MTL - Accidentally born in the ’60s-Chapter 24

Zhen Zhen didn't see the sweet-scented osmanthus for more than half a month. After eating, she waited for Wang Sufen to wash her hands and face and climbed to the side of the sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus. Try to hug her neck.

Osmanthus smiled and held Zhen Zhen back in her arms, kissing her chubby face twice: "Do you miss my sister-in-law?" Zhen Zhen smiled and stretched out her chubby hand, holding A yellow-orange girl tried her best to stuff Osmanthus into her mouth.

Osmanthus bowed her head and hugged it, picked up Zhen Zhen to look at the things she brought back, and saw that the kang in the north was full of red kettles, enamel washbasins, A spittoon, sheets, quilt covers, pillow covers, and a plastic mirror with red peonies on the back. Zhen Zhen stared at the things on the kang in a stunned manner, she couldn't think of how many cloth bags Mingxi and Osmanthus were carrying before they brought them back.

Osmanthus opened an oiled paper bag and took out a few pieces of fabric. When Mrs. Li was full, she quickly washed her hands and came over to take a look. She carefully shook off the little flower cloth on top and measured it from left to right on Zhen Zhen's body, her eyes were seamed with a smile: "Look at this The flowers printed on the top are so vivid, it makes our Zhen Zhen's little face look so beautiful."

Zhen Zhen also looked down, the foundation was printed with red, green and blue flowers. Although it looked rustic, it was already an amazing style here, let alone in Beicha District. , you can't even buy it in Idon City.

Ms. Li picked up the red lantern velvet cloth and compared it to Zhen Zhen, and began to ponder: "According to what I said before, the lantern velvet cloth is used as a cotton-padded jacket, and I still have it in the box. There is a red cotton cloth that your uncle sent a few years ago, it is very soft, so use that as a lining for Zhen Zhen." Then she picked up the pink floral cloth: "The lantern velvet is thick, just wear it directly, you don't need to use this good material as a coverall. , When the spring is warm, use this piece of cloth to make a jacket for Zhen Zhen, and it will look good when you go out and in."

Zhen Zhen nodded again and again, only Li Muwu is the only employee in the family, cloth tickets and industrial tickets are paid with the salary, one year's leadership is only enough to make a suit of clothes, sometimes at most The two cloth heads are patched. The clothes that I was born and wore were all dismantled and refurbished from the old clothes that my brother wore. Although they were clean and very soft, the color was either black or gray. Zhen Zhen felt that wearing them on her body really affected her weight. cute doll.

You and Mingdong's new jackets are made in the house, so you don't need to worry about these things at home."

Osmanthus looked at the things in the yard and knew that there was a lot of work at home, she pulled up her hair or helped Wang Sufen pick up the table: "I have been sitting all the way back, not tired. Where are you going, you are tired of harvesting crops at home."

When Wang Sufen thought of the harvest in her own field, she immediately closed her mouth with joy: "If there is such a good harvest every year, I am willing to be tired."

Two people came back home, and the work speed was much faster. Li Muwu took his three sons to pick up grain in the back yard all day long, and the three of them took turns pushing the stone mill to thresh the grain. , By the evening, the clothes on his body have been soaked in sweat and can be wringed out of water.

Mr. Li and Wang Sufen are in front of the house to clean up the vegetables grown at home, the storage that should be stored, the pickling that should be pickled, the drying that should be dried, and the vegetables that should be eaten in winter. , the pickled cabbage was also marinated, and Wang Sufen flooded a jar of kohlrabi lumps, which can be eaten by shredding in winter. When the spring is green and yellow, it is also a good dish to fry it with lard.

Osmanthus sits on the kang with her hands and feet neatly cut out, layer upon layer of cotton wool, Zhen Zhen sits on the opposite kang, eats fruit obediently, and lies down when she is full On the windowsill, I watched Li Muwu and his three brothers work.

When it's cold, it can definitely resist the howling north wind and snowflakes in winter, even if it's a blizzard. It's just that although the thickly-pasted newspaper blocks the wind, there is one thing that's particularly bad. The newspaper is too thick and can't let in light, and the room is instantly darkened. .

Just after November, Li Mingdong came back from Bingcheng. Mrs. Li, who was sitting in the kitchen, heard the door open and looked up when she saw her eldest grandson coming back. The broom swept the dirt off his body, and asked him hastily, "Why are you back so early? School is on vacation?" Then he shouted again: "Osmanthus, hurry up, Dongzi is back."

Osmanthus also heard the voice, put down the half-made shoes and greeted them. The two had just talked for half a month, and then they separated for two months. Mingdong and Osmanthus They had already thought about each other in their hearts. Mingdong was talking to Mrs. Li, but his eyes kept glancing at Osmanthus. When Osmanthus came back from Bingcheng, Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen didn't let her do any work outside. Much cleaner. In addition, these days, my hands have not done any other rough work except needlework. After scalding them with hot water at night, I smeared a layer of Gala oil from Mingdong, and the slender fingers became more and more white and tender.

Ming Dong's eyes fell from Osmanthus' face and fell on her hand, which had been empty for two months. Osmanthus looked at Ming Dong staring at herself without blinking, her face was a little red, she pursed her lips, and her voice was like honey: "Brother Ming Dong, are you back?"

"Hey! Well, are you okay at home?" Mingdong asked stupidly.

"Very good." Osmanthus looked at Ming Dong with watery eyes, and she almost hooked Ming Dong's soul away.

Zhen Zhen was lying in Wang Sufen's arms, looking at her eldest brother and Osmanthus, they looked at each other so affectionately, the blushing and the ears were congested, but no one took a step forward, Now, Zhen Zhen is so anxious, will she fall in love? Can you hold a hand? At any rate, consider the feelings of the onlookers, okay?

Unfortunately, not all the people in the old Li family are as meticulous as Zhen Zhen, the two just said three words, Mingnan and Mingbei came in from the outside, and the spectators went to Mingdong He jumped on him: "Brother, why did you come back so early? The second brother hasn't had a holiday yet."

Ming Dong threw the two boys off, only then did he see Li Muwu and Wang Sufen standing behind him for an unknown length of time, so he quickly stood up and shouted, "Dad, Mom."

Wang Sufen grinned happily: "Don't block the door, go into the room and talk on the kang."

Mingnan and Mingbei scrambled to deliver the luggage to Mingdong's house, the family slipped on the kang, Zhen Zhen got down from Wang Sufen's arms, climbed to the middle of Wang Sufen and Mingdong and sat down.

Ming Dong glanced at Xiao Budian who was sitting next to him, smiled and patted her head: "It's only been a few months, Zhen Zhen has grown quite a bit."

Zhen Zhen opened her mouth, revealing eight small teeth: "Brother!"

"It's so good!" Ming Dong dragged a schoolbag that was placed on the edge of the kang, took a piece of candy from it and handed it to Zhen Zhen: "Hide it up, don't let your third and fourth brothers see."

Zhen Zhen took the candy and put it in the small pocket of her clothes, and then leaned against the sweet-scented osmanthus, listening to the adults. Mrs. Li saw that the candy paper looked very delicate and didn't look like a cheap thing, and asked quickly, "Where did the candy come from?"

Ming Dong said: "The candy ticket given by the fourth uncle, I bought a dozen pieces of toffee for Zhen Zhen to keep, and the rest I bought ordinary fruit candy, and waited for the wedding day. guest."

Once Mrs. Li nodded, she said regretfully, "I forgot to explain to your fourth uncle. If you have some good cakes, I will bring back a few pieces. , just love these delicate things."

Wang Sufen looked at the white and tender Zhen Zhen and couldn't help but smile and said, "It's all her mother's accustomed to, Dongzi and the others can eat enough when they are young, so they won't be fools anymore. Dare to choose any coarse grains and fine grains, they can't sleep if they can make three big pancakes."

Mr. Li tutted: "The little girl has a thin throat, it's different."

Zhen Zhen touched the toffee in her pocket and listened cheerfully to the adults, just listening and listening, Zhen Zhen realized that her sitting position was getting smaller and smaller. Zhen Zhen raised her head and looked at Ming Dong, only to see that he moved and moved, the closer he moved, the closer he got to the osmanthus flower, Zhen Zhen was squeezed unbearably, and crawled into Mrs. Li's arms again, sure enough, just sitting firmly here, there Mingdong was already close to the osmanthus.

Once Mrs. Li saw that her grandson was different from her awkward appearance, she also felt that he was enlightened, and suddenly felt that it was not in vain to let Osmanthus go to Bingcheng, and both of them had to be happy in this marriage. Just be happy.

"Okay, Mingdong is very tired when he just came back, Dongzi mother, you go to cook, Mingnan and Mingbei go to add firewood to your mother. Osmanthus and Dongzi, you two enter the back room Let's discuss about marriage, and see if I can take a photo in the street or something." Mrs. Li touched the cigarette bag and pot, but she saw her granddaughter put it down in her arms. She hugged Zhen Zhen and also got off the kang: "Let's go, I will take you to the East Room to eat pine nuts."

Old Mrs. Li left, and the others followed, Ming Dong stretched his neck and glanced, seeing that the door was also closed, so he took the courage to hold Osmanthus' hand: " I originally wanted to write to you, but I was afraid that Mingbei would open it up and read it."

Osmanthus' little hand did not dare to move in Mingdong's hand, her eyes fell from the clasped hands of the two to Mingdong's face, revealing a bright smile: " Then next time you will write Osmanthus Collection, and only give me a letter."

"Okay!" Mingdong nodded earnestly, suddenly he remembered something, and quickly let go of Osmanthus' hand, pulled over the schoolbag and turned it over a few times, took out a small flower handkerchief and handed it to Osmanthus' hand inside.

Osmanthus opened the handkerchief, and saw a yellow round iron box inside, which looked very delicate, she looked at Mingdong in surprise: "Crossing cream?"

"En!" Ming Dong looked at Osmanthus, who couldn't put it down, and grinned happily: "I wanted to buy it for you last time, but I didn't have enough money. I bought it for you before going home."

Osmanthus was moved but also a little worried, she looked at Ming Dong's obviously haggard appearance, and boldly reached out and touched his face: "Have you lost a lot of weight? Is it for the sake of buying Isn't this enough to eat?"

"I'm full, really, we collected carrots on the farm a while ago, and after a while, we dragged one to the water and washed it before eating. Do you think you can be hungry?" Ming Dongchao winked at Osmanthus, Osmanthus grinned, and just as he was about to take his hand off, Mingdong took advantage of the situation and grabbed it back into his palm.

Although Osmanthus is a generous and refreshing girl, she is embarrassed to be looked at by someone she likes holding hands like this. Seeing her, Ming Dong felt itchy in his heart. He just wished he could get married sooner, so that he could kiss her in an upright manner.

In the east room, while Zhen Zhen was eating the pine nuts that Mrs. Li had peeled for herself, she regretted that she didn't see the scene where the eldest brother and Osmanthus were in love. With hooked eyes and a shy face, it must be fun to be alone.

Ming Dong went home, and preparing for marriage became the top priority of the old Li family. When it was just cold, trucks pulling grain and non-staple food finally entered Beicha In the district, for a while, people ran into the streets with food stamps and meat stamps.

Old Li's family received two crops of grain in a row, and both were bumper harvests. The family's grain reserves are enough to eat for a year next year. But there are not many people like Lao Li’s family. Although they have had a bumper harvest this year, they are all self-developed wasteland. The land is large and small, and some are lazy and only grow in the yard. Some families live together for three generations. , a dozen people still have seven or eight and a half children, and no matter how much grain they grow, it is not enough for this family to eat. Mrs. Li was thinking about not going to buy food this time. She only kept some food stamps to buy some biscuits and cakes for Zhen Zhen every month. I can get some more stuff for the house.

In this day and age, basically every household is short of food stamps, and Mrs. Li only goes to the people she is usually close to, sits on the kang, and then turns to the topic after talking for a while. After a day of kung fu, I exchanged a bunch of tickets, bought a bunch of things, and exchanged a few sunflowers grown by myself.

Put it in the kangqin.

Everything was packed, and seeing that the wedding day was getting closer and closer, it was time to take wedding photos. Ming Dong and Osmanthus got up early in the morning to boil water and washed their heads. Osmanthus sat by the fire After roasting for seven or eight minutes, the fingers are deftly braided.

The Beicha District is large in area, but with a small population. There is only one bustling street in the street. Grain stores, non-staple food stores, barber shops, cooperatives, and photo studios are all next to each other. Many people get married in winter, and the photo studio is lively for two days at this time of the year. When Ming Dong and Gui Hua arrived, there were three pairs of young people lining up in front of them.

, Sitting neatly on the stool, but when he made him laugh, his face was uglier than crying. The photographer taught me over and over again, and when I finally put on my face and took the picture, I was tired of sweating.

After waiting for half an hour, it was finally Mingdong and Osmanthus' turn. Mingdong took a picture when he was in high school, and he also took a picture when he arrived in Harbin. When the Osmanthus family was in decline, it would always be photographed two or three times a year, and the two of them would sit shoulder to shoulder, showing the sweetest smile.

The photographer breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pressed the shutter when the two of them laughed the sweetest.

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The days went by so fast, and soon it was Laba, which happened to be Zhen Zhen's birthday. Zhen Zhen still clearly remembered the day she was born, when Mrs. Li said she had a good birthday, she was born on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the time of the year when there was no shortage of grain and rice.

Zhen Zhen has no worries about starvation, but she didn't expect that she just turned one year old, this ability has been upgraded. Originally, Zhen Zhen could only see everything outside when her consciousness was out of the body, but today she just woke up and was startled by the scene in her mind.

The entire Beicha District appeared in her mind like a 3D model. She could clearly feel every mountain, every river, even every tree and grass. Their existence, the hare hiding in the burrow, the flying dragon on the branches, the still fish in the water, the blind bear in the deep mountain, and the Siberian tiger, she can perceive it clearly.

She just wanted to see what the Siberian tiger looked like, the location of the Siberian tiger was instantly drawn closer in her mind, Zhen Zhen looked at it as if she was standing next to it as real, only Seeing the Siberian tiger staring closely at a yellow sheep, it carefully bowed its body and looked like it was about to prey.

Seeing the yellow sheep in front of me who didn't seem to know the danger, Zhen Zhen was a little greedy. This time he was born into the Li family, and Li Muwu and his brothers also brought back wild things, but this yellow sheep has never been hit. She used to be so young that she couldn't eat meat, but now her teeth are growing fast, and a pair of small teeth appeared just after her birthday, so she had to eat meat to satisfy her cravings.

Zhen Zhen couldn't help but feel a little itchy, she looked at Huang Yang and wondered how she could get her home. As soon as I had this thought, the yellow sheep seemed to be under control, and I saw it running all the way down the mountain, very cleverly avoiding the place where people were walking. After going down the mountain, Huang Yang still kept running at a high speed, and didn't stop until he ran to the door of Lao Li's house. This means that the door of Lao Li's house is made of red pine wood. If it is replaced with a thinner board, it is designated to hit a big hole.

At this time, Mrs. Li was in the kitchen discussing with Wang Sufen about Zhen Zhen's birthday, and in Beicha it was a good time to celebrate the old man's birthday. Young people and children did not pay attention to this. But Mrs. Li thought that Zhen Zhen is not only the treasure of the family, but also thanks to her, at the most difficult time of the year, the whole family was not hungry, otherwise, what would it be like to worry about the city? .

"You will roll out a bowl of noodles for Zhen Zhen later." Mrs. Li said, smoking a cigarette bag: "Make the noodles softer, and put a poached egg inside. As the old saying goes, this child celebrates his birthday young. You have to wrap your legs around noodles, so you won't die easily."

Mother-in-law was willing to celebrate her child's birthday, Wang Sufen naturally agreed, and the two were talking when they suddenly heard a "bang" from the outside door, which was knocked open for some reason, Mrs. Li I stopped smoking the cigarette bag, took it down and knocked it on the waistband of my trousers, walked to the door, pulled the big padded jacket hanging on the door, put it on my body, and went out.

Li Muwu goes out to fetch water every morning, the door is not locked when he opens it, he only takes it with him when he goes out. When Mrs. Li came out, she saw that the door of her house had been knocked open, and inside the door lay a yellow sheep with a bleeding head.

Old Mrs. Li is so happy now, there is no need to hunt and the prey will be delivered to her door, why is it such a good thing. She was squatting there and looking at it, when several neighbors heard the movement and came out to look, and saw the sheep lying in front of Lao Li's house, they were envious: "Aunt Li, who beat such a big fat sheep? Mu Wu went up the mountain again in the morning. ?"

"You said that this is not unusual, this yellow sheep didn't know what to do, ran down the mountain and hit my door and died." Mrs. Li proudly dragged the sheep up: " Oh, it's not too light, and Dongzi will not be short of meat when it comes to his wedding, so he will come to drink the wedding wine at that time."

"Oh, Mrs. Li, your family is also very lucky, I don't think your family has been short of meat this year." A family standing next to him stared straight ahead: "You Tell me if your place is good, or why would you bump into yours?"

Mr. Li was too happy: "Isn't my house near the avenue, if I go to your house, I have to turn a corner."

"That's not that good." All of a sudden, everyone around was laughing, and some of them were looking at the early morning, and they were going to go home and ask the gentlemen to go up the mountain with a wild gun and see if they were still there. Can you meet a yellow sheep who is more stupid than a stupid roe deer? "

Mr. Li took the yellow sheep into the hospital, and shouted a statement: "Go and see if your father has brought water back, and let him kill the sheep quickly."

Mingbei put on a dog-skin hat, put on a big padded jacket, and ran out.

"Eat!" Mrs. Li grinned happily: "Today your sister's birthday, let's make mutton dumplings to eat."

Li Muwu carried a load of water and just walked halfway, when he saw his younger son running out of breath and told him to go back and kill the sheep, Li Muwu immediately threw off his steps, and when he returned home, he threw the bucket there Running to the yellow sheep in the middle of the yard.

"This is a good thing." Li Muwu was delighted: "This yellow mutton is fragrant and tender, I will clean it up, and we can eat it at noon."

Zhen Zhen sat on the kang contentedly: How can I not eat meat for my birthday! Braised lamb must have a pot!