Small space of rebirth

Following Wen Xiaoying, she ran towards home.

The mottled shadows cast by the street trees, the running back of the girl and the ponytail swaying in the air, and the scent of the air-conditioned ice cream... not only the summer heat ushered in a cool breeze, but also the noisy cicadas All quiet down.The rustling of the treetops seems to say that the long-standing heaviness will no longer exist, and the carefree joy of youth is coming.

Wen Xiaoying and Wen Xiaoyan met their grandmother in the field behind the house.Large patches of green are sweet potato vines in full bloom.

"Why did you come back so late today? Did you play on the road again? How many times have I told you that there is a lot of work at home, and I will be back immediately after school..." Wen Xingniang hunched over, with a sweet potato vine in one hand and a sickle in the other , next to a half-filled pannier.

"I didn't play..." Wen Xiaoyan moved to Wen Xiaoying's side, retorting in a low voice.

"Grandma, let me cut it." Wen Xiaoyan handed the schoolbag to Wen Xiaoyan, avoiding the sweet potato vines on the ground and quickly walked to Wen Xingniang's side, took the sickle and stretched it towards the intertwined vines.

First find out the vines to be picked out in a nest of sweet potato vines, cut them with a knife, and then sort out the vines that are intertwined and intertwined.Swish, swish, swish! Wen Xiaoying's nimble movements indicate that she often does such things.

"Don't be dazed, pick some vegetables and go back, and eat at night..."

"..." Wen Xiaoyan silently hung their schoolbags on the pear tree planted by the side of the soil, and bent over to pick lettuce in another field next to it.

"Xiaoyan is back, where is Xiaoying—" When Chen Xiu went to the house with a vegetable basket to pick the vegetables for dinner, what she saw was her 11-year-old eldest daughter struggling to hold a sweet potato vine that was longer than her height Put it in the back basket, and the 9-year-old daughter tiptoed to wrap the vine of green beans around the bamboo sticks that support it.And the child's grandmother was sitting on a rock under the pear tree, smoking a cigarette and puffing.

Today's children are not brought up pampered, and Chen Xiu has no problem helping the family with what they can.However, after she came back, she found out after walking around the neighbors that her daughter paid for all the cooking and weeding, feeding the pigs, cleaning and so on. Things like this - if Chen Xiu still stayed for a few days and had to go out like before, she would bear it, but it's different now...

"Mom, let me cut it." Chen Xiu snatched the scythe from Wen Xiaoying's hand, "Take your sister back home, there is water boiling in the stove, watch to add more firewood..."

"How can you cut..." Wen Xingniang knocked the cigarette stick on the stone and jumped, "Go back quickly, don't take the knife, hurt carefully..."

"Mom. What are you talking about? How could I get hurt? I'm used to doing these things." Chen Xiu held up the sickle, bent down to start cutting, and didn't even listen to Wen Xiaoying's stop.

"You are pregnant with the little grandson of our Wen family, how can you do these jobs." Wen Xingniang hurriedly snatched the knife from Chen Xiu's hand, "Let me cut it!" With a bit of reluctance, "Your mother picked three Go back after eating the food. In the evening, make some fish soup to replenish your body."

"Mom, there's no reason for your daughter-in-law to rest when you're doing things. Let me do it..." Chen Xiu made a gesture and wanted to grab the knife.

"Okay, okay. I don't want Yingzi to cut it off. Knowing that your mother loves her, she is really lucky. Some people love her, but I don't know if anyone loves me, an old woman..." Wen Xingniang seemed After finishing speaking with a smile, he said: "Now your body is precious, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, you must pay attention to it, and we will add a fat boy to our Wen family next spring..." As he spoke, he cared for himself. I laughed.

Fat boy?Chen Xiu rubbed her belly, who knows if it's a fat boy?If it is... Mother-in-law will certainly make her feel better.If it wasn't for... She and her two daughters would have had a harder time... She had already given birth to two daughters... If it wasn't for this accident and she didn't have time to pay attention to her abnormal state, how could it be Her mother-in-law was the first to find out that she was pregnant on the second day after returning home. How could the current situation of their family allow her to have another one, and the mother-in-law who dismissed other people's opinions thought that she must be pregnant with a son...even if She was pregnant with a son, and Chen Xiu was not in any spirit of joy.

Why am I pregnant at this juncture!Thinking about Chen Xiu's sanity drifted away.

"Yo, Wen Xingniang, isn't Chen Xiu pregnant with a child? Why did you let him go to the field..." Aunt Zhang, who helped Su You catch the fish and picked some vegetables in the field, said loudly while standing on the ground "Wen Xingniang, is this how you treat your daughter-in-law? Xingzi is at home, and you are not afraid that he will blame you." Didn't you back Xingzi before?Now Xingzi is so close and pregnant?Could it be a girl?No no...it's only been less than three months...

"How I treat my daughter-in-law is my business, you don't need to worry about it." Wen Xingniang gave Aunt Zhang a fierce look with her small eyes, "You don't need to worry about our family Wenxing."

"Who do you think cares about you..." Aunt Zhang looked at Chen Xiu suspiciously, not in a good mood?Is it morning sickness? "Chen Xiu, you haven't been pregnant for three months, you should pay attention to yourself."

"Hey, thank you, auntie..." Chen Xiu recovered, nodded and smiled.

"Don't stand here, go back and rest quickly, you don't have to tire my grandson." Wen Xingniang wiped the sweat from her forehead, it was getting hotter and hotter every year.

"Grandson?" Aunt Zhang's eyes widened.What grandson?

"Hmph, our Xiu'er is pregnant with a boy this time." Wen Xingniang put her hands on her waist, the chrysanthemums all over her face were in bloom, she said proudly, "Our Wen family will have a baby tomorrow spring."

"Chen Xiucai is less than three months pregnant, how do you know?" Could it be that she was crazy about her grandson.

"I dreamed that Xingzi's grandparents met, and they said that Xiu'er's baby was a boy. Be envious! His mother Zhang Cheng..."

I have nothing to envy!My grandson can make soy sauce!I'm not your old woman who has been thinking about her grandson for more than ten years! ——Aunt Zhang swallowed these words.Although Wen Xingniang didn't deal with her, she had no prejudice against Wen Xing and his wife. If Chen Xiu could get a boy, life would be easier. This year, Chen Xiu was the first girl she had ever met because she had a baby. Daughter, a woman who both she and her daughter are bullied by her mother-in-law... It's the same with having children! ——Although she was looking forward to her grandson at that time, it was because she hadn't heard from her daughter-in-law for several years, so she was anxious!She doesn't really need a grandson... Aunt Zhang felt a little embarrassed thinking about it, she fake coughed twice: "Congratulations!"

"It's nothing. Xingzi's grandparents also said that my grandson will be very smart in the future, he can go to college, he will be the first in the exam every year, and it's easy to skip grades..."

Looking at Wen Xingniang, who looked as if her grandson had already held a university diploma, with a genius note tied on her head, and who was so arrogant that her eyes couldn't tolerate others, Aunt Zhang felt that she really didn't fit in with her.

The author has something to say: important foreshadowing.About the fish pond in the future...

drink

After picking a handful of peppers and a small wax gourd, Aunt Zhang went back with two fish.

"Did you see the fish in Mrs. Zhang's hand?" Wen Xingniang said sourly, "There have been free fish for two years, hmph, I'm so shameless that when I go fishing at the Su's house, I want to go to it... ..."

"Mom, the relationship between Su You and Aunt Zhang has always been very good. Even if they don't help, they still have to eat their fish." Who in a village doesn't know that when Su You was young, the Zhang family helped, Now that the Su family is well, the two elders of the Zhang family are also getting older. There is some heavy work to carry water to the fields. The Zhang family has not yet said anything. Su You has already done it. Su You is like the son of the Zhang family...

"I want you to tell me!" Wen Xingniang glared at Chen Xiu, "If you don't take the child back, Xingzi won't be coming back for dinner tonight, so let's make a living and eat noodles... Tomorrow your dad will go to town to buy it for you. When the bones come back to stew soup, I must raise my grandson to be white and fat."

"I see!" Chen Xiu greeted the two sisters, and Niang San went home by the setting sun.

In fact, what she wants to say is that what she is pregnant with is not necessarily a son... It's just that she will be called to reprimand her!Forget it, for this sake, I can only resign myself to fate...

Whether it's a man or a woman is not as important as she thought it was... The pillar of their family... Wen Xing... Chen Xiu stared at the creamy white fish soup in a daze.

"Mom, drink quickly!" Wen Xiaoying handed the bowl to Chen Xiu.

"Yes, Mom. The fish soup is delicious." Wen Xiaoyan stared at the fish soup with green coriander floating in it and swallowed.so fragrant~~

"Let's drink together." Chen Xiu looked at the kitchen where there were only the three of them, and handed the soup to the little daughter, "Come on, you have a drink, sister..." Poor her two children who have been doing things for many years without saying anything, He did not eat well, and was much thinner than children of the same age.

"Mom. We don't drink, I'll drink it for you and...and my brother." Wen Xiaoying pushed the bowl back over her sister.

"...Xiaoying, don't you like my younger brother?" Chen Xiu stared at Wen Xiaoying's face, and every time she mentioned the child in her stomach, she always felt that the eldest daughter's expression...

Looking at her mother's kind and gentle face, Wen Xiaoying clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, "Mom...with a younger brother, will you still treat us well?" Will you still give them pocket money?Will you still buy them nice clothes?Would you still smile at them so gently? "Grandma said...Grandma said that she has a younger brother...everything should be closely related to younger brother..." Grandma said that we are a fool!Wen Xiaoying silently kept the last sentence in her heart.

"Good boy." Chen Xiu hooked the two sisters into his arms and hugged her, tears streaming down her cheeks, "Even if you have a younger brother