Hard times have room

Chapter 7 Spring Flower Fragrance
After the lunch break, Paulin walked out of the gate of Wang's house with a shovel and went to the back mountain.

In the spring, Shanghe Village is sunny and bright, with flowers of various colors blooming on the roadside, colorful and beautiful.

Even though Pauline has been here for so many years and watched for so many years, she is still amazed by the scenery.

Bao Lin came to the Peach Blossom Forest with ease and joy, put down her backpack, sniffed here, smelled somewhere, um, it was really fragrant.

The peach blossom forest in Shanghe Village is very large. There are fifty or sixty peach blossom trees of various sizes. It is said that some people have contracted to plant them in the past, but I don’t know who it is.

Now everything advocates communism, and this peach forest is now the public property of the brigade.

Every year when a large number of peaches are ripe, the team will pick peaches together and sell them to the supply and marketing cooperatives. For those that are underripe, or overripe and soft, the team members can buy them back and taste them according to their work points.

So every year when the peaches are ripe, the children in the village are very happy, because there will be sweet and delicious peaches to eat.

Pauline swayed with a low branch, and the basket stood under the branch. After a while, the bottom of the basket was covered with peach blossoms.

Looking at the pink petals in the basket, Pauline couldn't help but smile, but she still took out the thin, transparent, whitish towel she washed from her jacket pocket and spread it on the ground.

Then he poured the petals in the back basket, gathered up the corners of the towel, and tied it with grass leaves. There were not many petals, just a small hold in Paulin's little hand.

Peach blossoms are harvested to cook sweet potato porridge at night, and sweet potatoes and wild vegetables are eaten every day.

When Paulin made it for the first time, everyone thought it was a joke, but after trying it, all these doubts disappeared. The soft, waxy and sweet sweet potato was mixed with a faint aroma of peach blossoms, which was delicious and beautiful.

Since then, no one has ever talked about Pauline's family when she came out to pick flowers and bring them home.

Putting away the towel, Paulin found a place not far from the Peach Blossom Forest where there were a lot of wild vegetables, and they looked tender.

Seeing that there was plenty of time in the afternoon, Pauline carefully selected the back baskets that she would put on later, and when most of the back baskets were full, she put her hands away.

The rest of the time, Baolin went to the big locust tree in the village to pick up a few handfuls of locust flowers and go back to steam and eat them at night.

"Wenjun, Baozhu, the eldest sister is back." Baolin said while pushing the courtyard door: "The eldest sister also brought you sweet Sophora japonica flowers back to eat."

"Oh, eat, sister eat." Baozhu's small body ran out of the main room first and ran towards Baolin excitedly.

Since Baozhu has eaten complementary food, Baolin, the elder sister who often brings her fruits of different flavors, has won her favor. Usually, when a sister sends this kind of invitation, Baozhu knows that there will be delicious food again at a young age.

"Big sister, Sophora japonica, it's so sweet." Wang Wenjun ran to Baolin first because of his age and height, and tasted the taste of Sophora japonica.

Sophora japonica is fragrant, tender and sweet, and has a strong fragrance. It is very popular with children in the village.

However, the locust flower tree is very tall, and the team has not yet used bamboo poles to eat the locust flower, and it still takes a lot of work to eat it now.

Paulin has practiced tree climbing skills for so many years, and she is very flexible!
"Eat more sweet, and Baozhu." After rubbing Wen Jun's thorn, Baolin fed Baozhu two flowers.

"Mmmm, eldest sister, you can eat too." Wang Wenjun raised his small hand laboriously, holding a locust flower, laboriously reaching it to Baolin's mouth.

Pauline pursed her lips and ate with a smile.

I grabbed a handful of fresh acacia flowers with my hands, washed them, and put them into the hands of the two brothers and sisters.

"Eldest sister has gone to cook, you two are sitting on the stools." After speaking, Paulin went to the kitchen with the basket on her back.

When it was getting dark around seven o'clock in the evening, the bell rang after work.

The family sat neatly at the dining table, looking at the sweet potato and peach blossom porridge in the porridge pot, and the steamed locust flower in the big bowl, with obvious longing in their eyes.

After dinner, Pauline followed her mother to clear the table and wash the dishes.

The food eaten at home has no oil and water, and it is still very easy to clean.

"Mom, is the sweet potato field finished? Is it time to plant rice next?" Pauline asked while crouching.

"Sweet potatoes have been planted, but transplanting rice should not work now. I heard that the paddy fields should be disinfected first. Today and tomorrow, the team seems to be using ox carts to transport lime and fertilizer to the county."

"Who is in charge of driving the ox cart to deliver the goods? Mom, do you know?"

"The captain will definitely go. We need three or four team members to help with loading and unloading. It should be almost the same. We have little land, and we can't put much lime and fertilizer."

"Mom, can my dad go? I've never been to the county town since I grew up!"

"They are going to do business, what are you doing with your little baby? Are you able to walk so far? It will cause trouble for the team at that time."

"Mom, I want to go see it, I've never been there before." Paulin stood next to Su Hongying and shook her arm coquettishly.

Seeing her daughter's rare coquettish coquettishness, Su Hongying couldn't bear to completely reject her request, she thought about it, and said in a negotiating tone: "I'll ask your father at night to see what he says, if he agrees with you to go, then Let him take you to the county seat to take a look."

"Mmmm, thank you mom." Pauline finished, jumping into her own room with a smile.

At present, Pauline is the only one sleeping on the bed, unlike three people already lying on the bed at the other end of the curtain.

But Baolin's time to sleep alone won't last long. When Baozhu is three or four years old, she will sleep separately from her uncle and aunt.

Thinking that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you can go to a county that you have never been to before, and maybe you can find a way to get rich, break away from the status quo, and successfully get rid of poverty and become rich, isn’t it all written in the novel anyway?
Pauline couldn't fall asleep at all, and finally tossed and turned for a while before falling asleep.

When I woke up the next morning, thinking of my childish thoughts last night, I couldn't help blushing. Could it be that my thoughts became childish as I got younger.

In this era, it is not so easy to change the status quo, at least in the black market in the novel, Pauline is afraid to go.

In the black market, although the punishment is not very strict now, the goods and payment are collected, but if it catches up with the crackdown, it will be directly exiled to the farm for transformation.

Not to mention that in the sensitive period of the 60s, if this matter is revealed, it will be one word: suffering.

Besides, the management of trading is not very strict now. Usually, the village can go to the town commune to catch a big fair, participate in a trade fair, etc. There is really no need to take risks in the black market.

Bao Lin is just an ordinary person, with no unparalleled ingenuity, and no protagonist halo. How can she make hundreds of thousands of pounds and trade with black market gangs safely, anyway, these Paulin can't do it.

Therefore, it is impossible to take risks. Now that she has food and drink and her family who love her, why not want to do that dangerous thing.

Although the food and drink are a little bit poor, some of the family members are a little better.

Bao Lin is just an ordinary person, without the aura of the protagonist, so she is usually not cautious, isn't that Qing waiting for the food to be delivered!
I heard the ticking of rain outside, it was raining.

Pauline got up and opened the back door. Seeing the drizzle outside, she turned around and closed the door and lay on the bed.

It's a rare rainy day, I don't sleep much, are you sorry for myself? As for going to the county town or something, after that time, the enthusiasm of someone who was hot for 3 minutes has faded a lot.

After all, the county town is so far away that she can't stay for an hour or two before she has to go back. Her father wouldn't feel relieved to leave her alone in the county town, so it doesn't seem to make much sense whether to go or not.

Moreover, if her father had to pick lime fertilizer, he would be very tired. Then Cheng Baolin was afraid that she would be dragged back.

After thinking about it, she is not struggling, whether her father agrees or not, she is not sure yet!

After a while, Pauline got on the bed and fell asleep again wrapped in the quilt.

(End of this chapter)