From Cultivator to Widow

Both Li Manfen and Zhao Laidi have shown great enthusiasm for helping to find a partner. The three aunts and six grandmothers themselves have such a hobby. A sense of achievement, extra motivation.

Su An didn't plan to go into this muddy water.

Zhou Xiaoqing was also unwilling, and Zhang Ju was not very willing to find an educated youth as her son-in-law.

She doesn't have such high ambitions for her daughter, she just needs to find a capable man in the village. She will also be moved by the idea of ​​returning to the city after marrying an educated youth, but she pays more attention to practicality. Few educated youths can go back, let alone bring their wives and children back together.

She also knows that some educated youth have married, and if they can go back, they will leave their daughter-in-law and children in the countryside and go back alone. If such a thing happens, it will be worth it. It is better to find a monk who knows the roots and can run away. If you can't run away from the temple, you don't have to worry about him leaving irresponsibly. You can live a peaceful and stable life for the rest of your life.

During this period of time, nothing happened in the village. It was not as magnificent as the previous time. Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo went to see the little brother almost every day, watching him sleep and watching him blow bubbles, which was very interesting.

After the child is full moon, because of the sufficient milk, he looks very different from the little monkey and the little old man when he was born, and it is almost impossible for people to equate the two.

Zhou Xiaoqing sat for a full month. After that, she didn't work much in the field and took care of the children at home.

Li Manfen was very dissatisfied with this, and felt that she was too lazy. It was enough to leave the child to Zhang Fenghua and the others, but she had to bring it by herself.

But it was useless for her to be dissatisfied. The family split up. No matter what she said, Zhou Xiaoqing continued to do her own thing. She said that she would not go to work if she did not go to work in the fields with her children at home, which made Li Manfen regret more than once. She should not have listened to her youngest son in the first place. If you marry such a daughter-in-law, he is the real version of marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting his mother. After marrying her, he will not listen to what she says. What his daughter-in-law says is what his daughter-in-law says. What kind of daughter-in-law is this lazy? of?

After the confinement is finished, he is not willing to go to work in the field.

What to do with this kind of food? Just one man earns work points, and the family of three needs to eat, where will the rations come from?

Zhang Gen was also worried about him, so he deliberately talked to Zhang Gui once, knowing that he knew what he knew, so he didn't care.

Relying on the money in hand, squander it, then squander it, spend the money, you will know.

At the end of this semester, the four brothers all got the first place in their grades. Su Hui gave each of them bonuses according to the previous rules, and the four of them were aspiring to keep it together.

The school enters the holiday, and the flavor of the year is slowly getting stronger.

Unsurprisingly, everyone got more money this year, one third more than last year, all relying on their tiles. Now half of these tiles are for their own use and half are sold. If they wait for them After the needs of the village are met, all the products will be exported, and the income will be more.

Obviously, the days are getting better and better. With the money, everyone has joy on their faces. Only Du Gaozhi is not very interested. There is no way. The difference between the money in the village is too great. He was a month before. , the salary has all the average people get in a year, and the comparison gap is too huge.

Money can't be looked down upon, and there is Zhang Chengye's constraints in the village, and he has not been loved by most of the villagers, so he can't be happy.

With the completion of childbirth and breastfeeding, Zhou Xiaoqing's fat growth during pregnancy slowly shrunk back. Compared with the slightly fatter pregnancy, she now maintains a plump body shape. She is at her best age. Every time she is outside Walking around, it will become a beautiful landscape of this village.

Zhang Gui listened to her more, and the other young men once again regretted what they had missed.

The bright spot is Du Gaozhi.

This is the female educated youth he likes. It's a pity that he came a step late. She is already married and has a child. The remaining female educated youths are not half as good as hers!

Tian Siyi didn't keep warm in time during a cold wave. She caught a cold, which was not serious, but she was groggy and couldn't lift her spirits.

In the past six months, her health has improved a lot, and she has never been sick again. This disease is a bit "lingering", and it took many days to recover.

But fortunately, there was no delay in the Chinese New Year. A few years ago, he recovered from his illness.

"Grandma! Grandma! Are you at home?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Tian Siyi put down the dishes she was washing and walked to the front yard.

"I'm here, I'm here."

"We're here." Zhang Weiguo came with his two younger brothers.

Zhang Weiguo was "instructed" to deliver things to his grandmother's house. When the two children heard it, they said they came to play at the grandmother's house, so the three brothers came together.

Tian Siyi saw her three grandsons, and looked over her head: "Is your eldest brother here?"

"No, eldest brother and mother are busy. Grandma, I'll bring you sugar cane." This sugar cane was planted in a corner of their private plot.

Almost every household will grow a little sugar cane, and during the Chinese New Year, everyone will eat a section together, sweet and sweet.

The sugarcane that Tian Siyi planted this year was not well managed. There were only two and a half large sugarcanes, and they were not sweet even if they were cut. When Su Hui saw it, she asked Zhang Weiguo to cut two and send them to them.

"And the sauce made by my mother, it's delicious!" Zhang Anguo raised the basket in his hand.

"There is also a small jar of honey." Zhang Dingguo raised his chest: "I found this hive!"

Tian Siyi looked nervously: "You didn't pick it up, did you?"

Zhang Dingguo grinned: "It's alright, it's alright, my mother made it. I told my mother and I took it off the next day. I still want to go and see it, but my mother won't let me go." He was a little regretful.

But his regret, Tian Siyi, disagreed: "Your mother is right not to let you go. This bee can sting. Has your mother been caught?"

Zhang Dingguo shook his head: "No no." He waved his hand.

"Mom is amazing," he stressed.

In his eyes, his mother is almost omnipotent.

"Where did they go, cousin?"

Tian Siyi smiled: "The older one went down to the ground, and the younger one went to the grandfather's house. Do you know where his house is? Go to the avenue and call him, and he will come out. Do you want to play with him?"

"Wait a minute, what are you doing, grandma? We can help you. Our house has been cleaned inside and out, and we have all helped."

Zhang Weiguo smiled: "We help you, you don't have to work so hard."

Tian Siyi's mouth couldn't close: "Good, grandma didn't do anything, just took out the tableware and washed it for the New Year, there's not much left, you don't need your help, you have this heart, grandma has already I'm very happy."

It's so sweet that her grandson is so well-behaved.

Zhang Anguo raised his head: "Where did Grandpa go?"

"Your grandfather went to collect herbs and hasn't come back yet. Let's eat at grandma's house at noon today, and grandma will paste pumpkin pie for you." While talking to her grandson, she took out the snacks she prepared: "This is freshly fried The pumpkin seeds that are a few days old are fragrant, you can eat them, this is the pickled radish I made a few days ago and the yuba I made before, you can take them home to cook."

Seeing pickled radishes, they looked at each other: "Grandma, do you have raw radishes at home? Let's make spicy radishes."

Spicy radish is made by cutting radish into slices, adding chili and vinegar, spicy and delicious.

"Yes, you guys go over there and pick up two of them, and I'll make them for you right away." The grandson wanted to eat, and she immediately moved.

Radish is a vegetable that every family must grow in winter, and it is indispensable for almost any dish.

When it was almost noon, Su Shiwei came back. Seeing them cheering here, he immediately came over to play together. Not long after, Su Zhongchang and Xiaohe came back. At this time, Tian Siyi had almost finished lunch.

"Aunt, cousin." They called out obediently, and when Chang Xiaohe saw them coming, a smile appeared on his face.

"When did you come here?"

"Come here in the morning to bring something to grandma."

Chang Xiaohe touched the hair of the nearest Zhang Anguo: "I will eat here at noon today. After dinner, I will play with your brother and the others, and it will not be too late to go back in the evening."

Chang Xiaohe took the initiative to keep people, not many people like those little girls who will take their children back to their parents' house to fight the autumn wind, but for the little girls who have contacts and manners, she doesn't care about keeping them for dinner, on the contrary, she will Loving guests and serving them good food.

Zhang Anguo smiled obediently: "Auntie, grandma said to paste pumpkin pie."

Pumpkin pie is made of pumpkin paste and white flour. It is a fine food. Even if the white flour is mixed with other things, it is also a fine grain.

Su Shiwei cheered: "Really, that's great!"

Not long after, Su Qianming also came back.

When he put down the backpack, Zhang Weiguo looked at it curiously, and at a glance he could see what kinds of them were, and Su Qianming was interested: "How much do you know? Did you learn from your mother?"

His two children will recognize a little bit. Before the daughter got married, she did not continue, but after the son-in-law left, she picked it up again, and she was more focused than before. Presumably the grandson will recognize it. Say it.

Zhang Weiguo nodded: "Some herbal mothers told us when they were dealing with them." Today, my eldest brother followed his mother up the mountain to collect herbs.

"It seems that you have a good memory, you still remember." Su Qianming stroked his grandson's hair.

My daughter will go to pick herbs, and she has sent him some commonly used medicines for medical treatment.

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Su An took Zhang Baoguo to identify herbal medicines, and also held a medical book with pictures and texts in her hand.

In winter, they also have a lot of plants here, unlike the north, where the autumn wind blows and leaves all over the ground. In winter, only dry and bare tree trunks are left.

The herbs growing in the ground are somewhat different from the ones that my mother brought home. Some of them require the roots and stems in the ground to be used as medicine, but they cannot be recognized just by looking at the unremarkable leaves. It requires a little field investigation.

"I still remember this, it was in the mosquito repellent bag." Zhang Baoguo saw a bush and pulled off a young leaf.

The mosquito repellent bag made by my mother works wonders, and Uncle Civet has to say don't forget this every time.

"Yes, did you see the slender leaves below? Do you feel familiar..." Su Hui taught him little by little about these more commonly used herbs, how to deal with them, and what to do in an emergency. .

This was also the case when she was studying in the cultivation world, and she needed to go to the wild in person to master it in depth.

Zhang Baoguo is very serious about his studies.

His goal is very firm. To learn these things, in the wild, he can pick herbs against mosquitoes at will. If he is injured, there are not enough substitutes for medicines. He knows what cannot be approached and what the consequences will be.

Just thinking about it shows how helpful it can be.

Going back at noon, seeing that it was time for dinner, and the three little ones didn't come back, Zhang Baoguo patted Dawei's head and got his affectionate rub.

"They should be having lunch at grandma's house."

"Then don't wait for them."

After the meal, Zhang Jinhua came over, his eyes were shining: "Let's go to town in the afternoon."

Zhang Jinhua rarely goes to town, and the number of visits in a year can be counted on one finger.

They generally don't have pocket money. When they go to town, they can only watch the supply and marketing cooperatives drool. The sales staff of the supply and marketing cooperatives themselves have a poor attitude.

"Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative!" Zhang Jinhua raised the money in his hand: "The salt at home is about to run out, so grandma asked me to buy it."

Su An remembered: "I remember watching the announcement before, there are movies in town these days."

Movie? !

Zhang Baoguo's eyes also lit up.

Zhang Jinhua asked Ai Ai for a while while looking forward to it: "How much does a movie ticket cost?" He hasn't seen the movie seriously in the cinema, but only once in the countryside to see the open-air, projector-played movie, where many people go to the market. .

This is free of money.

Zhang Baoguo also wanted to know, he saw it once in the city, and then there was no more.

Su An also thought of this. At this time, there is no entertainment, and it is rare to have any kind of entertainment. They are so interested, it is okay to go and see.

"one cent."

Zhang Baoguo thought about his small treasury, gritted his teeth, and opened his small treasury for the first time not to save money, but to withdraw money.

Take the money out, order the rest, and feel distressed.

Zhang Jinhua was a little stunned to see the second aunt standing still. Zhang Baoguo went into the room and took out a dime.

Until he left, he finally asked, "Where did you get your money? Do you know where the second aunt's money is?" Dare to get it yourself? No, if that's the case, the second aunt should have said it just now, right?

Zhang Baoguo gave him a strange look: "What are you thinking? This is my own money."

"Your own money? Where did you get the money?"

"I've been saving the New Year's money for the New Year without moving it."

Zhang Jinhua stopped talking. His parents wouldn't take all the New Year's money, they would keep a little for him, but he couldn't hold it at all and spent it quickly.

He thought for a while: "You wait for me here, I'll go back and gather together." He went back and begged, it shouldn't be a problem, right? At most, advance the New Year's money in advance, anyway, there is not much in hand, it is better to go to a movie.

Zhao Laidi still couldn't stand his offensive, so he advanced a part of the New Year's money to him in advance, plus Zhang Jinhua's original, just enough for a movie ticket.

The two brothers went to town excitedly.

After going to town, Zhang Jinhua went to buy salt first, and then went straight to the cinema.

There are also movie theaters in their town, but they are usually closed. Movies are only shown on certain days of the month. However, it will be more lively during the festivals. This time, Su An remembers it because there are only those two movies. The movie theater has a new movie, which is rare.

The timing of their arrival was relatively coincidental, and it didn't take long before the show started.

Zhang Jinhua's excited hands trembled a little. Zhang Baoguo noticed it, and his chest was indistinguishable. It was true!

But when the movie starts, all emotions are forgotten, the plot is sad, and I cry, and the plot is happy, and I am happy.

Crying and laughing, when the movie ended, both of the cousins' eyes were red.

When Zhang Weiguo and the others came back, they knew that they had gone to the movies and their mouths opened into an O shape.

Zhang Weiguo: "You guys are going to the movies!"

Zhang Anguo: "I didn't call us!"

Zhang Dingguo: "We want to see it too!"

Zhang Baoguo felt a little guilty and coughed twice: "I can take you to see it, but the movie ticket costs 10 cents, and children under the age of three are not considered tickets."

Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the three brothers froze, and then they all showed a toothache expression, exactly the same as Zhang Baoguo's expression when he took out a dime from the small treasury.