After returning from washing vegetables by the river, Zhou Ping returned to his home. There was an old wooden house on the edge of the village. It was unknown how many years ago it was. It was very dilapidated. It even looked like the entire wooden house was leaning a little from a distance. It seemed that it would collapse at any time.
As if it had fallen down, in front of the wooden house was a yard surrounded by a fence. The fence wall was full of cracks. There was also a large locust tree in the yard that two people hugged each other.
However, in the dead of winter, the entire large locust tree was completely bare, looking like a waning old man, and even giving people a feeling of lingering on.
At one end of the house next to the locust tree, there was a somewhat shabby-looking farmhouse kitchen. There were some pots, bowls and other furniture inside, and some firewood inside. Zhou Ping opened the courtyard door and walked in with a vegetable basket. This was his home.
, took the dishes to the kitchen, placed the dishes on the stove, then took out the cooking pot, washed the rice pot, and started to light a fire to cook...
After lighting the fire and setting up the rice pot filled with rice water, Zhou Ping was temporarily free. He did not start cooking immediately, but left the kitchen, then opened the door and entered the house.
The interior of the room was very simple, with a table, a few chairs and nothing else.
There are two doors inside, connecting two rooms respectively, one is his room and the other is his mother's room.
A piece of black cloth was hung at the door of Zhou's mother's room to serve as a shielding door.
"Cough...cough..."
As soon as Zhou Ping walked into the house, there was a cough in Zhou's mother's room, an old woman's cough.
"Mom, are you okay?"
Zhou Ping's expression outside the room changed slightly when he heard this, with a look of worry on his face, and he asked with concern. He lost his father when he was young, and his mother raised him up after his death. But it was just like this. Zhou's mother worked too hard when she was young.
, I became sick due to overwork, and now I have accumulated a lot of diseases. It is difficult to move around, and I can only stay in my room every day.
"It's okay. It's the same old problem. The coughing has gone away."
In the room, Zhou's mother's somewhat frail and old voice came out through the black cloth.
After hearing this, Zhou Jin lifted up the black cloth and walked into Zhou's mother's room. The light inside was very dark, because the windows around the room were hung with black cloth, which almost blocked all the light. Even in broad daylight, there was no light inside.
I can barely see anything.
"Mom, how about I go cook some medicine for you."
Zhou Ping walked in, looked at a corner of the room, and said, there was a large rocking chair in the corner. The rocking chair was placed with its back facing the door of the room. From the back, a person could be vaguely seen sitting on the rocking chair. There was another person sitting next to the rocking chair.
There is a small table, the same height as the armrest of the rocking chair.
"No, no matter how much you eat, it's useless. It's just a waste of money. I know how my mother is doing. She's about to die."
Zhou's mother's voice sounded from in front of the rocking chair again. There was a kind of weakness in her old age, giving people the feeling of being like a flickering candle that seemed to be extinguished at any time.
"Mom, don't say that, you will definitely get better."
When Zhou Jin heard this, his heart felt sour, and he couldn't help the eye sockets. He lost his father when he was young, and his ability to grow up depended on his mother's support. He is a kind and grateful person, and he knows that his mother has worked hard to support him until now, so in his heart,
He also loved his mother very much.
"Ping'er, my mother knows how you feel. However, people are born, old, sick and die, and there will always be a day when we are apart. You have to be more open-minded. I am very happy to see you grow up. Now my mother is the only one.
My wish is your marriage. If I can see you get married, my mother will be completely relieved."
Mother Zhou said again, her voice coming from the front of the rocking chair.
"Mom, don't say that, you will definitely get better."
Zhou Ping shook his head and said.
"Silly boy, hey!"
Mother Zhou sighed softly and then fell into silence.
"Mom, I'm going to cook porridge for you."
Seeing that his mother had stopped talking, Zhou Ping spoke again, then turned around and prepared to walk outside.
"Pah...pah...dong dong...."
Zhou Ping had just opened the black cloth and walked out of the room when he suddenly heard a noise in the room behind him, as if something had fallen to the ground.
"Mom, did something fall? I'll come in and help you..."
"It's okay. I've already picked it up. Go ahead and continue your work."
Zhou's mother's voice sounded louder in the room, and Zhou Ping, who was just about to lift the black cloth again and enter the door, stopped when he heard the words.
"Okay, mother, please wait a moment. I'll cook the porridge and bring it to you."
Zhou Ping didn't doubt his presence after hearing this, so he said something and left the room again.
"Creak - creak -"
After Zhou Ping left the house, in the dimly lit room, Zhou's mother slowly stood up from the rocking chair. She was thin and her movements were a little stiff. She slowly walked to a corner of the room, bent down and took out a round heart.
She picked up the thing from the floor, then picked it up and pressed it against her left eye socket, and the thing disappeared from her hand.
Afterwards, Zhou’s mother walked back to the rocking chair and sat down!
The house became calm again.
It was like nothing happened.
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"I caught it, I caught it...Wow...it's so big, so big, Brother Lin is so big..."
On the other side, in the river, Xu Jie lifted up a fishing basket that had been placed in the river, saw a palm-sized fish caught inside, and shouted to Lin Tianqi excitedly.
When Lin Tianqi heard this, several black lines appeared on his forehead.
What's so big, can we make it clearer?
"Where, where, let me see... oh... such a fat guy, there are four more..."
When Xu Dongsheng heard this, he ran over immediately and saw the four big fish in the basket, and his face immediately showed surprise.
Lin Tianqi saw that the brother and sister seemed to be focused on the fish they had caught, and did not notice the misunderstanding in Xu Jie's words just now, and trotted over with the bucket in hand.
"Come on, come on, put it in the bucket, put it in the bucket..."
Xu Dongsheng immediately caught the fish in the basket and put it in the bucket. Xu Jie was helping to catch the shrimps and crabs in the basket. Lin Tianqi looked at the serious look of the two brothers and sisters, as if they were completely unaware of what Xu Jie had just said.
How dirty it sounds, I can’t help but think about a question seriously——
After all, it was Xu Jie’s words that were tainted, or his own thoughts!
In other words, is it Xu Jiezu or himself?
Why do Xu Jie and Dong Sheng seem to have no problem with such a dirty word even though they feel it sounds so dirty to them?
Is it true that my thoughts are too dirty?
Lin Tianqi couldn't help but think deeply about this issue!
No, I should still be pure. The reason why I just had that idea is that I must have been led astray by that bitch Bai Ji some time ago. She always talks about me at night when she has nothing to do.
There was a chain reaction.
When it comes to big things, people can't help but think about where they fit in.
Yes, it’s all the fault of that damn bitch Bai Ji!
Lin Tianqi thought.
After some thinking, I found the cause of the problem!