cloud and sun

When Cheng Xu and the others returned home, the sun was still very bright.Cheng Xu asked Qiao An to go find his mother and get the small cart at home.

Joan trotted all the way into the yard, but didn't notice that there were a few dustpans on the ground in the yard, and fell directly into the dustpans.

Hearing the noise, Cheng Xu hurried to the yard, saw Qiao An quickly got up, and arranged the things in the dustpan.Before Cheng Xu had time to ask Qiao An if he fell somewhere, Qiao An walked into the room slowly as if nothing had happened.

Cheng Xu looked at the crushed herbs in the dustpan, and then looked at the room, suspecting that Qiao An must have been hurt by the fall.

Cheng Xu's mother also heard the noise on the second floor, and when she opened the window, she saw Cheng Xu in the yard.

"What about An An?"

"Auntie, I'm on the first floor. Where is the stroller at home?"

"Why do you need a cart?"

Cheng Xu said, "Sister-in-law asked me to bring back a cart full of fruits."

"I'll come down and get it right away. Did you hear any noise just now?"

Cheng Xu held back his laugh: "No."

When Cheng Xu entered the room, he saw Qiao An sitting on the sofa and said with a smile, "Are you tired?"

Joan nodded.

Cheng Xu was a little funny looking at Qiao An's appearance, but he felt that he should hold back in order to save Qiao An's face, so he couldn't hold back in the end.

Seeing Cheng Xu laughing so happily, Qiao An was speechless.He felt that he should have moved faster just now.

Cheng Xu patted the mint leaves on Qiao An's pants.

Cheng Xu smiled and said, "Did you hurt from the fall just now?"

Qiao An didn't want to ask this question very much, but Cheng Xu saw the embarrassing thing of him falling on the ground.

"It's a little hot in place."

Cheng Xu's mother just came down when she heard Cheng Xu laughing.

"What's so funny?"

Seeing Qiao An's warning eyes, Cheng Xu didn't dare to say, "It's just a joke."

"Move the fruit home quickly, or you will get bored in the car in a while."

Cheng Xu asked Qiao An in a low voice, "Are you okay?"

Qiao An grabbed Cheng Xu's clothes and stood up.Ignoring Cheng Xu, he went out with Cheng Xu's mother.

Cheng Xu's mother was a little troubled when she saw the piles of fruits in the car.

"That's too much. Let's just take a box of peaches and plums. There are still some watermelons in the house. You can give them to the people in the village. Go and deliver them now, so you don't have to take them into the yard."

Cheng Xu's mother took out a box of peaches and plums and put it on the ground: "What is this box?"

"My sister-in-law brought the crayfish."

"Is it back at your sister-in-law? If I'm busy, I'll go over and help her."

"It looks okay, but you can call her yourself and ask her, I don't know."

"Forget it, forget it, go and deliver the fruit. An'an rests, Xiaoxi helps me work all day long, and you become free labor after following him."

Joan just felt bored: "I just watched him not help."

Cheng Xu looked at Qiao An and sighed: "Oh, the status of the family is getting lower and lower."

Cheng Xu's mother smiled and said, "Son, when your brother comes back, your status will rise."

"Mom, think about why brother is always not at home."

"According to what you say, you are also responsible if your brother is not at home."

Qiao An felt that the wicked would be rewarded with evil, and Cheng Yun always bullied him when he was a child.

Cheng Xu sent a box of peaches, a box of plums and a big watermelon to every family in the village.The small trolley can't fit in one time, so it can only be delivered several times.Cheng Xu was afraid that the watermelon in the bag would get out, so he let Qiao An watch it.

Joan was wearing a sun hat, and he didn't listen to the chirping.Cheng Xu felt that Qiao An might not have hurt from the fall just now.

"Uncle Li, here I bring you watermelons! I just went to the orchard to pick them today."

A middle-aged uncle opened the courtyard door and saw Cheng Xu holding two boxes of fruit.

"Why do you bring so many fruits? All the watermelons eaten this summer were sent by your family."

"Anyway, there are too many in the orchard and they can't be sold."

Cheng Xu moved the fruit into the yard, and Qiao An followed behind with a watermelon in his arms.

The puppy in the yard chased Joan and barked, and Joan jumped up and down holding the melon.

"Wangcai, stop chasing, come here. Wangcai loves to chase strangers when he admits his life."

Qiao An hid behind Cheng Xu, and Wangcai was still yelling at Qiao An.Joan was still wearing a sun hat, and her skin was fair, making her look like a girl.

"Which family is this girl? Have you never seen her before?"

Both Cheng Xu and Qiao An were silent for a while, Qiao An took off his hat and said, "Uncle Li, I'm a boy."

Uncle Li patted his leg and laughed to himself: "Look at my eyes. The kid is so good."

Cheng Xu also laughed: "Uncle Li, this is the grandson of Grandpa Qiao's family."

Li Bo stared at Qiao An for a while and said, "They look a little bit alike."

Qiao An suspected that Uncle Li didn't notice it at all, and was just covering up the embarrassment just now.He looks more like his mother, which is why he is always called cute. His mother has a baby face, so he always looks young.

Only four families were delivered at one time, and after delivery, Cheng Xu pushed the empty cart back home to prepare for the second trip.

"You wait."

Cheng Xu stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"

Joan squatted on the stroller and said, "Let's go! I'm too tired to walk."

Cheng Xu pushed very slowly, and said as he walked, "An'an, you need to practice your physique."

"Too lazy to move."

"If you don't move anymore, you will really look more and more like a girl."

Qiao An felt uncomfortable when she said this, she turned around and asked Cheng Xu: "Do I look like a girl?"

Cheng Xu looked at Qiao An's shiny white skin, and felt that Uncle Li didn't blame him for recognizing Qiao An as a girl.

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

Qiao An sighed, and felt that Cheng Xu's appearance was not something he could have, so he could only say, "Let's change the subject."

"Speaking of which, when you were young..."

"Cheng Xu, shut up."

There is a family in the middle who planted the large lotus root field they saw this morning.So when they moved the fruit into the yard, the uncle took a big bag of fresh lotus seeds for them to eat.

"Who is this Xiaoxi? I ​​haven't seen it before."

"The grandson of Grandpa Joe's family."

"Hello, uncle."

Every time Qiao An and Cheng Xu entered a family's courtyard, he would be asked this question.Cheng Xu's answer is exactly the same every time.

"I remember living here for a while when I was young, right? Is it An An?"

"Uncle, you have a really good memory."

"Uncle was young at that time and remembered things. An An took the lotus seeds to eat."

Joan took it: "Thank you, uncle."

When Cheng Xu came, he was ready to ask uncle about taking Qiao An to pick lotus pods: "Uncle, An An wants to pick lotus pods, so I want to take him to pick them for a while tomorrow."

"If you want to eat lotus seeds, I will pick them for you. The lotus field is very muddy, and you young people are not physically strong."

"I'll take An'an to experience it."

"Then you take him there tomorrow! Do you have any clothes at home? You didn't come to my house to get them."

"I'll go back and look for it. It should be there. Thank you, uncle."

After the two left, Qiao An smiled and said, "Uncle questioned your lack of physical strength."

Cheng Xu glanced at Qiao An: "Why are you making fun of yourself?"

Qiao An was a little annoyed by Cheng Xu's look: "Cheng Xu, you are so annoying!"

The two of them ran back and forth four times before finishing the fruit delivery to the last family.

Joan was really too tired to walk.Cheng Xu looked really good physically.

When he went back, Joan sat directly on the cart.

"I'll show you a 1-minute homecoming."

"Don't, don't, don't! Cheng Xu! Brother Xu! Brother!"

Cheng Xu pushed the small cart and walked quickly, and Qiao An immediately thought of the famous sliding block problem in physics in high school.If Cheng Xu gave him too much acceleration, he would slide out.Joan used her toes to figure out how dangerous it was, but luckily the road was flat and there were no cars.

Cheng Xu pushed faster and faster, and Qiao An yelled louder and louder. Although they didn't go home within a minute, Qiao An's throat was indeed dry.

Cheng Xu's mother was washing crayfish in the yard, when she heard Qiao An's cry from afar, she ran out of the yard to look.Then I saw Cheng Xu pushing the small cart and running fast, while Qiao An was sitting on it and screaming.

"Cheng Xu, stop and see if I don't beat you to death! Are you childish?"

When Cheng Xu arrived at the door, he braked perfectly. Qiao An sat on the cart and turned to Cheng Xu and said, "Cheng Xu, you are so annoying!"

Cheng Xu's mother made a gesture to hit Cheng Xu with a brush.

"Mom, please forgive me!"

"Is teasing An'an so fun?"

Cheng Xu nodded, so angry that Cheng Xu's mother wanted to hit him again, Cheng Xu quickly opened the car door and got in.

"Mom, I'm going to park the car."

When Cheng Xu came back after parking the car, he saw Qiao An sitting on the cart, surrounded by a big basin, washing crayfish with his mother.

Cheng Xu pulled the trolley away without any hassle, and Qiao An was still brushing a crayfish in his hand, so he was pulled away along the way.

Cheng Xu's mother didn't look up, and continued to brush the crayfish: "Cheng Xu, be careful of being beaten."

"I'll take him to put on a glove."

"Won't you bring it over?"

Cheng Xu pulled the trolley into the house with Qiao An.Joan didn't bother to move, and continued to brush lobsters on the trolley.

After entering the room, Qiao An waved the crayfish back and forth in front of Cheng Xu: "Pinch him quickly! Pinch him quickly!"

Cheng Xu snatched the crayfish and put it under the brush, and put on a pair of gloves for Qiao An.

Before Cheng Xu put on the gloves for Qiao An, he heard Qiao An shout: "Hurry up, the shrimp is gone!"

Still not in a hurry, Cheng Xu slowly put the gloves on for Qiao An.Joan kept staring at the escaped shrimp.After Cheng Xu put on the gloves for him, he hurried to find Xia, but fortunately, Xia hadn't gone far.He took the shrimp and ran out.Cheng Xu also took a pair of gloves to help, and Cheng Xu's mother gave him the brush directly.

"Come and sit with me. I'll peel some garlic and make garlic crayfish tonight."

"Where's Dad?"

"Follow the fishing."

"No wonder I didn't see him this afternoon."

A large pot of crayfish was only half washed, and Cheng Xu guessed that even he and Qiao An couldn't finish washing the minced garlic after his mother prepared it.

"Brother Xu, look!"

Joan took the shrimp and pulled out the whole shrimp thread.

Joan probably just learned, a little excited.

"Why don't you make spicy crayfish?"

"Because my mother is biased."

Only then did Qiao An know that Cheng Xu's mother was planning to make garlic crayfish because he couldn't eat spicy food.

"Auntie is so nice."

"Am I not good?"

Qiao An remembered the dangerous things Cheng Xu did just now and sighed: "For example?"

"For example, I, a Chongqing native, actually made concessions."

"But it wasn't you who did it." Although what Cheng Xu said made sense, Qiao An was no longer someone Cheng Xu would be moved by ordering a mushroom soup pot.

"Let's compete to see who can finish ten shrimps first."

"Why do you want to play such a tiring game?"

Cheng Xu found out that Qiao An really doesn't like to move, and always likes to be disgusted and tired.

"If you win, I'll help you peel the shrimp all night, okay?"

Joan threw the shrimp in his hand into the basin of washed shrimp beside him: "One."

"Why are you so stupid?"

"You didn't say when to start."

Although Qiao An hadn't washed shrimps before, he might have washed as many dishes as Cheng Xu, so it was quick to do this kind of thing, and he still won at the starting line.In the end, Qiao An defeated Cheng Xu by half a bird.

"I won! Remember not to play tricks."

"Got it. Quickly brush. I'm going to lie down on the sofa for a while after brushing. I'm so tired today."

"I also want."

The two brushed for another half an hour before finishing the remaining shrimp.Cheng Xu washed the brushed prawns twice, soaked them in clean water, put another basin on top and was ready to go, Qiao An pressed the small stool that he was sitting on just now.

"If you seal it, you won't be able to escape."

Cheng Xu lay on the sofa in his room, which took up more than half of the sofa. Qiao An wanted to lie down too, but there was no place to lie down, so he simply lay down on Cheng Xu.

"An'an, go to bed and lie down."

"My clothes are dirty, you go. Otherwise, you get out of the way and we are half of us."

Cheng Xu thought that his clothes were dirty after traveling so many places today, so he didn't move.

"I'm taller than you, that's how it's calculated by area."

"You can't do that. And I'm not heavy."

"But you're panicking."

"You too."

"So why do you have to make us both miserable?"

"I just don't want you to enjoy it alone."

Cheng Xu felt a little uncomfortable being hurt by Qiao An, and pulled Qiao An into his arms: "That's how it is!"

Joan felt much more comfortable, but felt something was wrong.But he was too tired today, so he lay down and fell asleep a little sleepy.

Cheng Xu didn't expect Qiao An to be able to sleep so well, and after falling asleep, Qiao An didn't move around, like a quiet kitten.

Cheng Xu took a photo of Zhang Qiaoan with his mobile phone, and saw a message from an art studio, asking him when he was going to Chongqing, there was a design job he wanted to hand over there.

Cheng Xu replied, "Not in the last few days. About ten days later."

This studio has a lot of outsourced design work, and Cheng Xu took over a lot of work from this studio.However, this kind of outsourced work usually has a tight schedule, so if he doesn't have time these few days, he probably won't keep it for him.

Unexpectedly, the studio quickly replied that he would keep it.

Cheng Xu put his hands under his head and began to close his eyes to rest his mind.He didn't sleep as much as Joan, and he couldn't sleep now.

Joan was woken up by the voices of the uncles and aunts when they came back.Joan didn't expect to fall asleep just then.Then I saw Cheng Xu also closed his eyes.

Qiao An poked Cheng Xu's face, but Cheng Xu didn't move.

"Fell asleep?"

Qiao An swiped Cheng Xu's eyes with her hand, and found that Cheng Xu's eyelashes moved.

"Cheng Xu, you idiot, you can't even pretend to be asleep."

"You pig, you know how to sleep all day long."

"Oh! I'm going down. Uncle and the others seem to have caught fish today."

"How did you know?"

"I heard it. They just came back and talked so loudly, and they seemed very excited."

"I'll go down and have a look too."

This group of uncles and aunts would go fishing every afternoon, but usually they only caught a few small fish, but today they caught two big fish.Both of them were caught by Cheng Xu's father.Joan feels that the saying that people are addicted to vegetables is quite appropriate at certain times.

As soon as Cheng Xu's father came home, he killed the fish he caught today and pickled it.

Cheng Xu brought the crayfish placed in the yard into the kitchen.Cheng Xu's mother prepared all the ingredients, and asked Cheng Xu to pour the shrimp into the pot.A big pot full of crayfish.People who love crayfish like Joan have already started to get greedy.

Cheng Xu's father heard that there was a crayfish and rushed to the kitchen to prevent Cheng Xu's mother from destroying the crayfish.

"You go to the living room to rest, leave it to me here."

Cheng Xu's mother had a rare leisure time, so she left the kitchen after handing over the spatula to her husband.

"You two don't make trouble here, go out and play."

After the two were kicked out of the kitchen, they chatted in the yard.

Qiao An slumped on the back of the chair and looked at the sky: "The sky is so blue, but the sky in Shanghai is always gray."

"It's always blue in summer."

"Isn't it like this in winter?"

"Come back and watch yourself in winter."

"Oh, it's so difficult. I don't want to go back. I have to go to work when I go back, and I don't want to write programs at all."

"Is it much cuter than the Cheng Xu in front of you?"

"Simply benevolent."

"Don't you like what you're learning?"

"Yes. At that time, my parents wanted me to study finance, so I said that there were only two restaurants in my family, so I didn't want to study finance. Then I didn't like it at the time, so I applied for a computer that was said to be easy to find a job. I found out that I didn't like it after learning it. Did you study art because you like it?"

"I study design. I like it very much. You can imagine a lot of things when you study design."

"Then how did you convince your parents to let you learn this? I heard from your aunt that your high school grades were not bad."

"I didn't say much, just told them that if I regret it later, I won't blame them."

"I'm so envious of you finding something you love. I never knew what I really liked, so a lot of the time I wasn't motivated."

"You love staying in your comfort zone so much, it's hard to find what you like if you don't experience it."

"You're right. But it's too hard to get out of my own circle. Sometimes I have a lot of ideas, but I dare not actually do it. I'm not an adventurous person."

"You see, I don't have a stable income now, but have you ever thought about what you can do if one day you lose your job? I thought about it, I can go to the supermarket as a salesperson, to deliver food, to deliver express, anyway, I think If I don’t want to starve to death, why should I wrong myself to do something I don’t like.”

Qiao An didn't expect Cheng Xu to think this way, and he admired Cheng Xu's courage.

"This is the difference between you and me. I also thought about what I would do if I lost my job one day. But I can't be a salesperson or deliver food. I can only write programs." Joan knew the fundamental reason It is something that he can't let go of what he has studied hard for more than [-] years.

Cheng Xu rubbed Qiao An's head: "Since you can only write programs, be happy."

To a certain extent, Cheng Xu lives quite transparently.