Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 135 Life in rural areas in the 60s

Seeing that Qin Huairu had brought so many good things, his sister-in-law Lin Pandi kept saying complimentary words to Qin Huairu, but Qin Huairu knew very well in her heart that these things were all superficial.

Her life in the courtyard was actually quite miserable.

There used to be a Silly Zhu who could suck his blood, but now there is nothing. As for Xu Damao, that guy's things are not like He Yuzhu's. You can take them casually. No matter what you take, you have to pay the due price.

"Sister, please stay longer when you come back this time. You don't know that your nieces and nephews all miss you." Lin Pandi looked at Qin Huairu with a smile and kept saying some scene-making remarks.

You must know that Chinese people like to talk about the situation most.

Especially at the wine table, there are endless "scene words".

These words are very pleasant to listen to, but don't take them too seriously, because most of these words are just to show politeness, and the speaker has no intention at all.

So as a listener, don’t take it too seriously. For example, we are all family members, so you can eat and drink as you please. But as a guest or a family member, you cannot “familiarize yourself” just because of this sentence.If you ask for delicacies from all over the world and open a bottle of Feitian Moutai, the person who is treating you will feel heartbroken and will break up with you before the next day.

If you have any questions in the future, come to me directly.

People who were not familiar with each other a second ago, as long as they gather at the same wine table and drink two glasses of wine, they will immediately become close friends and become good brothers.

We are all good brothers, so if you have any questions in the future, just come to me directly, you can just blurt it out casually.

People can say this, but you can't really do it.When you are tipsy, what you say will be [-]% false and [-]% true. Just listen to it. If you really need help from someone, there is a high probability that they will look confused and at a loss, and everyone will be embarrassed.

Lin Pandi's decision to stay for a longer period of time was just for show. She only said these words for the sake of Qin Huairu's gift. If Qin Huairu really believed it, he would be stupid.

"I can't stay for a few days!" Qin Huairu knew what the other party meant, so she quickly dismissed the other party's worries and said: "Our factory will start work soon, so I have to go back as soon as possible, and there are children and elderly people at home.

I came home this time just to see my mother and brother. By the way, I would like to ask, has my cousin Qin Jingru found a partner? "

"Jingru.?" Lin Pandi and Zhao Jinfeng looked at each other.

Then Zhao Jinfeng curled her lips and said, "No, that little girl is very ambitious. She has tried countless places but none of them are willing. I don't know what she thinks."

After saying that, Zhao Jinfeng let out a 'huh' sound and said, "You don't want to come here to be a matchmaker for that girl, do you?"

"Haha!" Qin Huairu smiled and nodded: "Mom, you are really right. I did have such an idea when I came here this time, because we have a nice young man there who is in his early twenties and has two houses at home. , and I work as a movie projectionist, with a monthly salary of 40 yuan, and I also have extra money. I thought that I would take the two of them to meet each other first. If both parties fell in love, then Jingru would be from the city. "

"Hiss!" As soon as these words came out, Lin Pandi and Zhao Jinfeng took a breath of air. No one expected that this incredible wealth would really fall on the head of this girl Qin Jingru.

Qin Jingru on the other side didn't know anything at this time. She was dressing her brother. After getting dressed, Qin Jingru had to chop firewood, wash clothes, cook, and boil water for the family.

After finishing these tasks, they still have to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, and when hunting wild vegetables, they still have to go to the fields to earn work points.

Someone asked, what to do with wild vegetables?
Of course I ate it.

Qin Jingru's family has a large population. Her parents include herself, two younger sisters and one younger brother. There are six people in the family. They need to consume a lot of food every day, but the family does not have so much food. In order to keep everyone from going hungry, they just You can add some wild vegetables to porridge and rice, which can not only satisfy your hunger, but also save food.

There are many edible wild vegetables, but they are also divided into delicious and not delicious.

If you are lucky, you can pick elm money, which is a relatively delicious wild vegetable. It is the samara of the elm money tree, which is the leaf part of the fruit of the elm money tree. It looks very similar to the leaves, but it tastes very delicious. , can be eaten both raw and cooked, and tastes sweet.

Just take a long bamboo pole and go to the elm tree to catch elm money (or climb the tree to pick it). After beating it, take it home and wash it, add flour directly, mix it with sesame oil and steam it directly to eat, or eat it with rice. Steaming seems very simple, but it tastes very delicious.

Yuqian can be used as a wild vegetable to satisfy hunger at that time. Not only the samara can be eaten, but its bark can also be eaten. After complicated steps such as cleaning and beating, the bark of elmqian can be made into elm bark powder, and then It can be processed into elm skin noodles or elm skin vermicelli.

However, although elm bark powder can be delicious, you should not eat too much, because eating too much can lead to constipation.

In addition to elm money, there is also sophora japonica. Compared with elm money, sophora japonica can be regarded as one of the rare wild vegetables to satisfy hunger in that era. This is not because there are few locust trees. On the contrary, in the countryside in the past, there were still many locust trees. The flowering period of Sophora japonica is short, and the general picking period is only about 7 days. If not picked in time, all the flowers will fall out in a few days, and you will not be able to eat them.

Therefore, in the past, whenever the locust tree bloomed, there would be a scene in the village. Every household would hold a big sack, one would climb up the locust tree to pick the spikes of locust flowers, and the other would load them under the tree, and then carry them home to remove the locust flowers from the flowers. Pull down the ears.

Like Yuqian, Sophora japonica is also an extremely delicious wild vegetable to satisfy your hunger. It is full of fragrance. Whether it is steamed, cooked with Sophora japonica rice, or cooked in soup, it has a refreshing fragrance and tastes delicious. Sweet and delicious.

Qin Jingru is the eldest sister in the family. When her parents go out to work, Qin Jingru will do the chores at home. You must know that Qin Jingru is a very spirited girl. The family wants to marry her off early. In this way, there will be one less person in the family. After eating, you can also get some betrothal gifts.But Qin Jingru refused to marry anyone from the village. As long as she knew he was a young man from the countryside, Qin Jingru refused them all without even thinking, which also gave Qin Jingru's parents a headache.

But Qin Jingru was not moved at all. What she wanted was very clear, that is, to marry a city man and eat commercial food, because she no longer wanted to eat wild vegetables and dough.

At about 14 o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Huairu started to look for Qin Jingru in the village, because she had just gone to Qin Jingru's home. The door of the house was open and no one was home. This is how it is in rural areas. You don't need to lock the door when you go out, because there is really no one at home. Nothing to lose.

Qin Huairu guessed where Qin Jingru was and slowly looked for it.

At this time, Qin Huairu had left the village for many years. Qin Huairu originally thought that the village would change, but after walking away, Qin Huairu discovered that the village really had not changed much.

Because it was summer, Qin Huairu saw a group of naked dolls, both boys and girls. Some people were surprised, what were they doing? Why weren't the children wearing clothes?
There was no way. At that time, because most farmers' families were very poor and had many children, they really couldn't afford to buy fabrics or sew clothes. Before going to school, almost all the children, whether they were boys or girls, had to wait for the weather to be a little warmer. They don't wear clothes and pants. The only clothes they have are reserved for winter when it gets cold. They usually wear bare trunks and buttocks and play together in groups of three or five, or play games or help adults do things. .

Of course. The little kids at that time were childhood sweethearts, so no one felt ashamed if they didn’t wear clothes, let alone mess around, they were very simple.

Qin Huairu sighed slightly, and two children, about six or seven years old, walked out beside him. The two children were carrying small baskets filled with pigweed.

This is a baby in the countryside. Starting from the age of four or five, he can help with household tasks, such as sweeping the floor, pumping the bellows, setting fires to cook, and washing sweet potatoes. When he gets a little older, he can feed pigs, go out to collect firewood, and collect pig grass. He can grind mills, grind rice, collect dog dung and cow dung to earn tuition fees.

Since Qin Huairu was six years old, every twelfth lunar month, after school, she would carry the banmao stalks distributed by the village, because this is one of the main firewood for cooking rice and pig food at home, so there is no room for carelessness.

However, it is very difficult to carry the banana stalks. First, the banana stalks are too long and heavy (wet), so it is difficult to carry them. If the wind blows, it will be even more difficult to carry. If you are not careful, you will be blown to the ground or fall. Into the river.

Second, the banana leaves have serrations on both sides and are covered with a lot of dust. In addition, they are bundled into scissors and forks and carried on the neck. Therefore, every time they are carried, there will be many stripes on the face, neck, and hands. If the bloody mouth is stained by sweat and dust, the wound will be itchy and painful, which is very uncomfortable.

At that time, the village distributed money and grain to each household based on work points.Qin Huairu's family has a large population and a small main labor force. The family earns few work points and does not receive much food. The household exceeds its expenditure every year.

In order to make money, Qin Huairu would pick up dog dung and cow dung and sell them to the village for fertilizer.

At that time, dog excrement cost one cent per catty and cow excrement cost two cents per catty.

In order to pick up more wild dung, except on rainy days and when she has to do other things, Qin Huairu has to carry a dung dustpan almost when she goes to school. She picks up dung from the fields along the way and outside the farmyard to school, and collects the dung into the dustpan after arriving at school. He put it in the bamboo forest outside the school and picked it up along the way home after school.

The village collects scales once a night and settles accounts once a quarter.Since there are many people picking up wild dung, you need to have bright eyes and run fast when picking up wild dung, so that you have a chance to pick up wild dung from Daba.

After hard work, I will still earn eight or nine yuan every year.In addition to paying the tuition fees of Qin Huairu and his younger brother, the rest was given to his mother Zhao Jinfeng to buy needles, threads, matches, etc.

Suddenly, Qin Huairu's eyes lit up. She thought about where Qin Jingru had gone, and turned around and walked towards the field. When she arrived at the sweet potato field, Qin Huairu saw Qin Jingru. At this time, Qin Jingru was standing in the paddy field, working hard. Pushing the seedling pot.

In order to earn work points for their families, children in the village would take the initiative to ask the village chief to arrange farm work on Sundays and holidays (there was no such thing as child labor at that time).But there is not always farm work suitable for young children.

Only after the wheat is harvested, the child is required to pick up the ears of wheat that fell in the ground; when the soil is turned over after digging the red potatoes, the child is required to follow the plowman to pick up the ears of wheat that fell in the soil; when plowing the field When planting rice seedlings, a child is needed to push the seedling pot; when threshing millet, a male child is needed Drag the grain and grass in the fields to the ridges to dry; when the grain crops are about to mature, children need to patrol and guard them during the day.

Among these farm tasks, the most painful one is pushing rice pots, even though I earn four points of work points per day (other farm tasks only earn three points per day).

However, the seasonality of rice transplanting is very strong. In order to not miss the farming season, two rules have been circulated. The first is "Don't take shelter from the rain when planting rice, and don't take a break to cool down when threshing." The second is to not take a break at noon during rice transplanting. Lunch will be delivered to the field by each family member. go.

Children pushing rice-pots spend almost all day in the fields. They often get hungry easily and have mud all over their bodies (including the top of their heads).

In addition, a pot of rice seedlings with a mud belt weighs hundreds of kilograms. It is very difficult to push the rice seedlings from the rice field to the place where the adults transplant the rice.It would be slightly better if he met Chun Tian.If you encounter deep ditch fields or cold water muddy fields, the seedling pot will be sunk very deep and most of your body will be sunk in the muddy water. Even if you push your hands and feet straight forward, it will be very difficult.

And if you need to turn over the field ridge, it will be even more difficult to push it up (although the adults have dug a gap in the field ridge, the foundation of the field ridge is hard, and the foundation of the field is soft. There is still a gap between the field ridge and the field, so the seedling pots are often pushed over. Even if you use all your strength, it will be difficult to get over, so you have to ask other friends to help.But each of the friends is responsible for the rice-planting task of two adults. At this time, only those who have a particularly good relationship will come to help.

At the same time, the push pots have bare legs, so they are often bitten by leeches (leeches) or scratched by clam shells.After one season of planting, many small scars will be left on the legs.

I remember one time, when planting seedlings in a deep ditch, Qin Huairu only pushed the seedling pot hard to ensure that the two adults had enough for planting. I don’t know when the leech had got into the flesh of Qin Huairu’s inner thighs. When he felt it, She didn't realize it until she was very swollen and painful, which made Qin Huairu yell and cry in fright.

When the adults knew about it, they immediately brought the smoking stick. While comforting Qin Huairu that it was okay, he took out the smoke oil from the stick and applied it to the wound, and patted it hard with his palm. After a while, the leech retreated.After the leech came out, the wound was bleeding. The adult applied smoke oil to the wound and pressed it with his fingers. After a while, the bleeding and pain stopped.

Afterwards, I continued to work as usual until the end of the night.

"Jingru...!" Qin Huairu shouted loudly with a happy expression!
(End of this chapter)