It was already the third day after Liu Jiansheng's funeral arrangements were settled. Liu Jiansheng was back alive, looking very happy. Ma Guizhen was helping Liu Jiaogui learn to walk. She asked, "Your brother just died. You should be sad, but it's like nothing happened." Liu Jinhuo was about to answer, but hesitated. He came over and picked up Liu Jiaogui and said to Ma Guizhen, I've been exhausted these past few days. Can you do something for me?
Ma Guizhen did not answer. She only glanced at Liu Jiaogui, who was crying, and found that she was very repulsive to Liu Jianhuo, so she said, "Put her down. It's hard to comfort her if you make her cry." Liu Jihuo put her down, and like a frightened duck, she immediately ran to Ma Guizhen. Ma Guizhen hugged her, and Liu Jiaogui buried her head deeply in her arms. Liu Jinhuo still stubbornly said that I have a way to coax her. You'd better do something for me!
What's up? Ma Guizhen asked, patting Liu Jiaogui's body. Liu Jinhuo said, my brother died, and his hemp field belongs to me. Now there is an insect infestation. I have bought all the pesticides and sprayers. You can control the insects for me. Ma Guizhen said that's fine, you buy some snacks to coax the child first, and then I'll go after he's coaxed. This kid can't live without me.
Why take it so seriously? If the child wants to cry, let her cry. Liu Jinghuo has a tough attitude.
Ma Guizhen did not give in. She walked a few steps with the child in her arms and said that it was so pitiful that the child had no father or mother to take care of him. Now I am her relative, she can't live without me, and I can't live without her.
OK! Just do as you say. Liu Jinhuo patted himself, and what he photographed was a bulging area, which was of course his wallet. Ma Guizhen also noticed it and said, "I'm waiting for you to buy snacks for your child." So she led the child to the pasture in front of the house, where there was a big locust tree. There was a bird's nest on the top of the tree, and a crow was calling on it.
Ma Guizhen casually let go of her hand. Liu Jiaogui stumbled to the foot of the tree. She saw an insect crawling and wanted to grab it. Ma Guizhen refused to let her go. As she was reaching out to pull her, she found a white thing falling down and falling on the ground. On Liu Jiaogui's head was a lump of crow excrement.
At this time, Ma Guizhen had already grabbed Liu Jiaogui, then picked her up and placed her on the spacious field. Ma Guizhen looked at the dirty bird droppings on her head and became angry. She picked up a stone and threw it at the crow resting on a locust tree branch. Crows are very clever. Before the flying stone approached, it spread its wings and soared above the tree crown. With a cry of "croak", it circled in the sky and landed on the tree crown. Perhaps it was to protect the bird's nest. Birdie has it.
Ma Guizhen vented her anger, looked at the crows and cursed twice, then carried her child to the pier of the pond in front of the village and washed the bird droppings off Liu Jiaogui's head. As soon as I returned to the place, I heard Liu Jihuo's cry, Guizhen, I bought food for the child. She looked up and saw Liu Jinhuo standing at the door of her house holding 5 bottles of yogurt packed together. He raised it and continued, "Can you go to Ma Tei to spray pesticides and control insects this time?"
Ma Guizhen, who never breaks her promise, picked up Liu Jiaogui and approached Liu Jianhuo and said, "Then you should take care of the child. After I finish the medicine, you can hand the child over to me."
The child was still a little repelled by Liu Jinhuo, so he immediately turned his neck and buried his head in Ma Guizhen's arms. Since Liu Jiaogui had been living in the countryside, she had never seen yogurt, and she had no idea that the white plastic bottle contained something drinkable.
Liu Jinghuo realized that he inserted a straw through the silver-gray cover of a bottle of yogurt, walked around behind Ma Guizhen, stretched out his hand and flicked the child's head. The child raised his face, and Liu Jinghuo took the opportunity to remove his mouth. He moved closer to the straw, indicating that it was something drinkable, and the sweet smell of yogurt floated into the air from the opening where the straw was inserted. The child smelled it, which stimulated her appetite. Looking at the yogurt, her tongue stretched out slightly.
Liu Jinghuo felt it was time. Ma Guizhen said, "Jiaogui, let your uncle take you for a while, he has delicious food." Ma Guizhen said and turned around and handed the child to Liu Jinhuo to hold. Liu Jinhuo handed the bottle of yogurt with a straw to the child, and the child just sucked it, enjoying the sweet and sour taste.
Ma Guizhen is an expert in farm work. She walked to the door of the house, took out the white mask prepared in her pocket and put it on. She picked up the oblate gray sprayer on her back, picked up several bottles of insecticide in the bag, and walked to the main pond. The wharf mixed water according to the proportion, and everything was ready, so he walked to the hillside behind the house and saw that there were indeed fat hemp bugs crawling on the round ramie leaves in the field. Many ramies were eaten until only the branches and stems were left.
She walked into the hemp field, holding the handle of the sprayer and pushing it up and down, making a mechanical sound. The long spray rod reached into the ramie bushes and swung regularly, and the lotus-like spray head sprayed out The mist-like medicinal liquid was poured on the ramie insects. Their bodies shrank visibly, curled up into a ball, and turned a few times. Finally, they fell like raindrops on the roots of the ramie branches and became motionless.
Ma Guizhen looked at it and pressed the handle of the spray more and more as if to relieve her hatred. More hemp bugs fell from the hemp leaf pole and died. At this moment, both her left and right eyes were twitching. As the saying goes: when the left eye jumps, it means wealth, and when the right eye jumps, it causes disaster. Is it wealth or disaster? She was a little confused. Are you wondering if the smell of the medicine is so off-putting that it could lead to poisoning? She subconsciously paid special attention to holding her mouth and breathing less, and also used her elbow to push the white mask covering her mouth, thinking that it would be safer.
After applying insecticide for about an hour, Ma Guizhen was sure that she was not poisoned, but her left and right eyes were still beating from time to time. Could something happen? She felt a little panicked. At this moment, she felt the urge to urinate. She looked around the hemp field and was ready to relieve herself on the spot. However, the smell of medicine was too strong and she was afraid of being poisoned, so she walked out of the hemp field.
Putting down the sprayer on her back, she walked to the north of the hillside. When she looked again, she saw people grazing cattle in the distance. She ran to a bush, squatted down, looked at the blue sky, and heard the sound of water flowing by. Soon That's it. She fastened her trousers and stood up. Her eyes fell on a bird's nest in a miscellaneous tree. To be precise, the bird's nest was on the branch of the tree with opposite leaves. It was short and short. She took a closer look. , make sure you can reach it. The bird's nest didn't bother her, but she thought of the child. Liu Jianhuo was playing with the child. It would be great if there were eggs in the bird's nest. She could pick them back and cook them for the child.
At this moment, the child's chubby face swayed in her mind. She felt it was extremely cute, and she subjectively guessed that there must be eggs in the bird's nest. She stepped over in a few steps, reached out and pulled down the green leaf branches, stood on tiptoes, and stretched her neck to see the entire bird's nest.
Hey, she quickly let go, and with a flick of a branch, a dead chick from the bird's nest also bounced out, landing right at her feet. The dead chick was covered in ants and gave off a foul smell.
Ma Guizhen frowned, ran out of the jungle, and returned to the hillside. She picked up the empty sprayer and felt a disgusting and terrifying thought in her heart: How come everything she saw today was related to death? I sprayed the insecticide to kill the green and ribbed worm, and a layer fell on the ground. I also encountered the dead chicks in the bird's nest. These are like invisible shadows shaking in my mind, lingering.
