Chapter 412 Family Portrait
After running around with the elderly all afternoon, I finally came back from the mountain after hanging the paper.
In fact, if it was just Zhang An’s family, it wouldn’t take much time at all.
But there are some tombs that are relatively distant and no one is taking care of them. Mr. Zhang also took the younger members of his family to visit them.
Most of these barren graves belong to people whose families have been separated, so no one has taken care of them for many years.
Sometimes something special happens at home, and no one comes to visit the grave for a while.
Qingming Festival is a big day for the deceased ancestors. The two old people thought about the reason why they were related to each other and could not bear to have those tombs become lonely graves, so they took Zhang An and others to repair them. one time.
After all, it’s just a matter of weeding, lifting a few handfuls of mud, and inserting a grave marker.
If no one really cares about it, within a few years, first it will become overgrown with weeds, then the graveyard will slowly collapse and weather, and finally it will be razed to the ground.
When everyone returned home, the second grandmother was working in the kitchen with her daughter-in-law and nephew-in-law.
In such a big house, there are usually only four members of Zhang An's family, so it seems a bit quiet.
There were dozens more people today, it was much livelier than usual, and the kitchen was also in full swing.
By the time we finished dinner, it was already evening, and the light rain outside didn’t know when it stopped.
"Xiao An, go and get the camera. This year we will take a good picture of our family."
Before everyone went back to their homes, Zhang Jianguo said rise.
In this day and age, no one carries a camera and goes from village to village to take pictures.
If you want to take pictures, you have to go to a photo studio in the city, not anywhere else.
Furthermore, smaller photo studios generally do not accept family portraits with dozens of people like theirs.
Besides, it is very impossible for such a big family to rush to the city together.
So it is really not easy to take a family photo of so many people in rural areas today.
It just so happened that today was Xiao Zong's grave visit, and all the people were from his family lineage.
Zhang Jianguo thought of the camera his son brought back a few days ago, and he had this idea in mind.
The only bad thing is that it rained today and we couldn't go to the mountain, otherwise it would be better to take photos on the mountain.
"Okay, then let's go to our backyard to take pictures. The space there is relatively spacious and can definitely accommodate a big family like us."
Zhang An agreed readily and immediately Go back into the room and find the camera.
Zhang Jianguo began to organize everyone to go to the yard, and even the aunts who were busy clearing away the dishes in the kitchen were told to stop.
When everyone arrived in the backyard, Zhang An went home and brought out a few chairs, letting the second grandfather, second grandma and fourth grandfather sit in the middle.
Then the children of the family squatted in the first row, and the remaining adults lined up as a family unit behind the three elderly people and the children.
But after arranging the people, Zhang An discovered the problem, because this camera did not have the function of taking time-lapse photos.
I can’t deal with him now. Just when I was planning to take one for everyone instead of taking the photo myself, the savior appeared.
"Zhang An, you are not at home. I will come to your house to buy some rice."
When Zhang An heard this voice, he recognized it as Wang Hua himself.
God is so kind. He even gives me a pillow when I feel sleepy.
Zhang An was worried that he didn’t have a photographer here, so Wang Hua, a senior photographer, came to his door.
"Yes, yes, you came just in time. I really need your help with something."
Run to the front yard and pulled Wang Hua into the backyard.
"Our family is going to take a family photo, but there happens to be no photographer. You came just in time, so I will leave this matter to you."
No matter what, Zhang An took Wang After Hua took it to the backyard, he threw the camera into his hand.
As for Zhang An himself, he ran back to Wang Fang and Su Ying, so that the whole family was in order.
“Hey, I thought it was too big of a deal to take pictures.”
Zhang An spoke so urgently just now, Wang Hua thought it was something more urgent.
The result is just a photo, which is his special skill.
Wang Hua took the camera and started tinkering quickly. He was very skilled.
“Hey, this camera is good. It’s an imported product that just came out this year. I’m planning to get one, but I don’t have time to go to the provincial capital. When did you go to the provincial capital?”
More expensive things like cameras, especially newly launched products, are not available in small towns, so you have to go to provincial capitals.
"Hey, this is issued by the work unit. I stay in the village all day, how can I have time to go to the provincial capital."
"Come on, come on, everyone is looking at me. , after I count one, two, and three, don’t blink.”
Wang Hua adjusted the camera, then stepped back and chose a position where he could take pictures of everyone.
Finally, he raised the lens of the camera and said to everyone, getting ready to start taking pictures.
“Come on, one, two, three, bang..”
As the electronic flash lights up, a photo has been taken.
"No, no, no, we have to reshoot. The eyes of some little guys here are closed."
Wang Hua flipped through the film and found that there were two children in the crowd who had their eyes closed. close.
Generally, photos like this are not acceptable, because it looks like a blind man, and everyone is very concerned about it.
However, this digital camera is very convenient for taking pictures, so you don’t have to worry about wasting film.
Then I took another picture. Zhang An’s two cousins who just had their eyes closed just now, after being spoken to by their parents at home, their eyes were wide open at this moment. Dare to blink.
"Okay, okay, the photo is taken. This expensive camera is different, the photo is very clear."
Looking at the camera in his hand, Wang Hua felt a little hot. It was much more advanced than his old one that had been used for many years.
Just the photos taken here are a lot brighter in color.
After taking the family portrait, we need to take a separate photo of each family.
But this time, Su Ying could handle it herself without bothering Wang Hua.
So after handing the camera to Su Ying, Zhang An accompanied Wang Hua into the room to talk.
"Why did you come here today? Your family won't sweep the graves anymore?"
Zhang An made a pot of hot tea and poured a cup each for Wang Hua and himself to drive away the cold.
Although it is not raining now, it is the coldest time in the mountains after the rain.
“Our family just goes to worship and just insert blazing paper. Unlike your big family with a large number of people, my parents and I go to burn the paper at noon and then come back.”
Wang Hua’s family is from the city and has moved to the city since his grandfather’s generation.
Coupled with the turbulent times in the past, I have long been separated from my hometown over the years.
“I didn’t bring anything with me when I came back. I was just talking about how delicious your blood rice is. I came over to buy dozens of kilograms and prepare some other vegetables for me. I won’t prepare them in the past two months. I'm going back. "" Small problem, but I haven't riced for a long time. I guess there isn't much left in the rice vat. I'll put fifty kilograms in it for you first. Anyway, it's close here, so it won't cost you to come back after you finish it. What kind of effort?”
Zhang An looked at the rice vat and saw that there was not much rice left.
The last time he threshed rice at home was when he was making wine, but after making wine, there wasn’t much left.
"Anything is fine. Anyway, I can't eat much by myself. If I buy too much, it will be easy to grow grain cows."
Grain cows are rice worms, famously known as rice elephants and are popular among locals. Call them corn cows.
No matter how dry the rice is, it will show its traces over time.
While loading the rice, Zhang An was still waiting for the man to take out his bag.
It turned out that this guy came here empty-handed and brought nothing.
There is no other way but to find one for him at home.
“Pack me another twenty eggs and duck eggs, and ten goose eggs.”
After packing the blood rice, Wang Hua did not buy chickens or ducks, but asked for chickens Duck and goose eggs, fifty in total.
Because others are lazy and not good at cooking tough dishes, I chose something simple to make like eggs.
Originally he asked for twenty goose eggs, but when he remembered that the goose eggs at Zhang An's house looked like a big bowl, he changed the number to ten.
“You really want duck eggs or goose eggs. In fact, eggs are the most delicious when fried, but duck eggs taste worse.”
Duck eggs don’t taste as good as eggs when fried, so Most people like to buy eggs, and duck eggs are bought for pickling.
The goose egg is different. There are not many candidates for this thing because it is relatively expensive, so if there is nothing wrong, most people will not buy this thing.
"It's okay, you can just get it for me. No matter what kind of eggs you have, I think they are all very delicious. At worst, I can boil the duck eggs and goose eggs and eat them."
Last time Wang Hua returned from Changqing, Zhang An gave some things, including chicken, duck and goose eggs.
After he brought it home, he asked his mother to fry it. He found that they were quite delicious, so he bought some this time.
Fifty eggs are not a lot. Zhang An originally found a bamboo basket that could not hold them, so he finally replaced it with a small bamboo basket.
After loading these eggs, Wang Hua ran to Zhang An’s vegetable garden and wanted everything he saw like a follower.
Especially when I saw the taller pepper tree, the green peppers hanging on it, and the short cucumbers on the cucumber vine next to it.
Wang Hua said nothing and let nothing go.
"Okay, okay, pick less. You can't eat much by yourself. If you pick too much, it will go bad. You can pick it again after you finish eating."
It's not that Zhang An is reluctant to part with it. The main reason is that these things will easily lose water if left for two days.
When the time comes, it will taste dry and taste bad.
Anyway, Wang Hua lives in Qiaotou, not too far apart. You can eat it every day and come here to pick it.
Finally, Wang Hua asked Zhang An for thirty kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Originally, these things could be bought from other houses in the village.
But Wang Hua is very superstitious about Zhang An's food. He always feels that no matter what it is, as long as it comes from Zhang An's family, it will taste better than other people's food.
“Here, this is food money.”
After the purchase was completed, there was nothing he wanted, so Wang Hua took out two hundred yuan and handed it to Zhang An.
"You won't need so much."
It's not that Zhang An refused to accept it, but he just took a hundred-dollar bill from Wang Hua's hand.
"No, don't let me go. I plan to stay here from now on and I will definitely come to your house often. If you do this, I will be embarrassed to come here in the future."
Wang Hua ignored Zhang An and directly put the other card into Zhang An's hand.
He is not an ignorant person. He has lived alone for several years, and he still knows the prices of some things.
Not to mention anything else, just this bag of rice. The rice their family usually eats is more than one pound per pound.
The blood rice of Zhang An's family is more delicious than the so-called japonica rice, and it must be more than this price.
If you buy rice like this for two yuan, there will definitely be people rushing to buy it.
Not to mention the basket of eggs, he has been to Zhang An’s house several times. Eggs and duck eggs cost one yuan each, and goose eggs are more expensive.
Coupled with the bag of potatoes and fresh vegetables, the two hundred yuan he gave Zhang An was really not expensive.
"It's up to you. Anyway, you are a landlord and a rich man. Today, you will treat it as a fight against the landlord."
With Wang Hua like this, Zhang An didn't refuse anymore. Anyway, there will be a long time to come, and there will always be other things. Find somewhere to make up for it.
"You have the nerve to say this. When it comes to being a landlord and a rich man, you are much more like me than I am. Come on, come on, I can't take all these things by myself. You have to help me get them back."< br>
The total weight of this pile of things is estimated to be more than one hundred kilograms.
If it is all rice, you can carry it back with a little effort.
But it was all scattered, and Wang Hua really couldn't handle it himself, so he asked Zhang An, the store owner, to help deliver the goods to his door.
"Simple, I just happened to go to your place to have a look."
Zhang An picked up the rice bag with his left hand and the pile of potatoes with his right hand.
Leave the rest to Wang Hua himself.
“I don’t know how you are so strong. Holding something that weighs fifty kilograms feels like five kilograms.”
Wang Hua himself was holding the basket of eggs in one hand and the vegetable basket in the other.
It turned out that Zhang An was even more relaxed than himself, and the fifty kilogram rice bag was like play in his hands.
“As for my strength, I just need to eat a few more bowls of rice at each meal. You see, I have to eat so much in one meal. If I don’t have much strength, I will really become a loser.”
"Forget it, I can't bear to eat like you, or I'll be starved to death within two meals."
Wang Hua had no doubt at all, after all, the first time he had dinner with Zhang An , I was really shocked.
So it’s not surprising that he thinks Zhang An is very strong.
When he arrived at Wang Hua's house, he turned the most spacious main room on the first floor and the two rooms next to it into a photo venue.
The remaining two rooms on the other side are his bedroom and a storage room for storing things.
But it seems that the layout is not finished yet, because in addition to the background, other props are still piled together.
But Zhang An feels that these are just things that can be solved in a short time. After all, he has moved everything here from the city.
After looking at Wang Hua, Zhang An went home.
Wang Hua just arrived today and must have a lot of things to deal with.
He had not lived here before, and it would take some time just to clean up the room, so Zhang An did not waste his time here.
Back home, Su Ying had finished taking photos of her uncles' homes.
At this moment, except for the aunt who was clearing the dishes in the kitchen, everyone else was gathered together, staring at the camera and looking at the photos they had just taken.
(End of this chapter)