This article participates in the Snow Mountain Literature Garden’s Autumn Story Essay Competition/p/d7214c35cf52

一

The autumn harvest is getting closer and closer, and autumn-watching trees are scattered all over the hills in the village. People are getting busier and busier.

Qiu Sheng wandered around the mountain where he was married all day long. The big yellow dog never left his side. In addition, Qiu Ren carries his wife's hot corn pancakes in his arms during the day, and someone warms the bed when he goes home at night, but Qiu Sheng has enough food for one person and the whole family is not hungry. So he ate whatever he wanted at home and spent most of the rest of the time watching the autumn in the mountains.

At dusk that day, Qiu Sheng had been wandering around the mountains all day, and was about to go home to have some food before going out. Suddenly, the big yellow dog straightened its ears, stared at the cornfield at the bottom of the ditch under the mountain ridge without blinking, and carelessly darted out like an arrow. Qiu Sheng hurriedly chased after him. When Qiu Sheng arrived at the bottom of the ditch, he saw a big yellow dog squatting on a field and barking wildly, with a shivering woman standing next to it.

Qiu Sheng stopped the big yellow dog’s barking. Then his eyes moved to the woman. The woman's arms were bulging, like a primary school student who had done something wrong. She lowered her head timidly and did not dare to look at Qiu Sheng. Qiu Sheng recognized her as Widow Tian who lived at the west end of the village.

It is not easy for Widow Tian. Ever since the man passed away in an accident, it has been very difficult for one person to take care of two boys. Fortunately, the man's original work unit provided him with a monthly pension of several tens of yuan, which made Widow Tian's sad face relax a little. Now Widow Tian appeared in the cornfield where he was watching Qiu at this time. Looking at the bulging look on her chest, Qiu Sheng had already seen the clues. But he won't take the initiative to speak. He wanted to hear what this woman with a panicked look had to say.

Widow Tian was so cruel that she took out all the corn cobs in her arms. "Brother Qiu Sheng, you have seen what happened today. I won't hide it anymore. You can do whatever you want."

Qiu Sheng originally wanted to scare her, but Tian didn't expect it. The widow struck first and showed off all her cards, leaving him at a loss.

"Brother, I can see that you are an honest person. To tell you the truth, there is really no way to open the pot at home. Otherwise, I wouldn't be embarrassed and take this step. My sister-in-law doesn't want to embarrass you. If anything happens, I will be alone. Take it."

Qiu Sheng is really in trouble. If a second-rate man had done this today, he would have reported it without hesitation. How to deal with it was a matter for the brigade. But for a woman with a family like Widow Tian’s and such a hard life, how could she bear to make things even worse for her?

It happened to be dark, and there was no one else in the quiet mountains. Qiu Sheng stamped his feet, picked up an ear of corn cobs and handed it to Widow Tian. He gritted his teeth and said to her: "Go away, the children are still hungry. I didn't see anything."

Widow Tian stared at Qiu Sheng blankly, a warm current welling up in her chest. She wanted to say something else, but she finally said nothing and gradually disappeared around the corner at the foot of the mountain. Only then did Qiu Sheng call the big yellow dog and hurry towards the village.

2

A few years later, the village implemented household responsibility for production. Qiu Sheng successively contracted dozens of acres of mountain land and became a well-known large grain grower. Widow Tian also relied on hard work on the contracted land and gradually got rid of the dilemma of waiting for rice to be put into the pot.

When the spring plowing season comes, Widow Tian’s contracted land is often plowed by someone before she can find someone to do it. Widow Tian knew that Qiu Sheng must have done this again. In recent years, the family has had to do a lot of hard work, and he has always helped the family. Widow Tian felt sorry for her and came to her house with money to ask for payment for the land, but Qiu Sheng said nothing. Widow Tian had no choice but to make some rare food and send her youngest son Erbao to Uncle Qiu Sheng. Qiu Sheng was not polite, took the bowl handed over by Erbao, and said with a smile: I am just hungry, it smells so good. Before he finished speaking, he devoured the food into his stomach.

It’s the autumn harvest season again, and every household is busy picking up crops from the fields and pulling small flatbed carts to transport them home. The weather has been good this year, and the corn cobs in the contracted fields are very good. For the past two days, Widow Tian has been working in the fields day and night to harvest the autumn harvest.

She couldn't do it alone, so she asked her two sons, who are in middle school and in middle school, to pick a Sunday to help her.

There was an old flat cart at home. The wheels were oiled and the manger was reinforced. The two and a half boys happily pushed the cart and insisted on letting their mother sit in the cart. On the way, the two brothers, one pulling from the front and the other pushing from the back, walked along the winding mountain road shouting happily. Widow Tian, ??who was sitting in the car, had a happy smile on her face.

Qiu Sheng had more than ten acres of land to work on, so he hired two relatives to help him harvest the land. The two families were not far from each other, so when they met on the mountain road, they didn't bother to talk, they just smiled and nodded.

First break off the full ears of corn, use a sickle to chop down the dry jade stalks one by one, and put them in a pile and tie them up. After all the corn in an acre of land was chopped and all the jade stalks were chopped down and put aside, Widow Tian called on her two sons to start loading the truck. First, put the peeled Guangsui into the bottom of the car, surrounded by tall wicker car walls. After the carriage is filled, a sack is stacked on top and each sack is packed with corn cobs tied tightly. Then use thin woolen rope to tie it tightly from front to back and from left to right. Then you can go down the mountain and prepare to transport home. Naturally, Dabao was riding high on the handlebars, and Erbao and Widow Tian were pushing him to the top of the slope.

At this time, Qiu Sheng ran panting from behind and said that when a heavy vehicle goes downhill and encounters a steep slope, there must be two young men in front to pick up the handlebars and someone is stepping on the plastic grinding ring behind, so it is slow. Glide slowly to reach the slope safely. As he spoke, he walked to the front of the car and pushed up the handlebars. Dabao greeted him from the front, and Erbao stepped on the grinding ring behind the butt of the car and slid down slowly. Looking at the cliffs on the roadside and looking at this frightening steep slope, Widow Tian's heart almost rose to her throat. Fortunately, Qiu Sheng was an expert at pushing carts. After a while, a cart full of corn stopped safely at the foot of the mountain. Widow Tian quickly handed Qiu Sheng a kettle and a towel, saying repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you, thank you for your help. Come on, come on, drink some water to wipe your sweat."

Qiu Sheng drank a few sips of water and used I wiped my sweat with a towel and told me to call me if I pulled the car down such a steep slope. The road to push the cart home is easy, and there is still work in the fields so I can get busy first. After saying that, he turned around and walked uphill step by step. The setting sun dragged his tall figure very long, very long...

Three

It's the harvest season again.

Erbao received the college admission notice, but Widow Tian was not happy. Two years ago, Dabao was admitted to a normal college, and she tried her best to borrow money to pay for the tuition. The children also live up to their expectations. In the second year, they used the winter and summer vacations as tutors to earn tuition fees without spending a penny from the family. Now the hole for Dabao to go to school has been filled, and the cost of Erbao's college education is pressing like a mountain again. Widow Tian was so worried that she had a few more gray hairs overnight.

When she was in trouble, Qiu Sheng came over. He first congratulated Erbao for going to college and bringing success to the family. But as soon as he saw Widow Tian sighing, he knew that she must be worrying about tuition fees again. He casually took out a stack of money wrapped in old newspapers from his trouser pocket and said to the frowning Widow Tian: "You should be happy that your child is admitted to college. This is the 10,000 yuan I have saved from selling grain. It is not enough for me to think of another solution." Make up some money."

Widow Tian kept saying, "Uncle, I didn't pay you back until Dabao went to school, so why should I bother you again?"

"I see, there is no one who has something urgent and money is tight. Hurry up and get the things for your children to prepare for school registration. Anyway, I won't be able to spend the money for the time being."

Widow Tian's eyes flashed. With tears streaming down her face, she grabbed Erbao and was about to kowtow to Uncle Qiu Sheng to thank him, but Qiu Sheng held him back.

"What are you doing? Don't say anything. I'm still busy in the fields. Let's go___"

Three

The children are all here I went to school out of town. Widow Tian and Qiu Sheng were both sitting at the edge of the field. Most of the jade plants in the one acre of land had been cut off. They were now sitting in the shade against the ground wall. Qiu Sheng rolled an old dry cigarette, took a good puff, and blew out a beautiful smoke ring.

"It's really choking, please smoke less!" Widow Tian said while fanning the smell of smoke with her hands and covering her nose.

"You feel embarrassed, so why are you leaning towards me?"

"Look at how beautiful you are. Even at your age, you are not serious. You are not afraid of spreading the word." Others are joking."

"What are you afraid of? We haven't done anything embarrassing. Let those who like to gossip just keep talking. We are not afraid of the shadow."

"Oh, Let’s be serious. Don’t you feel that you are alone for so many years without having a family with you?”

“What do you think? Carrying a family?”

“Look at what I’m doing, I don’t have flowers on my face”

“Your face is prettier than flowers”

"Go, go, my mouth is full of the smell of cigarette smoke, it smells so bad..."

Four

This is an unforgettable golden autumn. Every village has a bumper harvest and every family is happy.

Dabao took home a glamorous wife from the city, and Erbao also had a charming girl beside him. The news spread like wildfire, and men and women from a whole village came to watch the fun.

Dabao specially bought a gorgeous outfit for his mother and a new fitted suit for Uncle Qiu Sheng. Then he pulled them both into the yard and said loudly to the villagers. _____

"Folks, everyone knows that our family today is all thanks to Uncle Qiu Sheng's help. Today I want to solemnly announce in front of all the young and old men in the village that from now on In the end, Uncle Qiu Sheng was our reborn father."

Dabao and Erbao both stood in front of Qiu Sheng and shouted loudly "Dad" one after another.

Qiu Sheng responded repeatedly, with tears flashing in his eyes.

Widow Tian on the side was also overjoyed and quickly handed Qiu Sheng a small handkerchief.

In the warm applause of the villagers, Qiu Sheng took Widow Tian in the middle, Dabao and his wife were on the left, Erbao and his partner were on the right. As the photographer said "eggplant", a family portrait was frozen. Become a lasting happy aftertaste.

The usually quiet farmyard is now filled with rare joy and celebration, with bursts of laughter and laughter conveying the new style of the new countryside.