Rebirth begins with marrying an educated youth

Chapter 33 Grandma McWong
A butterfly with golden and black wings landed on the door frame, flapping its wings slightly.

There is a kind of elegant beauty, blowing against the face.

Ji Yuanhai carried the cloth bag containing the cicada monkey and sat next to Lu Heling on the threshold, looking at the big butterfly.

Lu Heling came back to her senses, and smiled with a bit of peace of mind.

"came back."

"Well, I'm back."

The two looked at the butterfly and didn't speak for a while.

"It's so pretty...why doesn't it fly away?" Lu Heling asked.

Ji Yuanhai shook his head and said that he didn't know either.

"When I went out, I saw a similar one..."

"It should be the same one, right? It's quite rare to see such a big butterfly with such wings," Lu Heling said.

"Really... If it's the same butterfly, I'm related to this butterfly."

Ji Yuanhai said, looking at the big butterfly still staying above the door frame, he felt quite relaxed and happy.

"go home?"

"Ah."

One person spoke and the other answered, got up and walked towards home.

"Yuan Hai, what are you carrying in your hand?" Lu Heling then noticed what Ji Yuan Hai was carrying.

Ji Yuanhai opened the bag to show her.

Seeing a group of ferocious shelled cicada monkeys inside the bag, Lu Heling was also surprised: "These are... cicada larvae? Why did you catch so many?"

She didn't make a big fuss, thinking that cicada monkeys can't be eaten; it's been a few years since she went to the countryside, and the educated youths have eaten most of the rural food, that is, she has never heard of the elm bark flour that Ji Yuanhai said.

It's just that Ji Yuanhai caught so many cicada monkeys.

Ji Yuanhai didn't hide it from her, and told about the fact that he took Liu Xianglan's daughter Wang Xiaohong to catch the cicada monkey.

Lu Heling nodded and said, "You really like children?"

"It's not that... I saw this child was bored, so I took her to play." Ji Yuanhai explained, "A few educated youths at the team headquarters looked down on Liu Xianglan and her daughter and thought they were noisy, so they said they had to study for exams and needed to Quiet."

"Wang Xiaohong didn't dare to run around and play, so she just sat there and watched her mother wash clothes."

Lu Heling was taken aback: "What did Cao Jianhong and the others do?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded.

"The registration for the college entrance examination has already passed. What do they study and what do they take?" Lu Heling was dissatisfied, "How can they lie to others? Their orphans and widows are pitiful enough!"

"I didn't realize before that Cao Jianhong and the others would still do this kind of thing."

"This is really a bit..."

"Okay, it's useless to think about them..." Ji Yuanhai didn't let Lu Heling continue, "It's the college entrance examination, do you want to take it next year?"

Lu Heling looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise: "Are you willing to let me take the exam?"

"I'm married to you now, if I go to take the college entrance examination again, will you feel... I'm restless?"

"Furthermore, grandparents, parents, and the like must not want to see me not participating in labor, but studying with books in their hands."

Ji Yuanhai smiled when he heard this: "You also think too much."

"You think I can't tolerate a female college student as a wife?"

Seeing his innocent smile, Lu Heling was moved for a moment.

How could there be such a considerate, supportive and understanding man in such a remote mountain village?The vision and mind he possesses are not something you would find in a place like the production team.

Fortunately, this man is already his lover.

"Yuan Hai, I..."

Before Lu Heling finished speaking, grandma walked out of the kitchen: "Yuan Hai, Heling, are you back?"

"Well, grandma, I'm back." Ji Yuanhai promised, "Grandma, I caught some cicada monkeys, you can see when you can eat them."

Grandma took the bag, and when she saw such a bunch of cicada monkeys, she immediately beamed with joy.

"Catch so many? That's good!"

"I'm going to wash it, put some in the vegetables today, pickle some with salt, and keep it for eating..."

Ji Yuan Haixin said that it tastes better when fried.

It's a pity that the conditions are limited now, and only a few drops of oil are used for cooking, or even not. If you want to use oil to fry cicada monkeys, maybe grandma will feel sorry for using too much oil.

After handing the Cicada Monkey to grandma, Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling went back to the Westinghouse.

For dinner, there is cicada monkey cooked together in the fried beans.

When Ji Yuanshan saw the cicada monkey, he immediately cheered: "Is there still meat to eat today? Who caught the cicada monkey?"

"Yuan Hai and He Ling caught it." Grandma said with a smile, "It must be more than two bowls. I also salted some of it, so we can keep it for our family to eat later."

"That's great!" Ji Yuanshan smiled at Ji Yuanhai, meaning he did a good job.

In recent days, there have been fish, meat, and cicada monkeys. The food has improved visibly to the naked eye.

My father and mother were also very surprised. My father said, "That's a lot of arrests."

Grandpa chewed a cicada monkey, and said with a smile: "Yuan Hai is capable, no wonder he got married earlier."

"I caught a lot of fish, and I also caught a lot of monkeys. From now on, I think my life won't be too bad. He won't be hungry when others are hungry."

When he said this, grandma also echoed, "I think this is also the case", and the whole family laughed.

After eating, Ji Yuanhai said: "There is a big butterfly parked in front of our house, did you see it? Did it fly away?"

As soon as the words fell, grandma stood up with a serious face: "What did you say?"

"How big a butterfly?"

Ji Yuanhai was surprised, but he still said, "It's as big as a palm..."

"I have to see it."

Grandma tiptoed, took the family's tin flashlight, and hurried to the gate of the courtyard.

After coming back, I couldn't hide my joy and whispered to my grandfather.

"I think it's Granny Maiwang!"

Grandpa also looked serious and nodded, but said or did nothing.

Ji Yuanhai, Lu Heling, and Jiyuan Mountain are all a little confused.

Including Ji Yuanhai, there is no such experience in memory. Why does this big butterfly have a "Grandma Maiwang"?

"What is Granny Maiwang?" Ji Yuanshan couldn't help asking.

Grandma made a serious face: "Don't ask too much! Don't say too much! No one in the production team will say a word!"

"Don't hit Grandma Maiwang!"

Ji Yuanshan immediately shrank his head and said no more.

Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling were so mysterious when they saw their grandparents, and their parents didn't say anything, so they couldn't ask any more questions.

After eating, they rested overnight without talking.

Early the next morning, grandma quietly went to the door and took a look, overjoyed.

"I haven't left yet!"

Ji Yuanhai couldn't help asking: "Grandma, are you talking about that butterfly?"

Grandma corrected him seriously: "That's Grandma Maiwang!"

Ji Yuanhai asked again, but grandma didn't say anything.

The whistle for the work of the production team was blown, and every household started to work.

The male laborers were led by the secretary and the team leader to get up all the soil and stones in the canal. With the drainage yesterday, the water in the canal had dropped a lot, and there was no danger in doing these tasks.

The women arranged to go to the ground to help the seedlings, and helped the fallen corn seedlings, bean seedlings, and cotton in the fields washed by the heavy rain as much as possible.

The day's work began again.

　This chapter is about some simple folk worship in some places in the north.

　　Granny Maiwang, Lord of Insects, etc... pray for a good harvest, peace, and no pests.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)