Hard times have room

Chapter 21 The Movie

Early this morning, the villagers of Shanghe Village were happily busy.

It has spread throughout the village. The film screening team will arrive at Chenjiazhuang this morning. It seems to say that the pictures are exhibited during the day, and the movies are shown at night, and open-air movies are shown, which makes people happy and rare.

Movies, what a rare thing. Things that can only be seen in the county seat. In the county seat, there were only open-air movies to watch, and money was required to buy a ticket, which was a penny. A movie theater was built only two years ago.

There are people in the village who are so anxious that they plan to wait until they get off work at noon, so they go to Chenjiazhuang to see if anyone is coming, and if there are any pictures, come back to have something to talk about, show off and brag.

Early in the morning in the Li family, Li Baodan, who could not be seen at home in the morning, was waiting on the table early.

Mrs. Li was holding Li Baodan lovingly and feeding him steamed eggs, sprinkled with some shallots and drizzled with sesame oil. Just looking at it made his mouth water.

Li Ju and Li Juan were sitting next to each other, swallowing their saliva, looking eagerly at the egg custard in Mrs. Li's hand. Mrs. Li didn't even look at it, so they lost money and wanted to eat steamed eggs. , what a sweet dream.

"Let's go, look at the virtues of the two of you, it makes people unappetizing, don't stop here and affect the appetite of my good grandson."

All the precious things in the family belong to her good grandson, followed by her son Li Qiang and Mrs. Li. As for the others, that's a piece of shit.

If it wasn't for the oil bottle that Xu Xiuying brought, Li Ju and Li Juan would have been relatives.

I usually do things for three days, fishing for two days and drying the net. It's not as good as the oil bottle. It's useless. I usually take my treasured eggs around. I don't have to work and cook when I get back. get used to it.

Li Baodan is only eight years old now. Because he often plays crazy outside, he looks black and fat, and he is taller than his peers. He looks solid. This is what Mrs. Li is most proud of. The child has her baby eggs strong.

Eight-year-old Li Baodan is only a little shorter than 12-year-old Li Ju, and ten-year-old Li Juan is even more incomparable. The three siblings can tell what's going on when they stand together.

In this era, the Li family can be considered capable of feeding their children like this.

"Mother, let's go early in the evening, and we have to sit in the front seat, so as not to be too far away and not be able to hear clearly and make noise." Li Baodan wiped his mouth after eating the egg, and said, pulling Mrs. Li.

The film screening team came here once two years ago. It was also in Chenjiazhuang. Chenjiazhuang is the largest village among the nearby villages. There are several production teams. The location is in Chenjiazhuang.

The nearby villages who want to see it will go to occupy a place early.

That time two years ago, that scene left a deep impression on Li Baodan. There were so many people, shoulder to shoulder. Unfortunately, that time Li Baodan was late and could not squeeze in in front. Li Baodan rode there. He could see clearly on his father Li Qiang's neck, but unfortunately he couldn't hear the sound.

Going home can make him angry, noisy and noisy, blame this and blame that, in short, it's all their fault that they didn't watch the movie well this time.

Two days ago, when I heard that the screening team was coming, Li Baodan was very excited. No, he got up early in the morning for the first time, and the noisy family circled around him.

"Okay, dear grandson of milk, don't worry, if you are so anxious, you must not hurt your milk to death."

"Your two money-losing sisters eat rice at home all day long and don't go to work. Grandma will let them take a small bench to Chenjiazhuang to occupy the place and occupy the front."

After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she pointed at the two sisters: "Didn't you hear what my brother said, why don't you go to Chenjiazhuang to see if the projection team is here? Take the stool at home to take a good seat in front, and take two more Sweet potatoes, you two don't have to come back at noon, just wait for your brother to go there at night."

"Oh, I see, grandma." The two sisters agreed obediently, and as soon as they walked out of the sight of Mrs. Li, they kicked the corn stalks and wild vegetable stalks placed by the wall indignantly.

In the past two days, Li Cao has been very diligent in keeping the corn stalks that were spread out on the ground. The wild grasses and trees that grew tall in the wasteland and withered in winter were all carried home. After drying, they were bundled with vines and stacked. By the wall of the house, bundle after bundle, both in the front and back of the house, it makes people happy to watch.

When the neighbors passed by or the neighbors came to visit, they said a lot of sour words.

This makes Mrs. Li happy. She has a good face, so Mrs. Li's attitude towards Li Cao has improved a lot in the past two days.

At noon today, Li Cao went home and hugged two large frames of pine needles. When he came home from work in the afternoon, he put half of the sun-dried pine needles in a pile beside the kitchen stove at home, and the other half was placed at the door of the firewood room, except for Li Cao. The bed, and other places are already full of firewood.

This afternoon, the work time was earlier. The bell rang at five o'clock. Usually, I didn't go to work until six o'clock. Now that the spring planting is basically over, the seeds are all on the ground, and the rest is weeding, watering, and catching birds. .

As soon as Li Baodan finished eating, he wiped his mouth and shouted that he wanted to go to the movies. The rest of the Li family had no choice but to rely on him.

After eating in three or two, put down the tableware and go out with Li Baodan.

Li Caowan timidly followed behind the Li family, looking at them with longing eyes, his mouth moved, as if recalling the previous movie watching, he finally summoned up the courage and opened the door with a low voice like a mosquito. After a mouthful: "Grandma, I also want to watch a movie, can I go with you?"

Mrs. Li didn't speak, didn't pay attention to anyone, didn't even pause in her footsteps, and dragged her grandson out of the house as if she didn't hear anything.

Mrs. Li didn't open her mouth, but Xu Xiuying wouldn't get used to her temper: "What are you looking at? Don't you need to wash the dishes and clothes at home? You can watch movies, stay at home, do the dishes, and wash the clothes. The water is boiling, and Baodan comes back sweating and needs to take a bath, if you don’t do these things well when you come back, watch your skin carefully.”

Li Cao seemed to be frightened when she heard this, her face instantly stiffened, she shook her body, and cowardly responded.

Seeing Li Cao's reaction, Xu Xiuying pulled the corner of her mouth and smiled with satisfaction, then followed up affectionately and pulled Li Baodan out of the house.

Looking at the Li family who disappeared in a short time after walking away, Li Cao lowered his head and seemed sad to outsiders, but the cowardice and fear that had appeared in Xu Xiuying's eyes earlier had already faded away in the moment of bowing his head. The dark eyes rolled, staring at the shoes under his feet for a few seconds, and finally, as if he had figured out something and made up his mind, he slowly raised the corners of his lips.

Li Cao returned to the main room, put the tableware and chopsticks in the bowl, and washed it with water casually, it looked clean on the surface, put the bowl in the cupboard, put the clothes in the wooden tub, and went out to the river to wash clothes. .

When they got to the river, Li Cao didn't expect to see Pauline here.

Holding the basin, he found a stone next to Paulin, and talked to Paulin while washing the clothes of the Li family.

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