A second-year junior high school student who wants to read a literary book like "The Dream of a Country People" seems to be able to read it, but it is also difficult.

The golden boy opened the thick book, and on the page numbers inside, between the lines, there were circles drawn by peas, and next to the corners, there were handwritten Chinese pinyin, marked with new words.

The golden boy sighed, peas are really "gnawing books".

Putting down the book, the golden boy picked up the small book that Pea had sewn by himself, and looked at the small book carefully, the paper was soaked with pea's sweat stains.

On each piece of paper, there are immature and delicate small characters, the level of pea writing, really belongs to the level of junior high school students, but she writes very seriously, stroke by stroke, not sloppy, some words are written wrong strokes, and the correct word is written next to it.

This detail of Pea's hard study of culture is really not in the imagination of the golden boy, and when I see it at this moment, I feel a little emotional.

Back then, if Pea hadn't married into a family like the royal patriarch, she would definitely be self-taught in her hometown.

The golden boy sighed alone, and from time to time looked out the window to see if the pea had finished washing his clothes.

When the golden boy turned his head to look out the window for the third time, he saw Pea finishing his clothes on the clothesline on the west side of the yard.

Then the golden boy saw the pea coming from the courtyard, and then there was the sound of the door being pushed open.

When Pea came into the house, he saw the golden boy holding her small notebook for practicing writing, his eyes flashed, and he said: "Tong Jin, you are looking at my writing, my writing is really bad, golden boy, don't laugh at me." ”

When the peas come into the house. In her right hand, she also carried a bucket that looked like it was a little heavy.

As she spoke to the golden boy, she lowered the bucket to the floor of the outhouse. Then, she moved the low wooden table that she usually used to eat alone in the corner of the house and placed it in the center of the outhouse.

After doing this, Pea came to the back room with a smile on her face.

"Pea, in fact, your writing is really good. Draw one stroke at a time, it looks so neat. For this peasant woman who goes to the field during the day to finish the farm work, helps her mother finish the housework at night, and then teaches herself culture before going to bed, the golden boy can only praise sincerely. What else can be said.

"Tong Jin, you know, I haven't been to school for a few years. I only went to the second grade of junior high school, especially when I was in elementary school, I often missed class, and I didn't write a few pages in my homework book, and I didn't recognize a few words. I think I'm reading a book right now. While recognizing a few more words, it is convenient to read the books you want to read. Second, ......"

After the words, Pea stopped talking about it.

"Pea, what's going on?" Pea didn't say, but the golden boy wanted to know what she was thinking, so he looked at Pea expectantly. Looking forward to her continuing.

Pea didn't continue, but quickly looked at the golden boy. Then he quickly avoided his gaze.

The golden boy knew that if Pea didn't say anything, it might be more sensitive for a woman, so he said: "Sister-in-law Pea, our relationship is like a family now, just say what you have to say." ”

Pea hung his head, hesitated, and finally said to the golden boy: "Tong Jin, indeed, you are not an outsider in my eyes, I will tell you the truth, this is the second come, that is, once I have a child, I can teach the child to read and write." ”

After Pea said this, her pretty melon-seed-shaped face suddenly flushed slightly.

The golden boy's heart moved, don't forget, she is almost forty years old.

At the age of forty, it is no longer the time when love is first opened, not when it is full of fantasies, and it is not the time when it is the most shy, but when it is time to think about the real second half of life.

When the golden boy heard this, he was speechless for a while, but in his heart, he thought a lot.

Then, the golden boy looked at Pea and said, "Sister-in-law Pea, in the future, you will not only be a peasant housewife who takes care of housework and children, but you will also have a more colorful life!"

This time, it was Pea's turn to be silent, and the silence lasted longer than the golden boy's silence.

Then, Pea looked up at the golden boy and said, "Tong Jin, you don't know, my mother is also a junior high school student, in the end, she can only be a housewife, what can she do when she is Chinese junior high school......!

Pea immediately stopped talking, because she suddenly thought that Wang Xiuzhi had met misfortune and now became a big ghost baby tree in the southwest cemetery.

The golden boy understands why Pea mentions Xiuzhi.

Wang Xiuzhi, the daughter of Dr. Wang Lao, a famous rural doctor, was more than ten years younger than Pea, studied until university, graduated from Yenching Medical College, listened to her father's arrangement, and did not look for a job in Yenjing, but returned to her hometown and opened a treasure house with her father. The father and daughter worked together, and the Zhen House got better and better, and in this poor village, it was the family with the best economic conditions, even more than the royal patriarch's family.

The golden boy saw that the pea's face was already a little vicissitudes, and there was a trace of worry.

However, the golden boy believes that this is exactly the expression of Pea's pursuit in life.

Golden Boy said: "Peas, each generation, have the survival mode of each generation, as well as their life pursuits and destiny. Pea, you don't blindly compare yourself to your mother. Speaking of Wang Xiuzhi and Pea, have you forgotten, didn't she also drop out of school at the beginning, but later, she taught herself and was admitted to Yenching Medical College. ”

The golden boy's words obviously gave Pea new hope and motivation, and her eyes rekindled a blazing light.

Pea's expression changed and said, "Tong Jin, let's just talk, are you hungry, are you thirsty, let's go, go to the outhouse to eat watermelon!"

Watermelon?

The golden boy was stunned, it was already autumn, and Pea's home actually stored watermelons?

The golden boy knew that no one in this village planted watermelons at all, and the village Ge Zhi planted a melon field, but did not grow watermelons.

At this moment, Pea first went out of the inner room and went to the hall, and the golden boy did not say anything, but followed him to the hall.

Just now, Pea had already put the bucket that had been brought in on the ground in the center of the room, and at this moment, Pea straightened up and leaned over to the large grain hoard placed on the table of the Eight Immortals in the middle of the hall next to the north wall.

Her family has a lot of food, so the grain hoard is more than two meters high, which obviously pins on the pea's hope for a good harvest of grains.

The pea was not as tall as the grain hoard, so he lifted his feet and stretched out his hands to reach the wicker cover of the grain hoard, and lifted a broken sack piece on the lid with his right hand, and wow, there was an oval black-skinned watermelon inside.

This big watermelon may have been sitting for a long time, and the guati has wilted.

Pea held the large watermelon in both hands, then put her feet flat and her body straight, carefully lifted the watermelon from the grain hoard, turned around and put it in the bucket on the ground.

The oval-shaped, black-skinned watermelon was so large that it was almost filling the bucket, and the pea kept pouring water on the watermelon with both hands, and kept turning the watermelon in the bucket.

When soaked in the clear and cold well water that had just been hit, the black skin of this large watermelon suddenly became bright.

"Soak it in cold water from a freshly beaten deep well, and the watermelon will taste even better. Pea continued to rummage the watermelon in the bucket, dipping it in cold water all around it, without raising his head.

"Well, yes, soak it in cold water from a deep well, and the watermelon will be cold. Chilled watermelon is sweeter. Jin Tong said, he naturally knows the common sense of soaking watermelons in well water.

Pea was talking to the golden boy while soaking watermelon in the bucket, that patience, the average woman really didn't have it.

After soaking for about a quarter of an hour, Pea scooped up the watermelon in the bucket with both hands, gently put it on the table, then turned around, picked up a kitchen knife from the pot behind him, first cut a small piece of melon skin on the watermelon belly, wiped both sides of the kitchen knife with this melon skin, and then, raised the kitchen knife, snapped the ground, and cut the watermelon in half.

Looking at the pea's movements, the golden boy said in her heart, the pea soaked the watermelon in cold water and wiped the kitchen knife with the melon skin, this set of practices must have been learned from her mother.

As soon as the big watermelon opened, the golden boy's eyes suddenly lit up: this black-skinned big watermelon turned out to be a yellow watermelon, the melon was golden and yellow, and this watermelon was put for so long, the melon was not at all, and the watermelon seeds inside were black and red, dotted between the yellow watermelons, extremely bright and eye-catching, looking at it, greatly stimulating the appetite.

"Come, Golden Boy, hurry up and eat watermelon. Pea set up two small wooden stools at the table and beckoned to the golden boy.

The golden boy and the pea face each other, sat at the twenty-centimeter-high dining table, and began to eat watermelon.

Pea gently held a piece of watermelon in both hands and put it to her mouth, when she ate the watermelon, the ruddy cherry mouth opened, and the neat teeth bit slightly on the golden watermelon pulp, a piece of watermelon in the same form as a boat, horizontally under her mouth, that shape, the golden boy felt that it was really beautiful.

However, the golden boy is not the same as the pea, put a large piece of watermelon in his mouth, habitually, it is a big bite at once, just one bite, on this large crescent-shaped watermelon, bite out a small crescent.

After chewing a few times, suddenly, the golden boy felt that the yellow watermelon was very sweet, and in the sweetness, there was a pleasant, special, and light fragrance.

The golden boy looked at the watermelon cut on the table, and after leaving it for so long, not only was it not bad, but it was also so fresh, without the appearance of a basket, piece by piece, and it was juicy on the table.

The golden boy said, "Sister-in-law Pea, you are very good at buying watermelons." This watermelon, you are the right one. ”

"Where, this watermelon, I didn't buy it at the big set. This watermelon, it didn't cost a penny. Pea said. (To be continued......)