Chapter 5 The robbers entered the village
“Why are you thinking about digging up the land? The sun is so bright.”
Wang Fang came back and saw Zhang An plowing the vegetable field. said.
"What's the point? I'm idle anyway. You and your dad are still working in the fields under the sun. After studying for several years, I'm still a rural person. Besides, I don't have any Passed the exam."
He fetched a basin of water for his parents to wash and said, "Mom, I'm going to take a shower in the river, my body is all sweaty."
After that, he said. Wear short sleeves and go out.
"Just stay on the river ridge. Don't run into deep places. Do you hear me?" My mother's warning came from my ears.
"Okay, I understand, I just wash it casually."
In hot weather, although the river water has been exposed to the sun for a day, due to the flow, it is at room temperature.
I took off my short sleeves, put on my big pants and dived into the river.
In fact, Changqing's children grew up near the water. Everyone has good water skills, but for some unknown reason, someone drowns in this river every year, which casts a shadow on everyone in the village.
Especially in the mountains, people are still superstitious about ghosts and gods.
Zhang An didn’t believe it before, but now Zhang An begins to believe it. After all, he has traveled through time, and there is a big treasure in his mind. If you don’t believe this thing, how did it come about?
No matter what, I would rather believe that it exists than that it does not exist.
There was a saying in my previous life that the end of science is metaphysics. There are some things that cannot be explained clearly by science.
Zhang An suddenly felt comfortable after soaking in the water.
After feeling almost done, Zhang An didn’t want to go home wearing wet underpants, so he found a big rock and changed out of his underpants. He only wore the outer cropped pants and went home in neutral. .
Zhang An took the initiative to help his mother make dinner. Today, my parents dug some dog-ear roots from the mountain.
This is Zhang An’s favorite thing. Whether stir-fried, cold or used as an ingredient, it is a wild vegetable that local people often eat.
Although the roots of the folded ears are not as tender now as they were in March and April, after Zhang An picked and pinched off the old ones, only the crisp and tender parts were left.
"Mom, why don't you make some bacon and fry it tonight? I haven't eaten bacon for a long time." Zhang An's favorite is fried bacon with folded ears.
"You're just greedy. Let me cut off a piece and wash it." Although he said Zhang An was greedy, his son wanted to eat meat. Wang Fang didn't say anything. He only had one child at home. Isn’t it just for him that I work so hard every day?
Soon, Wang Fang cut out a small piece of bacon from the cabinet, about a pound or so.
These meats are from pigs raised at home, which are better than those raised by later generations. The feed pigs in the pig farm taste much better.
Don’t you know how many people in later generations said that the pork at that time had no flavor at all?
One of the reasons for this problem is the pig breed problem, and the other is the feed problem.
Originally, pork fed with feed has a higher water content. Many butchers add water to the pork after purchasing it and then sell it to others. How can such meat be delicious?
Put a small knife of bacon on the fire to burn the skin, then pour hot water and start scraping it clean.
After a lot of effort, the bacon that was originally smoked black by firewood was washed golden.
Put the washed bacon into a pot and cook it before taking it out and slicing it. You can smell the aroma wafting around when you just cut it.
While Wang Fang was cutting the meat, Zhang An reached out and grabbed two pieces and put them in his mouth, causing Wang Fang to laugh and curse.
Not long after, the food was ready. Boil cabbage in boiling water and dip it in chili pepper water, stir-fry bacon with folded ear roots, and roast chili peppers that you eat every day in July and August.
The family of three had a delicious meal.
I didn’t dare to cook too many dishes because the weather was too hot and my home didn’t have a refrigerator like in later generations. If I cooked too much, it would go rancid easily.
At night, Zhang An, who was lying in bed, waited until Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang turned off the lights and went to sleep, then entered the space to check the situation in the space.
Cherrys and peaches are already ripe. Cherries are relatively expensive products among local fruits. When they first come on the market, they can be sold for five or six yuan per catty. Even in the mature stage, they can be sold for two yuan per catty. .
So this is why every household in rural areas has cherry trees planted in their yards, because they want to eat them, but they are too expensive and cannot afford them.
Local cherries are not big, with a mature diameter of only about one centimeter.
But because they grow in space, the cherries on the trees are now about the size of pigeon eggs.
Zhang An picked a few and put them in his mouth. Because they were too big, he could only eat one at a time.
As soon as I put it in my mouth, a sweet and refreshing taste bloomed from the tip of my tongue. It tasted thin in skin, tender in texture and juicy in texture. It was no less beautiful than the beautiful Guoda cherries of later generations, and its pit was very small.
After eating, I wanted to eat more. After eating several peaches in a row, Zhang An stopped because the peaches next to him were not bad, each one was as big as the mouth of a bowl.
You must know that this is a local peach, not a flat peach that can grow to a very large size.
Pink skin wrapped in pulp, Zhang An picked one, but because there were many short hairs on the outside, Zhang An took it to the pond and washed it before eating.
With one bite, the delicious pulp and juice fill your mouth. The pulp is very soft, and it doesn’t take much effort to eat. It should be a male peach. Female peaches generally have a crisper and harder flesh, so they are not suitable for the elderly. Eat with kids.
Although the food is good, it is not easy to be greedy for too much. It is delicious to eat, but it is easy to get angry if you eat too much.
After eating a peach, Zhang An felt a little full. Although he was very greedy, Zhang An still held it back.
When we arrived at the nearby pool, the large pool was already full of fine-scaled fish. They hadn’t seen each other for a few days, and the largest one in the pool weighed almost four or five kilograms. But more of them are small fry.
There are also a lot of grass carp. Some of them were moved here at that time, but because there are fine-scaled fish for prey, the pond is not as crowded as before.
After leaving the space, Zhang An lay on his pillow while thinking about how to get rid of these cherries and fruits. Fortunately, as long as he didn't let them rot in the space, they would stay fresh and he didn't have to worry about time.
In the middle of the night, Zhang An, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by a burst of noise. The villagers seemed to be shouting something.
At this time, nothing major will ever cause such a fuss.
Just when Zhang An got up and opened the door, his father Zhang Jianguo also got up and was opening the door to the main room.
When I walked to the road, I saw people in the village chasing something with flashlights.
"Uncle, what's going on?" Dad asked the old man who came behind him. This was Mr. Li, Zhang An's next door neighbor. Zhang An had to call him uncle.
"Li Heping's house at the back of the village was just entered by a gang of robbers. His family was so sleepy that the pen door was opened and the cows were led to the door. I don't know, if it weren't for Zhang Er I happened to wake up at night and saw it, so I woke people up, and now the cows have been taken away." A group of young people were chasing him, so Mr. Li explained to Zhang An and his son.
At that moment, Zhang Jianguo caught up with him with a flashlight and asked Zhang An to close the door to his home.
Zhang An turned around to close the door and saw that his mother Wang Fang had already gotten up. Because he was worried about his father, after saying a few words to his mother, he grabbed a wooden stick under the eaves and went out to chase after him.
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