1987: Sleepless Tonight

Lu Hao's house is a brick-and-tile house with a word structure.

Three rooms, one bedroom, one kitchen plus utility room, the middle one is considered a hall.

The red brick was not painted.

No money.

There is quite a lot of open space around the house, so Lu Hao parked the car directly at the door.

The gate is two wooden doors with an iron ring in the middle. When the wooden door is closed, the iron rings are close together and the lock is hung.

There was no one in the house.

Pushing the wooden door, the gap became wider. Lu Hao reached in and felt it, found the key hanging on the back of the wooden door, opened the lock, and hung the key with the lock on the nail behind the door.

Shouted to Lu Xiaoqin and Lu Xiaowei, "You two bring the things in the car in, I'll go to the field to have a look, and stay in the house, don't leave."

There are cigarettes and alcohol in the car, among other things.

Let the two of you guard, rest assured.

"Brother, you go to the second uncle. He has a sprained leg and can't carry the burden. Xiaowei and I will stay here." Although Lu Xiaoqin is a sophomore in junior high school, she is already very sensible. You, I said a few days ago that I didn't know if you would come back for the National Day, but you didn't come back, but you came back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they must be very happy."

Lu Hao nodded and walked out of the village.

Back when the land was still privately owned, this piece of land and that piece of land were separated by a long distance, and the land certificate was handed in later, and it was owned by the commune. For the convenience of labor, the production teams exchanged land, and the land of the production team was generally They are all next to their own villages.

After the implementation of the household contract responsibility system, collective land is contracted to families, and most of the land allocated to each household is near the village.

It was the time for the late rice harvest, and there were many people in the fields.

When Lu Hao walked to his field, he saw two laboring figures from a distance.

The man is bent over, holding a sickle in one hand and a rice stalk in the other, harvesting quickly.

a moment.

It is far away, but it seems to be able to hear the sound of chachacha, the sound of sickle cutting rice stalks.

The legs are a little awkward, and it is a little difficult to move.

The woman hugs small and small piles of rice stalks together, piles them into a big pile, and finally bundles them with straw ropes. There are skills in tying them, and they have to use their legs to press the rice stalks. It's true, pull the straw rope at both ends, and then roll it again.

The two elders are Lu Hao's parents, Lu Liexing and Li Jinxiang, who do farm work very quickly.

The weather in October is much cooler, and the late rice is not so hard to harvest. If it is early rice, it is the hottest day for transplanting and harvesting, which is the most uncomfortable.

Farm work is hard.

In March, wheat germinates new leaves, joints and boots, rapeseed pistils sprout, and weeding and fertilization are necessary.

In April, the fields are irrigated, plowed, and early rice seedlings are made, and the rice seeds are soaked to accelerate germination.

In May, early rice seedlings were weeded, dewormed, fertilized and watered.

In June, continue to harvest the wheat in the field, thresh the field, and rub the rapeseed.

In July, weeding, fertilization, pest control, and watering of early rice seedlings and late rice seedlings are double-robbed, harvesting early rice and sowing late rice.

In August, I can relax a little bit, but I still have to manage the late rice, worry about the weather, pests and diseases.

……

But it is so busy, the money is not much, and people still suffer.

Lu Hao walked over to Li Jinxiang's side, "Mom, I'll tie the rice stalks."

There were too many rice stalks in this pile, and the straw rope was a bit short. Li Jinxiang didn't hold it down for a long time, but was lowering his head and struggling, when he heard this suddenly, he was startled.

But immediately turned his head again.

Seeing that it was really her son, and she heard the voice correctly, tears welled up in her eyes, and immediately shouted to the side, "My son is back, my son is back, Lie Xing, my son is back."

Choking.

Weeping with joy.

Lu Liexing, who was bending over to cut the rice stalks, put away his sickle, looked back at Lu Hao, and said, "Are you back?"

"Well, I just got home." Lu Hao nodded.

He took the straw rope, rolled up the piles of rice stalks, compacted them, and rolled up both ends of the straw rope.

"You don't need to work in these clothes, just watch from the side, there is only a little work left, and your dad and I can finish it right away." Li Jinxiang said again and again.

Only now did she notice that her son looked like a dog, and his clothes were made of good materials.

She said to Lu Liexing again, "My left eyelid has been twitching for the past few days, so I said there must be something good. Look, my son is back."

The two are Lu Hao and one son.

After Lu Hao went to Jiangcheng, it was inconvenient to come back. He didn't see him on the National Day. He thought he would at least wait until the Chinese New Year, but he didn't expect to come back today.

very excited.

The words spoken are like rice, golden, jumping, and very cheerful.

After tying up a bundle of rice stalks, Lu Hao went to hold the rest of the rice stalks.

"Don't hug, the clothes are dirty, leave them alone, I'll come." Li Jinxiang hurriedly said, "Where are Xiao Min and Nini? Are you waiting in the room?"

"You go back first. Your mother and I can finish this job in half an hour. We'll go back when we're done. Don't keep Xiao Min and Nini waiting." Lu Liexing said.

The weather is not very good, the rice has to be harvested quickly, and picked back to the front of the house.

"I came back alone." Lu Hao said.

The work on hand did not stop, gathering together the small pile of rice stalks.

"Why did you come back alone?" Li Jinxiang looked at his son suspiciously, "Have you done something to Xiao Min again? Such a good daughter-in-law is hard to find even with a lantern. Don't be ignorant."

"A man has to be a man. Now that you have a family and a baby, you should put your temper away." Lu Liexing looked at Lu Hao, "Work hard and support your family, let alone do anything."

The two elders helped Su Min to speak, and both thought that Su Min and Nini didn't come back, it must be Lu Hao's fault again, and the daughter-in-law was bullied.

"I was wrong before, and it was indeed too muddy." Lu Hao said, "But this time it's really not like that, so don't think too much, I didn't quarrel with Xiao Min, and I didn't beat her. The reason they didn't come back was because of Ni Ni went to preschool, Xiao Min had to pick her up, and the other one was that the way back was too far, and the house at home was not convenient, so they were not allowed to go back, and they would come back when they built a new house.”

After another bundle of rice stalks was tied, Lu Hao picked up the fiber pole on the side and picked up two bundles of rice stalks.

"Don't move, I'll pick it." Lu Liexing shouted.

"Didn't you sprain your foot? It's okay, I'll come, and there are only a few bundles." Lu Hao said.

He carried the rice stalks, and his shoulders hurt a little, but he just stabilized the burden and continued to walk home along the ridge.

Looking at Lu Hao's back, Li Jinxiang wondered, "Is this my son?"

"You were born, aren't you, don't you know better than me?" Lu Liexing said, "Changed?"

"It's changed." Li Jinxiang nodded, "When he mentioned his daughter-in-law before, he couldn't bear to listen to it, and he didn't admit his mistakes. This time the sun came out from the west, and he actually said that he was wrong, and that he was too muddled."

The two elders are clear about the nature of the son, but Lu Hao has changed too much, and they are very puzzled.

"A man, with a daughter-in-law and a baby, he may suddenly have a responsibility." Lu Liexing took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes, cheap cigarettes, a pack of 2 cents and 5 packs of big roosters, squeezed the cigarette case, and there was only one pack left. root, put it in your mouth.

He looked at Li Jinxiang and said, "Next year, work harder and order a variety of rapeseed? Rapeseed is expensive, so you can sell it for more money, so you can build a new house sooner."