Teacher Xiao Zhong's adventures in the countryside

There are more than 70 households in Yuanjiazhuang, almost all of them have the surname Yuan, and only six households have foreign surnames, including Xiao Mingye.

He is different from others. For other immigrant households, the whole family moved here, such as Uncle Qiu’s family from the Tofu Mill. Back then, his father moved to Yuanjiazhuang with his wife and children. Now Uncle Qiu also has grandchildren, and the generations slowly took root.

Xiao Mingye is only himself.

He doesn't remember his own father at all, because Xiao Mingye was less than one year old when his father died.

His mother, Wang Guizhi, said that his father had died of a sudden illness. After returning from a day's work, he ate two large bowls of noodles, two steamed buns, and drank half a bottle of wine in the evening.

He died the next morning without waking up.

His mother made dinner in the morning, seeing that he hadn't woken up yet, she thought he was pretending to be asleep, so she came over and pushed him coquettishly, only to find that he was already hard.

Xiao Mingye, who was only eight months old, was still sleeping next to him with his eyes wide open and laughing.

But his uncle didn't say that. He said his father was killed by his mother. His father was a 1.9-meter-high man, like an iron man. He could scare a child into tears with a dark face. It was impossible for him to die without saying anything. up.

Wang Guizhi took Xiao Mingye to guard for two years. When Xiao Mingye was three years old, she said that she could not survive and wanted to marry.

The Xiao family had six brothers, and his father was three. At that time, his grandfather was still alive. The men clapped the table and said, you can marry, but you can't take your children away.

Of course Wang Guizhi was reluctant to bear the child, but she didn't want to bring the child to marry, and there was a conflict between heaven and man in her heart. What they said was like helping her make a choice.

She later said that this is life.

Someone introduced Wang Guizhi to marry Yuan Rongzhao, who was ten years older than her. His wife died two years ago and left behind two sons.

Wang Guizhi married to Yuanjiazhuang and lived well, and gave birth to a daughter Yuan Yulan within two years.

She thought she would live like this for the rest of her life, but it just didn't go her way.

Xiao Mingye grew up with his grandfather until he was five years old. Although it was hard work, he was still stable.

In the summer when I was five years old, my grandfather died.

Before he died, he summoned his sons to kneel in front of the bed and made an oath that Xiao Mingye must be raised.

But swearing is as simple as farting, and the smell only lasts for a while.

On the second day after the grandfather was buried, the uncle came to pick him up. Xiao Mingye thought he was going to take him to his house, but he didn't. He borrowed a bicycle and took Xiao Mingye to Yuanjiazhuang.

Of course Zhong Yiqiu didn't hear such a complete story, he just couldn't suppress his curiosity when he washed the dishes after dinner at night, so he asked the six sons.

The six sons simply told him the ins and outs.

"I don't know very well. I heard it from the villagers. The second brother never mentioned it." Liu Zi said, shaking the water from his hand.

Zhong Yiqiu asked: "He is the only one in Xiao's family, and he is not the second child here, so why is he called the second brother?"

"You don't understand this, don't you?" Sixth son straightened up and said enthusiastically, "Second is not the second of the second, the second brother respects you, you know?"

After thinking about it, I felt that what I said was not clear enough to attract Zhong Yiqiu's attention, and added: "It means powerful, calling out second brother will scare everyone!"

Zhong Yiqiu still didn't understand, she looked at him with raised eyes in the dark, which means what kind of nonsense are you talking about?

The six sons turned around in a hurry, and didn't think of a word to express it. They only regretted that they didn't study for a few more years.

Zhong Yiqiu saw that he was in a hurry, and tried to ask: "Is it because he is second?"

The six sons were stunned for a few seconds when they heard what he said, and when they realized what they were saying, they exploded, dancing and shouting, "What are you talking about, how can it be that two!"

Zhong Yiqiu was taken aback by him, waved her hands and hurriedly said: "No, I didn't mean that!"

As a result, the six sons yelled and suddenly seemed to have been clicked on the laugh point, and laughed hahahaha. They couldn't stand up laughing, and squatted down with their hands on their stomachs.

Zhong Yiqiu didn't understand what was going on at all.

Xiao Mingye was called back to have dinner because Yuan Baocai came back from the county.

Yuan Rong recruited two sons. The eldest, Yuan Baochang, is 29 years old and has yet to mention his wife. The second, Yuan Baocai, works in a prefabricated panel factory next to the county seat. He has been married to a wife for two years and has yet to have a child.

Xiao Mingye didn't want to go back, but he knew that if he didn't go, Wang Guizhi would make Yuan Yulan call over and over again. He didn't want to ask for trouble, and he didn't want to see Yuan Yulan's face that was about to collapse to the ground.

So he can only go back.

His family lived at the east end of the village, not too far from Liu Zi's house, and there were two tall jujube trees planted by the door.

When he got home, Xiao Mingye went directly to look for Yuan Baochang in a shack next to the cowshed. It was not that there was no house in the house. There were four rooms in total, including the main house and the main room, where Yuan Rongzhao, Yuan Baocai and his wife lived, and Yuan Yulan lived.

Originally Yuan Baochang also lived there, but Yuan Baocai moved out after marrying his wife.

After moving out, she first lived in a side room connected to the kitchen. Later, Yuan Baocai went to work in the county. The younger sister-in-law said that she went to the kitchen to cook every day. If she caught her elder brother getting up and going to bed, she would be embarrassed and afraid that people would gossip.

Yuan Baochang moved out of the side room again, and built a shack next to the cowshed to live in.

Seeing Xiao Mingye coming in, he stopped what he was doing, smiled and said, "Xiaoye is back, did you go to town to move books today?"

Not to mention this family, his elder brother is probably the only one in the entire town who calls him Xiao Ye.

Xiao Mingye acted as if he hadn't heard the name, and bent over to touch the half-month-old calf with a hmm.

Yuan Baochang was famous for his honesty, otherwise he would not be a bachelor at this age. People in the countryside say that even a man who is too honest cannot marry a wife.

But Xiao Mingye kept in mind that without Yuan Baochang's honesty and kindness, he might not be able to grow up alive.

So in this family, it is rare for Wang Guizhi to hear a good word from Xiao Mingye, but he is closest to Yuan Baochang.

He never called Yuan Rong to recruit his father, and he didn't call Wang Guizhi very much, and he didn't know how to talk to Yuan Baocai and his wife. Only Yuan Baochang would respectfully call him big brother.

"Baocai came back and said he would take Chunqiao to the county hospital, and he would leave tomorrow," said Yuan Baochang, sitting on the bed.

Yuan Baocai has been married for two years and has been unable to conceive a child. He didn't know how many folk remedies he took, so he finally remembered to go to the hospital.

Xiao Mingye didn't care about these things. He pulled the calf's ear and asked, "What about building a house? Can construction start this winter?"

Yuan Baochang can’t be called a daughter-in-law. Another reason is that there is no house at home. It is said that he can live in the four upper rooms when he gets married. If you live in the house, you will have to live in a separate family when you enter the door. It will be a matter of not having a house sooner or later.

Yuan Rongzhao went to the mountain with others to put trees on the mountain the year before last, and the tree collapsed his waist. Although he was not paralyzed, he could not work.

The more than 30 mu of land planted by the family is mainly planted by Yuan Baochang, but Yuan Rongzhao is still in charge of the family. Throughout the year, no matter whether the harvest is good or bad, Yuan Rongzhao still manages the money.

Xiao Mingye asked his elder brother to urge Yuan Rong to build a new house, otherwise he would not be able to marry a wife.

"Father said we'll wait a few months to see it again. A few days ago, I heard from someone who went out to work that Brick has increased by two cents this year." Yuan Baochang smiled with a wrinkled face.

Seeing his thin and dark face, Xiao Mingye felt sore and helpless in his heart, so he didn't say a word.

Yuan Baochang was most afraid of him like this, he couldn't guess what he was thinking, and he didn't say anything when he got angry, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "I heard they said that the school wants a new college student, is it here?"

"Coming" Xiao Mingye replied.

"Where do you live, with you?"

"Um"

"Said the family is from the city, why did you come here?" Yuan Baochang chatted, and then told him, "People in the city are delicate, don't mess with him."

Xiao Mingye snorted and laughed.

"How are you, can you get along?" Yuan Baochang asked again.

"It's okay," Xiao Mingye answered with lowered eyebrows.

He went back to school after dinner, Wang Guizhi called him, as if asking him to go to the town to bring something back, but he didn't hear clearly and didn't want to care.

Yuanjiazhuang is the closest to the school among several villages. From the village, there is a small bridge and an uphill road. If you walk straight without turning, you can reach the school in ten minutes.

Xiao Mingye crossed the bridge and saw three mysterious people standing on the road in front of him from a distance. He heard the voice of Gou Tai's father talking, and he remembered what Wang Wenjun said at noon.

Gou Tai is 9 years old and in the third grade. A few days ago, I heard that he was ill.

His father went to find Mrs. Qian, who showed her that she went to bathe in the river on July [-]th and was haunted by the water ghosts in the river.

The water ghost sent her a message that she needed money for new clothes, and Qian Pozi made the clothes, folded the paper money, and calculated the time and place to burn it.

Xiao Mingye didn't want to bump into them, so he took a detour across the field, intending to enter through the vegetable garden.

As soon as he left the cornfield, he heard Liu Zi humming and haha ​​pushing out from the small gate of the vegetable garden, waving a flashlight as if he was drunk.

He, Uncle Yi, and Wang Wenjun had only three keys to the small gate of the vegetable garden. Every time the six sons took a shortcut, they climbed over the courtyard wall. Uncle Yi annoyed him so much that he probably gave him the key.

"Who is it?" Liu Zi asked, and after finishing speaking, he answered on his own, "Is it my second brother?"

Xiao Mingye ignored him, and scolded him when he got closer: "Why are you drinking again? What's the point of drinking half a glass?"

The sixth son was also a little uncomfortable, bent down and put his hands on his knees and said, "Uncle Yi fried the bacon for Chinese New Year last year, can you be worthy of the bacon if you don't drink some wine!"

Xiao Mingye ignored him with his hands in his trouser pockets, and said coldly, "It's worthy of bacon, but I'm sorry for you."

"Hey, I didn't drink much, not as much as Qiu'er!" Liu Zi muttered.

Xiao Mingye froze for a moment, guessing that the Qiu'er he was talking about might be Zhong Yiqiu.

Just can't believe it.

He reached out and slapped the mosquitoes away a few times on his arm, and asked pretending not to care, "Which Qiu'er?"

"It's Bai—" Liu Zi straightened his waist, realized that he had made a mistake again when he said this, slapped his mouth and said, "Wrong, it's Teacher Zhong, Teacher Zhong Yiqiu."

"After drinking half a glass of wine, you will become Qiu'er." Xiao Mingye laughed with the corners of his mouth pulled.

"Can you still go, or should I take you back?" He continued to ask.

The sixth son shook his head and said, "It's nothing."

Xiao Mingye: "Then go back quickly."

Said to leave by mistake.

Liu Zi grabbed his arm and said, "Hey, second brother, let me tell you something." Before he could say anything, he laughed haha.

"Turn off the flashlight," Xiao Mingye yelled as he approached, the flashlight flickered, making Xiao Mingye dizzy.

If he said this normally, the six sons would definitely answer "What's wrong with the flashlight", but now they don't care about it and turn it off immediately.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Mingye asked.

"Let me tell you, don't tell others that I said it!" Liu Zi asked him to promise first.

Xiao Mingye turned around and left, acting like I don't want to hear it unless you tell me.

"Ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai" Liu Zi grabbed him, "tell me, let's do it!"

Xiao Mingye: "Say."

Six sons: "Qiu'er asked me today, hahaha - he asked me that you are not the second child, is it because you are too second that you are called the second brother, hahahaha"

Xiao Mingye: "..."