life under the pen of rebirth

When the two brothers returned home, Haimu hadn't come back.

Hailin turned on the light and asked Haiqi to do his homework under the dim light, while he continued to practice calligraphy beside him, and took the time to point out some typos to Haiqi.Hai Qi didn't have any objection to this, and he didn't know when he trusted his brother who was several years younger than him so much. Anyway, Lin Lin seldom made mistakes, if Hai Lin didn't want to, Haiqi had already asked him to do his homework for him.

When Haimu came back, Hailin was sitting on the kang and was explaining a math problem to Haiqi. Hai Qi knocked on the head.

The two brothers, who are obviously younger than the older one, have an imposing way of getting along that makes Haimu almost laugh out loud. The exhaustion of a day's work suddenly doesn't feel so important.

"Mother, you're back?!" Hai Lin saw Hai Mu coming in, and hurriedly dropped the notebook in his hand and jumped off the kang, "Sit down and rest, I'll get the rice out of the pot."

"Mother, sit down!" Hai Qi saw Hai Lin going out, immediately pushed aside his homework, and ran to the side of Hai Mu to show his courtesy, "Mother, let me bring you a glass of water!?"

"You! You can't even catch up with your younger brother. I think you two should call it the other way around. You call Hailin and elder brother!" Haimu laughed teasingly.

"I don't want to compare myself with my brother!" Hai Qi pouted, "I'm a normal person, he's not like that!"

"Didn't you talk about our whole family! Are you not a normal person?!" Mother Hai poked the glib eldest son with her index finger, dumbfounded.

"Mother~" Haiqi jumped up and put his arms around Haimu's waist.

Just as Haimu was about to say something, her eyes dimmed and the lights went out.

"Mother, the power is out!" Hai Lin's voice came from the hall, "Brother, bring a candle from the east room!"

"Oh, I got it." Hai Qi shouted, got up from Hai Mu and fumbled to open the drawer, fumbled for a candle, and looked for matches by the faint light outside the window.

"Qiqi, there are no more matches in the convenience bag hanging on the wall, you can get them from the pot door hole below." Haimu didn't get up either, and let her two sons go down to work, "I have to buy matches..."

Hai Qi let out a 'oh', opened the door again in the dark, walked to the pot table, took out a box of matches from the hole in the pot door, lit a candle, and saw Hai Lin standing in front of the cabinet and looking at him.

"What are you doing?" Hai Qi approached.

"Wait for you to light the candles!" Seeing that the room was lit up, Hai Lin reached out and took the soy sauce and poured it into a bowl, which contained two peeled eggs, "Put the candles here, you go and light them first." Kerosene lamp, take the bamboo basket to the house, I picked up all the dry food, and I will finish it in a while."

"Oh." Haiqi dripped a few drops of wax on the cabinet, carefully stuck the candle on it, turned around and entered the room with the basket in hand.

Power outages are very common. At this time, there will be power outages in rural areas basically every few days, sometimes once or twice a day, and it is not like the villages will notify anything now.Generally, candles are not used at home. Candles are expensive. When the electricity is out, kerosene lamps are used to let children do their homework.

The mother and son sat around the table and ate a bowl of smashed pickled eggs and a few dishes of pickles they made themselves, eating with gusto.Thinking about the past, Hailin was a standard person who had no food or meat, but now, eating pickles and chatting with his mother and brothers is also very satisfying.

"I have to water the wheat tomorrow night, and you two don't go to school, so go and help me!" Haimu looked at the two brothers while eating.

Hailin agreed with a 'huh', Haiqi pursed his lips in displeasure, but didn't say anything.

Haimu smiled, feeling comforted in her heart.

The youngest son has been sensible since he was a child, and I don’t know if it’s because he was “uppered” by his father. He is very smart. The little guy who just went to preschool can keep accounts better than his brother, who is in the fifth and sixth grades; the eldest son is Ordinary children, love to play, love to play, love to be coquettish, afraid of suffering, tiredness, and slaps, but neither of the two children let Haimu worry about it.

After eating, Haiqi ran out to play with the children in the same village. At this time, there were many children on the street. The electricity was cut off, lighting candles wasted and he couldn't sleep, so he ran out for a stroll to digest food.

Hai Lin didn't stop him either, he never cared about Hai Qi's messing around, as long as he was an old man, it was fine, Hai Qi was a real young child, he could only play when he wanted to play and make trouble so he could be physically and mentally healthy growth.

As for Hai Qi's unfinished homework, um, Hai Lin said calmly while practicing calligraphy, come back and stay up late at night, children are very angry, and they won't have dark circles if they stay up all night.

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The next day was Saturday.

Haiqi fell asleep on the kang after lunch. He didn't finish his homework yesterday, so Haimu woke him up at four o'clock in the morning, and ended up doing and sleeping for a while until he went to school and didn't finish. I'm afraid I went to school to copy someone else's. I don't have enough sleep and I'm very active. I guess I'll be sleepy in the morning.

Hai Lin didn't care about him, he had to water the ground at night, so let him sleep a little longer!

Pushing the big bicycle, Hai Lin stepped onto the small beam and walked out the door.

Hailin learned to drive quickly. In his previous life, he remembered that he learned to ride a bicycle before going to preschool.His body has good flexibility and good balance. Most people can ride bicycles well, but they can't do well on three-wheeled pedals, and they always feel that they are about to fall.Hailin doesn't have this problem, he can just go up with three wheels, it feels quite simple.

For a seven-year-old child, even if Hai Lin is taller than most people of the same age, he is not as tall as a bicycle. The bicycle pedaled crookedly with a pair of calves straddling the trabecula, and others feel flustered when they see it. Many villagers and Hai Lin along the way Say hello and ask him to ride slowly, although Hai Lin feels quite stable.

After finally arriving at his own land, Hailin got out of the car and went to the well to look around. No one put anything there, so he took the snakeskin bag from the back seat of the bicycle and put it by the well, pressed it with a brick, turned around and rode on. The bike wobbled back again.

The wells dug on the ground are usually dug by the surrounding households together, or they were dug by other people's homes before, and then the land is no longer here, so they are considered public, so when they are used, they are mostly used immediately. Put a snakeskin bag or sack or something by the well to indicate that someone has come to see it first, and will pull the machine to water the field later, and take the bag away after watering.

This is called Zhanjing.

Sometimes the field is dry, and there are many people watering the field, and generally they cannot occupy the well, so we can only choose to water the field at night, even if it is cold.

Hailin went back and told Haimu about the well occupation, and then lay down on the kang and slept for a while to refresh himself.

In the evening, the mother and son had dinner, and then harnessed their own horses to the carriage and dragged the machine to the field.

The horse raised by Hailin's family was owned by Hailin before he was born, and Hailin likes it very much.This horse is not the kind of broad-backed horse used for riding. It is just a work horse, but it can also be ridden. Everything else is brownish yellow.

This horse has been in Hailin's family for nearly 20 years, but it was a pity that he was sold by his elder brother Haiqi when he was old in his previous life. At that time, he was not so obedient, a bit headstrong, and didn't like to work. He probably will be slaughtered later.This is the case in the countryside. Animals that cannot contribute to the family are unlikely to be kept wasted, just like cats and dogs that bite people once and will not keep them again.

Haimu is very strong. After all, she is a rural woman who has been used to heavy work since she was a child. She can push up the heavy machine by herself, and let the two brothers unload the wheels one by one.The three of them lowered the pipe for pumping water into the well together, the mother of the sea carried the bucket to draw water into the big bucket, and the two brothers each carried half a bag of water pipes to the ground to stretch out and connect them.When the water pipes were all connected, the two of them were also sweating.

Hailin waved to Haimu from afar, indicating that the connection is complete and the phone can be turned on.

It was a little more than half of the watering until midnight. It was very cold at night at this time, especially when watering the ground, at least half of the body would be wet, even if I was wearing a raincoat.

The three of them were all sleepy, cold and tired, Haiqi couldn't stand it long ago, at first he was able to see his younger brother not moving, but when he rolled up the water pipe, he was so cold that he almost cried out, Haimu had to let him go to the ground to look at the machine, Wrap up your coat and sleep for a while.

Hai Lin was also very tired, and the big military uniform on his body couldn't withstand the air-conditioning much, but he didn't make a sound, and just followed the sea mother to roll the pipe, unwinding one section after another.He knew that Mother Hai must be more tired and colder. She had been watering the ground with a water hose. At this time, her hands were probably purple from the cold, but the two brothers were too young to help.

"Linlin, go to sleep for a while, I'll roll the tube later." Mother Hai felt sorry for her little son's face that was flushed from the cold.

"Not sleepy." Hai Lin shook his head. He didn't want to talk at all right now. After all, he was a child with limited physical strength. He couldn't hold on right now. He just relied on his will.

Hai Lin thought about it again, "I'll just sit down and have a rest."

Mother Hai was helpless, and she had no choice but to let his youngest son be stubborn.

Hai Lin sat down on the barley seedlings, exhausted in an instant, moaning with pain all over his body, and immediately wanted to lie down and sleep.Hai Lin thumped his arm, endured the exhaustion and tried hard not to obey his instincts, and when he saw that Haimu removed another section of the pipe, he stood up again.

At around three o'clock in the morning, Hai Lin put the tube rolled up in his hand into a snakeskin bag, shook his numb and heavy arms, straightened up, looked at the things that were almost loaded into the car around him, and took a deep breath of air-conditioning After shivering, I finally finished.

I drove the carriage back home and looked at my watch, it was almost four o'clock.The three of them were cold and tired, but they were not so sleepy. Although they were covered in mud, they didn't have the energy to take a bath, and Haiqi wanted to sleep as soon as he lay down on the kang.

Hailin looked at him but didn't call him. He fetched a basin of water outside, poured hot water from a thermos bottle, and brought it in front of Haimu, letting her wash her feet before going to bed. say what.

Hailin used another basin to wash Haiqi's feet first, and then stuffed him into the bed that was warmed last night before washing his own.

The three of them tidied up hastily and just took off their clothes and lay down, when the sound of neighbors opening the door to work in the field could be faintly heard outside.