all the way

Liu Chuan was driving the car, and Liu Xia stuck his head out of the window on the passenger seat. From afar, he saw Liu Kui and Mao Er standing in the shade at the entrance of Wangning Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Qi Maoer raised it up: "Ahaha..., little smelly cat, I knew you would wait for me here."

The cat was thrown into the air and landed in Liu Xia's arms. He laughed and hugged Liu Xia's neck, looking at him a little embarrassedly: "I miss you all the time!"

Liu Xia rubbed Mao'er's forehead, turned his face and shouted with a smile: "Brother."

Liu Kui looked Liu Xia up and down, and said to Liu Chuan with a smile: "This brat, he can jump up really fast, why do I think he's taller than the two of us?"

Liu Chuan said: "Isn't it? The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the latter come from behind. If we leave our family alone, we will immediately become dwarfs."

Liu Xia leaned against Liu Chuan again, raised his chest and shook his head a few times: "Hmph!"

Liu Chuan looked at Liu Kui dumbfounded, and Liu Kui also looked at him with the same expression, and then said to Liu Xia: "Stinky boy!"

Liu Chuan pinched Mao'er's cheek and said, "Mao'er, look how tall you are, you will grow taller than your uncle, and you will grow taller than him, besides, your uncle and I are waiting to grow old." You support me, if you are not tall and have no energy to work, you will not be successful."

Mao'er puffed his face and said, "There are also my uncle, and my great grandparents. I will support them when I grow up. I will be tall, I can do everything, and I can earn a lot of money."

Liu Xia forcefully kissed Mao'er on the face: "It's really capable!"

Liu Chuan said: "Zhong, your uncle and I will remember, if you don't support me in the future, I will stay at your uncle's house."

The cat said: "You don't say that my uncle burns buns so I can support you and be filial to you."

Liu Chuan surrendered: "Okay, okay, your uncle doesn't burn buns, your uncle is the best, the best, I always burn buns, won't you win?"

Today is Saturday, Liu Chuan said hello to the leader, rest for half a day, and now go home with Liu Xia and the others.

Liu Chuan bought a lot of vegetables that are easy to store in Rongze, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, and some fresh vegetables that will be eaten soon, such as cucumbers, beans, small green vegetables, and three large watermelons.

In Wangning, there is little irrigated land, gold is precious, and it is used to grow crops. Vegetables are more delicate, and they cannot survive without water, so they don’t grow vegetables on slopes.

The result is that in Wangning, a rural place, the vegetables are even more expensive than the county and provincial capitals. The Liu family has never bought vegetables except for Su Xiaohui when she was pregnant. Now the family will grow some by the river, but there are few varieties, so Every time Yanagawa goes home, he buys a lot of vegetables to bring back.

They loaded the vegetables and other things into Liu Kuila's shelf cart, and Liu Chuan drove the car to the gate of the family at the head of the village in Fujiazhuang. The family knew Liu Chuan now, and greeted him with a smile, so that they could rest assured. Walk.

Liu Chuan was not worried at all that someone would steal or destroy the car, not only because Wangning could not find a few who could drive a car, but also because the nearby villagers were very simple, if they saw it, it would be too late, and it would be impossible for anyone to drive a car. Sourness.

At first, Mao'er refused to ride on the shelf car, insisting that he had grown up, but Liu Xia said he couldn't do it either, so he took Liu Xia's hand and walked with him.

Liu Chuan said: "You have to sit on it and watch our watermelon keep from being messed up, or the watermelon will be sloppy when you get home, and you won't be able to eat it."

Liu Xia echoed: "That's right, it's so hot, I really want to eat iced watermelon in the Fangfengxi River."

The cat immediately jumped onto the cart and squeezed the three watermelons together to keep them from moving.

Maoer was very excited along the way, and kept telling Liu Xia all kinds of interesting things that happened to him at home and school, one of the main contents was his composition.

Liu Xia already knew from Mao'er and Liu Kui's letters that Mao'er now writes a composition every week, with a clear score of [-] points. Eat [-] cents, and when you grow up, you will definitely be admitted to a key university like you."

Pushing the cart, Liu Xia was out of breath, smiling like a flower, and rubbed Mao'er's head to show encouragement: "Of course, my cat is so smart, my uncle knows that you will definitely be admitted to the best university." But he wanted to plunge headfirst into the Fengxi River flowing slowly under the cliff.

If Mao'er doesn't go to school in Liujialing in the future, what if the teachers elsewhere don't give Mao'er a passing grade for his composition?

Liu Xia's car was late. The car that was supposed to arrive at the station at 07 o'clock in the morning didn't arrive until 30:[-]. It was already past [-] o'clock when we arrived at Liuchuan. It took some time for the two of them to shop, and it was already past [-] o'clock in the afternoon. , the midsummer sun is still scorching the earth at this moment, and the few of them are covered with oil.

When going up to the top of the kiln to deliver things down, Liu Xia took off the cat's clothes.

The little guy got off the car at the place where the slope of the road became steeper and more than halfway to the north slope. He refused to let Liu Xia back, and held Liu Xia's hand until he walked here. None of the threads are dry.

After being stripped naked, Mao'er was naked, sweating all over, but insisted on running back and forth with Liu Xia, helping to hug something every time.

It was dusk when they returned home. Liu Xia collapsed on the kang after taking a bath in the Fengxi River. He felt that he lacked exercise. Going to and from Che Jie's house, the running time is worth the exercise in the morning before, what a self-deception!

When the temperature began to rise sharply in early June, Liu Chuan sent Su Xiaohui and her two sons back to Liujialing.

Liu Xin is already two and a half years old, she can talk about running but doesn't know the danger, this is the time to worry;

Liu Yun and Liu Lei have just turned [-] days old, Su Xiaohui's milk is very good, the two little guys eat fat for nothing, and when they cry, their voices are definitely worthy of their physiques, very high-pitched and sonorous.

So now Liu Changqing's house is busier than when Liu Xia and the others were young.

On the second day after Liu Xia arrived home, he got up early and started digging a cave together with Liu Changqing, Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, and Liu Wei. After nearly five months of hard work by Liu Changqing and Liu Kui, the newly opened cave has already taken shape. , but it is still far from completion, and people may not be able to live in it for two years.

The reason is very simple. Liu Changqing and Liu Kui do not plan to settle down. They want to dig each cave to be more spacious than the original ones. The width of the cave has increased, and the height and arc of the cave roof must also be changed. For safety reasons, Liu Changqing and Liu Kui planned to build the back wall of each cave dwelling with stones to the top.

Liu Changqing has hit stones when he has a little free time these years, just to prepare for the present, but the stones are still far behind.

It was too hot, and when it was eleven o'clock, Liu Changqing ordered to stop work and rest. Liu Xia and the others ran to the Fengxi River to wash, and then lay on a mat by the river to cool off.

Xiumei took a watermelon that had been frozen in the Fengxi River and cut it up for everyone to eat.

When Liu Xia ate watermelon for the first time in Jiangcheng, he thought that when he earned money, he would definitely buy a lot of watermelon for his family. This food is really delicious.

He never dared to tell others outside, because he felt that no one would believe that he, a person from the countryside, had never eaten watermelon.

But the fact is that the vast majority of people in their village have never eaten it. They don’t grow such extravagant fruits, and they don’t have the money to buy them. It’s normal not to eat them.

A watermelon looks quite big, but a family of more than a dozen people has one point, and one person has two small teeth.

Liu Xia only took a bite, then stopped to watch the cat eat.

Mao'er ran back and forth with Liu Xia several times yesterday, and was really exhausted. Last night, he was very excited and slept very late, so he didn't wake up when Liu Xia got up in the morning.

When he woke up and found that Liu Xia was gone, he was so frightened that he almost cried. He ran out and saw Liu Xia digging the soil. The soil that came out was transported to the outside of the cave bit by bit, but he would not do it any further into the ditch.

Right now he was sitting in the circle formed by Liu Xia's long legs, eating a bite of watermelon with great joy, he gnawed on the bite of watermelon until it didn't turn red at all, and he was reluctant to throw it away.

Liu Xia handed the piece in his hand to him: "I have a stomachache today and I don't want to eat it, so you can help my uncle eat it."

Mao'er immediately forgot about the watermelon, and lifted Liu Xia's clothes to look at his stomach: "What's wrong with you, uncle? Is it an old pain?" Mao'er's black and clear eyes were full of worry.

Liu Xia leaned on the cat's ears and said: "My uncle eats too many dried persimmons at night. You can't tell them if you can't bear it. They should say that my uncle is worthless. You help him. Eat this toothpaste, and save them from laughing at my uncle."

The cat was relieved when he heard that he was full of food, but he regretted that Liu Xia couldn't eat such a sweet and delicious watermelon: "I'll put these two watermelons in a basket and put them in the river to freeze. , wait until your stomach is full and panic before eating."

Liu Xia said: "That's not right. The melon can be left uncut for days, and everything will spoil quickly. If you don't eat it now, you won't be able to eat it later."

The cat had no choice but to pick up the watermelon that Liu Xia took a small bite of, and began to eat it slowly.

Liu Xia found that the way the cat ate was not in line with his usual voracious style. Even if he was reluctant to finish eating the watermelon too quickly, the cat would not eat so delicately. He raised the cat's chin: "Open your mouth and call Uncle, let's see what's going on with you."

The cat opened its eyes wide, then immediately covered its mouth with its right hand, and shook its head desperately: "Yeah~, eh~, old ugly, I don't want to look at it."

Liu Xia pulled his little hand away: "My child is not ugly, ask my uncle to have a look."

The cat will never be really stubborn with Liu Xia, so he bared his teeth and let Liu Xia look at it: "This tooth is alive, Brother Rui said I should change my teeth, it's ugly without a tooth shell, uncle, don't look."

Liu Xia pinched the cat's upper right front tooth and shook it twice, it was so active that it would fall out in a few days.

Sure enough, at noon on the fourth day after Liu Xia came back, when everyone finished their work and sat in the shade of a tree to eat the last watermelon, the cat's tooth stood up as soon as it took a bite.

Liu Xia pulled out the tooth quickly with sharp eyesight and quick hands.It doesn't hurt to pull it out quickly, but it's very uncomfortable to pull it out slowly.

The roots of Mao'er's teeth were bleeding a little, and it was fine after a few mouthfuls of cold water.

Liu Xia asked Mao'er to take the tooth and throw it into the ditch outside the courtyard facing the cave dwelling.

After throwing it away, the cat felt strange: "Uncle, why did you have to throw it in the deepest ditch facing the main room?"

Liu Changchun, who was cutting sorghum stalks to make mats, said: "If you lose it, it's the upper teeth. The upper teeth have to grow down, and they have to be straightened before they look good, so they have to be thrown towards the front door; wait for you. If the lower teeth fall out, you have to throw it up."

Liu Xia still remembers very clearly that when his lower teeth fell out, it was Liu Kui who hugged him and made him throw it on the roof of the kiln.

Liu Hai didn't come home until the [-]th, except that he went to see Liu Ling first after the holiday, the main reason was that Zeng Huaichen was going to get married in mid-August, and recently he found someone to tidy up the east wing as his new house, and Zeng Guangtong was on his way. A provincial museum has no time to design a large-scale mural. Zeng Huaichen can only take one day off a week, and there is no time. Liu Hai has to supervise the construction team.

Zeng Guangtong has already written several letters, asking Liu Changqing's family to go to the capital to attend Zeng Huaichen's wedding, but Liu Changqing has never agreed. He has already asked Liu Kui to write a letter to Liu Ling to explain clearly, and then give Zeng Huaichen a generous gift.

Everyone in the family knew that apart from money, the reason why he refused to go was mainly because he was afraid of causing trouble to Zeng Guangtong.

Taking a group of children to visit someone else's house, Liu Changqing felt that even the best friends were not suitable.

This time, Zeng Huaichen wrote a letter and asked Liu Hai to bring it back to Liu Changqing. In the letter, Zeng Huaichen very earnestly invited Liu Changqing and his whole family to go to Kyoto. He hoped that his wife would also get to know the Liu family.

Zeng Huaichen probably knew that Liu Changqing would still refuse a positive invitation. He finally wrote: Uncle Liu, didn't you and your aunt always hope that the children in your family would see the outside world more and broaden their horizons?In China, is there a more suitable place than Kyoto?

Can people not only feel the weight and glory of history, but also see the current fashion and prosperity?This kind of experience, even if it is only a few days, may have a deeper impression than their decades of hard work to Wangning.

Liu Changqing finally wavered a little.

Seeing that there is a family, Liu Hai immediately began to encourage the family members with eloquence: "Uncle, mother, uncle, sister-in-law, don't you know what Kyoto is like now? It has changed a lot since I went there. If you go The palace is full of foreigners, you just don’t do anything, just look at the appearance of foreigners, and you won’t feel bored all day long.”

Xiumei didn't believe it: "Don't foreigners also have one nose and two eyes, what's the point?"

Liu Hai said: "Our nose and eyes are different from ours. His nose is so high." He compared it with his right hand about two inches in front of his nose, and then grabbed his hand hard. Eyes: "Those eyes are so deep, ah...it's incomparable, the eyes I dug out are not as deep as theirs, and ah, the ass of that foreign white woman is so big," he compared with his hands at least A large circle with a square of one meter: "Here, it's just like that dustpan."

Sun Chang'e scolded him with a smile: "You little turtle has learned to talk big after being out for two years. Who can grow such a big butt? A cow can't grow too."

Liu Changchun’s dustpans are all made of peeled wicker by Liu Changchun. The smallest is the same as a seven-inch plate, and the largest can have a diameter of 1.5 meters. There are all kinds of sizes, very convenient to use, and very Exquisite and beautiful.

The one that Liu Hai was referring to was ranked from the top to the second place.

Liu Xia said: "Really, a wave of foreigners came to my school a few days ago, all of them are white like pigs with skins, and there is a girl, tall and fat, who can surpass my elder sister-in-law and third sister-in-law. And my mother and the three of them."

The cat asked, "Is there no sun in their house, uncle?"

Liu Xia said: "Uh——yes, they are that kind of race, boy, they are white people, they can't get tanned no matter what, and there is another kind of black people, they can't be found when the sun goes down. gone."

Liu Hai said: "That's right, and the hair is red, oh, it's a mess, it looks like a monkey's butt, didn't you see..."

Liu Wei, Liu Rui and Mao'er all opened their eyes wide and listened to Liu Hai and Liu Xia singing and talking about foreigners.

Liu Changqing said to Liu Kui: "When Chuan'er comes back this Sunday, discuss with him how to go. Huai Chen gets married on the ninth day of the lunar calendar, and the Gregorian calendar is No. 20. Xiaowei should start school then..."

Su Xiaohui, who had been watching Liu Hai and Liu Xia singing the double reed with a smile, suddenly answered, "Uncle, Liu Chuan was afraid that you and my elder brother would not agree, so he never let me tell. When it comes time, just drive Xiao Wei away. Speaking of this matter today, I will no longer hide it from you.

After the summer vacation, Xiaowei will go to the county middle school for second grade, and we have already made an agreement with the county middle school.

I don't live in the school, but I live in the house allocated to me by my school, and the room allocated to Yanagawa, you have seen it, and the place where we live is spacious enough now.

The county is not far from the old city and the new address of Liuchuan's unit. It takes about half an hour to walk. If you ride a bicycle, it takes up to ten minutes. From now on, he will be asked to eat at Liuchuan's unit on normal days.

There is no wheat leave or autumn vacation in the county. In previous years, registration starts around the 26th, and the official class will start on the 28th of the [-]th. You can take him to Kyoto. It’s really late for a day or two. Yanagawa and I went to talk to his teacher Just say it and you'll hit it. "

Xiumei said: "Then how did you win? You still have us two little ones, how can you take care of Xiaowei when we go?"

Su Xiaohui said: "Xiao Wei is already in his teens, so I don't need my help, maybe he can help Liu Chuan and us!"

Liu Kui and Xiumei struggled with Liu Wei's going to Rongze Junior High School for a few days, and when Liu Chuan came back on Sunday, the dust settled. Liu Chuan said, "Brother, sister-in-law, I have already gone to Wangning Junior High School to teach Xiaowei. It's proven by the transfer, and the bedding is ready, it's useless to say anything, I will definitely take the child away after the summer vacation."

Liu Changqing said: "Let's do it like this! Xiaowei won when she reached Rongze's sensible point. We hope that Ning's English is really not good, so the boy has been put on us. It will still be a problem to enter the university in the future. Tell him to go to Rongze." Ze goes to school and hopes to be bigger."

When Liu Chuan returned to Rongze on Monday morning, Liu Changqing told him to find a way to notify Liu Yu to come back.

Four days later, Liu Yu came back. He went to the province of Donghai with Ma Deying to deliver goods to customers. After returning, he got off the car in Rongze and went to see Liu Chuan. When he went to Kyoto, he was going crazy with joy: he really missed Liu Ling very, very much.

Because Liu Yu is good-looking, hard-working and down-to-earth, plus good handwriting, Ma Deying now takes him with him to make him look good when he meets customers, signs contracts, and delivers goods.

Liu Yu also brought a message from Liu Chuan, saying that Liu Chuan asked Liu Kui to pick him up in Wangning this Sunday with a shelf cart.

The whole family was a little strange. When they returned to Rongze last week, Liu Changqing ordered Liu Chuan with a black face not to buy so many things when he came back. Why did Liu Chuan ask Liu Kui to pick them up?

Only Liu Xia secretly excited in his heart.

Mao'er was very sensitive to Liu Xia's emotions, so he asked Liu Xia in a low voice, "My third uncle asked my uncle to pick him up, why are you so happy?"

Liu Xia pulled Mao'er away from the crowd, came to the swing under the big oak tree, sat on it himself, let Mao'er sit on his lap facing his face, and whispered something in his ear.

Cat's eyes widened excitedly: "Uncle Zhenli, you are really giving me..."

Liu Xia covered Mao'er's mouth: "Don't dare to say it, don't dare to say it, it won't be a surprise if you say it."

Mao'er laughed: "That's right, the whole family will be happy when the time comes."

At [-] o'clock on Sunday morning, Liu Kui, Liu Chuan, Liu Yu, and Liu Hai were sweating and pulling the shelf cart back. The family saw a strange-shaped thing wrapped tightly in corrugated paper on the cart.

Liu Kui and Liu Yu carried the things down, looked at Xiumei, and said with a smile: "Come here, let's see what good things our youngest bought you."

Xiumei looked suspiciously at Liu Xia, who was sitting on the swing with the cat in his arms, and looked at the thing again. When she saw the words written on it clearly, she covered her mouth and yelled: "Ah—the sewing machine, ah! ——It’s really a sewing machine...hehe, I have a sewing machine too...Yaoer..."

Xiumei's eyes were a little red, she pretended to be nonchalant and wiped her eyes in embarrassment, stroked the unpacked sewing machine and looked at Liu Xia.

Liu Xia swayed the swing gently, looked at the sister-in-law 12 times, and said to the cat: "Tell mother, what brand is that sewing machine!"

The cat said loudly, "Fu (butterfly) butterfly card!"