all the way

After the summer vacation, Liu Xia went to junior high school.

They were divided into classes again, and the original classes were disrupted. There were six classes in the first year of junior high school.

They also have a new class: English.

Liu Xia originally planned to continue picking up writing paper and selling it for money as soon as school started, but after a summer vacation, the supply and marketing cooperative stopped accepting writing paper, which made Chu Xiaohe, who was in the same class as him, disappointed just like him.

Chu Xiaohe was the youngest of the two brothers who used to fight with Liu Xia. Now Liu Xia knew his brother's name was Chu Fenghe, and he was in the same class as Liu Ling, and he studied very well.

Within a few days of the start of school, Liu Xia and Chu Xiaohe became good friends. Chu Xiaohe studied very well. He was No. 15 in the grade in the summer graduation exam. He said that the tuition fees for him and Chu Fenghe in the past few years were The two of them picked up writing paper and saved it up.

Chu Xiaohe's mother died when Chu Xiaohe was four years old, and his uncle married another one. That woman brought her two children here, and she was very mean to them brothers. His uncle falsely claimed that the more than 20 yuan she brought when she married was stolen by Chu Fenghe, and Chu Fenghe was beaten to death by his uncle.

It was time for Chu Xiaohe to go to school when he was eight years old. The woman didn't want him to go to school, so she took advantage of no one at home to pinch Chu Xiaohe's back, and asked him to promise to tell his uncle that he didn't want to go to school. She had a fever and asked for leave to go home. The old Chu Fenghe saw that the 13-year-old Chu Fenghe took a hoe and beat the woman to the point of bleeding, and then took the eight-year-old Chu Xiaohe to build a shack with corn stalks and sorghum stalks in the village. Since then, a separate portal has been established.

That fight with Liu Xia, and being beaten so badly by Liu Xia, who was so much younger than them, was because Chu Fenghe didn't dare to fight. They fought with a little hooligan who bullied them on the street two years ago, and Chu Fenghe took that The person's nose bleeds, and he paid the person one yuan and fifty cents, which was the tuition fees saved by the two of them. At that time, Chu Fenghe almost dropped out of school because he had no money to pay the tuition fees.

Liu Xia's biggest impression after learning about Chu Xiaohe's two brothers' life experiences is: stepmothers are bad grandchildren, and men who marry stepwives are not considered human beings; even if they die, they can't let the cat follow the stepmother or go out to follow the stepfather and stepmother.

During Liu Xia's autumn vacation, the cat could finally crawl. This made Liu Xia both happy and annoyed. He was happy with any progress made by the cat. The annoyance was because he dared not leave the cat even a single step now, because the cat As soon as Liu Xia is not around when he wakes up, he immediately crawls around to look for it. He has already fallen off the kang once, with a bump on his forehead, and almost died from crying. I still don't understand the hatred when I stomp it to pieces.

The cat likes to let Liu Xia climb the tree on his back. The two of them sit on the pear tree and eat pears. Now the pears are fully ripe, sweet and crisp, and have a lot of water. The cat likes to hold one by itself, but he He only gnaws on the skin, and every time Liu Xia takes two bites first to expose the flesh, the cat can eat it.

Cats also like to eat ripe goji berries. There are many wild goji berries on the mountain. Few people pick them. They are so red in this season. Children pick and eat them, but adults say that they will get angry if they eat too much. Liu Xia I always choose the biggest and most popular one for the cat, but I dare not eat too much, and I have to stop every time I eat seven or eight.

The cat has already become petty-tempered now, trying to go to the field to pick it by himself if he doesn't get enough to eat, which makes Liu Xia not stick to the principle thoroughly every time, and always let him eat a few more.

Liu Wei and Liu Rui basically followed Xiumei, and Xiumei took them with her when she went to work in the field. If Xiumei stayed at home and cooked at home, Liu Xia would take the cat out early after eating. Anyway, now It is the season with the most comfortable climate and the most beautiful scenery of the year. If it wasn't for the cat to go home to drink milk, Liu Xia could carry two sweet potatoes mixed with cornmeal pancakes and play in the mountains for a day without getting bored.

When the family eats together or sits in the yard at night chatting and tearing corn, Liu Xia will also sit with the cat in his arms as far away as possible from Liu Wei and Liu Rui.

After Mao'er was sick and hospitalized last time, he was able to understand his sister-in-law's feelings.

He is Mao'er's uncle, as well as Liu Wei and Liu Rui's. Liu Xia also likes them, but they have many people who love them, and Mao'er only has himself, so Liu Xia naturally wants to love Mao'er more.

Xiumei could feel Liu Xia's estrangement from her. She was very sad and torn, but for the sake of her two children, she had to persevere. Before the weather turned cold, she had already put away the little padded jacket and trousers that Maoer wore when she was a child. After unpacking and washing, two jackets and trousers were remade, and Liu Rui's padded jacket was unpacked and washed to make a thick new padded jacket for the cat.

Apart from keeping Liu Wei and Liu Rui away from Mao'er, Xiumei was more caring and considerate to Mao'er than many children's mothers.

But Liu Xia just felt uncomfortable. Now as long as he was at home, he would basically not let others hold the cat. He was afraid that others had no choice but to despise the cat in his heart.

This winter is the opposite of last year. Winter comes very late. When Maoer celebrates his birthday in October of the lunar calendar, the mountains are still the most beautiful scene in late autumn.

The cat's birthday was on Thursday. Liu Xia found a reason in advance and asked for leave with the teacher. When he got up early in the morning on his birthday, he cooked an egg for the cat. This was a special gift for all the children in the family on their birthday. I took the cat on my back to the breeding room and milked the milk.

When the persimmon tree is at its most beautiful, a tree of yellow, orange and orange persimmons is hung on the branches like a small lantern. The trees, flowers and plants have all turned golden yellow, and the mountains, rivers and rivers have been smudged into a colorful and beautiful picture.

There are two bottles of milk in the schoolbag on Liu Xia's chest, and the excited cat Yiyi is on his back, walking unsteadily on the mountain road illuminated by the morning sun.

Liu Xia looked at a big pear tree beside the road and said, "Tree."

The cat said, "Play."

Liu Xia said, "Yes, the tree—"

The cat said, "Play—"

Liu Xia said: "The cat is a little idiot, one year old, he can't stand, walk, or talk."

The cat said: "Yeah? That--"

Liu Xia said, "That's a wild goose, a bird that can fly very high and far."

The cat stretched out its two small arms: "Hui——, Hui——"

Liu Xia said: "Birds have wings and can fly anywhere they want."

The cat said: "Ah! Gray——, that, gray—"

Liu Xia said: "When a cat grows up, it should be like a bird. It can fly far away, fly to a good place, live a good life, have new clothes to wear every year, and have meat to eat every day."

"Seven," said the cat.

Liu Xia said: "The cat still wants to take the train or the big ship to see the sea and the seagulls."

"Ah," said the cat.

Liu Xia said: "There are many people on the other side of the sea. They look different from us. Their eyes are blue, while our eyes are black."

The cat said, "Yeah."

Liu Xia said: "The sea is huge, bigger than one hundred and one thousand Fengxi mountains combined. There are all kinds of edible fish in the sea."

The cat said, "Teeth."

Liu Xia said: "The places where the fish swim are much, much farther than the distance my uncle has traveled since he was a child."

The cat said, "Ah, ta, ta, da."

Liu Xia said: "The cat needs to grow up quickly. When my uncle earns money, he will take the cat to see the ocean, trains, and airplanes."

The cat said, "Yeah, what?"

Liu Xia said: "Oh, that's a hare. He runs very fast. When it snows, he can't run fast. Grandpa and uncle will catch the hare and feed it to my cat."

Mao'er's saliva dripped into Liu Xia's neck: "Xia, Qi."

……

Liu Xia yelled "Oh--" and sat on the side of the road, put the cat off his back and let him sit on his feet: "Mao'er, what did you just say? I'll tell my uncle later." ?”

The cat said: "Yeah?"

Liu Xia shook his head: "It's not this one, it's Xia——"

Mao'er supported his hand and stood up tremblingly: "Xia——, Xia, ah, Xia!" The saliva flowed onto the small pocket.

Liu Xia kissed the cat's little cheek twice, carried the cat on his back and ran: "Oh, my cat can talk, my cat can call me by my name—"

After that day, the cat will call my uncle's name "Xia".

However, no matter how Liu Xia taught him, Mao'er couldn't learn to say "Uncle" or "Little Uncle", just like Chang'an's son Hongbin can only say "babababa" even now.

However, Liu Xia thought that although his cat yelled only one word, it was much better than Hong Bin's yelling, and the word "Xia" was so difficult to pronounce.

As for "little uncle", Liu Xia tried several times by himself, and found that the pronunciation of these two words involved too many parts of the mouth, and the difficulty was indeed too great.

After Liu Xia returned home and asked Maoer to show off his slobbering "Xia" to everyone, Liu Changqing asked Liu Xia, "Do you want to take a photo of Maoer's birthday?"

Liu Xia said: "If you don't take photos, other people's children will only take photos when they are [-] days old and three years old. Cats will be successful when they are three years old."

Liu Changqing looked at his wife, and Sun Chang'e happened to look over, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief: Liu Xia was injured like that on his stomach and was whipped by a tree branch, which made Liu Changqing very uncomfortable. He always wanted to do something to make his youngest son happy. After much deliberation, Yao'er would be happy only if they gave the cat something good, so they thought, Yao'er would definitely want to leave a commemoration for the cat's first birthday, so let's take a picture of the cat.But what about money?

Xiumei came in with a pair of tiger-toed shoes in her hand, sat on the edge of the kang, took off the old tiger-toed shoes on Mao'er's feet, and put on new ones: "Mao'er, come and try the new ones that mother made for you. Shoes, see if they look good."

Mao'er looked down at Xiumei putting on shoes for him. The shoes fit him well. He put Mao'er's cotton trousers into it. Looking at the new shoes, Mao'er was very curious. He looked at the shoes and then at Liu Xia: "Huh? Huh? ?”

Liu Xia said, "New shoes, mother made new shoes for the cat."

The cat raised its feet high: "Huh? Ahh——" It looked novel and happy.

The cat seemed to like his new shoes very much. He kept his feet up and showed it to everyone in the family. He didn't feel refreshed until he had milk and dinner at noon.

As soon as the meal was over, the cat pointed to the big persimmon tree in the yard that was still covered with bright red persimmons: "Ah!"

Liu Xia said: "Silly cat, it's winter, we can't sleep on trees anymore, let's find sour dates to eat."

During the autumn vacation, the weather was comfortable and warm. Liu Xia often hugged the cat to play in the tree, eat, drink milk, pee, and occasionally take a nap. The cat likes to let the uncle take a nap on the tree.

Liu Xia carried the cat on his back to look for jujubes on the other side of the river. Liu Wei and Liu Rui also wanted to follow, but Xiumei gently pulled her back.

When Liu Xia came to the river, he saw two people on a persimmon tree protruding from the mountainside from a long distance away. The two people also saw him and shouted: "Liu Xia, come here, the persimmon tree on this tree It's all booming, sweet."

Liu Xia ran over with the cat on his back, stepped on the stones, and dragged wild vines, and quickly climbed under the persimmon tree.

The cat can now wrap its arms around Liu Xia's neck by itself, and won't fall off in a short time.

I found a comfortable branch to sit on, picked a soft persimmon, picked out the petal at the back, bit the opening with my mouth, and put it next to the cat's mouth, and the cat sucked it skillfully immediately.

"You two really don't go to school anymore?" Liu Xia drank three consecutive drinks before he had time to ask Liu Zhaomiao and Liu Zhaosen.

Liu Miao nodded while sucking persimmons: "Well, I don't even know it. I feel dizzy when I see it, and so does I, Liu Sen. He is most afraid of English. You say we don't even recognize Chinese characters. We are like foreigners. What is the use of that word?"

Liu Xia unbuttoned the padded jacket, wrapped Mao'er's arms in his arms, it was windy today, and Mao'er's face was a little cold: "I don't know, I don't want to see you learn English, it's really difficult to learn dick, we usually have Don’t say it, I will remember it early in the morning and forget it later in the afternoon.”

Liu Xia had already taken the English test once, and he scored 88 points, ranking second in the class, but he really didn't want to see him learn English, and so did Liu Ling and the others.

Liu Sen, also known as Liu Zhaosen, said: "Ergou and Yonggui don't want to go to bed anymore. The third grandfather didn't bark, so he was beaten up. He stayed in the sheep pen for midnight and then went back. My uncle still wants to call us two. Mom said that it’s useless until death, and you have to pay a few cents for tuition, so it’s just fine if you don’t get in.”

The eldest, Liu Zhaomiao and Liu Yu, were born in one year, Liu Sen was one year younger than Liu Miao, and Liu Yao was one year younger than Liu Xia.

The names of the three brothers were all given by Zeng Guangtong's advice and Liu Fulai made the decision.

Back then, Liu Fulai heard that the names of Liu Chuan and Liu Ling sounded good, so he brought his two children here and asked Zeng Guangtong to name them. The requirement is that the more water and wood there are, the better the characters will be.

Zeng Guangtong provided many characters with the meaning of water or radicals with three dots of water or two dots of water, but Liu Fulai was not satisfied with any of them. Finally, Zeng Guangtong said, "Miao, how about stacking three water characters together?"

Liu Fulai was a little bit: "Only three water? Old and young?"

Zeng Guangtong said: "How about we add a quantifier in front? For example, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, our name is Liu Baimiao, Liu Qianmiao or——, Liu Wanmiao?"

Liu Fulai asked, "Is Wan the most?"

Zeng Guangtong said: "No, as far as I know, the largest unit of quantity seems to be a sign, the sign that auspicious snow heralds a good year."

Liu Fu said: "That's it, how many trillions of water, then there will be no shortage, right?"

Zeng Guangtong nodded: "I think it must be enough."

So there was the current name of the three brothers of the Liu family.

Several people were chatting lively, when the unkempt Liu Mudan ran over, stood on the riverside and shouted at them, "Our mother saw you two playing with the cat, and my mother said he was given to Liu Wei and the cat." Uncle Kerry is about to die, and if you two dare to touch him, she won't care if you give him Kerry to fall from a tree and die."

Liu Miao and Liu Sen are not young anymore. No matter how honest and honest the children in the mountains are, they still know this point of worldly wisdom. If you don’t know all about feudal superstitions, hearing her talk will annoy you.”

Liu Mudan groaned angrily towards the riverside: "What are you yelling at me for? I didn't say it. I don't want to go home. I also get annoyed when I see her. If she doesn't tell me to play with Liu Wei, I can do it too." It's boring."

Liu Mudan's name was chosen by Liu Fulai himself, but he had specifically asked Liu Changqing and Zeng Guangtong for their opinions before starting the name. Among the three children above, there was a girl named Liu Fulai. Liu Fulai was very happy. He wanted to name her a beautiful and foreign style name.

Zeng Guangtong gave a lot of suggestions, but Liu Fulai still didn't like any of them. He said that he wanted his family's Ni'er to grow up to be as beautiful as a flower, and he had to be blessed, so he wanted to name it a beautiful and blessed name.

He thought that the catkins and rhymes that Zeng Guangtong talked about were not very precious, let alone beautiful.

So Zeng Guangtong recommended a lot of flower names to him, among which "Mei" was specially introduced. He said that Yongmei or Ruomei were also good. In order to impress Liu Fulai, he also used the word "Yongmei" of the great leader as an example.

As a result, Liu Fu said: "Mao, Chairman, Xi Hao is so strange, that is, he made that thing, asked people to take out all the pots in his house to make steel, the old one, if I named it after what he said Son, will you not even have a cooking pot in the future?"

In the end, Liu Fulai chose the beautiful peony flower as his Nier's name.

But what is regrettable is that Liu Mudan's appearance is seriously inconsistent with her own name. Her legs are obviously fine. Niu Sannier's lameness is caused by the day after tomorrow, but Mudan also limps when she walks. Niu Sanni's tenacious imagination is enough, and she is bow-legged at a young age.

When Mudan went to Liu Xia's house to play with Liu Wei, Liu Kui once asked Xiumei to tell Mudan that when walking uphill, you must straighten your legs. Although it is easier to go uphill with bent legs, it will make your legs ugly. But it didn't work.

Because Liu Changqing once stayed in the army, he has some special requirements for the children in some aspects, which the mountain people cannot understand. For example, the walking posture, Liu Changqing asked his children not to bend their waists and legs when they go up the hillside. , the chest must be raised, and the legs must be straight.

Because of this, Liu Kui and Liu Chuan were able to serve as soldiers smoothly. Many young people here want to join the army, but basically those who come to others for military inspection are eliminated after standing in front of them: bow legs.

Liu Xia didn't see Liu Miao and his brothers getting angry anymore, he wrapped the cat tightly and jumped onto the river beach, saying: "You can play here, my cat should go home to drink milk." Then, without looking back, he stepped on the stones, jumped over the Fengxi River, and walked towards a hillside to the east.

When returning to school after the cat's birthday, Liu Xia and the others went to give Wang Junyu the first persimmon cream and goji berries.