After a while, Feng Yanhong heard the sound of the door opening. It must be her mother getting up.
Feng Yanhong also slowly stood up. The wound on her head still hurt a little, but there was no dizziness like yesterday, and it no longer affected her movements.
"Mom, let me help you light the fire." I came back late yesterday and didn't see anything in the yard clearly.
Their yard was not that big, and was still as neatly kept as she remembered. There were a row of chicken pens and duck pens surrounded by branches on the west side, as well as a rabbit nest made of red bricks.
There is a narrow vegetable field in the east. The weather in the northwest is hot and cold in May. After the beginning of summer, the weather gets hotter day by day. The spinach and leeks in her small vegetable field are already ready for cooking.
The kitchen is at the corner of the entrance, and firewood is piled neatly in the corner.
There is also a row of neat paths paved with red bricks in the middle. This path was planned by her mother herself and built by her stepfather.
She still remembered that the broken bricks at the corner were broken in half because she and Yanjun were naughty.
The mother was so angry that she wanted to beat someone, but the stepfather stopped her and said that the brick at the corner needed two halves, so the two siblings were spared a beating.
His house is at the front and last row, and there are two pens outside the wall where pigs are raised. There is still a bit of a stench outside the house.
There is also a large vegetable patch behind the house, where a lot of fresh vegetables are grown. A large group of sparrows are chirping in front of and behind the house. I don’t know if there is any movement, and the hula suddenly disappears.
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"Is your head feeling better? Why didn't you sleep more?"
Bai Xiu came out of the kitchen with a pot in one hand and half a ladle of water in the other. She stared at the wound on Feng Yanhong's head with her eyes, feeling unspeakably distressed.
"It's okay, the wound has scabbed over."
But the scars left by the five stitches on her forehead were destined to follow her for the rest of her life.
In 1987, although the team had running water, it was only available for a limited time every day. Bai Xiu always got up early and had to have a good breakfast. When he had a little money, he asked someone to come and inject him in the yard.
Deep well, my draft water has always been pressed out from this deep well.
The mother and daughter stood in the kitchen, which was obviously not that spacious. Feng Yanhong encountered another embarrassing incident while lighting the fire.
She hadn't used a firewood stove for decades. She used match after match, lit the straw and extinguished it, and lit it again, but she couldn't make a fire.
"I'll do it!"
Bai Xiu felt sorry for her matches, so she snatched the things from Feng Yanhong's hand and drove her out.
"Did you break your head? Go and wake up your brother. Young man, he will be unable to fall asleep in one day. Even the pigs get up earlier than him!"
Feng Yanhong looked at her mother's waving hand and knew that she disliked her. Knowing that she was not helping, she had no choice but to leave the kitchen.
When Feng Yanhong came out of the kitchen, she happened to meet Feng Tai Zhou carrying a basket, which contained many fresh cabbages and a lot of gray vegetables.
The other hand was carrying an empty iron bucket. It looked like he had just fed the pigs and returned from the vegetable garden.
"dad."
Thinking of her illness, when her gray-haired stepfather was still running for her in the hospital, she couldn't help but feel the soreness on the tip of her nose and the warmth in her eyes.
She was afraid that her stepfather would see it, so she quickly lowered her head and said, "I'll call Yanjun."
Looking at Feng Yanhong's hurried away figure, Feng Taizhou was stunned for a while before coming back to his senses. With a smile on his lips, he squeezed into the kitchen with a bit of joy.
"What are you doing in here? Get out now~"
The fire was lit and the kitchen was filled with smoke. Bai Xiu, who had just stood up, ran into her husband's arms and wanted to drive him out in annoyance.
Unexpectedly, before the hand that stretched out to push him could reach him, I looked up and saw the happy smile on his face.
"Yanhong called me daddy!"
The man lowered his head and said to her with a proud look on his face.
"It's not like I haven't screamed before. Why are you so happy? Go out and wash the dishes!"
Bai Xiu's heart flashed with deep surprise, but her face was still very disapproving.
"What a fool! Dad is so happy just by hearing it. It's so easy to coax him~"
After the man put down the bucket and carried the basket out, a smile flashed on Bai Xiu's face.
In fact, the genius was bright at this time, and most people hadn't gotten up yet, and it was still early for work. But as long as she could remember, her family had to get up so early unless it was the middle of winter.
The Feng family's house is two large rooms converted into two bedrooms and one living room. The first half is the master bedroom, and the second half is Feng Yanhong's bedroom. Feng Yanjun has been driven to the living room since he was eight years old, and he was given a shot in the living room.
A small bed.
When Feng Yanhong came in, Feng Yanjun was wearing big pants and sleeping soundly with his arms spread out.
Yanjun is as tall as his father. He is tall and strong. The muscles in his arms are clearly visible because he has worked all year round. He always feels very suffocated when lying on this small bed.
"Yanjun, get up."
"Well, sister, I'll sleep for a little longer and get up soon." Feng Yanjun rubbed his eyes and only opened one eye.
"Well, I'll let you sleep for five more minutes, and then you can get up again after I wash up."
Seeing her younger brother acting coquettishly, Feng Yanhong felt so soft that she couldn't agree.
Feng Yanhong took a towel and a toothbrush and went out. Feng Yanjun opened her eyes when she left the house.
'That's not right! When did his sister become so easy to talk to?'
Yesterday, he also said that he wanted to sleep for a while, but she almost threw him to the ground while being dragged by him.
How come after hitting his head, everyone became kinder?
Thinking of her sister's changes, Feng Yanjun couldn't sleep at all. She simply straightened her legs, put her feet against the wall, stretched and got out of bed.
There was still meat in breakfast, but there were two more vegetables. Feng Yanhong's appetite finally felt better.
The yard was filled with the smell of meat, and the aunt of the Lan family next door made sarcastic remarks for a long time through the wall. They had long been accustomed to this and ignored it at all.
Feng Yanhong has stayed at home since graduating from junior high school and has not signed up for a job assignment for two years. After Yanjun graduated from junior high school last year, her father drove her to work in a brick factory as a temporary worker.
I am a bit tired, but the older boy can be considered to have a stable income. Her younger brother sometimes looks like a child who has not grown up, but when it comes to work, he is a complete calf. What he does is
For piece-rate work, you can always get a few dollars more than others when you get paid at the end of the month.
She still remembers how happy and excited this guy was when he first received thirty-eight yuan and eighty cents, and he almost jumped into the sky.
"The chickens and ducks have been fed, and I have stewed the meat and fish. Just make some rice and heat up the vegetables for noon. If you feel uncomfortable, just wait until we come back... Forget it, let your brother go early.
After work, you go back to the house and lie down to rest."
When Bai Xiu went out to give instructions, she was still frowning and in a bad mood.
"If that Zheng Guoqing comes, don't let him in until your father and I come back to take care of him!"