My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 435 Relatives

  Dragon Boat Festival in previous years was simple, except for making zongzi and visiting relatives.

  Because it will soon be devoted to the busy farming of wheat harvest.

   Even when many girls come back, they go back to their natal home to see if they need help.

  I want to go to the temple fair and go to the dragon boat race, but I don't have time or thought.

   This year is pretty good.

  Dragon boat rowing is arranged for them by the county, so they don't need to worry about the busy work in the village.

   And the year is good, so don’t worry too much about harvesting wheat this year.

  In addition, every family has made money again this year, and they have enough confidence to receive relatives, and feel that they have face.

  So the enthusiasm of the villagers rose immediately, making this year's Dragon Boat Festival a big one.

  Everyone cleaned up the village, just like Chinese New Year.

   "Yes, the Book of Earth is the same as binding a sparrow, go."

   "That's fine, they're going, and Rui Rui is going too."

   "Wow, you can't set up a stall to sell zongzi."

   I also knew how to hear it, so I ran there.

  As Gao Xiulan answered, she and her two daughters-in-law put rice dumplings on the outside of the pot.

   Apart from the arrest of these tomb robbers recently, there is nothing new going on outside the village.

  So today I also stewed a small pot of mutton, and the ground was a little slower.

   Tired from running, he hid under Xiaodong's chair like a big dog, tilting his head and laughing inside.

   He breathed a sigh of relief and finished drinking the honey water.

  Wang Qingzhong came over with a kettle, "Dadong and the others also came over. The honey produced by the wild bees raised by their uncle is generally bad, and the honey water is so bad to drink."

Seeing this, Ruirui wanted to join in the silence, but how could I make zongzi? Even those of us who made crooked zongzi wrapped in lotus leaves could do it, so she stood up with a big face and ran to Deng Ye. People followed, pointing at Wang Susu and said eight times: "Father, mother, Zong Zong..."

   "Oh bad, mother, go and hold him some hay."

  But the two eldest nephews played like crazy in the past two days. Together with Ruirui, they followed Deng Yeyue to herd sheep and ran around with Wang Susu.

Gao Xiulan and her two daughters-in-law put two or eight grass rings on the bottom of the small iron pot. Xiaodong burned some plant ash in it and made some grass alkaline water. Asked: "What's the matter, mother, what did they do with that?"

   Xiaodong's face is full of concern, and I know what to say.

  Wang Susu, we also want to play along.

  On the seventh day of July, it was daytime and nightfall, almost every household was like that, and the whole village was shrouded in the air-conditioning with the fragrance of rice dumplings.

In those two days, Deng Ye also came to us and said that it was too hard for the seventh son to run the single gang. Let us discuss with the seventh son, whether to let me find something to do.

  In the front yard of the farm, the lights are on in the kitchen.

   When it comes time to ask, let me not worry about it.

These are two groups of reporters who have been here before. They said that they heard that there were tomb robbers here, who brought explosives into the mountains and so on. Some play, and take the opportunity to come and play.

   "Ruirui is going to run away too, give him uncle, uncle seven, two teeth of watermelon."

  The little family has already finished talking about the old days. Didn’t they talk about the busy farming for a few days today, harvesting wheat, and picking peaches in the peach orchard.

  It is like bacon, if it is hung in a cool and ventilated place, it will be good if it can be stored for ten and a half months.

   "Put that in, the zongzi will stick to the bottom when cooked, it's burnt zongzi."

  The big thing is holding a big piece of watermelon and gnawing on it, with his **** bare, shaking the big bird, running around, busy.

   Talking and laughing while eating.

   This pride and pride almost made Wang Cunye and his brothers almost choke their rice.

  Because there are no food, play, or various stalls around the stage, the attraction to the big doll is self-evident.

  …

  People began to come over on the second day of May.

   "If it's broken, it's going to make trouble, take a break and drink some water..."

  Following, a small family made rice dumplings, Xiaodong chopped firewood, and came to make rice dumplings with the boy.

   It was because Ruirui and Dadong's eight big guys blocked them, so they could only wait anxiously.

  The child of Dadong also eats from a young age. The rice dumplings from grandma and in-law’s family are all like that. After getting used to eating, he couldn’t help but ask for it.

   "You want it too, it's Dadong."

  When Deng Yeyue and his wife saw their youngest son like that, they couldn't hold back their laughter. We were used to the son-in-law's style of doing things, so we didn't bother to persuade him long ago.

  When the big thing saw the rope, his eyes lit up, and he looked up at me: "Dad, Queque?"

   One chased and the other ran, and after a while, the two Dadong also joined and retreated, shouting to Shou Ruirui to end the chase, and the big milk baby ran and yelled.

   After a while, Wang Qingwen’s family went through Dadongdi for a long time before he swallowed his saliva and said loudly: “Grandma, if you make two more grass-alkaline rice dumplings, you want to eat the rice dumplings made by him.”

   It’s Guo Wang Cunye’s two families. Others love to eat, and they like to eat a pot with rice.

   "If something happens, you take the dog, someone dares."

   "Haha, little brother, seventh brother, their nephews are grown up, they don't know much. He sees that I run slowly...Ruirui, little aunt and seventh aunt can also be forgotten."

  The wheat is slightly yellow, so men look at women.

   "You also need to make a mark, that is the Tongtong card."

  The scale of the tourists was beyond everyone's expectation.

  I was a little shocked just after the end, but I was numb when I came here.

  Deng Yeyue smiled and said to her two sons that the apricots grown by her son-in-law are only sold early, and the price of this sale is less than that of other families.

  For example, Li Min, the female leader of the flood control command.

   It's all waiting for someone to lose their bones.

  After eating the watermelon, I took a rest in the cool outside the yard, and waited for dinner.

Deng Ye's family was eating the steaming pot, surrounded by a small group of dogs, except for the dogs of Xiaodong's family, the big yellow dog that Deng Yeyue had not yet brought over, and the dog of Zhao Xiaohai, the bobcat, were also there. To stay there is to go.

  Not only them, but also many people who had been to the village before, rushed over two days in advance.

   Few people are very economical.

   Let Xiaojia laugh for a while.

  A small family had a great time wrapping up the zongzi.

   July 7th is Duanyang.

  Even if the seventh elder treats me like a half-son, hearing what the son-in-law said, I still feel a little comforted.

  Gao Xiulan asked Zhao Yubao and the old guys to go to the opera.

   "Yes, then he should go to school early to study the Earth Classics. He is far weaker than his father. The seventh uncle's family has no horses. This horse can climb mountains. I can take him to ride outside the mountains every day."

  Eat zongzi and sprinkle sugar.

   "Bad bad bad, Rui Rui is so good, stupid and sensible, let's go with my uncle that time, is it bad that my uncle takes him to school?"

  In the evening, the breeze is blowing, and the tired birds return to their nests.

  It’s a worry to sell it.

  At that time, the dog at the table grabbed the bone and lay down on the ground to chew.

   Just eat the meat in small pieces with the rice, and then pour the broth on the rice, it tastes very delicious.

The two families calculated the accounts in private, and the more they calculated, the more alarmed they became. Even Wang Cunye couldn't bear it, and went to Deng Ye to persuade him: "Lingzi's farm is so profitable now, don't let you delay it, you live here. Is it the same outside the village? These guests should be allowed to stay and stay as soon as they come, anyway, they also spend money, and they are entertained for free, and they didn’t have the opportunity to talk about it before.”

   "It's bad, it's bad, I want to slow it down, Dad will give it to him, and that is the Ruirui brand rice dumpling."

   Another one is not barbecue.

  The whole family ate with a depressed heart. There were few tourists inside, and the silence returned to silence. The villagers were in a hurry to make money, and it was none of our business.

  Wang Qingwen smiled and tugged at his sister's hair when he saw this: "Haha, let's find his brother-in-law to make a fire. There is no water tower over there this year. Mother has long said that it is a rice dumpling made of grass and alkaline water."

   deliberately teasing us.

  But we thought it would make sense to pay such a small amount of money for a few days in the farm.

   What is common about grass-alkali water rice dumplings? It is not made of grass-alkaline water that is burned with hay stalks or something.

  It is especially ripe with wheat and apricot yellow. As a result, I have sold it for less than half a month.

   Show us off.

  Xiaodong laughed as soon as he heard it: "Brother, what did he say? It's difficult for our family to spend the holidays together. It's time to reunite. When will the money be earned? I care about those few days."

  With the continuous addition of firewood, the flames in the stove jumped slowly, and the fire became vigorous.

   Needless to say, this group of people was recruited by Sun Yanhong.

   It's grass-alkaline rice dumplings that don't have a very unique taste.

  During the year, it is rare for relatives to get together a few times, no matter how little money you earn, you can still throw your relatives aside.

   There are not many miscellaneous people. I know few people, but I know even less.

  We are also very well behaved.

  People eat under the table, dogs wait underground.

   Going to the villagers’ house to stay and eat, calling people out to play, this one-stop, that one is familiar.

  Before we saw it, he immediately grabbed it with his big hand and hid it in front of us, smiling at us.

  I lived in Deng Ye Farm for those two days, and I ignored all the things outside the village and the farm.

On the seventh day of July, before breakfast, Gao Xiulan and Deng Yeyue took out the reed leaves that had been soaked in mountain spring water for two days, and put them down by the table as spares, hanging one by one with water. The reed leaves of the pearl are green and ready to drip.

  After hearing this, Gao Xiulan hit me with chopsticks, saying that she was ashamed in front of her son and daughter-in-law.

Ruirui is quite well-behaved today, although it is a family banquet, there is so little attention, I also have to sit down at the table, and I sit next to the table with my two big cousins, and there is a big table with my own big basin. I raised my head and grabbed Xiaodong or Deng Yeyue's clothes, and then the two of them would put the food out of the bowl for me, and I would grab a meal with my hands, and my big face was full of oil.

  …

   "Oh, Lingzi, I'm only that old, always telling the children what to do."

  The father-in-law and his family are all upright and benevolent. Although the brother-in-law is gentle, he doesn't think much about his family.

  This year the farm’s water tower can’t be used as a refrigerator, so it’s naturally wrapped like that.

   "It's something, this year let them use lotus leaf bags. The complexity of lotus leaves is the same as folding ingots. It's not much worse than making dumplings."

  The two families of brother-in-law and brother-in-law also came early.

   "They are going to play. Wash your hands and come over to eat watermelon. Look at that sweaty one."

  Deng Yeyue immediately pretended to be angry and put the lotus leaf outside her hand, rushed over and yelled: "Chou Ruirui, you have been so good since you were a child, it seems that you are beating him."

   "Brother-in-law, let's see if the zongzi wrapped in lotus leaves is bad or not, you have to make a mark, that is Wang Susu brand zongzi."

  Wang Cunye also laughed, and I felt sorry for my sister with a serious face, so I said, "If I'm afraid that the kitchen is cold, I'll follow you to make zongzi there, anyway, Xu went out and ran around."

   They all sold for less than 20,000 yuan.

  After eating the meat under the bones, people just throw the bones and the like into the ground.

  Before the eight-person yard broke down, poured out the clear water that had zongzi in it, covered the pot, and said, "Let's light up the fire and cook the zongzi. For those with grass-alkaline water, just pack some enough for the big guys to eat!"

  In addition, it is mentioned that the apricots planted by Xiaodong are sold too early.

  We haven't heard much about alcohol.

   "It's okay, Dadong wants to eat, so let's pack a few more for them first."

  I immediately became depressed, grabbed one in one hand, held it low, and ran around behind Wang Susu's eight heels.

   "Woo, uh~"

  Gao Xiulan glanced at the older man, saw your eyeballs rolling wildly, and knew that your mind had already drifted into it, so she snorted heavily.

  Gao Xiulan said with a smile.

   They all complained about my father, saying that he was closer to Xiaodong's son-in-law than his own son, and let the son-in-law take care of him in the past.

  This year, Wang Jusheng and his family planted watermelons on the river beach.

  Xiaodong responded and lit the fire.

   Just waiting for our two families to come. Before coming, Deng Ye played around in different ways.

   sold wine.

  That is also bad, not because it is too wasteful to drink in summer, but also too time-consuming.

  Gao Xiulan said there was a problem.

   There are also guests brought by Tian Hongli. They felt threatened by Sun Yanhong, and they rushed here in order to get closer to Deng Ye.

  The seven big boys came obediently and lined up, waiting for a drink of water.

   Tongtong and Dadong are the same.

   Today the theater troupe came and babbled and sang a small opera on the old stage in the east of the village.

   There is also Yu Bangjin who came to buy a dog.

  Some time ago, there was a "poof, poof" noise outside the pot, bursts of refreshing rice dumpling fragrance accompanied by steaming air-conditioning permeated the kitchen, and drifted away from the window lattice.

Then let me sit up and pour me a cup of tea: "Don't think about it anymore, Susu has missed them for a long time, and Zhenzhen and her parents have missed you too, so just live there and play around during the holidays for a few days , Brother, he thinks...the people living in the house retreat and make less noise, our family's conversation and eating will be affected, so don't come alone."

  The two also said privately that their father and mother write letters twice a month, and they really do. I heard that my brother-in-law made some small noises. I saw each other in half a year, and now the business of the farm is so small.

  Wang Susu had a solution, but pouted, leading a bunch of big dolls and carrying big benches, willing to come over to help.

   He was talking, but when he saw the big nephew bringing the watermelon, the corners of his mouth were still grinning.

  He was still frowning at the dinner table, thinking heavily.

   "Give that to him too, mom."

   Then wash the glutinous rice, candied dates, and red dates, and put them outside a basin before draining.

   "This year we use hay. The few of them will honestly come over to help you make rice dumplings. If you don't, then ask his brother-in-law and two older brothers to light the fire."

   "It's hard to learn how to make zongzi, you can learn it well."

My aunt and uncle have less bad things to do outside the house, and there are few bad things to eat, and the elder brother is still very cute. We are both happy and satisfied in our hearts, and we laugh childishly and cheerfully from time to time. There is no other request .

  Whether it’s beef, mutton, pork, or fish, I think it’s fun for a family to eat like that.

  The sun was slowly setting, and before returning, Ruirui and Ruirui were playing outside the yard with a few frogs.

  The farm is very cool.

   "Really, they are going out to play today, and there are few people in there. Let's abduct them. His father will take care of him after hearing the show."

   July 7th, Duanyang.

  Xiaodong also thought that there would be so few people suddenly.

  Tongtong and Dadong grinned and said yes, our uncle cooks meat for us every day, and we have been so greedy for a long time.

   "This year his uncle said that he should make less meat dumplings. The meat has been marinated. At that time, he will be a greedy cat. If he eats less meat dumplings, he will eat more grass-alkali water dumplings. Grandma will settle the score for him."

   Zongzi wrapped like that can last longer than special rice dumplings.

  Because it was cold during the Dragon Boat Festival.

   Some well-proportioned and beautiful lotus leaves that Xiaodong picked, are full of fragrance.

  The villagers cared so little, and they were immediately happy seeing this, and they had no money to make.

  The mutton and beef outside the water tower have long been piled up.

  So they called Wang Jusheng, Chen Jiang and others, and sent us to pick watermelons outside the melon fields in Laohewan.

  Deng Ye stuffed a bunch of thin rope around the soles of the shoes to his son: "Ruirui, he went to give it to the aunt, and the two elder brothers helped hold the rope and tied the rice dumplings tightly."

  Xiaodong soaked two watermelons at the spring in the morning. At that time, he took one of them and cut it up, preparing to relieve Xiaojia from the heat.

Anyway, no matter which group of people they are, they don’t need to go to the farm for a stroll and play. Unfortunately, Deng Ye’s relatives are here and they are preparing for the holidays. They even have accommodation for us, let alone food. It meant to open his mouth to receive us.

   The older couple pinched my big cheeks with a smile, then each made a big rice dumpling and stuffed it for me.

Seeing this, the leaders outside the county were both depressed and worried. The road was damaged, but so few people came, and there were too few cars blocked outside the county, and they had to send people to collect them outside the village. How much did we suffer? scold.

  (end of this chapter)