Hard times have room

Chapter 95 Lei Gongjing

After Bao Lin gave the money, she took the neatly folded newspaper and turned around and left under the watch of Uncle Ge.

"Girl, if you have nothing to do, come and see the old man and talk to me." Uncle Ge said with a smile and waved his hand.

Pauline turned around: "Well, if I have time, I will definitely come."

Of course, this is the scene. Paulin and Uncle Ge are really not very familiar with each other, but everyone has said that, based on politeness, Paulin will not refuse to accept him in front of him, but just euphemistically said, come back when you have time.

Pauline went back to school, sat in her own seat, took out the potatoes she brought in the morning, tore the skins off, and ate slowly.

It was fortunate that she didn't growl at Uncle Ge's house just now, otherwise she would be embarrassed.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the school bell rang, Pauline rushed out with her schoolbag on her back, and walked back with the sun on her back.

It's five o'clock and the sun is still up!
On the way home, she saw fresh and tender wild vegetables on the ridge, and Paulin didn't let it go.

There are no pesticides now, and the wild vegetables on the roadside can also be directly picked and brought home to eat, but in the future, it will not work, because you don’t know whether others have sprayed them.

Now the weather has made Pauline take these wild vegetables more seriously.

After returning home, she took the wild vegetables in her schoolbag to the kitchen and put them in the kitchen. Paulin directly took the backpack and went down the road in front of the house to the Daqing River.

Now the water level of the Daqing River has dropped a lot, and some of the big stones in the center of the river are all exposed. At this water level, Baolin dares to go directly into the river alone, and walk into the river to touch the snails and mussels.

Because the deepest water in the Daqing River now reaches Baolin's waist, it is very safe.

The water of the Daqing River is crystal clear, and the water plants underneath have been swaying with the river, and occasionally a few small fish can be seen leisurely wandering on the bottom of the river.

The water that the villagers of Shanghe Village drink is not picked from the Daqing River. After all, they come here to wash their clothes, and they also come here to carry water to irrigate the ground. It is dark at night, and the men in the village also come here to take a bath. No one knows that you are here to carry water. At that time, did anyone upstream wash their feet?

The water that the villagers of Shanghe Village drink is picked from a place called Leigongjing.

The water in Lei Gongjing is gushing directly from the ground, and it is cold and refreshing. Paulin once used a glass bottle to draw water. Once filled, a layer of water mist will appear on the outside of the bottle. The ice water that has just been taken out is very refreshing. In summer, it is most liked by the villagers. In the morning, noon and evening, people go there to fetch water.

It is not allowed to mess around in Leigongjing. If anyone intentionally washes their feet there, gets dirty, and the child is naughty and peeing there, if someone sees it, the accused parent will be beaten and remembered.

Paulin didn't dare to take off her shoes when she went into the water, for fear that sharp objects in the water would scratch her feet.

This place has the most snails, and they are densely packed together. In half an hour, Paulin touched most of the basket.

Put the back basket in the water, rub it vigorously a few times, and then go home with the back basket.

Pour the screws in the back basket into a broken back basket in the kitchen, and eat them when the screws spit out the sand tomorrow.

Now that it was getting dark, Paulin made a potato porridge with wild vegetables. The side dishes were pickled sauerkraut and moldy beans. Paulin picked a little of each and put them in a small bowl, and she liked whichever one she liked.

Now I don't have any condiments at home, only salt. I really can't make any dishes. After all, the taste of dishes without oil is not as good as pickled sauerkraut and moldy beans!

Pauline simply stopped cooking today.

A family of three eats side dishes, and three or two finish the porridge in the bowl.

"Paulin, my mother and I dug the pit in your house at noon. Did you see it when you came back?" Wang Jiandang said slowly, drinking the cool water that was still cool not long after he brought it back.

"Well, I see, it's not bad, do you want to put the urn down now?" Paulin said after drinking the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, wiping her lips.

"It's alright, I'll take a bath early, my daughter-in-law, come and help." Wang Jiandang was a little anxious.

"Your dad, you're not too young, and you're still in such a hurry now." Su Hongying's face was a little worried, it's not a matter of urgency, as for rushing to move after dinner!
Having said that, Su Hongying stood up and followed Wang Jiandang out the door.

"Hey, slow down, be careful to break this urn, this urn costs eighty cents!"

"I know, I know, don't be long-winded, carry over there, this cover, or come over to get it later, and put it on the ground now."

"It's alright, alright, I know, as long as you talk more, as long as you can."

Listening to the faint voices coming from the side, Pauline smiled, got up and cleaned up the tableware and chopsticks by herself, soaked it in the kitchen water, and then washed it twice.

Afterwards, Pauline struck a match and lit the only oil lamp in the house, took it and went to her room.

As soon as she entered the house, Pauline found that in the corner of the upper right corner facing Paulin's bamboo bed, her parents were busy, shaking the big urn by herself, making it press the soil more tightly. The other is to fill the gap beside the big urn with soil little by little, and poke it with a small stick from time to time to make the big urn and the pit as close as possible to bond. Take it out.

Pauline put the oil lamp directly next to her parents, so she could do things better when there was light.

Wang Jiandang shook it for a while, and after he felt it was okay, he stopped moving, went back to the back room in the dark, opened the grain box, and took out three sacks, which contained soybeans, broad beans, and peas. There are about [-] pounds, followed by broad beans, about [-] pounds, and ten pounds of soybeans.

At noon, he had already put these things on the open space in the back room, and dried them with a dustpan and a sackcloth for more than four hours. When he was about to start work, he took them back to the back room and packed them in sackcloth bags.

"Is it alright?"

"Wait, the other side feels a little empty, and I have to put some more mud in it." Su Hongying squatted in front of the pit, poking the mud in the gap with a stick.

After a while, Su Hongying let out a breath and said, "It's alright."

"Which bag should I put on the bottom?" Wang Jiandang looked at the three bags in his hand, worried.

"Oh, why are you so stupid, isn't every bag the same?"

Su Hongying said with hatred that iron is not steel, and then made a decision directly.

"Tie the bag directly, and put the heaviest on top."

The two carefully put the soybeans down first, followed by broad beans, and then peas. Paulin stood by and watched the movements of the two of them. She couldn't get involved in this kind of thing at all, although she was the first to bring it up.

(End of this chapter)