Fengcheng old events

Chapter 46 Beard
Soon, Qiu received it.

The sun is too high this summer, and the fields are a little short of yield. It seems that the team has not completed the above tasks.

If the tasks in the team are not completed, the work points of the members will be affected, and most of the members are owed food.Life was even worse.

Once the autumn harvest is over, every family rushes into the mountains. If they can't get out of the fields, they can only rely on the mountains. They all hope to find more things, otherwise the winter will be difficult and they will be hungry.

Zhang Jingyi also followed Zhang Wanli and Zhang Wanzhi up the mountain with a basket and a sickle.

Speaking of it, Zhang Jingyi can encounter long worms as soon as he goes up the mountain. Fortunately, he saved Zhang's sister-in-law, and she is not afraid of these things now.The Zhang family brothers didn't eat this food, they just threw it into the pigsty and fed it to the pigs.

When the sky cools down, the ground turns yellow and the leaves are flying, the battlefield moves.

Liu Zhaofeng followed the car to move the tools and belongings to the Fatai brick and tile kiln. After identifying the place, this year is considered to be over, and he will start work next year when the spring warms up.

Back home, Liu Zhaofeng was not idle either. He replaced Zhang Jingyi and went up the mountain with Zhang Wanli brothers every day, picking wild vegetables and fruits, cutting trees, and collecting firewood. He was a capable labor force.

Liu Zhaofeng went to the mountains every day, but Liu Jinrong had no one to pick him up from school, so he had to walk across the river by himself.

But there is also the little white dog.The little white dog has grown up and can go out of the yard. He sent Liu Jinrong to school in the morning, where he went to play by himself, and then went to school to pick up Liu Jinrong in the evening, and one person and one dog went home.

The Zhong brothers still quarrel with Liu Jinrong every day, but they also keep company.

If it wasn't for the weeds on the mountains gradually withering and yellowing, and the leaves falling all over the mountains, if it wasn't for the south wind turning north and the weather getting cooler, then time would freeze here, and you wouldn't even feel it flow away.

When it snowed lightly, the ditch of the surrounding mountains was already desolate. Except for the dark pine forest in the middle of the mountain, the whole field was empty and there was nothing there. , waiting for the arrival of stillness.

When it snows, it's time to go up the mountain to collect firewood.

At this moment, the weeds are gone, the dead branches have dried up, and the leaves have disappeared. It is a good time to collect firewood.

The Chaishan Mountain assigned to Liu Jinrong’s family is further south in Nangou, passing the well, crossing the small river, walking along the mountain road, going south and east around the foot of the mountain, until reaching the top of the innermost valley, and then climbing up the mountain ridge .

The terrain from the riverside to the inside is exactly the same as the schematic diagram of a certain organ in a woman, connecting the two curved fallopian tubes.

Zhang's Chaishan is on the arc of the left fallopian tube.

After crossing the river, there are no people, and the mountain road is not a serious road, just a slope made by pulling firewood and cutting trees, and the road surface is full of gravel and grass roots.

In summer, the entire place will be covered by weeds and weeds that are one person tall, and there is no way to leave, let alone go up the mountain.Only after the busy farming season, when the autumn fruits on the mountain came down, did the grown-ups pack themselves tightly with a sickle in their pockets.

Liu Jinrong had to go to school, so although he wanted to go, he didn't have time to follow him up the mountain.She mainly wanted to ride on the sledge that pulls firewood.

Zhang Wanli and Zhang Wanzhi tied up the corners of their trousers with leggings, carried foreign guns on their backs, took a sickle and axe, hemp rope and a saw, and dragged the sledge. Mountain.

Collecting firewood is not done once or in one day, but to collect enough firewood before snow falls in the coming year.For half of the winter, the whole family had to brave the north wind and step on knee-deep snow to the mountains to fight against withered vines and old trees.

By the time Liu Jinrong went on winter vacation, a tall pile of new firewood had already been built at the entrance of the yard on the east side of his house, like a small house.

In winter, we need to burn the kang, which is the only way to keep warm.So a lot of firewood is needed in winter.

Zhang Wanli wakes up every morning at the west end of the yard, chopping tree trunks with the ax with a handle more than one meter long.First, the pulled back tree is sawed into sections more than one meter long with a saw, and then split into six to eight petals.

Liu Jinrong squatted on the sidelines from a distance and watched, feeling that the uncle is so strong and mighty, he can swing the big ax so that the wind blows, and the firewood will be separated after two or three strikes.

In his free time, the uncle would carry Liu Jinrong on his shoulders and go out for a walk, or buy her two pieces of candy.When I can't go out, I will take something to make something for her.

The uncle's hands are very skillful, and he can weave everything. A few pieces of bamboo strips and two mountain vines can be transformed into beautiful shapes in a short time in his hands, such as animals or a small thing that can be played with.

Every few days, the uncle would put on a thong, wear a dog fur hat, and go into the mountains with a foreign gun on his back.Then I will come back with a few rabbits and pheasants or something, and I can eat good food for a few days at home, or a small jar of meat oil.

When the snow was particularly heavy, the uncle took Liu Jinrong to hunt birds in the yard.Set up a big flat basket, tie a long thin rope, and put the rope through the cat hole on the window. The father and I watched through the window, and when the bird went under the flat basket, we tied the rope. pull.

"It's buckled, it's buckled." Liu Jinrong would always scream and push open the door and run out, and the uncle followed behind with a smile and slowly came out, watching her frantically unable to get out the bird in the basket.

In fact, the family is not rich, and the food allowance can barely make up for it, but Liu Jinrong lives happily.

Zhang Jingyi is a man with no ideas, and he doesn't have any ideas, as long as the child is happy, what hope is there?Watching them grow up slowly, it's nice to be able to eat and wear warm clothes.Every day in and out of the courtyard, wells and stoves, chickens, geese, pigs and dogs, this is all she lives now.

"Mom, mom, I have money." Liu Jinrong ran into the house with a black cloth bag.

Zhang Jingyi was sewing, turned around and asked, "What money?"

Zhang Wanli stood up and stretched out his hand: "Give it to me."

Liu Jinrong handed over the black cloth bag picked up from the gate of the yard to the uncle.

Zhang Wanli opened the tie rope of his pocket, took out ten yuan from it, frowned, and looked at Zhang Wanzhi.

Zhang Wanzhi looked at the ten yuan in his elder brother's hand in a daze.

Here comes the beard.

Beard is a bandit who lives by robbery and extortion.

Zhang Wanli looked at Liu Jinrong, who was staring at him with wide eyes, and then at the money in his hand.

The next day, Zhang Wanzhi got up and began to polish the two foreign guns, carefully cleaned the barrels, loaded gunpowder, poured gun sand, sealed the mouth with kraft paper and lightly pressed it with a drill, and loaded the gun on the dog's head. hat, and then put it on the side of the Kang.

Zhang Wanli found an empty noodle pocket, filled half a bag of corn, wrapped a few pieces of pickles, put some meat oil in it, took out a little meat that was frozen outside, thought about it, and cut off a third of it with a knife. , and put it in the hanging basket of Westinghouse.

When it was dark in the afternoon, Zhang Wanli let Liu Zhaofeng and Liu Jinrong have dinner, and asked Zhang Jingyi to take them to the West House Kang, and closed the door behind them.

Then he cleaned the pot to light the fire again, made a pot of rice, stewed a pot of sauerkraut again, boiled a pot of wine, and brought them into the house and put them on the kang table.

When it was getting dark, there was a noise outside, someone talking, and a horse neighing.After a while, people entered the yard.

There were three people who came, wearing dog fur hats and cotton coats, with stubble beards.

Zhang Wanli stood at the door of the room and said, "Here you come? Come in and have something hot."

The three of them were not polite, they entered the house and put the golden sword on the kang, poured wine and began to eat.

Zhang Wanzhi was sitting in the Beikang with his foreign gun in his arms.

Zhang Wanli sat on the edge of the kang and accompanied the three men: "The recession is bad now, the fields are short of crops this year, and every family doesn't have enough to eat, and they all owe food for the team. There is nothing good at home, just fooling around like this.

The men gathered together to eat enough, and at least took some back when they were done, so as not to make an empty trip.Now the family is not as usual. With women and children, the adults can make do with it, and the children have to grow up. The men need to take care of it. "

He squinted at Zhang Wanli with his head, glanced at Zhang Wanzhi who was sitting on the North Kang holding a foreign gun, blinked his eyes and thought for a while, nodded, and took a drink with his head raised.

(End of this chapter)