MTL - Accidentally born in the ’60s-Chapter 36 36
It snowed again soon, and the weather was even colder. Mrs. Li didn’t let her out of the house when the sweet-scented osmanthus was born. Now Beicha is the coldest time. Frozen is the most likely to freeze the body. With so many people in the family eating, drinking and washing, Osmanthus always felt that it was not safe to stay in the house. After hearing about it, Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen went to the back room to persuade her: "There are so many people in the family, whoever helps If you can do the work, where can I use you."
Old Mrs. Li touched her grandson's chubby face, and agreed: "Your mother is right, you just keep it in the house and wait until the spring is warm before the new year. It’s not too late for the house. You will be in good condition, and you can support as much as you can, like we were confinement and hid in Tibet at that time, I don’t know how many root causes have been left.”
Osmanthus said: "I listen to the milk, but the meat bun is easy, I am also bored in the house, if I can't, the milk will bring the fabric to the house, I will make clothes for you, my mother I've been busy day and night for a while, and I can't find time to spare."
"It's okay, your mother has drawn the size, you can just do it." Mrs. Li went to the front room to get the fabric and put it on the osmanthus kang, and asked two more words: " The front and back of the windows are covered, and the room is too dark even with the lights on, just do a little bit a day, don’t rush too much, it will save you bad eyes.”
As soon as Osmanthus agreed, she heard the door open, Wang Sufen went out to take a look, and saw Zhen Zhen swinging in with her military water bottle in her arms. Wang Sufen quickly took a towel and knocked off the snow on the padded jacket on Zhen Zhen's hat, and kept nagging her: "Why don't you listen to the radio in the house with such a heavy snow? What are you doing outside?"
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Osmanthus smiled and put the meat bun in Zhen Zhen's arms, let her hold the baby for a while and then put the child on the kang: "Zhen Zhen is fine, just stay in sister-in-law's house, let's talk , my sister-in-law will tell you a story."
Wang Sufen and Mrs. Li had no time to spare. Seeing that Zhen Zhen was willing to stay in the back room, they would go with her. Before Mrs. Li left, Hai asked uneasy: "Wait for dinner. I'll pick you up, don't go out on your own, what can you do with your head stuck in such a heavy snow."
Zhen Zhen obediently agreed, and when Mrs. Li left, she turned around and leaned on the hot kang holding the meat bun's little hand and chatted with Osmanthus: "Sister-in-law, you have been in the house for more than a month. Are you bored?"
Osmanthus sat on the kang tip and opened the clothes, took out the scissors and cut it along the line drawn on it: "It's not boring, when the meat bun was born, my brother and I were not allowed to work day and night. It's a luxury to stop and sleep well. After half a month, he's slept longer, and your elder brother and I can talk and talk during the day."
"What are you talking about?" Zhen Zhen lay on the kang and asked Osmanthus curiously.
Osmanthus smiled and glanced at Zhen Zhen: "Little girl has inquired a lot." But she looked at Zhen Zhen's sweet smile, and still said to her in a detailed way: "Your brother Tell us about their school and working on the farm."
"Is my eldest brother learning to farm?" Zhen Zhen asked again while watching Osmanthus take out a needle and start making clothes.
"Cultivation is only part of it." Osmanthus quickly sewed her clothes and explained to Zhen Zhen with a smile: "There are many other classes. When Zhen Zhen grows up and goes to school, you will know, go to school. It's an interesting thing.”
Zhen Zhen silently calculated her age, she was born in the early 1960s, before the age of school, when the Cultural Revolution arrived, she estimated that she was destined to be a dropout child.
In a good year, several children in the family ate all of them and gained weight.
After fifteen, the Li Mulin family should return to Bingcheng. Every day he goes up the mountain or hits the sledge on the ice. After learning the bad news that he is going back to the ice city, the wild and homeless Mingxin hugged Mrs. Li and cried to the death. Anyway, the second brother is going to go to school in Bingcheng, so let him be my father's son." Mingxin said while throwing himself on Li Muwu: "Second uncle, I will be your son from now on, don't drive me away, I will be with you. Go up the mountain to catch rabbits."
Li Muwu looked at his nephew hanging on his body and couldn't help crying, so he could only rub his head awkwardly: "Wait for your father to bring you after the holiday, and the second uncle specified not to drive you."
"Second Master, do you really want to have more sons?" Ming Xin looked at Li Muwu with tears in his eyes.
Li Muwu glanced at his younger brother, whose face was darker than the bottom of the pot, and quickly pulled Mingxin off and stuffed it into Li Mulin's arms: "Second uncle has two more sons than your father, if you were a girl, I would Just changed." Li Mingxin looked up at his father and cried out with a wow.
Li Mulin dragged his son out with a dark face: "You despise your father so much?"
Li Mingxin pumped sadly: "We don't have roasted rabbits at home."
Li Mulin stuffed this son, who didn't want his father in order to bake rabbits, into the cart, turned around and said goodbye to Mrs. Li: "Mother, we're leaving now, and come back in summer One trip."
Mr. Li smiled and nodded: "In the summer, I brought their brothers and let them go with Mingnan to swim in the big river, catch a fish or something, and it's delicious when grilled." Li Mingxin, who had just collected his tears, started to cry again. Li Mulin looked at the old lady and felt that she did it on purpose.
After saying goodbye to my mother and Li Muwu, Li Mulin said to Li Muwen, "Brother will come to stay at Bingcheng in a few days." Li Muwen smiled and said, "I will visit your house then. "
Seeing that everyone was almost talking, Li Musen said hello to Mrs. Li: "Mother, then I sent the fourth brother to the train station?"
"Go." Mrs. Li waved her hand: "Get to the train station early, otherwise you won't be able to catch the train."
After the Li Mulin family left, the old Li family suddenly stopped a lot, Mingnan and Mingbei didn't go out to the field all day, sitting at the table desperately to make up for the winter vacation homework. Li Muwen stayed with Mrs. Li for a few more days. Seeing that the first month of the month was coming, Li Muwen had to leave. Mrs. Li took out the gold bar that Zhen Zhen had given before. Such a big gold bar could not be exchanged in the Beicha area. If it was sent to Bingcheng, Li Mulin would have no way to go. Another Zhang Chunhua had shallow eyelids and broken mouth. , Mrs. Li was really worried about letting her know about it. After thinking about it, Mrs. Li felt that it would be more reliable for her eldest son to handle this matter.
Sure enough, Li Muwen only raised his eyebrows after seeing the gold bars, and he naturally put it away and asked Mrs. Li, "What do you want to exchange for it?"
Mr. Li smoked the cigarette bag: "Change some money, it's not enough when the money is short, and then buy some things for Zhen Zhen, you know more about what things are good, change the ready-made Just send it home. Another one, if there is a sewing ticket for me, I will buy one when I change the money, and I will sew and mend clothes to make clothes.
"Mother don't worry, but if you change the money, you can't send it back in one lump sum. It's too noticeable." Li Muwen thought about it and said, "First, send some to my mother on a monthly basis, When I come back in a year or two, I will bring the rest of the money to my mother."
Lady Li nodded: "Just do as you said." The mother and son negotiated and Li Muwen took Li Mingxi to Bingcheng.
Mingxi studied well in the first place. During the winter vacation, Mingdong gave him the content of high school again, and focused on the weaker areas of Mingxi. After Mingxi arrived in Bingcheng I passed the transfer exam of Bingcheng No. 6 Middle School very smoothly.
Li Muwen helped Mingxi to go through the admission and boarding procedures, and took him to Li Mulin's house two days before the start of the school to recognize the door, and asked him to take care of Mingxi more often, and the children came home It's time to make more delicious food to improve your life. Li Mulin also knew his wife's virtue, and patted his chest to ensure that he would handle the affairs of his nephew himself, and that Mingxi would not be wronged.
Li Muwen still has something to do in the army. After finishing his nephew's affairs, he returned to the army. When the school started in Mingdong, Li Muwen also took time out to invite his nephew and his younger brothers to have a meal together, and then gave Li Muwen a meal. The old lady sent a package, and then reluctantly left her hometown and set foot on the train to Fujian.
The weather is getting warmer, Mingbei was greedy for the big fat pig for the Chinese New Year, and urged Mrs. Li to catch another piglet and come back. Tai jumped out at the light and put more than 20 fertilized eggs on the west kang in the back room, ready to hatch chicks at home.
The next stop to the base of the window is a proud look.
Zhen Zhen looked at the braised chicken nuggets with her head held high, and couldn't help but sneer at it: "It's all eggs from chicken soup, potatoes and chicken, you look at it for you. "
The little mung bean of the braised chicken nuggets glanced at Xia Zhen: "They can lay eggs every day, but without me, can there be so many kinds of eggs for you to hatch chicks? It's not me, I'm old It's amazing, you can see that your father has worked hard for more than 20 years to give birth to your five children. I have only struggled for more than a month, and 20 or 30 children are no problem."
Zhen Zhen invited a few grasshoppers to add food to the braised chicken nuggets, watching it eat one bite at a time, looking at it with a wicked smile: "My milk has already saved enough eggs, in the future this hen You'll have nothing to do if you lay eggs."
A piece of braised chicken nuggets was caught off guard, so he grabbed a whole grasshopper, stretched his neck for a long time before swallowing it, Zhen Zhen laughed and ran back, the braised chicken nuggets In a hurry, he didn't even eat the remaining grasshoppers, fluttering his wings and chasing after Zhen Zhen: "If you don't bring this, people have finally changed their ideals in life, and it doesn't count if they can be casual. It's over."
When they reached the front yard, Mrs. Li was directing Mingnan and Mingbei to build a new chicken coop with wood. Back to the chicken coop. After a while, all kinds of thumping sounds came from the chicken coop, and Zhen Zhen's face instantly turned black.
Spring really is a good time for all things to grow. Mrs. Li successfully took out twenty chicks and gave half of them to the third child, Li Musen's family. It was only a few days ago, and Liu Xiulan checked again. When they were pregnant, Mingrong and Mingguang were worried about sending the chickens away, so they took the initiative to feed the chickens and clean the chicken pens.
Old Li's family still secretly collects two crops of grain a year, and the food stamps are exchanged for industrial stamps and cloth stamps. Li Muwu's monthly salary is basically the same as buying some meat and non-staple food every month. No more spending money elsewhere, and the gold bars Li Muwen took were also exchanged for a lot of money, but he couldn't come back for a while, so he could only send money and things back on a monthly basis. Mrs. Li dressed up Zhen Zhen. There are new clothes to wear from the beginning to the end of the year, and the children around like to lean in front of Zhen Zhen.
In a blink of an eye, in the summer of 1964, Zhen Zhen's upturned braid had turned into a double ponytail, and she was feeding the chickens in the yard with a fat white bun. In those batches of chickens, only the braised chicken nuggets were still alive and strong, and they looked very energetic. Not to mention the shiny feathers, the hairs on the tail were particularly brightly colored, and the big cockscomb on the top of the head was fat and big. Looking back at it, I couldn't help drooling.
Osmanthus stroking her slightly bulging belly came out of the house with a pot of wild vegetables, Zhen Zhen ran over and took the pot in her hand and poured all the wild vegetables into the chicken trough , she smiled sweetly at Osmanthus: "sister-in-law, what do we have for lunch?"
Osmanthus looked at Zhen Zhen's white and tender smiling face and smiled involuntarily: "What do you want to eat, tell my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law will make it for you."
Zhen Zhen thought for a while, picked up a bucket and carried a small net out: "I'll go to the big river to see if you can catch fish and shrimp?"
Once Mrs. Li heard it, she quickly came out of the room: "Treasure, you can't carry the bucket, and the milk will come with you."
Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li helplessly: "Honey, I'm already six years old, and you're still a treasure all day long, it makes people laugh."
"How old is the treasure of milk." Mrs. Li couldn't help breaking up and snatched the bucket in Zhen Zhen's hand: "The milk is just a granddaughter like you, what is not a treasure?"
Meat Bun ran over with his chubby legs, stretched out his arms and hugged Zhen Zhen's thigh: "Auntie, Meat Bun is going too."
Zhen Zhen pinched and pinched Meat Bun's chubby face, and kissed him in Meat Bun's expectant eyes: "Grandma and aunt can't hold you, wait for you on Sunday. Fourth uncle is on vacation, let him go behind your back."
Meat Bun flattened his mouth, but he was still obedient and did not cry, Zhen Zhen patted his head and shouted into the yard: "Braised chicken nuggets come to play with Meat Bun. "
The braised chicken nuggets reluctantly glanced at the group of half-sized little hens around him, took a step and moved back to the side of the meat bun, and the meat bun looked at the braised chicken nuggets and his eyes suddenly As soon as it lighted up, chasing after its beautiful tail, it began to catch, and the braised chicken nuggets helplessly accompanied the meat buns to play the game of "I run, you chase" for the 101st time.
Osmanthus sat at the door of the house washing clothes, watching her son and the big **** running around the yard, she couldn't help laughing: "Honey, you can see that our big **** is very human, our family is Zhen Zhen It can understand anything you say.”
Mr. Li took a puff of cigarettes: "I've been raising it for two or three years, how can I be smart? I'm looking at it in a few more years." Zhen Zhen touched her nose and led Li Mingzhong rushed out of the house.
The weather is fine today, but the adults are all going to work, half of the children are going to school, and the four- and five-year-old children are not worried about going to the river by themselves. When Zhen and Mrs. Li went to the river, they didn't see many people.
Li Mingzhong has grown a lot in recent years, and he looks tall and mighty and can scare many people, but Zhen Zhen always thinks Li Mingzhong is tall and does not have a brain, except for his incomparable hunting performance Other times, anything but stupid is stupid. Arriving by the river, just as Zhen Zhen found a good spot, Li Mingzhong jumped into the river with a thud, splashing a splash of water.
Zhen Zhen couldn't avoid it, was splashed with water, rolled up her trousers, twisted the water on her head, and roared at Li Mingzhong: "Silly dog, come up to me."
Li Mingzhong turned back and glanced at Zhen Zhen, showing his big white teeth, stretched out his two front limbs to dig water. Zhen Zhen was angrily laughed at by Li Mingzhong, she took off her shoes and wanted to go into the water to chase after her, but Mrs. Li hurriedly hugged her: "It's not that hot at this time, the water is freezing, so what to do, put on your shoes quickly. "
Zhen Zhen's white and tender little feet stepped in the water and smiled at Mrs. Li: "Milk, the water is not cold, I won't go down to chase her, I'll just put some fish and shrimp here. something."
Lady Li then let go, handed the small net to Zhen Zhen, and put the big bucket next to her, Zhen Zhen held the small net and stretched it into the water for a few minutes When you fish out, you will find a net full of fresh shrimps.
Mrs. Li filled some water in the bucket, and looked at the shrimps jumping in it, a little puzzled: "Why do you like shrimps so much, there is not much meat in the ones that have to be peeled and headed? ."
"It's delicious, it's delicious to boil with water." While Zhen Zhen was talking, she caught another net of shrimp, Mrs. Li looked down, good guy, how long is one finger? The big prawns in his body weighed two or three kilograms. Just as he was about to say that it was almost enough, he saw Zhen Zhen suddenly stood up and looked at Li Mingzhong's direction with excitement.
