The Story of Qingfeng Village

Chapter 12 Qingfeng Village in Memories VI
Liu Jianguo didn't laugh, he was hit by the phrase "I'm used to beating with bare feet", and he felt a sore feeling in his heart.It's not that I like to play barefoot, but I don't have shoes to wear.

Turning to look at Li Ying, although she was also smiling, there were faint tears in her eyes.

Li Qiang took a few steps: "It's very suitable."

Mother Li: "...this sweater is so soft and smooth...I haven't worn a sweater yet..."

Grandpa: "Fumin daughter-in-law, I am so happy that you are so silly. In the future, the eldest daughter will have a future, and she will buy you better materials. You just wait and enjoy the blessing..."

Li Ying: "Grandpa, I will make everyone happy in the future. When I graduate and work, I will take you to live in the city."

"Okay, Grandpa is just waiting for that day. From now on, we will also be from the city, not worse than the Zhu family."

"Hahaha……"

The family chatted lively and happily.

Li Fumin: "It's getting dark today. I don't know if I'll call today, so I force my son to light up the kerosene lamp so that we don't get caught in the dark."

Li Qiang agreed, ran to the kitchen and lit a kerosene lamp, put it on the table, and put another unlit oil lamp on the table.

Li Fumin: "Jianguo, I'm afraid you're not used to it. It's like this in the countryside. Sometimes the electricity comes and sometimes it doesn't. I can't tell when it will come."

Liu Jianguo: "Fortunately, there's nothing I'm not used to."

He came to the countryside for the first time, and everything was new and different to him.

Li Ying went to the kitchen to help her mother cook dinner, and Liu Jianguo sat in the main room, playing with Grandpa and Li Fumin, talking mostly about the school's knowledge and life, and Li Qiang was also listening with great interest.

The figures of four people swayed under the dim light.

"Brother Qiang, come and shine a light on me..."

Li Ying was shouting.

Li Qiang stood up and lit another oil lamp on the table. Standing under the eaves, Li Ying came in with two plates, one with bacon and one with peanuts.

Later, Mother Li came in with bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, and Li Ying made another trip, bringing a pot of radishes and a bowl of boiled croissants.

Li Fumin went to the next room and brought out a bottle of wine: "Come and taste our local grain wine."

Liu Jianguo: "Uncle Li, I can't drink enough, I'm afraid I won't be able to have fun with Grandpa and Uncle."

Grandpa: "You can drink as much as you can, and we don't persuade you to drink. You don't have anything to eat, just eat."

"Very well, I'm not picky eaters."

Liu Jianguo thought to himself that the poached eggs he ate before hadn't been digested yet, and he couldn't eat much, so he just had to drink two glasses of wine with him.

The family gathered around the table and began to eat dinner by kerosene lamps.

The bacon is a bit salty and the peanuts are very fragrant.

The radish is cooked in a soup that has been cooked with bacon. It is neither salty nor bland, and has a good taste.

The croissants are boiled in clear water. When the pot is taken out, a little sweet potato flour is added, which has a clear fragrance.

Liu Jianguo ate a lot of these two vegetarian dishes.

Grandpa's teeth are not very good, so the bacon and peanuts didn't move much, so he ate radishes and croissants.

Li Fuming is a person who can drink a bottle of wine with a plate of peanuts, so he concentrates on dealing with peanuts.

The large plate of bacon was almost wiped out by Li Qiang who was growing up.

Liu Jianguo drank two glasses of wine desperately and then stopped drinking. His head was already a little dizzy.

Grandfather and Li Fuming did not persuade him either.

Seeing Liu Jianguo put down his wine glass, his mother went to the kitchen to cook a pot of noodles.

It's a basin bigger than a washbasin.

"If you don't drink, just eat some noodles."

Liu Jianguo: "I'm already full."

Li Ying said: "This is a noodle made from our own wheat that is ground into flour and then processed. Why don't you try it."

So I used the serving chopsticks in the basin to pick out half a bowl for Liu Jianguo.

It looks darker and thicker than the usual noodles, but it tastes like wheat.

After eating the noodles and drinking a little noodle soup, I gave up.

The stomach is already full.

Li Ying only ate half a bowl.

After Grandpa Li and Mama Li Fumin picked out a bowl of the remaining noodles, Li Qiang wiped them all out with a washbasin.

Liu Jianguo was dumbfounded.

This is half a basin of noodles.

He didn't quite understand what people said before, "Half-sized children eat their mothers and fathers to death", but now seeing Li Qiang's appetite, he really understands the meaning of this sentence.

After dinner, my mother didn't want Li Ying to help clean up, but asked her to talk with Liu Jianguo and Grandpa.

After she finished tidying up the kitchen, she fed the pigs.

Grandpa said, "I'm afraid I won't be calling tonight. You are exhausted after a long day's driving. Fumin and Fumin's wife will have a busy day tomorrow, so you should rest early!"

Li Fumin: "Well, it's necessary, take a rest early, and get up early tomorrow to kill the New Year pig."

It seems that grandpa still has the final say in this family.

There are three main rooms in the Li family, and each main room is divided into two parts. Behind the main room is a warehouse, which is a place for storing grain.

The two rooms on the left are the bedrooms of Li Fuming and his grandfather, and the rooms on the right are Li Ying's room and Li Qiang's room.

Liu Jianguo and Li Qiang slept in the same room.

Li Qiang led Liu Jianguo into the room with a kerosene lamp.

There was a wooden bed in the room, a dusty mosquito net on it, and two half-person-high wooden cabinets next to it. The walls were pasted with newspapers and a few posters and New Year pictures of the People's Liberation Army.

There was a window on the wall, and the window was covered with tape, so you couldn't see the outside.

Li Qiang put the kerosene lamp on the cabinet, brought in a wooden bucket from the outside, and put it in the corner, "Brother Jianguo, if you want to wake up at night, you can use the urine bucket for convenience."

"Oh...I see."

Is this the legendary toilet?
Liu Jianguo lived in the dormitory of the factory since he was a child, and he used public toilets. Later, his father divided him into a suite room, and his family had a separate toilet. The man who looks at the farm is responsible for drenching) but it has not been used yet.

Li Ying came over with a quilt, "The countryside is colder than the city, so build an extra bed. Go to bed early, and get up tomorrow to watch the slaughter of pigs."

"it is good."

Liu Jianguo took off his shoes, saw that Li Qiang was not moving, and was still staring at the shoes on his feet, jokingly said: "

Why, are you reluctant to take off your new shoes?Wake up and put it on again. "

"Brother Jianguo, I know these shoes are very expensive. I asked my mother for a long time, but they were reluctant to buy them for me. I won't wear them tomorrow. I will wear them when I go to the streets during the Chinese New Year, and then I will wear them when I go to school. You can go play basketball."

Liu Jianguo's nose was a little sour.

Said: "It's okay, you can wear it tomorrow, and I will buy you another pair after the summer vacation."

"Brother Jianguo, you don't have to buy them for me in the future, just give me your worn ones. New shoes won't survive in our countryside, so there's nothing to waste."

Liu Jianguo did not expect that Li Qiang, who was only in his teens, would say such a thing. He said that the children of poor people are already in charge of the family. When they usually meet Li Ying, they know that she is used to thrift. Buy these meet and greets.

It seems that Li Qiang is also sensible.

(End of this chapter)