母亲打来电话,说星期天要请人砍柴,我若有空就回家一趟。我赶了个大早回到家里,母亲请来帮忙的人已在松柏林里忙开了。那些都是我的亲戚。他们有的爬上树剔枝,有的收集,有的打捆,有的用板车往我家里搬运……我站在一旁,几乎插不上手。我给他们递烟,送茶,眼眶居然有些湿润。吸完了烟,我拿起了堂哥家的大砍刀,也“呼呼”干起来。我将树枝砍成一米多长的柴禾,堆在一起,让亲人们拉回家去。多年没干这活儿了,新鲜感又冒了出来,劳动的喜悦让人精神饱 My mother called and said I would ask someone to chop firewood Sunday, and I would go home if I had time. I got home early in the morning and my mother’s help came in busy with the pine trees. Those are my relatives. Some of them climbed tree branches, some collected, some bound, and some went to my house by trolley ... I stood aside, hardly able to reach for it. I give them a cigarette, tea, eyes actually moist. Cigarette smoking, I picked up the machete cousin home, also “whirring ” dry up. I cut the branches into one meter long firewood, piled together, so that pro-people pull home. For many years did not do this job, and fresh out again, the joy of work full of energy