Seed beans

Bian Chunhan patted Bian Wu's shoulder lightly, did not speak, but secretly vowed in his heart that when he made money in the future, he would definitely buy a TV and show it to his children.

"Boy, you're all grown up, you have to hold hands even after washing your face!" Bian Yuan wiped his face, and was ready to go out with a small cloth bag.

He was going to the brick factory in the town to help carry it, and then he could pull a cart full of good and bad bricks back.Bian Cunzhi and Liu Fang'e wanted to expand a room, preparing to use it as a new house for Bian Yuan.

Bian Wu grabbed Bian Chunhan's hand tightly, but he didn't speak but his whole body exuded resistance.

"Wu'er just looks big, but in fact he is only five years old, how old is he?" Bian Chunhan put his arms around Bian Wu's shoulders and retorted, "It's just that when the child grows up, whoever said that we can't hold hands anymore."

Bian Yuan laughed loudly, "Yes, yes, the boy is right, brothers with good feelings can sleep in the same room for the rest of their lives, holding hands is nothing."

As he spoke, Bian Yuan lightly tapped Bian Wu's head and strode out.

"Dayuan, hold on tight, come back after a little work, and take a good rest when you have time, the work is always endless." Liu Fang'e chased after her and explained repeatedly.

Bian Yuan and Bian Cunzhi worked in the town for the whole summer. They were tanned and thin. They were only 26 years old and their shoulders were slightly hunched.

Bian Yuan responded and pulled the cart away.

Bian Chunhan was doing his homework in the yard, and Bian Wu took his book and leaned beside him to read.Bian Chunhan deliberately got up early to make up his homework, as long as he moved, Bian Wu, who was tightly wrapped around his body, would definitely follow him.

Liu Fang'e cleaned up in the kitchen for a while, and then went to water the vegetable field with an empty bucket and ladle.

One day is still going to class, get out of class, and school step by step.

Everyone was anxious to go home and listen to the radio storytelling. In the past, they always had to walk and play all the way until dark to get home. Even the youngest Bian Bo would trot all the way home.It's just that Bian Yuan didn't tune the radio early today, and Bian's family gathered around a circle of people abnormally, pointing and discussing something.

Bian Chunhan led his younger brothers to push through the crowd.

"Mom, which one is she?" six-year-old Bian Bo threw himself into Liu Fang'e's arms and cried.

In the yard, under the jujube tree planted just last year, sat a quiet big girl with long dripping hair. Although her face was sallow and thin, and her eyes were dull, she could be seen from her facial features to be a decent girl.

Liu Fang'e hesitated for a moment, then said, "She is the elder sister who just came to our house."

Just as Bian Chunhan was about to ask clearly, the girl stood up suddenly, screamed and ran out. There was someone standing in front of her, but the girl didn't even look at her.

Bian Yuan was originally moving bricks at the other end of the yard, but immediately ran over and hugged the girl from behind, comforting her constantly, and brought her into the house.

"Okay, everyone has seen it, let's all go back, so as not to scare people." Bian Cunzhi came out and said a few words.

While discussing, the big guys returned home in twos and threes.

Bian Yuan talked to the girl for a while in the room before he calmed down.

Bian Yuan found this crazy girl in the woods beyond the brick factory.The brick factory was built on a clay hill, with only a few cellars, and the conditions were simple. The workers used to urinate and defecate by pulling a few leaves from the nearby woods.Just as Bian Yuan was about to take off his pants, the girl suddenly rushed out from the side, holding a handful of grass mixed with soil and gnawing.Bian Yuan took his own kettle to wash her mouth, gave her a steamed bun and pickles, and he followed him, and when Bian Yuan came back at night, he still followed behind with a limp.Bian Yuan looked at it and found that the girl's feet were full of wounds, which were beginning to fester, and she couldn't explain clearly no matter how she asked.Bian Yuan had no choice but to pick up the cart, and dragged the girl back on the broken bricks.All the way into the village, I called and asked all the way.

In the evening, Liu Fang'e took down the hare hanging under the eaves, stewed a pot with tender beans, and cooked a bowl of eggs for Cao Qingyi.

That girl has problems, but she is not crazy or crazy all the time, Bian Yuan persuaded her well, and she recovered before dinner, just like ordinary people, and she even wrote down her name for everyone to see, the handwriting is the best at home The third brother Bian Jun who can read is more interesting.

"Drink some porridge first, don't hurt your stomach." Liu Fang'e filled her with a bowl of Bai Shengsheng's rice soup.

"Thank you, auntie." The girl pursed her lips and smiled.

Bian Chunhan was stunned for a moment.

"Sister, you are so pretty!" Bian Bo hugged the rabbit's head and forgot to chew it, and praised it loudly.

Bian Wu suddenly squeezed hard to the side of Bian Chunhan, propping his neck to block Bian Chunhan's sight.

"Thank you little brother, you are so cute, you will definitely be a handsome boy when you grow up."

Bian Bo laughed a few times, lowered his head in embarrassment, and sipped at the thin layer of fleshy skin on the rabbit's head.

Liu Fang'e picked a piece of fat leg meat for Bian Cunzhi and Bian Yuan each, and only now began to rejoice that she cleaned up a table of dishes and did not neglect the girl.

In addition to some in the vegetable garden, the rice field eels that were saved for sale on weekdays were cut off and stewed with old cucumbers in a large bowl, and a plate of lobster was heartily fried with oil (the crayfish that I usually eat are boiled in salt water to save fuel) , plus a few small and big fish fished out of his own pond, also set up a big table.

At night, after the three children had fallen asleep, Liu Fang'e started muttering to Bian Cunzhi.

Liu Fang'e also brought out a new set of quilts and sheets, and spread them on the single bed that Bian Yuan used to sleep on for the girls. Bian Yuan originally planned to go into the house and squeeze with his younger brothers, but after Cao Qingyi washed her face, she fell ill again. , holding on to Bian Yuan like a child, even following Bian Yuan to the bathroom.

"Forget it, Dayuan, if you think about it, just put it together with Miss Ren."

Bian Cunzhi spoke, Liu Fang'e also nodded, Bian Yuan persuaded Cao Qingyi for a while, and forced Cao Qingyi to drag her onto the bed, where she curled up against the wall by herself, not letting go of her hand.

"Our eldest son, who is so capable, picked up a crazy woman from outside, what's the matter!"

"Boss can do whatever he likes. That girl was not crazy all the time, so she saw you too. When she recovers, she will be like a girl from the city." Bian Cunzhi persuaded.

No matter how good the frontier is, the first younger brother in the back has to confess, but no one is willing to marry in.

"That's right. You didn't look at her hands. They are white and tender after washing. They don't look like people who can work."

"It's useless for me to make you suffer. The daughter-in-law is here to be hurt when she comes back. Even if a family in the village marries in, we still expect her to be the leader. The boss is almost thirty. As long as the girl can Let's hug our grandson as soon as possible."

"Again, what are you talking about, as long as all of us are doing well, I don't have to suffer. You're right, the boss is almost thirty, so you can't ask him to be a bachelor for the rest of his life." As she spoke, Liu Fang'e sighed He breathed a sigh of relief, "Even if we picked it up, let's hurry up and build a new house, and then invite a few people we know well to have a drink. The boss has suffered a lot, so we have to give him some face."

The two discussed for a while about building a house before falling asleep.

From the second day on, Bian Cunzhi and Bian Yuan began to build the wall.Thinking that all the boys in the family are growing up, and the family will definitely expand in the future, Bian Cunzhi didn't try to be cheap and rely on the old wall like many other families in the village who couldn't live in, but set another foot and started a serious life. For the wall, trees suitable for beams were picked from the mountains and cut back early, and the branches were trimmed and soaked in the pool for later use.

Cao Qingyi is really good when he is well. When he has free time, he can take the junior high school textbooks left by Bian Jun and the others to read quietly. She is gentle and polite when she talks to anyone, but you don't know when she will go crazy, screaming and running out, and she can't stop her, often making the whole family have a hard time looking for it. It took me a long time to get back to my senses after going back and forth with dementia.

Neighbors made fun of Bian's family members, even the two youngest ones.

"Bian Bo, did your beautiful sister-in-law kiss your elder brother? Did you see it?"

"Bian Wu, you have a sister-in-law now. When your sister-in-law gives birth to your nephew next year, you won't be able to go to school. You have to help take care of your nephew at home!"

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In this way, although the Bian family has not sent out wedding candy yet, when Cao Qingyi went crazy, Bian Yuan hugged him in front of people so many times that he couldn't tell.

"Good boy, listen to the book with the seventh buddy, and the elder brother will ask the eldest sister about math problems. Today, the teacher said a lot of things that the elder brother didn't understand. Otherwise, the elder brother will still not do well in the exam next time. Your father and elder brother It's time to spank my ass."

When Bian Chunhan moved, Bian Wu, who had been fascinated by the book, tightened his grip.

Bian Wu pursed his lips, because he didn't want to ask Bian Chunhan to talk to that crazy girl.

"Where is it, have I heard it?"

Bian Wuyu couldn't be more clever in his studies. The teacher gave him his textbooks and homework books at the beginning of school, and he rushed to fill in the homework on them day by day.At this time, there were no copiers or printers in the town. Except for handouts, the teacher usually copied a few questions on the blackboard, or copied texts, new words, and so on.A teacher in Lulin Elementary School has to take care of several ages, and often one class will be suspended for one grade. Bian Wu always completes all homework tasks in three to five minutes, and dares to ask the teacher to go to the upper grade classroom to attend classes.

Bian Chunhan felt embarrassed, and turned the book to Bian Wu to read.

Bian Wu may not understand all the things in the sixth grade, but he can almost repeat what he has heard from the teacher almost verbatim, so slow down twice, even if Bian Chunhan's reaction is slow. Learned.

Bian Yuan even specially wrote a letter to Bian Hao as a rare matter at home.Bian Hao joined the army before Bian Chunhan picked up Bian Wu and came back. He hasn’t been home once in the past six or seven years. He has never seen the youngest Bian Wu and Bian Bo. He only wrote back that there are such natural talents outside Although children are rare, they are not surprising, so please treat them normally.

It was a sample question that Bian Wu had never heard before. No matter how wonderful the radio book said at the moment, Bian Wu stood up without hesitation and went outside with Bian Chunhan.

The outline of the new house outside was already formed. Bian Cunzhi and Bian Yuan were busy working on the simple scaffolding, while Cao Qingyi was sitting leaning on a large flat rock in the yard, reading an English book.

When she arrived at Bian's house, the number of times she went crazy after eating and drinking was much less, but she was still not very talkative, and almost never opened her mouth on her own initiative.

Bian Chunhan walked over lightly with some awkwardness.

"Big sister, show me this, I didn't understand much today."

Bian Wu abruptly sat down between the two of them, took the book and handed it over to him.

"Baby, don't make trouble, it will be dark later." Bian Chunhan hugged him and coaxed him, and then smiled at Cao Qingyi, "Big sister, don't be surprised, the child is still young and ignorant."

Cao Qingyi was stunned, looked at the two children who were hugging each other tightly, screamed, threw the book in his hand far away, ran wildly in the yard, squeezed into the thorn fence, a good piece of clothing They were hung up in a mess.

When Bian Chunhan realized it, he went up and hugged the man's waist and pulled it out.

Liu Fang'e, who was helping the father and son from below, heard the sound and hurriedly chased after him. Both Chunhan and Bian couldn't hold back, and all three of them were hanged by the thorn fence.

He still came over from afar, hugged him up by the waist, brought him into the house, and comforted him for a long time before he calmed down.

Bian Chunhan was a little uneasy, afraid that his elder brother would be weird.

"Boy, it's not good for a man to be trembling like this. You are 14 years old. If you know how to see and think, if it's your fault, then admit it and bear it. If it's not your fault, just straighten your back." remote road.

When Bian Chunhan was about to have dinner, he sneaked a glance at Bian Yuan from time to time, and Bian Yuan taught Cao Qingyi a word when he brought the meal in.

Before the Chinese New Year, a bright and spacious house had been neatly repaired. Bian Cunzhi moved the wood he had prepared at home to an old carpenter in the village, and built a bed, a cabinet, and a set of tables and chairs. in it.

Liu Fang'e came back with a few bolts of bright red cloth. In the new house, new things were sewn on the bed, windows, door curtains, cabinets, and tables.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Bian Jun also came back from vacation, and the family cleaned the inside and outside of the house clean, pasted new wallpaper on the walls, and pasted Double Happiness on the outside of the door.

Bian Ming was only a freshman in high school, had an early holiday, and came back a week ago.Bian Hu stopped working in the ballpoint pen factory after accompanying Bian Jun in the college entrance examination last year, and now he was working as an apprentice in the kitchen of a restaurant, but this time he asked for leave and wanted to go back to his hometown, but the boss refused to let him, so Bian Hu had a fight with the boss and settled a small salary Qing left.

"I don't really want to teach you crafts at all. If you don't do it, you won't do it. I don't think you like being a cook. You have two years left, so make trouble with you. Just think clearly about what you want to do in the future. After you reach eighteen But don’t mess around anymore.” Bian Cunzhi added a piece of firewood to the stove and said.

Bian Hu had chilblains on his hands, face, buttocks, knees, and feet, especially on his exposed hands and face.It is said that they are apprentices in the kitchen, not to mention washing and cutting vegetables, but they also wash dishes and wash dishes. The masters are afraid that they will really learn the craft. In winter, they will drive people outside to wash dishes and vegetables. , but it would be unbearably cold.

"Hey, our dad is the best." Bian Hu held up a chicken paw and hugged Bian Cunzhi.

The chicken feet were killed in the twelfth lunar month, and two old hens that did not lay eggs were killed, and they were hung under the eaves. Now they are marinated and prepared for the New Year.Liu Fang felt sorry for Bian Hu who had suffered a lot outside, so she grabbed a chicken paw and gave it to Bian Hu, and then distributed the rest to the younger ones.

"Three, is it too hard, how did you become so thin? Hurry up and eat a little." Liu Fang'e stirred the sugar pot with a chopstick and handed it to Bian Jun.

Bian Cunzhi and Liu Fang'e are cooking sugar syrup and saving rice candy tablets for later use.

Originally, he said that he would cook a few tables and invite a few acquaintances in the village to come and have fun, but Bian Yuan stopped him, saying that he would be just as happy to keep his family to eat two more meals.

So Liu Fang'e went to the town to pick up the cheapest fruit-flavored hard candies, bought a big bag and came back, boiled the eggs she had saved for more than a month, and added homemade candies to distribute to the adults and children in this area. baby.