Jean Love

"Wen, is it cold? Here, this is my home." The motorcycle climbed uphill all the way, passed a flat section, and stopped abruptly.

"It's not cold, you block the wind." I supported Lian Yu's shoulder and stepped down.

A small village of about a dozen or twenty families can be said to be located on the top of the mountain, or it can be said to be at the foot of the mountain, because there is a road going down the mountain in the back and a road going up the mountain in front, and the village road is flat.

The houses in the village are scattered, and the houses are separated by vegetable fields or open spaces. They are all adobe houses. Some adobe bricks are exposed, and most of them are painted with white lime.Lian Yu's house is built on a relatively high ground. Standing outside the door, the whole flat land can be seen at a glance. His house is also relatively tall. It is a two-and-a-half-story red brick concrete structure with white limewashed exterior walls. The entrance courtyard is rectangular. , cement pavement, several pots of evergreen plants leaning against the wall, a drying yard on the zenith, and a hut in the corner, covered with sound tiles and exposed red bricks.

On the whole, Lian Yu's house stands out from the crowd in the whole village and is unique.

Lian Yu lowered his head and untied the belt that bound Shatian pomelo, and several people surrounded him, his father, mother, his wife, and his two lovely sons.Because I asked clearly before coming here, I am no stranger, as if I have met each other, I call uncle, aunt, sister-in-law, and say hello to them one by one.There are two children next to them, the older one is about 1.2 meters tall, with a tiger head and tiger brain, and the younger one is staggering and babbling.

"Uncle. Boy, uncle." Lian Yu and his sister-in-law taught the child at the same time.

"Uncle, Dudu."

"Oh," I took two steps forward, patted their heads, laughed big, and hid the little ones, staggered, and hid in the house.

Crossing a low threshold, the left side of the courtyard is the main body of the house, the entrance is the kitchen, the door of the next room is locked, and the stairs leading to the second floor are about one meter ahead. A cloth curtain was drawn, and there were several used plastic barrels, a [-]-liter engine oil barrel, a plastic scoop, and a long wooden stick.

Walking a few more steps, there is a living room in front of you, next to the living room is the master bedroom, and in the corner between the yard and the living room, there is a low house that looks like a kitchen.

"Wen, come in for tea." Lian Yu put the Shatian pomelo under the TV cabinet and waved to me.

There is nothing in the living room, just an old wooden dining table, a TV of unknown brand, and a TV cabinet with bowls, chopsticks, and bowls.A few simple wooden stools and a movable and retractable couch are also made of wood, and the swinging hands are polished smooth.Against the background of the courtyard of the whole house, the living room is a bit empty and simple.

I unloaded the backpack, took out the toy car and clipboard, and pulled out the camera.Question: "Yu, where is the backpack?"

"Let's hang it here first." Lian Yu took it and hung it on the wall.

"Take it upstairs, people come in and out here." The sister-in-law took it off and took it away.

"Come on, uncle gave you something." I looked at the two little guys and raised the gift in my hand. The older one came over to pick it up, received it, and kept his eyes on the toy car, while the younger one still didn't dare to move forward. Lian Yu called him, but he didn't move forward, and stood in one place, neither crying nor laughing, examining.

Lian Yu handed me a cup of tea, took the racing car and the remote control, installed the batteries, held the little guy's hand, squatted on the empty concrete floor in the courtyard outside the hall, pressed a button, and the little red racing car ran away. Forward and backward, flexible and fast, the little guy smiled, danced, and was eager to try.

"Call Uncle, say hello to Uncle, Uncle Wen bought it for you." Lian Yu put his arms around the child and pointed at me.

I fiddled with the new camera I bought, left and right. I couldn't find a place to put the battery for a long time. I found it, but I didn't know how to install it. I asked Lianyu to come over, and he couldn't.After finally installing it, I patted it and took several pictures for the little guy.Happy, innocent, real.

"Wen Zai, come here and have some rice dumplings." The sister-in-law walked towards the living room with a steaming bowl of rice dumplings from the kitchen.Auntie and Uncle also waved, and Lian Yu stood up.We sat around the table and had a simple dinner, porridge and rice, two or three dishes.

Watching TV after dinner, Lian Yu hugged the big one, sister-in-law hugged the young one, my aunt left, I sat by the door, and my uncle sat on the movable couch against the wall, watching, maybe he was tired and drowsy Standing up, the head and body slowly leaned forward to an angle of [-]-[-] degrees, [-]-[-] degrees, legs trembling, eyes opened, waist straightened, and yawned.The little guy broke free from his mother's arms, walked over, patted his grandpa's big hand with his small hand, and pointed to the couch: "Elder-in-law sleeps, father-in-law sleeps." He said words that I could understand even if I didn't understand them, which made me suddenly Impressed with admiration for this eye-catching little guy.

The uncle smiled happily, and hugged the little guy into his arms, but he broke free and walked towards his mother crookedly.

I stood up and said goodnight to my uncle and sister-in-law. Lian Yu took me to the second floor, a room next to the stairs, pushed the door and turned on the light, a wooden dressing table, a large wardrobe, a large bed, cotton wool on the bed, and a blanket The veneer, a thick quilt above, in blue and white stripes, folded into strips, pressed at one end on an embroidered pillow.

"Wen, you just live in this room, it's simple, let's make do with it." Lian Yu pointed to the things on the bed.

"Hehe, you are not simple. Your building has been built for some years, right?" I looked at Lianyu with adoring eyes.

"It's with my oldest brother, but he's away all the time and rarely comes home during the Chinese New Year." Lian Yu scratched his head, showing the corners of his mouth in a half-smile.

We sat on the edge of the bed and chatted for a while, maybe because of the long-distance bus, we were a little sleepy, so I said, "Go to bed early."

"Well, then go to sleep." Lian Yu stood up.

"Who are the two little guys sleeping with?" I was curious.

"Come with us, I'm next to the living room, if you don't have enough quilts, or if you need anything, just call me."

"The four of you share a bed?" I was a little surprised. For a family with so many houses, children can sleep separately as soon as possible. For example, the older one, who is more than one meter long and is seven or eight years old, can try to share a bed alone. .

"They don't want to separate, they are used to it by my wife, hehe, good night." Lian Yu walked outside the door.

"Good night." I began to undress.

Dim light bulbs, tall wardrobes, messy snakeskin bags on the top of the cabinets, liver-colored cabinets mottled, old dressers leaning against the window sill, next to the bed.There are some orange peels on the window sill, dried, and two grapefruit peels, dried, golden yellow and light yellow.The bed is an old-fashioned wooden frame bed, with a simple structure, clear lines, wide and strong, lying on it, turning it around at will, and it will not make a creaking sound, which shows that the carpenter is very skilled.The soft cotton tire and the ordinary quilt cover are very comfortable to cover the body, because it feels like home, and the heart is very down-to-earth.

Waking up in the morning, fresh air, happy birdsong, children playing in the courtyard, and a few chickens and ducks behind them, clucking and quacking.The sister-in-law carried a load of urine buckets and a long-handled plastic spoon to the vegetable garden. Lian Yu was cooking in the kitchen when he saw me coming down and brought a towel and toothbrush: "Use mine."

"I brought the toothbrush." ​​I took the towel.

"Wen, do you eat sugar cane? You grow it yourself." Lian Yu held up a piece of black-skinned sugar cane and looked at me.

"Wait first." I turned around.So Lian Yu stuffed the sugarcane into the firepit to bake, and the sugarcane was roasted and eaten. This was the first time I saw it. I was very curious. The little guy in the yard was running and jumping happily, as if he was about to fall, but he didn’t fall down. Very worrying.

"Wen, do you like duck or chicken?" Lian Yu asked me.

"I prefer to eat duck." I didn't look back.

"Then kill the duck."

"Ah!" Seeing Lian Yu holding a kitchen knife and looking at the chickens and ducks walking freely inside and outside the gate, my heart skipped a beat.

When my sister-in-law came back with the urine bucket, she held some vegetables in her left hand and looked at us.Lian Yu Lian Yu squatted under the faucet outside the kitchen door, with his butt facing the living room, facing a wide-mouth iron washbasin, and was cleaning the hairs of the ducks one by one and pinch by pinch with boiling water. .My butt was facing the gate, squatting opposite Lian Yu, watching him deftly, hehe, the little guy was playing with the red toy car outside the living room.The sister-in-law yelled loudly and called several times: "Boy, go get a stool for uncle to sit on."

The little guy became indifferent at first, unable to withstand repeated orders from his mother, put down the beloved thing in his hand, lifted a low wooden square stool from the living room, like lifting a heavy stone, and swayed along the wall to the kitchen In the direction, carry it all the way, approach Lian Yu, slow down your pace, Lian Yu said: "Go, carry it over and let uncle sit."

The little guy walked towards me a few steps, approached me, stopped, turned around, without looking back, directly stuffed the stool under Lianyu's big butt, and said, "Yu, sit down." Pat the surface of the stool, this This small act of the child made me shudder again, with complicated emotions, mixed with intense hatred and deep love, because he is so cute.