From Cultivator to Widow

Zhang Weiguo has adapted well in school. The primary school in their village is all from their village. They are about the same age. Even if they don't play together, they are familiar with each other. Now they are classmates, get together, and soon It became a piece.

Zhang Weiguo has a solid foundation and is well accepted in school. Zhang Fenghua is a little worse. She has zero foundation, but she is very serious. During class, she stares at Su An without blinking. .

Su An admires her very much. If she can persevere, she should be able to achieve good results.

Zhang Weiguo's performance was not bad, because he took it for granted that he knew the most among this group of people. He was very proud of his questions and assignments, which made him more proud than before. Can sit still and be willing to spend more time studying.

This is also a virtuous cycle.

Zhang Weiguo is in the first grade, which means that Zhang Baoguo is in the fourth grade. There are only five years of primary school, and he graduated from primary school in two more years.

After entering the fourth grade, his classmates suddenly dropped sharply. Many people do not want their children to be blind, send them to school, study for a few years, learn common words, and commonly used arithmetic, but they do not want to. And then spend the unjust money to send them to school.

One semester is 15 yuan, and 3 yuan a year. For rural families with little income, there is no serious illness or disaster, and these three yuan are the biggest expenditure.

Zhang Baoguo got the answer from his mother a long time ago. She wanted him to keep studying. After elementary school, there is still junior high school. After junior high school, there is high school. After high school, there is university. Over the years, you can plan slowly.

He never slackens.

The two children were studying, and they were given three yuan for tuition at one time. Su Hui didn't care about it, but Zhao Laidi was very distressed.

Even if the money was given to her by Li Manfen, because they didn't have a family, the money was all in Li Manfen's hands. Give it to her, and she would take it to the school to pay for her tuition, but it didn't mean that she didn't feel bad, the money also had her share. Ah, when she handed over the three dollars, the expression on her face was really ugly.

To Zhang Jinhua, she wouldn't say anything, but to Zhang Fenghua, she pointed and pointed: "You must study hard, you know? If you don't get good grades, you don't have to go to school in the future, don't waste your mother's money. ."

She was mentally prepared, but when she gave out the money, she still couldn't accept it. She didn't know whether she wanted her daughter to get good grades or not.

Zhang Fenghua is very serious and worried about this.

If she is not serious, her mother will not let her study.

She didn't know what the study would bring. She just watched others talk about the literati, and the things in her tone made her subconsciously feel that it would be better if she went to study herself, so she did it.

And the start of freshmen also means that summer has passed and autumn has come.

Although the temperature in autumn is not much different from that in summer, many fruit trees have matured and brought abundant harvests to human beings.

They can plant two crops of rice a year here. Spring rice is harvested in July, followed by replanting at the end of July, and harvested at the end of October and November.

It also rained a little this year, but it didn't affect the harvest much. It was similar to last year. At that time, Su Hui, like everyone else, took advantage of the weather to rush to harvest in the rice fields. Part of it is distributed to the villagers.

Su An also took advantage of that time to collect a lot of new rice.

There are always those who do not have enough food at home who are willing to sell refined grains and buy more coarse grains to fill their stomachs.

Now when the school starts, after the busy harvesting and transplanting, Zhang Chengye asked more people to help make tiles. Now, many people in his village have tiles on the roofs.

Most people do not choose to replace all the roofs at one time, but replace the ones with serious water leakage first, because they do not know how many work points to deduct, and everyone starts more rationally.

Now that I have some free time and the weather is good, Zhang Chengye decided that it was time to deliver goods to those in the outer village.

In addition to his own sales, he also has to sell them abroad. After all, he hasn't received any money yet. How will he share the money at the end of the year?

Ever since they knew that someone in their village could burn tiles, they have been thinking about it. At that time, Su Qianming and the others even asked about it. They checked the tiles, and they felt that the price was similar. Order is placed.

After a while, Su An could see a truckload of tiles being transported away on a wheelbarrow.

There are some wild fruit trees in the mountain. Before Su Hui found a piece of mountain grapes, they were sweet and sour, and they were small. She picked some and went back to make wine.

Now she looked up at the chestnut above her head.

The bamboo basket next to her is full of chestnuts, but the bamboo basket is full, and she still has a bag.

She swept it with a long bamboo pole, and the mature chestnuts fell one after another. She held a bag and dropped them one by one. If others saw her speed, they would definitely be dumbfounded.

After going back and forth several times, not a single chestnut fell to the ground.

This is an old tree I don't know how many years it has grown. There are many fruits, and because the chestnut has a hedgehog-like shell on the outside to protect the fruits inside, not many animals can eat it, most of them are intact, use a knife to handle The bamboo was split in half, and the bag and the bamboo basket were placed on both sides with the sturdy bottom, and they were carried home.

After going back, use a stone, a hatchet or other tools to remove the shell. It is not easy to eat it, but the chestnut is really delicious, whether it is eaten raw, cooked or cooked, it is very delicious, even if it is troublesome. At one point, Su Yan didn't mind.

She just went back and put down the basket, Zhao Xialan and an aunt hurried in.

"Su Hui, it's so nice of you to be at home. Can you help with the delivery? Help, the midwife isn't here, so I'm going to another village."

Su An frowned: "What's the situation?"

The aunt who came with Zhao Xialan was not far from her home. She worked in the field together. Her daughter-in-law had a stomachache and was about to give birth.

She had already asked her son to find Madam Wen, but she couldn't find it. She went to the next village to help deliver the child, and she didn't know if she could bring the child back in time.

The aunt's forehead was covered in sweat: "Didn't you deliver before? Can you deliver?"

"I'll go take a look with you."

Su An didn't plan to die, so she went with her.

The month hasn't arrived, it's a little earlier, but it's within the normal range. This is not a problem. The problem is that her fetal position is a little bit wrong.

After Su An looked at it, she quickly took over the control. With her, she would have a backbone. She could do whatever she wanted, get hot water with hot water, and towels with towels.

Su Hui used her spiritual sense to lead, and at this time, everyone was generally sturdy and easy to give birth to. When her man brought her mother back, his daughter-in-law had already given birth, and she was lying on the bed groggy.

She gave birth to a daughter, and the first child was a son. Now she just made up a good word. Su An got 10 eggs, plus two cents as a thank you gift.

The aunt is very grateful. She has no choice. She gave birth to one at the beginning, and she has no impression. She really has no confidence in helping her daughter-in-law deliver the birth. Think of Su Yan.

Her mother-in-law Zhao Xialan had praised her fiercely before, and the praise was a hype. She just listened to it and thought it might be luck, but she didn't expect that it was a real skill. The mother-in-law was in the right position, and it happened just before her death. I didn't expect the child to be in such a hurry, and she couldn't wait to come out.

In order to express her gratitude, she gave an extra two cents, usually ranging from five to ten eggs per delivery.

Su An washed her hands, put the eggs back in the kitchen, took the hatchet and went back to the yard to knock.

When she came back, Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo were already pounding on the chestnut shell. They smashed the chestnut thorns with stones, and then continued to smash it, smashed a hole, and then pushed the shell away.

However, they have little strength, smashing while playing, and also stop to eat a few, which belongs to the nature of playing tickets.

When Su An joined it, it was different. He poured it out on the slate, turned the hatchet back and used the back of the knife to "papapa". In one shot, the shell cracked open, and then swept to the side. The two little ones squatted beside them with a stick Sweep away those shells, it's that simple.

"Mom, when will you cook chestnut roast pork?"

As soon as Zhang Dingguo said, Zhang Anguo echoed: "Yes, Mom, when will you make a chestnut roast pork?"

Usually children ask this question, and it is estimated that adults will answer: "While playing, where is the meat?"

They are accustomed to eating good meals and dishes at home, saying that meat is natural, and whether or not to eat it depends on whether the mother wants it or not.

"Okay, I'll make it another day. Tonight I'm making chestnut stuffed chicken. Is it a pheasant in the mountains, or do you want to make chicken soup?"

The pheasant soup was also very sweet, Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo looked at each other.

"Boil the soup!"

“Braised Chicken!”

The two spoke out together, but the answer was the opposite, Su An: "Then half of it."

It's not a hassle anyway.

"Mom, you are amazing!"

The two of them stared at their mother. In their cognition, mother is a very powerful person. These chestnuts were picked by mother from the mountain. The mountain is like a treasure for mother, pheasants, mountain rabbits and birds. Various fish. Mom can get it from the mountains, and they also ate a pot of braised snake meat a few days ago.

Not long after, Zhang Baoguo and Zhang Weiguo returned naked, one holding a small bucket and the other holding a wooden basin.

There were some finger-long fish in the small bucket, which was what they had gone to the stream. The two of them poured the fish in the bucket into the wooden basin, jumped out the flat ones, and threw them to the chickens at home to let them More raw eggs, those that are long will be raised, and they will be fried at night.

Today's dinner must be very rich, pheasant chestnut soup, pheasant stuffed chestnut, pot stickers with small fish, blanched sweet potato seedlings, and fried wild vegetables.

After the meal was ready, Su An took a large bowl and filled a large bowl of chicken soup. There was not much chicken in it, but more chestnuts, and a basket of raw chestnuts for Zhang Baoguo to send to his grandparents.

Since they helped her to send the thief to the police station and spoke for her again, she reciprocated, and she gave food there a little more often than before. She had gained something on the mountain, and occasionally she would take out some to distribute there. go.

There are only four pieces of chicken in this big bowl of chicken soup, but the pheasant is small, and it is less than a pound if one is killed. Half of it is used for soup, and it is only cut into ten pieces.

Seeing this big bowl of chicken soup, Li Manfen exaggerated Zhang Baoguo a few words, and was convinced by his second daughter-in-law's ability to scavenge for some good things in the mountains recently.

She also put away the chestnuts. The family hadn't gone into the mountains to find wild fruits, and she had to make time to go another day. The chestnuts were very filling.

Then these few pieces of chicken, the largest piece is given to the wife, then the eldest son, the youngest son, the youngest grandson, each of the four people, one piece is just right.

That bowl of soup and chestnuts is everyone's share.

Others are used to it, and she has no objection.

Zhao Laidi's objection is that there are too few, only four pieces of meat, why don't you send a little more, a whole one, you can send half of it, but she also thinks about it.

It is enough to simply honor the old man, and it is too extravagant to eat all at once, so you can save half of it for pickling.

Men eat more because they have to do heavy work. Zhang Jinhua is the eldest grandson. He eats more to grow his body.

They can't eat the meat, but the chestnuts are delicious and the soup is delicious, but because of the large population, each person only gets one or two bites.

Zhao Laidi also gave half of it to her son. She drank it slowly in that sip, and slowly reminisced, and then said to her man Zhang Quan: "You will also go for a walk in the mountains another day."

It was impossible for Su An to catch her, not for her man.

Zhang Quan nodded, Zhang Gui had already been there, and he sighed: "It depends on luck, whether there is or not, but you can't catch it, what's the use of it?"

He is very favored at home, but he goes to the fields to work, but occasionally he doesn't go to the fields, not many times, and Li Manfen doesn't say much, he just goes to find something to eat.

He also met the pheasant, it was useless, it ran away after a long distance.

"Second sister-in-law must have her own way." Zhang Gui chewed the bones of the chicken, sucked up the juice inside, and spit it out: "This is the second time that the second sister-in-law has caught a pheasant recently, I will ask tomorrow. ." His tone was quite certain.

"Maybe it's a trap." Zhao Laidi also came to the spirit: "I'll ask her tomorrow too."

Li Manfen felt that it should be luck, but if it was just in case, she should have left Bao Guo to ask carefully.

"You ask, and see if you can catch one or two."

Zhang Jinhua listened, his eyes flashed.

He clicked his tongue, reminiscing about the tenderness of the chicken just now. He ate chestnuts full of chicken flavor and added meat. The chestnuts were delicious. He wanted to eat a lot of meat.

In fact, he is not too young, so he should be able to go into the mountains to see it. As for whether the second aunt has any tricks, he agrees with his grandmother, and he has not discovered it before, and there are only two pheasants recently, for sure It's luck, his luck has always been good.

The next morning they came to ask, of course Su An had no tricks, saying that she was lucky, once the pheasant injured her leg, and once she got into a dead end.

Zhao Laidi and Zhang Gui went back disappointed.

Then something happened.

Zhang Jinhua, who had a good class in the morning, disappeared after lunch. This is normal. What's abnormal is that Zhao Laidi came back in the afternoon after earning work points, and when he used the hatchet, he found that the hatchet was gone.

She hadn't noticed anything wrong at this time, thinking that someone else had taken it. Then in the afternoon, everyone came back. She and Li Manfen cooked together. It was almost time, and Zhang Jinhua hadn't come back yet.

No child will miss any meal point. Everyone is hungry, and basically they will not do the kind of thing that they don’t go home to eat for the sake of playing.

There are exceptions though.

Seeing that he hadn't come back, Zhao Laidi asked Zhang Fenghua and his sisters to call him back.

I went to the places he used to go and looked around, but no one was found, and some people found their house and asked them: "Is my son at your house? Why don't you go back to eat?"

It was often played with Zhang Jinhua.

Li Manfen: "No, I'm not here, and Jinhua isn't here either. I don't know where to go."

The visitor was a little anxious: "I won't go into the mountain. My village has called it, and no one answers me."

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Laidi panicked and hurriedly looked at the place where the hatchet was placed, but there was none.

"Which one of you took the hatchet? Where is the hatchet?"

"Not moving."

"It's there, isn't it, I saw it yesterday."

"Broken! The hatchet is gone, did Jin Hua take it?"

"Is it really going to the mountain?" Zhao Laidi couldn't sit still anymore.

There are no adults on the mountain, and it is strictly forbidden for children to go. It is only after a period of time that some people are disobedient. Some return smoothly, and some have to pay a price.

Minor injuries, severe loss of life.

The family couldn't sit still, and all went out to look for it.

After looking around, there was none, none of them, and no one saw them leave the village. It was about to get dark. Zhang Chengye led someone to light a torch: "Help, big guy, get the two children back."