70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 125 The Frog Trouble
"Have you ever seen Lin Xiaodan in close contact with anyone?" Li Zhenzhu asked mysteriously.

"No, she doesn't seem to have any friends in the village. I think she is alone all day long, and she has no relationship with the people in your educated youth center." Xie Xiaonian said after thinking about it.

"That's right, I think so too, and besides her relationship with Zhang Hao, she was not close to anyone else, and her relationship with the villagers was even worse, and she always looked superior."

"What happened to her?" Xie Xiaonian asked curiously in cooperation with Li Zhenzhu.

"She's getting married!" Li Zhenzhu couldn't believe it now, but Lin Xiaodan was going to get married suddenly.

"Marry? With whom, someone else's matchmaker?" Xie Xiaonian asked curiously.

"She was the one she was talking about. It was Xie Guoyong, the captain's son of our No. 5 Production Team. His family came to the Educated Youth Office yesterday morning to salute, but we were not at home at the time. We only found out when we went back at night. I heard that they were married. The date is set for the 12th of next month. I never expected that she would get married so soon, and she would marry someone from the village." Li Zhenzhu sighed.

"She has done such a good job of keeping secrets! No one knows who she is talking about. But it may be that she met the right person, so she wants to get married so soon." Xie Xiaonian said.

In fact, what they didn't know was that apart from Lin Xiaodan's feeling that Xie Guoyong and her family were in good condition, the biggest reason why she got married in such a hurry was that the autumn harvest would begin in the middle of next month.

She almost didn't make it through the double robbing, and the hope of returning to the city was so slim, especially when she saw that some educated youths in the neighboring villages had been sent to the countryside for 5 or 6 years, and they hadn't returned to the city, so she didn't expect much. up.

So since she couldn't go back to the city, she had to marry herself out before the autumn harvest, so that she wouldn't have to do so much work.

But when she was thinking of getting married to avoid working, she didn't see that the women in the village were earning work points.

Maybe she saw it, but she just felt that she was different from them. Xie Guoyong's family conditions were not bad, and she could treat her like a big lady, and keep her at home without working.

And even in the past few years of marriage, she still has good looks, and the men pity her and don't let her go to work in the fields, but when the family's income is not enough to eat, she can't rest every day.

After the rain stopped in the afternoon, because the trees and the ground were full of water, the few people did not go out to work. After playing in the cave for a while, they went back down the mountain.

Because the mountain road was very slippery after the rain, and there was water everywhere, so even if a few people didn't fall down, they were in a mess when they got down the mountain. Not only were their bodies covered in mud, but their pants were all wet.

In order to prevent catching a cold, Xie Xiaonian hurried home and changed clothes.

When Xie Xiaonian changed his clothes and came out, he saw a wooden basin in the yard with a cloth bag inside. Xie Xiaonian stepped forward to open the cloth bag and saw about 40 to 50 frogs inside.

Although Xie Xiaonian is not afraid of frogs, when so many are put together, Xie Xiaonian still feels a little terrified.

Although he had eaten frogs, they were all handled well. Although the original owner had handled frogs, Xie Xiaonian hadn't touched them. Xie Xiaonian resisted touching the slippery and sticky things.

So Xie Xiaonian restored the cloth bag to its original shape, and went out to wash clothes with the basin in hand.

When I came back, I saw Xie Xiaobao running forward and said: "I want to eat frogs, you go and make them for me now."

With that tone, those who didn't know thought she was ordering the servants.

"If you want to eat, make it yourself!" Xie Xiaonian ignored him after finishing speaking, and went to dry the clothes with a basin.

Xie Xiaobao saw that Xie Xiaonian was still busy in the kitchen and didn't do what he said, so he immediately went out to complain to Wu Lihua.

As soon as Wu Lihua came back, she pointed to Xie Xiaonian who was cooking and said, "Why don't you kill the frogs? Dabao and the others worked so hard to catch them. You can't help but kill them. You said it's useless to raise you."

Xie Xiaonian heard what she said, and replied coldly: "I am not raised by you, you love your son so much, you can help him get it yourself."

Seeing that Xie Xiaonian dared to refute, Wu Lihua immediately yelled: "If you don't rely on me, then who do you rely on? Have you been drinking the northwest wind for the past three years? Aren't you eating food? If not I kept you, and you starved to death, you ungrateful."

"Hmph, even if I eat the food at home, it's my labor in exchange for it. I work at home every day, and the little food you give me is not enough to pay for my work." Xie Xiaonian replied.

"Oh, you have no conscience, I worked so hard to support you, and that's what you did to me." Wu Lihua sat on the ground and cried loudly.

Xie Xiaonian didn't bother to answer Wu Lihua's yelling, she didn't cook the meal, she put down the dishes, turned around and went back to the house.

Wu Lihua didn't dare to provoke her for so long, but today she dared to make a fuss.It seems that she forgot today that she herself is in Xie's house.

Although Xie Xiaonian didn't know why Father Xie hated Wu Lihua so much recently, but it didn't prevent him from letting her recognize her situation.

Because Wu Lihua was yelling like a shrew, saying that she raised Xie Xiaonian, but Xie Xiaonian didn't know what to do, was ungrateful, and even contradicted the elders, etc., all the nearby people gathered outside Xie's yard to watch the fun.

But everyone knows what Wu Lihua is like, so although people gathered outside, no one stepped forward to persuade them, they just watched the excitement outside the door.

When Father Xie came back, seeing the situation at home, he closed the door angrily and taught Wu Lihua a lesson.

When, his daughter was raised by Wu Lihua, why didn't she say that she was raised by her, she didn't show her face these two days, and she didn't know who she was, so she started to jump up and down.

Xie Xiaonian also heard Xie's father beating Wu Lihua, but she didn't leave the house. Xie Xiaonian always felt that Xie's father had become more and more bad-tempered in recent months.

But Wu Lihua is not worthy of sympathy, and they can be regarded as one thing and one thing.

After venting his anger, Father Xie said to Wu Lihua: "Since you are so free and still have the energy to quarrel, then you will cook the dinner tonight."

And Xie Xiaobao next to him knew that it was all because he wanted to eat frogs, so he was so scared that he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear that Xie's father would turn his anger on him.

Although Wu Lihua made fried frogs at night, Xie Xiaonian didn't eat them, she just took her share of steamed buns and pickles, and went back to the house directly.

At this time, Li Zhi and Zhang Hao were also eating frog meat. It turned out that after Xie Dabao caught the frogs, he secretly sent nearly 20 frogs to Li Zhi.

Although Li Zhi had done many wrong things, Xie Dabao thought that she was his eldest sister after all, and she was pitiful enough now, so he secretly sent her there.

Because the jujubes and chestnuts on the mountain were beginning to mature, Xie Xiaonian said directly after seeing Li Zhenzhu the next day: "Every year we will hand in some mountain products together with the autumn public grain to support the city. According to the usual practice, the village usually It was after the Mid-Autumn Festival that the members of the commune were organized to sweep the mountains. At that time, you will have to go to work again. So I thought, let’s start picking jujubes and chestnuts today, and save more before you go to work. After you go to work, I'm afraid I won't be able to pick them enough."

"Okay, okay, I've been staring at those things for a long time, especially those pear trees, I've long wanted to eat pears." Li Zhenzhu said happily.

"Then let's pick a few pears and eat them first, and then get other things." Seeing that Li Zhenzhu was so greedy, Liu Yifan suggested.

"Okay, let's go!" After finishing speaking, the three of them walked towards the nearest pear tree together.

The pears on this mountain are all wild black-skinned pears. Although they don’t look good and their cores are not small, they are sweet and juicy, like those pear trees at the foot of the mountain, which were snatched up by the children in the village long ago. up.

"We can store jujubes, chestnuts, and hazelnuts in the sun. What can we do with this pear? It won't be like the peaches and grapes before. They will disappear after a long time. In addition to apples, But there is no fruit to eat." Li Zhenzhu said sadly while eating the pear in his hand.

In the past few months, the wild fruits on the mountain have taken her mouth. From time to time, she wants to eat some wild fruits. If she doesn't have to eat them in the future, she is really not used to it.

"Now it's not as hot as before. When the time comes, you can secretly carry the pears home and put them in the cellar. They can still be stored for a while. After a while, the apples will also be ripe. Apples are better stored than pears. Our side There are also a lot of apple trees, and I will pick more at that time, so you will definitely have fruit to eat in winter." Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"But when the time comes, it will be in time for the autumn harvest. Will you be able to come here by yourself? And don't you have to go to the ground to pick up beans, sweet potatoes, etc."

Because Xie Xiaonian would go to the field to pick wheat ears during the double grab, so Li Zhenzhu felt that Xie Xiaonian would definitely go to the field at that time.

"It's okay. Even if I go to the field, I have to wait until the grain in the field is harvested. In the early stage, I don't have much else to do except cooking and delivering food. Then I will pick it slowly." Now that Li Zhi is married, the food delivery It can only be her job.

"That's fine, it's really not good. If you can't pick it, you don't want it, and you have to save some for the small animals in the mountains." Li Zhenzhu said with a step back.

In fact, Xie Xiaonian has space, how can things be wasted, although she won't pick them all up, but it's not enough for several people to eat, she still wants to take this opportunity, mix things in the space, and send some to her uncle's family .

At this time, the mountain goods obtained at this time will not be distributed to each family when they are handed over to the state and then distributed.

Although my uncle's house will go to the mountains when they sweep the mountain goods, and there are more of them than Xie Zhuang's, but my uncle's family has more children, and this small snack is still not enough.

So Xie Xiaonian is going to send some of everything to her uncle's house when the time comes, anyway, she has plenty of space.

In the next 2 or 3 days, apart from the work they had to do, the three of them were all making mountain goods, and they were drying all kinds of things around the cave.

On the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, after a few people put their things into the cave, Xie Xiaonian said, "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, how are you going to spend it!"

"How can we live without our family members around? When we are at home, we can eat a piece of moon cake together, but here, none of the villagers buy moon cakes, and it is difficult for us to spend money to buy them." Li Zhenzhu said.

"Yeah, I haven't seen anyone who buys mooncakes!" Liu Yifan also said.

"Then let's make mooncakes ourselves tomorrow!" Xie Xiaonian suggested.

(End of this chapter)