Accidentally Born in the ‘60s:
"Why are you so useless? Why don't you get the corn down the mountain?" Wang Sufen gave Li Muwu an impatient look. As someone who saw the branches stretch and shrink at will without kneeling down, Wang Sufen felt that Li Muwu was a bit too much. cowardly.
Holding his knees and shaking his legs, Li Muwu rolled and stood up, but he still felt a little dizzy when he looked at the rice that had been thrown all over the floor and the potatoes that had been dug out of the soil. Li Muwu trembled and pointed to the grain on the ground, his lips trembling: "This is what our girl made?"
Wang Sufen nodded proudly: "Our daughter is very old, and my mother said that the designated child was born by a god. But you can't tell others about this, and Mu Sen is not allowed to talk about it. There are also our sons. Each of them is getting older every year, and I don't know when to expose this matter, you shut your mouth for me, do you hear me?"
Li Muwu gave Wang Sufen a dull look: "You don't know if my mouth is strict or not?"
Wang Sufen remembered her husband's character that he couldn't hit two farts with one stick, and was relieved immediately, she grabbed her waist, waved the **** in her hand, and looked at the attitude of Mrs. Li: "I am here. Harvest the grain, hurry up and transport it down, how much can be transported before dark!"
When Li Muwu picked up a handful of corn and was about to throw it into the basket, he suddenly saw a rice bowl wrapped in blue cloth in it, and quickly took it out and handed it to Wang Sufen: "I was scared and forgot, this is for you from my mother. Bring food. Take a break and put the child down on the ground, you will always be tired even carrying her on your back.”
Wang Sufen looked at Li Muwu with inexhaustible words: "I'm afraid to put her on the ground, and when I look back on the mountain, she will turn it into corn." But as soon as the words fell, Wang Sufen remembered that Zhen Zhen had made a lump on her back. The branches several meters long seemed unsafe to carry her.
Wang Sufen took off the back towel and put Zhen Zhen in the basket brought by Li Muwu: "Send your daughter home to let Osmanthus watch her, and if I go back late, let Osmanthus make her an egg custard. eat."
Li Muwu responded and put some potatoes that weighed about the same weight as Zhen Zhen in the basket in front of him, then put the pole on his back and walked down the mountain with great strides.
Sitting in the wobbly basket, Zhen Zhen grabbed the basket curiously and looked out. This ancient and lush forest is full of rich products. There are dozens of wild fruits that people know and eat often. , At this time, when the fruit is not yet ripe, the red, yellow and green ones are especially good-looking when hanging on the tree. Zhen Zhen looked at the wild fruit, and then raised her head to look at the not-so-big pine cone growing on the tree.
Remembering the smell of fried pine nuts at home during the Chinese New Year, Zhen Zhen couldn't stop drooling. The few pine cones on the tree grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye under Zhen Zhen's gaze. It fell from the tree and fell into the basket.
Zhen Zhen doesn't know whether she is called a talent or an ability, she doesn't seem to need practice, just like breathing, eating and drinking, she seems to know how to do it by nature. Such an interesting talent makes Zhen Zhen just like a child who just got a new toy, so she will never get tired of trying again and again.
Cape berries, raspberries, shandingzi, sand guava, sorbus, wild hawthorn, grapes and kiwi fruit, the green wild fruit ripens quickly, the decayed fruit regains its fullness, and the ripe fruit is even sweeter. The wild fruits fell when they tasted the best, and rushed into Zhen Zhen's arms.
Zhen Zhen looked at the more and more wild fruits in the basket, her smiling eyes turned into a crescent moon, while Li Muwu, who was carrying the burden, felt more and more wrong as he walked, why does the pole always fall backwards Woolen cloth?
He pulled the pole forward and walked several dozen meters. The basket behind him fell down again. Li Muwu finally reacted. He hurriedly turned his head to look at Zhen Zhen in the basket.
I saw Zhen Zhen sitting firmly with a pine cone in her arms, she didn't know how much she ate in the basket, her face was like a small cat, red juice, purple juice, green juice Intertwined, cute and somewhat funny. And around Zhen Zhen, there are seven or eight pine towers, and there are half a basket full of various fruits.
Seeing that the lantern fruit, which was broken in the past with a single poke, was hanging on the pine tower with no signs of breaking the skin, Li Muwu turned his head back with difficulty, and pulled the pole forward and back to restore the front and rear balance. I ran up and down: "Mother...Mother..."
At the foot of the mountain, Mrs. Li tied the carriage to the tree, and she couldn't help but pick up the small shovel she brought with her to dig up wild vegetables in the surrounding area. As soon as she put the dug-in mother-in-law on the carriage, she heard her son's ghost crying and wolf howling from a distance.
Old Mrs. Li shook her head angrily: "I haven't seen anything in the world! If I had half of his brother's brain, I would be able to worry less about snacks all these years."
As soon as she finished her muttering, Mrs. Li saw Li Muwu appearing in her line of sight as if being chased by a wolf. She rushed down from the mountain in a hurry, and the soil baskets in front of and behind her were swaying up and down. The potatoes in it all flew out.
The starving old lady Li was willing to spoil things like this, and she wanted to scold him as soon as her face changed, but when she was about to speak, she suddenly saw something in the back basket that looked familiar: a man with a red head rope The sky braids, the blue jacket, the tender white skin, the big eyes like black grapes...
Suddenly, Mrs. Li didn't remember anything about potatoes or food. All she had in her mind was the granddaughter she had been looking forward to for many years: "Li Muwu, if you dare to throw my granddaughter out of the basket, I'll break your dog's leg!" The mother's terrifying roar finally made Li Muwu wake up, he quickly regained his senses, and his footsteps slowed down.
Seeing that there was no one around quietly, Mrs. Li couldn't help but scolded her face: "I didn't tell you everything before, why are you scared like this?"
"No..." Li Muwu swallowed hard, not knowing how to explain to his mother: The first wave of shocks has passed, and now he is going through the second round.
Blinding Li Muwu, Mrs. Li went to pick up Zhen Zhen and looked at the half basket of things, Mrs. Li was quite curious: "How come the sand fruit is already ripe in August? Where did you pick the pine cones? It's not too small, and it's quite early to ripen." While talking, Mrs. Li picked up a sand fruit and ate it up a few mouthfuls.
"No..." Li Muwu struggled to organize the language, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was ruthlessly interrupted by Mrs. Li: "This year, the fruit is sweet and the water is still high, you can go after you finish moving the food. After picking some, I scraped it with a spoon and fed it to Zhen Zhen.”
"But..."
"How much did you eat for Zhen Zhen? Look at how dirty this little face is." While speaking, Mrs. Li pulled out a handkerchief from her bosom, poured some water from the kettle, and rubbed Zhen Zhen a few times. His little face was wiped clean.
Seeing that Mrs. Li finally finished speaking like a series of cannons, Li Muwu had a chance to speak: "I don't know where these wild fruits were picked, and there was nothing in the basket when I carried the burden down the mountain. , I was almost there, and when I turned around, I saw half a basket of things, which scared my legs soft."
"Frightened and running so fast!" Mrs. Li couldn't help but grumbled, and looked at the wild fruits in the basket, and even a few potatoes. It was estimated that Li Muwu threw them out. Just somehow fell into the basket behind.
Even she has seen vegetables growing out of thin air, but Mrs. Li really didn't take half a basket of wild fruits to heart. She urged Li Muwu to say: "You go up the mountain to pick something up, I'll go to your Aunt Li's house in front of me and let her Help send Zhen Zhen home. It's already afternoon, it's too late."
Mr. Li hugged Zhen Zhen and walked away quickly, Li Muwu swayed up the mountain with his eyes straight, fortunately, the road to his own field went smoothly, Li Muwu would not be able to do it even if he closed his eyes Walking on a bad road, and picking things up doesn't have to be a brainstorm, so although Li Muwu's head was a mess, he still filled half a truckload of food before dark.
Although there was still some light on the horizon, it was almost dark on the mountain, so Li Muwu hurriedly packed two baskets of corn and led Wang Sufen down the mountain.
Mr. Li was sitting in the car smoking a cigarette bag. When she saw her son and daughter-in-law came down, she quickly lifted the felt cloth and asked Li Muwu to pour the corn into it.
Using the last dim light in the sky, the family finally arrived home before it got dark. Li Muwu opened the door and drove the carriage in, and all the people in the family came out when they heard the movement.
"Nanny, you said we should wait at home to arrange work for us, but we waited all afternoon, and we didn't have anything to do except watch Zhen Zhen?" Ming Bei complained first when he saw his grandmother.
"Zhen Zhen is very well-behaved and never makes trouble, what's the use for you?" Smelling the smell of the food in the house, Mrs. Li didn't even have the heart to hate her grandson, she dexterously got out of the carriage Jumped down: "Go back to the house to eat first."
Washing her face and hands, Wang Sufen hurried back to the east room to see Zhen Zhen. At this time, Zhen Zhen had already eaten the egg custard and fell asleep sweetly, Wang Sufen took a pillow and blocked another layer outside, and then went out to eat.
The evening meal consisted of rabbit meat stewed with potatoes and wild vegetable dumplings left over at noon. Although Ming Bei kept reassuring that Mrs. Li said that she would eat hard today, Osmanthus did not believe his words. Now that the years are so difficult, there is only so much food in the family, and there is nowhere to buy it. If I hadn't thought about my parents and grandma going out all afternoon, I would definitely be tired. Osmanthus was reluctant to serve even wild vegetable dumplings. With such a good dish as rabbit stewed potatoes, we should save food.
Mr. Li was eating potatoes soaked in the aroma of meat and listening to Mingbei's ramble about sweet-scented osmanthus. Potatoes are very sweet with a sip of wine.
After dinner, Mrs. Li wiped her mouth and saw several grandchildren yawning about to go to sleep. She hurriedly stopped and said, "Don't go to sleep first, and go out to work with me." Glancing at Mingdong and Mingxi: "Tomorrow you two should resign when you get paid."
Ming Dong hurriedly said: "Daddy, I still have more than half a month to start school. Is it a bit early to quit work now?"
Looking at her eldest grandson, Mrs. Li showed a rare and happy look: "I will go to Bingcheng in a few days. You also take two days off. By the way, help me with my work at home." Listening to Mrs. Li's explanation, Dong had to Responded.
Remembering that some of my grandson's classmates were also admitted to the university, Mrs. Li asked one more question: "Have all of your classmates bought tickets? Are you going to start school together?"
Ming Dong said quickly: "Wang Jianguo was admitted to Bingcheng University of Technology two days later than our agricultural university, but Li Aijun's Bingcheng University of Technology opened on the same day as me. We took the notice and opened a letter of introduction. We have already bought the tickets, and Wang Jianguo will also go with us, so that we can be our companions.”
Mrs. Li was relieved when she heard that they were going together. She got off the kang and turned on the electric light. She greeted the people in her family and said, "Take advantage of the light to go out to work." I couldn't help but turn around and said to Ming Dong: "Big brother is reluctant to use electricity when he reads books at night. What are you doing now, you can actually use our light bulbs."
Mrs. Li didn't say a word. She walked to the carriage with her hands behind her back, and pulled down the felt cloth covering it, revealing half the carload of corn, potatoes and cabbage.
Mingnan and Mingbei rushed to the carriage in two steps. They touched the cabbage, picked up two more corns, and looked back at Mrs. Li in disbelief: "Milk, this is all ours. home?"
Lady Li looked at her family who had turned into fools and smiled contentedly: "It's all from our family!"
"Where did it come from?" Ming Dong asked, holding the eyes on his nose.
Looking at her eldest grandson, who was always calm, Mrs. Li did not change her face and her heart skipped a beat. .”
Mingdong always felt that something was wrong, and wanted to ask a few more questions. Mrs. Li seemed to see through his thoughts and preemptively blocked his mouth: "Your uncle is taking advantage of the public family and using his luck. The big truck of grain helped us bring the grain back. He and his comrades took a great risk. We didn't dare to make a big deal of the grain, and we could only pour the food back a little bit quietly. You should remember this. Don't let outsiders find out, if anyone implicates your uncle, I will not give him food for a month."
The three brothers Mingxi, Mingnan, and Mingbei nodded their heads as if smashing garlic: "Damn, don't worry, we promise not to talk about it!" Mrs. Li nodded with satisfaction and looked at Mingdong again. Mingdong smiled helplessly: "Daddy, I know the seriousness, and it is specified that the uncle can't take this risk."
Lady Li smiled: "Put the cabbage and potatoes in the cellar, and pile the corn in the backyard. When you are at home tomorrow, peel the corn and throw it into the backyard to dry."
Seeing that several boys in the family have already started to work in full swing, Mu Wu couldn't help but ask: "Don't you send some to Mu Sen's family first?"
Old Mrs. Li took out her cigarette bag and took two puffs. Seeing that the children had all gone to the backyard, she whispered, "We still have ten kilograms of cornmeal and thirty kilograms of sweet potato noodles left in our house, so you can divide half of these to give to us. His family sent it to the emergency, and let him come over to get the food after we dumped all the food back. Your younger brother of the province believes that you really have to follow to pull the food, and it will be revealed by then."
Wang Sufen looked at Mrs. Li with admiration: "Mother, your brain is so good!"
"That's right!" Mrs. Li raised her head proudly: "If I hadn't been smart, Zhen Zhen would have been able to give birth to our family!"