Accidentally Born in the ‘60s:
With the words of Zhen Zhen, the melancholy of the relatives' separation for many years and the excitement of the mother and son's reunion after a long absence were all disturbed by her. Wiping the corners of her eyes, Zhen Zhen suddenly found that the room was a little quiet, she raised her head and saw that the adults in the house were all looking at her with bewilderment.
Zhen Zhen threw the handkerchief, saw Mrs. Li standing beside her and didn't regain her senses, she quickly pushed her: "Mother, you should hammer my uncle and cry and say that I'm cruel. Son..."
Li Muwen couldn't help laughing out loud, he bent down and hugged Zhen Zhen who was standing beside his thigh in a red padded jacket and braided upside down, kissed her white chubby cheek, turned her head Ask Mrs. Li: "Mother, this is the girl from the Muwu family? She's not too old, and she's quite funny."
Zhen Zhen wiped her face with the handkerchief, then turned her head and asked Mrs. Li, "Mother, this is my uncle who hasn't come home after 20 years of walking? He looks quite kind."
While wiping the tears on her face with her hands, Mrs. Li patted Zhen Zhen's buttocks with a smile: "This child likes to be a demon, your uncle is going to beat the Japanese devils, you can't help yourself, He's not the same as your fourth uncle's unfilial thing."
Zhen Zhen smiled and put her arms around Li Muwen's neck: "I know, my uncle is an anti-Japanese hero, as I often say."
Old Mrs. Li laughed, took Li Muwen's arm and let people into the room: "Look I'm so confused, I blocked the door and started crying. Muwen, come in quickly, let's go to the kang and have a good chat. Nag. Mu Wu asked your wife to cook more dishes at noon, stew the fish, and kill the pig tomorrow."
Mu Wu responded and went out to explain a few words to Wang Sufen, and then quickly called Ming Nan and Ming Bei to go to Li Musen's house to pass a word. Li Muwen took off his military coat and took off the hat on his head and put it on the cabinet in the room. Mrs. Li pulled him and sat cross-legged on the kang: "Tell me, how have you been all these years?"
Zhen Zhen heard this and was about to start chattering, and immediately went to take out her small bowl filled with pine nuts and hazelnuts, and brought a large enamel bowl with various dried wild fruits in it. Putting everything on the kang, Zhen Zhen took off her shoes and climbed up, sitting behind the two of them, excitedly grabbing the dried blueberries and stuffing them into her mouth.
It's not really her gossip, it's mainly because she doesn't watch TV or listen to the radio at home in this era. In addition to playing silly with her two silly brothers at home, she just whispered with Li Mingzhong all day long. It was really boring and boring.
"In the early years, I followed the army to fight devils and went to many places..." Li Muwen picked up what he could say and told Mrs. Li in general, and didn't even mention any injuries or guilt. Mrs. Li knew that it was impossible for her son to fight for so many years without being injured. But the son doesn't mention her or ask, it's good to be safe and sound.
"Are you still in the army now? Why did you come back suddenly this time? Didn't you say hello to the family in advance?" Mrs. Li was a little nervous pulling Li Muwen, for fear that something might happen to him.
Li Muwen patted the back of Mrs. Li's hand reassuringly: "I took a mission in the second half of this year, and I have been in Beijing. I performed a mission in the Bingcheng army in the winter. The report said that I haven't been home for more than 20 years, and I want to apply to go home to see it. It's not that they gave me three months of family leave, so I'll come back to see you as soon as possible."
"Three months, it's great." Mrs. Li smiled: "Tonight you will sleep with your mother, and our mother will have a good chat."
Li Muwen nodded repeatedly: "Okay."
"Brother!" The mother and son were talking when Li Musen's voice came from outside, he opened the door with a bang and rushed in, looking at Li Muwen who was sitting on the kang, he couldn't recognize it: "Is that the eldest brother? ?"
"Mu Sen." Li Muwen was amused and waved to him: "Let's take a look, oh, it's been 20 years, I remember that Mu Sen was only fourteen years old when I left home. It's hard to get old when you're like this."
"Not bad, my eldest son is fourteen." Li Musen came over with a smile, and Mrs. Li and Li Muwen moved in, leaving half a kang empty, and Mrs. Li picked up the fly and knocked it. Knock on the kang: "The third one comes and sits, and there is also Mu Wu, what are you doing standing there like a wooden stake at the door, won't you come over and talk to your brother?" Li Muwu smiled honestly, and then came to sit on the kang superior.
Li Muwen looked at Mu Wu with kindness in his eyes: "Mu Wu is still like when he was a child, he hasn't changed much, he is honest and honest." He looked around: "Mu Lin didn't come? I heard what my mother said just now. Have you been disobedient all these years, angry with your mother?"
"Forget it, when our grain store recruited workers to carry sacks, our family Mu Wu and Mu Sen were both selected. At that time, the wood forest was not big, and it didn't look strong, so people didn't want him. He just ran away in anger. I have been to Bingcheng for ten years, and I brought my wife back with my wife during the Chinese New Year last year. I was so angry that I slashed him with a cigarette bag and pot."
"This ice city is not too far away. Why haven't you come back for ten years? Are you angry with your family?" Li Muwen's eyes flashed a stern look, and his tone was a little unkind.
"Whoever got angry with him, he married a daughter-in-law, and it was a little tricky not to ask him to come back, and he himself was not long-term, so I didn't hesitate to talk about him." Mrs. Li rolled her eyes: "Even He was cut by me several times in the past two years, but I know I was wrong, his wife is not a big problem, she is just a self-righteous little smart, in fact, she is stupid." Li Muwen listened and didn't ask any more questions, preparing for Li Mulin's return at the end of the year Talk to him again.
After talking for a while, Li Muwen remembered the big duffel bag he brought back. He got off the kang and carried the duffel bag to the kang. After opening it, he took out the same thing: "I expect to be able to come back this time, when I was in Beijing. I just bought a lot of stuff. Mother, this is a radio for you, made by the Shanghai People's Broadcasting Equipment Factory."
"Oh, a radio made in Shanghai." Mrs. Li quickly wiped the sweat from her palms on her clothes, and then carefully took the radio over and put it on the kang: "This thing is expensive, but it's worth it. It requires a lot of industrial tickets, and it seems that not many of us in Beicha have this kind of thing.”
Li Muwen introduced Mrs. Li how to use the radio while turning the button. After turning it twice, she finally called up a channel, which was playing the storytelling book "Lin Hai Xue Yuan". Mrs. Li was fascinated after listening to a few sentences. , touched the radio and couldn't put it down: "It's really good, I've heard of it before, and it's the first time I've seen it."
"Mom, you can sit on the kang and listen to the radio when you are free. There are songs and storytelling in it. The "Journey to the West" that my father told me when I was a child, and the "Liao Zhai" you told me, are all over here."
"Okay, I'll have fun in the future! When my relatives come to visit during the Chinese New Year, I'll open their eyes to them." Mrs. Li hurriedly got off the kang and wiped the cabinet with a rag, carefully keeping the radio upright Right on top.
After putting the radio away, Mrs. Li sat back on the kang again, and Li Muwen took out a gray checkered spring and autumn dual-use shirt and a pair of dark blue trousers from her bag: "These are the clothes I bought for my mother. "
Mrs. Li hurriedly took the clothes and put them on her body and gestured: "How old am I to wear new clothes? Isn't this a waste of money? Mu Wen, do you look at these clothes, do I look good?"
"It looks good, my mother looks ten years younger when she wears it." Li Muwen repeatedly touted: "I see that all the women on the streets of Beijing wear this style, so I hurried to buy a suit for my mother."
Mr. Li was satisfied, she folded it with a smile, and put it aside: "Well, I haven't bought ready-made clothes. I used to buy cloth to make them, and it would cost a lot of money to spend. A lot of cloth tickets."
Li Muwen took out three bottles of Maotai from his bag: "Give Mu Wu the three of them, one bottle per person."
Mr. Li looked at the words above and didn't recognize it: "What kind of wine is this?"
"Moutai." Li Muwen said, "I bought this last year. I brought it from home when I left. It was only two yuan and ninety seven cents when I bought it. Sixteen."
Once Mrs. Li heard it, she pushed back quickly: "Hurry up and take it back. You don't want to drink such an expensive wine. Just keep it for yourself."
"It was specially brought to them." Li Muwen said: "I carried it on my body for half a year. When I was in the army, those boys were so noisy, I didn't bring it out. I haven't gone home for so many years, and I'm also the one Brother's thoughts."
Mrs. Li heard that, that's all. Li Muwen took out a folded woolen coat with a blue background and white stripes from below: "This is for Zhen Zhen, the first girl in our family, so you need to get dressed up." Zhen Zhen who was sitting on the side watched the excitement Zhen didn't expect to have her own clothes, so she threw down the bowl, got off the kang and ran out.
Li Muwen was taken aback and looked at the door confused: "Why did this child run away?"
Mr. Li rubbed her clothes and replied without looking up, "I've washed my hands."
Sure enough, within a minute, Zhen Zhen washed her hands and face and came in. She wiped her hands with a towel several times to make sure there was no dirt on her hands, so she climbed onto the kang and took her woolen coat over. When I touched the texture, it was made of pure wool, with a circle of rabbit fur wrapped around the collar, double-breasted buttons on the front, and a blue bow on the back. The style is timeless even for future generations.
Zhen Zhen hurriedly put it on, she looked down and saw the clothes on her ankles a little dejected: "It's too big."
"It's not too big!" Mrs. Li said quickly: "It has to be this long, and you can still wear it when you are six or seven years old. You have to wear such good clothes for a few more years. ."
Zhen Zhen wondered when it would be time to buy such good clothes next time, she nodded in agreement: "I'm right, please help me put it away, when I go out to visit in spring, I can get it Wear this and show off."
Mr. Li kissed Zhen Zhen on the face with satisfaction: "Just do it like this, my granddaughter is good." Li Muwen, who has long been familiar with the temperament of the old lady, looked at the grandparents and grandchildren with joy, no wonder the old lady was in so much pain Zhen Zhen, co-authored the two of them with one temper.
Apart from clothes for Zhen Zhen, pens for some of my nephews, and some fabrics I bought, as well as the military water bottles and military lunch boxes that I sent in the army, they are all unused. , together as a gift.
To say that clothes and pens can still be bought with money and tickets, but you can't buy anything used in this army. If anyone can carry a military water bottle out, it will be old and majestic. Before Zhen Zhen went up the mountain, she used the one sent back by Li Muwen. It has been used for more than ten years, this time she got a new one, and Mrs. Li said cheerfully: "The new one is for Zhen Zhen, she uses things carefully, what is it? Don't bring any damaged ones. The old ones will be given to Ming Bei, he is like a monkey all day long, and even if the old ones are knocked off, he won't feel bad."
Mingbei doesn't think the kettle is old either, it's not rude to have such a thing, he grinned and went to the cabinet to take out Zhen Zhen's old kettle and immediately straddled it on his shoulders, with a proud look .
Zhen Zhen looked at Ming Bei's playful appearance while eating dried fruits and having fun, when Mrs. Li saw this, she introduced to Li Muwen, "This little girl in our family is so cute and has been making a lot of fun. Last year, your second brother's house The eldest child, Mingdong, was the target, she was only a little over a year old at the time, and she was still unsteady, so she followed the other two and listened to others all day long, which annoyed Mingdong, and came to me every day to complain."
Zhen Zhen stuffed another dried blueberry into her mouth, looking innocent, pretending not to remember.
As soon as Mrs. Li saw it, she knew that Zhen Zhen was pretending to be stupid, she hugged her with a smile and said, "If anyone comes to visit, that guy, she runs faster than me, she didn't wait for me to get on the kang, she She took up her food and occupied a good place. Mingdong said, she looks like people in the city watching a movie, even eating and watching, and occasionally interjecting."
As the eldest, Li Muwen knew that his old mother wanted to have a daughter back then, but she didn't achieve that wish when her father died. Even if I write a letter every year, half of it is about Zhen Zhen.
After talking for a long time here, the food is ready over there. There used to be a dozen crucian carp at home, which were originally reserved for sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus. . When Liu Xiulan came, she brought the big **** that she just slaughtered at home, and also brought the pork she bought this month.
After chatting for an hour inside, Wang Sufen and Liu Xiulan's sister-in-law also made the rice, braised crucian carp with sauce, chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork with potatoes, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, fried fungus with cabbage, and a pot of rice meal.
There were a lot of people and a lot of dishes. Wang Sufen and Liu Xiulan set up the big round table they had just used, put the dishes on it, and brought up their own sorghum wine jars that had been soaked in ginseng.
The family sat down around the big round table, even Zhen Zhen sat in Wang Sufen's arms obediently, Mrs. Li raised the small wine cup and looked at the eldest son sitting beside her with happy eyes turning red again: "Mu Wen is back. This is the biggest happy event in our family over the years. Mother doesn't say anything. Let's do it first."
Li Muwen said "hey", raised the wine cup and drank it: "The wine in our family is delicious and full of energy, mother, you don't know that I am in the south, drinking that wine is like drinking water, It's always tasteless."
Mrs. Li put a piece of chicken in her son's bowl: "This is pure puree in our house. It's about 60 degrees. It's not that you're not used to drinking it when you go out."
After eating the chicken in the bowl, and thinking about the sauerkraut stewed noodles with chopsticks for many years, Li Muwen burst into tears while eating, and Mrs. Li hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, son? Did you do it? Isn't that the smell?"
"No, mother!" Li Muwen swallowed the vegetables in his mouth and wiped his face: "As soon as I ate this pickled cabbage, I knew it was my mother's pickled vegetables, and I remembered when I was young, when our family had a hard time. In winter, my mother pickled a jar of sauerkraut, which is our family's winter vegetable. There was no rice at home for a year, so my father and mother went out to find a way. I chewed and swallowed half of it."
Thinking of the past days, Mrs. Li also sighed: "The past days were really hard. If you hadn't beaten the Japanese devils away, how could we have such a good life now."
"Fortunately, life is better now, I can buy food supplies every month, and my family has opened up wasteland, so I can't starve anymore." Mrs. Li took a piece of braised pork and put it in Li Muwen's bowl: " Are you hungry in the army? Can you eat?"
"Yes, we ate quite well, mother, you can rest assured." Li Muwen ate all the vegetables in the bowl, and saw Zhen Zhen holding a bowl of rice, dipped in the sauce of braised pork, and the meat was still in one mouthful of rice. He didn't forget to take a bite of the chicken thigh he held in his hand, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: "This girl is very young, but she can eat quite well. Hey, mother, we also have rice to eat here?"
"Isn't that the seed you sent back from my brother? Alpine rice or something?" Li Musen took a chopstick and shoved sauerkraut into half a bowl of rice.
Ms. Li stepped on her eldest son's foot under the table, and Li Muwen immediately laughed: "Yes, but I didn't expect our family to really grow it."
"If you can plant it, it grows well on the mountain. My family's land by the river is not as good as the prosperous statue on the mountain." Li Musen took another bite of rice: "Rice is really delicious and fragrant, but it is not as good as sorghum. The yield is high, and it does not resist hunger. I think it’s okay to grow a little and taste it, and sorghum is more reliable for serious food.”
Mr. Li glared at him: "As long as you talk too much, I think this rice is good. I am old and like to eat soft-mouthed rice. My family Zhen Zhen can't eat sorghum rice, so she likes to eat this rice. Rice, white noodles or something."
"Yes, yes, mother is right." Li Musen quickly coaxed his mother: "I didn't say anything, come come, big brother came back with great difficulty, let's do another one."
Zhen Zhen devotes herself to her hard work, she doesn't even have time to listen to gossip. At this time, chickens, pigs, and pigs are all raised in a serious way, and they are simmered in a big iron pot, not to mention how fragrant. In my previous life, I spent money to buy organic pork and stewed it, but it didn't taste that good.
After eating half a chicken leg, a few pieces of braised pork and a small bowl of rice, my stomach was finally stuffed. Pushing the leftovers in front of Ming Bei, Zhen Zhen hiccupped: "Mom, I'm full."
Stroking Zhen Zhen's bulging belly, Wang Sufen smiled and said, "I'll keep my mouth busy from morning till night."
"It's a blessing to be able to eat... burp... qi... well... burp..." After burping a few times, Zhen Zhen covered her mouth and didn't speak, and she didn't blame her for being greedy. I have collected a lot of rice, but it is not enough to eat, not to mention hard dishes such as chicken stewed with mushrooms and braised pork.
After dinner, Mrs. Li and the family were talking to the Westinghouse, Zhen Zhen was strong against her sleepiness and determined not to take a nap, Wang Sufen couldn't, so she could only pick her up and coax her and say, "Dear, wait for sleep. I think I wake up tomorrow and ask your father to kill the pig."
"Killing pigs?" Zhen Zhen's eyes widened: "Our braised pork?"
"Yes." Wang Sufen put Zhen Zhen on the kang, wiped the kang mat and laid the mattress, took off her padded jacket and trousers and let her lie down on the bed: "Go to sleep, wake up and let your milk play the radio Listen."
Zhen Zhenda has never encountered anything to worry about since she was born. Although she had a bad time at the beginning, her supernatural powers still made the whole family hungry. So Zhen Zhen, apart from going out to explore when she sleeps as usual, eats and plays at other times, which is a good interpretation of what it means to be carefree, but life without culture and entertainment is still too boring.
Looking at the radio on the cabinet, Zhen Zhen closed her eyes and decided to first go to see the braised pork that was about to be slaughtered.
Actually, when Zhen Zhen Kaichun and Mrs. Li went to dig the ground, she started the life of real Zhen Zhen going up the mountain to dig for treasures. At home, she also talked to Li Mingzhong more. As the braised pork grew longer and fatter , the smell of the pigsty is getting worse and worse, Zhen Zhen has not been to the backyard for several months.
The consciousness left the body and floated to the pigsty. Zhen Zhen looked at the thick fat body of the braised pork and sighed: "The braised pork! You are really fat!"
"Hum hum..." Braised pork hummed and continued to bow his head to the soil on the ground, looking indifferent.