From Cultivator to Widow

Zhang Weiguo squatted by the stream and looked down.

He just saw an eel burrowing into the mud. It was not small. He really wanted to go down and take it out, but he couldn't.

The big brother's warning is still vivid in his mind. He doesn't want to be beaten by the big brother's fist at all. If the big brother wants to be beaten, it is a real beating, and there is no discount at all.

This is all because a new village party secretary has come to their village. How good is the grandfather of the original party secretary, why is there an accident?

Facing that place for a while, he stood up and picked up the bamboo basket next to it, which contained half a basket of wild vegetables.

In the middle of the basket, a handful of wild fruits that were picked easily were placed in plantain leaves.

He glanced at the direction of the cowshed. During this time, his mother didn't even let him go to the cowshed. She used to help him hand in and bring homework homework. She thought she could write less, alas.

He took a detour and saw his eldest brother Zhang Baoguo who was busy in the field.

He and others of his age were loosening crops, wearing a straw hat, and his skin was tanned by the sun.

The skin color of the two brothers is similar, and the two younger brothers'... well, just like the newly learned word, genetic mutation, they are often exposed to the sun, but they are much whiter than them.

He went home with half a basket of wild vegetables, first went to the chicken coop to see the chickens they raised, felt for eggs, and found one. He took it out, and it was still warm.

I told my mother tonight that I won’t eat steamed eggs tomorrow, eat fried eggs. I haven’t eaten fried eggs for a while. They are thinly fried and sprinkled with a little chopped green onion. It’s fragrant and tender. It’s delicious!

The eggs were taken back to the kitchen, and then the wild vegetables were poured out and picked, the tender ones were kept for themselves, and the old ones were thrown into the chicken coop to reward them for their hard work in laying eggs.

He took the picked wild vegetables to the backyard and put them in the shade before entering the house.

Inside the room, the two younger brothers were both at home. They were reading a book. Seeing their frowning and troubled appearances, Zhang Weiguo raised his eyebrows proudly, hehe, I can't figure it out, I'm stumped, and they are proud of it.

Seeing Zhang Weiguo coming back, Zhang Anguo's eyes lit up: "Second brother, you are back, come and have a look, am I right?"

Zhang Weiguo, if there is a tail, the tail should be up at this time. He walked over and took a look: "This is true, it should be like this, but did you forget here, I emphasized to you yesterday..."

"Oh, this way, I understand why I always feel like I've forgotten somewhere."

Zhang Anguo suddenly realized: "I will do it again."

 …

When the three brothers completed their study tasks, it was still a while before it got dark, but it wasn't long. If they went out to play, they would be back soon, so they didn't go out. Go and pull up the weeds in the private plot, and one prepares the work in the kitchen.

Su An carried a load of fine firewood, that is, the branches and leaves cut from the trunk of the tree, and walked to the village unhurriedly.

She went to the city again today, sold the harvest in the mustard seed space, and exchanged rice, fruit, sauce for money, antiques, jewelry and other things. Now she has to spend money far less than when she started. .

Back then, you had to spend money to buy rice, noodles, and oil. Now you have the space for rice and noodles, and you have to buy oil, but the quantity is much smaller than before.

Carrying firewood, she was walking on the village road, and happened to meet Du Gaozhi who was approaching.

He was trying to recognize people now, and when he saw Su An, after thinking for a while, he remembered who she was: "Comrade Su."

He took the initiative to say hello.

He is not very impressed by ordinary people, but he pays special attention to special ones. For example, people in this village who can live in blue-tiled houses, soldiers, workers, or people with relatively high education, he has a book in his heart. account.

Su An is on the list of special attention. She is not very conspicuous now. Without a man who is a soldier, she will definitely not have the glory before, but she is also an existence that cannot be ignored.

Let's not mention the house, just say that her man's comrade-in-arms, as far as he knows, there is a police officer in the town, and one who often sends things to them by the motorcade. In addition, this person has good luck. He met a noble and saved him once. , I got a relationship with the city, and the precious radio was given by others.

Moreover, she will also deliver births, and she is also a teacher in the village, so she is respected in her own right.

If you give the village a list of people who are not easy to provoke, she is also in it, because if you provoke her, it will easily arouse the hostility of the villagers.

He is an outsider in the village and has no manpower. He has a lot of ideas. He wants to make achievements and go back to the city. However, now he has no supporters at all, and everyone is watching.

Others are weak.

No support for what he wants to do is just empty talk. Now he has made a deep impression in everyone's eyes and gained their support.

The location of this village is not bad, the population is not bad, enough for him to show off his skills, and if he can win over this person, he can also get a good impression in front of many people.

"Secretary." Su An slightly nodded in response.

Du Gaozhi smiled: "Go up the mountain to chop firewood and come back." He looked at the amount of firewood on her shoulders and was a little surprised. The weight looked quite impressive. Although it has nothing to do with being weak, it doesn't have anything to do with the word infinity.

Sure enough, he is a countryman, and he is used to doing heavy work, so he may not have this strength.

His thoughts diverged for a moment, and this time, Su An, who had no desire to continue talking with him, had already taken a step forward, and the two passed by by mistake.

Du Gaozhi stopped, looked sideways at the other party's unhurried back, and sighed a little.

"In the end, there is no pillar. It's not easy to do these heavy tasks by yourself." He said this, but his eyes carefully looked at the firewood that Su An had picked. It seemed that everything was normal, and there was no violation. are thin branches.

The trunk is not allowed to be cut, but the branches of the tree are fine as long as the trunk is not damaged.

When Su Hui returned, the brothers had already finished bathing, steamed sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and washed the vegetables, ready to put them in the pot at any time.

Su An put the firewood aside, untied the rope, spread it out to dry on the side, washed her hands and went to the kitchen to have a look.

As usual, steamed sweet potatoes, steamed pumpkin, and a pot of multigrain polenta.

She asked the four brothers who were playing in the hall: "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Zhang Weiguo: "Fried eggs!"

Zhang Anguo: "Poached eggs."

Zhang Baoguo: "Scallion pancakes."

Zhang Dingguo: "Egg syrup."

The four people had four different answers, but three of them were all about eggs. Su An compared them. Of the four, she wanted to eat poached eggs more, so let's make poached eggs tonight.

"Tomorrow we will make stuffed eggplant stuffed with bitter gourd, how about it?"

Stuffed eggplant is to cut open the eggplant, cut it into pieces of similar size, then cut it in half, and fill the middle with stuffing. The bitter gourd is simpler. Bitter gourd.

The filling is mainly glutinous rice, plus other miscellaneous things, if you can add a little meat, a little salted fish, it will be more fragrant, add bean drum, pour a spoonful of lard, it is only made during the festival. dishes.

"Yeah!"

Early the next morning, Zhang Baoguo took Zhang Weiguo to Zhang Chengye's place for unshakable training. Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo got up earlier than other times to help pick eggplants and bitter gourd.

Eggplant and bitter gourd were planted in a row, and the harvest continued.

After picking, wash it, put it aside, and wait until Su Hui comes back from school at noon and then continue to do it.

Glutinous rice, then steamed kidney beans, black beans and pinto beans until soft and rotten, crushed into mud, kneaded together with glutinous rice into a ball, then added some meat and chopped mushrooms, wrapped in bitter gourd and eggplant.

Sufen glutinous rice was used a lot, and all of them were wrapped to the limit, and they could no longer be supported. All four of them washed their hands and helped to wrap them. After wrapping, they placed them in a pot and arranged them. First, the fire was high, and then the fire was low.

While enjoying lunch, someone knocked on the door, and Dawei's cry sounded.

When someone came at meal time, it was either an accident or intentional. With a swipe of consciousness, they found out who the person was, the newly appointed party secretary of the village.

He also had a lunch box in his hand.

Su An: "..." What is this person doing here?

Glancing at the dishes on the table, she stood up: "Someone is here, bring the dishes into the cupboard." Apart from stuffed eggplant and stuffed bitter gourd, there are no other eye-catching dishes. Zhang Baoguo brought it in and took a The fermented bean curd came out of the jar, and then mixed with a strong chili sauce to cover up the smell of the house.

After a while, when I opened the window again, I could no longer smell the stuffed eggplant stuffed with bitter gourd.

Su An walked to the gate of the courtyard.

"It's the village party secretary, what's the matter?"

Su An greeted him at the gate of the courtyard.

Du Gaozhi smiled politely: "Oh, I was just thinking that we can promote tile burning in our village, get support from the town, and increase everyone's income. I came here unknowingly, and happened to be on your side. It's convenient to lend me a bowl of hot water, I haven't eaten lunch yet." He raised the lunch box in his hand.

A paragraph highlighted his dedication to thinking about the village's problems, and pointed out the key points. He brought his own rations and just borrowed a bowl of hot water.

For this reason, the corner of Su An's mouth tickled slightly: "So it's like this, eh, Secretary, you are here alone now, I don't know how your house will be built in the future, what about your three meals? And now you If you don't go back to the captain, will they wait for you to eat?"

Du Gaozhi: "I told them, I came out with a lunch box, don't worry, as for the future, let's take a step by step, is it convenient to borrow a bowl of hot water?"

Su An opened the courtyard door and let him in: "I don't have anything else here, a bowl of hot water is fine."

"Then I'll trouble you." Du Gaozhi showed a kind smile.

When he came in, he first looked at the dining table.

Sweet potato grains, as well as a jar of fermented bean curd and a jar of chili sauce.

Looking at the jar, he knew that these things were made by himself. He sniffed: "You taste good, it smells delicious."

After speaking, he greeted the four brothers sitting around the table: "Hello."

"Hello, Uncle Zhi."

"Please sit down." Su An took an empty bowl and poured him a bowl of hot water.

They make soup, but since people are here to borrow hot water, just give hot water.

The rations that Du Gaozhi comes with are rice mixed with fine grains and coarse grains, with sauerkraut in the middle, and a few small cornmeal dumplings on the side.

Su Huai asked him to eat fermented bean curd and chili sauce, and he served it very steadily: "How can we do it? We can't eat it, we can't take up a single needle and thread of the masses, and we can't eat a grain of rice from the masses. I have a bowl of hot water."

He generously gave half a xiaolongbao to several children each, and tore it off by hand, Zhang Baoguo looked at it a little embarrassedly.

Su An's mouth twitched, have you washed your hands?

Zhang Baoguo put it back in front of him: "Uncle Zhi, eat by yourself, we're almost full. If we eat your rations, you won't be full."

Zhang Weiguo added: "Uncle Zhi, eat slowly, you can't eat ours, and we can't eat yours."

Du Gaozhi waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay." He smiled kindly: "It's not easy for you to lose your father, what is it to eat two bites."

As soon as these words came out, it was cold, and no one spoke.

It's not quite what he imagined. Shouldn't he say that there is any difficulty in their family, and then hope that he will help him. Should he get their support after meeting their requirements?

Did he say something wrong? Immediately hit haha: "Speaking of which, the tiles burned in our village are fine. If I hadn't said it before, I would have bought them in our village..." One bite at a time from our village, and there is no one from the city before. Pride.

A few of them silently accelerated the action of cooking the rice.

I ate half of it originally, but I quickened my movements and finished it quickly: "We're full."

Su Hui didn't want to continue listening, so she put down the bowl: "Secretary, we're going out to work."

Du Gaozhi didn't complete his goal, he was a little frustrated, but he quickly found a reason for himself.

For the few of them, life is definitely not easy. Otherwise, a womanist family will not go to deliver a baby to find a livelihood. It is estimated that they are forced by life. Under such circumstances, there should not be much mental support. Whatever trouble he was looking for, it was enough, he stood up: "I'm bothering you, I'm going back too."

Although there was no additional gain, he didn't suffer any loss either, he ate all his xiao long bao by himself.

In this way, they are not without merit. Life is so difficult, and they hold back when they see the rare xiaolongbao.

Her children teach well.

Looking at the back of Du Gaozhi's departure, Su An couldn't help twitching at the corners of her mouth. She didn't know what to think. What was he here for?

To be funny?

In vain, it affects their time to enjoy food.

"Mom, he looked at our house carefully when he came in just now." Zhang Baoguo frowned.

Zhang Weiguo shook his head: "I don't like him either. He poked his neck several times in our room, as if he was looking for something."

Su An really smiled now: "It seems that your observation skills are good, keep it up."

Su An's tone of voice was a little casual: "Then think about what he is looking for?"

Zhang Baoguo: "...I just want to find out if there are any irregularities in our family?"

Su Hui gave him an encouraging touch: "Yes, that's why your captain, Uncle, reminded us not to do anything that crossed the line at the beginning. The situation in the city is much more serious than that in our village. As a whistleblower. , they have merit, he just came to our village and needs to do something to stand up, no matter what he finds from us, or who he finds through us, he will not pick a specific person, but it is easier People who are noticed are more likely to be noticed by him.”

"It's the first bird, right?" Zhang Anguo thought of the newly learned sentence

Su An nodded.

He let out a long sigh like a little adult: "I don't like him."

Zhang Weiguo followed with a long sigh: "No, I saw a yellow eel yesterday, it got into the mud, I want to take it out, because he didn't take it out, but I remember the place, next Hope it's still there, no small."

Zhang Dingguo touched his chin: "Is it getting dark?"

Zhang Baoguo looked at him "kindly".

Zhang Dingguo embarrassed: "I'm joking, I remember, I won't go!"

Zhang Baoguo was tired, and the three younger brothers were more worry-free.

Coincidentally, what Su An thought in her mind at this time was: Boss is really reassuring.

With him here, how much trouble would have been saved for her!

"Okay, the two of you are going to take a nap. Your eldest brother and I are going to the ground today." It took a lot of time to make stuffed eggplant and stuffed bitter gourd.

Zhang Weiguo pointed at himself: "What about me?"

"After you finish your homework and feed the chickens, you can play by yourself in the rest of the time. Remember not to bring anything back."

Zhang Weiguo sighed, yes, he still has to do his homework, he glanced at his eldest brother, he hasn't written yet today, and he has to work in the field and write again when he comes back.

It's really hard work. After two years, he will have to live such a hard life. Every time he thinks of this, he envy the two little ones. If he is so old, he can still be happy for several years!

...

Du Gaozhi, who had left, walked in the direction of the educated youth point. He saw several educated youths walking together. He stopped and looked at the educated youths.

Even if he went to the countryside and got tanned, he was still very different from the country people. He could tell at a glance. He looked at the Zhou brothers who were walking on the side with a pity. How could he be a boy? , that must be the most iconic pair of sister flowers in the educated youth point.

Unfortunately, he sighed. He quickened his pace, caught up with them, and took the initiative to say: "You are also going to gather? Let's go together..."