Reborn in the fiery age, I am a salted fish in the mountains

Chapter 246 A stranger recruits Di Pandi

Han Xiaokang followed the two sisters Zhao Di and Pandi to their home at the far end of the village with the worst terrain.

These two sisters are very diligent.

As soon as they entered the house, the two sisters first washed their hands with firewood ash and then cleaned them.

Then sister Zhaodi was busy collecting firewood and preparing to light a fire for cooking.

The younger sister, Pandi, scooped out a small bowl of rice from the clay rice jar and soaked it in water. Then she squatted down and was busy scraping cassava and pounding corn kernels.

It seems that this family is really too poor!

Not only was he poor, he was also very busy.

Because of the lack of male labor at home, they didn’t even have pre-ground cornmeal at home.

Every day, when it's time to cook, I will pound a handful of corn kernels and add them to the rice to cook together.

The two sisters are busy at work.

There was a voice from the corner, "Sister, I want to go to the ancestral hall to help."

until this time,

Following the two sisters into the house, Han Xiaokang, whose eyes had not yet adapted to the light in the house, discovered that the dark room was filled with a mess of rotten cotton and no quilt.

There was a little boy sleeping!

I saw that he didn't have a decent piece of cloth to cover his body, and he only had a pair of pants hanging around his waist that he had worn for who knows how many years.

It was similar to the clothes worn by his two sisters. The fabric had been worn as thin as cicada wings, and the grooves inside were faintly visible.

The eldest sister Zhaodi smiled softly and said, "Zhuzai, you want to watch the fun, right? You are still young and are not qualified to enter the ancestral hall, and you can't lift things. How can you help if you go?"

There is a rule here, unless it is a major festival, and special permission from the clan leader is required.

Otherwise, young girls and half-grown men usually cannot enter the ancestral hall easily.

Therefore, when the two sisters Zhaodi and Pandi were helping there, they could only stay in the small room next to the ancestral hall.

When Pandi heard her brother's words, she put down what she was doing, then took out two nickels from the crack in the wall and handed them to the little boy named "La Zhu".
"Go on, go to Grandpa's consignment store and buy 5 cents of soap. Grandma will be able to take a bath soon."

With the help of the faint firelight from the fire hall on the ground, Han Xiaokang could see clearly: the nickel that Pandi handed to her brother just now included a 5-cent coin and two 2-cent coins.

"Sister, where are the extra 2 cents?" Obviously, the little boy rarely gets the luxury of taking money to buy things in a consignment store.

I saw him wiping the nickel again and again, looking at his second sister longingly and asking, "Can I use it to buy Ma Candy?"

"It's just for you to buy candies!"

Pandi smiled softly and said, "We have guests at home tonight. Zhuzai is good. After a while, you brought the soap back and went to play with Niuniu and the others near the ancestral hall.

In the evening, you go to their house and squeeze in. Remember, you have to give someone a piece of sesame candy! "

"smell good"

The braised pig head meat wrapped in lotus leaves in Han Xiaokang's hand exuded a burst of fragrance, and the little boy's nose twitched.

There was a 'gudong' sound in his throat, "Sister, do you have any meat to eat?"

The eldest brother Zhao Di glared, "Talk too much. Go ahead, buy the things and bring them back as soon as possible, and then go to the ancestral hall to play. Remember, don't make trouble! Grandpa and the others are in a bad mood today, so be careful to deal with you!"

"Oh!"

The little boy reluctantly glanced at the lotus leaf bag in Han Xiaokang's hand, and then prepared to go out dejectedly.

"and many more."

Han Xiaokang stopped him, "Here, you go to the agency store and buy a piece of soap, a piece of soap, and bring back a pound of foreign oil. You can spend the rest of the money as you like."

"Spend it with me?" The little boy took the money, his big eyes shining with joy, "Seriously?"

Han Xiaokang smiled, "Of course, you can spend it however you like."

When the little boy turned around, he was about to jump out of the threshold in excitement.

Sister Zhaodi's expression turned serious, "Zhuzai! Remember what dad said when he left, don't masturbate to anyone! I'm familiar with people and treat me sweetly. Do you still remember?"

The little boy was shocked!
The excitement and joy that I had felt just now suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a bit of helplessness and loss.

"Go ahead and spend whatever you want. I have to stay and eat at your house today, so just treat it as the food and lodging I gave you. Now that these two dollars belong to your family, of course you have the freedom to use them."

When commune cadres go to the countryside or stay with commune members, the production team usually makes arrangements, which is called "distributing meals."

Han Xiaokang was not a cadre, but he had to pay for food and lodging at someone else's house tonight, but he couldn't ask for a meal.

Then we have to say it is "the allocated room and board expenses".

When the little boy heard this, he became energetic again, but he didn't dare to make any decisions. He had to stand by the threshold and turned to look at his eldest sister.

Zhao Di sighed slightly, "Since this big brother has already said it, you can go ahead, Zhuzai. After buying something, bring it back as soon as possible. Sister will need to take a shower later."

"Okay!" La Zhu responded happily and jumped up and down with bare feet.

Looking at the skinny little boy's overjoyed back, Han Xiaokang couldn't help but sigh.

In this period, there is no poorest, only poorer.

I originally thought that it would be hard enough for me to travel to the poor Bashu region, but I never imagined that there were actually such poor families in this coastal area.
Just now, Han Xiaokang really couldn't bear to see the little boy looking so lonely, so he said that.

A bar of soap sells for 4 cents.

And Pandi took out the nickels and asked her brother to go to the agency store to buy 5 cents of soap. As you can imagine, the person in charge of the agency store used a thin string to cut off 10/1 of the soap from the whole bar. .

How much can that be?
I'm afraid it's enough to even wash the back, let alone the larger front area?
And because the two sisters, Zhaodi and Pandi, were in the room next to the ancestral hall just now, helping to treat the wounded and bandage their wounds.

At this time, the little floral clothes they were wearing were already stained with blood and extremely smelly.

In addition, at noon, they went to catch fish and shrimp in the sea, and their bodies were covered with salt.

Later, he was busy treating the wounded and broke out in a sweat.

Now the two sisters smelled of blood, sea, fish and shrimp all mixed together, which was really unpleasant.

That smell hit Han Xiaokang's head when he followed the two sisters to their home!
Maybe I've been around abalone for a long time and don't feel the smell.

Maybe the two sisters didn't think there was anything bad about the smell on their bodies, but in Han Xiaokang's nostrils, it was extremely fishy and vaguely nauseating.

But as soon as the two sisters got home, they were so busy cooking that they didn't even bother to take a shower.

As a foreigner from afar, what could Han Xiaokang say?
Now since the other party talks about going to buy soap and come back to take a shower.

Therefore, Han Xiaokang would rather shed some blood and pay Zhuzai to buy an extra piece of soap, rather than continue to endure the torture of this fishy smell.
Money!That's a bastard. If you lose it, you can make more money.

Although these two girls in front of me are very thin, they look very pleasing to the eye, paired with a stinky smell?

That would be a waste of resources.So much so that Han Xiaokang felt that it would be a sin if he didn't spend some money to let them clean up.
The two sisters continued to work with the dim light in the fire pit, while Han Xiaokang, who couldn't stand the smell in the room, stood outside the door to get some air.

It didn't take a while.

The multi-grain rice in the house was already burning on the fire, and there was a faint smell of rice coming out.

At this time, Zhuzai also came back with a piece of soap, a piece of soap, and a glass oil bottle in the other hand.

"Sister, Sister Xiaoting from the consignment store said that you have to free up the foreign oil bottles. She still needs them in the consignment store!"

Pandi came out and took the things, "It's Xiao's. I'll return it to her tomorrow. Zhuzai can go play. Tonight you go to Niuniu's house and Dandan's house to squeeze in. Don't come back."

"Yeah." Zhuzai responded, turned around and ran away again.

Tonight's meal is made of cassava, corn kernels, and a little yellowed brown rice.

Saying it is gruel is not gruel, saying it is dry rice is not dry rice.

The rice was already simmering in the pot, Pandi was busy cooking, while Zhaodi took the fragrant new soap and went to take a shower in the open space behind the house.

Now that there is kerosene at home, the dim kerosene lamp lights up.

The lights were dim.

But because the kerosene lamp was placed on the side of Pandi.

The faint light shines through the thin floral shirt on her body, and the shape of the good things inside is seen from Han Xiaokang's angle. It is really impossible not to make people think about it and find it difficult to control themselves.

so perfect
To be honest, she is much softer than the third sister-in-law, but I don’t know how many times stronger she is.

By the time Pandi had cooked a pot of sour bamboo shoots and dried fish soup, Zhaodi had already cleaned herself up and came back wet.

She didn't stop for a moment, and immediately took over Pandi's position, getting ready to fry some shepherd's purse.

Pandi, on the other hand, took off the tattered short apron that was absolutely riddled with holes around her waist, and went to the back of the house to wash herself.

At this moment, the scenery in Han Xiaokang's eyes changed from the round horseshoes to the short and thick bamboo shoots that had just emerged.

It's really giving me a bit of a cold and a runny nose.
This time, after being bumpy on the road for a long time, Han Xiaokang was already a little hungry. Unfortunately, now, even the talkative Zhou Min was not around him.

It's really frustrating.

Zhaodi was busy cooking, taking the stewed rice off the rope hook above the fire pit.

Then find a small iron pot the size of a palm, hang the ears of the iron pot on the hook, and start preparing for cooking.

This made Han Xiaokang very curious:

Generally, if a fire pit is used for cooking, an iron shelf will be set up above the fire pit. Whether it is boiling water or cooking, it is all done on the iron shelf.

But how could Zhaodi use hemp rope and two small iron hooks to complete this series of operations?
Aren't they afraid that the hemp rope will be burned by the flames, or that the center of gravity of the two iron hooks will be unstable, causing the small iron pot to tip over, and end up being a mess?

I heard Han Xiaokang ask.

Zhaodi smiled and said, "There's no way, there are indicators everywhere now, and our production team here doesn't have iron ore, so..."

The other party didn't explain it very clearly, but Han Xiaokang understood: This is the seaside, how can there be minerals like iron ore?

In order to achieve the above targets, the members of the production team had no choice but to smash the pot and make the iron out.
"Where are your parents? Are they helping at the ancestral hall?" It was late at night. Han Xiaokang looked left and right, but he didn't see the adults from the Zhaodi family coming back, so he asked one more question out of boredom.

"I do not know."

Zhaodi paused with the kitchen knife in her hand, and then returned to normal, "My mother died in the deep mountains and old forests of Tiaowo. My father said that he took my aunt out to find a solution, but after leaving, she never came back."

Flirting with the country?
Han Xiaokang was surprised, "So, your family was not originally a resident here?"

Zhaodi nodded, "My family escaped from the X-Men. We, three siblings, have settled here for less than a year."

Hearing this, Han Xiaokang suddenly realized: No wonder the two sisters Zhaodi and Pandi, if you look carefully, their appearance is still different from the people here.

Not only are the people thinner, but their foreheads are also slightly higher.

What is even more valuable is that an indomitable spirit can be seen in them.

Even in the face of such an embarrassing situation, through this contact, Han Xiaokang never heard the two sisters complain about anything.

Instead, he has been working diligently there.

From time to time, the two sisters would show a smile from the bottom of their hearts. I don’t know what they have to be happy about.

If it were a girl from an inland area, her family would be ruined, her father and aunt are missing, and she would have half-full meals every day.

The family is very poor, and because of the lack of strong labor force, they cannot earn many work points; perhaps, they have to be bullied or even harassed by others every day.

Others may have been overwhelmed by life and no longer have a smile on their face.

But Zhaodi and Pandi did not.

It seems that in their eyes, life is just like this, and they have to suffer through it.
Chat with Zhaodi, who is good-natured and gentle, like a monk who lives aloof from the world.

By this time, Pandi had finished washing, so she started eating.

To be honest, Han Xiaokang couldn't eat tonight's meal.

Neither dry nor thin, the grain is neither coarse nor refined, and the food tastes weird beyond words.

But the two sisters ate very well.

It's just that they didn't touch the bowl of braised pork head very much. They just pushed it to Han Xiaokang, meaning that Han Xiaokang, a man, could eat more.

It seemed as if Han Xiaokang was giving the two sisters Zhaodi and Pandi a great gift by letting them eat at the same table with him.
He is so able to endure humiliation and burden!
By the time he finished eating, Han Xiaokang, who had been on the road for more than 10 days, was already very sleepy.

When it was time to go to bed, I found that except for the room in the main room that served as both a kitchen and a bedroom.

Zhao Di's house actually doesn't have a second room!
How to do this?
While Zhaodi was washing the dishes, she said softly, "Comrade Han, you should go to bed early. This is the condition of my family. I hope you won't dislike it."

Pandi was busy sweeping the floor, "Sister, we can leave here with Comrade Han tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest. What are we afraid of?"

Follow yourself out of here?

This guy from Pandi really confused Han Xiaokang: What does this mean?
I came here to buy kelp, not to get a wife, so how could I take them with me?

Besides, there is no such thing as buy one, get one free.

I really couldn't figure it out, but Pandi had already brought the hot foot-washing water to Han Xiaokang in a wooden basin.

Then I have to wash my feet and go to bed quickly.

Unexpectedly, Pandi even washed her feet, and Han Xiaokang didn't have to do it himself.

After washing his feet, Zhaodi carefully brought over a towel made of burlap and dried Han Xiaokang's water very carefully.

Then he gently helped Han Xiaokang to sleep.

(End of this chapter)