Chapter 16 New Family Member (please collect and recommend)
Unknowingly, with the wails of the naughty little ones and the joy of the adults, September has arrived quietly.
This means that the school in the village has started, which is nightmare news for the children.
Some children did not finish their summer homework because they had too much fun during the summer vacation.
Some children simply don’t like going to school. They have to get up early every day, sit for a whole day at school, and do homework. Just thinking about this picture is terrifying.
The adults at home were naturally very happy.
During the holidays, not only do you have to be busy doing things, but you also have to keep an eye on the children at home. The sturdy little ones are always the most worrying.
I am afraid that accidents will easily happen to them whether they climb high, jump low, or play in the river.
So as soon as school started, the adults were sent directly to school and asked the teachers to help take care of them.
Of course this is not the main reason.
September is here, can October be far behind?
What does October in the golden autumn mean in people's hearts?
Representing harvest, this year is a good harvest year. In addition to the public grain turned in, I believe that every family can have a lot of food left over. They can also buy more meat for the New Year and buy more clothes for their children.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is here on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
The weather was very good on this day, and there were no accidents, such as rain.
After dark at night, the round moon hangs in the sky, and the bright moonlight spreads across the earth.
In the courtyard of Zhang An’s home, Zhang An carried a table and placed it in the courtyard.
Wang Fang placed the prepared moon cakes, fruits and sugar on the table and offered the moon.
Everyone in the village does this. Zhang An doesn’t know about other places, but in nearby places, this is a custom that has been handed down from ancient times to the present.
After the monthly payment is completed, the family begins to share the moon cakes and other foods on the table.
The full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion.
In this era of poverty, at least people are not displaced and their families are scattered.
Although later generations earned more money, their families remained in separate places, working hard.
In Zhang An’s memory, since he left the mountain village, except when he came back during the Spring Festival, he has been away from home almost every year.
In two lifetimes, this is probably the first Mid-Autumn Festival I have spent with my parents in more than 20 years.
At this moment, Wang Fang also had a happy smile on her face, and she kept praying to God to bless her family with health and safety.
Why is there no wealth? This is because there has always been a saying in the hearts of the local people.
It is called water overflowing when it is full, which means don’t pray too much that all good things will happen to you. It means that disaster is about to happen.
So comparing the two, safety and health are more important.
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At the end of the month, Zhang An did not expect that his father Zhang Jianguo would buy a horse.
It turned out that I had wanted to buy a foal before, but I didn’t buy it because I never saw anything suitable.
But everyone in the village knew that the Zhang An family intended to buy a horse.
As soon as the news spread, people in nearby villages also knew about it.
Zhang Jianguo did not go out in the morning and planned to go to the fields to drain the water later.
But someone came to the door and called him away.
When I came back, I led the horse back.
It turned out that there was a family in the Maochang Village next door. The men lost a lot of money gambling outside.
Now people are coming to ask for debts. I am helpless because my family doesn’t have that much money, so I have no choice but to sell the animals.
But in such an urgent situation, you will definitely not get a good price if you rush.
So when the villagers heard about it, they came to notify Zhang Jianguo.
The horse is a local southwestern horse, which belongs to the Malaysian breed. It is suitable for carrying goods, pulling carts, and plowing fields, and it also has good endurance.
He just has a bad temper. This horse is not well fed. One look at it shows that it is not well cared for. Maybe Baomi is not even willing to feed it a few meals.
The whole horse is thin, and the shape of the spine can be seen on the back.
So it couldn’t be sold for much money. Originally, the other party asked for a thousand yuan, but everyone knew that the other party was asking for a sky-high price.
But Zhang Jianguo only returned four hundred. The other party must be in a hurry. The horse must be more than this amount, but in a hurry, he can't find a buyer. If the horse is paid to several debt collectors, , maybe even lower.
Finally, the people in the village made peace between the two parties, and Zhang Jianguo paid 600 yuan.
The other party wanted more from Longwangshu, but Zhang Jianguo stopped talking.
The nearby village elder had already spoken once, and Zhang Jianguo also added money to give everyone face.
So everyone couldn't continue to persuade, and finally the other party decided to sell it, because even if it was sold now, it might not be able to sell it for so much money.
Under the witness of everyone, Zhang Jianguo went home and took 600 yuan, counted it to the other party in person, and took the horse away after the other party verified it.
I originally had some harnesses, but I actually wanted Zhang Jianguo to buy them for an extra 100 yuan. Isn’t this taking someone for granted?
Zhang Jianguo said no without thinking, then took the horse and left.
It doesn’t cost that much to hire a carpenter to make a new saddle for you, but you want a hundred bucks for a bad saddle?
Later, I could hear the voice of the woman in the other party’s family cursing, of course she was cursing her man.
This horse is really thin. Maybe the owner didn’t feed it properly. He will be busy in a while. He needs to feed him some corn and fat in the past few days.
I asked an old carpenter in the village to help me make a saddle and other pack equipment.
Don't worry about the car, buying a new carriage costs a lot of money.
When the time comes, see if anyone is selling it. Just pick one up when the time comes. It doesn’t matter if you can’t.
The next day Zhang An took the horse out to graze. He finally discovered that the horse had a bad temper.
Hold on and don’t move, but push back.
In the end, Zhang An got annoyed and directly sent it into the space. After using his mind to hold it down and give it a severe spanking, it was considered to be strong and did not dare to lose its temper again.
"What a bitch, I've spoiled you so much that I won't feel comfortable without a beating."
After leaving the space, the horse probably knew that Zhang An was not going to offend him, so in the end Be obedient and obedient.
After two weeks of feeding Tiantian Space Spring water with corn, the situation has greatly improved.
There are no bones on the back. In fact, everyone knows that feeding pure corn can help you gain weight, but not so fast. It is more about the effect of space spring water.
One day Zhang Jianguo took him out to carry something. When he saw that it was not Zhang An, he lost his temper again.
After Zhang An found out about it, he found an opportunity to lead it out and gave it a severe meal. Now its skin was so strong that even Wang Fang didn’t dare to go crazy while holding it. In front of it, Here, this two-legged beast is so terrifying.
At the end of September, Zhang Jianguo basically observed the condition of his crops in the fields every day. The rice in the rice fields begins to turn yellow.
But it’s not the time to harvest yet, so we should have to wait for more than a week like this.
But the corn in the field has matured earlier and can be harvested.
The mountains in the mountainous areas are not like the plain areas. They are not only flat and large, but also monolithic.
The mountainous area of Zhang An's family is already in good condition. When the land was divided, the village gave some conveniences because the family had an only-child certificate.
Two of the five acres of mountainous land are relatively large, but the others are small terraces.
It is better to go to work in the fields sooner rather than later, so the family got up very early. After getting some food, they went up the mountain and started breaking corn cobs.
The road up the mountain is very narrow and the carriage cannot go up at all.
Those who had animals brought them back on their backs, and those who didn’t had them picked them back from the mountains.
This situation is very common. People today can carry more than a hundred kilograms per load, but this will not be possible in future generations.
For example, there were no horses in Zhang An's family last year, so Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang carried all the crops back one load at a time.
It will be much easier this year with horses. As for Zhang An, he is not a guy who can't carry a pole, so all his energy is wasted.
Carrying a shoulder pole also requires skill. People with good skills are easy to pick. People like Zhang An will get blisters on their shoulders after picking it up for a while.
(End of this chapter)