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Chapter 3 Boyhood

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    On the stove, the thin Li Changqing was obediently exhausting all his strength and trembling to scoop water into the pot with a ladle. He felt that his mother was working hard and had to do so much housework every day, and he should help her share it when he grew up.  However, when Li Changqing, who was sitting on a small bench boiling water, listened to the praise from the friends outside for his brother's excellent monkey whipping skills, as well as the resounding whipping sound of the whip, he couldn't help it.  An astringent taste.

    He skillfully boiled water, blended pig food, and then fed the pigs, as well as the chickens, ducks, and mules at home.  His housework continued until people couldn't see their hands and fingers under the night, and then his brother took off his heavy cotton coat and went home excitedly.

    "Put on your clothes quickly, don't wait to catch a cold." Xu Jinhua took care of her eldest son Li Changming with concern, but invisible indifference to the dusty Changqing who had just returned from the barn.

    "Mom, I want to eat garlic at night. Do we still have garlic at home?" Li Changming was enjoying his mother putting on the clothes he had just taken off like a maid serving the emperor, while thinking about how to have a good night.  Eat some garlic and be in a good mood today, he needs to eat some stimulating food.

    "Yes, yes, Mom will bring you dinner later, go in quickly." Xu Jinhua pushed Li Changming into the room, and then began to prepare for the dinner table.  Although it is simple corn porridge, there are pickles and miso made of radish, and fried pumpkin. It was hidden in late autumn, and now it is a delicacy on this dinner table.  Li Changming gulped down the porridge with the pumpkin, and then kept eating the garlic into his mouth, chewing with relish.

    "Xiao Er, don't you eat?" Xu Jinhua didn't remember to ask Li Changqing who was hiding in the corner and didn't eat until he and his family were full.  Li Changqing used to eat garlic. His family was too poor, so he only ate garlic, and he could only eat garlic.  However, extremes lead to opposites. After eating garlic for many years, he began to hate the smell of garlic. Every time he smelled it, he was so disgusted that he couldn't eat.  Mom knew that everyone usually eats garlic, and he would hide away to eat outside, but she was surprised that today he didn't hide, but curled up in that corner.  I don't know why, at this moment, Li Changqing's tears came down quietly.  Li Changqing felt that the man's tears were useless, so he quickly wiped them with his sleeve, and then closed his eyes tightly.

    "I'm not hungry." He tried his best not to hear the slightest cry in his voice, but no one cared about his efforts.

    Mom has no second words.  He did so much work today, but his mother didn't care about him at all, and the dinner table of the family without him was still so full of laughter.

    Li Changqing stopped going to school when he was twelve years old, and he didn't like going to school, he couldn't understand what the teacher said at all.  In the fourth grade, he didn't even learn pinyin.  In fact, he really didn't have the energy to study.  There are countless housework waiting for him after school every day, and he is called by his family to work in the field on Saturdays and Sundays, and sometimes even on the morning of school, he has to be woken up early by his father to follow him to recite  Picking up manure with a basket on his back, while his elder brothers and younger brothers are all enjoying the good time of lying in bed, and he will always have endless work to do.  When he arrived at school, he could finally escape from the endless labor. He was too tired, so he would sleep all day at school.  The teachers in the school don't have the energy to manage the students, and they live their lives with the idea of ??"being a monk who hits the clock for a day".  The days are too difficult, and they are thinking about how to work harder to keep their families from starvation, and how to dress warmer and better if they have enough food and clothing.  They think the children in the countryside are too wild, and they also know that the children in the countryside have endless housework, so they don't care about both sides.

    As soon as Li Changqing didn't go to school, he was made a labor force by his family. At the age of twelve, he really earned his living like an animal.  The heavy wooden cart at home is usually pulled by a donkey, but now, it is Li Changqing's thin body, which pulls the wooden cart back and forth endlessly every day to do work.  The land of Li Changqing¡¯s family is divided, but Li Changqing¡¯s land can¡¯t wait to be pulled by a donkey, so this young and strong guy, because he loves his elderly father, uses his thin body to pull the donkey, which is full of heavy autumn harvest grain.  The wooden cart walked home with difficulty step by step.

    The heavy grain made the old wooden cart creak, and the heaviness spread to his whole body.  He lifted his body like a hill, like Sun Kukong under the Five Fingers Mountain, but unfortunately, he didn't have the ability of "seventy-two transformations" to make this hill-like wooden cart fly away  go home.

    One step, two steps, three steps

    This is already the eighth cornbread that 12-year-old Li Changqing ate in this meal. Although there are no hearty dishes, they are just pickles, pumpkins that are in season in autumn, and some cookedLi Changqing was extremely satisfied with these simple dishes.  Not only did he do farm work all morning, but he also pulled the cart three times this morning, because the corn porridge he ate in the morning had already been digested without a trace in such intensive labor, and even his original stored fat might have been destroyed.  I don't know how much was consumed. In the afternoon, there is still a lot of work waiting for him.

    "Xiaoer, you've already eaten eight, save some for your older brother and younger brothers." Mother Xu Jinhua's words struck Li Changqing's hand stretched out to grab the ninth cornbread like a bolt of lightning.  His hand froze there.  My elder brother and younger brothers are all doing simple work, and they are all lazy while doing it. As for me, I not only have to finish their work, but also pull the cart.  Now, even eating a meal to replenish physical strength has to be said.

    "They eat and let them take it themselves. Xiao Er has been exhausted for a long time, and he has to work later in the day, let him eat." Father Li Yongsheng saw all the hard work of this son, and he picked up a larger one with his own hands.  The corn pastry was placed in Li Changqing's bowl.  Li Changqing looked at his father gratefully, but he did not refuse, because he was really hungry and he was really not full.  However, he just ate this one more, and he didn't want his father and mother to quarrel over such a precious food because of him.

    Many years later, when Li Changqing told his daughter-in-law about this memory, and his daughter-in-law told his daughter, his youngest daughter, Chen Yao, asked him a question.

    Do you hate your mother?

    Do not hate.

    His answer was without hesitation.

    The reason why he doesn't hate her is very simple, that is his mother.

    However, at that time, Chen Yao knew that even though Li Changqing didn't hate his mother because of his filial piety, these painful memories hurt him deeply, otherwise he wouldn't remember it so vividly.  However, he has no time to feel sad for this injury, he is earning his living non-stop, and he never knows how to feel sorry for himself.  Fortunately, later on, his daughters also showed filial piety to him just like he filial piety to his mother.  However, the difference is that his filial piety to his mother is foolish, while the filial piety of his daughters to him is strong enough to supplement the love he once lacked.

    Of course, this was a long, long time ago.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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