One.
My brother drove us, running on the asphalt road that was half-dark and white and transparent with morning mist. With the astigmatism of the searchlight on the front of the car, suddenly, it was covered with sand and dust heavier than the morning fog, and the car turned into the Daxin canal.
The sandy soil of Daxin Qu is still so thick and soft!The car is bumpy, undulating, the wheels are reaching, and the dust raised by the wheels wraps us!I saw the foggy headlights clear the way for us, leading me home.
When I got home, it was already dawn. A gust of wind blew the branches and leaves of the cypress trees in the courtyard to the ground, making a rattling sound. I feel the same as before.
When we entered the house, in the dim light, my mother was wearing a thin tank top that was not elegant, and smiled at us, as if to say "I'm back".
Dad got up from the corner of the kang with all the vicissitudes of life, and his sleepy eyes quickly broke away from his sleepiness, became alert, and called my nickname and said, "I've grown taller again." "On the earthen wall where he slept, I saw a dusty erhu!
The house was filled with the smell of oil smoke, and my mother said, "I stewed the chicken for you in the middle of the night." I said, "Don't be hungry, let's eat together at dawn." ”
The elder brother added a pair of myopic glasses on the bridge of his nose, wore a red T-shirt, and smiled at the corner of his mouth, looking calm and energetic.
With an elder-like mind, my sister hugged her eight-year-old daughter and asked questions.
The younger sister quietly watched everything with talking eyes, and the stylish, modern makeup, a little out of harmony with the cottage, and a slightly arrogant temperament, added a touch of color to the cottage.
At my request, my daughter shyly showed her family the martial arts she had learned in the south after 4 years away from home. received a burst of praise from the family, and the daughter was complacent. The cottage is even more cozy.
At dawn, my brother, sister, and sister got up and prepared to go back to their respective homes and do things.
The car started and rolled up a cloud of dust from the canal. The sparrows in the trees in the courtyard chirped.
When I went back to the house, I looked at my parents' posture, as if they were about to start their day's work.
Dad went out and went to the back of the house, into the sheepfold. I heard my mother say that she was going to deliver the old sheep. Things like that are all the time.
After a while, Dad went back to the house, said to us, "The old sheep in the lead has been born," and then reached out and took his daughter to see the little lamb that had just landed. The daughter's immature face leaked an ecstatic expression.
Mom Xi picked up the bucket and went out of the house. It's like going to fetch water.
Through the window, she asked me to be in the house, plugging in between the plug and the plug board, and cutting off the power to cooperate with her pumping water.
I put the plug with half of the wire hanging on the wall and plugged it into the plug board that hung in the corner of the wall.
The moment the electricity was turned on, the pump outside the house rumbled from the depths of the earth, and after a few seconds, bright clear water flowed out of the black leather pipe and into the bucket that my mother had prepared, and soon filled the bucket. With my mother's "break", I unplugged it.
Through the glass, I saw my mother lift the bucket of water and shake it for a few steps, then she came into the house, and then made a movement with her whole body in one go, and poured the bucket of water into the half-human-high tank behind the door.
At this time, I asked my mother to do the power supply and power off. I went to fetch water and carry water. When I poured the second bucket of water into the tank, I felt a little struggling!
After that, my mother made some sweeping and plastering ropes in the house, and then gathered around the stove, fiddling with pots and pans, and preparing meals.
Looking at her heavy back, I thought: This is the life of my parents every day in the past few years.
Mom and Dad don't have the Xi of eating breakfast, they have the Xi of eating lunch. At about 10 o'clock, I had lunch with my daughter and parents. Mom's fried chicken is still the taste of home. They picked up a bowl full of chicken for my daughter and me to eat. I let them eat. She also said: "It was all fed to the family's corn, and there was no pollution at all." ”
I think: the love of all parents in the world for their children is simple, extremely happy, and the way of home.
After the meal, the mother humorously teased her daughter and said, "Today is a day off." "It means that I won't go out to herd sheep today. Therefore, nearly 100 sheep in the pen should be fed more than usual.
The sheep's lunch consisted of ground corn residue, and clear reeds cut back by Dad, dried and ground into flour. After the two green plants were stirred, they were carried by the father with a dustpan and poured into the sheep trough, and the sheep ate very fiercely.
Dad shuttles through the flock, and if he doesn't drive it with the help of a whip, he might be crushed by the flock!Under the wall of the earthen house, a few pairs of cloth shoes thrown casually are evidence of this.
The sheep are full of food and drink. One by one, they are lazy and free to move around in the circle.
The daughter stood on the wall of the sheepfold as if she were observing her pets, and kept naming them.
My grandfather advised, "You can't go into the sheepfold yet, because the old sheep will bite you." The daughter replied, "Yes, grandpa." Then Dad got on his bike and went out of the yard.
In the house, my mother told me about the things around me in the past few years.
In the afternoon, the sunset in the West Mountain, I took my daughter to stroll on the Daxin Qu, the crimson glow also catered to us, in the south of the daughter, there was no chance of the sun setting at close range, for which she was surprised. She asked, "Where is the sun?"I said, "The sun has gone to the other half of the earth, and that is its home."
Helan Mountain in Ningxia is like the "Great Wall of Earth" here, which looks mysterious in the haze, surrounding and caring for the simple and hard-working people here. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the silhouette appears more defined. It's like a unique, slightly desolate sunset picture of the western mountains.
This situation and this scene gave birth to the feeling in my heart: "I only know the chickens and dogs in the hospital, and I don't hear the big and small things outside the wall", which is indeed the life of my parents.
My parents' earthen courtyard was built by landless farmers a few years ago in response to the policy of breeding and starting a new business. In the only remaining vegetable plot of the house, with some fences with wooden circles, I bought some sheep from the market, half the size of the sheep, put them in, and it became a sheepfold;Later, two simple earthen houses were built, and people lived in themLater, a dog shed and chicken coop were built under the root of the earthen house wall, and the chickens and dogs entered it, and it became the current state. My parents became farmers who moved away from the village house and lived alone at the foot of the canal slope.
For many years, people here have their backs to the loess, facing the sky, and using their hands to dig in the loess to eat the ups and downs of life. One day, the horn of "urban planning" sounded, and it quickly spread here, as a suburban village, people here responded very positively to the call for expanding the city. Subsequently, he quickly changed his rural household registration into an urban household registration, and became an urban person who had lost his land. In the junction of the suburbs that will prosper, the townspeople who have changed their new identities have put on seventy-two changes one after another, and they have used their whole body to make themselves faster and more pure into the tide of the times that has undergone great changes.
Parents are the earliest and only farmers who have been called up. In this earthen courtyard under the slope of the Daxin Qu, which is like being forgotten by society, they quietly fiddle with their own days.
At dinner time, a master of his age came back with his father, his clothes were not outdated, but he looked like he hadn't washed for a long time!His hair was black and white and stood on end like a thirsty straw!The face can only be described as dry and wrinkled.
At this time, Mom's expression was gloomy!I know that my dad found me to herd the sheep!He was very irritated and began to nag: "I would rather herd sheep in the wind and sun than sit and wait for outsiders to ......."”
Dad seems to be Xi to Mom's nagging!With his kind smile and understanding eyes, he motioned to me: Go and greet the master.
I took a basin of cold water and asked the master to wash his face. After he washed his face, he sat down at the dinner table as if nothing had happened, and we had dinner together, and my mother was still gloomy!
After a moment of dinner, there was not much left of the pot of chicken!Mom asked me to pour the leftover soup into the dog in the yard!
I washed the dishes, swept the floor, and the TV went on. Dad rested in the corner of the big kang. Mom and daughter were playing and laughing in the other corner of the kang.
I turned off the lights and sat on a bench in the ground to watch TV, and as the lens of the screen changed, the colors and sound light emitted lit up the room a little unpredictable.
In the next few days, every day after breakfast, Dad and the sheep herder took two bottles of tea and a few cakes, drove the sheep out, and let them out. Returned in the evening at sunset. Just a few cakes and two bottles of tea for lunch!
Mom changed the appearance for me and my daughter at home and made delicious food. However, every time she came to the meal, when she served the rice to the master, she always felt that the bowl was very heavy, very heavy!So much so that her face was full of dark clouds!
Finally, one early morning a week later, the master quit his job, and his father persuaded him for a while, and saw him carry half a bag of peanuts on his back and walk along the dirt road where he came!
The reason is very simple: the amount of food this master is increasing day by day, which makes my mother upset!Mom endured and endured, but on this day, the master ate a large bowl of noodles, and actually added soup to the stove three times, so that the bottom of the pot was facing the sky!
Mom is like a big hanging firecracker that has been lit, crackling and starting ......After spitting up, the sheep herding master put down the bowl of uneaten noodles and left!
In the end, the bowl of leftover noodles was called by her mother, and her daughter carefully poured it to the dog who guarded the yard to eat!
The life in the small courtyard has returned to the state that her mother wants, whether it is chickens, ducks and dogs barking, or because of the sheep coming in and out, the tadpole-like sheep manure that falls in the courtyard makes it difficult for her daughter to be happy.
In my spare time, I told my mother, "Everyone has the right to be respected, even if he picks up garbage, herds sheep, or does other things, because self-esteem is the spiritual food of man." Mom just laughed at that!
Two. Since I can remember, I have often heard my father say: People who are illiterate can only rely on their hands to suffer death and earn hard-earned money.
Our four brothers and sisters, according to the one acre and three points of land, relying on the protection of the industrious hands of our parents, with the spring ploughing and autumn harvest, year after year, the four seasons of stubble, we have grown up, they are old!
Under the heavy grind of life, with the change of age, the mother's irritability of life becomes more and more nagging. And Dad's hard-working temperament is deeper and heavier.
On a new day, the morning sun fills the earth courtyard with coolness. We're going to herd the sheep.
Dad carried a long whip into the pen to drive the sheep, and I led the heads of the sheep out of the yard and took them to a wide area to graze and spread joy.
Passing through the flocks of sheep, smoke and dust rose one after another on the Daxin canal. As the fog dissipated, the grandmother pulled her grandson in one hand and a bulging red cloth pocket in the other, and gradually came out of the gray fog clearly. Casual laughter, completely in an outing posture.
The place where the sheep graze is not far from the earth yard, it is an open field, surrounded by fire bricks on all sides. I heard my dad say that it is a place that has been developed and is waiting to be built. There used to be fruit forests here, but the climate has not been formed!There are several houses not far away, all of which are dilapidated!
The desolate scene did not affect the mood of the sheep eating grass and enjoying themselves. Watch the sheep grazing on the grass as they change. It makes me feel like "one autumn, half cool"!
In the summer, it should be a scene of overgrown vines, but the barrenness without greenery shocked me!Dad said someone was here to reuse the soil!So there are half-man-deep pits and hollows, which can be seen everywhere!Most of the plants have long since lost their roots!There are very few people who can survive!
My parents Xi thought that one was in the east and the other was in the west, so they found their own earthen walls and sat down. The daughter innocently chased after the sheep, causing a riot among the sheep, and she couldn't stop laughing.
The noon sun in the north is as hot and dry as this thirsty land. The grass and trees dodged for it, and the sheep were piled up, lying under the roots of the collapsed earthen walls to enjoy the shade. It's like cotton bones, planted there.
I approached my mother and saw that the beads of sweat on her neck, sliding from the roots of her hair into her collar, were as big as soybean grains, rolling down!It's like your hair has been brushed and styled!And within a few minutes, she was leaning against the wall, snoring, and falling asleep!
The flock of sheep chased by her daughter is like open cotton, trotting in all directions, looking parallel, as if embedded in the ground.
Dad got up and called out to the scattered sheep, just like the sound of the simple nature, some sheep know that the return is the shore, but a few of them just don't listen to the call!
Dad picked up the whip and chased after him, and behind him as he walked away, I realized: how did Dad walk with a limp?
That night, parents and daughters fell asleep. I can't sleep!It seems that there are countless tide insects crawling around on the body, and I am upset!
On another afternoon when the thunderstorm stopped, Dad wore knee-high rain boots, one foot deep and one shallow foot shuttled through the flock, and used a posture of lifting and straddling his waist, cooperating with a strong big hand to control the green basin full of feed on the left side of his body, and the other big hand kept using a whip to drive away the sheep.
Mom also wore rain boots, hunched over the sheep trough in the pen, holding a porcelain bowl in her hand, and kept scooping the rainwater that was collected in the trough. The wet grass on the soles of her feet was on the ground, and she trampled on the soles of her shoes, squeezing out blacker sewage and splashing it on the upper of her rain shoes.
With not many rain boots, I stood in the muddy courtyard and watched them.
In the courtyard, the rainwater flowed down a trench opened by my father with a shovel and went to the small ditch outside the courtyard. The current passed under my feet like a large yellow loach falling into the muddy water, writhing.
The chickens, ducks and dogs jumped after the rain, looking particularly energetic, and the muddy earthen courtyard was splashed by them wantonly!Before the rain, there was no hurry, and the sheep dung that was cleaned up became vulnerable under the muddy water bubble at the moment!
Everything that was presented in front of my eyes made me feel a sense of intimacy that I couldn't bear to look at directly!If it weren't for my parents here, I would have wanted to throw them far away from my mind!
I opened the courtyard door, and the part of the door that touched the ground cut a fan-shaped light and flat mud mark, which was cut into a pile of mud at the bottom of the door, like cow dung, piled up at the base of the wall.
Stride and go out. Following the mud marks I pulled the door back and closed it. Walking on the rain-sucking Daxin canal, I took a deep breath and felt the refreshing feeling of the trees pulling out the branches after the rain.
In the Daxin Canal, the Yellow River water flooded to the edge of the canal slope, like a thick yellow silk, swaying silently. The silk surface is a little messy with branches and poles, and there are some scattered garbage, which are gathered in piles, and flow lightly with the buoyancy of the water.
I came to my brother's house in the old yard of the village house, and called my sister and sister-in-law, and my sister went to work, but I didn't see her!Small talk in the style of a family meeting.
With some worry and excitement, I talked about my personal experience of living with my parents these days. I found that my brother and sister are no less worried than me!They are also worried about their parents' health and living conditions!
Brother said: I have persuaded my parents to stop "starting a business again" several times, but it has failed!Because of this, my brother was angry and didn't go to my parents' earthen courtyard for a while!
At this time, I felt the feeling of loneliness when I chatted with my mother, and my emotional mother said, "Raising a son is like nothing"!
My sister wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "Dad has a bone spur on his foot, and he drank Chinese medicine for half a year last year, and he must have not eradicated the roots!."Damn's problem is not small, as soon as I see the sun, I can't open my eyes!”
The result of the meeting was that the brother said that he was busy with the business at hand and found someone to take over the flock and let the parents be free.
Three. Mom and Dad are illiterate, but I think there is an all-encompassing atmosphere hidden in my father, a fireworks that can endure life, and a positive energy that is informal and positive. The mother is a typical husband and husband, and the woman who should be in harmony with the outside.
On a sunny afternoon, my dad and I drove the sheep out as usual.
Passing by the bridgehead of Daxinqu, there were a few old people drinking tea and chatting, and I said to my father: "Look at that, how leisurely." Dad smiled and said, "The state stipulates that men retire at the age of 60, and I am still two years away!."The sheep's head that led the way crossed the bridge and turned into a choke lane, causing the sheep to crowd behind, and my father strode away from me.
Through the choke path that encloses the fence, the sheep get onto the road. It also causes traffic congestion and wait-and-see from others!A pile of living creatures with white flowers, an old man with a masking hat, is like a fugitive who needs to be hidden in modern society!It also adds a surprising visual picture to this great era that keeps pace with the times.
To reduce the time spent in the traffic jam, I followed the flock, waving my whip and yelling at them, "Hurry, hurry, hurry." ”
Crossing the road, we turned around and crossed several "dirt hills" excavated at construction sites, and finally came to a ditch with reeds. It's really climbing mountains and wading through waters!
The large reeds did not show weakness at all under the scorching sun, and a gust of wind blew by, which seemed to tempt the appetite of the sheep, and one by one, the living creatures, like the scene of "penguins plopping into the water" on TV, burrowed into the reeds one by one and graze.
Often, I can sit in the shade with my dad and talk about things.
Dad told me that in the past four years of farming, he and his mother have paid off nearly 30,000 yuan in debt. That's when he took a job in construction from an outsider, and he owes it!It's always been a heart disease, but now it's much easier.
I saw that after my father's forehead stretched for a while, he slowly changed two vertical "1s" and stopped between his eyebrows!The moment my father's brows tightened, it also added a touch of melancholy to my heart!
Dad then said: "Your brother came to Beijing last year and spent money to buy a patent for making a straw stove, and he didn't tell me!."So he rented a large yard and began to build a straw stove. ”
He paused for two seconds and said, "I don't know how it's going?"He never told me anything!Doing business, it's not that easy!I hope he can earn some money, don't lose it. The words were full of concern for the calf.
I told him with a reassuring mouthline: "If a person wants to start a business, it means that he is in a good mental state, which is better than some people on the team who have nothing to do, spend their days, and are mentally depressed." And there are even people who specialize in gambling!”
He pandered to me and said, "Yes." Then he fell: "Me and your mother, and don't hold him back." ”
Watching my father's gradually peaceful demeanor make me feel that he is a more open-minded and cheerful elder who has been tempered by life.
At this time, Dad motioned to the sheep with his eyes and said with a little satisfaction: "These are the net profits of me and your mother in the past few years." I plan to clear them by the end of the year, and I can earn 60,000 yuan. ”
A childlike smile appeared on the corner of Dad's mouth between the words. The eyes still haven't left the flock.
He also said: "At the end of the year, I will draw 20,000 yuan and hand over my and your mother's pension insurance." When I heard this, I was ashamed from the bottom of my heart, and it was on my face.
Dad seemed to see my abnormality, so he said, "You all live a good life, it is a big deal to let the doll go to school well, and your mother and I will not cause you trouble." ”
I asked my father, "You don't raise sheep anymore, what do you want?"”
He said, "Your mother and I are in good health, as long as it." ”
Dad also told me that he most wanted to sit alone in the house and play his out-of-tune erhu, which was his lifelong hobby. At this moment, the father, who is similar to an illiterate, has a hint of vitality and fortitude in his eyes. I thought about it for a while, and thought it should be the spark of a spark, jumping and struggling, vigorous and restless, and eager to try.
Talking about the emotional part, my father told me again: In the past few days two years ago, in this place, due to the continuous heavy rain for half a month, the sheepfold at home was flooded!He and his mother drove the sheep here, surrounded them with a few logs, and slept here for eight days and eight nights, eating and drinking from the home of his elder sister.
Looking at the few dead trees not far away, I seem to feel the scene of the past: in those stormy nights and days, swarms of mosquitoes, on the outskirts of the wasteland, desperately looking for living creatures that can suck blood!Eventually, they targeted the two old sheep herders!
The buzzing of mosquitoes before they seek to feed on their blood makes me imagine how my parents spent those bleak nights and days ...... by the lonely reed ditch
Four. Time is like a movie in progress, and I haven't seen the moving and subtle plot yet, and the inexplicable ending song has disrupted the thinking renderings in my brain!
Every night, my father and I drove the sheep home, and we saw the smoke rising from the direction of the earthen courtyard. It was the grandmother who instructed her daughter and nephew to light a pile of sheep dung and grass and water it to create smoke. In order to smoke mosquitoes and insects in the sheepfold. The smoke with the smell of home slowly disappeared from thick to faint over the earthen courtyard.
While taking care of her daughter at home, her mother also changed into beautiful, neat clothes, very popular short hair, black and shiny combing, and the silver bracelet on her wrist was even more blessed. Every day, we prepare different meals and wait for us to return.
While this comforts me, I also feel that I owe too much to my parents!My daughter and I live with our parents, but it was terminated because the summer vacation is approaching!
On a dark night, I carried a lot of things that my mother brought me and got into my brother's car. The way to say goodbye to their parents is simple: I tell them to pay attention to their bodies, sell the sheep as soon as possible, and make a leisure;Dad asked me to take care of my family, and when I was away, I must have a good relationship with my neighbors.
The car started, and through the glass, I saw my mother in the night, wiping her tears!With my daughter and nephew fighting, I asked my brother, "Has the person who took over the sheepfold been found?"Brother said: "They insist on feeding the last stubble of sheep until the end of the year!”
I'm counting the time until the end of ...... year
Created after the summer of 2009.