Chapter 134 Rushing to the dinner place
Looking at her sister’s appearance, Wang Susu couldn’t hold back her joy: “What’s wrong? Is your brother-in-law right? When I was as old as you, I looked forward to it every day. Going to school.”
That was indeed the case for children at that time.
Except for a few who cherish the opportunity to go to school, the rest are just lazy in order to do less farm work.
Even so, during the busy farming season, there are still people who are called home to work by their parents right after class.
When Wang Zhenzhen saw that her sister didn't speak for her, she pursed her lips and hesitated: "But...but I'm not ready yet."
Chen Ling filled a basin with water next to the well and smiled. He said: "It's not like we're going to the battlefield for going to school. What else do we need to prepare? Come and wash your hands."
"You and your sister should wash your hands first."
The little girl pulled a little girl over. Maza held his chin and said with a sullen face: "I'm afraid of students when I go to school in the county town." Once you play, you will get familiar with it quickly.”
"Besides, I pick you up every day. It's not like you live on campus."
Chen Ling comforted, and Wang Susu also persuaded softly.
My sister-in-law is still young after all. It is normal for her to feel nervous when she goes to school in a strange place.
But it’s just a little baby, and it’s just like this at first, so it adapts very quickly.
Don’t worry too much.
...
There is nothing to be busy these two days.
It was only around nine o'clock when Chen Ling made a trip to the county town and bought the third-grade textbooks that her sister-in-law needed.
The little girl is young and recovers quickly. Now she ran out to play again and was not at home.
Chen Ling put the things in the house, turned back to the yard, found a long bamboo pole, walked to the jujube tree, and knocked down all the remaining jujubes.
It had been beaten once when building the house a few days ago, but it was not clean. Moreover, Chen Ling saw signs of wanting to grow a second crop of jujubes on the tree, so he knocked again with the bamboo pole.
Jujube trees are different from other trees in that they usually bear fruit twice a year.
But it is not good to let it grow like this, which will affect the results of the next year. As the saying goes: "With jujubes, there are three sticks, but without jujubes, there are three sticks." The jujube tree must be beaten frequently, so that it can grow more every year. Bear fruit.
Knock around the jujube tree.
Then I picked the pears on the pear tree. This year, there were a lot of dates and pears. The total number of dates weighed about fifty kilograms. Ordinary old jujube trees bear a lot of fruit. At that time, that was all. The smaller jujube trees only had about thirty kilograms of jujubes.
There was a basket full of pear trees.
Normally I didn't care about them, so Wang Susu was surprised when she saw them.
She remembered that the previous two years were far from achieving such a harvest.
The dates and pears are packed away.
Chen Ling went to Kuaoxiang and hoeed some loess, mixed the broken reed poles into the mud, and built several pigeon nests with bricks and stones close to the east courtyard wall.
Pigeons are different from chickens and ducks.
Both wild pigeons and domestic pigeons are monogamous pairs. Once they form a pair, they will live together closely, build nests, incubate eggs, and run their own small homes.
Unlike chickens and ducks, there are only one or two males left, and the rest are all females, as long as they can lay eggs.
So after the pigeons are trained, it is not appropriate to keep them together.
Moreover, now that it’s autumn, it’s colder at night in the mountains.
Even without these pigeons, Chen Ling would still have built a nest for the quails.
When the weather gets cold, the chickens at home will not fly to sleep in the trees, but will return to their nests. If the quails are still allowed to occupy the chicken coop, they will easily fight.
This will definitely not work.
It took a long time to build the pigeon nest and quail nest, and Chen Ling continued to sit on the threshold with Wang Susu to weave straw mats.
At the same time, I discussed with Wang Susu how many dates should be kept this year, and if there were more left, I would sell them.
"Keep ten kilograms of dates and pears, and I will sell the rest with you when you send Zhenzhen to school tomorrow."
The two were weaving straw mats and talking. After a while, Wang Zhenzhen She led Liu Nier and a bunch of little kids into the yard, and after going to the kitchen for a drink of water, everyone gathered around to help the two of them knit.
Not to mention, despite their young age, the dolls are not slow, especially the slightly older Liu Nier ones. It seems that they have learned it at home and they can knit decently. They do a good job. Very enthusiastic.
At noon, Chen Ling thought that they would go to school tomorrow and planned to keep them here to eat. He was indeed relatively free these days, and he just had time to organize things for the family and prepare meals.
As a result, before he could open his mouth, each of them had finished weaving half of the straw mat, and all of them were gone in the blink of an eye.
After making lunch, leaving Wang Susu and her sister-in-law at home to eat, Chen Ling went out with the bowl.
The old man hasn’t been to a restaurant in a long time. He was going to a restaurant to catch a meal.
In these days, most people in the village like to eat together.
The main reason is that there are no entertainment activities in the village and there is no TV to watch.
When it’s time to eat, I hold my bowl and gather with my neighbors and people who live nearby, and chat while eating, talking about astronomy, geography, and national events; at the next time, I talk about the latest news in eight villages in ten miles. , very lively.
Some people can eat a bowl of rice for an hour, eating in front of others and behind others.
Catching a meal is also very interesting.
Today Chen Ling came out to catch the meal because the brigade's loudspeaker just announced that the shotguns were here. The village must be lively, so he just went to see what was going on.
They gather around here to eat and like to run to the door of Cui Laizi's house.
The main reason is that Cui Zizi's family has chess, poker and mahjong. When there is no farm work to be busy, he can get into battle after dinner and play cards and chess to kill time.
At this time, it was indeed quite lively in front of Cui Laizi's house.
Many little children were laughing and playing around the big tree, while the adults were holding sea bowls and bowls, squatting in the corners, or sitting on chairs. A brick, sitting on the ground.
The gap between the rich and the poor in rural areas is not big, and the lunch of each family is similar. It is either noodles, pimple soup, or boiled porridge with some dried sweet potatoes. It is more convenient to just take two Put a pickle into the steamed bun and it will come out.
The Chen Ling family has eaten lightly these past two days, including pimple soup and vegetarian steamed buns at noon. After walking over and saying hello, they squatted together with Chen Yuqiang and Chen Ze and several other young people, snoring. Sipping soup and listening to other people talk.
“No wonder they say that leap seven is not leap eight, leap eight is a knife to kill. Look at the situation this year, with floods and wolf disasters, it’s a disaster year. It’s uneasy.”
Someone let out a long sigh, which elicited a chorus of agreement.
"It's useless. They are just ordinary people digging for food in the fields. What can be done? I heard from the party secretary that our county organized a wolf hunting team a few days ago, riding motorcycles and carrying The gun wandered around the village because he didn't want to send shotguns down, for fear that one family would have a grudge against another and cause trouble. As a result, the night before yesterday, he encountered a pack of wolves coming down the mountain in Taoshugou and scared the young people half to death, let alone I almost lost my life when I killed a wolf. Those people in the county are useless. That’s why they let go of the shotguns.” “Second uncle, how many shotguns do you think our seventh team can get?” ?"
"This... there must be at least five or six shots. Li Xian and Dazhi must both be involved. Now only two shots are out, and we are the rest. , you still can't distinguish between three and four guns? If you're not familiar with it, don't be afraid, just practice hard."
"Speaking of which, our own patrol team in the village will have our turn soon. The team is keeping vigil. When the time comes, a few more people will have to touch the gun and shoot two rounds of bullets.”
"..."
As expected, these words made all the young people excited. Every word you said to me was so lively.
Chen Ling ate and listened to the conversation, and probably learned about the recent situation.
In fact, the current control over shotguns is not too strict. In terms of policy, a complete ban on guns will not be implemented until next year, that is, in 1996.
On their side, it was because they had made too much trouble in the past few years and killed many people that they had to send people to various villages and towns to collect them. As a result, many young people in the village had never shot a gun.
But this is in the mountains after all, and there are a lot of wild animals. If there are special circumstances, they will still be distributed.
However, the villagers will definitely not be allowed to hold it on weekdays.
"Uncle Fugui, I told my second uncle that it will be our seventh team's turn to watch the night on August 20th. Then I will go with Shui Wazi and you will go too."
Chen Yuqiang added I came to him and said something.
His second uncle is Chen Guoping's brother, Chen Guoxing, an electrician in the village. Now Chen Yuqiang is also working with this second uncle, and will take over from Chen Guoxing in the future.
"Okay."
Chen Ling finished his meal, put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked, "The wolf on the mountain is howling every day and in the middle of the night. Have the other teams seen the wolf coming down the mountain?"< br>
"Wolf coming down the mountain? No way. But Xue Cheng told Uncle Juxiang that he had heard noises. Even though Uncle Juxiang slept deeply in the middle of the night, when he woke up he only heard the crunching sound in the corn field, and there was no sound. I don’t know if it’s a wolf eating, but the dogs in the village don’t bark much anyway.”
Chen Yuqiang thought for a while, shook his head and replied.
While talking, Chen Ze also went home and put away the dishes and chopsticks. He was holding a doll wearing crotchless pants in his arms. He came over and pushed it to Chen Ling: "Xiao Mao, please call uncle, this uncle I carry candy with me all day long, and I’ll give you candy when you ask.”
This is the son of his sister Chen Fang's family. He will stay for two days during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Hearing what Chen Ze said, he called Chen Ling uncle and looked at him eagerly, waiting to give him candy.
“Oh, uncle really didn’t put any candy on his body today.”
Chen Ling patted his pocket and didn’t put any candy in it. He only found a cigarette case: “How about, Xiao Mao wants to smoke a cigarette first. Uncle, this is a good smoke."
Chen Ze stared at this: "You are a rich man, you are making trouble with a baby."
It actually made Xiaomao giggle, and he actually reached out to take it.
Chen Ling picked up the baby and said: "Haha, uncle is just teasing you, you can't take this. Let's go, uncle will buy you candy."
The Cripple Club is here He didn't go home either. He spent fifty cents to buy a few pieces of each candy, filling Xiaomao's pockets.
“After eating, go to my uncle’s house to get it. There are plenty of candies at my uncle’s house.”
“I know, uncle.”
This kid was quite good. After buying some candy, he sat on the stone behind Chen Ling and Chen Ze and listened to their conversation.
After chatting for a while, I saw that the men had begun to gather together to play chess and cards. Chen Ling heard what he should have heard, so he didn't stay any longer, turned around, picked up the bowls and chopsticks, and went home.
There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Chen Ling took his wife to take a nap.
I woke up at around three o'clock and just as I was about to get a glass of water, I heard a commotion in the courtyard. When I looked outside, I saw that it was those three little fools who had nothing to do and went there again. There is trouble in the chicken coop. Our chickens are not weak in fighting ability. They have suffered losses and they don’t dare to provoke it.
These are some native chickens that Wang Zhenzhen brought here. They kept them in the chicken coop without killing them. As a result, these three little guys felt that they had encountered someone who was easy to bully, so they came to tease them every three days.
However, these chickens are still very afraid of Huangpizi. They are frightened as soon as they come over. They are always driven around the yard and jump around, which makes the three little fools get more and more aggressive and come to have fun when they have time.
“Go, go, Xiaojin, drive them out.”
Chen Ling just woke up and was a little upset by the noise. He didn’t leave the house, so he asked Xiaojin to drive the three little fools away. Out.
These three little things have grown up now, and their gray hair has changed twice. Now it has turned brown, which is not much different from the adult yellow skin.
Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang no longer care about them. They usually stay in the old house during the day and only come to the house after dark to help catch mice and snakes hiding in the house.
In the first few days after Wang Zhenzhen arrived, he was surprised for a while.
But these yellow men ignored her and slowly lost interest.
At this time, Wang Susu also got up from the bed and looked outside: "Zhenzhen ran out again? This girl, didn't I let her eat and sleep for a while?"
There was a lot of commotion in the courtyard just now, but Wang Zhenzhen didn't come out. Wang Susu thought that his sister went out to play again.
“I don’t know, I’ll go take a look.”
As a result, when Chen Ling walked to the east room, he saw the little girl squatting quietly beside the bed, cutting the paper according to the size of the textbook, and then cut a gap in the spine of the book, leaving a good position, and then moved along the pages of the book. Fold, press, and slowly flatten, the small appearance is extremely serious.
This is a book cover.
The paper used to wrap the book cover was the kraft paper used when Zhao Dahai sent the oil paintings. It is tough, strong and not easy to wear, but it is not as beautiful and delicate as the calendar paper after wrapping.
But that’s okay. Chen Ling and the others still used cement bags and urea bags when they were young. Didn’t they still come here?
Today’s dolls don’t pay attention to this either.
"Zhenzhen is wrapping up the book cover. Your sister thought you ran out to play again."
Chen Ling walked over and took a look. The newly bought pencil case, exercise book, eraser and pen were also laid out. , this guy really looks like that.
Wang Susu also came over and said: "After wrapping the textbook, put it under the quilt and keep it under the quilt overnight. The schoolbag has been sewn for you and hung on the wardrobe. Go and get it."
"Got it."
The little girl nodded, turned around and wrinkled her nose at Chen Ling, snorted, and went to the main room, swinging her pigtails.
Chen Ling was confused for a while: "This...why did I bother her again?"
Wang Susu pursed her lips and smiled: "I must have not slept enough at noon to lose my temper. I'll boil a pot of water. , I’ll cut your hair later.”
“Okay, you can cut it first, and then I’ll go cut some reeds and come back.”
Take a nap at noon. , taking this time, Chen Ling also wanted to go out and do some activities.
I drove the ox cart again to Laohewan in the south of the village to cut the reeds. This straw mat must be cut in advance and dried in the sun.
In previous years, there would have been no need to expend such effort. You could just pull some wheat straw back from the wheat straw piles outside the village. However, this year the wheat straw piles were all washed away by the flood and soaked in the farmland of various households, where they have long been turned into fertilizer.
I want to use ready-made wheat straw this year, but there is no place to find it.
(End of this chapter)