Chapter 1347 [1346] Rural Consumption (4000)

After the Lantern Festival, the eldest brother and the second brother reluctantly came to hug her and kiss her because school was about to start and they couldn't play with her at home during the day.

Their area is not a mountainous area, nor is it poor. Several production teams have built a school together, and everyone does not live on campus. There are five years of primary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of high school. This is the schooling system after 1958, and it will last until 1970.

In 1978, middle school was changed to junior high school and high school for two years each. In 1978, junior high school was three years and high school was two years.

In this era, the school system will change almost every few years, and the country is so big that every place is different. I can only say that in general, although the eldest brother is eleven years old and the second brother is nine,

Because of the difficult conditions and debts in the past few years, we have never had the opportunity to go to school. The two of them are now in the second grade together and will enter the third grade in the fall. Fortunately, they are not too stupid, so the two brothers studied together. Motivation

Quite adequate.

Moreover, in this era, the age of primary school students is also very diverse. It is normal for teenagers to go to the third or fourth grade. The purpose is to recognize a few words and be able to do arithmetic. No one thinks that their children will become talented and have to go to college or something.

Dad suffered the disadvantage of being uneducated, so he worked very hard to study in literacy classes. Otherwise, he would not be able to get the job he has now if he couldn't read tractor reference books. After he realized that studying can really change

After the current situation, they said that no matter how hard it is, they must send their children to school. No, the two brothers have only started to go to school for two years, and they also said that they will send their children to school when they are three or seven years old.

The tuition fee per semester is currently three yuan, and you have to pay for books and other expenses yourself.

No one attended the Yuhong class in the countryside, so it was not opened.

Dad started working in the production team on the 15th day of the first lunar month. During the first few months of the year, he was allowed to go out to look for work. After the new year, he was not allowed to go out because you are a member of the commune and you need to report when you go out.

There are also many tasks such as weeding, watering, and fertilizers that need to be busy. As the deputy captain, the father naturally has to take the lead.

When her father was busy, her mother naturally had to be busy too, so the third brother carried her on his back to dig for artemisia and shepherd's purse in the river beach. When she was hungry, he gave her steamed bun crumbs and water. Country children are not that delicate.

When he comes back from outside, he carries him to his mother to feed him. At this time, he usually goes to sleep.

After she fell asleep, her brother took her home. This was how she lived every day. Of course, she didn't want to be restrained like this. As long as they put her in the seat, she would stand up with her legs crossed and turned outwards.

Later they placed her next to the bed. Although her legs were not very flexible, she seemed to be able to hold the bed and walk.

In order to walk as quickly as possible and get rid of the trouble of carrying and hugging her everywhere, she is not a real child and rarely wants to be carried by others. She wants to do everything by herself, so while her language skills are improving by leaps and bounds, although

The weather was getting warmer day by day, and as soon as she took off her heavy clothes, she miraculously started walking.

Less than 11 months old, in February, when her family was having dinner, she walked up on her short legs, surprising her brother so much that he didn't dare to speak, and pulled her mother's hand to show her,

So, the whole family applauded her happily.

After she could leave, the first words her parents said were: "You guys, put away the scissors, knives, dishes, chopsticks, etc., and don't let her choke. Now that she can leave, it's exactly

When you are curious about everything, you have to be careful."

Ding Wei rolled her eyes in her heart: "Please, I'm not a real child, how could I be curious about those things?"

After she learned how to walk, her two brothers protected her the whole time. They liked to hold her hand and carry her wherever she went. She would only turn around and stretch out her hands for a hug when she was tired.

Usually, the third brother holds her, and the fourth brother carries her, and they alternate between them. Moreover, she doesn't drink much breast milk now, so she just eats normally. She may feel that she is too old and is not embarrassed, so one day

She doesn't feel like she's missing anything if she doesn't go to see her mother late at night. While other children can't give up night feeding at night and still touch it while eating, she can already sleep with the meals at home until dawn.

My mother told my father more than once that this child is here to repay her kindness. She has been caring for her since she was a child. How could she have such a considerate daughter?

One of her favorite things now is to sit in the yard and watch the hens looking for food, eating ants and bugs, chattering their sharp beaks back and forth, which is extremely satisfying.

Chickens are not allowed to be let out for fear of losing them. In these crazy times, everything is meat. A leper in the next village stole someone's dog, but the dog didn't catch it. He also got rabies because of the dog bite and disappeared. Things like this don't happen.

few.

Although their village is not rich, it is not poor either. It is not to the point where every household can open its doors without fear of thieves. They have also developed the habit of locking their doors when they go in and out.

Because no one is used to saving money in banknotes, every household has its own place to hide money. After her eyesight improved, she was able to tell where her mother hid the family's money.

In winter, when they don't work and the children are at home, they have one meal at 10 a.m. and one meal at 4 p.m., two meals a day. Only she has extra meals.

Nowadays, those who go to school go to school, and those who go to work go to work. It has not yet reached the busy farming season, and the canteen is not open for meals. They cook at home. Their family has three meals a day. In the morning, they have vegetable wotou, porridge, and stir-fried pickles with mustard dumplings.

Noodles at noon and steamed rice porridge at night.

This vegetable nest is made from shepherd's purse, gray vegetables, and white wormwood dug from the ground by their children, mixed with sweet potato flour, and corn flour to make a steamed bun. Only hers is made of white flour, because white flour is not suitable for her age.

, easy to digest.

Probably because she is the baby of this family, she has never been hungry since she was born. On the contrary, when the half-grown children are old enough to eat, the food at home cannot keep up with their consumption. Sometimes my mother

They all had to divide their share equally among the three children, but the eldest brother and the second brother felt sorry for their mother. They refused to eat and insisted on letting her eat. The result of the fight was that the father also gave some of his share to the three children.

With two children, each parent gave up half of the share to the children. What a pity for the parents in the world!

When her brothers took her out to play, it was early spring, so the tips of some grass sprouted with white hairs, which tasted soft and sweet. The thatch dug out of the river beach was also part of their snacks.

There was no way, there was little food, so the children tried their best to find snacks for themselves.

Grass sprouts are also called hair needles. Although they are called differently in different places, they are particularly delicious. Her brother can pick a handful for her and let her sit next to them and slowly peel and eat them. The two of them go pick shepherd's purses and dig out the white sprouts.

If you see snails or snails in the shallows of the river, you will take off your shoes and touch them. Anyway, children in rural areas are like this. They climb up and down every day and are very active.

If it weren't for her poor energy and getting sleepy when tired from playing, her brothers would probably not know how to go home until dark. Children of this era are still happy. Although their lives are not good and they endure hardships, at least their spiritual world is happy.

You can play casually every day, there is not much homework, and there is not so much pressure to study. Although the future generations will live a prosperous life, their spiritual world is under as much pressure as Wuzhishan.

After so many lives, Tang Yuan still feels that she is the happiest in her rebirth, especially at this age. She doesn’t have to think about anything. She just eats and sleeps and sleeps and eats every day. How happy she is!

There are many wild vegetables in spring. In this era of food scarcity, if you are not diligent, you may not be able to catch anything.

There are shepherd's purse and white mugwort in the first and second months; in March there are Chinese toon buds, paper towels, elmgrass, gray cabbage, wild amaranth, and willow trees; in April there are locust flowers; in May and June, the vegetables have all come down, and there are peppers and tomatoes.

Eggplant, beans, cucumber, etc., very rich.

Whoever has a lot of children can run far away. There are also a lot of wild strawberries and snake berries in the grove, but the mushroom master won't let them pick them casually. Although there are a lot of mushrooms after the rain, especially in the river beach woods, it's simply...

It is a paradise for fungi. Even if parents allow it, only the ones they know are allowed to be collected. Those they don’t know are not allowed to be touched at all, because they will be poisoned if they are not careful.

Moreover, snakes were everywhere in this day and age. She saw with her own eyes the children surrounding a snake. Not only were they not afraid, they even picked at it with branches. She pulled her brothers and shouted "Run". In fact, she was not afraid either.

I'm just worried about them being bitten, it's too dangerous.

In the end, an adult came over, killed the snake, and carried it away, hoping that there would be a good snake soup to eat in the evening.

"When my sister got scared, she knew she would pull her brother and run away. You are so smart."

On the way home, the third brother put her in a backpack and the younger brother carried today's spoils in a basket. The older brother praised her as he walked, but she fell asleep due to excessive fatigue.

Her parents had already cooked and waited, and whenever they saw her sleeping, they would nag her brothers to tire her out.

"Your sister is still young. Don't let her walk such a long way. Don't be tired. It's time to grow taller. If this girl grows shorter, it will be difficult to find her husband's family. Try not to let her walk more in the future.

, do you know?"

"Mom, don't worry. I carried her on my back when I went there, and I carried her on my back when I came back. She also played for a while in the woods, and I asked her to pet her. I won't make your precious daughter tired."

Her mother's breast milk naturally disappeared due to her resistance. She was too tired to get up to eat, but there were no snacks in the countryside. After dinner, it was a cold pot and a cold stove. Her mother used hot water to wash her face and wipe it.

She woke up when she was holding her hand and had dinner with her family, but she couldn't sleep and felt energetic again.

The brothers wanted to take her out to play, but her mother held her in her arms and wouldn't let go.

"Okay, if I want to trick you, if Weiwei doesn't go, I'm worried that you will lead her wild. What will happen if she doesn't get home in the future?"

"Mom and Dad, you have been working all day. Are you not tired? Hold her again."

"Why are you tired? I haven't hugged my daughter for a day. I want to hug her for a while. You guys can do whatever you want. I'll take her out for a walk."

After the weather warms up, everyone will take advantage of the dawn to eat their meal. After the meal, they chat in the village in twos and threes. Even if there are no street lights and the road is uneven, those who are familiar with this rural road will not go the wrong way.

Groups of people chatting, this is probably a rare moment of peace during the slack time.

There are many trees planted in rural areas, especially paper mulberry, locust tree, toon tree and other edible trees, including tung tree. When it blooms, both adults and children go to reach for the flowers, and the children suck the silk inside the stamens.

Silk flower honey, adults blanch the flowers and make vegetable cakes, steamed buns, and dumplings. When you eat them, they have a faint floral aroma. I can't say they are particularly delicious, I can only say they are not unpalatable.

In an era when food was scarce, anything that was not poisonous could be used for cooking. For example, the tips of broom seedlings growing wildly on the roadside, the tips of wolfberry grass, pig tail grass, and noodle dishes have all become the first choice for cold dishes.

After blanching, it can be served cold, or directly mixed with flour and steamed in a pot. This seems to be a skill that every housewife knows.

There was no light soy sauce in this era, it was all soy sauce and vinegar, because the north was not as refined as the south, and the soy sauce was divided so finely for coloring and seasoning. Here, soy sauce was used for stir-frying, and salt was used for cold dishes.

Vinegar, garlic chili, and even sesame oil are luxurious.

Salt is coarse-grained, which is relatively cheaper. Few people buy fine salt. It is more than twice as expensive as coarse salt. It costs 40 to 50 cents per catty, while coarse salt costs 13.1 cents per catty and soy sauce costs 2 cents.

Mao, eight cents for vinegar.

In the place where soy sauce is made, a colander is a pound, and it is weighed. However, there are also some people who are a little clever and secretly tamper with it. After working in a place like the supply and marketing cooperative for a long time, they will find some loopholes to supplement themselves.

Soy sauce is more expensive, so when cooking, you just need to pour a little bit on it, as long as it has a color and flavor. Vinegar is relatively cheap, so the appearance rate of cold dishes is always more than that of stir-fry dishes all year round, because stir-frying costs more oil and seasoning.

The cold dishes only need salt, vinegar, garlic, and chili to create a good flavor.

In fact, things are much better in rural areas. During the Chinese New Year, more lard is squeezed out, which is enough to last half a year. After eating, we can find ways to squeeze out some rapeseed oil.

Oil is very valuable in this era. In the city, you need oil stamps. In places like the countryside, you will grow some rapeseed in private plots. However, there is little land and the rapeseed grown cannot produce much oil. It cannot be sustained.

If you are young, you can only live without the smell of oil.

A lot of salt is put into lard when it is fried, so it lasts from winter to spring, or at most until spring, and it cannot be eaten in summer.

Mom just needs to put a little bit of pork in the pot to moisten the pot when cooking. Except for the meat that can be eaten in the first month, after entering February, meat is rarely eaten.

Occasionally, I would improve my food, and that would be when I caught fish, shrimps, crabs in the river, or fried eggs or something. Meat was almost impossible to find in rural areas where meat stamps were not available. Last winter, I trapped five or six rabbits, and finally...

Not one of them was willing to eat, and all of them were given away by my father or secretly sold on the black market.

The brothers had no complaints about this, because their father brought back five kilograms of sweet potato noodles and five kilograms of cornmeal. These are ready-made grains. After exchanging meat for grains, rural children will sympathize with the difficulties at home and eat one more.

Steamed buns or steamed buns are both very satisfying.
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