Ye Cheng

Before dawn in the morning, Ye Cheng got up to cook. While washing rice and lighting it up in the stove, he added two more pieces of firewood, and hurried to the yard to brush his teeth. It was cold a while ago, and his uncle saw him The two were still cooking in the yard, so they asked someone to help build a stove in the house.

After a while, Lu Mingyuan also got up, squinted his eyes and went to the back of the stove to light the fire. After Ye Cheng finished brushing his teeth, he took the toothbrush and squeezed some toothpaste, took a glass of water from the water tank, and went out.

Ye Cheng sat behind the stove while burning the fire and broke the cabbage leaves one by one into the washbasin beside him.Huizi also got up, and every morning when the door was opened, Huizi came into the house, sitting behind the warm stove to warm up, and sometimes rolling in the firewood pile.

"Are you eating cabbage again?" Lu Mingyuan came back from brushing his teeth, his face wrinkled when he saw the cabbage.

"There are no other dishes." Ye Cheng took the cabbage to the laundry pool in the yard. Their villages were all piped down from the mountain, and Ye Cheng's house was the same. There was a water tank in the kitchen of the house. When the water is used up, I pull the water pipe in and put the water in for a while, and usually leave it outside.

"Would you like to scramble two more eggs?" Ye Cheng pulled up a bench after washing the dishes, and stood in front of the stove while cutting cabbage while talking to Lu Mingyuan.

"I want to eat meat." The two of them hadn't eaten meat for several days. Ever since Qian Shouwan helped Lu Mingyuan register at his house, Cai Jinzhi seldom took things here, but Ye Cheng and the others The rice at home was given by his uncle.

"Then you buy it and bring it back at night." Ye Cheng also wanted to eat meat.

Lu Mingyuan heated up another pot, and Ye Cheng added some lard into it. When the cabbage was fried, the rice in the pot was almost done.The two scooped out the water in the soup pot and washed their faces, then opened the lid of the pot, took out the steamed buns on top of the rice, and took out a can of milk powder from the cabinet, poured some boiling water overnight to soak it.

After breakfast, Huizi was fed again. Each of them took a lunch box, made some rice and half a plate of cabbage, and went out as soon as the box was closed.

"Have you got the gloves?" Ye Cheng asked Lu Mingyuan while locking the door.

"Take it." Lu Mingyuan pushed the bicycle out of the yard, Ye Cheng locked the door and followed out, patted Huizi's head to let him watch the house, and then locked the door of the yard.

Lu Mingyuan waited on the side of the road holding his bicycle. When Ye Cheng passed by, he let Ye Cheng ride the bicycle and sat in the back of the car.

"Are you going to take the exam?" Because there were two boxes on the back of the bicycle, it was difficult to sit with legs spread apart, so Lu Mingyuan sat sideways, pulling Ye Cheng's clothes with one hand and supporting the seat behind with the other.

"There is no class tomorrow, and the exam will be the day after tomorrow." Ye Cheng has been riding a bicycle very steadily now.

"Shouldn't you go to Shiba Ridge after the exam?"

"No, it's too cold." After all, the business in the town is pretty good now.

"Go."

"what?"

"I want to eat soup dumplings," Lu Mingyuan said.

"Then let's go." During the November holiday in autumn, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan went to Shibaling again. When they came back, they bought brown sugar bags worth ten yuan as usual. They both felt that they wanted to go again this time, so Buy 20 yuan and come back.

When they reached the fork near Ye Cheng's school, they stopped the car. Ye Cheng got off the front seat, and Lu Mingyuan got on to ride by himself.

Ye Cheng walked to the school along the small dirt slope road, took out the key from his schoolbag and opened the door of the classroom, because he was always the first to arrive at school, and their class teacher gave him the class key.Ye Cheng first sat in his seat, opened the textbook and looked at it for a while, and gradually all the students in the class came.

Early self-study Ye Cheng essentials, he is the class monitor, because he looks mature and stable, basically the teacher asks him for anything, but for primary school students, there are actually very few class affairs, Ye Cheng is a relatively good class monitor peace of mind.

Lu Mingyuan rode his bicycle to the town, walked through the long street, and came to the door of a grocery store. It was the store that helped Ye Cheng and the others buy tire threads in the past. Lu Mingyuan and the others basically got everything they needed now. If they don’t sell any in the store, ask the proprietress to help you find them next time you go to the city, and buy more at once for storage.

The proprietress of this store is Feng Bisong, she is a strong woman, her man teaches in the high school in the town, and tried to get her to go to school several times, but Feng Bisong disagreed, so she was willing to watch this grocery store, usually Freedom, earn relatively more.

At the beginning, Lu Mingyuan didn't set up a stall in front of her house, but at the head of a bridge not far away. A few willow trees were planted beside the head of the bridge. It was okay to cover the sun at ordinary times, but if there was a wind and rain, there would be no way Set up a stall.It was when Ye Cheng and the others went to Feng Bisong's store to pick up the tire thread for the first time, the proprietress told Ye Cheng that her store was wide and there was an alley next to it, and Lu Mingyuan asked Lu Mingyuan to move the stall to the edge of the alley. Just at the entrance of the alley, there was a windy and rainy person, who went to the door of his shop, the owner of the awning in her house.

So Lu Mingyuan moved there. Aunt Feng is not bad, sometimes if she burns the stove, she will ask Lu Mingyuan to put the lunch box on her side to steam it.However, maybe it's because she was born in a better family since she was a child, or maybe it's because her husband is the grade leader of the only high school in the town. With an indescribable sense of superiority.

Ye Cheng was already very sensitive, and Lu Mingyuan was not slow, so even though Feng Bisong was very enthusiastic, the two children still didn't get close to her, but they still remembered her well. The last time Ye Cheng and the others went to Shibaling, I bought some dried mushrooms from the mountain and gave them to her.Feng Bisong was very happy. At that time, these things were worthless in the countryside, but Aunt Feng gave them to relatives in the city, so it was perfect.

Not long after Lu Mingyuan's shoe repair stall opened in this small town, the business gradually got on track. Now everyone in the town knows that there is a shoe repair kid next to the Bisong grocery store. It's fair, but he has a bad temper and doesn't like talking to people very much.

From [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am is the busiest time in the town. People who buy vegetables mainly come out at this time, and most people on the mountain go to the town to buy things at this time. Lu Mingyuan also has the best business during this time period, and often too busy.

After setting up the shoe repair booth for half a year, his skills have improved a lot, and now he works much faster than Ye Cheng.When the work was in full swing, he took off the pair of half-fingered gloves that were in the way in his hands and threw them aside. His hands are now thick-skinned, and basically no more blisters.But no matter how thick the skin is, it is still not resistant to freezing. My fingers are black and red from the cold, and the skin is peeling and cracked. It is very itchy when exposed to the sun.

"Xiao Lu, have grandma's shoes been repaired?"

"Okay, there." Lu Mingyuan pointed to the foot of the wall next to the alley, where there was a row of repaired shoes, waiting for someone to come and pick them up later.

"How much is it?" The old lady picked up a pair of small black leather shoes, which belonged to her grandson. Son did a pretty good job.

"Eight hairs."

"Xiao Lu, what did you have for breakfast this morning?" The old lady put a dollar into the ticket box in front of Lu Mingyuan without giving change. Lu Mingyuan is used to this kind of thing. The living standards of many people in the town They were all pretty good, and he didn't care much about the ten and twenty cents for change, he put a ticket box with the change, and the people who came to repair the shoes would pay for the change by themselves, and they didn't care if they didn't want Lu Mingyuan.

"Steamed bread and milk." Lu Mingyuan turned his head and smiled at the old man while grinding the soles of his shoes. This old lady is quite a nice person, and he also likes to talk to her.

"I need to drink more milk to grow taller." As the old man said, he handed a bag to Lu Mingyuan. "Here, grandma's home steamed the cake yesterday. I'll eat it later when I'm hungry."

"Thank you, grandma." Lu Mingyuan took the cake happily. The cakes made by this grandma's house are delicious, and he and Ye Cheng like them very much.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Mingyuan closed the stall on time, went to the vegetable market to buy pork with skin for three yuan, and then rode his bicycle towards the village.

He rode to the place where he and Ye Cheng parted ways in the morning, leaned the bicycle against a tree by the side of the road, took out the cake from the box behind the car, sat on the side of the road and gnawed slowly, he gnawed dozens of times, and then gnawed One bite and dozens of strokes.Ye Cheng and the others seemed to finish class late today, Lu Mingyuan thought, if he didn't come again, he would eat up the cakes by himself, but unconsciously he gnawed smaller and smaller mouthfuls, counting slower and slower.

When the students in the school were almost gone, Ye Cheng finally ran up from under the dirt slope carrying a schoolbag, closing the zipper of the schoolbag while running.

"You're too slow." Lu Mingyuan patted his butt and stood up from the ground.

"Wang Lili's pencil case is broken. I'm afraid her mother will hit it, so let me fix it." Ye Cheng said and went to push the bicycle.

"Hmph, no money."

"She said she would bring me fried rice next time." Ye Cheng studied well and was the monitor of the class. He was also good-looking. The little girl brought him some fried rice. In fact, it had nothing to do with whether the pencil case was repaired or not. But he didn't know it at the time.

"What's so delicious about broken fried rice?" Lu Mingyuan was very dissatisfied: "Today's grandma on the street gave me cakes, do you want to eat them?"

"Eat." As soon as Ye Cheng finished speaking, he saw Lu Mingyuan hand over the cake. He was still pushing the cart in his hand, so he took a bite of Lu Mingyuan's hand.

"Is it tasty?"

"Well, it's delicious." The cakes steamed by the grandmother on the street are always fragrant and glutinous, especially delicious.

"Are you still eating?" Lu Mingyuan said and handed it over, just like this, one bite at a time, Lu Mingyuan said while feeding: "She gave me a big piece today, if you don't come out again, I will eat it all up."

"Oh."

"Hurry up next time." Don't fix the broken pencil case for Wang Lili.

"understood."

When the two of them reached the entrance of the village, Huizi was already waiting there. The wall of his house was not high, and there were some sundries piled up beside the wall. Huizi could jump out after a few ups and downs. Lu Mingyuan happily ran over to touch Huizi. The head of the son, the two of them and the dog went back to their yard together.

While cooking, Cai Jinzhi came over, brought them some rice and two pickles, and asked them how they were doing recently and what they lacked, and Ye Cheng said he had none.That Cai Jinzhi sighed, it seemed that he was not in a good mood.

"Just now I heard from Aqiao in the village that your uncle was sick a while ago, and the local hospital didn't look good, so your aunt took your uncle to the provincial capital. I heard that it was very difficult to cure, and it might be bad. Your aunt decided Take him to the capital again." Ye Cheng remembered his uncle, who was tall, thin and not very talkative, and treated people very kindly, when he went by himself last time, he went to the vegetable market to buy a lot of good vegetables.

"Your sister, Ye Ping, no one will care about it for a while. Isn't Tan Xiaosong in high school? She has classes during the day and evening self-study at night. Your sister always plays with a little girl named Shanshan at the neighbor's house. For some reason, he fell into the river for two days, got a hole in his forehead, had several stitches, and developed a high fever. Tan Xiaosong yelled anxiously, and the Shanshan family was not happy about it. It's gone." Ye Cheng listened quietly, he had impressions of both Ye Ping and Tan Xiaosong.

"I thought about it and wanted to bring the girl back first, but your aunt also said that if you take her here now, it will be difficult to send her there in the future. She is right, you know that your uncle's family is not rich. Yes, it's not easy for you two dolls, you say..."

Cai Jinzhi's eyes turned red again as she said that, since her daughter and son-in-law left, these difficult things have come one after another, and her old woman can't control it, no matter how uncomfortable she feels.The girl Ye Ping fell in love with her the last time she saw her. She resembled her deceased daughter, whether it was her small face or her cleverness, she resembled her everywhere. If there was no other way, she would have gotten her I kept it by my side.

"Then take it back, and don't send it out." Ye Cheng didn't know what grandma meant when she said it was not easy. In his opinion, as long as there is food every day, every meal is full, and he can read books, he is fine. OK

"I knew you would say that." Cai Jinzhi smiled. His grandson has always been like this. He doesn't know the heights of the world and dares to take anything on him, but she doesn't dare. "Grandma will think about it again, and go to your aunt's house in two days to see the situation. If it's not good, she will bring it back."

"We're going to Shibaling the day after tomorrow."

"Go, go, go to the town to buy some fruit and bring it to Ah Qing's mother, don't go empty-handed every time."

"Understood." Ye Cheng was thinking about whether to buy a bundle of sugar cane. When the time came, he would keep a few at home and bring some to A Qingniang. Their town does not produce sugar cane, and every winter there are other sugar cane in the town. Local people come to sell sugarcane, some by the root and some by the bundle. Those who sell the bundle have to cut and wash it themselves, but it is cheap.

While talking here, Lu Mingyuan has already cooked the rice over there. The two boys each made a bowl of rice, and started to eat with a small bowl of meat on the table. The pork slices with skin added some ginger and soy sauce on the rice Steamed on top, the steamed lean meat is not old, the fat is not greasy, and the pork skin is still chewy.

"Grandma, are you eating here?"

"No, grandma has eaten it. I'll wash the pickles for you." Cai Jinzhi went outside to wash the pickles. The water is cold in winter, and she is nothing like an old woman. The hands of the two children, just now She also saw it when they were eating, Cai Jinzhi was wiping tears while washing pickles, she was useless as an old woman, there was really nothing she could do except to wipe some tears.