Rebirth of the Auto Giant

Chapter 27 Washing Leather Shoes

Since everyone had to work in the afternoon, after a short break, everyone went to work in the fields. Even his sister went to herd cattle for the commune, leaving Wang Shi alone in the family.

The Wang family has three houses, arranged in a zigzag formation at the intersection. Facing the alley is the kitchen, a room with walls built of thatch and yellow mud, and a thatched roof.

Wang Shi walked inside. Due to burning firewood for a long time, the long strips of thatch pulled down from the roof were covered with black soot, like strips of black caterpillars.

The stove is also made of yellow mud. There is a lead pot for cooking porridge and an iron pot for cooking. There is a bundle of firewood next to the stove. The stove is fairly clean.

Next to the stove are two water tanks one meter high and sixty centimeters wide.

There is another cabinet on the left, which is a cupboard. Because it is made of wood, the sealing is not very good. When I opened it, I found a few cockroaches moving around inside.

The life of rural people is like this. You can't look at it from the perspective of city people. The reason why we could have such furniture in 1979 was because my father was retired from the army and he still had the money he sent back every month.

Otherwise, many ordinary homes would simply use a triangular stove made of three stones.

To the left of the kitchen is the ancestral house, with two rooms. One is where his father sleeps, and the other is where rice and other furniture are kept. Thinking it is a warehouse, Wang Shi found several large vats inside and opened the lid of the vat.

The oiled peanuts, shelled cooked peanuts and White Rabbit toffee that I brought back were placed in a large vat, and the two single rooms were separated by partitions.

Opposite the ancestral house is the room where my younger siblings and mother sleep.

At this time, few people had cement floors, and the open space in the middle was compacted with loess and stones for drying rice.

This is a very traditional rural area in the Northeast, and the air is good. Wang Shi nestled under the shade of the trees and felt the quaint Northeastern countryside.

Wang Shi took a rest and started to get busy, planning to light a fire to cook.

Now that I am the only idler at home, I will naturally be the cook.

I thought of the four kilograms of white pork meat I bought, chopped into pieces, fried in oil and put in jars, the three kilograms of lean meat, cut into two kilograms, and the rest marinated with salt.

The life of rural people is like this. You can't eat everything at once, pickle some and serve it to the guests when they come.

There are also some wild vegetables and white radish at home, which are more delicious when fried with lard.

Thanks to Wang Shi being single and having good cooking skills due to the food he had eaten in his previous life, he worked hard for a long time and finally finished the meal.

Seeing that the water tank was empty, Wang Shi walked toward the well with a wooden bucket.

The well is at the bottom of the village, and the Wang family is in the middle of the village. The distance is not close, so Wang Shi walked all the way down with the bucket.

"Wang Shi, where are you carrying water?" An old man in Xiangkou Village asked in surprise when he saw Wang Shi, a boy carrying water.

This is Grandma Lin, a five-guarantee household. She is about seventy years old this year. She has lost all her teeth and her lips are sunken. I heard that her father used to be a big landowner. When she got married, she had several carts of things with her.

The house she lives in now was also built by her father.

"Yes, grandma, I'm the only one at home now, so I can't carry water." Wang Shi stopped and looked at the other person, and finally stopped to chat with the other person for a while.

The five-guarantee households in rural areas are the most pitiful. Unlike later generations, as long as you have money, there is nothing to worry about if you have no children. You can go to a nursing home at most, but this is not possible in today's rural areas. My wife passed away early, and now she is the only one left at home.

, maybe I will die one day and my house will stink, and no one will notice.

This is an old man with a lot of stories. It is not easy for her to have someone to chat with. When she is happy, she will talk about anything. The more she talks, the happier she becomes.

"Grandma, I'll go fetch water first. When I fill the water tank, I'll come over and chat with you, grandma." Wang Shi saw that it was getting dark and he would get off work in a few hours.

"How can a man carry water? Don't you have a little flower? Let her pick it. Sooner or later it will be done anyway, so what's the harm in doing it earlier." The old man was a little reluctant and wanted Wang Shi to chat longer.

"Hey, let's talk about it later."

In the evening, when his family came home from work, his mother saw Wang Shi cooking a pot of white rice and blamed Wang Shi for living like this.

The second brother Wang Jianjun was better and behaved very calmly, while the third brother Wang Jiandang and the younger sister Wang Lijun seemed to be celebrating the New Year.

"It's time to eat!" Wang Shi brought the food to a dining table that was half a meter wide and one and a half meters long. "What's wrong with father?" Wang Shi asked, unable to see his father.

"How can my father be so fast? It will be later. The members of our third team have to go to the commune. As the captain of the team, my father cannot go home so quickly." said the younger sister Wang Lijun.

It turns out that my father is the captain of the third team of the commune. After the commune members come back from work every day, they will register the centimeters of the day. Everyone has a booklet in hand, signed by the captain himself. During the harvest season, the centimeters of today will be calculated based on the harvested grain.

The centimeter value of the grain is then distributed to each household.

Over at the commune, my father saw that all the members had registered, waved his hand and said, "That's it for today. Everyone has been tired for a long day. The summary meeting will not be held. Everyone has worked hard, so go to bed early." After that,

, knocked the tobacco rod in his hand and stood up.

"Uncle Wu, why don't you say a few words today? This is not your style."

"That's right, we're not sleepy. Let's talk. It's a bit uncomfortable for us if we don't say a few words."

"that is."

Everyone also knows that Wang Shi brought a lot of delicious food when he came back today, and as usual, as the captain of the team, his father would not leave the meeting until he said it would last ten or twenty minutes.

"Hmph, let's go, go back and drink." Father also knew that everyone was doing this on purpose, so he snorted and left.

Wang Shi walked out of the house and walked towards the commune of the third team. He met his father on the way, and the father and son walked home.

When I got home, it was getting dark, "Oh, I wish I had bought a household appliance in the county town." It was dark all the way and I couldn't see the road clearly, but my father was walking on flat ground and was not afraid.

Stepping on cow shit or something.

"What are you doing, mother?" When I got home, except for a kerosene lamp on the dining table, the rest of the place was dark, and my mother was sitting on a small bench not far from the door, washing something.

"Let me help you wash your shoes." The mother didn't stop, and the sound of water came. "Really, you don't know how to wash your shoes when you come back so dirty. I really don't know how you live in Beijing."

Wash shoes?

Wang Shi frowned and thought about it, shouting in his heart that it's his own leather shoes!

"Hey, my good mother, these are leather shoes, you don't need to wash them." Wang Shi quickly came to his mother and snatched the leather shoes from her hand, "Mom, you know, I can't even wear them for a year."

You're going to ruin it quickly." I bought these large black leather shoes at a supply and marketing cooperative for 40 yuan in Beijing when I came back. I didn't wear them for long, but my mother came to do this.

You think they are rubber shoes, wash them with water.

"Ah? What...what should I do?" After hearing Wang Shi's words, the mother wiped her hands and stood up.

"Hmph, ask questions about things you don't know. Don't wash them all the time. Leather shoes are not like rubber shoes. Once you wash them, they can be worn for another year. Now they can be worn for up to two months. Humph." My father had seen it before.

A worldly person looks at his mother and says, "Eat." Then he sits in the middle of the table.

"Mom, it's okay, I'll be fine in the sun tomorrow." Wang Shi comforted his mother when she saw that she was still blaming herself.

The father sat there and continued: "Leather shoes are polished with shoe polish, not washed. You know, I have never seen the world."