Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 354 Shoes burned and leaked
As soon as the winter vacation comes, most of the children go out to herd sheep and play harps all day long, and don't come home until it's time to eat.

The Sheng family members are all grown up and quite sensible, so they take the time to do their homework in the first few days.

There are no winter vacation homework books these days. The teacher just leaves two small-script books, and some essays, diaries, etc. for senior students.

There is not much homework, so if you work hard, you can finish it in three to five days.

Sheng Xitai learned his lesson this time and followed his brothers and sisters to do his homework first. He had nothing to think about after all the homework was finished. He could play as much as he wanted without fear of getting beaten.

Needless to say, Chen Feng was young and had little homework, so he completed it quickly.

After finishing their homework, the two little ones were completely free to let themselves go.

After dinner in the morning, we went out to either go sledding or skating on the river, or a few people got together to play ice-skating. Anyway, they had plenty of things to play with.

It was so cold outside in the twelfth lunar month of winter, but these children didn't feel it at all. They wore thick cotton jackets, cotton trousers, cotton hats, and cotton handbags. Their faces were all red from the cold, but they were having a great time playing.

One thing is that every night when I go home, my shoes are wet and I have to find a place to dry them.

There is a fire wall in the west room, but only Sheng Xinhua's clothes and bedclothes cannot be placed there. Where is there room for Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng to dry their shoes?
Therefore, the shoes of these two people could only be placed in front of the stove or pit in the outer room and dried slowly.

One day, Sheng Xitai and the others were playing a hide-and-seek game outside. They dug holes out of several large snowdrifts in the field and hid them inside for others to find.

At the end of the day, the shoes were filled with snow, and the big-toed cotton shoes were soaked through.

As soon as she got home, Zhang Shuzhen saw it and was so angry that she almost beat Sheng Xitai.

At least everyone persuaded Sheng Xitai to avoid the beating, but what about the shoes?

The pair Sheng Xitai wore was newly bought by Zhang Shuzhen after winter.

Nowadays, it would be nice to have a new pair of shoes for the winter. Many people pick up old shoes from older brothers and sisters, mend them and wear them for another year.

Sheng Xitai's shoes are soaked. If they are not dried at night, there will be no shoes to wear tomorrow.

So, after having dinner, the boy placed two bricks outside the door of the stove pit.

Then put the shoes sideways on the bricks, with the shoe openings facing the stove pit, hoping to dry the shoes as quickly as possible through the heat of the stove pit.

Normally, Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng's shoes would only get wet on the outer layer, not as wet as today.

Sheng Xitai was worried that the remaining fire in the stove pit was not enough, so he filled the stove pit with more firewood while the family was not paying attention.

As a result, when ten o'clock came around in the evening, Zhang Shuzhen smelled the smell of burnt rubber mixed with paste.

"Where does this smell come from?" Zhang Shuzhen couldn't sleep, so she got up quickly, lit a candle, and followed the smell.

There was nothing unusual in the inner room, so Zhang Shuzhen held the candle and went to the outer room. As soon as she opened the door to the east room, there was a choking smell in the outer room, which made Zhang Shuzhen cough.

It happened that Sheng Xiping also noticed something was wrong, so he got up to check.

"Oh, what's burning? Does it smell like burning rubber?"

As soon as the door to the west room opened, Sheng Xiping almost choked.

He quickly closed the door to the west room, not even bothering to check where the smell came from, and quickly opened the door to the outer room for ventilation.

At this time, Zhang Shuzhen, holding a candle, had already arrived in front of the stove pit.

"Oh, whose shoes are these? Why are they burnt?
You prodigal, why do you block your shoes in front of the pit door?A good pair of shoes, most of them were burned. "

Zhang Shuzhen picked up the shoes and looked at them, and started to curse in anger.

Sheng Xiping also came over, took a closer look, and couldn't help but shake his head.

The two bricks were too close to the stove door, and there was still a fire in the stove. After drying the shoes, the shoelaces were also burned, and most of the shoes were burned.

Judging from the size of these shoes, they should be Sheng Xitai's.

Even Sheng Xiping could recognize it, let alone Zhang Shuzhen. How could anything in the house escape her eyes?
"Sheng Xitai, get here." The angry Zhang Shuzhen shouted towards the back room, regardless of the fact that it was midnight.

In the east room, Sheng Xikang, Sheng Xitai, and Chen Feng slept on the north kang, while Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei slept on the south kang with their mother.

Sheng Xitai was sleeping soundly, and his mother didn't hear him when she called him, but Sheng Xikang heard it and quickly woke up Sheng Xitai.

"Lao Liu, get up quickly, our mother is calling you, what have you done?"

Sheng Xitai was sleeping soundly when he was woken up by his brother. He thought it was dawn, so he sat up with a start.

Just at this time, Zhang Shuzhen shouted again, which frightened Sheng Xitai and hurriedly crawled out of bed without wearing shoes, and jumped to the outhouse with bare feet.

"What happened? What happened?" At this moment, Sheng Xitai was still confused.

"What did you say? Did you throw firewood into the pot pit again? Look at these shoes, what have they become?"

Zhang Shuzhen threw the burned shoes in front of Sheng Xitai.

With the weak light of the candle, Sheng Xitai picked up his cotton shoes, looked at them, and immediately understood that he had burned the shoes.

"Oh, my shoes, my new shoes, I have no shoes to wear."

I don’t know how the shoes were burned. Even the soles were half baked, and they couldn’t be repaired even if they wanted to.

Sheng Xitai only had a pair of new shoes, but he had made them look like this. He couldn't help but feel sad and burst into tears.

"Okay, let you go out and play guitar every day. This house won't be able to accommodate you. You won't be home all day long, and your shoes will get wet all day long.

Okay this time, I don’t have any shoes, where are you going to run? "Zhang Shuzhen was so angry that she really wanted to slap her old son hard.

When Zhang Shuzhen said this, Sheng Xitai cried even harder.

Sheng Xiping looked at it from the side and said, "This is not okay. What should I do if I scare the children with howling ghosts and wolves in the middle of the night?"

Besides, the shoes are already like this, even if they beat Sheng Xitai, they can't recover.

Sheng Xitai lost a new pair of shoes. This lesson was enough. There was no need to train him again.

"Mom, don't be angry. Lao Liu didn't mean it. He just wanted to dry the shoes quickly."

There was still a strange smell of burnt rubber in the house, but the mothers had little clothing and could not freeze, so Sheng Xiping closed the door to the outer room and patiently comforted his mother.

"What happened this time will teach Lao Liu a lesson. He will definitely not dare to get his shoes wet in the future.

Come on, go into the house and go to sleep. If he cries like this at night, others will think something is wrong with our family. "

Zhang Shuzhen was obviously still angry, "He learned a lesson? When will he learn a lesson?
Anyway, I don’t have the money to buy him new shoes. If I can, he will run out barefoot tomorrow. "

In an era when supplies were scarce, a pair of shoes cost several yuan. No wonder Zhang Shuzhen was so angry. She cared about things and money.

Sheng Xiping naturally understood, but he could only persuade Zhang Shuzhen to go back to the house and sleep.

Here, Sheng Xitai was quickly dragged back to the house. This kid was just wearing a shirt and underpants. The door to the outer room was open for a long time. It was quite cold. What should I do if he is frozen?
"Brother, I have no shoes to wear. My mother will definitely not buy me shoes. How will I survive the winter?"

Sheng Xitai sat on the edge of the Kang, still sobbing.

"Then what can we do? Look through your fourth sister and fifth sister's old shoes and find a suitable pair.

You should be allowed to have a long memory and run out to play all day long, no matter what, you deserve it. Sheng Xiping snorted and said in a cold tone.

Sheng Xiping could afford a pair of shoes, but he couldn't say that right now.

Zhang Shuzhen was still angry at the other end, but here he said he wanted to buy shoes for Sheng Xitai. Wasn't he pretending to be his mother?

Regarding this matter, Sheng Xiping must unite with Zhang Shuzhen to make Sheng Xitai have a longer memory.When Sheng Xitai heard this, he pursed his lips and wanted to cry, but he didn't dare.

In the end, I could only get into bed with aggrievedness and shed tears.

Sheng Xiping sighed, turned around and came out of the east room, closed the door, and went back to the west room to sleep.

When she got up the next morning, Sheng Xitai went barefoot and rummaged through the cabinet and found several pairs of old shoes.

There are Sheng Xikang who wore small shoes in the past few years, and there are Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei and others who wore old shoes in the past two years.

Zhang Shuzhen loves cleanliness. When the summer is warm, the old shoes at home are washed, dried and put away.

A comparison can tell that girls use things carefully. Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei's shoes last year had almost no damage.

As for Sheng Xikang's previous shoes, they were already worn out.

As the youngest child in the family, it is common for me to pick up the clothes and shoes of my older brothers and sisters. This is what everyone does.

So Sheng Xitai had nothing to be embarrassed about. He picked up a pair of suitable sizes and put them on, and he started jumping around again.

"Be gentle. If you break these shoes again, you will have to pick up my shoes and wear them."

When Sheng Xikang saw it, he deliberately stabbed his brother in the heart.

Sure enough, when Sheng Xitai heard this, his little face twitched again.

"I know, I won't pick up your shoes. Your shoes look like they were bitten by mice."

They are all boys, how many of them don’t do it?Big brother, don’t laugh at the second brother, they are actually the same.

Sheng Xikang was scolded by his younger brother and rolled his eyes at Sheng Xitai angrily.

"Hmph, don't be pretty there. If you mess up your shoes again, you will have to wear them even if they are bitten by mice."

Sheng Xitai also snorted, turned to wash his face, and ignored his brother.

Sheng Xitai burned a pair of shoes, which gave him a little more memory, and he paid more attention to them when he went out to play.

Try not to get snow inside your shoes, and try to stay as far away from the stove as possible when drying your shoes at night.

The winter months passed in the blink of an eye, and little Xinhua turned one year old.

If this had happened in the past, turning one year old would have been a big deal. We would have to set up several banquet tables and let the children catch their birthdays and so on.

Nowadays, they are not allowed to pay attention to these things, and the Sheng family does not make any arrangements. Zhang Shuzhen just said that she can cook a few good dishes and her family will be happy.

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the daytime is short. If you have three more meals, you don’t have to do anything else but cook.

Therefore, most families only have two meals when their children go on winter vacation.

The Sheng family used to be like this, but now Sheng Xiping goes to work and has to come back for lunch, so the Sheng family still has three meals a day.

January NO.19, the first day of the twelfth lunar month.

After breakfast, Zhang Shuzhen started busy, taking back the frozen meat and fish and melting them in preparation for making something delicious in the afternoon.

When ten o'clock came, the train whistle sounded outside, and the Sheng family didn't pay much attention to it. No one went out at home anyway.

After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps outside, and then the dogs started barking.

"Mother Shanda, you have a visitor." Someone stood outside the gate and shouted.

Zhang Shuzhen and Zhou Qinglan were busy making lunch in the kitchen. When they heard the noise, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were stunned for a moment.

"Who is here? The in-laws? No way, didn't you just come back from Songjiang River?" Zhang Shuzhen muttered casually.

Zhou Qinglan couldn't guess who was coming, so she simply opened the door and went out, "Who is it?" she asked as she opened the door and looked out.

"Oh, we came from the provincial capital, looking for Sheng Xiping and Chen Feng."

Outside the gate of Sheng's house, there were several people standing, including Wang Jianye, Wang Jianshe's younger brother, Chen Weiren, Chen Weiguo's younger brother, and two others, a man and a woman, who were not from the forest farm.

The person who spoke was a man, tall, a little thin, wearing glasses, and looked polite and cultured.

The girl next to her was dressed well and she didn't look too old.

The two of them also carried some things in their hands, and it looked like they were here to visit.

From the provincial capital?Looking for Sheng Xiping and Chen Feng?

Zhou Qinglan was a little puzzled at the time, since when did her man have contact with people from the provincial capital?And Chen Feng, what does it have to do with Chen Feng?

Chen Feng, Chen Feng?Suddenly, Zhou Qinglan's eyes widened, and she remembered something.

Sheng Xiping brought Chen Feng back from the provincial capital. These people also came from the provincial capital. They weren't here to find Chen Feng, were they?

"Oh, let's go inside first and let's talk."

Zhou Qinglan was a little at a loss for a while. She had raised a child for almost two years, and suddenly her parents came to find her. She felt indescribable, feeling lost, reluctant, and at a loss.

In a panic, Zhou Qinglan's voice was not steady when she spoke.

"Er Lang Shen, please stop barking. This is our guest."

The dogs were still barking at the people outside the door. Zhou Qinglan took a deep breath, stopped the dogs first, and then nodded towards the people outside the door.

"Xiping is not at home. He is at work. Chen Feng ran out to play. You guys come in first and wait for a while. I will go find them."

When Zhou Qinglan made a sound, Erlangshen and the others stopped calling and went back to their nests to lie down.

Over there, Chen Weixin and Wang Jianye waved their hands towards Zhou Qinglan, "Sister-in-law, please stay at home. Let's go find Brother Xiping and Chen Feng.

We know where Chen Feng is. He is following Xitai on the sledge slope in the east. "

Wang Jianye and Chen Weiren are both about the same age as Sheng Yunfang. They can't play with the children like Sheng Xitai, but they know where Sheng Xitai and the others are.

"Okay, okay, I'll spare the trouble for you two. Go and find them. Just say they are guests at home." Zhou Qinglan nodded after hearing this.

Chen Weiren and Wang Jianye ran away quickly and went to the field department to find Sheng Xiping.

Here, Zhou Qinglan politely let the two people go home.

"Mom, she's from the provincial capital. She said she came to see our Xiping and Chen Feng."

Zhou Qinglan came in and muttered to Zhang Shuzhen. "The person coming may be Xiaofeng's parents." He said this in a very low voice.

Zhang Shuzhen was chopping vegetables. When she heard this, she almost cut her hand.

Chen Feng has been in the Sheng family for a year and a half, and Zhang Shuzhen truly treats Chen Feng as her own grandson.

I originally thought that Chen Feng, a child without relatives, could live in the Sheng family forever, but unexpectedly, his parents came to find him.

For a moment, Zhang Shuzhen felt very uncomfortable.

"Oh, you came all the way. Come on, come inside and sit down."

No matter how uncomfortable I feel in my heart, it’s still hard to show it on my face.

Zhang Shuzhen forced a smile, put down the kitchen knife, wiped her hands with her apron, and let the other two into the room with a smile.

(End of this chapter)