Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 269 Back to Mother's Home

In the Northeast, the summer vacation is short and the winter vacation is long.Generally, the final exam is in the first ten days of July, and then there is a holiday, and the school starts around NO.20 in August.

The summer vacation is about 45 days to [-] days, and the winter vacation is usually two months.

Qianchuan Forest Farm Primary and Secondary School is a forest farm school. It doesn't pay much attention to cultural education, and there are not enough classrooms for students to take single-table exams.

Therefore, the first, second, and third grades have exams in advance, and after that, there are junior high school exams for fourth and fifth grades.

There are few courses in elementary school, and only mathematics and Chinese are tested at the end of the semester. On the [-]th, Chinese is tested in the morning and mathematics in the afternoon. After the test, students can herd sheep.

Zhou Qinglan is the head teacher, and she teaches mathematics and Chinese. After one subject in the morning, she will approve the Chinese papers when invigilating the exam in the afternoon.

After finishing the math test in the afternoon, Zhou Qinglan took the papers home to be graded.

Sheng Xi'an, who was an idler at home, became an honorable marking teacher and helped Zhou Qinglan mark the math papers.

With many helpers, the papers are graded very quickly. Before the evening, all the results of the two subjects will be out.

Then Sheng Xi'an helped Zhou Qinglan rank out the class list and memorize the homework for the summer vacation.

Sheng Xi'an helped Zhou Qinglan mark the papers and rank the rankings, while Sheng Xiping went to the upper reaches of the Qianchuan Dahe River to fish Liangzi.

In the early morning of the [-]th, Sheng Xiping and his brothers took Erlang Shen and other dogs up the mountain for a walk.

Not to mention, the harvest was really good. Two hares, three pheasants were caught, and a roe deer and a female sika deer were caught in the sling.

It's just an oil silk rope set, and there is nothing to gain. It seems that there are indeed fewer wild boars.

It would be nice to have these harvests, and Sheng Xiping was quite satisfied, so the two brothers went home with roe deer and sika deer, and pheasants and hares.

The dogs of Erlangshen ate the offal of roe deer and deer, and they were also quite beautiful, so they followed them home.

Back at the forest farm, it was around six o'clock, the deer and roe deer were thrown into the yard, and there was no time to take care of them, so Sheng Xiping and his brothers hurried to Dahe to catch Yu Liangzi.

Sheng Xiping hadn't come to fish Liangzi for a long time, so this time the harvest was quite good, a thin scale weighing about two catties, and a few river carp.

There are quite a few palm-sized crucian carp melon seeds, and most of the rest are miscellaneous fish such as willow root seeds, gaya seeds, and white tickets.

The two brothers picked the big one and kept it, and put the young one back into the river.

A few big fish were carried with wicker sticks through their gills, and the miscellaneous fish were put in buckets, and then the fish Liangzi was removed, and they walked home quickly.

When I got home, I didn't care about eating, so I skinned the roe deer and deer and divided the meat before going into the house to eat.After eating, the two quickly packed their things.

"You take these dishes with you, don't care about the high or low, we have them at home, so we don't have to go out and buy them."

Zhang Shuzhen picked more than a dozen cucumbers with prickly tops from the vegetable garden in the morning, and gathered chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, spinach, cabbage, and water radish.

They were all picked and cleaned, wrapped in white cloth, and put in the back basket.

"There are also these eggs, which I saved a while ago, and you carry them too."

After the dishes were packed, Zhang Shuzhen brought over a small round basket with thirty eggs in it.

The eggs are covered with finely broken and soft shavings, layer by layer, so as to reduce vibration and prevent the eggs from being crushed.

"Oh, Mom, you don't need to take these. Xiping has prepared a lot of things, and if you put them on, Xiping won't be able to carry them on his back."

Zhou Qinglan took a look, this is to vacate the house, is this okay?
"It's okay, Xiping is so big, can he still not be able to carry these things?
We still have eggs at home. After a while, Mom will save eggs for confinement. Don't worry, you can keep some to eat. "

Zhang Shuzhen didn't care about that, she just stuffed everything into the back basket, and Sheng Xiping had to carry it.

"Mom, you, it's better not to worry about this, it's serious to give me that bear bile.

By the way, there are deer antlers, I will sell them all along the way when I go down this time. "

Sheng Xiping was busy filling the basket with deer blood wine and deer antler blood wine.

This time it took a long time to go down, and Zhao Yongsheng had to go and walk around anyway, if he couldn't do anything else, whoever gave this thing, he had to happily follow it.

The bear gall that Sheng Xiping was talking about was the gall of the brown bear they shot during spring hunting.

I've been busy before and didn't have time to go to Songjianghe, so this time I have the opportunity, let's sell it together.

It also saves people from worrying about it all the time, thinking that Sheng Xiping wants to take it all to himself.

"Oh, yes, this is an urgent matter, just wait, I'll take it right away.

By the way, just take these, where is the deer whip? "As soon as Zhang Shuzhen heard this, she immediately turned around to look for something.

"If you don't want to take the deer whip, let's keep it for now. Who might want to use it, and I haven't bought it anywhere yet after selling it."

The deer whip from last time was really bought by Lao Xiao later. It is said that Lao Xiao took it and mixed a lot of medicinal materials and made wine.

As for the effect, I don't know. I will know when I go to work in the mountains in winter and listen to those people bragging and grinning.

Zhang Shuzhen hurried back to the east room, took out the bear bile and velvet antler, and handed them to Sheng Xiping to hold them carefully.

"It's thanks to the fact that we sold Niu Mao Guang a few days ago, otherwise, you really wouldn't be able to carry so many things on your back."

But what?The back basket contained two fish, a rabbit, two pheasants, the back half of a deer and roe deer, in addition to these vegetables, plus several bottles of wine, the back basket was full.

This season Niu Mao Guang has been around for twenty days, and the three masters of the Sheng family can bring back a lot of fresh vegetables every day.

When it is scalded and dried in the sun, it can make more than ten catties when it is good, and six or seven catties when it is bad.

Excluding the few days of heavy rain in the middle, I was unable to go up the mountain. This season, a total of [-] catties of dry goods were dried out.

Niu Maoguang belongs to the second-class export materials, which are exclusively owned by the state. The county souvenir company entrusts stores in various places to collect them. There is no difference in price, so it is the same wherever it is sold.

Two days ago, Sheng Liancheng sent all the cattle and hair in the family to the forest farm for collection.

This year, the purchase price of Niu Mao Guang has risen again, more than five yuan per catty. For this crop of Niu Mao Guang alone, the Sheng family can draw more than 1000 yuan, which is almost catching up with Sheng Liancheng's annual salary.

Of course, this is not only the money earned by the three of Sheng Liancheng, it is almost the money earned by the entire Sheng family. Even people like Sheng Xitai mobilized to work to achieve such results.

How else to put it, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water.

The forest farm guards a treasure house, as long as people are not lazy and willing to work, they can really make money.

Speaking of which, the only shortcoming of the forest farm is that the transportation is inconvenient, and good things cannot be transported.

Otherwise, this is a picturesque place surrounded by mountains and rivers, and you can still earn money. It is definitely a good place.

Zhang Shuzhen helped her son and daughter-in-law to tidy up everything.

Sheng Xiping carried a large basket on his back, Zhou Qinglan carried an egg basket in his hand, and a pocket on his back, where they kept their change of clothes, as well as bear bile, deer antler and so on.

The couple went out like this and went straight to the small train station.

On the way, I met Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo, both of whom traveled lightly.

Seeing that Sheng Xiping and his wife brought so many things, Wang Jianshe quickly took the egg basket from Zhou Qinglan's hand and made fun of them.

"Hey, Xiping, you are really going back to your mother's house, I'm afraid you may not bring enough things."

Together with Wang Jianshe and the others, Sheng Xiping and his wife got on the small train and went straight to Songjiang River.

At around 10:30, the little train arrived at the Forest Railway Station, and everyone got off the train and went straight to the street.

The people who come to the training this time will be arranged by the bureau in a unified way.

In the guest house of the Forestry Bureau, which is the location of the Pine Forest Hotel in later generations.

The three-story building of the guest house of the Forestry Bureau was originally built for Soviet Russian experts, but later the experts withdrew and became a guest house.

The accommodation and food conditions here are the best. Those who come to study from various forest farms can live in the guest house with a letter of introduction from the forest farm.

Sheng Xiping can stay at Zhou's house, but according to the rules, he has to report to the guest house.

Of course, after the check-in procedure has been completed, you can stay at will.

The guest house began to take care of food and lodging from the evening of the [-]th, and Sheng Xiping and the others came early, so they definitely couldn't eat at the guest house at noon.

Besides, Sheng Xiping and his wife still carry so many things, and they can't carry them to the guest house.

Yesterday Zhou Qinglan called Songjianghe, and Wang Chunxiu made a special trip with someone, and is waiting for her daughter and uncle at home today.

So the group got out of the car and went to Zhou's house first.

On the way, Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo also went to buy some things. They went to visit people's houses. It's not good to empty-handed. It's a matter of thought.

"Mom, we're back." Zhou Qinglan shouted as soon as she entered Zhou's yard.

"Are you back? Oh, Xiao Wang and Xiao Chen are here too? Come on, hurry up and sit in the room.

Your uncle should be off work soon. I'm cooking. We'll have dinner later. "

Wang Chunxiu came out of the house with a shovel in his hand, and greeted Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo to enter the house with a smile.

Sheng Xiping smiled and greeted his mother-in-law.

"Mom. We came to the bureau to study. It happened that Qinglan was on vacation. Come back with me and let her stay at home for a few more days to accompany you and Dad."

"Hey, hey, okay, that's great. Xiping, mom is cooking here, so please greet your friends for mom first."

My uncle, just like his son, is not an outsider.

So Wang Chunxiu greeted Wang Jianshe and the others just now, and now asked Sheng Xiping to entertain the guests.

It's not that Wang Chunxiu is neglecting my uncle, on the contrary, Wang Chunxiu doesn't treat my uncle as an outsider, so there is no need for her own family to be so polite.

Sheng Xiping naturally understood, so he entered the house with a smile, put the back basket on the ground, then dug out the things they brought from home one by one, and took them to the kitchen in the outhouse.

"Mom, my mother specially picked these from the vegetable garden this morning, and they are all home-grown vegetables.

These are the pheasants and rabbits I caught in the woods, as well as deer, roe deer and so on. Bring some for you and my dad to keep for food. "

These things are so fresh that they can't be held back. They were covered all the way on the train, so they had to be taken out to dry quickly, so as not to break.

"Oh, look, you'll be fine when you come back, what are you doing with so many things? Carrying them all the way, how heavy they are."

Wang Chunxiu took out the vegetables in the pot, and when she turned around, she saw that her uncle had dumped a lot of things.

"There are so many, oops, then don't stay here all the time. In the afternoon, take something and go to Secretary Zhao's."

What Wang Chunxiu meant was that Zhao Yongsheng is now the leader of the bureau. Since Sheng Xiping and the Zhao family can talk, this relationship cannot be broken.

In future recruitment, even if the forestry farm is nominated, it will be decided by the bureau leaders in the end, and it will not be a disadvantage to build a good relationship with the bureau leaders.

"Well, then I'll go there next afternoon. Thank you mom for reminding me."

Sheng Xiping originally intended to go there, but now that Wang Chunxiu mentioned it, he agreed to go along with the flow, and he seemed close.

Sure enough, Wang Chunxiu became even happier when she heard Sheng Xiping agreed.

"Oh, this cucumber is really rare. It just so happens that I was given some pig's mouth grinder the day before yesterday, and I washed it clean. I will pat two cucumbers and mix it in."

In fact, Wang Chunxiu got up early to buy vegetables, and there were cucumbers, but Sheng Xiping memorized them all the way, and he couldn't let down the good wishes of his uncle's family.

So Wang Chunxiu immediately picked out some cucumbers and some vegetables, and hurriedly added some more vegetables.

"Mom, let me help you. I can do cooking and so on."

Sheng Xiping saw that the mother-in-law seemed to be planning to add a few more dishes, and his daughter-in-law was pregnant and couldn't smell the oily smoke, so he quickly came forward to help.

"Oh, no need, I can do it myself.

Look at how carefully your mother works. All the vegetables are picked out and washed. I just chop and stir-fry casually. "

There is no reason to let my son-in-law come to the door and cook vegetables by myself.

"Go into the house quickly and talk with Xiao Wang and the others. Just these few dishes will be ready in a while."

Sheng Xiping saw that there was indeed nothing he could do, so he went into the room and talked with Wang Jianshe and the others.

Zhou Qinglan poured water for everyone, and then came out of the east room, wanting to chat with her mother for a while.

But the outside room was cooking, and she felt like throwing up when she smelled the oily smoke. She had no choice but to go to the yard to get some air, and stand in the yard to talk to her mother.

"Why do you react so strongly when I see you, you can't even smell the cooking, so what do you do with your meal? Can you eat it?"

When Wang Chunxiu was busy cooking, she glanced at her daughter, seeing that her complexion was okay, and she didn't see much weight, so she felt relieved.

"I can't eat it, the oily water in the stir-fry is disgusting, and I feel like throwing up when I see fat.

My mother-in-law was completely out of control, so she used venison to cook meatballs, make dumplings, and steamed buns for me.

I can eat these without throwing up, but I can't cook them. "

The deer brought back by Sheng Xiping last time, Zhang Shuzhen saw that her daughter-in-law could eat it, so she made it differently.

But it's just weird, Zhou Qinglan can drink meatball soup, but can't eat fried venison or braised venison.

In the end, Zhang Shuzhen gave her daughter-in-law boiled meatballs, made dumplings, and steamed buns when she had no choice.

Most of the venison was reserved for Zhou Qinglan to eat, and the venison was very nourishing, so Zhou Qinglan looked good recently.

"You, I don't know which prince or young master you are pregnant with, so hypocritical.

You owe it to the good mother-in-law at the stall, and Xiping loves you too. If it were an ordinary family, who cares what you eat or not?

You have to eat whatever you do, and you will be hungry if you don’t eat. "

Wang Chunxiu loves her daughter dearly, but she is not forgiving.

Of course, what she said was also true. As far as this year is concerned, I have never heard of anyone who is pregnant and prescribes a small treatment alone.

It's all about what the family has to eat, where is it the daughter-in-law's turn to pick and choose?

Being told by her mother, Zhou Qinglan was not annoyed, she just laughed.

"That's right. My mother-in-law treats me very well. She never calls her daughter-in-law. She always calls me a girl."

Speaking of this, Zhou Qinglan was also full of gratitude. The Sheng family really had nothing to say to her.

Not only did she pay attention after pregnancy, but even before pregnancy, she never neglected her. It was indeed her blessing to marry into such a family.

"That's good. As long as your in-law's family treats you well, your father and I will be at ease."

Wang Chunxiu nodded when she heard this. The couple were not at ease when their daughter married far away from home.

While the two mothers were talking, Wang Chunxiu cooked a few more dishes. It happened that Zhou Mingyuan was off work, Zhou Qingyue was out of school, and the father and father arrived home.

When Zhou Mingyuan met my uncle and his friends, he was naturally very cordial. He chatted with Sheng Xiping and the others about the training.

Zhou Qingyue saw pheasant and hare, and roe deer and venison, so he became interested.

"When I graduate from high school next year, I guess I have to go to the mountains and the countryside. At that time, Mom, you can find a way to arrange me to go to Qianchuan, and let my brother-in-law take me into the mountains to hunt."

This kid is actually interested in hunting and wants to go hunting with Sheng Xiping.

"You're just dreaming.

Our eldest brother is in the army, and I am an educated youth in the forest farm. Why can't we leave someone to take care of our parents?

You go to the forest farm, what are you doing in the forest farm?You are still hunting with your brother-in-law. With just these two moves, you can't go into the Ma Da Mountain?

But don't, you'd better stay in the town and take over from my dad in two years. "

Zhou Qinglan heard it and snorted, if this kid goes to the forest farm, he will probably go crazy with Sheng Xikang and others.

But don't, stay at home, anyway, Zhou Qingyue fits the exempt policy.

"Mom, listen to my sister, how can I be so stupid?"

Zhou Qingyue was complained about by her sister, feeling a little embarrassed, immediately became unhappy, and turned to complain to her mother.

"Hehe." What could Wang Chunxiu say?
She also felt that it was not a good idea for her son to go up the mountain to the forest farm, and it would definitely cause trouble for the Sheng family.

It's better to stay at home and become an apprentice in a machine repair shop in a year or two. With Zhou Mingyuan around, he can recruit workers in a few years.

It's just that it's not easy to explain directly, so Wang Chunxiu could only laugh and not answer his son's question.

Zhou Qingyue is not stupid either, from his mother's attitude, can't you tell what it means?I felt quite disappointed at the time.

"Sister, how long can my brother-in-law live in Songjianghe for this training?
I will be on vacation in a few days, and there is nothing interesting in the town. I want to go back to the forest farm with you and play for a few days. "

"Your brother-in-law has to train and study for half a month. I want to stay at home for a few more days. When I have time, I will ask a few teachers for advice on courses.

If I go back to the forest farm early, you can come with me. "

Just now Zhou Qinglan's outspokenness directly shattered his younger brother's dream of going to the mountains to become an educated youth. Now it is difficult to refuse his younger brother's request to go to the forest farm.

It's only three or five days, so just go and play.

Otherwise, Sheng Xiping was studying and training in the bureau, and no one would send Zhou Qinglan back, so both sides probably wouldn't be at ease.

"However, there is a condition that your final exam results should not be too bad.

If your grades are too ugly, just stay at home honestly, I won't take you out to embarrass yourself. "

Zhou Qinglan saw his younger brother almost jumped up in joy, so he deliberately poured another ladle of cold water on him.

"Sister, if you don't take someone like you, don't you know what my grades are like?

It's almost enough, it's enough for you and your eldest brother to study well in our family, as long as I don't count down, it will be considered as not embarrassing my dad. "

Originally, Zhou Qingyue was very happy to hear that his sister agreed to take him to the Qianchuan Forest Farm, but his sister, a wicked fellow, came up with another condition.

Academic performance?What are you kidding?It's not embarrassing enough to say his grades.

The final exam is coming soon, what should I do?In order to be able to play with my sister, I can only hold my feet temporarily and fight hard.

"How can we do that? Our parents are intellectuals, but your grades are at the bottom of the class. Isn't that an embarrassment to our parents?

It's up to you, as long as your grades are acceptable, I'll take you back to live in the forest farm.

There are many interesting things in the forest farm. Your brother-in-law knows how to catch many fish, and you can think about it yourself. "Zhou Qinglan deliberately made it difficult for her younger brother.

On one side the siblings bickered, but on the other side Wang Chunxiu didn't even bother to respond.

Before Zhou Qinglan went to the forest farm to become an educated youth, this kind of situation happened every day at home, and Wang Chunxiu was no stranger to it.

The youngest son of his family is very smart, but he is lazy and doesn't want to study at all.

They all shout that reading is useless, but Wang Chunxiu understands that no matter what age, reading is very useful.

"Okay, quickly serve the food and clear the table, let's eat." After all the food was ready, Wang Chunxiu yelled at her daughter and son.

So the siblings set up the table and put the dishes on it to clear away. Zhou Mingyuan found two bottles of wine on the other end, and insisted on drinking with Sheng Xiping and the others.

"Dad, we have to study in the bureau for half a month, we have plenty of time to drink.

We still have to report this afternoon. Just now, my mother told me to go and see Secretary Zhao.

Let's not drink at noon today, it's more important to do serious business. "

Sheng Xiping didn't have much interest in alcohol, and it didn't matter if he had a drink when it was necessary, and he would never be gluttonous in normal life.

The most important thing is that he has to go to the buying station to sell things in the afternoon, and he can't get drunk.

"Yes, yes, Uncle, we have something to do in the afternoon, another day, another day we come to the house and have a good drink with Uncle."

Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo also hurriedly echoed, what kind of wine to drink in this hot weather, just stop and have a meal.

Zhou Mingyuan is a man of culture, and he doesn't usually drink alcohol. It's just that there are guests at home, so he has to make a fuss.

Since Sheng Xiping and the others refused to drink, Zhou Mingyuan didn't insist.

"That's fine, let's not drink at noon, and we have things to do in the afternoon, so it's evening.

Ask your aunt to cook more good dishes tonight. In the afternoon, I will call Secretary Zhao and the teachers you trained this time over, and let's have a drink together. "

Zhou Mingyuan is not a nerd. At his age, how can he not understand how to behave in the world?

Since there is this condition and this opportunity, I must match up with my uncle.

After Zhou Mingyuan said that, Sheng Xiping couldn't refuse any more, so he nodded readily. "Okay, then everything will be arranged by Dad."

The three readily agreed, and Zhou Mingyuan was also very happy. Just as the food was served, Zhou Mingyuan hurriedly greeted his wife and children, and they all came to eat.

The lunch meal was quite rich. Apart from a few seasonal vegetables, there were also scrambled eggs, luncheon meat, pork head meat, peanuts, etc. It was obvious from a glance that Wang Chunxiu had spent a lot of money to buy them.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law warmly entertained them, and Sheng Xiping of course appreciated it. He ate and chatted with Zhou Mingyuan and his wife. The meal was very lively.

After lunch, Wang Chunxiu went to pack things and prepare the evening menu in advance.

Sheng Xiping planned to go to Zhao Yongsheng's place, so he took out two bottles of wine from his back basket, and gave Zhou Mingyuan a bottle as well.

"Dad, this is the stag blood wine we brewed ourselves. I will save a bottle for you to drink."

Deer blood wine, this is a good thing, most people know its efficacy.

When Zhou Mingyuan heard this, he grinned happily and quickly took the wine.

"Well, aren't you going to Secretary Zhao? Otherwise, you can take this bottle with him too."

Zhou Mingyuan said so, but he held the bottle tightly in his hand and refused to let go.

Sheng Xiping smiled, "Dad, this bottle is for you, I left two bottles with Secretary Zhao.

When I have the opportunity to hunt deer again in the future, I will save some for Dad. "

(End of this chapter)