Erhua left home in a rage, and it has been twenty days, not too long or too short.
Everyone in the Liang family was worried at first, but when Liang Genquan came to report that he was safe, now everyone is looking forward to it, hoping that Erhua can bring back a little fish.
As the weather gets hotter, farmers get up earlier and earlier.
It was still dark, but Qiu Zhen had already started making a fire and cooking breakfast.
With two people at home doing heavy work, it is obviously inappropriate to eat bland soup.
I cut some noodles and ate them this morning, it was enough to keep me full.
Qiu Zhen took the wooden basin for washing dishes to the well, filled it with a bucket of clean water and rinsed it thoroughly. Then she poured flour and water into it and kneaded it vigorously. When the water in the pot boiled, she spread the dough out, cut it into strips and put them into the pot.
While the noodles are cooking, beat two eggs and stir-fry them in a pan with oil for a few times. Pour the chopped pickles in and stir again. The topping (the northerners’ stew) is ready.
Serve the noodles and top them with pickled vegetables and eggs. You don’t even need to add salt, it’s already tasty.
After everything was cleaned up, Qiu Zhen called everyone one by one, saying that if they didn't stop, the noodles would stick together and clump together.
"Get up! It's daybreak!"
Mom scratched Xiaohua's ears. He was the hardest to wake up. He never woke up every day. If she called him wrongly, he would sit up, stare blankly for a while, and then open his mouth and start howling.
Children from farming families are not precious at all. You cry and I eat. If you haven't finished crying before I finish eating, I'm sorry, you'll have to go hungry.
At this moment, Xiaohua stuck his butt out and refused to get up. Mom slapped him and said, "You don't want to get up, right? You've eaten all the pickled vegetables, eggs and noodles."
"Noodle!"
The little fellow jumped up from the bed, ran straight to the eight-immortal table without even putting on his pants, grabbed a bowl of noodles, took a big mouthful, chewed the noodles and shouted:
"I've already eaten this bowl of noodles, don't touch it."
Only then did he go to the well to wash his face peacefully.
The water for washing face has been prepared and put into the wooden basin. Xiaohua buried his face in it and blew bubbles in the water non-stop until he could not breathe and was about to suffocate, then he raised his little head.
After washing his face, Xiaohua felt his penis swelling and hurried to the gate of the yard.
"You little monkey, you went to pee at the door again. It's so hot, and it stinks!"
Liang Genfa stood at the door holding a bowl and scolded Xiaohua. Xiaohua stood there laughing, and he didn't even have pants on, so he just started to laugh.
"squeak--"
Qiu Zhen had gone out in the morning, and the courtyard door was only half-open.
The door was pushed open a crack, and a dark "savage" looked in from outside.
All the children in the countryside have heard the story of a wild man: his parents were out working on the farm, and his sister and three younger brothers were sleeping in the house. In the middle of the night, when his mother came back, his sister heard a creaking sound and asked:
"Mom, what are you eating?"
Mom replied, "I'm eating hard beans. Do you want some?"
As he said that, he stuffed one into her hand. The sister took it and saw that it was a child's toe!
At this moment, Xiao Hua was so frightened that he stood there, and he had to hold back his urine halfway through. Liang Genfa rushed over in three or two steps, shouting:
"Where did this ghost come from? You scared our children! Get out!"
Not only did the "savage" not leave, he even tried to push the door open to come in. Liang Genfa realized that scolding him was useless, so he picked up the carrying pole beside him and was about to hit him.
"Bang!" The "savage" knelt down and shouted hoarsely: "Dad!"
Liang Genfa looked at the person in front of him, blinked his eyes, and asked with a shudder in his heart, "You, are you Erhua?"
"Old woman! Old woman! Erhua is back! Hurry! Hurry——"
Dad wanted to help Erhua up, but this child was no longer the same as when he left home!
He was wearing tattered clothes with his skin showing through the holes. The shoes on his feet were also torn and rotten. The tops of his toes were worn out and mixed with blood and mud, and were very swollen.
Erhua refused to get up and kowtowed three times on the ground, saying, "Dad, I know I was wrong. I left home and lost all my money. I almost died."
For a moment, Liang Genfa burst into tears. The child was his own, and no matter how wrong he was, he was also half responsible.
When Erhua was about to leave, I was actually very worried. It was all my fault for being stubborn and making him suffer this crime so early.
"Get up quickly! Your father doesn't blame you. My son, you have suffered so much!"
Qiu Zhen trembled as she tried to help Erhua up. The child she had raised, now had every bit of good flesh on his body!
Erhua still didn't get up, and Liang Genfa realized that he was the one who had to speak.
"Erhua, hurry up and get up. Dad is also wrong. Look at the suffering he has endured."
After hearing this, Erhua was willing to get up from the ground, and the family carried him into the house.
The noodles in the morning were served according to the number of people. There was no portion for Erhua. Dahua gave his bowl to him, and Mum quickly pushed hers over and said:
"Dahua still has to go to work, how can he not eat enough? Erhua, you have to eat your mother's food."
"Brother, you eat mine, I can't finish it." Qiuhua also pushed her bowl in front of Erhua.
Even Xiaohua, who loves delicious food, is not in a hurry to eat. If his brother doesn't have enough food, he can have his own bowl.
"No, I ate it. What are you eating? I don't eat it."
What Erhua said at this moment was completely against his will. His stomach was already burning with hunger.
"Then everyone can take some out of their bowl!" Dahua suggested.
So, Mom took another bowl and scooped from everyone's bowl, but in the end, Erhua's bowl was the fullest.
"Hula hula" After eating a bowl of noodles, Erhua felt warm and the long-lost feeling of being full came back.
After everything was packed up, Dad and Dahua went to work, Qiuhua went to school, and only Mom, Erhua, Xiaohua and Chunhua were left in the house.
Erhua took off his torn clothes, went to the well, cleaned himself up, and changed his clothes.
At this moment, Xiaohua was playing in the yard, Chunhua was standing in the bucket, and Erhua was sitting on a chair with his feet up.
The skin on the soles of his feet was blistered, white and rotten, and there were several scratches. None of his ten toes were in good condition.
I didn't feel any pain in my feet when I was on the road, but now that I'm home and my heart is calm, the pain spreads from the bottom to the top, piercing my heart.
Erhua wiped it gently with a cloth, "hiss--" the soles of his feet were soft and he couldn't help crying out in pain.
Mom was boiling water on the stove, preparing to scald him. She caught a glimpse of those feet and secretly wiped away her tears.
"Mom, I didn't deserve this punishment. I deserved it!"
"What nonsense! I have suffered so much since I was a child. What a sin..."
"Mom, I don't feel it's hard, really! I just feel that I was stupid in the past, always thinking about getting rich, and, and..."
The second half of the sentence he wanted to say was: You still look down on Tang Luozhen like a bastard!
As the saying goes, it is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature, but there are exceptions. That is when a person encounters a major change in life, then there is a possibility of changing his nature.
Mom wiped her tears, feeling that the second boy must be different this time, and murmured, "It's good that he's back, it's good that he's back..."
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