Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 120
"Okay, we are not in a hurry, you can just slow down, and be careful not to cut yourself with the sickle in your hand." Zhao Feng also replied loudly, and then turned his head to introduce to Zhang Yu: "That is the son of Uncle Zhao's eldest son." Child, this year is nine years old."

They waited for the boy to finish cutting the pig grass and handed it over to the person in charge of feeding the pigs and cleaning the pigsty, and watched him put a check mark under the boy's name.

At this time, Zhang Yu knew his name was Zhao Fei. He saw that he had delivered the pigweed, returned the tools, and then ran towards them, "Uncle Feng, I packed it up. Let's go. We won't be able to fix it if it's too late." What a good thing."

Then he introduced them while walking: "Let me tell you, I am the most familiar with this mountain, and I know everything there. I also have a few secret bases, which are full of good things. I will wait a while." Take you to see."

Zhang Yu and the others followed Zhao Fei to stop and go, detouring the road from time to time, because the speed of the road was not fast, so Zhang Yu also enjoyed the scenery here. Spring came, and the mountains were covered with greenery. Withered yellow, suddenly Zhang Yu's eyes lit up, "Brother, look, Yuqian!"

Looking along Zhang Yu's fingers, a few huge elm trees in a hidden small valley are full of knots.

Because it is already the end of April in the lunar calendar, the elm money at the foot of the mountain has been exhausted, and I can't eat it for a long time, but when I ran into the small valley, I saw a few huge elm trees, and the beautiful elm money was hanging on the tree. On the branches, they swayed flamboyantly in the warm wind. "It's true, hurry up and pick more, and let mother steam it for us when we go back."

Zhang Yu thought that before he experienced this series of rebirths, when he was young, he was only a seven-year-old child. Although his parents didn't want him after they divorced, he was pampered by his sister-in-law alone, and he was at the age of crazy play , so often get into trouble.

At that time, I was bold and reckless, and whenever the elm coins were hung on the branches, I loved to hide from my sister-in-law and brothers, climb up the elm tree secretly, and pick elm coins to eat.

Elm coins are the seeds of the elm tree, with thin round edges and a bulge in the middle, resembling green round coins.

The elm money is emerald green in color and has a delicate smell. Each cluster has many petals of elm money tightly hugging each other, tender and sweet, with a slight mountain smell, stuffing it into the mouth, that taste.

Zhao Feng and the others looked at the strings of chubby elm coins hanging on the branches, and they couldn't stand anymore, regardless of the fact that they were adults, they rolled up their sleeves, climbed up the elm tree, and sat on the tree , Slipped off the elm money while it was tender, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed.

Then I broke off the small branches and threw them down. Those big branches cannot be moved. These small branches are fine after being broken, and more will come out next year.

Others picked it up below, and stuffed it into their mouths from time to time. Seeing Zhang Yu, he also picked up one from the ground, shook it, blew it, and put it in his mouth. It was tender and sweet.

"Uncle Feng, throw it at me, throw it at me." Zhao Fei yelled loudly from below holding a back beetle.

"Okay! You catch it!"

"Catch it, catch it."

"Second brother, throw it to me, throw it to me." Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoping also yelled at Zhao Lei who was on the tree.

"..."

In this way, the top was thrown quickly, and the bottom was also picked up quickly. After a while, the basket was full, "Big Brother, Second Brother, come down, the back is full."

"Come down now," said the elder brother, and he didn't forget to pull some more when he came down. Although they were in Beijing these days, because of the lack of vegetables and food, they often went to dig wild vegetables during their breaks. It is good to subsidize food.

Compared with those unpalatable wild vegetables with a bitter taste that cannot be removed, Yuqian is obviously more in line with their taste.

Now that they have gone up the mountain, they don't plan to go down so early. Now is the time when the harvest is scarce. There are not many potherb mustard, pickled radishes, and sauerkraut at home last year.

The family has been eating Wowotou for a long time, and there is always a lack of food in spring. If it is mixed with wild vegetables, the food is even more forbidden, so they took advantage of these two days of free time, and today they came across a good place, dug up a lot of shepherd's purse, and then On the way down the mountain, I found a clump of wolfberry, which had sprouted at this time.

They were very lucky. Although the clump of wolfberries was very close to the foot of the mountain, no one had picked it yet.Immediately, you are welcome, and put it in the basket after picking it.

Just stop and go, stop and go, what they will bring, the one that can hold things, is already full, and when they are about to enter the village, they even get two handfuls of grass to put on it.

After all, strictly speaking, their household registration is no longer in the village, so it is better to hide for a while, so as not to be jealous and cause trouble.

I met a villager on the road, "Xiaofei took his relatives up the mountain, yo, I see that there are quite a lot of things."

"Uncle Liu, I'll take Uncle Feng and the others up the mountain for a walk. They haven't been up the mountain for a long time." Then, as if thinking of something, he said loudly, "My grandfather asked me to take Uncle Feng and the others home for dinner earlier. I'll go first."

After speaking, he pulled Zhang Yu and the others away quickly, and stopped when there was no one there, and heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I didn't let them see, otherwise I would be jealous again."

And where they didn't see it, the group of villagers they met just now were also talking about them, "You said that the old Zhao family is really lucky. When he was going to raise that boy Zhao, many people in the village didn't like it. Said he was wasting his efforts, and in the end he has to take care of Zhao Xiaozi's marriage."

"That's right, who would have thought that boy Zhao would be prosperous now, not only settled in the capital, found a good job, but also married a good wife." Another villager said with envy, he regretted it now, he Now I wish that he was the one who proposed to raise Boy Zhao.

"That's right, that's right, now the old Zhao's family has taken over. You didn't see it, but a younger generation got married, and Mr. Zhao has rushed back. Most of the big and small bags are probably for the old Zhao's family. "

"That's right, I saw them carry a thermos yesterday, and it's probably for Old Zhao's family."

"That's not true. You said that boy Zhao is standing outside now, will he arrange work for the old Zhao's family?" One of the people who was talking suddenly lowered his voice, and then said.

"That's impossible. It's so hard to find a job now. You know the captain of the village next door. He spent more than 300 yuan to send his son to the factory. How can Boy Zhao be willing?"

"That's not certain. You see, in all these years, boy Zhao came here with a lot of things. Maybe he really got a job for the old Zhao family." The speaker was almost jealous. Jealous, why didn't this good thing come to him.

"That's right, why don't we have such good luck?"

(End of this chapter)