen from the performance of "Ultrasonic Guerrillas" in the Spring Festival Gala one year. It was to give birth to an Eight-Power Allied Forces that would not stop without a son.

Mother and father have a good relationship as husband and wife, and father is the only child. Because of this incident, mother always feels sorry for father.

In fact, this is just a matter of concept. After a few years, even rural people do not like to have more children.But who makes it so that we are still in an era of getting poorer and getting poorer, and getting poorer and poorer?
Li Xiaohong had no choice but to work hard on her own to let her mother gradually change her mind, so that she felt that her daughter was not bad.

After thinking about it, Li Xiaohong first said: "Mom, I will kiss you well when I grow up."

"My mother." Seeing what my sister said, Li Xiaolu nodded accordingly.

Seeing her sister nodding solemnly, Li Xiaohong couldn't help but kiss her.Then he hugged his younger sister in his arms again, wrapping his legs around her so as not to fall off.

Li Xiaohong was not close to his younger sister because of his personality when he was young.Maybe because of this, Li Xiaolu sat obediently by her sister when she saw her sister treating her like this.

"Well, good boy."

Li Xiaohong sighed softly, even if she wanted to be filial to her parents, there must be conditions.Besides, it hasn't been long since the division of production into households, and everything is waiting to be done. For a child of her age, it is difficult to find a way to make money for a while.

But the days are as thick as leaves, you have to look back, and you will always find a way.

When I came to the newly assigned Nangang land, tobacco leaves were planted in it, and the rows were lined up like small trees, and the leaves fluttered in the wind like cattail fans, but this fan was slender.

Apart from sweet potatoes, this is the most important cash crop in the family. Tobacco leaves turn yellow, and one mu of land can earn hundreds of dollars, which is better than ordinary jobs.

Of course, if the tobacco leaves are all roasted black, they are worthless, and they are almost like garbage, so this season is basically useless.

Li Xiaohong moved Li Xiaolu out of the car, put her on the ground, and told her: "I went to help my mother with work, do you have to be obedient to know? If you are obedient, when you turn around, my sister will catch grasshoppers for you, and catch grasshoppers for you." to eat meat."

"Eat meat," Li Xiaolu's eyes lit up when he heard about eating meat, and he nodded obediently.

"Now, my sister will make you a necklace first." As he said, he pinched a sweet potato leaf with a handle, stretched it by breaking it left, and then stretched it by breaking it right. The sweet potato stem was regularly broken one by one, but Connected to the upper skin again, it becomes two necklace-like chains.

"All the beautiful people outside wear necklaces. Xiaolu is also very beautiful in them. This is for you." Li Xiaohong said, putting the homemade necklace on for her younger sister.

As the name suggests, Nangang Land has a relatively high end, with a drop of about one meter from the land above.Sitting on a high place, Li Xiaolu suddenly slid down from the top, and then thought it was fun, so he climbed up with hands and feet.

Seeing her enjoying herself and having fun, Li Xiaohong felt relieved.

(End of this chapter)